Are ghosts a real phenomena or not? If so, what are they? If not how can you explain the phenomenon?
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Are ghosts a real phenomena or not? If so, what are they? If not how can you explain the phenomenon?
i voted def. not.
And what do you mean by ''what creates the illusion''. Like, why do people believe they exist or something?
My guess for most "ghost encounters" is that when we're in the dark, we can't see very well. The brain fills the huge gaps in visual data with primal imagery, like people, animals, etc. The other "encounters" are probably hallucinations due to other factors like hypnagogia, schizophrenia, drugs. As for "poltergeists", well those people are just plain lying.
Also, maybe people long time ago used to tell stories about ghosts and one thing led to another and people believe them now
Well my view on it its like this. I have not experienced anything of it, this is just book knowledge. So I cant clam this being 'correct'.
Lets say that:
- Everyone consist of physical body, astral body and a mental body.
- Everything is energy, with a different levels of vibration.
After you experience physical death your Astral body separates and lives a bit more in the Astral plane. Astral plane is just something with a different vibration level then physical wold.
Time spent in Astral plane depends on the life energy you had. Eventually your astral body 'dies' too, your mental body separates until you eventually reunite with God, Universal energy, Life, or whatever you believe in.
For the time spent in Astral plane, if you have enough energy, control and Will power you can actually make your astral body vibrate so it can be felt in some way in physical world.
So someone can feel that as a 'ghost'. But I really doubt that anyone after death will be interested in doing this :)
Besides, that. Many claim that there are some sorts of conciseness life in Astral plane. So maybe some people who are more sensitive can actually feel them or attract them from time to time.
And see this as some sort of ghosts.
Also, when some sort of medium communicates with a dead person. He is not really communicating with them. But with their memories left in the Astral plane.
No one is waiting around for a relative to contact them and ask about where they hid the money. :)
So 'are ghosts real' depends on your definition of a ghost.
I see assertions but no evidence. I could easily come up with an entirely different scheme of reality that's equally plausible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivan452
That is why I said that I cant claim this being 'correct' at the very start.
And what kind of evidence did u expect? A ghost in a bottle and a digital picture of him uploaded to forum? :)
When I hear people reciting there anecdotal ghost stories I notice two things. 1) (and this is a minor detail) is that most people with ghost experiences are predominately religious, I never met an atheist who has seen a ghost. Perhaps this implies that religious people are "more open" to the supernatural or the occult than atheists (or it could imply that people in question just use faulty logic to establish the existence of supernatural entities whether it be ghosts or gods). Also the dead being resurrected as well as a belief in the after life are ubiquitous features in religion.
2) Most ghost stories I hear (keep in mind I'm talking about real peoples personal accounts with "ghosts" and not fairytales) are based off of extremely flimsy evidence. For example usually someone hears a noise in the dark and upon inspection no source for the sound can be found so the apparent next logical step is to attribute the noise to a dead persons spirit...
Anyway here is an interesting quote that doesn't really fit into the context of the rest of my post but I think it is interesting nonetheless:
"To be haunted by a ghost is to remember what one has never lived in the present... Modern technology, contrary to appearances, increases tenfold the power of ghosts." Jacques Derrida
Sorry stormcrow, but I don't understand the quote.
I voted probably not because I've never encountered evidence for it. I'd say I'm pretty open to things like that. When I was younger, I was very suggestible. I was introverted, used to talk to spirits I believed were there, I often daydreamed and stared at nothing to the point of people commenting a lot, etc. I'm less like that now, but it seems I was the type of person who should be open to seeing ghosts if any existed. Not once in my life have I experienced anything that I'd consider evidence for anything paranormal.
As for other people's testimony... I'm sorry but for a claim this huge, I'd need to either see it for myself in such a way that I judge it to likely be a ghost, or have it scientifically proven. Most of the stories can be dismissed, as stormcrow was saying. Quite often, the person claiming to have seen a ghost has just woken up or is falling asleep, making it very likely that he or she is hallucinating. Also, for the bigger claims, people are prone to make this kind of thing up, for attention or whatever other reason.
sometimes when its dark with maybe one small light on (so pretty dark) you might see wisps or air here and there
well, at least i do :D
and they arent floaters
Floater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I wasn't sure whether I should have posted it or not considering it didn't necessarily contribute to my points. First of all I think what he is getting at in the first sentence (which is the most significant part of the quote) is that ghosts are (psychological) manifestations of a persons longing to return to this idealized state where they are united with their loved ones. Usually when we remember deceased loved ones we have a tendency to idealize them, remembering only the positive aspects of that persons life. Ghosts are abstractions from the personality and memories of that particular loved one, they exist in the present only through memory. Someone who lives in the past, like a memory, is as dead as the ghost they fantasize about. I don't think I'm gonna try to interpret the bit about technology, this post is already riddled with enough nonsense for one day. Haha I know you are going to shake your head at this post Cmind.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmind
I think I know what you're talking about. When I'm in a dark room with a single light source, I seem to see these ghostly wispy things emanate from edges (edges of doors, tables, etc.), and they appear to move outward from the source as my eyes naturally move about. My guess is that it's related to my astigmatism making my brain work harder to hold the images, so there's sometimes a bleed-over effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solarflare
If you're saying that ghosts can sometimes be a visual manifestation of a subconscious desire to be reunited with dead loved ones, then I could believe that.Quote:
Originally Posted by stormcrow
Some facts:
Paranormal experiences are a rare phenomenon, most people do not encounter them. When they do encounter them, it does not distinguish between religion however different religions are likely to take a different position on the events. When encountering inexplicable phenomenon, your interpretation of it is based off your cultural background. For people who are more open to the idea of spirits because they are very religious, things such as sounds or whatever can be used to justify the existence of ghosts while a very skeptical person is more likely to write it off. A low-minded christian is likely to think there's an evil presence lurking. A new-agey person is likely to think a lost spirit needs help.
One thing that makes skeptics write ghosts off rather quickly is the obvious effect expectation has on their likelihood to exist. When studying hauntings, it becomes clear they respond more to people who expect them greater or have a greater imagination, and they pick on these people. Because I lean toward the idea that attention gives objects their mass, this resonates with me just fine. Plenty of people find expectation a reason to disqualify ghosts entirely, but to me it makes perfect sense, especially considering the effect the presence of believers have on a non-believers ability to experience the phenomenon.
Then you have occurrences that escape explanation such as sudden temperature drops, electronic voice phenomenon, etc... These are things that do require an explanation besides "they're lying."
I watched this a few weeks ago. It's pretty long, about an hour, but Derren Brown is always entertaining (to me). He discusses ghost claims and follows around a guy who claims to have years' worth of experience dealing with ghosts and have indisputable proof that they're real, including electronic voice phenomena.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPDvEXS-71g
its 9 minutes :/
EDIT: oh, theres 6 parts :D
I say no. The ghosts in pop culture are just trickery and screenwriting, how many people do you know have had "encounters" with evidence that didn't have any outside motivation? (Money, fame, publicity, attention, drugs, etc etc.) Also, if you think about it, how much of dreaming and sleep paralysis is like a ghost encounter?
Excerpt from my dream journal:
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My brother and I were walking around a neighborhood that was a memorial of WWII, it had grand architecture and was made of near-golden bricks. It was very pretty and classical music was playing throughout the neighborhood. It didn't seem like anyone lived there, all the houses had no lights, there were no cars or trash cans on the driveways. It was like a mausoleum. Kinda creepy, but it was sunny out and there were birds and trees so it was peaceful too. No reason to worry. John Zaffis from Haunted Collector was there giving us a tour, I knew this would be bad. We went into one of the houses and it looked exactly the way I thought it would look. Like a Crypt.
He started talking about what ghosts can do to you and I imagined I saw every piece of weird paranormal activity I have ever seen on the show (which is like 2 and a half episodes, I don't believe in ghosts, they are kinda boring, not really scary). I saw people's faces being translucent, civil war bullets floating toward me, the lights exploding, the works. Normally I'd start laughing at the ridiculousness of it, but with my logic shut down and my brain overflowing with Id, I sprinted out of there as fast as possible, I tripped, couldn't move. The bullets were flying toward me and the ghost hovered over me. I thought that it reminded me of Dementors and then 4 Dementors came in and gave me the kiss of death. BOOM I'm awake and still feeling sleep paralysis, I can imagine why people think that a ghost is sucking the soul out of them since its kinda like a weight on your chest. Half a second later its gone.
Thats pretty much what I'm trying to articulate (rather badly) yes. I think ghosts exist only as a memory in the human mind not physically.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmind
The inability to explain these events doesn't mean that ghosts actually do exist. I know that isn't exactly what you are saying but I just wanted to throw that out there. Personally I think people who "experience" the paranormal really do genuinely believe that there experience was authentic, however there are people in the insane asylum who "talk to god every day" and honestly believe this to be true but that simply doesn't make it true. I'm not saying people who experience the paranormal are insane but I do believe that many paranormal experiences are a result of cognitive biases and other psychological states. Of course there are many that lie about these experiences, I'm sure. Do you have any paranormal stories to share?Quote:
Originally Posted by Omnis Dei
It is a problem if a skeptic writes off the idea of ghosts automatically and not even considering it in the realm of possibilities. However if a believer writes off all other possible explanations leaving ghosts as the only possible explanation for the event in question, well that's a problem too. In both of these instances, neither party is exercising their critical thinking skills to their full extent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Omnis Dei
Nothing substantial, I'm looking into ghosts scientifically for the purpose of this topic so I'm sticking to commonalities, studies and research if at all possible. I may not seem it on the forum but I'm actually very skeptical IRL. I'm just not afraid to advocate things I haven't convinced myself of. For me, there's plenty of "feeling" associated with creepy places that seems to be different depending on where I'm at. For instance this house I'm at right now is well lit, elegant, properly modernized... there's nothing creepy about it. But everyone here feels a presence and people typically have trouble being here alone. Since I've been here alone for a week, I've noticed there's a lot of energy collecting in the hallway. This isn't a creepy hallway I dislike crossing. It can be very well lit and even if it wasn't I've more than faced my fear of darkness. (Pitch black hallways do not create this feeling) It just feels like there's something there. I came to this conclusion before anyone ever told me they thought it was haunted. That's all I can say.
If you want to understand why people believe in ghosts, just watch one of those paranormal shows where somebody gets an exorcist or the like in.
Pretty hilarious shit.
Those are great, you should see the alcatraz one. That psychic was acting way off her rocker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
Some of them are pretty strange though. Like the one I saw about the haunted house where they found a secret room behind their closet. The room had crayon drawings in it and was nailed shut by boards, but for some reason the guy decided rather than file a report he would remodel his house to account for this secret room. His wife complained about a child's voice in the dead of night, they hired some paranormal investigators who recorded EVPs of some guy yelling "I want you out!" and some children crying. They hired a psychic to cleanse the house and she said some guy was kidnapping and raping or torturing children locked in that room. I found this story hard to fake, I mean sure the psychic and paranormal investigators could have been given preconceived expectations off-camera but srsly... srsly that's way fucked up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8E1a63NB2c&feature=player_detailpageQuote:
Originally Posted by Xei
Hey its from a reputable source, the Spiritual Science Research Foundation.:movingmrgreen:
I like the more mundane ones. I just mentioned it because I saw one today, it was hilarious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Omnis Dei
It was these two women basically just feeding off themselves. At one point they walked past a cupboard and the door swung open a bit. They went fucking nuts.
It seems the ghost is making some liquid protrude from my pants!Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
Oh no now it's making it happen to my pants too!
When my cousin, Lydia, was a teenager she lived in an old house with her sister and my aunt and uncle. One night my uncle was out with friends, my aunt was working late as a nurse, and my other cousin was staying over at a friends house, so Lydia was home alone. She was in her bedroom reading a book, all the lights were on, when a girl suddenly appeared in her room. Lydia dropped the book and pulled the bed covers up to herself huddling in the corner, she was too terrified to speak. The girl was standing just inside the doorway, had long black hair, and was wearing a nightgown. Lydia said she looked like a real girl...but then she tried to speak...and quickly vanished. Lydia was paralyzed with fear. She eventually got up enough courage to reach for her telephone and call a friend to come over. She said it was terrifying, and there's no doubt in her mind that it was ghost. She has no reason to lie about such an experience.
There was another experience she had, an even stranger one. There's a highway near where we live called the Highway to Heaven, because of all the fatal crashes that have happened there. One night Lydia and her friend were driving home along that highway when they saw a car coming up fast behind them. The car was swerving and beeping its horn...and Lydia got as far over to the shoulder as she could. They watch as this old style car, something straight out of the 60s' flies past them. It appears to have three passengers, two women, a man, and a male driver. They had obviously been drinking. The car speeds off into the distance and Lydia and her friend breath a sigh of relief. But a few miles down the road they see headlights of a car that had run off a bridge and was lying upsidedown. They could barely see that it was the same car, and slow down to ask if anyone needs help. This is in the early 80s so no cell phones. My cousin speeds off to the nearest phone to call the police. They meet up with the police and an ambulance and my cousin goes along to show them exactly where the crash happened. They searching and searching but never found any evidence of a car accident. Never found the car or the bodies. Nothing. When my cousin is back at the police station giving a statement the chief asks if she's fucking around with him...because a similar accident just like that did actually happen. But it was like 20 years earlier. Two guys and two girls died in that exact same spot, even the description of the car was correct, and the report said alcohol had been involved. My cousin believes she witnessed a past event. Again, she has no reason to make something like this up. After having all these strange things happen to her throughout her life she realized that she is a psychic, and I will admit, she's a very good one.
I'm torn between probably and probably not, so maybe.
I have heard some extremely convincing stories from some people that wouldn't lie.
This was a pretty cool list. Just figured it was relevant:
Top 10 Bizarre Afterlife Experiments
Also, this is a must for people who are interested in the subject. Whether or not you believe in the afterlife (or the credibility of the author, for that matter), there is some great stuff in here, to consider:
A Lawyer Presents a Case for the Afterlife
(I chose 'probably not', by the way. If there was a 'possibly', option up there, I probably would have chosen that. I don't staunchly declare that they do not exist, but I'm not ready to say that ghosts are 'probable', yet.)
Hmm noted. I saw most people leaning on either side of the fence but a Possibly option may be helpful
I can actually refute those two points you mentioned stormcrow, in that I am an atheist and I saw a ghost full on. I also saw it multiple times, at least five or six times. When I was a little kid, I remember laying in bed and waking up in the middle of the night and looking across my room and I saw a green hazy looking ghost that started off small but formed into a much larger shape as it walked across the room closer and closer to me. I saw it a few times like I said, though when it reached half way across the room it would disappear. Though often I hid under my covers and tried to act like it wasn't there because it scared me. There was never any stories of ghosts in my house and no one ever said anything about it and I never mentioned it to anyone else, so it isn't like I imagined it based off stories or anything.
The only problem is that I woke up in the middle of the night each time I saw it. Now I remember I was fully awake at the time I saw it, but I was a little kid and I didn't know about sleep paralysis or very much about dreams and stuff.
So it is possible it was some dream related hallucination. I wish I would see something like that now, because I believe I would be able to tell with a high degree of certainty if it was real or not. However, I have not seen anything like that since then. I really don't think my 6 year old self is a reliable source of information, since kids don't really have the skills to tell the difference between dream related hallucination, or even optical illusions, from real life.
So I do allow the possibly that ghost might be real, because I may have saw one. Though in all honesty, I think that it is unlikely that they really exist.
I had the same thing. When i was like 6 or 5, i saw bender from futurama :D, stealing everything in my house. And i was a 100% sure it was real. But no shit, it wasnt.
Weird story, i know :D
I also heard them laughing while they were staling the crap
I would vote maybe, but there is no option. I'm agnostic at pretty much everything.
I believe you. Although I dont think you refuted my second point. You still provided a subjective anecdotal experience not to mention the fact that it happened in the middle of the night when you where a kid. I used to have night terrors, not bad dreams but night fucking terrors its hard to explain but I used to become paralyzed in my bed because I thought a demon man was watching me at the foot of my bed( this happened from the time I was about 5 till maybe 7 or 8). In retrospect my fear of this "demon" was completely irrational, I had an overactive imagination (although I dont think that is always necessarily a bad thing) and freaked myself out from just staring at the shadows in my room. Anyway interesting story, I cant attest to your personal experience which brings us to somewhat of a roadblock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alric
http://thumbs2.modthesims.info/img/3...c_morpheus.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Omnis Dei
What is "real"? How do you define "real"? If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
I loved listening to him say that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scatterbrain
There should have been an option "I don't know for sure." Because I don't know for sure. Making assertions for OR against without definitive evidence is a poorly-devised assertion.
What's wrong with "probably" and "probably not"? None of those imply knowing for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThePreserver
There is a difference between "probably exist", "probably don't exist", and "I dunno".Quote:
Originally Posted by Dianeva
Yes, but "I dunno" or "I don't know for sure", which is the term ThePreserver used is implied in both "probably" and "probably not".Quote:
Originally Posted by LucidFlanders
I agree that a 5th option might be added in the middle for people who really have no idea and don't lean one way or another, but "I don't know for sure" wouldn't be the right wording.
Well by saying "I don't know for sure"... I'm not really leaning either way. I just don't know and cannot say "probably yes" or "probably no." I don't know for sure, therefore I don't know the answer to the question :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Dianeva
Okay, I realize that what you mean is that you really have no idea. But you're using the term "I don't know for sure" incorrectly. Knowing for sure means you're 100% certain, or somewhere close to there, maybe 99% certain, since 100% certainty is impossible. So in saying you don't know for sure, you're really saying you're somewhere from 0% to 99% certain, which isn't saying much. Everyone would fall under that category.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThePreserver
And that's why I was looking for a 5th option. In reality, no one can know for sure if what they've experienced was a ghost or not! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dianeva
Would be nice if someone got a video of a full on apparition in good lighting. You would think if someone found a haunted area, that constantly had ghost activity, you could just place a camera in the area and get a bunch of good video.
Your feedback will be used for future polls. I figured forcing people to pick a side of the fence would be constructive but I'm having my doubts.
Alric - See my theory is that if they exist, they're not an ectoplasmic being mobbin around earth. I'm seeing man's posthumous travel to be through the dimension of mind, simply because of the effect expectation has on a spirit's ability to make contact.
Had my first experience with something ghostlike just this morning. Right after i woke up. I don't know how real it was. But it sure as hell was scary. I voted definetly by the way because the phenomenon is definetly real. To the objective observer. What it is and it's origin is not sure to me. But it's still real.
The ghost was white/transparent. Wearing what could be mistaken for a white sheet. :P With a cross on his face. I was expecting something frightening to come from the door and this ghost appeared. Moving trough the door, trough my bed and body while i was paralyzed. I didn't want to see it anymore and i made it vanish. But if i didn't do it this would just pass on trough the wall and fly outside. It did not interact with anything. Say anything, or do anything frightful . I don't know if this was non-interacting matter/non-matter thing but ít was fully 3d and it just moved in a straight line right across the room. I projected all my fear into this being and that's why i was so scared. But i don't see any valid reason to be scared of this.
Fixed. You really shouldn't use words if you don't know their meaning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dthoughts
Also, what you experienced was sleep paralysis. Yes it is.
Dthoughts, that is classic sleep paralysis. If you just woke up and you have paralysis and see things, it is sleep paralysis. In your case we can pretty much gaurentee that it wasn't a ghost of any kind.
So what is sleep paralysis?
Sleep paralysis is the number one cause of "alien abduction" as well. Just like ball lightning is a big contributor to UFO conspiracies.
Great video. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Darkmatters
So in sleep paralysis you can see things that you can only observe while u are in this state. I know this is true because when i moved and willed myself to stop seeing a ghost. It kept moving but to my sight it vanished.
How many times do two people in the same room wake up in sleep paralysis and see things? We don't know anything. I haven't found any scientific test for this yet.
If two people wake up in sleep paralysis and see different things then we can say for certain that this was only real in a subjective point of view. Or if the vision is shared then we must ask ourselves what this was and why we can see ghosts flying through walls.
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Originally Posted by Dthoughts
They're not real, they're hallucinations. You're not in some "special state" that allows you to see things that other people can't.
In sleep paralysis you are basically still dreaming, and are in the process of waking up. So you are awake but your body is still partly asleep, and so its possible to see dreams still. So basically you were just dreaming it. The same applies to sound. You can hear dream sounds in sleep paralysis as well.
I wouldn't discount everything you experience while on the boarder of sleep as a hallucination, though much is being generated by your own mind. I think your perceptions begin to become less focused in the physical plane, allowing the occasional non-physical entity to say hello.
Right, they are within your mind and are not dangerous to your mortality, but that doesn't mean they're meaningless. The point I'm getting at is if we share a mind, then the experiences within our minds are not isolated.
But sometimes you gotta lulz. Celebrity Ghost Stories, for instance, had Jaime Presley talking about her hypnagogic experience like it was a ghost attack.
I disagree. I think we have the greatest perception when we are most awake, and meditative. It's the opposite of sleep. Although the border of sleep gives an amazing view inward, the only way to see outward is to be as alert as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tranquil Toad
Real doesn't have much value to me. What I look for is sustainability. What can you prove true through time? In the world I am capable of experiencing, what is reliable? What knowledge is valuable?
The truth is neither this wakeful world nor any other, it is simply the expression of the gestalt. Nothing less is the entire truth.
If you want to believe in ghosts and spirits and stuff, that is fine. However you also have to be aware that anything seen on the verge of sleep has a scientific explanation. If you believe in ghosts because things you seen while asleep or partly asleep, chances are you are just wrong, and whatever you saw was a dream. Which is why you should really look for evidence ghosts at stuff, while awake.
Once when i was laying on the couch, i was talking to myself about something then all of a sudden i heard this bang from the basement like something heavy fell. Then i hear footsteps coming up the stairs, and towards me...it was not like a house creek, but more someone walking and making the floor creek. It stayed behind me for a good 10 seconds while i'm now paralized in fear, then it goes away as i hear that same bang in the basement. I just layed down, and i was full of energy that night and not a wink tired. I suppose science could explain it, but it was a weird moment, one i have never forgotten. I don't know if they exist (i'd love it if they did...i'd love to see my dog again!), i've had crazy expieriences but when you look at science, it can easily go from "weird", to "meh, explained!".Quote:
Originally Posted by Alric
Fact was i WAS laying down, I wasn't tired, i was talking to myself about something...i do that sometimes when i'm bored. It probably was just because even though you are laying down, even if you are awake and talking you are also falling asleep since normally laying down means it's time to sleep. Then again it could have been a ghost, but i'm looking for a rational way out of a weird mess i can't explain.
Speaking of hallucinations, i had the most trippiest one like a year ago. I have a thread about it around here.....I was getting tired, and then i closed my eyes, i saw this book infront of my eyes about 10 feet away, it was covered with jewels. I then see this green faced goblin or something, it was coming my way, i'm talking to myself going "what the fuck" while my eyes are closed, this thing is coming towards me, as he gets close i opene my eyes, and i believe closed them again after having a mind fuck, and saw him again but he was far away and did not notice me, i opened my eyes, closed them and just saw black. It was over. :( I also had one with my eyes opened, my whole room literally transformed into a map for cod4....mp_farm, by the 2 big oil tanks between both MG buildings. My room had no walls.....just the whole map. I also have a thread about that somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmind
It is common to experience fear during sleep paralysis as well. So if your laying down, and are 'paralyzed' with fear and hear something strange, that is classic sleep paralysis. It may be strange that you were awake but as you said if you lay down for a long period of time your body can be fooled into thinking it is sleeping. That is the entire idea behind the WILD lucid dream technique, to let your body fall asleep while your still awake.
I took a peek at chapter 9 and chapter 25, at least that he is a lawyer is very clear. I saw nothing but misleading rhetoric and little actual evidence. He argues with such conviction in spite of being absolutely clueless about the scientific concepts at hand, all under the pretence of being a balanced critical thinker. "Irrefutable Objective Evidence" says the title, ha ha. And of course he's selling printed copies of this short 'book' for 10$.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
Basically, he's a thief.
I'm very aware of this, which is exactly the reason I said:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scatterbrain
The guy is the typical lawyer, which - as you said - is very apparent. The reason I enjoyed the eBook is not because of his sales pitch, but because it's a compendium of a lot of good information on the subject of the afterlife, and the 'evidence' for it, over the years. If someone is looking for well known (or not so well known) stories about alleged sightings and experiences, a lot of which may lead you to do some cross-referencing and find out a lot of cool things about the subject that you otherwise might not have thought about, then it's actually a very interesting read. You just have to see passed his approach, and not take it too seriously. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
Yes yes I agree. The comment wasn't necessarily aimed at you, just putting out the warning that the site is hardly what it claims to be.
Probably not but I don't know for sure. I've had some weird and scary things happening to me in the past, and sometimes still do. I'm a paranoid parrot if you will, so I tend to overreact to things that go bump in the night...
I think we can agree that whether or not ghosts are real, the imagination does most of the work.