Title: Ghost Hunting For Personal Growth
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Blog Entry: I was looking out my window when I should have been working and saw two crows fighting over a burrito wrapper. Neither crow knew if there was any food in that wrapper, they just knew that there was a possibility of food. And that got me thinking about ghost hunting and what we are really looking for when we are in the field. Like many ghost hunters, I struggle to define exactly I’m looking for when I'm in some haunted room waving EMF detectors and temperature probes around. What do I hope to prove and what amount of evidence will be enough to prove it, to myself and to others? At this point, I just don’t have answers. All I know is that whatever it is that I’m looking for, I haven’t found it yet. I like to tell people that I’m waiting for a full body apparition walk up to me, shake my hand and say “I’m the ghost of John Doe” but I don’t really think that’s going to happen and that makes me sad. With each investigation and ghost hunt I go on I’ve become increasingly dissatisfied with the field and my approach to it. The standard approach of taking temperature and EMF readings, running audio and video and then, over the course of weeks, reviewing hours of data to find one anomaly frankly leaves me more bewildered and wondering if this is the most effective way to find answers. Clients don’t report paranormal phenomena because they think it will make them cool, just the opposite. In my experience, most don’t even want their neighbors to know about it for fear people will think they’re crazy. They call in ghost hunters because they want answers too. Answers that, after 5 years, I’m still not equipped to give them. I may never be a better ghost hunter than I am today. There may never be a better approach or more refined equipment. I have to learn to be satisfied with that and yet I’m not. That is why I’ve decided to begin to apply a more spiritual approach to my ghost hunting. That may mean I am forced to leave my current group but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. In the mean time, I’m now dedicated to learning more about what may be the consequences of death and how we can better deal with its ramifications. The thought of going "back to school" so to speak, makes me more frightened than any spectre I have ever hoped to encounter, but that's exactly what I plan to do, so wish me luck. Hopefully I can find more answers than questions in the future.
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