Sylvia Browne defines ghosts as "malcontents"—trapped spirits from trauma, suicide, or mental illness—unaware of death, contrasting them with peaceful communicators. She reassures AIDS patients (a "forgotten" group) about divine love during transitions, citing her own near-death experience at 42. Callers ask about guardian angels and Lucifer contracts; Browne insists pre-life agreements exist but divine forgiveness prevails, dismissing fear-based possession claims while emphasizing God’s supremacy over dark entities. [Automatically generated summary]
But a spirit is usually someone who's made the transition and can come back and speak to a loved one and say, I really made it and whatever.
But they're not the ghostly phantasms that you have to go to somebody's house and say, please, would you just please go because go towards the light because you're dead.
They're the ones that are just really confused.
It can come from, see, we go again with a suicide or it can be somebody's had a trauma death or any number of reasons or can be very, let's say, mentally deranged when they go and that carries over with them and they really just don't know that they're gone.
Eventually, some angel, guide, relative will come and get them, but they really can create a lot of havoc.
One is what appears to be some, if it's true, poor tortured soul who's every night or almost every night or maybe all the time repeating some tape loop kind of an activity, a final activity or some activity related to their death or some unfinished task.
And then there is the poltergeist version that seems to do physical things and seems a lot more unstructured.
And so, boy, that would be kind of a hell, wouldn't it, if you died in a fire and you just had to go through dying in that fire every day or something?
Yeah, and constantly repeating that same, you know, scenario over and over again.
Many of the ghosts that I've talked to, which sounds kind of strange, is that they really are angry with the people because it's their domain and they want to know what the heck they're doing there.
And then you have to explain to them, no, you died in 1888 or whatever, you know, and it always helps when you can address them by name because at least they know you're talking to them logically.
Because I think that those are the people that have been, I guess it's the humanitarian thing that have been shunned or that nobody, or people are so afraid.
You know, it's still the stigma.
And it breaks my heart because some of those are probably the loneliest people and nobody wants to be around.
And there's more and more because as we educate people, see, that's the big thing in this world that I've always raged against is the ignorance of, you know, like I say to people, read everything, study everything, and then make your decisions.
Don't just take one thing.
But I think it's because they're the forgotten group and they need so much love because society has shunned them so much and made them feel so horrible and that they're such lepers.
You know, I think it's very much akin to what the lepers used to go through.
I tell them that they have, you know, that they go to the light, that the white light of the Holy Spirit is around them, that Christ consciousness is with them, that God is an all-loving God.
Dan said to me, why don't you come with me when I do this?
And in fact, why Don't you learn how to do it and do it yourself?
And I said, Dan, I don't think I can do that.
And honestly, Dan can go to these people and he can say, Look, I've been there, I've been dead, I'm no more scared of death than I am of taxes.
And believe me, he's not scared of taxes.
He could say that to them, but I couldn't say that to them, Sylvia.
I've never been there.
I've never had this experience.
I'm not so sure that I could sit and counsel a person about to take their last breath and tell them that there's not a chance they may not exist on the last breath.
I did it when I was 42, and I did have a death experience, and it was so marvelous because of all the years that I had done and knew what I had known and believed it totally.
It was so much more, let's say, enthralling and truthful when I finally went through it myself.
It was like, I'll be damned, it is all true.
Not that I ever doubted it, but it's like you know something's hot, but when you touch it, you really know it's hot.
I think everybody makes everything so hard, whether it's religion or whatever.
I've always believed that the road to spirituality is love God, do good, and then shut up and go home.
The same thing with guide.
Just say to, you know, the guide, I know that you're there.
You know, it's very much like the old prayer, you know, angel of God, my guardian dear, you know, the Catholic prayer.
Just say, look, I say when I'm in trouble, get your tail in here.
I say to God, anybody that's not busy, get them in here.
But everyone has their own special angel as well as a guide who has lived a life on earth that did make a contract with you before you came down.
It would be no different than if Art and I were standing on the other side and Art said, Sylvia, I've got to go down into that hellhole again, and would you watch out for me?
And I said, you got it.
So Art comes down and then I'm his guide.
But then aside from that, there's a different phylum of angels, which never have to come to earth and live life.
And then when they wake her up in the middle of the night, it's a real bright light that gives her, it hurts her eyes and sometimes gives her a headache.
But she always talks about these little beads of light that once in a while she'll see.
When you were in your depth of despair and you wanted something so much that the only person that you could call upon was Lucifer, and you've entered in that contract.
Well, yeah, I know, and I've heard this before, too.
It's sort of like the devil in Daniel Webster, you know.
There is, don't get me wrong when I say that I do not believe that there are negative forces in this world.
I mean, I really do because for good, you have to have negative.
But I wouldn't be so concerned that whether you made the contract or whatever and you entered into a contract with, let's say, Scratch, Be All's Above, or whatever, that still doesn't mean that it wasn't within the contract that you wouldn't have done that and then come to the light.
You see what I mean?
Because there's no such thing as God condemning you for some silly contract that you might have made that you were probably going to get anyway.
You know, the part that I love the most that he said, he said, I think why I've battled it so hard is because I probably have never developed the emotional side of myself, which I thought was quite amazing that he said that.