What's White, Powdery, and Can Rock Your World!?

“All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science." Matthew Arnold

I was trying to cheer everyone up. A bunch of family sat weeping after my grandma’s funeral and cynically pondering their disbelief in an afterlife. I cited quantum physics as the greatest proof of the supernatural. I did my best to explain how at the sub-atomic level, scientists observed what Einstein called “spukhafte fernwirkungen” or "spooky action at a distance." These were some very smart extended family members whom I was sure would chime in with their knowledge of quantum physics. Yet all looked at me as if I had one too many bong rips.

So many intelligent, sophisticated people are still not in cahoots with the news that modern science is discovering incredibly eerie things in the miniature, white, powdery universe that is a grain of salt. Yes, there’s a universe in a grain of salt which holds in its seemingly tiny boundaries 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.* In this miniature universe, scientists have proven that the speed of light is not an absolute boundary. In other words, tiny particles from the same atom are fired off and the measurement of one tiny particle instantaneously affects the second tiny particle even though they are separated by a relatively huge distance. They seem to act independently of time and space thus moving faster than the speed of light. So what does this have to do with my grandma’s passing?

Any scientist will tell you that this “spooky action” is beyond supernatural. It proves that there is some mysterious power in the universe that connects everyone and everything. Healers, mystics, psychics are often considered quacks. But in the future, the talented healers, mystics and psychics will prove to have manipulated the mysterious energy. Will further understanding of this energy create some sort of link to those who’ve passed away? That sounds like a stretch. But were you alive 100 years ago, your suggesting the idea of an airplane let alone a television might have been your ticket to the looney bin. As Saint Augustine said, “Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

• Rainbow G. Love & Jack Johnson
• Feelin' Alright Traffic
• So Much Things to Say Bob Marley
• A Brand New Me Aretha Franklin
• U. S. Blues Grateful Dead
• Streets of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen
• Into the Mystic Sunchild
• Franklin's Tower Grateful Dead
• America Simon and Garfunkel
• Barfly Ray LaMontagne
  

*The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggert