Hi all. There is a new group open. It's called "Body, Mind and Soul". It's primary focus is weght loss support but you can't have that without having a place to rest and satisfy your mind and spirit.

This group will be a "judgement free" zone with zero tolerance for spamming, slamming and rude or incindiary remarks. It's a place to rest your weary head, hang out with friends and for those of us who want to, get support on our path to a healthier body.

It's not paranormal per se. Sorry if that upsets anyone. But for many of us who have tried on-line support groups in the past, our paranormal ties have tended to act as an alienating factor, so I don't see the harm in offering a paranormal-friendly forum that combines physical health with spiritual tolerance.

Thanks and welcome to anyone who is interested!

~Bugg

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Sorry, nothing ghostly to this post.

I've got about 30 pounds I'm trying to get rid of. I joined a couple weight loss boards but......lets just say I couldn't relate to anybody on there. (Lots of "Lose Weight for Jesus" threads etc.. which is cool for them, but kinda made me feel like a square peg in a round hole.)

I'm wondering if anybody else is trying to lose and wants to buddy up for support. It would be nice to have some support mentally and spiritually, from a source I can appreciate and respect.

Message me if you're interested. Thanks!

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I am really saddened by something right now. It's something I've never understood, and I'm always shocked and usually furious when I find it on every where I turn and sometimes even here, in the paranormal community where people are considered "open minded and accepting".

I was raised by a man who died at 51 last December. He wasn't my biological father, but he WAS the only one to ever ask where I was going, when I would be home, what I would be doing. He WAS the one to come to school functions, give hugs when I cried, and call to check up on me. When my husband and I seperated briefly in the winter of 2005 he was the one to bring me Valentines. He served his country, he worked hard, he supported his family, he raised some of his brothers and sisters. And he turned out to be gay.

I am grieving. Is that grief not valid to certain political parties or people with different points of view? Apparently not. Because people still feel free to e-mail and post things telling me how bad a person he was. People still insist on lumping him into one political and social category because GOD made him the way he was. People still post hurtful things in prominant places, on public display, making fun of any point of view different from their own, knowing FULL WELL and completely disregarding the fact that people who don't see things the same will be potentially hurt or offended by their words.

Why do people post things that are potentially hurtful to others? Why on earth would you want to post something that could make someone else sit at their computer and cry? Why? Do people really believe their views are that important? That they have a compulsion to e-mail and post them? Is it really that important for me to know which "side" you are on? I hate to tell you, but it's not. Not to me.

Me, I'm just getting through things one day at a time. I'm looking, really looking at the people around me and trying to be a decent person whether I agree with their point of view or not. I'm trying to practice something similiar to independent thought and moderation. And just about the ONLY thing I can't tolerate is the extremist "if you aren't just like me then you are WRONG" point of view.

To me, posting or e-mailing something that generalizes, bashes or over simplifies another group's beliefs is an insensitivity that frankly my mind just can't even grasp. I don't do it about people whose views I disagree with........but plenty of people do.

Having a strong opinion is great. It makes you a real person. Splashing it all over the place as if it's the only opinion on earth and you invented the concept....well it sucks.

In fact, this is the closest thing you WILL EVER see me make to a political e-mail or post. Because I think certain things are PRIVATE and certain things are so closely held by so many people that I wouldn't in a million years think my opinion so superior to theirs that I can subject them to mine in a public setting or while they are sitting in the privacey of their own home attempting to relax with a few minutes of ******* e-mail or an internet hobby.

And for the record, when I get a hateful post or e-mail telling me how to vote or think, I am never swayed and in fact usually go running in the opposite direction. So don't even try to tell me these types of things are supposed to be informative or useful on ANY level.

Geeze. I hate the year leading up to an election year. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest. I'm not coming back to this blog again, I said what I had to say. ~~Bugg

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I found this on CNN's site this morning. They didn't show the footage, which was kind of disappointing, but it's still kinda cool for any Nessie afficienados (like me): 

 EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Like tartan, bagpipes, and shortbread Scotland's Loch Ness Monster is as much an emblem as a tourist draw.

And now Nessie's back.

An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the waters of Scotland's most mysterious lake.

"I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this jet black thing, about 45-feet (15 meters) long, moving fairly fast in the water," said Gordon Holmes, the 55-year-old a lab technician from Shipley, Yorkshire, who took the video this past Saturday.

He said it moved at about 6 mph (10 kph) and kept a fairly straight course.

"My initial thought is it could be a very big eel, they have serpent-like features and they may explain all the sightings in Loch Ness over the years."

Loch Ness is surrounded by myth and mystery, as it is the largest and deepest inland expanse of water in Britain. About 750 feet (230 meters) to the bottom, it's even deeper than the North Sea.

Nessie watcher and marine biologist Adrian Shine of the Loch Ness 2000 center in Drumnadrochit, on the shores of the lake, viewed the video and hopes to properly analyze it in the coming months.

"I see myself as a skeptical interpreter of what happens in the loch, but I do keep an open mind about these things and there is no doubt this is some of the best footage I have seen," Shine said.

He said the video is particularly useful because Holmes panned back to get the background shore into the shot. That means it was less likely to be a fake and provided geographical bearings allowing one to calculate how big the creature was and how fast it was traveling.

While many sightings can be attributed to a drop of the local whisky, legends of Scottish monsters date back to one of the founders of the Christian church in Scotland, St. Columba, who wrote of them in about 565 A.D.

More recently, there have been more than 4,000 purported Nessie sightings since she was first caught on camera by a surgeon on vacation in the 1930s.

Since then, the faithful have speculated whether it is a completely unknown species, a sturgeon -- even though they have not been native to Scotland's waters for many years -- or even a last surviving dinosaur.

Shine doubts that last explanation.

"There are a number of possible explanations to the sightings in the loch. It could be some biological creature, it could just be the waves of the loch or it could be some psychological phenomenon in as much as we see what we want to see," he said.

But Nessie isn't just an icon of the paranormal -- she's also an emblem of Scottish tourism. She has been the muse for cuddly toys and immortalized on T-shirts and posters showing her classic three-humped image.

The Scottish media is skeptical of Nessie stories but Holmes' footage is of such good quality that even the normally reticent BBC Scotland aired the video on its main news program on Tuesday.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Credit to wwww.cnn.com

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{Of course, everyone is welcome to read but I apologize in advance this one is kinda personal} 

You know, I've been interpreting dreams and doing readings for over a year now and I feel like I owe people an apology. I feel like I had no right to be talking to them about their dead loved ones, because up until last December I hadn't lost anyone close to me.

I was raised primarily by my mom and stepfather, Emory. When I was 24 they split up, he came out of the closet and had been happily involved with a man named Paul for 4 or 5 years when he passed on December 13 at only 51 years of age. All of this was OK with me and my mom, it was his true self and I'm happy he got to live in line with his heart's true direction at least a little before the end of his life. But I knew him as a parent from the time I was 6 years old. He was my kids grandpa, we were all very close and I really miss him like a parent passing even though he and my mom weren't married for the last 10 years.

Well last night I had a long dream about him. I was dreaming and talking with him when my dog woke me up. I remember saying to him "don't go yet, I'll be right back". I got up, let the dog in, and laid back down. I heard him tell me something while I was still awake then I dropped off again and finished my conversation with him.

Before, I always assumed this type of dream would make a person very happy. How naive is that? This morning I'm just such a jumble of emotions, I feel angry at myself that I can't remember anything he told me, I feel sad because I miss him, afraid he won't come back to my dreams for fear he upset me, happy I dreamt of him. About a million things at once.

Sorry I know this is personal and I'm new but I needed to vent. Thanks~Bugg

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Hi, I'm new but know a couple people here from www.jasonsghost.com .

 I have always been fascinated by the paranormal. My mother read crystal ball and palm when I was a kid and we would go ghost hunting with friends of hers. I am an empath and additionally if I meditate on a topic / person or sit with my ball I can usually get images, words and emotions relating to them. I do readings, and welcome requests (free of course) but beware #1 I'm still learning and #2 I have 2 jobs and 2 kids so......getting a reading from me usually involves at least a one week wait BUT I love to try it so please don't be turned off by that.

 My other hobbies are writing and drawing. Currently I work at home as an accountant for a company located in Chicago and I also tend bar a couple nights a week at a very cool and very haunted 100+ year old inn and restaurant.

Well, guess that's it. Nice to meet you all and hope to make some new friends soon. Thanks to Wildchildz for showing this place to Deb1968 and thanks for Deb for showing ME.

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