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Thursday, March 3, 2011Communication With the Dead: New Perspective
(**My book "Was That a Ghost?" is completed and I will be announcing very soon its publication on Tuesday's post, along with a sample chapter. It is a book that helps people figure out if something that happened to them was paranormal or not using techniques I have perfected with clients over all my years of ghost hunting and counseling. I am very proud, as I consider it my ghost hunting legacy**)
People have wanted to talk to the dead for as long as man has lost his family and friends to the great unknown that is Death.
Spiritualists tried seances and Ouija, table tipping and pendulums. Others have attempted to use televisions and radios, digital recorders and video.
Even Thomas Edison thought the phone wasn't quite enough, he once said, "I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us." There's been a lot of speculation that he might have just built that "ghost box," but no schematics or device was ever found. There is a big difference between "thinking" of building the machine and "building" the machine. During that time period of spiritualists and seances, he was a man influenced by such things when imaging where he could go next with his inventive mind. "This apparatus," he told Scientific American, "is in the nature of a valve, so to speak. That is to say, the slightest conceivable effort is made to exert many times its initial power for indicative purposes." He then likened it to the mere turning of a valve that starts a huge steam turbine. In the same way, the barest whisper of effort from a spirit could influence the highly sensitive valve, and that action would be greatly magnified "to give us whatever form of record we desire for the purposes of investigation. (Reminds me of J&G's sly little unscrewed flashlight concept)
I'm waiting for the release of a movie that I believe is a brilliant concept and I always wanted to see a movie done like this. What if you could build a machine that brought the dead back? Phasma Ex Machina is such a concept. Hurry up, guys! Get this on DVD FINALLY!
Today's modern-day ghost hunters use things like electronic voice recorders and K-II meters and Frank's Boxes to try to talk to the dead. All of these are completely unreliable and inaccurate. All they will receive are intermittent signals, whether from radio, cell or satellite, as well as odd sounds that they interpret as words. There are no vocal chords on the other side. Let's move on.
Here's my example of what the dead are up against. Have you ever tried to talk to someone who is awake while you are asleep? Should you become lucid enough in the dream to realize you can control it and you try to talk to that person who is awake, do you have success? Nope. You are purely working on a level that cannot use your vocal chords and make yourself heard. But, should that person go to sleep, is it at all possible to talk to that person in your dream? I have actually done this and I know many who have, even couples who have integrated their dreams side by side in the bed.
If we are to communicate with the dead, perhaps our sleep state is the only state in which we are free of our bindings to what we see and think and our analytical mind. In this altered state of brain waves, perhaps we are finally on a frequency that they can communicate with. Hell, we might be dealing with them every night and not realizing it is the dead we are interacting with in dream scenarios. People who have lost a loved one often talk about how they got a message from the other side of their dead family members show up in their dreams.
How can we encourage communication through this pathway?
Ideally, you begin with a quiet dark room where there will not be interruptions. If you choose to play music, play something monotone, but I prefer to run a loud fan so it drowns out sounds from outside. Sit down with a notebook and pen and start writing some of the things you want to talk to this person about. Lay this beside the bed and go to sleep. While drifting off, concentrate on the person you wish to communicate with and picture their face, their voice, mannerisms, let them know you want to speak very much. Do this especially in that soft drifting off moment when you let your body weigh heavy in the bed and you give in to sleep. When you do awaken, take notes immediately of everything you can recall. I generally like to set my clock for about 6 am because I know I'll be in dream cycle then and you recall it better if you wake up during it. Don't be surprised if there is not a full face-to-face interaction, but do take note of what you recall from the dream because after a week of this, the notebook will be filled with clues.
Ultimately, the ideal situation is to have labs where people can go and put on the right gear to relax their minds and get their senses ready for such interactions with the other side, a kind of "Total Recall" for the living with the dead. In the mean time, this might be our best avenue of advancement in the field of communicating with the dead.
Posted by Autumnforest at 1:00 AM 2 comments
Wednesday, March 2, 2011Face Off: Zombies!!! Syfy!
I've been waiting for this episode of Face Off on Syfy tonight! Screw GH, although their little trailer for tonight's episode was entertaining with Amy and the new kid--what the hell is his name? losing it.
When I did the Zombie Walk event on the blog world a few months ago, I did my own videos of zombie makeup and how to apply it. Here was my ending result--Zombie Autumnforest!
Curious what the key to my happiness is? Never ever tease my Bigfoot. He gets his own bag of Jack Link's...
Posted by Autumnforest at 3:00 PM 8 comments
Labels: FACE OFF, SYFY, ZOMBIES
Screw the "Box"
(Periodically, expect me this year to be interjecting more life-coach-like posts about how to reach for your dreams, get out of your own way and have adventures. I am lighting a fire under each of you because I have never known a larger group of talented folks who need a little inspiration to take it to the next level. I'm going to teach you how to soup up your blogs, how to get your thinking straight, how to go have adventures and pick up talents you set aside or haven't even found yet. It will still be done within the setting of even more innovative posts about the paranormal world and probably some zingers you weren't expecting. Let's just say 2011 is the year of you.)
Thinking and living "outside the box," leads to a life of wonder and success, discovery and character.
When I was growing up, we lived on a big estate. Mom didn't drive and dad was away most of the time on his business trips. So, I learned to play amongst the woods and the boxwood gardens, the stables and the tree forts.
One day, when I was 5, mom decided I should start first grade. No kindergarten, just first grade; Smack! Right away, a year too early. I walked into class and stood in horror. So many children! Where had these other small creatures come from? I grew up with much older siblings. What were children???
They knew each other because they lived in the suburbs together. They played weird games with strings that they put around their fingers and wove in and out. They played something called "hopscotch" on the playground. They had customs I knew nothing about. My parents didn't take me to kid's movies or read me childrens books (apathy by child number 5) and these kids talked of someone named Cinderella and clapped their hands together while reciting weird poems.
I was completely an outsider in every way; too young, too quiet, too sensitive, too creative and had absolutely no sense of need to be part of the collective. I watched their social customs like an alien new to Earth. I wasn't sure why the little girls were happy to play the same game tossing a rock and jumping on one foot over and over every day as if here would be some new outcome. Why didn't they pretend the monkey bars were a castle and get the boys to be the dragons that protect it? Why weren't they telling stories and catching locusts and pretending to be birds? I wondered quietly if they were perhaps mentally challenged in some way, or at least creatively challenged.
Then, one day on the playground, the girls made fun of a very outcast girl named Eva. They laughed and taunted her and then the boys came over trying to lift her skirt and show her panties. I was shocked no one was helping the poor girl. I ran over and punched the boys in the stomachs and guarded Eva with all my might until the teacher came.
Then, the collective eyed me as something feral and they took a collective step back from me.
Back in the classroom, the teacher announced that my home was going to be on a TV special about the most haunted houses in the country, that I lived in an old Civil War hospital. The collective shoved their chairs back a bit further. Now, I was even more odd and kind of scary.
This story shows my life pretty well. If it's popular and hip, I don't want it. If it's a bunch of vapid sheep doing something together, I want nothing to do with it. I never wanted to be "in" or "hip." I am always going to do what is right, even if it makes me a pariah. I can also tell you that of all the folks in the collective in high school, I cannot recall a one of those sheep's names. Part of being inside the box is to give up your identity and become assimilated into the collective.
I like the color orange, whether it's "in" or not. I will not straighten my hair when it's curly, that is not the Autumnforest package! I will always befriend those with big hearts and unseen talents rather than a person who looks like all the others and possesses no soul or free will, no talents, interests or individual dreams, who at their core is terribly insecure and looking for direction constantly.
One thing we know about the box is that true leaders and innovators, creative types and forward thinkers use it to stand on so they can see the whole landscape and plot their next move. Companies that are successful ask their employees to think outside the box and become huge innovators that change our world while other companies struggle to make change or adapt or dare to offer a new way to do an old thing.
One of the collective came across me online a couple years ago. She was one of the box-dwellers. I didn't recall her name or anything about her, but she could recite me quite well. I was the girl with the fur vest and fur mini skirt and go-go boots with the long auburn hair and who had fights with boys on the playground when they wouldn't play by the rules at basketball, who out jumped, out ran, and out did the boys, shoved more than one of the taunting boys into mud puddles, who lived in the big scary mansion and won the awards for her art work. For me being a very shy quiet girl in elementary school, this sheep recalled me in vivid technicolor and yet I couldn't tell you anything remarkable about her, not even her hair color or where she sat in the classroom. Quite telling, hmm?
Standing apart is the only way to succeed, to maintain your self respect. And remember this: Whatever barometer those in the box are using, it came from someone outside the box who told them what is "in," what makes them "one of the crowd."
Lead or follow, thrive or stagnate, look to yourself for you standards and values and, at all costs, screw the box!
Be visible, be memorable, be your own compass.
(As if I need to say this to any of you--I cannot think of one of my followers who dwells within a box and that is why I so adore y'all. Perhaps we should call ourselves "within the bag" instead of "within the box"? I suspect this post sings to each of you as you are all innovators like myself.)
Posted by Autumnforest at 11:00 AM 13 comments
Let's Write a Horror Short--Now!
(This is a bog scarecrow made by the single greatest Halloween artisan in the world--my total idol Pumpkinrot)
It's that time again! I will give you an opening line and you may jump on and add a line to the last person's line until we make a horror short. Want to see last week's horror short?
"Something growled lowly behind him, but Jack could not turn to see it. He was tied tightly to the tree, in the dark forest, completely deprived of even the tiniest shaft of light."
Jack remembered an old MacGyver trick,and was able to reach into his front left pocket. He had a lighter with his smokes. He grabbed the lighter, and then lit it. He also remembered having a chimichanga with beans earlier in the day. He had enough gas in him to nuke a small acre of land. Jack knew what he had to do, even if it was going to cost him his life...
Dun Dun Dun ! (Max Evel)
with a quick *woosh* the lighter became a torch and Jack could smell the buring of the ropes. As panic started to set in because the growls got louder... (Adsila)
The blue flame technique taught to him by his college fraternity had saved his life yet again. Facing the growl he saw what appeared to be Joan Rivers in a bikini and armed with a whip. "My eyes", screamed Jack! (Gnostalgia)
But just as suddenly as that horrid vision had appeared, it was gone. "What the hell am I doing?" Jack asked hiGnostalgiamself. The last thing he could remember doing before waking up in this godforsaken forest was playing beer pong at the Slaughtered Lamb. He walked forward a bit a few steps before a loud cry of "CHRIST! Why do I smell burnt shit!?" pierced his ears! (HalloweeNut)
Remembering a snappy come-back from his favorite book, "There's More Than One Way to Skin a Tribble" Jack said, "You! Off my planet!" (Gnostlagia)
Acid-peeled skin stretched taut as a sumo's jock split to reveal two rows of too-perfect, too-large teeth. A voice from beyond the grave rasped "Can we talk?" (Sucio)
I'm afraid you are on your own I have to expel a rather ferocious hairball. Jack said. (Echo)
So, here's this week's beginning line...
"The beast rose up from the bog, moss dripping from its pelt as it surveyed the foggy mists in search of..."
Posted by Autumnforest at 1:00 AM 2 comments
Tuesday, March 1, 2011My Videos: An Abandoned Shop & My Creepy Home
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