looking for ghosts

We all know that looking for ghosts is risky. Of course ignoring the physical world while looking for a ghost train is even riskier.

Or maybe this is how you find those?

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Redoubt's picture
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Now there will be a new ghost legend born of the person who died on the same spot, whilst looking for the first ghost legend...

This is pretty wild stuff.

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

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I have had to deal with ghosts at my father's notoriously haunted ranch house. You always think you can barge your way through them or bluster them away, but they have an upper hand most of the time. One is often best advised to just leave them alone, and if they start messing with you - just leave the area.

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If you have been watching any of the ghost hunnter shows on the telly lately, you can't help but be impressed by how obtuse and crude most ghosts sound. They sound like fractured souls, barely coherent, and immensely confused and angry. It is like trying to talk to a junkie who has missed a fix. They just want your help or they want you out of there because you can't help them. The best thing we can do for ghosts is try to get them to move along -into the light - or whatever. They are stuck and messed up about it - stuck in a loop in the worst sort of way. It really is a nightmare, but it is the ghosts who are having the worst nightmare of all.
I am happy that we seem to be evolving beyond the just plain scared shitless phase to a more reasoned and merciful attitude of care and concern.

red pill junkie's picture
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The world is filled with stupid people, who half the time don't know what's going right before their noses.

I'd imagine the next life is not much different. Maybe they even get Fox over there :-P

It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

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I have this suspicion that the afterlife is not an awakening into some eternal epiphany. Rather, it is just an extension of your consciousness in a different form. Who you are is who you are.

You don't sprout wings or grow a halo.

It could be a way-stop to something else or a waiting room for your number to be called. Some may miss the point or spend a lot of time reliving moments trying to settle past traumas or emotional trainwrecks.

Life is no rose garden on this end and may not get much better in the hereafter so... live good now. Try to exit this existence in good terms with your fellow creatures and if you believe, with God as well. It may well follow you to the next stop.

*For those interested, a few further thoughts on the matter:
http://www.dailygrail.com/blogs/Redoubt/...

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

red pill junkie's picture
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See video

;)

It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

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Robert Silverberg wrote a good novel about this, called "To the Land of the Living".

All kinds of interesting characters in there, from all through history and before, carrying on as when they were alive. More of less.

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We are the cat.

red pill junkie's picture
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One of the things I remember reading about the beginnings of the Spiritualist movement, is that according to the channelers, the discarnate entity that came up with the idea of trying to use Seances to chat with us breathing Bobs was none other than Benjamin Franklin —he kept himself busy, apparently :)

It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

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