{"id":6262,"date":"2012-01-01T01:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T06:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2011-12-24T19:03:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:03:41","slug":"paranormal-path-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2012\/01\/01\/paranormal-path-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Paranormal Path"},"content":{"rendered":"
Paranormal Activity Vs Haunting<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Very often the term Paranormal Activity seems to go hand in hand with ghosts and haunting, however the term means so much more than this.\u00a0 Especially with the popular movies, the word paranormal is everywhere now.\u00a0 What does this mean and why is it different from a haunting?<\/span><\/div>\n
The word paranormal means anything that cannot be explained by science.\u00a0 Many times someone may feel their home is haunted due to unexplained phenomena occurring.\u00a0 Commonly you\u2019ll hear someone describe their lights flickering, or a feeling of being watched when they enter a certain room. Upon proper investigation one may discover that the home is not haunted and these experiences are not paranormal.\u00a0 One common tool is an EMF detector.\u00a0 This tool will measure electromagnetic fields.\u00a0 A high EMF reading can occur for many reasons, if you are near an electrical source such as an outlet, certain wiring or even types of plumbing, can give a high EMF reading.\u00a0 Severely high readings can cause physical effects on a person such as dizziness, nausea, and even a feeling of paranoia.\u00a0 If it is revealed that there is faulty or very old wiring in a home this can explain the flickering lights and an uneasy feeling.\u00a0 These things are explained by science and therefore not paranormal.\u00a0 However if you receive a high reading and these things are not a factor or the reading spikes, from very high to normal and you are nowhere near an electrical source, then this is unexplained and therefore is paranormal. <\/span><\/div>\n
Other examples include extraterrestrial activity, poltergeists activity, telekinesis, and even astral projection can be described as paranormal.\u00a0 Though there are many theories, science has neither proven nor disproven these things.\u00a0 I however believe in it all but this still does not make it a scientific fact.<\/span><\/div>\n
Now let\u2019s look at another example.\u00a0 When someone moves into a new home and is informed the previous owner passed away in that house, they may have an uneasy feeling to begin with but decide to move in anyway.\u00a0 Soon they realize certain objects keep disappearing, and then reappearing in different locations.\u00a0 A first thought would be the ghost of the previous owner is making themselves known, however no apparition has been seen.\u00a0 These occurrences\u2019 cannot be labeled just yet as a haunting, they are simply paranormal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Soon along with this paranormal activity, our new homeowner awakens to the sight of an elderly woman making her way down the hallway, she is almost transparent, and seems to be gliding just above the floor.\u00a0 Well this must have been just a bizarre dream.\u00a0 The next morning someone else in the family describes seeing the same strange woman.\u00a0 Soon she continues to appear; now we can say that this house is haunted.\u00a0 A haunting is the habitual visitation of a ghost or apparition. <\/span><\/div>\n
As I discussed in a previous article haunting can be residual, meaning the spirit has no idea you are there, it isn\u2019t aware of surroundings or changes, it is more of an imprint from a certain time.\u00a0 Imagine a movie playing over and over again, the same routine, the same motions, just repeating.\u00a0 The haunting can also be intelligent, meaning the spirit is aware of you and able to interact, or communicate.\u00a0 Without the spirit there are no haunting, just paranormal occurrences. <\/span><\/div>\n
Even though ghosts themselves cannot be explained by science, it is the act of their frequent appearance that defines a haunting.\u00a0 There will always be debate about what a ghost is and even deeper what are the exact contents of a soul , and if or how is it left behind, \u00a0just as many artist describe being haunted by music, scents, or words.\u00a0 These of course are just symbols, giving a figurative spirit to such things and describing the frequent visitation of the uninvited.\u00a0 \u00a0I suppose you could be haunted by just about anything . <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paranormal Activity Vs Haunting Very often the term Paranormal Activity seems to go hand in hand with ghosts and haunting, however the term means so much more than this.\u00a0 Especially with the popular movies, the word paranormal is everywhere now.\u00a0 What does this mean and why is it different from a haunting? The word paranormal means anything that cannot be explained by science.\u00a0 Many times someone may feel their home is haunted due to unexplained phenomena occurring.\u00a0 Commonly you\u2019ll hear someone describe their lights flickering, or a feeling of being watched when they enter a certain room. Upon proper investigation one may discover that the home is not haunted and these experiences are not paranormal.\u00a0 One common tool is an EMF detector.\u00a0 This tool will measure electromagnetic fields.\u00a0 A high EMF reading can occur for many reasons, if you are near an electrical source such as an outlet, certain wiring or even types of plumbing, can give a high EMF reading.\u00a0 Severely high readings can cause physical effects on a person such as dizziness, nausea, and even a feeling of paranoia.\u00a0 If it is revealed that there is faulty or very old wiring in a home this can explain the flickering lights and an uneasy feeling.\u00a0 These things are explained by science and therefore not paranormal.\u00a0 However if you receive a high reading and these things are not a factor or the reading spikes, from very high to normal and you are nowhere near an electrical source, then this is unexplained and therefore is paranormal. Other examples include extraterrestrial activity, poltergeists activity, telekinesis, and even astral projection can be described as paranormal.\u00a0 Though there are many theories, science has neither proven nor disproven these things.\u00a0 I however believe in it all but this still does not make it a scientific fact. Now let\u2019s look at another example.\u00a0 When someone moves into a new home and is informed the previous owner passed away in that house, they may have an uneasy feeling to begin with but decide to move in anyway.\u00a0 Soon they realize certain objects keep disappearing, and then reappearing in different locations.\u00a0 A first thought would be the ghost of the previous owner is making themselves known, however no apparition has been seen.\u00a0 These occurrences\u2019 cannot be labeled just yet as a haunting, they are simply paranormal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Soon along with this paranormal activity, our new homeowner awakens to the sight of an elderly woman making her way down the hallway, she is almost transparent, and seems to be gliding just above the floor.\u00a0 Well this must have been just a bizarre dream.\u00a0 The next morning someone else in the family describes seeing the same strange woman.\u00a0 Soon she continues to appear; now we can say that this house is haunted.\u00a0 A haunting is the habitual visitation of a ghost or apparition. As I discussed in a previous article haunting can be residual, meaning the spirit has no idea you are there, it isn\u2019t aware of surroundings or changes, it is more of an imprint from a certain time.\u00a0 Imagine a movie playing over and over again, the same routine, the same motions, just repeating.\u00a0 The haunting can also be intelligent, meaning the spirit is aware of you and able to interact, or communicate.\u00a0 Without the spirit there are no haunting, just paranormal occurrences. Even though ghosts themselves cannot be explained by science, it is the act of their frequent appearance that defines a haunting.\u00a0 There will always be debate about what a ghost is and even deeper what are the exact contents of a soul , and if or how is it left behind, \u00a0just as many artist describe being haunted by music, scents, or words.\u00a0 These of course are just symbols, giving a figurative spirit to such things and describing the frequent visitation of the uninvited.\u00a0 \u00a0I suppose you could be haunted by just about anything .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}