I was at a client site the other day (1/12/11) for work and during a lengthy (3+ hours) upgrade process on a laptop from Vista to Windows 7 I was talking with one of the girls in the office about her experiences with the paranormal. We talked for well over an hour while the upgrade was installing about events that had gone on in her life, her sister's suicide, spirits that haunted her parents' house and forced her to leave, ghosts that have chased her out of at least one house she owned, and another spirit she believes is haunting the home she's living in now. We also talked a bit about demons, as she said the house across the street from where she's living (in Loveland) had a demonic entity in it, according to a local paranormal group. I forget how we even got started on the topic of ghosts and spirits, but it allowed me to put forth a lot of my theories about spirits, demons, and what my opinions are about the paranormal in general. With it being relatively fresh in my mind, I thought I'd post a blog about it.
The first thing we talked about was my theory on what I think spirits are (yeah, I jumped right in head first). I explained that we are made up of two parts, the physical body and electromagnetic energy (spirit, soul…whatever you want to call it). I discussed that when amputees have phantom pain or ghost itch, it's the electrical part of them that is still whole that they're feeling. When the physical body dies, the energy is released into the environment and goes wherever it's supposed to (crosses over/goes to Heaven…whatever). The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, so it's got to go somewhere. However, when a person dies a violent or sudden unexpected death, this energy doesn't have time to go through the natural process of dissipating so it hangs around on our plane. Whether this is sometimes a conscious effort or force of will, I can't say, because there exceptions that go both ways. Sometimes a person dies naturally, but for some reason their spirit remains. Conversely, not all suicides or sudden deaths hang around either. So there must be something else at play other than just the way a person passes.
I went on to talk about vibrational frequencies and how we perceive the physical world as opposed to the spirit world. Humans see our world at a certain frequency (I think it's 60 Hertz, but I may be wrong, it is probably more like a range of frequencies we can detect). Much in the same way we can't see ultraviolet or infrared light because they're beyond the frequency which we can detect with our eyes, many of us can't see the spirit energy because it is vibrating at a higher frequency. It is easy and natural for this energy to dissipate to this higher plane, but the energy requirement is so great that attempting to "vibrate back" to our plane is very difficult and fraught with complexities we aren't yet equipped enough to understand.
I also talked a bit about visitations, which is totally different from spirits/ghosts. In my opinion, a visitation is when the spirit energy of a person that has properly crossed over comes back to this plane for some reason. This probably happens more often that we realize and can also take place while we dream. That seems to be the easiest way for them to talk to us. Unfortunately, many of us don't remember our dreams, which is a totally separate topic that I won't go into here.
Our discussion then turned to what are demons. What I've come to believe is that demons are negative energies that have never held a physical body and never walked on the Earth. Much in the same way anti-matter can destroy any matter it comes in contact with, these energies seek to possess and ultimately destroy the positive which is human life. These energies are highly intelligent, and whether they are the Biblical demons (fallen angels), some kind of alien being, or something else entirely, the fact remains that these energies do exist, and they travel through our world seeking targets. What draws them, what they feed off of, is negative energy. Depression, rage, and lust is what draws them in, although they can also find their way in by those uninitiated in the proper use of tools such as Ouija boards and séances.
We continued talking about the Native American people. She said she felt the area where she lived used to be an Indian burial ground. That's a commonly held opinion I've found a lot of people hold when it comes to attempting to explain why paranormal activity is happening. I have much respect for the native people of America. I feel their culture had knowledge of the spirit world as well as an endearing respect for the earth and nature. They knew how to co-exist with these energies and spirits and held them in high esteem. Their hunting grounds and burial locations have always been protected by energies or spirits that only they knew how to invoke and commune with. So while I don't think that every ancient Indian site has paranormal activity associated with it, I do feel that we are ignorant to exactly what these people were capable of.
Then we went on to discuss what I call nature spirits. I believe that these go hand in hand with the native people and are the protector spirits that they called upon to watch over their sacred places. I used the Loveland Frog Man as an example, saying that it is probably the manifestation of a nature spirit. In the city of Loveland, there is a deep connection to the Native American people with the land. Many areas they held sacred still have those protective energies around them. I can't claim to understand exactly what the Indians knew about manipulating and contacting spirits and nature energies, but they were very good at it.
In a nutshell, that's pretty much what I discussed with her. She tended to agree with the vast majority of what I was saying (which is always nice, when you have a captive audience like that). Our only disagreement was when she said, "I believe that the Earth is Heaven." I shook my head vehemently saying, "No, no, no," but smiling. I still hold firm to the belief that the Earth is a form of hell that we have to go through in order to learn lessons that we can't fathom as spiritual beings.
So there are a few of my own theories and thoughts on different aspects of the paranormal. Please feel free to discuss and share them with whomever you want. As always, these blogs will also be appearing in the book I'm writing about my paranormal group.
