| I am often asked if I believe whether ghosts exist. | | | | and Hell. Witches honor Nature, and so believe that |
| That always depends on what one believes ghosts | | | | everything and everyone is linked to Nature's cycles. |
| are. | | | | From Nature's Earth you are born, then you live your |
| The film the Sixth Sense is a classic example of how | | | | life, then comes death, and back into Nature's Earth |
| ghosts are represented to us, as spirits who are Earth | | | | we go. We are all part of Nature and so in that sense |
| bound, and unable to fully cross over because they | | | | we never "die". |
| have "unfinished business" amongst the living. When | | | | So, the notion of ghosts, spirits lingering to complete |
| completed, they are free to "enter the light" and pass | | | | unfinished business, does not fit in with many witches' |
| over to a place we assume is a place free of pain, | | | | beliefs. However, this does not mean that ghosts, in |
| anxiety, fear and loneliness, the place we all hope to | | | | whatever form or whatever their purpose, don't exist |
| be when we die. | | | | amongst us. |
| There certainly seems to be some correlation in | | | | Nature encompasses everything and everything |
| popular entertainment culture that increased psychic | | | | encompasses Nature, and Spirit is present all around |
| ability and awareness is linked with the ability to see, | | | | us. |
| communicate and understand ghosts. | | | | I don't doubt that there is something unexplained in the |
| The popular television programme The Ghost | | | | experiences of people who say they have seen or |
| Whisperer is a case in point and has also popularized | | | | been affected by ghosts or spirits. To deny their |
| the notion of spirits who hang around the earthly plain | | | | existence just because they can't be explained is |
| because they have unfinished business. Melinda, the | | | | wrong of course. |
| character in the show who can see and hear these | | | | The question for me is not do ghosts exist, but rather: |
| unsettled spirits, is charged with helping them pass | | | | What are Ghosts? |
| over when their tasks are completed. | | | | Do you have a true life ghost story to tell? |
| Like all witches, I do not believe in the notion of Heaven | | | | |