Why Most of Us Don't See Ghosts

Most of us have heard of ghosts but many will neglect the issue on the grounds that if they don’t see one, what’s the point of believing? Honestly though, these stubborn class of people have felt for themselves hair- raising experiences and unexplained coldness that could be associated to ghost presence but because they didn’t see one, they’re just making a stand that they don’t believe in one (maybe they’re expecting a ghost is listening behind and by so doing it could manifest to avail them of a hair-raising experience) until they have seen it themselves.

My mother died (biologically) on a vehicular accident when I was 17 years old and however difficult and painful it may seem, I have dealt with such issue decades ago. Dealing with a close family member you have spent your life with and losing them is a difficult adjustment to make, just the same as the person himself/herself who made that immediate shift of existence. Just imagine life as a school where we get to higher grade of being as we go through it. The problem is we never know when we get to graduate at times (as for accidents) unless one had been at such a sickened state that he/she is terminally expected to pass out anytime.

Before my mother’s body was officially processed by the funeral parlor and taken home for the wake, I was back at home crying why such a tragic event happened. Then my relatives called my attention about a tapping sound at the backyard. On her routine activities from work, my mother was used to prepare meals for our small piggery at the backyard. That consists of cutting shards of banana stalks to be mixed with the left-over food for feeding the pigs. The sound resembled such activity but nobody has seen her ghost including me. A week that passed, we were able to bury my mother’s body at the municipal cemetery and another strange knocks on the door followed. This usually occurs from 9-10 in the evening while we’re about to sleep. Our dog would be left howling and the knocks on the door would follow, clear, distinct, solid knocks. Driven by logic that it was my mother and I couldn’t be scared enough the fact that I missed her, I usually opened the door to see for myself but nobody was around except our dog.

When I left for Manila 5 months after to pursue my college, I was able to satisfy my own questions by reading books on the paranormal and psychic phenomena and I came to the conclusion why most of us don’t readily see ghosts as other ‘gifted’ people. In high school physics we were taught that matter in 3 states are in constant motion. Solid molecules vibrate slower than liquid, liquid molecules vibrate faster than solids and the gaseous state whose molecular components vibrate the fastest. Taking a solid electric fan whose blades would be seen as a blurr in rotation, or an aircraft propeller which you could barely see when it is rotating, how much more if we compare it to higher states? Working once as an aircraft mechanic, there has been a lot of deaths associated with the helicopter tail rotor because when the helicopter is on the ground and the rotors are rotating, nobody sees the tail rotor while in motion. Several deaths involving a curious bystander happened when a helicopter lands on a populated area where the rushing crowd couldn’t be readily alerted by the pilots and mechanics of the imminent danger. Ghosts or spirits were comparatively in higher states of being to ever be seen by the average eye. The reason that some of us may see them or don’t see them is perhaps just a matter of mood shift were we unconsciously change our rate of molecular vibration by fear or excitement and in some cases, after surviving tragic accidents.

Take for instance the existence of radio waves. Without a transistor radio, we couldn’t tune in to listen to broadcasts from the radio stations yet with a transistor radio we could change the frequency modulation and tune to broadcasts transmitted in a particular frequency. Life in itself has infinite frequencies, imagine a station for each decimal point on your tuner. The rule is plain and simple as always. Two parties must be tuned in the same frequency so that a two-way communication could be established (as in a two-way radio/handset). For the moment that we are alive and well, it will be a great relief that we don’t see ghosts for the fact that if we are faint hearted we’ll surely be living in dread realizing ghosts are everywhere. If you’re not the faint hearted and have that daring to see for yourself but can’t, well you just have to wait for it is only a matter of time that each of us has his/her turn in becoming one. Advance Happy Halloween.