Earth-bound spirits

Q: Hi Willa, I often come across the term "earth-bound spirits." Do you believe there is an evolutionary "slowdown" with such spirits and what do you think compels them so?

A: Earth-bounds spirits. Some people call these ghosts.

First, let me say --- I have been a professional medium for over a decade, so I connect with spirits regularly. That does not mean that I label myself a ghostbuster, a ghosthunter, paranormal investigator, or an exorcist. There are others who specialize in those pursuits.

Regarding "earth-bound spirits", I personally believe that spirits do NOT haunt people and places to the extent that Hollywood would have us believe. Most suspected hauntings turn out to be attributable to non-spirit events, such as air currents and overactive imaginations.

Instead of "hauntings", I encourage you to think in terms of "visitations". Spirits might visit us, but generally they don't stay around long as they have other things to do. See where are they blogpost for more clarification.

Also, sometimes what people are feeling in a so-called 'haunting' is energy buildup from a past event. Using a technique called psychometry, you can feel the energy of a person, a place, or an object. Intuitively, most of us do this anyway when we meet someone or walk into a room. Some past events can cause an intense long-lasting energy residue that some people become aware of and assume they are feeling a person who has passed over.

But back to earthbound spirits ... in my experience, this is rare. And I mean, rare. From time to time, a soul will be confused temporarily, but the evolutionary slowdown usually began during their lifetime on the physical plane.

Here are some possible reasons for their temporary confusion:

• they are afraid that their bad actions will result in punishment of their soul in the afterlife
• they don't 'believe' in an afterlife and they are trying desperately to maintain that illusion
• they wish to remain on the Earth plane because of strong emotional attachments to people and/or places and they don't fully understand yet that they can continue to enjoy wonderful and fulfilling connections with those people and/or places as a Spirit (for some, this may be because of points one and/or two as stated above)

They have lost their sense of direction temporarily. Notice that I keep using the words "temporary" and "temporarily". Each soul does find the light. Eventually, like homing pigeons we all return home. We rediscover our Divine Home, our Divine Light. After all, spiritual progression is eternal and infinite.

Some people "get it"/understand this faster than others. What this means is that awareness of spiritual connection plays a big role in an individual's state of Divine consciousness and therefore in their understanding of so-called Death.

[A special note about sudden traumatic passings: Just because a person passes suddenly and/or traumatically does not mean that they don't know they are 'dead'.]

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