Hi Bets
In our last house, we had an Italian lady who "hung around" in our house.
she just wanted to stay with us and no matter how many times we told her how to "go to the  light" she just wanted to hang around and be part of our family.
She even used to ride in the car with us and came to a wedding (sitting in the backseat like a real Grandma)
She would move things around and often we would see her "cleaning" when things moved.
I can't tell you how many times I would come in after gardening and find the kettle on to boil.
One day she switched off my iron and pulled it out of the wall plug. when she saw my friend she went mad and told her what a naughty girl I was because I would go and leave it on while I was putting clothes away. Was never sure of her name but it was not really italian. Think it was somthing like "Marta"
About a year before we moved, we noticed she was no longer with us, so i hope she is moved on and Happy
love to all
Cathy xx

That is a good question - pets do sense spirits .. maybe also one of the reasons why we have them.

I think soon the word ghost may be out of fashion. spirits perhaps less demeaning a label to them. as ghosts may signify they are somewhat less than a physical person. might tend to irritate the spirit. it appears ghosthood close into the physical layers are attached to the Earth. we can serve them by seeing what or why they are attached and wish to be here without judging them and directing them to levels they may be with others who have crossed over. I became a ghost once in this lifetime and it is very lonely existence even as brief as it may have been. very few people can detect a ghost, thus the lonliness. they are real people and think they are real, so spirit is a better word.
to retrieve is the same thing as directing to the light or fullness of where they can belong and be seen and heard.
hugs, alysia

hi there sis. I became a ghost in the astral floating when one day I looked into my mother's eyes to see if I was in her heart as a daughter. I saw I had never been her daughter or belonged to her except through DNA. (not as sad as it sounds)
in that instant the "daughter role" did die as a fully intact belief system which had form in the astral realms. shortly after realizing we were only universal room mates and no longer mother/daughter, I went to sleep one night and found myself as a ghost.
I searched close to the astral areas of physical for companionship and relating.
I tried to join physical people at their tables of discussion but they couldn't see or hear me but one of them did pick up my vibrations and was looking at me, just like most people would look at a ghost, a little shocked.  then I realized I didn't belong on this level and was dead.   it all turned out good as I went to a new level, when daughter told me I had died. I didn't even know I was dead.
so the need for retrievals to tell the person...yea, you're dead! ha ha!

Bets said: It sounds very difficult.
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thats a lot of questions so I can answer one by one, and thanks for the opportunity to get more clear my dear! no, it wasn't difficult as it sounds because it happened rather than my trying to make something happen. like our friend Shirley said not too long ago here..the best experiences happen without trying to make them happen, like subjective higher self interplay.
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Do you think a person could set their intent to do the same thing inorder to clear up dificulties with that parent?
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yes my intentions were made before I was born. intentions is basically all that matters when trying to clear up difficulties with anyone. intentions are yearnings of the heart path to me. there is no relationship too difficult to set aright when you step into that other persons shoes.
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Would it matter where that 'parent'  was---lower focus levels, for example, or in a new physical?
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I don't think it matters if they are physical or nonphysical as location means little in obe circumstance, and theres telepathy and remote viewing to consider along with intentions.
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Was your mother living at the time?
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Yes, she was sitting right across the table from me during this aha moment. we both forgave each other and everything changed.
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Did you expect it to turn out that way?
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no, I was blown away, stunned. that must have set up the death experience. the good parts are in my book, as the bad always leads to the good. anyone who loves freedom will understand that dying, without karma, leads to freedom.
inexpressible freedom..inexpressible joy. a successful life.

love, alysia