What is a ghost anyway?

The ghost is the most commonly known and discussed of all paranormal experiences. So, you might ask, what is a ghost anyway?
Well that depends upon who you ask, and where you research the definition. Dictionary.com says that” a ghost is the soul of a dead person, the disembodied spirit imagined, usually a vague or shadowy, evanescent form, wandering among the living.” While our friends at Wikipedia are a bit more straight forward. They say that a ghost is “soul or spirit of a dead person that can appear to the living.”
Regardless of what we may call them be it: spirit, apparition, specter, phantom, spook, wraith, shadow, phantasm, poltergeist, shade, presence, ghoul, manifestation, vision, or banshee, we all accept them to be souls of the deceased who appear to the living.
Yet we seldom agree as to where or how they came to be visible to those of us among the living. We do not agree on source the source of their energy, nor the ultimate plan and purpose for their existence.
Theologians, philosophers, and historians hold very different views both among themselves, and certainly with the spiritualists as well as the physicists who hold to a universally pragmatic explanation of ghosts.
It was none other than Albert Einstein, according to the physicists, who explained why it is quite possible and most likely that ghosts can and do exist. He once explained that to understand ghosts we must understand that the universe and everything in it is energy, in one form or another. He stated that energy cannot be created or destroyed, merely changed from one form to another. (Ah, do you remember you high school physics?) As a result, when a human dies the energy which has departed the body must go somewhere, even if it travels into another dimension of time or space. (And I for one never argue with Einstein).
So what then is this thing we call a ghost? I suggest you give it your own name and be open to new experiences! 😊
• In future blogs I will discuss the universality of ghosts across continents, cultures, history, and religions. It’s a fascinating topic, I hope you agree.

Looking to learn more: Check out Ghostly Tales of two rives- Chapter 1