The Art Of Ghost Hunting by Jaeson
K. Jrakman
"The Art Of Ghost Hunting"
Dare to Hunt Ghosts! If you know nothing about ghost hunting, this is
the book where you can start. Instead of merely compiling personal
experiences, humorous anecdotes, and ghost stories, Jaeson delivers a
body of procedural how-to knowledge that will allow the budding Ghost
Hunter to have their own experiences, and discover their own stories.
Written in an academic textbook style in over 300 pages, it provides a
technical and detailed foundation of knowledge needed for the novice
Ghost Hunter to scientifically investigate claims of ghost sightings. It also
provides an invaluable reference in one book for more experienced Ghost
Hunters. Jaeson has been actively Ghost Hunting since 1997.
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Personal Review: The Art Of Ghost Hunting by Jaeson K.
Jrakman

The Art of Ghost Hunting" by Jaeson Jrakman begins with the author
arguing the validity of the field as a scientific pursuit. He says: "Anything
that exists can be studied and understood. Therefore, it boils down to
whether or not you believe that life after death is a real possibility. If you
say that it is silly superstitious nonsense than by your own admission you
are saying that you do not believe that you will survive your own physical
death. If on the other hand you are willing to entertain this possibility, than
certainly it may exist, so why not study it? If something as life after death
exists, than it must have a physics by which it works. For the scientific
community to say that such things cannot exist with absolute certainty they
ignore their own axiom, 'you can not prove a negative.'
"The scientific community will also repeatedly state that extraordinary
claims require extraordinary proof. And they are absolutely correct. And
most certainly there has never been the sort of concrete evidence brought
forth to the scientific community to this date, which without a doubt proves
the existence of life after death. But if science refuses to even investigate,
this extraordinary proof will never be found, or brought forward. While
orthodox science is extremely adept at analyzing and studying things that
are readily known, it is very poor at keeping an open mind. History is
replete with proclamations from the orthodox scientific establishment, and
those like-minded, decreeing that a thing cannot be done, only later to
watch that very thing being accomplished before the entire world."
The author then spends the next fifty pages talking about, not ghosts, but
the brain and how it works: "Understanding the human brain and how it
functions may help us to comprehend two things. First, it will teach us how
the synaptic functions of the brain may help a witness to perceive, or
cause to mentally fabricate the vision of a ghost. Second, how the software
contained within the brain identified as self may one day become a ghost.
But understand it as one might try; the brain remains a scientific enigma.
Homo Sapiens have walked upon the Earth for at least 3,500,000 years,
yet the bulk of mankind's knowledge of the brain has been attained only in
the last 20 years. In fact, humans have known the location of the brain in
the body for only the last 500 years. Thus we are logically forced to
conclude that the sum total of the knowledge we have acquired today
regarding the human brain is most probably less than 1% of what there is
to know. When one particular experiment proves the brain works a certain
way, another experiment comes along to make the previous experiment
meaningless. Therefore it may be no surprise that a human may either
have an illness or condition that causes a person to see delusions of
ghosts, or may very well have an ability to see a working aspect of the
universe which is normally closed off to those without the appropriate brain
functions."
By the time he finally gets to talking about ghosts, it's established that this
is someone with a brain. I know Jaeson and have been on a few
investigations with him. I'm always impressed by his knowledge and he's
very professional. One time on an investigation he drove over eighty miles

just to sit in a bar and pretend to be in real estate so he could ask some
locals a couple questions.
The first book I ever read about ghost hunting was "How To Be A Ghost
Hunter" by Richard Southall. If you've never seen a season of Ghost
Hunters and know NOTHING about ghost hunting, that book will teach you
the basics, but I wanted more. This was the second book about ghost
hunting that I read, and I think it may be a little too dense for some
beginners but the addition of a physics glossary at the back of the book
helps. I also read "The Ghost Hunter's Bible" by Troy Taylor, and I found
that was a little easier, but it didn't go into the science as much. If you're
having difficulty (and most people with a college education won't), I
recommend starting with "The Ghost Hunter's Bible" and then reading "The
Art of Ghost Hunting".
This isn't just another book to teach you how to conduct your own ghost
hunt, though it does that very well. It teaches you how to be a ghost
hunter. What I mean by that is, it takes more than just watching every
episode of Ghost Hunters and knowing what a residual haunting is. You
have to do your OWN research. You can start by learning how the brain
works and some of the theories out there of what consciousness is. This
book can start you on the path to learning some of that.
The problem with many ghost hunters is that they base all their knowledge
off of things they've heard on TV and heard everyone else say, but they
don't do their own research, like how you hear everywhere how apparitions
have to draw energy from the environment to manifest. If you actually do
some research for yourself, many people believe consciousness might BE
some kind of energy. A ghost wouldn't need to draw energy from batteries,
appliances, etc. because it IS energy. Battery drainage might just be a
reaction to its energy. (They often go dead on investigations, but then as
soon as you leave the site they're mysteriously recharged again.)
Temperature change might be something like the Peltier Effect. Standard
EMF meters are only designed to detect the kind of EMFs that technology
produces - they may not even work for detecting a ghost! (There could also
be a reaction between the ghost's energy and the EMF of the
environment.) The point is, just because everyone says it doesn't make it
true!
The book is 291 pages without the appendices and is written in a text book
style. It also covers the history of ghost hunting and parapsychology, the
different types of hauntings, various natural and metaphysical phenomena,
what kind of equipment to buy, how to get a group started, and it takes you
through the steps of conducting an investigation. There are samples of
legal forms that you can photocopy and use, environmental logs, samples
of letters to send out to people to request an investigation, and samples of
EVP questions you can ask. It also gives you an example for how to map
out a house, and there's a section for false positives.

The part that I thought was the most useful was his advice for how to start
your own group. This is the second edition of this book, I had the first
edition when I was getting my first group started, and this would have
helped me then. The first thing to do before you strike at it alone is to
contact an existing group in your area and ask if you can shadow them on
a couple investigations just to learn the ropes. Jaeson actually took 10
months of classes before he ever went on an investigation. When you think
you're ready, try to find a few other people to join your group. This is easier
said t
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