abstract | - Ethereal beings is a denomination that characterizes entities not made of ordinary matter. Despite the fact that they are pictured essentially as nonphysical, they do interact with the material universe and travel between the mystical and the everyday world. Given the lack of scientific evidence of their existence, science does not acknowledge them as factual, though paranormal researchers and psychics claim them as real. Several belief systems and occult theories describe these entities as ghosts, mythological entities, nature spirits, angels, thoughtforms, jinns, and they are mentioned in religious, folkloristic, and magic texts. Since the 19th century, the existence of immaterial beings has been claimed by various spiritualist philosophies as well, and they are found in the popular imagination and represented in movies, TV series and cartoons.
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