Comments on: Third Man Factor: Spirit Guide or Sleight of Mind?

By: Le Horla?

Le Horla? — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:53:10 +0000

“certes, la solitude est dangeureuse pour les intelligences qui travaillent, il nous faut, autoure de nous hommes qui pensent et qui parlent. Quand nous sommes seuls longtemps, nous peuplons le vide de fantômes.” Guy de Maupassant – Le Horla (vérsion 1887)

“Certainly, solitude is dangerous for the working intelligence, for it is necessary around us men who speak and think. When we are alone a longtime, we populate the void with ghosts.”

Pretty interesting if you ask me.

By: Luinbariel

Luinbariel — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:00:02 +0000

I have feelings or experiences like this often enough. But reading this article put me in mind of something else entirely which I had recently seen, and which I feel addresses this issue.

Good old Star Trek DS9… An episode entitled “Hard Time” (I believe it's season 4) shows O'Brien, who has been made to believe he's been incarcerated for a period of 20 years, has a similar situation with a phantom inmate. It's a little more complicated than that, but perhaps folks would be interested in looking at that.

By: roelpoelwijk

roelpoelwijk — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:03:54 +0000

Thank you for posting this Amelia Crater.
Have you seen the lecture by Ian Xel Lungold ? The lecture is about the Mayan Calendar but that's not why I suggested it. Within the lecture he explains several steps of evolution. Each step comes with changes and each change was 'invented' at the same time on a global scale/effect.
The same happens now with spiritguides/the afterlife/consciousness. The sad thing from my human judgemental perspective is that there are not enough people searching for real answers and are not figuring this out any time soon. I'm glad I did and still do but at the same time it's a lonely place to know all that I know and understand how hard it is for others to understand and accept even.
Take care and keep opening those eyes.
Even it's an old pirate with only one eye.

By: Bright Garlick

Bright Garlick — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:25:12 +0000

Thanks Amelia - a nice article on an important issue.

Many traditional cultures/spirituallities such as Daoists, First Nations Peoples and Australian Aboriginals believe that the dead are free to interact with the living. My own deceased Taoist masters are among several former living humans, who reguarly accompany me. I once needed proof of this and was given 3 items that only he would know would mean something to me. I couldn't argue with it.

Why do we as a society see such distinctions and separations and find it so hard to believe that some of them are among us ?

The challenge of course in any of this is distinguishing what is real from what is percieved as real. Check out the The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes (consciousness is a cultural creation stemming back to our earliest ancestors) and Hearing voices : a common human experience by John Hopkins (a great foray into the world of Schizophrenia - is it hallucination or is there something objectively real ?). Both great reads.

A small diversion - it's usefull to explore the impact of trauma, loss and grief on the coherance of consciousness. This is a huge issue in indigenous cultures that have been disposessed and suffered from 'stolen generations' and other forms of genocide.

By: outlaw109

outlaw109 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:35:09 +0000

I tend to agree with you. Maybe those events – climbing mountains, flying across oceans, etc. – are significant to us, but I don't see them as being significant enough to angels to warrant personal and special intervention. I vote sleight of mind.

By: AnnetteMarie

AnnetteMarie — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:18:32 +0000

Thanks Amelia. BTW, my latest granddaughter shares your first name!

By: DavidRavenMoon

DavidRavenMoon — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:32:18 +0000

I've had several experiences throughout my life with a presence that has helped me on several occasions, even saving my life when I was about 8. On two occasions it spoke to me with a voice in my head… like a small speaker was stuck in there. Note that this is also the way many people have stated that the “grays” have communicated to them. That and just planting an idea in your mind. Many great human inventions came to light this way.

I'm starting to think that we may find that all these things are aspects of the same phenomenon, and is some guiding force in our reality. Same thing with UFOs. They exhibit traits that render them “supernatural” or “paranormal”. Grays are seen walking through walls for instance. It's as if these things are real, and they aren't at the same time. At least from the vantage point of what we know about reality.