​How are some people able to see the forms of ghosts?

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It’s a question. Some people are able to see the body of ghosts. How does that happen? Yeah.
Just as, see, just as we in our gross body are different. We all have some, as I said, different memories, different physical looks, different financial capacities. So, like that, all ghosts are also not the same.
Different ghosts based on how they have lived with the past, depending on what kind of karma they have done, different ghosts can have different levels of powers. So, broadly speaking, there is a devotee scientist Michael Cremo, that’s a karma guru, he has talked about, he has written a book called Human Devolution, in which he talks about such paranormal interactions at three levels. So, broadly, these three levels are called as communications, apparitions, and possessions.
Communications means, some of you may have heard of planchettes. Planchettes is where there is a writing board and there is a pen. And then certain people are mediums, they invoke the dead spirits of some people and then those dead people may want to give some messages to their relatives or their loved ones or whatever.
And then the planchettes they come and they write some messages. Now, in most of the cases, this is just an imagination. But in some cases, through the planchettes, certain information is revealed that could not have been known to any person except the deceased person.
So, communications, sometimes some ghosts communicate through some paranormal means. One of the standard means is to planchette. So, certain letters appear on some board and those letters comprise communication from the dead.
That is one level, that is communication. The second is apparition. Apparition means that the person appears in a particular form.
So, there are some ghosts who may have, the ghosts themselves don’t have a subtle gross body. But by the power, because they exist at a subtle level, the subtle level is stronger than the physical level, sometimes they may have certain physical powers. So, for example, ghosts may just, often you may see in some movies and something like that, suddenly a door opens and there is nobody there.
Or a window opens. So, it’s not that ghosts exist only at the subtle realm, they cannot do anything at the physical realm. They cannot fulfill all their desires at the physical realm.
But they have, certain ghosts may have certain powers at the physical level also. Now, some ghosts can manifest, can manifest forms that appear to the vision of some people. So, now this also varies depending on how much power the ghost has.
And it is not that everyone can see, sometimes one relative can see, others cannot see that particular form. And that apparition is such that it appears as if the form is there, but if you go and touch, there is no one there. So, the idea is that the ghosts, from the subtle level of existence, they can manifest certain apparitions at certain levels.
So, that’s how some people are able to see. And then there are possessions. Possessions means that the ghost actually enters into someone’s body.
Now, it’s not that all ghosts have the power to possess someone. Possessing requires certain amount of power to overpower the original person who is there in that body. So, some ghosts have that power, many ghosts may not have that power.
So, some ghosts may have the capacity to manifest in a physical seeming form. But that form is not a real form. It’s not a form of flesh and blood like we can touch.
It is just an apparition which they manifest by their power.