A viewer asks: “According to Celtic mythology, the veil between the Otherworld and our world thins during Samhain (Halloween), making it easier for spirits and the souls of the dead to return. Any truth to this? And if not, where did this notion originate?”

This is not a calendar decreed thinning of the veil or a change in accessibility to intuitive awareness, it is simply an opportunity to rework a Pagan ritual into something of potential benefit to those with the wisdom of knowing there are problems faced by the dead in becoming ghosts, and the need to do an outreach to the divine through prayer and ritual to acknowledge this and get divine help for those who suffer. This was the intent, to reshape things, to address this very real issue, but the purpose and meaning have become lost over the generations and now it is more an opportunity for an entertainment for the amusement of children largely and its true and quite serious purpose ignored.