Discussion Forum (20)

Para-Newbie

Anything you would like to ask about the paranormal field.

Quotes:

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider." --Sir Francis Bacon

"Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life." --Henry Ford

Astrology

Anything related to astrology.

Channeling Spirits

Strictly channeling spirits. For other related issues please visit "Mediums, Psychics."

Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance: Ability to see events, places, objects, or persons outside of normal restraints of time and space. It is the ability to perceive distant events that are seemingly hidden and unknown. Also, to be able to regress or advance in time and see future and past events that are not visible to the normal human eye or mind.

Communication

Communication is important in the paranormal field as much as in our daily lives.

Cryptozoology

Cryptozoology: Term coined by zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans to characterize the study of "hidden animals." It includes the study of the existence of known animals in places where they were not expected to occur as well as the persistence of animals presumed to be extinct. The key trait of animals considered the object of cryptozoology is their unexpected nature. The idea of cryptozoology was suggested by the discovery of exotic animals through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They include the gorilla, the giant squid, and the coelecanth (a fish thought to be extinct for many millenia).

Dermo-Optics Perception

Dermo-Optic Perception or Skin-Vision: The term "Dermo-Optic" refers to seeing -not with the eyes- but by use of the skin surface. In Dermo-Optics, this is generally achieved with the fingertips in direct contact with the object. The ability to read newsprint while blindfolded or to distinguish colors, also without using the normal organ of sight, has another another name besides Dermo-Optics. It is referred to as "skin-vision."

EVPs

EVP: Electronic Voice Phenomena. Ghostly voices recorded on audio or video tape; voices recorded on audio media that are only detected during playback.

Quotes:

“It can only work when the vibrations of those present are in complete harmony and when their aims and intentions are pure.” --Konstantin Raudive spoke over the radio in 1994 ...he passed on in 1974.

Ghosts, Spirits

Ghost: A recording of one or more persons or objects that had either a repetitious routine or a very intense emotional experience. This recording is not sentient, but rather simply something that plays over and over, gradually losing energy over time. This recording can be recharged under certain circumstances, such as the appearance of certain individuals. An apparition or spirit that usually can be connected with a deceased person or animal; any supernatural appearance or image. The spectre of a person who has died and who is believed to haunt places at certain times. Ghosts are often described as being indifferent to human presence, though a few are vengeful. Taoism sees ghosts as the unsettled spirits of those without descendants, and celebrates a special festival every year to pray for them and thus release them into the next world. In Western tradition, ghosts usually haunt places associated with a tragic moment in their lives.

Spirit: The actual consciousness or soul of an individual that has passed on and continue to be observed in an area. There are four main reasons that spirits exist: (1) The person does not realize that he or she is dead; (2) there is unfinished business or an unkept promise after death; (3) the spirit is simply saying goodbye to a loved one; and (4) the spirit has returned to offer advice.

Quotes:

"For the first time in 8,000 years of recorded history, it can now be said with certainty that our mind, memory, personality and soul will survive physical death." --George Meek

“I am absolutely convinced of the fact that those who once lived on earth can and do communicate with us. It is hardly possible to convey to the inexperienced an adequate idea of the strength and cumulative force of the evidence.” --Sir William Barrett F.R.S.

Human Aura

Aura: Energy or life force surrounding all living individuals. The color of an aura can determine the mood or physical condition of an individual. Spirits can sometimes use a physical aura for energy, thereby depleting the person whose energy was taken.

Hypnosis & Sensory Awareness

Hypnosis and Sensory Awareness: It is a hypnogogic state - a condition wherein the mind functions in an altered stated of awareness, somewhere between consciousness and unconsciousness. The field of attention is narrowed and behavior is characterized by an openness to a focus of inner consciousness levels, and suggestion from within or without. There is increased voluntary control of the involuntary 'nervous system" and bodily function. Inner levels of consciousness and heightened states of sensory awareness, varying in degrees from very light to excessively deep, are called "hypnogogic trance states." This literally means that the mind is between wakefulness (consciousness) and sleep (inconsciousness). In the various hypnogogic trance states, the individual is able to "tap" the unused portion of the brain, and this outwardly unconsious and inwardly conscious state, results in a heightened awareness to the sensory field. This enable the subject to experience mind-body awarenss and inner consciousness that results in time regression, problem solving, memory recall, profound aesthetic experiences, mystical insight, clairvoyance, and even the deepest levels of mediumistic trance states.

ITC - Instrumental TransCommunication

Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC): The use of TVs, radios, telephone, computers, and other technical equipment to get information from the other side.

Quotes:

Now, you know this room is filled with radio signals, right? And you know that each signal remains distinct by its frequency. That's why this radio can tune separately to each signal... Well, all the spiritual universes -and there are hundreds of them- they're all sharing this space with our physical universe, like radio signals sharing this room." --George Meek

"Many ideas throughout history have been discarded as being too ridiculous to merit further study. Less than a hundred years ago many people believed humans would never fly. Now we have gone to the moon and back. Space flights, atomic energy, and medical transplants belonged to the realm of science fiction. Now they are realities. Speaking with those who have gone on to another existence is one area of study ripe for further exploration. Through the centuries many discoveries that have profoundly influenced human life seem to have come about almost by accident. Others occur as a result of dedicated work and research. In nearly every case the seemingly impossible has, in time become possible." --Sarah Estep

Mediums, Psychics

Medium: Person who can communicate with a spirit or ghost; person who serves as a n in-between for spirit communication. There are two main groups of spiritual phenomena, mental and physical, and there are both mental and physical mediums (persons endowed with psychic awareness). In the presence of such persons, alleged paranormal phenomena take place, often when the medium is in a trance. Mental phenomena include information given by mediums which they supposedly could not have acquired through any normal means.

Psychic: Person who knows or communicates with unseen forces, spirits, or entities; telepath; clairvoyant.

Quotes:

“I tell you we do persist. Communication is possible. I have proved that the people who communicate are who and what they say they are. The conclusion is that survival is scientifically proved by scientific investigation.” --Sir Oliver Lodge F.R.S.

“It is quite true that a connection has been set up between this world and the next.” --Sir William Crookes F.R.S.

“I have been talking with my (dead) father, my brother, my uncles... Whatever supernormal powers we may be pleased to attribute to (the medium) Mrs. Piper's secondary personalities, it would be difficult to make me believe that these secondary personalities could have thus completely reconstituted the mental personality of my dead relatives...” --Professor James Hyslop, Professor of Logic at Columbia University.

NDE - Near Death Experience

Near Dearth Experience (NDE): A term coined by Raymond Moody to described a series of life changing visions experienced by a person usually on the point of death. Experience in which the world is apparently perceived from somewhere outside the body. A person having such an experience may perceive his or her real physical body below, often from the perspective of a nonphysical body which in some cases appears attached to the physical body by a cord. The experience has most often been reported by those who have temporarily died but have then been resuscitated after a period of unconsciousness.

Quotes:

"There seems little doubt that NDEs occur in all cultures and have occurred at all times through recorded history... the NDE happens to young and old, to people from all walks of life, to those whose life has a spiritual dimension and to those who profess no faith at all... there are many examples of people who have a NDE at a time when they did not even know that such a phenomenon existed." --Dr. Peter Fenwick

OBE - Out of Body Experience

Out of Body Experience (OBE): The experience of moving out of one's body, retaining consciousness. In some societies, sorcerers and shamans are believed to be able to send their souls to distant places to obtain information or to bring back the lost soul of a sick person.

Orbs... what are they?

Open discussion.

Paranormal Investigations

Anything about your paranormal investigations. All your thoughts, techniques, experiences, new ideas, your evidence, your comments.

Personal Paranormal Experiences - General

Anything related to this category.

Psychokinesis

Psychokinesis: The ability of thought or mental prier to affect objects without apparent physical contact with that object. This has been referred to as "mind over matter." We know that in clairvoyance, objects affect the mind. In psychokinesis, the phenomenon is reversed. The mind affects objects and thus creates movements of those objects by "will" alone, and with absolutely no physical touch. After all, the life force within us is a greatly powerful and energizing force. Therefore, if the power of the mind is strong enough it will -at least, it can- creates object movement.