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Welcome to the November issue of The New Journal of the Philosophical Research Society.For more than a thousand years the Samhain season has been the time to commune with entities inhabiting the mysterious otherworld—living but unhuman beings, strange liminal spirits, and the revenant ghosts of the dead populated this other dimension—and the dark hills and ancient mounds were the threshold stage where we could meet them. Out in the night-lit fields and woodlands, intrepid men and women who were sensitive to the shadow-space shimmer of the half-light home of the sidhe found their sight into the future and brought home half-seen stories from the shade. Samhain was the time for soothsaying, for visionaries, for the future.
They returned into the light of the hearth with stories of love and wealth and war—with half-heard hints of what would be, and visions like reflections in rippling water, ambiguous and uncertain. The future is a foreign country, and we interpret shadows—there may be truths in second-sight, but the wise decipher the mysteries of their tricksy visions with care and discrimination. |
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