Topic: World View

Patrick Harper describes growing up in a family open to supernatural experiences, including a mother who was a spiritualist and a grandmother who served as a trance medium. Despite an English Protestant upbringing, his father claimed to have seen fairies twice during his youth. Harper explains how these early influences prevented him from adopting a conventional career in banking, leading him instead to investigate UFOs and other worlds.

Humanity's perception of the scale of reality has expanded exponentially throughout history, moving from tribal territories to continents, planets, and galaxies. Max Tegmark's multiverse theory represents a recent leap in this progression. The next logical step in this pattern involves moving beyond physical multiverses into the realm of non-physical realities and the origins of the simulation itself.