I remember the time that I tried to bring my Thanksgiving turkey back to life with jumper cables

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One day, the Shroud between the world of the living and the world of the dead shall be torn

Why does that sound sexy?

Well, to begin with, all religious people should believe in ghosts. But many don't.

Go figure.

This is especially weird with Christianity I think, because even the Bible has Jesus casting demons out of people. So it would seem to me that it would basically be impossible to believe in Jesus and not believe in ghosts.

Especially scince Jesus himself supposedly rose from the dead as a ghost. And the religion basically worships the Holy Ghost.

Not to mention believing in angels, etc.

So it really cracks me up when these people laugh at something like, say, Faery lore.

They think Faeries are silly, but they take angels seriously.

In any case, for me personally, I have never yet met a ghost. I'm trying hard, and I'm quite serious about it. I would love more than anything to meet a ghost. A good one or a bad one. I'm not afraid of the boogieman!

I would prefer to meet a good ghost, but I'll take whatever I can get.

Of course, meeting a ghost doesn't even prove that they exist. It could be a figment of my own psyche. After all, we know for a fact that many people do become schizoprhenic and believe to be speaking to people they actually see, hear, and in some cases touch and interact with physically.

I've been trying to meet with any spirit that is willing to converse with me. I do make every attempt to reach out to 'good' spirits. I use various techniques of shamanism and witchcraft.

Thus far I have not had any luck making contact with a spirit.

However, I will say that I have had dreams in the past that were very real, and in those dreams I have met people who I have known but are now dead. I have also been in the spirit world where I have interacted with many spirits.

The problem was that as real as those dreams seemed at the time (and they seemed as real as though I had actually been there), they were still clearly dreams, and I could not remember them in great detail. Well, some more than others.

Do dreams count?

That's an intersting question.

According to the Bible they do. Many of the supposed contacts that were made in the Bible were visions within dreams. I believe that God supposedly spoke to Joseph in a dream. The entire book of revalations was suppose to be visions that John had in a dream.

So shamanism is all through the Bible. Having visions through dreams is the basis of all shamanic work.

The bottom line for me now is to try to make contact with a character in a dream. And to do it in a way that truly feels like the other person (or character) is actually doing their own thing.

I have had dreams like this in the past. But I have not yet been able to maintain consciousness within my dreams. These are techniques that I'm only just now learning to practice.

I actaully did have a strange dream last night. It wasn't even an intentional shamanic journey. It was just a normal dream. But it was very strange because there was indeed a 'seperate' person in the dream who came into my cottage. But he didn't speak to me. We made eye contact but not a word was spoken. Also, there was a sense that my cottage was a public Inn and he was a new patron.

He actually walked over to the wall and picked up the phone and called someone. In reality I don't have a phone on that wall, but in the dream there was a phone on the wall like you might find in a bar.

My mother was also in the dream. She's no longer living. I didn't speak to her either.

I wasn't fully conscious within this dream. These are more like just the memories of it after I woke up. My goal is to try to learn how to become conscious within these dream so I can actually converse with these people.

I'm trying hard to become a schizophrenic I guess.

I do believe in the power of visions within the psychic like this.

Whether they are actual contacts with other conscious beings, or whether they are entirely made-up fabrications of my own I don't know.

My goal is to be able to conciously carry on conversations with the characters in my dreams. If they seem to take on a life of their own, I'll just assume that they are indeed spirits attempting to communicate with me.

But so far, I haven't had any actual conversations.

Well I have had some dreams where I heard other people thinking/talking. And those were quite intersting as well. But again, I can't control them. They come as dreams when I'm sleeping, and I haven't yet been able to call them up via a purposeful shamanic journey.

They say this can take years of practice. So who knows. Maybe someday.

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=24173

I do not want to offend anyone, but does anyone even consider the possibility . . .

It happens often enough to have a term . . .