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Such spirits who appear in dreams are quite different because they are powered by a special motivation in contrast to apparitions who haunt places and are often sighted by others. Incidentally, in recent years, many such sighting have even been caught credibly on camera. In 2014, for example, British papers reported that CCTV cameras at Dover Castle had caught a mystery figure. “In the incredible clip,” the UK Mirror wrote, “a dark, wispy figure can be seen slowly walking across the entrance at Dover Castle in Kent before disappearing. A bemused security guard can then be seen searching in vain for the mysterious spectre…”. A month later, there were reports of another ‘incredible’ sighting captured on camera by a tourist couple, this time at Dudley Castle.
The Birmingham Mail wrote: “…On looking through the images… Amy saw a glow, as though a light was on, on the top window level.”
However, once a living being is in touch with the spirit world, a lot of skill is required to maintain a balance between normal earthly activities and supernatural spirit activities. Why ? Firstly, because most spirits are in a “waiting” state where they can neither move upwards towards Heaven nor return to earth and being uncertain of what awaits them, are “hyper”. The only “certainty” is what they knew — which was their life on earth — and so they are constantly trying to pass messages to living people through “mediums” who enter the spirit world. They are not at peace and unless one understands the spirit world and can control spirits in such a ‘neither here nor there’ state, there are lots of risks involved. I know of at least six people who embarked on ruhani journeys, lost their mental balance and finally, their lives.
On the concepts of “Heaven” and “Hell”, the traditional view is that if you’ve done good karmas, good deeds, etc, you go to Heaven and those who do bad deeds go to Hell. It is known that Heaven is high above — the 7th astral plane — while Hell is way below — the first astral plane above earth for some spirits who have done certain kinds of bad deeds and patal lok below earth for those who have done abominable things. Most ordinary people who have done good but average things go to the 3rd astral plane after death, from where they return to earth at the time of re-birth.
The more one’s soul evolves, as in the case of yogis and saints, the higher one can go, but it is only those who attain enlightenment and “nirvana”, like Lord Buddha — which usually happens after countless rebirths who go directly to Heaven. They too go to Heaven who are blessed by beings from the higher realms for whatever reason. In contrast, spirits who live in the spirit world have to wait for their “number” to come to be released from their ‘neither here nor there’ state. In great despair, such spirits try and reach out to loved ones on earth with an intensity that enables them to manifest themselves in dreams.
Amongst other interesting cases, I have dealt with a case where an aghori baba was very confident of his powers and entered the spirit world without taking proper precautions and found that he was so strongly surrounded by other spirits he couldn’t get back to his physical body. I had been interviewing him just a short while before he ventured into the spirit world and he still had enough power to throw me into a trance and once I was in that dream-like state, he told me what to do to get him out of the spirit world. It worked, and he is now an expert in entering and leaving the spirit world and helping others overcome spirit problems.
Veenu Sandal
https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/7072-spirit-communication-through-dreams