OK
.. I might upset a few people here but here goes
I dont believe in God (I wont go into the reasons right now) and I dont believe theres an afterlife in the conventional way that most people think of it. I dont believe that anyone can talk to/communicate with/sense ghosts, the reason being is that I dont believe in ghosts BUT
I do believe in a 6th sense, most of us can tell if someones upset or if somethings wrong with someone else without speaking a word to them, we all get gut feelings or perhaps a sense of impending doom when something bads about to happen.
Look at the animal kingdom, most animals can sense when theres going to be a storm and most dogs know when their owners in a foul mood and likely to kick them in the rear
Seeing as we all evolved from animals, I believe that the human race had a strong 6th sense before we learnt to communicate as we do today but as part of out evolution, as speech developed we lost that ability.
However its my opinion that mediums still have that 6th sense and rather than interacting with ghosts, theyre actually picking up on other peoples thoughts and emotions.
Most people go to a medium when a loved one dies, perhaps looking for answers or just some kind of comfort. At that point in time that persons thoughts about the deceased will be VERY strong which would make it plausible that a medium could pick up on those thoughts.
To use the same theory as used in The Matrix, what is reality? Whatever sense is triggered, it still results in a series of electrical pulses that are interpreted by the brain to generate sight, sound, touch or smell.
If you have strong thoughts whether conscious or subconscious, could it not me possible that your brains interpreting those as an image (ghost) or maybe a smell associated with the person?
My interpretation of an afterlife is the memories you leave behind with the people you met during you life so while I dont believe in heaven and hell, I believe you live on in friends/familys memories.
Just for the record, I have been to a medium and had someone do a reading for me over MSN, both were very good but I will say there was some stuff that I believe they genuinely picked up on from what was going through my mind and some stuff the interpolated
I know this is dragging on a bit but Id like to give you another example.
My brother had what I think is a horrific experience with my Nan. Shed been at a BBQ round his house which is only 10 mins walk from her house, she said she needed to go home quite suddenly so he said hed wheel her back home (she had very bad arthritis so walking was difficult). Half way back to hers she complained of feeling very unwell and asked him to run. He got her into her flat and she went unconscious and appeared to have a heart attack, he alerted the emergency services and proceeded to perform CPR but unfortunately to no avail.
A post mortem showed she had a massive heart-attack that would have been fatal even if she had full medical team there with defibs.
Now my brother beat himself up about this, he thought he should/could have done better and saved her. Hed been drinking and said hed have got her home quicker if he hadnt been.
No one else in the family thought this but he still tore himself up over it.
He says that hes seen Nan and that shes spoken to him in his dreams.
I dont doubt that hes experienced this but my interpretation is that this is his subconscious trying to reason with him and make him realise that there was nothing he could have done but what he did and just being there at the end with her was enough.
Again, Im sorry if this upsets anyone, this is just my belief/thoughts on the matter and until theres an event that makes me think differently
as they seem unable to except, that not all people. Belive in loved ones coming back, to have a gossip. To those that do, I say fair do's and the best of luck to you. I may well be seeing you, where I work.
