(08-01-2012, 11:44 AM)ShinAr Wrote: [ -> ]For instance, who do we suppose first coined the thought of such a thing as a ghost? What is its origin? Where did it begin and at what point did it begin to evolve into the many various myths that surround it this day? What exactly is this thought process that we call a ghost?
Very good question, Shin'Ar.
Perhaps some etymology may be of aid:
The modern sense of "disembodied spirit of a dead person" is attested from late 14c. Its origins can be traced back to O.E. gast: "soul, spirit, life, breath; good or bad spirit; angel, demon." Then there's Ger. Geist, also "spirit, ghost," from PIE root *gheis-, "to be excited, amazed, frightened" (from O.E. gæstan, "to frighten"). The surviving O.E. senses, however, are in Christian writing, where it is used to render L. spiritus, a sense preserved in Holy Ghost.
(Funny how people never imagine the Holy Ghost as being a dead dude like all other regular "ghosts.")
The gh- spelling appeared early 15c. in Caxton, influenced by Flemish and M.Du. gheest, but was rare in English before mid-16c. Sense of "slight suggestion" (in ghost image, ghost of a chance, etc.) is first recorded 1610s; that in ghost writing is from 1884, but that term is not found until 1919. Ghost town is from 1908. To give up the ghost (to "die") was in Old English. Ghost in the machine was Gilbert Ryle's term (1949) for "the mind viewed as separate from the body."
Quote:If we suppose that life is a continuously incarnating force, then we do suppose that there will be a transition between living and living again.
If you may consider a slight correction, Shin'Ar, I would kindly suggest there is no such thing as "living and living again." There is only one living, and that living is life itself, and life is forever alive.
Contrary to popular misunderstanding, it is erroneous to see death as the opposite of life. Life has no opposite, it simply has phases—namely, birth and death. Hence, the opposite of birth is death. Life flows unimpeded through the death/birth and birth/death processes of an incarnation. Irregardless of whether you are "dead" or "born," you are still
alive. Life is pure energy, life is consciousness itself. You are always ALIVE (albeit to various degrees of livingness).
Quote:But why would we consider that somehow our 'ghost' identity would haunt this living reality during that phase?
Firstly, let us say that the "ghost realm," if you will, is as busy and alive as this "living reality," as you put it. Now, to offer my thoughts on your question: the ghost identity haunts this reality because of an attachment and/or trauma pertaining to its particular incarnative experience which was not resolved
whilst "in the flesh," as you would say.
Quote:And why do we suppose that it would take the form of our dead most recent temporary form?
I believe I answered this in the previous question.
Quote:Why take any form at all if it is no longer flesh and blood?
There is a slight, but crucial, misconception here. Form is light and light is form. For as long as you are using light as clothing, medium, vehicle of experience, you will have some form. And the time/space form will typically be concordant with the entity's space/time form,
as well as also be subject to the entity's level or degree of awareness, of course (i.e. how self-conscious an entity is regarding itself, its reality, and its identity as Creator). Therefore, irregardless of form, whether of "flesh and blood" as you say, or more "ghostly" or "ethereal," the form is made of LIGHT. Light is the manifestation, light is your clothing and your vehicle, whether in the so-called physical or metaphysical.
Only the
formless is truly
formless.
Quote:It is when we begin to ask logical questions, avoiding the hype and curiosity which only creates delusional confusion and contradiction, that we begin to really put the pieces into place that will denounce the myth and start to create common sense.
Couldn't agree more.
Quote:If it was some sort of a deliberate option of that life force, and it deliberately appears in this form for a specific purpose of revealing some information to someone it has left behind, then it appears that in thousands of years this 'between worlds' attempt has been a vast waste of time and effort which one would assume would have been abandoned long ago due to the lack of its success.
That is why I generally pay no more attention to "dead dudes" than incarnated people. There isn't that big of a difference between the awareness of a 3rd density entity in space/time and a 3rd density entity in time/space.
I am only familiar with just one case of valuable knowledge relayed by a 3D inner plane's "dead dude." The entity (ghost) here is being
channeled and actually provides insightful information about the "realm of the dead."
If you're interested, I am linking the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NFc8pUwpco
Quote:based upon the many ancient teachings that suggest to us that in death the life force is no longer in synch with the physical and becomes synchronized with the metaphysical.
That's the "problem." You see, there never really is any real separation between physical and metaphysical. The physical is intrinsically connected to the metaphysical, and vice versa—they mutually affect each other.
Quote:True, that we cannot prove the existence of our reality as light beings either,
Dear Shin'Ar, you are already a light being, as are all other beings. Not in some distant future or in some discarnate form, but now, right now, the very body you are clothing yourself in is made of light. Agreed, there are various degrees of solidity, density or plasticity to this one light, but all material, all form, all manifestation, is LIGHT.
Quote:but at least those teachings are brought to us from the ancients, and not from campfire tales testing the limits of our fears of death.
And that is why I never believed in campfire stories! It was during one of my most transcendental experiences years ago, in which I had an amazing epiphany, that I realized EVERYTHING (my body, reality and everything I saw) was LIGHT. That you or I are "light beings" wasn't passed to me by some ancient master from some ancient time with some secret ancient knowledge... I didn't read it in a book, nobody taught it to me.... nay, I realized it myself via an epiphany in my present incarnation during the 21st century.
Quote:As students of the Law of One we speculate that thought becomes material. Well does this work with memory as well? Is memory not past thought process?
All past, present and future events in their various possibility/probability/opportunity vortices already exist in memory. Memory is a bank of living possibilities, both past and future. It is only the re-membering process what people refer to as "memory."
Shin'Ar, out of sheer curiosity, have
you ever seen a "ghost" yourself? If you had, then perhaps your present opinion/judgment regarding "ghosts" would be slightly different.