In October 2015, I blogged about the Paris Bone
Crypt, and it became a popular post. Why do people like spooky stuff? Macabre,
creepy things like graveyards. Listening to and telling stories about ghosts. Investigating
haunted houses. Is the Zombie Apocalypse coming soon?
Is it more than curiosity that stirs people’s
interest in spooky stuff? We have a superstitious history of disbelieving
things that can’t be perceived by our five senses or can’t be explained using our logical, left-brained minds. When I was a kid, it was common for
people to be highly skeptical about ghosts and haunted places—they didn’t
exist, they were the devil playing tricks.
What lies beyond the limits of this physical world?
It’s astounding…time is fleeting…I remember doing the Time Warp dance from "The
Rocky Horror Picture Show". It was a cult movie for over a decade. Fans dressed
in costumes to watch midnight screenings at the cinemas. In another dimension…what
can we see with our inner eyes and hear with our inner ears? Some people dream
in color, and they experience vivid sensations of taste, smell, and touch while they’re fast
asleep. Does that make sense?
Right-brain thinking is the half of the mind
that responds to creativity, emotion, intuition and psychic perception. But
left and right brain thinking is popular psychology and might be a myth about
the mind and not how it works at all. How do we comprehend strange and spooky
things? It's wonderfully weird!
As you read on, enjoy some spooky background
music from Star Diva.
Life is not all that it seems…
Life and death are part of a journey.
In old Europe before 5500 B.C, people had
symbols and ways to understand a triple path—life, death and regeneration.
What happens after life ends is an interesting
topic...
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| source: PictureQuotes.com |
Halloween has its roots in the Samhain festival
of the Celts and also from All Saints Day. Samhain was the time of the harvest
moon, the end of the harvest season before the start of winter. It was
celebrated with bonfires. The veil or divide between the living and the Otherworlds thinned, and could be crossed over. It was thought that faeries and
earth spirits were needed to help the people and livestock survive the winter.
The souls of the dead might also cross over to join the celebration for the
changing of the season.
It's such an ancient pitch.......Bette Midler sings “I put a spell on you” from
the movie, --"Hocus Pocus", 1993.
During October, I’ll be writing a new blog about the Paris
Bone Crypt, and also posting lots of strange and spooky
things on Google +
I hope you can join me again.
Shivers!
♥ 
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