I Met More Ghosts at Gettysburg: A Journalist's Paranormal Journey Continue (Book) - 11/8/2018 8:09:26 AM
Once while driving to New York City, I took a side trip through Gettysburg. I didn't have time to stop at the battlefield, didn't feel anything abnormal about the village and didn't see anything related to what happened there in such a horrific way that Lincoln spoke of so compassionately.
I read your excerpt. It is well written. The sign of a lifelong writer. I also see that your reviews for your first Gettysburg ghost book are very good. But as I read the excerpt, it wasn't about Gettysburg. It was about fear and ghosts. I'll have to admit that many, many people are interested in the Civil War and Gettysburg. Another group of people are interested in ghosts. So by your titles alone, you have a huge following of people that are eager to learn more by reading your theories… Good marketing.
I have spent my whole life unafraid of things that are not dangerous. For example, snakes. I have found snakes to be quite interesting, not slimy, but incredibly muscular with a wonderful feel. And have never been bitten by venomous or non-venomous snakes. I have had thunder literally knock me out of bed, but grew up outdoors where the most dangerous thing I ever did was stand under a tree during a lightning storm. I have a healthy respect for danger, and know my limits. But never had a problem facing a curious bear (twice) in the wild. So ghosts have been the least concern for me.
After 55 years of paralysis, I have reached the point of quadriplegia where my lower body muscles spasm at night, relieving tension of the day and swelling. And altered sensation makes it difficult for me to get comfortable sometimes for hours at night. I wake up frequently to urinate and must turn or I get agitated and experience autonomic dysreflexia (a condition of high blood pressure and intense sweating that only occurs with people with high level spinal cord injury).
Since I turned 70, for five years I have frequently opened my eyes waking up and experienced people in the room and sometimes directly in front of me that are totally unfamiliar but very complete, in color, and dressed in all manner of clothes. They don't scare me. I wrote already that I fear very little. I believe that these are perhaps part of my dream that I was just dreaming that appear in my visual cortex just as I wake up. As soon as they appear, they disappear. I regard these temporary visions as simply my brain starting memories.
I have also experienced, while dreaming, in the last five years, increased feeling of falling, often not from the bed but in other circumstances, generally where I end up landing on a small animal, child or even a caregiver putting them in great danger of crushing. When I wake up and find that I'm on the bed in the same place, I relax and go back to sleep. These incidents are often triggered by massive spasms that start in my lower back and go down my legs causing them to kick upward, and sometimes, put me precariously off the bed until my caregivers come to my rescue.
As someone who has studied the brain at Stanford way back in the primitive days of brain slicing by Dr. Karl H. Pribram and his holographic theory of the brain… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_H._Pribram I believe that most ghost phenomena are strictly brain created and probably our mental interpretation of natural phenomena in the environment… sights, sounds and smells.
Ron
