Psychosphère

The Psychosphère is a concept resulting from the universe of the writer from Science-Fiction Roland C. Wagner, appeared for the first time in 1985 in the version “novella” of the Serpent Of anguish . The concept is truly formulated in a theoretical way twelve years later in another novel of the same author, the Odyssey of the species , published in 1998.

Definition

The governing idea of the concept in question is that the unconscious collective jungien - or, at least, a somewhat altered version also taking into account a possible collective memory of the mankind - has a material reality following a process where the brain of the homo sapiens sapiens plays the part of an energy converter transferring from the waves/particles towards not developed dimensions of our space-time continuum. Consequently, all that ever passed in the spirit of a creature equipped with a neocortex is found in a form or another in the psychosphère, since the human thought is the source of the flow of information which feeds it. It of course shelters prototypes, some completely jungiens, others like the timid Little boy or the Cat Spirit.

Collective memory, source and receptacles of the myths, reflection of the infinite variety of human mentalities, the psychosphère interacts with our reality in a measurement being able to vary with time. The stability of consensual reality depends on the nature and the frequency of these interactions. In the History of a Future, the two continuums briefly amalgamate, causing a psychic cataclysm which strikes the totality of the mankind: great primitive Terror. The consequences of this phenomenon - and, more generally, those of the existence of the psychosphère - on the evolution of humanity constitute the principal engine of this romantic cycle which extends from the end of the XXe century in the future remote. An irrefutable fact from which metaphorical dimension will not escape anybody.

In an interview granted to the actusf.com site, Roland C. Wagner declared:

The extraordinary authors of voyages last centuries populated the white areas on the charts of country and imaginary creatures. I tried to build the universe of the Mysteries by filling certain white in our theoretical representation of the world. What implied a minimum of compatibility with the aforementioned representation. At the end of the day, it would seem that the theory of the psychosphère does not present major counter-indications. A professor of physics even wrote me that it could, with the rigor, to do it gober with his students. I leave him the responsibility for his remarks.

If it were necessary to recall a literary filiation of the psychosphère, one could undoubtedly go up to the world of the dreams which visit Randolph Carter in the oneiric Search of Kadath the unknown factor of H.P. Lovecraft, but it is towards more recent examples, the such worlds with the unstable reality of Ubik of Philip K. Dick or dubious Time of Michel Jeury, that it would rather be advisable to turn. Two close concepts, though less worked out, appeared in the Anglo-Saxon world: the Vurt of Jeff Noon and the Jeamland of Michael Marshall Smith in fast Forward movement .

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