The Ghost Photographer by Julie Rieger

Author:Julie Rieger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria/Enliven Books

Finally, I might have to tussle with science about this final clair because it’s so “out there.” As previously mentioned, clairtaction is the psychic ability to physically feel the act of being touched by a spiritual being. I learned about this term for the first time on the website of a healer, psychic, and author named Emily Matweow, who may have coined the term “taction.”

“I chose ‘taction’ because it is an archaic word defined as ‘the act of touching or making contact,’ ” she writes on her website. Matweow goes on to describe a “telekinetic-like ability” to touch both “physical and etheric entities in such a way that both the recipient and the psychic have awareness of the feeling.”

Now I realize that the idea of being touched by an etheric entity—aka a ghost—sounds outlandish. But here’s the deal: If ghosts are comprised of etheric energy, and energy has weight, then it stands to reason that clairtaction is quite possible. Here’s another reason it’s quite possible: because I experienced it myself.

Suzanne and I were in Arkansas for Cubby’s wedding one year. We stayed with a good friend named Janet Selby, who lives in this fabulous old house that dates back to 1904. Janet swears she has a ghost in the house and calls it “CA.” Get it? CA (see a) ghost? Janet is hilarious.

Anyhow, Janet couldn’t wait for me to walk through the house and either confirm or deny the existence of CA. Like a good friend, I obliged.

Since I always travel with my protection kit, I grabbed a stick of palo santo and proceeded to set it aflame. Once it burned enough to produce smoke, I blew out the flame and started to walk though the house saying the Lord’s Prayer. Every minute or so I’d ask for CA to show himself. I suddenly sensed that there was something around the front door, but in the end that sense dissipated. I then turned my back to walk toward the kitchen area and boom!—I literally felt something jump on my back. It had the same weight as, say, a partially filled backpack with a binder or two inside. I knew immediately that a spirit had landed on my back. Energetically, in my mind, I told it to respect my space and boundaries, to no avail.

Now I know that this sounds freaky and might feed the idea that ghosts and spirits are menacing—and some are (more on that later). I knew in my core, however, that this particular spirit was more like a playful labradoodle that jumps around when you tell it to sit. I wasn’t scared in the least.

“Janet!” I yelled. “Your damn ghost just jumped on my back.”

“What? CA is here? I knew it,” she said in her heavy southern accent.

“Yup, and he’s not following the rules, either. I’m telling him to get off my damn back. CA has boundary issues,” I said with my rediscovered southern accent.

“OMG, he totally does. He messes with my boyfriend all the time,” Janet said,

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