Originally Posted by flowerchildnea
Hmmmm, I see a lot of interesting things here. But I must say, its hard for me to take myself to a place where I can believe spirits and things of that nature.
I come from a family that has seen things all their lives, my mom is a big one on these supernatural experiences, but I have no yet seen anything, or felt anything to make me believe that the spirit world exists.
Human beings have 100% of brain power that we CAN use, but we only use 10% of it. Just 10%.... When things like seeing ghosts, and smelling things occurs, thats a percent of our brains that is becoming overactive. A lot of these experiences are somewhat self induced... Im scared, and then I see something, I think something is there, and then I see a shadow, I expect the ghost to come at this time, it comes at this time.
A lot of the time we psyche ourselves into believing certain things, and a lot of the time, they come from within. Internal fear can cause a lot of damage.
When you are having an uncomfortable experience with what you may think of as a ghost or a supernatural presence, your first reaction would be to pray. And as soon as you do that, you feel like it has gone away, and for the time being you feel safe again. Well the first thing I was to point out is that people who pray are religious, and when you're religious your church, family, parents, friends, pastor tells you that there is a god, and that there is a devil. And we are taught to fear the devil. Why do we see ghosts as something evil, as something to fear. Well what ghosts are is someones conscience getting the better half of them, telling them that they are being threatened, and then they feel the need to use prayer to get rid of it. Within all of us we have good and evil, but I can't say that angels are demons influence us to do neither good nor bad. Its all within ourselves.
We commonly associate what we think of as hauntings and ghost sightings, to be scary and evil experiences. Why do we do that, well, because we fear evil... and whatever threatens us is thought of as evil. Theres so much more that I want to say, and my thoughts are all jumbled because of that. If anyone has any specific questions I would be happy to answer. In the meantime, I think this topic should continue, its very interesting.