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"So
let's for the moment accept the reality of psychic entities," I say,
"and
that they are natural beings whose existence lies outside the scope of
modern
physics, not necessarily and forever outside the scope, because we can
conceive,
if only with difficulty, of a psychophysics that includes the
phenomenology
of consciousness and disembodied psyches. Like I said, physics
has
expanded to cover stuff like action at a distance, radio waves,
radioactivity,
quantum wierdness.
The point is, there's
no supernatural. It is all part of the universe, although the
universe
is queerer than we suppose. Now, the grelet, the ogga, are
destructive psychic particles. They're
everywhere, like bacteria. Why are they destructive?
Because
they feed on the psychic breakdown products of a collapsing human
psyche.
They eat anguish and pain and heartbreak, and so they attempt to
control
their hosts so as to cause these states.
Naturally, like any parasitic entity, they camouflage themselves as
natives of the psychic ecology." Excerpt from the Tropic
of Night by Michael Gruber.
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