Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Samantha Faye and I'm Deb Bowen and we're

very happy to have you join us this week. We are going to be discussing Ghost of the Ancient World.

So, join us won't you for an exciting and intriguing and historical hour where we talk about what

the ancients believed about Ghost in the afterlife. But before we dive into that, as you listeners

already know, we always start with an animal of the week and a crystal of the week tab, which you

like the third is lost please. Absolutely and in keeping with our topic of this week's show about

Ghost in the Ancient World, the animal person that I am speaking about is that. That energy, of

course, has lots of legends in many different cultures, but in Mesoamerico. That's represent

rebirth. They represent reincarnation in Buddhist belief. So, they have been a part of, but particularly

a part of the Aztec, Totec and Mayan cultures for many years as a symbolic, shamanic death.

And what that means is that often in healing practices, there is the need for a spiritual and a

psychological release of energy or old baggage that we carry with us. And so in Mesoamerican cultures,

that energy was called on to help with that ritualistic death and healing practice. And, of course,

that became connected to talent or Halloween, as we call it here in America, over many years because

they are creatures of the night and creatures of the dark. You really don't suck blood like,

you know, we portray them too in modern culture. They really don't do that. But what they do in that

symbolic darkness in which they live, they give us an opportunity to go within, to allow ourselves

to be still and to release what we need to release in our lives. I'm working from David Carson

and Jamie Sam's Medicine Card book in reading to you about that today. And here's what they say.

That symbolizes the need for a ritualistic death in some way of life that no longer suits your

new growth pattern. This can mean a time of letting go of old habits and of assuming the position in

life that prepares you for rebirth or in some case initiation. In every case, that signals rebirth

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