Spirits respond to being evoked. The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches believe that the deceased can be invoked and that they hear our petitions and pray for us and that their prayers are more powerful than the prayers of living people.
I wouldn't say more powerful. Some believe they are more influential because spirits of saints, jesus, etc have direct connection with god when christians believe we do not have that direct connection. If we did, we wouldn't exist.
In Scripture, God is spirit. Angels are spirits. Fairies are spirits. The souls of the deceased are spirits. The pagan Deities are spirits.
Fairies in the bible?
Angels have angelic bodies, so I guess you can say they are incarnations of humans. Think of Sodom and Gomorrah where the angels to tell Lot and his wife to escape because the men in the town wanted to sleep with the men in his house.
Pagan deities? Depends on who you speak with.
There is an invisible world that influences the material world. What is your relationship with this world? Have you ever seen a Fairy, a ghost, an Angel, or a Deity?
I haven't seen a fairy and angel. I don't believe deities exist. I have seen a spirit and experienced spirits involvement. I don't put too much emphasis on it and since I had these experience since I was a kid like my mother and grandmother, I never separated them from everyday life. My mother talks to her mother all the time.
Do you ever talk to your departed loved one's?
Yes, all the time. I say my prayers to jesus sometimes because my family is christian and the body of christ is christ, so praying to christ is praying within the body. Therefore, I can communicate with my loved ones through the body. I was thinking of other ways to communicate but giving water offerings and things like that doesn't seem natural. I was thinking of getting another reading to start going into the Lukumi faith. The Orishas can tell me how to do this or that.
Do spirits visit you in your dreams? Do you feel them present inspiring your thoughts and actions? Have you ever gone into a trance that brought you to the spirit world?
Yes. Indirectly in my dreams. I think that is the strongest they communicate is through dreams because in everyday life we have so many blinders and barriers that when we experience something we can't explain, we toss it aside. It doesn't have to be mystical.
Yes. It's not all the time, though. I'm not really in touch with my living family as much as I am family in spirit. So, I kinda feel off without that connection between both.
No. Things like trances, visualizations, meditations, chakras, etc doesn't make sense to me. If one wants to experience the presence of their ancestors, spirits, or say god, it doesn't have to be mystical. It could be simple saying thank you. It could be doing something in the name of your said ancestor(s). It could be understanding yourself more, your values, and how you see life.
I don't separate the spirit world from this world. Heaven and earth, avichi hell and earth, things like that doesn't click with me.
I'm reading Allan Kardec's Spirits book and he says that spirits are all about us and influence us often and we aren't aware of it.
Yes. Children are aware of it more than adults. They probably can't express it especially if, say, their parents are christians and they despise the thought of any other spirit but the holy spirit, christ, and creator.
I honestly feel it's unhealthy to have a view that the only way you can communicate positively and benefit from speaking with spirits is through one religion. It really turns people away from the faith because some people are more concerned about what they share as truth rather than the spiritual well being of the person they are talking to from that other perspective not their own.
Learning to interact with the spirit world kind of teaches you that. It teaches you that everyone has a spirit and if you are helpful to people in spirit, it isn't different than helping people living.
I'm all for helping people from their perspective. Communicating with the spirit world, if one likes, is very beneficial but serious practice if making it your religion.
