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In the wacky world of the supernatural and paranormal there are those people who believe they have a connection to “the other side” and no I don’t mean Canada or Mexico. That’s right, if you have been living under a rock for most of your life, there are people who believe they can communicate to the dead or predict the future. Now how awesome of a superpower would that be to posses that ability? Forget super strength or lightning fast speed, with the ability to talk to the dead and/or predict the future; the possibilities are limitless. Now I know there are people out there who either think those who can either predict the future or talk to the dead are complete scam artists and then there are those people that believe in this gift 100%. Where do I stand on this issue? Well at one point in my life I sided with those who completely believed and then later in my life I turned into one of those who thought they were a complete and total sham. However I sit here today typing my thoughts trying to figure out where I now stand on this topic.

Let’s begin with the name mediums, I have seen these people and I don’t think they have been a medium size in years, but that’s my opinion. The definition of a medium is “someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead”, so essentially these people are what the catholic priests are between you and God, which I have an issue with, but that’s another rant for later. However back to the land of the scam artists aka psychics, these people pray on the innocence of people and their desire to want to talk loved ones who have passed on into the afterlife. This is absolutely disgusting, to want to make money off of people and their fragile emotions. There has never been true evidence that these so called intermediaries between the living and the dead can actually come through with what they promise. Many people have tested these scam artists and each time the scam artists have failed and fallen flat on their faces. To read more into this please check out James Randi and his organization. He puts up one million dollars for anyone with a true gift to take so long as they perform in a controlled environment. And you know what? Not a single one of these people have come forward or been able to successfully get the million dollars. The ones who have TV shows and made tons of cash already say they don’t need to prove themselves…well don’t they have a charity they could donate the money too or wouldn’t they want to put all speculation to rest? I guess not.

As for psychics, they fall in the same realm of mediums and while they don’t claim to talk to the dead they do claim to have the ability to look into the future. Come on now really? All I have to say to that is if you could do that then why have you not played the lottery? Or how come you have never come forward about major events that could have saved peoples lives? I actually asked these and more questions to a few psychics and you know what the typical standard go to answer was…”It is not my place to interfere with fate”. Really? So you can charge $5 for a palm reading or $10 to gaze into your crystal ball and tell me about the future, but you can’t save people’s lives…oh yeah that makes complete sense.

All I ask is that you don’t give into these fakes and phonies, they are only preying upon your weak emotions and don’t really care about your future or your dead relatives. Life is way too short to worry about the past and you have all the time in the world to worry about the future. Live your life to the fullest and you will see that happiness is its own reward…thank you fortune cookie.

Be safe and medium? HA more like extra extra large,

Jon Bolton

Ladies and gentleman step right and I’ll tell you the tale of a man. A man who created the wizard of Menlo Park, a man who create the light bulb, a man who held over 1,093 patents…a man who could give Dr. Ray Stanz and Egon Spengler a run for their money. That’s right folks I am talking about the one and only ghost hunter/buster himself…Mr. Thomas Edison (and the crowd goes wild).

That’s right, the man who gave us the electric light bulb and motion picture camera, the man who was one of the top inventors of the world was actually dabbling in the world of ghost hunting. Now it wasn’t like the ghost hunting we know of today with the fancy equipment such as EMF detectors, Ovilus, electric voice recorders or FLIR cameras but he was working on a device that would be able to let us, the living, communicate to the dead.

Not many people are aware of this because of their distaste for ghost hunting in the aspect of overly dramatized supposedly real tv shows or they just think is creepy. However Edison was a man always looking to the next thing and that happened to be the Ghost Machine. Now the evidence of such a machine created by Edison to have actually existed is a bit of a mystery as there were no plans or actually machine ever found. Just the faint words of a man, a great man, spoken in an interview to the October 1920 issue of  The American Magazine, “I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.”

Many people speculate that this machine did in fact exist, but has somehow been lost over time. Could this machine been created by such a great inventor and lost over time…anything is possible I would suppose.

However in my opinion, as much as I would love to stumble across the only ghost machine to have been made by Edison I would bet it never made it from his mind into the real world. He was always thinking and creating things in his mind and while some may have been made, some were only written down and sadly to say only some were just thoughts.

Some people think that Edison would never think of creating such a machine yet I present two things to you for your consideration. The first being is that at this time of the world the Spiritualist movement was beginning to hit the Western world so why wouldn’t someone begin to think about communicating with the no longer living. And lets look at the next theory, the fact that when he made this statement he was ten years away from his death, he was a brilliant man who knew his time on earth was limited and maybe he wanted to have a way to still keep inventing even after he had past one into the afterlife.

Be safe and remember it was only a matter of time till he invented cable TV,

Jon Bolton

You walk coolly into the Barnes and Nobles looking for that certain attention grabbing good read that you want to devote your time to. As you make your way past the small tables with books of the month and pass the bargain aisles you make your way back farther and farther. As you pass the True Crime and Science Fiction you happen to discover the New Age section. How fitting is it that this should be in the same area of True Crime and Science Fiction? I will admit this to you all before I get started, that I visit this section each and every time I go into a book store. I have been buying books from this section for years and been researching/studying everything I could, that was dedicated to this particular book section. I am absolutely fascinated by New Age Phenomena and books that are written about it.

While I was examining the spines of the books and what they were about, I found one called White Light Healing. Now I am not new to this concept, but I am however more of a skeptic now than I had previously been in the past. I talked to a number of “white light” healers and some have been intriguing and some have been down right scam artists. You see the topic of “white light healing” is very easily faked and easy to cover up just as well. Am I going to make some people angry with this little blog of mine, you’re damn right I am, but am I going to make some people put their skills to the test and prove I am wrong…I would hope so.

I thumbed through the book on “white light healing” and it was very confusing, read like stereo instructions in my honest opinion. So I decided to do some more research to get a better grasp on what they were trying to convince me. Now they talk about envisioning white light pouring over you or out of something and flowing freely like water in fact one quote is this, “…breathing in the pure white light, seeing it streaming down into your chest, and breathing out the grey…in with the white and pure…out with the grey, the old, and the worn…” This is some crazy tree hugging stuff right here my friend, in with the good air out with the bad, isn’t this from a CPR class or something?

Now if this is a form of meditation, which I think it is from what I have gathered, then why not just say it as that. Don’t say it’s “white light healing” when there is literally no white light involved or healing for that matter. If light was involved then we would be hanging Christmas lights or light bulbs over our heads, heck you could pull the ol’ eating a light bulb carney trick and replace that whole apple a day thing.

There doesn’t need to be some overly complicated series of instructions to teach people how to meditate and then call it some sort of “healing”. I could easily go up to someone who is full of anxiety and angst, say to them take a couple deep breaths and relax. Oh wait we all pretty much do that now, so why connect it with some sort of healing?

I can easily open up a store front, hang some awesome new age decorations and charge tons of cash for people to come to me and tell them to breath deep and relax thus resulting in them being healed. Of course if they go away and aren’t healed then I can easily say, “well you didn’t believe in mother earth and her Keebler elves of light healing so its your fault,” Yeah I can totally do that however I never would because I have way too much of a conscience, despite what people say, to do that. Yet there are people who are doing this, and I’m not talking about the people who do it because they believe in it, I’m talking about the people who are doing it because they are scams and cheats…and there are a lot of them.

In my travels around the world I have met many, many people who claim to have “white light healing” powers…superman had powers…you have a belief. Now I will admit I have met some people I would give a second though to in their abilities with stuff, but that’s like one out of a thousand people I meet in this realm. If people want to believe that this heals them then I am completely down with that, the placebo effect is a tried and true method to help many people overcome things. If you don’t know what that is then it is simply this, if you tell someone this red crystal like candy will heal them and if they believe it will work then it will work for them even though all it was is a simple watermelon jolly rancher.

Let’s call this “white light healing” what it really is…meditational deep breathing in order to help you relax and feel better. If you can prove to me rationally and scientifically that “white light healing” does in fact have some merit behind it then I am all ears and willing to retract what I have stated, but every time I make the challenge no one steps up to the plate, so I doubt anyone will at this point in time. As for taking classes to “perform”, and I say “perform” because it is a performance and not actually real, this ability for “white light healing” then I would love to see your course syllabus and explain to me how that scam works.

Be safe and we’ll leave the light on for ya,

Jon Bolton