SPIRITS -
A Spirit is an energy being that is not an angel. A spirit or soul is created by God in the Absolute Realm of existence separately and distinctly from the angelic race of beings. A spirit can manifest itself in the physical world in several ways - human, animal, plant, insect, or even exist metaphysically among the living. Some souls choose to remain in all lifetimes upon earth as animals or humans.
A spirit has one general purpose which it may often forget - to achieve a higher level of development which eventually reunites it with its other half and God. A spirit that ascends to the highest level may appear angelic because it is ascended so high to God's energy. These souls are called Master Teachers and give guidance to other souls on achieving that level.
Souls have one thing which no other being has - Free Will. An ascended being will guide other souls but will never tell what you should choose, simply because it is your right or Free Will to choose your path. Things can and are suggested, but any soul that tries to tell you what to choose is a lesser developed soul and one frought with problems.
Souls do return to the physical world several times over many different lifetimes. How they manifest themselves upon returning is a choice. Who they come to, what they will do again is a choice made in the Absolute Realm. Several lifetimes can cross over between souls - one soul can be mother, sister, lover, daughter to the same other soul in different lifetimes.
The relationship between souls is developed on the depth of emotional attachment. What is shared in the Absolute Realm between souls are emtions. The greatest and deepest of the emotional attachments is that between twin souls - those souls that are one from one, torn in half by the power of God to bring to each other an understanding of love. The deepest journey in love any soul can take is in the separation of twin souls. To understand and grow through that pain ascends the soul.
Emotions reflect the spiritual development of souls. Earth is a place designed to understand any undesirable emotions and to readjust the soul to what it does desire in itself. The higher the vibration of positive energy in the soul, the more angelic the soul appears while the opposite is also true.
Some souls separate from the reality of the phsyical world manifest themselves as harmful spirits or poltergists. They do damage not always intentionally, but because the energy of their beings interferes with the physical world. Other poltergists however are very conscious of what is happening in the physical world and take delight in entertaining fear in the observers of their activities. They will insist upon harnessing their powers to induce fear, as that emotion is high energy. At the same time,a poltergist can be content to stay in its environment because it is learning to use its spirit powers to affect physical reality - something it might not choose to do were it an ascended soul. Most poltergists are lower soul development.
Elementals are the lowest form of soul development - they are the residual energies left over by souls in places of high trauma or abuse. Some will say elementals are not even souls because they focus and feed on the most basic dark emotions - fear, hatred, and anger. An elemental are unable to manifest in the physical world because it is not one soul, but the remnant energies trying to form a soul. Elementals can be detected by foul odors, strong sense of fear or hatred, and a black mass that resembles many different things but does not congeal into one specific form.
Higher level souls also return to the physical world in visitation. They come back to places of pleasant memories or tragedies. The reason a soul comes back depends on how much they have learned to let go of in the Absolute realm. If they come back simply to remember good times, they are healed and like tourists see the past only, not always the present. If they are not healed from the trauma, the therapy they may be undergoing is visitation to the place until they can accept what happened and release the pain. Sometimes the releasing of pain is as simple as letting someone on the physical side know what happened - especially if it was a hushed up death.
Souls in the Absolute travel time and space easily. Nothing is linear, nothing is forbidden. Everything depends on your choice. If you see and believe yourself a good energy being, you go where those beings exist. That is the only limitation - your own emotional choice.
