Ghosts' Interaction with Physics
Perhaps a relatively
more unified form of experience given by a freer level of consciousness
operating under less dual restrictions becomes limited and divided as the
experience of instantaneity and equal relational balance between interiors and
exteriors (and individuality and plurality) is restricted. The degree of
separation or reunification between causal and retrocausal and how much of it
remains connected would be the link between the Physical and Subtle realms.
If we knew
how to increase the cancelation between causal and retrocausal influences either
through individual and group conscious experiences or through artificial means we
might be able to increase the connections with the Subtle Realm. Perhaps when -
during research conducted at “haunted” places – the room temperature and
people’s temperatures anomalously drops (and it is often suggested that ghostly
entities are extracting energy from the physical world in order to manifest)
there’s also an increase in the convergence and mutual cancelation of the
causal and retrocausal while the physical patterns are transferred into the
Subtle Realm closest to physicality. Then by will (as normally operating in the
Subtle Realm) the ghostly entity releases the pattern and either moves an
object, becomes opaque to light, produces a sound, or is able to record a sound
in an electronic recorder and the temperature returns to normal. The order and
movement of physical molecules which has acquired a different entropy returns
to its original entropic state. If the entity doesn’t produce a particular
physical effect he or she may simply restores the previous physical balance or
state of order-disorder by emitting heat and instead of producing a cold area
produces a “hot spot.”
If we could
perhaps artificially cause physical kinetic energy and patterns to diminish
through clashing electric and radio frequency fields (like John Hutchinson
seems to have demonstrated) we might induce “portals” into the Subtle Realm while
increasing the cancelation between causal and retrocausal influences. Some of
the physical effects (as apparently demonstrated by Hutchinson) include a
reduction of inertia and a disconnection from Earth’s gravitational field.
Another clue may perhaps be given by Kozyrev’s experiments (described by
physicist Claude Swanson) on “torsion physics” in which causal and retrocausal
influences allegedly relate in a non-local connection capable of modifying
inertia (similar to what physicist Ernst Mach described) can gives us some
clues.
Then again,
the deep cooling (even felt within the body) of an environment often
experienced (and detected with instruments) by “ghost hunters” before or during
“paranormal” events reminds me of the “Peltier Effect” known in electronics:
when electron flow through two different wires completing a circuit produces a
cooling effect at the juncture, some of the kinetic energy temporarily becomes
potential and again returns to its original state. Also, if the current flow is
reversed heating takes place. During “paranormal” cooling we could say that the
patterns of physical energy present in a higher kinetic state are transferred
to the Subtle Realm through the conversion provided by the retrocausal activity
in the quantum world. This conversion activity may be what some theosophical esotericists
have called the “etheric.” No physical energy is lost; it just goes into a more
potential (and less presently useful) physical state. However, in the Subtle
Realm, the physical patterns (whose kinetic expressions became ‘potential’) were
transferred into a space and time free Subtle exterior manifestation environment
(that is into a different kind of ‘space’, an Interiors-Exteriors ‘relational
space’ or a subjectivity-objectivity ‘relational space’) become more
immediately useful. The kinetic
usefulness was transferred into the Subtle Realm whose exteriors instantly
respond to interiority or subjectivity.
When an
entity mainly located in the Subtle Realm consciously or subconsciously wishes
to produce a physical effect he or she makes use of the physical patterns
transferred into a Subtle form; his or her environment instantly responds and
the patterns return to the Physical Realm reestablishing (restoring) the
kinetic motion ‘anomalously’ sequestered. This can be done, for instance,
either by moving something, producing a sound, becoming opaque to light,
increasing the local intensity of electric fields. If the entity doesn’t
produce any of these or similar effects purposefully or subconsciously, he or
she might naturally release the transferred kinetic patterns by emitting heat
and creating one of the “hot spots” that have also been detected by “ghost
hunters.”
In these
search for patterns in which philosophy, physics and a pre-modern cosmology
present clues we need to be boldly speculative within reasonable bounds. We
don’t need to have all the empirical the evidence to dare (although more
empirical verification would be excellent to guide our modeling). I’ll venture
to say that, perhaps some of the physical things we can manipulate have a
complementary relation akin to characteristics suggested by the symbols inside
the “Inca quadrants” and by opposing them they might cancel each other out
partially returning Physical Realm quadrants to a Subtle Realm quadratic state.
Physical
energy may not be produced or lost but the physical entropy and kinetic
patterns of order may be temporarily transferred into space and time subsuming Subtle
Realm patterns and be returned (by creating a classical physical effect or by
simply releasing the anomalously transferred pattern). A measure of useful physical
order is temporarily transferred into the Subtle through the retrocausal link
always potentially available in quantum states. The degree of connection of
ordinary, ‘actual’ physical substance with its ‘potential’ mirror-like
retrocausal aspect may represent the stable intermediate “etheric” states
spoken about by Rudolph Steiner and other esotericists. These states may
temporarily rearrange themselves into less temporarily stable new patterns when
the connection between the Subtle and Physical increase and, when this occurs,
the insides of quadrants may become more influential.
