In Runescape, there is a quest in which you help out some ghosts and experience what life is lije in the ghost realm. A dynamìc of this world that really caught my attention was when you moved something in ghost world, you would eventually realize that the object had not moved at all. It would "move" back to its original place. But it wouldn't really move back since it never was moved at all. But it would not move in the traditional sense of movement.
The sense of ghost movement or phantom movement: I remember really thinking about this one night whenI was driving home, I think from church since I was driving eastward on the 210 freeway exiting into the 215 north. Sometimes, especially with ghost phenomena, you only see things when they have happened. Most of the time in these occurences, whether by demonic forces or ghosts, you never get to seeobjects move, you only see them when they have already moved. The sort ofthings that only happen when you are not looking, so that you doubt yourself in judging whether it really happened or not. It makes it less easy to scientifically confirm thw phenomena since there was no direct experience of the discriminating event. Sometimes you wish you could go uo to the ghost and touch it, but it vanishes when you get close. Sometimes you wish you knew if anyone came in through the window and moved the pendant; or maybe it was a mouse that hung it back on the rack. Sometimes you wonder where the tree branch in the middle of the desert came from or how it got there. How does stuff get lost in the bermuda triangle? Where does it leave a trace? Sometimes you can only see the shadow of a demon from far away, but if you get close everything seems normal. Do these things actually happen? Or do they only have happened? It's like your brain needs to look away to get readjusted to the new reality. Or like two dimensions are slowly merging together, so slowly that you don't see the progress only the effect; like when a flower grows, or more strangely when a helicopter approaches you from the sky head-on without any reference point to detect its specific distance and motion. Maybe, by turning your head you introduce yourself into this new dimension, where the event already happened.
The ghost cannot move objects in the physical world so when he wants to move them, he will do so in every sense that makes sense to him but will ultimately not be able to alter the physical world. Eventually the object will appear back where it was found. Think of how many times ghosts are portrayed not knowing that they are dead. Because to them, the world works exactly the same as it used to. Can you relate to their experience then? Have you ever cleaned your room only to find it in a mess again a few days after? Or have you ever washed the dishes and have come back to another load of dishes, as if they have never been washed? The world works just the same for a ghost, it is only much faster.
In a Facebook post I mentioned how in the physical world the spiritual results of our actions are very slow, in fact it may be this feature and the disconnection we have with inanimate objects that gives this world its physical feel. I thought of this because I was reflecting on how long it took for my prayers to be answered. I noticed that my life and world were answers to prayers I had made when I was 13 years old, even longer. The Bible and the Qur'an says that everyone will eventually reap what they sow, but in most cases, the results of the actions perform take a long time to develop; so much so that the reaping may take place beyond the person's lifetime.
Imagine you were in a world in which you would immediately reap the effects of your actions... or even more immediate, in which you would immediately reap the effect of your will... or even more immediate, of your attitude. A world like this would seem ethereal, it would feel like it consists of a more "spiritual" substance... if you would just will something and it would be immediately manifested, or if you thought of a place and be immediately transported there. In fact, it would be much like the ghost world, and this is where I would like to make the connection.
I originally gave the example of cleaning one's room and washing dishes, and how they return to their original place to relate what the world must be like for a ghost. But now I will make the fuller connection that I realized today. Our world js just like the ghost world, the difference that gives it its physical feel is the slowness of the remanifestation or replacement of the objects (whether they are tangible or intangible) that are manipulated. Just think of the same examples that I previously gave: the reason why our rooms get messy two or three days after we clean them is because we have not really changed anything in the world of "forms" to use philosophical language. Because one hasn't changed anything in the higher world, the objects will return to their original location. This is the reason why people keep having the same problems over and over again. When a person who needs a lot of money wins the lottery, they eventually return to the same situation they were in before. This is the reason why when one cleans their room it goes back to the same situation they were in before. It's the cimmin problem one gets when one only treats the symptoms and doesn't do anything about their lifestyle. They only change the outside world and do not change the inside, so the outside world eventually returns to the same.
Poltergeist
This said, I will now admit that there are occurences in which one can witness ghosts move things in the traditional sene. It is very strange to see a poltergeist, it is very strange to see firsthand how the objects move. In the movie "Ghost" the protagonist is taught to behave like a poltergeist, to be able to move tangible objects by moving it not with his hand but with his gut, or in Old Testament language, with his bowels; almost like one move things telekinetically. One cannot just think to move something they must will it with their innermost essence. If a ghost tries to move some thing just by superficial change or will, it will return to its original state because they haven't really changed anything. It is the same for us, when we only think to change things superficially, the same problems will come back because we have not really changed anything inwardly.
The same way, for us to really change anything in the higher world the will needs to come from the inside. The world must be changed inwardly, as if the world is an extension of one's being and one must rearrange the structure of their being. Even then, in our world,the effects are manifested a lot slower so the results will only become apparent later in life.
