To All God's Children,
-->I don’t know if I like the skeptic’s idea that all ghosts and angels are mere hallucinations. Unless people have mass hallucinations, which is possible, unlikely in some circumstances. There have been too many anomalies witnessed by otherwise normal people to believe that there isn’t something that lies beyond us – that is the physical and observable reality. I have seen a ghost once, but it was while I was awakening during what is called a hypnogogic state, I think. Either that or hypnogenic.
My dad also saw a ghost once while in the house my mother grew up in. He was alone when he saw the spirit of my dead grandmother. Was it her spirit? Or was it due to the fact that he also was waking from a dream? Our mind hallucinates while we are in REM sleep and that could carry over into real life like it does in schizophrenics.
However, what about incidences when the person is wide awake and has a witness who sees the same thing. My friend said she saw a ghost with what she thought was long black hair and “ghostly” white skin at an old abandoned building. She ran back to get someone else, who witnessed the same thing, but when they brought every one in the group around to see it, the ghost disappeared.
How do you explain it? Why did they see the same apparition? If the witness is not a liar and the friend has never shown episodes of psychosis there is only one explanation. The Bible says you only need two witnesses and everything the Bible says is law (semi-sarcasm). It must be what millions already know and believe – ghost are real. But what are they? Are they a sign that we live beyond the grave or are they a leftover impression of our former selves?