The Supernatural World… Within Our Minds

The first thing in order to understand the paranormal phenomenon is that anything and everything can be paranormal or take the form of a paranormal activity. For example, why did your granny get up, fire in her eyes, one morning, and haul a piano at you? Sounds rather impossible but in a world full of superstitions, even grandma can do the extra- ordinary.
But what compelled grandma to do such a thing? It certainly can’t be her selfless love for you. Nor can she undergo some physical or hormonal metamorphoses one morning and develop biceps the size of boulders.
The answer is hidden somewhere in our mind. Even though we don’t want to believe that grandma was under the influence of some supernatural power, a particular portion of our mind quickly comprehends that grandma was possessed. That a violent spirit had gotten into her body and had changed her body metabolism so that grandma could haul piano’s at you.
This is really not our fault, for the human psyche is intriguing. We try to look out for the most mysterious and oddest details in every circumstance. And perhaps psychological analysis has led us to do some exemplary research on supernatural and paranormal powers.
Probably the first term that comes to mind is ‘Ghosts.’ What is important to understand is that Ghosts are not always clothed in white tunics and do not always carry heavy, sonorous chains with them. There have been many misconceptions and these are the ones that have lead to a universal hatred or fear for ghosts.
At first, what is a ghost? The term Ghost comes from the old English word ‘Gast’ which originally meant life -force. Later the people decided to give it broader meaning- souls. As times changed and as deaths became more frequent, the term gast was used to refer to somebody who had died. i.e. a dead soul and it was from here that Ghosts have evolved. Little did these narrow-minded, primitive Englishmen and Englishwomen know that their creation of Ghosts would haunt the human race for centuries to come and maybe even after we’re all gone!
Though there is no ‘real’ evidence about the existence of ghosts, many say they have had a paranormal encounter.
Psychiatrists and psychic detectives have been able to find alternative ways of creating conditions that would support feelings of melancholy. For example, the human brain is very sensitive to sounds. Sounds have various effects on the emotions of a person.
Locking a person in a dark room, without any windows or lighting for that matter, and playing a loud piano will stimulate feelings of manipulation, woe and drowsiness. These are the feelings that the victims of ghostly possession have narrated to psychiatrists. But largely, evidence from the past suggests that there is some power, which is negative that governs these supernatural feelings. While some will delve deeply into finding what causes the human psyche to produce such lurid images of pain, death and horror, to some, it is all- true no matter how much painstaking evidence is produced.
To study the matter from the perspective of a true- believer of Ghosts let’s study these vicious, psychological creations that have really stimulated debates on natural .vs. supernatural.
One of the main influencing factors of paranormal vision is Vedic literature. Scheming red eyed Brahmins, clad in the utmost horrendous apparel, and then there are the Vettalls who will force you to accompany them on a roller coater ride round the cemetery. Then there are the household Preetas who curse their cruel mother- in- laws and dance madly on rooftops!
What to say of India, abroad has it’s own share of authentic spooks. While the Viennese castles echo with sounds of their ruthless queen Marie Antoinette who runs around palaces breaking expensive furniture, in Transylvania, a rather hyped Dracula who flies lifelessly pitying his sad after- life of a bat, has been creating news.
There are six kinds of ghosts:
Replay Ghosts- who happen to appear on the spot of their death every night and take it upon themselves to drive the human race crazy with their antics.
Revenge ghosts- who will not stay calm until they haven’t taken all of the ice- cream from the evil ice- cream man, who had once reprimanded them.
Crisis ghosts- who appear at the time of a crisis and even if the situation can be handled, they make sure it turns into an un-handle-able mass of pandemonium.
Poltergeists- who will be of great help in breaking old crockery and will force you to spend some money on buying Borosil plates.
Animal ghosts- who bark day and night and pester you until you’re forced to commit suicide.
And Phantom ghosts- who are nothing but characters from your old comic books expressing their anger on being misplaced or manhandled.
And thus you see, the Supernatural world is like a magic elixir, capable of turning frail grandma into a wrestler of generous proportions and much more…