There are much cooler, IMO, things in reality than ghosts, spirits and mystical "stuff".
How about Quantum entanglement? Now that is truly freaky.
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Quantum entanglement is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects are linked together so that one object cannot be adequately described without full mention of its counterpart — even though the individual objects may be spatially separated.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
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As Sagan once wrote, in one of my favorite books:
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"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces... I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."
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From:
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark