What are ghosts?

[logician]

For religious folks out there, if you believe when one dies their spirit goes to heaven(or hell), then what are ghosts? Why are spirits still hanging around here, if they should be elsewhere? Or do religious folks believe in ghosts?

Personally, I don't believe in ghosts or paranormal phenomenon as being real.

 

[Sunstone]

Ghosts are spirits who wander around in shock that Bush got re-elected.

 

[Somkid]

Ghosts are CIA operatives that work deep cover.

 

[nutshell]

Glitches in the matrix.

 

[Francine]

Ghosts are CIA operatives that work deep cover.

Ghosts are merely unsubstantiated roomers.

 

[Lindsey-Loo]

I'm religious, and I believe in ghosts. Wholeheartedly. It's nothing I can explain, though. Maybe ghosts are in Limbo, so to speak, and are just in a waiting phase between their death and Judgement Day. What if, in some form or fashion, we all become "ghosts" when we die, and are just waiting for Judgment Day? I came up with all of this just now, so don't quote me. It's just a thought.

 

[DallasApple]

I believe ghost are energy...Maybe our own energy projected at times and maybe other times someone elses energy that goes through us...dead or alive..Energy can not be destroyed..Can it??????

Energy may wander aimlessly and attach its self to a light bulb or go into space..What does energy that was once a peronality do?

I dont think IMHO it feeds a fish tank ...Mayby it goes into black energy space..Cant prove it..Just a feeling...

Blessings

Dallas

 

[Francine]

Energy can not be destroyed..Can it??????

No, but it can be transformed into garbage forms of energy (like heat) that cannot be put to work. This is called entropy increase.

 

[DallasApple]

No, but it can be transformed into garbage forms of energy (like heat) that cannot be put to work. This is called entropy increase.

Heat is not garbage when you are cold..

Blessings

Dallas

 

[Vasilisa Jade]

The explanation I like is that:

A person has a body, spirit, and soul. The soul is the core, but the spirit is the personality. These two can be seperated but are not supposed to be seperated. The soul without the spirit is like a vegetable. If the spirit gets seperated from the soul in death, and it is strong enough, it pokes around through the veil. It is like a carbon copy of the person, but lacks structure given by the soul. And the spirit cannot inhabit a body agian because it is missing the core.

 

[Mister Emu]

I don't believe the phenonmenon we call ghost experiences are the spirits of the dead...

 

[w00t]

We live in a VERY 'haunted' house where the amount of phenomena were experience almost daily is truly remarkable. However, far from believing in the 'supernatural' we are sure there is a natural explanation for everything, even if we haven't discovered it yet. 200 years ago microwaves, electricity and telephones would have been considered supernatural. There are probably other yet undiscovered forces waiting to be harnessed by science and technology!

 

[crystalonyx]

I'm religious, and I believe in ghosts. Wholeheartedly. It's nothing I can explain, though. Maybe ghosts are in Limbo, so to speak, and are just in a waiting phase between their death and Judgement Day. What if, in some form or fashion, we all become "ghosts" when we die, and are just waiting for Judgment Day? I came up with all of this just now, so don't quote me. It's just a thought.

Do you have biblical or any other support for this theory, or is it something you made up?

 

[crystalonyx]

We live in a VERY 'haunted' house where the amount of phenomena were experience almost daily is truly remarkable. However, far from believing in the 'supernatural' we are sure there is a natural explanation for everything, even if we haven't discovered it yet. 200 years ago microwaves, electricity and telephones would have been considered supernatural. There are probably other yet undiscovered forces waiting to be harnessed by science and technology!

I live in a very old house, but have never seen anything I would ascribe to the paranormal. Maybe this has more to with the observer than the structure.

 

[w00t]

I live in a very old house, but have never seen anything I would ascribe to the paranormal. Maybe this has more to with the observer than the structure.

If you can think of it in connection with the so called 'supernatural' we have probably experienced it in the 11 years we have lived in this house. Quite a number of people have had experiences here, including six policemen, who said they would sooner catch the worst of criminals than live in our home!

 

[Sola'lor]

I think there are different kinds of ghosts. I believe that before we came to Earth we all lived as Spirits witrh God. Lucifer rebelled against God and was cast out along wit htose spirits that followed him. They were never allowed to gain physical bodies. The rest of us who followed Christ come to Earth and gain phyical bodies. After we die our spirits go to the spirit world. In the Spirit World there are two places Paradise and Prison(aka Hell). I believe accationally Spirits from Paradise are allowed to visit those of us living for specific purposes such as relaying messages, but not hauntings. I also believe that those one third that followed Satan are those spirits who tempt us to do evil under the direction of Satan. My theory is that there are specific spirits assigned to us to tempt us. In some cases those Spirits could become so involved in our lives and so intimatly aware of our lives that after we die they will take over our lives after we are dead. This is where hauntings come from. They continue to act out the lives they became so involved in.

 

[sandandfoam]

When I was a teenager we went on a family holiday to a rented house. The house was lovely, but it gave me the creeps. It aroused really strong feelings of revulsion in me, so strong that I refused to stay and went home to my uncle. I wouldn't even stay one night.
We later discovered that a woman had murdered her 2 children in the house and then drowned herself in the river outside. This happened before any of us was born and we had never been to the area before. Strange.
Two weeks ago my father came to visit.(I live about 6 hours away from where I grew up) On the Sunday while we were having breakfast I enquired about a classmate of mine that I hadn't seen in about 10 years. We weren't especially good friends and I hadn't enquired about him before he just came into my head that Sunday morning. Dad said he was doing fine and that although he had moved he was still in the area.
Dad phoned on the Monday evening to say that my classmate had dropped dead on the Sunday morning. Strange.

 

[Hope]

Some ghosts could actually be demons.

I grew up in a house that was haunted by something supernatural. Had a lot of weird and freaky stuff happen. When we moved out, we had a guy that was helping us move who was very tuned in to the spiritual realm and had seen demons before. He refused at first to go towards the back of the house because he immediately sensed there was something evil there. The back end of the house was where most of the freaky stuff occurred.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

I believe that some apparitions are the result of unexplained natural phenomena. Some things that go bump in the night can be everyday occurances that we'd be aware of instantly if the sun was out.

But I also believe that there are phenomena that do not fit this criteria. My personal beliefs are that we at times become aware of sentient beings born in what is sometimes called the "Hungry Ghost Realm" (pretas). Beings born in this lower realm suffer greatly from intense craving and hunger/thirst. Tibetan Buddhism teaches that beings do not stay in this realm forever, but while they're in this state (for however long their karma dictates), they can "haunt" a house, estate, room, etc. for wordly/human things that they can never access or experience.




Peace,
Mystic

 

[Draka]

For the most part, most of the ghosts I have come in contact with have been like any other normal person. Nothing "evil" about them.

As to why they don't move on from earthly confines I think it depends on the spirit. The person they were. Perhaps they don't feel as if they are ready to move on. They feel as if they have left something incompleted. They may want to watch over someone they care about or maybe they just are afraid of leaving the home they knew their whole life and fear what lies on the other side of the veil. Perhaps they are not ready to move on to their next life. Or maybe, just maybe, they are in denial of being dead. They may not realize that they are dead and even can move on. Like I said...it depends on the spirit. There could be numerous reasons. You aren't going to know unless you ask them.