Questions about ghosties.
I realized that I have a few more questions to answer by the end of the month! Yikes! Time to get busy answering a few questions.
She asked me a few questions about spirits.
1. Do you have a familiar spirit that you feel like you’ve gotten to “know”?
This is a challenging question for me because it turns on the idea of “knowing”. As human beings, our minds think in past, present and future. “Knowing” a friend means that you know their history, their present world and their future goals and plans. Right?
In my experience, and again it’s just my experience, spirits live past, present and future all at once. “Knowing” a spirit is to know their presence, the way they feel or even smell, their ideas and wisdom. Some spirits are funny, full of laughter. Others are serious and wise. Some spirits have great capacity and wisdom. Others do not. Just like people.
I meet, engage, and communicate with beings - human, animal, spirit, and others. Some spirits have been around me all my life. Others pass through my life. Just like people. Just like beloved pets.
2. Would you consider writing a biography of a spirit you’ve lived with?
No. Mostly because, in my experience, spirits don’t really have a biography. Once unattached from their body, they no longer care or remember their life. Remember, as spirits, their experience is past, present, future all at once.
I believe that we make connections on a soul level. These connections can last an eternity. Once we leave this human experience, our connections to other beings is what remains.
Another way to say this is: Our ancestors wait, almost begging, for us to ask for their help.
Murder? Violent Death? Yeah, it’s really common for people to ghost hunt for “information” about murders or violent death. My experience with these beings is that they want someone to understand their pain. They don’t care about setting things straight or finding their murderer. Why would they? (Remember past, present, future all at the same time.) These beings want to be known, heard, and understood.
Many ghost hunters disagree with me here.
I can only speak to my own experience. Certainly my experience is influenced by my experience with people in therapy. There is no real truth - five people who have the exact same experience will not be impacted by that experience in the same way. What is different? Our experience, our history and what these events mean to us. Why would it be any different from spirits?
3. Can people train themselves to see things outside the physical world?
Of course. First, you must understand a few realities.
Human beings see in a very, very small range of light. We hear in an even smaller range of sound. Moreover, our mind dismisses 80% of what we see and hear and 100% of what we don’t understand or expect. Further, the minuscule amount that we manage to take in is translated through our experience and history.
Start here.
Understand that you don’t see everything. You cannot hear everything. And more than anything you are right at this moment missing 80% of what’s going on right in front of you at this moment.
Dragons? They probably exist. Why else would there be a word for dragon in every single language around the world?
Bigfoot? Why not? A person is more likely to see Bigfoot in the Rocky Mountains than a wolf. No shit. (Check out the documented sightings at BFRO.net) We believe wolves exist.
Spirits? They are right in front of you.
Angels? Sure. Why else does it feel so amazing in old churches?
There are great programs available. But if you cannot accept the previous as possible, you just won’t get there. And that’s fine.
There’s a time for everything.
And what if it’s all bullshit?
What if it is? Who cares?
The most intelligent of all of us believe that we know, and understand, a fraction of what exists. Maybe we are simply not smart enough to get there.
Filed under: About Claudia, Thoughts on being human....
I believe in big foot and the easter bunny and sane women.
I suppose I would be one of those who disagree..?
In my experience spirits can be angry and cold. Thus to me it seems they must be hanging onto something negative. Just as you said some of them are filled with laughter. I have met both.
There are times when the chill is unbelievable, the anger is so intense upon meeting the spirit that it nearly knocks the wind out of me. My stomach turns. I don’t think it would be that way if the spirit didn’t care. Perhaps my interpretation is wrong.
All of my friends, including my husband, think I’m insane to an extent as they do not believe I see anything. But I was raised this way, it doesn’t scare me or make me think I should be in a padded room. My Mom, my Aunts and my Grandma can all see spirits. And some of them, like myself, can interact to a degree. I find it to be a blessing and a curse sometimes.
FuriousBall - Yes. I’m wishing a sane woman for you right now.
Christy - Oh sure, angry yes. But people are angry too. I wouldn’t let a person yell at me, why should I take it from a ghost? Plus I know how lonely they are (just like angry people). Ever really talk to an angry person? They have a lot of “reasons” for being angry but their reasons are bull. They are just angry. (shrugging) If ghosts or people want to talk to me, or have me listen, they’ve got to behave. So they do. If not? I will so not hesitate to send them on.
Fascinating, m’dear.
Now, come back and get my gift. Play the game only if you like.
UM… how is this the first I’ve ever heard about you and any type of ghost hunting/talking/something??
I’m with Miss Britt… I think I missed a day or so somewhere…
no wonder I read you… you are all over the place and fascinating!
thank you for answering!
at times, i feel i am closer to other planes than i am most of the time. i’m always seeing things out of the corner of my eye. i went through a period of time where i heard a young child crying every morning after i woke up. i’ve seen things floating above me in the darkness. 98% of the time, i tell myself it’s nothing.
I suspect that some spirits hang around their loved ones until they feel understood, or until they know that their survivors will be okay.
I don’t believe that spirits or ghosts of departed people and animals are the same as angels who in my understanding have never been human or animal. They are a separate order of being. When you said that our ancestors are waiting to help us, that would seem to disagree. Do you distinguish between ancestral spirits and angels?
I also have no difficulty believing in the existence of dragons and Bigfoot. We see such a small portion of what is out there, probably because it would freak out most people who have no frame of reference with which to process it.
Chuck - Glad to fascinate.
Miss Brit - I’ve posted on this before - I even have a ghost hunting certificate to PROVE I took a stupid class with a moron. Not dissimilar to my master’s in Clinical Psych but that’s another story….
She - Maybe you should stop telling yourself it’s “nothing”.
Heart in SF - I agree that angels are different beings than spirits. I also think there are a number of spirits types - I have a friend who says that anything with energy has a spirit - so houses, beds, etc. The ancestor thing was just… to be simple, I guess. I”ll be so very jealous if you see a dragon first….
I fully understand how naive we are…and limited (as much as we limit ourselves) in our discouraged thought and contemplation.
But, damn it…I WANT TO KNOW!!! I can’t tell you how much I contemplate existence…almost to the brink of madness.