| Warning: Please do not read this article if you have | | | | (to avoid heat radiation), dark (to avoid light radiation) |
| recently lost a loved one. The content below is based | | | | and humid (to avoid static electricity and other potential |
| on paranormal experience, evidence and research and | | | | electrical antagonists) spaces. This results in |
| is not the belief of all paranormal investigators. The | | | | basements and under-maintenance or abandoned |
| content below can be disturbing. | | | | buildings to be the ideal place for a decaying spirit |
| Para Ethics | | | | retreat. Spirits of many types can cause “cold |
| “Ghosts” or Spirits are made up of unstable | | | | spots,” but cold spots are not a determinate of |
| atomic nuclei which loses energy, can decay, when | | | | paranormal activity as cold spots can be caused by |
| exposed to radiation in the form of particles or | | | | natural temperature variances such humidity. |
| electromagnetic waves. Allowing excessive electrical | | | | Types of Spirits |
| equipment near active sites during paranormal | | | | General Presence - When a spirit may reside in a |
| investigations can affect spirits in a harmful way. | | | | space, but does not have the effect of a haunting. |
| - It is unethical to allow excessive electrical equipment | | | | General presence spirits tend to cause hair to stand |
| near an active paranormal site including electrical | | | | up, shivering or slight chills and rare auditory events. |
| equipment for paranormal research and household | | | | Spirits of this type can occasionally move objects, but |
| electronics. | | | | only inches. This type of spirit can be annoying at |
| - It is unethical to transport spirits from an active site | | | | times, but is rarely every a threat of any kind. This can |
| unless they pose a threat. | | | | be a spirit with little to no rate of decay to a spirit with |
| - It is ethical to locate a professional to help a spirit | | | | advanced decay. It is considered by Para Ethics to be |
| crossover. | | | | unethical to exorcise this type of spirit as the spirit is |
| Conscious and Alive | | | | non-threatening and removing the spirit from its current |
| A spirit is a being that did not crossover shortly after | | | | location can cause the further decay of the spirit. |
| the death of the physical mind and body. Reasons | | | | Apparitions - A spirit that has been lost for a great |
| why the being did not crossover vary including | | | | deal of time that has deteriorated and only knows the |
| confusion, duty, revenge or fear. Whether they may | | | | difference between light and dark, can feel pain and |
| have been “good” or “evil” human beings | | | | express emotion. This is a type of spirit that even a |
| during their physical lifetime is irrelevant because they | | | | medium can not speak with due to the spirits inability to |
| were still Human beings. | | | | function to such a degree. It is highly unethical to |
| While paranormal based laws and ethics can not be | | | | exorcise this type of spirit as relocation can result in |
| upheld with our current limited understanding and | | | | the destruction of the spirit as they are vulnerable to |
| interaction with the spirits of the deceased, educating | | | | almost all forms of radiation including sunlight and heat. |
| those who may or may not ever experience a | | | | This type of spirit is most commonly found in dark, cool |
| paranormal event on the laws and ethics that should | | | | and humid spaces. |
| be upheld, when dealing with the living spirits of | | | | Anniversary or Resident Spirits - Spirits who only |
| deceased physical beings, can prevent unnecessary | | | | appear on certain dates of the year or have been |
| suffering. | | | | resident of a specific space for more then two |
| Why Para Ethics and Laws are Crucial | | | | generations. These spirits are traditionally |
| Those who do not crossover due to the fear of the | | | | non-threatening and therefore it is considered unethical |
| unknown wander this world lost, depressed, | | | | to exorcise them unless they have proven to be a |
| sometimes angry, filled with regret or fearful of their | | | | threat by causing a great deal of disturbances. |
| chosen unknown. Some spirits may have turned down | | | | Haunting Presence - A genuine haunting consists of |
| a passing to the other side due to a need or feeling of | | | | mild to heightened auditory events, psychokinetic |
| obligated duty to family or friends. Some spirits may | | | | events (where the spirit moves and throws objects, |
| deny their death or never realize their death at all | | | | turns on electronics, shorts out electronics, cause fires, |
| leaving them confused or uncooperative. There are | | | | pushes or strikes a living person or cause heightened |
| many reasons why a spirit does not crossover, but | | | | behavior modification/manipulation of those residing or |
| there are just as many reasons why they should have. | | | | visiting the space etc.). These hauntings can be the |
| What would you expect in a world of living spirits with | | | | cause of a single spirit, several spirits or a poltergeist. It |
| no law or order, with mixed personalities, those lacking | | | | is not considered to be unethical to exorcise these |
| in morals and those left vulnerable because of their | | | | types of spirits. In the case of a poltergeist, a demonic |
| morals. Spirits roam lost, uncertain of purpose or | | | | presence may be involved. As a result of this |
| direction, unacknowledged by loved ones, scared, bitter | | | | poltergeists should only be exorcised by a professional |
| and with no one to protect them. | | | | well versed in the paranormal and demonology. |
| Spirits are not only vulnerable to other entities, but to | | | | Poltergeists - Demonic Presences - Poltergeists can |
| their atmosphere or rather the invisible world around | | | | be the result of several weakened spirits trapped in a |
| them. Spirits are energy based, and living, and like all | | | | location that contained a demonic presence prior to |
| living beings they are seemingly mortal because the | | | | becoming trapped or after the fact. In this case the |
| requirement for eternal life resides on the other side | | | | spirits individuality, that which separates one spirit of |
| leaving spirits here low energy, weak, vulnerable and | | | | energy from another, may or may not have been |
| unstable. | | | | decayed by the demonic presence and the |
| As their deterioration advances the spirit become less | | | | accumulation or individual spirits are strengthened |
| and less capable of organizing thought, emotion, | | | | through demonic means causing extremely heightened |
| sensation and so forth until the deterioration is so highly | | | | psychokinetic events and full visual manifestations etc. |
| developed that thought is rare, emotions are erratic | | | | This strengthening does not allow spirits to escape the |
| and sensation is limited to the feelings associated with | | | | trap because it results in the emotional, "mental" and |
| a slow, frightening bereavement. Eventually the soul is | | | | atomic instability of the spirit ensuing confusion and |
| at rest when no energy remains to give the spirit its | | | | erratic and violent behavior. Typically these locations |
| individuality and it once again becomes a part of the | | | | are places that have a traumatic or horrifying history |
| grand architecture of nature. | | | | including horrific murders. |
| How You Effect Spirits | | | | Lifespan |
| The antagonist that wears down a spirit most is | | | | The average lifespan of a spirit that did not crossover |
| radiation and everything emits radiation, even you. The | | | | following the death of its physical body varies due to: |
| exposure of radiation, magnitude and time exposed, | | | | (1) The age of the deceased body, as the energy of |
| determines the level of deterioration or decay of the | | | | the spirit weakens over the lifespan of the physical life. |
| spirit. Some forms of radiation that can affect a spirit | | | | (2) The amount of exposure to antagonists throughout |
| include: (1) The human body has a small amount of | | | | the life of the spirit. |
| naturally radioactive potassium. (2) Homes made out | | | | The longest estimated lifespan of a spirit is roughly |
| of stone, brick and adobe due to a small amount of | | | | four-hundred years. The average lifespan of a spirit is |
| natural radioisotopes. (3) Smoking results in a great | | | | estimated at two-hundred years. Sites and spaces |
| deal of radiation because the tobacco leaf collects | | | | with paranormal activity predating four-hundred years |
| long-lived isotopes of air-born radon, like lead-210 and | | | | are typically a result of residue memories of decayed |
| plutonium. (4) Natural and artificial light results in a great | | | | spirits, new spirits drawn to the area because it is and |
| deal of radiation due to protons and electromagnetic | | | | ideal retreat or the site may have an active poltergeist |
| waves etc. (5) Heat. (6) Any and all electronics such | | | | tied to a demonic presence in which case the demonic |
| as televisions, computers, microwaves, radios and cell | | | | presence prolongs the essence of the spirits, but not |
| phones. | | | | their individuality. |
| Spirits at risk of advanced decay tend to stay in cool | | | | |