Introduction:
Ghost is a legendary creature, which can be real or in phantasm. Ghost is sometimes known as "Specter" or specter in different cultures. It is the living soul of a dead person, or animal. It is searching for its own body inside the mortal world. Ghosts are life-like, an embodiment of human -beings; they can hardly be watched or felt. Many people are expressed to have seen ghosts and encountered with them. There are certain religious practices which believe to be making way of resting soul of ghosts. All these practices are believed by humans who are afraid of ghosts, and try hard to resolve the fear through some spiritual practices. From the time immemorial, humans always prefer to shelter in the hut of religion to drive out fear. They are scared of fire, cyclone and floods and to this they tend to shelter into spiritual practices. It gives them immense pleasure and satisfaction and generates intense sense of brevity while maintaining religious practices.
According to “The Devil’s Backbone”, ghost is “An emotion, a terrible moment condemned to repeat itself over and over? It is an instance of pain, perhaps? Something dead which appears at times alive. A sentiment suspended in time... like a blurry photograph... like an insect trapped in amber.”
Vengeful spirits:
According to Wikipedia, ghosts are solitary spirits which stays in one single location and they are powerful and it is difficult to remove them from those places. Ancestors and old timers resort to diverse spiritual practices in order to get rid of vengeful spirits. They believe, some spirits are dangerous and they do evils to society or family. They believe spirits with revenge are most fearful and for this they tend to give the sacrifice. The sacrifice in the forms of male goats is common in the form. It is believed that ghosts tend to eat those ghosts and then became satisfied with their stay at the earth and then revert back to their own hinterland which is between earth and paradise.
Book of Dead:
People believe persons who are murdered in broad day light seemed to return again in order to avenge their deaths. In these scenarios, the guilty family resorts to worship of Lord and other forms of godly matters in order to place the vengeful spirits. Ancient Egyptian’s “Book of dead” primarily deals with different aspects of life after death and tries to find the reason behind the formation of ghosts. When a person dies, the whole set of materialistic constituent of life disinterred.
When the last rites performed, preferably burning of a lifeless body, disintegrated constituents integrate to form the soul. The soul is the basis of life. Without a soul, a life cannot exist. When the identical soul comes back and searches for its body of embodiment, it fails to find it. Thus it becomes revengeful and tries to attack people and try to get back to their body. Soul always searches for the human body. It cannot act without it. For this reason, the trend of mummification in ancient Egypt begins. It aims at preserving the body for the soul. Soul goes out from the body after death. It disintegrates and then reintegrates and revives and returns to Earth in search of human body.
Mummification:
That is why they preserve the human body with mummification. They believe there are no such time limits when the soul reaches to the earth after integration of constituents of the human body, and for this sole reason ancient Egyptians tend to preserve the human body with a special kind of treatment. It is a robust science and the real trick of preserving a dead human body for so long is lost amidst change of civilization. Modern Egypt has long left the ideas of ancient religions and so on all the tricks of preserving mummies. It is a sad that humans have lost this great trick to preserve the human body without mutilation for so long. They believe spirits remain in the earthly world after life and tend to haunt the places where they lived and for this it is essential for them to preserve the body of the spirits to let them lay in peace.
After life:
“Book of dead” also epitomized that these spirits after life had to pass through a series of “supernatural-entities”. The souls of thieves and unrighteous persons are being punished by another group of slaughters who will hound them and find them out and kill the soul of “after Life”. On "Juedgement-day" the souls with “negative confession” are heavily punished on "judgment-day".
All these consciences and beliefs show the moral strength of ancient Egyptian society which is culturally and morally blended to stay afloat to touch such height of science where they can preserve the dead body of humans without mutilation for long years. Verses of “negative confession” of “Book of the dead” list all practical thoughts which is a guide for human hearts, which may have been dwindling in the dual thoughts of good and the evil. One does not have to face a series of embankments from evils and slaughters in “afterlife” journey of soul.
Ghosts are spirits:
“Book of dead” was originally written in Papyrus. Most of writers are from elite and rich classes. During those times, they have acquired significant knowledge from different sphere and are trying hard to manuscript this knowledge for the common man in their speaking language, in order to craft and maintain decent generic attitudes among the common masses. The cost of papyrus is high and for this only rich and influential people have the capacity to acquire and write.
In numerous places in India, it is believed that ghosts are the spirits. Spirits are the individuals within people. Spirits of the dead man who stays in this earth is considered far from being natural. Earth is the place for normal living people. It is believed that spirits stayed in the earth as long as their motives are not satisfied. This theory can be counted on various directions. But, it is also true that every person is afraid of ghosts. Ghosts’ fictions have been re-written and retold often times. Most of prehistoric cultures and religions are always filled with stories of ghosts and spirits. “Pneuma” is the synonym of ancient Greek ghosts or spirits. They believe that ghosts stay with air or breathe. The concept of spirits comes from the simple fact that in cold and ice climatic conditions when one breathes, the air is filled with white smokes.
Trinity:
Ghosts can move anywhere within a space of seconds and they are believed to be influential in their hinterland. They are thought to be more persuasive than Lord, even in their place. For the majority of Christians, the “holy ghosts” are the third major substance of “Trinity”. The “New Testament” attaches greater importance to the term “holy-Spirit”. Holy spirits seem to be embedded within God and when he descended to the earth, the “holy spirit” was released from the curse and went on to heaven. However, the other forms of Christianity show of the existence of ghosts and also ghostly-Possession.
Contradictions:
Catholics believe there is a small place between hell and heaven. When the dead man travels the long distance to reach there, some persons who have milder acts of omissions and commissions, are selected for heaven, but they stay inside middle path of hell and heaven for some time, in order for some cleansing process of spirit and then they reach to heaven. In that place, the “refining fire” is there which cleanses the inner heart of spirit to qualify him as the member of Heaven. Many a time, during these cleansing processes, the spirit can reach to earth to solve the matters which are haunting them and those times, they interact with their family members. As it is believed, they can only be seen with them and none of the others will able to see and detect them. According to their beliefs, spirits stays with the world. They stay at a different layer with different dimensions which are not visible to us.
Sleeping paralysis:
As human, we can only see three dimensions at best. We can watch and learn three dimensional objects. It is like a room in a two- way view-mirrors. We cannot see the ghosts which stay at the different layers. Due to our limitations, seeing ghosts is not the possibility. On the other hand, ghosts are invisible at different layers and they can see us and always tries to interact with us. Sadly, they are not able to talk to us as we have limitations in seeing the dimensions. They have always tried hard to correspond with us. These are some of the beliefs which the fundamental form of Christianity sees the concept of spirits.
Some medical scientists do not believe in the existence of ghosts. They called the state of seeing the ghosts as a medical condition known as “sleeping paralysis”. It is a semi conscious condition of human beings when they get up from a deep sleep. In that time, due to long rest, human mind stays in semi awaken posture and it takes time to awake and function in full. For this, it is essential for them to see something frightening and alarming. Most of the times, all these visions seem to be pigments of imagination; but the state of seeing all these visions is still unclear. Medical scientists are still pondering over these sequences in order to find the truth among all these happenings.
The dream-awaken stage:
All these are traditionally the state of dream awaken stage where many people have complained to have seen ghosts. Medical scientists are collecting data and information about all these incidents. One aspect of existence is clear. During sleepiness, when mortal minds are connecting to a separate state, some lucid thoughts or connecting to some other world, which is not yet fully construed, come into functioning. This sensation is a real time situation which is completely devoid of conventional earthly presence. Psychologists believe, dreams are the faithful reflection of a perfect mind. A perfect mind creates, re-engineering process within the mind to check its functionalities. It is like performing de-pigmentation process of solid state hard drive.
The brain is a complex set up a process which no one till to date is able to analyze and interpret. All these are part and parcel of life. Many a time, during active life we experience different incidents, some of them are good and some of them are not so good. All these are accumulated to become a mixture of stories and stored at some chambers of the brain when a person is fast asleep. All these optional stories come to one’s mind and then create one life-like story that becomes the dream. Sometimes, people have complained about a state of being congested in breathing of air or being alone in a lonely state.
Buddhist’s analogies:
According to Buddhist’s analogies, some people still live in the state of spirits after their deaths. They could not remove passionate desire of greed, lust and earthly matters. This makes them greedy even after their deaths. They are called “hungry ghosts”. They will try to return to earth to satisfy their greed.
This is the sole reason for which some Buddhists are still offering foods at the holy sanctum in order to satisfy “hungry ghosts”. They believe only living human beings can help them to find their way out of this world. Through all these methods they can attain salvation. The concept of “hungry ghost” is of "Sanatan Dharma". Ancestors who is dead, always tends to return to their own son. Generally, on their death anniversaries, they return to their home and when the holy foods are being offered to them through the process of religious practice, it is believed that the fires that have been burning them all over are extinguished.
Hungry ghosts:
During the entire month of October (Karthick), they return to the earth and stay for one month during these times in order to take foods from their sons. It is believed that they are always watching from heaven to their families and tend to protect them in times of their difficulties and adversities. They are hungry ghosts, but their desires are limited to their families, such as sons, daughters. It is also believed that by offering food to ancestors, they become happy and shower praises and protect their children from dangers and enmity. The hungry “ghost” of Sanatan Dharma is different from “hungry ghost” of Tibetan Buddhism.
Ghosts are the ways of continuity:
Ghosts are found within religions. Many sacred scriptures have given way to appease ghosts. Sanatan Dharma always tells that the elder son of the family to give food to their ancestors. They come to earth to be fed by their sons. It is the holy duty of a son to feed ancestors. The ancient scriptures of Sanatan Dharma try to mix the concept of death with life and in this way the entire relationship among father and son becomes a way of continuity even after the deaths.
According to these Holy Scriptures when a person dies prematurely, earthly desires are still inhibited and for this he has to pass into two stages. One is gross body state and the other is subtle state. Awaited to unfulfilled and unaccomplished desires, the person stays in two states after death. Slowly, he enters from the uncultivated state to the subtle state and then relieved from the soul. Subtle state is the real world hell like situation which the ghost or the dead man is always trying to avoid. In Sanatan Dharma, it is believed that during his stay at "hell" in the subtle body, he has to face all forms of difficulties and sorrows.
Sanatan Dharma believe in ghosts:
In Sanatan Dharma, people believed to perform last rites of insensitive people by burning their body. The body is the medium by which the soul carries its appearance. The soul is immortal. It cannot die. It remains intact after a person’s death. A soul always tries hard to reenter its ancient body and for this Sanatana Dharma recommends burning down of the human body after death. After burning down of the human body, soul cannot enter into his body. So, it has to leave the mortal world. Sanatan Dharma is the oldest practiced religion. In various ancient religions, practice of fire in funeral is prevalent. Even, old Romans, Egyptians had been using fire for funeral rites. According to scriptures, it is impossible to satisfy desire of spirits, as it is uncontrolled and cannot be fulfilled; so it is better to destroy human body so that spirit will not find any such compatible medium to enter into and stay home to human body.
Tantric sect of Sanatan Dharma:
In Tantric sect of Sanatan Dharma, people believe that some ghosts have power to “ghost possession”. It is terribly frightening for them to think that spirits will acquire a body of any person and will control the soul from within. Sanatan Dharma followers believe generally these spirits capture the body of young girls and then overcome them and try to speak of the ways they can be liberated from the world. These are called “ghost-possession”. There are many scriptures which tell details about how to get rid of “ghost-possession”. Science may have been not agreeing to this, but people believe it and perform it in order to remove ghosts from within human-body. The Tantric sect of Sanatan Dhrma, has been influenced by Buddhism where one can find worshipping of the goddess in a lone and solitary places.
Though, with due course of time, the "devi-sadhana" (Goddess worshipping) became unpopular owing to the advent of corruptions and malpractices. Nevertheless, it is still relevant in most of the people as they feel the existence of spirits, and they resort to the best possible solution of calling the psychic experts. Ghost-busters will resort to discrete steps and try to weaken the presence of spirits inside the human body. They believe, they will create a situation in which spirits will feel worse inside the human body. In these processes, they will assist spirits to go in the right direction and leave this mortal world. All these beliefs cannot be questioned, and religion is such delightful part of human life which will never ever see the scientific validity.
Is death really an end?
Ghosts in Sanatan Dharma (Hindu religion) are called preta (spirit). Do followers believe this? It is believed that most of them do. Some of them have seen spirits in real life. It might be a state of hallucination when someone experiences this but still after so many years the belief is intact and continuing. That is why, when a person dies, all the rituals are performed in order to remove the presence of the person within the earth. In this approach, all traces of besieged people are removed from the earth. Spirits get liberated from all earthly matters. This theory of Sanatan Dharma about ghosts is aptly supported by scientific communities.
This raises the question “is death really an end”? When a person is alive and has been staying at home, the atoms of human cells stay at the corner of the rooms. It is natural and those cells get activated after the death of a person. Spirits try to locate those cells and find out its exact locations. So, Santana Dharma believes to remove all desires of the dead person through holy chantings during the death of persons. In this way, all traces of spirits are removed and ghosts get liberated from all earthly bonding.
Are ghosts are associated with the places?
In many haunted places on earth, ghosts are associated with places where they have met unnatural deaths without final rites of their having been performed. They are believed to be ghosts thereafter. So followers of Sanatan Dharma perform rites with divine sermons during final rites in order to remove all possessions of spirits from earth. It is believed that human beings possess dual body, one body of earthly matters and the extra body post-death. Hinduism and Buddhism are complementary; both have gained immensely from all these thoughts and try to find unusual ways in order to attend salvation of spirits and dead persons.
They classify spirits in two classes. One is a fine spirit and the other is a bad spirit. Then, question is asked about sudden and accidental deaths where the deceased person is devoid of the concluding rites. The Tantric sect of Sanatan Dharma, has shown one segment of practice to satisfy evil spirits by temporary transfer spirit to the human body, then all rites are performed and the spirits satisfies and all earth possessions removed.
"Yajurveda" and "kundalini worshipping":
Among four Vedas, “Yajurveda” deals with tantric sermons and hymns. It is giving all the possibilities of curing all these supernatural powers. The term Hinduism was introduced by English people to name the existence of Sanatan Dharma which is compilations of all forms of ancient practices of people of India. Sanatan Dharma is the oldest religion of the world. It is practiced by many scores of people. Tantric sect of Sanatan Dharma differentiates between power of spirit and Kundalini (goddess Shakti). “Kundalini” is powered by God.
How to get rid of malicious entities and ghosts, are the principal question humanity is facing since time immemorial. Believe it or not many people have stressed that they have to encounter haunting experiences at some point in time in their life line. The state of ghost can be good or bad. The cause is not yet well known.
Ghost experiences are not completely a stagnant subject:
Like the stories of alien, the mysteries surrounding phenomena of ghosts are still not solved. There are completely mysterious spheres all around when the topic of ghost comes into mind. It seems when someone experiences such situation, he is inside shadow lands. It is completely immersed in puzzling situations with intense enthralling mysterious circumstances rounded all around you. While all these mysteries are constantly being laughed at and criticized by many ethics and so called social entrepreneurs, but it is also advisable for them to think beyond and think out of the box and find out what many people believe cannot be disregarded as miscarriage of thinking. Ghost stories and ghost experiences are not completely a stagnant subjects which give us a boring situation, but instead it is one such ever changing and exciting climax situations where it would trickle mind of brave persons and try to show case the lighter side of human beings.
There is something inexplicable within ghosts and haunting, big foot creatures, aliens, UFOs, mysterious creatures and mysterious and unknown. All these happenings have some unique characteristics. There are many ghost hunting series, where ghost hunters would travel to abandon households and stay there with modern scientific equipment, to test all around over to record the presence of spirits. They believe ghosts run with energy which their high- end equipment can detect and find the presence of ghosts. Those who believe in ghosts or have already had ghostly experiences; do not need any such systematic instrument to believe in ghosts. Ghost-busters and ghost hunters have high end scientific instruments, but still to date. There is no textbook proof that is similar to reality. People have perceived to be seen ghosts at discrete points of time, yet, they cannot justify these actions to third people in reality.
Scientists believe in ghosts?
Many famous scientists believe in the existence of ghosts. They have tried to find the way out to prove the existence of ghosts in real time. Famous physicist Albert Einstein seemed to support the theory of ghosts. He believed ghosts are nothing but the conservation of mass energy. They are a manifestation of distinct cycles of energy from one level to the other. A mere Google search will bring million of information about Albert Einstein’s belief in ghosts. He discovered and proved that all the energies of the world are constant. It cannot be created or diminished in one go. It is constant and the only way energy movement is feasible is the conversion of one form energy to the other. When energy does not die, it is simply converted into one form to the other. Energies cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be converted into the change of pace of energy that runs the world and the universe.
“Tri country paranormal” is a group which is relentlessly trying to find the logic behind the creation of ghosts. They have forwarded the theory of energy propagated by Albert Einstein, which says that every matter in the universe possesses energy. It is the energy which transforms each matter. The answer is very simple. Living humans have electronic energies which run hearts, minds and pulses. When the same person dies, the contents of energy never die down. If the body is not burnt, then the energies lying inside a dead body go into animals or bacteria that used to eat the rotten bodies. If the body is cremated in the form of funeral fire, then energies are released into the air in the form of heat and light. According to Einstein energy cannot be replaced, or created, it stays and converts to other forms of life.
Energy recycling processes:
When we eat green vegetables of meat, those are most in the form of dead leaves or dead animals. By eating vegetables and meat, the inherent energies go into our body and help us in metabolic processes. The energies which exist inside vegetables and animals come into us when we eat them. Here the energy is converted into heat and chemical energy. When the body of dead animal and human is burnt of the energy released from it in the form of light and heat, it disperses into the air and stays there for some time. Ghosts are a combination of electric and magnetic (electro-magnetic) energy and that is why ghosts stay at one particular location. Owing to presence of magnetic energy, ghosts tend to fix their place at some particular location and if they move from there, their magnetic energy decreases and they become weak and invisible. In a discrete field, ghost stays to the presence of magnetic field and they seem to be influential there and then the magnetic field is combined with electrical energy, when they are alive. It seems to be the combination of electromagnetic energy which makes the level playing field of ghosts.
On the other hand, many analysts negate this theory altogether. They have shown on experiment that living human beings possess light electrical energies. Those energies are sufficient for metabolic processes. They are still not convinced of the speedy arrival of a strong hypnotic form of energy and they are trying to figure out. If ghosts do exist, then such humongous magnetic energies they are possessing can bring about huge proportion of energies. The conversion of electrical energy halts at the death of a person. How these energies are preserved and perceived to be there when human beings become ghosts suddenly?
EMF detectors:
Ghost hunters with such electro-magnetic devices, enter to haunt places and they compare normal temperature with sudden fluctuating energy performances. They have seen such gigantic depression of heat inside definite part of haunted places. Nevertheless, till to date, they have not found the still or motion pictures of ghosts. Only, people who have perceived to have seen the ghosts are describing these experiences. They use electro-magnetic field (EMF) detectors, to sense the abrupt change of heat in the environment. Einstein has said it clearly that energy cannot be made, enhanced.
Many ethnologists and physicists gain immense happiness in denying the existence of ghosts. There are countless situations which even science is unable to explain about. Till to date, no physician is able to solve the mysterious “Brazilian-nut-effect”. When some nuts of varied size are placed inside a bowl (preferably made of glass) within spilt of seconds, it seems that bigger nuts are at the top and the smaller nuts are at the base. In a sedimentary piece of land, with due course of time, bigger sedimentary rocks come to the top despite high density of gravity and smaller ones stays at the bottom.
Brazilian nut effect:
“Brazilian nut effect” gives a confusing thought about the theory of gravitation. It is observing reverse gravitational theory inside Earth gravitational powers. Physicians, manufacturers and psychologists are trying hard to understand this effect. Still to date, they are not able to solve this mystery. Scientists who are dealing with rational existence of ghosts also are trying hard to understand the basic function in which ghosts are operating. This will be great for manufacturers and other forms of energy sector, if this mystery is solved.
Scientists trying hard to find the existence of ghosts are also detecting weaknesses of scientists who are unable to solve some of the easiest mysteries related with physics. They believe the existence of ghosts is the embodiment of physics. It is not a matter of speculation. It is time to invent what sort of physics is involved which is making a bunch of energy into an invisible and powerful entity. The technique behind this physics can boost space shuttle in making long distance voyages inside universe without any such need of fuel. Physics with spirits is of denying customary notion of life, of reaching for the longest distance in the shortest imaginable of time. Invisibility inside luminosity is a huge boost in the war field. If the physics behind this function is solved with ease, then invisible soldiers inside war field are a fantastic boost for nations.
The behavior of foam:
All these theories are based on hearsays till to date. There is no significant proof of the existence of ghosts. It is a confusing aspect of science when it considers the existence of spirits as embodiment of physics. What is the reason behind all these confusions? In the entire history of human civilization, stories and gospels related with ghosts are running all around. There is some part of actual physics which is all around us and reminding us of unsolved physics. Nonetheless, all these are genuine. The behavior of “foam” which we use for shaving is very surprising, but it does carry mystery. According to physicists, foams are 95 percentages of gas and five percentages of liquid. Foams are not solid. Yet this combination of gas and liquid does give it a solid state and it stays in the face while we shave. The reason behind the creation of a solid state from gas and liquid state has not been discovered by physicists. If they can solve this mystery, then most of the problems arising out of flooding situation can be solved.
Scientists can stop super cyclones on its midway by bringing it to a dense state. Space scientists can take water in the form of solid state and use it forever in order to live while in extended distance space voyages. All these mysteries attacked with the formation of “foam” can solve huge problems but sadly the reason behind this is still not been deciphered. According to NASA, “The physics underlying common foams are poorly misconstrued. You'll create a truly bizarre substance. Despite being made almost completely of air, the sudsy foam in that sink somehow behaves like a springy solid. Strange! ” Take some shaving cream on your palm, touches it and feel it and ask yourself, is it solid, gas or liquid?
Foam optics and mechanics:
Scientists coordinating physics behind movement of ghosts are also corroborating this theory of “foam” to the existence of Ghost. Ghosts might have been some form of energy which is in the state of solid, liquid or gas and create one combination in which the entire mass of substance (say a ghost or spirit) is zero but they are visible or can be felt or seen. Every theory of ghosts comes with a rider. As the phenomena of ghosts are still not known and no one knows whether ghosts exist or not, and in an unsure and susceptible environment, how can one reach a reasonable and logical conclusion while dealing with a high level of physics? For all this, NASA has begun experimentation of “Foam Optics and mechanics” (FOAM) in the international space station (ISS).
All these experimentations lead to one effective way of reaching closer to the theory of existence of ghosts and spirits in the living world. Till to date, we do not know whether ghosts are the formation of a definite state of matter in collision with energy or they are just the figments of imagination of weird mind in a subconscious state. Existence of ghosts is an unexplored realm.
Conclusion:
According to ghost boosters, ghosts often drop into the corporeal world for help. Though the design and the manner they have asked for help are different in different cases. Ghosts reach here to achieve something which is unfulfilled during their lifetime. Ghosts are not here to terrify us. Ghosts are seeking help from us in order to find the way out of this corporeal world. Ghosts are caused in the present moment as they have some unfulfilled tasks to complete. In short, Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism), Buddhism and Judaism all teach us that ghosts are not remorseful. They are suffering the most. They want to seek our help to go out of this world. They cannot be exited from this world all by themselves.
We may pretend ourselves of non existence of ghosts. However, there is no doubt; there exists some kind of advance form of energy formation which is beyond the sphere of modern day science. All haunting classifications are not alike. Each haunting environment is different from the rest. Rational scientists and ghost boosters are trying hard to find a common thread among the existence of spirits. Sadly, they have not been successful. Till date, no rational scientist or ghost booster is able to see the perspective of ghosts and spirits while dealing with this subject. Ghosts cannot see the light. They smell the blood just like mosquitoes and want to taste it. All these are an aberration which is associated with ghosts. There is no such hard and fast rule to explain this.
Haunting is difficult to explain. Nonetheless, it is a serious matter which needs further probe. Ghosts are rarely dangerous. Mortal can injure all by themselves due to nervousness, running and fear phobias. One should be brave and courageous while encountering haunting experiences. Haunting experiences are suppressed emotions. Medical advice and proper psychotherapy to affect people are the need of the hour.