Ghosts caught on camera

The Tree of Death

Hierarchies of the after-world - A suggested Taxonomy for Ghosts

The world of the living was classified first by Carolus Linnaeus. It is in the fitness of things, we thought, that the afterworld be classified too. First hand experiences and secondary material gathered over thousands of years seem to suggest the afterworld is as overpopulated as ours. And just like ours, there also the variety is mind-boggling. So to better understand the denizens of the afterworld we have attempted a rudimentary classification of ghosts (based on kingdom, phylum, class, order, tribe, genus, species etc) which would be developed over the years. In our work we have used both primary and secondary literature including inputs from seances and other contacts with the after-world. Among other things The Tibetan Book of the Dead provided valuable ideas as did the Tree of Life of the Kabalah. As this is an attempt to classify the inhabitants of the afterworld we have decided to call this system of classification - The Tree of Death:

Kingdoms: Alisatma, Arborisatma

(Alis - Animal; Arboris - Plant; Atma - Soul)

Phyla: Volatmas, Geotma, Kabandhas, Andhatmas, ....

(Vol - Fly, Geo - Earth, Kabandha-Headless, Andha-Blind ...)

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Species: Bogies, Petnis, Mamdos, Spectres, Shades ...

This is a brief glimpse of the work done by us. The complete text is available in the soon to be published book The Tree of Death.

(Important note: This is copyrighted material [Copyright 2008] and any infringment will draw legal action)

Storing ghosts - Aquariums, Bottles or Cages?

Some say ghosts are best stored in bottles. A tantric friend however advised tying mutinous ghosts to trees or keeping them locked in an attache case. In olden times ghosts were cruelly locked up in subterranean chambers or caves where they were put to the eternal task of guarding hidden treaures. All these ideas may have their own utility but they ignore the ghostly rights of the departed (akin to human rights of the living). So we suggest some alternatives that recognise their rights and guarantee a quality of life that ghosts need and yearn for. We suggest to all practitioners of the occult to store ghosts in aquariums (with good supply of fish) or refrigerators (with a good stock of food and the temperature bearable) or even better to just let them live among us, and pester them not - Peaceful co-existence.

Necronomicon - The secret book

The much quoted occult fictionist H P Lovecraft mentions an obscure text called Necronomicon in his works. The Necronomicon is a book which is purported to contain secret formulas to summon The Old Ones. Nekros in Greek means dead, nomos is the law and eikon is the image, so necronomicon could mean `An image of the law of the dead.' Though Lovecraft maintained that the Necronomicon did not exist in reality but stories about the existence of the book abound. In fact some publishers have produced their versions of the Necronomicon consequently. The image of the book (from Wikipedia) is of the Necronomicon used as a stage prop.