It is believed that each person soul is divided between three hun souls Yang energy and seven po souls Yin energy.
Soon after death, a person's Hun being the heavenly soul returns to heaven as Shen (spirit) and may later return to Tao, while Po, the earthly soul will descend into the earth with flesh and bones, and eventually dissolved.The hun and po could be temporarily come together after a period of being separated through a ritual called the fu 復 "recall; return", zhaohun 招魂 "summon the hun soul".
In ancient China, the ritual of zhaohun fupo 招魂復魄 " is to summon the hun-soul to reunite with the po-soul" in the hope of bringing the dead person back to life. Should the ritual did not served their purpose, only then a person can be pronounced dead. In recent years, such soul retrieval ritual has evolved into specifically to locate the drowning victim missing body.
You've heard it before somewhere, one of the terrifying moment is when you wake up and found yourself buried alive in a coffin. Worst case scenario, you had possibly been declared dead prematurely and awoke inside in a cremation oven when they are starting to cremate you.
An urban legend states that the sayings “Saved by the bell” circulating on the Internet is allegedly resulted in a new method of burial by using a coffin with a bell to avoid accidentally buried alive while in a coma.
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| Designs for coffins with warning devices, known as safety coffins. You can ring my bell, anytime, anywhere. Ring it, ring it. |
So just in case you're dead, ring a bell that was attached by a string. Sorry, Your Time Is Not Up!
May be an option to include a cell phone for you to call from you're coffin saying.. Hey guys, hold your horses! I'm not dead. False alarm.
Just for the record, the actual meaning of “Saved by the bell” comes not from being buried alive but from a boxer who is saved from loses by way knockout or KO when the timekeeper bell sounds, signalling the end of the round.
Zhong yin shen (traditional Chinese: 中陰身; simplified Chinese: 中阴身; pinyin: zhōng yīn shēn; literally: "intermediate yin body") refers to a spirit in a transition state between his/her death and when he/she goes for reincarnation, as described in Mahayana Buddhism.
A newly deceased person may return (回魂) to his home at some nights, sometimes one week (頭七) after his death. The 7th days is the most important day for any souls of the dead want to return home to pass dream or anything, they can only do it on the 7th day. After that, the seven po would vanish one by one every 7 days for 49 days after death.
After 49 days, the Buddhists believe, the soul would have departed this world.” ... Chanting sutras can help the spirit to have a better afterlife”
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| Remember the Patrick Swayze-Demi Moore movie Ghost? When Patrick killed during a botched mugging, his ghost lingers on to protect her from dangers of which she is unaware. |
The soul of the deceased person usually remains close to the place he/she lived, wander around their house and tries to follow the lifestyle he or she was used to.
It's not unusual for the dying to have visions, often of someone who has already passed on. Before my dad leave the world, he used to tell my mum that his deceased father and mom visited him last night. You may think he is hallucinating, so now we know they are the guides to greet him when he cross over.
Those who died with unfinished business become earthbound and cannot cross over till someone helps them to find peace. Someone who dies without warning often can’t let go right away. Maybe they feel they need to get a message to a loved one before they cross over, believing that once they cross over they won't be able to enter into any communications with these people.
Believe it or not, there are spirits wandering around out there who aren’t clear on the fact that they’ve died like untimely death. Those people who dies suddenly and unexpectedly were extremely committed to living, it could take days or even weeks to get the clue. They could end up haunting old haunts, trying to get the attention of the living and wondering why they can’t hear you. Sad isn't it?
| She Sees Dead People? Pssst!. turn your head to look behind you. |
Souls that depart to the Spirit World get help from a “Spirit Guide”. The majority of people usually wander around their house during the first seven days after their physical death, but when their consciousness becomes clear enough, a “spirit guide” comes to help them to making them know that they are already dead. This spirit guide could be, in an ordinary case, a close friend, an acquaintance, parents or a sibling who died earlier. I wonder what would the Spirit Guide says? Maybe something like...okay, buddy, let's be honest. You're pretty dead, let's face it... Dude, you're hanging out with us now.Follow Me Towards The Light.
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| At the time of crossing over, individuals are generally thrown into an initial place of darkness and then are met by a very bright light. They enter a tunnel and move through this tunnel with the assistance of loved spirits and move into an area where earth loved ones in their most current incarnation have formed ahead of them. It becomes like a large family reunion on the other side. |
If you can, you’re probably dead.
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| Sam's ghostly form, still adjusting to the afterlife reaching for the door knob. All he need to is walk through walls or doors. |
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| With exception of David Copperfield who simply walked through the Great Wall in one of his tricks. How did he do the walk through the Great Wall of China magic? I don't know how he got the privilege, he's a mortal. |
Watermelon – Throw into the sea ritual to find body
When someone is believed to have died at sea sea but can't be get the corpse back, then the victim's family may hire Taoist priests to perform soul retrieval ritual by using a watermelon to summon the departed soul to enter the watermelon.
It is not known why a melon was used and what supernatural power it had. Of all the fruits they may pick but why watermelon, the chosen one? Well, its answer is very simple. Watermelon does not sink in the water due to less dense than the water it is placed in. It also owing to air tight like a tyre tube it will buoy and the air that is trapped has no way to come out from it until you'd cut it. So unless you cut it or the melon cracked open, it will not sink in the water.
Another version on why a melon is used, it is most widely accepted explanation is that the spirit of the dead likes eating watermelon. Victims' family members take advantage of an opportunity of this and use watermelons to attract the spirit.
| Juicy red flesh at the centre of a watermelon |
Watermelon chosen also due to the physical appearance of a body with huge component of red colouring which represent the blood in the body. This is no ordinary melon. The priest writes it with melon water inscribed with the unlucky person name.
One strange thing happen when you throw the watermelon into the water, normally it will float on the surface of the water but the melon seems to defy all laws of science, as soon as it hit the water the watermelon sinks… I know, I know...the watermelon damage isn’t it? No, it's Not.
Strange things about to happen! A few minutes later the watermelon resurfaced and float on the water, just like a buoy marking a spot. Next, the body of a drowning victim will float up and surface at a distance close to the watermelon. This ritual doesn't guarantee instant success. It's up to the Lord of the sea to decide when to release the body, sooner or later.
What is the purpose to order the soul enter the watermelon? It is because watermelon can float on the surface of the water and by this way, the soul could find back his own corpse and allow their family to give a decent burial as well.
it met with a great deal of public scepticism since no way of proofing. People who believe only when they've seen with their own eyes. I've not seen so I can't say whether its true or not but my fellow colleague, Yeo had seen it being performed and true to the facts.
One of the early records known account of this ritual.
Maiden Cao using a divination tool (watermelon) in her search for her father's body is a fragment of an Eastern Jin (317-420), the following details:
The filial girl Maiden Cao was the daughter of Cao Yu, a native of Shangyu district, then only fourteen years old. Yu drowned when he was swamped by large waves. His body was not found.
After hearing the conformation of his father's death she deeply mourning the loss of him.
She was seen wailing hysterically for her father, Yu, crying in sorrow by the marshes.Shortly after that , she threw into the river a melon. She said to the imagined body of her father:
"May this melon sink to the spot where my father is." Seventeen days later, the melon suddenly sank. Cao thus ended her life by throwing herself into the river and drowned. Five days after that, her drowned body re-emerged with her father's body clasped in her arms.
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Taoist believe a recent deceased soul may return on the seventh day after death.
This priest will perform rituals linking the heaven, earth and sea and somehow open a triangular channel of communication.
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| Abracadabra-alakazam: Tian-Ling-Ling, Di-Ling-Ling |
Every living being are subject to the governing authorities. People like us, we live on land. In someway we are being governed by the law of nature. In the seas there is another set of rules of its own. If someone drowns in the sea, normally the sea has the right of custody of the body. It simply exercise its jurisdiction on retain the corpse.
Before the ritual begins, Taoist set up an altar with proper offering substances such as fruits, incense, paper money etc. at the area in which they believe the victim may be found.
Before the ritual begins, Taoist set up an altar with proper offering substances such as fruits, incense, paper money etc. at the area in which they believe the victim may be found.
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| It is called spirits flag, the flag of the ancient attract spirits. |
Now a conjuration mantra is recited while wielding a spirit flag to call upon adjacent spirits for assistance to retrieve the drown body.The Taoist seeking permission to appeal for returning a lost body says something like this, “We, human owe you an apology for disturbing your peaceful marine environment. In view of the fact that we finding someone who is lost out there in your territory, we humbly seeking for your assistance and kind understanding to release the body belonging from our territory. We wish to express our gratitude and thanks”
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| When everything is ready, the Taoist will read out a passage expressing his intention to perform this ritual. After that the name and age of the deceased is called out loud. Asking permission from Dragon King to return the body to the world of land |
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| Yelled at the top of his voice sobs uncontrollably, yelling his son name O son (soul), come back! |
The watermelon empowered by a Taoist priest and together with paper offerings are thrown into the sea while calling the drown person’s name to draw the attention of the lost souls who may have drowned.
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| Watermelon sinks in fast when throw into the sea, don't you dare to say, I don't believe it. |
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| Dead body floats after 3 days |
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| The body miraculously surfaced! |
If the ritual was successful, then the body was located and recovered in the surronding area of where he was last seen. How long does the search take? There are four variants: three days, five days, fifteen days, and an instant. Provided of course, if the dragon king of the sea are willing to release the soul of the drowned.
Nobody from the Western countries would takes this ritual seriously, except for FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Daa Scully (Gillian Anderson) in"X-File" perhaps?
"The Truth is Out There"
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