the map is not the territory. r.a.w. found that out.

Actually, to nitpick, that’s from Korbyzki’s General Semantics.

I’m wary of using the term “quantum” too much. That’s how particles work. They’re infinitely tiny. And only astronomically large objects behave in an orderly, predictable fashion. They’re cosmological, they follow “principles.”

Between the microcosmos and the macrocosmos, we inhabit the mesocosmos, the realm between quantum anarchy and near-classical orderly principles, one of “chaos.”

That explanation is largely stolen from Hakim Bey/P.W. Wilson in Ong’s Hat. I like it because it gives us a good compromise but also opens up a whole new field. A vesica pisces, if you will.

We tend to have this neurotic thing about the ‘real truth’ as if nothing is acceptable except the naked reality of things. Problem is, if that’s all you’ll settle for, you’ll most likely end up chewing your wrists open in short order. For the time being, you need to learn to suspend your ruthless cutting apart of the ground beneath your feet and use a model of reality, not because it’s the ‘real thing’ but because it works.

That’s from Zac’s latest entry.

Part of the reason I think that argueing over the reality of spirits is silly is for exactly that reason. I mean, I do it too, but there’s nothing practical to gain. I’m not so sure they exist outside of me, but I damn sure act like they are. If I bud off a part of myself, e.g., and let’s say I call it a “fallen member of the Host of Angels, Furfur, a Duke over so-and-so-many spirits who maketh men to…”, then I damn sure better make sure to feed and discipline him–i.e., that semi-autonomous part of me–or expect consequences. Same goes if “Furfur” has some degree of autonomous, “objective” existence like I have.

Ghost Molecule

What has been found is this: that all human cells en post-mortem (which do contain measurable yet varying amounts of energy) CAN by chemical reaction (response) know instinctively precisely where they fit in a human or animal configure as energy is incrementally released from dying human (animal) cells. Essentially reform in energy the original “animal item” and in this case it denotes George and Mary Q. Lunchbox post-mortem and phases of decomposition.

Meaning that as a body is decomposing, let’s say, over a five year span, energy is being released in fits and starts which was stored in the living cell now defunct. After a few years of decomp, that residual energy may actually re-form the original structure (a ghost) to some extent and even move about in a given semi-responsive pattern though non cognitive (more zombie than man). If a man it will by self-adherence to the internal chemical response, form in essence a man, if not the very man who died as he was in his binary or basic behaviors. AND even possibly act out a grouping of familiar behaviors sporadically over and over again as this was the physical motion most familiar to that person genus. If that man was a handyman it may very well still do rounds or something similar that that body did regularly or had done repetitiously while alive.

That could also potentially explain things like curses, too, couldn’t it?

http://www.rawilson.com/metro.shtml

After he and his wife moved up to Capitola in the early ’90s, he used an early incident here as a way to explain quantum physics.

“When I moved from Los Angeles I moved into what I thought was Santa Cruz,” Wilson told a European audience during footage included in Bauscher’s film. “Then we had something stolen from our car and we called the police, and it turned out we didn’t live in Santa Cruz, we lived in a town called Capitola. The post office thought we lived in Santa Cruz, the police thought we lived in Capitola. I started investigating this and a reporter at the local newspaper told me we didn’t live in Santa Cruz or Capitola, we lived in a unincorporated area called Live Oak.”

“Now quantum mechanics is just like that,” Wilson continues, “except that in the case of Santa Cruz, Capitola and Live Oak, we don’t get too confused because we remember we invented the lines on the map. But quantum physics seems confusing because a lot of people think we didn’t invent the lines, so it seems hard to understand how a particle can be in three places at the same time and not be anywhere at all.”