

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
First off let's start by explaining exactly what I mean by religious tolerance. Every since the day I came out of the "broom closet" and made it known to those around me that I was not a Christian but a Pagan I have had some issues with religion. Of course, my family does not understand my choices but they do their best to ignore it and hope this phase passes. But since this phase is going on 26 years I don't think it is going to pass.
Of course most of society assumes that America is a Christian country and that Americans are Christians. According to Religioustolerance.org (yes there is a website) the population of Christians in America is as of 2001 76.5% which is a decline from 1990 when the amount was 86.2%. That is a far cry for all Americans being Christians. In fact it notes that the fastest growing religion in America is Paganism and Wicca. Now I am not trying to get all the Christians to start a witch hunt on me, I am just pointing out that not every American is the same.
As far as us Non-Christians having religious tolerance, we don't necessarily have a choice. Christianity is forced down our throats at every turn, the Pledge of Allegiance was changed in 1954 by adding the line "One Nation under God" which is okay, if you clarify what god we are under. But, since it was done during the McCarthy area we all know it is under the Christian god and not any other religious god. As a kid I never said the pledge and not because of this line but because I was against giving my allegiance to anyone or any country until they proved to me they were worthy. As of today, their worth has still to be proven. As a child in school we said a prayer every morning before class started, I didn't care because it did not matter to me it was just another thing we did in the morning.
As I grew up and started identifying with my own religious beliefs, I started to see how one sided people could be. Chances were when they found out I was Pagan I would get the speech about going to hell, and worshipping Satan. I just found them funny, because in order to worship someone or something you have to believe in them first and in order to be relegated to hell you have to believe that is where you are going. Since Pagans do not believe in either of those it was just a silly comment to me. Now these same people come to me when they need a "spell" for something, such as, healing, a job, money, vengeance, etc. When they need something and are not getting by their normal means I am their new best friend. I simply tell them that my religious beliefs are not available for their amusement and if their god did not see fit to give them what they were asking for I doubt my would do so. This causes them to get pissed off at me and just assume everything I believe in is fake because I can't snap my wand and give them a million bucks. Oh well, one less person on the Yule card list.
Okay, now that I have ranted and knocked the soap box over with my tirade what am I getting to? The last several months have been filled with me reading every book on mediums and life after death experiences. Why? Because I am weird, but a lot of these books that I end up reading are coming from someone within the Christian community. They are devote Christians or Catholics and they know that their "gift" is not in line with what their religion teaches. But, they still do it and they make their "gift" fit into their belief system. I am almost certain that if you told the pope that you could communicate with dead people he would tell you it was evil as would most ministers and pastors out there. It is something that religions can not explain and the ministers and leaders do not have access to this ability so therefore it is wrong.
The latest book I just finished reading was called "Beyond These Four Walls" by Mary Rose Occhino she is a devote Catholic and she even tells you what she does goes against the Catholic Church but she does it anyways. I am now starting "Talking to Heaven" by James Van Praagh who is a very well renowned in the ghost hunting arena and his book starts of talking about meeting god and by the description he gives I can only assume it is Christianity based and he talks about being raised Catholic but he left the church due to their limited beliefs.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I get a book like this is "Oh great, another one about Christianity" and many times I will stop reading them. But the last few weeks my guides have pushed these books on me. For some unknown reason I keep picking them up and not putting them down. I start to read and see that is coming from a religious point of view and still I read on. I was baffled, what was going on here?
According to Z it was time for me to learn the lesson of Religious Tolerance and by that they mean that I am to learn how to not only accept Christians for their beliefs but to also listen to them and learn from them what I need to learn. They told me that the information is the same as if a Buddhist gave it to me. I take what I want and let the rest go. But, I have issues doing that with Christians. Apparently Christians are the only ones I have issues with, probably because they are so outspoken about how wrong I am in their eyes and they are the only ones that try to convert me to their way of thinking. So I am starting another book about a Christian who is a medium, who goes against the basic beliefs of the Christian church to do his own thing. I am hoping this lesson will be fast and painless, because with elections coming up I know I will get more visits at my house from those who want me to vote for someone based on their beliefs about God and I know my response will be to hold Tau up and tell them that we are voting for Satan our leader. Just to see the look of horror on their faces.
Ahh…Good times.
There is an old saying that goes
“in life there are only two guarantees in this world…tax and death”
This is absolutely true, you have to pay your taxes; or you go to jail and we all have to die. It is as much apart of life as being born. There is no getting around it everyone of us will die.
I am in no way an official on death; I simply get it better than most people do. It has never been a scary thing for me. With the help of ghost hunting, reading every book written by mediums, psychics and anyone who works with spirits or ghosts and information from the guides I have been given more information than most people have on dying and the afterlife; of course this is mostly because I ask for it and want to know.
As I start to prepare to ask the resident ghosts of my house to move on I am once again hit with the question of where will they go? This is a question I use to fight over when we would do ghost hunting. There are people who claim that we should send the spirits into the light, they claim the spirits have to move on. I agree but it is our responsibility to do this? Spirits are not stupid beings, they are very intelligent and for the most part they know why they have not crossed over. So what happens when you die? Well here is my perspective of the whole deal and maybe after I go over this again I will feel better about asking my spiritual friends to move on and start the next part of their existence.
Every body has a shelf life; you are only allotted so much time in your body. Some bodies are meant to last for a long time 100 years and over is not unheard of now a days. Some bodies are only here for a few minutes. Either way they are not meant to be here forever. Your spirit on the other hand does not have a shelf life; it has more of an educational life. Your spirit goes on lifetime after lifetime until you have learned everything you were meant to and once you have learned all there is to know your lifetimes end and your spirit becomes an enlightened being.
When a person’s time to leave comes they can go in so many different ways I could not possibly name them all so we will focus on the 2 that are most common. The first one is they are old or sick and they die with their family and friends around them. This is the way everyone wants to end their life here, quietly and peacefully, getting the chance to say our goodbyes and tell everyone we love them. The second is a fast unexpected death by accident or murder or even suicide. Usually there is no family, they are alone and scared, suicides are confused mentally, they are emotional and they are not thinking in the right frame of mind.
Any of these situations can cause a spirit to linger after the body dies. If they are old or sick, they may not want to leave their family, they are worried about what will happen to their spouse, kids, pets, etc. So they decide to stay around and watch over them. In the second situation they may simply not believe they are dead.
From what I understand when the body dies and the spirit is let free; there is something to indicate it is time to cross over. Most people like to believe there is a white light and that you go into the white light. Me I hope it is not that passé, I kind of think of the moment of crossover is like the airport. On one side of the turnstile gate are all my friends and relatives, the ones I like anyway, waiting for me to come through the terminal. There will be music, food, drinking and laughter it will be a huge party just for me.
This part of the “death process” is where you make some vital decisions. You can either go into the revolving door at the terminal or you can stay behind and let the door keep turning. For those of us still living let me give you a more normal example.
You wake up and it’s just another day you have to get out of bed and go to work. But, you can decide whether to go in or not. You know there will be consequences; if you are not on good grounds with your boss you may get fired for taking another day off, or you may just loss some vacation days. On the other had if you go in to work, you may have the best day ever and get that top account you have been working on. So there are choices to be made. Cross over is the same way, if you stay, you get stuck in a world where you can not be seen by your loved ones, you can not be heard by them and you get to watch it all from the unseen world you now live in. However, if you crossover then you can come back and forth anytime you like. There are no restrictions on your movements. You are still unseen by most of the living but you are better able to control your movements and interactions with them.
So what happens to those who stay here? Like I said they end up in a lonely unseen world trying to get those they love to notice them. But, for the people living they start causing problems in their lives. They can affect the emotions of those around them, first off the family is grieving and not in their normal frame of mind. They are craving one more interaction with you and you see this from the existence you are in. You try to get them to know that you are there and when they can’t you get frustrated. Your loved one picks up this frustration and you falsely think they know you are there. It is a vicious cycle that never ends in a good way. Your loved ones are stuck in the cycle of not being about to start the healing process and your spirit is stuck in the cycle of not crossing over.
So what do you do when you realize you have a spirit in your house that should have crossed over but didn't? Well stayed tuned and I will fill you in on my life with a pissed off ghost and my plan to make her leave.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Ghost hunting was no longer fun for me after the death of a close friend a few years ago. I felt as if I was a peeping tom. I would burst into a building and force them out of their hiding places and allow the public to see them. It just all of the sudden seemed wrong. I knew that if I wanted to have spirits around me all I had to do was look, they were always around me. So I stopped ghost hunting.
When I met Dr. Melanie Robinson for the first time, the very first thing she did was ask me about all the spirits around me. Why were there so many of them? I explained the whole ghost hunting experiences and then giving it up. She told me that even though I gave it up, the ghosts did not get the memo. I may not be hunting them but they were certainly hunting me.
The thing about ghosts is that once they know you are aware of them it is a never ending whirlwind of fun. It’s not like on TV and I am standing there and a see through person walks through my house. I don’t usually see them at all, I sense their energy and they sense mine. I can sense them moving in my house, I can sense them entering and leaving, the whole vibration of the energy changes when they are around. For those with me at the time, if they are not sensitive to the changes they usually do not know when a spirit is around. However, when the spirit gets tired of their presence not being acknowledge by EVERYONE in the house they can start “playing” with those people. They will start making noises, not chains dragging across the floor, but footsteps, laughing, talking, etc. They will start moving things, opening and closing doors, turning lights on and off, that sort of thing. Until they are either reprimanded by me or the other person finally acknowledges their presence.
Over the years I have had people call or email me to tell me about this evil demon that resides in their house. They will tell me all the horrible things this demon is doing. They can describe in detail the marks, bruises, pushing, shoving and choking that this demon is doing to them. These are cases I do not deal with and there is a reason for that. I have never in my entire life allowed anyone alive or dead to violate my physical body. A ghost can only exist in this world by the energy put off by a person. I have never experienced a ghost hurting me, hitting me, shoving me, scratching me or anything else of that nature. I have had them touch me, whisper my name, bang around the house, jump on the bed, sit on the bed, move the blinds (Harrison's personal favorite way to annoy me) and of course mess with the dogs. I personally feel that in order to deal with a ghost it helps to know what the person is experiencing and since I have never experienced it and to be honest I do not usually believe them I don't want to deal with it. 9 times out of 10 these people are looking for some Hollywood version of an exorcism and I am not giving them one. They also have attached so many religious connotations to their haunting that I wonder if they are in their right mind to start with.
So you may be wondering why I am giving you a lesson in Living with at Ghost 101 and it is because of the last few days I have found out a lot about the ghosts that reside in my home and what damage they can do to your life. Up until 3 or 4 days ago, I would have never guessed a ghost could actually interfere with my life for their own personal reasons but I was wrong. Now to fix what one in particular has done, I am cleaning house and sending them into the light, the universe, the neighbors house, I don't care where they go but they have to leave my house.
I have not done the work yet because we just left a new moon and ghosts get surges of energy on the new moon and the full moon. So to work around the moon is always best but you want to do the work with the moon coming up not leaving. So I will wait until the next full moon to do the actual work. In the meantime, I am talking to them and explaining what is going on and why, there is only one that is causing problems but it is not a healthy thing for them to live in some one's house permanently. They have left this world and the next phase of their evolution is to move on into the next world or at least spend 75% of their time in the next world and come back here to haunt those who deserve it.
Coming up I will explain what and who is causing all my trouble.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
