What are ghosts? Ghosts are simply the souls/spirits of human beings who once walked this earth, who after dying got stuck and remained on the earth plane. All things being equal, souls on dying and separating from the human body generally pass through a tunnel and cross into the 'light' on the other side of the tunnel. This tunnel has been said to be a conduit enclosure connecting earth and the afterlife and the light is
a figurative expression for the afterlife or heaven(in christianity) in where the all-pervading light and love of God exists. So many factors serve to account for why certain souls get stuck on the earth plane. Some reasons include,

- extreme attachment to their physical life and properties/wealth left behind on earth: some people tend to get overly attached to life on earth and find it difficult to let go. Some wealthy people who were extremely materialistic(allowed their extreme desire and love of money to penetrate within to their souls) on earth, after dying find it difficult to let go of their materialistic possessions and accumulations. These souls, not inherently bad per say, will often choos not to cross over as crossing over severes their bond to earth and completes the crossing over process,
but choose to hang around on earth among the living, believing they are not yet 'dead', and that they can get by around what just happened to them in order to return back to their former lives. These souls will often try to act like they are still alive and walk among the living trying to do things as they used to do before, try touching physical things or talking to people, and noticing they can't grasp objects or nobody sees or hears them. They often hang around their earthly houses or properties in sort of a 'protecting' manner trying to 'protect' their wealth and materialistic possessions.

- extreme addiction to physical pleasures such as sex, drinking, smoking etc: moderation in all that you do is a great spiritual virtue. However, some people get addicted to certain physical pleasures such as sex, smoking, drinking such that the desire penetrates too deep into their souls. If these individuals are unable to overcome their extreme addictions and die, their souls continue to crave to satisfy their earthly addictions. Note that death is simply the shedding off of the human physical body and the releasing of the soul. Realizing that they ar no longer solid, these souls will try to use people still living who have similar desires/addictions to satisfy their cravings. The earthly humans, or human prey, used to satisfy these desires are weak-willed as they have allowed physical pleasures to take control of their self-will to control these desires when they come up. These human addicts, who are like the ghost addicts in desire and addiction, are easy prey and targets for ghosts who use them to
continue to enjoy earthly pleasures. Ghosts will possess their host bodies momentarily for the addiction to be satisfied, leave the human prey and
return again when the desire comes up again. Ghosts often tend to return to host bodies to which they have established a mutual relationship with. These ghosts tend to often hang around bars, sex houses etc seeking weak-willed preys to take advantage of. However, nature has made it not that easy for ghosts to possess just any human being. The ghost and human host will have to have the same addictions and the human host will have to be weak-willed(unable to control one's addictions or extreme desires at will) to enable ghosts take advantage of them.

-religious teachings and personal beliefs: due to the erroneous christian belief of so-called 'salvation', some people die, on dying, think they are going to hell if they left the earth plane because they had not 'repented' before dying. These souls are already judging themselves needlessly and would choose to hang around on earth to escape their so-called 'doom'. Some people, on the other hand, believe that after death comes nothingness or total blackness and that life ends at death. These souls live life with little or no thoughts about the afterlife or what to expect only to die and wander around on the earth plane like a lost person. These souls had spent their entire lives dedicated to earthly and physical things and very little to spiritual issues and matters to, at least, understand the workings and principles of the afterlife and where to expect to go on dying. Physically, some of these souls were rich, wealthy, well-educated, of great knowlege and experience etc but their souls were undeveleoped and deprived of spiritual growth, nurture and knowledge. Now the physical blanket to which they spent all their lives tending to has been worn off leaving their grossly undeveloped baby-like souls exposed to its ignorance and lack of knowledge.

- the extreme 'fear of death': many people fear death at some point in their lives, however some people take their fear of death to the extreme such that they believe that death is a bad thing and earth living is the good thing. These people often swear and pray to live long, not to die, and would want to live forever on earth if allowed. Some of such people, on dying, totally refuse to accept that they have died, despite watching their own burials, relatives and family members mourning them, seeing their own obituaries etc and hang around on earth trying
to mimic human activities to make them 'feel' alive.

Ghosts are very limited in power in what they can do to a human. You do not need to fear them. Ghosts feed off of human fear. Ghosts, being formerly human, know full well that fear is an integral part of human emotions and try to use it to manipulate humans into thinking they can harm them by making humans fear them. We have many of them walking this earth everyday with humans but are not easily seen to the human eyes except through special traininging.

Big thanks to bigfrancis21 for his immense contribution.

Hmm....very interesting...books space

ok.. but what happen to thise who cross the tunnel ?

You avoided that part ... Mr.Spiritual

jhimmy: ok.. but what happen to thise who cross the tunnel ?

You avoided that part ... Mr.Spiritual

enternal bliss....

Fiction at its peak!

Last Bullet
After death, you sleep like someone who took overdose of Lexotan, Lagatin & Phenegan till Jesus come. And then Judgement.

If its true, God should set up a committee to start arresting all the wandering ghosts na. Btw, na ghost weh die early go get time to wander, when you die around 90, them no go teach you to go rest in peace.

OkikiOluwa1: Fiction at its peak!

Last Bullet
After death, you sleep like someone who took overdose of Lexotan, Lagatin & Phenegan till Jesus come. And then Judgement.

so ghosts don't exist? So all ur relations of frends dat claim 2 have sighted 1 are all bloody liars? SMH 4 u.

prodigy22: so ghosts don't exist? So all ur relations of frends dat claim 2 have sighted 1 are all bloody liars? SMH 4 u.

Exactly!
Except the drunk ones among them. You only see illusions

Chanchit: If its true, God should set up a committee to start arresting all the wandering ghosts na. Btw, na ghost weh die early go get time to wander, when you die around 90, them no go teach you to go rest in peace.

lmao, rotflmao, lol

Never knew one could choose which way to go after death; that is to cross the "tunnel" as you said, or remain on earth.
No one knows what happens, and several after-death accounts contradict each other.
Just prepare and wait till your time comes.

.And you even get to choose if you want to be a ghost..? soo cool..

Pls any ideas on how I can see a ghost? Would love to see one

Peeps pls share dis topic wif ur frndz. Y'll agree its very important

Op I agree wif u on d aspect of not being too attached 2 things of d world.

Lol. You go fear na. Tell me op, when a person receives a severe blow to the head, suffers a head injury, and acts insane. Does this soul that "survives death" become insane too?

If not, how come a person can be insane with a sane soul? Does this immortal soul not have a say in a person's emotions and actions?

If yes, how can a soul that can be affected by a physical blow survive death?

Oahray: Lol. You go fear na. Tell me op, when a person receives a severe blow to the head, suffers a head injury, and acts insane. Does this soul that "survives death" become insane too?

If not, how come a person can be insane with a sane soul? Does this immortal soul not have a say in a person's emotions and actions?

If yes, how can a soul that can be affected by a physical blow survive death?

You see, insanity can be linked to 2 major reasons. They are:

1) Before embarking on life on earth, we all planned and chose certain life events that would happen to us at different times over the course of our stay on earth. Some of these life circumstances were chosen to help us in our journey, to learn certain lessons such as compassion, kindness, understanding, charity etc. Back in the afterlife, we as souls knew how distracting things of the earth can be and how many souls after coming to earth get totally distracted and dive away from their original intended life plan only to finish life learning absolutely nothing. Therefore, it became imperative that certain life events are planned and placed at certain times in our lives to happen to us in order to kick us back in track enable us learn the lesson 'the hard way', in order to avoid wasting lives in lives out learning nothing. For example, a soul embarking on the earth journey might have, say, the lesson of compassion to learn which it had not achieved in other previous lives. Such a soul could opt to have certain events happen to him in life such as losing his child early, or falling sick to a serious illness for sometime etc, which would help to develop the spirit of compassion in him after going through the ordeal such that when he encounters sick people with related or unrelated illnesses or people suffering from one health disease or another or disabled people by the roadside, he would understand their pain and situation(which is the spiritual lesson of understanding, which so many people lack), and even go out of his way to ease their pain by hospital visitations, donations in form of money(the spiritual virtues of compassion and kindness which unfortunately many people find difficult to learn except through the hardway) etc. The person going through the ordeal and acting thereafter out of compassion and kindness may not realize initially that he had learned a spiritual virtue for which the circumstance was planned for, and the chosen life circumstance would last for as long as it would take the soul experiencing it to learn the lesson the circumstance was intended for.

Now, certain souls would, at times, overestimate how much they can handle in life by selecting more life events than they could actually handle. Of course when leaving for earth we are made to forget our pre-existence in the afterlife to enable us focus properly on our lives on earth for if we remembered our pre-existence everyday, many souls longing to return home would abscond earth early, thus cutting their supposed lessons short. When these life events start to happen at their predestined times, the soul living the physical life might get overwhelmed by the brunt of things occurring to them which in turn affects their mental functioning. More often than not, this is not usually the case. But when such happens, the soul might be called back to the afterlife earlier than supposed or allowed to live out the remainder of his life till his supposed time is up.

2) The second reason is mental challenge is, often times planned, to happen for deep spiritual reasons which might be difficult to fully grasp if mentione. These souls knew beforehand that they were going to live life as an outsider for the most part of their life and this was for a reason. Mentally challenged people often have their brains more detached from the physical events of life and more attuned to the spiritual world. thus helping to keep them more connedted to their spiritual side. They have access to information which they find it difficult to process in human language which may sound as 'blabbering' to 'normal' human beings. This phenomenon is a result of their souls functioning and vibrating at higher levels than the average human beings. Such souls are often brave and mature souls who chose to live such lives and the lessons learned and reward after are immense. On return to the afterlife, such souls would have spiritually evolved much faster than some of their 'normal' counterparts who lived mere spiritually average lives and, function at a higher level in the afterlife than them. Of course, the rewards of the lessons learned from such life and joys of heroic victory over such a tough earth life journey are priceless.

Our elder brother Jesus made a similar reference to these people and certain people in life we tend to look down on because they don't fit into our stereotype of 'normal' to us when he said the stone which the builders rejected as inferior will turn around to become the chief cornerstone.

This life is complex and there is a reason to everything that happens beyond the surface level that we perceive.

Chanchit: If its true, God should set up a committee to start arresting all the wandering ghosts na. Btw, na ghost weh die early go get time to wander, when you die around 90, them no go teach you to go rest in peace.

God would never interfere in the freewill of man. He is ever kind, gentle, patient and loving to his own. Humans and souls are capable of 'self-correcting'. There is no 'doom' for any of his own and certain times, souls isolate themselves from God(i.e ghosts who refuse to cross over to him and choose to wander on the earth plane) and when they are ready to go back to him, he is ever willing to take you back in. He would never force you to crossover when you are not yet ready to crossover. He is ever patient and kind with us. He is never the judgmental, fiery and brimstone type of God many of us think he is.

stop posting Rubbish

jhimmy: ok.. but what happen to thise who cross the tunnel ?

You avoided that part ... Mr.Spiritual

Back home to where we proceed from, where we are loved unconditionally and total peace and harmony exist.

bigfrancis21:

You see, insanity can be linked to 2 major reasons. They are:
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Our elder brother Jesus made a similar reference to these people and certain people in life we tend to look down on because they don't fit into our stereotype of 'normal' to us when he said the stone which the builders rejected as inferior will turn around to become the chief cornerstone.

This life is complex and there is a reason to everything that happens beyond the surface level that we perceive.

mehn... The human capacity for crap is definitely unlimited. Well done proving it. Hope you aren't expecting me to ask how you got to know all this. I've read better works of fantasy and they had fewer holes.

Hope you know your epistle answered nothing? Lemme rephrase my question. Why does injury to the physical brain affect mental balance and limbic function when the soul is in the one truly in control?

Please don't give me the silly predestination tale. You have no idea how contradictory that sounds.

If as you say, the soul chooses what happens in his human life, then by implication, those mentioned in the op chose to get attached to earthly things and get stuck as ghosts. That makes this thread useless, as decisions have already been reached by the souls of readers before they were even born.

But if people can AVOID getting attached as the op suggests, then they really were never predestined.

Either way, your 'soul theory' doesn't add up.

Back to my rephrased question... *waiting*

^ I would have replied you more specifically but seeing that you chose to be rude in your reply, oh well.

bigfrancis21: ^ I would have replied you more specifically but seeing that you chose to be rude in your reply, oh well.

awww... Nice excuse. The man with a leaky roof blames the rain for the wicked plan to keep his floor wet. If you had an adequate answer, you know you'd have replied me "more specifically" [sic]

You really should stop thanking yourself for your contribution, with alternate accounts. It's unhealthy.

The thread is just full of mere assumptions and wishful thinking.

No single proof or logic to back up their claims