Hi Diana,

You wrote,
I have watched television shows like ghost hunters or paranormal state. I am concerned when the spirits of children seem to be left behind especially in terrible places.

Don’t take the ghost buster shows too seriously. Yes, they are in contact with entities on the next plane of life, but they’re usually people who are staying close to the Earth plane because they get their kicks out of doing things to people still in bodies.

Think of it like this. Imagine that you took everyone alive right now and put them into the next life. You’d have some very nice people, but also some gang bangers, arsonists, serial killers, sex abusers, practical jokers, stalkers, and all the bad people we know live today.

Well, that’s actually what happens. When these bad people die, they cross over into the next life just exactly as they were on the Earth. So there really are gang bangers, arsonists, serial killers, sex abusers, practical jokers, stalkers, and all the bad people, living on the next plane of life. They don’t suddenly change when they cross over.

Now, we migh ask, “Why don’t the gang bangers alive today change so they aren’t killing each other and doing the awful things they do?” It’s because they get their enjoyment out of life through perverse, cruel, violent acts. They won’t change for decades, if at all. They just don’t know how to enjoy themselves in any other way.

When they cross over to the next life, they’re still not able to find other ways to have joy in their lives. They just don’t know anything else. But for an arsonist to enjoy setting fires or a sex abuser to enjoy abusing people sexually, they have to do it through a person living on the Earth plane. They can’t do it on the next plane of life. So they stay near the Earth. Their vibration doesn’t mature spiritually, and they wander the Earth plane, just unseen.

They influence others through their thoughts. The arsonist focuses his thoughts on a person on the Earth plane who has a tendency toward arson. “Wouldn’t that building look great on fire. Can you see the fire trucks, the crowds. You can do that.” And if the arsonist on this side of life is weak, those thoughts will influence him to set fires. Drugs and alcohol heighten the weakness, so people are more easily influenced when they’re drunk or high.

Now, the ghost busters are talking to those people. They likely aren't talking to children, even if the ghosts say they're children. In fact, I suggest all of them are not children. They’re getting their kicks by playing the game with the ghost busters. They can lie and masquerade without the ghost busters knowing what’s going on.

What we know happens is that everyone who crosses over is met by loved ones and guides who help them. Children are taken care of and helped to understand what’s happened. More than one person speaking from the other side has said children actually adapt more easily because they’re not set in their ways. Everything on the next plane of life exists to make life wonderful, including helping children by having loved ones they recognize, pets, and other children they knew come to them. I would expect only a very small number of children to be earthbound.

I haven’t heard of any, but I could imagine a child of a grieving parent still on the Earth plane might stay close to them. But that’s OK, and it’s out of love. The child may have trouble separating because of their love or dependence. However, they are continually helped. There is no limbo or place of lost souls. There are loved ones and helpers all around.

The “go into the light children” mythology just isn’t factual. That isn’t the way it is on the next plane of life.

Also, there are memories on the ether that surrounds the Earth plane. It's like a spiritual atmosphere. The memories can sometimes be experienced by mediums, psychics, or even ordinary people the right times. These memories are the ghosts who do things over and over again, in the same place. They pace the floor, laugh, look out windows, and so on. There's no living spirit there. It's just a memory on the ether. Sometimes people hear the laughter of children over and over in a room. Those are memories on the ether.

I do also want to say that some people who are earthbound are confused, have unfinished business, aren’t able to bring themselves to leave a home, or are otherwise just confused and held to the Earth. But they’re making their own choices.

You asked,
I'm also wondering if there are really demons?

No demons, and no devil. But there are people who were bad people on the Earth plane who want to continue their mischief and destruction on the next. They can only do that through weak people on the Earth plane. People who engage in ghost busting or children who use Ouija boards and aren’t spiritually mature because of their belief system or age are susceptible to these influences. And there are some real baddies on the other side. Sometimes they do stay close to a home they lived in that they still believe is theirs and they don’t want anyone else living there. They’re just confused and immature. Others genuinely would like to see people miserable and suffering. They were that way on the Earth and now they stay close to the Earth plane to do whatever they can to continue making people miserable and to continue inflicting suffering. They work through weak people to make it happen.

They can especially work through people who have mediumistic abilities and don’t know it. The stories about poltergeists throwing things around, pushing people, scratching people’s bodies, and so on, are often around children who are disturbed and have mediumistic abilities the don’t know about. Their energy on the Earth provides the energy the mischief makers on the next plane of life can use to make things happen in the Earth plane.

So there are real bad guys, but they’re not demons, and they can’t burn houses down or kill someone. They have to work through someone on the Earth, and have some limited ability to throw things around and cause chaos, but I’ll tell you, the stalkers, gang bangers, sex abusers, and other baddies on this side of life are much worse. Watch out for them more than anyone Earthbound on the next plane of life.

You asked,
I want to believe that children go directly to God.

Oh, Diana, we’re never separate from God. We can have that experience of closeness as much now as on the next plane of life. We and the loved ones and guides on the next plane of life are God’s instruments. God is never separate, but the love and care we actually experience from God flows through other people, on this side of life and the next. We are God’s instruments.

When the children cross over, they’re met by many loving people, including loved ones. That is the love of God.

Love and peace, Craig