For the record I don’t and even if they were proven to be real I don’t respect them
Indigenous people have their own thing with spirits and they don’t exactly operate in the same way conventional logic says ghosts do. Being able to see them at a young age is considered a gift in some nations (tribes). I don’t really know much else because they’re very secretive about that information
I am glad you brought that up, because that is a distinction I didn’t really make in the context of my old joke about ghosts. It’s a bit semantic but I consider “ghosts” to be more Western/Colonial and “spirits” or “ancestor spirits” to be more in line with the indigenous mindset. My great-uncle was a practitioner of what’s called Midewiwin, and those secrets died with him as he didn’t pass them on for whatever reason and our ‘clan’ hasn’t truly had a medicine man in over 60 years. Very secretive indeed.
