My Visit to Ground Zero

I took a walk in the old world trade center area, now called ground zero by most.

I was glad to see the construction happening all around the area and in the old Twin Towers foundation.

It saddened me to see the many street peddlers setting up shop around the block and under the construction scaffolding on the sidewalks.

After the towers collapsed, commercialism began almost instantly in the streets of NY. I remember people protesting it initially. They said it was disrespectful to try to make money based on the disaster. But the protests died out and the peddlers remained. Ground zero became a tourist attraction.




People don't come and pay their respects to the thousands that perished in that bright sunny morning seven years ago. They come to have their picture taken next to the big empty hole in the ground or next to the security guard or cop that is standing around in his pristine uniform, almost as if the city had designed his post for that same purpose.



As I walked deeper into the PATH station to where the escalators and stairs retained some familiarityto the structure that had been there before 9/11 I felt the welling of emotion that I coulnt allow myself to have while someone was with me. It was my first time by myself. As the single tear escaped from my left eye I turned to the spectacle that the area had become and took pictures.


I guess everyone in the nation feels that they witnessed a tragidy that day. But to those of us that had to see it without the aid of the media, we now get to see the tragidy that it has become.

Soul Searching

I recently became very excited by an article on Discover Magazine that talked about searching for the soul. In the article there were several tales of scientist trying to prove scientifically the existence of the soul.

A couple of physicists, one of them being Penrose, the father of chaos theory, realized that the amount of information that is required to store a personality would never fit into the cellular structure of the human brain.

They found that this would be possible on the plank level which is subatomic in the order of 25 , that is 25 times smaller than an atomic particle, which placed this information in a sub quantum field and therefore outside of the space time continuum. They reason both that this is why there was a portion of the being that continued to record environmental information with rare clarity while the brain was unconscious or clinically dead. Since the plank level is outside of the space time continumum information written into it would continue to exist beyond the loss of atoms around it , namely the brain. and would wait on that level until it was ready to be pickded up again. The plank realm was created at the same time of the big bang and because this is the home of all personalities in our universe, it would represent the complete knowledge of everythying there is to know about the universe plus all the experiences of all the lifetimes of all the beings that have ever existed.



This would explain everything from out of body experiences to ascendence into a level where the knowledge of the universe is completely available.

The scientists have a way to go before they can conclusively prove this but while considering the information I realized they had not found the soul but just its depository of knowledge, because if the plan level begun at the same time as the big bang then its fair to say that since the soul is older than the universe, then it is also separate from it.

I really would appreciate feedback on this one.