November 1, 2005

• Several of my recent entries have mentioned the colder weather and
  onset of winter.  Today, another sure sign of winter jumped up and
  bit me in the butt, so to speak.  Doug apparently noticed that
  winter is here, and brought the seat in from the outhouse to place it
  in its winter home behind the woodstove.  On my first trip out
  there this morning, I wasn’t prepared, so I got to sit on the cold and
  splintery plywood bench instead of the warm and smooth varnished
  seat.  I also did what I frequently do at this transitional time
  of year.  I forgot to bring it back in with me.  Now my
  choice is to either go back out and get it, or to risk either having to
  sit on it cold or having to apologize to Doug if he’s the one who has
  to sit on it cold.

  The latest entry, earlier today, received these apparently unrelated questions in comments:

  What are your personal feelings about spiritual
  things being attached to tangible objects??  Do you believe that a
  person has the capability to attach part of their spiritual self to a
  possession??  Can that possession be passed on and still retain the
  original owners spirit?

  Posted 11/1/2005 at 1:33 PM by dylan197

  What are my personal feelings about “spiritual
  things” being attached to tangible objects?

  You mean ghosts?   “vibes”?? 

  Do I believe that a
  person has the capability to attach part of their spiritual self to a
  possession?

  I have no beliefs involving these
  things.  I suspect that you and I may have some semantic
  differences regarding the meaning of the word, “spiritual.”  I
  know that the energy of a person’s consciousness can be picked up by
  objects around them, retained in buildings, in caves, etc.  This
  usually happens unconsciously.  It can also be done intentionally
  as you seem to be implying here. 

  If one can send thoughts, feelings and mental pictures from mind to
  mind (and I both send and receive such energy on a regular basis), and
  if that “energy of consciousness” can be picked up and stored or
  recorded by inanimate objects (as I and many others have observed),
  then it is logical that someone can deliberately “program” objects with
  their mental, psychic energy.

  In his shamanic work, Greyfox sometimes uses crystals as “containers”
  for the transmission of energies.  Materials with a crystalline
  structure such as minerals and metals are the best receptacles for this
  purpose.  Often, old watches or rings, etc., can be “read” by
  psychometrists.  They reveal things about the persons who have
  worn or carried them because the mental energies are retained in the
  objects.

  This is not a belief, because I have experienced these things. 
  The practice of psychometry involves sensing these “psychic
  imprints.”  Please note that I have not mentioned “spirit” or
  “spiritual”.  In my lexicon, spirit and consciousness are not the
  same.  I suppose it may be possible for a “spirit” to enter an
  object, (“anything is possible” is one of my favorite working
  hypotheses) but I have no experience of that and therefore have no
  opinion on it. 

  Can that possession be passed on and still retain the
  original owners spirit?

  By now, you probably know that I’m
  going to quibble over the word, “spirit”.  I just can’t answer
  that question as posed, because it lies beyond my experience. 
  What I can say is that discarnate spirits do sometimes apparently hang
  around in a familiar place after physical death.  That is the
  classic “haunting” phenomenon.  In the case of a true haunting,
  the spirit interacts with living
  people, moves around randomly or unpredictably, and usually seems to be
  trying to communicate, often with a message to convey or a desire to
  understand its new non-physical state of being.  In the annals of
  ghost hunting these phenomena are relatively rare.

  There is a different phenomenon that does not involve discarnate
  spirits, which is much more common.  It is the “psychic
  imprint.”  The famous “ghost” of Anne Boleyn in Buckingham Palace
  (?or is the the Tower of London?) is one of these. 
  Characteristically, these phenomena behave like tape loops, going
  through a set routine that repeats periodically without change. 
  That’s not a spirit.  Anne Boleyn’s “ghost” walks down the
  corridor that Anne herself walked on the way to her
  beheading.   There’s another one I know of in Colorado, in
  which a man finds the bodies of his wife and child in the crawl space
  where they died trying to escape a house fire.  The common factor
  among all such imprints is the strong emotions involved.  Big
  events that trigger intense feelings tend to leave their “vibes” behind.

  If you are asking whether an object which is imprinted with someone’s
  psychic energy from contact with that person or from deliberate
  programming by that person can be “passed on” with the imprint intact,
  indeed it happens all the time.  Psychometrists read these
  imprints for fun and profit, and sensitive individuals pick up on the
  energies unconsciously.  Various people have suggested various
  means for “cleansing” these imprints from the objects, but I’m not in
  favor of that any more than I am in favor of burning libraries,
  defacing works of art or erasing archival tapes.

  Doug and I share a fondness for ancient burial sites, prehistoric
  ruins, caves and rock shelters, because they still hold the energies of
  those who lived there long ago.  I strongly suspect that many
  archaeologists are drawn to that work because of the ancient vibes
  hanging around the sites.  Such “influences” can affect sensitive
  people who are unaware of where they come from, because one might tend
  to internalize the feelings and believe they are feeling them rather
  than sensing them.

  Greyfox and I once received a spooky-feeling crystal of smoky quartz
  from a client in exchange for some work we did for her.  Everyone
  in our family could sense its energies.  Greyfox, whose
  visualization skills are the best, read it and concluded that it came
  from a family of Gardnerian witches and had been handed down in that
  family for four generations.  We concluded that the client was
  aware of the spookiness and wanted to get rid of the crystal.  For
  us, its history was a bonus.

  Does this answer your question?
  

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