Do you believe in ghosts?

No. Why?

Because they're un-sci-en-ti-fic.

They contain no matter, and have no energy, and therefore according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds.

The scientific point of view has completely wiped out all other views to a point where they all seem primitive, so that if a person today talks about ghosts or spirits he is considered ignorant or maybe nutty. It's just  impossible to imagine a world where ghosts can actually exist.

My own opinion is that the intellect of the modern man isn't that superior. IQs aren't that different. The medieval men were just as intelligent as we are, but the context in which they thought was completely different. Within that context of thought, ghosts are as real as atoms, particles, photons and quants are to a modern man. In that sense I believe in ghosts. Modern man has his ghosts and spirits too.

Example, the laws of science and the number system. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly that they seem real.

It seems completely natural to presume that gravitation and the law of gravitation existed before Isaac Newton. It would sound unbelievable to think that until the seventeenth century there was no gravity.

So when did this law start? Has it always existed?

What I'm driving at is the notion that before the beginning of the earth, before the sun and the stars were formed, before the primal generation of anything, the law of gravity existed. Sitting there, without a mass of its own, without any energy, not in anyone's mind because there wasn't anyone, not in space because there was not space either, not anywhere...

IF that law existed, I honestly don't know what a thing has to do to be nonexistent. It seems to me that law of gravity has passed every test of nonexistence there is. No one can ever think of even a single scientific attribute of existence the law of gravity had. And it is still "common sense" to believe that it existed.

If you think about it long enough you'll find yourself reach only one possible, rational conclusion. The law of gravity and gravity itself didn't exist before Newton. No other conclusion makes sense.

And what that means is that that law of gravity exists nowhere else but in people's heads. Its a ghost.

The real problem, the contradiction the scientists are stuck up with today is that of the mind. Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. Numbers exist only in the mind. I don’t get upset when scientists say that ghosts exist in the mind. It’s that only that gets me. Science is only in our minds too, it’s just that that doesn’t make it bad. Or ghost either. So ghosts are good.

Laws of nature, laws of logic, mathematics are human inventions, like ghosts. The world has no existence whatsoever outside the human imagination. We see what we see because ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, Darwin and Plato, and Aryabhatta and Lincoln show it to us. Newton is a very good ghost. Infact one of the best. Our common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.

We see ourselves the way we want to. In our minds. We are ghosts too.