june 13th
i walk in to the crystal shop in the strip mall that shares a parking lot with the burger king where people do heroin in the bathroom. greyday about to rain but its still warm out and i have some questions about ghosts.
i ask the women inside behind the desk who are both wearing pounds of adornments if they know who knows how to navigate ghosts a medium or someone and they rack their brains and they say be careful be careful don’t fuck with this stuff we’ll think of someone yeah great thanks.
a blond woman hair tied back wearing a white shawl covered in roseswithstems walks out of the back and tells me
i felt you walk in
you’re making me dizzy
do you need me
i say i do
i want to know some things about hauntings
okay well come on back
in the back room with a curtain for a door sitting at a small round table with karen anne
karen anne knows what i want to know
i’m going to homes where people have experienced haunting
i want to be respectful
i want to be safe
so what it is that’s making me dizzy
you have an attachment
i’m gonna take care of that
i’m gonna clear you
i’m gonna seal you before you go to these homes
we humans have
etheric skin
when we have trauma or something has happened in our lifetimes
it could be traveling, moving,
these things, spiritual stds, they get in
and most of us are walking around with attachments in our energy
we don’t know it
i’m gonna clear one of yours real quick, it’s making me not feel well
the rest i’ll get later
there’s a couple nothing bad
she is quiet and laughs to herself and im frightened and she says
nothing bad
they get inside of us
which means
entity involvement
or
a chord
or
something
discarnate
it could be anything
oh i say and im looking right at her but it feels like she’s not there i’m not in the room we’re in another space entirely not in the smalldim backroom of the crystal shop at a round foldout table and she continues
so with an entity
what happens is their energy
draws to you like energy, like what is within
when you’re open
it means there’s an attachment within
inside your chakras
i can tell you where i feel it come from
and i do this through all dimensions
space and time
so it could be something in a whole other dimension
that’s linked to you here
it’s pretty intricate
i’ve said mhm okay mhm here and there, i’m present with her in that way someone’s present in a dream they aren’t aware of, chaos or mayhem or illogical making perfect sense. she pauses and eyes dart above my head, my uptopbeing, whatever might extend above me. she looks at my eyes and
when you came in i felt you come in
i was like huh
i saw you
that’s odd
then i came out and there you were
i don’t want you to be scared
but i’m gonna do an exorcism on you
it’s just energetic
she gets a chill and shakes and laughs and pauses and she requests i talk to her about the hauntings
so what are your experiences like
i got plenty
i mean big ones
i just cleared my house
there were two people that “lived” in it
they couldn’t stay
i have accounts of what has happened over the last ten years
with ghosts, black shadows
i was attacked in salem
by john hathorne the magistrate that burned all those witches
so much anger
and then my husband and i woke up one night
four black shadows were crawling across our ceiling
because i cleared someone’s house
and they came to my house
so i’ve had stuff that smelt like death
moving around the house
i went to a haunted inn and brought something home with me
i didn’t know it
i have a lot of experience dealing with these things
but ultimately
they need love
she shutters again and feels something deep and it shakes her and it’s real to me too
have you always known these things were there
i had to learn the hard way how to discover faith
one creator spoke through me
that was a big moment
“live in faith child”
it came right through me
ten years ago i was at the bottom of my barrel
these gifts were sleep
these gifts saved me
i’ve had these gifts all my life
first person i ever crossed was my grandfather
i predicted his death in a dream
he died that day
in front of me aged twelve
and i was the last face he saw
i helped him get to the other side
sorry what is crossing
to be crossed means that
the spirit leaves the body
what is here in this realm
is crossing in to the light
the spirit is going home
coming into alignment
our soul can fragment
sometimes people die and some of their essence remains
and they still live in that echoic idea
if they’re trapped i help them
i remove their density off this plane
they go off into the light
there’s no hell
unless you believe in that
then you might experience it
belief is a powerful force
we take that essence that has remained back here
we move it along
energy doesn’t die it just gets transmuted
i help them go where they belong
she sits very still and very thoughtfully and i imagine there are pieces of us everywhere all over wherever we go and i imagine being scattered all over without even knowing it
is fragmentation typically the reason that someone gets stuck here
yes
we can fragment throughout our whole life
you’re probably fragmented
a piece of your soul is probably fragmented
the piece of you that is here in this realm
cause we have dimensions
nothing is linear
we have a piece that oversees all of it
but dimensionally
a soul can fragment
some will cross and go home
some will stay attached
to a person, to an object
and this is the haunting
when someone is attached they still believe they’re
alive
their energy can be very harmful
they can be channeled by folks
by anger
by heartache
these can be a door
so these essences are making a choice to interact and act
yes it’s free will
they have free will
they’ll latch on
and we’re vulnerable when we don’t know what we’re working with
but we’re also extremely powerful
we’re alive
we have the power
ultimately
they’re fragmented
everywhere
in every dimension
in every past life
we can’t die against our will
even if somebody shot you
creator will ask you
do you wanna go back? and you can
we have no idea what can be done for us
we are so blinded by this human form
our limitations are great
you can be a skeptic and a believer at the same time
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Katie Coleman is a writer and visual artist living in Portland, Maine with her sweet pup Timber. She is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the Maine College of Art, where her work explores the system of language as one of authority through text-based and installation work.
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