supernatural belief systems Asia

  • A Journey Into Thai Folk Horror

    ~ PART I ~ Karma, Impermanence, and the Shape of Suffering Thai folk horror does not begin with ghosts, curses, or transgression. It begins with order; not the reassuring order of safety or justice, but a deeper and far less comforting structure in which nothing is wasted, nothing disappears, and nothing escapes consequence. In this…

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  • A Journey into Indonesian Folk Horror

    ~ PART I ~ THE INDONESIAN SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE To understand Indonesian horror, one must first abandon a deeply Western assumption: that the supernatural represents a break in reality. In Indonesian cosmology, spirits are not intrusions, they are not aberrations and they are not even necessarily hostile. They are simply there, occupying the same world as…

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