Skeptic Project

Well, energy in the New Age sense is nothing like it is in the scientific sense. Real energy attaches itself to everything (c/p) in the form of kinetic, potential, thermal, gravitational, sound, elastic, light, and/or electromagnetic.

None of those on that list will cause dreams, though too much gravity will cause you to black out, sometimes seeing visions.

Maybe not, but the movie Ghost was one of the best ever.

So gravity is to blame, eh? Hmm.

Actually, I went with my friend on a job she was doing (she is a tattoo artist) at someone's home. She brought her mother along.

Anyway, the lady she was tattooing was also into that stuff. She was known as a bit of a kook around town, but she's a very nice, pleasant lady.

She mentioned how her dog would never go into the basement, and how she herself didn't like being down there. Inevitably, her and my friend's mother got talking. When two people like that meet, they just won't stop. One of them said it was an older fellow. She pictured an old-timey pilgrim hat. The tattooee agreed.

It went on like that. "I sense this and this and this." "Yeah, I sense that too, and also this and this and this." "Me too!"

Since they were ALL firm believers, I knew I had to shut my trap and stop from shouting "YOU'RE JUST AGREEING WITH EACH OTHER NO MATTER WHAT."

Argh.

I CAN'T. That friend is my best friend and I absolutely love her. I do talk about it with them, individually. But as a group it's just being gang-raped by GHOST ENERGY. Or is that their own need for self-delusion?

I always get those two mixed up.

I really like the term "God's helmet." It's like what I wish I had when I first took my training wheels off.

I also know a lot of people who have had religious visions and things like that. I get stared at when I say it's pretty much a nice-feeling version of mass hysteria.

I've heard of weird things happening with people who live under power lines. Is this "God's helmet" thing the same idea? That differing electromagneticism in the air causes minor brain disruption?

Perhaps I should start with what I think ghosts could be, that is telephathic communication from people alive about dead people.

Now I'll explain my logic..

> Ghosts don't exist, that's all I have to say about that.

I have seen one, once that I'm aware of.

My parents had some elderly folk come to visit us once to buy some antique chairs, they sat in the lounge and I was summoned to offer them tea and biscuits. So I went into the lounge and went around the group, asking each in turn if they wanted tea or coffee, sugar and/or milk, and what biscuits might take their fancy.

I reported back to the kitchen with my mum there, who wanted what, and remarked that one of the group refused to answer me, and just sat there staring into space, I mentioned the guy seemed a little odd, as he sat in the sofa legless, and whilst I knew he didn't have legs, I couldn't clearly remember below his waist, even though it was just a few minutes ago, but only that he did not have any.

Anyhow, I took the tea and biscuits in, an noticed the guy was missing, so I asked 'Where is the old guy without any legs ?', and much to their shock, they remarked that they had come alone that day!

They mentioned that a relative had recently died, one who fitted the description of the guy, including without both legs..

Now, what had I seen ?

I'm reminded of another incident, not ghost related..

I was building myself a very large ameatur radio aerial, a full wave circular antenna, and at the time I was standing inside of it, I had a sudden urge to ring my then girlfriend. (I never got sudden urges like that!) I duly did so, and she remarked that she had just been wishing I was there, as her son had just swallowed a key and she thought I would be able to help her situation, except she couldn't ring me! (Her phone had incoming calls only..)

So...

Had I picked up telephathic communication from her ?

Had the aerial acted as some kind of booster device to enable that to more easily happen ?

Have I had other communication experiences with people..

Well yes, from time to time, I have suprised folk with being able to read their minds. (I remember one time playing charades I kept guessing before the person even spoke what was in their mind!)

I wonder if hair length might have anything to do with it, acting perhaps as an aerial.. (As my best period of being able to do so, was when I had long hair also.)

So you can see my logic, and my thought that whilst we see ghosts, they might be just communication chatter we pick up from other people thinking about them. (This might explain why we don't see tons of ghosts everywhere in cities, where countless folk have died in the same place hundreds if not thousands of times, but there is no one alive today who remembers them..)

So, whilst I might reckon that something exists, I think its possible its just communication and nothing physically real, nor anything that can harm us. (Unless perhaps we think it can..)

> When you die, you're worm food and nothing more.

Agreed.

But there still appears to be a phenomenon that needs explaining how it works..

> No there isn't.

Then how do you explain eye witness accounts of something unusual such as mine ?

I suggested that instead of it being dead people communicating, that it was alive people transmitting thoughts to people around them about dead people they knew of.

Which then moves the goal posts a bit towards, can we prove telepathic communication..

http://www.urigeller.com/nyt.htm</p>

> Scientists at the Stanford research Institute who conducted experiments with a
> number of persons, including Uri Geller, the magician and purported psychic,
> report that Mr. Geller, and probably most people. have an ability to send and
> receive information by some "as yet unidentified perceptual modality."

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v251/n5476/abs/251602a0.html

Well its impossible for someone to explain an experiential account when they were not there and the only evidence is personal witness testimony. So you see it is upto you to explain what else may be an explanation you may of overlooked, for instance in a qualia soup video here see the ghost part @50 seconds and how it explains the obvious possible explanation that is being overlooked. Without these facts the story takes on a new meaning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI

"Then how do you explain eye witness accounts of something unusual such as mine ? "

You need medication.

Just search google for it with James Randi's name, if there is a response Randi has already done so years ago.

Uh, Geller was debunked in the 80s man.

Hes a zeitgeister isnt he ?