A multi-verse could be either a hypothetical set of multiple potential universes - including our own - that together comprise all of reality, or a many versed poem such as Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

As a literary work published in 1847, it chronicles the life of an Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine and her search for her lost love, Gabriel Lajeunesse, set against the sweeping landscape of North America during the time of “Le Grand Derangement“, an unpleasant period in Canadian history, when the inhabitants of the maritime provinces including Prince Edward Island and parts of Maine were relocated by the British. Many migrated to Quebec while others went to Louisiana and became Cajuns whose descendants still speak French, even today.

One of Longfellow’s most enduring works, it was written in dactylic hexameter - also the technique used in the Greek and Latin classics, a poem with a rhythmic scheme that goes on and on verse after verse, hence the term multi-verse. Perhaps it would have been more interesting to read had it been penned in prose or taught in History class instead of Poetry 101. Longfellow was obviously influenced by his close friendship with Nathanial Hawthorne who had an ever so slight lean towards the puritanical and who etched such memorable works as The Scarlet Letter.

From a scientific point of view, a multi-verse is an unproven theory of theoretical physics. The different universes within the multi-verse are sometimes called parallel universes, often interchangeable with the term alternate realities. However anyone versed in geometry knows that since parallel lines never meet, it is not possible to travel from one parallel universe to the next leaving us with a summation of alternate realities as the only credible explanation for the theoretical basis for reality, although to quote the eminent Dr. McCoy, “Good God Spock, I’m a doctor, not a physicist.”

Any reasonable person would ask, what do alternate realities have to do with Canadian history? Spock would probably respond, “Obviously the history of Canada is an alternate reality of American history without the revolutionary war.” If that were true, then in another reality, Canada is the fifty-first state.

Read more about alternate realities and parallel universes at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_(science)

The Buffed Shoe shines
Perceptibility echoes innuendo of sounds not heard

Reflecting glossed symbols of creations form
Perverted shapes intonation

Resonating palpable illusion
Changing, with toe’s movement

Leathers sole grounded
Connecting inner souls’ delusion

Urging an upward look
To vie on distant stars past events

Seeing Sky’s Cosmic misty path
Reflecting yet another buffed shining shoe

Now left.

Ripening buds emerging flower
Color landscape’ shaded tower
Tree, field, park, steady stream
Donned with vibrant colors sheen
Butterfly’s fluttering, Bee’s buzzing
Harking to sun’s hours sunning
A Fruitful display when waters play
Aerating birds above the fray
Images of sol’s mirrored glaze
Rainbow reflected , prisms gaze
Shining aqua’ surface with moving precision
Lights flicker upon now stormy sky
Moving as thick clouds roll by.

As poetry evokes limitless images suggested by increasing word combinations using language, numbers continue progressing to inconceivable dimensions like the resonance of musical notes that require a trained ear as their range of sensation a synthesis of sound and vibrations effects surrounding space rippling into imperceptibility.

A  long path, also a sequence of opportunities, becomes a point to view the horizon on a corridor from afar, just one perspective of a distant goal. Within its parallel direction, each side has an endless row of doorways that can intersect  anywhere originating from the undefined, in various states of rotation, much as the scrutinized wheels of a clock as existence proceeds and time extends from the present into the future, keeping the distance a point always beyond reach from the approach that continues to go on without a clue where it could end.

Waking up,
Facing the world
A lethargic lump
Of listless droll
All major things
Sleeping in-harmoniously
Out of sight, sound
Toil and trouble
Good days bad
Images contained
Filled with loads
Of random fumbles
Fishing for
Mindful souls
Frighting lucidity
Eclectic ideas
Stoned
By slings and arrows
The Rocks,
Of outrageous fortune.

Although the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” may portend attitudes’ interpretation of the fates deem inevitable, it can also reflect fatalistic expectations of future events within a cosmic play seen from a skewed perspective, just a nebulous notion or delusional state, demarcating individualized affect that attributes its own meaning to what images are suggested by “control”.

If seeking domination of circumstances to impact a specific effect is sought despite infinite unanticipated external possibilities, then personal thought, balanced upon positive and negative experiences, impress the ironic futility to any such endeavor. Now technology has an input into this very notion.

A variety of products developed for the enlightened individual who wants to take charge of his/her environment has been explored by slashgear.com; a reservoir of unimaginable ideas made concrete for anyone to redefine their personal surroundings.

First there is the color coordinated, Control Your Man Or Women Remote Control. Pink for the men and dark gray for the women who have issues with their paramour and require additional prodding instead of spending thousand of dollars in counseling or legal fees sucked up by lawyers to win a divorce settlement. The remote control claims to get them to do what you want on a whim, without the hassle of free will, free speech or love potion #9, conjured in a burning cauldron of witches brew so eloquently memorialized by The Three in MacBeth, Act 1, Scene1: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air,” as an inspiration for the evil queen, stepmother of Snow White, as she transforms, a result of a dark potion,  into the ugly contorted witch in the sweeping 1940 animated epic Disney masterpiece Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, surrounded by thunder, swirling wind and lightning and the poisoned apple, cackling her narrative to the mesmerized gaze of children and adults sitting in the audience. Although not a new concept it does have a soundly presented atmospheric charm all its own.

“Press a button and it yells at your significant other to do the task of your choosing. Both remotes emit obnoxious noises. the pink one sounds boyish  while the dark gray, whiny and ‘girlish.’” One remote is priced at $17.95, while the set, an amazing steal at $29.95. Perhaps behavior modification reminiscent of Psychology 101, the classic Lab Rat experiments devised for the quest to find the biological basis of behavior can apply here, or not.

Atmosphere is also a worthy condition to exist by making all life possible especially in a party environment within an array of merging amino acids. Now there is a way to test, and yes, manipulate your surroundings, and the people who comprise its milieu. Another genius invention shown on slashgear.com. Its the Portable Voice Stress Analyzer, particularly made for the paranoid of heart. Trapped in an affair with numerous people, the voice stress analyzer is small enough to slip into your purse or briefcase and works “by measuring the tremors in the audio signal from the vocal cords. It then assesses how honest the people surrounding you are,” a consideration of note when attempting to cultivate a sense of intuition.  Advertised on nerdapproved.com for $58.40 “with an easy to read LED layout makes determining innocence or guilt quick, easy and unequivocal,  so you can falsely accuse and alienate anyone you want, anytime, anywhere.”

The final piece to this triad effectively designed for any diagnosed or undiagnosed control complex is The Sonic Nausea Gadget to make those around you feel queasy enough to leave. “Sonic Nausea is a small electronic device which can really ‘boom’ one’s stomach. It generates a unique combination of ultra-high frequency sound waves which soon leads most in its vicinity to queasiness. It can also cause headaches, intense irritation, sweating, imbalance, nausea, or even vomiting. The unique sound wave characteristics make directional source determination difficult.  Powered by one 9-volt battery (not included). For extended run time six AA batteries in a battery pack with transistor clips (available from most electronics stores) can be used instead.  Use with extreme (paranoid) discretion.” $29.00. This product is also advertised on shomer-tech.com, which specializes in law enforcement and military equipment.

All of these treasures are a  testament to whoever said, “Things always comes in three’s”

My Percepto Rating: Its a secret. See if you can cajole it outta me.

Floating upon exposed surface
Amid sea’s turbulent motions

Strings of winding currents flow
Sensations not yet regarded flower

Exceeding winds’ mood, stars’ glimmer
Manipulated, controlled, unknown power

Augur nothing below hidden force
Vague phantoms elusive tower

Between landscapes’ invisible plight
Till emergent rule changes course

Illuminating mysterious forgotten sight

Dependencies are tricky, not at all what one imagines until trapped, unable to remember what it felt like to live without the habit. Tolerance of delay in gratification defines behavior and ability to deal with stress wherever addictive personalities are a factor, especially if smoking is only one of many dependencies expressed. Failure is always present until ready to finally surrender its intoxicating effect or sustaining need.

Any attempt to quit smoking is usually filled with delusional thinking, often dismissing each attempt with some justification that defies good sense,  ultimately leading to an opposite effect. “Just one more until the next hit,” a constant companion or an extension of oneself that creates complex distracting rituals that affect judgment by testing ego strength, exposing weakness.

All this insight, however articulated, is useless when the pull, the need to have whatever is satisfied by this fixation, calls from some indescribable place. The struggle between craving and self-control, either resists temptation or rationalizes to oneself that it’s ok to be human and imperfect and give in to the weakness of bodies’ need.

While in this chaotic struggle, consciously asking oneself if what is needed is necessary or self indulgence may consciously spark a different thought, effecting determination,  strength and focus to change the habit by breaking the cycle.

History is a look back, a reflection of what has already happened, that can rarely be interpreted objectively. The hope is to achieve a coherent, articulate understanding that makes sense. A balanced approach putting together images and events experienced into an impression, also a basis for making reasonable choices that effect the way the future will play out, recognizing that many different patterns also make sense.

Wherever the passage of time leads, its vastness is filled with infinite potential, precluding knowing precisely how events  converge to produce a particular vision. However  it may be possible to sense trends, identify habits or tendencies whether personal or cultural that can be helpful in speculating the likely path that will occur when everything necessary to happen, to make a future possible, happens.  Perhaps as long as dispassionate objectivity is maintained. Then, variations in trends that imply other milestones along a fork in the road appears out of nowhere.

Inspiration often comes out of left field, eluded by repetitive notions of solitary thinking,  blinded by the denial of reflexive habit. A flow of thoughts, only  transcended by a confident leap of faith beyond consecutive logic that elevates the stage captured in imagery to a different level.

Introspective thought, often liberating, allows individual insight  of external reality, also revealing the willingness to acknowledge the difference between what is seen and how it can be exaggerated by personal perspective, one’s relationship with observable events and a basis for honesty or self-delusion.

It can also be a trap, devoid of new insight if the same elements are the sole basis, regurgitated without new combinations as circular thinking returns to the same spot relying on tested formula.

Spiral thought, circular in nature, leads to another level where the goal is achieving productive change is  primarily   a function of absorbing different external elements into the process, allowing new solutions, usually made possible by communication. Always recognizing that the change in thinking produced by instilling different factors into the equation doesn’t determine illumination, but only increases its potential.

What happens after death is perhaps akin to speculating about black holes (or the current stock market), something now thought to be at the center of every galaxy. What they may  contain is at present, unknowable, and a reminder that time, although infinite, is also finite, the reflection of mortality.

The reason it’s called a black hole is because no one knows how to articulate what the experience of being in one is like, since anyone or anything that goes through it never returns.

The concept of a singularity at its center suggests the symbolism of the microscopic macrocosm, a state where all the laws of time, space and gravity, don’t apply, at least as we  define them from this side.  A dilemma for science that would have to create new laws of physics to elucidate the inconceivable. Perhaps there is a connection here between the way science explains things and religion, identifying the singularity as “the divine spark” which sounds more like revelation influenced by biblical text, or visa versa.

Science Fiction is a way to speculate “scientifically” without the presence of enough supportable facts except to assert assumptions that what isn’t known can be manifested as anything since nothing can be definitively excluded from being imagined, usually using advanced technology that hasn’t been developed yet to embellish the possibilities. When invented, fiction then becomes fact.

Of course, all this is predicated on the assumption that “it” requires an explanation that language in the form of symbols is adequate enough to convey that whatever happens on the other side of the black hole is not nothing.