That is a common feeling for me about Jesus Christ.Not that I could easily explain. It feels like someone is watching me, but from all angles. And like a really intense stare, not just a “meh there’s a human let’s lazily look at him”.
Indeed, but lets not give the appearance to others it is in any way Church teaching. The Magisterium fairly clearly tolerates but is not in agreement. As the Magisterium, for example, also tolerates those who believe that Mary did not die.as long as doing so doesn’t contradict Catholic teaching, people are allowed to believe them if they so choose.
If the Church defines souls as being pure spirits without matter (and therefore without energy) why do you think this Spiritualist/New Age understanding of ghosts is compatible with Catholic teaching?Of course thermal would only work if it is true that a ghostly presence really is colder than the surrounding air.
I know we don’t always see eye to eye but in this thread I agree with everything you have said.My views have been fairly clearly stated:
Aerial Toll Houses and similar gnostic views were known in the Early Church as it was a widespread cultural belief of the time - it never became a formal Church teaching despite this.
So you may personally believe in this silliness (now resurrected by Victorian Spiritualism and popular TV shows) if you wish - it has not been formally condemned as I say. The Church only tends to address/condemn such views when they become widespread.
However it cannot be called a Church teaching. It is over the top to try and suggest it is.
Saints are canonised for their holiness and charity not their writings.
Priests are fallible and idiosyncratic like us laity. If you look specifically for a priest to back your own “Catholic” views on angels, demons, superstition, the death of Mary, the Pope being used by Satan, the Vatican has fallen etc…I am sure you will find one online somewhere.
Gnosticism is a heresy and a distraction from the right path to God. The sorts of belief’s mentioned here were part of their “corpus”. While not specifically condemned the movement was. That should give loyal Catholics pause for thought re these fancies of souls needing to work out their “purgatory” on earth and in the places where they have “unfinished business.”
That is also a belief of Victorian Spiritualism. This has also been condemned by the Church.
It is alive and well in the “folklore” of the less well educated in the USA - including Catholics it seems.
Ok so no matter.
Still many accounts of ghosts come with reports of the area being cold as the ghost was near. Even if there is no physical substance there, they obviously have an effect on the air around them. The results from using a thermal imaging system may not be clear but at least it would be something.
Charles one of the accepted principles or mature, critical thinkers (as opposed to the gullible) is known as “Ochkam’s razor”.Still many accounts of ghosts come with reports of the area being cold as the ghost was near.