Seeing Beyond Death
The Per Firmamentum project tells the story of how a research team using a hyper-spectral retinal camera to detect patterns on a sub molecular level discover a window into the beyond. In the story the Ophthalmologist is given the name Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel and the project is called Per Firmamentum but they are based on my real world Ophthalmologist and his hyper-spectral retina team. The idea was born when, during a visit for an eye examination in 2014 less than a month after my father had died, a press photographer from the Montreal Gazette asked me to pose as the patient for a photograph which was to accompany an article about the hyper-spectral retinal project. The following is a modified explanation of the technology as it appears on the real research team's website.The eye offers a natural window to the brain via the retina. This light-sensitive layer, which lines the interior of the eye, is an extension of our central nervous system. Recent research has reported that the Aß photon imprinting plaques in the retinas of both humans and mice continue to receive and store neurological charges for as long as 2 minutes after death. This discovery opens the possibility that these postmortem patterns could in fact constitute a 2 minute window into the metaphysical plane.
