Borley 3

Borley cont..

Have a look at foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectory/Bullsheet

I read through this, and it looks as if Harry Bull had an interest

In ghosts, and wanted to believe that there were ghosts at Borley.

I imagine that once people start wanting ghosts to appear

then they prime themselves for it.

It's like Mrs David-Neale's tulpa

(If you don't know the story, she created an idea of the

presence of a monk accompanying her, and it became 

more and more real, and then she struggled to get rid of it.)

Ghosts are supposed to feed off our electrical energy 

in order to manifest. That's another way of putting it. 

We create our legends, we create our ghosts. 

We give them existence, and they carry on without us.

It's not unlike the way that a painter or a writer creates a painting or a story,

Except that in this case he also has to create a history,

The history of Borley, as it explains in the article,

above, is littered with stories, which purport to be histories.

Like the Borley nun and the convent, and a pair of religieuse lovers punished for

their liaison. It's nonsense as there was no nunnery there.

But stories grow.

The problem with the Borley "history" is and always was, in my mind,

the reliance on the business of ouija board readings telling us about 

individuals, who did not exist.

That's fine in fiction, but why do we take the unsubstantiated

and unsubstantiatable testimony of a medium

or the ouija board as significant at all?