Spirits

Introduction

Spirits, or spiritual entities, are beings which do not reside in physical form; but, rather, in a form that is energetic. It is the form which the soul is believed to be before it incarnates into a physical body as either a mineral or rock, plant, animal or insect, tree or human. A spirit is said to be an entity which animates or objects living or non-living. However, some spirits do not ever incarnate into a physical body. These types of spirits are known as elemental spirits, angels or archangels, and devas. Someone who channels the spirits of the deceased (people) are called mediums.

Spirits

Is there a place that people go to when they die physically? That is a question that has niggled at man's curious mind for centuries. What happens when people die physically? Does their spirit rise out of their dead body, to enter the ether? Or is physical death really the end? Many cultures share a fundamental belief in the afterlife and the place where spirits reside after having finished their physical lifetime (called the Spirit World). Is it mere fantasy or wishful thinking that our existence lives on even if physical life doesn't? 

    At the end of the physical lifetime the soul is believed to exit the body, to enter the Spirit World. Here, the soul (or spirit) converses with their spirit guides or helpers, discussing with them what lessons they had learned in their previous lifetime and what lessons they must learn in the next. It is at this point that the soul "downloads" necessary skills or knowledge ready for their next lifetime.

    It is said that young children can remember details of their 'past lives'. However, as they get older, these memories disappear and by the time they become teenagers, these are forgotten. Some people believe that through past life regression, it is possible to "access" some of these past lives. Furthermore, some think that physical illness is a result of trauma of some sort from a previous lifetime. Could this be a suitable explanation for defected babies and if so, what sort of trauma cause the condition they were born with and why? Did their soul wish to have the condition in order to learn specific lessons? 

   Spiritually speaking, nothing just "happens". Everything happens for a reason. Not by coincidence. We have lives according to the choices our souls made prior to our birth (choices made with the assistance and perhaps the suggestion or advice of our spirit guides). We chose to have particular souls as our members of family in this lifetime prior to birth. We chose our parents. We chose our friends. The people one meets along their spiritual path during their lifetime, under whose guidance they might learn about particular things, were not met by coincidence, but because the person's soul had arranged to meet them previously. Family, friends, boyfriends or girlfriends in this lifetime are souls who belong to one's "soul group", the group of souls with which one has many countless lives with. A soul who may be someone's mother in this lifetime may have been that person's son in a previous lifetime. If everything happens because the soul had meant for it to be so, then life has some sort of purpose which only the individual soul knows.
  According to http://shaheenmiroinsights.com/2014/10/30/how-to-distinguish-between-ghost-spirits-and-other-types-of-hauntings/, a spirit "...is someone who has passed, crossed the great dived, and now lives peacefully in the upper layers… to put it simply they are in Heaven. These beings are completely aware of who they are, where they have come from, and where they are currently. When they passed, they accepted the transition and walked peacefully through the tunnel to the Other Side.
When a person transitions to the Other Side, and becomes a “spirit” they have complete awareness. Moving freely between levels, they are not stuck, bound or attached… rather they are able to communicate with us, visit us, and send us healing and messages. And even give us proof of their survival and life after death."

  

Ghosts

According to http://shaheenmiroinsights.com/2014/10/30/how-to-distinguish-between-ghost-spirits-and-other-types-of-hauntings/  "A ghost is the spirit of a person who has passed on, but hasn’t moved on. For some reason they are “stuck” in the lower levels. Usually stemming from greed, guilt, pain, or a sudden death. Something has made them cling to the physical world, and not accept that they are meant to move on into the healing light of the Divine.

The presence of a ghost is actually sad to experience because they basically exist in a twilight space. We perceive them as shadows, kind of looming, creepy and intangible. They actually experience us in much the same way, perceiving us as strangers in their “world”."

 
Hauntings

According to http://shaheenmiroinsights.com/2014/10/30/how-to-distinguish-between-ghost-spirits-and-other-types-of-hauntings/ "The average Haunting is an Imprint. An imprint is the residual energy left over from a traumatic event that took place within a space, or the psychic impression left behind from high energy, or route people.

For example: if a person lived in a house for 30 years, and always practiced singing in the living room, you may experience some phantom singing in that same space. There is no ghost haunting the space, it is just the strong psychic impression left behind from the route… the event is basically on repeat.

Most hauntings tend to be this kind of energetic loop that continues to happen. The energy that is left behind is a cycle that continuously plays through, but it does NOT interact with people. If you are experiencing an imprint it will not interact with you. Interaction is a sign of a ghost."

   People, known as 'sensitives' (a medium or psychic), who are "sensitive" to the subtle psychic energies (and spirits too), can pick-up on or tune in to the energy imprint of hauntings and essentially read it like they would with psychometry.

 
The elemental spirits

According to the Orient's belief, there are elemental spirits in existence. These spirits look after the four different earth elements. Nymphs and mermaids tend to the element of water; dragons tend to the element of fire; undines and gnomes tend to the earth and reside in caves and underground places, whilst sylphs and fairies tend to the element of air. These beings cannot be seen. However, when there is imbalance on Earth, these elementals have their work cut out. It is their job to maintain the equilibrium or balance of the elements to which they are all assigned.

Devas

Every house, garden and piece of land, no matter how small, has its own spirit tending to it, according to spiritual philosophy. This spirit is called a "deva".