My Name is Paul Oleskiewicz and I have been involved in paranormal reserch for some time now. Central Berkshire Ghost Hunters are based out of Pittsfield Massachusetts and we are a small group of family and friends. Please enjoy my site. I am also a member of Berkshire Paranormal and you can vist us at www.berkshireparanormal.com
About Ghosts
1. Residual Haunting - Where an event that involves a ghost plays out and there is no interaction between the ghost and a human. This haunting poses no threat.
2. Interactive spirit - Where you might see, hear, or feel cold spots there will always be good and bad even though experiences might be frightening.
3. Non- human spirits - Known as demons or devils, they are dangerous and can cause harm.
PARANORMAL DICTIONARY
The following is a list of definitions of words and phrases used by paranormal investigators and parapsychologists.
Alectryomancy - divining an answer to a question through the order in which a bird reveals letters by eating the grains set on top of them
Amorphous - having no definite form or shape
Amulet - a charm worn around the neck to ward off evil
Animism - the belief that everything in nature has a soul or form of consciousness
Apparition - the appearance of a spirit or ghost in human form
Apport - a solid object, either animate or inanimate, that manifests during a seance or a haunting by non-physical means
Asport - a solid object that disappears during a seance or a haunting and reappears elsewhere
Astral Projection - the "leaving" of the body and traveling in spirit to wherever one desires
Aura - a mystical radiance believed to surround some people and objects
Automatic Writing - a method of spirit communication by which a medium enters a trance state and allows a spirit to control his or her hands to write messages
Automatism - the theory in which the subconscious communicates with the conscious by means of a vehicle such as a Ouija board or pendulum
Auspice - divining the future by the actions of birds
Benign Spirit - a spirit that is not harmful to man, such as an elemental
Bibliomancy - divining the future by randomly choosing a passage in a book, especially the Bible
Bilocation - the uncommon phenomenon of a person or object appearing in two distant places simultaneously
Black Magic - any form of magic used for evil purposes
Cabalistic - having a hidden meaning
Cartomancy - fortune telling using cards
Ceromancy - divining the future by reading the shapes formed by melting wax
Channeling - acting as a medium to receive communications from the spiritual or unseen world
Chiromancer - a palm reader
Clairaudience - the ability to hear things nobody else can hear, especially emanations from a spiritual or otherworldly plane
Clairsentience - the ability to feel things not normally felt by most people
Clairvoyance - the ability to perceive what cannot be seen in the physical world
Collective Apparition - an encounter with a ghost or spirit in which more than one person sees the same thing
Coincidence - the occurrence within a short space of time of two or more meaningfully related events without any apparent causal connection between them
Communicator - a discarnate spirit from which a medium receives messages
Confederate - a person who secretly provides information to a fraudulent psychic
Conjure - to summon a spirit with black magic
Crisis Apparition - an apparition seen at the point of death or at the time of a serious illness or injury
Decline Effect - a decrease in performance on a psi test when the test is repeated
De Ja Vu - the haunting feeling that one has visited a place before or has experienced something at an earlier time or in a past life
Dematerialization - a term used by spiritualists and parapsychologists for the sudden disappearance of an item
Demon - a low-level and inhuman spirit that interacts in the affairs of the mortal world: some are good; some are evil; some are a combination of both
Demonic Possession - possession by evil spirits
Demonology - the study of demons and the rituals and folk-legends associated with them
Deport - the movement of objects out of a secure enclosed space without any physical means
Direct Voice - a phenomenon whereby a spirit speaks through a medium in trance during a seance
Direct Writing - messages written by spirits without the agency of a medium or other living persons
Discernment - to perceive or feel using the mind or senses
Divination - foretelling the future by supernatural means
Doppelganger - the human double or ghost resembling a person who is still alive
Dowsing - the art of locating water or other objects by the use of a divining rod or other tool
Eidolism - the belief in disembodied spirits, ghosts, or souls
Elementals - nature spirits who watch over the four elements
Electromagnetic Field - a field propagated by a combination of electric and magnetic energy that radiates from radio and light waves to gamma and cosmic rays
ESP - extra sensory perception: a power of perception beyond what is normal; the ability to sense the thoughts of others or things that cannot be physically seen
Evil Eye - the ability of some people to harm others by looking at them
EVP - (electronic voice phenomenon) voices captured on magnetic audiotape when no one is present; believed to be the voices of spirits attempting to communicate with the living
Exorcism - the casting out of a demon from someone's body with prayers and incantations
False Awakening - an experience in which a person believes he or she has woken up, but actually is still dreaming
Focal Person - Person who is at the centre of poltergeist activity
Gauss Meter - an instrument which measures electromagnetic fields
Geomancy - divinination of the future involving the interpretation of lines or figures
Ghost - the spirit or apparition of a deceased person that appears to the living or returns to haunt a former habitat
Glossolalia - unintelligible speech generally uttered in a dissociated or trance state
Hallucination - a sensory experience that does not correspond to physical reality
Haunting - a recurrent visitation or appearance of a ghost or spirit before a particular person or in a particular location
Hydromancy - divining the future by peering into water
Hyperaesthesia - exceptionally acute sensory awareness
Hypnagogic Imagery - imagery occuring while dropping off to sleep
Hypnopompic Imagery - imagery occurring while waking up
Imagery - the ability to perceive images in the mind
Incantation - the utterance of a magical spell or charm
Infestation - a condition that occurs when an evil spirit inhabits a location
Intuition - the ability to grasp the elements of a situation or to draw conclusions about complex events in ways that go beyond a rational or intellectual analysis
Kirlian Photography - a technique for photographing auras or biofields
Lucid Dreaming - the act of dreaming while remaining conscious of everything occurring in the dream itself
Manifestation - the appearance of or taking the form of an entity
Materialization - the visible and/or physical manifestation of a ghost or spirit
Medium - one who acts as a receptor or channel to receive spirits or spiritual messages
Metaphysics - the study of psychical research
Mysticism - belief in the spiritual world or other dimension that cannot be perceived by the human eye
Necromancy - divining the future by communication with the dead
Numerology - the study of numbers as an influence in one's life
Obsession - the second stage of a haunting where an invading entity begins to dominate the mind of and exert its power over its living victim
Occam's Razor - the principle that we should always prefer the simplest explanation of events
Omen - a sign of things to come
Oneiromancy - divination of the future through the interpretation of dreams
Oppression - the initial stage of a haunting in which the invading entity attempts to gain access to the location or person targeted for victimization
Orb - a sphere of electromagnetic energy, usually only visible in photographs, believed to be a visible representation of a spirit
Out-of-Body Experience - the release of one's soul or spirit - said to sometimes occur during close brushes with death - when one may actually view one's abandoned physical body from a remote location
Palmistry - the pseudoscientific art of reading palms to divine one's fate
Paranormal - that which cannot be explained or is beyond human perception
Parapsychology - the study of psychic or mental powers beyond scientific comprehension
Phantomania - a term used to describe a type of paralysis that occurs when a person is under attack by either preternatural or supernatural forces
Poltergeist - a noisy ghost who moves things around; believed by some to originate from the energy released by living persons
Possession - occupation by an evil spirit or demon of one's soul, mind, or body
Precognition - "seeing" or "knowing" what will occur in the future
Prescience - knowledge of what will occur in the future
Preternatural - diverging from, or exceeding the common order of, nature but not outside the natural order as distinguished from the supernatural
Provocation - an effort to provoke or command a spirit to reveal itself
Psephomancy - divining the future through the use of pebbles
Pseudoscience - that which claims to be scientific, but is actually discredited by true science
Psi - psychic powers or extra sensory perception
Psychic - having the ability to read minds or predict the future
Psychokinesis - the ability to move objects by the power of one's mind alone
Psychometry - the ability to receive psychic impressions of a person, place, or past event by holding or touching certain objects
Radio Voice Phenomenon - hearing spirit voices over a regular radio
Raudive Voices - audible voices recorded on magnetic tape under conditions of silence or white noise which are heard only when the tape is played
Retrocognition - paranormal knowledge of past events
Revenant - one who returns from the dead
Rhabdomancy - divining the future by a divining rod
Scry - to divine the future by gazing into a crystal ball
Seance - an assembly at which a medium calls to spirits to communicate with those in attendance
Sensitive - a person who possesses a high degree of proficiency in extrasensory perception
Shadow Ghost - a black, mist-like spirit possessing no discernable features, believed to be usually demonic in nature and commonly described as a "black shape"
Shamanism - a Native American and Asian practice or belief through which a skilled medium communicates with the spiritual world and employs magic to heal or to divine the future
Spirit - a being that exists without a physical body and is not bound by the restrictions or characteristics of the spiritual world
Spirit Writing - messages conveyed through a medium's handwriting by spirits
Stigmata - unexplained markings on a person's body that correspond to the wounds of Christ
Subliminal Perception - perceiving without conscious awareness
Suffumigation - the ritual burning of special herbs or incenses for the purpose of attracting spirits and enabling them to materialize; also used to clear spirits from a dwelling
Supernatural - that which is beyond the understanding of science and the physical world
Synchronicity - the interconnectedness of coincidences and their hidden meanings
Telekinesis - moving objects from a remote position without touching them
Telepathy - communication with the mind; thought transference
Thought Form - an apparition produced by the power of the human mind
Veridical - information or experience that is confirmed by facts and events
Vortex - a powerful portal through time and space through which one can travel to another dimension
White Magic - magic employed for good
White Noise - a hiss-like sound formed by combining all audible frequencies
Wraith - a ghost or vision of a living person that is said to appear just before that person dies
Xenoglossy - the ability to speak or write in a language that has not been learned
Zener Cards - a set of 25 cards divided into 5 separate shapes used in parapsychological experiments
If the spirit or ghost activity does not stop, or stops only for a while, then resumes,
you may want to do a spiritual cleansing of your home. This is the traditional
practice of "smudging" a home to get rid of an unwanted ghost:
1) Crack a window in each room of your home and take a dried bundle of sage
(available at most metaphysical stores) and "smudge" your home clearing out any
negative or stagnant energies. Smudging is simply lighting the sage bundle,
making sure you have a safe receptacle to catch the ashes in, and walking around
your entire home allowing the smoke to circulate and cleanse the energy and
space.
2) Being firm and unemotional, walk around each room of your home, while saying
loudly and firmly, "This sage is cleansing out all negative energies and spirits... all
negative energies and spirits must leave now through the windows and not return."
Do this until you sense the negative energy has gone and the room's energy
lightens (to a positive - look for peace) and then say, "In the name of God , this
room is now cleansed." Know and sense this.
3) Remember not to worry about how you sound if you stumble on your words.
The main thing is your intent, which is your faith. You have power and have
nothing to fear. Your intentions are to rid the home of negative energies and
spirits and they will know this, if they are there. Always work with your own energy
from within your soul and incorporate this energy into the cleansing. Draw your
divine power from within your innermost being.
Always be firm, unemotional and deal with negative ghosts strongly, yet in love.
You are always in control and are not powerless. Some like to re-visit a cleansed
house by going back into all of the rooms with a pleasant incense such as
lavender while inviting all loving, protecting, positive spirits into the home. You may
end the ritual by lighting a white candle and setting it on a table to burn for a bit to
"seal" the ritual.
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