what are peoples theories on what ghosts are?
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Our consciousness remains after death and exists before birth. Think about it. How much of you is still you if you lose a finger? ane eye? Both legs? If you can still be "you", even if most of you is gone, your consciousness still remains. It doesn't even need you to have conscious thinking (think dreams etc.).\nWhen you die, your consciousness remains. That consciousness can be at peace or disturbed depending on how you lived your life. If you are filled with anger or sorrow or craving you will remain as a conscious being without a body, clinging to the objects or places of your attachments.\n\nHope that helps.
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By "seeing ghosts" what do you mean? Like apparitions? On ur jungle trip what did the ghosts u saw look like? I have never "seen" a ghost, but I have felt spirits and heard things. My dad came back to see us when he passed away. He always told us not to be afraid when he passed on, becos' he would come back only once to make sure we were okay, and then he would be gone forever. We heard him (my sister and I) rummaging through drawers (opening & closing) and then we felt him standing over our beds, of course we were kids and we got scared, but nothing else happened after that. I think ghosts were people who died violent or premature deaths, and have no idea that they are dead. The spirits I feel/hear are people who have accepted their death and need to tell someone they are content and will be okay.
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No. There are no ghosts. It is the creation human mind. The fears that exist in our mind take the imaginary shape of ghost.
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i dont believe in ghost persay, you know, the ones that float around and rattle chains, moan and groan, but i do believe in spirits.\n\ni believe the spirit of a loved one is always present. a spirit is the essence of love, you feel it in your heart, a warm feeling of peace and safety. i do believe in gaurdian angels, again the spirit of a loved one protecting you.\ni believe that my gaurdian angel is a much loved uncle that i was with when he died, i have had experiences that i just could not explain, but when ever these things happen, he is the first thing that pops into my mind, just out of the blue and i feel his presence, his love.
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I have encountered them, and have quite a substantial list of friends who have encountered them. Some things just exist whether you want to believe it or not.\n\nI have a few theories on how someone becomes a ghost, but I should probably explain that I believe in person truth, first. I believe 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 afterlife, than her body will decompose and she will cease to exist. Thus, one way someone could become a ghost, is if that's what they believe will happen to them when they die. For the sake of further clarification, I believe a ghost to be the soul of a living being (including plants and animals) who’s body dies.\n\nAnother way would be if someone dies when they are unsure of what will happen to them after death - their soul is then stuck in limbo until they figure it out. Someone might also become a ghost if there is at least one lesson they have not learned or one goal they have not completed (predetermined by fate), and are stuck in limbo until they learn the lesson(s) and/or complete the goal(s). A third way would be if someone still alive is incapable of coping with the death, and consequently holds that soul back from moving forward until they are able to let go. Finally, someone may also choose to stay behind, for personal reasons.\n\nHere's a little story if you need some convincing: My late dog, Kristy, stayed behind as a ghost for some time after she died early January of 2005. My fiancé and I were watching my parents' house while they were away for a few days. We were the only living beings there, and we had both been downstairs for the past few hours. I went upstairs to fetch something from my room, and just outside my door, I saw something I couldn't explain away as something natural. There was an oval-shaped area of carpet, the size of Kristy when she laid down, that was matted down and warm to the touch, as if she had just been lying there not moments ago. I didn't think much of it as I knew she was still around; I would occasionally feel her presence or even hear the jingling of her collar, as if she were scratching her neck, just beside me. She appeared to stay for a while after we adopted our new puppy, Sam. He was remarkably easy to housebreak, and I'm sure Kristy had a hand in it. I think she also stayed behind to somewhat "approve" of Sam, and to be assured that he was not her replacement.
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Yeah I believe! But I don't believe in all people say that they have seen ghosts! And no, I haven't seen a ghost! Maybe just Casper...on TV! :D
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hamlet was insane, so it's hard to know if he really saw the ghosts or not. as nietzsche said: "always there is a drop of madness in love, yet always there is a drop of reason in madness." maybe the insane see what the rest of us won't.
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Well, actually, what you can call a *ghost* is really a form of energy which manifests itself when one's brain is working at top capacity and thus you can control objects with your mind and such.\nRegarding aliens and UFOs, I think we're not alone in this universe, there's got to be some other lifeforms.
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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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"Believe in" leaves wiggle room for doubt. I have no doubt: ghosts exist. Ghosts are simply discarnate beings whose energies have shifted to another dimension that overlaps and connects with our own.
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I do believe in ghost cuz they often come to my bedroom\nbut for aliens I'm sorry I don't believe in such creatures . As you know vampire and mummy are also ghost so I also believe that they are exist. There are another world out there and we never know what is inside that world. \nThere's Heaven and Hell, it's a place for us when we die. But ghost they cannot go to that place becuz they are not finish their business when they are still alive so they have reimburse it by being a ghost. After thay had finish then they might go to heaven or hell.
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Ghosts don't exist. So, all you have to do is find a way to capture things which don't exist. I suggest you capture it in your imagination, as that's the easiest way to capture things which don't exist. You can use this same method to capture other nonexistent things like leprauchans, fairies, gods, demons, the loch ness monster, bigfoot (the supposed creature, not the monster truck), godzilla, and so forth.
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ghosts are real...but they dont wear clothes
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i'm not sure if i believe in ghosts per say, but i do believe in the spirit world.  \ni do have a story behind it-and you can find it in one of the questions i asked recently.\nanyway, there's alot of people who don't believe in the unknown but i think because they don't want to open themselves up to it.\njust my opinion.
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Scientists don't know everything, but there must be a math involved to prove the theory or something to see before their eyes (my opinion)to believe it. I know many who believe in the paranormal, many having paranormal experiences themselves, and science and religion go hand in hand which also involves the paranormal\n\nHow can scientists solve the matter about ghosts? For a ghost to be freed they must free the weight their soul carries. I actually wrote about this in my msn group because I have my own theories and experiences relating to the soul and body and soul separation and at times had the deceased come to me. In my experiences these were souls requiring the body of a living entity to do what they can't. Afterall the soul is equivalent to the 0, meaning nothing. It requires something (the 1=body) to do its work, see the riddle, and help them. \nObviously there are bad souls as there are good souls, all those that have come to me are troubled by burdens brought on by others. All but one, my children's great grandmother, she used me to say goodbye to the vital blood that she'd never met. \nI have been blessed by the knowledge of knowing that the troubled soul requires the living to help them, to free them.\nBut first, you must be aware of that, only then can you help them. So, if a ghost is present about you, ask them who they are, ask them how you can help them. Then, if you can....\nhelp them to find their path toward the light.\nThere must be a reason why they chose you, was it because they knew you'd know, see them, be able to help them?
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I do indeed. But instead of believeing that they are "spirits" or "souls" I think of them as more a form of energy coming from humans either living or dead. Like when you hear something in your house that has no identifiable source, I believe that it's the energy from the previous owners of the home left behind. Ghosts, to me seem like the energy of the deceased and can be either good or bad depending on the person it belonged to. But that's just my theory :P\n\nOh, and I justify it by believing that humans have such high mental processes, and in times of great stress or joy, I think our brian overworks itself and emits this energy that stays in the world for however long. When we die, I don't believe in heaven or hell, but I'd like to believe that we leave something behind, and having seen and heard ghostlike things, I can only imagine that they are real, and that we do leave behind SOMETHING.
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The phenomena of ghosts is not so easily explained away; there are many explanations. For example, most cases of poltergeist activity are actually caused by someone in the household with latent (often unknown) telekinetic (and possibly telepathic) abilities, reaching out subconsciously. Only very rarely is a poltergeist a true haunt of any kind.\n\nPhantoms (or phantasms) are images of past events (some say they may be glimpses into other dimensions). These psychic echoes are not real. They cannot interact with people who are present because they aren't really there. Because they are simply echoes, neither can they be photographed or recorded. They exist only in the minds of those who see them.\n\nHaunts are typically the energy that remains after death (some might call this the soul) of a being that is attached to a particular place for a particular reason. It might be the spot that they died and wish to warn others, they might be unable to find their rest until their body is located, or they might be seeking to lure others to the same fate that befell them. Usually, a haunt is tied the the location it is associated with and cannot go more than a certain distance from that locale. A kindly and devoted grandparent might manifest as a haunt in the home where he or she lived and was loved.\n\nFree spirits tend to wander a bit more, sometimes getting around remarkably well. There is some debate about the nature of free spirits. Some may also be unaware that they have died. I have read a couple of cases where a person has died and gone about their daily routine until they suddenly saw something (or someone) who told them they were dead. Others may have been strong-willed enough to remain behind to complete a specific task, or just because they were too stubborn to die.\n\nAstral forms (the energy signatures of astrally-projecting individuals) are often perceived to be ghosts, but they are not such (at least, not in the sense that they are dead).\n\nThis is getting a bit long in the tooth, so if you'd like to discuss it further, feel free to contact me.