This is the association of a spirit to some type of object. Usually it involves an object to which the dead person has some sort of attachment during life. The mechanism of this may be that the spirit is there, or it may be some sort of “psychic echo or imprint” that has been impressed onto the object.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...