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Stories of ghosts have been told by every people that I have every heard of, often presented as shimmering translucent images of their former selves. As stated an electrical circuit needs that good stable return path to the source. Without it some of the energy is lost as heat which radiates out from the conductor. Is this the essence of the ghost? They are often people who have died badly or unexpectedly of some foul play. In this instance I imagine the person fighting to hold on to their only perception of reality, fighting not to go home if you will. Instead of quick clean transition to the other “plane”, their passage is a chaotic struggle to stay here and so they wind up trapped like static electricity waiting to some how get close enough to the path home to jump to it.
Is this the basis of the "mirrors around the newly dead superstition"? When the life force leaves the dying body the transistion back to the source must be hard, so the prescense of a non grounded strong conductive plate near the dying could possibly cause the life force to gravitate toward it, again much as static electricity will collect in the things around us, becoming trapped there. Place your hand near a mirror in a dry house and you may feel the hair on your hand being drawn toward the mirror, now imagine you are newly released life force struggling to break free of the mortal ties that bind us to our bodies. You finally break free and there is moment of imbalance, of non-guided momentum; a particularly strong pull in any direction could cause you to stray towards it. And once on the mirror, with the confusion swirling about you as you struggle to understand what has happened, your sense of direction is lost and you become trapped in the in between.


Various forms of paranormal activities are believed to have been possible by all people since the dawn of human history. Telekinetic’s, telepathy, you name it they have existed as long as we have been able to form thoughts. It is true that there are more people who are fakes than can actually perform these acts, which tends to make most people doubt that these things are possible. Are the those who actually possess this ability merely outstanding conductor/ receptors of the energy that we are. I know that there are many ways to fake it, studying the minute details of a persons body language and attitude and making educated guesses. it is also a fact that if you word a prediction, or "reading" just right and give it to a hundred people a vast majority will think that it speaks to them.  However people like Edgar Cayce, and Noestradamus, etc, had to have some validity to their abilities to so thoroughly withstand the test of time. So all though I believe the true gifts are rarer than hens teeth I believe there are those who have that gift of super conductor./receptor.

Most of humanity at one point or another longs to understand the big picture and their place in it. I feel our place in it is to live as though we owe this world and those who come after us, our best effort to be good people, instead of going about with the arrogant attitude that everything, even our most insignificant whim is owed to us by the simple fact that we are. I think that we have blinded ourselves to the wisdom of the people that we so often feel so very superior to.

Many of the ancient people knew that they were part of a greater whole, they respected the earth and their fellow inhabitants of it. They used what was required for food and clothing, shelter etc. but they took what they needed and left the rest. They used the whole of the animal they killed with reverence and spirituality. They used the land but did not rape it until it no longer can give forth its bounty. In short they sought balance and coexistence, realizing that they were in fact connected to everything.

It is also a fact that from the earliest times, some humans have understood the foundations of our very existence. From the atoms at our core, to the makeup of our universe, the knowledge of, or at least the idea of has been kown or felt to be true. Yet modern man stands on the summits and trumpets our greatness for discovering that which has been known for all of human history.

So it is that I wonder about those great modern thinkers, Da Vinci, Einstein, Tesla, etc, and ponder the possibilities of how they knew what they knew. Why is it that some people seem to have a head start in their intelligence, almost as if they had some pre-programming. Which is when I wonder if a properly prepared mind could, at the time of death, consciously hold on to its life experiences in the whole and carry them through the transistion into a new existence. I think that the task would be nearly impossible for all but the strongest will and intellect but imagine, I repeat, (with choirs of angels singing in my head), imagine if it could be done. To come out the other side with all the understanding and knowledge accumulated in your past life waiting like plump juicy apples to taken and devoured in your new life. To throw the cherry on top, once the feat were accomplished, to repeat it over and over accumulating as you go forth into eternity, the possibility doth truly take my breath away.
Until next time, keep the journey Happy and Forever in sight
Love Mortoch, (Dad)