Today's question was inspired by Barry from Ghost Hunters International. If you don't know who he is, he is the one who speaks every language ever spoken.
Does it matter if you speak to a ghost in their native language? is it necessary to use only words that they would have known when they were alive?
Dave: I don't know if I can answer this question with any firm belief. I hate to use other group's theories without being able to substantiate their claims. So let me prefix that these theories are not necessarily those of PPS and by such we do not necessarily agree with them.
So here are some of the theories I have heard on the subject. There are schools of thought that believe that the verbal communication is not required from the spirits end. A telepathic type communication exists and even though we speak audibly, it is the thoughts we generate that are received by the entity. In this case, language is irrelevant.
There are more trains of thought that believe entities who have not moved on will respond to familiar language, people and events as they would have done in life. In that case, language differences may be a barrier to question and answer results. I would think this would more of a problem with entities which lived a long time ago as English was not as prevalent as it is today.
We, I don't believe, have heard any language other than English on our recordings. We have had quite a few that had distinct British accents. That would lead me to believe that communication from the ethereal does retain aspects of their life. As we have not visited any locales that weren’t stateside, I guess we'll never know until PPSI gets a show.
Rex: Logically it would make sense for a spirit to speak the same language after death. That does not mean that they still can't communicate with you if you don't speak a language that they are familiar with. The most common type of haunting is a residual, so odds are that whatever you are trying to contact may not even know that you are there. Residuals are basically just replaying the same set of events over and over again, and whatever was said during that event will continue to be said until the imprint is gone. We have tried numerous times to interact with spirits in a way that they may be accustomed to. At the children's section of Cedar Hill we placed toys and spoke as if we were speaking to a child. We try to refer to our recorders as a "device" since a spirit may have lived in a time where recorders didn't exist. Our case manager Jake even got on all fours and made cat calls to try to communicate with a possible cat entity on our last case.(your welcome Dave, that was for yesterday) We really have not had any conclusive evidence to prove that this method makes a difference, so for now we will continue to test this theory. Meow! Meow!
Does it matter if you speak to a ghost in their native language? is it necessary to use only words that they would have known when they were alive?
Dave: I don't know if I can answer this question with any firm belief. I hate to use other group's theories without being able to substantiate their claims. So let me prefix that these theories are not necessarily those of PPS and by such we do not necessarily agree with them.
So here are some of the theories I have heard on the subject. There are schools of thought that believe that the verbal communication is not required from the spirits end. A telepathic type communication exists and even though we speak audibly, it is the thoughts we generate that are received by the entity. In this case, language is irrelevant.
There are more trains of thought that believe entities who have not moved on will respond to familiar language, people and events as they would have done in life. In that case, language differences may be a barrier to question and answer results. I would think this would more of a problem with entities which lived a long time ago as English was not as prevalent as it is today.
We, I don't believe, have heard any language other than English on our recordings. We have had quite a few that had distinct British accents. That would lead me to believe that communication from the ethereal does retain aspects of their life. As we have not visited any locales that weren’t stateside, I guess we'll never know until PPSI gets a show.
Rex: Logically it would make sense for a spirit to speak the same language after death. That does not mean that they still can't communicate with you if you don't speak a language that they are familiar with. The most common type of haunting is a residual, so odds are that whatever you are trying to contact may not even know that you are there. Residuals are basically just replaying the same set of events over and over again, and whatever was said during that event will continue to be said until the imprint is gone. We have tried numerous times to interact with spirits in a way that they may be accustomed to. At the children's section of Cedar Hill we placed toys and spoke as if we were speaking to a child. We try to refer to our recorders as a "device" since a spirit may have lived in a time where recorders didn't exist. Our case manager Jake even got on all fours and made cat calls to try to communicate with a possible cat entity on our last case.(your welcome Dave, that was for yesterday) We really have not had any conclusive evidence to prove that this method makes a difference, so for now we will continue to test this theory. Meow! Meow!
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