Here are mine, what are yours?
I believe that ghosts are the souls of people who are not resting peacefully. Someone who was murdered and never got justice, someone who was wrongfully put to death and never recieved a sincere apology from their killer, a spouse who is not with their soulmate, things like that. I also believe that spirits are lost loved ones who look over us in our time of need. They are different from ghosts because they are peaceful in their death but want to look over their families from time to time to make sure that they are okay.
Does this make sense?
2006-06-10 15:55:39 · 18 answers · asked by Sarah 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
YOU DONT SEE GHOSTS. You're not SUPPOSED to.
2006-06-10 16:03:45 · update #1
My beliefs have nothing to do with TV. It's a personal opinion. I don't want that crap in TV and have developed this opinion on my own. I don't think ghosts are out to get anyone they are just looking for peace.
2006-06-10 16:05:30 · update #2
There is a difference between what we call "ghosts" and "spirits". Ghosts are manifestations of restless souls...much as you have surmised. However, it is more often just a case of not being aware that they've passed on. Spirits do not manifest in the form of a 'ghost'...they are souls who no longer have a physical form that sometimes make themselves known to certain 'sensitive' people.
2006-06-10 16:10:36 · answer #1 · answered by Rev Debi Brady 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
First off I'd like to distinguish between spirits and ghosts. Like you, I believe there's a difference. We all have spirits which don't die when we do. Then there are ghosts which are a spiritual imprint or echo attached to a place or thing which can still be semi-sentient. Ghosts aren't always created from the moment of death, but from a moment of profound emotion, usually soon followed by death. Whether or not the ghost and the spirit are connected, and the nature of the connection, I don't know. I suspect that it is a connection which holds back the soul and prevents it from actualizing. It is only be freeing ourselves of these attachments that we can achieve enlightenment. I love and appreciate the spirits, but I have helped free several ghosts.
Subtleties notwithstanding, we both seem to agree that spirits and ghost are different critters, and I'm willing to bet that you would be in favor of freeing a ghost from being trapped. Here's more or less how I usually do it. First I locate the ghost. Next I focus every bit of spirituality I can toward the ghost. I use a ring of candles, spiritual icons, idols, a bible, every spiritual thing I've got, focused on the ghost. It is very important that my intent be to help the thing, not banishment. Banishment is negative, and my entire focus has to be positive. I am bringing all these spiritual things to strengthen it so it has the power to move on. I am empowering it. I have a dialogue with it, and keep the conversation going. Obviously it feels like it needs something, so I am supportive and sit with it. This can take several hours. It's got a lot to work through to get to the point where it is complete enough to no longer remain bound, so it takes time. It will try to connect to me because I'm helping it and there's an emotional connection on its part, but I'm not there for an emotional connection. I'm like a councilor helping a client. I care, but I'm not making a new friend. When it feels like it's ready, then I burn sage, and cleanse the area and allow it to be free and move on, and feel happy for it that it's able to move on.
2006-06-11 04:41:07 · answer #2 · answered by j_doggie_dogg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes perfect sense to me. I hope there is a heaven, where good people go and have the best of everything and see the people they want to see, and know sincere lasting joy. I hope they have something to do that's not thoroughly passive. I hope there is life perhaps different than ours after death. I have hoped to see my dad somehow and connect even from Earth, but it hasn't happened yet. I believe there may be ghosts or spirits, and that they hang around shortly after death to try to figure out what's going on what's happening to them and then they move on to some other dimension or place. I hope the sex is great in heaven.
2006-06-10 16:05:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see what you're saying, but I tend to disagree. I think once you die, you go on to the afterlife, and that's it. I'm a Christian, and the Bible says "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord"
But there have been some people whose spirits have been raised out of their graves, though I'm not sure how.
I have always been taught that there are good and evil angels, and they are the ones who cause most of the spiritual activity we see.
he he. some of the answers on here are funny. I'm basing my answer just as much on life experience as anything else. I've experienced things I couldn't even begin to describe on here.
2006-06-10 16:03:30 · answer #4 · answered by cirque de lune 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they have un-finished business here on Earth. I grew up in a house that had a ghost, I know that she was friendly and she looked out for us kids, unless she was upset about something, then she would throw dishes across the room.
When I had a nightmare, I would feel a friendly hand on my shoulder, but everyone was in bed.
2006-06-10 16:04:27 · answer #5 · answered by sweetgurl13069 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were to state your source for what you believe it is probably TV. That is what contemporary TV writers and producers are presenting in movies and programing. If you look into the Bible I think you would find that ghosts do not exist but evil spirits do. People who die go directly to their place and do not linger on earth. Bible vs TV, you choose.
2006-06-10 16:03:19 · answer #6 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no ghost or spirits. It is something someone put in your mind. Focus on the real world and try to be a good person there
2006-06-10 15:58:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If what you believe does not cause you or anyone or thing around you harm..then believe what you believe. I believe in after life..I also believe in spirits. Why not? And for the inevitable " I am a Christian and the Bible is my source" groups....P L E A S E...The good Lord did give all of his children the ability to also think for themselves...Father ..Son...and Holy Spirit.....Amen
2006-06-10 16:12:21 · answer #8 · answered by ikrav 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A ghost is a soul that has left it's human body but did not cross over.
a spirit is a soul that has left it's human body but HAS crossed over and come back.
2006-06-10 15:59:10 · answer #9 · answered by dougluvn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that makes a lot of sense but i just can't talk about ghost because i have lots of nightmares. That really made alots of sense.
2006-06-10 15:59:45 · answer #10 · answered by Cheryl F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋