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What is a ghost? Do you believe in ghost? Is there a place in religion for ghosts? Just this morning, I was discussing ghosts with some people and I recalled someone whom I know who claimed to be able to see ghosts since a very young age. A ghost is said to be the apparition of a deceased person, frequently similar in appearance to that person, and usually encountered in places she or he frequented, or in association with the person's former belongings. By that, I suppose the ghost will be a nice ghost just like the ghost portrayed by Patrick Swayze in the 1990 romantic movie of the same name which also starred Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. Now, if a ghost is nice, need a person fear it?

Just have a view of this video! Do people fear ghosts or do ghosts fear people?



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Liudmila said…
If humans are not able to see or to hear something, it doesn't means it doesn't exist. You can't hear the mouse but the cat can. Do you think, the mouse don't exist?

If you treat "spirits" that live with you with respect, your life becomes some better, because you have less problems in your house. Because "spirits" have the same emotions as we have.

One of the religions that treats "spirits" and all alive souls with respect is Bön.

I had some interesting videos... Now try to find the address... 2 videos in the bottom of the post.
February 15, 2008 at 4:05 AM
footiam said…
I heard from a church goer, proclaiming the existence of God. God is electricity. You know it's there, you can feel it if you touch a live wire but you can't see. If one can believe there is God, using this as an explanation, surely there are ghosts and spirits too! I wonder then if you believe in God. Supposing you can respect spirits, you'd respect God too. Believing in other beings, I guess makes life better. There will be less problems, no doubt and that's great, isn't it; considering our time here in this world is short and inpermanent.

Not very sure if I know about Bon, but if I am not mistaken, it's a Japanese festival, very similar to the Chinese, Tibetan and Vietnamese festival honouring the dead.

And thanks for the information about the videos. Will find time to have a look.
February 15, 2008 at 7:00 AM
Liudmila said…
I think, everybody has own "realization". There are persons that feel all the existant things around them as sounds, other persons, blind from the birth, can paint the world, that they could never seen, using right colours...

I think "god" is a word, describing something that exists inside us. If for somebody it's electricity -why not? I don't believe in "astral travelling" but it does not means I'm right. It only means I'm not able to accept it or I don't have this realization, if it's true.

I don't know, if there is a festival with this name (Bön) in Japan. I wrote about pre-buddhist religion of Tibet.
February 15, 2008 at 7:59 AM
Anonymous said…
Had been looking for ghosts, but haven't found one. Nobody can touch human imagination.
February 15, 2008 at 6:40 PM
footiam said…
Kebelle,There are so many ghosts around. According to some religion, there are different planes in this world such as the one belonging to the human and animals which we can see we our own eyes. I heard someone saying there are in all 32 planes and one of them belongs to the ghosts, which of course we can't see. I don't know much about other planes but I really wonder if they include those microorganisms which we could only see through the microscope. If you are looking for a ghost, maybe, we need some kind of microscope too. So, which particular ghost are you looking for? There are ghost in the minds. Have you started looking into that?
February 15, 2008 at 7:53 PM
footiam said…
Thanks Liudmila for the information on Bon and for your other thoughts too. I would like to have this realisation then, that I exists. Why worry about the existence of other things?
February 15, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Liudmila said…
In fact, according to buddhist phylosophy, other things do not exist. And there is no matter to worry about them. There is only what our mind has created and is attaced to.

One singer said so:"and if you are hard as a tree, you will born as baobab and will be baobab 1000 years till the death" ;((( Oi-yoi-yoi!!!
February 16, 2008 at 12:58 AM
footiam said…
I thought Buddhism believes in the existence of ghost and many other things like devas etc..etc. .32 planes... that's it. The human plane is the best because a human has a mind which allows him to choose. And there's really nothing to worry about.Just live right!
February 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Anonymous said…
Ghost is within us.. It may or may not hurt us...It all depend on what's within us
February 22, 2008 at 8:46 AM
footiam said…
Daily thoughts, mm...mm... Just as there is ghost withing us, there is God too!
February 26, 2008 at 4:20 AM
Anonymous said…
Hm, ghosts, yes?

Actually there are a lot of 'phenomenons' or 'subjects' or 'objects' related to 'ghosts'.

There are ... ghosts, spirits, demons, devils, haunted houses, curses, blessings, caring angels etc. etc.

The above things (or 'not-things') can be interpreted by ... rationality , irrationality, doctrine, philosophy, isms, religion, practice, magic, faith, belief as being existent or non existent , as having being or no being.

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder?
February 26, 2008 at 5:59 AM
Michael J. Kannengieser said…
Hi Footiam,
I do not believe in ghosts, but I respect those who do. Also, I think if I ever ran into one, I would have nothing to fear. -Mike.
February 26, 2008 at 8:00 AM
fwidman said…
Yes, I believe in ghosts, and have actually seen one, years ago. Liudmila is correct though, you should treat these spirits with respect. I don't think that spirits are always evil :)
February 26, 2008 at 11:01 AM
footiam said…
Wilbau, Ghost is in the eye of the beholder!
February 28, 2008 at 1:12 AM
footiam said…
Mike, Some people do not believe in ghosts; some people do not believe in God. Does it matter?
February 28, 2008 at 1:14 AM
footiam said…
Spirits and everything else, even plants should be treated with respect, Fridman. And yes, do tell about the ghost you'd seen! That would make an interesting post!
February 28, 2008 at 1:17 AM
Anonymous said…
I may be only 18 but I believe in spirits. I have been around them my whole life. Just about every house I have lived has been the home to a ghost as well. Take for example my gradpas house. My aunt saw a jar of penutbutter fly from the counter to the table. She was the only one there. My gradpa had a shop in an old hotel around where I live and he would go to open shop and all his musical stuff would be playing. So how can I not believe.
March 7, 2008 at 7:05 AM
footiam said…
Oh! bmxforever! You are living among poltergeists! I wonder if you are living in fear or just shrug this off as if there is nothing at all compared to the scumbags in our society?
March 11, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Anonymous said…
i'll straight kick a ghost in it's teeth i don't give a care
June 24, 2008 at 5:37 AM
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