Chloe's Third Entry on Crime and Punishment

While reading Part 4, I came across a quote that really stood out to me.

“Ghosts are so to speak, bits and pieces of other worlds, their beginnings. The healthy man, naturally has no call to see them, because the healthy man is the most earthly of men, and therefore he ought to live according to life here, for the sake of completeness and order. Well, but as soon as a man gets sick, as soon as the normal earthly order of his organism is disrupted, the possibility of another world at once begins to make itself known…”

This is an idea completely new to me. I used to feel that when people were getting closer to death they were in fact becoming closer to Earth, going back to their beginning and that, that’s where ghosts were as well. Everything spiritual is closer to the Earth; the Earth is the root of all things. For those who are healthy they are farther away from Earth then everything. Those who are young and healthy are ignorant of the Earth and all it has to offer and are just intoned with the present and current events. They are above the Earth, not connected to it; all they are interested in is the latest technology and the development of Earth. Those dying and spirituality is closer to Earth, they are about preserving it and returning to where they were born from.