Ghosts are often thought of as remnants of the dead who have not been able to fully pass into the celestial (or infernal) realms. Ghost hunting investigators come across entities that appear to have some form of post-life trauma. Ghosts have died cruel or shocking deaths, witnessed terrible things before they died, lost something dear to them that they still cling to after death.
The Ghost movie, with Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, may not be a perfect epitome of what Ghosts really are, but it does have a few things in common with the above definition. Swayze, like the Ghosts we talked about, is hanging around the cruel way he died and that it could bring some kind of danger to his girlfriend. Patrick’s stay on Earth is a temporary phenomenon, often due to trauma or clinging to one’s surroundings. Some accounts of Ghosts would say that Ghosts are often just fragments of better, fuller personalities that have not passed into other dimensions of the Afterlife.
The Ghost movie may be flawed in many ways, but perhaps it can provide us with a framework to address some of the questions about the reality and behavior of Ghosts as addressed through historical anecdotes, contemporary reports, parapsychological studies, and hunting for ghosts. ghosts. For example, in the movie, Swayze learns how to influence matter from a strange half-crazed ghost in a subway.
In fact, can ghosts hurt or touch you? I would say that a lot of people believe that ghosts can touch you and some say that they can hurt you and even kill you. Many people report a ghostly touch. For example, Molly Stewart, licensed by the International Ghostbusters Society, reports that the Ghosts have reportedly pulled the hair of guests on their Salem, Massachusetts tour. Ghosts pull hair In China, for example, ghosts killed by drowning are said to kill people to prevent them from reincarnating.
In general, the Specters seem to be making contact because they are “stuck” in some pattern, expressing their pain or fear, or sometimes. Much like Swayze when he approaches Moore in the film, the ghosts actually want to tell us something, something as strange as how they were killed or to reassure us of something. But not everyone has the same degree of sensitivity towards them.
It would seem, if you believe Sylvia Browne, that disembodied spirits, including familiars, are very close to this world. And they try a lot to contact, but we don’t recognize it. In other, more tribal, shamanic cultures, such contact is perhaps more frequent and expected, but these cultures do not necessarily keep written records in any quantity, so it can be difficult to tell.
Perhaps with our EMF and “white noise” machines, science is getting closer to some sort of answer on how to contact the Ghosts? Why haven’t you found that answer yet? Well, looking for ghosts could be compared to wanting to study sea creatures at a certain depth, but not having the science of submersibles developed enough to be able to go there safely and stay long enough to take pictures. The Ghosts are there but we don’t have the technology.