Twin Towers Ghost


Linda just came back from New York City. She and her grandson were on a bus, if my memory serves me correctly, when they witnessed an exchange between a father and his daughter. It seems that he had looked at the place where the Twin Towers came down and gotten a "ghost effect." He saw the towers standing. He was trying to explain how this might happen. His daughter said, "That's just crazy."
Linda added, "I tended to agree with her."

There was a hard rain yesterday and it left the air cool and fragrant, so that we were sitting on the deck, overlooking town, sharing a bottle of wine, when the conversation turned to what happens when three thousand people are suddenly vaporized. Does that energy stay around for awhile? I remember Colin Wilson (today is his birthday) writing (In Mysteries, I think) about spots where there is time distortion. For example, he related that a well known historian -- though I cannot now remember which one it was -- had become interested in history after coming into contact with one of these fields.

The way the story is related, the historian as a young man suddenly found himself in a different time, and witnessed a group of Roman soldiers. This drove his interest in history, not as a record of the past, but as something alive and with us all the time, but not often encountered directly. Because our minds order everything linearly from past into future doesn't mean it is like that. There is no reason why it should be.

This is information reported by an individual, so it can be taken as dream experience, I know. But there is also the consideration that the separation between subject and object is gone, and belongs to Newtonian physics. The alternate explanation is that there are places where a great deal of emotional energy is concentrated. Some people are more sensitized to it than others. That is not to say that the others can't sense it, they simply screen it out as distracting information and try to maintain a focus on shared reality.

This thought process of course coincides with what I am writing in the fiction part of the blog, Ash Fork, and Shuffle Play. What interests me right now is the line of thought that life cannot be separated from the conditions necessary for life.

There is a line of thought that the conditions for life were just some kind of cosmic accident, separate from the life which flows through the conditions. The life and the conditions do not occur separately, but are one unified field of energy, with two polarities (like every energy field). If that is true, then there could be all kinds of energy fields which do not contain life, but are themselves alive. I don't argue that there are, or are not. I only imagine what they might be like if they do exist.

I imagine what the energy field around the Twin Towers site might be. It would be a formidable force, the ghost of world trade and emergency radios that can't communicate, sudden and violent transformation of matter from one state to another state.

Linda agrees with the little girl that her dad is talking crazy, about why he sees ghosts. I do know what she means. Just because you are seeing ghosts does not mean that other people want to be bothered into acknowledging them. Once you acknowledge them you can't very well pretend they're not there when you see them the next time. Pretty soon your life is a spook show. Everywhere you go you've got invisible friends, and the only way you get away with it is by wearing an earpiece so people think you're on the phone.

Besides, the opportunity for mass suggestion shouldn't be taken lightly. If there are several sightings of the ghost towers, the contagion of the symbol might capture the public imagination. They'll have the experts on television all day long, trying to provide context for the miraculous.

"What is it, doctor? Do buildings have ghosts?"

"Apparently they do, Wendy. As best we can explain the phenomenon, when the energy in one of these fields concentrates to Fahrenheit 911, it achieves sentience. In other words, Wendy, the Twin Towers is the symbol in which the energies released from the three thousand dwell, but as a unified field of consciousness, in a universe filled with such symbolic life forms."

"That's just crazy."

"Why must it be crazy?"

"Because Twin Towers should be plural, and yet, when you use them in the singular as a symbol it's like traveling on a mobius strip from duality to resolution."

"There is no duality in the symbol of the twins because it isn't reducible."

"That's just crazy."

Posted: Wed - July 18, 2007 at 06:16 PM