HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GHOST..? What does it mean to us..? Does it mean we are all going there upon death or is something else.. If we do become ghosts does that mean we are all immortal? Interesting question, leads indicate to yes
GHOSTS AND IMMORTALITY
If you have ever had experience with GHOSTS OR HAUNTINGS, IT INDICATES THAT IMMORTALITY IS POSSIBLE, but first off why do ghosts linger..? I personally think ghosts happen when an attachment exists between this world and the next, ghosts linger in limbo often referred to as nirvana by many religions or cultures Aspects that hold them are greed, guilt and many common sin related emotions..
So does this mean we are immortal, the old search for the elixir of youth may have been there all along, maybe we are all immortal now as our spirits are? Maybe the blinding idea that all amazing aspects of life are physical is what has blinded us all along and in reality the HOLY GRAIL IS ALREADY RIGHT THERE It is our spirit and therefore we are all immortal already
WHAT DO YOU THINK.. DO GHOSTS MEAN WE ARE IMMORTAL?
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What can we expect in the future of ghost hunting? From s'eances, ouija boards and the parlor tricks of the turn-of-the-century, we moved into the era of voice recording and photography and onward to today's ghost hunter who arms himself with a combination of recording equipment and electrician's tools. In general, the tools of the trade are still extremely crude and mostly ineffective.
So, the future will have to bring with it more controlled studies and fewer free-form wanderings around old buildings. Experiments will need to be held with lots of controls, shielding from man-made radio waves and EMF transmissions. The goal will be to bring the ghosts to them, not go to the ghosts. Testing with different conditions to try to reproduce or attract hauntings will be a large part of the studies.
Recently an experiment was tested in a lab trying to create a haunted room with high levels of EMF to see if people in that part of the room felt it and perhaps experienced some of the sensations. The problem with studies so far are that they address just one aspect of hauntings, such as the sense of being watched in the experiment above. It will take some scientists with funding and open minds and so far the science community hasn't shown an interest in the paranormal, although they're fine with theories of alternate dimensions and universes.
The problem is, ghosts in the traditional sense are tagged onto the concept of paranormal and supernatural which scientists chalk up to belief systems and religious inspiration, therefore not science. The fact is, hauntings show themselves through sounds, sights, sensations and smells, so technically they are using our physical world to manifest and therefore should be dependent on the rules of physics and well within the realm of scientific inquiry. This change in point of view will definitely help to bring more minds onboard into research.
Another area of research will no doubt be testing psychically and through brain MRI imaging, the minds of the people who have experienced multiple ghostly encounters in search of what they might possess in their brain structures that makes them better able to perceive. As well, tests could be set up with observers wearing EEG electrode montages and having their brain frequencies measured as they run into activity in the field. We might consider taking people who have nightly visitations into sleep study labs to see what sorts of nighttime brain stimulation they have that could be attracting activity because they are receptive mentally or perhaps giving them input that they assume is a ghost when it's really hypnogogic phenomenon. As well, caps made to measure electrical activity in people when they encounter phenomenon or psychics when they "communicate" with the dead, might be able to determine how to stimulate the brain to receive this information for longer periods of time, thus making it possible to keep the channel open and talk back and forth for hours at a time.
The immediate future of ghost hunting will more than likely involve it peaking with technology like the Bigfoot industry with field trap cameras and infrared beams to check for motion and drones filming from above. Ghost hunting will involve much more camera and audio coverage. Even with all of those recording devices, there will be people disputing what's captured. When you believe something, you will see it. When you don't want to believe something, you won't see it. It's pretty straightforward in human nature. In the case of ghosts, until you are in a situation in which something paranormal definitely happens and you witness it yourself, no evidence will influence you.
Ultimately, for all the trappings of our present-day ghost hunting, it is still the individual and his five known senses that are the best proof.
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The Hollywood ghost is a product of human imagination, especially of those in the film industry, and is far from accurate. However, many people have this version of ghost in mind when they discuss the subject of ghosts. Ghosts hardly haunt the way they do in movies. In reality, there are 3 basic ways in which ghosts can haunt.
1. RESIDUAL HAUNTING
The first variety strongly resembles a video of a tragic or a historic event. The events unfold before your astonished eyes, and you are a mere spectator, unable to do anything with what is happening before you. None of the players in the scene will ever bother you or attempt to interact with you. On the contrary, they are hardly aware that you are watching them as they enact the incidents of some remote past.
How does this happen? The event is simply an imprint, recorded and stored by some of the things or materials in the building or in the area. Whenever the conditions are suitable, the incident is replayed. The ghosts enacting the scene are far from earthbound spirits, the word "images" would suit them better. As per a theory to explain this fascinating phenomenon, events comprise energy, and part of this energy is trapped by certain substances in the vicinity. The entire event is then replayed in certain favorable conditions.
This variety of haunting might scare the wits out of you when you witness it for the first time. You must remember that it is just an imprint and cannot harm you in anyway. It is just like a movie; relax and enjoy it.
2. INTERACTIVE HAUNTING
In the second variety of haunting, you are haunted by a real ghost or spirit who wants to capture your attention for some reason. You might even catch sight of a partial-bodied or a full-bodied apparition. Such haunting features voices, footsteps, creaks, bangs, music, footsteps, smells, and so on.
For example, you might smell tobacco smell even when nobody around you is smoking. You might catch sight of mists, light effects, orbs, and so on. The ghostly presence might try to touch you, and you will feel this as a chill, a cold spot, a light touch, or some other type of sensation.
Usually, this is the soul or spirit of a dead person. They might be earthbound and unable to make it to the higher realms because they either have some job to be done or are too attached to the house and the locality or are afraid to move on or are guilty about something. A ghost could also visit you to warn you about something or to give an important message.
You have nothing to fear about such haunting. These ghosts are just like human beings, neither good nor bad. The only difference is that they don't have a body. They might try to attract your attention by moving things around, creating noises, and turning the lights off and on. Some mischievous ghosts might indulge in such activities only for the fun of terrifying you. Alternatively, they might be trying to convey some message to you. Under the misconception that they still own the house, they might want you to exit or refrain from renovating a certain section of the house.
Most of the haunting that takes place is of this category. Usually, the ghosts are harmless; in rare situations, however, they might have some evil or malicious intent.
3. DEMONIAC HAUNTING
This variety of haunting is far from rare; however, demons and other non-human astral entities hardly interact with those who are alive. The Bible has made a mention of them. Only very highly qualified and trained ghost hunters can deal with this variety of haunting. These entities are evil and can do a lot of harm.
Sometimes, these entities disguise themselves as well-meaning human spirits. One of the worst things about using an Ouija board is that you can easily attract such malicious entities, and once you attract them, they can drive you to desperation.
Never ever indulge in games such as black magic, satanic worship, and Ouija boards. If the subject interests you, take the help of experienced, knowledgeable people. Never venture into an unknown world on your own and get into trouble.
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A retired Gravesend nurse's unbelievably spooky tale about living in a haunted house is now reality TV.
Elaine Mercado, 64, says she spent 22 years living with ghosts who terrorized her and her family in their old Queen Ann-style home on East 9th St.
Mercado's spooky tale was featured on the SyFy network's show "Paranormal Witness" about close encounters with ghosts on Wednesday.
"Things happened that we just couldn't explain," said Mercado, 64, who wrote a book about her ghostly experience called Grave's End
"Sometimes I would cry. [The house] would be charming if it wasn't so creepy," said Mercado.
The retired emergency room nurse from Coney Island Hospital first moved into the house in 1982 with her two young daughters and her first husband - and she immediately felt like she was being watched when there was no one else in the room.
Soon, she had a creepy feeling a ghost was pressing down on her chest and stomach while she would sleep.
After her daughter saw a strange man who was sitting at the top of the stairs disappear, Mercado called paranormal psychologist Hans Holzer and a medium for help.
They told her the home was full of the ghosts, including a bride who mysteriously died in the home's attic and still wore her wedding dress.
After Mercado's mother died, she put the spooky house up for sale so she and her husband Matthew could move in with her elderly father.
Mercado told the new owners the house was haunted and even gave them a copy of her book but said they were not scared.
Years later, the owners of the house say they still have not seen any spooks, specters or apparitions in the home.
"After we moved in I remember hearing a bunch of footsteps upstairs and getting scared. But then I remembered I had four kids in the house," said the current owner who declined to give her name. "We renovated [the house] and that must have took [the ghosts] out."
Mercado sometimes drives to the block and wonders if the ghosts still exist and said she understands if her horror story is too much to believe.
"If someone were telling me these stories without having experienced what I've experienced, I'd probably say the same thing," said Mercado. "It's okay if you don't believe." - nydailynews
NOTE: Marisa Anderson, a psychic consultant and medium from Scarsdale, NY and parapsychologist Hans Holzer cleansed the house in 1995. The presentation on 'Paranormal Witness' doesn't go into much detail on how the case was researched and handled, which is unfortunate. A few years ago, I examined this case and, honestly, it was conducted in a very familiar manner...it paralleled procedures used by Spirit Rescue International in our past and current investigations and clearings...especially the use of coordinate, scientific and psychic remote viewing.
The 'Paranormal Witness' presentation was entertaining but lacked reality in describing the actual events. I suggest that you read the book Grave's Endand make your own judgement.
Elaine Mercado in a 2010 interview: Now, at some point - and this was after I was writing the book - I got a lot more confident as the years went by in that something was in our house. I wasn't crazy; my kids weren't nuts; something was in my house. So I decided to ask my neighbor about it. I had already asked my neighbor on the left, and he just laughed at me so I didn't bother him anymore. But the one on my right... we were closer. I asked him, "Tony, did anything strange that you know of ever happen here?" He said, "What took you so long to ask me?" He said that he used to baby-sit there when he was a teenager, and he heard the footsteps and all the noises. Then he refused to baby-sit there anymore. Not just that, but he said a little lady died upstairs in my daughter's bedroom. You know, this still affects me.
I asked him what he meant, and he said that the old couple's son married a very, very petite woman. She was 18 or 20 at the time, and Tony was a young boy. He remembers how "wonderfully tiny" her waist was. She was standing on our stoop posing for pictures when they got married. Then she moved in upstairs on the third floor, which eventually was Karen's room. So apparently a few years later this woman died. Some people said it was a heart attack; some people said she hit her head on the night table and had an aneurysm. He never really got the story straight.
So, that's three objective corroborations of this lady in the little dress. Then, after hearing the story, how sad was I about it. Oh my God, there was pain here. And sadness. And Tony also said that at some point the son also died. Someone said drowning; someone else said heart attack. So now I zoom back in my head to the old woman who lived here before who was very sad. Well, why shouldn't she be sad? Look at what happened in her life. So she wasn't just a little old lady anymore. She was that sadness that I felt looking at her that day.
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To test whether it's possible to artificially induce paranormal experiences - or, from a different perspective, to technologically summon a spirit - researchers at London's Goldsmith College and architect Usman Haque designed a scientifically haunted room.
They were inspired by earlier studies in which test subjects reported contact with the phantasmic when exposed to electromagnetic fields and waves of infrasound.
This hasn't just taken place in the laboratory. Odd EMF fields have been recorded at reputedly haunted castles. And geomagnetic flux caused by shifting tectonic plates reportedly produces surges in poltergeist sightings. Meanwhile, infrasound waves below the level of human hearing have been linked to visitation.
Of course, ghosts - which 40 percent of the American public claim to believe in - are only one possible explanation. Perhaps people feel something, and what they call "haunting" is their uniquely sensitive power of perception. Maybe they're just suggestible.
So Christopher French, head of Goldsmith's Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit and editor of the Skeptic magazine, built the haunted room: a white, wood-frame canvas tent 9 feet in diameter, located in the front room of a London row house. It was entirely featureless, but hidden speakers cast infrasound waves like those measured in supposedly-haunted Coventry Cathedral. Other speakers projected sound waves that produced an electromagnetic frequency used in laboratory stimulation of paranormal feeling.
Each field's range was focused in a different part of the room, and some areas were field-free. If haunting indeed had a wavelength, then people would ostensibly report unusual experiences in the target areas.
Seventy-nine students, friends of Haque and other volunteers entered the room, which operated during the Fall of 2006. Their responses were published this May in Cortex - and respond they certainly did. After spending less than an hour in the room, nearly three-quarters reported having more than three unusual feelings. Just 6 percent felt nothing. Among the common sensations were dizziness, tingling, disembodiment, dream-remembrance and "a presence." Several felt sexually aroused.
But there was a catch: The sensations had nothing to do with where they were standing in the room.
When French's team crunched the numbers, the only statistically significant association appeared in subjects who scored highly on a test of psychological predisposition to the sort of transcendental feelings generally experienced by epileptics with unstable temporal lobes.
There are a few different ways of looking at these results, said French. "It might be that certain people are wired up in a particular way, and in the right environment, they actually are seeing something that's objectively there, but others don't have the ability to see," he said.
But while that can't be ruled out, he thinks there's a simpler explanation: People tend to think about what they're told to. Asked to track strange feelings, they started noticing them. And the participants' response rates indeed followed what's predicted by models of suggestible behavior.
"We did manage to build an artificially haunted room, but it wasn't related to the environmental factors, but to suggestibility," said French, who'd hoped for a firmer result. An EMF effect would have been exciting, and opened up new lines of investigation, he said.
Of course, French still acknowledged that out-of-lab paranormal experiences could be real, or that his experimental waveforms may have failed to replicate those found naturally. He hopes to repleat the study using "a very different, very anomalous pattern of EMF activity" he recently recorded in Muncaster Castle, said to be one of the most haunted castles in the United Kingdom.
As for whether he'd felt anything inside the haunted room, French admitted that he hadn't spent much time there.
"I went in and out when we were setting it up, but I didn't even make myself a pilot participant," he said. "Maybe I should have."
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"This post will try to, inadequately, capture some of Catherine Crowe's wisdom and evidence for hauntings--it's a tough task and I recommend that people who are really interested in this read the whole Nightside of Nature". It would also be nice if someone published a biography of this significant woman. This probably wouldn't be too hard, as a gentleman [now deceased] named Gfrey Larkin collected a mountain of material on her [probably fell in love with her "long-distance" as I have] in 1980, wrote a draft biography [unpublished], and all this work has been deposited in the archives of the University of Kent at Canterbury. I'd love to read her letters involving [especially] the cases of the supernormal. [Also, one of the last things they received was a framed photograph of a pen-and-ink sketch of who may be Catherine herself--if so, the only known representation, I believe--if someone lives near the archives, please send me a copy :-).]
"Nightside of Nature" contains thumbnail sketches and a few longer stories which number in the hundreds. Who knows how many total tales Catherine had heard, as she doesn't read like a person who is just forcefully cramming everything she knows into the book, without regard to either good sense or art. When she has a tale which she considers to be well known, she does something to check up on it. Such, for example, are the stories of the "Brown Lady" and of "Spinning Jenny". She briefly mentioned the "Brown Lady" and remarked, as expected [by me] that the encounters with her were such that persons had "frequently met her on the stairs" and then inquired of their host as to who she was. The relevance of this is that she was not some diaphanous ["see-through"] anomaly, but rather a normal appearing woman. For this specific, and for the generally-stated, testimony on apparitions, I have a great deal of doubt that the famous picture of the Brown Lady [to the left] is legitimate. [If it IS legitimate, then it is likely not of her, but of some trickster phenomenon].
"Spinning Jenny" was [is?] the ghost at the massive estate of the Lytton family, and "expressed herself" prominently during the period of residence of the famous Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who, among many things, was very interested in spiritual manifestations. Jenny was an entirely different kind of ghost, known by the sounds of her spinning wheel and not by visual appearances. The sounds of Jenny's Wheel were heard not only in the estate house, but would sometimes accompany the servants home to their own houses [but to no one else's]. The Lytton family and staff considered the phenomenon harmless and of no bother. Respected folklorist Jennifer Westwood has written that the story of a maltreated servant, Jenny, was made up by a woman [not our Catherine] at a Lytton party [circa 1800] and from there it entered legend. That may be true, but I doubt the conclusion. Catherine, very close to the time, speaks of an ongoing poltergeist phenomenon, not an "unquiet dead" story, and, with respect to two great ladies, I view the poltergeist phenomenon to be in all probability genuine, and the unquiet spirit story to be a later [shortly] add-on to "explain" the noises. Thus I [gallantly I might add] save the reputations of both our esteemed scholars. Catherine's mentioning of these two famous cases high-lights the dichotomy that exists in the lump of encounter experiences tossed together under the label "Ghosts".
The story of the Brown Lady is a representative of the classic type of the unquiet spirit with the need to "make right" some disharmony in order to be able to, as we would say, "cross over". [yes, I've been occasionally watching Jennifer Love Hewitt in Ghost Whisperer--a guilty pleasure]. Another such apparently well-documented tale came from Catherine's readings in the German literature. This story was recounted by a minor German royal named Duke Christian of Saxe-Eisenburg. He was a somewhat distant descendant of similar royals, in this case Duke John Casimir [pictured on right] and Duchess Anna [princess of Saxony], ruling in Saxe-Coburg. Casimir was apparently quite an ass, and badly mistreated Anna, who, unaccountably, never fell completely out of love with him. For a welcome change, this is not a story where the ego-maniac thug violently kills the lady, and, though she tried mightily for some reconciliation, they ended separating and ultimately died unmarried and apart. Our reporter, Duke Christian, many years after these goings-on, stated that one day in his study there came an unsolicited and unannounced knock on his door. [Parlor guards should have prevented this]. He did say "come in" and in walked a lady in old-style clothes. She informed him who she was [Princess Anna] and that she was no evil spirit, but needed his help in righting a wrongful situation. Her plea was that although she was happy in the other life, Duke Casimir was not. [and she still loved him, and wanted him to be able to get peace]. Casimir was "wandering in cold and darkness between time and eternity". The way to free him was to review their disputes and have a relative serve as a judge as to whom the guilt was due--and then have everyone admit to it. She was asking Christian to be this judge.
She then left, with apparently no one else having seen her. Christian consulted his clergyman as well as family history, and despite mildly questioning his own sanity, decided that if Anna were to return with Casimir, he would do what he could. Eight days later, though guards still watched the outer door, the deceased royals reappeared in their princely attire. Christian heard the cases and judged for the lady. Casimir humbly agreed. Christian then took each of their hands [Anna's was felt warm; Casimir's was ice-cold] and laid them on one anothers and said a blessing for them. The apparently life-like and substantial apparitions then simply disappeared. Catherine believes this story to be valid, I think, because it had nothing to do with any practical gain that Christian had by telling it--ex. there was no matter of legitimacy of his position or such matter.
I want to tell one more of these "make things right" tales, despite me extending this blog too much by not cutting this down. This was an incident which apparently had relevance to a court case in Germany. A man had died and with good reputation as a charitable individual. His son took over the family estate including keeping on the servants. One of these servants had, one evening, an apparitional "guest" in her bedroom which scared her mightily, who appeared old and haggard and illuminated by a type of inner light. These visitations repeated several times. The master of the house, having heard of the goings-on, requested that the servant ask the ghost what he wanted. This she got courage to do, as well as to follow the apparition when it beckoned her to do so.
It showed her a locked closet, sequestered away, which it indicated that she should open. She replied that she had no key, whereupon it described where she could find the key. She did so, found a parcel within, and was told to give it to the institution for the poor that the deceased had supported in life. The spirit said that this was the only way that he could achieve peace in the other life. She took the parcel and the story to the new master and he said that she should do as the spirit had asked whereupon she did. At the institution, the opened parcel revealed a promissory note ordering the son to pay a very large amount of money to the cause. This amount it said was the sum that the older man had defrauded the institution and must be repaid. The son had a fit of anger at this, said it was all impossible, fired the servant and had her arrested. [altruist-of-the-year]. In the courtroom, the son, while accusing the servant was assaulted by a blow to his arm which silenced him, as the girl cried "See! There he stands now!" but no one else could see him.
Then several people heard a discarnate voice telling his son to do what was right and pay the sum...whereupon he relented. Despite this act of "charity", the son was so boggled by all this that he went into a funk that took a long while to reorient from and regain his mental balance. A bit of justice there too. This story was checked by Dr. Kerner [whose work Catherine translated] by speaking with people directly involved within the same year of the events [it had taken place in 1816].
A story worth repeating on the poltergeist side involved a Victorian actress named Mary Anne Hunn, who was later to remarry and became the mother of one of Britain's most famous politicians, George Canning. Mrs. Hunn was visiting Plymouth and needed a lodging. A friend procured one cheaply, saying that the reason was that it had a reputation for being haunted. Mrs. Hunn believed that she had already experienced ghosts haunting theatres and that this would not bother her. The lodgings were over a carpentry shop and when the workers left for the evening and the children and maids retired to bed, she sat up expectantly to read and see if there would be any happenings. Inevitably there came the sound of sawing wood. Then other noises of the shop, until there were a virtual cacophony of wood-working sounds.
She took off her shoes so as to sneak up on the noise-makers, but on arriving at a point that she could see, the noise all abruptly stopped and there was nothing there. She inspected the whole shop including all the securely locked doors, and retired...only to have the whole show begin again a half hour later. This act repeated itself the next night, whereupon she told the [relatively-new] owner of the house, who refused to believe it, but said that he'd watch overnight with her. The work noises began on cue, and the owner, instead of going down to the shop to investigate, ran out in horror. Our brave lady was more amused than scared and later said that the noises persisted for weeks and would have only scared her if they had NOT occurred, as she then would have worried that their agents were perhaps coming upstairs instead.
Catherine tells many other poltergeist sound experiences, the most common being the "tread of foot on the stairs". One that apparently tickled her was of the boss of a work gang that was repairing, extensively, the insides of a haunted house which, because of the phenomena, the workers refused to work on into the evenings. One day the boss, post quitting time, went back in to inspect the work, and as he climbed the stairs, heard the fall of a heavy foot behind him. He whirled about to find, of course, no one there. Continuing on, he began to hear the footfalls again further behind. Stopping at a landing, he looked for and waited for...nothing. He entered a large room where a fire had been set to warm it, and, getting his machismo up, dramatically grabbed a chair slammed it down facing the door [and the offending sounds] and challengingly sat in it. To his horror, a second [invisible] chair was identically drawn up, slammed down, and sat upon by an invisible "guest". Testosterone now left aside, our worthy builder ran from the premises. [doubtless to the great amusement of the local leprechauns ].
The haunted house at Willington Mill is a remarkable story in a whole variety of ways. The first and perhaps most important is the character of the owners of the place. These people [Joseph Proctor and family] were good practicing Friends [Quakers] and had no desire to be the hosts of anomalous spirit entities, and even less to lie about them. The number of incidents involving the ghosts were so many that they became public to a whole variety of reporters and pamphlet writers. One reader of these claims absolutely could not believe any of it, but was nevertheless so curious that he asked if he could visit the Proctors and experience whatever-it-was for himself. This man, Edward Drury, has left us a detailed account of his experiences along with letters documenting parts of them. The phenomena Drury witnessed were the following: the pattering of many feet, knocking sounds some of which were right near him in the same room, a hollow cough [from a small, easily seeable empty room], and rustling sounds as of garments brushing against the walls ascending the stairs.
All of these were mutually witnessed by himself and a friend that he brought with him. His friend dosed off, and Drury watched as a closet door opened by itself and a woman dressed in gray emerged, hands held as if to indicate something, and walked towards the dozing friend. Drury rushed at her, passing right through the apparition and landing unconscious upon his friend.
He was taken downstairs in this state of confusion and terror [of which he remembered little--the testimony is by his friend and Mr. Proctor], and didn't recover for three hours. Many other occurrences occurred at the Mill at Willington but this will suffice. Joseph Proctor himself became miffed at the glib opinions of the educated elite and said: "The unbelief of the educated classes, in apparitions of the deceased, and kindred phenomena, is not grounded on a fair philosophic examination of the facts which have induced the popular belief of all ages and countries; and...it will be found, by succeeding ages, to have been nothing better than unreasoning and unreasonable prejudice".
To that Catherine and I say "Amen", but I am still waiting for the "succeeding age" wherein we all wake up. Note, friends, that Proctor's quote is applicable to nearly all our favorite anomalies. Proctor is not "Out Proctor" at all.
What are Catherine and Joseph Proctor teaching us? I think that I'm learning that "haunts" are two different things. They are true apparitions, which/who look just like the person involved should look. And they are knocks and bangs and footsteps and "invisible goings-on" which don't "communicate" in a very ordinary way at all. What they seem NOT to be are Hollywood ghosts with see-through personalities and diaphanous gowns--like the creations at the left.
All these things have their pattern-violators but on the rare occasions [in the older days anyway] where there might be a pattern violation, I think that it probably the work not of the true apparitionalists but of the tricksters. {example, in Drury's Ghostly Woman experience, which comes after a "normal" set of poltergeist effects, I attribute "her" to the tricksters and not as a true apparition but what the heck do I know?}
My foggy crystal ball tells me that there are "unquiet" former residents of our benighted world, who, upon passing, have left behind something undone or violating of the right-nature of things and so they haunt in hope of making it right. And that there are other non-human spirit entities, probably the Olde Irish "neutral angels", that continue to meddle about in their morally-flawed, but usually simply mischievous way...and bang about noisily to their amusement. Some researchers would like to attribute these things to ourselves--by employing unconscious psychokinesis and other psi gifts--I just don't see it. The phenomena are richer than what seems to be able to be accounted for by that, without really great stretches of the "powers". I believe that those theories are desperation attempts to try to minimize the weirdness level of one's ideas. Now's not the time to try to please the academics with some phony conservatism. It's time for All-The-Way-Fool, baby.
"But in the end I must admit that as usual I don't really know what all this is the guy in the picture above knows but he's not telling me. One thing seemed to stand out to both Catherine and me. In cases of apparitions involving a "message" to make something right, that message was delivered in a way so as to preserve the free choice of the party who had to make the real choice. Like the son who had to pony up for his father's debt. The powerful apparitional experience came to someone else" who then informed the one who had to make the moral choice.
That happened many times in Catherine's book, so much that she remarked on it. I believe that in this we have glimpsed a "law" of the spirit world--actions from there may not violate our ability to make our own moral choices. If this is true, it makes perfect sense to me and I believe that it did to Catherine as well.
There is much more in her book. I'll try to do at least one more someday. We need more Catherine Crowes, for intellect, intuition, and commitment to something important.
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