What’s the difference between a ghost and a spirit?
Why do ghosts interact with people, haunting houses and often creating fear in the living?
I feel that there is something, energy or activity, around my home or me. Is it a ghost?
What’s the difference between a ghost and a spirit?
A ghost is a person who has passed from this life but has not moved on or transitioned to their next level. They often have issues they need to work on before they cross over to the spirit level of their journey.
A spirit is a person who has passed from this life and has transitioned to the next level, also known as crossing over. By crossing over, spirits are able to further their growth in another plane. Among the spirits are spirit guides who help us in our day-to-day lives.
Why do ghosts interact with people, haunting houses and often creating fear in the living?
Ghosts tend to need help in one way or another. They can be upset about how they died, about something that happened to them while they were living, or something they felt they should have finished in life. Just like the living, they need help and support to resolve their issues. So in addition to relieving the fear of those living in a haunted space, a clearing can help the ghost as well.
I feel that there is something, energy or activity, around my home or me. Is it a ghost?
Not necessarily. This is why it is helpful to have training or to work with someone who has learned about contact from spirit entities. There are many kinds of spirit contact, and they are not always something to fear.
A passed loved one or spirit guide may be contacting you to provide comfort, or make you aware of something that could be important.
On occasion a ghost will make contact with you because they know you have relations with someone that can help them in their situation. They seek you out as a go-between, and you can assist in this situation by consulting a medium.
Besides spirit and ghost energy, there is also what we call loop or imprint energy. An example is the energy that stays in the area where a significant event occurred, such as a fight that ended in injury to someone. This event energy can become stuck in a loop in this place, much like a video clip that plays over and over again. Sometimes you may even have an impression in your mind’s eye of what happened there. Breaking this loop is important so you can claim the space as your own, and to free the loop energy to join the universal energy around us for the greater good.
Imprint energy is similar to loop energy but it is generally imprinted on an object as opposed to a space. For example, if you bought a bedside table at a garage sale that belonged to a person who was sick in bed for a long time, that negative energy can be imprinted on the table. You can also have objects with a loving energy imprint that makes you feel great. Imprint and loop energy are formed by positive feeling and negative feeling. If it is negative, clearing is advised so it does not mix with your energy field. Dissipation of loop and imprint energy is very common during house clearings.
Am I psychic?
All of us are born with psychic abilities. Almost everyone has had the experience of knowing who is calling before you even answer the phone. Or knowing what a friend is about to say before they say it. To develop your psychic abilities you need to practice to awaken your intuition and become more sensitive to psychic phenomena around you.
What is a medium?
There are many types of mediums, but in general terms a medium is a psychic who has developed their energy sensitivity to make contact with spirits. Like any skill, this ability can become stronger with practice.
What is a clairvoyant?
A clairvoyant (meaning clear-sighted) is a psychic who sees images, visions, pictures or even what looks like live action sequences of things that are obscured from regular vision. This is their main gift and although they may have others, their extra-sensory ability to see is their main way of helping you find what you are looking for.
To learn more about your psychic abilities and to develop them further, contact John for one-on-one Psychic Awareness Training or take the Spiritual Attunement Certificate Program. See the Classes page for more information.
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