HELP! I've got a trapped spirit! What do I do?

I get contacted regularly from people asking for me help and advice in relation to trapped spirits, requests to do a cleansing/clearing and to 'send them into the light' and my response is always NO - it is not necessary.

WHY?! I hear you ask...(excuse me if this gets a bit ranty)...

Because a spirit person is already 'in the light' - that's why! 

We are either spirit incarnate (i.e. having a physical existence on this earth plane) or spirit discarnate (i.e. in the spirit world/on the other side/in the 'light').

Us here on Earth are spirit people having a physical experience, when we die we shed our physical body and move into the spirit world to re-join with the Great Spirit/God/Divine and all of our loved ones. 

There is no 'in between' - you are either alive or you are dead. 

Sorry to burst your bubble, guys. 

In the same way as you are either alive or you are dead, those who are spirit discarnate are not trapped, in limbo, stuck, compelled to stay or hanging around on this Earth plane. 

No more than we can hang about in the spirit world can spirit people hang around in ours - yes we can touch and blend with the spirit world (that's how mediums work) and the spirit world can touch and blend with us here in the physical world but to 'get stuck'? no. 

Some people might criticise my stance on this, they may say "well that's your opinion and my experience is different" - this is NOT my opinion, this is one of the underpinning principles of spiritualism. People (mediums) have confirmed time and again, through experiments, learnings, teachings, explorations, work with spirit guides and other spirit people through trance, inspirational speakers, physical mediumship and other phenomena that there is no such thing as being between the two worlds.

My own learning, development and work has confirmed to me that this is the case - we cannot get stuck. We are either here or there, there is no in between. 

As a colleague of mine says "no one gets left behind, we all go THERE". 

But....(I hear you say)....I have a spirit hanging around - what do I do?

The spirit world gets the blame for a whole lot of stuff that it has nothing to do with. 

You know how sometimes you walk into a room and you get a creepy feeling like someone is watching you? or you are CERTAIN that an old lady died in that room? or that there was something really bad (or great) that happened? you can feel prickling on your neck, tingling or just feel 'odd'? 

We've all been there!

9 times out of 10 this is nothing more than residual energy - imagine an old dance hall...there was always dances every night, lots of fun, laughter, music and dancing. There might have been a fight amongst the boys. Imagine that dance hall being used for years...decades even. And then it closes down.

All that energy is retained in the building - like a fingerprint if you like, an energetic memory. It is in the energy field of the environment. You decide to go there to see an art collection (because it's now an art gallery!) and as soon as you walk into the room you get the sense of music, dancing, laughter...you might smell booze and cigarette smoke. You may even feel the MEMORY of that fight! 

But it isn't spiritual. It's energy. Earthly energy. Your auric field can shift and react to the environment, especially if there is a lot of energy or if you are intuitive/sensitive/an empath/psychic - that tingly feeling, like spider webs falling across your face, warmth/cold, even feelings of joy/dread...that is all earthly energy. You can tap in to that MEMORY - and it can seem so real (because it is) but it is not spirit. 

Now imagine you are house hunting, you go see a house and as you walk through you think GREAT! You love it and buy it. 

And then you move in (cue spooky music)...

You are in bed, you are just on the edge of sleep when you wake with a start - SOMEONE IS IN YOUR ROOM.

You are frozen! Scared! Petrified! You peek over the covers (because by now you've hidden under them) and you see that there is NO ONE THERE. But you feel their presence! You pray and you wish for this to be an awful memory...then it goes. Or worse, it doesn't!

OMG!

You  are aware that the presence was of an old lady, she lived in the house and that was her bedroom. But there is no communication, there is no intelligence...it is literally like she is just there as...you guessed it...RESIDUAL ENERGY! 

No need to call ghost busters. No need to call a medium. No need to smudge or get the priest in. RESIDUAL ENERGY is just that - residual. Nothing malevolent, nothing 'evil' and certainly no communication had. It's is literally like the remaining energy of a person or event. That's it!

But....it's trying to tell me something! What do I do?

If there is truly a spirit person, with an intelligence and genuine communication then you can seek to determine what they are trying to tell YOU. Just sit and relax, allow their energy to build and quietly say "hello friend, I know you are there - please tell me what you have to say". You may not find out the first time, it may take time. You may even need a medium to work with the spirit person (not unreasonable if you feel scared or unsure) but they are ALWAYS THERE TO HELP. But they aren't stuck, they aren't there to scare you, frighten you or harm you.

They aren't trapped. They don't NEED to be sent into the 'light' because - remember what I said? THEY ARE ALREADY THERE IN SPIRIT.

There is never, ever anything bad/negative/nasty/malevolent when dealing with our friends and loved ones in the spirit world. Anything that feels this is purely a build up of Earth energy (remember that fight in the dance hall?) - so if you were to stand in that area, you may feel angry or feel the memory of that fight. It CAN affect you! true!

Imagine going into a place where there was an incredible amount of human energy - worst case scenario you go into the gas chambers at a concentration camp. It would be perfectly reasonable to feel the fear, sadness, trauma of all those poor people who perished in the most unspeakably horrible way imaginable. It would not surprise me if people do feel all kinds of negativity there - because that is the environment. Is it spirit? NO, not if there is no intelligence/communication. 

So please, before you 'blame spirit' do consider whether there might be residual energy. If there is no intelligence with the phenomena then it is earthly.