Talking to Spirits

[kimberlysteele]

It is hard to believe I was an atheist less than a decade ago. I was raised to be a casual Christian. I was baptized as a baby and confirmed at age 14. My parents took us to church when my brother and I were little. By the time we were adolescents, my brother and I would often walk to church unaccompanied by our parents. We were both confirmed around the same time.

I felt strung along by the Christian church. There was always the promise of being saved or “hearing good news” followed by empty posturing or rote recitation of mostly inscrutable Bible passages that I felt had no relevance to my life. It did not help that the most avid churchgoers in my life were also the most pushy, hypocritical, and obtuse. The deal breaker for me came at age 16, when the church had zero answers concerning the night terrors I suffered on a regular basis.

In my opinion, the average Protestant church has not been spiritual for a long time. By “spiritual” I mean within regular touch with the spirits/in contact with them. Catholics and Greek Orthodox have the advantage of saints and rituals items like rosary beads; casual Protestants have no such advantages. There is also the common Protestant assertion that any contact with non-corporeal entities other than Jesus himself is Satanic and/or witchcraft. Such an assertion, whether or not it is the correct interpretation of the Bible, excludes and shames anyone who seeks to experience the spirit of place. Those who develop the ability to recognize the differences and overlaps between the spirit world and our own are kneecapped by the insistence that all spiritual experience belongs to Jesus and Jesus alone.

Nah. From my experience, Jesus is truly great, however, he is far from the only god and he’s most certainly not the only spirit. To ironically paraphrase Carl Sagan, J.C. is but one of “billions and billions” in a complex ecosystem.

The Extremely-Haunted World

Most of us have been brought up to believe that if ghosties and ghoulies exist, then surely they must prove it by using their unseen hands to move furniture at night, to win lotteries for humans who beg and plead the right way, and to possess ugly dolls and teddy bears and make them prance about in a demonic yet amusing fashion. That’s not the way it works. Everything and every place is haunted nevertheless. Anyone who has ever sensed that someone doesn’t like them or that a place feels “bad” or “good” for no apparent reason is sensing the spirit ecosystem. The ecosystem is there whether the person astrally blind or profoundly clairvoyant.

Personally, I don’t usually physically see or hear spirits. Every now and then I do, for instance I saw my first full-body apparition in a forest preserve in 2020. I thought it was a man until I got close enough for it to disappear. I usually don’t see spirits. I’ll catch one of my many ghost cats out of the corner of my eye and sometimes ghosts will make a lot of racket in my house. These are not common occurrences. My usual experience is a kind of awareness. For instance, right now I have several spirits hovering nearby. One is always with me -- it’s my Holy Guardian Angel or HGA. Others come and go. Some have bad intentions and are thrown off by my daily Sphere of Protection. Most are just there, like birds in the bushes and trees and insects on the ground and in the air. No big deal. Places also have spirits. My music studio has a spirit. The piano has a spirit who I have named Rex. The desk calendar has a spirit. The elderberry lozenges have spirits. The plastic they are wrapped in has a spirit. The list is endless.

When people ask me “Is this place haunted?” my answer is always “Yes”. Haunted is the natural state of everything. What they mean is “Is one of the entities who lives here disturbed or angry?”

The key realization here is that nobody is ever alone. Manly P. Hall’s Path of the Lonely Ones is only genuinely lonely if non-human entities cannot be perceived, and most people who study the occult find that studying occultism opens the inner eye that perceives the world for all of its genuine weirdness. The supernatural isn’t all that super because it is perfectly natural; it’s just that we humans have fallen into severe blindness.

The Ancient Seers

I believe people used to be able to see the astral plane nearly as easily as we see the physical plane. Over thousands of years, humans lost the second sight. I have always been afflicted with a feeling of sadness and longing for the pre-industrial world when nobody worried about radiation, toxic dumps, or plastic garbage. I don’t feel I am anywhere alone in this or the sense that the world of fairies, angels, ghosts, and other non-corporeal entities has been beaten back. The clincher is that it wasn’t beaten back at all -- it’s just that we have beaten back our ability to perceive it. We are so vain as a species that we came to assume that because we invented our own apparatuses and systems, they can have no consciousness apart from us. The first step to perceiving entities is admitting that humans aren’t so great and special. We are cogs in the machine just like anyone else. We may be creators, but we are also the created. The second step is to try and make contact.

Reach Out and Touch Someone

The primary way to begin to sense the rich, unseen world is to thank it. Grateful people are the best sort of people: everybody wants to hang out with them, including spirits. That’s why I suggest genuinely thanking household objects as a first exercise in spirit communication. The next time you shut your front door for the night, thank it as if it was another person who was your devoted personal security guard. Say Hello when you get into your car and Thank You every time you get out of it. Say thank you to the washing machine and dryer for your clean clothes. Thank your bed after you sleep in it. Once you have started thanking the objects you used to take for granted, you might just notice they appreciate being thanked. It’s a subtle, almost indiscernible feeling, but once you start a habit of thanking objects, you’ll sense that it grows and that an aura of protection grows with it. A wise entity once told me that gratitude sublimates what it touches to the power of seven. I took this to mean that the thank-er and the thank-ee become improved and encouraged by gratitude in at least seven ways.

Bad Practices

I don’t use or recommend Ouija boards or seances to contact spirits. Ouija boards are a good way of inviting a demonic infestation, and here is why: they are like giant nets that do not discriminate in what they catch and bring through. Demons want nothing more than to get a foothold on the material plane where they can proceed to wreak havoc upon their enemies (us humans). The Ouija board is usually piloted by a group of know-nothings who seek contact with dead relatives or dead famous people. A bunch of people create an amorphous blob of astral energy that is easily detected and commandeered by demons. It’s not that dead grandma doesn’t want to get through, she cannot get through because the demons will push her out of the way.

The seance is another extremely ignorant practice that invites the demonic from portals on the lower astral plane. Once again, we have a bunch of random-intentioned people creating an amorphous blob of astral energy through which demons may happily travel. Seances are the astral equivalent of going to a seedy bar and then stripping oneself naked and taking a roofie. Though it is possible that nothing will happen, it is more probable that something bad will happen and that it will have at least one VD. To add insult to potential injury, seances are not bookended with any form of banishing rituals.

One of the types of entities I used to see in my unprotected astral travels is the Impersonator. Impersonators are spirits who form themselves into mock-ups of your loved ones and then try to get your attention by using that person’s form to torment you. Let’s say you dream of your aunt and in the dream, the nice old lady you know suddenly seems menacing and sinister. Her form seems to bulge at the edges, rearranging itself. The arms are too big, the head is too small, the eyes seem wrong. My guess is that you didn’t dream about your aunt; that was an impersonator. Impersonators love to play ghost and many ghost sightings of dead “people” are not people at all.

The Rudeness of Humans

Many entities don’t want to connect with humans because let’s face it, we can be very rude. When I was an atheist who believed in The Science, I truly believed if a demon or angel didn’t manifest as a humanoid creature and march up to me and shake my hand, it couldn’t possibly exist. When a bunch of humans sit in their stupid, unbanished seance and demand that spirits make knocking sounds in order to prove their existence, the spirits have every right to be pissed and angered. Part of me doesn’t even blame them for infesting houses and apartments and making the cupboards vomit dishes and flatware onto the floor.

Let’s say I was stricken blind and deaf. Just as I wouldn’t march into someone’s home and demand that people living there prove they existed by doing an impromptu tap dance so I could feel the vibrations, I no longer presume I can force astral beings to do my bidding, nor do I want them to do my bidding. I wouldn’t dream of thinking of contacting spirits as a game (many Ouija boards are made by Hasbro) because that’s freaking rude.

The Beauty of Talking to Trees

The Druid Tree Ritual, which really isn’t much more than an elaborate way to sit up against or hug a tree, is a wonderfully polite way to introduce oneself to the world of the unseen. Though not every tree is friendly, most trees and plants in general love to chat and exchange energy with humans. The Ritual is simple: 1.Spot a tree 2.Ask it if it wants to exchange energy 3.Sit with back against tree for whatever amount of time seems right 4.Thank tree and exit the scene.

You won’t hear a literal voice from the tree, but you’ll probably feel all sorts of unexpected and odd sensations. Paying attention to them and more importantly contemplating them later is an excellent way of opening the avenues of spirit communication. The ritual has three key elements: the asking of permission, the opening of oneself to possibility, and the all important gratitude afterwards.

Comments

cat ghosts

[randomactsofkarmasc]

Are cat ghosts tied to place? I ask because I have lived in my current home for many years and I have buried three of my cats in the back yard. They had distinctive personalities and particular places they tended to be in the house and certain ways of moving. Out of the corner of my eye, I have seen my kitties since they've passed, and I feel it is them because of where they were and how they moved.

Eventually, we are going to move to a different house. Is it possible that the cat ghosts will come with us? Or is it possible that since we are still here, they haven't moved on and once we move, they'll be able to go to their next stop? It makes me a little sad to think that they might come to this house to see me but I won't be here anymore.

[kimberlysteele]

I can only speak from personal experience, but I had a ghost cat follow me around for years through several residences. About 15 years ago, I lived in a 2 bedroom apartment and though I was 100% atheist at the time, I saw a ghost cat both for a couple of years before and after I adopted my cat Kiki. I would often see a black cat moving around or hear meows. The ghost cat actually inspired me to get Kiki to some degree. When we moved to my parents' house for three years, the ghost cat followed us and "lived" in my childhood bedroom along with Kiki, my husband, and I (yes, it was cramped!) and then she followed us into this house. I still occasionally see her but I sense she is close to moving on and seeking a new incarnation. The last time I saw her was before Kiki died in the summer.

There are other ghost cats here -- this house and yard is honestly teeming with corporeal and non-corporeal cats. As for Kiki, I have done my best to try to segregate myself from her during this important time in her between-life process but I dream of her a great deal because I am so sad she is gone.

What's odd is the weird message I got recently (don't know from whom it emanated) that "cats live on through other cats". Meaning by caring for my current set of kitties, this may be sending care and love to Kiki in her afterlife because of the way all cats are connected.

[methylethyl]

I'd like to add a wee caveat to this: I had a spate of "ghost cat" experiences in my early twenties. Didn't matter where I was, it could happen anywhere. I can't say one way or another if there were any actual catlike entities that I was seeing. Hallucinations are like that, you know? Yeah, you're seeing weird stuff that maybe it's not normal to see. Is it real? (shrugs). Anyway, it turned out to be part of a thyroid issue I was having. It went away as I healed from the health crisis.

I'll be the last person to deny the reality of "ghost pets"-- I know too many people who've experienced them. But I'd like to put a little PSA out there: if you're frequently seeing movement of dark shapes in your peripheral vision, of things that aren't strictly "there"... this is a well-documented type of hallucination (some people see it as cats, others as snakes, bats, birds, etc) associated with hypothyroid type issues, and you should probably do yourself a favor and at least take a look at a list of other hypothyroid symptoms, and if that stuff is sounding familiar to you... it bears further reading, and it might be time to get an endocrine eval.

On a lighter note, my sister, who used to have two actual cats, acquired a ghost dog when she moved into her last house. Never saw it, but sometimes felt it hop up to sleep on the end of the bed at night... at which point the cat would get up and stalk away. I think at least some of them might just be... energetic patterns created by habitual action? Actual doggie had moved on a long time ago, but had done the same thing so many times that the pattern sort of lingered. Dunno.

[kimberlysteele]

Totally agree. One whole chunk of this essay that I omitted for the sake of brevity is the "Questions to ask yourself before you absolutely decide you've seen or heard a spirit" list. One is "Was it caffeine?" Caffeine causes all sorts of issues for me, especially when it is in the form of coffee. Another is "Was it gas?" Stomach noises often sound like talking.

[(Anonymous)]

Something I've noticed with coffee as someone who's lived in the tropics and the temperate zone is that the beans have a lot of subtle plane influences, and really don't like areas it can't grow. It's got a very gentle, subtle, cleansing effect in areas where it grows, but it gets toxic on the inner planes in areas where it can't grow. The best way I can think of to describe it is that it's trying to remake what it touches to match its home. The further it is from home, the more destructive and imbalanced the process gets. Given how different Illinois is from the kind of environments coffee grows in, that would probably be quite destructive there.

[kimberlysteele]

Fascinating! Thank you for this.

I have always done much better with tea. This could be a genetic/epigenetic thing because I am half-Japanese. Coffee is delicious but I notice that it gives me a lot of false positive psychic impressions -- it gives me jolts of sunny premonitions about the future that always turn out to be bogus.

[(Anonymous)]

What do you do with the tree ritual if you're still too blind and deaf to know if the answer is yes or no?

[kimberlysteele]

The same as a beginning musician who can barely make a note on the guitar, horn, singing, etc... lots of PRACTICE! For now, stick to "safer" trees such as anything related to pines, maples, or oaks, or if you are in the tropics, cedars and gum trees (fragrant trees), especially Eucalyptus. Avoid sycamores, elders, and acacias. Once a day is not too much. Once a week is fine too. Whatever you can manage. The trees want to talk to you. Collectively, the time has come to repair the relationship between humans and trees and just like with musical practice, we've all got to start somewhere.

I have a drive-by relationship with an oak tree in my neighborhood. I've never had the pleasure of doing the ritual with it because it is in someone's yard. Every time I drive by it (usually commuting to work) I say "Hey hey tree! Looking great today" and wish that it has a good day. I know it sounds ridiculous but beginning the relationship really is that simple. You don't have to approach the spirits with gravitas.

[seanbolger1]

I keep seeing crows, more and more lately. Today 3 together then one on his own, on the pavement whilst walking in to town, they no longer seem afraid. In the past when I would see one he would fly away, but the crows I saw today just gave me a glance and hopped a meter to the side to let me through. I'm normally not this superstitious, but for some reason today I think it means something I just don't what. Any ideas?
Kind regards
Sean

[kimberlysteele]

Contrary to some of the new age "omens mean whatever rainbow sparkly feel good woo I want them to mean" claptrap, crows are a straight up an omen of death. Since they're proliferating in your town, it's possible Death is going to make a few extra visits to your town this year. Does it mean that death will visit you and your family soon? No, not necessarily. You should do your own divinations and meditations where that is concerned if you really want to know.

Good on you for actually noticing animal behavior patterns. I wouldn't worry about it -- because of the vaccines bringing up the rate of all-cause mortality, the Reaper has already started working overtime and will soon be putting in double shifts. The crows are a mere portent of the obvious.

[seanbolger1]

Thank you, I already know of 2 people on the same street who have died of heart attacks, both vaxed and younger than me, I'm 43.
I know something has changed, it's just not obvious yet what exactly. Every one in my family is vaxed, I just hope they will OK.

[kimberlysteele]

Ugh, I hope some of them got the placebo. I too have family and friends who got the vax, many of whom had pre-existing health conditions. One of them is a child who now suffers constant debilitating colds and flus. Another works in the medical industry and is now saddled with low energy and mysterious aches and pains. Several in my extended circle have died.

[seanbolger1]

So far it just seems to be the super cold in my circle, but time will tell.

[(Anonymous)]

A couple of my friends who live in a university dorm have mentioned crows have started moving into the dorms, and it took a real effort to get rid of them. I really hope that that isn't an omen...

[kimberlysteele]

Oh my. No, I think that is a very bad sign. I wonder what percentage of the students is vaccinated?

[(Anonymous)]

100% are. The university requires it and will not grant exemptions...

[kimberlysteele]

Oh boy. Considering what the (so-callled) vaccines do to blood, that's a horrible requirement to inflict on students. Anyone who has gotten the vax owes it to themselves to get a D-Dimer test.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/tk5ZlJ0UGB23/

[(Anonymous)]

I know. They require it in order to get on campus, and moved all the mandatory courses back in person too. It's incredible, and I really hope JMG is wrong about the mass die off, because if he's right that's a lot of my friends...

cats

[randomactsofkarmasc]

I love the idea of cats living through other cats.

I used to dream of my first cat frequently, but eventually less and less. I don't think I have dreamed of him for a few years now, though I still occasionally see his ghost. So it makes sense that he is preparing for his next incarnation.

Thank you for sharing your experiences and helping me understand mine.

Re: cats

[kimberlysteele]

You're welcome. I believe I was incarnated as a cat quite a few times. That's why I can take Crazy Cat Lady to a whole new level!

Re: cats

[(Anonymous)]

but to me you're STILL a cat. most feline female i've ever done seen!
watching and reading you is like having my back drawn on and it's hard to write or talk afterwards.
i love your world and mind.
that's why other cats follow you, too.
x
erika

Re: cats

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you! Once a cat, always a cat...

[(Anonymous)]

It took awhile but recently I think I finally made a connection with the Oak trees. The first time I just stared at their brown leaves on the ground and then I saw humanity disappear, forgotten in a world of the far future. The Oaks still lived on.

The past few times I've listened to them, I get a perception of a vast stretch of time -- days and nights that last forever. The Oaks seem to live in this perception.


It's quite remarkable and I thank them for showing me that.

Jon

[kimberlysteele]

When I do the Sphere of Protection, I am often able to sense vast stretches of time when I invoke the gods of the elements.

[(Anonymous)]

That's great.

Talking to trees

[(Anonymous)]

Hello Kimberley
After I once read in your blog, that you speak to trees I tried it with a wild cherry tree in my garden. Because I got no response I stopped doing it. Yesterday I read this blog and decided to follow your instruction. So today I asked for permission and then put my back to the tree. Somehow I felt some kind of energetic currents. Will test it more in the coming days.
Greetings and thank you, Steen

Re: Talking to trees

[kimberlysteele]

That warms my heart and makes my day, Steen. Thank you for sharing it.

[(Anonymous)]

"Places also have spirits."

It's worth pointing out that these can be generous and warm. Leastways, I am no expert, but I can tell you that if you go up to my wife's old home, in a very rural location, now abandoned, you feel nothing so much as a feeling of supernatural peace and soothing energy pervading the place.

Unfortunately, owing to CORVID travel rules I haven't been there in over a year.


"I don’t use or recommend Ouija boards or seances to contact spirits"

Curious, why is Ogham different/safer?

"you dream of your aunt and in the dream, the nice old lady you know suddenly seems menacing and sinister."

Oh my, this brings back memories of the horrifying dream I had after my father died, many years ago. I won't go into it, but I wonder if it could have been one of these impersonators.

-Bofur

[kimberlysteele]

Interesting! How sad that it is abandoned. I guess the fairies will take it back now.

Neither Ouija nor seances invoke God or gods, that is to say they are not forms of divination because the divine does not flow through them. Now let's say an Ouija session or seance was sandwiched between two banishing rituals for all those partaking in the session and God or gods were called upon to protect the session, and all members agreed to meditate on what happened during the session. Then it would probably be OK. Group channeling of spirits is problematic. You're only as clean as your dirtiest group member. One of the people in the seance/Ouija session might be an astral basket case, mentally ill, ripe for demonic infection. If so, the Ouija session is an open invitation.

Ugh, so sorry to hear your dad might have been impersonated. It is extremely likely that it wasn't him.

[methylethyl]

OT: I recall you speculating a while back that some batches of the fox might be just saline.

This article might support that theory, and I thought you might be interested:

https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/31/100-percent-of-covid-19-vaccine-deaths-caused-by-just-5-percent-of-the-batches-produced/

Turns out VAERS reports (as inadequate as they are) are grouped in an extremely non-random way around certain batch numbers.

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you for this. How horrible for the victims. This is compelling evidence to support my postulation. How completely disgusting that doctors would go against their Hippocratic oath like this. A handful of bad reactions is usually enough to shut down a vaccine.

[methylethyl]

I'm thinking it through. There could be other explanations for it, IMO. But it doesn't contradict your hypothesis.

And yeah, a handful of reactions is enough to shut down a vixen sometimes, but a spike in bad reactions associated with a single batch number? At the very least, that batch should have been recalled. I have not seen any evidence that has happened, or that there has been any attempt whatsoever made to trace other people in those batches to investigate. That's red flags and alarm bells all over.