I'm quite convinced that there is a profound connection between us.
It's subtle and it takes (for most of us) practice to notice it. It extends out to other life-forms, too. At a guess i'd say all living things but i'm not sure where to draw the line at what is living and what isn't. There is a wealth of information that is shared at this level, so much so that(for most of us) it is natural to ignore it.
Rupert Sheldrake has an interesting book: "Seven Experiments that could change the world." Homing pigeons, dogs going to wait at the gate when their master leaves work, and other phenomena are discussed in it.
I do a kind of bodywork. I get called a healer and sometimes i am, though more often i feel i'm just helping the body get back to what is important. It can be pretty subtle. There's not always a lot to see happening, but it's commonplace to see a parent (sitting nearby) relax at the exact same time as their child (whom i'm treating) relaxes, especially if the parent is not really paying attention. Maybe they are reading or they've spaced off (it gets very peaceful in these sessions).
Any way. Natural connections where there is a level of shared information available and responded to but not necessarily obvious. Or you're out with a friend having a really fun time and it's like you know what each other are going to say next . On each others wavelength, that kind of thing. Knowing who is on the phone when it rings. All common occurrences.
The point is that what is natural for one person is downright weird for another. If you already know about this level of information, you don't reach for mythology when it is demonstrated. A lot of the time people will interpret something witch challenges their 'natural order of things' with the first thing that comes into their heads. If they are scared then their interpretation can be surreal. I've seen a large black cat growling at me for a couple of seconds before I realised it was a plastic bag in the breeze in a dark alley.
So there are a lot of misinterpretations of natural phenomena. And a lot of name calling.
Then there are other things that it are difficult to explain so simply. Like Lyri's ghost boy.
When a body gets caught up in some odd or unhelpful behaviour there tends to be some genesis for it. Some starting point. And there is/was an importance to the behaviour. Sometimes an event like being dropped on your head as a baby, or sometimes because the behaviour was the easiest way to deal with some other circumstance. So this coping behaviour gets locked in, habitualised.
I think it might be similar with ghosts (it's a common enough theory). They hang around because they have to. Somewhen it was important enough not to leave.
Either way all these things are natural. So I believe in some pretty odd stuff but i don't believe in the Super-Natural because it's all natural. There seems to be a dogma that goes: either it's natural or something made it. If something made it is it un-natural?
It's subtle and it takes (for most of us) practice to notice it. It extends out to other life-forms, too. At a guess i'd say all living things but i'm not sure where to draw the line at what is living and what isn't. There is a wealth of information that is shared at this level, so much so that(for most of us) it is natural to ignore it.
Rupert Sheldrake has an interesting book: "Seven Experiments that could change the world." Homing pigeons, dogs going to wait at the gate when their master leaves work, and other phenomena are discussed in it.
I do a kind of bodywork. I get called a healer and sometimes i am, though more often i feel i'm just helping the body get back to what is important. It can be pretty subtle. There's not always a lot to see happening, but it's commonplace to see a parent (sitting nearby) relax at the exact same time as their child (whom i'm treating) relaxes, especially if the parent is not really paying attention. Maybe they are reading or they've spaced off (it gets very peaceful in these sessions).
Any way. Natural connections where there is a level of shared information available and responded to but not necessarily obvious. Or you're out with a friend having a really fun time and it's like you know what each other are going to say next . On each others wavelength, that kind of thing. Knowing who is on the phone when it rings. All common occurrences.
The point is that what is natural for one person is downright weird for another. If you already know about this level of information, you don't reach for mythology when it is demonstrated. A lot of the time people will interpret something witch challenges their 'natural order of things' with the first thing that comes into their heads. If they are scared then their interpretation can be surreal. I've seen a large black cat growling at me for a couple of seconds before I realised it was a plastic bag in the breeze in a dark alley.
So there are a lot of misinterpretations of natural phenomena. And a lot of name calling.
Then there are other things that it are difficult to explain so simply. Like Lyri's ghost boy.
When a body gets caught up in some odd or unhelpful behaviour there tends to be some genesis for it. Some starting point. And there is/was an importance to the behaviour. Sometimes an event like being dropped on your head as a baby, or sometimes because the behaviour was the easiest way to deal with some other circumstance. So this coping behaviour gets locked in, habitualised.
I think it might be similar with ghosts (it's a common enough theory). They hang around because they have to. Somewhen it was important enough not to leave.
Either way all these things are natural. So I believe in some pretty odd stuff but i don't believe in the Super-Natural because it's all natural. There seems to be a dogma that goes: either it's natural or something made it. If something made it is it un-natural?
