Paranormal investigator or ghost hunter? – Part 1

Paranormal Investigator or Ghost Hunter?

This question is not a rhetorical one. By the end of this article there will be answer: there has to be. Once again, we are outgrowing ourselves and morphing in to various ideological “camps” if you will. Where there are camps, there are tribes, where there are tribes you have variances in culture and where there are variances in culture there will undoubtedly be disputes: warfare even.

It has been my experience that the underlying cause of most all bloodshed, with regard to the world of ideas, is people thinking they think alike but the frustration are the dichotomous outcomes. So kill the other party and I will be right by virtue of the fact that I am the only one left to “herald’ a particular idea. Cool.

May I say that there is exponentially a better solution? Since the outcomes of like ideas are different we must agree that these ideas are not so “like” – what we perceive as similarities are only that faulty perceptions. The litmus test is the outcome itself. If the outcome is different so are the ideologies that spawned them. This is a basic logical tenet that is commonly overlooked.

O.K. brass tacks time. Definitions. It seems we (human beings) need to define our existence using language. We throw out words to the winds and await their definition as given back to us by time, culture, trend. Example: rainbow (admittedly not the same cultural icon that Dorothy had in mind in the Wizard of Oz, oh and “Oz” itself love those full of testosterone-prison-bait-shiv scenes), gay (happiness?), joint, (no longer a member of the body) well you get the idea.

It is now time to catch the words “ghost hunter” and “paranormal investigator” as the cultural wind blows them back within our grasp. When Jason and Grant (I have the utmost respect for the courage these two gentlemen had to grandfather the beginnings of the paranormal in the “media world”) were, I am sure, sort of coerced into doing “GHOST HUNTERS”; they were exploring a cultural territory that only those in truly covert cult fashion perused. This idea of “paranormal investigation” grew in the popular mind through these televised programs. Within a short period of time, because of the media, “ghost hunting” has become a household word. This was considered an evolutionary step in definition. These “Ghost Hunters” did NOT want to be known as “Ghost Busters”. This definition had already become