The spirits surrounding you may not like you. They can feed off your emotions and laugh at your mistakes and generally make life miserable for you, especially if you ignore them and act like they do not exist.
You may have been trained by well-meaning people to believe that spirits are imaginary. After all, only small children and strange people can perceive spirits and who can believe what they say? People who have been brought up properly know that those ideas are just in your mind and can be ignored.
What these well-meaning people never learned is that spirits are immortal living thoughts capable of animating bodies and creating civilizations. Spirits operate at many different levels of awareness and power. Some spirits in good shape animate bodies and live proper lives as human beings. Others animate other living things like dolphins, giraffes, and butterflies. Some spirits prefer the quiet life and animate plants. When you lie on the grass in summer, you are surrounded by these tiny spirits.
There are many more spirits that operate without a body. They either lost a body and decided not to do that again or never chose to animate a body. They operate as free-floating spirits or they may attach themselves to a person or animal and influence or control that person or animal.
Most of these spirits are minding their own business and you may not notice them. If you have a favorite plant you care for, you may notice that it pays attention to you when you approach it and seems to be happy. This is much more apparent when you have a puppy or a kitten in your household as they will find ways to greet you when you appear.
There are people who have been taught that animals do not have spirits or past lives and they never wonder what animates their pet and keeps it alive. They think perhaps life comes from pet food and never realize that love and admiration are as important as food for pets as it is for children.
Ignorance of spirits is usually a matter of poor education. If you were trained from an early age that spirits and ghosts are imaginary, you will have little reason to doubt what you are told. Even if you experience voices in your head, you and your friendly doctor will find a way to shut them off with the proper medication, usually Zoloft, Haldol, or some other antipsychotic drug. The voices are still there, but you can’t hear them unless you forget to take your medication.
If and when you wish to hear what your spiritual companions have to say, you should learn to meditate, and by that I mean to sit quietly without fidgeting, and observe the thoughts that are running through your mind. At first, there will be a constant flow of ideas about your schedule, and don’t forget to thank Aunt Bess for the present, a reminder to get the car inspected, and some concern for little Lucy who is not doing well in school.
If you persist in sitting quietly until the noise dies down, you will notice that the only thoughts left are those you generate by yourself. You may have to meditate many times before it dawns on you that most of the thoughts you have are not yours. They are coming from the spirits who surround you and make up your collection of spiritual companions. If you still think these ideas are coming from your mind, then you need to keep believing whatever makes you happy and leave communicating with spirits to those who are ready for it.
Those of us who communicate with spirits are never alone and are never without companionship and advice. Spirits love to contribute and be recognized for their contributions. If there is one common interest that spirits seem to have it is increasing their awareness as most of the disembodied spirits I encounter have recovered from a long period of unconsciousness and they are ready to catch up with what is going on in the world, even if they are not ready to pick up a body and assume a human identity again.
If you wish to communicate with the spirits who surround you, treat them as beings like yourself who have not adopted a body and the human identity that goes with it. They have usually lived many lifetimes in a body and have all sorts of experiences you can draw upon for your creative activities. There is no creative activity you can name from creating music to designing computers that you will not find spirits available and willing to assist you.
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