ghosts? ever seen one?

[wilsondavid]

I wonder if it's some kind of signal to me beforehand to his death 

[menthe]

Or you might have foreseen his death?  I suppose that could be some sort of premonition or clairvoyance or whatever the correct term is.

Your story gave me the shivers wilsondavid.  I just hope I never forsee the death of anyone I love.  It's better not to know, even my own death.  It'll come when it does, like a thief in the night, according to the bible.

I used to think I'd like some warning beforehand but, since I had been seriously ill and death was a distinct possibility, I'd rather not know.

[wilsondavid]

I also think that might have been the case. I'd also prefer not to foresee something like this.  

[clark_sam]

On 18/10/2023 at 15:35, DaveLister said:

I don't know how you would describe "worst". Certainly there were some cases that were more difficult then others but it was never a case of 'good ghost, bad ghost'. The way it was explained to me as a child was that the world was full of echos of past lives. Like ripples on a pond. Most people swim through the ripples without noticing they exist but occasionally someone will be 'buffeted'. The bigger the ripple the stronger the turbulence and the more likely the memory of the past life would be seen. I was being simplistic when I called my father an exorcist. He's job was more to deal with the living, educating them to not be afraid of what they were experiencing. Nine times out of ten, once the fear was gone so did the 'ghosts'. They hadn't of course it was simply that the living had learnt to swim through the ripples.

Occasionally there was an echo so terrible that no one in their right mind would be able to happily live alongside it. Then the only options were to either remove the object from the home or, if that was not possible, remove those who were sensitive of the event from the scene. As 99.9999% of people won't see anything in their lifetimes it's quite reasonable to sell a house because for you it was haunted.

Yeah, I agree with this. I like how your father explains it to you thoroughly about how you can encounter it.