History Of Paranormal Research

History of Paranormal Research

   Ghost hunting also known as paranormal research has been around since the beginning of time. The belief in ghosts as souls of the departed is closely tied to the ancient concept of animism (In its most general sense, animism is simply the belief in souls. In this general sense, animism is present in nearly all religions.), which attributed souls to everything in nature, including human beings, animals, plants, rocks, etc.  As the nineteenth-century anthropologist James Frazer explained in his classic work, The Golden Bough, souls were seen as the creature within that animated the body:

       “As the savage commonly explains the processes of inanimate nature by supposing that they are produced by living beings working in or behind the phenomena, so he explains the phenomena of life itself. If an animal lives and moves, it can only be, he thinks, because there is a little animal inside which moves it. If a man lives and moves, it can only be because he has a little man or animal inside, who moves him. The animal inside the animal, the man inside the man, is the soul. And as the activity of an animal or man is explained by the presence of the soul, so the repose of sleep or death is explained by its absence; sleep or trance being the temporary, death being the permanent absence of the soul.”

    
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