Ghosts, Thoughtforms, and Demons: Oh My!
I’m finally back from a long and annoying vacation, and something interesting has happened. Only not to me. To someone who is far less equipped to deal with it. Unfortunately, I only know her through the internet, so I can’t even pay her a visit to sort it out myself. I should probably explain what’s going on first, however.
This girl – I’ll call her Star, as it’s part of her old username – leads a troubled life. That’s an understatement. Anyway, her world was recently rocked even more by the death of a loved one. It’s her (completely baseless) belief that she should have died instead. She even thinks her entire family would rather have her dead.
All of this misplaced grief and self-loathing created quite the negative energy center. Star emailed me, saying that the loved one’s ghost had appeared in her dreams, telling her to kill herself.
I was immediately suspicious. I warned Star that this could actually be a negative entity, and told her basic safety precautions. (In fact, I may have freaked her out more by firing three emails off in rapid succession as I thought of more to add.) I then raced upstairs, took out my runes… and became very confused. The runes told me that this ‘ghost’ wasn’t a ghost at all… but it wasn’t a neg either. It was created by Star herself.
I think I’ve already mentioned the thoughtform effect – if enough people think a place is haunted, they might create a haunting by force of belief. Willpower is strong, after all. I theorized that this ‘ghost’ was a manifestation of Star’s grief and self-hatred, appearing to ‘back up’ her confused self-accusations. I explained this to her, and while I’m not sure she completely believed me, she hasn’t killed herself yet. Just another day in the crazy world of magic.
She then told me through email.
Wow it really sounds like she’s got it rough, Just do your best to do what you can for her. I can’t really deal with people like that so I admire your patience.
I’ll also say that reading this reminded me of a blog post I read about an experiment to see if people could ‘create ghosts’ as it were. (http://www.witch-blog.com/2011/08/the-philip-experiment/ )
Well, that article was very interesting. *Hmmm* I’m going to guess that yes, their collective expectation created a ghost-like event, similar to teenagers ‘geisting. I wonder if I can make my school haunted. That would spruce up second period.