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If you believe in ghosts, you're not alone. Cultures all around the world believe in spirits Burial of Ghosts survive death to live in another realm. The idea that the dead remain with us in spirit is an ancient one, appearing in countless stories, from the Bible to "Macbeth. Belief in ghosts is part of a larger web of related paranormal beliefs, including near-death experience, life after death, and spirit Burial of Ghosts. The belief offers many people comfort — who doesn't want to believe that our beloved but deceased family members aren't looking out for us, or with us in our times of need? Ghost clubs dedicated to searching for ghostly evidence formed at prestigious universities, including Cambridge and Oxford, and in the most prominent organization, the Society for Psychical Research, was established. A woman Burial of Ghosts Eleanor Sidgwick was an investigator and later president of that group, and could be considered the original female ghostbuster. In America during the late s, many psychic mediums claimed to speak to the dead — but were later exposed as frauds by skeptical investigators such as Harry Houdini. It wasn't until Burial of Ghosts that ghost hunting became a widespread interest around the world. Much of this is due to the hit Syfy cable TV series "Ghost Hunters," now in its second decade of not finding good evidence for ghosts. The show spawned dozens of spinoffs and imitators, and it's not hard to see why the show is so popular: the premise is that anyone can look for ghosts. The two original stars were ordinary guys plumbers, in fact who decided to look for evidence of spirits. Their message: You don't need to be an egghead scientist, or even have any training in science or investigation. All you need is some free time, a dark place, and maybe a few gadgets from an electronics store. If you look long enough any unexplained light or noise might be evidence of ghosts. One difficulty in scientifically evaluating ghosts is that a surprisingly wide variety of phenomena are attributed to ghosts, from a door closing on its own, to missing keys, to a cold area in a hallway, to a vision of a dead relative. When Burial of Ghosts Dennis and Michele Waskul interviewed ghost experiencers for their book " Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life " Temple University Press they found that "many participants were not sure that they had encountered a ghost and remained uncertain that such phenomena were even possible, Burial of Ghosts because they did not see something that approximated Burial of Ghosts conventional image of a 'ghost. Personal experience is one thing, but scientific evidence is another matter. Part of the difficulty in investigating ghosts is that there is not one universally agreed-upon definition of what a ghost is. Some believe Burial of Ghosts they are spirits of the dead who for whatever reason get "lost" on their way to The Other Side; others claim that ghosts are instead telepathic entities Burial of Ghosts into the world from our minds. Still others create their own special categories for different types of ghosts, such as poltergeists, residual hauntings, intelligent spirits and shadow people. Of course, it's all made up, like speculating on the different races of fairies or dragons : there are Burial of Ghosts many types of ghosts as you want there to be. There are many contradictions inherent in ideas about ghosts. For example, are ghosts material or not? Either they can move through solid objects without disturbing them, or they can Burial of Ghosts doors shut and throw objects across the room. According to logic and the laws of physics, it's one or the other. Burial of Ghosts ghosts are human souls, why do they appear clothed and with presumably soulless inanimate objects like Burial of Ghosts, canes, and dresses — not to mention the many reports of ghost trains, cars and carriages? If ghosts are the spirits of those whose deaths were unavenged, why are there unsolved murders, since ghosts are said to communicate with psychic mediums, and should be able to identify their killers for the police. And so on — just about any claim about ghosts raises logical reasons to doubt it. Ghost hunters use many creative and dubious methods to detect the spirits' presences, often including psychics. Virtually all ghost hunters claim to be scientific, and most give that appearance because they use high-tech scientific equipment such as Geiger counters, Electromagnetic Field Burial of Ghosts detectors, ion detectors, infrared cameras and sensitive microphones. Yet none of this equipment has ever been shown to actually detect ghosts. For centuries, people believed that flames turned blue in the Burial of Ghosts of ghosts. Today, few people accept that bit of lore, but it's likely that many of the signs taken as evidence by today's ghost hunters will be seen as just as wrong and antiquated centuries from now. Other researchers claim that the reason ghosts haven't been proven to exist is that we simply don't have the right technology to find or detect the spirit world. But this, too, can't be correct: Either ghosts exist and appear in our ordinary physical world and can therefore be detected and recorded in Burial of Ghosts, film, video and audio recordingsor they don't. If ghosts exist and can be scientifically detected or recorded, then we should find hard evidence of that Burial of Ghosts yet we don't. If ghosts exist but cannot be Burial of Ghosts detected or recorded, then all the photos, videos, audio and other recordings claimed to be evidence of ghosts cannot be ghosts. With so many basic contradictory theories — and so little Burial of Ghosts brought to bear on the topic — it's not surprising that despite the efforts of thousands of ghost hunters on television and elsewhere for decades, not a single piece of hard evidence of ghosts has been found. And, of course, with the recent development of "ghost apps" for smartphones, it's easier than ever to create seemingly spooky images and share them on social media, making separating fact from fiction even more difficult for ghost researchers. Most people who believe in ghosts do so because of some personal experience; they grew up in a Burial of Ghosts where the existence of friendly spirits was taken for granted, for example, or they had some unnerving experience on a ghost tour or local haunt. However, many people believe that Burial of Ghosts for the existence of ghosts can be found in no less a hard science than modern physics. It is widely claimed that Albert Einstein suggested a scientific basis for the reality of ghosts, based on the First Law of Thermodynamics : if energy cannot be created or destroyed but only change form, what happens to our body's energy when we die? Could that somehow be manifested as a ghost? It seems like a reasonable assumption — unless you understand basic physics. The answer is very simple, and not at all mysterious. After a person dies, the energy in his or her body goes where all organisms' energy goes after death: into the environment. The energy is released in the form of heat, and the body is transferred into the animals that eat us i. There is no bodily "energy" that survives death to be detected with popular ghost-hunting devices. While amateur ghost hunters like to imagine themselves on the cutting edge of ghost research, they are really engaging in what folklorists call ostension Burial of Ghosts legend tripping. It's basically a form of playacting in which people "act out" a legend, often involving ghosts or supernatural elements. In his book " Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live " University Press Burial of Ghosts Mississippi, folklorist Bill Ellis points out that ghost hunters themselves often take the search seriously and "venture out to challenge supernatural beings, confront them in consciously dramatized form, then return to safety. The stated purpose of such activities is not entertainment but a sincere effort to test and define boundaries of the 'real' world. If ghosts are real, and are some sort of as-yet-unknown energy or entity, then their existence will like all other scientific discoveries be discovered and verified by scientists through controlled experiments — not by weekend ghost hunters wandering around abandoned houses in the dark late at night with cameras and flashlights. In the end and despite mountains of ambiguous photos, sounds, and videos the evidence for ghosts is no better today than it was a year ago, a decade ago, or a century ago. There are two possible reasons for the failure of ghost hunters to find good evidence. The first is that ghosts don't exist, and that reports of ghosts can be explained by psychology, misperceptions, mistakes and hoaxes. The second option is that ghosts do Burial of Ghosts, but that ghost hunters are simply incompetent and need to bring more science to the search. Burial of Ghosts, ghost hunting is not about the evidence if it was, the search would have been abandoned long ago. Instead, it's about having fun with friends, telling stories, and the Burial of Ghosts of pretending they are searching the edge of the unknown. After all, everyone loves a good ghost story. Live Science. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer. Do you believe in ghosts? 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Deities associated with death take many different forms, depending on the specific culture and religion being referenced. Psychopompsdeities of the underworldand resurrection deities Burial of Ghosts commonly called death deities in religious texts. The term colloquially refers to deities that either collect or Burial of Ghosts over the dead, rather than those deities who determine the time of death. However, all these types are included in this article. Many have incorporated a god of death into their mythology or religion. As death, along with birthis among the major parts of human life, these deities may often be one of the most important deities of a religion. In some religions in which a single powerful deity is the object of worship, the death deity is an antagonist against whom the primary deity struggles. The related term death worship has most often been used as a derogatory term to accuse certain groups of morally abhorrent practices which set no value on human life. In monotheistic religions, death is commonly personified by an angel or demon instead of a deity. Burial of Ghosts polytheistic religions which have a complex system of deities governing various natural phenomena and aspects of human life, it is common to have a deity who is assigned the function of presiding over death. This deity may actually take the life of humans or, more commonly, simply rule over the afterlife in that particular belief system a single religion may have separate deities performing both tasks. The deity in question may be good, evil, or neutral and simply doing their job, in sharp contrast to a lot of modern portrayals of death deities as Burial of Ghosts being inherently evil just because death is feared. Hades from Greek mythology is an especially common target. The inclusion of such a "departmental" deity of death in a religion's pantheon is not necessarily the same thing as the Burial of Ghosts of death which is commonly condemned by the use of the term "death-worship" in modern political rhetoric. A death deity has a good chance of being either male or female, unlike some functions that seem to steer towards one gender in particular, such as fertility and earth deities being female and storm deities being male. In monotheistic religions, the one god governs both life and death as well as everything else. However, in practice this manifests in different rituals and traditions and varies according to a number of factors including geography, politics, traditions, and the influence of other religions. Emperor s of Youdu Capital City of the Underworld. Death is the protagonist in the Burial of Ghosts fantasy novel On a Pale Horse Burial of Ghosts, book one in a series of 8 books, the " Incarnations of Immortality ". In the novel The Book ThiefDeath is the narrator of the story. Death is a recurring Burial of Ghosts in the Burial of Ghosts series written by Terry Pratchett. He also makes a cameo appearance in Interesting Times. Martinthe guild of assassins known as the Faceless Men believe that all Burial of Ghosts deities are simply different incarnations of the same god, Burial of Ghosts to them as the Many-Faced God or Him of Many Faces, while the Faith of the Seven worships The Stranger as one of Seven Aspects of God representing Death and the Unknown. In the works of J. He is portrayed as existing alongside God since the beginning of time and being so ancient he cannot remember when he came into existence; he may even be older than God. He is not portrayed as a villain. Her powers revolve around destruction, ruin, and death and she can be thought of as a "god" of sorts all Sailor Guardians can. The Transformers mythos features the character of Mortilus, a Cybertronian deity who represents death and who later betrayed his brethren and was destroyed, leading to the longevity of the Transformer race. A similar character is The Fallena member of the Thirteen Primes who is identified as the guardian of entropy. In the manga and anime, Death Notegods of death shinigami exist in their own realm and are owners of Death Notes, which are used to kill humans. When a note falls into the human world, Burial of Ghosts person who touches it first becomes the new owner of the note, can recognize the god of death to whom it belongs, and the god follows them for the rest of their life. However, shinigami are more like Grim Reapers with freakish appearances than deities who are worshiped. This is because shinigami are a fairly recent concept in Japanese folklore directly inspired by the European figure of the Grim Reaper, and thus, aren't "true" death gods. Despite Burial of Ghosts Western origin, many people will refer to both the Death Note characters and the folklorical shinigami using the Japanese name instead of the English translation or even "Grim Reaper". For similar cases of shinigami being more akin to Grim Reapers in anime, see Bleach anime and Soul Eater anime. In the first campaign of the roleplaying adventure podcast The Adventure Zonethe character Kravitz is a bounty hunter who apprehends people disrupting the natural order of life and death. He even remarks on being called the Grim Reaper by some societies. While Kravitz starts out as a minor antagonist in the story, he returns as an ally to the heroes. Kravitz is gay and the romantic love interest of Taako, one of the main protagonists. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikimedia list article. This article needs attention from an expert in Religion. Please add a reason or a talk parameter to this template to explain the issue with the article. 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