[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by Goddessa

Nah. Not total nonsense at all. Its an indigenous African traditional practice called Ubungoma. I'm just trying to reconcile it now with the idea of a website where spirits can be bought.

In this practice, the spirits are usually ancestors, although not all of them, and THEY choose who to guide. This person also goes through a process of training and initiation whereafter they are given powers to heal or harm others.

This part in bold....I would call them Ancestral Spirit Guides who shouldn't be grouped in with spirits in the sense of keeping them. To put them in the category of spirit keeping is something I strongly disagree with.

What we can do, is make a connection with them for our guidance and perhaps they have something to teach as well. I made a connection with mine long before I learned the term spirit keeping and they have much to teach me concerning my path.

There are spirits, like jinn, who really do need things like vessels but it's more to keep a link between you and them as they don't actually live inside it. As for binding, it's to strengthen the link. I think the terminology that CH uses can be clarified as I get the feeling that certain words can mislead people to different conclusions. The spirits either live in the astral or another dimension, depending which spirit it is, and because of that, a link is needed and no harm in giving a link a boost via a crystal. Human spirits like Ancestral Spirit Guides don't need crystals, etc to either create a link or strengthen one as there's already a link in place which is DNA.