Immediate approximation of how I’d do it (warning: Dark Arts ahead):
“You may be right—I myself have certainly felt like I’ve been being watched over by dead relatives before. But one thing that I realized is that this effect might not actually be supernatural.
The human mind and memory are powerful things. It could simply be that I was so close to my dead grandmother (may she rest in peace) that, in times of peril, my brain subconsciously looks to her memory for advice, since I remember so many times that she had good advice for me in the past.
In this way, I think it’s possible that in some way our dead relatives really do live on with us, even though it’s not really them speaking with us, but merely our memories of them.”
I haven’t tested this yet but I’m moderately confident that it would work, though part of that is of course in the presentation. There may also be a better way—I haven’t thought about this for five minutes yet—but if I had to have that conversation right now that’s the line I would take.
Comes off as transparent and condescending to me. I’m sure I can tell the difference between my dead grandmother signalling me with spoons and my own memories, thank you very much.
Immediate approximation of how I’d do it (warning: Dark Arts ahead):
“You may be right—I myself have certainly felt like I’ve been being watched over by dead relatives before. But one thing that I realized is that this effect might not actually be supernatural.
The human mind and memory are powerful things. It could simply be that I was so close to my dead grandmother (may she rest in peace) that, in times of peril, my brain subconsciously looks to her memory for advice, since I remember so many times that she had good advice for me in the past.
In this way, I think it’s possible that in some way our dead relatives really do live on with us, even though it’s not really them speaking with us, but merely our memories of them.”
I haven’t tested this yet but I’m moderately confident that it would work, though part of that is of course in the presentation. There may also be a better way—I haven’t thought about this for five minutes yet—but if I had to have that conversation right now that’s the line I would take.
Comes off as transparent and condescending to me. I’m sure I can tell the difference between my dead grandmother signalling me with spoons and my own memories, thank you very much.
I (sadly) have enough experience with New Agers and the like that I’m pretty sure I can successfully make this work. What would you do differently?