The trees are speaking to us.

The trees speak and each has their own voice.

Maybe it's just because I have watched the movie "Wanted", where the whole premise of the movie is that all of the decisions being made are because of a weaving loom skipping in its up and down motions leading to a binary code that gives a name of someone who had to be eliminated.

Where that idea failed, was that the binary code translated to english.

When I think of linguistics, I would expect to look for patterns but a sense of randomness. I see that when I look at the common average tree.

But what are the trees saying? How are they saying it?

The concept starts with the "tree of life". It's a tree that is for lack of a better word, perfect. In stories of people that have seen heaven (or their idea of heaven, such as the Elysium fields) there is an idea that everything looks perfect with this tree.

I postulate that the tree is saying something really simple. Like "I am" or "alive" or "amen".

Now look at a tree. Look at the one which has no more leaves on it. The branches that jut off randomly really don't see that random. It's like there is some kind of logic to it.

Also consider if you've lived near the tree, how that tree has changed from year to year. What does it look like it's doing, if it reflects your life, what is it saying about your life.

If we consider that the tree is a living object, how is it any different than the birds, squirrels, cats and dogs? Have you ever understood a dog or cat? Owners who have one, tend to know what a certain bark or mew means.

But how? It's not like we are communicating with them with similar words. Instead, we assimilate the patterns and apply them to actions.

Well, can't we do the same thing with a tree?

Something to think about.

Also, I propose that evergreen trees are singing. Think on that as well.

The path, and a man with a technicolor dreamcoat.

I was reading in genesis about the story involving joseph who had a coat of many colors and one of the things about that story that stuck out has to do with something called "the path".

Now "The Path" is the correctness of how you live your life. It's been said to me that if things are going well, then you must be on the path. However, with that come a knowledge of what the path is and where it leads.

It is however laden with a sense of being flawed. The idea that you know where your life is leading and that things are going well, means that the control of your life is beset in your hands. By controlling your life, you could be meant for a much larger role in the world, but you'll never get to that, because of the limits of ones own mind.

This is where god comes into the picture. A person who has totally submitted to the will of god/universal oneness/collective unconsious, will never see their path. This was the case with joseph. He never saw the path either. He was given dreams and they made sense. He was taken and put into a prison for a couple of years before becoming a governor and then ultimately the only provider for his family at the beginning of a time of great famine.

If you live the path, you must know that there are weird journeys that you have taken to get to the place you are now. There's a reason for it all, but until you arrive at the final destination can you only look backwards and see that a great and grand design, ornate in it's truths has taken you all the way to here.

I know I am on the path, because it just keeps getting weirder and weirder. I still don't know where I am going, but it's currently one wild turn after another.

There is no greater difficulty than realizing that it takes every fiber of your being to submit to god. It's a struggle that we wrestle with daily.

Ponderance of Electronic Voice Phenomena

It's call phenomena because it's not easily defined as to how it is manifested or what conditions cause it to manifest. Electronic Voice Phenomena (or EVP) is a tool of ghost investigators that supposedly provide proof of the existence of spirits.

So what is it? How is it possible? I have pondered on this and have come up with some interesting thoughts that may call into doubt as to the certainty of what is actually being captured.

Let's first investigate some of what we know about ghosts.

1) They are intangible... sort of. In some cases, they aren't wholly intangible. They can tap your shoulder, touch you or even pull on your clothing.

2) They are invisible... sort of. Some really great ghost evidence is when the spirits aren't invisible, but instead the more semi-visible, the more credible the evidence.

3) They can't communicate directly with us... sort of. To some they totally communicate directly.

4) They are dead... sort of. If a ghost exhibits intelligence and responds, then what is death? What is life? Do we have an immortal spirit? And what about residual haunting?

5) They are electronically magnetic... sort of. Uses of a EMF (electromagnetic field) detector, can be a sign of a spirit presence, or a bad electrical system.

So what do we know? Not a whole lot. If we can't use scientific method to produce specific and tangible results, then what good is the evidence?

Let's get back to EVP then, as I have seen some interesting evidence that affects the accuracy of EVP as a legitimate proof of the existence of an intelligent ghost.

The whole thing starts as a part of watching the Ghost Adventures Live program from 10/30/2009. In that episode they used a new piece of equipment called a "spirit box". It was a device that tried to play back in real time any sound that would be considered as only an EVP. As the device was functioning, one thing that came across was sounds as if the location was still in operation.

That means that it was pulling in sounds from the past!

There was an urban legend involving the catholic church regarding a device that did something similar. It was called the "Time Visor". The premise of which is that given a period of time, the world around us exists with a certain vibration from that time, and if we only tune into those vibrations, then we can see and hear what happened in the past.

Unfortunately the device is a matter of legend as the vatican does not acknowledge such a device.

It does make one wonder... what is it that is being picked up as an EVP? Is it really something existing in a present time or yet our plane of existence? We don't know. We only have observed the tangible world, because we don't know how to perceive results from a non-coporreal world.

It's not like psychically adept ghost investigators are consistently watching ghosts come up to their recorder and speaking right into the recorder.

I like the attempt to accumulate as much "evidence" as possible, but part of me is in doubt as to whether it truly can be called "evidence of ghosts". Maybe a wormhole has opened between two vibrational existences? That was the concept behind the movie 'Frequency'.

Now vibrational rifts and ghosts all fall under the umbrella of "paranormal" and it's probably why this kind of thing falls into the realm of ghost hunting.

So now the big question: What is an EVP? Is it a ghost? A voice from another vibrational existence? A parallel universe? How can we be sure? What if we turned these devices toward the earth? Would an interstellar object with an electronic and magnetic vibration like an intrastellar sattelite such as the earth be able to communicate? How could we tell?

The concept behind the human ear is one where the diaphram of the ear is vibrated by the movement of air particles and is turned into an electrical impulse that gets interpreted by the brain into sound. Recording devices are similar, but instead of being stored as a sound, it's stored as an electrical signal, which is then played back through a similar output method vibrating the air until it gets received by our ears and is turned into sound. If somehow we bypass the connection of our brain to our ear, do we not hear spirit voices. I think we do, but the intensity is one that is so silent and beyond a whisper that we can barely hear it. The focused mind is one that you can differentiate between voices speaking in your head. It is my opinion that the electrical signals in the brain as a part of spiritual activity can allow someone to hear a spirit without actually hearing with the ear. This may be what EVP is all about. Now if we can translate brain electricity into sound, then we may have one form of proof about what EVP truly is.

Now, are we anthropomorphisizing the results? Like how we see faces in a rock, are we attributing voices to random noises?

It is most likely that I am cynical of such existences because I have not witnessed concrete proof that the content is legit in a truly academic and scientific fashion. If I have learned anything from Ghost Hunters is that personal experience is no confirmation of the existence of ghosts regardless of how strong or conclusive the personal experience is.

On the other hand, I have experienced first hand the presence and energies that are proposed as spirit-related. There is a certain energy in these "beings". I can't prove them. I can only speak of experience.

Until then, I look for better proof.