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Ghost Ship in San Francisco bay between Ashby Avenue in Berkeley and Powell Street in Emeryville, California.
The sculpture was constructed by Chris Edwards with help from his friends as a tribute to the 36 victims of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, one of the deadliest fires in California history.
Ironically, just after taking this photograph I heard the news reports of the first two arrests stemming from the fire.
By all that's Holy, I love what I do.
Got a call from a client who referred me to a couple having trouble selling their house. My client believed there were ghosts running off potential buyers.
She wondered if I knew anyone in Portland, OR who could "clear" the property.
I asked how much she thought they were willing to pay. When she told me, I immediately said "For that, I'll do it."
She emailed a letter of introduction, I followed up with an email and the haunted property owners gave me a call.
I detailed my credentials, experience, my typical plan of action ... and my price.
They wanted to know how soon I could be there.
I had a free day and an 1987 Yamaha FJ1200 motorcycle I love to ride. I said two days.
It has been hot here, so I decided to get an early start. I hit the road at 5:00 am and headed up over the Santiam Pass from Central Oregon toward Salem and then Portland. It was in the low 50's at my house but it got cold over the pass, probably mid 40's. As I descended into the valley, it warmed up and I made it the 156 miles in just under 3 hours.
The aforementioned house is only about 7 miles from the center of Portland but is heavily wooded and overgrown. 80' tall beautiful trees, a lower canopy of greenery and then ivy covering ground. The house was built by the owners.
The interior had been staged by the realtor but the staging couldn't hide an inefficient floor plan.
And, it had a ghost in the guest house. On top of that, there was an old abandoned water tower surrounded by a barbed wire topped chain link fence that was a portal for a couple of dozen other ghosts. I was overjoyed!
I spent the first forty-some years of my life as a businessman. 100 employees working three shifts, high stress and grew to hate every damn soul-sucking minute of it.
In my early thirties, I started practicing yoga to recovery from injuries caused by too much weightlifting, regular mountain bike crashes and overuse pain from years of surfing. (I dealt with the stress of life by over-exercising)
Gradually, I gave up lifting weights and delved deeper into the esoteric practices of yoga. Yoga as we know it in this country has only been around for a hundred years. Physical movements and postures (asana and vinyasa) were developed in India in the late 1800's and early 1900's as a way to fleece anglos. It is still working!
The yoga that is thousands of years old is based on the subtle body, meditation and expanded states of consciousness. I started with the "harder is better" physical yoga model and gradually transitioned to the deeper and more powerful subtle practice.
In my mid-forties, my biggest customer took all of its business to China. At the same exact time, I spent a couple of weeks with two of the few yoga/meditation teachers I still respected. There, it was pointed out that I had a aptitude for energetic empathy. A definition would be the ability to read the electromagnetic configurations of humans, buildings, things, interactions, communications, etc.
A simpler way to say it was I could “feel” what was going on around me. A switch flipped. I changed, morphed into something else. It was an ecstatic revelation.
I got back from the retreat, told my wife I no longer wanted to be a corporate executive and wanted to find something to do with my life that didn’t involve employees and actually helped people.
Over the next six months, I got divorced (she didn’t want to join my on my new path), sold my business, two houses, four cars and was left with a pile of cash and a mountain bike. All of my earthly belongings fit into the back of a pickup truck.
I enrolled in a four-year Healing Science program, started teaching yoga and living simply.
Over the last ten years I have developed a business teaching personal development, wrote a book, The Discomfort of Happiness, Mastering the Art of Vitality, moved to Central Oregon and bought two motorcycles.
Now, I ride several days a week, trail run every day and work with extraordinary people looking to grow in their ability to communicate, relate and succeed.
Back to the ghosts.
It seemed to me that the fence around the old water tank was a power source, sucking in all of the proximal energy. The tank itself seemed to be some sort of portal or saloon for entities (everything from random bits of consciousness to full-on ghosts).
The first thing I did was change the configuration of the fence by directing and grounding its energy into the ground. Kind of like flipping a magnet over or changing it from pulling energy to pushing energy. Next I made an effort to change the resonance of the water tower to one that would not be inviting to ghosts.
The house itself had one entity living in a stairwell in a building the couple used for family therapy workshops, but was generally just drained of all energy. I worked the magic, cleaned and energized every room and evicted the entity.
Then I called the owners. I shared what I had found and they were amazed. Every thing I related, they had experienced, including moving from the house because they felt like it was sucking them dry.
I rode to their place, picked up a check and started my ride home. It was well over ninety degrees and in full leathers, even at speed, it was hot.
After navigating the traffic out of Portland and heading up into the mountains, it cooled off. I stopped at a rest stop for a 45 minute phone consult with another client and then rode the rest of the way home.
15 hours, 320 miles, 12 ghosts, two buildings and a half an acre of property. I made enough money to pay my rent for a month and had an awesome experience.
Any day on an FJ is a good day but a day on an FJ with ghosts and a paycheck is exceptional.
I was out shooting with an old camera that's prone to the occassional light leak. He approached me and said "Did you ever hear that if you take a picture of a ghost, it won't show up?" "No, I never heard that", I replied. "Take my picture", he said. "See if I show up".
There was a light leak - he almost didn't.
This fungus beetle (likely Thallis compta) was exploring the Ghost Fungus (Omphalotus nidiformis) growing on dead banksias. This was my first time seeing both the mushroom and the beetle! [Lower Blue Mountains, NSW]
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Shot at a photo exhibition in Paris. The exhibition was showing early photos from seances and phenomenons like ectoplasma and ghosts.
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City Ghosts in Frankfurt
Artist: Unknown.
Fotos: Wolfgang Sterneck & Friends
Weitere City Ghosts:
City Ghosts I:
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157626570426529
City Ghosts II:
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157626695013676
City Ghosts III:
www.flickr.com/photos/sterneck/sets/72157626897148812
'Virtuelle Heimat' des Cityghost
Cool Ghosts:
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WELCHE FARBE HAT DEINE STADT ?
Hast Du schon einmal die Werbeplakate
in einer Fußgängerzone gezählt?
Oder all die Kameras,
die Dich unablässig überwachen?
Doch auch in den durchgestylten Shopping-Zonen
finden sich kreative Zeichen einer anderen Welt,
fernab von Kommerz, Konsum und Kontrolle.
Da lächelt Dich auf einer Betonwand ein Gesicht an,
ohne Dir etwas verkaufen zu wollen.
Du entdeckst zwischen Werbefassaden einen Stencil,
der die Lust auf Veränderung spiegelt.
Und Du liest eine Botschaft, die Dich daran erinnert,
wonach Du Dich wirklich sehnst ...
Diese Kunst in den Straßen nimmt sich
die Stadt zurück und eröffnet Freiräume.
Sie ist Gestaltung, Anregung und
Vision zugleich.
Wolfgang Sterneck
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This is when we were starting to walk into the woods, looking for the hovering lights. The photo taken immediately before this was completely clear, and nobody was smoking. I think it's a ghost!