Dear Uncle Mike
Vou've talked about death
before, how It doesn't exist
according to quantum physics,
whatever the hell that is. Would you
mind running it by me again:
Someone in my circle died recently
and I could use some perspective
Thanks.
Sometimes A Great Lotion
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You're welcome Uncle Mike is always happy to talk about death It's
one of those subjects that, the more you think about it, the better you feel
Uncle Mike doesn't believe in death for two reasons. First, because he sees
no evidence of it in the physical world Second, because in its popular form,
there's no room for it in the equations
Keeping matters simple, the '!' we see in the mirror is a complex wave
form Like a chord strummed on the electric guitar of the universe, our
bodies are the surface features of an energy field W e are, in this way,
brothers and sisters of everything from sea shells to scotch terriers, tennis
shoes to philodendra, sunsets to stars. The observable 'we' is what
Buckminster Fuller called a 'pattern integrity': a slip knot that slides through
space/time, a one of a kind ripple on the pond of current events
Owing to biochemical processes too disgusting to go into, our body
ripples eventually fade and disappear. The disappearance is, of course, an
illusion The conservation laws governing mass/energy and m omentum are
very firm about life everlasting in a closed four-dimensional ripple tank.
Things change: they don't go away There's nowhere for them to go Uncle
Mike can hear you saying, yeah, but in terms of being able to have lunch
with friends, dead is still dead. Au contraire Your spirit is a pattern Integrity,
an organizing principle dropped, constantly and forever, into the formless
potential of being A slip knot sliding through life A minor chord in the
unfinished symphony of the universe
Imagine a glass sphere Every point inside the sphere is a perspective
The sum of all the point perspectives, an infinite number of them, is the
internal reality of sphere If any of the perspectives disappeared, the
geometry of the sphere would collapse. In term s of the geometry of
space/time, you and Uncle Mike are point conscious perspectives that
generate biological fields W e are. quite literally, born to do this Because all
perspectives existed, at least as potential, in the first nanosecond of the big
bang, our perspectives have always been here and always will be. Subtract
even one and the geometry of the continuum is violated and the universe
ceases to be This may be what Shakespeare had in mind with the
question, "Death, where is thy sting?"
Uncle Mike is sorry you've lost a friend Honor their memory by loving
those who remain Instead of mourning, celebrate the gift of life which, once
given, is never taken away
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Is it stupid to buy lottery tickets'? Uncle Mike hesitates to go that far.
le sees it as an act of statistically misguided hope The odds were better
zhen the mob ran the num bers racket Still, hope is hope, and we should
ever discourage it, not even in your boyfriend who allows himself to be
sf erred to as The Gambler by His Lady Count yourself lucky he doesn't
lay the poker machines The odds on those puppies make the lottery
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