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lately I have been looking at the cultural aspects of ghost/haunting phenomenology and it has struck me that these 'events' don't reside in a well defined category of plausibility at all-
speaking with some Asian friends I've discovered that in Asia and the East- that ghosts/hauntings are NOT ever considered to be superstition/myth by the vast majority populations/cultures [3 billion people!] including the secular/scientific/empirical community- instead these events are viewed as unexplained physical/psychological phenomena- so that even rational/secular skeptics accept ghosts/haunting as 'real' phenomena and not on the list of myths like psychics/UFOs/etc- many rational Asian thinkers will quickly discount the idea that ghost/hauntings have something to do with primitive afterlife myths- but they accept the physical events themselves as something strange but unknown
even in the West- ghosts/hauntings aren't really under attack or debunked nearly as much as the typical psychic/religious superstitions are- often not at all-
so is this a hold-over in which too many people cling to a primitive superstition- or is ghost/haunting phenomenology a 'real' occurrence that has yet to be understood and investigated outside the realm of afterlife mythologies?
speaking with some Asian friends I've discovered that in Asia and the East- that ghosts/hauntings are NOT ever considered to be superstition/myth by the vast majority populations/cultures [3 billion people!] including the secular/scientific/empirical community- instead these events are viewed as unexplained physical/psychological phenomena- so that even rational/secular skeptics accept ghosts/haunting as 'real' phenomena and not on the list of myths like psychics/UFOs/etc- many rational Asian thinkers will quickly discount the idea that ghost/hauntings have something to do with primitive afterlife myths- but they accept the physical events themselves as something strange but unknown
even in the West- ghosts/hauntings aren't really under attack or debunked nearly as much as the typical psychic/religious superstitions are- often not at all-
so is this a hold-over in which too many people cling to a primitive superstition- or is ghost/haunting phenomenology a 'real' occurrence that has yet to be understood and investigated outside the realm of afterlife mythologies?
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