Supernatural activity: True or false? – Part 19

Do the buildings have a spirit? Do they have special metaphysics? What about when a house is haunted? What about religious temples?

The little I know about the Masons philosophy, I have heard that they call god the Architect, and the word mason comes from french “builder”. So somehow it is a religion/philosophy of the buildings, although it blends with christianism and others. They, and other similar Christian or semi-Christian secret societies, are the authors of the masterful churches built all around Europe, in which you feel something mistycal and special just by entering it. The knowledge to build them is thought to come from Egypt (as many other masons wisdoms) and some influences from Asia.

This move us back in time. We all know about the Pyramids, which are actually tombs and also provoke this special feelings. It don’t seem to be a functional construction at all, so I guess in their design there was more than just a building, there was some special geometries combined with magic to make this building alive and eternal (like a soul). This explains why there were this amazing constructions in other far civilizations, such as in Mexico, Canary Islands, and Australia. Of course, there are also theories that claim Egyptians have sailed to this countries and taught them how to build pyramids. What do you think? Are there special metaphysics in pyramids, or are them just an Egyptian contagious obsession?

The other line of research, the Asian, target us to Feng Shui, a milenary “art” or set of knowledge about how to build a comfortable place good for life. This tradition talks about “cosmo-teluric” energies, some good and bad energies that can be equilibrated with a good construction. Aren’t this like souls or metaphysical energies? Is Feng Shui another “buildings religion/philosophy”?

All religions have their special way of building a Temple, and their construction has a special ritual, isn’t this ritual a preparation for good metaphysics that have to be able to mediate in the communication with the divinity?

Supernatural activity: True or false?

Does the supernatural exist? If it did, how would you know? By virtue of it being “super” natural above nature your senses would be unable to detect it.

But let’s face it. “Supernatural” is an excuse for people to believe in things that no sane person would otherwise believe in. Ghosts are often touted as the greatest bit of evidence for the supernatural. As spun-up as people can get on this topic, why is that there isn’t a single, verifiable source of scientific evidence for their existence? I mean, it’s been a couple thousand years now. You’d think we’d have a tape recording of a conversation, or a video, or an image captured on a scientific instrument. What do we get instead? Globs of light on poorly developed film. Yawn.

So what is “supernatural”? Some people suggest that it can mean anything you like, or that it can mean “whatever is personal to you”. It is this post-modernist nonsense that has made it difficult for us mere mortals to have a regular conversation. In short, you get to make up the meaning of the word as you go along. At the end of it all, nothing has been figured out. Cold-blooded rationalists like myself have to sit at the kid’s table while people congratulate each other on having “metaphysical experiences”. Happily for me, the joke’s on them. Most of them probably don’t even know what “metaphysics” means.

I don’t mean to single out ghosts. The battle between science and superstition is littered with the bodies of stupid ideas, so I suppose I could’ve written this little blurb on anything. But ghosts just seem to perfectly capture the silliness of it all. I mean, why do ghosts wear clothes? Am I supposed to believe that, upon passing into the next world, the ghost retains his or her garments, which are similarly projected in the dark hallway/graveyard/foyer/baseme nt/attic they supposedly died in? Why can’t ghosts talk? Why won’t they stand still for a good picture?

If a word can mean anything at all, it means absolutely nothing. If “supernatural” is merely a catch-all for everything that is unexplained or just plain weird, we’ll have to relegate quantum mechanics and the orbit of Mercury to that same class. Now that we’ve got two scientific notions thusly categorized, school’s out. The beer sitting on my desk is just as supernatural. Which means the word “supernatural” is one huge waste of air. Or in this case, a waste of electrons.