Poltergeists: An Alternate View
Saturday July 28, 2007
Recently, I wrote an article ("How To Survive a Poltergeist") about the poltergeist phenomena and the theory that many researchers hold that they are manifestations of the human unconscious. This view is not shared by all serious researchers, however. I received a response to my article from Diana G., who articulates another hypothesis about poltergeists, which I think you'll be interested in reading. After all, none of us really knows for certain what this phenomena is or how it works. Read Diana's letter... then feel free to post your own comments.
Comments
I personally believe that in the responding letter, she was quoting 2 types of issues. While I do believe that poltergeist activity can be attributed to RSPK, I also think that it can be used as a stepping stone to allow in certian unseen dangers. The example of the Ouija board is not a good arguement in this case. A lot of researches will tell people to stay clear of such devices like Ouija’s as it is a differnt form of contact/communication and can invite such nastiness as demons/spirits into their lives whent hey are not properly trained on how to use it.
Generalized PK phenomena of poltergeist activity, while causing fear, can be mild. As in the Ouija, I believe it can cause demon/spirit attraction that leads to furhter problems. Typically phenomena of poltergeist activity (such as bangs, noises, movements of objects) do seem directed towards or from an invdividual under stress/duress. It is only after something major happens that other activity (building activity) occurs. This is usually when a subject has become fearful of what may be causing the phenomena and believes in it to be something else. Thats when a connection can be made and thus other phenomena attributed to demon/spirit can be seen.
I feel that there is a difference between the actions of poltergeist activity and spirit activity. There have been documented cases where once the stress level of a centered individual went down, the activity stopped. In some these cases. the person at the center of it didnt believe it to be spirits per say, more so it was directed as an undefined “ghost”. But they didnt believe it to be evil in nature, nor did they greatly fear it as much as it was disturbing. In other cases where a person believed it to be something more (such as spirits or demons) the activity grew worse after the point of fear had reached critical mass and thus allowed something more sinister into the picture. So while I see the 2 as being different, I cannot wholely agree with her statement of dismissing the RSPK theory altogether. In a fair amount of cases, RSPK can be used to explain this phenomena, but should be monitored in the event in does grow worse and becomes something more than just RSPK.
Actually, I did not suggest we dismiss the RSPK theory completely. I just think you cannot explain all poltergeist activity by it and was suggesting that an open mind be kept. I agree with your comment.