This was posted in our forum by our Priestess, Drakkenwitch but it was inadvertently deleted by an unknown person.
I hope you enjoy and learn from this lesson as I have.
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spirit (the vital principle or animating force within living things)
spirit, disembodied spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become
visible (or audible) to human beings)
Regardless of what most people think a Spirit is not here to hurt you nor are they here to posses you. A spirit is here to help you and to guide you down a certain path in which you have been chosen to travel. As well as to protect you from any harm or dangers.
What is a Spirit?
The spirit is your character, it is 'you'. Things get confusing when one realizes that
an angelic body is a spirit body and an angel is a spirit creature, sometimes
referred to as a 'spirit'. But to spell things out unequivocally: All living creatures
are souls which are spirits within bodies. A living human is a spirit within a
physical body. A living angel is a spirit within a spiritual body.
Spirit + Body = Soul (human)
Spirit + Body = Soul (angelic)
Spirits are much different than Ghost because they are not bound to this earth
Spirits are a passed on personality of a living person. Spirits will come back to
help a loved one or to protect them or even to comfort them in their time
of sorrow and pain.
Death is not an extinction, the Holy Spirit clearly described death as a departure
from the material world into the spirit world. Spirits are different from Ghost
because they are not bound to this earth. Spirits are actually passed on
personalities of a living person. Spirits will come back for a time and they usually come
back for many reasons. but the most common is to tell a loved one a message to help them ease their sorrow or pain or to help a loved one cross over. There have been many times that a spirit will come back to warn a loved one of danger or to comfort them and let them know they are ok.
Spirits can appear to people in any shape or as any creature. They are masses
of energy, light, and not of this material world. They are caught in an endless cycle
of reincarnation, attaching themselves to a Fetus before the Fetus is alive. The piece
that binds them to the new child is called a Soul. Not all Spirits are constantly incarnated.
Some will remain in the Spirit World for centuries, even millenniums, of our time to accomplish a goal or finish a job there. These jobs include being Spirit Guides, a part of a Spirit Family, or setting up for their own next life. Do not think that they remain for so long because they are slow, one day of our time is like a fraction of a second to them. For a Spirit: Time is irrelevant.
There are many ways to contact or Commune with Spirits:
Necromancy:
This lesson was passed on to me by a very close friend (Ragnorok) and I thought I would share it here with you as it is apart of communicating with spirits.
Considering what I explained in my ''Mancy'' thread, I thought I should give a basic lesson of necromancy here. Necromancy is the act/art of communing with spirits for the sake of knowledge, wisdom, divination, or various tasks.
I will not teach anything that can be considered disrespectful to either a spirit or corpse! Especially spirits. Necromancy revolves around the cooperation and participation
of you and a willing spirit.
Here are step by step instructions for basic practice.
Step one: contact spirit.
Initiate your meeting with a formal greeting and compliment.
Step two: make an offering.
This doesn't have to be a fancy ordeal or even a sacrifice, just ask the spirit if he/she would like you to do anything.
Step three: request the spirit's aid.
Explain your situation or desire to the spirit and ask for his/her help or intervention.
At this point the spirit will either accept or decline your request. If it is declined,
respectfully accept his/her decision and say farewell. Then seek out another spirit.
You are more likely to get better results from the spirit of someone you knew either in this life or in another life prior to the one you have now. This includes your spirit guides,
who are here to help you anyways, although if you request anything that affects anyone else they can turn down that request very easily. Again, should your request be declined,
accept it and say farewell respectively.
The key to successful necromancy is respect. Contrary to the stereotypes, successful necromancy is 100% about respecting the dead. Never forget that. More so, in some cases. They have the memories of many lives, not just one, and for the most part they did great things in at least some of those lives. They hold more wisdom and knowledge
then any living being could hope to attain. At least the older spirits do.
Orbs are another form of Spirits. This is something i thought would be a good lesson to learn on..I have researched back through all the past threads and haven't found a topic on it so I thought I would cover it with you..
I found this first link in the Wikipedia dictionary on line to explain the definition of it..
The term orb describes unexpected, typically circular artifacts in photographs. Sometimes the artifact leaves a trail, indicating motion.
The technical photographic term for the occurrence of orbs, especially pronounced in modern ultra-compact cameras, is backscatter, orb backscatter or near-camera
reflection.
Cause
Due to the size limitations of the modern compact and ultra-compact cameras, especially digital cameras, the distance between the lens and the built-in flash has decreased,
thereby decreasing the angle of light reflection to the lens and increasing the likelihood of light reflection off normally sub-visible particles. Hence, the orb artifact is commonplace with small digital or film camera photographs.
The orb artifact can result from reflection of light off solid particles ( dust, pollen), liquid particles (water droplets - especially rain) or other foreign material within the camera lens.
The image artifacts usually appear as either white or semi-transparent circles, though may also occur with whole or partial color spectrums, purple fringing or other chromatic aberration. With rain droplets, an image may capture light passing through the droplet creating a small rainbow effect.
Underwater photographers notice the effect also, which occurs for the same reason as above-water photographic artifacts. Sand, small sea life or other particles close to the lens, invisible to the diver, reflect light from the flash causing the orb artifact in the image. A strobe flash, which distances the flash from the lens, eliminates the artifacts.
Are Orbs Paranormal? www.Orbzone.com
Many people reading this will be familiar with orbs; as such this page will be of little
use to them.
For those reading who have no idea what orbs are, at all, this page is for you. Orbs are pale and circular anomalies, that have been linked with the paranormal. Orbs can be of any color, but are typically off white, can be any shape, but are usually circular. They can appear crisp or fuzzy, in isolation, multiples or clusters. Orbs, properly, are seen on stills photographs (usually from digital cameras) or on night shot camcorder footage since the mid 1990s. Various circular light anomalies have been seen with the naked eye, but these have little to do with 'orbs' Orbs range in size within a photograph/screen but they tend to appear smaller than 1/10th diameter of the photo frame. Also, orbs tend to be seen in 'haunted place' - hence why people think they are paranormal - but there are very specific reasons for this.
Some people find it difficult to believe that there is enough to cause so many orbs. Other
think there is too much dust around to produce single orbs (most about this later).
What is dust?
According to Wikipedia, dust is ''a general name for minute solid particles with diameters less than 500 micrometers''.
What causes dust?
In homes and work places most dust comes from skins cells from humans and pets that 'slough off.
How does dust become airborne?
Dust usually becomes airborne by people moving around and by cleaning, thus disturbing the dust particles, as well as heat from convection, drafts, etc. It can take dust a long time to settle after it has become stirred up. In fact, dust is airborne most of the time, only really settling in (say) houses which no-one inhabits.
Try it at home!
You can see for yourself much dust is in the air at any one time. The best time to see dust is when it's dark and when you got a powerful light source.
If you take a photo in a dark room - but hold the camera side on - you will be able to see all the particles of dust illuminated by the flash. You can also try this with many bright light sources, e.g. torch or projector. If you were to take a photo in a dark room, not every particle of dust would be photographed as an 'orb'. Similarly if you use a torch or camera to see dust at home - as described in the dust section - you won't see all the dust in the room, just the particles of dust closest to the light.
The 'orb zone' is the physical area in front of the camera where these particles of dust are photographed as orbs. Yes, you've guessed right that the Orb Zone is defined by 'the area close enough to the flash' for the dust to be 'seen'. But there are other factors involved.
What Science is Not - and what is Not Evidence
Many people mistake 'science' and 'logic'. Whilst logic is a strong element of the scientific method, with the controls of science, logic can easily be faulty.
Every 'Internet experiment' encountered has been scientifically flawed. In many cases the experiments do not consider 'chance'. So for example someone fluffs a cushion and takes a photo, producing an orb. The theory is declared proven with no consideration of other factors that might have caused the orb or whether an orb would have been present whether or not the cushion was fluffed. There are dozens examples, online, of experiments that make conclusions that have not applied the scientific method.
It may seem picky, but unless the scientific method is applied some very fundamental mistakes can be - and in the case of orbs, have been - made.
What Science is
Whole books cannot define what science is, but there are some useful rules that can be described briefly:
Scientific experiments should 'control extraneous variables'. For example there is little use conducting an experiment across very different rooms, or with very different cameras, or in different environmental conditions. The reason is because any of these 'varying' factors could interfere with what you are studying. This is made especially difficult as not many people know all the 'variables' that could interfere with whether orbs are produced or not.
Scientific experiments should have 'control conditions'. This is because it is important to know whether something would have happened 'anyway'. For example taking a photo when dust is produced compared to taking a photo when dust is not produced. Similarly, in the case of orbs, conducting experiments in both places said to be haunted and said to not be haunted.
Experiment results should be 'statistically significant'. This is because one, two or ten repeats could be the result of 'fluke'.
For example this is why opinion polling companies ask a set number of people, which is usually quite high, rather than just asking 100 people for their opinions. Certain 'tests' should be applied to results, to ensure they are not the result of 'fluke', in order to adhere with the scientific method.
Should you Accept the Scientific Evidence?
The purpose of publishing 'scientific research' is to let others judge for themselves whether your method - and therefore your results - is really scientific. Again, it can be difficult to judge this with limited knowledge of the scientific method.
However if you accept the method as scientific then - if you believe in science - you should accept the evidence.
The scientific method also tries to ensure that results from one place and one study can be applied to other places and other circumstances.
Because of the difficulties with this process science tends to make it as easy as possible to accept methods. So most research is conducted by professional academics in Universities and then all the details are checked by other academics before studies are published. Then other academics can publish problems they find with the research.
PSI are not professional academics, but several academics in UK Universities did assist with, and oversee, the design and the conduct of these experiments.
What is the Scientific Evidence?
In order for a study to be scientifically credible it must pain-staking provide all the necessary information in a way that follows the conventions of science. Unfortunately this tends to result in research articles that the general public do not feel are 'accessible'.
This is the purpose of this website, to present the theories in a way that is accessible to the general public. However we also have provided the original article, below, which people can study and scrutinise.
The basic results were as follows:
1. The number of orbs captured in places that were 'haunted' was not significantly different to numbers capture in places considered to be 'not haunted'. This suggests that the presence of a 'haunted environment' makes no difference, so orbs have nothing to do with 'haunted places'.
2. When all variables were forced to be constant there was no significant difference between the number of orbs captured when using different rates of megapixelage.
3. Digital cameras captured significantly more orbs than 35mm cameras.
4. An enhanced 'depth of field' lead to significantly more orb photographs than a normal depth of field.
5. Significantly more orbs were photographed where the flash was closer to the lens of the camera.
6. Significantly more orbs were photographed when the flash was activated compared to not.
The experiments demonstrated that mundane factors, like camera type, depth of field and flash distance, correlated significantly with orb numbers. By contrast, whether the location was haunted or not had no significant effect. It therefore follows that orbs are caused by normal, rather than paranormal, causes Orbs- True orbs are spirits of the deceased (both human and animal) in the form of spheres, or balls of light that can hover
and fly at will. Orbs can be transparent or translucent and can be seen in photos and videos. They usually can't be seen by the human eye alone. Some say you can even see faces inside some orbs. Photos of orbs are the most common paranormal photos out there. The number of orbs have been known to multiply greatly during moments of high paranormal activity. Orbs can be found outside and indoors as well. A theory for why a spirit takes the form of an orb is that it takes the least amount of energy to manifest into.
Orbs have been seen coming in and out of an areas of light, usually in a funnel or cone shape which is commonly called a vortex. It is possible that orbs and other spiritual phenomena have been traveling from their dimension to ours through these vortexes.
It is less common for a vortex to show up in a photo than an orb, and this might be because some vortexes open and close rather quickly when only one or two orbs are present. Non believers and sceptics say that photos of orbs are nothing more than dust and water particles being taken out of focus. It is likely that many of the orb photos out there are just that. That is partly why there are so many orb photos. However, orbs that have been captured on videos floating and flying around by themselves may be a little harder to be explained.
What are Ghosts & Orbs?
The below statement is evidence based on the knowledge that is presently known concerning these things. Yes, ghosts are real and they do share space with us in this life although in a different realm of existence. Orbs are also believed to be ghosts of people as well as other life forms.
Orbs are believed (by many) to be ghosts in the form of balls of light. They are life forms that travel in groups and are believed to be the human soul or life force of those that once inhabited a physical body here on earth. Psychics claim to talk to them on a regular
basis, and ghost hunters encounter them quite frequently. It is said that they are those spirits that have willingly stayed behind because they feel bound to their previous life or previous location for whatever reason. Because of this obsession they tend to become similar to a psychotic human beings. It should be said that the majority of us when we die proceed gladly and willingly to the next level of existence after saying our quiet good-byes, which means we're off to the spirit world. Then again, as stated, a select few elect to stay behind because of a refusal to move on. Apparently the longer they stay behind, the harder it is to find their way to the next level, which again, is the spirit world.
Ghostly orbs are the most photographed anomalies caught on film by ghost hunters and are quite photogenic (when they want to be). They can be completely transparent or display themselves in a bright solid form. It is not hard to capture them on film in their circular form. It is theorized that ghosts prefer the form of an Orb (ball of light) because it takes less energy thus being the mode of choice among the ghosts. The consensus is that small orbs take up the least amount of energy and apparitions and other fuller shapes take up the most. In the colder parts of the year, it seems that ghosts tend to find it easier to take on shapes other than orbs. That's when there is the most static electricity in
the atmosphere. Those months being October through February. It is also believed that they are able to draw on our own energy when needed. I've listed these ways but there are obviously many ways for ghosts to draw energy from the atmosphere and environment but I won't take the time for that here.
If you're wondering, ghosts are normally harmless for the most part and have relatively no desire to bring harm to anyone nor do they have much of an awareness to act as such. Ghosts however, have been known to disrupt the lives of those that they effect and play pranks and move things about. To state it plainly, they are actually limited in the activities that they are able to carry out in their frame of existence. Non-human forms as well as evil spirits and demons, who have never had a body, have additional powers and have the ability to sway our thoughts and tempt our reasoning. This is why Ouija boards and other similar devices should be shunned! They have the ability to open windows into other realms of existence and can attract evil or bad spirits. If you are experiencing what you
consider to be the effects of an evil spirit or demon in your life then it could be the location where you are living, but you must also consider your life style as well. In other words, how you are living or the activities that you involve yourself in that might inadvertently be drawing them to you.
I might also mention a word or two about spirits in this forum. First of all, as I have alluded to earlier, ghosts and spirits are not quite the same. Spirits are capable of continuing a full existence on the other side with their full mental and emotional facilities intact, unlike their counterpart the ghost. You will most likely not encounter a spirit on a ghost hunt as you would a ghost. When they are detected, it is believed that their appearance might be in the form of ectoplasm mist, as well as a full bodied apparitions. They are permitted to visit on occasion and even communicate a message when they have permission to do so but for the most not they will not be picked up on any ghost detection devices or be photographed by any cameras (for the most part). Many believe that we have spirits assigned to watch over us, and that might very well be true but you won't normally be detecting them unless they have a special purpose in making there presence known. In other words Spirits (not ghosts) seem to have a finer spirit tissue that is for the most part undetectable.
There are other theories concerning ORBS. I have in the past heard such theories that orbs might simply be Nature spirits or Airborne protoplasm as you would find under a microscope, except far more advanced.
Other types of ghostly phenomenon are the vortex (funnel shaped appearance) and Ectoplasm (it has a mist or foggy appearance) also called Ecto Mist. These are often picked up on film and video as well but are much more rare. I'm not making any determinations to their origin but welcome any of your opinions on the subject.
Spirit Guides: What is a Spirit Guide?
Some people refer to them as their Guardian Angels or their Guardians. Your Spirit Guide is with you always and they may appear to you in many different ways. They can appear to you in a Dream, or in a Deep state of Meditation. To talk to your Spirit Guides all you have to do is to talk to them. They can hear you and are there to help you and to guide you in your path of knowledge and understanding. Although your Spirit Guides will not give you all the answers they will help you find them if you request their help. Just ask them to guide me with your wisdom and guide me with your knowledge.
Most People have more that one guide there are Seven Guides you an call upon
to help you. Here is an example given to me by someone very close to me. You
can use this as a guide line to write your own.
First Spirit Guide- is for your self image or appearance.(Self-Guide)
Second Spirit Guide- is to help balance your emotions.(Emotion-Guide)
Third Spirit Guide- is to help keep you healthy.(Body-Guide)
Fourth Spirit Guide- is for your mental growth and learning.(Mind-Guide)
Fifth Spirit Guide- is for advising and encouraging.(Element-Guide)
Sixth Spirit Guide- is your Guide through the Spirit World.(Spirit-Guide)
Seventh Spirit Guide- is your protector.(Safety-Guide)
Talking to spirits:
To talk to Spirits is easy...Most People have the wrong idea when you say talking to the spirits. They think that you can see them and hear them in the aspect as you would if you and I was talking but that is not always true. To talk to the Spirits you must have an open Mind and Heart to hear them as they most often talk to you through your Heart and Mind (Thoughts) But if anytime you show fear to the Spirit they will leave and not return till you are ready or till they are invited back by you, As they are not here to scare you nor are they here to posses or hurt you.
Channeling a Spirit:
What is Channeling? Channeling is also called psychic reading or channeled reading and it is the reception of thoughts from the spirits used for the purpose of communicating with the spirits. Channeling is receiving and passing along information is called a medium or psychic. Some mediums go into a full trance like state and allow the spirit to use them and their body as a messenger. Or some go into a partial Trance in which allows the spirit to communicate with them that they may pass on the words to whomever the spirit is trying to communicate with.
There are several forms of Channeling with spirits:
1. Meditative state
2. Full Trance
3. Writing Trance
The Meditative Trance is to go into a very deep meditation state in which the Medium will be able to commune with the spirit at this time. The writing is when the Medium
goes into a trance and their hand starts moving in which forms as if they are scribbling a message.
LESSON 3 - SPIRITS
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