Samhain

Samhain is known by most folks as Halloween, but for many modern Pagans it's considered a Sabbat to honor the ancestors who came before us, marking the dark time of the year. It's a good time to contact the spirit world because it's the time when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest.

Sunset on Samhain is the beginning of the Celtic New Year. The old year has passed, the harvest has been gathered, cattle and sheep have been brought in from the fields, and the leaves have fallen from the trees. The earth slowly begins to die around us.

It is a good time to think about death that - for the time - is a natural reality and to remember deceased family members. I, personally,  don't use the Ouija Board because I believe that we never know who's really is on the side of the "line".

Recent scientific works pointed out that consciousness is created within the biological body from it's own separate particles that are complementary to mass, in the same way that magnetism is complementary to electric charge. The only thing that remains is to find a way of interaction so that we can "see" these particles in order to photograph our soul.

Our inability to "see" these particles creates the so called "veil". If we try to see through a surface to somewhere that is unseen the effect is a blackness on that surface like the event horizon of a black hole. If this separating surface emits a faint light for some reason the effect is the so called "veil". "Veiled" ghosts are a similar effect, an unseen entity with a faintly radiating surface. Black shadows are unseen entities without the radiating surface. The veil is not normally seen by all people at all times because it is in other dimensions than the three normal.

The spirits of our ancestors live on after their death in other dimension, but otherwise near our own world. That will soon be proved. The belief that the veil gets thinner or thicker is still a religious belief for the time being.

I personally used to think that the period between Samhain and Imbolc is the cold part of the year and since I hate cold, I tend to lock myself inside...