Do you believe in spirits?

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There could be a prankster behind the lockers pushing through, but idk about the sign on the floor. Maybe magnets of some type? (lulls self to almost-sleep with dog)

^ To help you sleep



I do believe in spirits of some kind, but I think the most convincing evidence is anecdotal. Anything on film could be faked. I much prefer to hear people's own stories and see how affected by it they are.

I think it's more likely that poltergeists are some extension of a living human's consciousness than a manifestation of someone dead. They might be explained by science one day when it catches up. I think a lot of ghost sightings are more a case of seeing a different time than seeing someone dead. Because if the linearity of time is an illusion, some overlap or bleed-through is to be expected.

I saw my dog running right in front of me after she had died. My granny saw a soldier lying on the sofa when she was younger, he appeared solid and real but no one else saw him. My colleague had a house where some mornings she would come down to see an elderly lady sitting at the table, drinking tea. My dad and his colleague did some electrical work in an empty Victorian house while his colleague's child played upstairs. When they were done, they called the boy down and said well done for being so quiet. He said he'd been playing with the little girl in the attic , and described Victorian clothes.

All of those incidents, if accepted as real, could be explained as manifestations of the spirits of the dead. I happen to think though that they could also be explained by just seeing through to a different time. I know that when I saw the apparition of my dog, my instinct was not to be scared - I just felt I was seeing her in the past.

I'm going to stop typing now because the paranormal is one of my special interests and I truly could go on until we are all ghosts ourselves.

Thank you for that video, which makes perfect sense. I agree with your analysis of spirits, too. I've always thought of them as "visual echoes" from the past, which is similar to an overlap in time as you suggest. I've seen a ghost myself and it did seem very much like it was an imprint from the past, shining through. (Sleeps better now).

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the veil between dimensions is thin in places, and in combination with psychic sensitivity, some apparitions can be seen that are artifacts of different metaphysical realms. but for the poltergeists i have personally witnessed, in company, another explanation is needed. and security cameras that don't record, wouldn't be good for much.

No, I don't believe it. My grandmother used to scare us with different ghost stories as we live near a cemetery and while we grew up, we were scared to pass near it at night. She told us that she saw one of them and he tried to talk to her and other stuff like that. Now, that I think about it, I believe she was just drunk.

^^^Hello UgrozaVeka welcome to our club

That's very interesting.

When i was in my early 20s, I had a conscious outer body experience / short astral projection.
I was lying in my bed, meditating. I had shallow relaxed but not too forced breathing.
I wasn't on any drugs, and had spent some time self isolating at the time, due to a traumatic
break up of my first serious boyfriend / girlfriend relationship.

While i lay on my bed, i basically consciously watched myself (my spirit or whatever) spiral anti-clockwise out of my body and out and then the world dissolved into brilliant white dazzling light, and i found my consciousness in an endless realm (for the lack of a better word) of white light, which was peaceful, warm, happy and blissful by nature.

Then, becoming aware that this wasn't normal, i got scared and in a split second felt myself snap back (like an elastic band pulling me back) into my physical body. in which i rubbed my eyes and was quiet shaken about my experience.

The experience confused the hell out of me, and over the past 20 or so years, have researched into what this experience could possibly be or mean.

I even went to India and tried to ask Buddhist and Hindu priests about it, but i was unable to get an answer from either.
The Buddhist priest i asked in Dharamshala was too busy, writing emails and interfacing with the modern world.
The Hindu priest i spoke to at the famous Hannuman temple in New Delhi didn't understand what i meant either.
I also spoke to someone at Auroville, a place that was created based on the vision of Sri Aurobindo.
Who also talked about such things as the mind of light in his teachings.

But again, no one really understood.

Since, i have read in Dzogchen Buddhist teachings, that this white light realm is well documented in Buddhist teachings, and is a known place in the astral worlds.

What it means, for me to have experienced this, apparently doesn't really mean anything. It is just another place in the universe of existence mapped out by these Buddhas.

Apparently, this realm is the natural state of the mind, which the Buddha's spend years if not lifetimes learning to enter at will. According to the Dzogchen teachings some people do just spontaneously enter into this realm, for various reasons. Including "it just happens" and during times of extreme trauma.

I guess what happened to me could have just been one of these spontaneously arising episodes or due to extreme trauma, as i was going through an extremely difficult period where i had extreme shutdowns and meltdowns, then social isolation. I was not made for the traumatic experiences of the world of sadistic people basically.

Interestingly enough, i believe that this white light realm is the same realm the John Lennon sings about in the Beatles classic "tomorrow never knows", in which he apparently imagines himself as the Dalai Lama shouting from the top of the Himalayas the meaning of existence. The white light realm is "shining" (it is shining)

a word that Noel Gallagher picked up from the Beatles without the real meaning of the word.
And to think, the great musician and songwriter, now joins a global elite of successful entertainers who are super wealthy, and who may even consider shunning normal people, like the Beatles did....

Doesn't really fulfil the Bodhisattva path, or what the Buddhists call aspiring Bodhicitta (a complex cognitive and emotional pattern of feeling and believing. It is the pattern of feeling universal, unbiased love and compassion, and the belief that Buddhas have the greatest possible ability to lead everyone to true and lasting happiness and freedom from all suffering).

I guess it is hard to be in the world and not of the world. To be truly transcendental and not be affected by the materialistic energy around us. I believe even the Dalai Lama has been entrapped by the world of the elites and celebrities. I guess leaving full enlightenment for another life.

Well, from my experience, at least one thing i know from experience is that their is more than our material life.
Whether this is proof of an afterlife i do not know. I would say that the evidence (if you had experienced this yourself) is very strong however. I understand if you don't believe or doubt my words, as it is can only be experienced to be believed.

I am not someone who believes in fairies, or magic, and am a scientist and a skeptic.
So for this to happen to me, very interesting.

That is why i find my life so particularly frustrating, especially at the mo, when so many people trying to take over the world and enforce things such as race supremacy etc. on it. And people who see themselves as more important than others, and look down on others due to fiscal wealth (how much money or success or popularity they have).

As in the end of the day we are all the same, we all return to the same place. Eventually, if we are good little chickens.
But if we fight it and endulge our ego, and separate ourselves from others, we will prevent ourselves from re-entering this blissful state of being, that transcends the material world. And we will not ever know the bliss of timeless oneness and never experience the realm that shines with the beauty of the most dazzling and perfect diamond.

The only diamond that is worth anything is this diamond realm of bliss.

Anyway sorry for digressing. I thought it was relevant. I am not a religious person.
But i think that this experience is extremely fascinating and perhaps holds the key to our existence or at least the
key to escaping all this separateness.

Ironically if we are all ultimately one, as we spend our lives getting upset with each other, when we are really just made of the same stuff and ultimately just the same being-ness, if we allow ourselves the oneness.
Thanks for listening.

rather than ghosts, what if what people thought were ghosts were just people unconsciously astrally projecting.

^^^thank you for those enlightening words i am a big fan of the writings of robert monroe, "journeys out of the body," "far journeys," et al.
EDIT - why did you edit those fine words?

part II - robert monroe, jurgen ziewe et al, have written descriptions of astrally projecting individuals such as themselves, interacting in the astral with both other cosmic explorers such as themselves, as well as heavenly residents.

... which no one else can verify, so we're just supposed to take their word for it.

Rather than either of those, what if "ghosts" were just subjective interpretations of ordinary events by overly-excited and imaginative minds?

I have come to the conclusion that if Fnord does not believe in something then it is probably real.

This is an interesting post, MBNM, it is very fine.



It took me a long time to learn that fear is the enemy, but fear is natural when we encounter the unknown. Reality to a large extent can be whatever you make of it. Obviously you really were moved enough to ask many people about it, so I would imagine you would like a repeat experience. It is a memory to treasure. I'd say go for it--but ditch the trauma!



Buddhists (I have read) view magic / astral as distractions, which in a way they are. They have a higher goal in mind, I guess. Liberation from desire. Interest in and attachment to magic could bind them in the material plane of existence.



It's cool, I would view it as a gift, if pleasant. I do not believe that extreme trauma is at all necessary or in any way desirable!



I am not sure where the afterlife comes in to this equation, unless you are thinking about the Christian soul and that being the astral body.



Well, it is possible to be a scientist, skeptic, and be interested in magic and fairies, too. I think they are jolly good fun!

I've seen some weird things, but mostly I don't think about them very much. I have sleep paralysis sometimes and learned to control them. I just don't see why that should matter if there are ghosts or not. I guess that makes me a non-believer. You guys should play some of those spooky video games. They desensitized me so much I feel like there's nothing that can scare me any more. OK maybe zombies, but mostly because they're gross.