No, I’m not talking about the movie. I mean real life happenings of the unexplained.
Recently I’ve developed an interest in ghosts, hauntings, possession, psychics, magick, astral projection, the afterlife... almost anything that mainstream scientists have dismissed as nonsense. The difficult thing is that the more research I do, the more questions I find, and the less I understand the whole concept.
Psychics are my main area of interest at the moment. I don’t like to dismiss something just because it seems impossible, but I have to say I’m a little sceptical on this one. I would be interested to know why someone who can practice this doesn’t use it for personal gain. I mean, surely if you can foresee future events, the lottery commission would be bankrupted by people who predicted the numbers, week in, week out.
Also where does this power come from? Does this ability lie dormant within everyone, just waiting to be discovered, or does it require external intervention? I would be interested in finding out how to activate it if that’s possible.
As for ghost/poltergeist hauntings, etc, I really don’t know. I had a Christian upbringing, so I have always been taught that disembodied spirits automatically cross over, therefore there is no way for a human spirit to haunt a location, but it would seem like a huge leap to blame all supposed hauntings on demons and evil entities – especially since many, if not most, hauntings are benign. That is, the spirit is simply there, but it doesn’t attempt to scare, harm or even communicate with the location’s inhabitants.
Finally, astral projection. I’ve heard the theory that AP is simply someone having an extremely vivid lucid dream, and they mistake their seemingly-real surroundings with reality. If astral projection is possible, why hasn’t it been proven? Let’s face it, it wouldn’t be a complicated experiment to conduct. Simply write something on a piece of paper, lock it in a safe, and see if the subject can leave their body, enter the safe, and retrieve the information.
Astral projection raises another question: While you are out of your body doing... whatever people do when they’re not in their body, wouldn’t that make your body essentially an unlocked, parked car with the engine running? Would it be possible for an evil entity or a “tramp soul”, which I have been reading about, to simply jump in and take you over? If this happened, would anyone know? After all, the new inhabitant would surely inherit all of your thoughts and memories which are stored in your brain. And then what would become of your spirit/soul? Would you just become another player in the game of “musical bodies”?
I realize I’ve covered a few subjects, so I apologize if this is too broad for a single thread.
I’m interested to know what other people’s opinions, beliefs, thoughts and experiences are around this.
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