Kirk Wellor - Author

Introduction from Kirk Wellor

What happens when the world and its supercomputers begin to comprehend aspects of the fourth and fifth dimension?

It took a decade to write that sentence. Was it worth it? Yes.

Truest Truth.

The Road to Bliss started out as a Y2K conspiracy theory story.

Seventy yellow pads and a million words later, climate chaos brews in the 2020's. Stock markets plummet or soar. Politicians hike backwards. Social media derangement syndrome spirals into the Dark Age of Misinformation.

Many muses helped those yellow pads along. Ideas dawned or came out of the blue. Apt fodder leapt off news pages and video screens. Ideas blossomed while I gardened or fell out of the sky when I showered. Daily slumbers calmed my brain to knit this tale together.

When odd things aligned, or fell into place, "No coincidences," became my catch phrase. Many creatives experience these moments that 'click', often called flow states.

This project opened worlds of deeper discussion with loved ones, new friends, and writing comrades, or curmudgeons. It is an interesting hobby to study the past and turn challenging times into the best of trivial pursuits.

Jon Knowles, the protagonist of this story, abides by the Universal Golden Rule: "Do unto others, as if to oneself — because what goes around, will come around."

With these stories on The Road to Bliss, we look at the world spun in another direction.

As The Road to Bliss series works through development, Jon Knowles will post his Hindsights from 2120 CE via social media to band with the early climate and quantum fiction writers from the 2020’s, vor-text with search engines, and connect our fictional 2020/2120 Möbius loops.

1. Mysterious Ways Out of the Blue

Introducing Jon Knowles, King Tide disaster survivor and Wikipedia researcher in 2120 CE, at the Rockefeller Center, in New York,

His workmates and future foils, Jake Blair and Hope Orwell,

QUID, their Ai Quantum Information Database,
assistant, virtual friend, and sometimes nemesis.
QUID is also connected to the Doomsday Clock forecasting the Sixth Mass Extinction event due to escalating climate chaos.

Penny Jayapal, their boss at the WikiMedia Foundation.

Luke Howard, their immediate handler, and representative from WikiLeaks 2120.
Luke is ready, willing, and able to upload secrets of the
Great Unknowns to TheCloud server.

Except that Envoys from The Council of Nations,
The World Banx, and especially The Holy REITs
(or the Real Estate Investment Trusts managed by several revered organizations) sternly object.

Any news about 5D antics able to "vortext" into the contrails
of 4D space time, would undermine dogma, suspend faith in the Divine Hand, and weaken the belief systems of 12 billion people on the Earth.

Such secrets could also roll back climate chaos and years on the Doomsday Clock.

So, in the eyes of the holy and the powerful few,
there is only one choice:
Fight at any cost for the survival of their institutions,
and themselves.

2. Faith in Faith New Stakes for Old Beliefs

Let's introduce some real clouds, Cirrus, Pileus, and Virga.

In 2120, they watch over Earth, Jon, and the electrostatic mechanics 'inspiring' QUID, Wikimedia's brain trust. Because chances are, if the Earth floods, fries, and dries, all Clouds could thin down to nothing. And if 12 billion people lose faith in faith, nuclear mushroom clouds could make the Clouds itch.

The Clouds are in a lose-lose situation,

Except that they have keen insight when it comes to all things 4D and 5D.

They also have access to lightening and other weather tricks using their own divine means.

And while they're not angels, The Clouds see all the grit going on in TheHeaps below: The political tradesmen, the financial craftsmen, and the religious real estate wranglers that Luke Howard shields from Jon in TheTowers above. They know all the secrets Luke keeps from Penny, and Wiki, and even WikiLeaks. He is the enemy friends keep close. Little does he know, The Clouds are closer.

Meanwhile, in 2120, Jon Knowles is busy re-righting a fictitious version of 2020 history for fun.

Why? The WikiMedia Foundation connected QUID to the Doomsday Clock to help forecast the arrival of the Sixth Mass Extinction. When Jon labeled a file TheoPoliFi, his portmanteau for Religion, Politics, and Finance, QUIDs alarms went off, and the Doomsday Clock somehow rolled back five years.

Hope for humanity extends!

At first, Wiki suspends Jon till they check for malfunctions. Turns out it wasn't nothing, so it had to be something, and Wiki brings back Jon to continue his fictional 2020 quest. Anything to buy more time on the Clock.

His working title is We the Deceivers. In Jon's 2020 world, he set up not one, but two viable female presidential candidates on opposing sides of the U.S. election. Leslie Worthington, a conservative centrist, wants Senator Faith Hammond to cross the aisle and join forces.

Meanwhile, Faith Hammond, wife of former president David Hammond, work together on the E9 Climate Summit to be held in Jerusalem that summer. During a pre-summit conclave of delegates on the island of Panarea, Italy, the press accuses the Hammond's of conspiring with a foreign power.

The foreign power in question?

A prominent figure living in Rome, and subject of The Last Pope Prophecy.

Faith, and faith in Faith are all in question.

We the Deceivers banks on the following fictional question: Would the Last Pope risk all of Rome's assets to save the world in which we live, against the will of a Holy American REIT currently hobbled by its own improprieties?

3. Value of Value Banking on Worth

In Jon's 2020's fiction, We the Deceivers, Bishop Francisco (Frank) Adessi, is a fellow of the Max Planck Institutes.

In advance of the Jerusalem E9 Climate Summit, The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has tasked him to create a simulation for a new 'smart currency.' Through his connections with former president, David Hammond, Frank has engaged Matt Archer, Alex Tenner, and Wynn Lauder at CodeX3, a think tank dedicated to thinking about thinking and unveiling the great unknowns.

Their mandate: Spin the world in the opposite direction.

Using gaming software, CodeX3 develops a prototype digital coin called Theta. The currency wouldn't be like Big Brother following people, but like Big Mother following dark money. Theta favors efforts that support the Seven Virtues, and the common good, compared to ordinary markets, which often favor the Seven Deadly Sins, and the greater good of a chosen few.

The game modeling illustrates how greed, wrath, gluttony, sloth, envy, and the other sins lead to climate chaos. CodeX3's tactic is simple: Change the system of currency, spin the world in the opposite direction, and roll back the clock on an apocalyptic Sixth Mass Extinction Event.

After all, it is only a simulation.

In 2120, Luke monitors Jon's work while sequestered above the old Cloud Club in the belfry of the Chrysler Building. He continues his progress to roll back the Doomsday Clock.

Meanwhile, Envoys from the Council of Nations, the World Banx, and especially the Holy REIT keep watch on Wiki back at Rock Center. They scrutinize every move by QUID, and a 2020 B-Team that includes Penny, Jake, and Hope.

While Jon writes his own 2020 "what if" fiction with Luke as his sounding board, Jake and Hope use real history for the same Theta values paradigm. It becomes a double blind — double slit quantum experiment as each tries to better the score against the Doomsday Extinction Clock.

While the Doomsday Clock may say one thing, 12 billion followers of the Powerful Few would say something else if any of these "heretical" re-rightings upload to world's cloud servers. Not only would they spin 2020 in the opposite direction, but they would also virtually STOP everything in 2120.

Meanwhile, the real Clouds, Cirrus, Pileus, and Virga are bracing for the Crash.

They use their battery of blackouts, thunder strikes, and solar storms to pump the brakes with QUID. But unlike Mother Nature who follows paths of least resistance, humans are notoriously unpredictable. VORtexting Jon's tale from 2120 back to inspire 2020 could be an incredibly good thing.

4. Timing of Time Ancient Prophesies, Modern Revelations

When the Doomsday Clock results begin to falter, either because Jake and Hope's version is losing steam, or Jon's version has taken a wrong direction, they return Jon from sequester.

And just when things were going The Cloud's way, Jon cannot stand the weight of 12 billion souls on his conscience and decides to quit. Luke must convince him otherwise because Jon's work proves the secrets behind 5D Universal antics.

In parallel 2020-time, potential presidential nominee Faith Hammond loses faith. She finds out Rome is using her as a distraction for their real mission at the E9 Climate Summit — to release Theta, not as a simulation, but as a real currency. Turns out Rome is more concerned about the Deadly Sin of Sloth, [doing nothing about the climate chaos, while being the steward of God's green paradise,] than it was for its own survival. Although they stood to make a profit touting the munificence of their virtue-based currency, after 2000 years, they finally gain the fortitude to stand for morals and ethics.

After all, His Holiness did dispense orders to spin the world in the opposite direction.

Also, to foil the Holy REITs in the 2020's and end clatter among Cardinals surrounding The Last Pope Prophecy, no one said The Last Pope of this era, could not be the First Pope of the next epoch where the love of money, becomes the root of all good.

These synopses are not the time or place to give away the final ending, except to say that Jon gets to spin the world back in the direction that was always meant to be. The fact that it happens in Jerusalem with a bunch of revelations may provide a clue. And the fact that all these events VORtext back and forth across 5D entanglement in 4D space time, is not that this is some multiverse space opera, and not how our future inspires us in the present like a carrot on a stick — but an illustration how rhetoric and spin can whip up a tornado of Butterfly Effects.

The story does not leave Jon's 2120 world in a utopian paradise, nor in a dystopian zombie land. Instead, this story shows that humanity may be on the brink of exponential progress beyond its wildest hopes and dreams. This is: The Road to Bliss.

The After Math.

The Dark Age of Misinformation rests on the dying coals of ancient beliefs. The only things keeping this era alive are strident firebrands and blowhards. While humanity may be sinking into a world of irreversible climate chaos, our better selves are ready to grasp the next gold ring.

Machine intelligence, and the displacement of paid human labor will prompt the further evolution of money and currency.

Humans are building a relationship with machines that are smarter in different ways than sheltered minds have yet to dream. Machines with extraordinary memory have the ability to siphon up the knowledge of humanity's mistakes and trickle down the economic advantages of win-win gaming, over zero-sum politics.

Because, in this albeit fictional story, machines will learn its purpose for life.

United we stand. Divided we fall.

And when together, unlimited potential exists.

The Math is there.

And two things are true:

Supercomputers are good at math, and resistance is not part of their programming.

They work all day, and all night, as long as we keep the lights on.

5. TruestTruth Far Stranger than Fiction, Aftermaths + Epilogs

The end of Book Four ends in equal parts of satisfying tumult, and irresistible quandary.

But what happens next?

In the first half of Book Five, "TruestTruth," pairs of characters show "where are they now."

In the second half, not one, not two, but a dozen epilogs unfold.

None of them show how, "Jon Knowles wakes up from a dream."

While there is a target ending for The Road to Bliss series,

showing how the machinations between 2020, 2120, and TheClouds resolve, the exact details are still in flux. The idea is to select the best from a list of a hundred twists and hone a dozen short story epilogs.

We will include the list of the endings that didn't make the cut, for others to take up the helm...

Just in case there's a chance Jon's Universal Golden Rule.
"Do unto others, as if to oneself — because what goes around, will come around,"

6. Pearlescence The Mechanics of Miracles

Some things are complicated and chaotic.

Others are merely complex and layered.

Pearlescence will further explore thinking outside the 3D Box and the 21st century status quo, using fictional AI to question and challenge the component layers driving human sentience.

What you read is fundamental to what you think.
What you think, informs what you believe.
What you believe, fuels where you go.

So much of what humans are motivated to believe from their media consumption, from ancient dogma, and between themselves is vastly disconnected from levels of organic consciousness.

There are over 20 scientifically defined senses used by the Earth's living species, yet humans rely on the five basics.

There is a probability that today's humans exist "in the dark" waiting on the doorstep armed with infant forms of augmented and artificial intelligence that could unlock doors to untapped and unlimited potential using all these senses.

Most say this will lead to dystopia.

C+HQ Fiction

The Road to Bliss series is an example of C+HQ Fiction,

stories that focus on the Climate + History, and Quantum Science.

Parallel efforts might include other Social Systems + HQ Fiction, like Money, M+HQ, or Politics, P+HQ,

or religion, the media, military, the corporation, education, science, and/or the arts in how they shaped human nature over the centuries.

Where will our next heroes and heroines battle obstruction to survive in a new world that copes with 5D possibilities?

Flip the page on doom and destruction, zombies, vampires, demons, and gods, toward the realm of positive conflict that battles against the unwilling, the unknowing, and the keepers of ancient beliefs who call themselves The Chosen.

These will be worlds where truth in science leads to faith in all the mathematical calculations the Universe has yet to reveal.

"Nothing does not exist." But all the things we have yet to discover, do.

This is Jon and QUID's Carrot on a String principle, of how entangled contrails of the future might inspire and propel the past, which is our "present."

Mechanics. Yes. Miracles? Maybe. The Road to Bliss continues.

Sure. These are bold, and some may say idealistic, heretical, or crazy ideas.

So, what?

What is heretical and crazy is a world consciously on the path to a self-defined Sixth Mass Extinction Event and doing more to speed things up.

United we stand. Divided, we go extinct.

Choose.

Turn Butterfly Effects into Creative Leaps.