Life & Love Really do continue On

Life & Love Really do continue On
David J. Pitkin

Retired teacher and author David J. Pitkin has sought solutions to mysteries throughout his life. In the 1960s he became fascinated with the workings of the unconscious mind and on the growing evidence for ghosts and hauntings: consciousness surviving body death. Since hearing a ghost (later identified as a suicide from 1940) walking in a haunted barn in 1968, and visiting the “Riley House” in Saratoga Springs, NY, in 1978, he has experienced a number of paranormal phenomena. Over the years, he has collected over 800 folktales of hauntings and apparitions, in the Caribbean, Canada, the U.S., and is now interviewing and investigating haunted houses around the world. Many of these early experiences are detailed in his haunted house books, Ghosts of the Northeast, and his recent works: Haunted Saratoga County, New York State Ghosts, Vol.1 and the upcoming (2008) NY State Ghosts, Vol. 2. Pitkin’s first novel, which involves hauntings, ghosts and a near-death experience: The Highest Mountain: Death & Life in the Adirondacks, was published in June 2007.

Conducting ghost research for forty years at many reputedly haunted sites in New York State, New England, and Canada, he has become a philosopher lecturing on death, near-death experiences and survival of death. A resident of Chestertown, NY, in the Adirondack Mountains, Pitkin lectures widely on parapsychology and metaphysical themes, including ghost stories from his books on haunted houses. His ideal is to enlighten others, but not frighten them.

He studied dream analysis with Dr. Montague Ullman, dream expert from Maimonides Hospital, NY, and facilitated a dream study group for eleven years. Pitkin believes many vivid dreams of the departed are genuine ghost or spirit contacts. He is a tested intuitive and served as a reader at the Association for Research & Enlightenment (Edgar Cayce Foundation) in Virginia Beach Virginia between 1992 and1995.

David holds Bachelors and Master’s degrees in Social Studies Education from S.U.N.Y., Albany, and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Goddard College, Plainfield, VT. He served 25 years as a professional numerologist and spiritual counselor, and his analysis system is detailed in his 2000 book, Spiritual Numerology: Caring for Number One. He is also a credentialed Reiki Master.


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The Nature of Ghosts:

In the second hour, paranormal researcher David Pitkin discussed how spirits and ghosts are not scary, powerful forces but a natural part of our transition from the earthly plane to the spirit world. Based on his research, Pitkin speculated that around 80 to 85% of ghost encounters are really from family members and friends who are "just a little stunned by the process of death." On why ghosts do not move on to the proverbial 'other side,' Piken offered a number of potential theories such as the possibility that the deceased does not know they are dead yet or that they have "unfinished business" with someone here in the earthly realm. "I get cranky with people who use all kinds of fear tactics and misinformation on people about ghosts," Pitkin mused, "when actually we could be helping ghosts to cross over."

Pitkin pointed out a variety of methods that appear to be used by spirits to contact their corporeal friends and family. On a personal level, he recalled one subtle instance where his late aunt, who had been dismissive of his interest in ghosts, seemingly filled his car with the scent of a specific lily that the both of them had grown. Upon the realizing what was happening, Pitkin greeted her and the smell almost instantly dissipated. He also speculated that poltergeists may not necessarily be evil spirits, but rather a deceased loved one who is trying to make an indisbutable appearance via a mischevious prank such as opening all the kitchen cabinet doors. Ultimately, Pitkin opined that these visitations are because "most people who pass over want to let at least one family member know 'hey, I've made it.'"

David Pitkin


Mother, I'm HOME !! !!

Now there's a man after my own heart - enlighten instead of frighten. I share his distaste of people trying to scare others with misinformation about the dead. I've always said that ghosts are no different from a caterpillar that transforms into a butterfly - we don't fear butterflies because of their transformation so why do we think of spirits as scary once they have shed their physical human body? I can understand the fright at being taken by surprise when one appears - heck I do that sometimes too, but not this blanket fear that they are evil or here to get us or hurt us. It is about time someone took a sensible and sensitive approach to this topic and put it out there that it is all just natural and we could choose to be proactive instead of reactive to what we encounter.