And Then, He Was Spirited Away

In a week, spare a day, Halloween will occur. I think that it is appropriate to look at some of the rumours involving this day, in order to see what it’s all about. Remember, knowing about our culture helps to understand some of our traditions and customs.

According to good ol’ Wikipedia, it is believed that the Celts began this tradition and called it Samhain (or End of Summer) in which they had a fire festival, and it was believed that the dead would revisit the mortal world. The bonfires were lit to ward off evil spirits.

This festival was held on the last day of October, and then Pope Gregory the Fourth decides, “Hey, we should change the day, “All Saints Day”, to November 1st!” And the peasants rejoiced because now the day was no longer in April, but still wished to celebrated their other festival the night before. It’s name got corrupted though, into All Hallows Even’, or Hallowe’en. The apostrophe is often dropped for simplicity.

Now, there’s another little known fact about our calendar system, but we lost a series of days in the past. In Great Britain, it was a total of 13 days. Other countries varied, depending on when they switched to the new calendar system. (The switching was needed as leap days were added to the new calendar system to increase its accuracy).

In this day and age, we still hold the day on October 31st, even though the calendar changed, (actually, most days are held on the same days as before the change), and many people still believe this day is when the realms connect. Additionally, we still light fires, except now they’re candles inside pumpkins and in the form of Halloween lights.

What does this mean? Well, if Halloween is the date upon which spirits can communicate with the living realm, then we have to ask why it is every year. It must mean that the dimensions overlap with the greatest intensity every 365 days, if we assume that the original date was correct. If this is true, then people who say that they can “feel spirits” on Hallowe’en are delusional, because the date is now off by more than 15 days or so.

Conversely though, if we assume that our calendar is correct, and Halloween is now falling on the proper day, than those people who believed that they “felt spirits” on Halloween previously after leap years first were missed and today’s calendar started to become different than the calendars of old, must be delusional.

But, there is something more! Since both people believe the same thing, and they recite the same experiences, then something truly strange is going on. Either there is a changing pattern (which is an oxymoron), in which the date moved on one of the calendars, and then became stationary (which is highly improbable, and defies logic), or Halloween is a croc and it is not a day in which we can communicate with spirits.

Logically, we must conclude that Halloween is not a day in which we can communicate with spirits.

I will continue on with this idea of spirits and an afterlife in another blog in the future. Cheers!