Paranormal Q&A: What is your view on exorcisms and the Christian view of spirits?

Each week, I'll answer a question about the paranormal, whether a general question, or one about human or animal ghosts (Earthbound) or spirits (crossed over). Here's this week's question: 

Q: What is your view on exorcisms and the Christian view of spirits?

A: First, I don't believe in "demons." I think that what we call demons are just life forms in spirit from other solar systems that made their way to Earth. Like wild animals that get defensive, other lifeforms that don't know us would get defensive and perhaps take over the body of a living person.

The concept of demons was conjured up to frighten people into behaving.  Exorcisms work on the principal of positive emotional energy, not religion. When a holy man, who are generally good of heart and has a lot of positive energy, tries to expel a ghost or spirit who is a bad person with a lot of negative energy, if the positive energy is strong enough, it will dispel or move the negative energy out (as a scientist, I believe it's all about energy).

Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead

Positive emotional energies are faith, hope and love. Negative emotional energies are fear, anger, depression, anxiety, hatred,. - It's because of positive emotional energy that prayer works (from any religion or non-religion)- It's the projection of faith-energy.  So, you need not be a priest or Christian to expel a bad ghost or spirit from someone  - and possessions are  rare.  

My book "Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead" has a chapter on "demons." 

For Rob Gutro's 7 books on the paranormal, visit: www.amazon.com. All of Rob's books were written to help explain the paranormal, and teach readers how to find signs from spirit. 

FYI - How to Get a MARYLAND Absentee Ballot in the Mail for the Presidential Election

Anyone registered to vote in Maryland can vote a mail-in ballot. Just submit a request for a ballot, and the state will  send it to you.

AFTER YOU VOTE:  After you vote your ballot, you must return it to your local election office by mail, by dropping it in a drop-off box, or by taking it to your local election office. You can mail your voted ballot or take it to your local election office at any time. A list of designated drop off locations will be included with your ballot.

If you request a mail-in ballot and decide to vote in person, you will have to vote a provisional ballot.
How do I ask for a mail-in ballot?
If you have a Maryland driver’s license or MVA-issued ID card, PLEASE  use the online system to request a ballot.  They can process your request more quickly, and we do not have to worry about reading your handwriting.
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Submit your request now! If you wait, there is a risk that your local elections office may be overwhelmed by last minute requests and may not be able to process your request in time. If that should happen, you may have to vote in person.
The deadline for requesting a mail-in ballot is Tuesday, October 20, 2020.
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You can find email addresses and fax numbers to your local election office at 
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Voting Information for Maryland Voters
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Two 5 STAR book reviews on "Case Files of Inspired Ghost Tracking" by Rob Gutro

My thanks to all the readers of Case Files of Inspired Ghost Tracking, and for the reviews. Reviews
make books much more visible on Amazon. com.  Below are 2 NEW reviews (and both are 5 of 5 stars, I'm happy to report). - and a summary of the book. Please post reviews, it helps! - and come with me on my Paranormal Investigations in the Case Files of Inspired Ghost Tracking! - Rob Gutro

Lynne J.

5.0 out of 5 stars I would recommend this book.

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2020

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A great and very informative read. This book also helped me confirm some things I have seen in my lifetime really were real.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great, easy and informative read on the paranormal and ghost tracking

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020

Truly enjoyed reading this book. It was interesting to read about cases from nearby locations (some very close to home) and how the investigations are carried out. I could clearly picture everything Rob was describing and feeling. Always enjoy his books. If you live in Maryland, or have ever lived in Maryland, definitely add this to your reading list.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Case Files of Inspired Ghost Tracking - When earth bound ghosts have traumatized families in their own homes, Inspired Ghost Tracking (IGT) of Maryland has gone in to cross them over. In this collection of IGT cases, you’ll read about a very haunted Maryland mansion, many ghosts of Baltimore’s Federal Hill, the Burned Ghost, ghosts of two different time periods in one building, the dark things Ouija boards brought into homes, a ghostly attachment, a Steelworker’s ghost, poltergeist activity, the famous IGT “Double Murder Ghost Investigation” and many more. You’ll also learn about ghosts vs. spirits, energy and lots of Q&A. So, come along with us on these IGT investigations and learn that the paranormal is quite active!

Q&A: Spirit Voices Sound Like They're in Another Room, Early Experiences, Haunted Kitchen

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If you've heard voices that sound like their coming from another room, and there's no one there, they are likely spirits visiting. That's what happened to Lynne, who recently wrote me to tell me her experience. Learn WHY they sound like they're in another room..  
 Lynne  also saw 2 ghostly figures in a church, and talked about that, too. Here's the story:

LYNNE'S PARANORMAL VOICE EXPERIENCE:  Rob, have you ever heard voices like people talking far enough away you cant make out what they are saying but the voices are actually from a vent in a bedroom nearby. This has happened to me two times growing up.  

MY ANSWER:  Yes, spirits (who have crossed over and come back to visit) and even Earth Bound ghosts always sound like they are talking in another room.  That's because it takes a LOT of energy for a spirit or ghost to make an audible sound. In actuality, they are likely in the SAME room as you are.

LYNNE'S EXPERIENCE AS A TEEN: When I was about 15 I was home alone from school not feeling well so I took a bath. When the water stopped running I heard voices in the living room i figured I left the tv on. I wrapped a towel around me and went out to turn the TV off. It was never on. Do you think as a young person I had the talent to see/hear ghosts?  Nothing has happened in my older years. Why?

MY ANSWER:  We are more apt to hear and see spirits or earthbound ghosts at a younger age, since we haven't yet been forced to explain things with our logical minds. We are more intuitive  at that age, and tend to trust our feelings. 

LYNNE'S CHURCH GHOST EXPERIENCE: When I was around 30 years old, I was in my church's dining area. I put the soup on before the service, and later I went down to check on it three quarters through service. As I walked into the large dining area I saw two white images on each side of the pot.

Click FOR MORE ANSWERS ABOUT THE PARANORMAL- check out Rob Gutro's books on Amazon.com (all under $10 paperback/Under $4 Kindle): 

 

New England Puritan Lore: The Devil Made Many Appearances

The Devil in DC  Comics' Batman Family #1, by Mike Grell

The Patriot Ledger newspaper in Quincy,Massachusetts publishes a "Haunted New England" feature every month, and this month is about "the Devil" making appearances during Puritan times.

I’m Eryn Dion, Regional Engagement Editor for Gannett New England, and this is Haunted New England. 

Turns out the Devil made quite a few appearances around New England in the colonial days, getting around to the First Church of Ipswich, outside the JC Solmonese School in Norton, near the Center School in neighboring Easton, all in Massachusetts. He made the trek up to Maine and left his mark on a stone outside the Manchester Meeting House, and came back down to North Kingstown, Rhode Island , leaving behind strange, triangle-shaped impressions or deep human-sized depressions in otherwise solid rock. These are just some of the more well-known examples - I’m sure many, many small New England towns have their own local legends passed down to kids just like me. 

But all of this begs the question - was Satan just jumping around ye olde thyme New England, burning holes in rocks wherever he went? And if not, why did our ancestors see weird holes in rocks and automatically think the Devil did it? 

To find the answer, like most things, the Devil is in the details. 

Remember, New England, and our country as a whole, was founded by Puritans. The first New England colonies were religious settlements, and families came to these colonies from England and beyond largely for religious purposes. Their religious beliefs were so strong, so integral to themselves and their lives, that they were willing to uproot their families and leave behind everything to cross the Atlantic on a musty, cramped boat and come to a land where they would literally be starting from square zero. Not even a Dunkin Donuts.

Religion ruled Puritan life and their whole existence revolved around working hard, going to church, dying (at a relatively young age) and going to heaven. That was it for them. God controlled their lives. Good things came from God and God’s favor, bad things came from the Devil, but also God not stepping in to do you a solid. 

It’s also important to know that, to the Puritans, the Devil wasn’t some amorphous figure representing evil. He was a real dude. You could meet him in the flesh while out riding your horse or toiling in the fields. You could even fight him, like the Rev. George Whitefield did in 1740 in the First Church of Ipswich, which, according to legend, led to their pair of Devil’s footprints when Whitefield got into a wrestling match with the Devil and pushed him off the church’s steeple. You could make a deal with him and sell your soul to get ahead, or worship him to gain his favor in the form of witchy powers. 

And life in early Colonial America was, frankly, scary. Death was rampant, from starvation, disease, or conflict with Native Americans. Any injury could easily become infected. The winters were harsh and cruel. Children died at a young age. Families toiled long hours just to sustain the household, nevermind make a modest living. It makes sense, for them to believe the Devil was everywhere, because to them he was. He was in every failed crop, every drought, every sick cow, every time they ran out of firewood or every ferocious hurricane blown ashore. And if someone managed to get ahead? If they found success, whether as a politician or a businessperson? Well, the Devil was in them, too. 

So when our colonial forefathers happened upon a rock in the woods with mysterious, triangle impressions, I think it was easy for them to point and say, “Well, speak of the Devil. There he was.” 

Back in the Top 30 on Amazon! Pets and the Afterlife by Rob Gutro

My "Pets and the Afterlife" book continues to bring comfort, peace, understanding and healing of grief for anyone who has lost a pet. On Aug. 19, Amazon reported the book is back in the Top 30 books on Pet Loss/Grief in paperback, and in the Top 100 for Animal Care and Pet Essays.
  I'm sure this boost is also likely in part to the interview recently on the United Kingdom's ChatandSpinRadio .com  and Afraid of Nothing Podcast appearance.  .  Below is a summary of the book, the current rankings on Aug. 19, 2020, and a review. Know that your pets are very much around you in spirit - My books teach you the signs to look for !- Rob 


ABOUT THE BOOK
To lose a pet means to lose a child. The love we share with our pets never dies, and the author proves our pets do communicate with us from the other side.
Learn how dogs, cats, horses and some birds have the intelligence and ability to send signs to the living after they pass.
Take comfort in knowing our pets are around us from time to time and recognize the signs they give. Learn how they wait for us when it’s our time, what a pet’s ashes can do, and the difference between ghosts and spirits. Learn how and why living pets can sense entities. Follow one of the author's dogs on a ghost investigation.
Read how spirits of the author’s 2 dogs and dogs from three other mediums communicated with them from the other side. Read about spirit cats and how a ghostly dog rescued a girl.
The author also volunteers for Dachshund and Weimaraner rescues and has several dogs.

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (March 27, 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1497378613
• ISBN-13: 978-1497378612
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars169 customer ratings
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,208 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
• #150 in Reincarnation (Books)
• #440 in Love & Loss
• #27 in Pet Loss Grief

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,808 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

• #150 in New Age Reincarnation
• #177 in Occult Astral Projection
• #96 in Animal Care & Pet Essays

Review

A GREAT COMFORT!

ByTina Cole

Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

This is a fantastic book for anyone who has lost a pet and wishes to knowwhat happens when they leave us. In Rob' s own personal experiences and experiences of others in the book, you will find a peace andunderstanding that will help you through this terrible time of loss.Pets and the Afterlife is a book I will read again and again. Irecommend you read it, too. You'll take away only positive thoughts. I promise.

In the news- Woman sees her dog's face in the clouds hours after pet's death

Pets have a lot of ways to communicate from spirit, and although using clouds isn't common, it's effective and a matter of timing. That is, because clouds are dynamic, and change shape within a minute or minutes, catching sight of a cloud at the exact moment that it may resemble your pet is because your pet in spirit influenced you to look up, in that direction, at that exact time. If you read my books, Pets and the Afterlife and Pets and the Afterlife 2, you'll learn there's no such thing as a coincidence. Here's the story from MSNBC

 Woman sees her dog's face in the clouds hours after pet's death 
 Hours after her dog, Sunny, passed away, Lucy Ledgeway found comfort in the skies.

June 30, 2020, 12:51 PM EDTBy Ashley Capoot 

Lucy Ledgeway said goodbye to her 14-year-old dog, Sunny, who passed away in her father’s arms at their home after suffering a seizure on June 20. However, her furry friend wasn’t gone for long; Ledgeway spotted the canine's face in the clouds just hours after she died.

Sunny was a Parson Russell terrier that Ledgeway, 19, and her family rescued when she was just 6 years old. Ledgeway, who lives in the city of York in northern England, told TODAY that Sunny was funny and loving, but she also had a lot of health issues. She was diagnosed with diabetes last year, and the vets told her family that she only had between 12 to 15 months left to live.

Sunny had been taking insulin for 13 months before her health started to deteriorate, and Ledgeway said her family had a serious scare a couple of days before she passed. Sunny had been throwing up and having trouble going to the bathroom, and her family and veterinarians thought she was going to have to be euthanized. To their surprise, Sunny managed to perk up for one last good day with her family. “She was in bed up until around 2 p.m., and then my brother got a bag of crisps out and started eating and she started sniffing up,” Ledgeway told TODAY. “It gave us a bit of hope, like, ‘Oh, so she’ll be all right.’” In fact, Sunny’s demeanor had improved so much that her veterinarians decided there was no need for her to be put down.

Ledgeway said Sunny seemed to be feeling better that day, but she died the following morning. Ledgeway said she was feeling emotional and told her boyfriend that she wanted to see a sign in the sky that proved Sunny was all right. Two hours later, she went outside and said she saw Sunny’s face in the clouds.

My 5 Min. Interview on the UK's Chat and Spin Radio! (at 1 hr 3 mins in)

This past weekend I was showcased in a 5 minute interview on great 80s music station from the United Kingdom, called "Chat and Spin Radio." 
  Chatandspinradio.com is based out of Washington, Tyne and Wear, England. They play a great mix of music and offer short interviews with authors. You can hear my interview at 1 hour and 3 minutes (1:03) into the show. It's right after Bette Midler's "From a Distance" plays. (and right before Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" plays). 
  Here's the link to the 2 hour show segment:
https://soundcloud.com/ian-johnson-75/friday-14th-august-fridays-eve-late-show-854pm-1147pm-uk-time-part-2

Ian Johnson 73 · FRIDAY 14TH AUGUST FRIDAY'S EVE & LATE SHOW 8.54PM - 11.47PM UK TIME (PART 2)

Paranormal Q&A: What are some things people can do at home to amplify their connection to the spirit realm?

Each week, I'll answer a question about the paranormal, whether a general question, or one about human or animal ghosts (Earthbound) or spirits (crossed over). Here's this week's question: 

Q: What are some things people can do at home to amplify their connection to the spirit realm?

A: People need to trust their feelings of their surroundings. Positive emotional people can tune in much better than negative people. Positive emotions, love, faith and hope - remove blocks from getting in touch with loved ones in spirit (who have crossed over).   Also, meditation or just sitting in a quiet place, even in the shower (where I get a lot of messages) when I'm at peace.  Play soft instrumental music, think of peaceful settings. Relax your body and mind. Those things help amplify the connection.

For Rob Gutro's 7 books on the paranormal, visit: www.amazon.com. All of Rob's books were written to help explain the paranormal, and teach readers how to find signs from spirit.

A New Review of Pets and the Afterlife by Rob Gutro

 If you have read any of my books, I would greatly appreciate even a short review on Amazon.com, because (with the millions of books out there), it makes the book more visible to readers. Here is a recent review of my book "Pets and the Afterlife" by Rob Gutro:

Sue reviewed Pets and the Afterlife  A Soothing Balm After the Loss of a Pet June 25, 2020 I was devastated after I lost my precious dog to a coyote attack. The grief was heavy and the next day, I searched for a resource to get me through the first rough week. After finding a podcast interview with Rob Gutro about losing your pet, I sought out his book and ordered the digital version so I wouldn't have to wait for it to arrive. I read it e-cover to e-cover. By the time I was done, I not only found a sense of peace from our loss but a deep feeling of connection to our beloved dog. Thank you, Rob, for this wonderful book! If you are missing your lost pet, I recommend that you buy this book. I will be getting his other books too.