And oh, what a mind it was.
Her name was Augustine Chalamet. You've never heard of her but she should be regarded among the likes of Marie Curie, James Maxwell and even Albert Einstein. That is not hyperbole. Her supple mind created the most complete picture of the inner workings of the universe. It wasn't just the physical universe. She described the spiritual universe and how reality is created. You may have never thought about where our reality comes from, the people we fall in love with, the things we fear, the things we hate. Augustine did. Late in the evening, in her 86th year, she made a profund discovery.
It was her deepest fear.
A century later, her discovery fell into some very dangerous hands.
The story
Augustine Chalamet discovered amazing things. She discovered how we connect with the universe, how energy from the universe is woven into ever-changing patterns we call reality.
In many ways, we owe Augustine a lot.
It was the mid 19th Century. Railroads were being built. Science was all about Newton and Maxwell and Faraday. Einstein hadn't made his mark yet. Augustine sat at a wooden desk in her small flat in Meaux, France. For decades, she dove deep into the mysteries of the universe, her hand wearing away the varnish on the desk as she scribbled her intuitions. She wrote in great flourishes as her thoughts came pouring out and then discarding them when they didn't fit, when the equations didn't quite add up. Slowly, her intuition coalesced into a grand theory of how reality is created from the stuff of the universe. As a thin trail of smoke rose from home rolled cigarettes, staining the once sunflower drapes, she discovered how we are connected to each other by "Whispers" as they reach out to the universe and weave our reality. Your reality, my reality. We're all different but connected, our realities woven into a quilt at the whims of the universe.
Her mind was beautiful, her theories complete.
She noticed a flaw, not in her theories, but in the universe. It was a flaw that she scribbled in the margin of her sole copy of her final manuscript. It was more a warning than a discovery.
No one cared.
A century later, her discoveries fell into the hands of a psychopath who started changing the world in a dangerous way.
Few took notice.
With our way of life at stake, three people, strangers at first, sacrificed everything to thwart the plan. From their struggle, they learned a truth about the universe and our place in it. From them, we learn the tenacity of the human spirit. In the end it may be too late.
It’s a story of sacrifice, redemption, and the power of love as the world spirals into chaos in an allegory for our time. It is as much a journey through the human spirit as it is a discovery of the inner workings of the universe.
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