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I'm surprised someone as intelligent as you won't even accept that this could be a possible theory.
Ralph Steiner is a consummate expert, and tells us about the history of these systems, starting with Thomas Edison's early voice captures to modern devices such as the astonishing and rare Luminator, which Ralph has studied and had personal experience with. To see some of the Luminator photographs, go to Mark Macy's website, MacyAfterlife.com.
Dreamland
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If they cant explain it people must be crazy is getting real old!!
Originally posted by Phage
Do you think it impossible that PTSD is a cause?
Did I say that ghosts are not a possibility? Personally, I don't believe it to be the case but my beliefs aren't any more relevant than any one else's, are they?
My question to you is, what happens when ones "beliefs" are unwelcomingly confronted with experience?
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by gunshooter
Do you think it impossible that PTSD is a cause?
Did I say that ghosts are not a possibility? Personally, I don't believe it to be the case but my beliefs aren't any more relevant than any one else's, are they?
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"It's an astounding coincidence: in the absolute majority of accounts of the supernatural, be they biblical miracles, UFOs or paranormal phenomena, the protagonist had been falling asleep or waking up at the crucial moment.
As a result, there is something out there that has forever altered human history and culture -- something we know nothing about.
What are they keeping from us? Who stunted human development and who has something to gain from that? What's hidden inside each and every one of us -- and what does it hold for the future?"
Just nitpicking, but it would be 'nice' if instead of using "is" all the time, we used "maybe".
Yes. In spite of our cultural differences we all have human minds which work in a human manner. But there are cultural differences in paranormal experiences, aren't there?
Paranormal has merit to it, many people of many cultures and walks of life/professions have had *many* experiences - many of which (across continents, cultures) relate very strongly with each other.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by gunshooter
I'm surprised someone as intelligent as you won't even accept that this could be a possible theory.
Thank you for the compliment.
Do you think it impossible that PTSD is a cause?
Did I say that ghosts are not a possibility? Personally, I don't believe it to be the case but my beliefs aren't any more relevant than any one else's, are they?
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No, I dont think its impossible for ptsd to be a cause.
Originally posted by Phage
Four words.
PTSD.
The Japanese have a cultural predilection to obake.
Not at all surprising that PSTD would manifest in this form.edit on 3/7/2013 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Posttraumatic stress disorder[note 1] (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma. This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one's own or someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity, overwhelming the individual's ability to cope. As an effect of psychological trauma, PTSD is less frequent and more enduring than the more commonly seen post traumatic stress (also known as acute stress response). Diagnostic symptoms for PTSD include re-experiencing the original trauma(s) through flashbacks or nightmares, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and increased arousal—such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger, and hypervigilance. Formal diagnostic criteria (both DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10) require that the symptoms last more than one month and cause significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
A flashback, or involuntary recurrent memory, is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually powerful, re-experiencing of a past experience or elements of a past experience. These experiences can be happy, sad, exciting, or any other emotion one can consider. The term is used particularly when the memory is recalled involuntarily, and/or when it is so intense that the person "relives" the experience, unable to fully recognize it as memory and not something that is happening in "real time".
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by FlyersFan
The Japanese people were VERY OPEN to the afterlife and to spooks.
Yes. They are.
And traumatic stress could indeed manifest itself as hallucinations drawing on that deep cultural influence.
reply to post by Xaphan
Is that possible?
Clinical investigationsTo date, the specific causes of flashbacks have not yet been confirmed. Several studies have proposed various potential factors. Gunasekaran et al., 2009, indicate there may be a link between food deprivation and stress on the occurrence of flashbacks. Neurologists suggest temporal lobe seizures may also have some relation.
On the reverse side, several ideas have been discounted in terms of their causing flashbacks. Tym et al., 2009, suggest this list includes medication or other substances, Charles Bonnet syndrome, delayed palinopsia, hallucinations, dissociative phenomena, and depersonalization syndrome.
A study of the persistence of traumatic memories in World War II prisoners of war investigates through the administration of surveys the extent and severity of flashbacks that occur in prisoners of war. This study concluded that the persistence of severely traumatic autobiographical memories can last upwards of 65 years. Until recently, the study of flashbacks has been limited to participants who already experience flashbacks, such as those suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, restricting researchers to observational/exploratory rather than experimental studies.
That isn't what it says. It says that hallucinations have been discounted as the cause of flashbacks, it doesn't say there were no hallucinations.. We aren't talking about flashbacks.
Hallucinations have been clinically discounted as PTSD or even causing PTSD!
Positive symptoms are characterized by the presence of unusual feelings, thoughts, or behaviors. Positive symptoms include such experiences as hallucinations or delusions. A hallucination could be hearing voices that no one else can hear, or seeing things that are not really there.