Seeing Ghosts

[clackamascoug]

The ability to see spirits is one of the Spiritual Gifts. Some can, most don't.

My SIL can, and reports on occasion of seeing spirits. Her best story was while giving birth, she noticed there were about 20 people in the room.

[NorthShoreCoug]

When my younger brother and his wife were expecting their second child, the firstborn (a girl) was nearly 3 yrs old. They didn't find out the gender of their child before its birth. One morning, his wife was sitting on their bed with her daughter next to her when the daughter started looking intently towards an upper corner of their bedroom. My SIL asked her what she was looking at, and she replied, "my little sister". My SIL proceeded to ask her what her "little sister" was doing. She complied. After a short while, my niece said her little sister had left.

From that point forward, whenever anyone asked her what she wanted, a brother or sister, she adamantly stated that it was a girl. And, of course, it was.

[byu71]

I don't doubt anyone's stories. What I don't get is what is the purpose?

I have related an experience I had with my mom right after she passed away, but I can't say that what I saw was actually her spirit. What I experienced was a great comfort.

I am in no way trying to trivialize what any of you are relating as I love to hear anything that indicates an afterlife, but could you add something that might indicate what you thought the purpose was.

[YOhio]

I don't doubt anyone's stories. What I don't get is what is the purpose?

I have similar thoughts. I hate the idea of spirits hanging around, spying on me. It's creepy.

[BigPiney]

I have similar thoughts. I hate the idea of spirits hanging around, spying on me. It's creepy.

almost worse than ceiling cat:

[woot]

I don't doubt anyone's stories.

Why not?

[byu71]

Why not?

Why should I. I might question whether what they saw truly was a spirit, but the stories I have heard don't seem to be ones that would be made up for any reason.

Doubting their interpretation is a lot different than doubting what they felt they saw.

[Fiyero]

SeattleUte is in a meeting with the Women's Law Caucus and asked me to forward the following reply:

Fools.

Byzantine's Constantine in Anatolia surmised to the Orthodox citizenry that their passion and social position was inferior to the reasoning of Thucydides and Xenophon. Writers trained in theology like Leo Diaconus chose Homer-esque theories to brainwash his mass followers, which remains subscribed by you modern pedantics.

Death and life are not permeable. The central nervous system is capable of many things. A ghost may be a kind of neural echo of an overvalued idea that triggers the visual cortex. It might be a hypnogogic reaction experienced in a vulnerable sleep stage. Ghosts are not real, and your "encounters" are the result of a highly-active occipital lobe.

[The Moose's Whistle]

X2

It all stopped after I dedicated the house.

[statman]

Why not?

Actually I doubt most of the stories of those that share them in public - but I don't really consider this to be 'public' - we're really pretty anonymous here...

When a person says something about seeing spirits/angels/etc in Church, I pretty much discount it completely. Why? I do think there are cases where somthing like this could/would/does happen. But god is not going to allow such things to happen willy-nilly. they will happen for specific reasons, and they will happen to people who are spiritually mature enough to handle it.

My experience, OTH, has been that those who share such stories in F&T meeting do so for their own agrandizement (sp?). They generally end up with 'followings' in the ward & stake. Strange women who read auras and eschew vaccines.

A spiritually mature person isn't going to be sharing such remarkable experiences with people in F&T meeting. I am almost certain that each of the Apostles have seen the resurrected Christ (it's why they're 'special witnesses' of him), and yet, when was the last time you actually heard someone talk about the experience? That's becasue the experience is sacred and only for those mature enough to receive it. And those who are spiritually mature don't cast pearls before swine...

[Non Sequitur]

I am almost certain that each of the Apostles have seen the resurrected Christ (it's why they're 'special witnesses' of him), and yet, when was the last time you actually heard someone talk about the experience? That's becasue the experience is sacred and only for those mature enough to receive it. And those who are spiritually mature don't cast pearls before swine...

What is the purpose of being a witness if you're going to keep it to yourself? Joseph Smith didn't bogart his visions, what makes you think modern day Apostles would?

[Indy Coug]

What is the purpose of being a witness if you're going to keep it to yourself? Joseph Smith didn't bogart his visions, what makes you think modern day Apostles would?

I don't know about the Apostles, but I certainly wouldn't share something on this board of that nature with the likes of woot around to piss on it.

[Fiyero]

I don't know about the Apostles, but I certainly wouldn't share something on this board of that nature with the likes of woot around to piss on it.

What if there was a more exclusive forum, only accessible to a minority? Would you be more inclined to open up, realizing the masses wouldn't be there to piss on it?

[SteelBlue]

I am almost certain that each of the Apostles have seen the resurrected Christ (it's why they're 'special witnesses' of him), and yet, when was the last time you actually heard someone talk about the experience? That's becasue the experience is sacred and only for those mature enough to receive it. And those who are spiritually mature don't cast pearls before swine...

I don't disagree with your opinion about spiritual maturity. I do find it odd that you are virtually certain that the Apostles have all seen Christ. Especially since they never make such a claim and in fact Packer recently touched on the subject of that 'special witness' in a conference talk and I came to the opposite conclusion that you have.

[clackamascoug]

A spiritually mature person isn't going to be sharing such remarkable experiences with people in F&T meeting. I am almost certain that each of the Apostles have seen the resurrected Christ (it's why they're 'special witnesses' of him), and yet, when was the last time you actually heard someone talk about the experience? That's becasue the experience is sacred and only for those mature enough to receive it. And those who are spiritually mature don't cast pearls before swine...

We have a dedicated/hardworking member of our HP Group who's a Temple Worker. He told me he's been instructed not to mention his observations while working in the Temple. Then he say's... but If I could, I could tell some very interesting stories.