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Athma_Shakti
India
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 Posted - Oct 30 2006 : 09:00:34 AM
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Hello Friends
i have seen in some websites saying "happy halloween"
what's halloween is about? its kind of technique? or a magical practice? is it celebrated in usa?
anyone explain me exactly about it
Thanx
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Scott
USA
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Posted - Oct 30 2006 : 09:15:59 AM
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| It's celebrated in the USA. www.wikipedia.com should have all the information you're looking for. It doesn't have magical/spiritual connotations...at least not anymore. It's just a holiday where kids dress up in costumes and go to everyone's houses saying "trick or treat" and getting candy. |
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Yoda
USA
284 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2006 : 09:44:09 AM
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my kids are dressing up as a mouse and a tree fairy and will collect and astounding amount of candy. |
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LittleTurtle
USA
342 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2006 : 12:42:12 PM
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| Originally related to All Saints Day or All Hallows Eve. A celibration of the Christian saints. All saints day is still observed by various churchs but the offshoots Halloween and Day of the Dead are a bit differrent. :) |
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ranger
USA
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Posted - Oct 30 2006 : 1:02:47 PM
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Halloween as noted, derived from All Saints and All Soul's day, which in turn derived in Europe, from the Celtic Samhain (pronounced SOW in) festival, which was their New Year, and a time when the veils between the worlds of the living and the dead were thought to be especially thin.
Perhaps because the Celtic festivals have been picked up by the neo-pagan community, a lot of the more conservative Christian denominations now have their own celebrations with names like "Harvest Festival." Other, more liberal Christian churches recognize that of course the major holidays were grafted on to earlier pre-Christain festivals.
Halloween in contemporary America is kind of a bizarre thing. Ostensibly for kids, I think that unfortunately much of what it communicates is that the world is a dangerous place, with parental door to door escorts and loot inspections, to check for the razor-blade-in-the-apple of urban legend.
At the same time, there are a host of costume shops where adults can buy really elaborate costumes to parade their personnas.
For a variety of reasons, I'm not feeling festive this holiday season, so I didn't even bother to carve a pumpkin, which is usually a nice fall thing to do, like eating apple pie and drinking hot cider. |
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Neesha
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Posted - Oct 30 2006 : 8:31:28 PM
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What ranger said to some degree.......
Basically the day when dark souls can pass through.....some stay.............also a perfect time for other souls to enter your body/mind and try to take over
and believe me that is not a wonderful experience at all!
from my experience I am beginning to respect the month of November....
My son went tricker treating when he was four years old in the neighbourhood...it was wonderful(all the unecessary sweets,all those kids dressed up in costumes)...I was drained though..The next day.....His greatgrandfather.....the Imam quarreled the next day declaring it is unIslamic......and not good(at that point in time I could not understand what he meant)
from my point of view I ain't celebrating anything horrible or dead....neither am I allowing my son to..........
I have actually seen someone said a mantra on a person head and pulled out something with weight and passed right next to me....of course I didn't see anything and didn't really care ......
As I learned these negative forces are attracted to the state of mind,body,lifestyle of the person and just aggravates the situation....especially where ailments occurs....there's a whole book(religious) on this
It was only when the person had to perform the ritual on me then I actually felt something leave me......after 28 years of headaches .........I now know what a normal person peace of mind ......without headaches feel like...
My son used to get sick frequently.......really really sick
so the Imam(also like a guru) consulted the Koran....and indicated that something is affecting him and watching him..
Of course I giggled thought it was rather stupid.........until I left that residence and realise this entity was within me and it was affecting everyone around including my son....all contributed to the state of mind, environment,,,hard to cope with situations........(pretty normal person actually) and lack of prayers and prayer functions........
That was the first hint or the first few years I started realizing something was really wrong and what eventually led to me reaching the Ashram...initiation and all.......I am very particular now, what my child and I practice.........
Seeing is believing......
for once I advise you guys just let your kids tricker treat and when they return back home
make sure you pass incense around the house and say a prayer....
Halloween in Trinidad is another commercial venture especially for the night clubs......It gives some young teenagers another chance to celebrate something they don't know squat about(like I once did)
Also it is a time where lots of negative forces roam.......now I rather pray.......
My son used to see these things I told him not to believe in it .....children have a a degree of ESP to some degree.
Of course I didn't believe him.....
Then I started noticing these things on the outside.....basically people help create it themselves....
then I didn't know what to believe....
Now that I understand my religion and follow in it .....I would stick to our practices........since it has indeed proved to be 100 percent beneficial ........
Good evening
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ranger
USA
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Posted - Oct 30 2006 : 9:51:03 PM
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Originally posted by Neesha
What ranger said to some degree.......
Basically the day when dark souls can pass through.....some stay.............also a perfect time for other souls to enter your body/mind and try to take over and believe me that is not a wonderful experience at all!
Actually, that isn't what I said at all. While I do believe there are parisitical entities that can prey on the energy of the living, I don't believe that Halloween per se celebrates this or marks a time of greater danger from such beings.
I see it as a time of letting go of the past (the Celtic word Samhain means "end of summer,") of remembering the ancestors, and remembering one's own mortality, as in Don Juan's words to Carlos Castenada, that Death is your greatest advisor (remembering it cuts a lot of crap). Also, in Christianity, at the start of Lent, when the priest draws a cross of ashes on your forehead and says "remember that from dust you come and to dust you shall return."
That's just my view, and is not meant at all to negate your experience. I don't blame you for staying clear of the the whole thing. |
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Etherfish
USA
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Posted - Nov 12 2006 : 10:39:43 AM
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Yes, Halloween used to be a time to honor the dead, and pay respects to the "old gods", then the next day you had to beg for forgiveness from the "new god", the solitary true god.
My opinion is that both concepts are true at the same time. Although everything is one, there are multiple ways that things can be perceived as separate, and multiple gods is sometimes a useful concept. Sometimes it is hard to believe a god who caresses a newborn baby is the same one who mutilates and kills a hundred in one fell swoop in some natural disaster. So we divide him into different aspects.
Halloween here is just a day when everyone can put on a costume and pretend to be someone or something besides themselves for a day. We all become actors and pretend.
The only thing dangerous is people who consciously would decide to give their body to another consciousness, but that doesn;t happen by accident, and it really has nothing to do with halloween. |
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