Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives

We pursue callings that take us nowhere and permit ourselves to be controlled by compulsions that we cannot understand (or are not aware of) and whose outcomes serve only to keep us caged, unconscious and going nowhere.

He comes to the realization that unless we come to terms with the dead we simply cannot live, and that our life is dependent on finding answers to their unanswered questions.

The distinction can be made clear by using the analogy of a record player and comparing life to the music it sends forth. The active force is electricity, which runs the motor, which turns the record, allowing the needle to follow the grooves. When the record come to an end, the music ceases-the equivalent of death. The latter is not a compulsion b

The dead want to take you over. It is then a quite literal possession that is at play there. At risk there. But in a way it’s only through recognizing their demands that one is actually able to separate out from them at the same time and regain one’s independence.