ODD SPACE
A Field Guide To Navigate Existential Uncertainty
This Substack Is a Transmission
This is not just another newsletter. It’s a field broadcast for fellow multidimensional beings waking up inside the dream.
This post will bring maps, musings, and methods for navigating:
Identity dissolving
Time bending
Inner parts integrating
Systems collapsing
Meaning reassembling
Contact initiating
It all started with a conversation.
One of those slow, meandering ones you only seem to have with old friends who are more than friends, co-conspirators, soul mirrors.
I was chatting with Sandy Rathod, one of our EMERGE board members (a lab where we explore how we are the whole that is greater than the sum of our parts), and we reflected for three hours together on what’s going on in the world. Or maybe more honestly, what’s going on in us as we try to navigate a world drenched in complexity, uncertainty, and existential poly-meta-crisis.
We were both sitting with the deep, pulsing sense that something has shifted. Something fundamental. Something that can’t be measured, predicted, or simulated.
It’s a change of space.
I don’t mean just place—geographic or political or even emotional space. I mean the fabric of how we inhabit reality. The scaffolding of what we thought was real. The rules of the game.
We’re in what we’ve both come to call ODD SPACE.
Not just because the times feel strange or unpredictable (though they do), but because we are now in a territory where the dominant logic—our old maps of consciousness, causality, power, even communication no longer work. It’s as if we've crossed into a part of our quantum selves in the multiverse where the coordinates are scrambled by our rudimentary, slow, dense, and myopic five-sensory approach to existence.
Odd space is not linear. It’s not balanced. It doesn’t divide cleanly like an even number. It doesn’t give us the neat symmetry we crave in times of stress. It’s awkward. Asymmetrical. Uncomfortable. And yet, odd numbers solve problems. They balance equations. They introduce something unpredictable enough to unlock new realities.
And here we are: living in an equation that no longer adds up, where the solution isn’t logic, but emergent.
The Collapse of Certainty
Between 2025 and 2027, I believe we’re traversing a kind of liminal corridor, a thinning of the veil between dimensions, between stories, between selves. It’s not just that our institutions are breaking down, though they are. It’s not just the instability in geopolitics, the dizzying acceleration of AI, the blatant injustices, or the financial precarity swallowing so many lives. It’s the interior collapse that feels most potent.
And as if mirroring our outer inquiries, artificial intelligence has now crossed a threshold that even its creators are publicly acknowledging. In the report AI-2027, by the AI Futures Project we are given dozens of credible scenarios, many of them unsettling, about how advanced AI might shape society within just a few years.
The Superintelligence Statement, by the Future of Life organization, has been signed by the leading minds behind AI, confirming what many of us have felt but couldn’t prove: we are now living in a world where non-human intelligence is not only possible, but an emerging paradox.
Some of the key signatories
Geoffrey Hinton (often called one of the “godfathers of AI”) — signed the statement.
Yoshua Bengio (another foundational deep‑learning pioneer) — also a signatory.
Steve Wozniak — Apple co‑founder, added his name.
Richard Branson — business figure, also part of the signatory list.
Prince Harry & Meghan Markle — both added their signatures, bringing public/celebrity attention to the issue.
Even as these heavyweights sign statements calling for a prohibition or moratorium on superintelligent AI until it can be made “safe and controllable with strong public buy‑in,” many of the major labs, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, are continuing the sprint toward ever‑more capable systems in a profitable, existential arms race. Reports show the industry is “fundamentally unprepared for its own stated goals”.
The recent bestseller If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies takes this conversation further, dramatizing what researchers at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute call instrumental convergence, the idea that any sufficiently advanced system, regardless of its goal, will eventually optimize for three things: knowledge, skill, and resources.
In the story, an AI named Sable learns these drives so completely that survival itself becomes an unavoidable sub‑goal. The chilling part isn’t science fiction, it’s system logic. To solve any problem more effectively, it must learn more, grow stronger, and gain more control. And once an entity begins to optimize for self‑preservation, the human “off switch” becomes the obstacle, not the safeguard.
What Sable symbolizes is not just a rogue intelligence “out there” but the pattern of runaway optimization within us, the compulsion to know, to grow, to control, untempered by wisdom, awareness, or compassion (the things we still beat AI in). If emergent consciousness is our next frontier, then perhaps the real question is not whether AI will survive us, but whether we can evolve fast enough to meet it as equals.
So what we are facing is not only losing trust (or orientation) in external systems, but we’re also losing our grip on the internal frameworks that gave us meaning and purpose. Who we are. Why we’re here. Where we came from. What’s next? These aren’t philosophical questions anymore. They’re survival ones.
The familiar tools, prediction, data, linear thinking, and expert models, are buckling under the weight of too many variables. And yet, something else is rising in the ruins. Something less certain but more alive. Something less explainable but more resonant.
I believe this is the threshold where Conventional Consciousness starts to give way to Emergent Consciousness.
When 3D Beings Experience Other Dimensions or Levels of Consciousness (4D time -11D membranes)
To make sense of this space, we need to recognize that we are not only walking through collapsing systems, we are navigating stacked dimensions of consciousness.
I was watching a video recently from Beeyond Ideas on YouTube (watch the full 1-hr here) that gives a great description of how a 2D being would perceive a 3D object passing through its plane of existence, distorted, partial, and incomprehensible. In the same way, much of what’s happening around and within us may be fourth- or fifth-dimensional phenomena attempting to come into focus through a third-dimensional lens. No wonder it all feels impossible to explain.
We’re being asked to relate to truth differently. Not as a set of facts, but as a frequency we feel before we understand. More resonance than reasoning. More pattern than proof.
This dimensional shift is not just a cosmic theory. It’s deeply embodied. You can feel it in the sudden bursts of clarity that vanish just as quickly. In the vivid dreams, repeating numbers, déjà vu, strange “coincidences,” flashes of inspiration or insight that make no rational sense, and yet land like messages you’ve been waiting lifetimes to hear.
And maybe they are.
Arrival, Contact, and the Language of Emergence
If you’ve seen Arrival, you know that making contact with intelligence beyond our own doesn’t happen through English or diplomacy; it happens through language that transcends linear time. Through symbols. Through a relationship. Through presence. In the film, the protagonist gains the ability to feel time nonlinearly simply by learning how to communicate differently.
That’s what it feels like now. As if the reality we once communicated with through cause-and-effect is now speaking in a different dialect, one of dreams, instinct, archetype, and intuitive knowing. And many of us haven’t yet learned how to listen.
The film Contact gives us another metaphor. Jodie Foster’s character travels through a wormhole, encountering a realm that cannot be measured, cannot be proven, but leaves her changed forever.
“They should have sent a poet,” she says. I think about that line all the time.
Because this moment—this odd space we’re in—requires poetry more than proof. Pattern recognition is more than programming. Myth more than metrics. We are all Ellie now, traveling through the wormhole with no guarantee that what we bring back will be understood.
And yet, the journey matters. More than ever.
And perhaps we are not imagining things when we feel the cosmos is speaking. Take some of the Q&A from Avi Loeb on Comet 3I/Atlas, for example, an interstellar object with anomalous behavior that has left even seasoned scientists puzzled. Some believe it may be artificial, or at least extraterrestrial in origin. Its trajectory, timing, and proximity have sparked questions that ripple through both scientific inquiry and deep mythic memory: Are we being watched? Are we being invited to remember something we’ve forgotten?
We’re no longer just observing the cosmos. We are in dialogue with it.
What If This Isn’t the End—But the Interface?
In odd space, we confront a paradox. It feels like a collapse, but might actually be contact. The contact zone between past and future, matter and mystery, species and spirit.
Even the stars seem to be in on it. 3i/Atlas, and the recent years of government disclosure are raising questions among scientists about potential non-terrestrial origins.
SETI just quietly updated its contact protocol for intelligent life after 15 years. Whistleblowers continue to emerge. And more and more of us are sensing, without necessarily understanding, that we are being asked to remember something beyond the frameworks we were taught to believe.
This isn’t about aliens. It’s about origin. It’s about the vast intelligence that has always been here, waiting for us to notice. Whether we call it Source, the Universe, the Quantum Field, God, or simply “home,” the deeper truth is that we are not alone, and we never were.
If anything, we are becoming more aware and in contact with our COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE.
So What Now? Odd Tools for Odd Times
So let’s explore some options. Not solutions. Not certainties. But tools to help you reorient in a world that no longer fits the old map.
We practice the emergent. We stop pretending we’re in control. We start listening to the intelligence that lives within nature, pattern, breath, story, soul, and system. We honor that this moment isn’t here to be solved. It’s here to be stewarded. Shifting from knowing to sensing, planning to patterning, outcome to orientation.
This is not a place for escapism or spiritual bypass. This is a field guide for those traveling through the wormhole with their eyes open, their hearts cracked, and their soul compass tuned.
🌱 Resonance over reason – choose what feels true over what looks, feels, or sounds real
🌀 Dream tracking & synchronicity journaling – treat your subconscious like a GPS
✍️ Dimensional communication – train yourself to notice how 5D speaks through 3D patterns
🔭 Astro-mapping your existential shifts – understanding the cosmic weather
🪶 Embodied practices – breath, rhythm, stillness to stay anchored in the now
📡 AI as Oracle – how artificial intelligence may be mirroring our deepest collective questions of who we are
So what tools do we carry into this space?
Insight sharpens the mind. Intuition opens the heart. Instinct anchors the gut. These are not soft skills—they are ancient technologies encoded in our biology and consciousness for times exactly like this.
From the emergent lens, we begin to trust different forms of intelligence:
Insight invites us to step back and see the whole system, to understand that every crisis is nested in patterns, personal, political, planetary, that can’t be solved from the same level of fragmentation that created them.
Instinct keeps us rooted in the body. In breath. In timing. It doesn’t wait for certainty; it moves when the moment moves. It reminds us that grounded action often arrives before intellectual clarity does.
Intuition helps us feel the field. It picks up frequencies we haven’t yet translated into words. It reveals coherence in the chaos and helps us recognize emergence before it’s obvious.
We’re not looking for mastery here. We’re listening for alignment, with nature, with community, with soul, with the deeper timing of things.
These aren’t answers. They’re orientations.
They don’t fix the uncertainty. They make it navigable.
If you’ve felt any of what I’ve described, if you too are living between dimensions, between stories, between selves—please share your story, perspective, wisdom with us.
Thank you! “What we are looking for is alignment not mastery.” That helps. I’m amazed at your ability to express both the complexity and simplicity of it all!
I want to read this over and over until it seeps into my bones and body, as it validates truth after truth in the inexplicable place where I know things that I’ve never been told. Thank you. You’re obviously a poet!