raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Aug-05-10 10:11 AM
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Do any of you believe you've communicated with a dead loved one?
If so, how? Through a seance, dreams, other way?
A dream I had last night made me think of this.
KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Aug-05-10 10:16 AM
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4. unquestionable, yes. In dreams.
valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Aug-05-10 10:17 AM
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5. We all have the capacity to hallucinate. nt
raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Aug-05-10 10:32 AM
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10. I'll tell you my dream. I went into a storage room next to a carport
(My mother, died in '03, had a carport.) I found an answering machine in it. I thought, please let there be a message on it.
But there wasn't.
lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Aug-05-10 10:37 AM
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13. If I did I sure as hell wouldn't tell it on DU
unless I craved some heavy verbal abuse from people who claim their opinion is fact.
Th1onein (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Aug-05-10 10:55 AM
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16. It takes courage to put something like this "out there."
But if it gives people comfort, it is very important to take that step.
Th1onein (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Aug-05-10 10:53 AM
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15. Yes.
My son and I had a "deal." He had cystic fibrosis. The deal was that, if he died, he would come back and let me know that he was okay. We spoke about this often, through the years.
My boyfriend knew nothing about this deal. But when my son died, my boyfriend (who had, literally, no imagination and would be the last person to make up something like this) told me, very excitedly, that my son had "appeared" to him, in broad daylight, in his car. He said that my son told him to tell me that he was okay and that he loved me.
This, alone, would not have convinced me. But what did convince me is that my boyfriend changed very radically, after that happened to him. He became almost an entirely different person. Very spiritual. He wanted to camp out in the graveyard at night, hoping to have another "visit." He had been a rascist for most of his life, but began going to black churches after the experience. His entire attitude about blacks, the poor, and women changed--a complete 360 degree turnaround. He told me that he knew, because of this experience, that there was life after death. When he was dying, a few years later, of cancer, he was very calm about it and would tell people that he was going to see their dead family members.
Whether the event really happened or not is something that is not for me to say. But my boyfriend was convinced of it, and the changes that it brought about in him were very real.
malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Aug-05-10 10:58 AM
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17. My favorite aunt
We've talked in dreams - and she's still always smiling and giving me good advice.
She was a left-wing Bohemian if ever there was one - an absolutely wonderful human being. She never went near a religious institution on purpose but every Friday she made this huge pot of soup and baked bread and shared it with every beggar in the neighborhood.
She was a left-wing Bohemian if ever there was one - an absolutelywonderfulrevolting human being.
I believe in ghosts. My house used to have one. At one point part of it used to be a bridal shop, and one day, the ghost was messing around with the wedding dresses and filled one up. No joke. She's gone away, for now. Maybe she likes me living there.
I read through the abstract of the house, and once upon a time, there was a woman named Eliza, and her brother had her committed. The abstract referred to her as a "lunatic." She never married, I think the ghost is her.
Surely your kidding. Ghosts??
Surely your kidding. Ghosts??
malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Aug-05-10 10:58 AMI smoked a bunch of dope once - then ate four hits of acid - I saw things!!!
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17. My favorite aunt
We've talked in dreams - and she's still always smiling and giving me good advice.
She was a left-wing Bohemian if ever there was one - an absolutely wonderful human being. She never went near a religious institution on purpose but every Friday she made this huge pot of soup and baked bread and shared it with every beggar in the neighborhood.
His entire attitude about blacks, the poor, and women changed--a complete 360 degree turnaround.
FIFY.I have ghosts in my underwear.
I believe in ghosts. My house used to have one. At one point part of it used to be a bridal shop, and one day, the ghost was messing around with the wedding dresses and filled one up. No joke. She's gone away, for now. Maybe she likes me living there.
I read through the abstract of the house, and once upon a time, there was a woman named Eliza, and her brother had her committed. The abstract referred to her as a "lunatic." She never married, I think the ghost is her.
:lmao:Shush with the logic will ya?!
Hey, Melanie. When someone changes their life it is a 180 degree change not a 360 degree change. 360 degrees means he was going the same way he was before!
KC
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Hey, Melanie. When someone changes their life it is a 180 degree change not a 360 degree change. 360 degrees means he was going the same way he was before!
KC
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Hey, Melanie. When someone changes their life it is a 180 degree change not a 360 degree change. 360 degrees means he was going the same way he was before!
KC
I believe in Ghosts and signs, and a woman I worked with who was sane and very Religious, as was her Daughter, she said a few times her Mother came to visit her Daughter.
We had a picnic over the weekend and my Cousin who's also sane, said that there was a Ghost in her house, she and her MIL would be in the kitchen and no 1 else was home and they'd hear someone walking upstairs, when her Daughter was 2 or 3 she told her Mother that there was a man who would come into her room at night then disappear, my Cousin got a little freaked out, so she said 1 day she went into her Daughters room and sat down and was very nice and asked the Ghost to please stop visiting her Daughter because her Daughter was frightened, her Daughter never saw the man again. It turns out that the person who owned the house before them was an old man who was doing construction on the house, and he died at the house, and the room he visited was the room my Cousins Daughter slept in and it was the only room he didn't finish.
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Hey, Melanie. When someone changes their life it is a 180 degree change not a 360 degree change. 360 degrees means he was going the same way he was before!
KC
I believe in ghosts too, although I have never encountered one.
My great-grandma didn't like it when people left lights on in the house when the room was not occupied. After she died, one of her son's moved into her house. He would leave the kitchen light on and go upstairs for a few minutes, he said when he came back down, the light in the kitchen was off. He said it was always the lights.
My husband & his friend encountered a ghost in his friends haunted home. It was a really old home. The homeowner was killed on his porch when he went out to shoot an intruder. This was back in the 1930's. The victim still shows up at the house. He slams the cupboards, doors, walks up and down the stairs, etc. Obviously I wasn't there to see it, but I'll take their word for it. lol
I can't explain it to you because it would turn into a huge religious debate.
I'm not a very religious person, but I do respect all religions.
With that said, energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred. So when one dies, their energy has to go some where.
I believe in reincarnation.
I'm probably not explaining it well. That's just how I see things.
Alright lets dig into this as I am astonished that adults believe in ghosts. No offense to those that do but it is about as plausible to me as Santa Claus, tarot cards, and silly superstitions like walking under a ladder.
How exactly does it work? Does every dead person get to "come back" as a ghost? If so, you'd think there would be a lot more of them, cause that's a lot of dead people! Ghosts would just walk around as a normal part of daily life, unless their the ones that lay low and show up every once in a while and make a few noises, just to **** with you.
How about pets? Do they get ghosts or is this a humans only thing? And if yes to pets, how about all life, do fish have ghosts? Are there ghost fish swimming around? How about algae? Parasites?
How come my dead grandmother who I loved dearly doesn't give me the experience of sudden feelings of being cold? Why doesn't she do like all good ghosts do and show up for a few seconds, walk through a wall and disappear? Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I turn off all the lights at night! Where's my ghost dammit.
I just hope someone who understands how the ghost system operates could explain it to me.
Thanks Evil.
Does reincarnation apply to all living things or just humans?
I believe it because I've spoken to a few sane people who've experienced it. I also watch Ghost shows on TV and I believe it. My Dad had surgery a couple of years before he died, and during that surgery he said he died on the table and saw the Doctors working on him, I worked at the Hospital at that time and I was working when he was on the Operating Room table and his PCP was paged stat to the OR, when my Dad woke-up in the Recovery Room he was terrified, he told us what happened but my Mom and I didn't believe it, at that time people never spoke about those things. My Father was sane, didn't believe in things like that at all but he believed it after his experience, and when he had to have a Hernia repaired about a year later he refused to go under General Anesthesia and would only have a local Anesthetic, the Surgeon agreed to it and was amazed that my father was able to handle that.
I don't know really. I mean, maybe you can be reincarnated to an animal and vice-versa.
I've heard similar things from people. About dying and being able to watch what the doctors are doing for you. It's crazy. I don't know who wouldn't be terrified after experiencing that.
I believe it because I've spoken to a few sane people who've experienced it. I also watch Ghost shows on TV and I believe it. My Dad had surgery a couple of years before he died, and during that surgery he said he died on the table and saw the Doctors working on him, I worked at the Hospital at that time and I was working when he was on the Operating Room table and his PCP was paged stat to the OR, when my Dad woke-up in the Recovery Room he was terrified, he told us what happened but my Mom and I didn't believe it, at that time people never spoke about those things. My Father was sane, didn't believe in things like that at all but he believed it after his experience, and when he had to have a Hernia repaired about a year later he refused to go under General Anesthesia and would only have a local Anesthetic, the Surgeon agreed to it and was amazed that my father was able to handle that.
I wouldn't personally know if you can go from insect, to rodent, to bird, to human, to whatever else. It's just something I believe in. Even if one was reincarnated, I don't think you will remember much of your past life/lives.
I really hope you're not making fun of my beliefs in a cover up kind of way.
I am not trust me. I am not disrespectful of someone else's beliefs. However, as I said, I am surprised that adults believe in ghosts.
Imagine if you had a 35 year old try to tell you that Santa is real?
I'm simply pushing for details. I see these posts with generalities such as your statement above that you don't remember much of your past life. Three questions immediately come to mind from that one sentence.
Hopefully I will get time tomorrow to continue with this, it is interesting. I see with you and other posters, I have my work cut out for me. Great, I like civil debate. Goodnight. :cheersmate:
I have had several dreams that were so real that I had to convince myself they were not after I woke up. They all involved my dead brother. My mind is not so small to think that we can't have encounters like that.
I don't think you are supposed to remember your past life.
Believing in Santa and spirits are two totally different things. Santa is a fictional character for children. Ghosts were once living beings who have passed.
I stopped believing in Santa at an early age because he had the same handwriting as my mom.
I'm almost 58 years old.
I believe in ghosts, I don't watch "ghost" shows, of any type.
I believe in re-incarnation, but I don't think we actually remember our past lives, except sometimes a memory may surface into our minds that make us think this has happened before or we already know the outcome.
I think mediums are scary. I have never gone to one, nor will ever go to one, nor do I watch them on tv or read books about them.
I think magic is creepy. I hate magic shows and won't go to them.
I believe in God. Why? because He was standing at the foot of my hospital bed sometime between 4 and 9 days days after my 13th birthday, telling me He had come to get me. Oh and no, ...I was not "dead" at the time, but I did have The Last Rites 3 times within a 5 day period of time, before the doctors decided to put me back together, because I might live. I know HE exists.
And, I do believe in Santa.
I also think that for you to say "you have your work cut out for you" is highly condescending.
Which ghost shows have you seen on TV? I have seen many myself and I do not believe in ghosts. What I do get from shows like that is that with the right editing and such, you can make almost anything believable.
Remember there is no contrary opinion offered for the whole duration of such shows. Example, you wouldn't see a skeptic after every compelling scene give his/her opinion of why what you just saw is bullshit in an episode of ghost hunters. I would equate it to a magic show, Blaine, Copperfield, neither are superhuman, all of what they do can be explained with logic thus eliminating the mystery.
Well your dad's story is a good one, its also quite common. Many people have similar type experiences when near death. Anyway,I don't think we are really talking apples to apples with the above story vs. the existence or possible existence of ghosts.
Do we all get to be ghosts when we die?
Ever hear of the "God Helmet"?
Just saw a rerun on the Science channel. A respected prof in study of the brain has invented a helmet to stimulate certain parts of the brain not normally stimulated unless in some kind of dream state.
He basically putts you into a comfy chair or sofa, puts this helmet on you and leaves you alone without interfering stimulus. After a while, patients, read guinea pigs, swear they have a "God" moment much like a prophet I guess is the best way to explain it.
It is his theory with the right stimulus the brain will take us into some kind of awareness that the person experiencing it, equates it to experiencing a "religious" phenomenon.
Just sayin....... He believes it would explain guys like Moses or Noah or perhaps those that see ghosts, experience hypnotism, etc.
Ever hear of the "God Helmet"?
Just saw a rerun on the Science channel. A respected prof in study of the brain has invented a helmet to stimulate certain parts of the brain not normally stimulated unless in some kind of dream state.
He basically putts you into a comfy chair or sofa, puts this helmet on you and leaves you alone without interfering stimulus. After a while, patients, read guinea pigs, swear they have a "God" moment much like a prophet I guess is the best way to explain it.
It is his theory with the right stimulus the brain will take us into some kind of awareness that the person experiencing it, equates it to experiencing a "religious" phenomenon.
Just sayin....... He believes it would explain guys like Moses or Noah or perhaps those that see ghosts, experience hypnotism, etc.
A dream is not an encounter. A dream is just a dream. Of course you will have dreams about your dead brother, you knew him! Would you call it an "encounter" if you thought of him while you were awake? What difference does it make if you are sleeping?
And what's with the small mind thing?
The small minds thing is not about you directly. There is so much we don't know. And so much can't be proven one way of the other.
And I believe it was and encounter even though it was a dream. God works through our dreams, and I believe God was letting me communicate with my brother.
It's possible this guy may have found a part of the brain that get stimulated when someone is having a religious experience and maybe he can make someone think they are having a religious experience when they are not. Some say chocolate stimulates the brain in a way similar to being in love. Does that mean that love doesn't exist? Is love only about chemical reactions in the brain?
Maybe this guy didn't find 'why' of Moses or Noah's experience, maybe he just found a method.
Actually, that is pretty much my take on it too. I find it fascinating this guy might have stumbled onto a method in order to talk or at least share an experience with the Creator!
Think about it! When God wishes to converse or communicate with us heathens, he stimulates the part of us this guy is tryin' to duplicate! Heavy stuff! Best way I know to 'splain it!
What's more, what if it works??????
Allo, we were given free will by our Creator, now if a way can be found to stimulate the human brain to remove that free will as was done to the monkeys I saw, does that mean the humans that can do this are now more powerful then God.?
I have been thinking about this ever since my daughter spent almost 2 weeks in a coma. Where the heck did she go in her mind while totally unresponsive to pain or the life around her.? Why did the amount of ammonia in her system shut down all but her brain stem keeping her automatic life functions still working.?
We humans do so want to know God, want to believe we can communicate with God. Allows us to place ourselves just one step from the power of God.
We Pray. Beg, and try to Barter with God, for our personal needs, fears or very life.
In order to get the attention of God we sing, dance give God sacrifices of animals and humans trying to Please God. As Cain found out, God is none too happy with being given a radish, better a dove or sheep, it is the Blood God wants.
Ever notice in a pet store that when looking at a tank of identical fish that one or 2 get our attention because they may have an odd spot different from the others.?
Humans have followed the idea of making themselves stand out to the Gods from all other humans. Humans pierce their body's, get tattoos, wear talisman to draw Gods attention and on the reverse keep Evil away.
We also find ways to alter our conscious with drugs or actions as in the Dervishes that spun around until they fell down. Self flagellation and all the pain is a cry to God to communicate that they are doing this to prove to God their devotion and stand by God, I may want to rewarded for my pain down the line, living or dead.
Some beat on drums, beat on Gongs, ring bells to get the attention of God.
There will come a time when mankind will take away the free will of the people, they will find ways to manipulate the brain to see, feel, hear things that are not there. This will be done under the guise of science, sound waves that affect even the deaf as the waves will reverberate through the body----As in breaking up gall stones or kidney stones using sound waves. We know that some frequency's that we cannot hear do affect the brain, living near high tension electric lines or the problems people fought when the low frequency waves from the military grids were built.
We know subliminal suggestion works, as does hypnoses and even the power of faith.
WTF? What the hell are you smokin'?That would be the aforementioned monkey shit.