Welcome
To The Wiccan Road To Ghosts
GHOSTS, HAINTS, DISEMBODIED SOULS, SPIRITS, APPARITIONS, PHANTOMS, SHADOW PEOPLE, SPECTER, or SPOOKS.
No matter what we call them they can be "scary"
Most ghost investigators that I know won't go see a scary
Hollywood movie and some of these movies are pretty scary
even when they are not about ghosts.
Would they be any less "scary"
if we knew that these "things" were not spirits
of the dead, but only projections from the unconscious mind
of those living or dead? Interesting idea? Are there ghost
because we see them or feel them? When there is no one there
to see or feel them, are they there?
Are those things that go "bump in the
night" really anything that a rational person can't
explain? We will look at some explanations.
There are many things that may lead you to
think there is a haunting when in reality it is not. Swamp
gas can look like a lantern in the woods and a cell leaking
into one's eye vitreous liquid may look like circles of
strings floating in front of the eye. Strange visual, "yes",
but a ghost, "no".
A house settling on its foundation may give
off a frightening groaning sound or make the stairs sound
like they are creaking. Unleveled door will sometimes open
and close or maybe the culprit is only a playful pet. Drafty
windows and doors make the curtains move although it appears
that invisible hands are moving them.
Hallucinations presents bizarre images of
bright lights or apparitions but it is only a "waking
dream" which takes place while not being fully asleep
or full awake. Sometimes auditory sounds form this type
of hallucination.
Sleep paralysis may also occur when the person
is unable to move because they are not fully awake. This
is also called the "Old Hag Syndrome." Some explain
this feeling as the soul having left the body during sleep,
is slow to re-enter the body, leaving the sleeper unable
to move. This often happens during mediation when the mediator
is unable to move because they have moved into another zone
of consciousness.
Not all sightings of apparitions are of the
waking dream sort. Many in fact occur during normal activity.
Many times an activity is engrossing the person's mind that
they go into another state of consciousness without realizing
it and will see from their peripheral vision, something
move which jolts them from their mediation. By the time
they gain enough cognizance, the apparition is gone.
A "floater", that bit of drifting
material in the eye's vitreous liquid can also cause a vision,
although it may be as simple as a twitching eyelid.
A stimulus, a nose, or a feeling might trigger
an illusion. In the case of someone with a good imagination,
a mental image might be superimposed upon the visual scene,
and create a seemingly real apparition. We tend to see and
hear that which we expect to see and hear.
So we will spend some time exploring, testing,
challenging and learning what we can about these "things
we call ghosts".
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