Ghosts.

Ghosts are one of my interests. I've never seen one, but I believe they exist in one form or another. I base my conviction on phenomenology rather than sensory experience. That is, the something I call a ghost manifests itself in a directed rather than random way, and the 'way' isnt usually sensory stimuli. The way is more along the lines of influence rather than direct action. Simply said, the ghost infects our minds and we become the actors.
 
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So...I responded as a right brain person to 9 questions and as a left brain person to 9 questions which means, according to the Hemispheric dominance test, I use my left brain the most.

Left brain: WTF?

Right brain: :confused:
 
JOMAR

Read the attached comparison of right & left brain processing. In a nutshell, left-brain people are logical and sequential and serial, while right-brainers are lateral, parallel, and random thinkers. Left brainers see the trees, right brainers see the forest.

WHAT DOES BRAIN DOMINANCE HAVE TO DO WITH GHOSTS?

Brain dominance influences how you mill experience. It sorts the components of experience. The left-brainer is more sensitive and selective about what they perceive. The right-brainer see's the big picture and cares less about the details.

EXAMPLE.

You visit a cemetery late at night. It's very dark and quiet. But your attention is attracted across the graveyard to a grove of trees. In the trees you observe a faint, diffuse light that washes one copse of trees at regular intervals. Close to this you see a point of light that blinks on & off irregularly. So what have you got?

The ghost-hunters in the video concluded that the diffuse spray of light was a ghost, and the point of light was a spiritual orb. My conclusion was different.

What I imagined was a revolving airplane beacon in the distance whose light beam washed the trees. The leaves of the trees revealed or hid the beam of light when they rustled. That is, the beacon revolved regularly, but the leaves moved irregularly with the wind. Equals NO GHOSTS.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE.

You drive by a Civil War battlefield at night. You see a man standing by the road dressed in a soldiers uniform holding an old latern. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT?

Apparition? Or Civil War Re-enactor walking to the 7-11 to get some beers?
 
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I'm a left brainer, I too believe in ghosts.

You wanna tell us how the two are linked?

ETA: You snuck in that edit while I was testing!
 
JOMAR

Read the attached comparison of right & left brain processing. In a nutshell, left-brain people are logical and sequential and serial, while right-brainers are lateral, parallel, and random thinkers. Left brainers see the trees, right brainers see the forest.

I get the differences. I was amused that 9 RB answers and 9 LB answers = LB dominance, which says something about the test construction.
 
JOMAR

I'm guessing the answers are weighted one way or the other.
 
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JOMAR

I'm guessing the answers are weighted one way or the other.

That's what I was thinking, too.

By the way. Neon, in his "not really...but" thread said he has seen ghosts since he was a child. I find that intriguing.
 
Right brained.

Believe in ghosts (prefer the term "spirits).

Have seen, heard, felt spirits. One even saved my life. :eek:

I also have premonitions (or hunches, if you prefer) and perceptions about people, some I have met, some I have not.

To most, that makes me a kook, or at the very least, an oddball.:cool:

I don't care. I have made peace with my spooks.:kiss:
 
JOMAR & SWEETNESS

I'm not sold on the idea that ghosts et al are visible. I tend to believe theyre experienced rather than sensed. I also want to skip a debate involving the semantics and nomenclature relating to how you sort & label them. "Spooky mother fuckers" works for me within a general discussion.

JOMAR

I'm confident that if you gave Bill Clinton a PHILANDERER TEST he'd mark everything but regulation 100 stoke missionary coitus "NO," and pass the test.
 
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I believe in spirits, echoes of past experiences, etc. I've seen some scary shit in my time, so yeah...I believe.
 
CLOUDY

What exactly sells you a belief that your experience is the real deal? What cinches it for you?
 
CLOUDY

What exactly sells you a belief that your experience is the real deal? What clinches it for you?

because most of the time, all of my senses are involved. It's not just a sight thing, which I could probably easily dismiss.

I've also had some unusual experiences with holy people that makes me know that what I've experienced was real, just not in this reality, if that makes any sense.
 
CLOUDY

I think Indians do spirituality better than whites or blacks. Its a kind of 6th sense that I cant explain. Thirty years ago I could predict rain within 15 minutes of the time it fell. I suppose I was sensitive to the air and breeze and sun and humidity or whatever....and did the math in my head somehow.

It might be interesting to know how Indian heritage people score on right-brain processing.
 
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CLOUDY

I think Indians do spirituality better than whites or blacks. Its a kind of 6th sense that I cant explain. Thirty years ago I could predict rain within 15 minutes of the time it fell. I suppose I was sensitive to the air and breeze and sun and humidity or whatever....and did the math in my head somehow.

I would agree, but I can't explain why.

Possibly it's because our basic spirituality hasn't changed in thousands of years, but I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine.
 
Definitely, I believe we're not alone.

I used to live in a haunted house that was haunted by all my dead wife's relatives. I could tell you stories.

Yeah, I believe in ghosts. I've seen a few. When I was a kid I lived across from a cemetery. Ghosts exists.

What's that? Did you see that? I just something something behind you and it looked really pissed.

I gotta go.
 
because most of the time, all of my senses are involved. It's not just a sight thing, which I could probably easily dismiss.

I've also had some unusual experiences with holy people that makes me know that what I've experienced was real, just not in this reality, if that makes any sense.

It makes perfect sense to me. When I said I had seen, heard, and felt spirits, that's exactly what I meant. It's not just something you see, and it is as real as any living person.

I would agree, but I can't explain why.

Possibly it's because our basic spirituality hasn't changed in thousands of years, but I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine.

Although generations have diluted any of the "typical" physical traits in me, my great-great grandmother was Native American.

Interestingly enough, the affinity with spiritual matters is strong within all the members on my mom's side. It is most strong in the women, but that may be only because we are more open to it than the men.

Almost every female descendant of my great-great grandmother has had encounters with spirits, and we share a propensity for premonitions and perceptions. This includes my daughters.

I don't know if it has anything to do with our ancestry or not.
 
I believe in everything.

Or rather, I don't disbelieve anything. I take everything on a case-by-case basis, and then I'm skeptical and have to be convinced, but I'm open to all possibilities. How can you be anything else and be fair?

I'm also right-brained, 11 to 7.
 
CLOUDY

I definitely know that environment selects individuals with best fit traits. Pygmies know shit about snow and reindeer and seals, and Alaskans wouldnt last a week in the Amazon. And neither of them would do well in the Sahara. So I believe Indians adapted to their environments, and are naturally a lot more sensitive to what happens in the hood than...say...Anglos or Spaniards who just washed up on the beach. If youre tuned to Nature, youre more sensitive to it.

DOC

I think this: Spooky mothers gotta play by the same natural rules we do. They dont get to make up the rules as they go along. THIS SAID, we remain very ignorant of all the rules, and some of us understand the rules much better than most do. Last night I read an essay written by a Nobel Laureate, he said that sometimes the math is too much for him, too. He cant detect the intelligence imbedded in his data.
 
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Last night in bed, after my eyes adjusted to the dark, I spied an ORB in my bedroom. It was moving around one of the walls. I was curious and examined it.

It was directly across the room from a window. The blinds were tightly closed, but I saw a small hole that allowed light to come thru. Down the street was a light attached to a pole by a chain? It was windy and the light was pushed about by the air. I covered the hole with my hand and the orb vanished. I dropped my hand and the orb re-appeared.
 
HOW DO YOU PROVE A GHOST IS A GHOST?

So far, no one knows what a ghost is.

People speculate about what ghosts are, but no one has ever captured a ghost and examined it. If a ghost is electro-magnetic energy...like radio or tv waves or microwaves...means exist to detect and capture the effects of the energy.

Many years ago I was involved in radio-astronomy. All kinds of solar things emit electro-magnetic energy, or they interact and create electro-magnetic energy that gets propagated just like ordinary radio and tv signals. Much of this phenomenon is easily detected by ordinary radio/tv appliances. Sunspots occasionally overwhelm our sattelites, blocking them for short periods of time. But most of the electro-magnetic energy is detectable, and you can locate it with sensitive directional antennae. Two directional antennae can locate the EM source exactly by triangulation.

If you know the frequency or wavelength of the EM source its easy to build a device to detect the source and convert the EM energy to sound. Its a different kind of radio, but works on the same principles as tv or broadcast radio or even garage door openers or toy race cars.

I've never read of ghost-hunters locating ghosts using radio-detection devices. Mostly they use what we call FIELD STRENGTH METERS. Theyre like radio thermometers. They measure the relative strength of an electro-magnetic source. The numbers on the meter should increase as you get closer to the EM source.

If a ghost is a radio transmitter, it ought to be simple to detect it and learn lots about it from what it transmits.
 
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Last night I read a book about paranormal investigations. The author is a Nobel Prize Laureate whose hobby is studying astrology, congering, and paranormal phenomena. He dismisses all of it.

But I think this:

I suspect that much of the paranormal phenonena we observe has sensible and plausible explanations. In the 50s crystal radios were popular. Crystal radios are very simple devices that operate without electricity. Attach one to a wire fence or steel cable, and it detects whatever radio station is close-by. I've read of rusty bed-springs doing the same thing, or even dental fillings. Many of our brain circuits act like electronic devices, too.

So, I believe its possible for old houses etc to detect electro-magnetic energy...like radio or telephone signals... amplify the signal using the acoustics of the house, and make people think theyve heard spooky mothers.

But I dont think any of this discounts the existence of ghosts and spirits.
 
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Rule #1 For Ghost-hunting.

CONSIDER EVERY EXPLANATION FOR PHENOMENON YOU OBSERVE AND TOSS OUT THE MOST BIZARRE AND IMPLAUSIBLE CAUSES. Real ghosts will be the examples that are most plausible and easily explained.
 
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Are you defining ghosts as spirits of the dead? Or as any sort of paranormal spookies floating around out there?

Because if you're defining them as spirits of the dead, doesn't that have certain implications about an afterlife?
 
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