One of our post-modern challenges is to try to build the elusive bridge(s) between science and mythology in (a) way(s), that are acceptable to the scientific mind as well as the intuitive mind. It is possible, but must be carried out with delicate forbearance.
As the part of us governed by fermionic material reality explodes into nothingness, and as we lose the ability to grasp the totality of our external cosmic existence, we, nevertheless, retain our inner cosmos. Within ourselves, we contain the totality of the past while outside ourselves we also observe the totality of the past. There is need to build a bridge between the two worlds of observation. The outer sequence of events has a rationality that we relate to by way of science and scientific knowledge. The inner sequence of events, our past, is also a reality, but one that we relate to not by means of reason, but by means of intuition and artistic impression.
We are composite beings that have inner and outer vision. When we see inside ourselves we do so with less precision and we associate such vision with inspiration and symbolism. What we may fail to recognize is the continuation of all our experiences in life within the inner realms of our reality. This is because our past energies are impressed within us and within the amazing world of the very small. The very small is our past, not only in a cosmic sense, but in a measurable and definable scientific sense.
Our only problem is that while science has concentrated its efforts in the logic of our exterior world, it has neglected the vast interior realms within which we have a storehouse of information and forces yet to be discovered and explored. This is part of the message of quantum physics, but it is also the message of our ancestors, who can communicate with us only from within and never from our exterior.
What we do is project our inner reality onto our external plane of experience. We do this through the sighting of ghosts and through the experience of dreams.