I'm reading Sylvia Browne's VISITS FROM THE AFTERLIFE, and am a bit skeptical.  I suppose its a "gift" that some people have--to be able to see them, or are they just hallucinating?
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My belief in ghosts ties in with my belief pertaining to the afterlife. I believe in personal truth, meaning that if Mary believes that she will go to Heaven when she dies, she will go to Heaven when she dies; if Joe believes in reincarnation, he will be reincarnated; if Lucy doesn’t believe in an afterlife, than she will just cease to exist.\n\nI also believe in ghosts, and that you can become a ghost several different ways. If you believe you will become a ghost, than that’s a given; if you’re unsure of what will happen after you die, you will be stuck in limbo until you figure it out; if you do not fulfill at least one lesson or goal predetermined (by fate) for you to complete, you will be incapable of moving on into the afterlife until whatever is left incomplete is accomplished; if someone is unable to cope with your loss than their grasp on you will hold you back from moving on until they find closure; or if you have some sort of personally set goal you wish to finish before leaving, you have the chance to do so as a ghost before moving on.\n\nI have had a ghostly experience, as well. My late dog, Kristy, died early in January of 2004. Later that year, my fiancé and I were watching the house for my parents while they were gone for a few days. Being the only two living beings in the house, I could not explain this phenomenon any other way than to say that Kristy had stuck around. My fiancé and I had been downstairs for the past few hours watching TV. I went upstairs to get something from my room, and in the hallway outside my door, there was a oval-shaped section of carpet, the same size Kristy was when she would lie down and curl up, that was matted down and warm to the touch. I called my fiancé up and he noticed it too, so it wasn’t just me. Why else would the carpet have been warm and matted down if it hadn’t been Kristy? Besides that, for a few months after she had died, from time to time I would hear the jingling of her collar as if she were scratching her neck, or I would feel as if she were in the room with me.\n\nYou don’t always have to believe in something for it to exist.
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It is entirley possible that he saw SOMEthing. A "demon?" No. An inhuman entity, trying to scare him? Yes. There are spirits on this planet, that never were human, but, are curious about the state of Being human. They can be nice about it, or they can simply enjoy harassing the living. We classify the bad ones as Demons, and the good ones as Angels, simply for convenience sake. But really, there are no religious connotations about them. \n   Not all people can see or sense these entities. Some people block out the ability, because it frightens them. But it exists. And so do they. So, yes. It is certainly possible that he did see something. :) If it did not physically accost him, I wouldn't worry about it. Ignore it, and it will grow bored and move on. Good luck!
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Okay... boy are you gonna get a lot of different opinions on this one.\n\nI recommend doing reading on all the areas from both the supportive and non-supportive sides. This is something that you should decide from your own experience. Trying to use someone else's view will just confuse you.\n\nIf you've had some thing happen that has made you ask this question, I advise strongly but nicely--- put aside your fears. Approach what is happening from a scientific stance and you'll be fine.\n\nThere are people who claim ability to try and swindle others, and on the opposite end there are people who have the ability to interact with what we call the "paranormal" and they wish they couldn't!\n\nDon't rush to judgement, read, consider, and then read some more.\n\nI myself believe all things are possible, we just have yet to prove it.
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Fireworks,  I can't say that I really believe in ghosts but I have a friend who does.  In fact, I had to admit this, but sometimes, I've had that same feeling, peripherally, seeing someone and distinctively FEELING it but turning to face it and there's nothing there.  I told her this and she told me that perhaps I was visited by a spirit.  Of course, I listened to her but I was thinking, wow, she's crazy.  But...I'm not so sure.  So, she  belonged to this group that met, spiritually.  Some of them were gifted to see these spirits.  I know this might sound crazy but they went around the room and "saw" these spirits, which were normally spirits of someone that person knew.  For me, the woman was seeing my aunt who had just recently passed and told me that everything was okay and for me to stop worrying about her.  \n\nThe English word "spirit" comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning breath.\n\nI know that these "spiritual" sightings can be a lot of hogwash but you know, I have to say that I do believe it is possible.  I was frightened by this when it first began to happen but I really believe that what you see is not imagined.  I'm serious.  I still see them (not as often as before) but I think I am no longer afraid since my friend had me go to one of those meetings.  \n\nYes, I think it's normal.  I also think people will not admit they see it too.  Honestly, I won't admit it either.  Just here....because I think only a few close to you will believe you.  I do have another friend who believes in ghost.  So does my husband.  I don't admit it with them because - I think I'm too scared to open up the realization that this can be true and I'll be seeing them all the time.    \n\nI think if I didn't watch scary movies so often, I would be afraid of these spirits. :)
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I have been visited by Gods and Godesses )0(\n\nAs for Fairies, I do believe in faeries, I do, I do! And so do many of my friends. Some even claim to have seen faeries When we sit around the fire telling faerie stories, They're all true. And we've all got our stories.\n\nHave you ever put something down when no one was around, and when you went back it wasn't there? Then a few days later it shows up exactly where you left it? That's what faeries do. Faeries are very playful. If you put out offerings, you get the stuff back sooner.\n\nOne time, on a camping trip, it was an especially magickal night. At some point, everyone in the camp noticed that something was missing, including a necklace from around one woman's neck. The area where we were camping was separate from any other areas and so no one came into the area. Suspecting activity of the Fae, everyone put out offerings, except for the woman who lost her necklace. She cursed the fairies. The next morning, everything was returned except the necklace. To this day, the necklace has never been found.\n\nOn another camping trip, I put my tent right in the middle of a natural faery ring. When I camp, I always have a flashlight with me at all times. The only place I could have lost it was in my tent, so I searched my tent, and the flashlight was not in there. Then I had two friends search the tent, and they couldn't find the flashlight. I put out offerings to the fae, and the next morning, the flashlight was back in my tent.\n\nAnother camp-out, We had a tarp structure in the most wind protected part of a wind protected valley. I've put up a lot of tarp structures, and it was put up very well. I've put up hundreds of tents and tarp structures, and I know what I'm doing. In and around the tarp structure where etched glass tealight holders on stands averaging about 4 feet high (it was beautiful). That night, the structure blew over (in a wind protected area) but when it fell, somehow it completely missed all of the etched glass. About mid way through the day, with no one anywhere near the structure, about half of it spontaneously stood back up.\n\nA friend recently posted in her blog that she had lost a piece off her neclace, and it was no where to be found. One day her husband found it, right where he had been standing barefoot moments earlier, in plain sight, and in a spot where she had vacuumed earlier. There it was, in a place in plain sight where it hadn't been earlier\n\nThe trick is to make offerings to the fae OUTSIDE of your house. Preferably far outside your house, like at a nearby state park. They like honey. They also like shiny bobbles. Be sure to respect their sacred spaces, and possibly give them a little faery altar (which can be as simple as three flat rock placed on top of each other with something shiny sitting on it. They also like shiny things tied to trees.\n\nThese are just a few of my Faery stories. My friends have a great many more. We've seen many things which defy mundane explanations.
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http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/astralplane/a/afterlife.htm
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your right about one thing there are a few psychics out who are full of it but each one is unique we are not as different as you think most psychics believe that there powers were given to them for some kind of purpose and they wont know. it takes years to achieve the level or age to figure out what it is, some get to know there gifts in there late 20s. you know its hard for some of us to walk the streets of NY to feel and see visions hit you every time you walk out that door sometimes what people have in there hearts is to much to bare, to tell the truth i started to get visions at such a young age(8)i am 17 go-in on 18 in a month i have got the vision of when the twin towers fell i was the unclaimed person who called 911 to warn them, every vision i had came true NO LIE but lately my visions are getting stronger and more painful its been hard for all of us. i could tell you what you need to know its just that the reason we ask is to know the person better i wont ask for money just to challenge myself in this art would be a thrill i know my purpose in life all i have to do is wait until my day occurs. so send me an email(drakon_sotoj_88@yahoo.com)
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Hello I see you're in rather the same predicament as myself. I personally belive that I am psychic, I'm also a strong beliver in my faith of God. I to have read the entire book cover to cover, prophecy is not the only psychic ability mentioned in the bible. discerning of spirits and almost all the other spiritual gifts mentioned could be considered psychic. christians  today just don't read the bible, all can be answered through it. as for the above comments one sounds like an idiot the other might be a good person. psychic is so much more than "spirits and stuff" God wouldn't give some one that gift for no reason. Plus being christian in its self your dealing with spirits all the time.
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It is very easy to believe in something you witness for yourself. However, I do believe there are some real basis for believing some individuals have this type of ability. I believe it is rare, but definitely could be a possibility. I do not like to just dismiss something out of hand, because I have yet to be around somebody who demonstrated this ability to me. However, I have heard from others that they have seen people who can do this. I do think it is a very rare gift, but look at all God can do, if you believe in God. I do. I find anything is possible if you open your mind to the possibilities in this world, the solor system around us, and the one even further out we can't see yet.
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i do, to an extent. have you ever watched Ghost Whisperer? on friday nights? well it's a show where there's a girl that can see people's spirits and all of them have something that they need to achieve before they can "cross over"... she finds a way to help him/her achieve this and then they leave. \n\ni think that that is the way it happens. when a person is too stressed out about something when they die, their spirit will stay until the stress goes away.\n\ni think that there is a chance that there are other people out there (aliens) but i dont believe that we'll ever meet them. \n\nmajic totally confuses me. i do not understand it at all, therefore i dont have an opinion on it. i do believe that some people have the ability to do majic, but i have no clue how or why.\n\nlove ya andrew!\n\np.s i could have sworn that when i was at my great grandma's house i saw my grandma's dog (dobbers) looking at me (he died)... totally freaked me out!!!!
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There are things in this world which defy explanation. What is truly amazing is that you yourself have this same gift within yourself, even if you do not care about it nor use it. It is not your intuition, which will inform you of many things that are unusual and accurate. It is not coincidence, because it happens too often. It is what I would like to call a higher mind function. Anyone who truly has this gift does not feel defensive about it, nor does he or she feel the need to try to explain it all the time. What is impressive about it is how accurate it can be sometimes, as you yourself have experienced. I am fortunate to have this gift, but it is not always "on." I can be with some individuals and not know a thing about them but I can meet other individuals and look them in the eye and begin to speak to them and all kinds of true things will start coming out. I have learned to keep fairly low key about all of this, and I do not usually mention it, but your question seems very important, so I offer what I have written here for what it is worth to you. My own gift, what will happen is that I will "see" an entire picture in a very brief flash inside my mind. When I speak with someone, what I am doing is describing what I saw from that picture as accurately as I possibly can. If I alter it or interpret it, that is called "colouring," and cancels the vision or gift or picture or reading. If I am around someone who is either negative or unbelieving, everything becomes quiet within me. But if I am around someone who is okay with this sort of thing, all of a sudden I will be telling that person all kinds of things, like the importance of rearranging his bedroom, or of walking more to strengthen his legs for balance, or of letting go of an old friendship that is actually over with.
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As a nurse I have had a few encounters of the spirit world.  One time in ICU a pt saw a Angel sitting in the corner over my shoulder, I was talking to her and a chill ran down my spine and I shivered, that's when she told me that there was an angel in her room, it was there to comfort her and let her know her time was coming soon and to make things right with her family.  She called them all and after her last kid came in she died.  There was no problem medically that would indicate that death was eminent.  Another time I walked past a room with a patient who was unable to control the lights in his room but a light shone out from under the door but not in the window of the door. And more personally, My mother had an angel wake her up and tell her to change some things in her life or she was going to die.  I truly believe that we humans are not the only ones who walk the earth.
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I have not only thought of this I belong to a ghost hunting group.  It is believed that there are different types of "entities" here.  Some are here because of unfinished business.  Some are here because they didn't want to leave.  Some are here because they are trapped in a repetitious loop.  This last one would be what you are speaking of.  It is as if they are stuck repeating the same events that lead to their death. \nIf there is a spirit that you are specifically in reference to, "when it's time for them to show," tell them to go to the light.  They no longer have to stay here find the light and there will be people waiting for them.\n\nThis should end the loop.
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Actually, the person who responded previously is wrong.   There is evidence which suggests there is something to psychic or intuitive power. They often help detectives in murder cases where there are no leads, which is a good thing.   \nStudies of the top psychics under impartial scientific analysis have shown that they DO get it right more often then their non-psychic counterparts, but it doesn't mean they ALWAYS get it right, just more often then the rest of us.     So much so that even our own government wanted to use those who had psychic power as spys, I think they call it remote viewing? anyway they cancelled the project because it was too unreliable. UNRELIABLE, not fake or untrue, they didn't deny there was something there, they just couldn't control it and rely on it for accurate information. the government obviously knew there was an amount of "psychic power" or else they would have never started a project like that in the first place. \n Do they talk to dead people? I don't know, I think many of them are mind readers. There is a lot more to what meets the eye than many of us are willing to admit.  People who are religious of course call anything which is mystical and outside the barriers of organized religion demonic.  \nHundreds of years ago, if you told someone they get sick because there are microscopic "bugs" that get into our bodies through our breath and multiply, they would accuse you of being a heritic or maybe a witch, you cohort with demons, because it is the devil which makes them sick or whatever other ignorant barbarism they attributed to illness.  \nBut it was a fact that applies now as it did then: just because you can't see something with the naked eye does not mean it's not there.  \n It is human nature to say when we don't understand something which is a mystery that it is totally fake or it is demonic.   I don't think it is either. I think it is somewhere in between the material world we see and the world or worlds which we can not.
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I don't follow  a book.  I believe the energy or essence of the soul lives on.  Simply stated, think of a door.  It opens; you leave one room and enter another.  Levels, planes, rooms, whatever word you want to use.  Some have had a glimpse of other levels.  They know by their experiences what exists beyond this small world we perceive.
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oh yes please .. thank you for this question\n\ni am a spiritualist medium .. that means i speak with spirit\n\ni do not speak with demons ... i do not predict the future .... i am not a witch ... i do not do cold readings or read faces ( since most of my readings are online and even offline have to provide evidence that can be validated ) ...i believe in God and only work with the best intentions ... and no one that i have given a reading to has turned from God , infact it has brought them closer to God\n\nthat is just some of the myths that i would like cleared up xxx\n\noh one last one .... people always tell me to prove it to James Randi for a million dollars .... my mediumship is worth no amount of money , just to be slandered by a skeptic xx
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Sylvia Browne (born Sylvia Celeste Shoemaker on October 19, 1936 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an alleged psychic and medium, and author of numerous books on spirituality. In 1992 she was convicted of investment fraud [1].\n\nShe has had a long running feud with skeptic James Randi who claims her readings are indistinguishable from those achieved by mentalists using cold reading and hot reading techniques. Randi has offered to test her abilities in a controlled environment, but Browne has failed to perform the tests.\n\nShe is the regular featured guest on The Montel Williams Show every Wednesday.