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Originally Posted by Crowbob View Post
Makes sense. But consider this. Perhaps our ancestors relied on the knowledge, techniques or wisdom acquired by their deceased ancestors and a few, random members of the clan were able to communicate with the deceased to gain that knowledge. In such a case, sensing ghosts would be a survival tactic. The need for such a sense long ago being replaced by written language.
There is a thing known as collective memory which is a repository of knowledge that we each have that was built over the millennia. There are common sentiments that are universal among all men. So we do have access to our honorable ancestors knowledge.

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