How many of you have had paranormal experiences?

[millionsofdeadcats]

This thread is creepy. I never articulated the feeling like that but yes, that's kinda how autumn feels to me too. I love the melancholia of it, though. Parts of it. Also just ripped up old wounds... 

No matter what you say, nostalgia is painful.

[Obbe]

I wouldn't personally call my experience paranormal but I think some would say it qualifies:

I had a powerful hallucinogenic episode when I was in my teens. No drugs. The experience stemmed from chronic stress and depression. I went go into specific detail, but the experience was very warm and uplifting. I've never experienced anything like it before or since. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that at that very point in time it probably saved my life. I think it was a psychological survival mechanism kicking in. The 'paranormal' aspect of the experience was that it was very physical albeit without shape or form and involved people who where all dead.

And no, I wasn't a) coming out to myself as a necrophile or b) being molested by ghosts.

Neat.  Why do you describe this experience as hallucination?

[Obbe]

We believe he came to the Americas, yes.

Based on what?

[Arnox]

Why do the mormons have such extensive geneological records?  Will they eventually be used as databases to purge certain races that the mormons find undesirable?

They are used for baptisms for the dead. So those who didn't get the chance to be baptized in the church for whatever reason will have a chance to do so when they learn about the gospel in the next life.

Do you at least have multiple wifes?

Nope. Sorry.

It's the logical conclusion of making him blonde and white I suppose.

The church has no official stance on what Jesus looked like. And it wasn't just the Americas that he visited. We believe that he visited other countries besides that one.

[RisiR]

Sounds like a pretty cool guy.

[Slave of the Beast]

It's the logical conclusion of making him blonde and white I suppose.

The church has no official stance on what Jesus looked like.

Ha, I know there is no 'official' position. There doesn't need to be when there is a cultural status quo with nearly two millenia of religious art behind it. And I was talking about western Christianity in general. I doubt the Mormon church depicts Christ as a typical semite.

And it wasn't just the Americas that he visited. We believe that he visited other countries besides that one.

"Much of the Mormon belief system is oriented geographically around the North and South American continents. Mormons believe that the people of the Book of Mormon lived in the western hemisphere, that Christ appeared in the western hemisphere after his death and resurrection, that the true faith was restored in Upstate New York by Joseph Smith, that the Garden of Eden was located in North America, and that the New Jerusalem would be built in Missouri. For this and other reasons, including a belief by many Mormons in American exceptionalism, Molly Worthen speculates that this may be why Leo Tolstoy described Mormonism as the "quintessential 'American religion'"."

~ Wiki.

Mormonism is an Amerocentric plagiarism of Christianity; carefully, or crudely, marketing religious beliefs to your target audience is nothing new.

[-SpectraL]

I've had many direct paranormal experiences.

[millionsofdeadcats]

Do you at least have multiple wifes?

I never typed this, and cannot figure out where it came from.  Damned mormon sorcery.

[Arnox]

"Much of the Mormon belief system is oriented geographically around the North and South American continents. Mormons believe that the people of the Book of Mormon lived in the western hemisphere, that Christ appeared in the western hemisphere after his death and resurrection, that the true faith was restored in Upstate New York by Joseph Smith, that the Garden of Eden was located in North America, and that the New Jerusalem would be built in Missouri. For this and other reasons, including a belief by many Mormons in American exceptionalism, Molly Worthen speculates that this may be why Leo Tolstoy described Mormonism as the "quintessential 'American religion'"."

~ Wiki.

Mormonism is an Amerocentric plagiarism of Christianity; carefully, or crudely, marketing religious beliefs to your target audience is nothing new.

Actually, it should say that the Book of Mormon is centered almost completely around the history of the North and South American continents of which book is the basis for our religion. But I'm sorry you think it's nothing more than plagiarism. So, if that is all, I think I'll let this topic get back to what the OP was talking about.

[mashleshmash]

I made a thread on zoklet about my witnessing of a aura surrounding me

lemme find

"Alright guys, this is a guide on how to see your own aura. Okay I'm just kidding but I feel like talking about an experience of mine that I had months ago, during my Psychosis. Though I was in my Psychosis, I know that this was not an hallucination. It was much too vivid.

I was walking down the stairs and I reached this mid platform in the dark, maybe some illuminated light from the moon shining down on the stairs. Next thing I know, surrounding me in a circle, arising vertically from my feet to my head, was a strange greenish red light. It was visible for maybe a second. It scared the shit out of me.

Months earlier I had felt my 6th chakra (third eye) tickling my forehead (LOLtumor) immensely, standing at the top of the stairs, right above the mid platform.

So I dunno, has anyone had any such experience?"

[constantinople]

I've seen things that would make your nightmares weep.

[millionsofdeadcats]

I've seen things that would make your nightmares weep.

 

[stentor]

How can one have a paranormal experience without drugs? I'm only curious because I've never had any type of paranormal experience while in a non-altered state.

[burroughs]

Not a direct experience, but oh well.

My family is originally from NYC. We moved out when I was a baby, but my dad still works there and occasionally checks out the old neighborhood. Anyway, before I was born, my family lived in a shitty apartment on the top floor of a small building. My dad, out to lunch one day and just taking a stroll, decided to take a picture of the old place. He shows me this picture and points out the window to the apartment where they lived, and there's kind of a weird reflection on it. It looked like a father and daughter just kind of standing and observing.

Specifically, it looked like my dad and older sister. Except, as if they were 20 years younger, like around the time when they were living there. The man in the reflection was very slim as he was, and the daughter was a toddler, as my sister would have been. I'm not saying the images were clear as day. It was almost kind of blurry outlines with very vague features. Ghost-like, I guess, but still bearing a very uncanny resemblance to my family.

My father and sister are both still alive, which somehow makes this experience even more creepy.

[-SpectraL]

One time my daughter called me at 3am screaming at the top of her lungs that there was a ghost in the house and that it had just attacked her boyfriend. I told her to get out of the house immediately and a cab would be there any minute. When they got to my place, the boyfriend lifted his T-shirt and showed me his chest and there was claw marks right across it in diagonal lines, and there were also diagonal matching rips in the shirt. I told him to tell me the truth and only the truth, and he swore up and down that he got attacked by some kind of partially transparent, smoke-like, ghostly creature which had rushed out of the darkness up the basement steps as he was looking down them to investigate strange noises that had been coming from down there. He was totally believable.