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Earthbound spirits can remain wandering in either places or become attached to people. The principle in the spirit world is that like attracts like, a wandering spirit that has a similar unresolved issue that you may have, could become attached to your energy field and have detrimental results. Often people with attached spirits feel drained of energy, also because the nature of Spirit Attachment is a parasitic one, they can magnify whatever issue or complex they are resonant to. Living people can also project parts of their energy and we can do the same to others. An example might be a young lover who ‘lost her heart’ and never came to terms with her lover leaving. Traditional psychology would call this grief, and a range of therapies could be used with the client. Shamanism would call this Soul Loss and would work to retrieve the lost fragment. Other examples are the negative thoughts, emotions and beliefs that others project towards us and become internalised, especially in childhood. The psychological term for this is Introjection. Shamanism would call this an embedded soul fragment and would release it. The purpose of working with Earthbound spirits is to return them to their proper plane of existence and in the case of soul fragments, to reunite them with their own soul.

All of this work is done with love and gentleness for the lost soul or lost fragment. In the following story I found a spirit attached to a woman that was causing her several kinds of fears and panic.

A Case of a Lost Coal Miner

 

In a slightly altered state while preparing to go into a past life regression, Pam’s voice suddenly got rough and deep and said, “My name is Sam”. Working with Sam reveled that he was a spirit that had attached to Pam when she was a young girl. Sam had been a coal miner who was trapped in a mine collapse. When he lay there slowly suffocating, he alternately thought of his own young daughter and his anger at God. “God, how could you abandon me and let me die like this. I hate you!” He had slowly suffocated to death and with these dying thoughts he did not go to the light and did not want to see God. Working with Sam revealed that he wandered around and saw a laughing child that reminded him of his own daughter, and wanting that happiness again found himself attracted to Pam. He was not aware that he was attached to her, in fact when Sam was reminded that he was dead, he got angry and said, “No. It is not true. This is my body. I am here and I’m talking to you now”.

I gently placed my hand on Pam’s shoulder and asked Sam to feel the touch and become aware of the body he was in. I asked if he was a big strong coal miner, to which he replied “Yes”. I then had him focus on the tiny female body he was in now (Pam was in fact quite petite), and told him “Sam this body has breasts. Is this the body of a coal miner?” Sam seemed genuinely stunned as he became aware he was not in his own body. After working with Sam further to reconcile his tragic death and his anger at God, he was assisted to light, where his own child and wife were waiting for him. 
 

Through reliving Sam’s death Pam became aware that many symptoms she had been carrying in her life came from Sam. Since she was small she had feelings of panic when she lay in bed at night before going to sleep. She said she always had the thought that, “I have to get out” and had often slept with one foot close to the floor so that she could get out quickly if she needed to. These phobias and thoughts left her when Sam did.

 

Earthbound spirits exist in a trance state. They often are unaware that they are dead, and like Sam, frequently they become attached to the living with no awareness that they have done so. Another way of looking at earthbound spirits is to see them as wandering disembodied psychological complexes. It is often the thoughts and feelings at the moments of death, when traumatic or unresolved that can cause parts of a soul to remain earthbound. In the case of Sam it was these exact dying moments that caused a part of his energy to remain trapped and wandering. Sam was angry at God and also was unresolved with having to leave his family behind. Many times earthbound spirits that attach to people do so for one simple reason, we have bodies and they do not! Having a body means the possibility of completion of actions, emotions and thoughts. Not having a body can leave one impotent in that regard. Occasionally spirits seem to consciously choose to attach to a certain individual (often because of present or past life connections) such a loved one who feels they need to stay around to protect the living.

When there isn't a personal connection it is simply a matter of resonance. In the spirit world ‘like attracts like’, thus a person with depressive tendencies may draw depressive spirits to them. Spirits may also attach to caring, compassionate, helping people. I have worked with many, nurses, emergency workers, healers and others in helping professions that find spirits attached to them simply because they are caring people. One client that worked at a nursing home for the aged had many confused, lost and lonely spirits attached to her causing her much mental confusion. These spirits died alone and in various stages of dementia. Since this client was a warm and compassionate person, these poor souls found refuge with her.

 

Spirits that are attached to places can also be worked with to be released. I have found in working this way that often the spirit also needs help before it is able to move on. ‘Clearing’ a space or driving spirits out through ritual or other methods sometimes only has a limited effect, as after some time they or others like them will return. Working with them, with compassion and helping them come to resolution of their own ‘unfinished business’ is preferable as all involved are then served. When a spirit is happily and consciously 'on the other side' it has no draw or reason to haunt the living anymore.