Cases of clear sightings of the ghost of the deceased are not evidence of "life after death". Here's why.
Preface
- First, I will discuss a video in which Raymond Moody testifies that he witnessed the ghost of his grandmother as if she were still alive, even though she is already deceased.
- Raymond Moody is well known for his research on near-death experiences and his best-selling book, "Life After Life. Therefore, his testimony is not surprising.
- He assumes that the deceased's "life after death" is real and considers these sightings as strong evidence for it.
Summary
- 9:40...
- My grandmother did not appear to me as a hazy ghostly figure, but as clearly as if she were a normal, living person. I saw a halo around her. I also heard her voice.
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i saw my deceased
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grandmother
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as vividly as i have seen any other
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person
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i felt her presence i heard her voice
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and to this day i'm still startled by
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that i mean i can't deny
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my experience it was completely real
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to me when people have an apparition of
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the deceased one of the things that they
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often describe
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is how natural it seems i think if
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you're just sitting abstractly and
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saying that
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aunt ruth had a visit from aunt jane
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last night
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that you would think that that must be
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something totally extraordinary and out
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of the order of anything we experience
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but what people say is no this is
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completely
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natural the naturalness of it is
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is one thing that people
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experience and i can talk about that
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from my own
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experience that i realized full well
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that my grandmother was dead
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and i guess i could have abstractly
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realized that there's something very
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paradoxical in that situation
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but in terms of the encounter that i had
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with my grandmother
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it was completely natural because number
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one
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it was like all her neuroses were gone
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it's it's like she acknowledged them in
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some way that that's how i used to be
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with a little bit of humor in her eyes
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but also
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that that's something she left behind
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and so it was just
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i was talking with my grandmother and
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she was dead
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and i was completely awake
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and another very odd thing about it was
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that when i looked at her she looked
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like a
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just a physical person
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except that there was a light
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just around her
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not like a light that i would experience
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here but
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is very vibrant in energy emanation
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and that in a way that i can't very just
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i can't describe very well it was like
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she was indented
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right that she was pushed back from the
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physical framework in a way and that
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that's what i was seeing is this
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energy line
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My view 1
- There are countless similar testimonies (A) of close and clear sightings of the deceased. I don't think all of them are fabricated stories. Most of them are probably real experiences. However, such cases are not evidence that the deceased existed in some form after death. This is because the doppelganger is a clear disproof of this.
- There are also countless testimonies (B) of up-close and clear sightings of doppelgangers (*1). Therefore, it is unreasonable to claim that B is an illusion or misidentification, but A is the real thing. In the case of a doppelganger, the doppelganger is a copy of a living person that is witnessed by the himself/herself or by another person, so of course the witnessing cannot be evidence that the subject person "exists in some form even after death.
- There is no significant difference in specific observations between A and B. It would be unreasonable to say that A is evidence of postmortem existence and B is not.
- Rather, we should consider that the phenomenon A and the phenomenon B are generated by the same mechanism.
- In response to the above rebuttal using the doppelganger as a specific example, Raymond Moody and the proponents of "life after death" would argue as follows.
- Both A and B are the same in that they are manifestations of "copies of beings. Therefore, in the same sense that the doppelganger in B is a manifestation of a real person, the ghost of the deceased in A is a manifestation of a copy of the deceased in the afterlife..., this should be the argument.
- However, such an argument can be easily disproved by the numerous Slender Man sightings(*2).
- The Slender Man is a fictional entity that was created and therefore does not exist. Many people have witnessed the existence of this fiction.
- Furthermore, there are cases such as "The Philip Experiment"(*3) in which a fictional ghost is summoned.
- The following testimonials by well-known author Alan Moore are also available.
Nick Redfern : The writer's experience of meeting the characters he created in the cafeteria. (in progress: Part 4) (2019-02-08)
- The list of other examples of manifestations of "fictional existence" is endless, including the following.
The protagonist of the cartoon appeared by the bed. (2018-11-28)
Jordan Maxwell : Six giant pterodactyls were spotted over Los Angeles. (in progress: Part 2) (2019-01-31)
- In light of these cases, so-called ghost sightings should not be regarded as confirmation of "life after death," but rather as an example of the manifestation of "fictional existence."
