There are two types of human entities that are known as ghosts. Personally, I split them into two categories .. visitors, who have died and gone through the Healing process we all need, and lost souls (who I call ghosts) who have also died, but not gone into Healing. There are many reasons for this .. - Anniversary ghosts You get ghosts attached to events, I call them anniversary ghosts. I once lived in a flat in North Sydney (Haunted Flat)that only came really spookily alive once a year. The owners didn't tell us about it before we moved in, but did say everyone moves out about the same date. :-) - Family visits My Grandmother's Visits - Lost souls who used to live on the property and haven't left yet - Lost souls who like the person they have attached themselves to - Lost souls who think they are somewhere else - Haunting the grave (though that doesn't happen much) I don't believe that all entities that hang around graveyards are human, some are drawn there because of the collective sorrow of those people who come to visit their loved ones. It's a good feed ground for energy of many different sorts, including anger. And ghosts can wander from graveyard to graveyard following the leylines that connect the churches together these days. I have been in a lot of cemetaries over the years. I used to play in one as a child. The only ghost I ever met there was a black and white cat. According to tradition (whether Christian or pagan, I don't remember), the only ghost that remains in a cemetary is the first body buried there. That I've found to be true. The others that remain are usually Christians (no disrespect to anyone, I'm one too) who hold the belief that they must wait to be resurrected from their bodies at the 'second coming'. Some people (ghosts) remain because they think they cannot go back to the house they lived in, they would not be welcome there, so they stay where they think they can be found again. And, yes, some are still very connected to who they were - represented by their bodies. One very interesting 'dream' (which wasn't one) I had a few years ago was based at Highgate Cemetary in London. In the vision there were quite a few of us wandering the cemetary grabbing hold of people's hands and pulling them out of the ground. We would say something like, 'Resurrection is here, you can go Home'. I was, and am still, living in Australia at the time. The movie 'What dreams may come' had a scene much like that, where the hands of lost souls were sticking out of the mud and Robin Williams pulled his wife out. - Hauntings by people seeking revenge, or recognition for some event such as the victim haunting the murder Ghosts, lost souls, remain connected to the earth by their emotions. A good case to look at would be one like the 'haunted doll' that was mentioned on one of the discussionlists recently (sold on Ebay). The ghost is connected to the doll because of what it represented to the being when it was alive. The doll more than likely represents a happy time, or a safe time. While the ghost needs to remember that happy time it will continue to move around with the doll, from owner to owner, until it finds someone who can free it and send it into Healing. Ghosts connected to people are there because of the love, or hate, they felt for that person - if its a family member, or close friend. These days some ghosts are connected to people for a good feed of energy, and have no emotional, nor genetic, connection to them at all. This is not a new occurance. There have been mentions of hauntings and possessions back into prehistory. It is not all demonic. I've done healing for people who had 'an old friend' in their energy. I just had lunch with a lady whom I first met because she had a friend, who had just died, wrapped around her neck, in a way. He was frightened and had come to D because she has good energy and knew him. He was very grateful to know he would be safe and happy when he went Home. He came back to her afterwards and thanked her. If the body of a person is cremated against their will they might be very angry, and even let their family know by haunting them a bit, but hopefully the ghost won't make too big an issue of it and go Home (into Healing) just as easily as someone to whom it didn't happen. I think they would have other, larger, issues that would make them stay on the earth plane, rather than just being returned to ashes. I have had a lot of experience in dealing with spirits and ghosts, and long conversations with lost souls, and have yet to have one say they are actually upset because their body was cremated. It's more often what they did, or said, or believed, that keeps them trapped. Half of them don't even know where they were buried, depending on their 'age' - the length of time they have been lost. It is only us, the living, with our splendid and demanding egos, that think are bodies are more important than our spirit. We quickly change our minds once we go Home. - Hauntings of sites of great trauma such as scenes of battles .. but that might really be ... - Memory in the walls .. which is where the emotional energy of an event leaves its marks on the landscape or house .. they wear out after a while .. Many ghosts in old castle are simply shadows of their former living selves, their great emotions, usually fear, leaving an indelible mark on the stonework. They do tend to fade over a great amount of time - Kids playing with kids (one of them is a ghost) .. that was a nice place in Callander England When I was in England at the beginning of last year I was asked to check out the 'playmate' of a young man of five. This spirit boy came through the windows at the top of the house and into the five year old's room. He was from a time of serfs and servants from his clothes. And the two of them played for hours. That was a very happy household, also bed and breakfast. :-) - Animal spirits .. I have a cat ... :-) Actually 5, two in spirit - Unfinished Business - it is nearly all unfinished business When someone dies they usually 'default to heaven' .. (a bit like the computer defaulting to 'c' drive). No one automatically becomes a ghost.A person who chooses to stay on the earth after they die feels they have unfinished business. It is not just for people who have been murdered or die suddenly. I've met many ghosts whose unfinished business is something so small and insignificant that you wonder how they got trapped in it in the first place. How important something is is relative to the person experiencing it. Ghosts with unfinished business can be 'busted', though I prefer the word rescued. Think of it this way. When a person dies with unfinished business they create a bubble of energy around themselves that repeats and repeats the 'lesson' they are trying to learn (the unfinished whatever). What a Spirit Rescuer does is to provide energy to break the bubble. This can happen in a lot of different ways. Sometimes we simply show them a possible ending, a way they can 'go' to finish what they need to (energy follows thought). Sometimes we open a gate in front of them and bring out 'helpers' (angels, or family and friends in spirit who are waiting for them and thake them into Healing) and sometimes we, if the ghost is particularly nasty, enclose it in a different sort of bubble and shift it straight into healing and let the healers there take care of breaking the patterns. We find the people that are ready to be rescued because their 'bubbles' start springing little holes and they see our Light and are attracted to it. We become part of the pattern that they can see, where before that they were totally focussed on their process. Why we rescue lost souls ... Directing a ghost into the Light does not always work. Some go verywillingly when shown the direction, and some just run the other way at highspeed and get on with their mischief. It's with those where the core of mywork is done, either personally or through sessions in the Rescue Circles Ihave run, and will start again soon. We take the real trouble makers andhave them 'escorted' into Healing - which is where we all spend a littletime when we die. We've had many of those lost souls return to thank us forthe work. That's incredibly satisfying. :-) 2) Attached ghosts. People come to me for healing when a ghost hasattached itself to them and is haunting them. There is a huge differencebetween the ghost attaching itself and me choosing to allow one to connectto me - as with the guy in the last story. Ghosts need energy tocommunicate, and manifest, and so they feed off anyone they are connectedto, as well as the energy in the atmosphere. (Which is why the roomtemperature, and the core temperature of the people, go down rapidly.)Quite often they do not mean to do this, or are not aware consciously thatthey are, but the ones that have been lost for a long time quickly learnwhere their 'food' comes from, and can mess up your energy very fast. Using your senses ... Going slightly off question here .. but .. Yes, other people can sense whena ghost is present within someone's aura, but not a lot of people want to dothis consciously. They just feel very uncomfortable around 'someone' andstart avoiding contact with them. This can be painfully disconcerting forthe person concerned because they might not even be aware of the ghost tobegin with, but after a while they will become sensitized to the presenceand feel a need to get it off them. That's usually when they seek healing.But if the ghost is a stronger personality the person might end up diagnosedas schizophrenic, or paranoid, when by then, the ghost might have invited afew of his/her 'friends' to join the feast. This is one of the reasons why dabbling in the 'occult' is not recommendedas a safe pastime. :-) Ghost Tours and Ghost Hunting ... 3) As for ghost tours, and other spooky ventures - I went to visit ahaunted house here in NSW Australia called Monte Cristohttp://www.montecristo.com.au/ During the tour I had a strong sense of presence a fewtimes and had my hair stroked once, but only one other person (in the groupof ten) felt anything, although most of them seemed to want to. Often youwill find that although a person expresses a strong desire tosee/feel/interact with ghosts they are actually too scared and this energywill disallow contact unless the entity is very negative and likes to upsetpeople. Our fears do tend to limit our contact with the unknown, we do itto ourselves. We thicken our auras which keep ghosts away from us, and sendout an energy message that says 'not me'. We do it subconsciously most ofthe time, and consciously when we get 'scared'. But .. the scared feeling,or excitement as a different interpretation of the same energy reaction ..is actually solar plexus chakra speeding up to help us contact thenon-living beings who operate on a higher frequency. Like speeding up avehicle. Talking to Visiting Spirits is different from Talking to Ghosts ... Most people can sense ghosts, and everyone gets visits from friendlyspirits, it is up to us to decide that we 'can' do it - and then wait for itto happen. It does. If there is a spirit/ghost following you around they might just have amessage. Find a quiet place to sit down and relax, and ask them to tellyou. Whatever comes to mind first may well be the message (perhaps insymbolic form to be thought about). Our minds love to complicate things -but everything is simple and easy to understand in spirit. If they make youfeel tired, cold, lost or sad, tell them to 'back off' and really mean it.Then cross your arms across your chest and imagine drawing all your energyin around you tight. The spirit cannot then attach. Spirit Guides are not ghosts in any form ... Spirit guides are not ghosts, nor relatives closer than great-great grandparents. My grandmother was my teacher for a long time, but she was not my guide. There is a huge difference. Human Spirit guides have specialtraining before they go to work. They must develop the detachment needed to act as the angels do - with love but without judgment or attachment to any outcomes. Otherwise they interfere in free will - which is not allowedunder the 'guidelines'. Rescuing Lost Souls can be as easy as ... You could try a very simple technique. I do it with ghosts, but also when I'm checking the sex of unborn children. Is the ghost a man or woman? Do this by saying to yourself - 'does it feel like me'? If it doesn't, it is a man (or a woman, as the case may be). Strange, or too simple, as it might sound, it often works well. The other thing you can do is ask it to talk to you, and then ask it its name. Whatever name comes to mind first, without you double guessing or 'trying' to get it, is usually right - or well might be the one that the ghost will answer to. Then call it by that name. You can ask your guardian angel, who stands behind your right shoulder, to talk to the ghost and see if it wants to go into the Light, which I call Home. Ask the Michael (guardian) to take it. Some ghosts are lost and need the Light, and others are just visiting. If you have a problem ghost you can contact me here Ama Nazra Back to the Ghosts Index Home Ghost Stories 1 |