Short Answer
Ghosts are real in the Cosmic Agency material — not as products of imagination, electromagnetic interference, or wall fungus, but as genuine manifestations of consciousness that exist in the lower astral and interact with the material world under specific conditions. They are detectable by sensitive cameras, infrared equipment, and — according to the Taygetans — fully mappable by advanced non-human technology.
But the question of whether they are "trapped" is more nuanced than it first appears. The speakers distinguish between several types of ghost phenomena, and only some involve anything resembling entrapment. A recently deceased person may linger in familiar places while processing their death — this is not entrapment but transition. A soul that died violently may remain fixated on the trauma, manifesting repeatedly at the death site — this looks like entrapment from the living side, but the time loop exists only from the observers' perspective, not the soul's. A soul that died consumed by fear, guilt, or attachment may fall into the lower astral and remain there indefinitely — this is the closest to genuine entrapment, but even here, the speakers insist that no real soul is permanently lost. Every soul is Source, and Source cannot be permanently separated from itself.
What humans experience as a haunting that persists for decades may, from the ghost's perspective, be a single pass through a location — because time in the astral is not linear. The apparent repetition is a perception artefact created by the mismatch between material-world time and astral-world time.
The Full Picture
What a Ghost Actually Is
Mari Swaruu provides the most systematic definition across S-122 and S-123. A ghost, at its most basic, is the astral body of someone who was once alive and is now a disincarnate. When a person with a soul dies, they withdraw their attention from the biological body — the suit or ship they used to exist in the material world. But the soul still holds attachments to the ideas, self-concepts, and personality that defined it in life. These attachments continue to manifest a body-like form in the astral — lighter and less dense than the biological version, but still recognisable. This is the astral body, and it is what people see when they see a ghost.
The key principle is that death does not destroy the ego, the identity, or the awareness of a person. Who you are does not change at death. An evil person remains evil on the other side; a loving person remains loving. The biological body was only a perception filter — a device that restricted the soul's experience to the narrow bandwidth of five or six senses and the illusion of linear time. When that filter is removed, the soul continues to exist, to think, to feel, and to have preferences and attachments. It simply no longer has the dense biological interface that anchored it in the material frequency band.
This means ghosts have genders, personalities, and emotional states — because all of these are aspects of the self-concept the soul carried from life. They are not vague energy signatures or impersonal residues. They are people — dead people, but people nonetheless.
Why Ghosts Appear Where They Do
The material world and the astral world are not separate realities in the Cosmic Agency framework. They are different frequency bands of the same reality. What creates the apparent separation is the perception filter of the biological body (which restricts awareness to dense-matter frequencies) and the synchronisation mechanism of linear time (maintained by clocks, planetary cycles, and collective agreement about how time passes).
When this frequency gap narrows — when the vibration of a particular location drops low enough to approach the lower astral's range — the two realms begin to bleed into each other. This is why hauntings cluster in specific locations: old buildings with histories of suffering, sites of violent death, places where the accumulated emotional residue has lowered the ambient frequency. The stone and crystalline materials in old construction are programmable at a molecular level, Mari explains, and they retain the low-frequency imprint of what occurred there.
Lower astral entities — both ghosts and non-human entities — gravitate toward these low-frequency zones because the vibrational proximity allows them to interact more easily with the material side. They also gravitate toward energy sources: electrical currents, magnetic fields, and above all, living people whose own frequency is low enough to be compatible. This is why, as Mari puts it, bad living people are always infested with astral parasites, and why ghost encounters disproportionately occur in states of fear — because fear lowers frequency, narrowing the gap between the living person and the lower astral.
The Time Loop Illusion
One of the most distinctive claims in the material addresses a classic feature of ghost reports: the repetitive haunting, where a ghost is seen performing the same action — walking the same corridor, appearing at the same window — for years or even centuries. Swaruu of Erra describes this in transcript 062 as a frequency loop: the ghost, trapped in the emotional state of its death, manifests the same scene repeatedly because its consciousness is locked on that moment.
But Mari Swaruu in S-123 adds a crucial reframing. Time in the astral is not linear. There is no clock, no day-night cycle, no synchronising mechanism equivalent to what the living experience. A soul in the astral functions entirely within its own perceptual frame. This means that what appears from the living side as a ghost that has been haunting a location for decades may, from the ghost's perspective, be a single event — the soul passing through that location once during its transition process. The time loop exists only when viewed from the material side's linear time frame. From the ghost's side, there may be no loop at all.
This does not mean that all ghosts are simply in brief transition. Some souls, particularly those who died violently or in states of extreme emotional distress, do become genuinely fixated. Swaruu of Erra describes in 062 how a person who dies in a violent, unexpected way may not have enough time to realise they are dead. Their mind and manifestation strength may be powerful enough to keep them appearing alive to witnesses — talking, asking them to deliver messages — before their life energy dissipates into the astral. This initial confusion can extend into a prolonged state where the soul remains attached to the death site, processing what happened.
Ghosts vs. Entities: A Critical Distinction
Not everything people encounter as a ghost was once a living person. Mari draws a clear line between ghosts (astral bodies of formerly living beings) and entities (astral creatures that have never had a biological body of their own, or that exist as egregors — collective thought-form creations). Some evil entities are ghosts — meaning they are the astral remnants of people who were evil in life. But most lower astral entities are not ghosts at all. They are independently existing creatures of the astral realm, some of which are parasitic, feeding on the fear and suffering of living people.
These entities organise into clans and tribes — essentially street gangs of the lower astral — organised around a master figure, exploiting living people and animals for their energy. They set traps in low-frequency zones (dangerous road intersections with unusually high accident rates, for instance) and orchestrate events designed to generate fear, which they consume as sustenance.
Swaruu of Erra describes in transcript 062 how recently dead people, still in their astral bodies, can see these entity gangs and their activities clearly. Because the recently dead person retains human emotions — love for family, desire to protect — they sometimes use their astral position to warn or shield living loved ones from entity interference. This is the mechanism behind the concept of guardian ancestors. Our ancestors protect us from evil entities, Mari states, and we should honour them and love their memory because they are literally still with us.
The Lower Astral: Not a Place, a Frequency
Mari Swaruu in S-032 describes the lower astral as a caricature of the material world — a distorted, degraded copy. It is not a separate location but a frequency band. Souls that die in low-vibration states (fear, guilt, rage, despair) find themselves in this frequency band because that is what they match. The lower astral looks enough like the material world to be confusing — familiar places, recognisable features — but everything is slightly wrong, slightly off.
Swaruu of Erra in 062 adds that the lower astral is where souls go who die consumed by guilt or unresolved attachment. They manifest their own punishment there — not because an external force judges them, but because their own beliefs about what they deserve create the reality they experience. A person who believes in hell will experience something hellish. A person who believes they deserve punishment will manifest punishment.
The critical reassurance from all speakers is that no real soul — meaning a genuine fragment of Source with individual consciousness — gets permanently stuck in the lower astral. It may be there for a prolonged period while processing, but every real soul eventually returns to Source. The caveat "real soul" matters: entities that were never alive — egregors, tulpas, parasitic forms — can exist indefinitely in the lower astral because they do not have the Source connection that eventually pulls a real soul upward. This distinction between souls and entities is central to understanding why some hauntings seem to go on forever while others resolve.
Practical Implications: What Feeds a Ghost
Mari's treatment has a distinctly practical dimension. Your attention feeds ghosts — both good and bad — through the simple mechanism that thoughts are vibration and attention directs energy. Expecting to see a ghost literally calls it toward you, especially if your expectation is tinged with fear. Fear lowers your frequency toward the lower astral range and provides exactly the energy that parasitic entities feed on.
This also explains why ghost-hunting — approaching hauntings with cameras, excitement, and fear — tends to intensify paranormal activity rather than resolve it. The investigators are, in energetic terms, feeding the phenomenon they are trying to study.
Conversely, a person with high vibration, strong connection to Source, and no fear of the astral simply does not attract lower-astral attention. The entities cannot interact with someone whose frequency is too far above their range. This is why starseeds and spiritually developed people often report being aware of astral phenomena without being troubled by it — they can perceive it without being affected by it, because the frequency gap, while narrow enough for awareness, is too wide for the entities to bridge.
Evolution of Understanding Across Speakers
Swaruu of Erra (Swaruu 9) provides the foundational mechanics: ghosts as frequency loops created by traumatic or unresolved death, the afterlife as immediate manifestation of the soul's frequency, violent death creating fixation, lower astral as manifestation of guilt and fear, and the mechanism by which recently dead souls can see and interact with both the living and astral entities.
Mari Swaruu delivers the most comprehensive systematic treatment across S-122 and S-123: ghosts as astral bodies manifested by ongoing self-concept; the time-loop illusion explained through the mismatch between linear material time and non-linear astral time; the distinction between ghosts and entities; entity gang structures in the lower astral; ancestors as protectors; the role of building materials in retaining low frequency; and the practical principle that attention feeds ghosts. In S-032, she adds the "caricature world" description of the lower astral and the dual outcome at death (higher astral vs lower astral based on the soul's vibration).
Yazhi Swaruu contributes from transcript 386 the principle that the astral and physical are mutually generated — not separate realms but co-arising aspects of the same consciousness field — and that entities cluster at accident sites and places of suffering because these are points where the frequency barrier thins.
Key Transcript References
| Transcript | Speaker(s) | Key Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| S-122 | Mari Swaruu | Ghosts are real and detectable; systematic definition of ghost as astral body of formerly living person; thoughts become things — manifestation mechanics; biological body as perception filter; soul continues manifesting astral body after death based on self-concept attachments; no real soul permanently lost in lower astral |
| S-123 | Mari Swaruu | Death does not destroy ego/identity; time loop only exists from living side — astral has no linear time; violent death creates initial confusion and attachment to death site; evil people remain evil as ghosts; entity gangs in lower astral; ancestors as protectors; stone retains low frequency; attention feeds ghosts; inspiration literally means "in spirit" |
| S-032 | Mari Swaruu | Lower astral as caricature of material world; dual outcome at death — higher vs lower astral based on vibration; ghost as temporal anomaly from living perspective; soul-building purpose of incarnation |
| 062 | Swaruu of Erra (9) | Afterlife governed by law of mirrors; violent death creates ghost loops; recently dead can see entity movements; dead form alliances; Mega Death rituals exploit trapped souls; talking to dead through dreams is real contact |
| 063 | Swaruu of Erra (9) | Low vs high astral determined by soul frequency; NDE experiences vary by culture because beliefs generate afterlife reality; parasitic entities attach to vulnerable souls; children who die are old souls not innocents |
| 386 | Yazhi Swaruu | Astral and physical mutually generated; entities cluster at accident sites and suffering locations; shared vs individual astral experience |
| 224 | Yazhi Swaruu | Ego as egregor — constructed identity that survives death; world of the dead mirrors the living; no true separation between physical and astral realms |
| 173 | Yazhi Swaruu | Soul looping as cyclical pattern driven by unresolved frequency; not inherently negative from cosmic perspective; Source playing all characters |