Why do spirits linger?

Question

I am a strong Christian and believe that you either go to Heaven or h**l when you die. HOWEVER, I have had an experience with ghosts and I was just wondering if someone could clarify the reason why a spirit would linger and not move on? Wouldn't God take them to Heaven or banish them to h**l?

Answer 1

because these ghosts are from people who died before they were supposed to die , therefore they are confused and attached to the physical world. the best thing is to tell them to go to the light .short and simple.

Answer 2

Well I heard that sometimes either

spirits don't know their dead so they stay here on Earth because well they are just not aware of the fact that they're dead.



I have also heard that when people die their souls usually stay here on Earth and stay at like maybe their old home or somewhere that just has some meaning to them!

Answer 3

The acceptance of either heaven or h**l is been around since the dawn of time and humankind. Much of society "believed" in h**l and purgatory to "scare people straight" out of their wicked ways. Almost all cultures and religions hold some sort of significance with the spirit world. As to whom is correct and who is wrong depends on what you personally believe. We all could be right and we all could be wrong, nobody is right & nobody is wrong.

However, from a scientific point-of-view, the belief why spirits linger can depend greatly on what the person did in life, how they may have dided, and even what they may have believed in. Most parapsychological sources say the following; (those who may die by a tragic death-car accident, heart attack, fire, etc., may linger because of the belief that the soul is being suddenly tossed from the human body in a sort of state of shock. This may be the theory behind why spirits tend to float about-"figuretively speaking." These entities may go through the same thing over and over, some unfinished business perhaps. This may begin a haunting for instance. A person falls to their death. A month later, another individual sees this person in a room they may have inhabited often in their life, doing something they often did). Parapsychologists call this a residual haunting, where the deceased may in fact not be there at all in spirit form, but rather as energy leftover, constantly replaying itself. Other parapsychologists believe that this spirit will remain here until whatever task that has not been finished, is finished. There are, however, some hauntings that on very seldom cases, become interactive hauntings. This is where the deceased or other energy will become violent. Like I said though, this is very rare and has only happened on a half dozen cases.

Other psychical researchers believe those who die slowly, over a period of time do not reappear where they left off. How we know this information sometimes depends on what you think and understand from previous research done.

The theory most often believed by 67% of the world population actually is that when you die, God or a god immediately judges you, (some believe you are judged minutes to hours before your death if you're in a state of coma or likewise), then you move on to wherever your next destiny is suppose to go.

Many of these theories lead to other research topics that hold similar importance, such as; (poltergeist research, Survival After Death, OBE and NDE, and reincarnation).

I hope this may have answered at least some of your question.

Best luck exploring your own destiny.

Cheero.

Answer 4

Spirits linger for a purpose.  It is not for us to figure out why they linger but to 'listen' for their purpose.  You can distinguish good or bad from it.  Listen.

Answer 5

I believe that when we die, God doesn't just swoop down and bring us up. I believe there is a tunnel we have to enter to get to heaven or h**l, and depending on where we are going the tunnel is either white light or a dark void, and once we enter it its just a one-way ticket to wherever. If the person will go to heaven, the white tunnel appears. If they go to h**l, the dark tunnel appears. some ghosts I think are afraid to enter the white tunnel. They see it, but are still attached to something on earth, or else they don't realize they are dead and just try to go about their normal lives.

perhaps their true love is still alive and they want to make sure they are ok. Or perhaps they feel that have cannot leave something. Its the concept of "unfinished business". There is something they feel a strong attachment to that is keeping them here. Some might even be afraid of going into the tunnel for fear that if they face God, they will be punished for their wrong doings in life. Still others, who are the ones going to "h**l" might be afraid of what they will encounter in the dark tunnel and in h**l as well and have thus decided that being in limbo was a much better fate than being in h**l.

Sadly I'm sure there are a number of people with severe menal illness that are too confused and ill and simply reject the tunnel because they have no concept of who they are, whats going on, etc. Once someone enters the tunnel, they will be guided "home", but if someone is consciously holding back from entering the tunnel, they have the ability to not enter it.

They always have the chance to enter the tunnel though. It is always there for them, and when they see it and choose to take it, they can go "home".

God does give us free will, and with that comes the free will to linger on Earth for a couple more years if we so choose (although personally that doesn't sound too fun)

Answer 6

Hopefully, when you're old enough to be out on your own, you'll also take an opportunity to visit other churches and their practice on religion, and realize that religion is something that is taught. Just like your A, B, C's.

And if you were taught by your religion to hang your underware up a flagpole everyday from 3 AM to 7 AM, you would do it because that is all you know.

Religion is mind control.

Welcome to the fun house........but beware there may be a religious scare tactic behind it...........

Answer 7

There can be many reasons why some one does not cross over when they die.

The most common case is when some one dies suddenly (in a car accident for instance)and they are unaware that they have died.

Some are scared to cross over as they don't know what will happen to them after they go through the light.

Some won't cross over until they know their loved ones are all alright.

Some feel that they have unfinished business to finish.

Some earthbound children don't want to leave their parents and will cross over when their Mam or Dad die.

Some Mothers and fathers of young children won't cross over as they still want to take care of their children and make sure that they are alright.(the list could be endless why some spirits won't cross over)

I don't believe God himself takes us to heaven or banish us to h**l ,because God doesn't judge us,he loves us all unconditionally.it is us who judge ourselves.

A good book that I highly recommend on this subject is Ghosts among us,by James van Praagh.

Take care.

Answer 8

Spirits do not linger, they can cross over and back in visitation.  They may prefer to come back to places they are most familiar with.  It is the ghost that stays behind.  They look different than a spirit would.  They behave differently. The current thought is that when a soul has left the body thru traumatic event or some other unfinished business it may not pass over.  It becomes a ghost at that point.  Some fear the other side, since they know via their religious beliefs that there is a judgment for their earthly life.  Remember, we as mortals have a powerful tool that we use everyday whether we know it or not and it is called free will.  Just as God gives you the know how and power to obey him in life, he also gave you free will so that you can make up your mind.  But the idea of putting off by using free will, may have its on dire set of consequences.

Answer 9

If you want a Christian answer you should go to a Christian for this.

However if you want the truth...lol...

I've had many many spirits communicate with me over the years and I swear, almost every single one has a different "situation" than the last. Some don't even seem to know they are dead, on the other hand some seem to have "jobs" in the spirit world, while I don't know the details of that, it seems to be along the lines of what we consider to be guardian angel type stuff, but there are others I've talked to that seem to "work" on the other side in different capacities that I can't grasp.

So yeah, after dealing with those types and everything in between, I honestly do not understand why spirits don't "move on".

I know you're Christian but, spiritualists don't really believe in a "heaven" and "h**l".  Christianity , like most cults, wants things to be cut and dry. Do as we say and get into heaven, otherwise you're going to h**l.

It's just not that simple.

Answer 10

Ghosts do not exist. There are supernatural events that do occur, but once dead you either go to heaven or h**l. Angels and demons (both good and bad) are constantly around us, and certain demons can act as human spirits to confuse the mind or alter the beliefs. When our minds are altered we often seek the help with ojiua boards, tarah cards, mediums, horoscopes, and etc... all which are an abomination to God. The more you mess with those types of things, the more demonic activity may come up. It makes sense why satan would want to confuse people and trick them with his demons... but be careful not to side with satan, but with God alone. Have faith in Jesus, and know that God sent his only son to die on the cross to take away your sins, that he rose three days later, and will come again.

p.s. try reading psalm 91 (prayer of protection)

Answer 11

Spirits linger on because they have attatchments or unresolved issues in mundane life that keep them held back. Sometimes spirits linger on to help another person (sort of like a guardian angel). Sometimes the thing that holds them back is fear. Many earth bound spirits linger on because they are afraid to really die and its the fear of the unknown that keeps them tied to this earth. And finally sometimes its not the whole of a person that remains, but rather just a fraction, a piece that for whatever reason got seperated from an individual.

Answer 12

Many believe that if you have strong connections to a place, event, person or an unresolved situation you may be weighed down spiritually and linger.  As far as I can remember the bible doesn't talk much about the time between death and Ascension

Answer 13

People can stay behind after leaving body because multiple reasons, example: having siblings to take care about, not knowing they are dead (could happen to people in coma or if heavily drugged or if instant death), now how they do not go to 5D, call it heaven/h**l depending on your beliefs is simple: on the moment we are leaving our body trough hypothalamus (top of the head) we are seeing 7D call it god if you want it, I'll call it unity with one or Creator, we are opening a port trough minute silver line, the port is 7D (on that way we are protected by intrusions of other 4D, 6D and all existing 5D entities, 4D and 6D of negative connotations are using minute golden line to extract our soul or bioenergy and our spiritual energy for selfish purposes when ever they like it) trough that port we are going in 5D, place where we can contemplate before next reincarnation or if we already learned all in our 3D we will go to 5D and than to 4D (beings that can be physically and energy how they decide), if we deattached ourselves from minute silver line in a minute of our death we are staying in 3D, times and other barriers are gone and we are mostly cloudy energy that seems to the rest in 3rd density like shadows, or ghosts (for more infos on shadows and ghosts please search my answer on Shadow people, read Cassiopean transcripts for all answer you need)...,...

Now as I said you can see 5D people from 3D(departed ones) but on the same way you can see other entities from 4D or 6D in multiple variations, remember usually our perception is limited with shoe box size of 3D, our religious and cultural limitations can make our brain does not believe our eyes and that is how your question pop up. Most of the times we are seeing 4D, 5D,6D is with corner of our eyes on doorway, because of usually big difference of light and colors that entities are at that moment frozen in time same as your glimpsed eye catch, other possibilities are close to the bed during the night when house is full of funny noise not explainable with our modern science especially if house is with lot of wood or if living on high floors, there are millions of possibilities no matter on our beliefs, nationalities and differences.

In universe there is one draconian low that even Creator have to bounce before: The freedom of choice, if departed decided to stay in 3D for some reason not even 7D can move it from here, of course they can activate minute silver line whenever they decide to go back to 5D it can be in day or in couple hundreds of years because time is still to them. Usually when close to 5D, temperature is going rapidly down, ionization of the air can be noticed and other sensations, when 4D are coming we can hear them passing trough walls like loud clap of hands, 6D are usually appearing as human beings and like to come to us while dreaming (sometimes even 4D are coming in our dreams and they are using strong mythological or other bombastic appearance ).

Third thing we can see are projections from various things and entities from and 4D+, like ghosts that are for half millennium dwelling trough English castles or Irish planes and valleys.

On the end we can see what other more powerful entities like of us to see, even some earthly technology make us to see things different than in real, HARP, Christaline implants, Hypnotic Programing, flash lights even on ambulance cars and police cars are Hypnotic triggers they make us to watch them not to notice something else, same as computer or TV display.

As Jesus once said Know thyself, simple or otherwise your eyes will see it but your brain will not believe it. Trust me you will see more and more strange things but question is will you notice them.

Wish you: health, love, happiness and above all knowledge:)

Answer 14

They're stuck because they want to watch over their loved ones and protect them.  

I know it's easy to say don't be afraid of ghosts, but try not to be.  They're attracted to people who are sensitive.

edit:  Lola...stop preaching that's annoying.

Answer 15

Sometimes they will linger if you are still grieving at their death.

They are trying to let you know they are allright and in no pain or suffering, they just want to let you know you will see them again.

Once they know you understand this- it will put their minds at rest, and you will feel alot better yourself.

I was very lucky I was able to see all my loved ones after they passed away- as I have always been psychic, I was also able to have a talk with them that is why I know what I know, and able to tell you.

Answer 16

I believe that ghosts have unresolved issues. One theory is that when a person dies a harsh and sudden death, they are confused and do not know that they are dead. So they go through life and "live" in there house as if they were still alive. Like the other post said, the best thing to do is to tell them to go to the light. At that point they will meet the Lord. I think in order to meet God you have to realize that you are dead and accept it...then you go to the light to meet our maker and at that point your fate is decided. Ghosts are just confused or have unfinished business on Earth. Very interesting if you ask me.

Answer 17

That cannot be answered correctly in the science section. Try religion.

Answer 18

Some spirits linger around because they are "stuck" and can't leave. Sometimes other spirits trap them. If you wanted the spirit to leave you can simply tell it that you don't want it there anymore. If that doesn't work, you should have your house blessed.