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Cartoon Characters as Spirit Guides
Posted On: 11/10/2007 06:27:10
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A blog posted by dsdollman telling us some history of the Casper cartoon character began me thinking.
I have often wondered how other people coped with their early age paranormal experiences they encountered as a child? I began seeing 'spirits' at around the age of 3, mostly through dreams. Luckily, Dreamers run in our family and it was accepted by my family readily and as a child I was not told I was imagining it all or was crazy. My mother would just say, I had inherited my father's 'problem'.
I never looked at it as a problem, but my mother had to share a bed with my father and he thrashed around all night and disturbed her sleep, so to her, it was a problem
A child will usually just readily accept it as being normal to see spirits, unless told by their support group that it is abnormal. But some of what I saw was frightening to me and in my child mind I wanted protection from those.
I found that protection in a cartoon character.
I loved Casper as a child!
I was reading at a very early age, before the age of 4, and I was introduced to Casper through comic books. We had a television but we lived too far away from a town to get reception often, so we read out loud to each other and played board games for entertainment. I also had the Casper board game. This would have been the mid 50's.
What drew me to Casper over say Mickey Mouse was the fact that he was a ghost. He made perfect sense to me because I saw ghosts, and through him I began to accept this gift and learned to not be afraid of my dreams or visions.
I had a Casper the talking doll I slept with every night! I knew if a scary spirit would come to me in my dreams, he would be there to protect me. If I had a dream that frightened me and woke me up in the night, I would pull his string and he would say, "I'm a friendly ghost!!" and in my mind that was protection against the scary spirits that sometimes visited me in my dreams or walked with me during the day.
The doll said more phrases then that, like "Will you be my friend" "Will you play with me" and "Boooooooooo" but the phrase I would need him to say to protect me was "I'm a friendly ghost" and I would pull that string over and over until he said it. My mom would get agitated with hearing him in the middle of the night, for we all slept in one room with only curtains to divide our personal space.
I slept with that doll until I was in my late teens, to be honest.
In my child mind, Casper was my spirit guide, it was the beginning of the materialistic world in America, seeping into our homes though the television screen. It was magic to us and we believed all that emitted from it.. the truth.
I have since shot my television and put it out of its misery.
I learned as I got older that my spirit guide was not a cartoon character, but for my child mind, it was Casper, and he helped me to make sense of my gifts.
For my children and my grandchildren, it is Scooby Doo who helps explain the unexplained in their paranormal lives and they all sleep with their Scooby Dooby Doo spirit guides at night.
But for me
CASPER RULES!!!!
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