Paranormal Phenomena

[NB79]

If you want the truth about the paranormal, i say as a person in my senses, that like to observe things, read the bible. After you become a christian and have the Holy spirit, you gained one enemy, they are sneaky and main weapon is lies and deception, but after you get closer to God, he is going to try to bring you down, then you will see the true nature of 'ghosts'

 

[Coxhere]

If you want the truth about the paranormal, i say as a person in my senses, that like to observe things, read the bible. After you become a christian and have the Holy spirit, you gained one enemy, they are sneaky and main weapon is lies and deception, but after you get closer to God, he is going to try to bring you down, then you will see the true nature of 'ghosts'

Hello NB79,
I've been a "born-again Christian" since the age of seven. I was Pentecostally "filled with the Holy Ghost" at age thirteen with the "evidence of speaking in tongues." I am now 80 years old and have been "following Jesus" for all of these subsequent, 73 years. I discern what is Truth and what isn't.

I am not, however, an evangelical, nor a fundamentalist, nor a literalist. I think that there are words of God/Goddess in the Bible, but I do not think that it is THE "Word of God/Goddess."

I am in the same "camp" of Christians where was the late, Rt. Rev. Dr. John Shelby Spong, Retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, NJ. Actually, I identify with Valentinian Gnostic Christians.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I'm just as agnostic now as I was prior.

 

[Cyber]

Watching this for the last few hours, I'm not the only fruit and nut bar.

I have seen this interview. Prof Nolan is a prominent medical researcher at Stanford with a lot of patents for anti-cancer monoclonal antibodies. Over the years there have been several high profile academics who have risked their academic reputations to advocate for evidence of alien life. Most famous was Prof John Mack, founding Professor of Psychiatry and head of department in Psychiatry at Harvard. Also Prof Avi Loeb who was Head of Astronomy at Harvard.

All three endured ridicule from colleagues and in the case of Prof Mack, Harvard attempted to remove him from his position in a famous historic case was unanimously rejected on the basis it impinged Mack's academic freedom which goes against one of the core values of Harvard.

But is there evidence we are not alone? I recommend watching Prof Nolan's interview and judge what he is claiming objectively.

 

[Cyber]

I have no idea who or what the entity is religious, alien? My beliefs are based on physics yes life after death can be supported by physics at least in the way I view it in my head. See my physics thread. Super determinism. is required for predetermined future, four spatial dimensions, emergent time universe Klein Bottle inside outside. So easy to see.
This entity gave me enough epiphanies to fill out my physics thread.

On the subject of NDEs. many traditional shamans, Buddhist monks, Hindu mystics and even people experiencing hypnotic regression or hallucinogenic substances experience what is collectively known as an out of body experience, In all cases (including NDEs) individuals claim to meet entities.

I was watching an interview with Hindu spiritual leader Sadguru who says pilgrims climbing Mount Kailash in the Himalayas, reaching the summit often meet entities not of this earth. Given this happens closer to the summit I wonder whether oxygen deprivation creates conditions facilitating an out of body experience?

 

[Coxhere]

Hello NB79,
I've been a "born-again Christian" since the age of seven. I was Pentecostally "filled with the Holy Ghost" at age thirteen with the "evidence of speaking in tongues." I am now 80 years old and have been "following Jesus" for all of these subsequent, 73 years. I discern what is Truth and what isn't.

I'm just as agnostic now as I was prior.

Is Agnosticism and not knowing who God/Goddess the same thing? Or similar? No one can, with certainty, ever know who God/Goddess is! No one, with certainty, can know what, if anything, lies beyond physical death. So, in a way, aren't we all agnostics? We have our theologies and our philosophies and we even have our quantum theorists who think they know God/Goddess but they really don't know.

 

[Coxhere]

Is Agnosticism and not knowing who God/Goddess the same thing? Or similar? No one can, with certainty, ever know who God/Goddess is! No one, with certainty, can know what, if anything, lies beyond physical death. So, in a way, aren't we all agnostics? We have our theologies and our philosophies and we even have our quantum theorists who think they know God/Goddess but they really don't know.

 

[NB79]

Hello NB79,
I've been a "born-again Christian" since the age of seven. I was Pentecostally "filled with the Holy Ghost" at age thirteen with the "evidence of speaking in tongues." I am now 80 years old and have been "following Jesus" for all of these subsequent, 73 years. I discern what is Truth and what isn't.

I am not, however, an evangelical, nor a fundamentalist, nor a literalist. I think that there are words of God/Goddess in the Bible, but I do not think that it is THE "Word of God/Goddess."

I am in the same "camp" of Christians where was the late, Rt. Rev. Dr. John Shelby Spong, Retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, NJ. Actually, I identify with Valentinian Gnostic Christians.

Hi, i don't know your experience, however if you really were filled like in the bible happened to the disciples, you wouldn't say the bible is not the word of God, i don't want to argue with you or fight in any way, have a nice day.

 

[Coxhere]

Hi, i don't know your experience, however if you really were filled like in the bible happened to the disciples, you wouldn't say the bible is not the word of God, i don't want to argue with you or fight in any way, have a nice day.

NB 79,

I didn't mean to disturb you with my experiences, thinking, feelings, and beliefs that are different from yours. I would hope that we can allow each other to be who each of us is without judgement nor condemnation. Please. I wish you a wonderful, spirit-filled day, too. Amen.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Many paranormal things have happened around me. Most of the time it involves the spirits of people who have died but never moved on. I see shadows in the corner of windows and strange tiny lights in dark unlit areas sometimes and I can sense when there’s a spirit in a room and if it’s hostile or not. Bright lights suddenly appearing and then disappearing are the most common thing I encounter. I’ve seen these odd glittering orbs just floating in the air before vanishing. And I have seen things randomly manifest close to me when no one else is around. One time while I was doing some shopping at Walmart with an employee of the group home where I was living and my roommate, a chocolate fountain suddenly appeared right behind me sitting there on the floor. The employee asked me why I grabbed it and put it there and my roommate said that I didn’t grab it. No one else was in the aisle with us.

 

[Cyber]

Many paranormal things have happened around me. Most of the time it involves the spirits of people who have died but never moved on. I see shadows in the corner of windows and strange tiny lights in dark unlit areas sometimes and I can sense when there’s a spirit in a room and if it’s hostile or not. Bright lights suddenly appearing and then disappearing are the most common thing I encounter. I’ve seen these odd glittering orbs just floating in the air before vanishing. And I have seen things randomly manifest close to me when no one else is around. One time while I was doing some shopping at Walmart with an employee of the group home where I was living and my roommate, a chocolate fountain suddenly appeared right behind me sitting there on the floor. The employee asked me why I grabbed it and put it there and my roommate said that I didn’t grab it. No one else was in the aisle with us.

Yeah I used to have an array of small orbs visit me as a child in my bedroom. It's weird because I just accepted them as real like a child accepts fireflies in their garden. In folklore many entities are supposed to only appear to small children because a child is innocent and open.

Like the concept of fairies/angels appearing to toddlers, playing with them or looking after them till an adult comes, As we get older we become closed minded and fearful. My daughter used to have a friend (an entity?) who would play with her or keep her company when she couldn't sleep at night. Parents just assume their small child has a make believe friend.

 

[Dagan]

I've experienced phenomena in several categories. I don't want to write it all out because it is a lot. It'd be a novella, haha. I didn't seek it out, either. It started early on. It shaped choices made in my life. There's a lot of evidence in those areas and nothing evidence-wise per religious / church sought experiences (when it's what I really worked for and wanted at the time). Such is what / how a person's belief systems are formed, of course. It is what it is. I'm not mad about any of it, but it has steered my life, my education and has definitely let me better know when anyone is just talking out of their backside, compared to any who are also well educated and have similar experiences to better know what's what.

That may all just be word salad. I hope it makes sense.

 

[Judge]

I've never associated anything religious regarding my paranormal experiences, whether unsolicited or solicited through paranormal investigations. There's a whole lot of activity particularly in Virginia City which remains a rather well-known ghost town for so many paranormal investigators. About an hour away from where I live.

For me my spirituality is driven largely by what I have personally observed and experienced.

 

[Coxhere]

Many paranormal things have happened around me. Most of the time it involves the spirits of people who have died but never moved on. I see shadows in the corner of windows and strange tiny lights in dark unlit areas sometimes and I can sense when there’s a spirit in a room and if it’s hostile or not. Bright lights suddenly appearing and then disappearing are the most common thing I encounter. I’ve seen these odd glittering orbs just floating in the air before vanishing. And I have seen things randomly manifest close to me when no one else is around. One time while I was doing some shopping at Walmart with an employee of the group home where I was living and my roommate, a chocolate fountain suddenly appeared right behind me sitting there on the floor. The employee asked me why I grabbed it and put it there and my roommate said that I didn’t grab it. No one else was in the aisle with us.

Captain Jigglypuff, many of us are able to understand this kind of paranormal activity and we identify with what you've written here. I'm pleased that you've posted these kinds of paranormal experiences. Your remarks make the rest of us, who are also paranormal, feel less alone and less thinking of ourselves as some kinds of freaks.

I've experienced phenomena in several categories. I don't want to write it all out because it is a lot. It'd be a novella, haha. I didn't seek it out, either. It started early on. It shaped choices made in my life. There's a lot of evidence in those areas and nothing evidence-wise per religious / church sought experiences (when it's what I really worked for and wanted at the time). Such is what / how a person's belief systems are formed, of course. It is what it is. I'm not mad about any of it, but it has steered my life, my education and has definitely let me better know when anyone is just talking out of their backside, compared to any who are also well educated and have similar experiences to better know what's what.

That may all just be word salad. I hope it makes sense.

Dagan, your words make sense to those who are open and mature enough to understand them. Word salads are delicious!

 

[Dagan]

I meant to mention that we had an NDE specific thread here quite a while back. I posted mine in detail to that thread. In short, I was 19, and nothing I experienced was close to what is popularized / profited from, out there in the TV shows, movies or book sales.

I do have a theory to the variances in worldwide NDE's of folks - that it's either exactly what your brain defaults to, per all of what you know and love and have experienced in life, as your brain is literally choking to death / dying....or....the afterlife first approaches you intentionally per what you will accept and not have incredible fear of - it greets you immediately with however to best comfort you in what can only be best described as the most "shocking" experience you've had until that point.

 

[Coxhere]

I meant to mention that we had an NDE specific thread here quite a while back. I posted mine in detail to that thread. In short, I was 19, and nothing I experienced was close to what is popularized / profited from, out there in the TV shows, movies or book sales.

I do have a theory to the variances in worldwide NDE's of folks - that it's either exactly what your brain defaults to, per all of what you know and love and have experienced in life, as your brain is literally choking to death / dying....or....the afterlife first approaches you intentionally per what you will accept and not have incredible fear of - it greets you immediately with however to best comfort you in what can only be best described as the most "shocking" experience you've had until that point.

Dagan, I will do a search using the key word, "NDE." In my working years I was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and could hypnotize patients and take them back to "stuck points" in their lives. They and I could then work through their stuck points and they could get "better."

I decided to hypnotize myself and regress my own self. In hypnosis, I went back to my mother's and my labor and delivery. It was a very difficult series of experiences, to say the least. I was a "breech baby," and we both almost died. I had an NDE. Matter of fact, I'd come and go and, through hypnosis, I "saw" or re-experienced three separate, NDE situations. During the last one, I had a discussion with an older, deceased brother whom I'd never known, physically.

He'd died before I was born. We argued and I told him that I was NOT going to go back into that baby! He finally said, "But you promised!" I knew that the life of this baby was going to be a very difficult one just as was the birthing process. However, I finally agreed and so back I went. Maybe, if I can find the thread to which you referred, I can post a fuller explanation, giving more details of those three NDEs that I experienced during the child birthing process. . . .

 

[Cyber]

I was discussing paranormal stuff on another forum and one person who is a skeptic agreed with me that many categories of paranormal events
spirits
ghosts
monsters
cryptids
near death experiences
remote viewing
UFOs
aliens
Might all be due to the existence of multiple dimensions (science and physics fund hundreds of millions of dollars into multiverse research) and the ability of some of the above entities and/or some people to move between these planes of existence.

A simple example is the account of hundreds of alien abductees who claim aliens are capable of moving through walls and float, and that they are taken also find themselves are somehow able to be moved through solid walls. Of course ghosts, spirits and orbs do that all the time.

 

[Coxhere]

I was discussing paranormal stuff on another forum and one person who is a skeptic agreed with me that many categories of paranormal events
spirits
ghosts
monsters
cryptids
near death experiences
remote viewing
UFOs
aliens
Might all be due to the existence of multiple dimensions (science and physics fund hundreds of millions of dollars into multiverse research) and the ability of some of the above entities and/or some people to move between these planes of existence.

A simple example is the account of hundreds of alien abductees who claim aliens are capable of moving through walls and float, and that they are taken also find themselves are somehow able to be moved through solid walls. Of course ghosts, spirits and orbs do that all the time.

I agree, Cyber, that these "paranormal" situations are "para" in our physical dimension. Just like we are "para" out of our physical dimension.