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Our Web site name says it all—here is
a place to find information about death—the world that follows what we call “life.” For some, the interest is simply in ghost hunting. For others, there is a fascination with a more profound cosmic plan for each individual’s future state. Initially,
author, publisher, and ghost researcher David J. Pitkin offers information compiled from over 800 interviews with individuals who apparently encountered ghosts,
apparitions and poltergeists. He has written and published four haunted house books,
mainly from the northeast part of the U.S. and Canada. This Web site will grow to include many more aspects of the illusion
called “death,” specifically the near-death experience.
 This ghost researching site addresses the journey into death that all people must one day take—a venture into whatever
comes after our physical life is concluded, and why some individuals remain as ghosts. Death and hauntings, as well as apparitions,
are the subject matter here, but not in a dreary or fearful presentation. David J. Pitkin, ghost hunter, has written books detailing his investigations into that state of being following body death. A prime purpose
for this ghost and death web site is to allow seekers the opportunity to gain information (not rumor or fantasy aimed at pumping
your adrenaline), and perhaps a bit of humor, involving the semi-conscious energy residue of each now-completed earth life.
There is much hope expressed in these ghost tales, for it seems certain that the most vital part of our being does
survive the end of our body’s functioning. So, death is not only not an end, it cannot be.
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As historian, investigator, and ghost researcher, once I establish that a ghost phenomenon is taking place,
then we begin the attempt to identify the individual whose personality remains even though the body has died. My books all
involve our eternal essence surviving death. Later, if we can suppose the ghost’s identity, we (a group of talented
investigators and myself) attempt to discern the cause of the dead person’s distress—why do they hang on at the
physical level? Ghosts—why can’t they leave and progress into the afterlife? Then, often, we try to send
the being on its way, an action which we believe should be done.
Born into physical bodies, not randomly,
but for a cosmic purpose, our essence or soul seeks both experience and individual expression in the material world. Through
the use of our physical energies we can learn lessons—some of them joyous and positive, and others painful and trying;
all culminate in physical death…and “conclude the present course of learning.” Such appears to be The Creator’s
purpose in giving us earth life, to allow us to learn more about our true identity. Our soul’s purpose has always been
to achieve (more precisely to regain) the one-ness that all energy and all consciousness we once had
with The One. That seems to be our target and purpose in life, then, oneness, an undivided unity with all energy, all
knowledge and all Life.
By reading, discussion, and experimentation, we can begin to see that the appearance
of things (e.g. death) can mislead us regarding the true purpose or meaning of life. The eastern religions use the term maya
(illusion) to describe the scenarios through which we weave our way in earthly existences. What appears to be true
is only a small part of the picture. We live in a society where appearance is thought to be truth, so you must be willing
to overcome [maya] appearances, recognizing them as essentially illusory, and learn higher truths if you wish to penetrate
the meaning of both life and death.
It is therefore the purpose of this near-death experience and survival of death
website to help you seek your way through the suppositions about death and ghosts, and “what everyone knows,”
as well as “it is obvious…,” to find a deeper meaning for your life. Pursuit of truth is always the better
path. One cannot gain ground by merely entertaining him or herself on falsehoods or scary tales.
Just as the end
of the school term is not an ending to your education, there are other cosmic “grades” yet to enter. For this
purpose, the death of one personality (or lifetime, which most people feel is all that they are) is actually a gift,
as we are then released from a too-narrow focus of our identity. New “grades” represent new lifetimes, with new
sets of “givens,” both strengths and weaknesses taken on in order to best learn more sophisticated lessons. So,
on another page, we will stimulate you to ponder the concept of reincarnation, which is surely more than a theory.
books@afterworld.info  Why?
and How?
The first question
that most ghost experiencers want answered is, “Why do they do this?” and the second is usually, “How can
the dead do this?” And my response to that, after having interviewing almost 1,000 people to date, is “There
isn’t any one answer.”
Those of us who seek enlightenment through the entertainment industry
sooner or later realize that their big-business motivations are purely profit-oriented; the purveyors of terror and fright
aren’t interested in educating the public, only scaring them for a buck (or ten). And that is so sad, because the mysteries
of life and death (and then, maybe from death into new life) are one of the most exciting things to study, discuss and investigate.
These fields are truly the world’s “next frontier.” In my books I have tried to remain true to my profession
as teacher—to share with like-minded searchers as much as I think I have learned in over forty years of study. Here
is what I think I know right now.
What motivates a deceased individual (now reduced to energy with consciousness
intact) to remain in contact with its former associates or locations? Consider this: How many times have you, yourself, moved
away from a town, neighborhood, or job, and yet remained in contact with former friends? On at least one or two occasions
(holidays, birthdays, graduations) you might have sent a present or small message, just to let esteemed friends or relatives
know that you have been thinking of them and the good times you once had. How difficult is it to release the memories of a
loved one from whom you are now separated, though you try to say goodbye.
How many other times have you likewise
tried to release bad memories; perhaps of being betrayed or wounded in body, mind or spirit, by someone? How many times in
a normal life do we try to subdue anger, hostility, resentments, or memories of other types of hurt inflicted on us by other
human beings? How easy is it to just “deal with it,” (as uncompassionate people say) when there seems to have
been unjust suffering throughout a difficult life? For the living, both types of memory can be extremely difficult to release,
so why should it be any easier for a soul/mind that is trying to release itself into eternity only to discover that this process
is delayed until all such connections to the physical world have been laid aside or neutralized?
Bitterness and resentment about relationships can roil our souls most strongly,
and I have found many such stories where the deceased are still trying to get revenge or at least to expose the supposed injustice
behind such hurts. Possibly the living people who experience such “haunts” may also, by their guilt over such
situations, keep open a channel through which the wounded or victims can reach us in dreams or daylight. Though we say we
want justice, fairness and goodness in our own lives, we often don’t treat others (family, co-workers, foreigners) in
that manner. The period following death certainly, if the scales of justice are to be balanced, (cosmically, like attracts
like, no more, no less) must permit the opportunity to confront our own hypocrisy or deceits in the life just ended and learn
from it all. There is a balancing of the accounts that surely must take place after death, wherever we go after that. Some
call this event or process “the last judgment,” as it really is that final self-analysis for that personality.
The personality we formed after our birth gradually dissolves,
though perhaps only in a period of decades in our time. After we have become One again, many of the world’s people believe,
we form a new personality with a new purpose and take part in creating our own next body (reincarnation), wherein we can continue
to learn lessons that will eventually disclose our true (one-ness) identity. Some, who choose to live in fear, prefer to see
such a post-body-death process as hellfire, probably an apt symbol for how it must feel to be so utterly exposed in our dishonesty.
Love, on the other hand, may be an even-tighter bond between
the living and the dead. I have collected countless stories of deceased family members and friends who stay on, within contact
of the living, perhaps for decades, to watch over or guide a spouse, child, grandchild or even bosom friend through the rigors
of life. Dickens’ story of Jacob Marley is a good example of how this dead business partner attempted to steer Ebenezer
Scrooge straight. If indeed, love is the essence of the universe, then such bonds may never be broken, and believers in reincarnation
may have living proof of such love to sustain them.
Unfinished business is another prime motivation for spirits
or ghosts to stay in contact. I have not found any former battlefield where there is not some remnant of violent energy, sorrow
or wandering souls, still seeking a meaning for their present situation. And, of course, you are free to think of your home
or job site as such a “former battlefield.” Recently, a friend who walked the Saratoga Battlefield discovered
a discarnate man still seeking British soldiers to kill; she had to tell him they had all gone, and now he could leave. If
one died suddenly, he or she may not be quite sure that life has ended, and the dedicated ones can keep trying to accomplish
the goal they were seeking at the instant of their death. With such an intense focus, it can take the light bearers of the
afterworld a while to get the deceased ones’ attention, to bring them to peace. Those who are “cut off in their
prime” can also be in this category, still seeking the rewards of life, though it has ended, and grieving their unfulfilled
potential.
These thoughts, then, address some of the ‘whys.”
As to how spirits of the departed do what they do, consider that they have been reduced to their essence—pure energy,
when their body died. A good psychic once told me that he visualized these energy bundles that used to be human beings, now
zipping through electrical circuits or manipulating the molecules of physical objects. This seems to be possible from what
I know about physics. Energy responds to energy. That is why some forms of untraditional healing can “work.” An
energy source interacts with the physical and spiritual energy in the living person.
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