- Supernatural Central Short and Quick Interview
Written by Peregrinus Hierusalemsis, author of The Princess of the Wraiths
Tell me a little bit about your main character of this book.
My book is a memoir, so I am the main character of the story. I lived in Mexico while I was a child and teenager. Then I lived for some time in the United Kingdom and in Sweden, where I studied university. I studied Biology at university. I have been interested in philosophy due to 2 spiritual teachers that I had. Both were my classmates, and they are the same age as me.
In my book I write about my life, about how I was trained by my spiritual teachers, about the difficulties I faced, and about how I faced scary enemies. Among the scary antagonists is the title character, the “Princess of the Wraiths,” who used hypnosis to produce night terrors.
Do you believe in the paranormal and if so, do you have an experience you can share?
Carl Gustav Jung was once interviewed by a journalist from “The Listener” (October 29, 1959). When the journalist asked the question “Do you believe in God?” he answered “I do not believe. I know.” I think I would say something similar regarding the paranormal. I do not believe in the paranormal due to personal choice. I have witnessed events that are said to be paranormal by society. I do not say that they are totally opposite to physicalism or materialism. Who knows, maybe one day they can be explained by science. However, they are currently labeled paranormal. In old times people thought lightning was paranormal. According to ancient Roman writer Lucretius in “De Rerum Natura” people thought the Gods produced lightning. Now we know that lightning is the result of a flux of electrons due to differences in electric potential between the clouds and the Earth’s surface when there is a storm. So even if I believe in the stuff that people label paranormal, I do not necessarily think such phenomena do not have a scientific explanation. We of course cannot explain everything. Maybe one day we will be able to explain them with physicalist theories.
Once I was very ill. I was in Athens, Greece. Then during the early morning, while I was sleeping, I woke up due to the light that was produced by a shining man. This person entered the room without opening the door. I was extremely afraid. This being visited my bedroom many times during the early morning. The next day I did not have a respiratory illness. I was cured by this angel.
What titles are you working on now that you can tell us about?
I am writing a taxonomic revision of the microlepidoptera moths from Mexico. I work with the systematics of the Lepidoptera. This knowledge is useful for ecological studies. Alpha taxonomy allows us to have a shared language regarding organisms so they can be investigated from the points of view of ethology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, biodiversity studies, or biotechnology.
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Excerpt:
Regarding death, my grandmother
Lorenza used to tell me an anecdote that happened to her while she was a kid.
She was an orphan, so she went to live with her grandmother, who became her
primary caregiver. My great-great-grandmother lived in Los Ranchos de San José,
a village close to Villa Guerrero, State of Mexico. In her house, there was a
black cherry tree (Prunus serotina). One night, a great horned owl (Bubo
virginianus) perched on a branch of the tree and started to vocalize. My
great-great-grandmother thought that such an event was an omen. She claimed
that meant that she would soon die. Thus, she told Lorenza to do whatever she
could to scare the owl. My grandmother Lorenza was unable to scare the owl. The
owl vocalized in the same place for several nights, and my
great-great-grandmother died less than a month after the owl started hooting. After the burial, Ismaela arrived to tell her
niece Lorenza that she should leave the house to go to live with her, as
Lorenza was still a kid. When both were leaving the house, Lorenza claimed that
she did not want to leave the building, as she was able to listen to the
ghostly voice of my dead great-great-grandmother who was calling her inside…
According to the Graeco-Roman
Olympian religion, Ascalaphus was an angel of the Hades God. Hades is the
dwelling place of the souls of the dead. The task of Ascalaphus was to snatch
the souls of dying people to Hades. Ascalaphus was transformed into an owl by
Persephone the Kore, the queen of Hell. Since then, owl Ascalaphus has visited
dying people before they finally died. That is why Pliny the Elder stated in
his “Natural History” that the Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) was an
extremely bad omen. Spanish bishop St. Isidore of Seville transferred this
superstition to Christian Catholicism in his book “Etymologiae.”
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