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GHOST HUNTER TIPS,SPIRITS
Help I Have Ghosts! How Do I Get Rid Of Them? If you are experiencing unexplainable things that you feel may be attributed to ghosts or other paranormal activity and you would like to like more information about having the SHGHRS possibly conduct a free investigation, please
A Few Questions And Answers About
Our Consultations And Investigations
How much do you charge? To do a complete and thorough investigation there is a great deal of time and research work involved as well as a few small expenses, but usually we simply do it for the experience and information that we will gain from the investigation, so in most cases our consultations and investigations are free of charge. However, we do accept donations that will help pay for video tapes, batteries, audio tapes, travel expenses and equipment. Depending on the circumstances, such as travel distance to the location, we may ask that our costs be paid, but we never charge for the sake of profit.
What do you do during the consultation?
Normally a couple of our members will travel to the location and interview the concerned party as well as anyone else who resides or frequents the location. During the interview we will ask them a few questions and take notes in order to gain a little more insight and information about the structure/location. The information gained here will help us get a better understanding about the events that have taken place, the history of the structure/location and give us some sort of idea as to what type of spirits may be residing there, so we can start a profile on the spirit. We may also take a few initial instrument readings and take a few pictures.
What will you do during the investigation?
Initially our team will go to the location (preferably between the hours of 9:00 PM and 6:00 AM) and we will take various instrument readings, take photos with various types of cameras, collect video footage and take audio recordings. While doing so, one of our team members will be keeping a log of all activity and recording data. After the initial investigation of the location we will study all the data collected and fill out a very thorough investigation report of our findings, in which we will send a copy to the concerned party. (See "Ghost Hunting Methods" for more information)
What do you do after the investigation?
If we determine that there is a good indication of ghost activity, we will give the concerned party the option of having us do further study of the location, in terms of more onsite investigations, further research into the history of the location and research of past residents and owners. This additional research all contributes to the further profiling of the spirit(s), which will help us find answers as to what type of spirits reside at the location, who the spirits may have been if they were once among the living and help us find possible solutions for stopping the ghost activity.
Getting Rid Of Unwanted Ghosts
To the best of our knowledge, there is no proven, surefire way to get unwanted ghosts and spirits to leave a given area. At this time, we personally feel that a lot of the suggested "religious" methods you will hear about for doing so, are based more on superstitions, old wise tales and Hollywood movies than anything. However, we also feel that if there is any chance at all for solutions, such as holy water, crosses, prayers, exorcisms, telling the spirit to "go into the light" and the likes to work, it would rely entirely on an individuals strong, personal beliefs. Not just the act of going through the motions or having someone else do so. Many also claim that unless the spirit itself was a christian in life, these types of things would not have any effect and in fact could make matters worse.
In the same token, we do not know for a fact whether or not any of the methods, which many ghost and paranormal research organizations suggest, work either. The Strange Happenings Ghost And Hauntings Research Society is not in the business of "Ghost Busting", but we do feel that if individuals who are experiencing ghostly activity are able to learn who the spirits "may" be and why they "might" be there, it "may" be a step in the right direction towards learning how to rid the location of the activity. Helping individuals try to learn answers to these things is a large part of what we do in our research.
At any rate, on this page you will find some common, as well as some "not so common" suggestions for getting rid of ghosts and resolving paranormal activity. We leave it for you to decide what may or may not work for you.
Types Of Spirits
Many suggest that in order to get rid of ghosts, you must first determing what type of spirits they are. Listed below are some suggestions for helping you determine what type of spirit you might have. Be sure to see our "Types Of Spirits" page as well for more information on different kinds of spirits and their characteristics.
Spirits: Feel a cool breeze when no windows are open? Smell a sweet smell or a smell like that of roses or oranges? You most likely have a spirit. Notice I only mentioned things you can feel and smell? Spirits don't have the energy it takes to appear. So you have to rely on your other senses to identify them.
Ghosts: Remember, a ghost was a person and people pretty much retain their full personalities after death. If someone was a complete grumpy jerk in life - they will remain so in death. Ghosts tend to be more attracted to places rather than specific people and they can be downright territorial about those places. In many, many cases, they are just not aware they have passed on. For all the noise and hubbub, a ghost will NOT hurt you. But, by the same token, don't give it the attention it craves or it will get more and more demanding in it's attention getting antics. Also, just like spirits, a ghost will use your energy for themselves to continue manifesting.
Entities: These are the most intense of infestations, and fortunately, very rare. Many people have opinions on what this final level of ghosts are - some people think they are extremely violent individuals, murderers, psychotics, and just plain evil people. I tend to believe that they are something that was never human to begin with. Strangely enough, they are almost exclusively called forth through Ouija Boards, seances, and necromancy ceremonies. If someone else called forth an entity in a home - it can remain dormant for years - even decades - until circumstances are right for it to manifest. It is patient and will wait until it can emerge at it's strongest. It feeds on anger, strive, depression, arguments, and general turmoil. It makes these emotions worse and the worse it can make the situation, the stronger it actually becomes.
How To Tell The Type Of Infestation You Have
Spirits: Spirits do not make noises and are not disruptive. They rarely haunt places and tend to be more attracted to people. They cause little clutter in your daily life and tend to appear when you are stressed or depressed. Strangely enough, I have found that spirits who are haunting you are rarely someone you knew in life. The only reason you don't want a spirit around is in times of stress or depression, a spirit can make matters worse by feeding off your energy and leaving you tired and thus leaving your defenses down. And they won't stop, so before it becomes a problem - better to cleanse your house now.
Ghosts: Ghosts are like Spirits in many ways, they can bring smells with them. Usually oranges or roses. I have also heard of chocolate and baking cookies. You may catch flashes of light out of the corner of your eye. Ghosts tend to have more "personality" than a spirit. You may experience any or all of the following:
Voices out of nowhere.
• The feeling someone is watching you.
• Footsteps leading into or out of rooms that no one is present in.
• An "electric" smell.
• Small items moved (favorite items to move are shoes and jewelry).
• Lights coming on or going off by themselves.
• Electrical appliances coming on by themselves(usually not plugged in).
• Phone calls (yes, sometimes they call).
• Bed covers moved off you (sometimes jerked right off you).
• Touches (light pat on the back, the touch will be warm, never cold).
If you have any or all of these signs of ghost infestation, and you are feeling overly tired or depressed, wanting to keep your drapes and shades drawn and be in the dark, and you are feeling withdrawn and tired all the time, with no good reason, you may be having your energy being sapped by an attention craving ghost. I can not stress enough to have yourself fully checked and given a clean bill of health - if you pass with flying colors - you just might have a ghost.
Do not try to communicate with any presence via a Ouija board or seance and beware of psychics offering to cleanse your home for a fee.
Entities: Often, in the beginning, these are confused with Ghosts. They make noises, project voices, move things, however there is never a pleasant smell with these - even in the beginning. They leave a calling card of an odor not unlike rotten eggs. In addition to all the ghost characteristics above, you can also have any or all of the following:
• Bed covers jerked off -usually violently.
• Physical damage - slaps, hard pinches, scratches and punches. In rare cases -sexual assault.
• Knocks or taps in groups of 3.
• Activity will peak at 3:13 in the morning -you may find yourself waking up at that exact time for no reason in the beginning of the infestation.
• Scratches in the walls that sound like animals.
• Animal noises at night when there are no animals around (dogs fighting, birds screeching or strange sounding birds singing).
• Materialization of Black forms usually either a man or a dog. normally accompanied by a foul odor. These forms have no features they look like a solid shadow.
They can remain dormant for many, many years and can suddenly be drawn forward to active duty if there is a general atmosphere of arguments and tension within a family. The Entity will first center on one person in the home, and this person may think they are losing their mind. That is precisely what the entity wants - the more stressed it can make you the more anxious energy it can draw off of you, thus becoming stronger. The person who tends to become withdrawn or depressed in stressful situations is their ideal candidate.
Less Common Suggestions For Gettting
Rid Of Spirits, Ghosts And Entities
Spirits
Sunlight will diminish a spirit's activity almost immediately. Rosemary works beautifully to render a spirit dormant. If you don't want the dried herbs around - try planting a little. Keep a little potted plant of rosemary in the room that the activity seemed centered around.
Ghosts
Sunlight - sunlight - sunlight - let the light in! Stop acknowledging it and don't talk to it, don't talk about it in your home.. even if it manifests itself right in front of you. If you don't put energy into it - it can't stay. Consider blessing, if you are of a religious nature, consider having the clergyman or religious figure of your choosing bless your home and everyone in it.
Entities
Natural light can render the entity dormant if you take measures to clear up your home life too. No more yelling, and work on clearing up problems, and you can stop the problem before it starts. DO NOT throw holy water around your house or attempt any spirit depart rituals by yourself, this will tend to only anger the entity and it will show you precisely how displeased it is with you between midnight and 3am.
The Following Is An Excerpt From "Footsteps in the Attic" by Paul F. Eno. Be sure to visit his website at www.newenglandghosts.com. He seems to be a very educated individual, and very experienced in ghost and paranormal research. He has many different, metaphysical/quantum physics based views and theories on ghosts and the paranormal. I (Aedryan Methyus) personally feel that these sciences may hold the key to learning many secrets about the paranormal as well as the universe in general. Paul Eno states as follows:
If you believe you are having a paranormal problem in your home, here are some steps you should take:
1. Don't jump to conclusions. Always look for everyday explanations for whatever is happening before deciding that you have ghost problems. Consider psychiatric and other health factors as well. (Hearing and seeing things can be a sign of schizophrenia or temporal-lobe epilepsy.) Banging sounds on the walls or in the heating system can have very mundane explanations!
One fascinating explanation for many phenomena are very low-frequency sound waves or "standing waves." Trapped in a building, these can cause many of the phenomena associated with ghosts. These waves are inaudible to humans but not to many animals. In humans, they can cause feelings of cold, nervousness, "hair standing up on the back of the neck," minor poltergeist activity and even your basic apparition.
2. Bear in mind that if what we've said about "quantum reality" is true, every person and every house will experience space-time "glitches" now and then: the occasional shadow seen out of the corner of your eye, or the iron or bit of clothing found now and again where you didn't put it.
Don't let your imagination take over!
Remember, too, that in places where highly traumatic events are occurring in your house in other areas of space-time, you may experience some of the psychic "ripples." Violent deaths, great suffering and other such events that happened or will happen there can affect your reality. Depending on how sensitive you are, you may hear or see things that don't necessarily mean that your house is "haunted" or that you or other household members are the targets of negative entities.
Nevertheless, it's always best to be on the safe side and to do what's suggested below.
It's when these "glitches" begin to rule your everyday life, when you feel threatened by them and/or when entities begin to clearly manifest and interact with you or your family that you have a paranormal problem.
3. If you conclude that you do have such a situation, realize that you and/or one or more household members are part of the problem. Consciously or unconsciously, people in troubled houses always have a part in causing and/or feeding the phenomena. So you need to find what you're doing that's introducing or encouraging negative energy.
4. Then you need to stop it and bring in positive energy to replace it. I find this always eases the situation and often cures it.
Examples of negative energy: using Ouija boards or other occult practices that "open the door" to parasites, negative feelings among those who live in the house (fights, grudges, financial strains, etc.) and the extreme depression or anxiety of you or any other household member.
5. Part of bringing in this positive energy is fostering good feeling, humor, love and other unifying and uplifting factors in your household. Also, good physical exercise and developing healthy interests outside the home will help.
This is always good for a household, whether you have paranormal problems or not.
6. If you do encounter an "orb," entity or other manifestation, try to avoid fear or anger. If it really is a negative entity, this will deny it the negative energy it subsists on. As a matter of fact, always try to send out feelings of love, compassion and peace.
7. In general, however, do not give these entities attention. Do not try to communicate with them: They are not your friends! Don't try to get "chummy" and don't convince yourself to feel comfortable with them around, even if they seem "friendly."
Instead, concentrate on fostering positive energy among the household members.
8. Anytime you are afraid, pray in whatever way is comfortable for you. Visualize yourself, other household members and your home engulfed in a peaceful, positive white light. This will "take the wind" out of a negative manifestation by strengthening you instead of it.
9. This is not advice you often hear in the Western Hemisphere but, when you are afraid, you can call upon your good ancestors (not the horse thieves or mad monarchs) to help protect you and your home. I find that this is a very powerful practice! Each of us is the sum of our ancestors, no matter how far back they go. We are part of them and they are part of us. Since there really is no death, these loved ones are always in some parallel world and there is a bond between you and them. Many are in a position to help.
Call especially on particular loved ones you have known, a beloved grandmother, for example. If you are fortunate enough to have a picture of the person, put it in a prominent place in your home or carry it in your pocket or purse. These people will manifest as quiet and loving presences, and some may be protecting you already. Their presence is a far cry from the cold, sterile and sometimes violent presence of parasites and tulpas.
10. If you belong to a particular religion, praying and using "sacramentals" and sacred objects such as icons, your scriptures or holy water can help. Strange to say, beware of calling in clergy unless you are very sure they can be trusted. Believe it or not, very few of them are trained in how to deal with these phenomena and if they don't know what they're doing they can complicate the situation. www.dhyansanjivani.orgwww.strangehappeniigfngs.orgyantraguru@hotmail.com
Toltec Black Magic
Magical Power Since I retired, my hobby of "ghost stories" has opened many strange doors that I wish I had looked through when I was younger. If esoteric agencies and ghosts existed, I reasoned, then the next step was to find ways of banishing the more troublesome ones. Hence Toltec Magical Power seemed like an interesting way to spend a weekend. It certainly beat a demonstration of divination using Ouija boards and tarot cards that I had been invited to. That old spiritualism stuff is really slow. I had enjoyed some the books of Carlos Castaneda. (Castaneda portrays himself as an ultimate inept student and his teacher, Don Juan Matus as an ultimate wise guru in the shape of a Mexican sorcerer.) This trainer introduced himself as a member of a parallel lineage to Castaneda, and demanded complete control during the workshop. I thought that maybe the guy's mind was still in Mexico, but I wanted to stay so I agreed to his rules. Not everybody stayed. One couple argued with him briefly and left, declaring that this was a workshop about building power - not about giving their power away. I silently applauded them. The first day was a series of meditations and movements to open body power points. It was interesting, but similar to other methods which I already knew (a common problem for workshop junkies). At the end of the day, the teacher asked for permission to visit our bodies as we slept that night; in the same way that his teacher had done for him. Nobody challenged this - sometimes we Canadians can be too trusting. Or maybe nobody believed him. Crazy Dreams The next morning started in chaos. Three women accused the trainer of "mental abuse". This became a yelling contest and two of the women asked for their money back. The lady who organized the workshop quickly stepped in and took charge - she was a GOOD mediator - in a few minutes we were a class again, with the angry women willing to work through their discomfort during the day. I knew one of the angry women, Mary, fairly well. We had met quite a few times. She is generally a dynamo, interested in everything and willing to try anything. She is also good-looking. We chatted during a break, and I daringly asked if she was attracted to the teacher. But no, she thought that he had a disagreeable personality and that his skin looked sick. She suspected that he had no real personal power - until she awoke from a horrible dream. For most of my adult life I was a psychotherapist, and I remain a good listener. Most people can relax with me and talk about what's on their mind without fear of criticism or ridicule - especially if the topic involves ghosts. Mary said that "mental rape" wasn't the half of it. It was more like deviant sexual humiliation. But she was willing to call it a crazy dream until further notice. The rest of the workshop was OK. We learned some body movements - almost dances - that were supposed to collect power from earth energy fields. The earth energies, once collected, could be stored in the body and could later be used, with intent, to change things. The teacher said that our collected power might fade at night, and told us how to recharge our magical power in the morning. He mentioned (in response to a question) that spirits of people could also be "captured and stored" - but that he wouldn't teach us how to do that. We ended the workshop listening to Mexican folk songs. Mary phoned me later that week. She said that she could not sleep without re-experiencing the trainer's presence - and that she was exhausted by her dreams and her body sensations. Her descriptions were similar to people who who live in haunted houses. Or maybe it was some wild transference. But I was curious if the trainer could deliberately leave some of his "self" or "energy" in or close to other human beings. Or perhaps the trainer could steal a person's "energy". Or both. Or something else. Mary said that she was afraid to sleep, and that she had set an alarm clock to awaken her every fifteen minutes to avoid deep sleep. She added that her skin was starting to look gray - like the trainer's. After a week or so, she phoned again, then came to my home. She directly asked me to help her. I replied that I was no longer practicing psychotherapy, but that I could refer her to a younger colleague. "No", she said, "not that help. I want real help - magical help". I sighed deeply, thought about it, and sighed again. "I'm not a magician", Mary", I said, "I like checking out ghost stories. I only ... ". I think I'm haunted!She smiled thinly and interrupted, "That's right - and that's why I ask. I think I'm haunted". Well. I felt trapped by my own words. I wrote a short disclaimer and asked her to sign it - that if I ask her some questions - that any answers that she might make or actions that she might take were her own responsibility, and that this was free, with no payment received or expected. It was rubbish, legally, but I felt flustered, and writing it helped me organize my thoughts. At my suggestion, we went to a local park, and sat by a statue of some war hero. (Everybody here knows the statue, but nobody knows who he was - so much for passing fame). I wanted the sounds of nature around. Although the loudest noise was from passing traffic, a few birds assisted and mingled with the laughter of children in the play area. I followed some steps that I use to check haunted houses, to help Mary see and identify what was affecting her. She tensed and started to tremble. I held her hand and repeated "I am with you". Mary found what she called a nest of snakes centered on her lower back. On examination, these snakes were not snake-like - more like moving hollow tentacles that could attach to things and suck. They seemed to bring some form of energy into her body. I asked her to locate the center - and suddenly she whimpered. "Omygod!", she moaned, "it really happened". She said that maybe the workshop had actually "worked" and that maybe the trainer had done what he said he would do - what she had agreed to. She could now "steal energy" (her words) and store it in her body - in her womb. She said that since the bad dream during the workshop she had felt uncomfortably connected to the trainer "through" her womb, hence a feeling that she had been raped. We explored more. One of her "snakes" was longer, darker and thicker than the others, and Mary said that it could stretch to infinity. But it seemed to "blow" energy rather than "suck". We followed the connection - to the Spanish trainer. He seemed to have a similar but larger nest of snakes; except that his "snakes" seemed to all connect to people, of which Mary was only one. His snakes centered on his abdomen, not his lower back. Mary said that his "snakes" looked more like pulsing umbilical cords. And he also had a had a larger connection that appeared to send the energy to some other person... This was horrific. If at all true, then people could indeed be "energy collectors". People could gather My muscles tensed. I stopped and carefully checked myself - could I be another collector? It seemed not. Was I too old? The wrong sex? Not compliant enough? Not enough energy? I relaxed and we moved on to the important question - how could we remove her psychic snake nest?
The most difficult part of psychotherapy is making a diagnosis that explains all the symptoms. After that, remedial work is often straightforward. Mary and I tried some therapeutic and magical techniques without success, and we arranged to meet again the next day.
During meditation that evening, I found a solution. We could deliberately send something - a LOT of something - through the connection to the trainer, during the day when it would be unexpected. We did this when we met the next day - and it worked! Mary's umbilicus-like tentacle disintegrated, and the "collector" tentacles faded away.
(I have since learned far more efficient and elegant methods of diagnosis, esoteric healing and spiritual coaching which were derived in part from native Hawaiian shamanism. The source is Soulwork Systemic Coaching and I recommend it to those who explore separate realities and altered states.) On completion - Mary was shocked but could relax. Two days later she phoned to thank me and to say that she slept peacefully for a long time. She asked if she could call me again if "those horrible things return". But she didn't phone, and when we met a few months later at an evening talk, she said that it was all like a nearly-forgotten dream. www.dhyansanjivani.org
The Ghost Hunters’ by Peter Underwood, (Robert Hale, London, 1985), Chapter 7, pp.120-133
Dennis Wheatley, 'the Prince of Thriller Writers', may be widely known for his many best-selling fictional stories of adventure, history and black magic but he was also very seriously interested in the possibility of ghostly appearances, stemming from an experience he had as a boy, and if he cannot be regarded as a typical ghost hunter, he quietly pursued his interest in the subject for most of his life. No book about ghost hunters would be complete without including something of his quest for knowledge in the twilight world of the unseen.
I vividly recall the first time I met Dennis Wheatley, in 1960. A delightful man with charming manners, considerable gifts as a conversationalist and enormous energy – he once produced a book of 172,000 words in seven weeks – considerable self-confidence and remarkable resourcefulness (who else would have thought of paying for his honeymoon by selling a classic of pornography to a woman friend?), he was indeed a man of many parts.
My memory of that visit, aided by my notes, is still clear. It was a wet day when I travelled through the New Forest to Grove Place, Lymington, at that time the delightful Georgian home of successful Dennis Wheatley. His butler (hired for the day) showed me into the enormous book-lined study-cum-drawing-room.
Dennis himself greeted me, a colourful figure in brilliant multi-coloured silk smoking jacket, pale blue open-necked shirt, light oatmeal trousers, coloured socks and beautiful light brown shoes. A stocky figure with greying hair parted neatly down the centre, a large nose and ruddy complexion, this worldly man of great charm introduced me to his wife Joan and made me comfortable with a wonderfully mellow sherry beside the great fireplace. Mrs Wheatley, I learned, enjoyed gardening, needlework and good thrillers – she read five or six each week at that time – and sitting quietly beside the fireplace as we chatted, she seemed the perfect wife of a perfect thriller writer.
Dennis started his literary career at an early age: while still at school he was entertaining his dormitory companions with his made-up serial stories, full, even in those days, of vivid and startling adventures. He was soon reading the current works of the masters of his future craft and not many years later he was writing literary interviews, book reviews and articles. The only son of a wine merchant, Albert David Wheatley, and Florence Elizabeth Harriet Baker he entered the family wine business at sixteen. At thirty-four he was a successful wine merchant in his own right and director of several companies. Then he turned to writing as a profession, but in 1960 he was still an experienced hand at making cherry brandy and nectarine and tangerine gin, sometimes from fruit from his orchard, the trees trained against the many walls in the two-acre garden.
Dennis's first book was written in off-duty hours while he was in the Mayfair wine business. He had been reading a thriller and said as he put it down: 'Absolute rubbish – I could write a better thriller myself.' His wife had said: 'Well, why don't you?' The Forbidden Territory (with jacket designed by Joan Wheatley) was published in 1933 and later filmed; it quickly established him in the front rank of best-seller fiction writers, and within seven weeks that first book had sold seven editions! He went on to write more than forty best-sellers, his sales averaging half a million copies a year, his total sales in the region of fifteen million, and he never knew a literary setback. Well might he have told me, with characteristic (mock) modesty and with rare understatement: 'I suppose you can call me a success.' The constant demand for his works can be judged by the fact that every one of his books is still in print.
It was the Times Literary Supplement which pinned onto Dennis the tag that stuck for the rest of his life: 'Prince of Thriller Writers', a term which he was inordinately proud of and which he justified every time he wrote a new thriller – which was something like once a year until 1976 when, having written the final novel in his Roger Brook series, he decided to write no more fiction but to endeavour to complete his memoirs, which he did, though he did not live to see publication of the final volume. I am sure he would have been delighted by the words on the tombstone of his grave in Brookwood Cemetery: 'Dennis Wheatley 8.1.97 – 10.11.77 "Prince of Thriller Writers" RIP.'
Witchcraft was one of Wheatley's favourite subjects, and his books based on that subject sold prodigiously; indeed he told me that his books brought him between £5,000 and £10,000 each. His publishing income was derived entirely from the printed word; writing for films, radio or television would only have meant his having to pay enormous sums in income tax. He treated the subject of the occult cautiously and carefully, turning out one book on the subject every four years – and not from first-hand knowledge, he was careful to add! 'I've never attended any magical ceremony in my life,' he told me. 'Although by all accounts there is plenty of black magic practised at the present time. I don't intend ever to play a personal part in the subject; I am convinced that it can be dangerous.' Perhaps this conviction is the cause of the mounting tensions and convincing air of danger that pervade his stories of Satanism and devil worship. He was an acknowledged master of stories about black magic, and John Dickson Carr chose his story The Snake for inclusion in the anthology he edited entitled Best Black Magic Stories. The authenticity of these stories is what puzzles readers who have some knowledge of the subject, but Wheatley told me, as he told everyone else: 'I've never dabbled in black magic. Whatever you want to know, someone has written about it.' And if a book was authoritative, authentic and informative on some out-of-the-way subject, I discovered, it would be found in Dennis Wheatley's library of some four thousand books at Grove Place, a library which he sold when he and Joan moved from Lymington to London.
Although Dennis always said that he had never been present at a magical or occult ceremony of any kind or even at a séance, this was not strictly true. In my autobiography, No Common Task, I recount one 'occult' ceremony that he told me about, and there was another occasion where the full story has never been told.
That first occult ceremony, as he called it, took place in Wales, at Trelyden Hall near Welshpool, the home of long-standing friends of the Wheatleys, Charles and Joan Beatty, or Joan Grant as she is better known. It was a pleasant, rambling old house where Charles Beatty practised magic rituals and strange rites which included what he called a Ceremony of the Roses, one magical ceremony that Joan and Dennis Wheatley did witness.
The rose is, of course, a very ancient magical symbol, and those curious practitioners of the occult arts known as the Brethren of the Rosy Cross, or Rosicrucians, took for their badge or chief symbol a rose – and combined it with a cross. The rose was the symbol of Venus, the goddess of erotic love, and legend has it that the origin of the rose can be found in the blood of Venus, when wounded by Cupid's dart. The rose was also the symbol of secrecy.
Dennis told me that what interested him most during the Ceremony of the Roses as practised by Joan and Charles Beatty, apart from the obviously erotic element, was the element of power that pervaded Charles during his performance of the ceremony. Dennis knew Aleister Crowley and he thought that Crowley had really succeeded on at least one occasion in raising Pan; he told me about one incident that had convinced him that Crowley possessed or could conjure up occult power.
While still an undergraduate at Cambridge, Crowley was already deeply interested in the occult sciences, and he was very keen to get the university dramatic society to put on a play by Aristophanes, during the course of which he intended to perform some authentic spells. When the Master of John's College refused to allow any such thing, Crowley was annoyed. He manufactured a wax figure of the Master and, with a coven he had formed among his friends at the university, he created the atmosphere, chanted a spell and was preparing to thrust a large needle into the image when one of his friends lost his nerve, broke the circle and grabbed Crowley's arm. The deflected needle pierced the ankle of the image, and the circle broke up in disarray. Next day the Master did not appear and he was incapacitated for weeks with a broken ankle. Whatever the explanation of that particular incident, which Dennis had heard from several different sources – and it was put about that the Master had fallen down some steps – Dennis sensed in Crowley a sensuous and hidden power that he now recognized in Charles Beatty. Whether it was because of the mumbo-jumbo associated with him or in spite of it, it made a deep impression on Dennis and he believed some people did possess a hidden power that could be used for good or for evil purposes.
That Ceremony of the Roses that he and Joan witnessed was held in a darkened room, with light concentrated on a sofa covered with black velvet and sprinkled with rose petals. Joan Beatty entered wearing a long cloak fastened at the neck with a silver clasp in the shape of a rose. Charles, also wearing a long dark cloak proceeded to address Joan and shower her with rose petals from a huge bowl on a table at the side of the sofa; after making various passes with a sword and speaking quietly to her, he seemed to put her into some kind of trance.
In the otherwise dead silence Charles continued quietly to issue commands to her and she appeared to writhe and breathe deeply as he continued his abjurations and then, after a few more passes with his sword and sprinkling with rose petals, she raised one hand as though in a dream and unclasped her cloak; when it dropped to the floor, it revealed that she was completely naked. She raised her hands above her head, looked upwards as directed by her husband and, as she stood there, like a statue, Charles flicked more rosewater and rose petals all over her body, which was denuded of all body hair. When her body was glistening and quivering in ecstasy, he led her to the sofa, where she lay in an abandoned position. He anointed her whole body with some aromatic oil until she appeared to be in an ecstatic condition, writhing and contorting her body sensually in tune with the administration of his hands. The tension mounted as she stretched and raised herself to meet his hands as they stroked and darted all over her body; soon his lips replaced his hands and eventually Joan reached and passed a fever pitch of excitement. As she became calmer and lay as though asleep but with her eyes open, Charles ceased to touch her and after making a number of passes over her inert body, in a low, monotonous voice he commanded her to speak – or could it all have been in Dennis's vivid imagination?
She talked, Dennis told me, as though she was in a previous incarnation, in ancient Egypt in fact, and the Wheatleys listened fascinated as Charles took down every word she uttered. He seemed obsessed with traditional occult symbolism and ceremonies, and it seemed to Dennis that his concentration and power influenced whatever powers were abroad that night. Joan Beatty spoke in every way as though she were living in Egypt centuries ago, and the Wheatleys never forgot that strange and striking ceremony. Dennis in particular was certain that some kind of power that was not of this world flowed between Charles and his wife that night, and he not only used some of the rituals and ideas that he witnessed that night in future books but also became very aware that reincarnation could well be a fact.
The second occult ceremony which Dennis used to say he almost witnessed took place in the 1950s on the occasion of the Wheatleys' first visit to Brazil, where Dennis obtained a great deal of background information for his last Gregory Sallust novel, The White Witch of the South Seas. On the evening of their first day in the country, a friend, Tony Wellington, arranged for them to attend a Macumba or Umbanda, a ritualistic Brazilian religion which worships West African gods, the ceremonies involving drumming, dancing and apparent possession by means of communicating with Voodoo gods.
Tony Wellington was a member of the British Embassy staff and he arranged for the Wheatleys to have a police escort in case they were discovered and set upon by the worshippers as not being members of the cult; their white skins alone would mean nothing, as thousands of rich white people in Brazil worshipped the Voodoo gods.
Tony and his wife, Joan and Dennis, two policemen and two policewomen made up the party, and they drove several miles into the country and into a dark forest. There they left the two cars they were travelling in and proceeded on foot through the trees and up a narrow stairway composed of short boards kept in place by pegs on which hung the bodies of a number of chickens, their heads missing. Eventually they arrived at a plateau with tiers of benches on two sides and at one end a Voodoo altar containing fruit, flowers and crude pictures of saints.
Here the women were separated from the men, and when the place was filled with hundreds of people, the ceremony began. An old white-haired Negro smoking marijuana led a shuffling dance followed by a string of girls who linked arms, formed a circle and swayed backwards and forwards to the rhythm of drumming. At this point Dennis usually said that a downpour of rain caused all the participants to run for cover and so they never witnessed any occult ceremony or manifestation, but he told me that in fact the ceremony was well under way before the rain began.
The drumming had increased to a tremendous pitch and when the old Negro retired to a position beside the altar, the girls' dancing became more and more abandoned. Then a sinewy young negro, tall and slim and naked, bounded into the centre of the circle and proceeded to dance and spring into the air to the obvious delight of the circle of girls, whose light frocks and skirts were soon thrown away as the heat and excitement of the ceremony affected each of them. Suddenly the male dancer stopped dead, as motionless as a statue. The drumming faded away to a dull throbbing, the dancing girls came to a standstill and they watched as he ran his hands up and down his gleaming body as he strutted round and round within the circle of girls, a rampant cock of the roost. After making the rounds of the circle several times, he became supple and alluring, then jerked his body erect, tense and thrusting as he responded to the renewed crescendo of the drums and the delighted clapping of the girls.
Soon the drumming ceased again and a young Negress, completely naked, ran into the circle and began to dance. The drums began again, this time in an unchanging monotone, and the girl danced, her eyes fixed in a sightless stare. She broke out of the circle and made her way towards the old Negro beside the altar and there danced before him, almost touching him and inhaling the smoke from his pipe; then she made her way towards the rows of chanting men – now dancing and stamping to the rhythm of the drums, now completely motionless, her arms high and legs apart, panting in the moonlight.
Back into the circle of girls a live black cock was handed to her. She raised it high above her head and then, holding the terrified bird at arm's length, she began to turn, faster and faster; she swung the cock by its legs; faster and faster she whirled in frantic ecstasy. The drums rose to a shattering finale, the girl was suddenly motionless and the dying cock twisted its neck convulsively and crowed before it died. And then the rains came and everyone ran for cover.
It was a scene which Dennis was to draw upon in the years that followed – or was it all in his imagination? Certainly it was an evening that sickened both Joan and Dennis, but the atmosphere and the tension and the excitement that were created by the drumming and the dancing always remained with them.
Fascinated yet frightened of the paranormal, the occult, the unknown – call it what you will – Dennis could never leave it alone. He met and talked with not only Aleister Crowley 'the wickedest man in the world', but also Montague Summers, Rollo Ahmed, Joan Grant (as we have seen) and Sir Paul Dukes.
Montague Summers (1880-1948) was a professed Roman Catholic priest who taught classics; he was the author of more than fifty books, lived for many years in Italy and became known as an expert on black magic, witchcraft and strange cults and beliefs. On the couple of occasions that I met him, a tall and stately man with flowing white hair, I was impressed by his kindliness and all but overwhelmed by his gullible acceptance of just about everything in the realm of what he called the 'supernatural, miracles, ghost phenomena and vampires', which he was convinced were a very real manifestation of evil. Dennis Wheatley found him 'an interesting character' and reminiscent of a Restoration bishop. He lived at that time at Alresford, and Dennis and Joan visited him there for a weekend. Dennis told me neither of them ever forgot the bedroom they occupied and the innumerable big spiders on the ceiling! Although Dennis felt it would be inhospitable to make too much of a mess of the ceiling, he had no hesitation in squashing several of them into 'bloody blotches', but many still remained and the Wheatleys spent a rather uncomfortable night with the feeling that spiders were likely to drop on them at any time! In the morning Joan came across an enormous toad in the garden which Montague Summers said was the reincarnation of a dear friend of his which he fed and looked after. When Dennis inadvertently offended him by refusing to buy a book he had never heard of for £50, the not so reverend gentleman became a different man; his normally benign face 'became positively demonic', Dennis told me, and he threw down the book and stamped out of the room. The Wheatleys sent themselves a telegram with an excuse to leave; they did so and never saw Montague Summers again.
Dennis always described Rollo Ahmed as one of the most unusual men he had ever met, a man of profound knowledge whose presence radiated power. The publication of Dennis's first book on black magic, The Devil Rides Out, aroused considerable interest and discussion, and he was asked to write a serious book on the subject of black magic but he did not feel competent to do so at that time and he suggested Rollo Ahmed, who had been born in Egypt but had spent the greater part of his life in the West Indies. There he had acquired first-hand knowledge of Voodoo and Obeah, later studying occult practices in various parts of Europe and Asia. He was a practitioner of Raja Yoga. Ahmed had in fact been the source of much of the original material in Dennis Wheatley's fictional book, and on more than one occasion he surprised Dennis with a practical demonstration of his undoubted powers. Once a member of the Society for Psychical Research, who accompanied Dennis on a visit to Rollo Ahmed, sensed or saw a dark form standing beside Rollo throughout the visit. Ahmed's book, The Black Art, with an introduction by Dennis Wheatley, has become something of a collector's item, and Dennis always referred to it as one of the best books he had ever read on the subject.
Joan Grant has always accepted the idea of reincarnation, and Dennis, having a similar conviction, enthusiastically reviewed her first book, Winged Pharaoh, in Current Literature. Furthermore he sent a copy to Howard Spring, at that time the Evening Standard book-reviewer, who also reviewed it favourably, and Joan and her second husband, Charles Beatty, became firm friends of the Wheatleys. Joan Grant has always maintained that her books have been dictated while she has been in semi-trance. Her second husband, as we have seen, was always interested in occult symbolism and ceremonies, and together they provided, in one way and another, material for several of Dennis's books. With her third husband, Dr Denys Kelsey, Joan became much involved in psychotherapy but she is best known for her books grounded in reincarnation and her entertaining autobiographies. The year 1979 saw publication of The Collected Works of Joan Grant.
Sir Paul Dukes was a member of the Ghost Club, and Dennis Wheatley always found him an interesting man, as well he might, for Sir Paul had been a top secret agent in Russia in 1918. He too was adept at Yoga, accepted the principle of reincarnation and possessed an enquiring mind. Dennis told me that in Sir Paul Dukes he saw reflected some of the qualities and achievements that he would have liked to attain.
In all the years that he was a member of the Ghost Club, Dennis would never take part in any of our investigations. He was completely convinced that paranormal activity was objective and established beyond any doubt; furthermore, he felt very strongly that it was unwise and possibly dangerous to explore the subject in any practical way. I am convinced that to a large extent this attitude and utter conviction went back to what he always described as 'the most terrifying experience' of his life.
It had happened when he was a boy at a boarding-school at Broadstairs, an establishment run by a Mr and Mrs Hester and Milly Evans, where, he told me on more than one occasion he learned little except that if one could take a ship from the end of Margate pier and follow the direction of the pier, one would not strike land until one came up against the ice of the Arctic, for Margate pier pointed due north, and in the winter, Dennis would add, one certainly knew it! The story has been told before but it made such an impression on Dennis Wheatley that it should be related in any appraisal of the man and his researches into paranormal activity (such as they were), for he relived that never-to-be-forgotten episode in his life when he made the central character experience it in his very successful novel The Haunting of Toby Jugg.
The house that he knew as a boarding-school had a front door that opened onto a narrow hall leading to a flight of stairs that led to the first and second floors where the boys' bedrooms were situated. One night, he was going up to bed much later than normal, having slipped out of the school with his friend Bernie Amendt, whose father was head of the catering department of the old Great Eastern Railway. Bernie was a little way ahead of him, and Dennis was nearer to the banisters.
Dennis told me that his own head at that time only came up to the height of the banister rail and he had the habit of walking up the stairs looking between each banister as he did so.
Suddenly, as he looked between the banister, he found himself staring straight into another face on the other side of the banister, only inches from his own – and a remarkably horrible face at that! Beyond the face he could make out the dim outline of the crouching form of a man's body, and above he saw a man's hand grasping the rail of the banister. The face (he told me that more than seventy years later he could still see it plainly) was round, almost bloated, very white and quite horrible. The youthful Dennis was petrified with fright, 'struck dumb with fear' as he used to say, and for a second or two he could not move.
Meanwhile Bernie had reached the staircase landing and was looking out of the window, whispering, 'Oh what a lovely moon.' His voice brought Dennis back to reality – he screamed, turned, plunged downstairs with just a single glance backward as he reached the bottom. The figure had moved; swiftly and noiselessly it was gliding up the stairs beyond the landing, having passed Bernie, who was in the act of turning towards his friend. At the sound of Dennis's voice, Bernie came pelting down the stairs, asking, wide-eyed, what had happened. 'A burglar,' Dennis shouted. 'Help, help, a burglar.'
Mr and Mrs Hester, Milly Evans and a man they had invited to dinner all came running out of the ground-floor sitting-room, and while the women sought to pacify Dennis and Bernie, the men seized the nearest implements they could lay their hands on and set off upstairs to tackle the intruder. There was no way out for him – no backstairs, no fire escape, no unbarred windows, and in any case it was a thirty-foot drop from the upper floor where he must have gone. Every room was searched, both floors and even the ground floor, absolutely everywhere, but of the mysterious stranger there was no sign. Nothing had been taken, nothing had been interfered with, and there was no trace of any stranger having been in the house, no marks, nothing.
They tried to tell Dennis that his imagination had played him tricks, and perhaps to take his mind off the matter he received a stern talking-to, together with Bernie, about where they had been and what they had done and why they had not been in bed at that hour – but what he had seen was vivid and clear to Dennis and so it remained for the rest of his life. Eventually he and Bernie were put to bed and read to sleep. Soon the strange experience was forgotten at the school, and life went on, but for Dennis the mystery was a very real one and was only solved, to his satisfaction, many years later.
During the First World War Dennis was in France and one day, as he was walking along a road behind the lines, an ambulance came towards him, screeched to a stop and the female driver alighted and greeted him. 'You're Dennis Wheatley, aren't you? Do you remember me? I'm Milly Evans.' Surprised but delighted to see someone from the past, Dennis and Milly chatted for a few moments, recalling past days, and then Milly said, 'Do you remember that figure you saw at the school?'
'Remember it – I should think I do,' replied Dennis. 'Don't tell me they caught that burglar?'
'You thought it was a burglar,' Milly replied. 'But it wasn't. We let you think that because we didn't want to frighten you but in fact it was some sort of supernatural manifestation that you saw and from the description you gave us, a pretty nasty one. You see the Hesters were keen on exploring spiritualism at that time, and two or three times a week we used to sit and practise table-turning and all that sort of thing. There was never any doubt in their minds, or mine either for that matter, that what had happened was that our séances had attracted some sort of elemental and that it had materialized and begun to haunt the place. The Hesters were so scared of what they had conjured up that they gave up spiritualism.'
This vivid, personal and unsought experience at a very early age convinced Dennis Wheatley beyond any shadow of a doubt that there are planes or spheres outside our physical world and that disembodied entities of low intelligence can be contacted and can materialize and manifest. Such an impression did the experience make on Dennis that for the rest of his life he would take no part in any paranormal investigation – although his interest remained avid and his curiosity unabated.
I often talked with Dennis about ghosts and supernormal happenings, and he agreed that there had been far too many well-documented and thoroughly investigated and authenticated instances of such happenings for them all to be dismissed as dreams, fantasies or hallucinations – he certainly could never dismiss his youthful experience in such terms – and he felt that perhaps there is within everyone an eternal element which would explain so much in the history of paranormal activity. What happens to this element – or spirit if you like – at the time of the death of the physical body was what interested Dennis.
I remember he remarked that Christian religion teaches us that the spirit goes to heaven and is judged on the performance in the body it has left as to whether it is elevated to eternal joy or condemned to everlasting suffering. He could not accept that a spirit's timeless future depended upon its behaviour during a single lifetime on earth. What of children who die, he would ask; what of people made bitter and resentful by disease or misfortune; what of children born to criminals who never know any other way of life but that which is evil; what of the person who lives a good and blameless life until, in one mad moment, he or she is driven in desperation to commit some unforgivable sin?
Other religions, Dennis would go on, teach us that the spirit or eternal spark within all of us has already inhabited many bodies and, since the body is only a temporary lodging place, when that lodging place no longer exists, the spirit is reincarnated in another body, a body that would provide the vehicle for the spirit to progress further towards perfection. Thus each life is a lesson, and sometimes one slips back a little, sometimes one progresses a little, but eventually sufficient progression would be achieved to cease reincarnation and exist in complete serenity and happiness, helping other spirits in other bodies to progress to a similar perfect happiness.
Dennis accepted the latter hypothesis and believed that reincarnation was the only logical and just explanation of life on earth and of life after death, and he said to me, many, many times: 'I am a convinced believer in reincarnation. Look into it. It is the only complete and satisfactory answer to everything.' The last time I spoke to Joan Wheatley was in June 1982, when her beloved Dennis had been dead for nearly five years. I told her that I had plans to write about him and his work and she replied, 'Oh how exciting. Yes, of course you can certainly count on my helping you in every way I can.' But by then she was very elderly, and when I talked with Joan's son by a previous marriage, Major-General Sir John Younger Bt CBE, he told me that his mother was so elderly and frail that she really would not be of any use to me; she could no longer concentrate for more than a few moments at a time, and soon after talking with me, she had forgotten all about me. Dennis closed his three-volume autobiography by saying that his life in private and in public had been one of extraordinary good fortune, and he felt deeply grateful to all those who had shared his joys and who had wished him well, 'but "The Party is Over Now".' It would be nice to think that his enquiring spirit continues to influence those still in the land of the living.
Ghost Story
"One June day, my friend was walking out of a pizza store. His brother and sister ran to the car so they could get front seats. He walked with his mom and dad very slowly. Well, this homeless looking guy appeared in front of them. He looked like he was starving, and he asked for their left-overs! So, they gave him the left-over food. The man said, "Thanks," and walked off. They started walking away, too. My friend felt so good because of that. Well then, he looked over his shoulder a few seconds later, and the man just went up in the air!"-Kaitlyn "O.K. My name is Ian and my uncle Jake died 5 yrs ago from a heart problem.One night I was in my room at about 10:00 PM reading a book and I heard a noise in my hallway. My mom was in the basement and my dad and sister were in bed; so I got up to see who it was. I saw a dark figure just standing there...then, it looked at me and vanished! The next day when I woke up I realized it was my uncle Jack (because when it looked at me, I saw its face - and it look like my uncle Jack!)."- Ian B. 11 years old www.dhyansanjivani.orgyantraguru@hotmail.com
How To Get Rid Of Ghosts Hunter
How To Get Rid Of A Ghost First of all If by chance you feel you have a negative spirit or energy in your home (someone or something that frightens you; especially after you've asked them to stop - enlightened or positive spirits or ghosts should not frighten us if we have asked them to stop), try to remember a few things:1) Remain unemotional and firm when dealing with a negative ghost, as they will feed off of your fear and make themselves stronger and more powerful (much of this is simply in our mind - I do not believe they have any power over us, except what we give them). Just know you are in control, and speak out loud for the ghost or spirit to leave; and that they are not welcome in your home. You have nothing to fear, for fear is created in the mind. Do this firmly, yet with love.2) Tell the spirit or ghost to seek the light, and that its physical body has perished and it's time (and good) to leave this physical realm. Tell negative ghosts that they will see other spirits who are called to direct and guide them; and will be treated with love and forgiveness no matter what they've done.3) If they are worried about punishment, tell them that they're not sent to an eternal "hell," but will be shown their lives and are made to experience what they have done; so they can understand those things and how they have impacted themselves and others. They will always be treated with love and will be helped to move beyond any self-created guilt and condemnation - through forgiveness, especially forgiveness of themselves. Be very firm in letting them know it's good for them, and time for them to go. Keep telling them this until you feel they've gone to the light, the realm of spirit - this will help them move on. Light is not to be feared for it is love, peace and truth. Darkness is "lack of understanding" and negative - false. Traditional Spiritual Cleansing If the spirit or ghost activity does not stop, or stops only for a while, then resumes, you may want to do a spiritual cleansing of your home. This is the traditional practice of "smudging" a home to get rid of an unwanted ghost:1) Crack a window in each room of your home and take a dried bundle of sage (available at most metaphysical stores) and "smudge" your home clearing out any negative or stagnant energies. Smudging is simply lighting the sage bundle, making sure you have a safe receptacle to catch the ashes in, and walking around your entire home allowing the smoke to circulate and cleanse the energy and space.2) Being firm and unemotional, walk around each room of your home, while saying loudly and firmly, "This sage is cleansing out all negative energies and spirits... all negative energies and spirits must leave now through the windows and not return." Do this until you sense the negative energy has gone and the room's energy lightens (to a positive - look for peace) and then say, "In the name of God , this room is now cleansed." Know and sense this.3) Remember not to worry about how you sound if you stumble on your words. The main thing is your intent, which is your faith. You have power and have nothing to fear. Your intentions are to rid the home of negative energies and spirits and they will know this, if they are there. Always work with your own energy from within your soul and incorporate this energy into the cleansing. Draw your divine power from within your innermost being.Always be firm, unemotional and deal with negative ghosts strongly, yet in love. You are always in control and are not powerless. Some like to re-visit a cleansed house by going back into all of the rooms with a pleasant incense such as lavender while inviting all loving, protecting, positive spirits into the home. You may end the ritual by lighting a white candle and setting it on a table to burn for a bit to "seal" the ritual. Further Explanation I don't believe in "demons" (although there are negative spirits which are people out there in the spirit realm who are just the same negative people they were on earth ), but I believe in ghosts. Ghosts are simply earthbound spirits, that have decided to stay attached to the earth realm, rather than moving into the higher or spiritual realm(s) in which they already exist within, but just don't realize it. Sometimes ghosts don't quite understand that their physical body is gone; and wasn't really who they were anyway. Other times they may be afraid to go to the light or spiritual realm, believing they may be punished (such as in hell, which is a man-created idea) for not being good enough while in the physical world. Or perhaps, they still enjoy the people and places here and don't want to leave; preferring to remain close to those here still in physical bodies because of addictions, earthly pleasures, or what they deem as "familiar." Some ghosts can be very negative; while others may just be visiting and may have positive feelings and even messages for us - hence, "angels." www.dhyansanjivani.orgyantraguru@hotmail.cominformation@dhyansanjivani.orgwww.angelsghosts.com
Ghost Information: What Are Ghosts?
Ghost Information: What Are Ghosts? Fundamental, traditional christianity does not allow at all for the existence of ghosts because of its' fear-based doctrines, which divide mankind - one from another. Teaching both a place of the eternally damned called, "hell," and a place of eternal bliss for the good called, "heaven," the christian religion attempts to place all earthly departed souls in one of these two after-life worlds. Yet, Jesus' message was very different than what is being sold today as truth; religion today being flawed and man-made, in his name. This has created a mis-understanding of ghosts and how they can exist, in light of what many have been taught as impossible. Many ask, "What are ghosts..."If we consider Jesus' message contained in the bible, rather than man's religious ideas created after the passing of his ministry, we should see he taught the realm of spirit (or spiritual world) to co-exist with this physical world. All of us exist in the realm of spirit and that realm is the life-giving force of all - in all and through all that is...and is everywhere. Scripture says, "We live, move and have our being in Him (God)." Call that spirit God: the sum of all the parts, perhaps? In that context, your soul and my soul (and all souls) would be participating in the unseen realm of the spirit (a different dimension) and the physical world we know, at the same time; while we seem to only be able to identify with this physical realm. It is like being in a room with a two-way mirror. We think only those in the same room with us can see our actions, but are not aware of the audience we may have on the other side of the mirror. Hence, I am participating in both worlds, but only aware of the one in which I am able to see. In Hebrews it states, "We are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses." This perhaps would explain how others on the other side would be able to see us and speak to us; yet we may not be aware of their presence...yet, they are with us just the same...interacting with this realm at times. Maybe, they feed us some of the thoughts we think, and we think those thoughts and call them our own. Therefore, scripturally speaking, the existence of ghosts and the paranormal manifesting within this earthly realm is quite possible.When we "cross over" to the other side at what we call "death," we leave our attachment from this physical realm by leaving the vehicle (the body with the sensories) that keeps us in the physical world. My theory for the existence of this physical world, is that it is used to individualize each person from the whole (spirit or God). Think of, how a baby after birth, begins to notice itself and stares for long periods at its hands and fingers. Then the baby grows, and the mind and emotions mature, as well. Then perhaps the detachment from this physical world is necessary, as the purpose for it has been completed. The soul - spirit body separates from the physical body by the "silver cord being cut." The silver cord is thought to be the connection between the spirit-soul and the physical body which keeps it animated - for the spirit gives it life. The next step is being freed from mis-thinking created here on earth (guilt, fear, condemnation) and the knowing of truth ("The truth shall set you free.") - learning who we are and the power we have been given to create (but do not yet fully understand...Jesus demonstrated this power for us, in this realm).We will examine different passages of the bible to demonstrate that ghosts or "spirits" are contained in both the new and old testaments. I will also give some speculation as to how different paranormal phenomena possibly line up perfectly with different bible terms and events.As for me, my interest in ghosts and Halloween started when I was a kid. I guess what fascinated me with the supernatural was I wanted to believe that more existed than what I could see with my eyes. Later on as I became an adult, I no longer was allowed to have an interest in ghosts and the paranormal because I had become religious. Religious fear kept me from exploring these ideas I now have, because they are not within fundamental christianity's core tenets which I shall label as "safe zones." The condemnation sent forth from fundamental christians on one who explores an area spiritually that may be different from their beliefs, will usually produce a warning such as, "You better stay clear of that because that could be of the devil." And hence, the seed of fear has been planted again into a free mind. I no longer fear exploring the paranormal because I now know that fear is man-made, not God sent. God is spirit; why not explore God...I accidentally had an out-of-body experience a few years ago that proved to me that we are both a physical body and a spiritual body. As I hovered above my seemingly, lifeless body, it became apparent quite quickly that the spirit and physical realms co-exist... www.angelsghosts.comwww.dhyansanjivani.orginformation@dhyansanjivani.orgyantraguru@hotmail.com
How To Hear and See a Ghost Hunter ?
Yes, they're out there... waiting to be heard and seen. And there are several ways you can make it happen, on the web or in your own home! If you thought you'd never see or hear a real ghost, think again. This Halloween you might get lucky. Explore these websites to hear what might be a ghost calling out from the void, or see one passing among the shadows. Then try the techniques presented here that could allow you to make contact in your own home. Happy ghost hunting! How to Hear a Ghost For decades, paranormal researchers have been recording enigmatic voices on audiotape. Called electronic voice phenomena - or EVP - these strange-sounding voices have been captured using ordinary tape recorders and cassette tapes. Often these researchers venture out into cemeteries or allegedly haunted houses. Sometimes the voices seem to respond to questions asked by the researchers, but often they are unprompted. In every case, however, the voices are not heard at the time they are recorded. Oddly, it is not until later when the researchers play the tape back - often with amplification or filtering - that the voices can be distinguished.
Are they ghosts? Voices from another dimension? Something else? What they are exactly is a matter of debate, but there's little denying that they are there - and completely unexplained. Do It Yourself If you'd like to experiment with EVP, all you need is a portable cassette tape recorder and some new high-quality cassette tapes. Make sure you use new tapes because you want to avoid any possibility of having voices or noises previously recorded on the tape. Ghost tips Use an audiocassette recorder with an external microphone and a source of mild white noise, such as a radio tuned between stations. (Or, as other researcher have done, you can also experiment with the quiet of a cemetery or house; just be sure it is far from traffic noises that might interfere with the recording.)
Place the microphone a few feet from the radio.
Turn on the tape recorder and introduce the session. For example: "Good morning. It's Tuesday October 31, 11:59 p.m. I welcome all spirits." Then ask three or four questions.
Replay the taped sequence and listen closely. A set of earphones can help make the short, faint voices more audible.
While some people are lucky enough to get a clear EVP on their first try, others might find that it takes several weeks or even months of experimenting to achieve success. World ITC says, "As you conduct voice experiments on a regular basis, the voices might get louder and clearer as your contact field (the field of thoughts, feelings and life energies between you and your spirit friends) grows stronger. It requires a clear mind, focused intent, positive thoughts, and a balanced temperament to ensure the best possible results." The World ITC website also provides information for capturing EVPs on computers and minidisc recorders. www.dhyansanjivani.orgthis matter posted by information@dhyansanjivani.orgThis Create Blog yantraguru@hotmail.com
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