Wer von uns Älteren und natürlich
auch den Jüngeren kennt ihn nicht, den Film "Die Feuerzangenbowle".
Es gibt darin einen pregnanten Satz und zwar die Frage des mit kölschen
Dialekts sprechenden Lehrers: "Nun stellen wir uns mal dumm und
fragen uns, was ist eine Dampfmaschine". Wohl wahr.... sicherlich kommt
nun die Frage, was hat eine Dampfmaschine mit Artikeln zu paranormalen Themen
zu tun?! Die Antwort ist so einfach wie das berühmte Amen in der Kirche: Rein
gar nichts, nur die Fragestellung ist die interessante. Ersetzen wir doch
einfach die Dampfmaschine durch das Wort Geister und schon sind bei dem
heutigen Thema meines Kolumnenartikels. Der -so vermute ich- nicht sehr kurz
werden wird.
Geister.... was sind denn Geister?
Ist es der Hui Buh, ein verwunschener Burgherr der wegen Falschspielerei für
alle Ewigkeiten auf einer Burg herum spuken muss? Oder ein sich in einem
TV-Gerät befindliches "Wesen", welches herauskommt und einen jagt?
Man findet weltweit Geschichten und
Erzählungen von Geistersichtungen und Erscheinungen. Auch nahezu in allen
religiösen Strömungen / Thesen gibt es sie (auch wenn sie nur ansatzweise so
umschrieben werden), sei es in der christlichen Lehre oder dem Islam,
Buddhismus und ganz besonders bei den Naturvölkern (z.B. Indianer).
Es ist ein sehr komplexes Thema und
sehr umfassend was Geister betrifft, daher werde ich nun hier erst einmal nur
einen groben Überblick geben. Fangen wir mal da an, wo Geister noch keine
Geister sind, sondern Menschen aus Fleisch und Blut, die reden, denken und sich
mitteilen können. Naturgemäß stirbt jedes Individuum und somit auch ein Mensch.
Wenn ein Mensch verstorben ist (also wenn auch Reanimation keine Hilfe mehr
ist), dann verlässt die Seele den menschlichen Körper und zurück bleibt nur
eine leere Hülle. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt kann man von Seele sprechen oder aber
auch volkstümlich von Geist. Ich persönlich halte den Begriff Seele statt Geist
für angebrachter, da "Seele" persönlicher ist.
Also Geister sind daher nichts
anderes als Seelen von Verstorbenen, die entweder noch kurze Zeit hier
verweilen, bis sie hinüber gehen in das oft genannte "Licht", welches
der Übergang in das Jenseits darstellen soll. Dann gibt es aber auch Geister,
die sich noch mit Personen oder Gegenständen/Orte so sehr verbunden fühlen oder
der Meinung sind, dass sie noch etwas erledigen müssen, dass sie noch hier
verweilen. Andere wiederum sind so abrupt aus dem Leben gerissen worden, dass
sie nicht wirklich realisiert haben, dass sie gestorben sind. Solche kann man
oftmals auf Schlachtfeldern finden. Dann gibt aber auch solche Geister, die
noch hier verweilen müssen, da sie eine Art "Erlösung" erfahren
müssen; hierbei handelt es sich um Geister von Selbstmördern. Sie sind noch an unser
Diesseits gebunden, bis jemand der ihnen nahe stand/steht ihnen ihre Tat
vergibt.
Dann gibt es zB die Unterteilung
zwischen orts- und personenbezogenen Spuk. Diese Unterteilung erklärt sich
eigentlich von selbst. Bei ortsgebundenem Spuk kann es sich um jemanden
handeln, der entweder nicht realisierte, dass er gestorben ist und an einem Ort
verweilt oder noch mit dem (Haus oder Firma u.a.) sich sehr verbunden fühlt.
Sofern es sich um einen personenbezogenen Spuk handelt, liegt die Möglichkeit
sehr nahe, dass es ein verstorbenes Familienmitglied oder jemand aus dem
Freundeskreis ist. Zu dem personenbezogenen Spuk zählt man auch jene Geister,
die einfach mal mitgehen, weil sie jemanden interessant finden oder diese
Person sie an jemanden erinnert. Dies kann manchmal bei Kindern geschehen, wo
zB eine Kinderseele, die sich auf einem Spielplatz aufhält ein dort spielendes
Kind nett findet und dieses dann einfach mit nach Hause begleitet. Es ist auch
bereits schon mehrfach geschehen, dass mich von einer paranormalen Untersuchung
auch Seelen nach Hause begleiteten. Sie verschwanden aber nur wenigen Stunden
wieder, da sie nur aus reiner Neugierde mitkamen (nachzulesen in meinen
persönlichen Erlebnissen auf unserer Homepage).
Gibt es böse oder nur gute Geister?
Es gibt beides... wobei "böse" nicht direkt mit "bösartig"
im Sinne von dämonisch gleichzusetzen ist; es gibt aber auch solche, die
Schabernack treiben und umgangssprachlich als "Störrgeist" bezeichnet
werden.
Oftmals versuchen Geister, also die
Seelen Verstorbener mit uns in Kontakt zu treten, sich mitzuteilen. Dies kann
manchmal missgedeutet werden. Oftmals sind es Seelen von nahen Verwandten, die
mal schauen wollen, wie es ihren zurückgelassenen Kindern, Eltern,
Geschwistern, Enkeln geht. Sicherlich wird nun jemand einhaken und sagen....
"Aber, was ist mit Dämonen, wie in Paranormal Activity?" Da gibt es
zwei kurze knappe Antworten: 1.) Dämonen sind eine Erschaffung der Religionen
und die gibt es nicht wirklich und 2.) Filme wie Paranormal Activity sind reine
Fiktion. Viel naheliegender ist es aber, dass man "Dämonen" mit einem
Poltergeist verwechselt, der schon imstande ist, Gegenstände zu bewegen oder
jemanden zu schubsen bzw. zu bedrängen.
Aber bei allen Unterteilungen und
Beschreibungen darf man eines nicht vergessen, sollte man einmal Kontakt zu
einem Geist haben, ob er nun personen- oder ortsbezogen ist: Respektvoller
Umgang ist sehr wichtig.
Und nicht jeder Windhauch oder
Geräusch ist mit der Präsenz eines Geistes gleichzusetzen. Für vieles gibt es
in der Tat rationale Erklärungen.
Natürlich gibt es nicht nur Geister
von verstorbenen Menschen, auch Tiergeistern kann man begegnen. In erster Linie
Katzen und Hunden, die ein sehr enges Verhältnis zu ihren Eigentümern hatten
und nach ihren Ableben immer wieder „auftauchen“.
Gerne stehe ich bzw. unser Team von
Ghosthunter-NRWup, der Ghosthunter aus NRW, entweder über unsere Homepage www.ghosthunter-nrwup.de oder bei
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ghosthunter-NRWup/168535029948725
für Fragen zur Verfügung.
All das Vorstehende beruht auf viel
gewälzte Literatur, intensiven Gesprächen mit Medien (Mz. von Medium) sowie
eigenen Erlebnissen/Erkenntnissen aus meiner Zeit vor oder während meiner
Tätigkeit als Ghosthunter bei Ghosthunter-NRWup.
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Often try ghosts/souls to make contact with us for to communicate. This can sometimes be misinterpreted. Dead grandparents, parents, childs and others from the family or friends comes only for a short visit. They want to show, who lives the others and “Is all okay?!”.
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What are ghosts?
In Germany it exist a movie, who’s callind “Feuerzangenbowle / The Punch Bowl” with Heinz Rühmann. In one sequence ask the teacher the boys: "Now we imagine stupid and ask what is a steam engine"...... surely now comes the question: What makes a steam engine in a article over paranormal subjects? The answer is as simple as the famous “Amen” in a church: Absolutely nothing, but the question is interesting. But we simply replace the steam engine by the word ghosts and are already subject of my column in these article. The will be not very short.
Spirits .... what are ghosts? Is it the Hui Buh, the ghost from a Knight, who make during his real life wrong things and must now every knight walking during his castle between 12 p.m. and 1 a.m.? Or be the spirit from a girl a TV, which comes out and chases (“The Ring”)?
You can find stories and tales of ghost sightings and phenomena worldwide . Also, in almost all religious movements / theories they exist (even if they are only partially so defined), whether in Christian doctrine or Islam , Buddhism and especially among old peoples (like american native Indians).
It is a very complex issue and very broad concerns about spirits, so I will now once only give a rough overview here. Let's start there, where ghosts are no ghosts, but people of flesh and blood, think and communicate with everyone. Naturally, each individual dies and thus also a man. When a person is deceased, then the soul leaves the human body and leaving only an empty shell. From this point you can speak of “soul”, “spirit” or “ghost” (popular). I personally think the term soul instead of mind to be more appropriate, since "soul" is more personal.
So spirits are therefore nothing more than souls of the deceased who either still longer here a short time until they go over to the often -called "light", which is supposed to represent the passage into the afterlife. Then there are also spirits who still feel with people or objects / places so connected or believe that they still need to do something that they still longer here. Others have been so abruptly ripped from the life that they have not really realized that they have died. These can often be found on battlefields. But then are also those spirits who have yet to stay here because they have experienced a kind of "redemption"; here are spirits of suicides. These kind of spirits need anyone, who can forgive the act of suicide.
Then there gives the division between local and personal ghosts. This division is explained by itself actually. Local ghosts maybe someone who is not realized either that he is dead and stays in one place or still feels very connected to the location. If it is a personal ghost, so the possibility is very high, that’s a dead family member or someone from the friends. To the group from the personal ghosts are also ghosts/Souls you can put also those spirits that just go with you, because they find someone interesting or that person reminds them of someone. This can sometimes happen with children, for example: A child play on a playground in a park, where also “live” a child's ghost, maybe the ghost like to play with the child and found it nice. So it is maybe, the ghost come with the child. It is also already happened several times that accompanied me on a paranormal investigation and we took ghosts to our home. But they disappeared a few hours later, as they came along just out of curiosity (you can read this and more in my personal experiences on our website).
There is only good or bad spirits? There are both ... being "evil" not directly "malicious" within the meaning of demonic equated with, but there are also another one. It’s calling in german: “Störrgeist”, it’s mean a ghost who makes fools.
In Germany it exist a movie, who’s callind “Feuerzangenbowle / The Punch Bowl” with Heinz Rühmann. In one sequence ask the teacher the boys: "Now we imagine stupid and ask what is a steam engine"...... surely now comes the question: What makes a steam engine in a article over paranormal subjects? The answer is as simple as the famous “Amen” in a church: Absolutely nothing, but the question is interesting. But we simply replace the steam engine by the word ghosts and are already subject of my column in these article. The will be not very short.
Spirits .... what are ghosts? Is it the Hui Buh, the ghost from a Knight, who make during his real life wrong things and must now every knight walking during his castle between 12 p.m. and 1 a.m.? Or be the spirit from a girl a TV, which comes out and chases (“The Ring”)?
You can find stories and tales of ghost sightings and phenomena worldwide . Also, in almost all religious movements / theories they exist (even if they are only partially so defined), whether in Christian doctrine or Islam , Buddhism and especially among old peoples (like american native Indians).
It is a very complex issue and very broad concerns about spirits, so I will now once only give a rough overview here. Let's start there, where ghosts are no ghosts, but people of flesh and blood, think and communicate with everyone. Naturally, each individual dies and thus also a man. When a person is deceased, then the soul leaves the human body and leaving only an empty shell. From this point you can speak of “soul”, “spirit” or “ghost” (popular). I personally think the term soul instead of mind to be more appropriate, since "soul" is more personal.
So spirits are therefore nothing more than souls of the deceased who either still longer here a short time until they go over to the often -called "light", which is supposed to represent the passage into the afterlife. Then there are also spirits who still feel with people or objects / places so connected or believe that they still need to do something that they still longer here. Others have been so abruptly ripped from the life that they have not really realized that they have died. These can often be found on battlefields. But then are also those spirits who have yet to stay here because they have experienced a kind of "redemption"; here are spirits of suicides. These kind of spirits need anyone, who can forgive the act of suicide.
Then there gives the division between local and personal ghosts. This division is explained by itself actually. Local ghosts maybe someone who is not realized either that he is dead and stays in one place or still feels very connected to the location. If it is a personal ghost, so the possibility is very high, that’s a dead family member or someone from the friends. To the group from the personal ghosts are also ghosts/Souls you can put also those spirits that just go with you, because they find someone interesting or that person reminds them of someone. This can sometimes happen with children, for example: A child play on a playground in a park, where also “live” a child's ghost, maybe the ghost like to play with the child and found it nice. So it is maybe, the ghost come with the child. It is also already happened several times that accompanied me on a paranormal investigation and we took ghosts to our home. But they disappeared a few hours later, as they came along just out of curiosity (you can read this and more in my personal experiences on our website).
There is only good or bad spirits? There are both ... being "evil" not directly "malicious" within the meaning of demonic equated with, but there are also another one. It’s calling in german: “Störrgeist”, it’s mean a ghost who makes fools.
Often try ghosts/souls to make contact with us for to communicate. This can sometimes be misinterpreted. Dead grandparents, parents, childs and others from the family or friends comes only for a short visit. They want to show, who lives the others and “Is all okay?!”.
Surely someone will be say .... "But , what about demons, like in
Paranormal Activity?"
I have two short answers: 1.) Demons are a creation of religions and
there are not really and 2.) movies like Paranormal Activity are pure fiction.
Much more obvious is, that you say "demons" but they are a “poltergeist”,
who is already able to move objects or to push someone or harass.
But in all subdivisions and descriptions may be one to remember, should you ever have to contact a ghost: Respectful treatment is very important. Not laughing about....
And not every breath of wind or noise is equated with the presence of a spirit. For many things there are in fact rational explanations.
Of course there are not only spirits of deceased humans, even animal spirits can encounter. Primarily cats and dogs, which had a very close relationship with their owners and to their demise always "appear".
However, last but not least I would like to express the good advice that someone should be worn with the thought: "Come Yes , let's make contact with a spirit by Ouija , Witchboard or Quija board " to drop this thought again. First, you can use it to open doors that you yourself cannot reseal properly. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the one you summon, actually appears. You have to imagine represented simply as the saying: The Quija board acts as phone and by using a telephone ringing in the afterlife, to which everyone has access. Whether the listener is passed or not, is not guaranteed unless you concerned does not have appropriate knowledge –only very good sensitive/medium. But if a contact does not take place, but all the sounds and sensations that are perceived during such a session be moved to "ghosts", although not then are there. Ouija is not a game! If you want to have an afterlife contact, you should rather turn to a really good medium.
But in all subdivisions and descriptions may be one to remember, should you ever have to contact a ghost: Respectful treatment is very important. Not laughing about....
And not every breath of wind or noise is equated with the presence of a spirit. For many things there are in fact rational explanations.
Of course there are not only spirits of deceased humans, even animal spirits can encounter. Primarily cats and dogs, which had a very close relationship with their owners and to their demise always "appear".
However, last but not least I would like to express the good advice that someone should be worn with the thought: "Come Yes , let's make contact with a spirit by Ouija , Witchboard or Quija board " to drop this thought again. First, you can use it to open doors that you yourself cannot reseal properly. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the one you summon, actually appears. You have to imagine represented simply as the saying: The Quija board acts as phone and by using a telephone ringing in the afterlife, to which everyone has access. Whether the listener is passed or not, is not guaranteed unless you concerned does not have appropriate knowledge –only very good sensitive/medium. But if a contact does not take place, but all the sounds and sensations that are perceived during such a session be moved to "ghosts", although not then are there. Ouija is not a game! If you want to have an afterlife contact, you should rather turn to a really good medium.
All of the foregoing is based on much readed literature, intensive talks
with a medium and as well own experiences / knowledge gained from my time
before or during my work as a Ghosthunter.
Your Tom
Co-Founder from Ghosthunter NRWup, the Gosthunter from NRW in Germany
