The Redemption Inquiry

Part III: Zeitgeists

Part the Third
 
Zeitgeists
 
Of all the gin joints, it’s the visitors suite of the maternity ward where the Rav unpacks his big spiel, the metaphysical history of the descent of humanity’s soul and its dark twin through the four worlds of Ike Luria's Kabbalah. The crossroads in this wild ride fall out in the years—1309, 1925 and 2009—in which The Blessing of the Sun intersects with The Festival of the Passover. Each year’s theme revealed in a barroom fracas. We clamber up the next rung in Ike’s ladder, in this telling, to the World of Creation, the realm from which the seeds of the future begin to seek their womb on

Chapter 10: The Birth and Death of History

Chapter 10: The Birth and Death of History
The year is 2121, today the launch day for the three totalitarian AI’s and their invisible littermate, Moshiach. Also the birthday of Ram Nissan Katz, only begotten son of Krishna and Sita, the future leader of a failed revolt against the AI’s, and eventual High Priest of the Redemption. Eight hours due west of the birthing ward, Adam CADMan, tricks out his Trojan Horse, a hitchhiker in the Bellies of the Three Beasts of the Apocalypse.

Chapter 9: Adam CADMan vs the Algorithms

Chapter 9: Adam CADMan vs the Algorithms
In which Adam CADMan scribes the code for the ‘Messiah Module’ and its cosmic buggy, Apeiron. He stashes the code into the three Beasts of the Apocalypse— Leviathan, Behemoth and Zyz. All three contract with Adam CADMan to code their 4D extravaganza. Launch day, The Technological Singularity, AI apocalypse, the seed of their self-destruction lurks within. A redeemed fly on the wall spills the details.

Chapter 8: Krishna in Kapota

Chapter 8: Krishna in Kapota
Rewind the clock a couple of years, cross the pond, another unlikely hero steps up, the sixth generation hasidic savant from Mumbai, Krishna Katz. He makes like a flea and sticks to a professor of neuropathology at Oxford. The hero’s gig is to map the human brain onto the map of the world. He mainly succeeds in mapping his desire onto his Beloved, Sita. All this intel comes from the neuropathology professor, he too among the redeemed.

Chapter 7: Adam's Prank

Chapter 7: Adam's Prank
Our Hero regroups in a cave beneath his parents’ digs in Champaign-Urbana. He scoops up an armful of technology that will deploy at The Redemption. From his remote location, he demos his fire power by inducing a FabLab at the University of Pittsburgh to generate a life-size set of human sculptures on the floor next to the 3D printer. As seen through the snooping eyes of a friendly spy, who recollects that fateful time from her perspective as one of the redeemed.

Chapter 6: Adam is Banishéd

Chapter 6: Adam is Banishéd
 
This is what you might call a bildungsroman. The unlikely hero, Adam Saperstein AKA CADMan, an obligate introvert computer geek, gets himself expelled from The University, but not before he’s cadged access to some inside dope, and humiliates his nemesis, Blago Blagojevich, the cryogenically unfrozen president of The University.

Part II: Winds of Change

Part the Second
Winds of Change
 
In which we hike up Ike Luria’s ladder, in the telling of this tale, to the home base of human intention, what old Ike calls The World of Formation, the place where thought pulls on its pants before snapping into action. Two heroes make the scene, the guys who will see to it that humanity gets the jump on The Redemption, Krishna Katz and Adam CADMan.

Chapter 5: The Blessing of the Sun

Chapter 5: The Blessing of the Sun
 
The Reader is introduced to some weird metaphysical shenanigans. The intersection of The Festival of the Passover with the twenty-eight-year cycle of The Blessing of the Sun frames the action for the rest of the story. The author gets the lowdown sitting in on The Feast of the Messiah led by the seventh-generation ancestor of the future High Priest of the Redemption. A glimpse of light.

Chapter 4: The Corporate Singularity

Chapter 4: The Corporate Singularity
 
A peek behind the scenes at the legal fiasco, the moral tipping point of Annus 2009. Unchecked corporate power gains a fatal stranglehold over American electoral politics. As told to the author in his chambers by a sitting justice of the United States Supreme Court. A very dark day indeed.

Chapter 3: At Black Market

Chapter 3: At Black Market
 
In which the author gives the Reader an eyeful of the dark Underbelly of the Beast as spilled by a former pal deep in the pay of the political goons. The view from The Redemption, in both directions through time’s window.