Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] ghosts and blessings
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I really liked the one about the soldier in New Zealand.
We have no ghosts. When I found out, while we were buying our house, that it
had been a halfway house (resident treatment center) for schizophrenics and
druggies (university-run), I was concerned that there might be some "bad
vibes" for us to suffer later, but I've never felt anything negative.
I asked a couple of more sensitive friends who've been here a lot, and they
said no, it seemed totally stripped of any former activities.
There was one family here for a long long time (from new-house through
remodel, it's only from 1972 or so) and then nine years of rehab, and now us.
We didn't "get it blessed" or anything, something that many in the Asian and
also New Age "neighborhoods" are doing for houses. I hear in Japan you can
get new cars blessed (by Shinto priests? who?).
Sandra
We have no ghosts. When I found out, while we were buying our house, that it
had been a halfway house (resident treatment center) for schizophrenics and
druggies (university-run), I was concerned that there might be some "bad
vibes" for us to suffer later, but I've never felt anything negative.
I asked a couple of more sensitive friends who've been here a lot, and they
said no, it seemed totally stripped of any former activities.
There was one family here for a long long time (from new-house through
remodel, it's only from 1972 or so) and then nine years of rehab, and now us.
We didn't "get it blessed" or anything, something that many in the Asian and
also New Age "neighborhoods" are doing for houses. I hear in Japan you can
get new cars blessed (by Shinto priests? who?).
Sandra
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I hear in Japan you can
when we lived there. Every time there was an opening ceremony for
anything - a new store, school, office building, house, whatever,
before anyone stepped in the building (except the construction
workers, evidently), a priest - sometimes shinto, sometimes buddhist -
would throw salt (to keep demons out) and say their prayer. It's
just tradition. Nobody pays any heed any other time. Most people
there are kinda shinto, kinda buddhist, mostly nothing. And the
differences between the two religions (shinto and buddhist) are
interesting, but there's no competition (if that's the right word).
I wish I understood it better.
Melanie - grateful to now be in Indiana
> get new cars blessed (by Shinto priests? who?).*I just had to reply to this one. I also thought it was funny
when we lived there. Every time there was an opening ceremony for
anything - a new store, school, office building, house, whatever,
before anyone stepped in the building (except the construction
workers, evidently), a priest - sometimes shinto, sometimes buddhist -
would throw salt (to keep demons out) and say their prayer. It's
just tradition. Nobody pays any heed any other time. Most people
there are kinda shinto, kinda buddhist, mostly nothing. And the
differences between the two religions (shinto and buddhist) are
interesting, but there's no competition (if that's the right word).
I wish I understood it better.
Melanie - grateful to now be in Indiana
Nanci and Thomas Kuykendall
>Now, I do not believe my house has ghosts, but the strangest thing >did happen earlier this week.Acutally it sounds to me like you have a little raw natural talent sleeping in your bed who can astral project/sleep travel.
>I really believed that one of my girls ...had gotten down from the >bed and was heading his way. ............he had then told me that... >he believed he saw a small shadow ........run past him.
Nanci K.
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