Ghost or Spirit? What’s the difference?

[Emilie]

Ok so many people use the word “Ghost” in the wrong context (myself included - even though I know the difference)
So I just wanted to share with you all the difference between a Ghost and a Spirit.

A Spirit is simple - it is the soul of a departed being.

Now a Ghost is as tricky to explain as it is to understand but I’ll try my best.
Occasionally, when there has been a tragic or emotional event, the scenes from it can be absorbed right into the very fabric of a building (the brickwork, the woodwork etc) and then this scene is replayed over and over again - a bit like a video.

When this happens, it is always the same over and over again.
One great example of this (in my opinion) is the story of the Roman Soldiers at the Treasurers House in York, England - (look it up!)

The Romans, who appeared to be tired as if returning from battle, did not notice the living, they stared straight ahead, coming out of one wall, walking across the cellar and disappearing through the opposite wall.

So I believe this is a recording of an event being replayed rather than Spirits of the deceased.

Spirits often acknowledge the living, they move around the places they “haunt”
They make “contact” etc where as Ghosts (replays) don’t.

So that’s the difference between the two.
Spirit - deceased being.
Ghost - recording of an event.

Hope that’s made sense to you all

 

[KenJ]

A Spirit is simple - it is the soul of a departed being.

I beg a differ! I find this to be a basic unknown, at least for me. If it is believed that the soul, in its entirety, re-enters a new body than that might be true, however, that leads to problems with communication with their past-life IMO. On the other hand, if the soul is divisible and only a part of it enters a new body, as many reports indicate, than that is something quite different and allows each such 'Personality' to be able to be accessed. My thoughts lean heavily toward 'Spirit' being a fragment of the soul.

 

[Emilie]

I beg a differ! I find this to be a basic unknown, at least for me. If it is believed that the soul, in its entirety, re-enters a new body than that might be true, however, that leads to problems with communication with their past-life IMO. On the other hand, if the soul is divisible and only a part of it enters a new body, as many reports indicate, than that is something quite different and allows each such 'Personality' to be able to be accessed. My thoughts lean heavily toward 'Spirit' being a fragment of the soul.

You have a very valid point there!
I do know that a soul can split and that’s why you get a reincarnated soul as well as “hauntings” by that very same soul.
You’ve obviously put more thought into it.
Nicely put.

 

[KenJ]

When it comes to Ghosts, I'm very uncertain about things. The village where I live has a great number of haunted homes although I've never encountered one. Poltergeist seem to be an accepted phenomenon, but again I have no first-hand knowledge. There has been quite a bit of study into this with a lot of subjective and circumstantial evidence indicating that they exist - my dogs seem to hear them as they start barking for reasons that I don't see or hear a reason
I've wondered if the deceased 'personality' needed to show themselves or that the viewer needed to see them - something quite different than the poltergeist that people try to get rid of.

 

[Emilie]

Poltergeist are definitely real.
They’re known as neither Ghost nor Spirit as neither of them are able to make the knocks and bangs that Poltergeist are famous for.
Nor can they move/throw things.
Poltergeist actually means “noisy spirit”
They are, of course Spirit, they’re just not known simply as that due to their mischievousness, and as frightening as the noises can be, Poltergeist are rarely malevolent.

 

[Sven]

While browsing here I came across this interesting question. Although it has been a year since this was discussed, I’d like to put in my two cents. I have an aversion to dogma, so what I am saying here does not fall into that category.
I tend to regard my soul as primary, the very essence of who I am in each incarnation and between incarnations. And my soul is very much like a home—a point that will become clearer in a moment.
I regard my spirit as the expression of my soul in each incarnation. And for each of my incarnations there is a portion of my spirit, as it were, that is forever particularly the expression of that incarnation.
Once a particular incarnation ends, the spirit of that incarnation returns to home base, which is my soul.
For my next incarnation, my spirit goes forth again as yet another expression of my soul. Again, a portion of my spirit particularly and eternally identifies with that incarnation and returns to home base when that incarnation ends.
So my spirit is both one and many. One spirit by which my soul expresses itself in any incarnation. Many spirits in that each incarnation bears its particular stamp of experiences which that incarnation’s spirit carries home to my soul. And my soul is enriched by these many incarnated experiences and adventures.
As for ghosts, I tend to regard such as troubled spirits of particular incarnations, spirits who have not yet “crossed over” to go back to home base. Until they do go home, they remain troubled by some tragedy or incomplete mission, etc.
I wonder if others would see some plausibility in these distinctions. Or am I way beyond the pale?

 

[KenJ]

Yes.

 

[Klaud]

As for ghosts, I tend to regard such as troubled spirits of particular incarnations, spirits who have not yet “crossed over” to go back to home base. Until they do go home, they remain troubled by some tragedy or incomplete mission, etc.
I wonder if others would see some plausibility in these distinctions. Or am I way beyond the pale?

You're pretty much right on the money. Ghosts are stuck here for one reason or another, whereas disembodied spirits can wander around at their own leisure because they aren't attached to anything.

I sometimes see friends of mine who have crossed over and the experience is quite different than seeing the ones who are stuck on earth with us.

 

[Polaris8]

Ok so many people use the word “Ghost” in the wrong context (myself included - even though I know the difference)
So I just wanted to share with you all the difference between a Ghost and a Spirit.

A Spirit is simple - it is the soul of a departed being.

Now a Ghost is as tricky to explain as it is to understand but I’ll try my best.
Occasionally, when there has been a tragic or emotional event, the scenes from it can be absorbed right into the very fabric of a building (the brickwork, the woodwork etc) and then this scene is replayed over and over again - a bit like a video.

When this happens, it is always the same over and over again.
One great example of this (in my opinion) is the story of the Roman Soldiers at the Treasurers House in York, England - (look it up!)

The Romans, who appeared to be tired as if returning from battle, did not notice the living, they stared straight ahead, coming out of one wall, walking across the cellar and disappearing through the opposite wall.

So I believe this is a recording of an event being replayed rather than Spirits of the deceased.

Spirits often acknowledge the living, they move around the places they “haunt”
They make “contact” etc where as Ghosts (replays) don’t.

So that’s the difference between the two.
Spirit - deceased being.
Ghost - recording of an event.

Hope that’s made sense to you all

Hi Emilie, I hope I can try to clear things up here. I know that many people use the word spirit and ghost as interchangeable so I can of get what they are trying to covey. However technically Spirit is the vital principle or animating force that connects and flows thru all living things throughout the cosmos including us. Basically its the god forces that connects us to god itself. As we are apart of god and god is apart of us.

A ghost is a much different story. Ghosts are basically earth bound human souls that have not crossed over into the light which is a portal into the middle or higher astral planes where the vast majority of the human races goes after death. So what happens is the soul has lost their physicals body and now reside in their astral body instead which tends to appear in the form of their last incarnation.

However because of their over emotional or mental attachments to our world they stay instead very close to our physical dimension and reside in the lower astral dimension which is just slightly out of phase with our physical world. In fact this is what dark matter is as this is apart of lower astral matter which helps shape and form heavier physicals matter. This dimension is where many souls work out their lower states of consciousness because of either drug or alcohol abuse, lust, greed, haltered, violence's, warped or twisted mental or emotional states, over attachment to money or material things or places the list goes on ect.. Once these issues have been worked out the soul may transcend into the middle or higher astral worlds where most normal human beings go after death and are far more pleasant environments. Not all of these souls are really that bad. In fact many people get lost in life so it makes senses that some get lost after death mostly because of fear of being judged by the light.
However many don't know they are dead. So if a ghost haunts a home or area they once lived they don't see it as it is today but instead see it as it was when they where alive. So to them you are the intruder to their home as they have no awareness that death has taken place and time as passed on the earth plane.

Once they become they are dead this helps some in having them transitions into the light where they really need to go to be with friends, relatives and people they loved that have died. Hope this clear some of this up.

 

[Speedwell]

The word 'ghost' isn't so simple. It is a general-purpose term used to describe several completely different phenomena. Some relate to an active, living being. Others are more mechanistic, one might say an imprint or recording. Then there is the poltergeist phenomena, which may appear to be an external something, but may be a projection of energies from a currently living person. There are also cases of mistaken identity when an optical illusion or other misperception is considered to have some other-worldly origin. That is not to say that ordinary phenomena cannot also have some deeper significance, that indeed may be the nature of this life, where there are both deeper meanings and surface appearances. It is up to each of us to come to terms with that part.

 

[Benny Price]

Good topic, being "bardo" is going to become a major issue for a lot of souls coming up in the future.

I've watched soul attachments, and if there's a major drop in human population, the number of soul attachments will become astronomical, with souls being at war with each other for a potential manifestation (new life).

Right now anyone that wants a new life has countless opportunities, but that will be changing soon with so many souls looking to manifest their past life issues again.

I personally recommend practicing astral travel, and looking for a new home.

 

[Polaris8]

Good topic, being "bardo" is going to become a major issue for a lot of souls coming up in the future.

I've watched soul attachments, and if there's a major drop in human population, the number of soul attachments will become astronomical, with souls being at war with each other for a potential manifestation (new life).

Right now anyone that wants a new life has countless opportunities, but that will be changing soon with so many souls looking to manifest their past life issues again.

I personally recommend practicing astral travel, and looking for a new home.

Benny, Interesting that you posted this. The reason why so many souls are reincarnating here on planet earth right now is because many that are here now were part of the Atlantean race during that time. Our culture and technology is close to what they had back then. Of course Atlantis was far more advance then we are now because they had knowledge of using psychic abilities. Because they practice and used the psychic arts trying to manipulate each other using black magic they inadvertently caused a dimensional warp between the physical plane and the lower astral dimeson which caved in on itself. The Atlantis continent sank leaving behind a dimensional portal in that area of the world which is why things goes missing in that area even today.

Plus another reason why so many souls incarnating now is planet earth is making a shift in global consciousness from late young soul stage to early mature soul stage of awareness. Where we go from here will depend in how our global consciousness as a species evolves. As the human race is at a apexes in its evolution. If we can mature and take responsibility to each other, our planet and the environment then we will achieve what we were meant to be and travel the cosmos colonizing other planets and evolving into other species across the galaxy. However if we don't grow up soon we will simply destroy ourselves and our beautiful blue green world in which we live on. In which case we will have to find another planetary system close to our evolutionarily match to continue on. This is why so many souls are here right now.

Of course it is normal to have a certain amount of souls that are incarnated in the physical while others are in-between incarnations living on the astral and mental planes which are in fact far larger universes then even our own.

Thanks for the post P.

 

[cloud potato]

Hi Polaris, I am coming back to your post and want to thank you for all your contributions. I think we feel similar in some regards towards life. I wanted to comment, I've had a memory of a future life. Yes I do believe in space travel and I think the Kardashev scale is a great point of reference when considering our evolution. The future memory only occurred once, in 6th grade, and was as vague as could be. The emotion however is very strong and very sad. I can't help but feel a great sorrow when we reach the point in civilization where we are leaving earth on ships. The ships are cold and lonely. For that reason, even if we make it, I'm torn between leaving earth or not. I'm certain future generations will have a choice. At this point it's conjecture but I suspect in this life we will see early attempts to live in space and if I have children I may be faced with waving one of them off to their next adventure-

 

[Polaris8]

Hi Polaris, I am coming back to your post and want to thank you for all your contributions. I think we feel similar in some regards towards life. I wanted to comment, I've had a memory of a future life. Yes I do believe in space travel and I think the Kardashev scale is a great point of reference when considering our evolution. The future memory only occurred once, in 6th grade, and was as vague as could be. The emotion however is very strong and very sad. I can't help but feel a great sorrow when we reach the point in civilization where we are leaving earth on ships. The ships are cold and lonely. For that reason, even if we make it, I'm torn between leaving earth or not. I'm certain future generations will have a choice. At this point it's conjecture but I suspect in this life we will see early attempts to live in space and if I have children I may be faced with waving one of them off to their next adventure-

Cloud, yes you are correct. When we finally decide to leave planet earth there will be separation anxiety which of course is normally. Even those that choose to go to Mars in the not so distance future will experience this. Simply because it will be a one way trip from them never to return to earth due to factors that their physical bodies over time will adapt to mars gravity among other things. Making the return to earth very hard or even impossible as earths gravity by then will be too hard to endure. Over a long period of time those born on mars will in fact become a different species then that of earth. Sounds like you have a vision of a future lifetime many hundreds of years from now which explains why it was to vague as the further into the future you go our vision or state of awareness in the present has a harder time seeing those experiences while incarnated. Seeing the past seems to not work this way. Why I'm not sure, which is why seeing your past lives is far easier then seeing a future lifetime. I believe this might be due to the fact of the lower mind working with linear time on the physical plane. But I'm not sure as this is out of my area of expertise.

In any case our species is not ready yet to contact alien races on other star systems. As we are still to violent and self serving wanting to have power over each other. Plus we still think our ourselves as the center of the universe. From man's point of view god created man in his own image. So there you go. However when that day does come and man contacts other intelligent life in the cosmos humanities adolescences will be over. And we will be in for a very rude awakening.

Love and peace.

P.

 

[cloud potato]

Thank you P.

I don't want to diverge too much from the OT and will leave it with, thinking on this makes me sad. I feel this way because it feels like an experience or a life already lived. Even though it might be a future event, I think this is a common expression for folks reviewing their past lives(hard to process emotions). I can detach from the experience and become preoccupied with wonder by thinking of past lives, future lives and other possibilities all without diving into this particular memory. In this way I do feel appreciation and beauty too. I think I am ready to face these things now... Thank you again.

My kind regards.

~ CP