I have to post about this.....I didn't make a connection with my family & the Winchester Mystery House until today.......
My sister & I were discussing whether our family has "karmic debt" from selling munitions during the Mexican Revolution. The subject came up since my sister will be in Mexico for a month. I started cracking jokes that our Spanish-Jewish forebears were still p*ssed off from getting kicked out of Spain & wanted to take out their anti-pathy on the world. (My dad's defense of our ancestor's actions: "If they hadn't done it, someone else would have! It was a war!")
My sister pointed out death by bullets & bombs is so relatively new a way to eliminate people from the earth (in a whole "human history on earth" way, [Warfare Historians, please weigh in].....), there may be special metaphysical consequences for such actions. THEN I remembered that the Winchester Mystery House exists in San Jose, CA because the widow of the man who sold the Winchester Machine Gun was instructed to keep construction going on her house to "confuse" the vengeful spirits of people who had been killed by those rapid-fire bullets. (Begs the question, why were they going after her & not him? Other than him being dead?)
I'm sure this sounds ridiculous, but we have such bad luck in my family. My father had a hard upbringing & ours was difficult in different ways. I am tempted to think "familial karma" may be the problem.
Sigh....not a Christmasy topic, but it is interesting. I am going to go hunt for some links to the Winchester house.
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