Hallucination Vs. Seein Spirits

Hallucination Vs Seeing Ghosts

Is there a connection with seeing ghosts and having hallucinations?

What is a hallucination? A hallucination is defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space.

A mild form of hallucination is known as a disturbance, and can occur in any of the senses. These may be things like seeing movement in peripheral vision, or hearing faint noises and/or voices.


Hallucinations can also be associated with drug or alcohol use (particularly deliriants), sleep deprivation, psychosis, neurological disorders, and delirium tremens.

hallucinations occur just before falling asleep, and affect a surprisingly high proportion of the population. The hallucinations can last from seconds to minutes, all the while the subject usually remains aware of the true nature of the images.

Hallucinations are the out come of our senses being "played" with. Our sight, hearing and smell. But what if these drugs, or disorders were not so much causing these fantasies to play in front of us...what if they are actually making us more sensative to the paranormal world around us?

This subject first became a quick obsession when, one evening when I was at my friends house. It was late...around 1:00am, she had taken Ambien (Zolpidem) , a drug used for the short-term treatment of insomnia, and I was laying on the couch. Roughly at the same time...me being a "sensitive" (someone who can sense spirits) felt a present come into the room...moments later, my friend who was sitting beside me, began to tell me about a man that was standing beside me. She was not bothered by this...image...but did try to ignore him. Was she hallucinating from the drug? Or did it make her more sensitive to what was really there in the room with us? I had not told her about the spirit coming into the room, as I did not want to frighten her...some take my "ability" better than others, and I was not sure where she stood on the subject yet. So my mouth was shut. The moment she told me she saw this man...my heart dropped...was she really seeing what I was sensing? Is it possible for it to be that simple? For a simple sleeping pill to enhance our abilities to see into this forever questioning spirit world?

The point of a sleeping pill (for instance) is to relax the body and mind...turning off all the extra noise and thoughts that clutter our heads...is all the freeing of this clutter making room to take in the new surroundings?

There is a theory, spirits are more active during the night, because the energy that the sun puts off is at its lowest, allowing these spirits to use their own energy to come through to us. People are asleep, electronics or mostly turned off...all in all, it is quieter and more peaceful...like a clear head. Now imagine our brains during the day...running through lists of daily chores....drop the kids of at daycare, go to work, meeting at noon, pick kids up, go to the store, make dinner, lunch with mom tomorrow, doctors appointment at 3 on Thursday...endless lists of activites...but once we start to wind down, just before falling alseep, is when our minds are the least active...allowing to pick up on other things around us. You can lay in bed and hear the cat purring outside the door, the wind softly blowing outside, clocks ticking in the next room...the space around us just seems to become more alive when our minds are more clear, opening up and becoming more sensitive.

It is said that children are more apt to seeing spirits at a young age, and lose it as they get older...as well have have "imaginary friends". Are these switches in our bodies deteriorating with age...just as commonly as our sight and hearing and even our bones in our bodies? And only active "excersises" can help bring these back? Just like everything else? Glasses fix our vision, hearing ads help our ears, medicines help our bones...is it that simple to get our sensitivity back with a simple hallucinogenic drug?

Is there a chemical imbalance in us, that this sleeping pill, or other drugs allows us to temporarily get back? Or an over active chemical imbalance in people who seem to have a mental illness, and therefore have "hallucinations" often?.
Could we be closer connected to the spiritual world then we thought?

Now dont get me wrong, I am not telling anyone to go start taking drugs...I have never done drugs in my life and even as obsessed with these questions as I am, I am still nervous to even test my theory with a simple sleeping pill...even tho I could get it proscribed since I in fact have insomnia...
The more scientific evidence we can find on this, the better! But the best things now are ask all the questions we can think of...because without questions...we have no answers!

Can you weigh your soul?

The subject I would like to cover today is that of "soul weighing." It was first introduced by Dr.Duncan Macdougall in 1907. His work was published in the New York Times newspaper and also in a journal called American Medicine. Duncan's theory was that for the human soul to exist it must have some sort of density or mass. For something that did not have structure or weight could not possibly exist in our world. In his words it was, "unthinkable." He proceeded to conduct experiments to support his theory.
Macdougall performed these experiments on six dying patients. The patients were dying from tuberculosis, diabetes, and other unknown causes. Macdougall would place their bed onto a large scale which was sensitive to two-tenths of an ounce. At the exact moment of death Macdougall recorded a significant weight loss of approximately 21.3 grams.

From Macdougall's article:

During all three hours and forty minutes I kept the beam end slightly above balance near the upper limiting bar in order to make the test more decisive if it should come.

At the end of three hours and forty minutes he expired and suddenly coincident with death the beam end dropped with an audible stroke hitting against the lower limiting bar and remaining there with no rebound. The loss was ascertained to be three-fourths of an ounce.

This loss of weight could not be due to evaporation of respiratory moisture and sweat, because that had already been determined to go on, in his case, at the rate of one sixtieth of an ounce per minute, whereas this loss was sudden and large, three-fourths of an ounce in a few seconds.

The bowels did not move; if they had moved the weight would still have remained upon the bed except for a slow loss by the evaporation of moisture depending, of course, upon the fluidity of the feces. The bladder evacuated one or two drams of urine. This remained upon the bed and could only have influenced the weight by slow gradual evaporation and therefore in no way could account for the sudden loss.

There remained but one more channel of loss to explore, the expiration of all but the residual air in the lungs. Getting upon the bed myself, my colleague put the beam at actual balance. Inspiration and expiration of air as forcibly as possible by me had no effect upon the beam. My colleague got upon the bed and I placed the beam at balance. Forcible inspiration and expiration of air on his part had no effect. In this case we certainly have an inexplicable loss of weight of three-fourths of an ounce. Is it the soul substance? How other shall we explain it?
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If such a measurement was conducted, why haven't we pursued this further? This is what us as paranormal investigators need. Concrete evidence of paranormal phenomena. Concrete evidence of the human soul. Concrete evidence of the afterlife itself! If we are to stand up and show the world something else out there does exist, we must provide to them something that will awe them. Something that has been documented in a way in which no scientist can debunk.
If the human soul does indeed have a mass and does indeed pass from our bodies at the moment of death, this is proof that we move on into the next life. If it does indeed have a mass this may very well explain why we can photograph it and pick it up using our meters and counters. We may not be able to see it but it is there and it has weight! It also makes sense to me that coming from our bodies which are made of electric charges, in order to maintain its existence in this world it would need to keep some sort of electrical charge. Therefore seeking out places in which the environments fit their needs the best. Cool dry environments. Places in which there are high amounts of electromagnetic energy. Near water and near granite.
All in all, I believe there are things in this world we are not meant to fully understand. That does not mean we cannot find it, document it, and back up the evidence of it being there! It is my personal goal to find this evidence and present it to the world. Until then I move each day stepping closer and closer to uncovering the truth.

Written by: David Scott
www.ipra-team.us

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Read Macdougall's article from 1907 here:http://www.ghostweb.com/soul.html

Investigations

I am planning on traveling all over the world these next few years for paranormal investigations. If you have a place you would like to see me go to, please let me know! And keep posted on new investigations and evidence at www.crypticparanormal.com

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To hunt or not to hunt in GRAVEYARDS...

As there are many opinions in every subject imaginable...whether ghosts haunt their own graves or not is just another one of those debates.

Theory One: Why stick around?

Many people think graveyards are NOT haunted. Why would a spirit stick around it's dead body when it could be haunting it's home? Family? Place of death? If I was to die but my spirit hung around...why would I stick around my grave?

Theory Two: The wondering spirit.

Another opinion goes with the wondering spirit. Just like a living person can travel from one place to another, couldn't a persons spirit? Or maybe the spirit can be in two places at once? Maybe the graveyard is somewhat of a new "home". With many other wondering spirits...all being able to connect...sine they are in fact all dead. Maybe it is comforting to have a "hang out" area...wondering their grave sites. But in times of loneliness, or maybe they feel the pull of a loved ones thoughts, they can travel to that spot. Home, place of death...etc. Maybe spirits even travel beyond their normal loved places. Maybe they see someone walk thru their graveyard and they decide to follow them around for a bit? Curious...?

Theory Three: The trapped spirit.

Other believe a spirit is trapped where it dies. Or possibly in a very loved place, like their home. It is a common belief for people to think that one a spirit dies in a place, there is some sort of force keeping them there to haunt it. A prison of sorts...never able to leave. This may be the reason why there are so many "haunted locations". Or maybe the spirit doesn't leave the body till it is buried? And this is why graveyards are so haunted. The spirit has no where to go other then the wondering of their own grave?

Now what if:
As a living person can wonder, so can its spirit. Traveling through our homes, the streets, around us daily...yet not seen. This wondering may be a way for them to try and get attention, or maybe they don't know they are dead? If I was a wondering spirit I would definitely wonder around looking for attention...can you imagine living in darkness for countless years alone? I cant.
What if this world we live in today is just a shadow of the full dimension that goes on around us?
And what if a soul DOES wonder around it's own grave...maybe that is because they are looking to "Rest In Peace"? And hunting on their graves only disturbs them?

Well...it is all speculation...we may never know all the answers.
What is YOUR take?

I know from experience, I have had a few visitors...they come and go, some follow from haunted locations, others are completely random...if they can travel the world now just like they could before...why would they go back to their graves?

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Astral Projection

Astral projection (or astral travel) is an esoteric interpretation of any form of out-of-body experience (OOBE) that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside it. Astral projection or travel denotes the astral body leaving the physical body to travel in the astral plane.

The idea of astral travel is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife in which the consciousness' or soul's journey or "ascent" is described in such terms as "an...out-of body experience, wherein the spiritual traveller leaves the physical body and travels in his/her subtle body (or dreambody or astral body) into ‘higher’ realms." It is therefore associated with near death experiences and is also frequently reported as spontaneously experienced in association with sleep and dreams, illness, surgical operations, drug experiences, sleep paralysis and forms of meditation.

It is also sometimes cultivated for its own sake or may be believed to be a faculty derived from or necessary to some forms of spiritual practice. It may involve "travel to higher realms" called astral planes but is commonly used of any sensation of being "out of the body" in the everyday world, even seeing ones body from outside or above. It may be reported in the form of an apparitional experience, a supposed encounter with a doppelganger, some living person also seen somewhere else at the same time.

The belief that one has had an out-of-body experience is common: hundreds of personal accounts were published in a number of books through the 1960s and 70s and surveys have reported percentages ranging from 8% to as many as 50% (in certain groups) of respondents who state they have had such an experience. The subjective nature of the experience permits explanations that do not rely on the existence of an "astral" body and plane. There is little beyond anecdotal evidence to support the idea that people can actually "leave the body".

For example...A mother has a strong sense of a connection with a child and visa versa. If a child were to get into trouble, he/she could unconsciously let his/her spirit leave the body and appear to the mother, who would in that instant know something was wrong. This has been recorded as a common occurrence.

Another common experience is seeing a spirit before death. A dying loved one coming to see you one last time...kind of as a way to say good bye, or it is time...
Ever see a "ghost" of a loved one dying, only to rush to the hospital and have them still be alive?

What are your thoughts on astral projection? Have you experienced it? I have!

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Vampires

Evidence supporting the existence of vampires has always existed in our society, since the spawning of these creatures. They have simply been well-hidden from the public as have many things… (aliens/UFOs and werewolves)

One obvious piece of evidence would be the fact that there are descriptions of vampires from an array of existing and pre-existing cultures across the world. Drawings and written descriptions of human-like creatures that would draw blood from their victims, with uncanny strength, speed, elongated fangs, varying skin pigmentation, aversion to sunlight and allergic to garlic. The underlying, rudimentary characteristics as described above all correlate and remain consistent amongst different cultures. There are descriptions of vampires extending across the globe from places such as Africa to India to China.

The existence of vampires in an array of cultures is an obvious indication that there is something similar if not identical to the creatures described in our world.

What do you think? Have you ever come across a Vampire? Or do you think YOU may be a vampire? Take this test and see what you think...
1. Do you have pale skin, and when you eat a rare steak, does your skin get more color?
2.Have you been told you are lucky to survive something you should not have survived?
3. Are you a naturally strong magic/energy user self taught, self realized?
4. As a kid, were you the strongest, smartest, or quickest kid in the class, and around 16 years of age maybe all 3?
5. Do people often tell you that you look very young for your age, or that they would have never guessed how old you are?
6. Are you extremely energetic at night time but seemingly around the time the sun comes up you get really tired?
7. Are you a slightly quicker healer than most, if not a much quicker healer?
8. Do you have an unusually high tolerance to alcohol and other poisons/toxins?
9. Do you tend to switch between very social and antisocial frequently?
10. Do you rarely get sick, or when you get sick does your body recover quicker than most people?
11. Are your six senses more enhanced than most other peoples, i.e. vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and intuition?
12. Do you have extremely good vision in the dark? How many times has some one said it’s too dark they can’t see while you were doing something like reading?
13. Do you tend to not be surprised or scared by the typical sudden loud noise in a movie or things like that because you sensed it coming?
14. Do you tend to react to things like catching a falling object or other normally unexpected things at an almost psychic speed? (As if you were expecting it to happen)?
15. Are you sensitive to light or the heat from it (ranging from getting a bad headache from the glare to burning very easily)?
16. If while your skin is white from lack of enough blood in you, do you bleed quite noticeably less than a person normally should, or more likely not bleed at all?
17. A legitimate Vampire is able to safely digest more than 600% of the daily recommended amount of iron (RDA is 18mg 600% of that is 108mg). This can be tested by use of iron pills bought at almost any nutrition store or grocery store.
18. Do you always feel a strong urge to travel?
19, How often does something smell so strong that you can literally taste it?
20. Can you hear a whisper from across a room?
21. Is there a dark colored ring around the iris (color part) of your eyes? All real vampires have this, however not everyone that has it is a real vampire.
22. Is there a noticeably different color surrounding the pupil? (Inner part of the color of your eyes.)
23. Do electrical appliances generally tend to hate you?
(Watches mess up often, computers malfunction for no reason, etc).
24. Are your dreams often extremely vivid and sometimes result in cases of dejavu?
25. When you will things to happen, do they usually happen?

What do you think? Could you be a real vampire?

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