tomb ghosts

Barrows etc

I  have an idea that shadow people are somehow 

connected to the demon phenomenon.

It's about how our minds leave a trail behind them, 

when negative emotion takes shape...

Or having spiritual phenomenon feeding on the shadows

of our course through life, perhaps. 

Evil times breed evil beings.

I sometimes wonder in my own darkest moments, if life isn't a sick joke, 

and some spiritual parasite doesn't feed off our suffering.

But then our darkness, our depression, our anger and hatred

could be said to be the parasite.

Do we leave our negative emotions behind us in some form 

when we die? Is that something like what ghosts are, actually?

There are tales about dark shadows running around or standing like 

  gravestones in cemeteries, and at least one of the early series of

"A Haunted" tells of ghost hunters in a cemetery, where a boy 

is possessed by a demon. (There were some good ones, very well

produced, in the first 4 series, but it's dropped in quality since.)

The idea of shadow-people-like presences mimicking

 gravestones  in cemeteries ties in, I think, to the dark

presences, of ancient English lore, connected to barrows.

 What i mean is that the spectral beings, which we reportedly

see today, were seen historically as well. 

The human mind works in the same way now, as it did then.

Does the old debate, whether consciousness survives 

really relate to whether dark emotions survive in some way?

The protective angel which returns from sleep,

like King Arthur, to save the English people,

being one side, the other being the dark emotional side 

protecting the burial from bejng disturbed.