hypotheses of ghosts

forests · Joined: 12 Feb 2012 Posts: 27

Just read this paper and it lists some hypotheses for ghosts:

1. The Neurological Hypothesis, whereby exposure to certain environmental energies (or
energies of certain frequencies) in the environment affects brain functioning, which evokes
subjective hallucinations of apparitions, perhaps due to stimulation of neurological events
such as temporal lobe microseizures (Persinger, 1985, 1987, 1989a, 1989b).

2. The Perceptual Hypothesis, whereby exposure to certain environmental energies affect
brain functioning, which in turn allows us to perceive unusual events or objects, such as
genuine ghosts, that cannot be perceived in ordinary states of awareness.

3. The Telepathic Hypothesis, whereby intense telepathic rapport affects brain functioning,
causing the telepathic communication to be perceived as projected outside the body,
sometimes in the form of the “sender’s” image, as reported in cases of crisis telepathy
(Gauld, 1977).

4. The Psychokinetic Hypothesis, whereby intense subjective experiences occasionally
intrude upon the physical world, as postulated in poltergeist activity and by the concept of
psychokinetic phenomena in general (Roll, 1977; Roney-Dougal, 1993).

5. The Ghost Hypothesis, whereby apparitions are genuine, independent entities that can be
directly perceived or indirectly detected as anomalous energetic effects (Roll, 1994; Collins,
1948).

http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/bi/articles/PhantasmJSPR.pdf

Any thoughts?

D B Sweeney · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:18 am Post subject:

I believe in 1..

DB