SUPERSTITION RESEARCH

Deep inside of each person always has something can not be identify such as feeling cold when getting outside alone at night, hearing no one voice or even believe on religion. People doesnt know where does it come from, how can it happens, they believe on these things because of their own insight. All these things probably called superstition. Superstition influences peoples attitude, behavior and somehow reflected their conception. There are so many positive and negative aspects of superstition in both real life and spirit life. Most of them are negative aspects and I want to clear and understand deeply the negative opinion of superstition reflected in reality.

History of Superstition: Superstition arises primarily from ignorance. Early man believe that every phenomenon of nature was the work of a spirit or devil. His intelligence could not suggest any other explanation ( 1 ) .Superstitions is started from unknown afraid, people tend to comprehend their afraid by their own opinion,therefore, this one lead to the belief in superstition. Superstition is a credulous belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge (Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition 01/18/2011). If everybody can define their afraid, questions and scientists can explain everything happens around us, finishing the bible of knowledge, people would no more be superstitious. For example: the Thunder, Lightning, earthquake darkness always fill people with dead afraid. It is also happens in modern society, when citizens suddenly hear or see some of these natural phenomenon, they would be full filled with fearful dread. Superstition can be seen everywhere in the world, from the developed countries, agriculture countries to small tribe. Some people suggest that, the more education that people received, the less they trust in superstitions. This judgement somehow is right in special situation, Education can make people less superstitious. At least educated people are more likely to send the sick to the hospital, than to call priests to cast out demons in order to cure the sick. Education provides an understanding of the diseases, the cause and the cure of the diseases (Socyberty - 2010 - Can Education Eradicate Superstition? /www.socyberty.com). Superstitions is started from unknown afraid, people tend to comprehend their afraid by their own opinion,therefore, this one lead to the belief in superstition. Superstition is a credulous belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge (Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition - 01/18/2011). If everybody can define their afraid, questions and scientists can explain everything happens around us, finishing the bible of knowledge, people would no more be superstitious. However, dead is also a cause of many discussion which related to superstitions, every single people including me and even scientist who using their knowledge to explain the happening around us sometimes ask ourself that what will happens for the life after dead. This questions can not be answered based on technology and ordinary knowledge, there concept is an out-of-body-experience, for example: in 1991, at Atlanta, Pam Reynolds had and surgery for a brain aneurysm ( an abnormal widening or ballooning of a section of a blood vessel ), doctor must drain all the blood from

Pams brain to operate the vessel, it means that Pams brain was kept to be dead in literally. After 45 minutes surgery, Pam was resuscitated, and she talked about her experiences she had in 45 minutes dead, interacting with decreased relatives and describing the process of her operation, even she saw the bone that was used to remove the part of her skull (http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vsmyth/afterlife/science-life-after-death.htm). The brain is the main system that control peoples senses, when brain is dead, there are no hope of recovery or survival, we can not feel, smell or see anything, but the Pams case is an opposite of scientific argument, and human physiology, there are many surveys try to explain this weird phenomena but it is still unknown. There is an interesting experiments of having an out-of-body experience by University college London Institute of Neurology ( http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/extrasensory-perceptions/out-ofbody-experience.htm ) ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twK3IZhurkU ) ( try to use OBE - out of body experiences keywords ) All of these things may prove that people also has soul, and when we are dead, what will happens with our soul. Believe in spirit and soul is a one key of to be an superstitious. There are a lot of stories about the world that can not be seen by human eye. The second or third world can be seen only by the third eye which is known as as the gate that leads within to inner realms and spaces of higher consciousness. (wikipedia). The third eye stays between the eye brow, and it has the abilities seeing everything even when the other close. People who can open the third eye probably open their own way to see spirit, ghost, or even Nirvana. In real life, the third eye can be trained by yoga, Daoism, martial arts, there are many proves of the third eye in reality, especially from Asian culture. In western countries, the third eye probably known as the sixth senses because of its unknown abilities. Some people can open the third eye after having a brain damage which is described as infections, lack of oxygen arisen before, during or after the delivery. They can see ghost, for example: the American psychologist Edith Fiore, writes in her book "The unquiet dead", that up to 70% of her patients are more or less possessed. She discovered by chance, during a hypnosis-treatment, that she spoke to a possessing spirit, and not to the unconscious of the patient. She discovered that these possessing spirits were not "demons", but unhappy homeless discarnated (deceased) souls, trapped in an intermediate state. Various bonds, like hate, love or abuse, kept them trapped in the earthly sphere. We can invite these souls into our consciousness; and it is especially common with possessing spirits due to alcoholism (http://kundalini.se/eng/super.html) Moreover, there are also having pictures of ghost which can not be prove right or wrong. However, the similarities between each ghost image is it has its own story that related to the place where it was taken by. - http://www.trueghosttales.com/ghostpictures.php ; There are some pictures capturing spirit (http://www.mysticalblaze.com/GhostPics.htm). as we call as ghost

In Asian culture,especially in Buddhism, the religion that most Asian people is following, ghost is an wandering spirit waiting for the day that they could reborn, starting a new life with different appearances, characteristic, and pay for everything

they borrow in the lasting life, it called Trade - Off. In western countries, the common religion is Catholic, people believe in god, and the life after dead is probably define by : All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of the eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven (Catholicism and the Afterlife/ http://www.litesofheaven.com/catholic.html). A third of Americans say they believe in ghosts, a pre-Halloween poll found. The same proportion, 34 percent, say they believe in unidentified flying objects, according to the poll by the Associated Press and Ipsos, and 23 percent say they have actually seen a ghost or believe they have been in one's presence. In this case, we can see the influences of Halloween in Western superstitious culture, Tet Holidays in Asian Culture Following and how much religion belief you are is a proe of superstition Instead of related to human, weird natural phenomenon is also a cause of nature superstitions. In the ancient time, thunder ice rain is symbolize for Gods anger. In Asia,Vietnam or some related Chinese culture, the thunder god is ordered by heaven, punish evil spirit and the walking dead who use their knowledge of Daoism to harm human beings. Some tales told that, if we had the dead hand men, who was killed by the Thunder God, waving in front of people that we face to, they would not see us. Everything above is based on mouth telling stories, tales and history through thousands year, and people today can not prove that it is true or not, because time is somehow mysterious. Therefore,time is a cause of many erroneous legend and lead to superstition. In the other ways, some phenomenon can explain by both scientific research and superstitions such as Triangle Bermuda... People doesnt know where does it come from, how can it happens, they believe on these things because of their own insight. All these unknown things happen around human probably called superstition. Superstition influences peoples attitude, behavior and somehow reflected their conception. There are so many positive and negative aspects of superstition in both real life and spirit life. Most of them are negative aspects and I want to clear and understand deeply the negative opinion of superstition reflected in reality. No matter how educated people is, superstition is always hide inside themselves. Because superstition is unknown things

Deep research about Superstition in Vietnam

Family: -Superstition in Asia growths because of family education. Asia people has a strong family relationship, elders always be respected taught children by their own way based on their experiences and family culture. Years passed by, children absorb the elder taught unconsciously. This may lead to different mistake in reality. For example: In Vietnam, elder people sometimes ask children not eating chicken fingers because its a cause of foot problems (shaking and unbalance foot ) like them. However, they are the one who love to eat that, chicken fingers has nutrition to keep the cartilage healthy, they ask children not to eat these fingers because of their own interest. This one has been a funny story. Moreover, when children broke their teeth, their are two options,one is throw the broken teeth away or leave it under the bed to keep childrens teeth of caries, because the worm inside their teeth can not find the way back to childrens teeth. The second option is keep that tooth for the fairy tooth to grow new tooth. http://www.chinavista.com/experience/story/story3.html--> History, story telling is something can not be identify The Cultural Basis of Superstion in China http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/72883.aspx http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/72883.aspx#ixzz1BJIyKf4U

Society: The wedding dress: Superstitions and traditions http://www.helium.com/items/958889-the-wedding-dress-superstitions-and-traditions In Asia country, especially Chinese culture, in Vietnam, before get married, the fockers (parents) family need to check the age of son or daughter based on Chinese calendar. If their age is not fit together, they probably not getting married. http://www.chinatownconnection.com/chinese_marriage.htm http://www.chinatownconnection.com/chinese-superstitions.htm

Religion:

Most Asian people follow buddhism My family also adore and follow buddhism, related to myself, i believe on buddha, as what i taught, there is Heaven and Hell, Hell is the place treating bad people after dead, and Heaven is a wonderful place that really hard to be there, you must be a good person in different life. Everybody has their fate, maybe the process of being a human can change us but there are two things always the same : the born and the dead, its our fate. When you are dead, in Buddhism, people will become a spirit to wait for the day the to reborn starting a new life with different appearances, characteristic, and pay for everything we borrow in the lasting life. This called Life Circle, to Buddhism, Living and survival is miserable, die in freedom is an existence, release soul and spirits. Deep research: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36214829/Signs-omens-and-superstitions-1918 http://www.scribd.com/doc/18769901/Preview-of-2012-Science-or-Superstition

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