Life's most interesting questions are the ones without answers. When the "solution" does not appear the question stays open in ways that illuminate our most fascinating energies. 

   The reflection in the photograph is just that – a reflection shot through a window echoing off shower walls in a new shape. It is the resonance of light & shadow & ceramic tiles. Yet, it evokes our idea of an apparition. 

   Most people disdain apparitions because they do not fit with their definition of what is "real." Perhaps, we misunderstand.

   I have had many experiences beyond the sentient, times when I shot out of my body & saw the world from another perspective, flying dreams, near-death experiences (starting at age four) when I felt God's presence. I have been with people who offer convincing statements of "ghost" encounters including accurately describing ancestors they could not have seen or near-death experiences in which they outline events & people they observed while completely unconscious.

   Lacking words, we dismiss such experiences or arrogantly define them as something only we know because we are so special. 

   Caregivers beside one who is dying often hear that person talk of seeing "ghosts," beings who have left the earth, some familiar some not. Are they spotting the lingering presence of someone occupying post-life consciousness in flickers of their life-form?

   Abraham Hicks describes a range of energies flowing through the world like shape shifting rivers. Hicks writes of core vibrations that create a "Law of Attraction" – that which draws us to each other or not.  "The closer you come to being in harmony with your Source Energy, the more in harmony you are with each other."

  What a valuable insight for caregivers. As we become conscious of ways to align with "source" we may be tapping what most religions describe as God. As we soften our definitions of time & reality we may hear whispers of eternal energy, vibrations that flow through trees, rocks & all things on this earth & beyond it. 

   Who are we to say that consciousness does not continue after we leave our bodies or was present even before we entered that once-tiny body called a baby?

-Reverend Erie Chapman

(Picture by Erie)