Do souls, spirits or ghosts really exists ?
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yes I felt a couple, been possed by a evil one. And me and that evil still fight it out now.
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Yes, ghosts are real.  I have felt them, and I have dealt with several of these poor souls.  \nHere's one story, but it isn't much, it's something that happened to me:\nMy good friend Tyler was killed in a car accident in fall of '99.  The last time we spoke, I told him that he HAD to come visit me in my new apartment.  He promised he would.  A few days after his funeral, in the middle of the night, I was awakened by the sound of someone coming into my apartment.  It sounded like the door opened, but it was still closed.  Whoever it was walked throughout the apartment, taking their sweet time, then they came and stood by me, where I was sleeping on the couch (one hand wrapped around my baseball bat).  \nI couldn't see them, but I could feel them.  It was Tyler, I know without a doubt.  After he was gone, I sat up and smoked a cigarette, wondering at what had just happened.  Then I went back to sleep, feeling very peaceful, and happy that Tyler had kept his promise, even in death.\nIn the morning, I started to think it was a dream...but there were three cigarette butts in my ashtray (I always emptied all of my ashtrays before going to bed).  Two were Marb Reds, which are what I smoke.  One was a Marb Light, which was what Tyler smoked.  \nCoincidence?  I think not.\nI have had other encounters with spirits (including more with Tyler), but that one is my favorite, because it was so personal.  No one else can back me up on it, but people can back me up on the others; they were there.
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Okay....\n\nWhat many people think of as proof that ghosts exists is merely something they've experienced but can't explain in any other way than saying that it was a ghost.\n\nPeople who are unable to sleep for several days because of an illness, for example, might hallucinate and "see" dead relatives while he is still awake. A person who didn't know it was the brain taking time out to "dream" while awake might believe that his dead relatives came back to comfort him in his illness.\n\nPhotographs of ghosts (orbs, etc.) are little more than way-out-of-focus specks of dust or other airborne particles too close to the flash and lens of the camera.\n\nStill other photographs are merely misuse of the camera. A shaky hand can cause blurs. A person who doesn't know how to properly use the "night portait" setting on a camera might see "energy" from distant lights.\n\nWhen people visit a "haunted house" they've usually been told what "ghost" is there and where. That biases the visitor--even subconciously--and the visitor will then "feel" something.\n\nJohn Edward, Sylvia Browne and other "psychics" who claim to talk to the dead are only skilled in an art called "Cold Reading". A major factor in a successful "Cold Reading" is the psychic tossing out very vague references ("I'm seeing water.") and the person being "read" only remembering the "hits"--the vague references the psychic got right--and forgetting the "misses".\n\nThere is always an explaination to a "ghostly experience". It's just that the person who experienced it may not know what it is other than to believe it was a ghost.
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There is no scientific evidence that ghosts exist. \n\nThe idea behind ghosts comes from a religious view that people are built from two separate entities - a "body" that is mortal, and a "soul" or "mind" that is immortal. Scientific study, particularly in the function of the brain has pretty much shown that our mind is very much a product of the functioning of the brain - if certain parts of our brain are damaged, then we lose certain abilities such as talking, cognitive thinking, memory etc. So if the "soul" exists it's different to the mind and therefore it is not something that can be tested or understood scientifically. Scientists have not discovered any evidence for a soul.\n\nGhosts are meant to represent the souls of people whose bodies are dead, so, years ago, when people believed in such a distinction, stories about ghosts were very common and people often mistook natural things for ghosts.
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The Bible speaks of spirits. Is that not ghosts?
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Does Darkness really exist?
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Yes, there are ghosts- but we don't really know what ghosts are, that's the problem.\nAs I see it there are 3 kinds of ghosts-\n1. Spirit of the dead trapped here- classic ghost\n2. Psychic residue from traumatic event - this ghost is like a tape loop that plays over and over\n3. Window in time where we can see the past or future.\nThere is also poltergeist activity, which is thought to be the \nuncontrolled emotional energy of a young girl in the vicinity, and is not really a ghost.\nI don't get faced with ghosts all that often but I just talk to them, as if there were a friend standing next to me instead of just a cold spot in the empty air.\n ADDED:\nIt runs in my family, my mother and grandmother had great intuition...\n\nI've noticed in studying near-death experiences that people see what they expect to see-if they are religious they see angels, if not they see the earth spirit in some sense...\nand many see loved ones who have died previously (even if the near-death person didn't know that person was dead). What I'm trying to say is that some very confused dying people may not\nrealize they are dead, or they resist dying so strongly that they get trapped here. This is considered the "classic ghost", and I think this is actually very rare.\n\nI think the more common ghost is the "residual emotion" ghost. This ghost has no consciousness, it is just a energetic replaying of the traumatic event again and again. While these can be truly scary, I think they fade eventually with enough time and work.\n\nI think ghost-ness could happen to anyone on the wrong day. Faith won't save you, neither will science. The classic ghost often just needs help to realize they are dead and move on, or some are doing something they consider to be very important amd are not ready to move on. Lots of classic ghosts haunt places they lived, and they stay to maybe to warn others or to keep an eye on  their beloved home.\n\nThe residual ghost is not an entire soul, just a soul fragment or echo, usually caused by a violent death. So my local hanged-man ghost is just a recording of what happened, that soul  is not there any longer but the house is still badly haunted by the negative emotions set loose there.\n\nI actually think the reading of the Tibetan Book of the Dead is very powerful, it's a guidebook on how to release your hold on the dying body and merge with the universe. It's read during dying, and for several hours afterwards as the soul lets go and travels to its rightful place.\n\nI've learned some protections through my own shamanic practice, and I'm learning more through my friend's new learning set on Witchcraft (white, by the way). She is actually much more religious than I am, my friend the witch, and I am expecting to learn the Sephiroth and a bunch of other stuff...\nUh, get on with it already- Okay... For instance, I am blessing graveyards in my area right now.I take some time in my car to envision my helping spirits and to see myself putting on a protective cloak. Then I walk around the property, and on all its roads. Along the way if I feel anything I welcome it and I breathe it in. Then I get in my car, I go home,and I sit and meditate and feel everything I picked up breathed out and envision it going into the ground to be absorbed by the planet. Then I see myself taking off my cloak.\n\nAnything else? I have felt dangerous things, I have sometimes avoided these things or gone forward to tell them they should tell me what they are. I know the website of an experienced ghost hunter where she warns of certain types of hauntings as being, she feels, non-human and very dangerous. I haven't had that feeling but I do not normally go wandering graveyards at night with instruments and cameras.Maybe I should, it might be fun. They do a protective prayer before they enter and when they leave.\n\nI have a lot of theories but of course we only have so much proof-\nThere a
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I guess your question is--can the existence of spirits be proved by scientific means?\n\nAs per my concept of the soul or spirit (called aatma in Hindi), the soul can only be known by consciousness.  Science deals with nature and things that happen in nature.  The soul is beyond nature; it is neither matter nor energy; it is consciousness and existence together.  When it is in the body, the body goes through a set of physical/chemical changes called life; when it is gone, the body does not have 'life'.  Thus, we can study the body with the help of science, but the soul which is not in the domain of science cannot be studied with the help of it.  The knowledge of the soul is altogether a different field, called metaphysics, and well, there are enough reasons in history and metaphysics to believe in the existence of the soul.  I do believe in spirits.
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Lots of people believe that there are spirits among us, and not necessarily the Christian spirits you know. Some say there are ghosts here (which are spirits of people who died on earth but have not yet left earth to continue their journey). Some spirits may not be ghosts, but spirits that come here to guide us or visit us. Some people call those angels, some just call them spirits. \nIn short - there are a lot of theories about what kinds of spirits are here, and many different beliefs. Some people communicate with them, and say you probably communicate with them too, even though you're not aware of it.
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Ghosts and spirits exist.  Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.  The Holy Spirit is one.  Angels and demons are others.  There are reports, within the Church, of spirits and ghosts that are true (at least validated by the Church).  We call these miraculous apparitions.\nIf you are in touch with them, cool.  Use your gift for good.\nAnd no, you are not crazy.
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i guess nobody has ever found a strong proof. ghosts most like ly  appear on human imagination from tales and stories told. well the brain is very powerful to imagine things specially ghostly things.
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I do believe that familiar spirits exist, but I don't know about the "wings" part.  Does that matter?
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I've seen things that can't be explained within reason.  I don't know if ghosts exists, no one does.  Everything else is just an opinion.
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Ghosts are as real as you and I are in the sense that they do exist all around us.  Both my daughter and I see them and talk with them on a daily basis.  Some people just refer to them by different names.  Ghosts or spirits or energies.  All the same name for different beings that have crossed over.  The souls of the dead that have not been into the light to cross over to the next side.  Most are harmless and just lost, but others have a dark side to them.  More and more people are finall becoming aware of them, but most people still continue to walk blindly through life not realizing the true world around them.
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Hell, I believe in BOTH. :) Ghosts are energy manefestations of human beings. Our brains function on electrical energy. Energy itself can neither be created, nor destroyed. Therefore, after death our brains energy has to go SOMEwhere. I believe Ghosts are that leftover, undestroyable enegry. \n\nALIENS: There are untold countless planets in the universe. Of those, billions are capable of supporting our form of life. It's a mathematical certainty. Of those, how many have actually spawned life that became intelligent in the manner that occured here on our own Earth? I'm not a gambling man; but the existence of intelligent life besides our own, in the universe, is a sure bet. There's too many planets out there for US to be the only ones. :) \n\nAnd if you're going to go at it from a religious standpoint, Jesus DID say he had other flocks, besides this one. There are scads of references in the bible, that are obviously alien in nature. God created the UNIVERSE. Who's to say he did not create OTHERS in his own image? :) \n\nAny way you cut the cake, the odds of us being alone in this Great Expanse, are slim and none.
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Souls are fictional, as far as we can tell.
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A ghost is an alleged non-corporeal manifestation of a dead person (or, rarely, an animal, vehicle). It is often thought to be a manifestation of the spirit or soul of a person which has remained on Earth after death. According to some beliefs, a ghost may be the personality of a person after his or her death, and not directly tied to the soul or spirit. Every culture in the world carries stories about ghosts, though they often disagree as to what ghosts are and whether they are just figments of imagination or a part of reality.