Is It Real, Or Just In Our Minds?

Yes, I do believe in ghosts, spirits, whatever label you wish to use.  I believe in an afterlife, though my thoughts on what it consists of aren't set in stone.

I have seen a full bodied apparition, and if you ever see one yourself, you will understand that no one can ever convince you that you didn't see what you know you saw.  It was as real as the computer I am typing on now.

However, I have to wonder how much of what we experience may be just our minds struggling to make sense of some anomalous sensory input that we cannot at that moment understand, so we attribute it to a paranormal source.

This isn't to say that all things that go bump in the night are merely figments of our imagination.  But I do believe we need to be very cautious in stating that something is absolutely of a paranormal nature.

And even if a lot of what we experience is 'just in our minds', does that make it any less real?  Just because we cannot AT THIS TIME document something with the equipment we have on hand, that does not mean it wasn't paranormal, it doesn't mean that perhaps our minds are able to perceive things that our various tools cannot document or verify.

We may never be able to document scientifically the things most of us experience that are of a paranormal nature. We CAN strive to eliminate as many potential natural explanations as possible, document what these anomalies are NOT, and therefore narrow down the potential explanations for an event.

And even if most of what we see, hear, feel, or sense cannot be proven to someone's satisfaction using science, it's important to remember that ESP has been documented for decades, shown to be erratic but that it does exist, and that is something that originates in our minds, an ability that we are still working on understanding and fine tuning. We may be tuning in to some mental mind frequency that allows us to connect across time and space with those who have lived before while they are yet alive in their time, or perhaps communication with ghosts and spirits is truly only possible through our minds, and therefore cannot be documented, at least not with the tools we have at present.

Regardless, we will continue to record whatever we find, and hope that someday we may be able to quantify the wealth of anomalous experiences that we humans continue to experience.