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Halloween itself is wearing a mask, because it’s actually an ancient year-end spiritual ritual in disguise.

Sociologist Charles Emmons says, “Halloween has gone through two major transformations since its beginning at least 3,000 years ago as an ancient European folk festival to a Christian folk festival and now a modern, pop culture holiday.” Prior to changes in our modern calendar, Halloween took place at the end of the year in conjunction with the winter solstice. In the evening, people would light bonfires and set out food to welcome back the spirits of the beloved dead and dress up as ghosts and goblins to scare away unwanted spirits.
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Soils may dictate the array of fall colors as much as the kinds of trees planted in them. When they moved sweetgum and red maple trees from one type of soil to another, researchers in North Carolina discovered that in places where the soil was relatively low in nitrogen and other essential elements, trees produced more red pigments, almost as if they were shouting “Help!”
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We previously reported that MI6 agents (the equivalent of the US CIA) were operating in Paris on the night of August 31, 1997, the time of the car crash that killed Princess Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed. Photographer James Andanson was one of the most aggressive of the paparazzi following Princess Diana. His body was found in May of 2000 in the burned out remains of a BMW in a forest in the south of France. Andanson’s death was ruled a suicide by French police, but Dodi’s father, Mohammed Al Fayed, maintains that he, as well as Diana and his son Dodi, were murdered by British undercover government agents, who were ordered to do so by Prince Philip, to cover up the fact that Diana was pregnant with Dodi’s child.
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So many of us crave stability more than anything else, and maybe we shouldn’t–maybe we should all be more ADVENTUROUS instead, ESPECIALLY as we get older!
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