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Long discussion with Annie today. And for some reason the word atheist slipped out when I was meant to say how Christian her ideas were. Haha. :x

With most ideas, I am very open. Learning and getting closer to the truth can only be achieved if all paths are open.

She was particularly annoyed with the idea that people can be SO accepting with the fact that ghosts exist and certain people can communicate with the dead. Although it sounds bad when put shortly, she believes that some form of malicious deception is involved with both the ideas of ghosts and aliens. Maybe demons are causing this deception, as the Bible calls it, but whatever the name, an 'evil' entity of some sort is involved.

Which leads me on. Originally, I was neither accepting or skeptical of the idea of the supernatural world. Perhaps there are ghosts, perhaps there are not.

There's a few things that I have a bit of faith in though. The idea of having a soul and a place for it after physical death, only because it is such a consistent idea throughout most well established religions. But that's pretty much it, I'm not much of an expert in these fields.

However, a belief that I have established myself, is that a lot of this so-called supernatural phenomenons have a lot to do with just ourselves, specifically, our minds. Now I'm not telling you all that you're crazy. We seek too much to find answers externally when we haven't even explored the realms of our own world.

Take my last post for example. It was badly written, because I was too busy being creeped out that something bad was going to happen. The irony is that I've contradicted myself, but hey, who can escape popular culture's thoughts.

It could have been interpreted to ways.

A) It was a premonition. Something (ghost, spirit, enitity whatever) was warning me about a bad event. As cool as that sounds, having such abilities is unlikely.

B) Using very unromantic 'reason', the dream experience was simply a coincidence. But in experiencing that coincidence, I have developed further understanding of myself. Whatever the concern I was holding onto, a concern I can't quite remember consciously, it is gone.

Perception is vital. What a person CHOOSES to notice reveals much about a person's personality and troubles. A great many things can happen at the same time, generally classified as positive, negative or neutral. Neutral things in itself, can be mistaken or taken either way. For example, a train collision kills eleven people in Sydney, coincidentally, on the anniversary on the Bali bombings.The train driver escapes unhurt. One might say that it was unfortunate that eleven people died and another might say that it was fortunate that the other hundred where alive. Another might say that the driver is a terrorist and another might proclaim the driver a hero for fast thinking and preventing many more possible deaths. See?

Secondly, and most important of all, is the integrity of the story. How many of you actually are aware enough that coincidences, or if you prefer, supernatural activity of a significant scale actually happens to you everyday? They're usually stories. No, I'm not saying they're lies. Even the greatest lies reveals more truth about the people that tell, believe or spread it. No. Often our memory has fault. Memory is not static, it alters itself constantly, so much that people are even deceived by themselves. Just like memory, word of mouth is not reliable either, because the story often changes fro person to person.

Although the concept I'm presenting is hard to grasp, and the fact it doesn't explain all so-called supernatural occurrences, I do believe that it more to do with someone personally. We're busy chasing the truth from outside when we fail to that the truth could actually be from within.

It is the most skeptical presentation of the unexplainable, but it does not trivalise the matter. Recognizing that it may have something to do with yourself, can be valuable in developing understanding of spiritual, emotional or even mental health.