Ghost stories often feature a person who died traumatically or had some sort of tragic, unresolved issue when they died. Time heals all wounds. If there are ghosts, maybe when they've relived their experience enough times, it goes away?
If any of this is true, there are not any fixed, uniform consequences because some cultures would be more skillful than others in coping with sin, trauma, and undesirable rapport, while some may seek it deliberately.
Perhaps if there is karma, then wanting to live on as a ghost and take over the body of another would cause a karmic susceptibility to the influence of others. You gotta figure you're not the first to ever think of it.
Why not let go of the fear of impermanence instead of finding a way to hijack an innocent child?
If any of this is true, there are not any fixed, uniform consequences because some cultures would be more skillful than others in coping with sin, trauma, and undesirable rapport, while some may seek it deliberately.
Perhaps if there is karma, then wanting to live on as a ghost and take over the body of another would cause a karmic susceptibility to the influence of others. You gotta figure you're not the first to ever think of it.
Why not let go of the fear of impermanence instead of finding a way to hijack an innocent child?
