One of the most common questions in and out of the paranormal community is why are some people able to see spirits and not others? There are many reasons why this is; that is going to be what we are going to cover in this article. The most common two factors are scientific study of the body and spirit and one’s frame of reference.
Data in the scientific world shows that anomalous perception parallel other forms of environmental sensitivity. What that means is that there is a common traits between being sensitive to surrounding energies and other factors to the human body. These common factors are pronounced allergies, migraine headaches, chronic fatigue and pain, irritable bowel syndrome, synesthesia (overlapping senses) and heightened sensitivity to light, sound, touch and smell. This is most common in women, up to three-quarters of the sensitive population. There are other signs of telling if someone is more sensitive to the spirits. Such as being ambidextrous or being able to recall traumatic childhood incidents in detail.
Subliminal feelings and other environmental nuances could be picked up by individuals who are sensitive; such as being able to read another’s body language, tone of voice, or facial expressions. Putting your emotions out there and picking up on your surroundings, such as a “haunted” location could exhibit stimuli that register more with certain people and less with others.
Scientists are also trying to learn if the specific people who have this sensitive nature are carried genetically or if it is a choice from childhood and into adulthood. Is one simply more aware of themselves and their surroundings as another might be?
The human mind and spirit is really amazing in order to function fully as to what a normal a human is taught from a very early age that what is real and what is not. What does that mean? When you are born, you basically start with a clean slate and can be related to a sponge. By being able to absorb all the information that is around you. Everything around a newborn is impacting and changing that newborn into forming habits, opinions, emotions, and experiences. We are conditioned early that whatever we experience is real and what is not real. But as newborns, we have no clue as to what is real. Everything is believed without doubt to newborns, there is no skepticism, simply because there is no outside or inside source that makes you doubt what you see, hear, feel or smell. Except for family members who want to mold by conditioning so that the child can grow up and being accepted in a social way.
However, to those that are conditioned early in childhood growth into these beliefs; it does not matter to what extent belief can make all sorts of realities that to other are very blind. As you grow as a toddler, your parents, siblings, and other trusted family members will share information with you and give opinions on experiences that you may or may not have had yet. It is like a child, before any major conditioning has happened, never doubts the experience. They take the experience for what it is, pure fact, according to them. They can have experiences with spirits or ghosts and as they grow up these types of experiences will change or fade with belief and mental conditioning from outside sources.
Most family members unintentionally share their opinions or teach children to block the paranormal as instinct to comfort and protect their children or loved ones. Or simply because they themselves were conditioned and don’t have the capabilities to explain what is real and what is not. It’s an easier route to just deny the experience, than to explain in detail. How many times have you heard some family member say to you or another child, “There is no such thing as ghosts,” or “It was only a bad dream,” or “It was just your imagination?” These words, although well intended, do have impact on children. These words may teach children to mistrust what their own eyes have seen, what they’ve heard, what they’ve felt, or smelled. Making them always doubt their senses.
The whole concept of this is that all these experiences are given because the child is opening themselves to the experiences and accepting with their minds; that within their own understanding at the time that all is normal and the experience simply belongs to them. Breaking all of this down, we get to the basics. The main reason why some people do not see spirits is that their own mind and spirit does not believe based on early conditioning and that they are afraid mentally to believe. Often times because they want to belong and be “normal” and that they don’t want to cause social waves and upset anyone by firmly believing in the paranormal.
The beauty of spiritual experiences is that they are always happening; it is often sad that we blind ourselves to what is really going on around us all the time. By believing in the paranormal and not questioning ourselves, we will have more experiences many times in our lives that are related to the paranormal. Fear of the paranormal disappears and a deeper understanding of the spiritual side of things is grasped with the intellectual self.