Through the maturation of a process of science a type of modern alchemy is born that breaks the notion of what reality is--indeed it reveals potentials that reality can assume. This leads to the idea that all of reality is some kind of hologram which is called the holonosphere. This leads to a crisis of faith and meaning, although there are people being tapped on by mysterious forces within it to do something about the crisis that is brewing. One is a hacker. One is a type of librarian. Another is an enslaved clone/worker.