Page 8 - AstralRealm Magazine - October 2019

It’s unfortunate that so many cultures associate so

much fear and darkness with death, as it is a natural
process within the universe which everyone will

inevitably experience. Pagans had a much more

accepting and respectful, compassionate attitude
concerning death and the dead. And it is absurd that

those with reverence for the dead, and for the process

of dying, the afterlife, and the realms beyond our
physical plane, should be subjected to the slander and

the fearful, immature thinking of others, who, in this
day and age, believe things they see in horror movies

rather than actually researching the true beliefs
behind this day, and the entirety of the culture and

religion itself.

The Celtic/Pagan/Druid people worshiped nature, and
cycles; like the spring and fall equinox, and the

summer and winter solstice.

Autumn and the harvest season is a perfectly suitable
time for a festival of respect for the dead, with all of

the plant life dying, to return again in the spring.
It’s amazing when you think of all of the death and

chaos caused by so many other religions, who do not
mind causing a vast amount of death, of so many

others, because of their ridiculous, fear based

religious fantasies-in the name of their religion. Yet
somehow these religions perceive that this respect for

and communication with the dead, and the spirits to be

a dark practice, and somehow satanic or demonic.

Death is the main theme of Samhain, but pagans have a
much more positive relationship with death than others.

It is a festival of love and respect, a day of reverence