Week 6 Post 3

The Zahir was an interesting film. The Zahir is a being that can discretely place its image in the mind of the individual that views it. After that it can come back to haunt you forever. In this situation it was a coin. A coin with the markings of a few letters and the year 1929. It was given as change to the author and sure enough he was haunted by the image. He had to go to a psychiatrist and get professional in order to remove the image from his head. And finally the thing that worked was to think about it so much that it dulled the image.

I think this speaks to the idea that if you believe in something it can happen. If someone who had no idea what the Zahir was would not be haunted by the image. It has to do with belief. If you believe in God, then there are things that you might see that someone else will not. Beliefs can shape the consciousness.