We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. (Mary Antin)

6.15.2006

Do ghosts feel gravity?

Last night I was watching an old episode of Charmed in which a ghost seeks out the sisters for help. Nobody can see him but the sisters, and to the sisters he looks normal--until a bicycle runs through him, or he walks through a door. In typical fashion, this ghost tries to do normal things--turn on the TV for instance--but can't because he's a ghost. Yet he never sinks through the floor, he can sit and ride in a car, and climbs down stairs. Why is it that TV ghosts always have feet and asses that can interact with floors and chairs, but when that same ghost wants to kick a can or walk through a wall there's no resistance? Would it be so hard for these programs, who are already paying the special-effects guys to make coffee mugs thrown at the ghost to go right through him, to give us some good, old-fashioned floaty-ghost action?

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