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"Top 10 Things Teens Need To Know About The Paranormal" (free talk at Powerbooks this Halloween)

Do Spirits Still Check Their Emails?

Onad's blog is still active.

One of the latest guestbook posts were song lyrics from one of his friends, who was "apologizing for the delay" because Onad had apparently asked for the lyrics a long time ago.

Now, this may not be a big deal for some. But Onad has been dead since 2005. He passed away when he was only 20 years old; a much-loved friend by so many people, both online and off.

And because his blog is still active, the friends who love him make it a point to visit his page every now and then. They tell him how much they miss him, and basically "talk" to him as if he were still alive.

"It's often therapeutic for the loved ones of those who died, to have a place where they could send their words to the one who passed away." says Aileen Santos, psychologist & spiritual life coach. "It's similar to writing the letter you know you'll never send: it provides a safe release for your thoughts and feelings, and works whether or not the person you wish you could talk to will actually be able to read them."

But the question is: What if Onad could actually read their emails & guestbook entries?


Can Electronic Devices Help Us Communicate With Spirits?

In the 2005 movie White Noise (starring Michael Keaton), a murdered woman's spirit was able to communicate with her husband through her mobile phone, as well as their television set and radio. The movie's premise is that spirits often have just enough energy to communicate with us using these sensitive electronic devices, but not enough to completely manifest.

There's a big warning included in the movie, though: When you open yourself to communicating with spirits, there's a huge chance that you'll also invite communications from "the other kind."

"Ask almost anyone who has been a psychic, especially a clairvoyant." says Moira Noonan in her book Ransomed From Darkness. "They will tell you the same thing. They have no peace... They see into demon worlds and they don't like it."

A former psychic who was active in the New Age movement for more than 20 years, Noonan eventually sought to end the disturbing and nonstop visions that drained her and left her without sleep. She made a confession to Fr. Philip Pavich O.S.F. at Mejugorje, and asked him to help her renounce all her occult activities, and have her "third eye" closed. The whole session lasted for 16 hours.

After her liberation, Noonan said "I cannot say for certain that the experience was an exorcism. I do know, however, that it exceeded in power and effect anything I have witnessed in rituals of deliverance. I felt like a baby, a little baby who has new skin, as if someone had scrubbed me right down to the bone."


From Blogs To Ouija Boards

"Almost every teen goes through that phase of wanting to try to contact spirits, or have a similar safe-yet-exciting ghost adventure," says Aileen Santos, who once used Ouija boards & told fortunes Tarot using cards herself. "And almost every teen has been attracted to using a Ouija board - or the spirit of the coin, or the spirit of the glass - thinking it's the safest way of having a real paranormal adventure. What they don't know is that Christian ministers, Catholic priests, and ghost hunting parapsychologists alike are ALL united with this verdict: Ouija boards are BAD NEWS."

Santos will talk at length about this topic - and other ghost-related topics - on Halloween: October 31, Friday, 6:00pm at Powerbooks Live! in Greenbelt 4 (telephone numbers 6312751 & 6315939).

In her free one-hour talk on the "Top 10 Things Teens Need To Know About Ghosts, Psychic Powers, and the Paranormal," Santos will not only recount real-life cases of demonic attacks caused by the Ouija board, but also the possible scientific theories behind paranormal phenomena, what to do when you discover you have psychic abilities... and her own experiences with spiritual attacks.

"I once gave a talk on spiritual warfare to a group of teens from the Youth for Christ." says Santos "And the most important thing they needed to know was that God had already won the war. They just really need to believe that, and have faith."


Saying Our Goodbyes... Or Maybe Not

"Merry Christmas!" a post on Onad's guestbook reads. "Buti pa jan sa langit di ka na tataba kahit kumain ka ng marami. =)"

In the book We Are Their Heaven, medium Allison Dubois says that spirits of passed loved ones often remain "involved" in the lives of their living family members; they're present at birthdays, graduations, weddings, and other celebrations.

Dubois - on whose life the tv show Medium was based - says nothing about spirits going online, but she does say that "It brings them a great deal of joy to share in our lives, especially when we're talking about them or to them."

So maybe it doesn't matter if they can go online or not... they might already be there, looking over your shoulder, smiling as you visit their blog and wishing they could tell you they miss you, too.

Just make sure it's REALLY them... and not "the other kind." (c)



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