Have you had a spooky encounter in Oregon?  Do you know of a Haunted place?  Let us know about it.

Seems like hauntings and such are the subjects of lots of TV these daze.  The Travel channel, as example always seems to feature haunted motels or battlefields.  Then there's them Ghostbuster guys ( I forget their names or what channel they are on) who go around with all the gadgets and night vision cameras.  It's kinda interesting to see how things transpire when such things are taken seriously.

I am rather encouraged by these developments.  In earlier years, it seemed, that if people had admitted a Spirit encounter of some kind, they were looked at as ignorant or foolish.  But this shouldn't surprise us really.  People always seem to feel the need that they know everything and always have a solid handle on things. 

During my lifetime, Science has been the know all mindset.  Everything that is real can be put in a test tube and quantified.  Anything that we are unable to test or study in a viable way....well....doesn't exist and saying otherwise is the mindset of the uneducated.  In earlier times, in Western Civilization, it was the Church and the Bible.  If it wasn't the way the Bible spoke of something , or the Bible/Church didn't admit to somethings existance...that was the way it was.  To disagree was to be a Heathen or Witch.  Before that, if a person had a sickness it was caused by evil spirits.  That was that.  A hard chemical or biological reason was absolutely absurd!  "Don't you ignorant people know anything?"

It is heartening to see PostModern people beginning to approach Spirituality in this more positive way....even if it IS a little halloweenish.  If we are to be genuinely wise, we must be able to see the viability of both Science and Spirit.  Speaking with folks now-a-daze I find most people admit to encounters of a Supernatural nature.  To me, this really is what speaks to the validity of TRUE Spirit or Religion.  When we are open, the intrusions of these other worlds/dimensions into our plane are impossible for most of us to deny.  This speaks to things eternal.

 

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An ascendant man, living in a degenerate age, MUST, by definition, live in contradistinction to his times.

While I enjoy watching Ghost Hunters, their science is, at best, fake, and at worst a complete fraud.

 Having had formal training in many of the technologies they use (FLIR, EMR/EMP, night vision, IR detection, audio recording), I can say their "technical" explanations of their equipment are a complete crock. For example, the FLIR and EMR detection gear both have characteristic flaws and traits that they commonly attribute to "orbs" and other supernatural activity. It's pretty obvious that they have only a passing familiarity with their equipment.

If the Ghost Hunter mindset were true, my mind reels with the number of times I've seen "supernatural" activity. Aside from these issues, there are a few people who are completely untrustworthy (Brian, for example). They should've maintained a high amount of integrity and eliminated Brian from the start. But then again it's not reality, it's a TV show and Brian brings drama.

perdurabo:

While I enjoy watching Ghost Hunters, their science is, at best, fake, and at worst a complete fraud.

 Having had formal training in many of the technologies they use (FLIR, EMR/EMP, night vision, IR detection, audio recording), I can say their "technical" explanations of their equipment are a complete crock. For example, the FLIR and EMR detection gear both have characteristic flaws and traits that they commonly attribute to "orbs" and other supernatural activity. It's pretty obvious that they have only a passing familiarity with their equipment.

If the Ghost Hunter mindset were true, my mind reels with the number of times I've seen "supernatural" activity. Aside from these issues, there are a few people who are completely untrustworthy (Brian, for example). They should've maintained a high amount of integrity and eliminated Brian from the start. But then again it's not reality, it's a TV show and Brian brings drama.

Well, what ever sells.

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