Contacting Spirit at Halloween.

Halloween is upon us again, so you better have a bag of sweets at the door ready for the children dressed as ghosts and ghouls. Otherwise you will be cleaning an ectoplasm-like substance off the front door, in the form of congealed flour!

Halloween originated in Ireland; it is the pagan Celtic New Year.

Halloween is now connected largely with the occult and is seen as one of the best times of the year for the spirit world can make contact with the physical world, when energy is most potent. This is because this date is liminal space. Liminal space is the time of dusk or dawn, an in-between time. A meeting between two extremes, this is the case with the two worlds of the physical and the world of spirit at Halloween. More spirits are sceanced by mediums like myself on this date than at any other point in the year.

This liminal space isn't the only reason for this increased like with the spirit world, as the nights get darker earlier and the darkness becomes blacker in pitch, an interesting phenomena occurs. The earth's atmosphere is constantly hit by strong solar wind from the sun during the day. At night, when the atmosphere's membrane is sheltered from the sun, it expands much further into space and has much less resistance. This is why radio stations have a stronger signal at night; you can tune into stations much further away. This also means it is much easier for energy based forms, such as spirits and ghosts, to manifest. The best time is between 10.00pm and 3.00am in any night not just Halloween.

This is this why people don't see ghosts during the day; it's not that they are just coming out to frighten us at night in the dark!

So what is the difference between a ghost and a spirit? When do the dead turn from being our loving grandmother into being a terrifying nightmare?

Everything that exists when looked at closely enough is actually different forms of energy in vibration. This is what modern science tells us. Nothing is solid, it is only our perception that makes it so. We live in a dimension that makes everything look and feel solid; however, there are other dimensions which are not solid. The dimension of the spirit world is like a vibration of light; this is why people who have near death experiences describe themselves as going into a light.

So, a spirit is an energy being who has changed their vibrational frequency to a higher range. A ghost hasn't changed its frequency, and therefore can be trapped on this earthly physical dimension.

There are other explanations for ghost sightings. Energy reply being one.

As energy cannot be created or destroyed, the trapped residual energy becomes stored into a wall or anything made of matter. When the vibrational energy being replied is light, people may see what they think is a ghost. When it is a sound vibration, people may think they hear a ghost.

It's very rare that a spirit can be grounded. This is usually caused when there has been a sudden death, where the spirit has not realised it has died and has therefore not moved into the light or the spirit world. Sometimes the spirit refuses to move, especially if they feel they have been bad people on the earth plane and are therefore scared of judgment on the other side (a belief from religious teachings).

A person may be visited by a spirit from the spirit world who comes to visit friends and families. This is more possible at Halloween.

So, how can you contact your spirit guides at Halloween? The trick is allowing them to contact you!

Our loved ones and spirit guides in the non-physical dimension can hear our directed thoughts at any time. So if you think of your grandmother and send her the thought, she will receive it.

This is why when a medium tells the bereaved that they have to move on, otherwise the soul of the dead person will not be at peace. It is more a case of every time you send them a thought, it's like a phone ringing. The first call you are happy to know you are being thought of, by the ninth call it becomes a drain on your time. Dead people have a life to be getting on with!

One way of communicating with spirit guides is via automatic writing. You have to start the writing before Spirit takes over from you, even if your first written words are from your own mind. Usually, by the time you have finished writing, the channel from spirit may have started. Sit comfortably with a lit candle, take paper and a pen. Make sure you are completely relaxed. See yourself in a circle of white light; ask for your spirit guides to communicate with you through the highest vibration of love. Often it is good to start with a word in mind. Say, for example, 'strength'. Then simply start writing with that word and allow what follows. The trick to this is not to try at all, just start writing and see where it leads you. If you are expecting your hand to become possessed and start writing without any command from you, you may be waiting a long time. You will still have to actually write down the words as they come to you, but they are coming from beyond you. It is like a train of thought that rises by itself, and you are taking dictation from it.

This may come through as a piece of beautiful writing, or as a new way of looking at a current problem.

Halloween has always been seen to bring forward spirits that are dark forces; it's time to leave that myth to Hollywood and use this liminal period for spiritual progress. As the vibration of the planet is changing, one day every day will be like Halloween and we will have communication through telepathy with our spirit guides and departed loved ones.

Becky Walsh