Another one on souls, further to my article Light and Dark, where it seems for those categories it has been decided which side of the fence you fall on. But potentially, for some, it has not been decided yet, or there is a realm of banishment from either here or there, where you are then bound to neither realm, only to The Bit In Between. A few references to follow from films, where this idea was shown well.

Poltergeist – maybe not entirely lost, but there did seem to be something trapped on the other side trying to make it through to our world, by way of the walk-in wardrobe mostly. See such articles as Doors and In The Closet where it also gets a mention.

Beetlejuice – the lost soul’s room, showing a room of tormented and trapped souls, lost for eternity residing within the afterlife.

Lord of the Rings – the dead marshes revealing a ghostly domain under the surface of the water, and of course later in the trilogy, the green misty army of the dead, their souls trapped by a curse. Hidden and dwelling in the mountain until the time came for redemption.

And it is said of ghosts and spirits that haunt this realm, they are often trapped in between the land of the living and the dead, that there is somewhere in between where you remain if you have reason to. That may be the case for some of the ‘supernatural’ that apparently lurks alongside us, but there is also a theme within that of demonic entities and others who mimic that type of thing and interfere with the living active realm. So, I am left to wonder if there is indeed somewhere we might refer to as a place, either as a waiting room, a punishment, or where you just can’t let go. And it is just perhaps possible that there is something waiting, like in the Soul Harvester, leaving a trail of temptation breadcrumbs throughout your life until they are ready to collect you if you followed that path. Could be why there is speculation we are already in that trapped space, in if we are in the Vestibule of Hell from Dante’s Divine Comedy. And maybe this is why some people say there is a path already set for you, because it makes it easier to absolve responsibility for making their choice or to try and believe there wasn’t one and there was no other way. And others say you choose your own path and create your own destiny, taking a more observant and active role in their own life, making the best of it and seeing it through, to whatever end…

(c) K Wicks