Do you believe in ghosts?

submitted by Zapped from self.paranormal

I am a non-believer in pretty much all the paranormal, but I love to read and hear stories about it. I am open to it, but I need to see it for myself in an unambiguous way. I have recently heard from a friend about a ghost experience at his house that his wife backs up. He was holding his baby and the baby was looking over his shoulder and laughing. He turned his head and saw a man standing there, clear as anyone. The man looked away from the baby and to him, and then started walking towards the bathroom. He said his feet faded in and out as he stepped until he walked through the door. That's when his wife screamed. She saw a white figure come through the door and pass through her. He says there are shadows that move around the 90 year-old farm house. He also reports seeing a young girl at night by the road nearby on multiple occasions. The last time he ever saw her, she stepped out in front of him and disintegrated into a mist against the hood of his truck. No one in his family has ever seen this little girl. Another weird instance that happed was a picture he took through the window of an old, abandoned restaurant. When he looked at the photo, he can clearly see a little boy detailed to the specific clothing crouching in corner. His mother can see something that looks like a smudge, but no one else can see what he sees.

I believe that he believes that he has seen things, but what makes me question this as more of a hallucination is that his wife experienced something at the same time. I'm still not a "believer", but these stories open my mind more.

What have you seen that made you believe?

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[–]zyxzevn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I see consciousness as multidimensional, based on my own direct observations. And this seems to fit well in the model of the brain and biology. But what observations did I make?

When I leaned to feel auras, I could feel round blobs in the auras that were stressed and reacting.
I interpret them as spirits, and they are between 3 cm to more than a meter. They become smaller the longer they stay here.

I also learned to see via my dream-sight. That is where you use meditation to get an impression of what is going on. With that I can also see the aura, and the spirit-blobs very quickly. Often they are stuck in astral spaces that is repeating for them like a nightmare. But sometimes they are more aware and traveling from one astral space to another. A lot of these astral spaces are outside our living space.

Once I have seen an appearation, that is closest to what people call a ghost. In this case it was also aware. At many other times I saw dark spots appearing. At all these times I felt a pressure on my third eye. And this is a sign that they were manipulating my normal vision, and projecting some vision onto me. These projections are more visual and seem more physical. Usually they try to scare me, but they are the ones that are dead not me.

[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

What got you into this way of looking at reality?

[–]zyxzevn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I have a scientific background, and read lots of books from atheists. The atheists often try to explain everything via brains and neurons.
So I studied a lot of artificial intelligence and neural networks.

But I became slowly more sensitive. You can learn to become sensitive via Tai-chi or Yoga.
You can learn to feel chi/prana that way, and with that you can easily feel auras.
I suggest you start with trees, plants and pets. Pets will also react to you sensing them.

But a great jump in sensitivity came after I encountered some paranormal events.
If you are already sensitive, then you can clearly make out the energy-features that are surrounding it.

You also need to stay well grounded, because the spirits that are around paranormal events want to pull you into their weird world. People that get psychoses are often victims to this.
Note: I have helped a dozen of people to get out of psychoses, by guiding them out of the spirit world, back into the real world.

This made me realize that the atheist models of the brain were complete garbage.
The idea never worked in computers and simulations, except for things that computers could already do anyway. And is against the basic computer science principle that intelligent information can not come out of nothing.
The "halting problem" is a good example of that.

The atheists assumed that random fluctuations could explain everything, while the brain is very well structured and needs strict control to function. Now with the aura and chi as a possible way to interact, there is a way how the brain can form intelligent and stable structures. And we see that in practice how the strength of a spirit of a person determines how healthy and sane a person is.

The field of aura/chi consists of very small lines. These lines form structures. And in biological bodies we see the same thing. Micro-tubules and similar network structures form the basis in which the biological processes are functioning.

[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

You seem really intelligent by some of your posts and comments that are sometimes hard for me to follow, and higher intelligence seems to garner more of a pragmatic approach when it comes to the "here and now". I said that I am a non-believer, but that does not mean that I'm a disbeliever. I have an open mind about these things, but still have a hard time going off faith. I guess I have an agnostic view on things.

Meditation worked wonders for me in the past and now that I'm a little older with a family and career, I have a hard time getting back to basics and settling my mind enough to tap back into the stream of consciousness. My wife has a friend who is teaches Qigong. Maybe I should set time aside for a few classes.

Is the halting problem like the two slit experiment?

This is getting ahead of the conversation, but how much of our reality is projection? In the same train of thought, How real is time?

[–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Halting problem is about computers. They can never know if a program can stop or know if a result is correct.

The 2 slit experiment is about how quantum mechanics is modeled in physics. Depends whether photons actually exist or are just a mathematical tool. One can use mathematics to make it very complicated and mystical, but I would rather keep it practical.
The same thing is with reality/time being a projection and such. We can only explore what we can observe.

In some religions reality and dream are regarded the same. Aboriginals (Australia) see the world as the dream of a sleeping god. And I have a theory that our reality is the combination of dreams of all life that was here before. But we have no idea until we can observe anything or cause changes directly.

If you want to replicate some of my observations, you can try to do some qi-gong.
If you can experience more of your chi, you can start to feel the difference between a living person and a concrete wall. And if we have somehow the same experience we can share and talk about our observations.

[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thanks for each response. Edgar Cayce said that time is a useful illusion and I've heard that if time doesn't exist, then the unified theory of everything makes sense. I think there's so much we can't comprehend with our senses designed for this dimension. How would we even know if we were experiencing other dimensions? Math? Does math work in higher dimensions or is is a different set of rules? If we could see in higher dimensions, would see see other beings?

[–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There is a lot of esoterism and hypotheses.
I prefer to look at the practical side: What can we observe, and what can we not observe. And there is a lot that we can not observe in any way.

In observation there is a range in accuracy. From the physical to the sense of chi, the vision, the dreams. The dreams may only be symbolic and very different per person. But a lot of written literature is about dream visions.

Because the physical only gives small signals, it can not be used well for observing the spiritual world. There are also large signals, paranormal events, but they are extremely hard to control.

The sense of chi, seems very consistent among people. It can be trained easily. And this can be used to get some kind of consistent impression of the spiritual world.

The vision of chi and auras appears different per person. While it is possible to align your vision with someone else's it is hard to make an observation. The presence of spirits or helping guides make a huge difference in how vision works. Spirits can project almost real visions onto you. And this way of communicating seems common in shamanic traditions.

Dreams are very subjective. And are very symbolic. And spirits can appear in our dreams or can pull us into their dreams. This usually causes nightmares.

Time
But I also had dreams about future events that actually occurred. Happened more as a kid.
Does this mean that time does not exist? Well I could change the event by doing different things. And when I tried to predict a certain future, I could see some parts of it, while the rest was not there yet. As if some parts still needed to be filled in. Maybe such dreams are to help us prepare for the future, instead that they are the future.
Certain spirits seem to be able to see more of the possible future. And others panic about possible events that may occur in their limited vision.

Light
In my experience, there is light where we come from where we are born. And this same light is where we go to when we die. Or rather should go to.
Because many people do not go to the light, and stay as spirits in this world. This does not happen much with people that lived close to nature, and nature can also be a bridge.
A lot of my experience comes from helping spirits to the light.

But each culture has its own way of keeping spirits around them. In the west we used religion and that has now become TV.
In Africa they have astral spaces around their families to keep the spirits of their families around them. In India they use the gurus to collect spirits in their astral spaces.

But if a spirit goes to the light, the spirit becomes alive again. It also becomes more intelligent and can start to heal its life, and other people's lives.
The feeling is as if your breath flows from inside out continuously. And there are a lot of light-beings that help you as well. In nature we can see flashes of this beauty coming through in flowers, sunsets, and other very nice moments. Nature is really a bridge between the 2 worlds.

There are a lot of light-beings and they help me when I help spirits to the light. I have to ask for their help first. Note: Never do it without their help, they are the professionals.

Via meditation it is easy to contact some of the light. Often there will be some spirits in the way, pretending to be help. These spirits also give you feelings of being high or drifting away. But the real light-beings can make you feel grounded and feel radiant from the inside. They also help you with your daily life.

[–]Zapped[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you so much for sharing your views and experiences. I have enjoyed reading them and trying to take them in.

[–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This guy works with energy and lets people experience it.
https://www.youtube.com/c/EvolvingHumans/videos

[–]mahavishnunj 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They aren't real. Notice nobody ever sees 21 year old meth head/skater punk ghosts, or the fact that poltergeists only do inane shit like drop something off a counter or whatever. I wish they were real, but they aren't.