Do you believe in ghosts?

dseag2 said:
I was very distraught in 1989 after a breakup and went to a psychic who did a Tarot reading. She told me I hard a "dark aura", which was no surprise. I asked her how long I would live and she told me until 73 y/o. I'm hoping she was wrong, since I just turned 64, but do legitimate psychics typically tell you when you will die? You seem to be experienced in this area so I wanted your input.
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Psychological factors, including absorption, fantasy proneness, vividness of visual imagery, and after-images, might also be responsible for the phenomena of the aura. Scientists have repeatedly concluded that the ability to see auras does not actually exist. So this person took your money and I doubt whether she saw any auras or knew when you are going to die. Not answering for Chic though!
 

Fyrefox said:
Prior to moving into a house, I took pictures inside the empty dwelling to get ideas for color schemes. The previous owner had been stricken unexpectedly in the house and apparently died on route to the hospital, all after being pronounced in good health by his doctor during a physical that day! Anyways, when my pictures were developed, one of them showed an orb, a glowing ball of light in the hallway. A camera lens effect, or a trick of light? Perhaps, but I’d never had a similar effect with that camera before or since...and while a friend of the sciences, I keep an open mind, and love spooky and paranormal things…👻
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Also unless there was a globular (orb shaped) light source in the room that was on or a surface which could reflect a flash (tho those are usually easy to recognize as reflection of flash) it is unlikely to be a "light artifact" something that can happen in both regular and digital cameras (which a phone camera would be) but is more common in digitals in my experience. When i photograph the full moon i often get them unless i frame the photo very carefully. More often light artifacts are streaks, or odd shaped patches of light that stand out in photos due to the surrounding dark or shadows, like when you can see the rays of light from sun in a outside photo when they were too subtle for the naked eye.
 

feywon said:
i do too, despite a bit of a tension when we first exchanged words on a climate change thread. That's why i'm never too quick to even put someone on 'mental ignore'. One or both of us may have been having a bad day, or there's a misunderstanding of what one actually said.
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OR you simply have different viewpoints on some topics but still like and respect each other and can get along. I've experienced that here.
 
dseag2 said:
I was very distraught in 1989 after a breakup and went to a psychic who did a Tarot reading. She told me I hard a "dark aura", which was no surprise. I asked her how long I would live and she told me until 73 y/o. I'm hoping she was wrong, since I just turned 64, but do legitimate psychics typically tell you when you will die? You seem to be experienced in this area so I wanted your input.
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IMO, this was someone going for the drama. i wouldn't be surprised if she didn't try to get to come back for more readings. Actually most of the legit psychics, and many card readers are--the Tarot deck is just 'tool' they use, that i have known don't even charge and they will caution you that they can only see potential futures if stick to your current course.

i would not worry about it. Things like that plant ideas in people that can become self-fulfilling prophecies. At the time she told you that 73 was still a long way off, half your current lifetime ago, but as it gets nearer it might weigh on you more. It is kin to the how many of us breathe a sigh of relief once we pass the age at which our same-gender as us parent died.
 
When my mother died, my sister waited, and is still waiting, for a sign from her.

When my sister went home (she lived in another state), I was still at my mother's house. That night, I switched off the bedroom lights, closed the door, and was standing beside the bed about to get in, when a ball of light came through the window and went through the wall into the kitchen. I had no idea what it was, looked all through the house, and it was gone.

The next morning I googled it. It was a ball of lightning, of which I had never heard. Still wondering, I went into the kitchen to make coffee. Sure enough, the electricity on the wall the lightning went through was completely out. All of the outlets in the kitchen were the kind that turn off the electricity when something goes wrong - I had to press the buttons on them, and they were fine.

I sure was relieved, because it was a lot better to know what had happened, rather than wondering if my mother had zipped through the room as a ball of fire!
 
WheatenLover said:
When my mother died, my sister waited, and is still waiting, for a sign from her.

When my sister went home (she lived in another state), I was still at my mother's house. That night, I switched off the bedroom lights, closed the door, and was standing beside the bed about to get in, when a ball of light came through the window and went through the wall into the kitchen. I had no idea what it was, looked all through the house, and it was gone.

The next morning I googled it. It was a ball of lightning, of which I had never heard. Still wondering, I went into the kitchen to make coffee. Sure enough, the electricity on the wall the lightning went through was completely out. All of the outlets in the kitchen were the kind that turn off the electricity when something goes wrong - I had to press the buttons on them, and they were fine.

I sure was relieved, because it was a lot better to know what had happened, rather than wondering if my mother had zipped through the room as a ball of fire!
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Good thing you didn't get struck by that ball of light !!
 
RadishRose said:
No.
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I don't either, BUT this is a true story that happened to me when I was 20.
When my band was loading our equipment to go play a gig a young woman walked up the long driveway and joined us. None of us had seen her before, which was very strange. Also on this same property a Viet Nam vet said he saw a ghost in their house a few weeks ago. Weird. Also there was an urban myth that at a nearby damn ( Guadalupe ) there was a female ghost named "Claire" who would come at you as a ball of light if you called her name. I put those bits of info together and asked the girl what her name was, she said "Claire". Wow. So I asked if she lived nearby, she said "Kinda". belief is now growing. Then I asked if she had ever been to Guadalupe damn, she said, "all the time". OK that freaked me totally. So I rushed to tell the band that she really might be a ghost but none of them believed it. So I went up to her a asked point blank "Are you a ghost" and she answered "YES". I just about fainted. Then she wanted to go to the gig with us and she sat in the back seat next to me on a warm night. We stopped a Quik Shop and she got out. I told the driver to turn on the heat so when she got back in I could feel if she was cold. Sure enough she felt ice cold to me. At the gig she kept starring at me all through the first set. Then I went to find her and she had disappeared!!!!
That is the closest encounter I have ever had and I still can't explain it. :eek:
 
Had to think about that question as worded. 'Unexplained' by who's definition? Some things others view as 'unexplained' are explainable from my POV. Due to my life experiences and readings in neurobiology and other sciences i long ago rejected the paradigm that our consciousness is just a by-product of our physical brain's electro chemical processes and social conditioning. For me it is the Soul religious people speak of--it is eternal and it does not have the space/time limits our bodies do, but it does have links to other souls (i'll use that word to avoid confusion with conscious mind vs sub-conscious min) .

Once one accepts the notion of souls, even provisionally as a hypothetical, many of the so-called supernatural and paranormal phenomena make a good deal of sense and can be explained:

Ghosts are souls who are 'stuck' on this plane, in this dimension of universal reality. They usually appear as they were in life or at moment of death because that is how they visualize the 'self' that is stuck. Telepathy? With no space/time limits and ability to link with other souls, one could see thru another's eyes, hear their thoughts, feel their feelings. And Twins particularly identicals not only is the soul connection stronger, but i've thought that they might be a good example of entanglement theory---that atoms created at same time are linked forever regardless of time/space---i know my boys are. They had fights when young over who thought something 'first', have seen events at great distance thru the other's eyes and generally have a sense of 'knowing' about it if something is stressing one of them tho thousands of miles apart.

Being an empath is a mixed blessing--over the long haul it can make you a more compassionate person which i value, but don't most of us have enough of our own grief and loss? And to survive you have to learn to at least partially 'shield' yourself in some places (hospitals, most nursing homes--they are overloaded with pain, fear, grief). Somethings you can't shield yourself from, large catastrophe's where many people experiencing same strong emotions (plane/train crashes natural disasters). For me especially if they occur when i'm asleep--cause i'm more open and vulnerable. i dream Tsunami's and cyclones and volcanic eruptions on other side of globe when it's 3-5 a.m. where i am. Often find them on news next day.

Precognition is basically telepathy where you pick up info from the future, i've only felt certain of that in one or two extreme circumstances and i reserve 'judgement' or acceptance of most of my 'knowings' as being telepathy/precognition because i also i know we don't store all the info our senses perceive in the conscious/waking mind---much is stored in sub-conscious (by scientific definition--but the consciousness i call 'soul' is aware of it) so when a strong feeling about the nature of an individual or a group of people proves 'true', i'm hesitant to call it precognition--because i suspect that it was a matter of a message from the soul about the clues/indicators the subconscious had been storing. So i see them as deductions not predictions.

So by most people's definition of unexplained i'd have to answer 'yes' i've had and witnessed such things. But i see them differently, as natural, normal and explainable when you accept that there is more to reality than what exists on this physical plane.
 
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WheatenLover said:
When my mother died, my sister waited, and is still waiting, for a sign from her.

When my sister went home (she lived in another state), I was still at my mother's house. That night, I switched off the bedroom lights, closed the door, and was standing beside the bed about to get in, when a ball of light came through the window and went through the wall into the kitchen. I had no idea what it was, looked all through the house, and it was gone.

The next morning I googled it. It was a ball of lightning, of which I had never heard. Still wondering, I went into the kitchen to make coffee. Sure enough, the electricity on the wall the lightning went through was completely out. All of the outlets in the kitchen were the kind that turn off the electricity when something goes wrong - I had to press the buttons on them, and they were fine.

I sure was relieved, because it was a lot better to know what had happened, rather than wondering if my mother had zipped through the room as a ball of fire!
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My second StepDad had a metal plate in his head and a leg brace that he had to wear all the time except when sleeping. They moved to Florida from NJ and he frequently had to run from ball lightning chasing him around the house. And i once had lightning during a t-storm, tho it didn't take ball shape enter house and zap my ISP router box. Didn't effect the TV or DVD player but all were plugged into a surge protector. Turned out some flaw in that model of router some how made it more vulnerable. The tech told me they'd been replacing a bunch of them.

Which is not to say some spirits can't use electrical things radios coming on without human agency or changing channels and surprise, a song significant to a deceased loved one is playing? Those things can happen. But flickering lights are usually just a wiring problem. Unless they happen repeatedly in significant ways.

My Dad has come to me several times, but Mom who died in 1985 has only set a crystal teardrop mobile i have tinkling. It hangs in my bedroom, is out of reach of cats, and has happened in winter when windows sealed against drafts, even in summer i've never heard it make sound even when t-storm moving in and wind strongly blowing thru window (this old house very high ceilinged so the lowest one hangs above a direct line from opening of window). An emotional upset i had 2 days ago helped me figure out why tho i'd figured it related back to all things left unsaid between us and her emotional inability to actually talk with me about them now. Whereas Dad and i settled the one thing that could have been contentious when he was terminally ill. He expressed regret for not maintaining contact thru my teens after he and Mom split. (Tho by that time i understood quite well psychologically why he hadn't.)
 
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@feywon, I can relate to so much that you shared. I have had dreams of disasters; one which I clearly remember happened a few years ago. I dreamed that I was driving on some sort of bridge and got involved in an accident with caused a huge pile up. When I woke, I was listening to the news only to learn that the very thing that had happened in my dream had actually occurred that morning on a nearby bridge.
 
dseag2 said:
I was very distraught in 1989 after a breakup and went to a psychic who did a Tarot reading. She told me I hard a "dark aura", which was no surprise. I asked her how long I would live and she told me until 73 y/o. I'm hoping she was wrong, since I just turned 64, but do legitimate psychics typically tell you when you will die? You seem to be experienced in this area so I wanted your input.
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In my experience, absolutely not.

Although...............the year before I lost my husband, a reader told me by next year we would no longer be together. I assumed she meant separation or divorce; she may not have seen the reason, only the outcome.
 
A would not trust a psychic who predicted death. At any given time, they can only predict possible outcomes, and even those can change if something else changes. And the ones who charge large fees ought to be run out of town.
 
carouselsilver said:
A would not trust a psychic who predicted death. At any given time, they can only predict possible outcomes, and even those can change if something else changes. And the ones who charge large fees ought to be run out of town.
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My feelings too.
Often those who make dire predictions then try to sell you a way to avoid or fix what they predicted: "Ah, someone has put a curse on you. For an additional fee i can give you a defense aganst it."
 
Pepper said:
In my experience, absolutely not.

Although...............the year before I lost my husband, a reader told me by next year we would no longer be together. I assumed she meant separation or divorce; she may not have seen the reason, only the outcome.
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This is important to remember, most psychics pick up on bits and pieces of potential future events they don't get to flip thru a catalged day by day film of a set in stone future, for few things are set in stone.

Personally i've gotten more accurate readings via free psychometry readings from members of meditation group i belonged to. And if someone told me they desperately wanted a 'professional' reading i'd suggest they ask around and find some one who uses that method. The reader holds a personal object of the subject and goes to meditative state, telling the subject everything they perceive. It may include past, present and/or future events. Which is good bcause often the past and present stuff helps validate they truly tuned into you.
 
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dseag2 said:
I was very distraught in 1989 after a breakup and went to a psychic who did a Tarot reading. She told me I hard a "dark aura", which was no surprise. I asked her how long I would live and she told me until 73 y/o. I'm hoping she was wrong, since I just turned 64, but do legitimate psychics typically tell you when you will die? You seem to be experienced in this area so I wanted your input.
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I receive words from Holy Angels. I don't accept words from "spirits" because they are souls who were either too ignorant or too afraid to lift with the Angels after the body dies. One would do better to ask a man walking down the street of your future! Spirits will say or do anything to attract attention to themselves and often say ANYTHING to keep a communication with a human.
They are lowly, ignorant souls, for the most part.
If you see a spirit who you don't know, tell them to depart!
There are some good psychics, I guess, but most are not!
Dseage2, I would not believe what she said to you. Everything you need to know about your past, now, or your future are known by your own soul. Please don't spend your life expecting death at the age of 73! Your thoughts are extremely powerful and have an impact.
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There are infinite POSSIBILITIES! Events change, evolve into different form and phenomena constantly!
Don't even concern yourself with DEATH! LIVE NOW!
 
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I would say no......but then I have known perfectly sane people who saw more than one. My son was visiting a friend when he saw a group of people come up from a basement, they were all dresses in 1880's style. So he asked his friend about them, his friend had not seen them. Another time he "saw" a particular crime. I knew about what had happened at least 100 years ago, but hadn't told him about it. Then he told me about it. He does not believe in ghosts, he says what he saw was left over energy. At the time we lived in an old ghost town turned tourist town.
 
Ghosts, etc. do not exist. If asked to spend a week in a haunted house it would not bother me. I would however insist on packing heat + 2 German shepherds, due to the fact no doubt the ones that prodded me have tricks in mind for me. Also closed circuit tv transmitting 24/7 while recording.
 

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