8 Responses to “Are ghosts real or a trick of the mind?”Real Ghosts

1. Tomas m
   September 3rd, 2010 - 12:47 pm

   trick of mind

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2. noogy
   September 3rd, 2010 - 1:06 pm

   You can’t prove it scientifically because science deals with physical realities, whereas ghosts are spiritual (in a sense). The way I’ve come to see them is that they are a mental impression of an ego, a convalescence of mental energy, an recording of mental energies (emotions and such) in the astral field, something like that. Not the lost soul of a dead person. Personally, I think that when you die the impersonal consciousness that “wears” you goes about its business and the energy that made you up (the body, the astral and emotional selves) which are earthly energies, return to the earth to be used where they are needed. Personal souls do not makes sense to me, personally, paradoxically.

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3. eko
   September 3rd, 2010 - 1:46 pm

   no

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4. musickkguy
   September 3rd, 2010 - 2:45 pm

   we don’t know

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5. Daddyskaggs
   September 3rd, 2010 - 3:30 pm

   I’ll take a bit of a round the bush way to answer:

   A very persistent but erroneous view of the human condition is often referred to as the “Ghost in the Machine” by philosophers and psychologists alike. The premise of this idea (which was first posited by ancient Grecian philosophers like Plato and Aristotle) is that there are two components to humans: a perishable, corporeal body and an impermeable, immortal soul. Because we humans face problems like will and the ego (see Freud), this belief is extremely durable and almost universal, as can be seen in almost every religion in the world, especially Christians.
   This problem of the Ghost in the Machine is relevant to your question because it is also the source of our beliefs in ghosts. Once we begin believing that there is an immortal, immutable soul component to our body, we begin to envisage where that soul should be going after death. Normally we imagine that the soul would go to a happy place, like the Christian heaven. But throughout human history the idea has been perpetuated that sometimes things go wrong and the soul doesn’t make the trip.
   This idea gets reinforced when we humans, who are by nature pattern-seeking animals, begin to see anomalies in nature, i.e. a shadow moving, a sourceless sound, whisper-like wind. Our powerful imaginations, which were once evolved to help with hunting and the like, now is employed to imagine the source of these anomalies. Put two and two together (the soul & anomalies) and voila, you have a ghost.
   That’s the long answer.

   The short answer? A trick of the mind.

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6. Leannain
   September 3rd, 2010 - 3:46 pm

   I was convinced ghosts were real then I read an article about people with failing vision and how their brain will create images for them to see so I am starting to doubt my convictions on ghosts.

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7. KarenOdette
   September 3rd, 2010 - 4:20 pm

   I once saw a Juster of slippers walking in small steps towards my bed and stopping, it happened in the morning and I just woke up when it happened. I think that’s Ghosts are just Mind Tricks…

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8. Joseph B
   September 3rd, 2010 - 5:15 pm

   Ghosts are real,They’re just human beings still stuck, close enough to physical world reality that some of us are able to perceive them.

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