Chew the Fat

We made this amazing discovery quite by chance. A ghost puppet, who enjoys tap dancing, lives in the floor above us. By the looks of it, he lived in the 1950s as he appears to be wearing a mobster hat.

Discovering Charlie (for that is his name) was an incredible fluke. We moved into our flat about five months ago. We are in the bottom floor. The one above us is being renovated so it’s empty. We are in one of the oldest areas in Wellington called Aro valley. It is full of character villas that have many stories

Within the first week we began hearing strange tapping noises in the ceiling. We thought it was rats so threw Ponty (our cat) up there through a hole in the kitchen. Ponty was up there for about five hours. We heard a lot of banging and cat roaring. We were a bit worried that Ponty had met her match. She finally came out. She was unhurt but looking somewhat edgy. The house was quiet for a few days but then the tapping started again.

Last night after reading about orbs (White circles captured on a camera that are supposed to be ghosts), I decided to see if my camera was an orb catcher.
I took about three photos out side and to my astonishment I caught Charlie saluting me in the top left window:

Can’t see him? Let me get you a little closer.

If you still can’t see him then I guess you just don’t have the ‘eye’.

We broke in upstairs to see if we could find him, but he was hiding. Some have argued that it is just the light bulb. But I ask them, “Can a light bulb tap dance?”

This, of course, raises many theological questions, such as do tap dancers have souls?
Any more signs of Charlie will be promptly recorded here.

A new blog site has been set up by a good friend.

It is called Think Christianity:

"This blog exists as a source of public information about general thoughts on
Christianity. It is here for public use as a means for all people to share their
thoughts on the Christian faith and things which relate to it - ie the Christian
Church.This is a place for those who consider themselves Christian and those who
do not, to share their thoughts on why they do or do not like the Christian
faith.This is a place for you to share your thoughts. It is not a place for
anybody to try and convince anybody for or against the Christian faith (though
that may happen), it is simply a place to lay out your thoughts and feelings in
relation to the Christian faith - the good, the bad and the ugly."
(Taken from the blog site)

It should have some interesting thoughts to read and a good place to comment.

The interesting thing about living New Age rules is that there are no rules. This doesn’t mean that everybody is ignorant. In fact quite the opposite, everybody is an expert regardless of who you talk to in the world and how diverse their theory is.

Interestingly, this never leads to contradictions, because it works for the individual and that is all that is expected.

Of course there really are rules and borders within this philosophy. They are simply presumed and not discussed. Spirits do exist and there is no debate about it.

I asked a spiritualist how and why she knew spirits exist and she told me, “Because I talk to them”.
I asked if it could possibly be something else aside from spirits. She looked me in the eyes with a passive aggressive smile and said,”No dear of course not”.

Many New Agers believe we all know all the answers to the universe becuse we are part of the universe. We just haven’t reached the answers yet.

This makes for interesting conversation.

“I feel a lot of the insecurity you have is to do with strong abuse in a past life,” one guy said to me.
“Reincarnation?” I asked.
“Well yes, past lives,”
“But what if I don’t believe in reincarnation?”
“Don’t worry you will,” he said. “It’s very true”.
“Do you have any reason for believing in reincarnation?”
“Yes because I have had past lives”.

Aside from a few confusing conversations, living New Age hasn’t been too bad. Eating unprocessed, organic primary foods has felt really good and is great for our planet.

New Agers are not only concerned with their own well being, but take personal responsibility for the state of their planet. All actions are taken with careful consideration for all stakeholders. I have tried to avoid driving at all costs. I waste as little as possible. Everything I touch I think, who was affected to get this product here and who will it affect when I leave it. It is surprising how this type of thinking affects you.

Trying to do yoga and meditation in the morning has been refreshing. I am up early and I have time to consider life, a higher power and a higher purpose. However I do get distracted and start thinking about the game in Christchurch this weekend, and who will be full back, and will Jonah ever play in New Zealand again.

I have been learning about tarot cards and numerology, but have not had anyone do my readings, as part of the deal was that we do not pay any money when studying a religion.

We have finally located a ‘real’ haunted house which we are negotiating to stay in for a night. We have yet to go to a spiritualist church service (planned for next week) and the psychics will only talk to us if we pay them $2.99 a minute. Even more elusive is an alien abductee.

If you know of anyone who is keen to do a reading, or even better an interview, we would love to hear from you.

Will keep you posted on how church goes.