Authenticity

 Authenticity -- you know, that thing or quality you gave up as a child in order to survive or be accepted.  A short, simple presentation.  The truth is often simple.  We're the ones who over-complicate everything.

Mexico City

14 years ago I fell in love/lust with a woman from Mexico City.  Over the next year, I visited Mexico City 5 times, staying anywhere from two to six weeks at a shot, trying to win this woman's love.  It didn't work, for whatever reason.  A lack of dineros, hidden competition, or maybe it was just a case of national pride, it occurs to me now.

Although I didn't win the woman's heart, Mexico City succeeded in stealing mine, along with my wallet (on the subway).  Hello, American Embassy!  Anyway, I look back at this video with a mixture of regret, nostalgia, and something akin to homesickness.  Not sure how all that works together, but there you go -- spend enough time in the Distrito Federal and it grows on you. 

I don't remember the cable cars and thus never rode one, but I do remember seeing houses just crawling up the sides of very steep hills, where none of the land has been leveled -- they just build on the steep pitch.  Another massive earthquake in Mexico City and alot of those structures are going to tumble down.

I love the scenes in the streets and the colorful bazaars full of people, full of life -- that's what I miss about Mexico City, the sense, the pulse of life all around you.  Here in America everything is very white-washed and toned down. Bland. Fake.  Nothing's real here.

I had to laugh when even the guide said, "We are lost now."  You could walk five blocks in Mexico City and go, "Now how in the hell do I get back?"  That said, I used to go running locally in Chapultepec park.  There would be gang members stationed every couple of hundred feet or so, just to stake out their territory.  I mean, other people were running too, but I was obviously the gringo.

I stayed in the Condesa where my friend had inherited the family home, which was originally purchased in 1964, with lots of excursions to the Reforma and Roma districts.  These guys are eating on the street in the Condesa, which I did often.  I miss that.  For some strange reason, it felt like home to me there.

They're having a really interesting conversation over lunch about the economic impact upon the locals of Americans and Europeans moving into neighborhoods like these.  My friend sold her family home and moved far out of the city, on a property nestled up against the volcanoes.

All in all, I miss that time of my life.  Though, as I said, the love affair didn't work out, still it was an exciting, lively, memorable, and often romantic time.  I guess my memories of Mexico City are still entertwined with those of lost love but, strangely enough, I find the memories to be mostly happy.  Go figure!

Quantum Mechanics

Physicists are still stumped by the dilemma of quantum mechanics wherein electrons seem to operate as a wave form, yet we perceive them as particles. The reason, I believe, is simple.  This is not physics, but speculative cosmologies.

Subatomics describes the permeable medium by which energy in the implicate ("subtle") universe or realm -- where everything is a form of energy and would probably only be perceptible in wave-form -- crosses over into our presumably material realm.  In the implicate (a term coined by the physicist David Bohm) universe, this "form" wouldn't be a form at all but at most an archetype seen as an energy wave.  If we were in that realm with corresponding faculties, our perception of it would be as a fluid form of wave-like energy which may incline towards a pattern, or archetype, in a macro-sense, but would be an immaterial wave in the micro-sense.  A whorl or little mini-cyclone of energy, perhaps.

We, observing from this realm, perceive the subatomic as a particle because of where we are standing -- in the material universe.  Wave-forms tend to take on the appearance of solid shape here because the vibrational energy of this realm operates at a much slower rate than in the implicate or subtle realm.  Here, we can see, touch, taste, and feel apparent form in order to learn from it.  It's a hierarchical design whereby energy and implicate patterns are slowed down, slowed down, and slowed down until our primitive physical senses can perceive and thus interact with them.

There are several layers to Existence or Creation.  It's a bit like an onion. Each layer has a kind of physics and its own laws which operate accordingly therein but don't necessarily apply outside of that specific realm.  They do operate hierarchically, trans-causally.  That is, the laws of the lower, or outer realms, are subsumed within the laws of the upper or inner realms.  We've yet to have that explained to us in terms of physics.  Perhaps sometime in the future.

And so to the video.  Spoiler alert: I have a theory about nonlocality, which is mentioned later in the video, as well but will write about that at a later date.