Ghosts are People Too Part 4 – What Can We Learn?
To Our Readers:
This is the continuing email conversation about Ghosts between my old friend McFly and I to help him with his Ghost Tours of New Orleans. Here are Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 if you haven’t read them yet.
Dearest Mcfly,
Here is some more fertile fodder for your ghost tours…
BTW Just so happens I am doing a ghost busting tomorrow morning in the Village. Possibly, a crusty old man who may not be too keen on kids. There are now two young kids in “his” house. We shall get to the bottom of it! : ) Now on to your questions…
4. What can we, the living, learn from the existence of ghosts?
Well, just off the top of my head…
- Life is much bigger than what we can see in 3D.
- There is life after death.
- We are all Spirit.
- Ghosts are people too.
- There is no such thing as coincidence.
- When we die, unfinished business in this life can keep us bound to earth.
- Ghosts give us a first-hand view of history.
- What you resist persists.
- We create our own reality.
- The paranormal is actually normal…
A bit about ghosts…
Unlike our higher Spirit form, ghosts can only be in one place at a time – so ghosts have another similarity to us here on earth. Spirits, on the other hand, can be in several (who knows how many) places at once. Another characteristic we talked about that separates higher Spirits from ghosts, is that ghosts still have their egos very much intact – if they were bullies on this side, well, once a bully always a bully. When we move to our higher Spirit form, our ego falls away.
But here’s the underlying message about ghostly egos:
If you stay in the astral planes as a ghost, you still create your reality just as we do here in the physical world: Those who had a particular ego on earth will still “be” as they were in the astral planes (nice, happy, sad, disgruntled, victim etc). In Spirit, we only see love. There are no problems. There is only joy.
Like attracts like, or two sides of the same coin unite.
From what I’ve learned, ghosts with similar energies or co-dependencies will hang out together, just as we do here on earth. For instance, if you were a drug dealer, thief and/or pimp, you’ll probably be hanging out with other drug dealers, thieves and pimp ghosts. If you were not able to stand up for yourself on this side and you get stuck in the astral planes, you could be bullied by the bully ghosts, or alternatively find a ghost in shining armor to watch over you.
Ghosts enjoy the freedom after a succumbing to a long illness.
I met a ghost at an old resort we stayed at on a family vacation. This man had been a longtime visitor to the resort – he and his wife rented a cottage for their family to visit every year. But he became seriously ill in his final few years, making those visits very difficult on him and his wife. He’d died a few weeks before our arrival.
I saw him now hanging out with his family, enjoying his time with them – and the freedom and feeling of ‘wellness” that he had in his current form that he didn’t have while alive and still attached to his disintegrating body. His wife was very pleased to know she wasn’t going crazy and knew why she was not missing him – since he was right there beside her. (That’s a story I need to post!)
Ghosts attach onto energy that they recognize or died in.
Ghosts tend to stay tied to one place – in a space with energy they are comfortable with. Places that tend to be haunted are bars (a hot spot for ghosts who had alcohol addictions in life), theaters (oh, the DRAMA), old hotels, old homes, old churches, old cemeteries, old schools, battlefields, antique stores…
Anywhere there has been trauma, drama, a place of past rituals, or places that have been touched by layer upon layer of history, you have the opportunity for ghosts. Even new buildings can be haunted because of previous incidences that happened on the land the building sits on.
That’s not to say ghosts won’t travel.
They do! (You won’t read that in most books). Hotels are common places for ghosts – where people will bring in ghosts that are attached to them, then the ghost may break off because they like the feeling of the new space they are in, or they may attach on to another person they feel more comfortable with. Even airplanes will have their share of ghosts that are attached to people who are traveling. Anywhere you have a confluence of people you have the opportunity for ghosts. You could bring one home with you if you are not aware.
If a ghost likes your energy, they can glom onto you and travel with you significant distances. We had a ghost travel with us from the big city, to a friend’s farm to our home in the country – a distance of some 1200 km and 4 days of travel time. (Yet another story I must post.)
A sailor, a convict or a pirate?
I had a friend who lived in that quirky little group of little Caribbean cottages on the beach. Remember Duppy Walk? I’d always wondered why they called it Duppy Walk (Duppy is the Jamaican term for ghost. ) My friend’s boyfriend, an electrical engineer, filled me in about the Duppy component: He’d been walking along that stretch of beach one morning and a jovial black man showed up beside him, smiled at him, and then disappeared.
I was walking along the same stretch of beach one afternoon a year later, and a black man appeared under a nearby grape tree, smiled at me with a big toothy grin, winked at me, and by the time I’d blinked he’d vanished. What stayed with me was his black and white striped shirt.
I thought about this for months, trying to figure out who he was. And then it dawned on me: Located underwater and about ¼ mile off shore in front of Duppy Walk, are the unmarked remains of those ten tall ships that ran aground on the outside of the reef. Apparently, it’s also the site of numerous other unknown shipwrecks.
Could this man have been one of the sailors – and from which wreck? Or maybe he was a former occupant of the local jail that used to be situated in the nearby town at about the same time period? Or maybe he was just a pirate – it was a hotbed for piracy back then too. Or maybe he was a merchant sailor off a wreck who later ended up in jail for piracy? It was one of my earlier encounters with ghosts so I had lots of questions.
Ghosts tend to show themselves to intuitive people.
Some people have developed their psychic abilities and are open to the presence of ghosts, so tend to see them. Other people are just naturally tapped in to the other side whether they want to or not: These people often aren’t aware that they have open psychic pathways within themselves – like clairvoyance (seeing), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (sensing), – so they may attract and interact with ghosts and not even know why this is happening “to them”. They don’t realize that it “is them” – their energetic frequency is a magnet for ghosts.
This is why ghost encounters can force us to open us up to our own spiritual selves and intuitive abilities. Alternatively, we can let these encounters freak us out so much we try to block off our psychic pathways whether we are aware of them or not. Blocking these experiences of is not a good idea since one of the natural spiritual laws states “What you resist persists.”
A bit about Ghost Tours
It’s been noted that people who set up ghost tours tend to be more intuitive and have had experiences that they want to share. The other thing is, large ghost tours may cancel out the energy of the ghost. Remember what I said about too many people in a haunted space? It can be difficult to feel the energy of the ghost.
When I went on the ghost tour at the Queen Mary (several years after I’d been having these ghostly experienced during my stays there) I felt NOTHING. but there were 20 people on the tour. The 1 ½ hour tour produced zero ghostly encounters. I mentioned to a few of the obviously disappointed tour goers, “If you really want a guaranteed ghost encounter you should book my room next time!”
McFly, I’ll answer your ghostly question #5 in the next email… (Part 5 What do they want from us?)
Hugs,
Tida (a.k.a The Accidental Medium)
— With thanks to Spirit for infinite return.
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