My personal opinion is that demons exist in several levels and powers. I have seen things to make me believe that they are working in many ways to influence people daily. I do believe some spirits are evil but only if they were evil when they where amongst the living. I also believe that there are Spirits called Trixters that will act like Spirits that some are trying to contact. I believe that they will follow you home from the haunted location for just about any reason they think of.

So I say that a protection prayer before and after is better than anything else you could do to let them know where you stand. Also it wouldn’t hurt to have some sort of object of your belief to reassure your belief that your Protection Prayer will work. Its known as a comforter in times of need.

Some will be wondering why ( I don’t believe I need Protection ) I am in any danger of a spirit or demon following me from a Investigation. What You believe is just Your opinion and not fact. I decided when I started the Investigation, the amount of time it takes to say a protective prayer at the beginning and at the end of an Investigation is so small that I may as well do them. Plus if they really do prevent the spirits from following me from an Investigation then it is more worth the time and effort to do them.

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I think that there is definitely residual energy left behind by people and even things. But, I think that there are intelligent spirits around us. And I even think that maybe a part of us can split off and stay behind ... even seemingly acting intelligently with the living. I'm not sure about this last part, though.

It's believed that all living creatures are made up of energy. No one knows what happens to the energy after we die. Going by Einstein's laws then energy is neither created nor destroyed, so what happens to it. Maybe by making a house a home, we are giving some of our energy to the home. It can either override the incoming presence or strengthen it and allow it to remain. This all depends on us when we move into a new house.

Just something to ponder and debate.

Time to revive an old thread. I have often read that spirits or ghosts as many people call them are the energies left over when people pass away. All living things eventually die including animals, birds, plants and all things that have life. I have seen, heard and was touched or harmed by spirits. So if this theory that spirits are leftover energy, then anything that has ever lived would leave behind a spirit. I have seen spirits that looked human to me and I have seen the spirit of a cat. I don't believe that I ever saw the spirits of any other animal, bird, fish, tree or plant.

I know what the word "paranormal" means and recently I came across the word "perinormal" which is new to me. I never saw this word or heard it spoken. You can get a fairly good idea what the word perinormal means here: http://www.nationmas...rmal-phenomenon Again I am not trying to promote the web site but only sharing a source of information.

Positive to see that you've picked up on the trend to wave shiney things around in the name of science, I touched upon this myself in another thread in the last couple of days. Observing many groups these days, most people appear to have forgotten the basics and even worse, don't understand at all the capabilities, or otherwise, of the so called professional toys equipment that they seem to use.

Kind Regards

Baruc.

These assumptions make me nuts, yet we use them all the time. And when we report our experiences, investigators rely on terminology that seems to confirm these assumptions. I seldom see findings presented without interpretation, either. Using the above example, in a report an investigator might say, "I saw the ghost of Great Aunt Fannie." That statement is riddled with interpretation. In fact, what you saw was a figure that appeared with the features and form of Aunt Fannie. We need to stop reporting interpretation as fact.

We assume EVPs are voices of the dead and present them as such. That's an interpretation. In fact, EVPs are merely audio anomalies we can't really explain. We do ourselves a disservice by reporting these as something we don't know they actually are. If we assume we know what they are without actually trying to figure it out, then we are exactly what critics call us - pseudoscientific.

That being said, the other thing that really bugs is the current trend moving away from personal experience. We are our own best tools. Our observations, our experiences and our feelings do matter on investigations - but we need to report them as just that - observations and not scientific fact. To do anything else obfuscates data and keeps us from making actual progress.

In it, the author, John Fraser asks several questions about contemporary investigation techniques and questions their value. Amongst the many areas he discusses, he queries the age old tradition of investigating at night, the value of investigating through to the daylight hours of the following morning and the reliance of many groups upon orbs and mists as evidence of paranormal activity.

Thinking about this, if you had your way, what would you change in contemporary investigation and why?

Kind Regards

Baruc.

Indeed, but sadly I suspect that in the instances that I've observed, they most definitely did not.

Kind Regards

Baruc.

Well the fact that it's a game does set it apart from an audio recorder, etc. That doesn't mean spirits can't use it IMO. Chad bought a nice, new, fancy Ouija board recently, and I'll admit, I'm slightly afraid to use it!

BTW, I love cheesecake. LOL

But there's the rub, there's no logical reason to fear a bit of wood / card with some letter etched into it, but fear it we do. A psychological effect built up after many years of hype. There's nothing to be scared of.

Or is there?

I know it sounds silly but I get a bit spooked when I do EVP sessions sometimes. Perhaps we're all scared of the wrong thing.

I just can't get them to 'work' for me, despite the want of trying.

I just personally feel that they have no place in a field investigation scenario. Unless you can get that planchette moving on it's own perhaps.

Kind Regards

Baruc.

I can only comment that when I've tried to use something like this I've never had any success, the planchette / glass has always remained stationary. My ever lasting memories are just aching arms from holding my finger in situ. I must try harder I know.

Kind Regards

Baruc.

Kind Regards

Baruc.

Baruc is right. I believe many "divining" tools require a human to touch them because of the ideomotor phenomenon. I think pendulums and divining rods do the same thing. I once watched someone experiment with a pendulum by placing it in a sealed glass tube where no one was touching it and nothing could affect it. That sucker, which had been freely moving in someone's hand, didn't budge. I'd guess it's the same with a Ouija board.