Everyone,
I think this has been touched on before, but since ghosts seems to be part of the human experience, does anyone have any ideas about what they might be?
Love,
Patsy.
xxxx
Do you mean "what is a ghost?" (spirit of dead person) or "what are the things that people mistake for ghosts?"
Do you mean "what is a ghost?" (spirit of dead person) or "what are the things that people mistake for ghosts?"[/quote
Both really, Crowan. I have a notion about them: spirits of the dead/living, and a 'recording' of past emotions.
What would a shaman make of them?
Love,
Patsy.
xxx
This is something I am not sure of myself. Sone cling to the living.
Hovering around wondering what has happened to them....
Some are "free souls" (the part of us that carries our awareness into death - the bit most people mean when they say "soul") who are stuck here. (Most stuck souls are not here and therefore aren't perceived as ghosts.) They need help.
Some are what you refer to as a 'recording' - I understand these to be the memories of spirits of buildings or land. Sometimes these spirits are traumatised by what they have seen or experienced and keep replaying it over in their memories. The house or land may then need help.
Some are land spirits and house spirits who belong where they are and who don't need any help.
Some (particularly those who 'haunt' graveyards and cemeteries) are the "body soul". They occasionally need help but usually not.