a conversation, a ghost, and an astral body vs. an echoe (Page 1 of 2)

This is excellent! very simple and clear.
we are STS because we cling to life and sensation
freedom is unknown to us who "live" and identify
when freedom is; it is because we are no longer, have done with the vulgar and so are actual, instead of merely thought forms
we have no permanent individual character, the idea is seen as idea
in that clarity, compassion is born 
for the stream of thinking and confusion that is "life".

Sorry but that clip is working some obvious visual effects that one could create with a program like Aodbe After Effects.

I'll give you an example... whenever the camera points at her face, it is definitely a directional motion blur with a composited, duplicate layer of the same footage to add a haze around the face. It's done so quick it seems real.

They didn't have to use a 'green screen' or special shooting technique because the effects are easy to create by using multiple layers of one source video clip.

Another effect used in this is a radial blur (not a zoom blur, though)... when you set it to breathe in an out, it looks like a paranormal anomaly. Fear not, this just happens to be a great trick that I use in my own video projects.

Also, they used a really cheesy trick when they tried to recreate the register of the 'film' dipping into the frame like the camera is physically being effected. Well, its digital video, and the only the fields drop out of interlace like that on television, not on a digital video camera.

So, in my opinion, its not authentic. It is well done for television though... discovery channel loves to air shows where ghosts materialize and do weird stuff. Ever seen that episode with the girl who talked to "Mr. Gordy," her long passed neighbor, and her parents would wake up with scratches on their bodies? Haha, oh buddy.

True, different cases and different scenarios, sure. But I think the majority of these close encounters are definitely inspired by the will of the higher density energy with establishing contact with the living energy for whatever cathartic purpose it may serve the dearly departed. I mean you could speculate a number of reasons why it would manifest physically and communicate with a voice... I know I'm suspicious of the reanimated lot of O.P.'s, but who knows.

Take it with a grain of salt though - I don't want to warn against a recent acquaintence if I haven't met him, but you know he could be trying to get you creeped out or whatever. You know what I mean, everyone has a story they know that will get someone going.

Lyra, can I "borrow" that?  Would make a great band name (Distraction Tactic Zoo Circus) and album name (Cloaked in a Sea of Non-Trustworthy Anonymity)!

Well, nobody was doubting your friend's story, just the video link that was posted.    But yeah, of course ghosts, poltergeists and non-human entities are real.  There's also what's known as memory imprints where you'll see an apparition doing something, but it's really just an energy imprint that forever does some repetitive action, over and over.  But the apparition itself isn't conscious.  So all sorts of possibilities........Conscious human ghosts of people who used to be alive but refuse to go to the light, or don't realize they're dead;  non-human non-physical entities that belong to the demonic realms, the nature divas, the non-conscious memory imprints...There's so much going on in other realms, so much activity.

And that's extremely easy reading for Krishnamurti, especially since everything is repeated several times in the dialogue...usually he just blazes on!  > Thanks, "Oceanroar" for that K. link!
I find him to be the most "profitable" reading..of anything ever written, period! Not easy but worth 100 times every effort.. in what is expanded in one's understanding from his very clear mind and words.
It's a shame that both that K. and the poltergeist are clumped together in this topic here since the paranormal will always get the bigger boost, adding excitement. And so Krishnamurti doesn't get the attention he deserves.

It's pretty much common knowledge now that most poltergeist activity is caused by HUMAN unintentional psycho-kinetic ability...usually around puberty.
The Writer of "the Holographic Universe", Micheal Talbot was one such unintentional creator of poltergeist manifestations. Perhaps the word poltergeist was misused in this topic probably by the person oceanroar was speaking with, there is a distinct difference between types of phenomena.

My rule of thumb has been......if it (the apparition ) doesnt interact with you, its usually an energy imprint.  If it interacts or notices you, then its probably a ghost, or whatever you want to call it.

That's right. But in this case, it has all the signatures of being fake.