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Post by Voraxith on Dec 31, 2011 15:01:51 GMT -6
I am a 30 year old man and I've always been interested in the occult and the horror genre, but I'm a pure skeptic and don't take anything seriously. However, I recently moved back in with my family due to the economy, and I have noticed some strange things in their house. To begin, the house is not new, but nor is it that old -- about 20 years give or take. We're not the first family to live here, and we've only just moved in about a year or two ago. There are random bumps and odd sounds in empty rooms; things disappearing (such as pocket knives, lighters, glue, and other odd and ends); water leaking from a ceiling that should not be leaking anything; and weird oppressive feelings of the presence of another person in an otherwise empty room. The activity isn't limited to the dark hours, and everyone in the house has seen, heard, or felt something. The strangest part is that no one had noticed anything like this until after I moved in about 4 months ago, and I wasn't the first to notice whatever is going on. Is it just overactive imagination, or is there something here? I would appreciate any advice or suggestions.
[glow=red,2,300]Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn![/glow]
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Post by Shaz'rahjeem on Jan 2, 2012 22:26:27 GMT -6
I would try a seance to establish weather or not there is anything. Ouija boards are pretty popular for this however there are several necromantic practices that could work just well. If contact can be established then i guess it's a matter of finding out what it wants. I would also consider establishing protection and a banishing spell for myself before contact. I prefer basic barrier circles and wards/ sigils. Then I'll banish everything at the end along with the collapsing of the circle.
It's likely that its manifestation after your arrival is due to your occult connections. If your practicing the 4th way then its likely that this has caused a reaction from it. These things tend to feed of the psychic energies of those around it. Gnosis, the fourth way and awakening in general all generate considerable psychic currents.
Experimentation is always best in these situations. see if you can establish any consistencies in its behavior, if there are any rooms it prefers, times of day/ night etc. all these things will help. I wouldn't worry about it though, these things rarely develop enough strength to become a real threat. Even they where to, they are till our bitches our dimensionless astral bitches.
Awake!!
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Post by boksmutant on Jan 3, 2012 4:35:06 GMT -6
One thing I used to do is confront what ever tripped me out, was too confront the "entity" with a sorta dialog, a sorta diplomacy. Speak to it whether in words or with your mind & try to communicate that it(the entity)is effecting you. Pretty much like being honest with it as you would a person. All the while impressing your true emotions about the issue TO the entity. I'm agnostic & older too & don't really give a shit about ghosts as much now days, but found this all worked pretty good for my own comfort in earlier times. The best part is to humanize the situation by getting to know the ghost:) #1 You start by asking it what it wants. Gently! Slightly humbly out of respect. #2 (when it persists) You stress to it that you have gone "out of your way" to understand it, & have not gotten a clear enough answer. #3 (If it doesn't fuck you up lol) You impress how "patient" you've been with it(the entity) & to no avail. Begin treating it like a person who refuses to stop it's annoyance, & stress too it that you will not take it(the entity) seriously someday very soon. (If anything this will call it's bluff). #4 At this point(which should take weeks, if not months of intense openness on your part), you begin treating it as the family "ghost joke", where you have devalued it openly & spiritually for your own sanity, too the point that it is no longer a threat or a nuisance but a joke.
If it didn't do something significant by then, YOU'VE WON! The point is to establish where YOU stand in relation to "IT". This is important to the "possible" entity, but more importantly to your self who really has the more power in the situation since you have more resources at your disposal than the entity, which should probably be more reactionary in nature. Maybe.
This is just my opinion.
Awake.
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Post by sin on Jan 3, 2012 8:02:01 GMT -6
I don't have much experience with seeing "ghosts", and I remain skeptical of the idea of displaced spirits that exist in another realm and poke into ours from time to time.
I've had a few experiences that I could classify as "sightings" but I tend to lean towards more psychological events. The most recent experience I wrote about in the November issue of Paranormal Explorer:
www.scribd.com/doc/69167074/The-Journey-of-the-Bones
I don't know if this will help you at all, but you might enjoy the read.
There were (2) incidents in my early childhood that I can recall vividly, of dead relatives coming to visit. In both cases, when I look back - I feel fairly certain that what I experienced was hypnagogia. If you are unfamiliar, I recommend the wiki page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
1. When I was about 6 years old, my great-grandfather (father's side) appeared during the night. It wasn't uncommon for relatives to drive to my home in East Boston from Virginia, arriving in the early hours of the morning. This was a weird sort of thing, in that my grandfather was asleep in my bed beside me. I remember the colors of his shirt, the smell, and I reached up and put my hand on his back and whispered: "Papa is that you?" He never turned to face me, and when I woke in the morning the bed was dented in like a large man had been sleeping there, and I was against the wall as if I were making room for him to be there. When I ran out into the kitchen to ask where he was, my mother began crying. She told me that papa wasn't here, that he had passed during the night of natural causes.
2. When I was 11, my Great Grandmother (mother's side) appeared in the living room of our apartment. By this time she had been dead about a month. Our building was family owned, so at one point our apartment was hers, until she grew too old to climb the stairs. She moved into the first floor apartment in the last years of her life. Anyway, the room was dark with just the television set on for lighting. She stood there, I saw her first and whispered: "Nana is that you?" The look on my mother's face was that of horror when she looked up. She was frozen with fear. I didn't quite understand why. She opened the closet door to the left of us, and went inside. I could hear the scrape of metal hangers on an iron rod. And then she shut the door. My mother and I looked at each other for a few minutes before we turned on the light and attempted to look inside. When she opened the door, the clothing was parted (it was a coat closet for us) but no sign of her.
In both cases, it's quite possible that I was in the hypnagogic state. The fact that I was 'sleeping', the rooms were dark, and this didn't occur in broad daylight (while I was awake and alert) is compelling enough for me to remain skeptical of what people call "ghosts". In later years, my mother (an extremely superstitious woman) was convinced that my dabbling in the occult made me a gateway for the dead, as well as demons and such. It was a source of aggravation for me for a long time, because she wouldn't get off my back about my 'aura' which she described as being black as death itself. I couldn't help but laugh and treat her like the lunatic she is. She reminds me a lot of the Mother figure in the Stephen King film: Carrie. There's a history to my name, and its short version (SIN) but that's another story, best left for another time.
She brought in some 'experts' to do some ghost hunting in our home. The 'medium' claimed that the age of our home brought many displaced spirits. Our apartment house was a rooming house (aka flop house) in the 1920's and was renovated in the early 80's for our family abode. My uncle lived on the third floor, my aunt on the first, and my great uncle in the basement. All of them claimed to 'see' things, shadow things, but no real evidence of "ghosts" in my opinion. I chalk it up to mass hysteria, or even memetics - my mother was often imposing with her beliefs and ideas about things. After I married at 21, she "came out" as a 4th generation Clairvoyant. Apparently, my Great Grandmother and her daughter Carol had the 'gift'. I'll admit they knew things that people without the inside intel shouldn't, but I chalk that up to a strong woman's intuition. It was never really anything profound, and I tested my mother constantly. I'm rather good at cold-reading people, and finding the 'tells' that people give with their body language and speech. It makes me an excellent Tarot and Tasseographer.
When I was a child, I toyed with all the typical implements one would use as a meg-shift 'paranormal investigator' and it never produced anything I'd call 'proof'. I spend a lot of time in graveyards for various projects I work on, and have never seen a floating spirit, or even a glimpse of anything I'd call the roaming dead. Cemeteries are quite beautiful and peaceful, everyone is at rest.
I tend to believe that people 'hope' that ghosts are real, as some way to deal with unsettled scores. I also believe that people can manifest apparitions, I am an exorcist by proxy as it relates to my trance work. People often call me too skeptical, even a cynic but that's not accurate. I'm certainly open to the possibility, I've just never experienced anything compelling enough, or seen ample evidence to support the existence of ghosts. I think its imperative that we remain skeptical of our own experiences, because the mind is a beautiful thing. It's full of so much wonder and awe, and 'science' can only quantify it to a certain degree. We discover new things about the human brain all the time. And science has come a long way from the days of labotomies with ice picks, and elecro-shock treatment for homosexuality.
This is why 'Belief is Reality' is appealing, and a viable paradigm. If the belief in ghosts shapes your reality, then to many people (especially those in the field of parapsychology) there is a whole world out there, not seen by most. Many people claim to have 'special gifts' and abilities that make them special snowflakes; which is fine, so long as its providing something to enhance your life, and pinnacle in the building of your soul.
That's my .02, rinse and repeat.
CS
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