Psychic

Bryan from Imperial, CA, asked:

Hi Julie,

I am staying in a room in the house of a friend and her fiancé. Upon my first day here, it felt like the energy wasn’t right in certain areas. I often hear thumps, cracks, and noises, and feel like I’m being watched.

During the day when I’m here alone, the fridge will start to hum, whirr, and buzz when I walk into the kitchen and I hear strange noises in the walls. The dogs react as well with growls and barking. I’ve given up trying to cleanse, protect, and fight off energies in the house.

Since I was a kid, I’ve been able to pick-up on spirit energies and voices. This ability makes me come across as mentally unstable to friends and family who don’t experience the same. I feel isolated at times because nobody believes what I tell them about the spirit phenomena I feel and hear.

What can I do to at least have the spirits stop bothering me? And, what can be done about how I pick up on things? Ignorance seems to be bliss and I’d rather not have this “gift”.

Thanks,

Bryan

Hi Bryan,

Since Halloween is just a few days away, I appreciate the timeliness of your question.

Most cultures have a day that venerates the dead so how did we go from honoring our deceased loved ones to being afraid of them?

History.com says, Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31^st. The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in) 2,000 years ago marking the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred and that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. Emphasis on the word celebration.

Then, in the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1^st as a time to honor every saint. Soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows Eve, and later Halloween. Over time, Halloween evolved into a day of activities like trick-or-treating, carving jack-o-lanterns, festive gatherings, donning costumes and eating treats. Again, it was a celebration of the deceased.

Congratulations on recognizing your “gift” of being able to perceive spirits. It’s an ability every person and animal possess.

We all experience what can be called a psychic moment when we think we see a spirit out of the corner of our eye or feel a strange sensation when entering a room. In the most recent few hundred years, people have been taught to be afraid of spirits by religions, cultures, and the publishing and entertainment industries. This is why people are uncomfortable discussing spiritual occurrences, because like you, they don’t want to look crazy.

Keep in mind, all spirits are pure love and “evil” spirits don’t exist so there’s nothing to fear. If you don’t want to be bothered by spirits, just ask them to leave and they will. But then, you may want to consider embracing the spirits around you and ask if they have a message for you or a message they’d like for you to convey to someone.

In the movie The Sixth Sense starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment, spirits contact a boy (Osment) to deliver messages to their loved ones. After initially resisting the spirits’ communications, the boy realizes by sharing the information, he helps people heal. I believe you’re being given the opportunity to do the same.