Why human afriad of ghost???

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Fear is a primal instinct in man, and everybody has a phobia or hangup that has both a rational explanation and an avenue of escape. We may fear nuclear holocaust, heights, and black ice, but it's relatively easy to pray for peace, stay off of ladders, and avoid wet roads when the temperature goes below freezing. These are known terrors, but we fear them just the same. Then there is the unknown. Americans, for example, are conditioned to scoff at all things paranormal, and this is little more than a curtain set up to shield us from the fear of being afraid. There are ghost photographs, thermal images, recordings of disembodied voices, and literally thousands of eyewitness testimonies. All of the signs point toward the existence of something, and this "something" cannot be wrestled with bare hands and has not been successfully explained by any Ph.D. in a textbook. If we fear the known, the unknown has to be looked upon with absolute dread. *w*

So, just what is a ghost? The most common idea is that a ghost is the spirit of a human being who once lived here on earth. If the spirit is malignant, how do you fight it? It's certainly not possible to kill something that is already dead. AND our fears run much deeper than that. The idea behind all religions is our hope that there is an afterlife and that we all pass on to a better place. Roaming the earth for an eternity and repeating the same idiotic maneuvers over-and-over again isn't much of an afterlife, is it? From this point of view, believing in ghosts runs afoul of the idea that there is an absolute heaven and hell. Essentially, everything we want to believe in becomes a lie. *s*

Spirits of the dead "living" amongst us is hard to swallow, but there are other explanations that make the former seem almost pleasing. Some ghost researchers have ideas that take our fears beyond our worst nightmares. A hot new topic in the paranormal world is shadow people, or dark beings from another dimension. A thousand years ago, many people believed that the world was flat, and in the modern age, there are those who refuse to believe that man walked on the moon. Still more cannot fathom that there may be life anyplace else in the universe. To the uneducated, the simplest of truths are enough to make them want to plug in a night light and pull the covers over their heads, and the idea that beings invisible to our eyes literally occupy our own space would send hoardes of people into a panic. If this theory is true,does anybody really want

to know? Perhaps in the dark recesses of our minds we already do. *V*

Our minds. There lies another possible explanation. The human mind is a powerful thing, but is it capable of creating ghosts? In THE MOTHMAN PROPECIES (and some of his other books), John Keel explains his theories regarding tulpas. A tulpa is pretty much of a man made phenomena. For example, the author of THE SHADOW series lived in a Greenwich Village apartment, and he was a very prolific writer who cranked out a book about his hero every month or so. Sometime after he left his abode, a phantom that was identical to "The Shadow" in every way was seen in the house on many occasions. There's this "proof," and we all have heard stories about the correlation between teen angst (etc.) and poltergeist activity. So...does man create his own specters? Could be. ^*^

Yes, we do fear what we don't know, and it would seem that in extreme cases what we don't know can hurt us. Probably the best known malignant spirit is Tennessee's Bell Witch. Go rent the movie "An American Haunting" and you'll see what I mean. Common sense and basic instincts aren't to be trifled with, and as sure as a wolf knows when to howl, man knows when to be afraid. There is mounting proof that something unknown exists, and until we get to the bottom of it, there is reason enough for fear. *0*