It strange, but in Japan, I actually feel like I’m visiting people during Obon when I go to their graves (even though I’ve never actually met them before).
Maybe it has to do with this being the only time of year that I go to the grave. Maybe it has to do with the grave holding 300 years worth of my wife’s relatives. Maybe it has to do with the fact that we always go as an extended family. Or maybe it’s related to the whole story and belief that the soul returns to earth during this time. I don’t know.
But I definitely don’t feel the same way when visiting the graves of my relatives in the States.
Interesting!!! Maybe the energy lines in cemeteries in Japan are different from the energy lines here or something. And maybe several people with the belief folks come back at this time are able to put enough of the energies (for lack of a better word - coordinates?) of the deceased back together so that they actually are returned. I love that!
That’s interesting to think about. I’ll have to take a dowsing lesson from samstonehill and see what happens.
I was also wondering if it has anything to do with not actually knowing the people that I’m visiting, as strange as that may seem.