It was the first of those type of shows I thought of. Please post a link to a show that actually films a ghost. Clearly. Incontrovertibly. Not just a shadow, or one of those ridiculous ****ing "orbs"; a proper ghost.
I know this is verging on the borders of the forum rules, but as one of the worlds biggest religions is based on the worship of a ghost, there has to be an explanation beyond science. 2000 years of Father Son and Holy Ghost and its still going strong. Do I believe in ghosts? Well maybe not in the cinematic way, but I do believe that just like we see rainbows, given a set of circumstances, we can `see` ghosts. No one has figured it out yet that's all.
I always wondered if people that see ghosts aren't seeing ghosts at all, just people living their lives in the past. And at the same time, they're seeing us as ghosts in the future. Furthermore, what we see as 'UFO's' are actually future versions of ourselves. Only tiny glimpses, perhaps a faint whisp of light or an electromagnetic detection, but maybe just something. People often treat time as a linear concept, but I believe it's far more complex than we could imagine.
Maybe the explanation is that religions are just works of fiction & rely purely on faith, no science involved & we haven't figured out how to see ghosts cos they don't exist?
Charlie1 clearly picks her mushrooms in a different field to you ghost explainers; it's the 3 F's, Fear, Faith and Fatalisim that will catch the imagination of mankind. In other words, a load of bollocks.
Well I always thought religion was kept about as a fundamental way to help mankind live a good life. I don't think whoever compliled the Bible originally thought that it would be taken as anything other than allegorical, but of course there are those that take it too far (and literally). There's science involved in everything, perhaps even religion (see noetic science as an example).
Religion has been kept about as a way of keeping the unwashed masses in their place. Is noetic science is kind of a bit mix of psychological/social science type thing?
Here's a question I read on another message board that I found interesting. "back in the days when the NT was not even the speck of an idea, why do you think the people, whoever they were, who wrote down the very first stories about Jesus did so? Why do you think Saul/Paul started his extensive correspondence? What were they trying to achieve? Who was their target audience? What ideas were they trying to communicate to them and why?"
It's about metaphysics, or rather, the connection the mind has to the physical body. There is a certain new-age element to some parts of it, but it also heavily researches into psychokinesis,conciousness and, perhaps most thought provoking, the continuation of conciousness after death. The Institute of Noetic Sciences, founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, has a database that's accessible to everybody online and while it obviously has it skeptics, it nonetheless stands a branch of science that continually pushes boundries.
Noetic science is a form of bullshit famously promoted by Dan Brown in The Lost Symbol. It should be noted that noetic "science" and noetic philosophy are distinct. Noetic (from the Greek noetikos, "mental") philosophy is philosophy dealing with the mind, intellect, or consciousness. However, this more often goes under the more obvious name of "theory" or "philosophy of mind" these days. Noetic "science" is closer to the pseudoscience of parapsychology and other such New Age fluff as "expanding your consciousness." http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Noetic_science Stay rational people.
