This is a world wide phenomenon
Activity for RTPS has picked up dramatically. We will be busy with investigations and group events through the end of November. Are we complaining , no we enjoy this and look forward to everything we are doing. It is the time of year when everyone begins talking about ghost and spirits. You turn on the TV and you can find a show about it. Websites that deal with Paranormal Investigating all year long will see their pages viewed more than normal right now. Group after group will be having fund raisers through haunted houses, haunted hayrides and walking historical ghost tours. It’s fantastic! It’s getting everyone to think about the possibility of what is going on in the paranormal field. Some folks will hate it, some will love it, but they will all think about it. This has been the main goal for paranormal research for a long time. How do you get the public to think about this research. How do you get skeptical people to realize that what you are doing as a PI is important research? Forget getting everyone on board to believe what you are doing is legit, this is not going to happen. But…wouldn’t it be great if they at least thought that what you are doing is okay and should be allowed to be researched?
There are many people out there trying to squash the public’s view that Paranormal Investigators should be allowed to do their research. With all of the great activity going on for us now we have also, seen an onslaught of negative attitudes from people in positions of media and government. For some reason they believe they have a right to tell people that what we do is not good for the general public. Even though we do not enter into any investigation or event without permission, they still publicize us to be evil no good doers. Who are these people who believe that everyone should follow the same path and never have a free will to think for themselves? It’s mind boggling. There has been a write up in our local paper about how ghost hunters are trespassing on people’s private property and tearing things up. What people? I don’t know of any legitimate group doing this. Kids yes, older people? No. Then we find out that our fair city has an ordinance 31.150 that makes it illegal to do any fortune telling, palm reading, spiritual mediumship or any other crafty science with in the city limits for money. They(the police dept) actually approached a medium and spiritual minister visiting in town a couple of weeks ago to do readings for a local group. They wanted to know if she had a permit and she had to show them her license for being an ordained minister. What is this? We do not have a choice of free will to decide to spend our money on what we wish? It’s very difficult to understand the negative actions being taken by these groups but we have to live with it and keep working for what we believe to be the truth.
All of this is bad enough but then here comes the real kicker. Other groups of people who are in the field of paranormal in one form or another, have taken the approach that what we have to say is less important than what they have to say. We listen to story after story of what others have experienced, but when we try to bring up our experiences they shut us off. At a time when we should be supportive of all people exploring the possibilities of the paranormal we find we have to defend ourselves. So we are saying here that we may not look like the paranormal investigators from TV. We don’t have body piercings and tatoos all over our bodies, we aren’t the vibrant cool kids on the block, we are older women and men, we aren’t out looking for the thrill, we are researching the possibility that there are energies of past lives still roaming this earth plane. We are serious about what we do, we are determined and spend endless hours in the field analyzing and researching and never, never will we fake evidence to get a rise of terror out of anyone.
We embrace the numbers of people in the field right now. Perhaps a piece of evidence will come out from someone that will make skeptics turn their heads and believe. Many,many common folk are out there telling groups of their personal experiences that can’t be explained. Apparitions, hauntings and disembodied voices are not just found during investigations. They are happening to many people no matter where they are at or what time of day or night it is. Shouldn’t this be researched further? It doesn’t mean faith has left the building, it means faith is growing stronger that our loved ones are still with us. This is not a phenomenon that is being felt at our local level. This IS a world wide phenomenon. We should support every person that researches this field. Alone one group can’t do it. Together many groups will. We shouldn’t be researching for our own glory but for an answer to this world wide phenomenon that has been going on since the time of man. It’s simply time to put down the facades of personal gain and join hands in research. RTPS is committed to this idea, will you?
Comments
Debby (Oct 29, 2009)
I, for one, believe in everything until proven not to be. I hear how committed you are by your fierce comment. Good for you! Hopefully the punks who are causing trouble will go away after Halloween. I would like to find out if I am a sensitive. I believe I lived with a spirit once. No evidence, but I sensed it. Who knows for sure. Thank to RTPS for existing.
Travis (Oct 31, 2009)
Great Post Wendy, keep up the good fight. You guys are doing great work. There’s alot of stigma that goes with the field I’m afraid, however it’s groups like RTPS that can balance the ills of kids tresspassing, and present the field of paranormal research as a legitimate search for answers to what happens after we find ourselves on dark side of the soil. Keep up the great work! Qtown is here to help you guys in any way possible.