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Earlier you mentioned you had spoken to several. Would you please give me a flavour of what you asked them and what they replied? It might help me understand their situation.
Free souls are the ones most people think of when they say ‘ghosts’. Sometimes they get stuck here (more often they get stuck/lost elsewhere – between here and the land of the dead). Then it’s often a case of simply talking, chatting until they are ready to trust that when you tell them that they are dead and that you can get them to where they need to go you actually know what you are talking about. Doing a power retrieval for them often helps. After they have power retrieved, they often realise for themselves that they are dead and remember that they should go to the land of the dead. After that, it’s just a matter of taking them.
Body souls are the spirit of the body and will become nature spirits as the body decays and becomes part of nature. They are occasionally seen (or otherwise detected) by people who are sensitive, and mistaken for ghosts. Most ‘ghosts’ that are seen in cemeteries and graveyards are body souls. There’s no need to do anything unless they are causing trouble, but soothing words and reminding them that the dead and the living are separate is usually enough. Some will attach to a living person and cause problems. Then the conversation is telling them that I know what is going on and can get them somewhere they will feel at home.
House spirits rarely cause trouble except in three main circumstances. First is when the person in the house has just learnt some shamanism and is practicing journeying at home. The house spirit realises that the person can talk to spirits but isn’t talking to them and thinks, “How rude!” The house spirit may then do things to attract attention – popping light bulbs, breaking the washing machine etc. I’ve spoken to several house spirits in this situation and explained that this is all a mistake and the person simply didn’t realise. I apologise (with the person’s permission, of course) on his/her behalf and all is generally well. The person journeys and gets to know the house spirit.
Another situation is where the building has changed use – Something built as a family home is split into flats, for example. This can really annoy the house spirit – “Whoever heard of a kitchen upstairs?” is a direct quote. Sometimes I can explain what has happened and the house spirit is mollified. Sometimes the spirit has to be replaced with a spirit who can cope.
The third common way is an extension of the other two – someone has thought they have a ghost (and/or a poltergeist) and called in either a priest or someone from the local spiritualist church. There are few things as angry as a house spirit that someone has tried to exorcise!
If the ‘ghost’ is a memory of the land or building spirit then (assuming it is a traumatic memory – happy ones don’t matter but are also unlikely to be repetitive) a healing (extraction and soul retrieval) can be done for the spirit.
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Hi mac,
Now that Crowan has explained the meanings of spirits as far as Shamans would understand, it makes sense to me that in certain cases, there are 'body spirits.' I have undertaken paranormal investigations, which bear this out, both from my own experiences and those of others closer to the 'source.' An investigation, which I was involved in concerning a well-known cemetery bears all the classic symptoms of the entity being a 'body spirit.' We left the spirit be, knowing that in time, it will decay along with its body and eventually leave.
On another point you made (and I think Crowan made it too) is that many folks go on ghost hunts for a bit of thrill seeking without the knowledge or intention to move a stuck spirit from its place, to where it should go. Myself and a group of friends tried this on a ghost hunt and were scolded by the organisers, saying, 'If you send the ghosts on, we can't have ghost hunts here.' What a nasty thing to say to those offering to help others.
Patsy.