The Influence Of The Dead

How do we feel the presence of traumatized souls?  What about that physical space allows perception?  Do certain times of the day or year present a better opportunity for communication between the dead and those who are still living?  Is the presence of those who have passed on perceptible accurately?  Are the living subtly influenced by the dead?  Can we sense their attempts to communicate?  Are the dead in control of their influence over those who are living or do they impart a message not of their own crafting?  Do the living unconsciously obey the will, conscious or unconscious, of those who have died?  Do the dead point in a direction that human beings unconsciously sense and obey?  Are those who are dead and those who are alive parts of the same body such that information in one part necessarily influences the other areas?  

There are areas (e.g., abandoned homes) that feel haunted by souls.  Perhaps previous inhabitants lost their lives traumatically and now desire to escape or to retaliate.  By one theory, the dead are not in control of where their afterlife is lived; the individual human spirit leaves the body and merges with other spirits who die closest in time and space.  Neither the dead nor the living can communicate clearly and accurately with the other side nor can those who are alive directly perceive the dead.  The living probably walk through thousands of dead people everyday without knowing it though the number changes if the areas were previously uninhabited.  Advances in neuroscience and psychology should yield valuable information about the afterlife.

Do you think our civilization will learn how to facilitate accurate, on-demand communication between the living and the dead?  What advances do you think are necessary to invent this technology?  Send your theories to scott@theorism.org.