Proving Ghosts!

From a visitor from IA 10/12/03

Don't you think someone needs to find out if ghosts are really real?

RESPONSE:

That would be wonderful, wouldn't it! But how does one prove something from the esoteric? This has been a question many have asked for hundreds of years. It is like trying to prove a negative - you can't! What I mean by that is we attempt to prove something of a spiritual nature with physical, earthly items. If we could prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that ghosts exist, then we could also prove that God exists. But some things in this world one must just take on faith. When you consider all the things in the world that we state as fact; for example, the distance from the Sun to Earth - who has made the trip? How do we not know there isn't a distortion that takes place in space that will actually alter our measurements of distance. We don't and we can't know the truth of this - we can only speculate. Because so many people have seen ghosts and so many pictures have been taken that it appears ghosts show up in, one must take much of this belief on faith. Keeping in mind that not everyone who sees a ghost is an unreliable source - to the contrary most are sound, reliable individuals. And more often than not these people really don't want this experience because it makes them feel abnormal and different from the majority.

Be skeptical - I know everyone on the Eeeek Team is! But keep in mind that being skeptical does not mean you don't believe in such possibilities - what it means is you don't know if such things are true or not. A true skeptic is someone who has no opinion about such things - but is open to the possibilities. If a person does not believe photographs, witnesses, jumps in electro-magnetic detection devices, temperature changes when a ghost is seen by someone, then that person is not a skeptic but a non-believer. A non-believer, no matter what one does, will never believe simply because they truly are not open to the slightest realm of possibility.

Hope this answers your question! Thanks for writing Eeeek!