Words From Beyond

Clairvoyance

Sunday, October 4, 2009 | Labels: Clairvoyance | 0 comments |

Clairvoyance, ability to see or visualize objects and events beyond the range of normal sight. Clairvoyance is a form of extrasensory perception, or ESP, which includes any ability to gain information by psychic means, rather than through the physical senses. According to belief, clairvoyance usually occurs when a person with clairvoyant powers is in a state of trance, during hich that person can describe the objects or events that appear in his or her mind. Most scientists, however, deny that claims of clairvoyance have been supported by any substantial evidence.

There are several explanations for clairvoyance among people who believe it occurs. Some people believe that a clairvoyant person gains psychic visions through communication with spirits. Others claim that clairvoyance comes through telepathy, the ability to communicate with others using only the mind. Another explanation says that clairvoyant people get their information through their own special abilities, without direction from another person or spirit.

Phobias

Sunday, August 24, 2008 | | 0 comments |

# A phobia is a persistent irrational fear that causes a person to feel extreme
anxiety. When people have a phobic reaction to a situation, a condition, or a thing, they may experience sweating, increased heart rate, difficulty in breathing, and an overwhelming desire to run away.

# Phobias are the most common of anxiety disorders, and they affect men and women of all ages, income levels, and ethnic groups. A phobia may develop from an unpleasant childhood memory. For example, an individual may feel uneasy around cats because of being bitten or scratched as an infant. If over the years such an uneasiness develops into an unreasoning fear of cats that causes the person to scream, run, or faint at the very presence of a cat, that person has ailurophobia (from the Greek words ailuro for cat, phobia for fear).

# Psychologists have categorized as many as 500 phobias, and according to the estimates of some health professionals, as many as 50 million individuals in the India suffer from some kind of phobia. While the causes of phobias remain unknown and open to much speculation, some of the most frequent theories name biological, chemical, cultural, and psychological origins—or a mix of the four.

1. Agoraphobia is considered the most disabling of all the phobias. Treatment is difficult because those who suffer from this phobia fear being someplace outside of their home where they will not be able to escape if they should experience a panic attack—and that can be anywhere from a supermarket, the office, or a crowded street.

2. Acrophobia, a fear of heights, may have developed in an individual because of a childhood fear of falling. Some individuals are unable to ascend to the upper floors of buildings or are even unable to climb up on ladders to hang pictures in their home because of such a dread of falling. The name of this phobia is derived from the Greek word acro to denote a great height. Aphobia is a persistent irrational fear that causes a person to feel extreme anxiety

3. Arachnophobia, a fear of spiders, is an extremely common fear that undoubtedly has its basis in the reality that some spiders are poisonous or inflict painful bites. The name for this phobia comes from the Greek word for spider, arachne. There is also the Greek myth of Arachne, a woman from the ancient city of Lydia, who had the boldness to challenge the goddess Athena to a weaving contest. As a punishment, Arachne was changed into a spider.

4. Claustrophobia, a fear of being enclosed in a small or tight place, was experienced by the great escape artist Houdini, who often accepted the challenge of freeing himself from very small and tight boxes and trunks. Disciplining himself to conquer his phobia was one of his greatest feats. The name of this phobia comes from the Latin word claustro, to shut or to close. The word is also very close to cloister, in which individuals voluntarily shut themselves off from the world.

5. Glossophobia, a fear of public speaking, is one of the most common of phobias and one that must be overcome by many individuals who find themselves in the position of having to make a speech to a group of people for business, professional, or educational reasons. From the Greek word for tongue, glosso, many people find themselves tongue-tied, feeling faint, their heart pounding when they are placed in the position of speaking in public.

5. Mysophobia, a fear of germs or dirt, originates from the Greek myso, filth. This phobia is an environmental one that causes the sufferers constantly to wash their hands, to cleanse the area around them, and to avoid any type of dirt or any source that might breed bacteria. Many people with this disorder become housebound and often cause dermal harm to themselves by constantly scrubbing and washing their skin. Singer-songwriter Michael Jackson has become well-known for his phobia regarding germs.

6. Scotophobia, a fear of the dark, is another basic human response to centuries of concern for the dangers in venturing out after nightfall where wild animals or savage people may lie in ambush, waiting to attack the vulnerable. While even in modern times it seems only an exercise of common sense to be cautious while out walking after dark, an unreasoning fear and overwhelming dread of dark places can cause individuals to be confined to their homes after nightfall. The word comes from the Greek scoto, darkness.

7. Xenophobia, fear of strangers or foreigners and their customs, can be especially troublesome in modern times when the globe shrinks more every year, and cultures once far removed from one another become closely involved in trade, tourism, or international tension. In primitive times when people encountered individuals from different tribes, a caution or fear of strangers was the most primitive kind of protective device.

Superstitions And Strange Customs

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | | 0 comments |

The experiences of those who had faced greatdangers and lived to tell the tale were ritualizedby others who listened carefully to suchaccounts and took note of what the survivorshad worn, thought, said, or did to escapedeath. As the sharing of the survivors’ storiesspread, highly individualized personal ritualsgrew out of the methods by which these heroeshad been able to ward off evil or the deadlyattack of predators or human enemies. Thesepersonal rituals became the beginning of whatis called superstition and evolved over timeinto systems of magic and religious practices.

1. Cats:- Perhaps no animal has inspired as much superstition as the cat. Throughout history, cats have been worshipped as gods by certain cultures and abhorred as demons by others. In European folklore, the black cat is the traditional companionof witches. Because of this old belief,the black cat has become an omen of misfortune and ill luck, and a popular notion is that unhappiness will follow quickly in the wake of the black cat that crosses one’s path.

An old book called Beware the Cat (1584) gives warning that black cats are witchesin disguise, and that killing a cat does not necessarily mean killing the witch, for a witch can take on the body of a cat nine times. In the Middle Ages, the brain of ablack cat was considered an essential ingredient in all recipes of the witches and witch doctors.

THROUGHOUT history, cats have been worshipped as gods by certain cultures.

The old belief that a cat has nine lives goes back to ancient Egypt. The cat-headed goddess,Bast (or Ubasti), was associated with the benevolent aspect of Hathor, the Lioness, andwas said to have nine lives. The Egyptians did not fear the cat, but rather reverenced it, andthey elevated cats far above the role of domestic pet.

2. Days of the Week:-The belief in lucky and unlucky days is very old and appears to have been originally taughtby the magicians of ancient Chaldea.

The ancient Greeks believed that the 13th day was unlucky for sowing, but favorable for planting.

Even today in South Africa, many people consider it unlucky to begin a journey or undertake a work of importance during the last quarter of the moon.

“Blue Monday” is an old phrase still in general usage. In early days those whose businesscircumstances forced them to work on Sunday, the official day of rest, were consideredentitled to a holiday on Monday. On Monday, therefore, while others were back atwork, the people who worked on Sunday had a day of rest. Because the churches throughoutEurope were decorated with blue on the first Monday before Lent—which was a holiday or“lazy day” for everyone—the day of rest throughout the rest of the year for the Sundayworkers came to be known as “Blue Monday.”

Although the term is still used, now when people speak of a “Blue Monday,” they mostoften wish to convey that they feel lazy, tired, or would rather be on holiday than at work.

The origin of the superstition concerning Friday is traced by most authorities to the crucifixionof Jesus Christ (c. 6 B.C.E.–c. 30 C.E.) on that day. But some writers advance the theorythat Friday is regarded as an unlucky day because, according to ancient tradition, it wason Friday that Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit and were cast out of paradise.

3. Dogs :- Dogs, “man’s best friend,” do not have any of the kind of sinister superstitions that surround the cat, their domesticated companion andcompetitor in hundreds of thousands of households around the world.

Not only have dogs been humankind’s most consistent and considerate animal friend, but certain scientific research now suggests that the human species might not be here today if it hadn’t been for an ancient linkup with the canine family.

Among the superstitions associated with the dog is the ancient belief that the howling of dogs portends death and calamities. This appears to be a relic of the time when humans made deities of animals, and as a deity, the dog was supposed to be able to foresee death and give warning of it by howling or barking.

The connection with the sun may derive from the dog’s habit of walking around in a small circle before it lies down. To early people, the making of such a circle was to create a symbol of the sun.

In ancient Persia, dogs were believed to be able to protect the dying soul from possession by evil spirits. When a person was dying, a dog was stationed by the bedside to keep away the negative spirits that hovered near newlyreleased souls.

There is an old superstition that good luck will be granted to a person who is followed by a stray dog. If the dog should follow someone on a rainy night, however, such action brings bad luck.

Voices from Beyond

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Messages from the “other side” are most often words of comfort for the living, that they are okay and are still watchingout for us. In the most interesting cases, however, those who have passed on communicate messages that are not only highly personal, but are of particular significance, important – even life saving. Here are some of those stories:

1. Mom’s voice : It was an otherwise ordinary night in August of 1975 when 18-year-old Kris was taking her clothes to the laundromat behind the restaurant where she worked. She put the clothes in the washer and headed back to the restaurant to help her boyfriend, who was a cook there, close up the place. While walking to the back entrance, Kris’s attention was grabbed be a nondescript goldcoloured car, although she didn’t know why. She started to walk to the front of the kitchen area, then decided against it and simply leaned against a door area where she could not be seen from the front. Suddenly, it became quiet. “I started to take a step when I heard my mom’s voice, as though she were standing there say, ‘Kris, don’t move!’” Fortunately, Kris listened. Then one of the waitresses came screaming to the back and grabbed the phone to call the police. The restaurant had just been robbed at gunpoint! “Had I walked into view of the doorway,” Kris says, “I would have seen my boyfriend lying face down on the floor, the waitress and the few customers on their knees – and I would have been directly behind the gunman, who was so nervous I probably would have been shot when I startled him.”

There is a mistaken idea that the “voices” heard are those of the spirit communicators. If we stop and think, we realise that everything of our physical make-up is left on the earth when the soul passes into the spirit world, where it manifests through the etheric counterpart of our being. In the etheric state everything is expressed by mental and spiritual vibrations. When spirit entities communicate their messages by means of direct voice, they transmit their thoughts to an apparatus constructed from the power taken from the sitters.

2.Dad leaves a note : One September morning in 1999, Clair was surprised to find a message written on a little notepad stuck on her refrigerator. It said, “Rise and shine, Claire.” She swears the note was in her father’s handwriting who had died two years earlier, and she knows the notepad was blank when she went to bed the night before. “I know it wasn’t faked,” Clair says, “because he had something called benign familial tremor, so his writing was really shaky.” Clair’s two daughters also denied any joke on their part. What’s more, the message was personal. “It was something he always said to me when it was time for me to go to high school some 30 years ago. I can’t explain it but I think it really is great that my father hasn't forgotten me!”

The only physical contribution is the medium’s larynx. The larynx isdematerialised and then rematerialised in a form required by the spiritentity. The larynx is then attached to an ectoplasmic pipe, which in turnis connected by means of an ectoplasmic rod to an ectoplasmic soundbox.All the apparatus is built up outside and away from the medium.The next process is to bring about suitable conditions for spiritcommunication, or in other words, getting the right wave length. Justlike the wireless, where it is necessary to tune in the instrument to awave-length to receive the station we desire to hear, so we have totune in to the higher vibrations of the spirit world. The onlywavelengths on which the spirit world operates are love, sympathy,harmony and faith. The sitters are responsible for supplying the rightvibrations. Having gone so far, one has to wait with patience for anycommunication.

3. Play it again, grandma : Diane was of high school age when she received a remarkable message from her grandma. It was a Friday and whole family was at the high school game, as her brother was playing in it. “I had been grounded for some reasons I can’t remember now,” Diane says. Her grandmother had passed away about two years earlier. And she was the only one in the family who could play the piano, which was kept in the basement. “I only ever heard her play two songs,” says Diane. “One was The Third Man Theme.” “I had been watching TV, and all of a sudden I heard The Third Man Theme coming up from the basement. I was scared to death. I will never forget it!”

The AfterLife Mysteries

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Humankind’s obsession with the unknown and the unexplained begins with the greatest question of all: Do humans survivephysical death? And if so, are they born again?

The mystery of what lies on the other side of death has givenbirth to humankind’s magic, mysticisms, religions,and all the diverse creatures of Light andDarkness that populate the mysteriousregions in between.

1. Children take the continuity of life for granted. It is the fact of death that has to be taught. Self-preservation is one of humankind’s most powerful instincts, transcending the grave itself, for the desire for immortality, an afterlife, is nothing else than one form of the search for self-preservation.

2. One goes to sleep many times, but always to wake once more. Humans have gotten into the habit of being alive. To think of oneself as non-being is difficult. People can accept the mortality of others, but not of themselves.

3. The belief in an afterlife coincides with the innate conviction that present life has significance and purpose. And because humans believe their earthly existence has meaning and they therefore have a reason for being, it seems imperative that at least some part of them must somehow continue in a future life.

4. Conceptions of the world beyond death vary considerably among the world religions, but in every religious expression known to history or anthropology, the question of the afterlife in store for the individual believer has been of prime importance.

5. Those whose faith has trained them to believe completely in an afterlife can easily imagine what the future life will be. For them, life after death is a definable concept, a genuine and real result of how they have lived their present life.

6. To religious individuals, faith in an afterlife becomes increasingly part of their existence, a source of courage and strength as the years go by. And once physical death overtakes them, for the great majority of these individuals, the most significant feature of an afterlife will be their union with the Divine.

The World Of Paranormal

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A recent survey has found that, of their random sample of 1,236 Indian adults, 55 percent believed in the devil, while 25 percent professed belief in ghosts and 14 percent in witches.
Almost 50 percent said they believed in extrasensory perception, or ESP, while 36 percent professed belief in mental telepathy, and 17 percent in telekinesis (the supposed ability of the mind to change the position or shape of an object). One in four professed a belief in astrology.
The experience of déjà vu— the feeling 'that you have been somewhere or done something before,' as the pollsters put it — was the most common psychic phenomenon reported.
While 55 percent of people said they believed in déjà vu, 56 percent said they had actually experienced it. Thus, according to Gallup, seeing may not always be believing.

GRADUATING FROM LIFE

Saturday, July 26, 2008 | | 0 comments |

1. The AfterLife :- Many of those who have returned to life after an experience also speak of a life-review of their deeds and misdeeds from childhood to the moment of the near-death encounter.

2. Voices From Beyond:- A lot of so-called direct voice phenomena is nothing more than a spiritentity taking charge of a medium when in trance and speaking through his lips.

3. Superstitions And strange Customs :- Out of the fears and feelings of helplessness, there arose accounts of personal rituals of survival. Superstitions and religions evolved into accepted rules for appropriate human behavior (customs) and forbidden behavior (taboos).