Quantum Leap

Teleportation.

I'm sorry if my thoughts have been on a sci-fi tip lately, but with my focus on Metaphysics, they often veer in that direction. Plus, the fundamental roots of sci-fi are in the human spirit. Things that resonate.

I'm thinking about teleportation (and interesting way to phrase that, and you'll see why in a minute). The concept that a human or anything really could travel through space not in the "shortest distance" between points - a line - but in a dot. A single point that would exist as two places that something could slide between.

We do it every day, actually. Our brain does all the work. I want you to think of a place you haven't been in a while - picture it in your mind, transport yourself there. What is that incarnation of the place in your mind? If you can see it, note its characteristics, is it the place itself? Or some faux-version of it? What does it mean to think of something? How can something be far away from us and in our mind?

These aren't really answerable questions. Like most of life.

It's essentially teleportation though. If we close our eyes and think, we can transport. It may not seem real, but how real is what we're experiencing right now? We are getting the ghost of the place - a faint sense of what it looks like, smells like, feels like. It's just a milder version of the location we're actually in. Is that 100% fake?

The ending of things is taking my mind in all sorts of directions - Florida, Texas - soon I'll be traveling to other places. I think our minds wander a bit when our friends leave, move away, head out for adventure. I guess the thing that brings a smile to my face is that I can be there with them. In a milder way. But still, I'm in Texas. I'm in Florida. North Carolina. Kansas. Oklahoma.

I'm wondering. If I think of a place, will you be able to see me there? What if both imagined it at the same time?

How real could it be? How close could our friends be to us at all times? I think keeping them in our minds is the first big step when they are far, physically far away. Minds, hearts, either place.

Just wanted to let you know where mine is.