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UR SLATE / DISTRANS TELEKOMM REPORT - 17463.space/ur.txt

2021.03 OBSERVATION REPORT: A breakthrough! On 3/5, the instruments again burst into life with all kinds of activity coming from the Slate. The readings suggested that the vibrations and so-called "oscillation" emanating from the Slate have been steadily increasing into the lower end of the audible range of human hearing. Not only is this a huge leap forward, as the Slate has never "behaved" this way prior to my time with it, but it opens up new avenues of understanding what the Slate may actually be. We still haven't got a clear indication of what it actually consists of, materially - the best guesses so far are that it is made of something very similar to obsidian, but only in a topical way, as all attempts to define the molecular makeup of the Slate have done nothing but brick expensive pieces of equipment that Distrans really don't want to keep paying for.

It keeps getting more interesting, though. The current recordings we're doing are now combinatorial, between room microphones placed close to the Slate, as well as a moderate distance of 10-11 feet away from it, while still using the dozens of piezoelectric microphones attached to the surface. When the activity triggered all the recorders on March 5, tones could be heard and felt between the 40-60 hertz range throughout the building, and what's more, the Slate was conveying numerical data in the form of rhythmic patterns. After several hours of recording these patterns, we were able to work out where and when they repeat, because they do repeat, and this also allowed us to more accurately define what the Slate was trying to convey. The numbers correlate to a Base 60 system, which once again lines up with the cuneiform alphabet used for the symbols on the surface, and they seem to be coordinates for latitude and longitude. This is a massive leap forward in and of itself because it suggests that these locations are somehow significant (and I'm told Distrans are already in pursuit of all of them, not sure what they are even expecting to find), however in what ways, or even at what moment in time, we may never know. The closest set of coordinates given to us by the Slate are somewhere in Adams County, in southern Ohio. I expect to hear more details soon about what DT find (or don't find) when they get there, though given the relevance to what I'm doing, I have to wonder if I'll know at all without a higher pay grade.

So, for now, it seems like a good time to re-listen to these recordings while offering my analysis of the third section of the Slate's text. To start, this text states "Movement then, a cycle to repeat, a loop to compel" which immediately brings to mind the oscillating and vibrating that the Slate is presently emanating, before moving onto "A path to follow, the leaving and returning" suggesting a recursive act or process, reincarnation even? Along a more predetermined path? Certainly, it makes more sense from a creator's perspective to have an overarching set of plans and logic systems in place if rebirth and reincarnation are to come to pass, rather than the theological implications (in all religions that believe in it) that WHAT becomes reborn is dependent first upon what preceded it in line, with a focus on morals and karma and actions having cosmic consequences, even if they must be dealt with in another life entirely. A predetermined set of rules applied to this idea would be very suggestive of a wider goal set in place by the creator, an eventual end result, even though the recursive process would have no ending by design, and mirrors observable processes in biology (evolution and adaptation) as well as the basic notion that matter can never be destroyed, only displaced. All of the "stuff" that makes up the universe is in fact grown and transmuted from the remains of that same universe.

Back to the Slate text, from here it says "The shape that all things must take, early though it may yet be" which brings us back to the fact that the perspective of this speaker/writer is one with a wider view of time and space, the idea of "early" versus a time-less space that creation comes to pass within is all very different than other more well-known creation myths. Perhaps it is saying that time itself only exists after you make the point to observe it, to punctuate now and then the following moment of "the new now." Human awareness of time is so narrow that we can only ever experience a continuous stream of "new nows" which force us to accept that time is linear and fixed in a forward and constant direction, but the Slate's text is written almost voyeuristically, implying that the speaker can traverse this line at will and comment upon it in realtime. This representation of the speaker being separate and outside of the events they are putting into motion is reinforced with the section's closing text: "All things still mere fragments, islands of existing, adrift, apart"