Not All Spirits Are Jerks
Previously a clinical psychologist, Frances is now integrated in the world of shamanism in Mongolia. Along the way she has been in over 250 places across lands including Nepal, India, Sápmi (Norway side), Greenland, Bhutan, Iceland, Denmark, Mexico, South Korea, Scotland, Ireland, and Taiwan. The most unbelievable stories are the true ones. Join Frances as she spills tea about working for the Spirits, seeing the unseen, decolonization, haunted hotel rooms, and more!
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Not All Spirits Are Jerks
Learning Protection: Not All Ghosts Are Good
Welcome back, dear listeners, to another episode that promises to send chills down your spine while saturating your mind with knowledge about the otherworldly. So pull up a log and join Frances at the campfire. It's time for some ghost stories. Picture this, you're curled up in a cosy Scottish bed, the calm night air seeping in through the window, when suddenly a banshee appears above you. Sounds terrifying, right? That's exactly what happened to Frances in Edinburgh, and she will be sharing this spine-tingling encounter in all its spectral glory, along with stories about ghost hunters like Amy Bruni, Adam Berry, and Chip Coffee who are known for their compassionate approach towards spirits.
As we enter the realm of the supernatural, we'll discuss not just the frightening, but the intriguing aspects of interacting with spirits. We will journey through the ether, exploring the energy within the natural world and our ability to tap into it. We'll hear about the time Frances connected with a spirit on a flight, the importance of respecting the spirit world, and the ways in which our relationships, diet, and media consumption influence our energetic vibrations.
In the latter part of our time together, we'll navigate through shamanic practices and the lessons Frances has learned about setting boundaries with entities from the other side. She will share how visualization and crystals, like black tourmaline, can aid in this process, providing a protective shield against the lower vibrational energy emanating from spirits. Lastly, Frances will take you through haunted hotels, airports, and farmhouses, divulging the significance of high vibrational energy in cleansing such spaces. So, buckle up, dear listeners, for a hair-raising journey into the unknown.
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Hi, i'm Frances. Welcome to Not All Spirits Are Jerks, a podcast named after my main spear guide. He actually is one that gave me the suggestion for this title, and it's in fact named after him because he's more or less the biggest jerk spirit I know. I have a very special story to share with you today. This is from when I was living in Edinburgh, scotland, right near the castle, if you're familiar with it, and I found myself in bed with a very unwanted guest. It was, in fact, something I can only describe as like a banshee on the ceiling above the bed, a woman up like a huge spider with her head turned around backwards, hollering at me. It was one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen in my whole life, and I'm going to explain to you just exactly what I did. Finding myself in bed with a banshee If you're new here, welcome. This podcast is not like any other quick summary. Previously I was a clinical psychologist. Now I'm recognized as a shaman in Mongolia, where I do spend part of my time. This podcast is to share my wild journey with you. If you'd like to hear more about how I went from psychologist to ghost ally, check out season one, episode one.
Speaker 1:So it's ghost story day here. Pour yourself something warm, pull up a log and let's sit by the fire and I'll share some of my ghost stories with you. This is probably one of the questions I get. Some of the questions I get the most often are about ghosts, and not everything that goes bump in the night is a ghost. A ghost is what I would say is a past human, a human that, or it can sometimes be an animal like a pet. It's someone who was in a physical form, dropped their body but didn't fully pass to the other side. Now, sadly, but very true, not everything is friendly out there. There are lots of other kinds of spirits and spirits that know how to interact with this dense realm. So I'm going to tell some stories. They're ghost stories, but their story is not just about ghosts but also all the other spirits and entities around us that sometimes just like to give us a little wink, smile, whistle, maybe even a bit of a shove.
Speaker 1:Now, if this is not your first episode, you may be familiar with the fact that one of my favorite things to do is, with my sister, watch Kindred spirits with Amy Bruni, adam Berry and Chip Coffee, and they're not exactly your typical ghost hunters. They're much more compassionate. They approach this as trying to figure out exactly who is causing the bumps in the nights when people call out and ask for help, and they see what they can do to find peace and harmony for both the living and the dead. I really like their approach because it's very respectful And I think first and foremost that's how I approach this whole topic. Ghosts are people too, and even other spirits. They may not be people but they're bits of consciousness and everything deserves our respect. But respecting something still means setting your own boundaries.
Speaker 1:So, like just last night, i was walking home and I experienced what I would say is just a very classic kind of sense of a ghost. It's just this, i don't know, maybe middle age, a little bit older man, male spirit that I sense just kind of hanging out in front of someone's house. He doesn't bother me, he doesn't have a creepy vibe. I suspect he's like related. He passed and is related to someone that lives at that home and just likes to hang around. So I just leave him be. There's nothing to do. It's just like walking past a flower or anything else. That's part of the natural world.
Speaker 1:Now my sister has some kids, and one of our kids is right at the age where he just has some ghosty friends around him. He talks about them. He might call them his ghost friends, more than his imaginary friend. I can sense them and they're definitely around him. They don't seem to be causing too much harm. I think they might be giving him some nightmares now and again, but he likes his buddies And so again, for me there's nothing to do, there's no harm. But because he is at that age and he's so friendly and open, he does sometimes bring home some less high vibrational, comfy energy and he brings these back. You know he can be picking them up from anywhere, from the playground, from school. I don't think that he consciously knows that he's picking them up, he's just kind of open and he gets hop on. So sometimes when it gets these hop on, he's bringing things home that aren't his standard friends or crew.
Speaker 1:So whether it's a ghost or a different kind of spirit, i would say generally it seems like they're associated with a place, a person, an object, sometimes even like it might be a place, but a certain time of day that they're doing the routine that they used to do when they were in material form. So this ghost neighbor, is he there because he's with a family member living inside or with the home? My senses maybe? I think it's more the person than the place. That's just kind of how my mind starts to think about things. What's their space? What are they doing? Where'd they come from And is there anything to do?
Speaker 1:One of the stranger ghost stories that I was thinking about when I was trying to think about stories to share for this episode was, in some ways you could call me a medium. Mediumship work is part of what I do And I find that my mediumship it kind of goes up and down. I don't know, i couldn't tell you if it's like the astral weather. I don't follow these things so much, but it's definitely true that on some days I'm not that clear at all And I don't tend to work on those days, and then on other days I'm really really clear. I even have known a couple of people with uteruses who menstruate and they notice there's a relationship between how clear they are and their menstrual cycle.
Speaker 1:There are so many things that can affect our extra senses. It's just for me I wake up in the day and see what it is, but there are definitely just some days that I'm way more clear than others, and I happen to be flying on one of these days where I was really really clear, which is a bit of a nightmare for me, because that's the last place I want to be really open, like, if I'm really open, i want to be back up and saw me in the cabin And on these beautiful days when I'm out in nature I can start to see like the waves of energy and how everything in a healthy land, the energy is like moving together in this like pulsating way. It's really really beautiful to have these awarenesses in healthy space, preferably away from humans. But there I was in an airplane, not a place. I want to be open And I was tired And this is just the recipe for me drifting out into the I don't know into the other ethers, and so I thought, well, i there's nothing I can do about this except go with it.
Speaker 1:You know our dear flight crews, pilots and flight attendants that are working their butts off for our benefit in very difficult conditions, and sometimes the pilot will come on and she'll make an announcement And she's transmitting information for your benefit And she's doing the best that she can. But all that comes across sometimes is just like that peanuts adults voice of and you just think well, luckily for me, there's a different system that I can use to broadcast messages when I'm in this airplane. But what I do have access to through mediumship is being able to connect with the energies around me by dropping into my heart, and it's a much more clear, clear system than the one that's used on on aircrafts. So what I did is I just dropped into my heart and made my own little sort of announcement for the airplane probably not the whole airplane, probably more for the energy right just in the area immediately more close to me And I just said who I am. I'm learning how to connect with spirits who have passed over to the other side And I'd like to practice. I literally just said this and I said if there's any spirit that's here that would like to come forward and just share their story with me so I can practice, i would love to chat with you, you know, and I'm not going to be able to talk to your loved one, but this is just just kind of just checking out what it's like to communicate with the other side. Well, i did have a spirit come forward.
Speaker 1:I think I might know the passenger that the spirit was with, but you know, i just I wasn't going to check, i left that one be, and so for like 30 minutes I just practiced chatting with the spirit. I was saying can you tell me a little bit about your life? How did you pass? Some of it was clear, some of it was not. I did get pretty clear. Actually, the thing that came through the clearest was he was explaining to me that he had passed.
Speaker 1:I think what I was getting was in a car accident And he literally was showing me, by me having a piece of paper and a pencil, that it was like a blind curve and someone came around it and he was hit. So I was getting lots of really good, detailed information And it was just, you know, just kind of like just those single serving friend experiences that you have in airplanes. Maybe you chat to the passenger next to you. That's just what this was. Only the passenger happened to have not bought a ticket. They were a stowaway, and when we finished talking I thanked him for his time And that was that.
Speaker 1:I went back to looking out the window. This is a ghost that deserve respect. Everything deserves respect, but I didn't feel the need to like put any protection up. I felt perfectly safe. And that's where my mind starts going to when I start thinking about interacting with spirits and entities from other realms.
Speaker 1:You know these spirits, they're our neighbors, they're a community, they really are part of the fabric of the places where we live. Some of these land spirits, they've been around for who even knows longer than I can conceptualize time. And there are teachers, they're spirits of the trees, and then there's there's the ghosts around us as well. If I'm walking down the street in this neighborhood and there's, like, the sweet neighbor cat on the sidewalk, I wouldn't just like walk past and kick the cat and keep going. In the same way, if I'm aware of ghosts and spirits around me and they're not bothering me, then I have no problem sharing this land with them. But if I were walking down this street and across the path with a neighbor cat, he saw me and he's jumps, leaps up on my face, rar and scratches me.
Speaker 1:Well, i'm going to set a boundary. And the way I was, i guess you could say, raised or trained in the shamanic way, is the way that we would tolerate behaviors from those in the material world, from family, from strangers, from animal kin. It's going to be the exact same thing for the spirit world. I'm not going to tolerate behavior just like from someone that doesn't have a body and let them poke me and push me around any more than I would from if someone wasn't physical form, because I'm the center. I'm the center for me.
Speaker 1:And when I say center, our poor minds so many of us that are listening to this, they're so beaten down by the colonized spaces that we've been raised in Center might bring to mind like a, like an ego center, saying like I'm the center of the universe. That's not what I mean at all. I mean it from an energetic perspective. I want to keep my energy home, like anchored within me. I'm the center of this node within the connected network that we're all in. Behind me are my ancestors, in front of me are those that will come after us, and then all around me are all of the land and sky spirits that are our supporters and allies. I'm like this center, hearth of a home. That's how I come to think of it. And just like I wouldn't let an intruder come into my home, i wouldn't let us. It's no different for me if the intruder is coming in through physical or non physical ways.
Speaker 1:If you're sitting around the campfire with me, a shaman, and we're talking about ghosts, you don't write. I'm going to start talking about how to take care of your energy, because that is one of the biggest problems I see when people come to me and they're like losing energy or they even can have psychic attacks is their energy field is not healthy, they're not maintaining a good boundary, they're not keeping it a nice high, clean vibration, and that's how the aches get in one of the episodes of Kindred spirits I was watching the other day, amy and Adam were in like a it was a what I don't forget, what you call it for people who have tuberculosis, like a care center, but a lot of people didn't make it out. So they're all kinds of unfinished stories there and ghosties, and there was one spirit there in particular that was really angry and vengeful And when Chip came in Chip is the medium, chip coffee, and he's the one that's connecting psychically with the energy around him He came into that facility and he immediately felt this one really nasty spirit And he looked at Amy and Adam and he said something like Oh, you're really going to want to puff up for this one. He kind of made this like puffer fish gesture with his hands and his eyes. He's so expressive And I knew exactly what he was talking about.
Speaker 1:When I'm sitting with people, there are pretty much three things that I'm always thinking about and looking for. The first thing is are you in your own body? Which might sound a little funny if you've never thought about it this way before, but difficult things happen to us, even traumatic things happen to us throughout our life, sometimes even from past lives or from our ancestors And when this happens, a part of our soul? well, here's how it was described to me. It was told to think of the soul. One way to think of it is if you have a tree and you have many birds, they have like a flock of birds in the tree And when something scary happens, oftentimes birds will startle and they'll fly out. Maybe a third of the flock flies away from the tree, but after some time they settle back in the branches. But sometimes they get so startled they don't come back and you've lost part of your flock. This is what people are talking about when they're talking about soul retrieval. Just a piece of your soul kind of flew away and is is now in a different place And to have our full vitality and life force with us. Sometimes people like me can help go find those missing parts of you and come bring them back home. And when I said, like ancestors and past lives, it can actually even be that from the moment a newborn comes in, they might have part of, have part of their soul that didn't fully come in with them because of traumatic experiences that have happened before, like even like in a community. Now, when someone's sitting with me, what I'm going to want to see is how is there like soul health? Let's make sure we gather you back into yourself.
Speaker 1:There's another way to think of it that I've seen happen. It's, i think, the same thing, but just talking about it from a different perspective. I remember I was working with someone. Well, the first time I saw this with someone. She had had a lot of difficulty setting boundaries in her life. I don't know if anything particularly traumatic had happened to her, but she just had kind of. She was just sort of you felt like she was the doormat that people are going to walk all over. She wasn't able to be really like assertive within herself And the image that I got of her was as she was like walking through the different spaces in her life and the she traveled a lot. The different places that she traveled. She's just kind of like leaving parts of herself in the trees and the restaurants and the cafes Everywhere she goes. She was kind of bleeding out energy, and so the work that we did was to call all of these pieces, bring them back to her.
Speaker 1:When we're not fully in the center, we don't have our full strength and health, and when that is true, we get intrusions very, very easily. It's like having a year with the door open and a nice warm fire inside but there's no one there to tend it. You're going to get walk ins. So the first thing that you want to do to make sure that you are taking care of your energetic health, so you're not having the ickies around you is, is centering your energy within yourself. So for me, with my spirit eyes, when someone isn't fully, when it, when it's reached the point where they really need some soul retrieval work, you can actually see it in their energetic field, in their auric field. There's going to be like dark spots or patches, and these are the open doors. And these are the open doors where the unwanted visitors get in. It's almost like it's talking to me in some ways, that it's that like concrete, but that, more or less, is often one of the ways that people are finding themselves having intruders, let's say spirit intruders.
Speaker 1:So the second thing that I'm going to want to think about when I first meet with someone and start sitting with them is where is their vibration? What neighborhood are you in? You know energy. A lot of times people talk about it in. They use the word vibration. I don't know what that means, but it sounds right for me. I kind of get it. It works, at least as a metaphor. So I'm going to talk about vibration. you want to keep your energy within yourself and really clean and high, not like gummies high Your body, your choices. But that's not what I'm talking about right now. No, i work with I'm just very blessed to work with just really really kind, sweet people, and I think it's because I worked so hard on keeping my energy really high. I knew a psychic some years ago and she was talking about how she was very, very clear and she was great at her gifts, but she wasn't being mindful of where she was keeping her vibration.
Speaker 1:Now, unfortunately, when it comes to vibration, everything counts. So it means, like the people that you're hanging out with, some people are very high vibration but they're popped out in these very low vibrational families And that can really be pulling them down. They often experience things that are described as anxiety. It can include the foods that we eat. I mean, it's so hard to have access to really clean, healthy, vibrant food, but that can make a difference. If you have ways to honor and bless your food, that can actually change the vibration of it. I do that 80% of the time. I don't always remember It.
Speaker 1:Also, i think one of the things that we have to think about most right now is our media consumption, believe it or not, because it's all consciousness, it's all happening in this other dimensional kind of field And I, again and again, when I work with people we will have to talk about like, what are you looking at on your like social media? Because if you're following people that are spewing out like really icky thoughts and ideas and some, unfortunately, in the New Age circles a lot of the people are like snake oil dealers And they are. They're throwing out really bad energy behind these really kind messages. That gets into people's vibrational fields and pulls them down.
Speaker 1:Generally, when I sit with someone, before I sit with them, i ask them do you have anything specific that we want to work on? Do you have any specific questions? And if you don't know, problem, i'm going to go into my office, the sky office, and I'm going to get the messages that they have for you and we can just sit with them together. So there's two ways to meet with me. You may have specific questions or you may not, and I remember one time I was working with someone and she didn't have any questions for me. We had had several sessions in the past and so she kind of knew the game by now and she starting to recognize her questions were maybe the block, some of the blocks. So let's just see what the messages are for her. And one of the things I was told to share with her is I needed to clear the energy of her cell phone. She was like what? Oh? she didn't elaborate much more, but she said I know exactly why And it's not my business, i just do as I'm told. So we cleared her cell phone because it was literally starting to carry the lower vibrations around it.
Speaker 1:I can feel it when I go into places that have like Fox News or these kinds of like things It doesn't matter any news for the most part coming out of the currently called USA. Right now There's a heaviness and a denseness and the energy that goes around that. So, as we, there's nothing we can do as humans, because we're in this like kind of bizarro junky realm I shouldn't say junky, but there are. You know, there's some litter around. We're going to be exposed more or less to this lower vibrational stuff and that's okay. We just need how to learn how to clean and raise clean her energy and raise the vibration And this psychic.
Speaker 1:She wasn't being mindful about where she was putting her energy. You know, she was so sweet. I don't want that's what I find so interesting A lot of people that are carrying these lower vibrations. They're some of the sweetest people in the world, but they may be like dating the wrong guy or, you know, just not taking care of their energetic being. And she had someone finally come to her one day and she was meeting with clients in her house and the person came in and he was asking a question about like, if I do this crime, am I going to get caught. And when he left she locked the door and sat down with her team and was like, what do I need to do to change? And they said you're not taking care of your energy and the vibration that you're putting out, the world reflects it back to you. So she was calling in these lower vibrational people because she wasn't taking care of herself And from that day she took it upon herself to make new energy habits within her life. And not only did her energy change or health changed, and also the kinds of people that were coming to see her changed as well.
Speaker 1:This happens in the ghost realm as well, like some of the people that I see that are calling, like ghosts just are just as much as the cats around the neighborhood. And if you happen to be a more energetically sensitive soul like me, or even like a third of me, you're just going to be aware of the ghosts around you. But if you keep your vibration really high, then the lower density, real, real ick stuff has a much, much harder time latching on you or finding you or bothering you or making those sounds of bumps in the night. So so much of what I do again and again is I'm just helping people learn how to clean their energy and raise their vibration, and there's so many different ways to do that. You don't need elaborate rituals, you just need a couple minutes. Really, once you get the practice going, clean your energy, raise your vibration and so much will shift around you.
Speaker 1:I'm very, very lucky because I think I really keep my vibrational field high to just have I'm calling in just the most beautiful people, and it's one of the biggest like fortunes in my life for the people that I'm able to sit with. But this brings us to the third thing that I find myself working on again and again is some of the most beautiful high vibrational people in the world. We don't have good boundaries And energetically you can see this. So someone that is like a good candidate for soul retrieval you're going to see patches in their energetic field. Other people who are still learning how to set boundaries, probably in the material world and non material world. They have kind of like a weak auric field. It just feels sort of diffuse, it's not really clear where it ends, and that is an open door for things to come in. So this is a very like classically shamanic way to be thinking about things.
Speaker 1:But you got to have good, healthy borders around you that will help you, that lets in the higher vibrational energies, but that there's like, even if you are high vibration, you got to know the difference between you and what's around you. You got to be able to set healthy boundaries, like not always You find some mushrooms in the forest and you become one with the trees for a while. That's a beautiful experience to have. There are times where it's exactly the right thing for you and your soul to enjoy just not a sense of a boundary between you and anything else in the world. Ultimately, i think that's the ultimate reality. Anyway, this is just a way to talk about, like, the very humanist of human parts of ourselves, but there are other ways to be talking about this too. So, for this part of our soul that's pulled up in the dock of one of these lower realms we call planet Earth, how do you set boundaries Good, healthy energy boundaries?
Speaker 1:Now, there's so many different ways to do this. Crystals are actually one of the things that come to mind. They're like a really nice way to retrain your energetic field. I know so many people in like the serious shamanic circles are really down on crystals, but I just feel like. Then how like shamanic are you? because you pick up these crystals and you can feel them vibrating at different frequencies and they have different energetic signatures And some of them, i think, are really handy as you're learning to set healthy energetic boundaries like black tourmaline comes to mind And what's happening is, if you can carry them on you, it's putting out a certain frequency and it's kind of it's just it's training your energetic field that hasn't been able to find it within yourself. That, i think, is also a really nice shortcut way to start learning how to put some healthy boundaries around you. Another thing is, once you learn how to clean your energy and raise your vibration, connecting with the high vibrational energy and pushing it out, your auric field should be big and healthy and fluffy, going out in like I don't even start with about like six feet, two meters in all directions around you, don't forget but low you.
Speaker 1:And when I was learning how to do this, i was sitting with a shamanic practitioner in North Carolina and she was teaching me how to do this And she had me do some visualization work and, to my shock, she was able to sense it. Visualization is not just visualization, it's molding the energy around us and what she also able was to figure out what she said. But I can get in from the front. She said everything else around you is protected, but I can get in from the front. I mean, this was just mind blowing to me at the time. And she said what are you visualizing? I don't know why I was visualizing this, but what came to mind is I was visualizing myself sitting in a fireplace. I don't know, it felt safe and cozy, like a cave I guess. But she felt that energetically and she knew that she was able to get it in the front.
Speaker 1:So when I'm working with people on quote unquote, visualization work but it's a lot more than that I encourage them way, spreading this high vibrational energy way out and make sure it's behind you, make sure it's beneath you. This energy goes through floors, it goes through airplanes. It doesn't care about the physical space around it. You have to push your energy out. And then you got to. You got to put a little golden shell around it. That's a nice way to do it, like set your boundary.
Speaker 1:But of course, little kiddos, they don't always have these three things happening with them. They don't always have all of their, their soul centered within themself, the vibration might not be so high because they're running around with all these other little kiddos and that protection field may just be a little diffuse around them. I feel like that's just so true of kids and pets more than adults. So when my nephew sometimes come back with some spookies that aren't welcome and shouldn't be there, well, that's when it's really handy to have a shaman for not. I come in and I clean it for him, and what I do is I clean his energy, but I also reset the energy in the home, the space, and doing that is actually no different than what I just spoke with you about right now. Now I'm, i'm using the gifts that I have and the training that I have to do it, but conceptually, for me it's the same thing. I'm gathering high vibrational energy and I'm filling out the space of the house with this high vibrational energy, and then I'm putting this beautiful golden shell of protection around it.
Speaker 1:When I talk about protection, actually, it took me a really, really long time to figure out how to talk about this. Oh, and the first time that I realized there was something off was actually working with the shamanic practitioner. That's when my attention was first drawn towards this. She was phenomenal at what she did. And my jerk spirit guide he said you need to go take a. This is so creepy, my training is a little unconventional, so this was right, right, right at the beginning. And he said you need to go take a rock from her front yard. Yes, i'm going to take a rock. Yes, i am a creep, and I did as you said and so I went there because I was going to take like a little pebble from her front yard.
Speaker 1:I assumed it was for some like elaborate ritual Never is, i'm not a ritualist, um, for the most part. But when you got there he said okay, you don't need the pebble, but feel the energy around and as much as there are rocks thrown around her garden, there was just icky beings all around the perimeter of her home. They were like moths to a flame. They were just flickering around all sorts of things like. Some things were like just kind of harmless, icky. You know your day to day stuff, but some there was some really bad stuff around there too And I scurried away and my jerk spirit guide explained to me that's how you don't do a boundary You never, ever, ever push it out.
Speaker 1:This is kind of hard to describe, so I hope it's making sense. You never push it out and set an edge and say, okay, anything goes beyond this edge, because what that is doing is creating a boundary and drawing the ick towards you. Oh, it gets so wild, doesn't it? He said think of it more as like a lens, that this is my lens, my view from these like big, healthy energetic fields around me And anywhere I go within this field, as I look out, all I see is clean, high vibrational energy. It's a subtle shift, but it makes tremendous difference and energetic signature that you're leaving for yourself in your home. So when I'm cleaning my sister's home or when I'm doing cleaning work for other people as well, when I'm sitting with them, this is what I'm doing. I'm never setting a boundary And therefore calling in ick to the front door. I am centering within this space, i'm naming the space and I'm saying anywhere within this space, looking out, it's nothing but beautiful poppy fields. I don't know why I said poppy fields, but that sounds beautiful.
Speaker 1:This isn't a hundred percent guarantee that everything is going to be nice and safe and clean. Sometimes things just get in. Things definitely get into me every once in a while and ghost and intrusions, but this is a good baseline to how to like kind of move through the world. It's not the only way. There are many ways, but this is my way that I'm sharing with you.
Speaker 1:When I was first opening I had no idea what was going on and it was so chaotic and I was taking things. I was just I don't know. Things were just hopping on to me. I think I was pretty high vibrational from the start, but I was not protected And I just was like an open door for any, any old spirit to hop on. And sometimes the lowest vibrational things they do like to kind of almost like pray on the light.
Speaker 1:And my jerk spirit guide, in one of his moments of very not jerkiness and not weirdness, every once in a while he would say go to a church. And I am not Christian and I was not raised in a Christian tradition. This is not any kind of coming home thing for me. It felt very uncomfortable. But I remember when I was living in Durham there was a very small church nearby and I just kind of walked in the back. I mean walked in and sat in the back. It was on Wednesday and there was choir practice and I listened to him. It was really beautiful And he said, okay, it's gone.
Speaker 1:So I was being sent into churches because I was in a churchy part of the world And I do want to add, it doesn't mean all churches are. I don't want to go down that road, but not all energy is in the same But I was being sent to churches because I was in churchy land. But this would be the same, i think, if I were in other places. I would have been sent into mosques, temples, monasteries, prayer houses, you name it. And of course there's always the old school, the oldest temples of the mall, being sent out into nature, the, the, the.
Speaker 1:There are spaces around it that clear us because they buy their nature, either through their like natural vibration or the concentration of the pure consciousness of people coming in and doing their prayers and rituals and services there. Oh gosh, and mountain tops How do I not mention a mountain top? These are spaces that then then then bring us back to ourselves. Now I can recognize that had really good, healthy energy, and I remember that happened one time also, and it was a Catholic church that I was sent to to just kind of sit there and ask for some help, and I felt some spirits come around and pull something off of me. There are spaces that are just such incredible uh vibration within them that just being in those spaces it clears you.
Speaker 1:I've now shared with you the very three things that I do with myself every day to make sure that when I'm traveling the realms or when I have ghosty visitors, they're coming from the right location. And that is being in the center, making sure that I'm always calling my energy back and tending to the fire within my own gr or yurt and raising my vibration, keeping it nice and clean and high, taking care of where I put my consciousness and putting that nice golden shield of protection around me. But even then, sometimes, just like before, the bad stuff sometimes finds us and it hops onto us. And there is one last thing that I do which is sort of like the shaman cheat, and that is when it's just too big, bad, nasty and scary those bumps in the night that just gave you the creeps and they don't feel right I call in my sky crew. Those are the spirits that I work with, i work for, but they also help me and they come around and they remove the intruder and they toss them on a mountain top. What happens once it's in this guy cleaners hands is is outside of my view. Often That's not so common, though I mean. What I want to do these days is not have to call the cleaning crew.
Speaker 1:I learned a lot from going into those sacred spaces and connecting with that really high, beautiful, just source energy. Pure, pure light. I don't know, pure light is outfields to me. Maybe could we say the way of the shaman is learning to be a person. Maybe could we say the way of the shaman is learning how to carry that light within yourself, so you don't have to go to the spaces because you become the space. This is one of my shaman tricks of the trade. I don't know how to maintain and generate such high vibrational energy in me alone. What I do is I every, every so often I'm moving through these spaces of just such Serene celestial beauty that it kind of it resets my vibration and and it's such a clearing It's like a karmic clearing as well.
Speaker 1:One, a couple of those spaces are in Mongolia and I. For a long time I didn't have an altar. Now I play around with having an altar. It's a little unusual the way I do it because I'm moving so much. It's like a pop-up and pull down quickly alter. But the one thing I like doing is, by connecting with this altar every day, i'm kind of charging it up. It's like I'm taking that sacred flame and I'm putting it in this altar space, even if there's no physical flame there, and one of the ways I do that is there is. There are two places in particular. One is in Mongolia, one I'll just leave aside for now, and I actually connect. Well, i got a little dizzy thinking about it.
Speaker 1:Every morning I Do a little something and then when I get out of bed, i go outside, wherever I am, if I can go outside, and I stand with my feet on the ground and I connect with Mama Earth. Gotta plug yourself in, gotta be part of that network of energy. I just connect with the land that I'm on. Then I walk inside and I stand in front of my altar and I do sort of the same thing. It's connecting Again me being in the center. It's connecting me with Mama Earth below and the blue sky above, and when I'm connecting with my altar, what I'm doing is I'm visualizing these two incredible spaces, which is the energy that I try to maintain within the altar and then I bring it into my energetic field. That's the way, that's sort of the One of the methods I would say the primary method that I used to keep myself All charged up and ready to do what I do each day, which is different from each day to the next.
Speaker 1:I'll just talk about protection and boundaries and cleaning vibrations. Sometimes I just feel like, oh, it can get so technical and why does it feel so like burdensome to try to take care of all this stuff? Well, i'll tell you the quickest way to take care of all three of these things Nature. You just go out in nature, so our travels do happen just being on healthy land. Sometimes Your vibration will get cleaned, and what protection do you need when you're just with the tree, tree beings? There is nothing Natural about the environments that we live in, and I think that's why it's so important to have these skills. But I don't know that this is the way that we were supposed to be, any more than we were supposed to be, breathing, like You know, dirty air or consuming all this noise, pollution around us. These are things that I'm sharing to help keep your energy clean and help keep the ghosties, unwanted ones, away, and also boy a dream of a day. Maybe it was in the past when none of this was necessary to talk about, but it is.
Speaker 1:And so you know, especially when I'm traveling, like I have, my most frequent encounters with ghosts, i would say, are in hotels, because I stay in hotels. Like the last time I saw a ghost in a hotel I had just left, sought me on the Norway side of the board away up in Trump's a. So I have to fly from Trump's a Down to Oslo, then I spend the night in Oslo and then I have another day of travel ahead and there was this. So it Was in like this airport hotel And I just felt this ghost and I was like, oh, i'm not in the mood, i'm tired, i have so much international travel ahead of me and that really wears on my energy. I think that's why I'm so often having my ghost encounters in hotels, because it Necessarily means I've been traveling and I'd get worn down really easily, and if you're sensitive, you may know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So I did what exactly what I'm telling you. I Clean my energetic field as much as I could And I set up my like, my puffer, sort of like energetic tent, just popping it open in that space, and He went away. So he actually that's right. At first I had just tried to ignore him, but as I was falling asleep, i very clearly felt him poke my shoulder. And that's when it is um, no, we do not poke the humans. And so I undid my lazy route and I set up my energy tent. You know, he wasn't like a, there was nothing Creepy about him. I just I don't know personal preference. I don't want to be poked by spirits while I'm trying to sleep. Now, where did that ghost come from? I don't know. I kind of think he would be one of those ghosts that was with probably a fellow traveler. I was about to be a stowaway on an international flight the next day. Such a wild world out there, isn't it? I Reminded of a story that I heard from his Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Speaker 1:It was that one of his huge open-air teachings in Dharam Sala, at the foothills of the Himalayas in India, and he'll do these teachings where it's for Tibetans, tibetan refugees and non-Tibetans. But he really lets his hair down when there are a lot of Tibetan refugees In the audience, i found. And he'll just share stories and I think it speaks to the strength of Tibetan culture, how strong the strong connection that he still feels with Those in his community. He absolutely prioritizes them and holds them closer in his heart, and so He will make time in his schedule even for the smallest requests from those within his own community. I think he says and he believes we are all community, but there's just Something different when he's around other Tibetans.
Speaker 1:And so there had been this couple that they were in Dharam Sala. They were a small business owner. It would have been like one of those small One room sort of almost like convenient stores a little bit of this, a little bit of that you can pick up soap, but maybe a couple vegetables and they were being tormented by a ghost. I don't know the specifics fix of the story, but the Dalai Lama was laughing as he's telling the story through translator, because apparently he doesn't believe in ghosts. He He does have a state oracle who goes into a trance to bring down messages from other realms, and the Dalai Lama relies heavily on his oracle, but apparently he doesn't believe in ghosts. So he's laughing and he's sharing the story with all of us about how he went down to just visit them and say hello and give them a blessing and But he, you know, he's like oh, i didn't do anything about the ghost, but haha, the punchline of the story is and The ghost was never heard from again.
Speaker 1:Now for me This is a very shamanic story because what I hear is he's a holder of some Unworldly high vibrational energy and just by going into that space He's cleaning the space and that's a lot of what I I mean, i'm not like the Dalai Lama, but it's the same concept of like that It actually like moves sort of the address of the space, even though physically with your eyes You're gonna see the same location if you bring enough high vibrational energy and you're actually kind of just like picking up in the Howells moving castle, locating that physical space to a different address of a higher vibration, and then that gets rid of a lot of the the unwanted ghosts around. Now, i don't always think it's the right thing to do to move a ghost along or because you're you're in their space. So, like the hotel ghost, i don't think anyone can like claim squatters rights to the hotel room, but, like in the past year, i found myself in sort of a small like farmhouse up and sought me with my partner. So we were up there to help some family and we were gonna be staying there for some weeks and I was sleeping alone downstairs It's having some trouble sleeping, and so it just made sense for me to be tossing and turning downstairs and And, oh, i felt the presence of a spirit, a ghost. So so, so clearly I don't. I mean, i'm so clear on that land up there anyway, and this was just so clear.
Speaker 1:If it was older gentleman, he did not like. He didn't like me, He didn't like me in this space. I tried to ignore him. What I tried to do in those in those times I'm not gonna clear the house. There's nothing wrong with the house and it's his house, he lives there. But I just tried to put up like that in that time I was sitting really kind of like more robust bounder around me and just cover myself with sort of like a protective energy blanket and just tune him out. But it wasn't working. He was so clear and he was so present and he again and again wanted to get my attention. He was pushing me as I was falling asleep. He was rattling door handles every once in a while. He was very, very gifted, interacting with the material realm and and That's right, gosh when I like tried to turn over, i was just falling asleep, and That's sometimes when my awareness is really go through the roof And I could feel him like coming closer to me as I was falling asleep. You'd be walking towards me. I just I'm not so good at that. That's not something that I want to have as an experience in my life and It I was doing my best was going on for a couple of nights and I was getting worn down.
Speaker 1:We were there for a stressful situation anyway, so I'm like out of my space, i'm out of my routine. There's an unusual situation going on and I'm very stressed out about it and I'm trying to do the best I can Navigating this stress for all of us and this ghost is around and finally, one night, he literally pushed me. Oh, and I just I just sat up and was like that's it, and I tried to have a conversation with him And I was explaining like look, this is who I am. This is why I'm here. I'm here to help your family. I think that this is part of your family. He was fine with my partner. He never bothered my partner. He just wanted me out And so I said I don't plan on staying here, i'm here for like a short time. Can we just be respectful of each other's space And can I just sleep at night? He never really spoke to me. He backed off a little bit. That did shift things.
Speaker 1:But from that conversation on or at least me talking with him on he still just I would feel him come into the room very physically like come into the room, but he continued to just make himself known. I could feel him watching me while I was sleeping. He would still rattle a door handle every once in a while. I'm just not into ghosts around me trying to get my attention by manipulating the physical world. Don't enjoy. And so that was a situation where you know it wasn't my place to be using any kind of great gifts that I might have, because it's his space. I'm the guest And just like. Maybe I don't want someone in my home and he has every right to not want me there. Just because I'm in physical form doesn't give me any like place above him. But it was. This was one of these times. It was really.
Speaker 1:I was having very strong emotions around the experience And if you were energetically sensitive when your partner isn't, you may know just what I mean, because it was so difficult to be having. You know to me I'm sleeping in a strange house with a stranger watching me sleep. It was really doing a number on me and my partner's sleeping fine at night And he's very dear and he's very supportive. But it's really hard for I think our sometimes I loved ones to understand what it's like because we're living in such a different experience And I felt really alone. It was really hard. I felt frustrated by the experience because I know what I'm feeling is real. I don't even deal with that shit anymore, like I'm not around people where I have to defend myself. I can appreciate and empathize with the fact that he's not having my shared experience, but there are moments where I want someone to understand me and understand I'm experiencing 10 times as much as you And I am managing my stress pretty well And I don't think that sometimes people that don't experience these things I think oftentimes they don't understand that we can look even more emotional at times And they sometimes, knowingly or not, kind of judging us for it And I just feel like man, you couldn't do this for two days.
Speaker 1:I don't think you could do some of this stuff for two hours. You know, if you know, you know it's isolating, but I know that you understand some of you and we're not alone, are we? We're not alone? Well, we're not alone Unintentional joke with the ghosts that are because sometimes spooking us. And also we're not alone because we have each other and we have shared experiences, even if we're feeling sometimes isolated, with the people that love us and support us. I know they deeply love us and support us But, of course, how can they understand what we're going through? But my partner is amazing And even if he doesn't fully understand me, he supports me And eventually we ended up moving to stay in a different house nearby to continue what we were doing there.
Speaker 1:I just I couldn't sleep And I was, day by day, starting to just kind of wear down and crack. So that was a pretty posh situation, as ghosty stories go, because I had the option to move and the ghost itself was just some guy in his home. And I've had much more scary experiences. So that brings us to Edinburgh. I have a really strange relationship with Scotland because I lived there half a year. But what happened was it was during COVID times and I couldn't get to the places where I have community and the people I love because the borders were closed. And so I found myself just waiting it out. I had been in Dublin, same relationship with Dublin, like yeah, i lived there, but everything was shut down, so it was just me in an apartment. So surreal, such a surreal time of my life. It still feels like I was just in a dream state.
Speaker 1:My time ran out from how long I was allowed to be in Ireland. So I hopped over to Scotland and decided, well, i'll just wait it out in Edinburgh, maybe the borders will open soon. But of course we know it went on much longer than any of us cared to experience. And so I arrived to Edinburgh the day before Christmas. The stores were open for literally maybe an hour before everything closed And then Scotland, the UK, went into lockdown. So it was the most surreal experience of my life because there I was in Edinburgh.
Speaker 1:I was like, if you're familiar with the city, really close to the castle on Coburn Street. It's absolutely stunning and it's very ghosty. It was a block away from where they had done all the witch trials, witch hunts, really, of course. So lots of disrupted activity around there. Plus, it's just an old part of this very old haunted city And everything. It was truly a ghost town. It was so surreal. So I would like, not knowing anyone, not knowing what to do, almost every night I would just walk the 15 minutes up to the castle And even the castle would be empty for the most part. Sometimes I would just dance in front of the castle, so strange.
Speaker 1:So the day well, it was Christmas day I was settling into bed in this flat, a small old flat and very comfortable bed, and I was exhausted And there was just a lot of strange stuff going on in my story at that time And I really, really worn down. I just want to close my eyes and get some sleep. And what do I see? I don't see too often. I feel things and I hear things, i sense things, but seeing is not the first way that I perceive these extra sensory kinds of things. But I look up on the ceiling. It's very late at night And there is I don't know what else to say, except for a banshee probably not a banshee, but that's the word that comes to mind. I mean it was like a Japanese horror film.
Speaker 1:I saw this ghosty, kind of like transparent apparition, but it was the size of a human, this woman Imagine something like a huge spider on the ceiling. So she had her two arms in hands spread out And then her legs also spread out in this weird angle. That made it look broken And her face slowly turned around And it looked rotted. From her rotted kind of face her mouth opens And she screams at me. So you want to know what I did. Oh y'all, i didn't do anything. I was terrified. I put up my little light coat And this is a time where it's really handy to be a shaman I called in my cleaning crew, i called my sky cleaners and they got rid of her. She was gone by morning. Sometimes it pays to be a shaman. Thank you for taking this ghosty journey with me. I enjoyed sharing some time at the campfire. I'll see you at the next podcast, if not before. In the dream time. Please send my hello to your neighborhood ghosties. Dream well, friends.