Where do you stand as far as believing in ghosts? Do you base that belief on personal experience, third-person claims, or even religious beliefs?
The recent presidential election results in the U.S. have prompted me to give an opinion on this topic. It is evident from the recent presidential election that those who wish to push their agenda will not stop at lying and making up stories to promote their content. Whether it be wishful thinking or actions of compulsive lying, what is absent from most claims of any nature is fact-checking. This includes claims in favor of the paranormal.
For how many years now have we heard eyewitness claims of what some perceive to be paranormal events of an audio or visual nature? Many of these claimants are honest, trustworthy people. Yet these claims, as believable as they may be, cannot be submitted as factual proof of the paranormal. Let's take these claims a step further and consider them to be authentic, though not provable. Where does that leave us in the quest for empirical paranormal evidence?
I have previously written an article stating that these claims simply are "not enough." I still stand by that claim. In my opinion, all of the electronic gadgets sold today for ghost hunting are simply "garbage." There is no standardized testing or validation that precedes the sale to the public. There are no claims of results to be obtained, and they are usually labeled "for entertainment purposes only." So what else is there to go by?
Do you count sensitives, mediums, etc. as valid, provable evidence of the paranormal? The paranormal TV industry and its celebrity participants enjoy lucrative incomes from their shows and so-called "evidence." Wouldn't it be interesting to get those people to take a lie detector test?
I have two suggestions for the pursuit of empirical proof of the paranormal:
Although it would make for very boring TV entertainment, every investigative team should carry a person of non-belief in the paranormal. By this, I don't mean someone who claims they're a skeptic but rather someone who walks without a fear that is self-manifested from "being in the dark." I personally walk this earth with such an attitude, and it has been an eye-opener. The self-discovery of fears I had previously entertained, and their associated behavioral attitudes have brought about a kind of inner peace.
For me personally, I had a close relationship with someone who, before they passed, was in agreement by mutual pact of promising evidence of "the other side" after they passed. This is no different from the type of promise Houdini made before he died. As for my own personal experience, to date, four years later after such a pact, no such evidence has been made aware to me.
In summary, I submit to you, the reader, that there is no paranormal. The world goes on as intended by a Creator (yes, some kind of power inconceivable to perceive in our own limited intellects, created everything from nothing) who must be laughing at the trivial nature of our created beliefs and how far they go to affect our daily lives. Overlooking the genius of creation, whether it be in the simple, often overlooked beauty of nature before our eyes or the indescribable wonders of the vastness of our physical universe, is simply a human fault that seeks comfort in giving an explanation based on invented beliefs for that which we do not understand and are unwilling to accept at face value.
- Moonjoey
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