Ghosts are beings that have passed on from the\n" ); document.write( "material world\n" ); document.write( "to the spiritual world, but occasionally wander throughout our world as\n" ); document.write( "apparitions. Some people claim to have seen these ghosts or apparitions,\n" ); document.write( "as some\n" ); document.write( "people do not believe that they even exist.
\n" ); document.write( "People who believe in ghosts claim that these\n" ); document.write( "spirits appear\n" ); document.write( "as a misty fog-like substance, a patch of light, or a faded image of the\n" ); document.write( "deceased. Those who were thought of to be asleep when viewing such\n" ); document.write( "supernatural\n" ); document.write( "images testify that they are quite conscious when witnessing these\n" ); document.write( "apparitions.
\n" ); document.write( "In many religions, particularly in primitive\n" ); document.write( "faiths, the\n" ); document.write( "belief is that spirits wander in the astral realm during moments of sleep.\n" ); document.write( "This\n" ); document.write( "is known as \"\"astral travel\"\". The difference between ghosts and\n" ); document.write( "astral\n" ); document.write( "traveling today however, is that when we astral travel, our spirits are\n" ); document.write( "free and\n" ); document.write( "our bodies are still alive. But a ghost is a free spirit that comes from a\n" ); document.write( "dead\n" ); document.write( "body.
\n" ); document.write( "The practice of ancestor worship was a similar\n" ); document.write( "term for\n" ); document.write( "honoring the ghosts of dead relatives. Primitive religions teach that the\n" ); document.write( "spirits of the dead bodies do not wander far from their actual grave (or\n" ); document.write( "place\n" ); document.write( "of death). It is not uncommon for some believers to claim that their\n" ); document.write( "houses are\n" ); document.write( "haunted by spirits of people (or even animals) that either died in their\n" ); document.write( "home or\n" ); document.write( "lived there when they were alive.
\n" ); document.write( "Ghosts can be pleasant spirits or malevolent\n" ); document.write( "entities.\n" ); document.write( "Believers welcome friendly ghosts to assist them throughout problems in\n" ); document.write( "life.\n" ); document.write( "Malevolent entities are seen as spirits that possess innocent victims (or\n" ); document.write( "places) and have to be \"\"exorcised\"\" our of the living body (or\n" ); document.write( "place)\n" ); document.write( "with the help of a priest or holy one. Many people use amulets or other\n" ); document.write( "forms of\n" ); document.write( "magical charms to ward off these evil spirits at the same time welcoming\n" ); document.write( "all\n" ); document.write( "good spirits into their domains.
\n" ); document.write( "Halloween is a popular holiday that honors the\n" ); document.write( "dead spirits\n" ); document.write( "of the past year. During this magical time, all spirits that have passed\n" ); document.write( "on\n" ); document.write( "wander the earth before moving on to the afterlife. It is quite a\n" ); document.write( "spiritual (and\n" ); document.write( "sometimes scary) time of the year for the living.
\n" ); document.write( "Many people who feel that ghosts and apparitions\n" ); document.write( "are\n" ); document.write( "\"\"non-sense\"\" may attempt to explain the occasional occurrences\n" ); document.write( "that a\n" ); document.write( "select few experience, but no one can ever truly tell those select\n" ); document.write( "witnesses any\n" ); document.write( "differently about what they might have seen. Ghosts, apparitions and other\n" ); document.write( "unexplainable entities will continue to spark curiosity, fear, disbelief\n" ); document.write( "and\n" ); document.write( "controversy. One fact that you can be sure of is that \"\"our\n" ); document.write( "world\"\" as\n" ); document.write( "we know it is not the only world that exists.
\n" ); document.write( "\"\"Trick-or-treating\"\" is another Halloween\n" ); document.write( "tradition\n" ); document.write( "in which children travel from house to house soliciting candy from\n" ); document.write( "neighbors.\n" ); document.write( "The term \"\"trick-or-treat\"\" resorts back to the original idea that\n" ); document.write( "if a\n" ); document.write( "treat is not given to the person who asks, then a devious (but harmless)\n" ); document.write( "trick\n" ); document.write( "will be played on the unwilling participant. Due to its increasing danger,\n" ); document.write( "many\n" ); document.write( "people now give Halloween parties to replace this holiday\n" ); document.write( "custom.
\n" ); document.write( "Halloween is overall, a deliciously splendid\n" ); document.write( "holiday celebration where\n" ); document.write( "people feel free to reveal a deeper (sometimes playfully darker) side to\n" ); document.write( "themselves in the midst of others. \"\"Spirits\"\" come out to play,\n" ); document.write( "fun-filled\n" ); document.write( "festivities are prevalent, everyone can be \"\"anyone\"\" and the\n" ); document.write( "occult is\n" ); document.write( "magically acceptable to all beings at least for one day.
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