Conversations With Ghosts!


A number of us were enjoying an August evening in a shady estate garden, wandering about the well-manicured shrubbery in a light-hearted "ghost hunt." Suddenly I found Marianne, my wife, seated on the ground, bowed in an uncharacteristic posture. She startled when I knelt and spoke, then she whimpered, "Where's Andrew?"

Andrew? We had no Andrew. And this wasn't Marianne's voice! "Who are you?" I blurted.

"I am Angelica," she whispered. And then I realized that Marianne was "channeling" a ghostly personality. One that, we finally determined, had been fixedly, fruitlessly searching for her wounded soldier fiance' since Civil War days.

This was our first conversation with a ghost, which opens Earthbound. Among other ghosts you'll meet there -- in their own words -- is Effie, a terrified family domestic in the mid-nineteenth century who, supposing she would be held responsible for the death of the infant in her care, kept blurting, "She's gonna kill me!" How could I gently convince her she already was dead?

There is Charity, a cultivated and greatly confused matron of Civil War days who declared: "I am not leaving this house!" She didn't know it was burning. You’ll learn in Chapter 4 how she was persuaded to leave.

James Digby, irreverent and acerbic, was a wounded prisoner of war in the American Revolution. What he didn't know was that he had died a couple of centuries before we roused him from his suspended state. Our conversation with this ghost who considered us "bloody Colonials" was a protracted exercise in verbal fencing...

Some disembodied souls on this plane are aware they are dead and remain here simply out of preference. Rosie and Lizzie, in Chapter 10, are loquacious examples. Two elderly gossips, their interminable chattering and nattering lends a dollop of comic relief to a largely somber subject.

Is there such a thing as "spirit attachment"? Thanks to Matt, a ghost who seemed attached to his nephew, we think so. Arrogant, deceitful, challenging; after a long and insolent diatribe, it finally came to light that Matt was afraid of going to Hell, which he felt was his inevitable due if he were to forsake his earthly attachment. We probably failed to free this one.

If you suspect you have a ghost of your own, Chapter 14 offers some points to consider before jumping into the unfamiliar and obscure realms of disembodied personalities, and the book's closing appendices list organizations and individuals for further exploration of life beyond.
To find out what happened next in these conversations,
you will have to read the book!
; )

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