There is no special piece of equipment you need to be a ghost hunter. The list is simple and can be interchanged for anyone's personal needs.

Let me take this opportunity to explain what we believe ghosts to be. Ghost hunting is merely theory and conjecture. Through study of many different theories and scientific reports, we have derived possibility of where ghosts come from. The bodies we wear are merely a shell for energy we hold inside. We came from energy before we were born and we will return to energy when we die. This is simple physics as well as circle of life. Ghosts are made up of this energy. When we die, it is presumed that we have come from this energy and therefore, that is what we will return to. We dispose of this body that we have worn out so completely and energy leaves it. Remember, ghosts are people too. They have died and become ghosts keeping same attitudes, personalities and emotions they had when they were alive. So, if you were a crabby, grumpy person in life, you will be a crabby, grumpy person as a ghost. If you were a happy, peppy person in life, you will be same as a ghost.

That being said, first item on our list of necessities for ghost hunting is keeping an open mind. The best thing you can do for yourself every day besides showering and cleaning yourself up is to meditate. Meditation is good for your body, mind and soul. It opens you up to what surrounds us every day. It allows your mind to breathe and to think. You are able to completely free yourself from all stress and repetitive tasks you must undertake each day. Meditation is something I suggest doing daily. This is a great start for a ghost hunter. Keep an open mind and with it you will be able to feel, hear and possibly, see ghosts. While doing that be sure to keep an open mind to possibility that ghosts do exist. You want to be sure to keep positive feelings and energy going. They will feel more welcome and you will feel better as well.

Next, have a flashlight. It doesn't matter where you choose to do your ghost hunting, a flashlight is imperative. Night time is best time for ghost hunting and you need to see where you are going. If you decide to enter a cemetery at night, besides getting permission first, you want to make sure you are not falling into open grave that is to be used for someone in future. You don't want to be tripping over sticks, logs, rocks or anything else and you don't want to twist your ankle in a smaller hole merely because you didn't see it. If you want to keep yourself in a bit more secrecy, you can get a flashlight with a red lens. This limits light but still allows you to be able to see where you are going.

You will want to have a companion. Never, ever, EVER go anywhere by yourself. If something happens to you, no one will know where you are going. It is a good idea to tell someone, anyone where you will be going for night, then take a companion with you. If you fall and hurt yourself, who will go for help? Who will be able to help you? A companion not only can validate and authenticate anything that happens to you but might also save your life.

With that companion, bring a cell phone and make sure you have service. Sometimes, even though you might have a good cellular plan, you won't get service in certain areas. Make sure you have phone for those times you may find yourself lost or in trouble. Carry it somewhere that it won't fall out of your pocket or be destroyed if you fall and can be easily reached.

Also, take a whistle. If you are two women, please take a whistle. Although you may be in a secluded spot, having a whistle just may help you in times of necessity.

As many of you know, I live in Wyoming in northwest part of United States. Wyoming is home of Dick Cheney, Vice President of US. Dick could be next president in a heartbeat, or lack of one.

Most of Wyoming today is generally a conservative cowboy state. A place where early American frontier values of freedom and independence live on. It’s a state where whoever is running on Republican ticket for president is a surefire winner.

And yet it’s a state of great diversity, in its people and its landscape. In last election for governor, Dave Freudenthal, a Democrat, won office.

Dick and Lynne Cheney’s daughter, Mary, along with her parents, has publicly acknowledged she is gay.

Wyoming is a place where people of diverse and differing opinions and lifestyles can coexist peacefully. Wyoming people, while usually steadfast in their beliefs and values, are generally willing to allow others of different beliefs and lifestyles to live peacefully.

There certainly are exceptions to that. People are people, and sometimes they have less than peaceful differences with each other. A shocking and horrible example of that was brutal October 1998 murder in Laramie of Matthew Shepard, a gentle young man who happened to be gay.

But that is exception in this place that was first of United States to give its women right to vote, in 1869. In 1925, Wyoming’s Nellie Ross became United States’ first elected woman governor. The legendary frontiersman, Buffalo Bill Cody, who founded town I live in, was an early and outspoken advocate of women’s rights and justice for Native Americans.

Wyoming is justly known as “Equality State.” In many ways, it’s a perfect place to live, at least for folks like me who love peace, quiet, friendly people, big blue skies, and vast wide-open spaces. It’s a place that knows how to embrace all, those who agree, and those who disagree. And to somehow accept sameness and diversity, and live in peace.

A magnificent example, I think, for rest of world. Especially for America, now so bitterly divided after a bitter presidential election and its equally bitter aftermath. It’s time to heal wounds and work together. And to realize in our diversity, we are also one.

In this newsletter we don’t often re-publish past newsletters. But we’re going to do it this week. Many of you are new to us and probably haven’t seen this old information anyway.

Joseph, a long time ago, said this:

“You came to this planet at this time to experience diversity, not oneness. And in that diversity you will all find joy, once you allow diversity to be okay. Once you allow yourself, and all others, to be okay just exactly where you all are right now.”

My response to Joseph’s comment:

“Joseph was not saying we, as a human race, are not one. We are, in fact, one with all of life, with all that is. But within that oneness, there is diversity. And that is as it should be. Sameness is not same thing as oneness. Even within oneness of nature, there is always diversity. No two snowflakes are identical. Each is unique and special, one of a kind. And yet all are snowflakes.”

Joseph continued: