Dear Friends,
It seems to me, a black hole or singularity exceeds our understanding, so is “supernatural.” Consciousness is the same. Its nature also eludes us. The same can be said of ghosts, telepathy, etc… If they do indeed exist, they’re simply natural phenomena that we don’t understand. That’s not to say we’ll never understand them… just not today. So they’re “supernatural.” What if we can’t measure “supernatural phenomena” because they’re fragile states, and the act of measurement collapses the system itself? Moreover, I suspect the “supernatural” follows probabilistic math, is non-local, and maybe has a form of retrocausality. Because I firmly believe we don’t know as much as we think we do. Leading me to conclude, the supernatural can’t be directly measured, it can only be intuited.
The “supernatural” is simply that which we don’t understand. The materialist argument breaks down when it comes to observations like black holes, quantum physics and consciousness. They’re observable but not understandable, so they must be “natural.” They can’t be “supernatural.” Which makes the materialist scoff at other observed, but non-measurable phenomena like telepathy, the sense of being stared at and the soul. Yet Heisenberg postulated that some things are inherently unknowable, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, where we can know the location of a quantum particle but not its velocity, or vice versa. Why wouldn’t psychic and even many psychological phenomena follow the same principle? Making them non-measurable and probabilistic.
Our conclusions about the double slit experiment are based on the old philosophical adage: as it is in the small, so shall it be in the large… This means we apply the analogue of waves on a lake when observing the effects of light. That’s why we believe light travels as waves. When light is observed however, those waves become particles. As if light exists as potential, in some other plane, universe or aether… until observed, and the potentials collapse into one… and become reality. What if supernatural phenomena operate similarly? Operating in wave form, and if observed, the wave collapses? Meaning such phenomena are fragile, non-measurable and possibly even non-local, (as quantum phenomena apparently are). Connecting the supernatural and quantum as analogues.
According to materialists, the apparent non-locality of entanglement is determined at entanglement and not at the moment of observation. Therefore there is no communication between the entangled particles. In my opinion, retrocausality destroys their hypothesis because it changes initial conditions. What if consciousness is as fundamental to the universe as the collapse of the wave function and retrocausality suggest? Consciousness then could be similar to light, until observed… it might be a field effect, or a wave within a field. Perhaps Jung’s Collective Unconscious could be explained as native ripples in that field arising from our aggregate thoughts? Moreover, if there is such a field, plane or wave, then that would explain the supernatural, because we share that field.
Since the traditional supernatural is non-observable and non-measurable, how can we determine if it exists? With probabilistic math, statistics and after-the-fact measurement (if such things don’t have a form of retrocausality, making them non-measurable even after-the-fact). I think the supernatural operates probabilistically. Breaking the materialist’s paradigm, which expects all of reality to be measurable and mathematically linear. Quantum phenomena show us that’s not true. Perhaps that’s why the supernatural is so misunderstood? Maybe probabilistic math, wave collapse and non-locality apply to the supernatural as well as the quantum… tying them together as analogies. Who knows, but I believe there’s more to the universe and reality than we yet know.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
