The Truth about Ghosts – Metaphysically Uncovered

By Andrew Garley

The Construct of the Physical/Spiritual body’s:

To really understand what a ghost is we need to look at some of the constructs of the Human body/spirit body’s to clearly understand what they are:
The Physical body we know well, it is the vehicle with which we interface with the physical world.

We are multi layered and rather than the concept of out wards we go inwards, so at the very core of our being is the divine spark the very essence of our life, given birth from the solar logos the creator of all life; some may choose to call the supreme intelligence by the name of god, or by others names. (This light is what you see as a ball of light or commonly known as an orb in paranormal circles) I am not going to list all the body’s but cover briefly a basic more will be published in Metaphysics..

The body is the furthest outer shell like the crust. The next body in is the Lower Etheric Body, this like the body is mortal too and often dies some time after death if we migrate to our home in the astral world. If this body feeds off etheric energy from the physical world a person may use this body as dose a ghost. Most people shift their whole personality and memories into this at death and then ascend to higher bodies where etheric energy is not needed and is in abundance.

The next is the second level etheric body this is immortal.

The Soul or spirit controls the physical body through the etheric body, it is like an interface.

The Etheric body is the main power source for the physical body which takes energy from the Universe and distributes energy via the complex chakra and meridian paths. It also handles all information and vibrations from finer higher frequency levels filtering them into the body’s senses. The lowest etheric is also the densest of the higher spiritual body’s, which resonate at a much higher frequency than that of the physical body.

It is also know and the Energy Body and is a highly complex system of bio energies.

If the Etheric Misaligns you cannot wilfully move your body, this is also what happens when you have general Anaesthetic, also one of the main reasons for sleep paralysis if your etheric moves away from the physical then you cannot move it. (as it does when you are asleep) Moving on you then you have astral bodies for living or visiting the Astral Worlds. Then the mental Body’s, celestial and so on.

Approx there are 7 planes and within each plane is 7 sub planes, But rather than a divide between level 1 and 2 they blend and merge, To give an example in music terms rather than one note on a keyboard or Guitar played and the next note up played, It’s like Glissando or a fretless bass sliding with no intervals.
Many people see Spirits of people because the 4th Dimension blends with the higher 3rd Dimension where we live.

The same can be said of a rainbow, it blends from one colour to the next, as is the same with the Spirit worlds.
All life is energy and frequency, Energy only changes states it is never destroyed. Energy changes as dose mass with frequency or Vibration. Some teaching say there are 12 planes, in an infinite creation it can be all things and depends on where you are viewing things from, a contradiction yes but let’s not get stuck in metal dogma.

Not many people know this but the earth is part of the astral realm, but it is like the physical body the outer densest, slow vibrating so that it is solid. Next level to the Physical world is the lower Etheric, This is only slightly out of phase to the physical, its much like the visible spectrum we only see a small band, the same with sound, The lower etheric is both invisible and in audible, much like TV transmission, we cannot touch feel or see but it is there, and need a tuner to see images and sounds, This is what a medium dose, they retune to receive impressions and information. This plane is so close that inhabitants in this etheric world can with energy taken from our world and surroundings and can manipulate matter to a limited degree. In the etheric plane there is no time, time is only in the physical and in its self is an illusion. In space it has been proved that time is not constant. Later on that one.

As we stand right here and now we can at will visit the Astral Worlds, yes with training and practice.

Every single night our etheric leaves our body and at the very least hovers above our body, taking energy from the spirit planes to recharge us, others go travelling into the astral planes and some become lucid and fully aware they are out of their body, As I have done many times. A technical Note: The human Brain dose store memories, but all memory is stored outside of the physical body, when you enter an Etheric Body, Astral Body etc, you have with you a complete memory or who you are and what you have done up to the point you left your body.

The same thing happens at death, you feel no different, you believe the same things and think the same, good or bad depends on how evolved you are.
The only difference between astral projection and death is simply we cannot come back to the physical plane or our body, and our consciousness now remains within our etheric or astral body, rather than inside our physical.

Things are just as real and solid as there are here in this world. One of the biggest problems people face when they die is things are so real, they don’t even know they have died! As you migrate up the planes things change, more on that later.

I really hate the word “The dead” in reality there is no such thing. We never die life is continual. We simply move from one state to the next. As in mediumship and visiting Astral Worlds all that happens is the Consciousness moves out into another place and collects information in another place using the senses in the inner body’s which are far more sophisticated than the body’s 5 senses. For starters we have 360 degree vision. I recently proved this fact to myself with experiments.

Soooo Ghosts:

Ghost like many things is simply a term a label and conjures up images and pre conceived ideas of what they are based on books, films and storeys, Fictional or true storeys.

If you think of it another way every night you leave your body, you could be termed a ghost, In fact some Ghosts seen are in fact people projected out there bodies whilst asleep.

A Ghost is nothing more than a person who’s Physical body has died, and one of the main reasons for death is simply the physical can no longer sustain or support the spirit if it becomes uninhabitable. If the Spirit withdraws then the body dies, the body cannot live without the spirit connected. Same with coma, if the body does not work, the sprit remains out all be it unconscious of its state living in a dream like state. All life on earth is a learning a growth evolving spiritually we spend far more time in our true home “The Spirit World” than we do in a brief life spent here, the earth life can be termed “A College for the Soul” I will cover more on this later on the souls path and Initiations.

So a ghost is simply a person. No different than me or you, just they no longer live in the physical or have a physical body with which to interact with this plane.

A common misconception is the somehow after death we become wise and all knowing, this is not the case or that we play a harp and sit on a white fluffy cloud, or being spit roasted with some red faced horned demon is all rubbish.
In fact many people in the astral are busier than they were here as they simply have more opportunities to do what they really like doing, with no time constraints.

The Lower Etheric whilst very much inhabited in not a natural place to live. Souls who pass normally migrate to a level of vibration that they have formed by their habitual thoughts habits and belief systems into a corresponding plane that matches there frequency/vibration. In time with spiritual development a soul ascends through the planes reaching the Mental Pane, measured by earth time with effort this can take about 30 years, but bear in mind there is no time or death as such. A second death can happen where the soul surrenders it’s self to all lower desires and goes higher still.

At these higher planes a soul can review its past life, what it has learned, what mistakes and missed opportunities it has done previously, then in the halls of waiting it can if it so chooses request another time on the earth to learn more or missed lessons, it is then given a choice of different life’s it can enter and lessons it needs to grow take. Every single action, thought experience everything is recorded in the Akashic Records, all your past life’s, all events of the earth. Some Gifted mediums can read these records; some naturally tap into some ones records with their permission and give them a reading. I have this ability to look at past lives and soul lessons as well as some probable future events. More on this later.
A Ghost is an X human, He or she still keeps there personality and beliefs. There body has died and they remain trapped in the lowest plane extremely close to the physical (thus we sense, see, hear and feel them at times)

There are many reasons why a spirit becomes trapped. It can be fear of what they may find, fear of the light offered to them at death, someone can so strongly believe that there is no such thing as life after death and being stubborn end up locked in, some do not know they are dead yet. Some don’t want to go; some are so materially attached to their home possessions they cannot let go. Others love so strongly they wrongly believe that the only way to stay close to their loved one they literally stay. Some feel they have unfinished business, some have done such wrong in their life have a belief and, scared by Christian Teachings! Believe they are going to be punished or go to hell.

Some sadly never move far from their body as such haunting in grave yards, its ignorance they don’t move on, not only do we have free will, but the mind creates out own reality so strong errorunus beliefs also trap these people.

Some who die violent deaths such as murder can be so shocked end up replaying the event over and over it’s sad.
A strong material attachment or material greed of power, lust, Alcohol, drugs etc can also cause a lock in.

Many Ghosts who live in one location we call a haunting, not all ghosts stay in one place and do wander.

Anyone that has experienced Astral Projection into the Etheric will have seen it is a complete mirror of this world, what you see here there is a replica, and if you study quantum Physics from more open minded scientists they talk about molecular structures that what in fact is physical is more space that real, and that sub atomic particles exist outside of provable science but theorise that they do exist and the another frequency higher with less mass is very acceptable rational. Odd things happen in the Etheric, there are anomalies and weird happening, in higher levels matter is more mutable and thought changes things faster than here, more on this later.

A man who is now a Ghost who lived in a house who is both ignorant of spiritual truths and materialistic see’s that it is still his home and what are you doing there, Many times they don’t see us, we have to remember the tables are turned, They are not physical and do not see with Physical eyes, (eyes work by light hitting the retina and the brain processing the information, We as humans have both Physical and etheric it’s how we are made. A ghost on the other hand no longer has physical eyes and only sees ethereally. We do see etheric matter or persons without Physical eyes; clairvoyantly we use our etheric vision to see them. Those that do see us would almost see us as Ghosts in their house. I find it hard to believe that some of the ghosts still believe they are not dead, but it’s all too common. Some can see well the same as some gifted people here see the other way.

Sadly those that do not know they have passed attempt to communicate with loved ones only to fail.

The lower Etheric Body needs energy to continue, as such the Ghost needs energy, food is of no use. Electromagnetic energy or Bio fluid is the main source of energy, and the reason why some ghosts have been seen grey or white is there etheric is dyeing and there is lack of energy. (In full manifestations Spirits use surrounding energies and particles of colour, if frequently enough can fade say curtains etc) It a spooky way Intentionally or Not ghosts living in the etheric are by their nature need Energy and could be termed Vampires (not in the common blood thirsty Hollywood productions)

If a ghost obtains sufficient energy it can manipulate physical objects, Thus we have Poltergeists, Switching lights on and off, change radio stations. Often the cold drop is they suck heat out of the air as its energy in a sub physical way, the opposite is cold, thus it drops cold. They don’t stand there sucking a metaphysical straw lol all is of the mind and needs; even at a Ghost existence it has a sub conscious mind a higher mind.
From the highest level to the lowest the term as above so below is so true. All bubbles to the top from the inner worlds.

Some Ghost are seen physically in a partial manifestation or a full manifestation, This is only possible with high levels of ectoplasm, a white soft cloudy substance that All people give of all the time, Some people like mediums and more so Physical Mediums have a high level of this substance and can get spectacular results. Whilst I do not claim to be an expert on Physical Mediumship I do generate sufficient ectoplasm bio energy for physical circles, see my video clips of table tilting.

Not only can this form into a full apparition, but can be used to move objects, and form a Vocal cord and you get direct voice, It has to be said that these people, now ghosts have to learn as we do with practice and knowledge how to manipulate ectoplasm.
For a Ghost meeting another ghost is exactly the same as we meet people day to day in this world.

So why the haunting and noise?

As I have said there are many reasons why a person becomes trapped and locked into the etheric plane, I cannot list all of them but some of the more common known ones are listed above.

These spirits if in your house are living along side you, some doing their own thing almost like replaying there life over and over, others more aware of their current state or your presence.

I am a very experience Paranormal Investigator and have visited hundreds of locations in doing so you start to see a common picture forming. I specialise in cleansing people’s homes that have bad haunting and the family being scared half to death. Contrary to misconceptions Ghosts do not have white sheets on their heads and rattle chains, there are dressed as there where when alive. They hold a residual self image which forms there new existence its exactly the same as when we Astral Project, we hold a residual self image that we form, we can if we choose change that form. When I work spiritually I always change what I ware choosing to where a simple white robe.

Ok so why the noise: as I have said above they are so close and if enough energy is present they can effect dense physical matter or objects. Some simply reconstruct what was there life before so walking up the stairs at 11pm and stepping on a creaky old floorboard and banging about as they get ready for bed, Naturally there is no need for sleep in a ghost state, but they do become drained and rest in a different way.
Some Spirits are angry at their death. Or angry you have changed what they still term there house, angry with how they live and trapped, and bang about the same as some one dose in this world.

I have found frequently that when I am called in, I am told its evil nasty and angry, only to communicate with the Ghost to find that they were trying to get someone’s attention so that the end result would be someone like me who rescues spirits and helps them move on back to their true home gets called in. In most cases this is what happens, sometimes I have to talk and explain in detail to them convince them it is ok to go home and will be greeted with family and love, It touches my heart when I see their family children or wife come to reach out to them, it’s a very emotional experience more so when tapped children are reunited with their parents.

I have faced anger threats aggression and un-cooperate ghosts, eventually I get them to listen to me if not I can remove them when they do listen the changes are amazing, I often see them cry as hundreds of years of frustration is let out what I see is a true blessing and can only be described as what you see in a Hollywood productions and special effects, Personally I always find it fascinating who comes for them when I open a portal of light.
Without going too far into the subject Darker Spirits:

Yes they do exist and boy do they, the same as we have here, Nast evil malicious hurtful people as I stated above they don’t change and in some cases evolve backwards to an animal like state. Ending up looking grotesque. All darkness shatters and destroys the dark inner planes are a horrid place, not hot but cold and dark with shattered buildings, no plants or animals a very sad place.

Emotion produces a very high level of energy! This then feeds them and makes them stronger more powerful as such it deliberate that they scare people and will feed of people asleep quite nasty spirits, often there is bad smells when such beings are present as is a very unpleasant fearful atmosphere, relationship problems, heal problems, possessions, Mental problems, Bad dreams or being kept awake to make you weaker. As I have said I don’t wish to cover this too much as its sad and dark.

In almost all cases these spirits can be removed forcibly and the horrid vibrations they have left rebalanced.
So as you can see from all the above Ghosts are just people, Folk, Same as here, very close to the physical.
There are rescue teams in the spirit world as well as people like me here on the earth plane who specialise in this type of work.
When you look at the planes and energies and how they work and are all inter connected, the structure of Ghosts and human body’s its all makes sense and is no more a mystery it is that people do not understand the metaphysics of it all and give way to fear or pre conceived ideas.

To finish on a lighter note some Ghost as people are friendly I met one Irish man the other day who was quite a character, he was happy with his existence I also respect someone’s free will and whilst the offer to help them is there, if they choose not to move on then I leave that to them when they are ready.

On a personal note over the years of investigating it has been of great interest looking into storeys picking up information with great excitement to receive feedback from owners and historians about accurate information I have picked up on, it’s always a challenge and many times I don’t even know where I am going and always do a séance at the end of the evening. I think to date its about 80% accuracy some times more sometimes less. As always one of the greatest joys has been meeting new people and making friends, where we all sit in the dark freeze lol

I tend to do more personal work now than out all round the country.
Some of the Paranormal Groups I have worked with have full written reports on their sites if you are interested, just put my name into a search engine, I am all over the place lol.
That I think wraps it up for now, I could go into more detail, but I find some times if there is too much people do not read or grasp what is being said.
Many Blessings

Andrew Garley…

I thought this an excellent article and have been given Kind permission to reproduce it:

Reprinted with permission. Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway is an interfaith minister and non-denominational wedding officiant who helps people get ready for love and marriage, and who blesses the unions of couples in love in unique and loving ceremonies. She is also widely known as a specialist in women’s spirituality, empowerment and feminine wisdom. She is author of Wedding Goddess, The Goddess Pages, and Pet Prayers and Blessings and the www.SelfHealingExpressions.com courses Discover the Goddess and Find Your Spiritual Soul Mate. Visit Rev. Laurie Sue at www.weddinggoddess.com.

An Interview with Famous "Ghost Hunter" Hans Holzer

By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway

Every time I see an image of a ghost, goblin or Halloween witch I feel frustrated that we raise our children to think that disembodied spirits are scary and to view witches as evil.

Any student of metaphysics knows that there is a world of helpers "on the other side," and this includes those who have "passed over." They aid us, guide us, commune with us and, occasionally, annoy us. However, just because they happen to be dead, doesn’t mean they are "ghosts."

As for witches, you will find those who are over the top or very dramatic about their beliefs, as in any spiritual practice or religion. But most witches are typically regular folks, who are connected deeply to nature, the earth, the heavens, divine source and their own creative spiritual spark and spiritual craft. One of the reasons witches are lumped in with ghosts and goblins for Halloween is that many of the people who practice the craft also believe the veil between the worlds is very thin on Halloween; it is a very special time of communing with and honoring our dead. It’s also easier to see into the future.

October 31 ~ Halloween

Although the west knows October 31 as Halloween, the pagan holiday is called Samhain (pronounced "sow-when"). When Celtic Christianity took hold in the lands once governed by pagan ways, many of the old holidays were adapted. Samhain became Halloween. It is celebrated as "All Soul’s Day" in the Catholic Church.

Today, even Mattel has created a "Secret Spell" Barbie to honor witches, and contacting the dead is practically an American sport, with books and TV shows like John Edward’s "Crossing Over" growing in popularity and media mediums like Silvia Browne often spotted slinging insights from the other side on Larry King and Montel Williams.

My Interview with Expert on Ghosts

A few years ago, I had the privilege of interviewing famous "ghost-buster" Dr. Hans Holzer. The author of multiple books on the topic of disembodied spirits - those that know they are dead and those that don’t (ghosts) - Holzer has had amazing experiences testing the existence of ghosts and helping many of them "go home" when they get trapped in between the worlds. Obviously, his experience of things that go bump in the night transcends popular images of Casper and Halloween haunting.

In fact, he speaks of ghosts and other spirit entities as if they are real people, like you and I, who are simply headed for, or living in, a different dimension. He shared with me his rather expansive understanding of the nature of spirit friends. With the world’s most noted counselor to the disembodied spirits, sitting around telling ghost stories takes on new meaning.

"I’m a scientist and this does not mean ‘to know,’ it means ‘to quest for knowledge,’ " he clarifies. "It’s never finite. It always keeps changing and moving and you learn new things. But you do have to have standards. And scientific standards preclude me from accepting some of these fantasies."

"The other side tends to confirm what most religions teach," says Holzer. "If it weren’t for the facts of parapsychology, religion wouldn’t have a leg to stand on. Religion takes some of the evidence, which we know in parapsychology, and uses it for its own end–to distort the truth, to get people to obey. I’m not against organized religion, but spirituality is not religious; spirituality is a way of life. You don’t need intermediaries for that."

Rev. Laurie Sue: Do you believe in ghosts?

Hans Holzer: I don’t believe in anything. Belief is the uncritical acceptance of something you can’t prove. I work on evidence; I either know or I don’t know. There are three dirty words in my vocabulary: belief, disbelief and supernatural. They don’t exist. There’s no "supernatural world." Everything that exists is natural. Yet there is a dimension of existence that is as real as your living room, even if the average person cannot access it with all their senses? I coined the phrase "the other side" because it really is the other side, like one side of the mirror. The spirit world, or "the world next door," as Eileen Garrett called it, is not up or down. It is here, moving at a different rate of speed. And the dimension into which we all pass–except ghosts, because they can’t get into it until they are liberated from their compulsions–is concentric with this dimension. It exists in the same special area, but because it’s strung out further, it does not clash with the thicker atmosphere, the thicker dimension, in which we exist.

LSB: What’s "the other side" like?

Everything we have here, they have over there. This is a duplicate of this world except over there the purpose is to develop the personality from the negative to the positive, or to give them assignments or to send them down for some more education.

LSB: What is the difference between a ghost and a spirit?

We are all spirit. When we pass on, we simply get rid of the outer layer and, underneath, there really is a duplicate layer. This inner body - like an inner tube of a tire - is where our personality resides. At death the physical body is worn out and dissolved, so the inner body is where we live. So we need to have an atmosphere, a dimension, that fits this inner body and that’s the world of spirit, or the etheric world. The etheric world is all around us. At death, we ride out into that world and we are right there. That’s our normal transition. However, once in a while something goes wrong when somebody passes from the physical state.

LSB: What turns them into a ghost?

The death is not smooth. When there is trauma–an unacceptable accident or shock or surprise - this will, in some cases, cause the personality to go into a state of psychotic shock. In that state of shock they are not aware that they’ve passed on. They are confused as to their real status, because they can see everybody and no body seems to be able to see them. That’s what a ghost is, somebody who’s gotten stuck in the physical world but is not part of the physical world. And they become panic stricken for attention and eventually they do things to get attention, like moving objects, creating noises. This is not to frighten people, they’re just attention getters.

LSB: But not everything that goes bump in the night is a ghost?

It’s the exception, rather than the normal transition. I have found that about 75 to 80 percent of the sightings or auditory phenomena are not really people stuck in our atmosphere, but replays from the past; like an imprint on the atmosphere. It’s a psychic imprint; an imprint on the atmosphere, which is energy like a television picture that is stuck in time. To the average person it looks exactly the same as a ghost. Even some mediums can’t tell the difference. But if phenomena are observed exactly alike at the same time in the same place and a number of witnesses have reported identical experiences, then you probably have an imprint. If, from different witnesses, you have reports saying there’s a variation in what the ghost entity is doing, then it’s a real person. That’s the only way you can tell one from the other.

LSB: How are they different from ghosts who crave attention?

The ghost personality is generally in various stages of psychotic condition–otherwise they would move on. The stay behind is someone who lived in one place for a very long time, and usually dies a gentle death; they just fall asleep, no violence, no pain. They are unused to any other place, partially because their religious belief has primed them to believe Hosanna with angels wings on their back, or in some cases, fellows in red underwear with pitch forks, would take them away. Low and behold, at death, they’re still where they were before. The physical body isn’t there - but there’s a body and they see themselves, so they stay put. That’s why people go to the funeral of Aunt Minnie, come back and there she is in her usual chair.

LSB: You made a distinction between a ghost and a spirit. Is there a distinction between a spirit and a soul?

No. The soul is the spirit. The soul is the personality. The soul is energy that manifests through and resides in an etheric body. This energy field, which is us, is what the church calls the soul and what the spiritually inclined people call the spirit. Popular culture has offered a few glimpses into the other side. In the movie "Ghost" we saw a spirit shocked out of his skin, yet determined to finish some business.

LSB: In your opinion, was it an accurate portrayal?

Everything was correct except for that last scene–which is Hollywood–where the furies come and get the bad guy. It doesn’t work that way. There are no furies, there is no hell. There is only that which you bring with you to the other side. But movies are fantasy. This is real.

LSB: So we do bring our baggage with us at death?

When you pass on you take your memories with you. And if your life has been negative or a destructive one, you will have to go to school, so to speak, and the next time around you will have a chance to confront some of those issues again. That’s the whole idea behind reincarnation. I did a lot of work on reincarnation for Life Beyond (Contemporary Books). I have no doubts whatsoever it exists for everybody.

LSB: Yet in between gigs in human form, can our beloved relatives communicate from the other side without being ghosts?

It’s very common. Unfortunately, our culture teaches people that it is not possible, there is nothing out there, yet when somebody passes on, the first thing when they arrive on the other side is they want to let their loved ones know that they are still alive and that they are well and they are happy being with other loved ones. There is touching and cases where they feel the person. Yes. Oh, all of this is very possible.