Jean Pierre Garnier Malet - Interview by FreeMind Project - English Version
Roman milestone of the Via Egnatia with a Latin and Greek inscription; Greek letters also served as numerals. Photo: G.Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Do we live in two times at once, and does a "double" of ours, in a time we cannot perceive, answer our questions and shape our thoughts? That is the central claim of the "theory of the doubling of time" of Jean-Pierre Garnier Malet, explained here in an interview recorded before a weekend workshop in Barcelona. Below is a summary of what he says, followed by what holds up and what deserves a second look.
The argument in brief
Garnier Malet says that each of us exists in two different times at once: a very short one, a "zero time" that we never perceive, and a very long one in which we can do many things. During the long time, our double lives many experiences and changes our memory in an instant, which is what we feel as intuition, instinct, premonition or a thought "that seems to come from nowhere." He compares this to particles: two entangled particles, he says, behave as if one acts while the other stays idle, and the active one alters the memory of the other through an instantaneous exchange of information. At the edge of a black hole, he adds, a particle doubles: one part enters and disappears, the other stays outside and keeps its memory intact.
From there he draws practical conclusions. Because we have a double, our questions are answered by someone in another time, and anyone can use that exchange to feed us information that is not truly ours, so we must understand "the scientific law" and not follow mere techniques. Every thought, the moment we think it, creates a potential future in another time, and another person can "catch" that potential, so a single thought can modify humanity. Hence the moral rule he calls the scientific law: think of doing to others what you would like them to think of doing to you, which he calls "benevolence." He says the ancient Greeks already knew all this, that the Greek alphabet corresponds to the way acceleration is counted in the doubling of time, and that he found its "three lost letters." He rejects the ideas of the collective unconscious and the subconscious as words that hide ignorance of the law, and names Pythagoras, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad as the teachers of one and the same law.
What holds up
The ethical core is sound and very old. Wishing others only what you would wish for yourself, and watching your own thoughts before acting on them, is a form of the Golden Rule, found in many traditions and in the Greek tradition of examining one's intentions. As a practice of self-observation, the question "would the other person be happy if they could read my thoughts?" is a useful, even wise, test.
One small point is also real: the "three lost letters" of the Greek alphabet are known. The letters digamma (or stigma), koppa and sampi fell out of everyday writing but survived as numerals, so the Greek numeral system used 27 symbols, nine for units, nine for tens and nine for hundreds. That fits his remark about "27 points" and 24 letters, though it comes from ordinary history, not from a theory of time.
A skeptical look
The physics does not hold. In physics, entangled particles show correlated results, but they cannot be used to send information faster than light, and no physical theory says that a particle "doubles" at the edge of a black hole, that one copy lives in a time it cannot perceive, or that one can alter the other's memory. "Zero time of infinite energy" is not a consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Dark matter and dark energy are not hidden times, either; they are names for gravitational effects whose cause is still unknown. As far as I could find, the theory was published mainly in his own books and in a conference journal, and I found no sign of acceptance in mainstream physics.
There are also warning signs in how it is presented. The claim is unfalsifiable: a double in an unperceivable time, answering our questions without our awareness, can explain any thought or coincidence and so explains none. The speaker insists that others who teach the theory are doing it wrong and that only the "scientific law" he teaches is correct, which is a way to protect an idea from checking. And the claim that the Greek alphabet encodes the movement of the doubling of time is the kind of numerology that finds patterns because it looks for them. Be careful, too, with any workshop or course that promises to harness such a "law": the Golden Rule is free.
The esoteric reading
Seen as symbol, the "double" is an old figure. Many traditions speak of a higher self, an inner guide or a guardian spirit who accompanies a person: the Greek daimon that Socrates said warned him, the Egyptian ka, the "holy guardian angel" of the Western magical tradition. Plotinus taught that part of the soul always remains above, untouched, while another part descends and acts in the world. That is close to the image of one self that lives and another that waits.
Perhaps that is the honest value of the interview. Not a physical law, but a reminder that we are more than the busy self who thinks, and that the thoughts we send into the world do not disappear.
Audiovisual reference material: Jean Pierre Garnier Malet - Interview by FreeMind Project - English Version
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