In the faq section of Gordon Smith's
(supposedly the UK's most accurate medium)
website it mentions that ghosts are not trapped spirits but merely images trapped in time and space
Just wondering what your thoughts are on this?
By the way I'm new here, this is my first post.

Uh, with all due or undue respect to Mr. Smith, I don't think so. I was sitting here in a house I just moved into interacting with one just two nights ago.

She let me know she was here, unmistakably, a few nights ago, only the second time I had entered the house alone. I felt like I walked right into her. I can feel where she is regardless of where in the house she stays, and the other night I sent PUL (as well as I can) towards her and she came down the steps from upstairs and stopped about five feet from me. I almost saw her physically. Vague, wispy pieces of a visible image.  I'm somewhat clairsentient, and I'm telling you this nonphysical person is no image. I'm an amatuer photographer, and I have yet to experience an image that made the hair on my neck and the back of my head stand up like she did when I first became aware of her. or rather, she got my attention, and rather forcefully at that.

I don't interact with static images. And they don't respond to love. The gentlman is mistaken, or is lying.

Oh yeah. Images don't follow me around and then stop when I close a bathroom or bedroom door.

'Ghost' is a loaded word, anyway. They're people. Nonphysical people, but people. Treat them like people and - *surprise* -  they act like people, not images.

An image may be worth a thousand words but actions still speak louder. OK, enough. She's moving around again...

I would hesitate to make an all-inclusive statement like that.
Perhaps some "ghosts" we see are merely leftover energy imprints, much like the "glow" on a tv set after turning it off.
Some people have so much energy, that they leave part of it behind as they pass through.  Both living and nonphysical.

That does make sense.  Some of the apparitions that simply replay themselves could be "tapes" or sort of residual energies trapped in the the "fabric" of space/time.  Meanwhile, the spirits and other entities are interactive beings.

love, blink

I agree with Linn.  That is the difference between a residual haunting and an intelligent haunting.

Welcome Quickstrike. I feel your question has been answered by the very knowledgeable people here.

Welcome Phillip. I read your post that Kyo pointed us to. I've been contemplating it and wondering if it is possible for all those stuck to be released at once. This brings to mind that possibly some souls are stuck because it's part of their 'lessons'.  I don't know. This just popped into my mind. 

Love, Mairlyn

Thank you for your important point, Mairlyn, about some ghosts possibly having to remain 'stuck' because of lessons they need to learn.

I have been consistently told by my guidance, including Archangel Michael, that this is never the case. All stuck human consciousnesses are for sending on, and no matter whether they want to go or not - except that the situation is complicated with regard to human spirits attached to people. In that case there is commonly but certainly not always a karmic issue involved, and it is then generally necessary for a healing session in which the affected person is made aware of the reason for the attachment (usually a past life situation) before the spirit is allowed to be released.

Hi Mystic,

I didn't care for that movie, and of course it was overly dramatic.  All white noise is, is a steady background noise.  It doesn't cause there to be EVP, and you can capture EVP without the use of background noise.  In paranormal investigation, it has become a popular device in some circles, but not a necessity.  The movie did not correctly portray the use or meaning of very much, in my opinion, and most people who don't know much about paranormal investigation techniques get the wrong idea from that movie.