| For years, death has been looked upon as either the | | | | negative or darker energy in this world - many |
| last stop or the transition to some sort of afterlife. In | | | | embodied (particularly during an election year) and |
| more cases than not, the latter holds true. From those | | | | others not embodied. These are not ghosts but energy |
| working as healers over the last twenty years, | | | | patterns. You do not exorcize ghosts, you release |
| however, one thing has become abundantly clear: the | | | | them. Remember energy can neither be created nor |
| truth is not always so well defined. Sometimes those | | | | destroyed. If a great deal of negative energy |
| who have died become trapped and need to be | | | | repeatedly patterns in a specific location, you may pick |
| healed, healed so they may move to the other side, so | | | | up on that negativity. Similar energies will be drawn |
| they may examine their old life and so they may begin | | | | together. If a person has a great deal of personal |
| their planning for a new one. We call these trapped | | | | negativity, they may draw upon similar negative |
| souls "ghosts." | | | | energies in a geographic location. This attraction may |
| Those of us who work as healers often receive calls | | | | manifest in physical patterns such as the movement of |
| to perform ghost clearings. Over the years, separately | | | | objects, but these are not ghosts. An exorcism |
| and as partners, the souls we have helped move to | | | | releases energy patterns. A ghost clearing releases |
| the other side number in the hundreds. During these | | | | actual trapped souls. |
| experiences, many unfortunate thought patterns on the | | | | MYTH: Only those that believe in ghosts will see them. |
| subject of ghosts have come to our attention. Ghosts | | | | TRUTH: Being able to detect the presence of ghosts |
| have gotten a particularly bad reputation over the last | | | | is like tuning to the right radio station by finding the |
| 50-75 years. Between Hollywood and television, | | | | correct frequency. Some people are more sensitive |
| ghosts have been portrayed as ill-tempered, spiteful, | | | | than others at picking up these frequencies. Children, |
| vindictive, and generally "not very nice." The last few | | | | because of their general willingness to be open, |
| years have seen a limited number of more positive | | | | traverse through many different frequencies, and are |
| incidences from Hollywood, but the prevailing picture | | | | much more likely to pick them up. Mildly sensitive |
| remains a negative one. To help heal this unfortunate | | | | people who do not believe in spirits will often ignore |
| imbalance, we would like to address a few of the | | | | repeated attempts to contact them, treating |
| more pervasive negative myths about ghosts: | | | | unexplained incidents as imagination or another equally |
| MYTH: Ghosts are carrying out a grudge and are | | | | "rational" explanation. In one class, we asked if anyone |
| trying to be scary and vengeful. | | | | had lived in a haunted house. When a 13 year old girl |
| TRUTH: Ghosts, for the most part, are disoriented and | | | | raised a hand, her mother looked startled. Their |
| do not know why they are trapped. They manifest | | | | previous house had been haunted and all the things the |
| confusion in their behavior because they do not | | | | daughter pointed out were things the mother |
| understand how to pass out of this reality to the other | | | | remembered but had just rationalized away. In |
| side. The trapped soul will see time going by but not | | | | retrospect, the mother agreed that they had lived in a |
| truly comprehend the changes. Like being stuck behind | | | | haunted house. She realized she had seen all the |
| a glass wall, they will watch the world go by without | | | | evidence of the ghost but at the time simply did not |
| the power to interact with that world. | | | | want to believe that ghosts existed. |
| MYTH: Ghosts will harm you. | | | | Many fallacies and myths exist about the nature of |
| TRUTH: Ghosts want to get your attention, not harm | | | | ghosts, some that we have covered here. Do not |
| you. They are trying to give you clues that they exist in | | | | believe all the stereotypes. If a ghost is drawn to |
| the hopes that you might notice them and help them | | | | communicate with you it may be because you shared |
| escape their limbo state. Often, they will attempt to | | | | the lifetime within which that spirit became trapped. |
| reveal or replay the events that trapped them. The | | | | You passed on and reincarnated, but they did not. |
| ghost generally has no self-interest in harming you. In | | | | Whatever the case, remember that ghosts are merely |
| our experience, a very few isolated spirits have | | | | souls that are trapped on this side. They need our love, |
| harmful intent, but the percentage is negligible. | | | | support and healing so that they can look to the other |
| MYTH: Ghosts are evil. | | | | side and travel to the light. |
| TRUTH: There are things that carry a great deal of | | | | |