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Iain Lawrence · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 419

D.B your too far away! Yes I know you'll find this post!
I can't get to you unless you pay for me to go on holiday in Barbados and buy me a new HD video camera!
That would about cover the hassle I'd have attempting to get you to believe anything I said during the investigation. The pre-investigation questionaire would be interesting too. As for believing the conclusions of the investigation and applying an active sollution...forget it lmao.
Hope you're well.

thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3196 Location: Northern Ireland

Iain Lawrence, I don't think you have ever clarified your beliefs - what are your beliefs about ghosts (the different types) poltergiest activity, shadow entities, malevolent entities, communication with the dead etc...?

Iain Lawrence · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 419

My personal beliefs are rather complicated.
I believe there are things around us which appear to be interactive, I have experienced this on more than one occasion. I am very carefull not to get too close to any one aspect of belief structures, it is important as an investigator to keep an entirely open mind. Yes I believe there are times when energys come close to us, I say energy due to all things being apparantly made up of various types of both atomic and none-atomic energy sources. We can not seriously expect the answers to our questions to be fixed within our known scientific or spiritual belief structures, that would be arrogant of us. The questions and answers to what I personaly search for are well hidden within the back ground of known science. The question of course isn't what the answers to the questions are, its first of all ...what are the questions? we have no idea of what we are even looking far. So how can we begin to comprehend the answers. What I do personaly and with Hauntastic is to scrape at the serface of the book of truth, hoping that one day a page may turn and give me something to aim for. Many people believe in Gods without ever seeing or experiencing a God, others hold science up as there God, its all about denial in the end. People look outwardly, the soul entity of what we are inside, that can not be denied. We can blame external situations upon gods and science and nature but all said and done the world and excistance as we percieve it is simply a produced external continuation of ourselves. Nothing starts and nothing ends, energy is continuous, it fluctuates and desapates and eminates. I believe that we are our own Gods and we create the world around us continuously. Everytime we attempt to produce an explanation of what we are it has been produced by us and is therefore poluted due to us only being able to conclude an oppinion through embedded knowledge we have taken in from birth. In essence we will never know what we truly are due to the information not been there to conclude from. But then again I still strive for the answers and attempt to raise awareness in others. I believe that when we die we become what we were before we were born simply energy. Maybe having conscious thought is an ettempt to give reason for our excistance and the world around us is a manifestation of that conscious effort. Maybe we will never know. but paranormal investigation seems like a great place to start.
I hope this helps?

thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3196 Location: Northern Ireland

lol that is rather complicated. Yes paranormal investigation is a good way to try and find the answers, but like I pointed out to DB:

Approaching the paranormal from a research perspective is often difficult because of the lack of acceptable physical evidence from most of the purported phenomena. By definition, the paranormal does not conform to conventional expectations of the natural. Therefore, a phenomenon cannot be confirmed as paranormal using the scientific method because, if it was, it would no longer fit the definition. Despite this contradiction, studies on the paranormal are periodically conducted by researchers from various disciplines.

Have you ever visited a medium/do you believe any are authentic?

Iain Lawrence · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 419

Very true, so you see my dilemma.
But the search goes on.
Energy fluctuates and eminates and disapates to us at different frequencys and is recorded to do on various pieces of equipment. We do on occasion document strange anomilys, be it IR of UV or full spectrum, audio or Emf, air preasure, etc etc. But as I said before is all speculation and maybe the entire world is just a creation of my own making. So if I believe in ghosts, why can't they be there. Maybe aliens are there for us too?
Funny old world isn't it. lol.
No wonder so many people who ask too any questions go off there heads and end up in nutty houses..save me a room and i'll see you later...eeeeerrrrrrr.

D B Sweeney · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:57 am Post subject:

D B Sweeney · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:00 am Post subject:

Approaching the paranormal from a research perspective is often difficult because of the lack of acceptable physical evidence from most of the purported phenomena. By definition, the paranormal does not conform to conventional expectations of the natural. Therefore, a phenomenon cannot be confirmed as paranormal using the scientific method because, if it was, it would no longer fit the definition. Despite this contradiction, studies on the paranormal are periodically conducted by researchers from various disciplines.

Where did you get this from Cactus...book, online, magazine? I'd like to read the full piece.

DB

thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3196 Location: Northern Ireland

D B Sweeney, wikipedia - paranormal - Wink

Iain Lawrence · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 419

Yes it is difficult to capture paranormal energys upon scientific equipment, alot of the time we don't look for the energy it'self, we look for the sighns of it. A bit like footprints in the sand. But there are times when we do record odd unexplainable anomalies and why not? if these energys are fluctuating through many frequencies, they will at some point cross over to area's of which we can record on one piece of equipment or other. This is probley why anomalies are only glimpsed for a moment. The chances of seeing or not seeing this energy is endless and i don't see why if they are interactive in some way they can't find a frequency of which they can use to manifest be it on a dictaphone or a camera or even just as a reading on energy reading equipment. So I teach known process's and use well tested techniques in order to produce a multi-frequencial picture of an environment. The more frequencies being recorded, the higher the chance of positive documentation. A bit like buying 5 lottery tickets instead of one. You may not win, but you keep buying in case.