Thinking of You!

This past weekend I was in Los Angeles at my Aunt's Young Artists Award Ceremony.  Maureen Dragone passed away a year and some months ago, but her legacy lives on through the honoring of young actors and actresses for their achievements in theater and film.  Her mother, my grandmother, Nora Laing, had founded the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes Award.  She did this some seventy years prior with a handful of friends, while my aunt was in her teens.  In her young years, my aunt was inspired by Jackie Coogan and others young professionals whose efforts as child stars went either largely uncompensated or largely unrecognized.  So she followed in her mother's footsteps and crated an organization that would let young performers meet on a more equal playing field, separate from the adults, one that would fully acknowledge their noteworthy contributions to entertainment.  Now, here I find myself, in a ballroom full of very talented young people, tomorrow's big stars, wondering what amazing things they will accomplish in the lives that lay ahead for them.

Most of these young people know each other very well.  They follow each others careers and work very closely.  And they are all so supportive and encouraging, cheering each other on.  As the names of the nominees were called out, whoops and hollers of joy and commendation would arise from different areas of the room, simmering down to an overall applause from everyone.  Then, as the winners were announced, after the celebratory din died down, the text messages would begin to fly.  Congratulating, consoling, sending thoughts and words of support and love, not only to each other, but also to family members at home and friends around the globe.

It reminded me of telepathy and what Einstein called, "Spooky action at a distance."  This is where particles from the same atom are separated by a vast distance.  Then something is done to one of those particles and it results in a reaction or response.  But the particle that had the experience is not the only one that reacts.  The other particle, the one that is connected but far away also has the same reaction.

This is where physicists and metaphysicians meet, the realm of telepathy.  An event occurs to a loved one on a distant continent, and we wake up, knowing that something has happened.  And here are all these children in this ballroom texting their messages instantaneously around the globe.  It's very like telepathy and right in keeping with the patterns we find in quantum physics.

As I sat there remembering my aunt and my grandmother before me, basking in their legacy, it occurred to me that with cell phones and texting, we have all moved one more substantial step farther along the road to recognizing our oneness and our interconnectedness.  The only step remaining is realizing that we can do this without a device.  We already have within us the Quantum Entanglement  of our deeper knowings, where two particles or people are so deeply linked that they share the same existence.  This is spooky action at a distance, that ability to know instantaneously, just like texting, but it's telepathy.   

With that, I'll just let you all know that I'm thinking of you.

© Josephine Laing, 2015