A recent post here intriguingly asked about atheists believing in ghosts. The subject is interesting even in a more direct religious sense. Empirically, Australia has done the world a service with its Festival of Fisher´s Ghost. The account goes back to the 1820s when Frederick Fisher was a convict in the Australian colony and advancing by good conduct to become a farmer propertyholder. William G Worrall was another convict there, a carpenter, and boarder with Fisher. Their association developed and Fisher grew to trust Worrall. Finally in Sept, 1826, Fisher disappeared and Worrall said Fisher had gone back to England leaving him in charge of his properties. A few weeks later, respected local farmer John Farley came tumbling into a local hotel saying he had just seen the ghost of Fred Fisher. The figure had been sitting on the rail of a bridge, and pointed down to a creek area nearby. Boys then found blood on a nearby fence, and an indigenous tracker found the body by the ghost´s indicated creek. The ghost story wasn´t allowed in court testimony, however. The festival thus is a fine social marker of a supernatural event.
The US´s Greenbrier Ghost case, around the victim Elva Zona Heaster Shue, was admitted into court testimony, however, shortly after the murder in Jan, 1897. Some researchers have compiled contemporary lists strongly suggestive of similar phenomena to Fisher´s and Heaster Shue´s ghosts. "Ten Murderers Haunted..." has identified media reports of the likes of Mark Bridger and Jose E Ferreira, Jr, with Bridger complaining of being haunted, and Ferreira having confessed to apparent manslaughter after 33 years. The cases include Al Capone no less. "Ten Murder Victims Who Solved Their Own Murder" contains another angle. It includes Fisher´s ghost and the Greenbrier accounts, and goes on to tell about Teresita Basa being channelled by a co-worker, a 3 year old Golan Heights boy reincarnated, Ashley Howley encased in concrete and contacting a spiritist, and Nadine Haag´s ghostly writings of "He did it," and more.
Greenbrier Ghost: https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2018/01/greenbrier-ghost.html
Modern scientific bias might tend to relegate accounts like these to prejudicial categories of thought, rather than clear multidisciplinary empirical reasoning. The University of Virginia´s late Ian Stevenson MD established the Dept of Perceptual Studies in his work on reincarnation. A young American boy James Leininger, for example, began recalling details that family and researchers were able to trace to a family. "Plane! Plane on fire!" he began to yell at first. UVA´s DPS also researches Near Death Experiences (Temporary Death Experiences) and related subjects. Jim Tucker MD of UVA at one talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La8vG4mA0is
Michael Talbot is a writer who wrote literately in The Holographic Universe about comprehensive use of Holographic phenomena that inspired the scientific theorizing of neurologist Karl Pribram and physicist David Bohm. The holograph was developed by accident by an electron microscope researcher. Originally a laser beam is split, with one half directed and reflected off an object, then recombined with the original half onto a photographic plate. A 3D image can then be displayed, with a full image even from a broken piece of the original photographic plate. The implication is a distributed form of information storage based on the laser beams´ interference patterns. Bohm´s own ideas postulated an explicate order that we perceive, and an implicate order that we normally don´t.
From the scientific philosophy of of Holographic theory to multidisciplinary empirical philosophy, it can be mentioned that historical sociology can form an empirical basis for tracing all of this to Jesus´ legacy of loving integrity. Stevenson and Turner have done cross-cultural study, among other researchers. What do you think of all this kind of material?
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