Whenever friends or family from out of town come to visit, invariably we wind up in our scenic Old Town area. Aside from the quaint and beautiful feel to the vicinity, it also is the most historically significant part of town. Usually the importance of the area is attributed to the buildings and architecture. However, a more lurid side of the city is gaining popularity for the town, as well: ghost tourism.

The principle behind ghost tourism is that people are taken on guided tours of buildings, such as the infamous Stanley Hotel, that are thought to be haunted. Such hauntings are advertised as being either of ghosts of former tenants or owners, or because it was the scene of a crime, such as a murder, where the victims are thought to be stuck.

We were recently asked what SSRF is all about – Spirituality or Spiritualism. Our definition of Spirituality which is synonymous with what we call Spiritual science is about understanding God and His creation and how to realise/experience Him. Most dictionaries describe spiritualism as a process of contacting the dead and spirits from the after-life etc. From our viewpoint Spiritualism is just a part of Spiritual science or Spirituality.
In a seeker’s journey for God-realisation, he invariably faces obstacles by negative energies such as ghosts (demons, devils, negative energies, etc.) etc.

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Quite often we come across people who are interested in Spirituality, but evade listening to any mention of negative energies or ghosts. For example a number of people walked out of a recent viewing of the SSRF video ‘Live an aware life’ at the Mind, Body, Spirit festival in Melbourne. The reason? – Scenes of manifestation of demonic possession.
Our guess is that the following thoughts go through their minds:

If we don’t know about it, it won’t trouble us
Don’t get to something that can harm us
I am scared, I don’t want …

Many people debate about the existence of the intangible spiritual realm and its immense influence on our lives. It is simply impossible to bring closure to this debate by the use of one’s intellect and modern research tools. The reason is that by definition itself the spiritual realm is beyond the understanding of the mind and intellect. Hence we cannot insist on getting evidence for it through physical instruments like photographic cameras and other electric and electronic gadgets. The spiritual realm can only be researched through spiritual research methodologies, which …

From time to time we are made aware of some supernatural happenings and miracles that happen all around the world. The miracles range from apparitions of deities or holy figures to salt-water turning to sweet water or blood oozing from religious artifacts.
The thing about miracles such as these is that they may not always be of divine origin. In the spiritual research that SSRF has conducted over many such cases, it has been observed that higher level ghosts (demons, devils, negative energies etc.) such as sorcerers are the cause …