Anson V. Gogh - Wayward Spirits & Earthbound Souls: True Tales of Ghostly Crossings

About the Author

Anson V. Gogh has been helping lost souls cross into the light for over a decade. She and her daughter have the ability to tune in to what wayward spirits most desire and convince them that this longing can be satisfied on the other side of the light. Sometimes the work is heartwarming, sometimes frustrating, but it is always satisfying. Gogh is also a practicing Wiccan, and has studied various religions and philosophies over the years.

After first discovering that she had this talent, Gogh did research and path-walking to improve her skills. In the course of her research, she noted that there were few sources that aimed to provide practical insight into how to cross ghosts. This book is the result.

We are all teachers, and we are all students.

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Wayward Spirits & Earthbound Souls: True Tales of Ghostly Crossings 2010 by Anson V. Gogh.

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This book is dedicated to my son, daughter, and fianc.

Thank you for your belief in me and your love and support.

To Nicky and Madison, who have already gone home,
and to puppy Shiloh (who will follow them, but not too soon
we hope), and especially to the rat, Socrates, thank you all for being part of this book. And to all the other pets I have and
have ever had you make our lives so much richer.

Contents

Part One: The Waywards

Part Two: The Waywards & You

I see dead people is a line most Americans are familiar with, but few actually ever get to say. Those who do see dead people are rarely able to comprehend their own truth, and they hide in psychiatric care or crack houses to escape the torment, never seeming to find a way to reconcile the two realities they live in.

Ironically, this conflict between physical and spiritual realities is the very dilemma that lost spirits suffer. Ive learned that they are unable to leave the physical behind, to leave loose ends untied, or even to believe they are worthy of going into the light. So they stayattached to the physical and the mundane, angry, lost, and confused. They become a member of a parallel existence known as waywards .

At the core of the tales in this book is a family that refuses to ignore what they see, what they feel, what they know. Who accept that nonphysical reality is also real. Lost souls share our limited space, and deserve the same compassion we feel for our physical counterparts who suffer the pains of living. Anson V. Goghs family experiences the same desire to help waywards that most people feel when seeing a lost child. We just want to help them get home.

This is what Anson doeshelps waywards go home.

Wayward spirits live fairly normal lives, as bodiless entities can, and cast their energy onto those who share physical space with them. They rearrange things, open and close things, and take things, while we blindly accept such occurrences as the result of our own absentmindedness, or simply dismiss them as things that could happen on their own. Is it really important how the washing machine moved a few inches away from the wall? Or what exactly the cat is chasing down the hall at 2:00 am? Or how that envelope ended up on the floor?

We, as physical beings, see only what we already believe in. We find rational explanations for unexplained phenomena, and always find answers convenient to our belief system. We dont see ghosts. We think that those who claim to see ghosts are nut cases. And yet, on warm summer nights, we have no explanation for the chill that shivers through the moist air, raising the hair on the nape of our neck.

As if someone is watching

My personal experience with waywards is not one full of bright lights or shaking furniture, or even of bumps in the night. It is simply about results.

My family had moved into a century-old house that we knew had a sordid past. For a few years, our houses environment just never seemed to become home. Although it was barely discernible, we could sense a hostility in the air, a vacuum that seemed to swallow the very essence of positivity from the house. But we managed to live a fairly normal life there.

Anson first visited our house when her fianc was installing new flooring, and she began sending waywards home. She did this on her own, not sharing any of her activities with us. We simply assumed she was exploring our unique house. Only when she was finished did she tell with us about her work. Deep down, I scoffed and judged her a whack job. Harmless, but still a whack job.

Months later, my relatives came to visit. They had been here to see the flooring going in, but hadnt returned since the cleansing (cleansing is perhaps not a very respectful term, but Im not really schooled in the proper terms). They immediately starting fawning over the feel of the house.

Everything seems at peace here, my mother said to me. All the work youve done since we were here last has really made this house feel like a home!