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you are going to help her,’ Eric said. ‘You have natural compassion, trust that.’

      With the comfort of thinking that I might actually benefit Roz, I drifted off to sleep.

       Roz

      The night before Mia’s second visit, I couldn’t sleep. I felt excited, anxious to get going and start seeing things. At the same time, I couldn’t stop thinking about the film The Exorcist. I hoped my lessons with Mia would not involve my head spinning round while I vomited. What was I inviting in?

      I had been a journalist for 20 years; my scepticism kept me grounded. So why was I feeling so unsure, so afraid? When Mia arrived, I quizzed her nervously.

      ‘This is quite safe, isn’t it? I’m not going to get stuck with a ghost, am I?’

       Mia

      ‘Don’t worry, you’re totally safe. It’s very unusual to be able to find a ghost – let alone be stuck with one. I’ve come across haunted places and buildings, but never a person. It doesn’t work like that. If you are lucky enough to have contact with a ghost, I promise you it won’t be interested in scaring you. It will merely want to communicate.’

      ‘Ghosts are often visitors – they come back to see a person or place that was important to them when they were alive. The ghosts I speak to during the course of a reading are visitors. They are aware of their death and only come back for a short time.’

      ‘Many ghosts, however, don’t even realize they are dead. They are earthbound spirits, commonly known as “hauntings”. At the moment they died, the powerful emotions of anger or distress were so overwhelming, they refused to accept their death and go “home”. To them, this emotion is unresolved business. And a spirit cannot be forced home. It has to go willingly.’

      ‘There is a third kind of “ghost”. Here, the moment of death causes such a strong emotional outpouring that it leaves a residue or imprint of the event in the place that it occurred. There is no actual spirit presence, but instead the earth becomes a kind of tape recorder and the event replays itself over and over. In this instance, people might see, for example, a grey lady appearing on the same staircase at the same time on the same day each year.’

      ‘For us, the idea of being in spirit form, stuck on Earth where nobody can see us, sounds desperately lonely. But the reality is that ghosts are never distressed. They are just a bit confused. Even if I say, “You’re not meant to be here, you’re dead” – as I used to do in the beginning – they don’t take any notice.’

      ‘I remember one of the first hauntings I went to. I was called to a country cottage where the ghost of a young woman had been seen repeatedly. When I went upstairs, I saw a woman of about thirty standing in the middle of a bedroom. She was looking towards a window with a dreamy expression on her face.’

      ‘I said, “Hello”, and she smiled gently. There was no big emotion there.’

      ‘I said something stupid like, “Are you stuck here?”’

      ‘She totally ignored me and wandered towards the window and looked out. I stood beside her at the window thinking: say something, Mia, you have to get the contact going. So I said, “It’s a lovely garden isn’t it?”’

      ‘She looked at me, all animated and said, “Yes, isn’t it?”’

      ‘I tried again. “Do you know you’re dead?” I asked gently, but she simply pointed to the roses in the garden. I realized she was happy to talk about her surroundings, as if this was still her home but any reference to the fact she was spirit was totally dismissed. It was as if she – and all Earth-bound spirits – have a safety valve which protects them from any painful emotion.’

      ‘It was only when Eric came in and held her hand that she seemed to acknowledge her death and she went over with him. Since then I’ve learned that it would be dangerous or upsetting for somebody like myself to awaken the knowledge they are dead without the presence of a spirit guide to take them over once they know.’

      ‘You’re a long way from making contact with ghosts, so calm down. We are only going to look at auras today.’

       Roz

      Mia’s answer was reassuring. We were not going to get into anything spooky and her presence was so earthy, I felt my stomach begin to unclench.

      ‘So what is an aura?’

       Mia

      ‘Every living thing has a life force. Think of it as electricity. It is an energy and this energy fills every part of your body.’

      Floundering slightly at having to explain what I knew instinctively, I called Eric.

      ‘How can I explain an aura?’

      In the beginning, when I spoke to Eric he would often say things that didn’t make any sense to me. He would then show me a picture in my mind to help me understand what he was trying to explain. Very quickly, we developed a communication where pictures came as fast as words.

      Now he showed me a room with a large fire. Then the door shut and, even though I couldn’t see the fire, I could still feel the heat radiating from the room. I gave this image to Roz but she was still looking puzzled, so I explained, ‘Just as the room can’t contain all that heat, so your life force is inside your body but your body can’t hold all of it. Your life force radiates around the edges. This over-spill is your aura.’

      ‘The more complex the being, the more complex the life force. Years ago, I had this all explained to me when I was ill in hospital. I was drifting in and out of consciousness when the spirit of my dead brother, Pete, appeared beside me and placed a large leather-bound book in my hands.’

      ‘“Open the book,” he said.’

      ‘The first pictures I saw were of the sea and the minute organisms that lived there. In each of these organisms – amoeba, plankton, seaweed – there was a tiny flicker of light. Just one.’

      ‘Then I saw small fish go by; each of them had two or three lines of flickering light. The important thing, the book told me, was to see the life force in everything. I was shown a rain forest filled with huge trees. Each tree had three or four strong lines of light moving through the trunk. At the canopy, the leaves had wonderful, soft flickers of light moving through their veins.’

      ‘I saw the forest floor and a formation of ants moving over the trunk of a fallen tree. I marvelled at the beauty of the lights in their bodies. The book went on to show me reptiles, birds and animals, all with increasing amounts of light.’

      ‘The last picture was of a city, full of human beings. I saw the intricacy of millions of moving lines of light that make up the human form. Layer upon layer of tiny white pulsating lines. The same light was in the amoeba and in the human. What differed was the complexity and amount of light in each.’

       Roz

      ‘Why can’t everyone see these lights?’

       Mia

      ‘Because they don’t know how to look.’

       Roz

      I thought of the wildlife programmes on TV that are able to show night-vision scenes. Even in the pitch black, special thermal cameras can detect animals from their body heat and film them in amazing detail. Without the special lens, the viewer would not be able to see anything. But that didn’t mean it wasn’t there.

      ‘Is it like finding a special lens?’

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