this guy is high, and not from spiritualism but from something else... stop eating thos funny cookies!!!!

I'm curious about the repeated use of the word believe in this article. Would a colour-blind person say he believes London buses are red and NY taxis are yellow, or would he say that he has been told so? Perhaps he would add that he believes his informants - but that would also be based on his having proven to his satisfaction that they tell the truth. Just a thought.

r free to believe as they wish, as long they don't try to fource his opinions on others, you on the other hand r non believer, ok I do respect that but, but you a little arrogant when it comes to explanation the supernatural phenomena that is ghosts, at least he from his world's terminoligy tries to make sense.

In the account of Shmueil Aleph 28, Torah attributes nothing special to the spatilomancer (ba'alat ov; priestess divining wineskins) from Ein-Dor (village of a spring south of Haifa). The only one who claims to "divine" is the spatilomancer from Ein-Dor herself. Like any skilled fortune-teller today, the spatilomancer, though working outside of her specialty, made a great show of screaming and elaborating to Shaul nothing that wouldn't have been common rumor based on military and political realities of the time, obvious to most. Unless he fled like a coward, Shaul had no recourse but to fight and everyone expected him to lose--with the obvious consequences for a king losing to the Philistines. Where does Torah instruct Israel to put her trust in a spatilomancer? Torah declares the exact opposite! Or that Israel should trust a king who defies Torah by consulting a spatilomancer? Spirituality can be seen to be fact. A thought has no demonstrable physical attributes (mass or energy) and, by definition, therefore exists in a non-dimensional realm exclusive of our physical universe. Science has no explanation for the existence of our physical universe ex nihilo. The "Big Bang" has been busted by the accelerating expansion of our universe. Fragments of an explosion do not accelerate. The alternate theory, a "Great Stretch-Apart," required something external to stretch-apart nothing leaving behind residuals of the "external gravitation" applied in forms of matter, energy and forces. Like thoughts, "external" to our physical universe implies no demonstrable physical attributes--a non-dimensional, i.e., spiritual realm. Sometimes religious folk become confused about what is legitimate spirituality, getting some things right and other things wrong. What genuine spirituality does NOT imply is ghosts, demons, wandering spirits, lost souls, aliens, "speaking in tongues" or paranormal, unnatural, supernatural and physicopomorphisms (morphing physical attributes into a spiritual "realm") dreamed up by people to "explain" otherwise inexplicable thoughts, visions or feelings they experience (or, sometimes, merely to frighten, impress and manipulate or fleece others). Authentic spirituality is essential while these superstitions are explicitly prohibited by Torah. "Judaism" does NOT believe that Torah-defined evil. If you do your utmost to practice Torah during your physical lifetime then you don't need any second chance. If you don't do your utmost to practice Torah during your physical lifetime then it's over and you will face the Beit Din in the spiritual Realm of ha-Sheim. A person addicted to drugs, alcohol or having behavioral problems or a physical condition may be described--metaphorically--as having a demon (or, upon recovery, being freed of his or her demon) but not literally. Anyone advocating these silly, Dark Ages superstitions is required to demonstrate scientifically-credible, repeatable experiments proving their claims. For several decades a former magician, The Amazing Randy, has offered $1 million to anyone who can do so. No one has claimed the money but scores have been exposed as charlatans. There's nothing "peculiar" about the synagogue. The peculiarity is in the unscientific and irrational interpretations of its inhabitants. Anyone who wants to believe in an overlap between the physical and spiritual worlds despite ALL evidence implying the opposite enjoys the free will to do so. But don't mingle irrational medieval superstition with, le-havdil, Torah. Join the 21st century. Paqid Yirmeyahu The Netzarim, Ra'anana, Israel Israeli Torah Jew (Orthodox Teimani Baladi Dardai) Advancing Logic as Halakhic Authority Welcoming Jews & non-Jews www.netzarim.co.il

if I remember correctly witches, taroh readers, horoscope fortune tellers, and etc are supposed to be chased out of the land of Israel or put to death. They are considered an abomination in the eyes of Ha-Shem. Where does one come up with using sinful acts of ancient leaders as an excuse to ok such behavior? I think there is something wrong with the logic used. People have their own opinions and I guess there isn't anything wrong with opinions, but to espouse it as fact? I think that's problematic of a more sinister act. As always I defer my statement to a Rabbi of authority for correction.

not a believer but it's fun the tarrot and all thos things.

'And she did this many days. But being distressed, and turning to the demonic spirit, Paul said, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her! And it came out in that hour.'

all that blather, and then at the end, he totally fizzled out with a suggestion about deghosting the house??-i hope he doesnt get paid for this article.

Why do all the above posts seem to think that they possess such certain knowledge of that which is definitively filled with uncertainties? Is it because popular culture has invented stupid ghost stories for 10 year old thus rendering these ideas as being stupid, and only suitable for telling to children over campfires? That may be the case. However, rejecting these things out of hand and expressing with such certainly that anything relating to the souls of deceased people being somehow tied to certain locations in the world is entirely nonsense, is illogical. Unfortunately, most people just react and do not actually evaluate their initial reactions, hence tending to go with the gut reaction "anything relating to ghosts is stupid." Unfortunately, the word ghost is so connected to stupid conceptions, that I understand why people reject these ideas immediately upon reading them.

According to the Torah, Haddebharim (Deuteronony 18:10) calling up the dead, spiritism and witchcraft are an abomination to the Lord. And while Saul did go the witch of Endor and call up the dead spirit of Sanuel, he later died for doing it . Dibere Hayyamim (1 Cronicles 10:13).