What are ghosts (demons, devils, negative energies, etc.) and how does a person become one?
Table of contents 1. What are ghosts? 2. What decides where we go and what we become after death? 3. Who are likely to become ghosts? 4. Who do not become ghosts? 5. Spiritual level and ghosts 1. What are ghosts? When a person dies only his physical body ceases to exist. His subtle body (consisting of the subconscious mind, intellect, ego and soul, i.e. minus the physical body) however continues to exist and moves on to the other regions of the universe. Refer to the picture below for more detailed view of what we are comprised of and what we leave behind after death. ^ Top Some of these subtle bodies become ghosts. Ghosts by definition meet all of the following criteria: • They are subtle bodies. • They belong to the nether region (Bhuvaloka) or one of the seven regions of Hell but they are found on Earth region too. This is because ghosts from the more subtle regions of the universe can travel to the more gross ones like Earth at will. • They do not exist in the positive planes of th
