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I have seen and talked to spirits for as long as anyone in my family can remember. I have tried and tired to find a way to dampen or turn it off.. not forever mind you but would be nice to be able to go someplace and not see spirits. The only thing I can tell you the people I know the seem to lose or started to lose this ability for some reason started to believe... on some level... that it was wrong or evil or some such.

If you wish to keep this ability my best answer would be to open yourself to it when you feel them new you.. medation may help. I wish I could be more help but seeing them has never been a problem for me.

Keeping an open mind is a good piece of advice, meditation although totally reduntant at times does help...Staying away from mindless manipulations is very effective.

If you are around alot of influence that takes your mind away from the sight, then by all means, waver from the influence.

At times, the mind wishes to see what it deems fit to see at an older age.

Perhaps you are not realizing it, but some thoughts inside your unconscious makes it, this ability to disappear. Or just a thing that maybe at this period of time you do not feel so, i would say "attuned" to them.
As it was suggested, try some meditation, also maybe try to evaluate the time when you do not see them.
I don't see them, but feel them at times, but once when I had a chance to see a spirit of one of my relatives who passed over in a dream, i woke up with a big relief that it was just a dream. What would happen if it wasn't a dream, I don't know.

No clue on this one but maybe growing up has something to do with it. Like maybe there is a block in your aura. Maybe have it cked out

As we grow older we tend to stop believing in this sort of thing. Those few of us who continue to do so must constantly battle the worlds perceptions and what that does to our thinking. We must keep an open mind and heart or we lose the abilities we have to see.

I personally have never seen a spirit, but both my brothers and my mother have. I have never wished to see them personally but my family can. I just willed myself not to see them, cause I have no interests in ghosts. It's all a matter of personal will, which is why meditation will help to open your mind up to see them. I have kept my mind closed off from seeing them, but I can still sense they are around me.

I couldnt agree more with the many statements. Opening your mind more.. perhaps a meditation would benefit you most if you truelly wish to remain in contact with the spirits that are with you.

In my experience, psychedelic drugs do wonders for keeping the imagination alive.

Yeah Sith! I encourage the ingestion of magical substances like LSD. Mmmmmmmm clear liquid and blotter. MMMMMM.

I guess keeping an open mind would help, but I haven't really experienced any thing like this before so no offense to any one but I am not so sure it's true...but if it is and I am wrong, then yeah keeping an open mind would help.

keep an open mind . Don't let anyone tell you your crazy or that there not there . Let your self belive in them whole heartedly

Oh I know I'm completely Insane. I tell myself that everyday.

Everybody agrees, if you want to see spirits, keep an open mind.

Something I personally see more then anything else are Demons. Evil spirits walking this realm who try to take advantage of us in some way. Several have tried to take control of my mother, but I see them. They try to sneak around me. You may call me crazy but I know the evil ones are among us, drawn to us my our negative energies.

A pint of rum everyday should bring back the spirit folk!

I see a lot of repitition and a couple unwise ideas in here. It's generally a bad idea to mix mind-altering substances and spirits as well as like things. As so many have said, an open mind helps but an open heart is very important as well. Your emotions can interfere with your ability more than most realize. In my experience depression is a bit of a repellant to them, they usually have enough of their own pain and don't want to feel yours too. Who can really say though? As I'm sure you realize, nobody can know better than you why your ability is fading.

I think it is easier when we are young to see things as our mind hasnt closed it all out. The older we get the harder it is to see and believe

try just keeping your mind open to it, perhaps there is a reason your losing the ability, maybe its the closing of one door in order to open you up to be able to do something else? not really sure, you could also try meditating on the issue and see if that will help keep things open for you

The posts that suggest drugs and alcohol are not cool. U need to keep an open mind to things and maybe also join some kind of group with like minded people as yourself

I've been seing them since I was 7 years old, I think if I'd stop suddenly seing them I would be afrraid....sort of like becoming blind suddenly.

Even if they are at times scarign me or making me feel unconfortable. Its okay.

I mean with time, I even manage recently to make alliance with 2 of them, and one is a real demon, who is eager to protect me and have fun torturing those who hurt me. So I guess it has its good and bad sides.

ive never seen a spirit but if i did id probley jump out of my skin..lol

well if you cannt will yourself to maintain you ability then burn some wormwood incence it helps open your "third eye"....enhances psychic abilities

i dont know on this sorry i wish i could help but i have never been good will spirits

when i ws the age of 15 i was sleeping in the basement and i show a spirit bye the computer and it was white and was saying *help me find my boy help me pleases the it move the moues and she was gone

i firmly believe in spirits and they come and go thoughout our lives i dont think it would be loosing your gift but rather the spirits might not need you at that time i mean just because spirits are out there doesnt mean that they will always show themselves

99.99% of us loose the gift of seeing spirits as we grow older as we tend to brainwash ourselves things dont exsist. If you can see them take the gift and hold onto it for who knows when you will loose it

I have never seen a spirit before but the way my girlfriend says its neet to see as she says she has seen a few of them in grave yards

i think you need to open your mind more.

When u are younger it is easier to see things, Now that u are older u need to learn to focus morre

Good point SD. The young are accepting of the unusual and as we get older we become more jaded and lose that ability. So as you said you need to find focus.

Well they say children see what adult refuse to see, so as u grow up maybe it just a natural shift in the brain, we begin to believe in less so some lose there gift.

The closer one is to Nature and the energy of the Magick around us. The more one tends to see of the Spiritual World. One of the things Science and Facts tends to rob people off as civilization progresses.

I see them now and then.always when least expected.. damn it freaks me out too. by the time i calm down they are gone.. guess i'll have to work on controlling that too

when i was growing up i seen spirits, but as i went to school, it was told not to believe in such things. and since i was young and didn't know it was a gift, i lost some of my gifts due to the world belief and most here are christains, and didn't believe in that. now i am older, and learning what i had was not wrong, and the what the gifts are was blessings

I would say you just need to keep believing that you have the gift. If you lose it it’s because you lose your faith. It’s all about how much you believe.

if some one lost the gift at one point in there life, is it possible to find/get the gift back once they believe/understand what they had?

ponders if i lost any one in me asking....lol