CastoffCaptain
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I believe in the possibility of ghosts. My family has a bit of a history of having seen them/experienced poltergeist activity. However, do I think everyone who says they've seen ghosts actually has? No. I think that probably 99.9% of "ghostly activity" can be explained by something natural, whether it be in the environment or due to psychological misreading of settings or situations or phenomena.
Also, I doubt that if there's a spirit, your denomination/spiritual leanings will have anything to do with how they can affect you from their side. I think that if you're more inclined to believe some outside influence is going to hurt you, say... if your practice tells you that demons (which aren't ghosts, let me add) can hurt you, you're more likely to be in a psychological state of mind to take the outside influences that probably aren't ghost-related and allow them to shape your world. As in, if you believe something's going to creep up beside your bed at night and try to smother you because your religion/cultural affiliation/practice tells you it will happen, your mind will make it happen, i.e. hypnopompic/hypnogogic hallucinations. (I happen to have night terrors and wake up to "things/people" standing by my bed at night-- products of my own exhaustion, not supernatural beings. To put it simply, what you believe can make you THINK phenomena are happening when it's an outside-but-non-supernatural reason or a psychological force.
Doesn't mean what you believe will make whatever supernatural being happens to be there stronger/weaker-- they're on their own-- but the likelihood that it's a supernatural being is very, very, very low.
Also, I doubt that if there's a spirit, your denomination/spiritual leanings will have anything to do with how they can affect you from their side. I think that if you're more inclined to believe some outside influence is going to hurt you, say... if your practice tells you that demons (which aren't ghosts, let me add) can hurt you, you're more likely to be in a psychological state of mind to take the outside influences that probably aren't ghost-related and allow them to shape your world. As in, if you believe something's going to creep up beside your bed at night and try to smother you because your religion/cultural affiliation/practice tells you it will happen, your mind will make it happen, i.e. hypnopompic/hypnogogic hallucinations. (I happen to have night terrors and wake up to "things/people" standing by my bed at night-- products of my own exhaustion, not supernatural beings. To put it simply, what you believe can make you THINK phenomena are happening when it's an outside-but-non-supernatural reason or a psychological force.
Doesn't mean what you believe will make whatever supernatural being happens to be there stronger/weaker-- they're on their own-- but the likelihood that it's a supernatural being is very, very, very low.
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