I got a book at my local library that has some very interesting insights. It is a book written by the woman that is the main "ghostly" advisor for the tv show "Ghost Whisperer" with Jennifer Love Hewitt. What is interesting about the book is that she disagrees with a lot of the ideas surrounding ghosts.
1. Ghosts do not suck energy from electric devices. Her theory is that ghosts take "emotional energy" from places where lots of people congregate (i.e. movie theatres, bars, homes with children), anywhere that people are active and emotional.
2. Ghosts do not interact with other ghosts, nor can a negative entity hold ghosts away from crossing over. She believes that a light is opened at the time of death and is held open until the final funeral rites are completed. The spirit has the chance to "go into the light" at this time after death. It is up to the spirit whether or not to cross over. She remarks throughout her book that ghosts can easily cross over even after years as a ghost by going to a funeral home and using another's light. That person's light won't dissappear after being used...complicated theory, but interesting.
3. Ghosts cannot predict the future or tell you anything they wouldn't have known in their living lives unless it is something they were able to witness after death since ghosts can go anywhere and see everything. So, I.E. a person is poisoned by their significant other but doesn't know it. As a ghost, they still wouldn't know it, unless, after death, they witnessed their murderer disposing of the chemicals, or their body, etc.
4. Cold spots are fake. She says "earthbound spirits can only create subtle breezes of warm or cool air. Animals can be sensitive to these changes.
5. Ghosts do not walk through people. Ghosts are nervous and uncomfortable around most living people because they know they don't belong among the living.
6. Ghosts do not announce their presence with knocks or with scents. She claims to never have encountered this.
7. All ghosts know they are dead. They are confused because they lost their oppurtunity to go to the light and they don't know where to find the light. Or they don't want to go to the light for several reasons. But they know they are dead.
8. Ghosts don't usually haunt graveyards. No one is there. Since ghosts feed on the emotional energy of the living they congregate where lots of people meet and where lots of emotional energy is present. Such as a movie theatre or a home with a couple teenagers. ( I think BG is the exception, since there always seems to be someone there, and everyone is looking for attention from a ghost)
9. "The Light" may or may not be heaven. The author says that what happens in the light is unknown to her. She admits to "white lies" to spirits to get them to cross cuz she thinks the living have the right of way.
10. Even when she (as a medium) creates "the light" for spirits to cross, they don't always choose to do so. She can't force them to, so she does her best to convince them (here's where the "white lies" come in). I.E. suicide victims are afraid they will go to hell when they go into the light. The author doesn't know where they are going but she tells them it will be fine anyways. Just to get them to go....
Some spirits still won't cross.
11. Infants and young toddlers don't stick around. She says she has never seen one. And adds that her grandma told her that infants and young toddlers had guardian angels that take them over. She admits that this was her grandma's philosophy.
12. Ghosts that stay around loved ones might find that their loved ones get old and die. At this point is when, supposedly, ghosts will seek out a new home. An old ghost will go where there are things to remind him of his old life. A child ghost will seek out a home with children and toys. A teenage ghost will seek other teens or a dance hall or movie theatre, etc.
13. She uses a lot of the same protection that is commonly described. But her personal most powerful protection is "quince seeds". Seeds from a quince, which is a rare citrus fruit.
Some interesting and strange ideas. She is very "Matter of Fact" throughout the book. The book is called When Ghosts Speak by Mary Ann Winkowski. Check it out! Her theories get much deeper throughout the book, I only outlined the basics in this post just to show how different I think her view is. Interesting!
