What is up with all the ghosts, witch, wicca, spirit questions on here?
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They're just wannabes, I doubt highly any of them here are real wiccans or even satanists. Right now Wicca is a big fad because of the goth look and publicity about "witches" \n\nMost here are just teenagers trying to upset their parents and scare their friends... been there, done that... wised up
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Me! Me! Me! I have a bunch of questions!!! Why do ghosts always come out in the dark when you're all alone. Why don't they come and knock on the door at noon. Why they gotta scare us? I don't believe all of them are evil. They should be friendly.
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That's weired. I just met a wiccan. I didn't know you guys existed until he mentioned that he was one. He's located here in Houston,Texas. I'd send you a pic of him but he never stands still so they're all blurry! lol
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I am Christian and I don't practice magic, but am interested. I do know that this is the holiday which follows the Roman celebration of Winter Solstice, where the days are getting longer and the sun is returning from battle with darkness (so goes the mythology). I have not read much about Imbolgc, though, except that is something about the celebration of the recovery of the Goddess after giving birth to the God. I'll read up more on it. I have a question for you. Have you ever been able to achieve anything with your practice? I've never run into anyone who actually practiced anything other than Wicca, and I'm curious. I'm not actually interested in learning it, just in learning about it and what you've actually been able to do. And is this more than just a fun thing for you. Is it a spirituality of sorts for you? I'm learning about several belief backgrounds and I'd like to learn something from you. I do know a little about alot of religions, but not pagan traditions.
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lmao! I know! there are sooo many. they need to seperate the religion category into seperate religion. I can't find any questions involving budhists or pagans unless it's something ignorant like,"Why are all muslims terrorists?" How could someone ask that?
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I am somewhat biased on the subject because I am a paranormal investigator. Actually I am reviewing an investigation tape as I type this. I always had a curiosity about ghosts, like most people do. But instead of passing it off as the typical scary stories about things that go bump in the night and the like I delved a little deeper into the subject. And what I have found is amazing! There are all different classifications of ghosts, including the most common type of haunting which is called residual, your typical repeat event. I don't try to prove anything to anyone except myself, and could perhaps be why I have such great results. I do however have a website with some of my findings. Which I have listed below. My answer to your question Yes I believe in them, I needed to know, and I have the evidence. But I respect those of you that don't believe.
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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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I'm not sure what you're asking here...do you want to know whehter any of us have encounter anything paranormal?  If so, I would have to say that almost everyone has...some either don't know that they have or refuse to believe it!
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we all ask for the most part esoteric questions that just have opinions.  what else would we need to ask, if it were just hard facts I would hope we all can hit the search bar and figure out the facts! why else would there be a religion&spirituality section?  Spirituality has nothing to do with fact or figures, maybe religion does. nothing of spirituality has anything to do with facts!
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I think the idea is really, really interesting.  I read a LOT about ghosts and hauntings when I was a kid.  And you can't prove that they don't exist because you can't prove a negative.\n\nHowever, as much as I would love for ghosts to exist, the more I know the more I realize that evidence for ghostly manifestations is probably explainable by non-ghostly, real, but ephemeral phenomena.\n\nFor example, I had a book on ghostly hauntings in England.  There were more scent "hauntings" than any other type, meaning that you would experience the haunting by getting a whiff of pipe smoke or bacon.   This can be explained by the fact that scents can be absorbed by porous materials such as wood and plaster.  After they are absorbed, they will disappear until meteorological conditions,  like high humidity, cause the scent to become airborne and be smellable again.  Given a very porous wall and a long-standing habit like pipe-smoking and you can get whiffs of smoke for geneartions.
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Well, you are certain to get a bunch of Christians jumping on this one, which may be an answer in itself.  Much ignorance is due to having a different point of view (usually christian, but perhaps other "standard" religions as well) that prevents you from seeking real facts.\n\nSecondly, the pagan mysteries have long protected themselves, hiding behind symbols, misdirection and so on, because of persecution.  Remember the burning times!  (i.e., the inquisition.)  Also, I think many modern pagans, witches, wicca, (use what term you will), believe that only a small percentage of people are capable of being a part of the pagan world: one might almost call it snobbery.  Think of Malfoy and his contempt for anyone who is not born a "pureblood" witch or wizard.  You think Rawlings pulled that out of pure imagination?\n\nThen there are those who are simply not ready to tell all they know.  (Where does AuntB93 fit in all this?)
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Witchcraft (Wicca Craeft), is also called Wicca, or alternatively, The Craft. This previously underground religion has much to teach every human about survival and about the ethical use of natural innate powers.\n\n     The Craft is a way of life that investigates every potential that you have.  The Craft draws its strength from the diversity of Nature itself; indeed it rejoices in diversity. Your views and interests are just as valid as anyone else's, and we hope that you too will help to push back the artificial barriers that surround many religious dogmas.\n\n     As we will mention several times on this website, \nWitches are not Satanists. The negativity in that offshoot of Christianity is not for harmonious thinkers such as Witches.
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Hi Tammy, Yes I believe in Ghosts and the paranormal.  I belong to two groups here in wiscinsin, although there is not very much activity up north  where I am.  Foolish of people to think that we alone walk this earth. I wish more people could believe, then maybe our ghostly friends would apear more often and also find resolution in why they are here.
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No, there are plenty of skeptics. \n\nThis is the science section. Most people here are skeptics. That's because we expect things to be supportable with evidence and facts.\n\nPsychism is a scam. It is used to con money out of the weak minded. It doesn't really exist.\n\nIf you want to talk with people who share the fantasy that psychics, ghosts, leprechauns and dragons really exist I suggest you try the religion or folklore sections.
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Wicca is about understanding metaphysics and the great powers of the universe. Wiccans believe in God and Goddess not only a female Deity also male. There are a lot of people making money from religion and spirituality, if you come across such people trying to sell you spells and religious books claiming they know how the world will end and things like that you should know it might just be a fraud. I'm Neo-Pagan so I have read up on Wicca but am still learning. I think the main purpose is to grow spiritually.
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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 am unsure about the Kabbalists beliefs in this sorry\nbut as a spiritualist medium i have to say that i disagree with the theory that some dont go to the light or that they have unfinished buisness\nwhat people get confused with is ghosts ... they are not spirit , they are simply energy that has remained\nwhen we die we are met by spirit , we would have no reason or want to cling to this life in my opinion xx