Dr. Mark D. Miller is confident reported spirit visitations of the recently deceased are actually grief-related hallucinations. Dr. Miller says "It's very common for people to have friendly hallucinations of deceased relatives." This is what Kathy Samudovsky reported Miller saying in her January 2010 article about deceased pet visitations published in the Post Gazette. Miller calls it a phenomenon, that hallucinations occur when the critical thinking area of the brain is not functioning. Psychiatry explains that when a grief-stricken person cannot accept death, the mind will "anthropomorphize" as a coping mechanism. [Dictionary.com gives this definition for anthorpomorphize: to ascribe human form or attributes to (an animal, plant, material object, etc.)..]
Non-acceptance or disbelief is the typical response I've come to expect from a scientific point of view. Spiritual-oriented or faith-centered individuals will usually have differing opinions.
Actually, the premise of Samudovsky's article is an attempt to find out if animals return to visit their owners in spirit form from the other side. Samudovsky offers four different perspectives on the topic of a sensing spiritual presence of the physically departed : Matter of the mind, Matters of spirit, Matters of faith, and Matters of ectoplasm.
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I would like to share my experience…. Four months after my daughter was born we were visited by my deceased father who expired two weeks before her birth. He was standing close to her cot . My daugher is nineteen now…
Would u label this as hallucination????
I was acompaning A friend to visit a friend ,this was someone I did not know.I was left alone at the family room while she went to visit the father of this person at his sick bed.Sudenlly I saw this beatifull small long hair white dog comming thu a door and walking directly into a bedroom and going under the bed.I tried to call this litlle fluff of hair to play with me but it never came out from under the bed .When my frienf retured a while later with the owner and hosstes of the home I me tioned to her about the small white timid dog that was hiding under the bed.Thi person almost passed out and started to cry .Finally she was able to tellus that I was describing her dog that had been killed by a bar in front of the house about a month before.The dog was acostumed to sleep under her bed .
I remembered when I was about 11 years old,I was at by bed when I saw this white haired lady that stopped in front of the door smiled at me and continued walking toward the end of the house where my mom and grandma were talking and doing cores.I was curious to Know who this lady was so iI went to the back of the house where I knew they were ,and where I saw this lady going also.I asked then about the lady because I did not see her with them,they denied that there was no one else with them,I insisted and my mother became very angry with me and sent me to my room. When my father returned from worked in the afternoon my mother that was very angry with me because I was INVENTING THINGS told him about all this that happend.My father came to my room and questioned me about all of this.I told him ,and he then went to his safe and took out some documents and fotos .He show me the fotos and adked me if any foto was of the person I said that had visited in the morning.I picked imeadiatly a foto of a sweet looking lady and told him that it was the visiting lady.My father startes to cry very softly and told me that it was a photo of his mother that died of cancer when I was 9 months old.He send the foto to be made bigger and put her in my room.I had always felt that my grandmother is very close to me and in the most troblesome moments of my life she had been helpping me to go yhu them.
People like to make up logical explanations for unusual phenomena especial when they have not experienced it for themselves first hand.
Some things are never to be explained by humans,
who is it for anyone to say it not real..
it beyond the five senses are people pass over to the spirit world.
there well be alot of sceptics out there.
but why sholud they say what they want and get away with it
get on on with your sceptics and let those who believe in God and the Angels and those who do get visitations be left alone.
there are many spiritual gifts from God …
there will be alot of people trying to find out or go into depth on how the world was made forget about the big bang or anything esle
it was God created this world the oceans the beachs
the montains etc not a sculpture!
that to those who knock spiritaul visitations!!
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