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forests



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 3:52 pm    Post subject: tony cornell on ghosts Reply with quote

Tony cornell was a British parapsychologist who investigated ghosts for over 50 years. In his 2002 book Investigating the paranormal he summarizes his opinions. He came to the conclusion that it is all in the mind of the subject, and that without human minds ghosts do not exist. He admitted problems though for his theory to account for animal ghosts, and on the subject of multiple witnesses or crisis apparitions he seemed open minded on telepathy as a mechanism. But he rejected the spirit hypothesis that ghosts are departed spirits or souls.

Any thoughts on this? Cornell spent over 50 years researching and investigating ghosts so he can't be accused as an arm chair skeptic.
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neil45



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:42 am    Post subject: Re: tony cornell on ghosts Reply with quote

forests wrote:
Tony cornell was a British parapsychologist who investigated ghosts for over 50 years. In his 2002 book Investigating the paranormal he summarizes his opinions. He came to the conclusion that it is all in the mind of the subject, and that without human minds ghosts do not exist. He admitted problems though for his theory to account for animal ghosts, and on the subject of multiple witnesses or crisis apparitions he seemed open minded on telepathy as a mechanism. But he rejected the spirit hypothesis that ghosts are departed spirits or souls.

Any thoughts on this? Cornell spent over 50 years researching and investigating ghosts so he can't be accused as an arm chair skeptic.

I think although he spent 50 years studying ghosts, he could only claim they do exist if he actually saw one with 100% certainty with what he saw, and with the whole world still waiting on definitive proof, that would be very unlikely.
I do think it is rather stupid of him to claim they do not exist just because he probably cannot prove they do.
In all, no one knows, and will ever know. The only ones that have a clue are the ones who actually see them without any doubt in their mind. There is however just too many accounts of ghosts throughout the history of time to just be nonsense.

What is a joke, is that all these people who own property and claim there are strange goings on with regular occurance, yet so called ghost hunters spend a night or two there then leave. In my opinion, there should be a teams who stay for considerable time in haunted locations, not just go in, do a bit of research then leave with nothing.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:58 am    Post subject: Re: tony cornell on ghosts Reply with quote

forests wrote:

What is a joke, is that all these people who own property and claim there are strange goings on with regular occurance, yet so called ghost hunters spend a night or two there then leave. In my opinion, there should be a teams who stay for considerable time in haunted locations, not just go in, do a bit of research then leave with nothing.


totally agree with you there neil Wink
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D B Sweeney



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cornell seems to know his stuff so I'd tend to agree with him and Forests.

DB
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