If You Are Haunted

We tend to think that ghosts are either souls “out there” that have drifted into our homes and sacred spaces, or that something about us, our emotions, have disturbed the physical world. We divide our reality into neat categories: us and them. Spirit and matter. Light and dark. Our energy versus their energy.

When it comes to the paranormal, it’s not that there are two explanations: either trauma and fear, or an outside being invading a home. The trauma and fear invite in the entities, the spirits, the beings, or the demons. Trauma opens the portal, sends out the signals, and what comes in either shares in the pain, attempts to resonate with that pain, or takes advantage of the emotional chaos in order to inflict further damage to already fragile psyches.

There is not one explanation for a haunting, but rather multiple ones. We think that we are different from the ghost, that we are of another order, when in fact, we are in their world and they are in ours. We are the same. Our grief, fear, depression, and guilt open the doors to all the unseen energies that pervade the dimensions of our reality.

For grief, the solution is love beyond death.

For fear, the solution is action.

For depression, the solution is creation.

For guilt, the solution is forgiveness.

None of it easy; none of it without great effort. We spend lifetimes addressing these issues, and from our pain the ghosts flow in.
Those ghosts can be human, demonic, alien, or some other entity that we have yet to categorize; yet we are the ones who summon them, whether we know it or not. We ask for their presence, for they are the tools of our spiritual awakening, for our healing of soul and spirit.

And some of us do not heal, do not wake up, and head into the dark with them. We will try again; there is always a next time.

Some of us try to run from the truths of our existence, the sense of falling into nothingness when we realize that we are the spirits and they are us, and there is nothing final about death, beyond our thoughts that something must end; at the very least, our suffering.

And that can end, that suffering, but only in the acknowledgment that love is what and who we are, and everything else is illusion, the smoke and mirrors of the human condition.

If you are haunted, you are invited to heal from the worst of your pain, to endure the dark night of the soul, the walk into the pitch black and return with your essential, beautiful, forever life.

If you are haunted, accept the invitation to find out who you really are; who we all are. There is light at the end of everything that appears to be a tunnel. You are the light. And so are they.