There is an idea a separation between the material world and a spiritual world exists, but the 2 are much closer than we are often led to believe. Both these aspects exist as energy, one is simply more easy to see with the naked eye.
It's Amusing How Many Physical Pieces of Ourselves We Are Leaving Behind Constantly, Forensics Will Tell You...
You could visit a place and drop your keys and no one would say, "These keys are haunting this place!"
Nail clippings, hairs, dander, our DNA... isn't that strange to think about how much we of our body we are dropping?
Scent is an interesting material that lives on, it's a little more abstract, but very powerful. Have you ever smelled the scent of an ex partner in a room years later? Someone wearing the same perfume or using the soap, and suddenly you are time traveling to familiar days of the past...
These are examples of materials we leave behind, the physical, but there is also energy that is also left.
Energy is deposited, dragged behind, and accumulated. This happens through focus, repetition or traumatic events, and it can create haunting. Here are some examples:
On a personal level, you can create an energy which haunts you. If you have spent many weeks depressed in a room, that room may begin to hold your own depressed energy. In other words: you could create your own darkness by repeating a behavior or thinking and feeling in negative loops, it almost becomes an unintended prayer. When this occurs, if you or others start to notice a bad energy in your sulking room, it is important to do a ritual to clear it out. This involves setting the intention and asking for light and clear energy to return in, move items around, paint the walls, maybe burn some sage to smoke out the heavy energy, or create a prayer that allows for the room to heal and become a place for positive energy to collect. The nice thing about going through the motions of cleaning out your own bad haunting energy, is that it helps both the physical and the mental/spiritual space you are in at the same time. Besides, isn't the body really just a room, and isn't a room and a house just an extension of the body?
The energetic imprints created by a murder or death in the home are interesting, because unlike ghosts they do not interact with the residents, they simply repeat like a recording. One example I heard about from Professor Loyd Auerbach, author of many books on the paranormal including, "Hauntings and Poltergeists" was a scene that was witnessed in a home where the resident awoke from a nap and saw a man kill a woman before his eyes. It was just a terrible vision that played out around the time of day when years before a woman was killed there, not interactive. Interestingly, the resident saw both the victim and killer, while the victim is dead, the murder still lives in jail.
On an unusually similar note a medium who connects with people who have "crossed over" once had a woman come to her for a reading to ask about her grandmother, and the medium immediately noticed that her client had the ghost of a man hanging around, and when the medium pointed it out, her client said, "Oh, that is my ex husband. I am not here for that." And this guy wasn't even dead or anything!
As mentioned, there are imprints and then there are ghosts. Ghosts are interactive, and often loved ones that pass will return to share beautiful messages, and try to give light and comfort to the bereaved-- but this article is looking more at trapped energy, annoying ghosts and haunting imprints. Negative energy is heavy, sticky and trapped, where as positive energy tends to be light, it floats and radiates.
For the most part annoying ghosts that are loud, scary or sad are simply trapped energies. Much like the first example, where you create your own nightmare by experiencing depression or trauma in a space, some people will do the same thing-- where they inhabit a space, dump a bunch of negative energy in it, either through years of mourning and sadness, an unhealthy violent marriage, shame and pain--- whichever, and they leave either to the great beyond, by dying there, or they finally escape and get away from their old energy-- when this happens, if the conditions align, the negative energy can move around, can be a fractured part of who they are. Sometimes these energies can be cleared out through prayer, psychic counseling, ritual, intention, energetic refresh and sometimes you just have to know when to leave.
One thing you should recognize is how powerful energy can be, now imagine how amazing it is when we deposit and accumulate love, joy and happiness! Then we get haunted by happy and leave it behind for others to discover.
I'm quite fascinated in interesting accounts, have any of you had unexplainable stories or ghosts?
I took this photo of an abandoned house in Montana.
