Paranormal

Will science ever explain the true reality of Ghosts and Spirits? At this time of course, the answer is a residing ‘No!’ and its up to folk to speculate what on earth (or beyond?) is going on.

So what is a ‘ghost?’ Not an easy thing to define and everyone will have their own opinions and theories of what a ‘ghost’ is? Is it a recording of a past (or maybe future) event played out when certain conditions are right? Is it an anniversary of a tragic occurrence or of an intense emotional episode that left its mark on a property? And if these are just recordings (residual energy?) then it will be inert to our communication and all we can hope for is being in the right place at the right time. And what about ‘spirits’? Are they actual entities that have passed to another but unseen dimension but have the ability to return to our earthly plain? A medium once explained his theory to me saying ‘for spirit, it’s just like popping back to look at an old family photo album’. And are poltergeist’s responsible for emotional and often violent occurrences like the famous Enfield poltergeist case?

Or is all this just figments of our imagination? As it’s often said ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ so has there ever been anything tangible to at least support a strong working theory about ghosts? There seems to be plenty of photographic, audio (EVP?), light anomalies, temperature changes and atmospherics gathered as potential evidence of paranormal activity but how reliable is this on something that hasn’t ever been proved? Even if someone was lucky enough to capture a full apparition on photo or video, there will always be the hardened sceptics who offer alternative explanations or merely dismiss it as a hoax! Unlike studying for example, crop circles - here you have the means to take physical evidence of affected corn into a controlled environment or laboratory but with ghosts it is much more difficult to define parameters of study with so little ‘evidence’ to go on despite the continuing claims of unexplained activity.

So where do I stand on the existence of ghosts and spirits? At the time of writing this, I have never seen a ghost or an apparition but have had a few experiences that I could, at a push, define as ‘unexplained’ even after hardened critical analysis. This incredibly complex universe we live in still holds back many secrets that have yet to be explored by conventional science and one can only be optimistic at what will be discovered in years to come?

© Marq English 2011
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