The Yoga of Ghost Hunting

Richard Salva

Description

In The Yoga of Ghost Hunting, discover a new perspective on ghost hunting. Touring haunted houses is an exciting pastime, but there is so much more to it than that! When dealing with the afterlife and metaphysical realities, it helps to have the insights of those who have explored those worlds and returned to enlighten us. Yoga to the rescue! Yoga is much more than physical postures. It is an ancient spiritual science that offers answers to many questions related to the supernatural.

Learn what the yogis have revealed—tips and techniques—that can help you with your paranormal investigations. Let yogi-author Richard Salva enlighten you about the hidden yogic secrets that every ghost hunter should know.

Discover how to:

• Protect yourself psychically
  
• Banish spirits
  
• Overcome fears of ghosts
  
• Connect with helpful spirits
  
• Achieve mental clarity
  
• . . . and much more!
  

From the author’s introduction:
As a daily practitioner for more than thirty years of meditation and the deeper teachings of yoga, I have found it curious that, even though I have not sought them out, I have crossed paths with ghosts and other astral forces.

In fact, when I was asked to lecture on my book The Reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln at a paranormal conference a few years ago, I realized that I had a lot to say on the subjects of ghosts and ghost hunting. It also became clear as I spoke that most of what I was saying was new to my listeners. I was presenting a view of ghost hunting that veteran ghost hunters had never heard before. In addition, I was aware of techniques and concepts that could help ghost hunters achieve greater success in their efforts and avoid some of the pitfalls of their pastime. Here, then, is the essence of what I have shared at ghost-hunting conferences, along with additional helpful tips and techniques, all based on ancient yogic teachings. Once we know more about what ghosts are and the world in which they live, we can gain a better understanding of what we may experience on a ghost hunt.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Sport
• Sports fitness
• parapsychology
• Body (disambiguation)
• General officer
• Spirituality
• Yoga
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Crystal Clarity Publishers
• Date de parution: 07 avril 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781565895065
• Langue: English

Extrait

The YOGA of G HOST H UNTING
The YOGA of G HOST H UNTING
Tips and Techniques for Psychic Protection and More

Richard Salva
Author of
The Reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln


crystal clarity publishers
nevada city, california
Crystal Clarity Publishers
Nevada City, CA 95959
Copyright © 2010 by Richard Salva
Originally published in 2010 by Crystar Press
Published 2014
ISBN: 978-1-56589-288-0
ePub: 978-1-56589-506-5
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
Cover design: Tejindra Scott Tully
Cover photograph of woods by Antonio Romei
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Salva, Richard.
The Yoga of Ghost Hunting : tips and techniques for psychic protection and more / Richard Salva. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-56589-288-0 (tradepaper, bw images)—ISBN 978-1-56589-506-5
1. Ghosts. 2. Ghosts—Research--Methodology. 3. Yoga. 4. Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952. I. Title.
BF1461.S325 2014
133.1 —dc22
2011013512
www.crystalclarity.com
800.424.1055 or 530.478.7600
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T O MY WIFE L AURA , WHO BRAVED THE UNKNOWN WITH ME
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank the following people who contributed to the development of this book:

Sandie La Nae
Janice Oberding
Laura Salva
Bill (our helpful ghost transitioner)
Raghu Clark
Matthew O. Sloan
Gurudas Barrett
Tejindra Scott Tully
David Jensen
Swami Kriyananda
and Crystal Clarity Publishers
C ONTENTS

List of Illustrations
Introduction

1. Just Where Are Ghosts Coming From?
2. A Spiritual Benefit of Ghost Hunting
3. How to Clear Your Aura
4. A Quick Word About Colors
5. Types of Ghosts
6. Is It a Ghost or Something Else?
7. How to Banish Spirits
8. You Are a Ghost
9. Ghosts in Dreams

10. How to Relate to Ghosts (A Success Story)
11. Ghostly Odors and Astral Fragrances
12. They Don’t Know They’re Dead: A Friend’s Experience
13. Ghosts and Karma
14. The Transition of Death
15. Are You Haunted By Ghosts or a Past-Life Memory?
16. Lincoln’s Ghost
17. A “Lincoln Orb”
Further Reflections: A Few Points to Consider
Further Explorations
I LLUSTRATIONS

Autobiography of a Yogi front cover
Swami Sri Yukteswar, guru of Yogananda
Hot air balloon illustration
AUM, TAT, SAT technique
Paramhansa Yogananda
Spiritual Eye Painting
Anandamoyi Ma
The Sanskrit AUM symbol
“Mission Dolores” in San Francisco
Warwick Cathedral
Battle Abbey, England
William the Conqueror
The author as Lincoln, with orb
I NTRODUCTION

As a daily practitioner for more than thirty years of meditation and the deeper teachings of yoga, I have found it curious that, even though I have not sought them out, I have crossed paths with ghosts and other astral forces.
In fact, when I was asked to lecture on my book The Reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln * at a paranormal conference a few years ago, I realized that I had a lot to say on the subjects of ghosts and ghost hunting.
It also became clear as I spoke that most of what I was saying was new to my listeners. I was presenting a view of ghost hunting that veteran ghost hunters had never heard before.
In addition, I was aware of techniques and concepts that could help ghost hunters achieve greater success in their efforts and avoid some of the pitfalls of their pastime.
Here, then, is the essence of what I have shared at ghost hunting conferences, along with additional helpful tips and techniques, all based on ancient yogic teachings.
People go ghost hunting for a variety of reasons. Ghost hunts can be fun and fascinating, yet there is much more to them than that. Serious visitors to haunted houses recognize that what they are doing may bring answers to some of life’s Big Questions—Is there life after death? Are ghosts the spirits of people who have died? Is it possible to find proof of these subtle realities?
Once we know more about what ghosts are and the world in which they live, we can gain a better understanding of what we may experience on a ghost hunt.
As I said, the information I am sharing here is based on the deeper teachings of yoga as taught by great spiritual masters and world teachers.
If you look at the front cover of the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper album, you will see near the top right-hand corner a man with long dark hair and bright eyes. This is Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi . *
Yogananda’s powerful bestselling book has inspired millions throughout the world, including such well-known individuals as the Beatles and Elvis Presley. In one of the later chapters of Yogananda’s autobiography, he relates an amazing experience—three months after the passing of his Guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, the great spiritual master physically resurrected himself (raised himself from the dead). He embraced Yogananda and shared deep teachings. In that chapter, the just-materialized Sri Yukteswar told Yogananda many fascinating details about the afterlife and the energy sphere that ghosts inhabit, which he called the “astral universe.”

Autobiography of a Yogi front cover
Footnotes
* Published by Crystal Clarity Publishers.
* The 1946 original unedited edition, pictured on the next page, is published by Crystal Clarity Publishers. All quotations in this book from Autobiography of a Yogi are from the Crystal Clarity edition.
Chapter One
J UST W HERE A RE G HOSTS C OMING F ROM ?

Sri Yukteswar told Yogananda that “[t]here are many astral planets, teeming with astral beings. The inhabitants use astral planes, or masses of light, to travel from one planet to another.”
“The astral world,” he explained, “is infinitely beautiful, clean, pure, and orderly.”
“Various spheric mansions or vibratory regions are provided for good and evil spirits. Good ones can travel freely, but the evil spirits are confined to limited zones.” *
In this fascinating chapter in Yogananda’s autobiography, Sri Yukteswar describes what astral beings look like, what their bodies are made of (prana, or “lifetrons”), what they eat, what people look like when they arrive in the astral world after death, how astral beings communicate, and more.
“The ordinary astral universe,” he said, “is peopled with millions of astral beings who have come, more or less recently, from the earth.” In addition, he went on, there are also non-human beings, which he described as “fairies, mermaids, fishes, animals, goblins, gnomes, demigods and spirits.” *
Sri Yukteswar also spoke of the great size of the astral universe.

Swami Sri Yukteswar, incarnation of wisdom, guru of Yogananda
We know that the physical universe is unbelievably vast. Scientists have clocked the speed of light at 186,000 miles a second. Going at that speed and traveling from earth, it would take a spaceship more than four years to reach the nearest star.
Keeping that in mind, consider that there are approximately one hundred billion stars in our galaxy. And there are about one hundred billion galaxies in the physical universe. Between most galaxies are wide reaches of space.
So, what we can see through our telescopes is pretty big. But the astral universe is much bigger.
To give an idea of the size difference between the two, Sri Yukteswar said that the physical universe is like the basket that hangs under the huge hot air balloon of the astral plane. *
This analogy is inexact in that the physical universe is not suspended from the astral universe in any physical way. Rather, part of the subtle astral universe merges with the smaller physical universe—lying behind it, so to speak. The separation between the two universes is caused by the vibrational difference between matter and pure energy.
Throughout this book we will explore some of the ways in which Sri Yukteswar’s description of the astral world relates to ghosts and ghost hunting.

Relative sizes of astral and physical universes, as per Sri Yukteswar’s hot air balloon analogy
(Original Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net )
Footnotes
* Autobiography of a Yogi , p. 402.
* Autobiography of a Yogi , p. 402.
* Autobiography of a Yogi , p. 402.
Chapter Two
A S PIRITUAL B ENEFIT OF G HOST H UNTING

I know. Most people probably aren’t thinking about spiritual benefits while engaged in a ghost hunt. But the fact remains that an essential aspect of these activities can lead to spiritual growth.
Why are ghost hunts exciting? Because ghosts are scary. And why are they scary? Well, for a number of reasons; but to a large degree, because ghosts are invisible.
Think about it. What is a ghost? Something you can’t see that can touch you, influence you, physically chill you, even speak to you.
Man fears the unknown.
Whatever our reason for going on a ghost hunt, or the exact cause of our interest and excitement, we cannot deny that fear is part of the equation.
And this brings us back to that spiritual benefit we were discussing.
Fear is an obstacle to spiritual growth. If you are afraid of anything, in that area at least, your inner growth is blocked.
How do we overcome fear?
Sri Yukteswar gave this advice: “Look fear in the face,” he said, “and it will cease to trouble you.