From: To: Subject: [IGHS] Newsletter, February 15, 2004 Date: Sunday, February 15, 2004 1:44 PM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Remove Link To Unsubscribe from Newsletter: Click on Reply To or send email to ighs-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com for an automatic removal from this newsletter. Mission Statement: The Ghostweb is the official Web Site of the International Ghost Hunters Society. Membership in the IGHS is always FREE. The IGHS is dedicated and committed to the research, documentation, education, and investigation of ghostly phenomena recorded through EVP, digital, film and video photography. The IGHS is a society of ghost believers, ghost hunters, and ghost researchers with over 14,000 members in 87 countries worldwide. Travel Along with Dave & Sharon: Join us as we start our fourth year of RV traveling as we explore America's Most Haunted Sites. We had a dream and now we are living that dream of traveling across this great land in our little house on wheels with our Welsh Pembroke Corgi dog named BooBoo. We are currently investigating haunted sites in New Mexico. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ International Ghost Hunters Society Newsletter February 15, 2004 from Albuquerque, New Mexico Dr. Dave’s Notes: Our Albuquerque seminar was a blazing success, the weather was clear and sunny and Cindy Cribs, Deb Worthington, and Jerry Santoniello did a wonderful job with the walking ghost history tour of Old Town Plaza. They put in many hours of hard work interviewing shop owners and staff concerning hauntings in Old town. We will be joining Cindy later in the week for more investigations in and around the Albuquerque area. We will be posting a great photo taken by David Brandt of orbs in motion taken in his home. The photo clearly shows the balls of light at one end and their contrail behind them. There are three orbs in motion, each showing the ball of light at the front of the moving spirit energy. These remind me of the video clip that came from the Black Forest of Colorado that showed orbs in motion. They looked like water snakes moving on water, and the photo that I will be posting will show the same kind of configuration. We will be investigating an 1862 Civil War battlefield site near an old Army Fort known as Fort Craig. This fort's primary function was to control Indian raiding and to protect the central portion of the Camino Real, a trail that stretched from northern Mexico to Taos, New Mexico. The Valverde battle was one of two New Mexico battles that was important because it helped preserved the Union because they ended the attempt by the Confederacy to capture the West (New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado), its people, and its vast resources. A total of 389 soldiers died in the Valverde battle. Westward migration meant that the settlement of the land required that the Indians be forced from their homeland so the Europeans could settle. This invasion by Europeans into the West and the removal of the Indians were known as Indian Campaigns. Military forts were established to preserve peace and to prevent marauding Indians from attacking settlers. The other side of the coin, the Indians was protecting their land from encroaching European settlers who had no respect for the land and who believed the only good Indian was a dead Indian. This conflict of philosophy resulted in the decimation of Native Americans throughout the North American continent. History written by the conqueror does not represent the truth, but is the whitewashed, sanitized version of history as seen through the eyes of the conquerors. In our travels, we have been fortunate to meet with the people, whose history differs from the text of history books. We have learned about history as seen through the eyes of indigenous people who suffered decimation and abuse by the conquerors of this land. It is a sad state of affairs when we advance into the twenty-first century, still caught up with lofty thoughts of a Walden Pond while watching Watergate unfold again and again. New Mexico is rich in prehistoric Indian history. There are more Indian tribes in New Mexico than any other State. Long before the first Spanish Conquistadors walked this land in the early 1500s, the land belonged to those First Americans who came to this area as far back as 12,000 years ago. My own ancestors came to America in the 1640s from Europe, but when they arrived, the Anasazi had already come and vanished from this land some four hundreds years earlier. My brother-in-law, a retired school teacher, is a devote religionist who swears up and down that the earth is only 7,000 years old. He belongs to that boisterous minority who does not believe that the First Americans arrived here some 12,000 years ago or that the dinosaur died off some sixty million years ago when a great fireball crashed into the Yucatan peninsula throwing up million of tons of dirt and dust, causing a nuclear winter that killed off these great dinosaurs. I wonder how history might have been rewritten if in AD 1540, when Francisco Vasquez de Coronado marched his conquistador soldiers, along with Franciscan missionaries, into New Mexico seeking the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola. Coronado launched an assault against the Zuni village of Hawikuh, but this time, Zuni Indians defeated Coronado. His defeat drove him, his conquistadors, and the Franciscan missionaries back to Spain with the message, “do not mess with the Indians.” The history of New Mexico may have had a much different ending than what we have recorded today. The Europeans might have been relegated to a small reservation on the Indian land that was monitored and controlled by Indians. Instead of being the Land of the Free and Brave, it might have become the Land of the Red and Brave or the United Confederation of Indians. Ghosts are everywhere. Ghosts are people like you and me, except without a physical body. They have emotions, intelligence, and their personalities. Ghosts are the souls of those who have died. They are not fragmented or demented. They are not demonic or evil, but are the same now as when they were alive. A SOB in life will be a SOB in death. The devote religionist will call them demons and we would call them ghosts with attitudes. Many people can see and hear these phantoms of the twilight, but for the rest of us, we have to rely upon our digital cameras and digital recorders. We finished reading the Ghost of 29 Megacycles and found it to be primary about mediums and channelers and very little about the equipment used to communicate with the dead. The author did not discuss the configuration pattern of the radio equipment, but spoke in general terms. Even the book title was misleading because the 29-megacycle frequency mentioned in the book were not validated to be the frequencies used for communicating with the dead. Bottom line here folks is do not waste your time or money on acquiring this book. Dr. Sharon Gill: I have always heard, you are what you eat, but lately I heard someone say, “ You are what you think.” This is so very true, if you think about it. It is our thinking that develops the personalities that we have and the people we become. For Instance, do you ever look in the mirror and think how very fat you look? With our appearances being so important in this day and age, I’m sure that’ s something that crosses many thousands of minds, daily. Once you see your image and deem it to be less than desired, the thoughts of that stay with you the rest of the day. Your clothing may feel a bit tighter, your mood descends, and desperate thoughts of how to lose those extra pounds are a feature of the days thinking. This applies to anything and everything we do on a daily basis. Did you perhaps grow up being told how dumb you are or how you will never amount to anything? As children, those negative statements are a part of how we feel about ourselves and in the formative years are part of what molds us into the adults we become. As a child, when a parent tells us how worthless we are or how we will never learn anything, after a time, we believe it to be true. If we are told we will fail and believe it, we fail. Today, professionals are seeing the damage being done by this kind of verbal abuse and they are making a great effort to reverse the negative programming in our kids. The focus now being a more positive one, is essential to boosting a child’s self-image. Falling into the trap of negative thinking is easier than people might think. The fact is that most very negative people never stop to think about what they are saying, how it sounds, or how it affects the people around them. Negative people are those who push people away by their mere behavior, yet they don’t stop to realize what the root of the problem might be. This article is intended to help folks recognize and be aware of negative thinking and behavior, in themselves or those around them and to help them come to understand that they can change that negative pattern, changing their lives. Becoming aware of negative thinking and negative people can be the first step to prevent falling into that negative trap. It has become enough of a problem within the community of man, which I am hearing it discussed on talk radio all across this nation and finding articles about it in magazines and newspapers everywhere. I’m sure the subject comes up on television programs, but we are presently not privy to that form of media. I understand that it has become a problem worthy of discussion, especially in such times of turmoil and unknowing what lies ahead. The problem of negative thinking has always been there, growing and becoming habitual. It is all around us like an invisible force drawing people in and holding them in its grasp. Everywhere we turn, we are being bombarded with negative energy as times are changing. The nightly news is rarely anything that makes us feel good anymore. To be aware of what is taking place in this world, we are in the habit of turning on the news daily. The majority of what we hear are the negative events taking place, here in our country and abroad. The tragedy of the terrorist attack in September added fuel to an already burning fire, which has accelerated and increased the negative toxicity all around us. Because of 9/11, more people have become aware of the power and strength of negativity, which has become a topic open for discussion. We are in trouble. Correcting negative thinking starts within ourselves. Your brain automatically sends messages thousands of times a day; unfortunately, they aren’t always the most encouraging. More often than not, they relate to our shortcomings rather than the successes we experience. The things we accomplish and the good we do are forgotten shortly afterward yet the more negative things in our lives, hang right in there. Our negative messaging, constantly filling our thoughts causes us more problems, such as making decisions that are impulsive and emotional rather than decisions that are rational or sensible. Just a simple example of that would be getting angry after a negative event and feeling the strong urge to go on a shopping spree or overindulging ourselves on ice cream sundaes after finding we’ve failed at our diet anyway. These are just small examples of poor decision-making influenced by negative factors in our lives. I’m pretty sure we can all relate to either or both of those examples. We have the ability to control our negative thoughts, just as we are able to think in positive ways. It is like the Yin Yang, or the balance that is needed in all things. When one takes control over the other, negative over positive thoughts, the positive fades into the background and the longer one remains in control, the more out of balance our lives become. By being aware of the negative takeover in our thinking, we can restore balance to our thoughts that in turn brings our lives back into the needed balance. Negative thinking brings us despair yet positive thinking gives us hope. What people think about themselves makes all the difference in their self-esteem and when we feel good about ourselves, the world doesn’t quite look as bad. Being aware of negative thinking means, we can then stop those negative thoughts and put them into perspective. What is the problem that lies as the basis for the onset of those negative thoughts? Take a good look at it, ask yourself what started the process and deal with it. In that way, it can be set aside and not become an obsession that creates more problems later, nor will it become a negative rut that continues as a habit. Avoid black and white thinking. According to Dr. Monica Basco, clinical psychologist, some of us tend to think things must be done in certain ways or in no way at all. If a person speaks in absolutes, such as “always” or “never” they think in black and white and are in an all or nothing trap. Avoid that type of extreme thinking. Nothing in life is absolute outside of death and taxes, so by using “often” rather than “always” we allow ourselves to see moderation in all things. If you find yourself thinking that if you can’t do something to perfection then you don’t want to do it at all, stop, and think for a minute. If things have to be done to meet a high standard of perfection, you have already set yourself up for failure in that all or nothing way of thinking. We view failure as a completely negative outcome, so step back and get perspective on how something can be accomplished with pleasure not pressure. Approach each new day and each project on the basis on how to do things better, improving time spent. Face the future with a positive outlook on bettering each day, not regressing to what was done wrongly in the past. Generate the positive thinking you want in your life and shed the negative thinking that we fall into so easily. Think back on the days when you have felt positive and confident and how everything seemed to fall into place easily. Days when we are at our lowest, we lack confidence and our self-esteem plummets, nothing seems to go the way we would like and it is discouraging. That is one good example of the difference between negative and positive thinking and the outcomes we generate. Dave and I have put a great deal of emphasis on positive vs. negative thinking. We have also emphasized that we project our energies, positive and/or negative and attract the same back to us. New research has shown this to be true. If you project negativity, negative people and negative situations are drawn to you, where positive energy being projected out attracts positive people and opportunities. You are virtually a walking magnet! Positive and negative thoughts can be very powerful. Research done at the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto has shown that a positive attitude can aid in healing where a negative attitude can delay healing. Recent studies indicate that nine out of ten people, who change from a negative attitude to a positive one, see a positive improvement in their lives. Research has also shown that people tend to dwell on the more negative aspects of themselves more so than the positive ones. Feeling good about yourself is an instantaneous creation of positive energy! It is important to recall our successes, deeds and accomplishments that generate that positive energy. We all make mistakes, as that is the nature of how we learn. Being able to realize we all mess up, opens the door to forgiving ourselves and letting go of the negative energy associated with errors. Being able to forgive ourselves and let the negative energy go, opens up more room for the more positive energy that we need to fill our thoughts and lives. Positive energy moves people forward because it motivates and energizes. Negative energy retards and inhibits forward motion, it stalls growth and holds us back, and it limits our potential. It all pertains to the thought patterns, be they negative or positive and the influence our thinking has on our outcomes. The first thing to be done is to be aware of the negative messages that sent out by our brains. Deal with them, rationalize them, and thwart the damage being done by stopping them. Realize that mistakes happen and forgive yourself, going into the next day with the new attitude of improving each day in more positive ways. Focus on your accomplishments rather than your failures, looking forward to the future, not back, to what once was. We can’t change the past but we can learn from it to change the future for ourselves in ways that are more positive. We have all heard that laughter is the best medicine. Find the things around you that make you feel good, make you laugh or bring you the greatest pleasure and enjoyment, should you find yourself slipping into a negative trap. Funny movies can bring on a more positive attitude and laughter makes us all feel better. Mingle with positive people and avoid those who look for the negative in other people or things around them. You will find that life offers a lot of positive energy as we let go of negative patterns. Even the bumps along life’s road don’t seem quite so harsh when our outlook, attitudes and our thinking changes. All I have shared here deals with life and making it more positive because this is where it all begins, within ourselves. Negative unresolved issues go with us in death and we are still faced with finding resolution when we leave this physical plane of existence. We don’t shed the negative attitudes or emotions with our physical bodies. Our emotions, hang-up’s and issues go with us and to find the answers and resolve the problems can become anchors in death. Suicide solves nothing as those issues that caused a person to take their very life, remain with them on the other side until they can find resolution. Suicide does not solve any problems, it only create new ones to be added to the existing problems. The International Ghost Hunters Society is a research society that believes that by understanding human thinking and behavior, we come to a better understanding of the nature of ghosts. Most of our research has given us a good foundation for this theory and has helped many to understand and deal with spirits present in their homes or places where there is ghostly activity. Research into the spirit realm is the focal point of our organization. Helping others to understand is a very important aspect of this research. If in writing this article on negative thought processes and helping people recognize there is something they can do to help themselves and improve their lives, then we all benefit from the changes being made. May you all have a good and positive week ahead. San Antonio Ghost Conference on June 19th: We are preparing for our 2004 Annual Ghost Conference that will be held in San Antonio, Texas on June 19, which is a change from the June 12th date due to a scheduling conflict at the Menger Hotel. The Conference for the third Saturday in June will focus on the ghosts of the Alamo, the Menger Hotel, and San Antonio, ghost photography, EVP recordings, and EVP evaluations. No psychics or mediums will be speaking, as we are a scientific based organization focusing on using scientific tools for recording and documenting the existence of ghosts. There will be a special investigation on Friday night for Inner Circle members. All events are within walking distance of your haunted hotel and meeting place. Special room rates of $95 at the Menger, just ask for the International Ghost Hunters Special, as long as rooms are available. We will have limited seating due to the meeting room limitations, so do not delay registering with Dave & Sharon. Check out http://www.ghostweb.com/alamo1.html. Digital Ghost Photography Handbook: Confused about orbs? What are dust orbs and how do they relate to real ghost orbs? Read our 20 page thermal bound book or download the PDF book and discover how digital photography is the wave of the future. We have been using digital since 1994 and we share with the reader, which are the best digital cameras on the market today. We also share what to look for when purchasing a digital camera and provide some protocols to avoid falling into the dust orb trap. Check it out at http://www.ghostweb.com/booklet2.html. How to Record and Analyze Ghost Voices: Susan Olson of Riverside, California writes, "I LOVE your new EVP booklet! For a long time now, I have experimented with digital recording to no avail. The information in your booklet helped me to get better recordings without background static! Thanks so much and keep up the good work!" Our book, How to Record and Analyze Ghost Voices is the best definitive publication on this subject and we have shipped this book around the world. This twenty-one page book will provide step by step detailed instructions on how to use our secret techniques for successful recording and analyzing of ghostly voices. This new thermal bound book is an easy to read size of 8.5x11 inch bound with a clear plastic cover and a white plastic back cover. The book is USD$10 plus Priority Mail shipping of $4 for a total of USD$14. We will ship this book to Canada by International Air Mail and to Europe by International Ground Mail for the same price. The book can also be downloaded as a PDF file for $10. Upon payment of the $10, we will send an email with the address and password to download the file. The download saves time and saves the postage for shipping the book. Traditional techniques for recording ghost voices are outdated and far less successful. Sharon and I have an accumulated 28 years of experience in ghost research and in evaluating ghost tools for field investigations. Along the way, we have discovered many hidden techniques that enable us to be tremendously successful in recording the voices of the dead. No special equipment is required as all equipment that we recommend is off-of-the-shelf products purchased at any Radio Shack store. Our new book will disclose our time tested techniques in a step by step procedure that is easy to understand and to apply. The book, available via PayPal or through our Online Secure Order Form, will become a resourceful guide to understanding how to perform the investigation and how to operate the software for evaluating the ghostly voices. Check out the book at http://www.ghostweb.com/booklet.html. We ship via Priority Mail through the Post Office, not the slow boat to China known as Media Mail that takes several weeks to arrive at an address. CD Version Home Study Courses: We offer two CD versions, one with the Home Study Course in PDF format that can be read by any hardware or software with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 4 or higher. This option is for those using the Mac Operating system or PC computer with an operating system that is not Windows based. We also offer the second version on the CD as the HTM version for PC computers using Wins95, Wins98, WindowsMe, and WindowsXP. The added features of this CD version, includes color photographs of spiritual orbs, spirit energy ectoplasm, a full body apparition and samples of ordinary airborne dust particles we call dust orbs that fool so many people. The separate Photo Analysis CD is now a part of the CD version. In addition, a printed copy can be made from CD, as in the printed version. We have also added ghostly EVP voices captured by us during our travels, such as the Confederate rebel commenting about the 20th Maine boys at Little Round Top or the Peyton Place Gossip found in a 1753 Cemetery about Mary is a Peach. Listen to an old miner recorded at a mining camp in Nevada or the ghostly morbid whine of a ghost dog, perhaps standing over the body of his murdered master captured in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon where a 1900s rancher and his family was murdered. The CD version is “HTM” based, this is not a “PDF” version, but a true “HTM” version that opens and functions as a web page. We have updated the material and even included a message from Dr. Dave Oester. Buyers from around the world have purchased the new CD version. We pay the shipping charges for Priority Mail in the USA, International Air Mail to Canada and for ten dollars more, we ship it by Global Priority Mail to Europe and Asia. More information is available at http://www.ghostweb.com/cgh.html. IGHS Printed Home Study Courses Since 1998: We offer the premier Home Study Course program on the Internet. We offer the best and most comprehensive ghost hunting and paranormal curriculum available. We have trained more students in this field than any other paranormal organization. We set the standards and the protocols for field investigations that followed by the ghost hunting community. We offer the premier Home Study Course, sharing all of our experiences and knowledge gained over the last dozen years. Read more about our premier Home Study Course Program at http://www.ghostweb.com/mainhsc.html. Fulfill your dreams: Magic Dimensions We all have dreams that we wished that could be our reality, but we do not know how to make that wish come true for us. In our book, we teach about the magic of having your dreams fulfilled. We show the reader how to open a doorway for a new reality where your dream will come true. Many claim this process is a miracle, but Quantum Mechanics teaches us that our miracles are simply an application of this weird science. Out book can show you how to create that miracle! We share with the reader the magical techniques that create the miracle we seek after in life. Magic Dimensions may be one of the most important books that will change people’s lives. Visit our web site at http://www.ghostweb.com/magic1.html for more info on ordering the book. The ISBN number is 0-595-22032-0 and can be ordered from any bookstore or online at major dot.com bookstores. The online e-book can be downloaded immediately. IGHS T-shirts Available: We are pleased to announce that we have our new IGHS light blue 50/50 screen printed T-shirts available. The two sided printing has a large full size on the back and a smaller size image on the front, over the left pocket area. We only have XL available now. Check them out at http://www.ghostweb.com/tshirt1.html. Life Time IGHS Member Certificate: Instead of renewing every year, IGHS members can now purchase a Life Time Membership for $60 or a Life Time Membership and Life Time Clip ID Badge for $75. This is available through PayPal and through our online Secure Order Form. IGHS ID Badges for Investigations: We have received many requests for some kind of Identification Badge to wear while conducting field investigations. We have created a laminated ID Badge with a metal clip that snaps onto your shirt or other piece of clothing. It says that you are a Registered Ghost Hunter/Paranormal Investigator in good standing with the International Ghost Hunters Society and it has our signatures and web address. Order the ID Badge at http://www.ghostweb.com/id_badge.html. Password Memberships: We offer a special membership in our Ghostweb Ghost Galleries. Due to the size of these ghost galleries, we have to limit the number of people because of the bandwidth consumed by downloading the photos, spirit voices, and ghost videos in this area. If you want to view over 9,000 ghost photos, EVPs, and videos, check out our membership program at http://www.ghostweb.com/pass.html. IGHS Membership Certificates: The IGHS offers a beautiful Membership Certificate. The membership certificate is valid for one year Check it out at http://www.ghostweb.com/memcert.html for more information. Kind regards, Dave, Sharon & BooBoo International Ghost Hunters Society Copyrighted 2004 by Dr. Dave Oester All Rights Reserved. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our next book is spooky! American Hauntings Investigated, due out in Spring 2004 San Antonio Ghost Conference -- June 19, 2004 -- San Antonio, Texas http://www.ghostweb.com/alamo1.html Dave Oester, Ph.D., DD. Sharon Gill, Ph.D., International Ghost Hunters Society Web URL: http://www.ghostweb.com Email: MagicDimensions@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~