Why are children more sensitive to ghosts and spirits?

Question

Why do we lose it when we grow older? I've had my share of experiences as a kid. And no, I don't think they were imaginary considering the circumstances during my experiences.

I really miss those experiences. I wouldn't say that its because I've lost my innocence when I grew up, I've always kept an open mind about it. But still, I've never been able to "reconnect". What went wrong?

I'l have to admit, the last time I had an experience, a favorite uncle "visited" me and it really gave me goosebumps. I regretted having that reaction then, but I think that was a natural reaction and it was something I couldn't have controlled then.

Answer 1

I think it may be a matter of brain waves altering, or body chemistry changing or hormones changing.

It's got to be some kind of change that occurs, just like everything else in our body's changes as we get older.

I know as a child I was much more sensitive and able to pick up subtle changes around me, than I am now.

I too had some experiences as a child and it's been a long time that it hasn't happened, since I have gotten older.
I am just as open to those kinds of experiences now, as I was as a child.
So, it definitely has to be something physical, that changes, as our bodies get older.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Justine ~
Usually I'm over in the sports section trying to answer boxing or martial arts question, but I have an opinion that I would like to share with you. The older we get the more cynical we become, we start to look at life a little differently than we did when we were four or five, we lose the very thing that helps us through our younger years, pure trust. As time passes so does our trust we become hard from life's experiences, we lose love ones, we get angry and say and do things we wouldn't normally do and that's when it all begins little by little, day after day we lose just that much of the purity we were born with and along with that our ability to see things and sense things. I don't think it's a matter of innocence lost, I think it's a matter of us as individuals experiencing all that life has to offer good and bad.

Answer 4

Children have very little stress cluttering up their minds. As teens or adults, we have tons of stuff running through our brains all of the time. It can be really difficult to focus on "real life" and even more difficult to be perceptive to the other side.

I think if you had a natural ability for mediumship as a child, the skill is probably still there, if just latent. Maybe you could take some time everyday to meditate and clear your mind, to help you get back to the state it was in when you were a child. One good way to meditate is to light a candle in a darkened room, and just watch the flame flicker for about 10 minutes. It keeps your mind from wandering to your everyday worries.

Answer 5

Every child born has seen the light of life. And when they are loved & cared for by their parents, they have loving & open hearts.

As a child grows they make more decisions & sometimes they get hurt from those decisions & sometimes others hurt them & they don't know why. With the pain comes the hardening of the heart. With the hardening of the heart, comes spiritual blindness.

What a person needs to do then when they are spiritually blind or dead is a spiritual rebirth from the one who shined on them when they were born into this world.

It is not good to reconnect with the spiritual because there are spiritual preditors out there. So that is why God allows blindness. It is good to be born again spiritually in the protection of the God who created us. With that is given us a Spirit of Truth & comfort. A forever friend. The Spirit of Truth doesn't lie to us like a spiritual preditor would.

Jesus said to bring the children to him, because they are an example of the Kingdom of God. I believe it's because they have an open & trusting heart toward God.

Answer 6

You got older,you might think that you didn't lose your innocence,but sorry you did.When you're a kid you're still little,you still have semi-lic on your breath and your not wise enough to make your own decisions so that's why spirits come to you,you have to be lucky to see one while you're older,if you do it's good luck.That's like the toothfairy ain't gonna come and see you no more either because your an adult,no innocence=)

Answer 7

Children have not yet been conditioned by society that ghosts are imaginary. They are receptive, because they have their eyes, and minds wide open.
I have had experiences with ghosts since I was 5. I still have experiences. So I know ghosts are not imaginary. Most of my experiences have been very frightening. I'd like not disconnect if I could.

Answer 8

children are very intuiotive of life and they feel most natural what is and what is not ..i never outgrew the feelings. some of us do and do not. i have what they call the shining some do some do not. at 15 16 17 we have high telepathy powers. u need to get in touch specially with life and inner self it switches to a dif channel.it comes and goes you will have it again stop listen meditate-

Answer 9

From childhood to adulthood our average waking brainwave frequency increases. As children we are almost constantly in a state that would be considered meditative by an adults standard. I believe this makes children more open to these experiences.

Answer 10

It seems that as a child believing is seeing but as we get older and certain childhood things are regrettably revealed to us we grow to seeing is believing. Most people as they "mature" have their innocence slowly stripped away and we are left with a perceived world only instead of one filled with the possibilities of anything.