Ayin
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This is an email from walk-in Dick Sutphen. What are your views and thoughts???January 19, 2005: Superstition and Science and Ghosts in the Mirror
Our "scientific" culture's insistence that ghosts don't exist gets laughable, sometimes. A few days ago, my friend Colin Wilson sent me a news item headlined "Thai tsunami trauma sparks rash of foreign ghost sightings." Note the assumptions built into the headline: The trauma sparked the sightings. The sightings themselves weren't real. Clearly the people couldn't sight ghosts, because we know that ghosts don't exist. But in southern Thailand, since the December 26 tsunami, locals have been sighting ghosts in huge numbers. Many locals are saying they are afraid to go near the beach, because of ghosts. And specific ghost stories abound, including the foreigner and his Thai girlfriend (and their baggage) who disappeared from the back seat of a taxi, and the guard at a beachfront plaza who quit after hearing a foreign woman cry "help me" all night, and the volunteers in two resort areas who heard tourists laughing and singing on the beach - when the beach is empty.
Health experts explain it all away as "an outpouring of delayed mass trauma." They describe the Thais as deeply superstitious, and a Thai psychologist was quoted as saying that these experiences were "a type of mass hallucination" caused by the trauma of "missing so many dead people, and seeing so many dead people, and only talking about dead people."
On the other hand, at least one local, who believes in ghosts, explains the phenomena this way. It happened so quickly, she says, that "the foreigners didn't know what happened and they all think they are still on the beach. They all think they are still on holiday." I'm with her, and I'll tell you why.
Nearly ten years ago, now, at a six-day Monroe Institute residential program called Lifeline, I and my fellow class members learned how to communicate with people who were dead and didn't know it. People who die suddenly, or while disoriented, can get "lost." With nobody to keep them appraised of the passage of time, unaware that they themselves are creating what seems to them to be objective "external" reality, they can be stuck tape-looping (as I call it) for years or decades of Earth time. Some people do perceive them, and that's where we get reports of ghosts. The Lifeline course taught us how to help these people to get out of their endless tape loop, and move on. Ghost-busting, in short.
Bruce Moen has written four books about his Lifeline-inspired We both know dozens of people who have learned the same simple techniques. Bruce even teaches two-day how-to courses. It isn't a matter of belief, it's a matter of experience.
What passes for science in this materialist culture has declared that ghosts don't exist. In this instance, at least, it doesn't know what it doesn't know.
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