Earth Bound Spirits

What happens to those spirits that are earth bound and can they be dangerous or just bothersome as they try to get our attention for one reason or another especially when they come across someone here on earth that can see and hear them? Do they want to communicate - in fact do all spirits want to communicate?


It is important to establish first of all what is meant by earth-bound. Commonly, it is felt such spirits just cannot let go of their links to the earth when they die. This argument suggests they have taken a deliberate decision to remain close to the earth and usually to make a nuisance of themselves or worse. In my view this is not the case. Yes, such spirits have remained linked closely to earth’s vibrations but usually it is neither deliberate nor malicious. In my experience, such people have had no teaching or experience whilst on earth to equip them for the fact that life continues after death but in a non-physical universe. They survive physical death but do not realise they have lost their physical body and become frustrated when they try to attract the attention of those in the physical world around them, who they can see quite clearly, and are completely ignored.

When we die, we go direct to a place called the Astral World. This is the closest of the spiritual spheres to the earth and resembles earth in all its particulars, except for the pollution and degradation human beings have inflicted upon the planet. It is the "Paradise' Jesus referred to when speaking from the cross to the robber being crucified with him. Everyone goes there first - no exceptions. The ‘earth-bound’ spirit goes there too but unfortunately does not recognise he or she is not still on the physical earth. Consequently, they tend to stay close to the haunts they frequented when they had a physical body. Many remain like this for a number of our years before someone persuades them to accept what has happened and then they can move on to the spiritual world proper. Some during this time discover how to create the power to move physical objects and these are the ones who give rise to the scare stories about earth bound spirits being dangerous. Usually these are the people who have a deep anger or pain inside them as a result of some injustice they feel has been worked on them in their lives. However, to develop the power to make their presence physically felt, they must have access to some negative physical energy on earth.

Let me give you an example: Some years ago, a medium friend and I were asked to visit an English Pub where the landlord and his wife were being frightened by physical activities that seemed linked to haunting of some sort. The background was that a very cold area had recently developed in the cellar of the pub, even though the heating boiler for the whole building was in the same room. The landlady had become petrified by inappropriate sexual touching when no human being was in the room with her and her husband had been violently pushed from one side of the cellar to another by invisible hands.

We spoke to the husband and wife when we arrived and in answer to our questions discovered that a violent confrontation had taken place in the bar of the pub just before these unpleasant phenomena began. This explained to me where the spirit derived the energy from to make his or her presence physically felt. We then adjourned all four of us, to the cellar. Sure enough we quickly located the spot where the temperature was freezing cold, even though the boiler was close by. My medium friend and I tuned in to the spiritual world and I was soon in communication with one of my guides or helpers in spirit. He explained to me that the person causing the disturbances was a man who had been hanged outside the pub two hundred years before. My guide explained the building was an Assize Court at the time. (This was later confirmed by the landlord, although neither I nor my friend was aware of it) He had been convicted as a footpad, for which the punishment in those days was death by hanging. He was livid because he claimed he had been betrayed to the authorities by someone he thought was a friend. The good people in spirit had tried without success to convince him to move on from the astral world and out of the earth’s vibration but they had been unsuccessful.

It seems that once he obtained the ability to make his presence physically felt, he became attracted to the landlady and jealous of the landlord, which explained the events that had taken place. I asked my guide if there was anyone in the spiritual world for whom the man felt love but apparently not. It seems he had a shocking childhood having been orphaned at a young age and resorting to crime in order to live. He was full of anger and hatred. I asked again, “Are you sure there was no-one or no animal even that he loved?” Ah”, said my guide, “There was a dog of which he was very fond and that too died young.“ I asked if it would not be possible to bring the spirit of the dog to meet him in the hope that the rekindling of love in his heart would enable him to understand what had happened and move towards the light. My guide said they would try.

I heard nothing further from my guide but two or three minutes later, all four of us felt a complete change in the atmosphere. The freezing temperature had gone and the slightly malevolent presence my friend and I had felt was also gone. This demonstrated the vital importance of love. My spirit friends must have produced the spirit of the dog and once the man recognised him, two things occurred. Firstly, the man knowing the dog had died long ago, realised he must also have died and secondly the loving feelings he had for his pet enabled him at last to see the spirit people there with him and move with them towards the light and away from the earth. There were no more reports of trouble at the pub.