Our observations help us learn, and it is what we learn that
generates our opinions. For this year’s Halloween special, me and my son will
be discussing the world in which we live in, and the supernatural, and putting
forward our opinions based upon what we’ve observed and learnt.
Is it better
to have more advanced technology or a more in-depth understanding of nature?
Mum: I think it is better to have a
more understanding of nature, as nature is going to happen no matter what.
Whether it is a storm/hurricane, earthquake, volcano or even an illness, having
a more understanding of what is happening can lessen the risk of people being caught
up in a natural disaster or becoming ill. We can evacuate from around the base
of a volcano, board up our houses against a storm/hurricane, and have a better
diet and do more exercise to prevent heart disease or type 2 diabetes. The more
we know about what the signs are or the signs to look out for, although we
cannot prevent nature, we can minimise the impact.
Antony: Whilst the benefits of
understanding nature better are great, we won’t be able to if we didn’t develop
technology first. We won’t know when to evacuate a volcano if the technology
isn’t powerful enough to detect certain changes in the atmosphere, or small
quakes in the ground. It’s extremely difficult to predict an earthquake, but
even harder if we didn’t have technology to at least give us some insight into
what might happen. If we didn’t have X-rays, we wouldn’t know that we were ill,
and if we didn’t have scanners, we wouldn’t be able to detect small changes in
the Earth that would go undetected if we were on our own. Once the technology
has been successfully developed and is working as intended to predict what
nature is going to throw at us, we can use those breakthroughs and implement
them into developing other forms of technology, and science.
Mum: Without an understanding of nature, we then won’t be able to
produce the technology to detect what is happening.
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Are ghosts
proof of life after death?
Mum: I didn’t think ghosts were proof
of life after death but more of an energy after death, as a spirit is more of
an energy left after the body has deceased but we talk about the afterlife, the
spirit world and crossing over. So when you look at it like that it can be seen
as some sort of life force. If a spirit has unfinished business, wants to get a
message to someone or left their body in a quick or brutal manner (accident or
murder) the spirit energy is left in limbo and has not crossed over. Some
spirits come and go from the afterlife and this is where we experience
paranormal activity. Where the energy is trapped in a situation and the event
that took the person’s life and the event is played out like a tape recording
playing out over and over again it is called a residual haunting. Where the
spirit is able to interact with living people, this is called an intellectual
haunting. The body is no longer living just the spirit energy.
Antony: I believe I have seen a ghost. I
came to that conclusion after narrowing down all the possibilities. Was it a
trick of the light? Was it an optical illusion that could only be seen from
that angle? Or was it really just my imagination playing tricks on me? No, if
it were a trick of the light, then it wouldn’t have moved with intent and
purpose, nor would it appear to be a solid object moving through the room; it
couldn’t have been an optical illusion because I looked in that particular
direction every day and nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary; whilst it
would be hard to explain how I believe it wasn’t my imaginations playing tricks
on me, there was a sense that I knew I was awake and aware of my surroundings
enough to prevent my mind from running away from me.
The question I would like to
answer is, because I do believe I saw a ghost, which is disembodied energy that
we call the spirit that dwells within us, do ghosts go against the science that
we know today. Spirits are energy, and they can manifest into an empty room,
and then disappear again before reappearing later and disappearing once more;
we see the energy come together to form an object solid enough for us to see,
and with enough energy to interact with other objects – generating enough force
to move inanimate objects, making the floor beneath them creak, and even talk.
The second law of thermodynamics
state that any energy released will spread apart far enough that it cannot come
together later on. If you spray a small amount of air freshener in one corner
of the room, eventually those particles will spread all around the room so the
person standing in the opposite corner would then smell the scent of the
freshener, but it doesn’t recollect back in the same corner you sprayed them
into. Only intellectual energy can, and even us humans and animals cannot
manipulate energy, only dissipate it via typing on a keyboard which; the
movements of your fingers releases energy out into the open, and it continues
to spread further and further until eventually it leaves the world and enters
the universe, where it will continue to spread. This is the most believed
theory for the fate of the universe, and we were able to devise that theory
from observing the way the galaxies are continuously moving away from each
other, along with the laws of thermodynamics.
From what we’ve
observed and learnt from ghosts is that they take energy from the room, or
drain the batteries in cameras, to form a solid enough mass to then interact
with their surroundings, which whilst may be explained by all that energy being
brought together by gravity, it’s hard to ignore that it does have some
intellectuality.
We do not have
the technology today, or may never have the necessities to discover another
dimension, but if we were to look at the afterlife from a scientific
perspective along with all the evidence that we have collected concerning
thermodynamics and physics, then maybe the afterlife is really just an
alternate dimension?
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Can we
control our dreams?
Mum: No I don’t think you can control
what you initially dream even if you can then control what happens in your
dream. What you dream before you start to control cannot be controlled. I
wouldn’t be able to go to bed tonight and think I am going to dream a certain
thing tonight and dream it. Sometimes I
have just mentioned or thought of something or someone in a fleeting moment
during the day and then have dreamt about it or them that night. Thinking for a
fleeting moment doesn’t warrant the control of dreaming about it that night. While
we are asleep we are not in control of our conscious self or brain, we are
asleep resting our brain and re-charging. Even if we could control our dreams
we tend to forget most dreams 5 seconds after we wake up anyway.
Antony: Controlling what we dream is
known as Lucid Dreaming. When we are dreaming and standing in a familiar area
but you notice that something’s different, such as a different TV, or a
different sofa, you start realising that you are in a dream and can start controlling
it and doing whatever you want. As for being able to control what you start off
dreaming; studies have been conducted that gives evidence indicating that the
first thing we dream of is the last thing we think about, and from then, the
dream changes from there. The day can influence what we dream, and sometimes,
those sudden changes between one dream to another can also trigger Lucid
Dreaming. We usually dream up to four to five times a night, and the majority
of the time, we forget about the dreams. In the morning, when you think you
haven’t dreamt, it’s only because you’ve forgotten what you’ve dreamed. Even
when we can remember snippets upon waking up, it can soon slip away.
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Do we know
what is going to happen tomorrow?
Mum: We can plan what we intend to do
tomorrow, but whether it works out that way we want, we won’t know until
tomorrow. Sometimes plans work out, but sometimes they don’t. this could be
down to an illness, car breakdown, or even the weather. It does depend on what
the plans are and how much has to fall into place for the plans to work. Other
examples of maybe not knowing what will happen tomorrow if you are waiting for
test results from hospital tests. We can only know that we should get the
results but other than that it depends on the results to what happens next and
if you are taking a driving test we wouldn’t know the outcome until the day. We
can know some things with plans but we have no control over what we don’t know.
Antony: I agree. The future is a
mystery. Anything can happen. Setting plans for what we want to do in the
future, and how we believe it will affect our surroundings is known as
Chronesthesia, or Mental Time Travel, where we imagine what might happen in the
future based on events happening today.
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What do you think? We would like to hear your opinions below.
