Reply #1: A paradox of belief? [View All]

[Trillo]

I don't understand your written connection between ancestors and the underworld of malignant spirits. The implication is that all ancestors are destined for underworld, hence, the day will come when we are the ancestors, and we too will end up in the underworld.

As a student of astrology, I see three metaphorical parallels in one view: planets, stars and blackholes. My lack of comma after "stars" was deliberate. If one reorders them differently: Blackholes, Stars, planets, and miscellaneous space debris such as asteroids and smaller dust.

Under a different view there is a different astrological-chart parallel: what is in the day portion of the natal chart is sometimes referred to as overhead, and what is in the dark portion is sometimes referred to as underneath. The ascendant/descendant line is the horizon, or the ground we walk on.

After our physical bodies die, it cannot be argued that many of those bodies are buried in the ground, but some of our dead are burned, etc. Once a body dies and is disposed of it ends up underneath, even ashes end up covered as they settle to ground and are covered by years of additional dust.

Hence, was this a teaching of physical life and the death that follows it?

"or those of you who feel like you see the spirits of the departed, I just wonder why would malignant spirits occupy the same plane?"

Why would spiritual "sight" imply evil?

"Now I do tend to believe in guardian spirits because I have always felt there were "eyes" looking after me and influencing me to make the right decisions in my life."

A seeming paradox?

Personally, I've found as a human our greatest guidance is found within ourselves, not without. Perhaps this is why the archetypal spirit, when viewed as a separate entity outside of ourselves, is viewed as evil by the shamans of the past.