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ANGELS, APPARITIONS, AND GRIEF

1) 66% of widows experience apparitions of their departed husbands.

2) 75% of parents experience apparitions within a year of death of the child.

3) 25% of Americans admit to seeing ghosts.

4) 33% of Europeans admit to seeing ghosts.

5) 7 reasons why society has tried to suppress mirror gazing:

1) Fear or the unconscious
2) Demonic Forces
3) Mirror gazers are charlatans/frauds
4) Conflicts with modern technology
5) Unscientific
6) Not real
7) A seedy game
6) 42% of Americans claimed to have contact with the dead.

7) NIWJ in LA (434 respondents) reported 44% were convinced they had several experiences of post mortem contact with the dead.

8) 60% of these involved dreams.

9) 25% reported dead person actually visited them.

10) More than 50% believe in life after death.

11) 44% of Canadians who catagorize selves as "very religious" believed communication with the dead is possible.

12) 42% of "somewhat religious" believed communication with the dead is possible.

13) 35% of "not very religious" believed communication with the dead is possible.

The Ghost on the Mount Everest

Frank Smythe had a similar experience while climbing Mount Everest in 1933. He wrote: "When I reached the ledge, I felt I ought to eat something in order to keep up my strength.
"I took out some cake and carefully dividing it into two halves, turned round one-half in my hand to offer my 'companion.'"
His companion was a phantom.

The Ghost of The Pinta
The adventurer Joshua Slocum wrote in his journals that he had received help from a ghost while he was attempting a single-handed, around-the-world ocean voyage in 1895.
At one point in the voyage, Slocum became ill with food poisoning and lay writhing in pain on the cabin floor in heavy seas.
He wrote: "To my amazement, I saw a tall man at the helm ... 'Senor,' he said, doffing his cap, 'I have come to do you no harm.
"'I am one of Columbus' crew. I am the pilot of the Pinta come to help you.
" 'Lie quiet, senor captain, and I will guide your ship tonight...You will be all right tomorrow.'"
The next morning, Slocum said, he found his boat an a true course -- and it had covered considerable distance in the stormy seas with the phantom of the Pinta at the helm.

MUSIC which pianist and medium Rosemary Brown claims was dictated to her by long-dead composers has been performed at a concert in London. The concert, introduced by Mrs. Brown, included a sonata which she says Beethoven completed just two months ago, and short piano pieces she ascribes to Liszt, Brahms and Rachmaninov, were all written down in the last year.
She is a widow with little musical training. She has written down more than 600 pieces in the past 15 years. Mrs. Brown says that leading 18^th and 19^th century composers have established contact with her to dictate posthumous works. Franz Liszt first appeared to her when she was seven, she says. According to Mrs Brown, he told her that when she was older, he would teach her to make music. She claims that he returned one day in 1964 while she was playing the piano and took control of her hands at the keyboard.
Since then she says she made the aquaintance of a host of others, including Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Grieg, Schumann, Debussy and Rachmaninov. George Gershwin and Fats Waller have also appeared. Sceptics abound, but Larry Sitsky of the Canberry School of Music thinks the sheer volume of her output is evidence in her favour.
"It is faster than any composer could hope to compose. So it is not being composed on the spot, it is being dictated. We have to think about where it is being dictated from."

Mr. and Mrs. Lambert took a round-the-world trip from England. At Japan's Kobe, they saw a Buddha statue in the window of a shop. It was of white ivory, about 1 1/2-in. tall, with a happy round face and stomach, sitting on a pillow of embroidered Japanese flowers. The Lamberts liked it and the price was a giveaway. The seller told them that Ho-Tei would bring good luck.
The statue was placed in Mrs. Lambert's case on their trip to Manila. That night, she had a terrible toothache. The doctor had medicine, but it was no help. At Manila, a dentist drilled one tooth to the nerve and the pain was almost unbearable.
Then to Sydney, Australia. While on board the ship, they had changed stuffs and the Buddha was somehow changed to Mr. Lambert's baggage. That night, he had an awful toothache. No doctor was on board and he took one aspirin after another. Nearly mad with pain, he got off at Sydney and was aching as before. Two days later at another port, Mr. Lambert saw another doctor but he told him nothing was wrong. When he returned to the ship, his teeth were aching. At another port, he told the dentist to start pulling all teeth until he said to stop. The doctor pulled one. There was no more aching, and so he concluded that was it.
At Chile, South America, they visited his mother. When shown Ho-Tei, she loved it and they gave it to her. She had good teeth, but within a few hours, all her teeth were aching. Few days later, Mother returned Ho-Tei, saying it did not suit her.
The ship went to England. The Lamberts had no toothaches because Ho-Tei was in the storage room with other baggages, they having bought other stuffs. The next morning in England, friends visited them. They gave Ho-Tei to a woman to show her husband. All that day, they did not see the woman, which was thought to be strange. But the next morning, she came with pale face and swollen mouth.
Then, came the realization! They recalled dates, diaries and their hairs rose in horror. They finally decided to give the statue to a Japanese curio shop in London.

The Monk's Ghost On The Temple Tile

The Siegers, a German couple, were on holiday in Thailand in 1985. They toured the capital Bangkok, and one of the stock places to visit of course, is the famous Emerald Buddha in one of the golden temples that grace the ancient city, especially along the mystical Chao Praya river.
When strolling through the temple compound, Mr. Sieger spotted a a glazed green tile lying around in one of the temple flower beds, which had been part of the temple but had fallen off. He could not withstand the temptation to take a souvenir home to Germany with him from Thailand, and so picked up the object and slid the thing in his pocket. Soon after they left the country and returned home to Germany, where they put the tile on display in their livingroom.
It wasn't much later when Herr Sieger began to have very lucid dreams at night, in which a saffron robed Thai Buddhist monk lectured him on his crime and warned him to return the tile to the temple no matter what. The recurring dream didn't go away, and Mr. and Mrs. Sieger started to get quite worried when little things in the household started to go wrong for unexplained reasons.
Finally they made the decision that the tile had to be returned, before the ghost of the Monk was going to get serious about his threats. He called the Thai Embassy confessing his mistake and explained how the dreams made him quite concerned. The Thais listened politely to his story and offered to receive the tile in order to return it and inquired from which temple it was taken. The tile was taken to the embassy and put on a Thai International flight back to the City of Angels, where it was collected by the Chief "Phra" (abt) of the temple in question, in which it was restored to its rightful place.
No doubt the ghost of the monk who travelled on the piece of pottery with the Siegers to Germany was happy to be home as well, back among his fellow departed monks, as he must have been awfully lonely In the German town without anyone to talk to that would understand him. He is probably a famous ghost now in the Thai capital, as he got to go on a trip half way around the world.
This true story was published with Thai pride in their cultural heritage in the Thai newspaper "the Nation" in the year 1985. I know! As I lived in Thailand for 14 years and was there at the time following the story several days in the local English newspaper.

The Musicman.