I Believe In Ghosts
Do I believe in ghosts? That’s a good question. What is a ghost? The context is imperative, but in early Christian writings, it had to do with a disembodied person. The origin of the word seems to stem from a similar PIE [Proto-Indo-European] which meant “excitement.” I think very early Europeans may have used some variation of the word to denote excitement, thrill, or anxiety. I have never been able to write this out in a way that makes sense, but I do wonder why we’d ever have trouble believing the soul of a person is not a part of their physical person. Being older, I am at a place where I can look at a picture of myself from decades ago, and compare that to the image in the mirror, and I see two distinct people. In that respect, it is easy for me to believe my soul has made the journey from a child to an old man, without the slightest inconvenience from it. I am borrowing that phrasing from Twain, as it was a part of his answer when asked about death: “ I do no...
