I’ve found that most people are too quick to assume the worst about a situation. It’s almost as if they want the absolute worst possible scenario to be the reality. For instance, if they’re hearing noises in the attic, they think, “OMG! We’ve got a demon in the attic!” I can give a list of examples as long as a gorilla’s arm, but my main point is that as a whole, we tend to make a mountain out of a molehill.
This may be hard wired into us from when the first humans were coming down out of the trees and walking around in the grasslands. The probability that any little sound or movement was actually danger was a pretty safe assumption. However, now that our society lives under relative safety from vicious predators, we still have that inherent panic button response.
With all the paranormal shows out there (this is a “dead horse” you’ll find me whipping again and again in my writings) as well as movies of the past five or six decades, we are over-exposed to the idea that, among other things, ghosts and spirits want nothing more than to scare us, harm us, possess us, or attempt to kill us by any means necessary. Again, we still have that fear hard wired into us that the unseen forces are out to get us.
From what I’ve seen, this just isn’t the case as far as ghosts and spirits are concerned. Granted, I’ve only been investigating the paranormal for three years. I do, however, consider myself pretty knowledgeable (not an expert by any means) on the topic, as I’ve read a good many books about ghost theory and the paranormal. In those three years, I’ve never come across anything malicious or anything that had any ill-will towards anyone.
Spirit energies interacting with the living are extremely rare, and the vast majority of these are merely humans without physical bodies that are still here with us on Earth. There may be other entities out there that aren’t and never were human (nature spirits and negative entities), but those energies aren’t going to bother mere mortals unless they’re called upon in some way. [And that’s a topic for another blog someday.]
One of the members of the paranormal group I’m in (DOGS) has said on more than one occasion, “When I was younger, I always wanted a poltergeist, until I found out what it was.” This serves to prove another point I want to make. When we don’t have the knowledge about something—when it’s simply unknown to us—we make assumptions that are most likely wrong. Again, I could enumerate a lengthy list of examples of how people just assume something is one thing when it’s actually something totally different, but I’ll hold off on that for brevity’s sake.
With a little thought, some research, and just stepping back from a situation, a lot of unnecessary worry and expense of time and effort can be avoided. Don’t immediately jump to the conclusion that just because you walk into a cold spot, the spirit of your uncle Charley is there with you. Just because a door slammed shut by itself doesn’t mean that there’s a ghost trying to get your attention. Don’t think that every little flicker of the lights in the house is a demon trying to worm its way into your soul. Use your brain and rationalize that maybe there’s an explanation for what’s going on. It will save a lot of worry on your part.
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