June 16, 2008

Around 500 B.C., Siddhartha Gautama, better known as Buddha (or the Buddha), warned his students that the more possessions one accumulates, the more those objects possess the owner. Okay, maybe that is true, you say, but why is the statement in a ghost story blog?

The entities that we call ghosts have not been able to make the break from the earth plane and venture to their destinies in the cosmos after their bodies died. Depending on the intensity of their possessiveness or emotional attachments to things, it might take decades or centuries (as we compute time) for those bonds to be broken, so the soul can move onward. Surely, this is also true for the energy connections that we have to other people (loved or despised individuals) who were prominent in our life. Most people only know the self of the most recent life, ignoring that we are eternal creatures with many existences and personalities behind us. We cannot become who we must be until we let go of who we think we just were.

There seems to be a loneliness or desperation in so many wraiths, some uncompleted task, some unhappy relationship still to be made right, some victory to still be won. All of these are only apparent tasks as, lacking bodies with which to finish those jobs, the game is over and the conscious being must leave the physical plane in order to review its past, learning from a debriefing done with the aid of angels, spirit guides or enlightened individuals, but also an analysis in which the deceased must participate.

Take some time to see where you have hang-ups, unsettled accounts, grudges to be abolished. If you can or will put these to rest and make right your deficiencies before you die (gee, this sounds almost like church, doesn’t it?) your passage into glory will be so much more painful, and your disembodied spirit won’t have to be a story in my books.