“Nearly everyone who knew Michael was aware of, and likely very impressed by what he called his Backplane Theory. To summarize, the Backplane was Michael’s comprehension of a Universal Mind, a noosphere-like repository of all thoughts and ideas. But Michael took this conception several steps further. He also speculated how it might function and how our relationship with it was essential to our ethics and purpose.

“Michael postulated that the Backplane, whether it be a celestial library compiling and transmitting information in some real dimensional sense, or a phenomenon existing solely in our collective psyche and archetypal consciousness, must reflect the processes of nature and biology, just as those processes are also reflected in our new realms of digital technology. AS ABOVE, SO BELOW. And because the Backplane exists outside of time, the quality of experience we bring to it both creates our future and reconstructs our past. Therefore, every moment can be transformative, and transcendent.

“In essence, Michael’s Backplane theory is a brilliant and inspiring reimagining of our concept of, and our relationship with SPIRIT. The ancient Greeks called it Aether, the pure essence that the gods breathed. In the East, Akasha was imagined as an ethereal fluid pervading the cosmos. The Stoics and the Platonists conceived it as the basis for thought and creation–the Logos. The Gospels called it the Word. Jung termed it the collective human unconscious.

“This is the realm of thought explored by the sages, the seers, the oracles, the alchemists. In his philosophy, Michael was of a mind with the great thinkers of human history. But even more than that, Michael’s life exemplified the Backplane in action. He didn’t just seek it; he sought to be it. He didn’t just conceive it; he consciously became it.”  -Steve Wagner