SPIRIT OR GHOST-A DIFFERENCE?

"HOW TO TALK WITH SPIRITS: 

SEANCES, MEDIUMS, GHOST HUNTS"

By June Ahern

CHAPTER 2: 

Questions from the Curious Living

Excerpt

The boundaries which divide Life from Death

are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say

where the one ends, and where the other begins?

– Edgar Allan Poe –

PEOPLE ARE CURIOUS about and perplexed by what happens after death, if anything. They wonder what the spirits of the dead might appear as, how and why the spirits communicate, and if the spirits or ghosts should be feared. For centuries and from many cultures and countries, stories about ghosts and their sightings have been shared. The concept of ghosts, as hopeful evidence of life after death, goes all the way back to ancient Egypt. Then it was commonly believed death was merely a transition to some mysterious netherworld of existence.

It is good and reasonable to seek answers to your questions. Ultimately only you can decide for yourself what feels valid. The same and interesting questions about spirits have been asked of me during my forty years of experience with the paranormal. Do ghosts really exist? How do I know if I’ve encountered one? Can I talk to the dead? Are ghosts evil? Shortly before starting this book, I surveyed people curious about psychic phenomenon. Clients, former students, friends, and others sent me the questions below.

• I’ve heard you talk about spirits and ghosts. Is there a difference? To me there is a difference. Although a ghost is the spirit or energy of a person, it has not gone onto a place of peaceful rest. Rather it lingers on Earth reliving the same scene over and over long after it has left the physical body. The majority of times ghosts experienced a sudden, and often tragic, violent death. Ghost manifestations or appearances are often seen as disembodied person spirits. For example, if a person committed suicide by hanging, you might see only the face of that person with a rope tied around the neck. Often, the ghost was a victim who did not receive justice. Some ghosts were perpetrators of a crime. Let’s personalize the concept. You have a situation where you felt unjustly treated, victimized or misunderstood and you play it over and over in your mind. Maybe a one-time which event that hurt or shocked you and you recall clearly what was done and said. You may even still talk about it though it happened years ago. This memory is stuck in your mind, emotions and body and repeats itself as if it was happening all over again. You can’t seem to let it go, bring it to a peaceful or sensible understanding. You may even say something like, “I’ll never get over this.” Well, evidently neither did the ghost. To some degree, there can be a reprieve from the pain of it. You can undergo therapy to help release the sorrow. The ghosts can use your prayers and good tidings for peace.

I have been involved in ghost hunts with a paranormal investigation group named The Haunted Bay: Paranormal SF and Beyond. During the ghost hunt of a San Francisco landmark, The Defenestration Building (closed in July, 2014), we met a ghost of a frightened young woman dressed in only a full slip. She rushed toward me and the filming crew covered in blood. Her terror and quickness made us back pedal to get away. Most likely she was a victim of murder. Although, I was the only one who saw and heard her mentally, the others felt the tension. The woman came only so far down the long hallway then the image of her running toward us repeated. She was stuck in the time and place of her terror. Later, the producer, Ying Liu and cinematographer, Matthew Abaya, returned with a camera to, hopefully, capture the ghost’s image. The photographs show orbits of light and flashing streaks.  

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Do the Dead in Hereafter Really Talk?

I just watched the movie Hereafter with Matt Damon as George, a retired psychic medium, who is called back into service against his will. I know how he felt.

I’m one of those people who easily sees and talks to the dead––those who have passed over. In the movie George tells another how he became psychic: As a child he had become very ill and needed surgery on the back of his head. Because of it something happened in his brain resulting in him “knowing and seeing” things about people he had no prior access to and this information was told to him by dead people.

I appreciated how the scriptwriter presented a correlation between head/brain surgery and changes in one’s psychic abilities. I also had a similar experience where a head injury had awoken my psychic abilities.

When I was nineteen I was in a very serious car accident and received grave injuries to my face and head and for a moment in the ambulance I “died”. That brief moment profoundly changed the course of my life forever, although it took me years to, not only understand what happened, but talk about it openly. Like one character in Hereafter I went to the“otherside”. My experience was like what some others had as described in Life after Life by Dr. Raymond Moody.

The attending physician told my parents that it was nothing short of a miracle that I came through as well as I did. I had blasted through the windshield, bounced back inside the car with glass embedded in my face and eyes. A leg hit the gearbox with such force that it broke it out. No broken bones, no blindness (the biggest concern). The face scars were deep and ugly, but I lived through the initial freaking out. The physical part in time healed but the true miracle was what happened afterward.

Within a couple of months I began to have strong premonitions, about people’s past (recognition) visions of future events (precognition) and dead people spoke to me. It was not pleasant. Heck it scared the bejeevus out of me! Not that I was new to accepting psychic occurrences. My mother had a curiosity in it, even having a few prophetic a few dreams and for fun read tealeaves, but my experiences surpassed this greatly.

Quite a few years later I read in the Time-Warner popular book series “Mysterious of the Unknown” how a head injury often happened before one experienced psychic abilities. The knock opened a part of the brain resulting in this phenomenon.

One of my strong abilities is mediumship and I rather enjoy it. I’ve mostly given up giving spirit communication (aka séances) because of the physically living beings as George experienced.

Of course the dead can be an annoyance as Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) in the movie “Ghosts” learned where she was deluged by spirits all coming through (talking) at one time––it can happen like that when they find a person who can see and hear them.

Do they haunt you like Oda Mae was by the dead character Sam, Patrick Swayze? You bethca! This happened to me once. The spirit didn’t lighten up until the police contacted me for all her information (her killer was successfully prosecuted.)

There are many rewards having these abilities’ and talents. I’ve met people from all over the world and been invited to travel to share my abilities. People have told me the information I shared changed their lives. Then again there’s a downside. In the movie George says that some people say he has a gift, but he thought of it more as a curse. I can relate. The curse is seeing and knowing too much as George says. Psychics do become tired.

Its takes a lot of energy, much focus and a certain detachment as information surges through. I’ve worked with law enforcement and even the believers have a particular way that can make one feel a bit blocked. There’s the need and expectations of clients to fulfill (or not) and neediness of the people seeking help and connections to dead loved ones. Let’s not forget the testing doubters, the ridiculing critics and the condemning haters (oh yes!) of psychics.

After having used my abilities for 40 years I believe that psychic energy must retire and the person must live for her or himself. But then, like George, there’s always that one more person who truly needs that information.

My book, The Timeless Counselor, tells it all - how psychics receive information, psychic readings, how to have a positive experience with and take my ESP test in The Timeless Counselor available as an ebook at www.smashwords.com & Amazon Kindle. See more at www.juneahern.com

RELIGION & PSYCHIC READINGS - PRO OR CON?

Excerpts from "The Timeless Counselor: 

The Best Guide to a Successful Psychic Reading"

Excerpt from Chapter on RELIGION and PSYCHICS 

by June Ahern 

It has been my experience that the majority of Western religions do not view reader/readings positively.  I personally have often encountered controversy regarding my psychic philosophy and work. It is not my purpose to condemn religions or sway anyone’s opinion or change religious beliefs. Rather, my purpose is to share my experiences…

Experiences have taught me that readings need not be, or are, in competition with any religious philosophy.

We psychics and mediums have been grouped together, called false prophets, evildoers, cons or Satan worshippers.

Christ, Himself, speaks to us of using the power within. He, Himself, possessed super normal powers. He healed, prophesied, He read minds, appeared after death…

Mediumship is communication with spirits. Religion talks about life after death. Clairvoyants see future visions. Prophets spoke of future events. Many religious people speak of communicating with God (or their Higher Power) mentally through prayer.

A reading can certainly allow you an opportunity to look at your spiritual growth as well as view your religion differently to deepen it through having a stronger spiritual connection.

What are your thoughts on psychic readers and religious beliefs?

June Ahern's non-fictions:

A MUST READ BEFORE A PSYCHIC READING: My complete consumer's guide: The Timeless Counselor: The Best Guide to a Successful Psychic Reading.

"How to Talk With Spirit: Mediums, Seances, Ghost Hunts": in a loving way and safely communicate with spirits on all levels
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