Spirits – a brief explanation of what I believe (from a medium’s point of view)..

As a medium I’ve been shown that when the physical body dies, the spirit lives on in another state, with all memories, personality traits, and intelligence intact, recalled from each and every life lived ...and that the Spirit World is in fact all around us, a different dimension of existence, not constrained by space or time, where we can create any "reality" we choose to. I believe the Spirit World is occupying space at a different vibrational speed than physical matter here.
(Everything living , dead or inanimate has a vibrational speed, basic laws of physics..)

Your spirit is the essence of life, and has no physical form, but can occupy physical form (occupying a body of flesh and bone). However, the spirit is perfectly capable of existence outside the physical form it is housed in during a lifetime here. What makes us a “mind” or conscious being, is far more than mere flesh and bone, and my belief in life after death is backed up by the scientific knowledge that energy does not cease to exist; it simply changes form. So that part of us which is consciousness changes form when the life supporting it ceases.

When mediums communicate with spirit, we raise our vibration to that of the spirit world. The spirit of a person who has passed on often represents to us as they would be remembered here on the physical plane. This means that a medium can describe him or her as they remember themselves to have looked, for example tall, blue eyes, blonde hair, distinguishing features etc, a description of the personality and character, any illnesses or complaints they had, how they died, life experiences and so on.

However, this is usually what the spirit remembers about their most recent life, but is not how they actually are now, since they no longer occupy the physical plane. They can simply remember what they looked like, and recreate it at will for whatever purpose, be it during a haunting, or in order that a medium can pass on the information to help recognition of them by loved ones during a sitting.

An earthbound spirit will be clinging to the physical, and as such will only remember who they were this time around, their beliefs, identity will be limited to this last life lived...which is why I feel its so important to help them move on - a gentle nudge and a bit of counselling is often all thats required to help them into the light of the spirit world again... unless they have lived a life of perpetrating fear - where they in turn may fear whats waiting for them in the light and not wish to move across. Thats when a cleansing needs to be performed if the spirit refuses to respond to reasoning and counselling.
I treat spirit people as I would anyone living... they all deserve the same courtesy and respect as we do, we are all the same, we all come from the same Source and all return to it between lives.