Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get back tell me, hand on heart, you didn’t feel something. Modern archaeology, for all the good that it has done, does not seem to respect this point. (Please see the article under the same name on my Substack for an extended ontological explanation as to why.)
Something is ambiguous, absurd, certainly strange (see: Kastrup, 2012).
Let’s talk about strangeness. Your first thought may be the “paranormal”. Those into the phenomena may think of “high strangeness”. Historians may recount a primary source or two that sticks out from the literature. Classicists may see myth. Some of you may even recollect a personal experience. Maybe one you heard from a family member or that omnipresent friend of a friend of a friend.
Whatever the case, one thing becomes ironically clear:
Ambiguity is inherent to our world, so too ambivalence, so too absurdity, so too strangeness.
And I can prove it. Well, not me per se. But just stick around and I will explain all.
Perhaps when a scientist, specifically a quantum physicist, hears the word “strange”, they have a slightly different reaction than those listed above. This reaction is hinged around the question:
When we begin to enhance our observational lenses and “zoom in” what do we see in subatomic spaces?
Many smart people might reply back: particles in space. Perhaps, more specifically: quantum fields across space. Then, even more specifically: seemingly empty space that probably holds intrinsic properties allowing matter wave forms to exist over time, yet neither concepts we fully understand yet, because we cannot coherently observe nor harness them.
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