 | Taiwan Ghost Research Chapter 36 "The First Seventh Days Homing " and "Yin -Yang Vision (Ghost-Seeing eyes) "
Author :Chang Kai-Chi 張開基
translation:北展昭
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The concept of "First Seventh Days Homing" or "The Seventh Day Ritual" related funeral customs are prevalent in Chinese society;
However, the concepts of "the first seventh days" should be very primitivef for a long time. It is necessary to know that China has a long history. The Chinese Character "witch(巫)" has often appeared in the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty also the status of "Witch" was also related to national military affairs. The Shang Dynasty people were very superstitious about ghosts: kings or princes had to consulted with the ghosts and deities through the "Witches" conveying the actions taking. Also the general folk worshipped to the mountain and river deities were also popular--- Therefore, the vast majority of the "Bone Oracle" that have been excavated at present are about the records of the divination. Therefore, "Oracle" will be called "Yin Ruins divination records"!
Let's go back and look at Sofia, the author of "The Translator of the Spiritual World". Her "gifted talents and the work she had been doing during the age of 20; it was exactly the same what Oracle described the "Witch"?
With the same substitution, similar gift talented witches like Sofia will not only appear in the 21st century Taiwan. They must have been appearing in the Shang Dynasty or more ancient times - ---
Before the Chinese Shang Dynasty (earlier than Taoism or Buddhism's spreading), the concept of "the first seventh day homing" is inherent in Chinese tradition and has not been influenced by foreign cultures. Simply speaking, as early as the Shang Dynasty or earlier, the phenomenon of "soul disappearing without a trace" after seven days of death has been observed by the witches with " ghost-seeing eyes " so this concepts are circulated until nowadays.
Sofia had honestly described this phenomenon and confessed her own limitation. It let us also indirectly confirm that the long-standing concept of "The First Seventh day homing" is actually in existence!
Although "Sofia" is called a psychic person and she does not agree to own the "ghost seeing eyes" but carefully review the entire contents of the book "Translators of the Spiritual World"-- she indeed is classified to own “ghost-seeing eyes”!
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What I want to talk about now is;
Why did she could only see the dead soul within seven days after the death? And can't see it after seven days and don't know where the soul went.
Combining her experience with the concept of the "first seventh day after the death" in ancient China; it should be said that from the death to the seventh day after death or within 168 hours of time equivalent, the soul will gradually accept his death, except for the previous Some special cases are not limited to this. Most of the dead souls, whether they like it or not, or willing or unwilling--all would accept this facts.
In the ancient concept that the Chinese were born as a servant and died as a rest, death is to return the hometown. Whether the home is heaven or hell, it is the ultimate destination. The dead soul will go to reunite with the ancestors who died earlier (Could see the Emperor zong zhen hanged himself on the coal hill and he spread his long hair in front of the face because he consciously could not face with his ancestors because of Ming Dynasty discontinuations. Other example is some aboriginal ancestral worship still owns the concept of ancestral reunion; it can be seen that there still left many similar cases in the world)
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the soul will settle down within seven days, accepting the fact that death has to be, and then, with the help of the ancestors who passed away earlier, visit the family in this Yang world together. Later will leave for spiritual world with ancestors.
1. If the soul of the dead has left the world after the "first seven day period", why should we still do 14, 21 and up to 49 days? some people even do the hundred days for funeral ceremony? Or it is necessary to extend to 2 or 3 years?
A: I think that the rituals after the "first seven" are just a one-off affair with the relatives and friends of the world. With the help of the later religious practitioners, this is also related to financial resources. If the poor people in the ancient times without the funeral resources--sometime can't even buy the coffin. they can only use a straw mat to pack the body and throw it into a mass grave. How can they could financially afford it ?
"Doing seven day funeral ceremony" or doing a hundred days and up to three years, these are all at least the middle or upper economic class families. To simply comfort the grief of the relatives and friends--it does not mean that the dead will stay at home after the seventh day.
2. If the dead soul leaves Yang space in about seven days, is it going there?
A: Regardless of the so-called " homing, or the spirit world, or the Underworld, the pure-land, even the bliss world, the ghost gate, the Hell Road, the Hades, etc. ------ In short, it is not in this world of Yang space. The "Ghost Seeing Eyes" of the "Psychic People" commonly known in Taiwan would invisible about those realms.
3. If a person dies about seven days and leaves the home, why are there so many ghosts staying in this Yang space? Have they visited the Underworld or to the hometown then repented. Not giving up the Yang space so return and stay?
A: No! As long as soul goes to the Yin spirit world, they will usually not come back. All the ghosts who stay in the Yang space would belong to the "illegal residence". In other words, they have not left the world at all, some are reluctant to leave, some are obsessed with certain people or some kind of Yang habit life. Some ghosts has addiction so might become rogue ghosts and blackmail people or to pretend the deities to deceive the living. Some ghosts have "self-conscious" then would help people. There are also self-conceited ones, thinking that if the fake deities helps the living to solve the incurable diseases, it will add merit to themselves. There is also a gangster type, all of which are all kinds of random ghosts, recruiting homeless ghosts, specializing in absorbing some "labors" of various places to accept incense offerings and energy support in temples. -----
4. If a person dies about seven days, he will leave the room. Why is the "Tibetan Book of Life and Death" (Tibet's death) will be very certain that after 7x7=49 days, people will reincarnate?
A: Because that is pure nonsense! Including the whole entire "Tibet Sutra" is a nonsense from beginning to the end and it is a secret of cheating in a concise tutoring class. Regardless of whether you are good or evil, you can listen to the Lama chanting the get the exam solution so could achieve the best realm for reincarniation; this is simply cheating! What's more, since ancient times, there have been many ghosts stagnate for a long time in the world; Plus "Sofia" can also see some old ghosts and use his "ghost seeing talents" to work with them for a long time. This shows that "Tibet's death book" contents is so sure within 49 days after death about the reincarnation are totally not true. This cannot get trusted or valued. I will rank this book evaluation as : ""Tibetan Book of Life and Death" is the most sloppy book in the East.
Note: The “time equivalent” mentioned in this article refers to the span that one thing begins then to the ends. However, the so-called “seven days” is only an approximate average, maybe less than seven days. Some have more than seven days, but the up down difference is at most one or two days, not too muc
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發表於 2018-12-16 14:44:26
