Life After Death
A ghost 'buster' who examines reports of apparitions, ghosts and the like said that he had to convince the ghost that they were dead. There are many similar accounts going back centuries of this phenomenon. Even Muhammad mentioned it and prescribed the reading of Ya Sin, a verse from the Koran, over the grave to convince the soul to move on to the next plane. The reason ghosts haunt is that they think they are still alive and are still living in the house.
There are also accounts of people who have had 'near death' experiences. People who have died and been brought back who have reported such things as a bright light and people who have died welcoming them or even turning them back.
Sceptics say that people believe in life after death because it is reassuring and that all these phenomenon can be explained without recourse to believing in life after death. As part of this explaining away they have found that very low audio frequencies can elicit similar feelings to ghosts, and applying magnetic fields to the brain can produce feelings similar to the near death experiences. This proves, they claim, that these phenomena can be explained in terms of normal physics.
There are a number of faults in this shoddy thinking. Firstly, when it comes to 'reassuring' beliefs, someone who has spent their whole life believing firmly only in physical laws has a lot invested in that belief, and they are not going to throw it away if they can avoid it. It's an unscientific, condescending and arrogant attitude.
Secondly, there's the sceptics mantra that if something can be explained in terms of physical laws then that must be the explanation. This is simply another way of saying that once you have made your mind up you can get the facts to fit your theory. In many cases sceptics have to go to ridiculous lengths to make the facts fit their theories.
Thirdly is the almost farcical narrow mindedness of these 'researchers'. They are out to prove their point, for example that experiences similar to out of body experiences can be produced by subjecting the head to magnetic fields. The obvious research that follows from this is produce out of body experiences and examine them further, but these sceptics are only interested in proving their point. And what a stupid point it is.
