Q&A: Does Keeping Ashes Hold a Soul Back?

Here's a question I received via email and my response about if you keep someone's ashes, do they trap a soul.

Q: Is there a possibility that keeping a loved one's ashes at home would create difficulties for their spirit into moving on to the light and such?  

A: No. Keeping the ashes of a loved one is just keeping a physical remnant of them. Their spirit has already crossed over.  When the physical body dies, or just before it dies, the soul, that is, memories, personality and knowledge combines with the physical energy in the body and leaves it. We make a choice to stay Earthbound as a ghost or cross over as a spirit and join the energies of the universe/heaven/paradise, etc. So your loved one has already crossed over or stayed on Earth as a ghost, which is very uncommon. 

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To learn more about ashes, ghosts, spirits and what happens after we pass, read Rob Gutro's books "Ghosts and Spirits" and "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" available in paperback and e-book on Amazon.com.