I never thought of it in those terms, but YES! The analogy is perfect! lolI feel there is a difference between sensitive people observing and reporting and investigators contacting and opening up another realm constantly. Like door to door salesmen, after a while you don't bother answering the door.
How do you identify portals and how do you know when they’ve crossed over. I know different investigators may answer differently. I’m interested in your process and thoughts.Every location is different. Some spirits seem to relish attention, some shun it.
Respect is paramount. Shown respect, I believe that the vast majority of intelligent entities will reciprocate with respect. We do not provoke or taunt, ever. Those are tactics used by showmen and entertainers, not serious investigators.
When we do residential investigations, we try to encourage all interested spirits to cross-over. Most take advantage of our assistance and cross. Not all. But we actually shut-down some hauntings as a result. If there is a portal in the building that we can't close or are advised to not close by spirit guides, then of course it can start anew with new spirits.
Thanks for the explanation.I can only answer for myself Lynne. My gift is that I can feel portal and spirit energy. I can tell when I'm standing in a portal or next to one. I have only been developing my ability for not even a year. I have a long way to grow.
The better sensitives in our group conduct crossings. They can hear the dead much more clearly than I. I rarely hear voices- actually it's more like a thought in my head than an actual voice, but the effect is similar- but they can hear and "see" them with their third eye much better than I. A couple of them have excellent communication channels with their spirit guides, who inform them of details they can't detect.
But I feel the spirits when they walk by, or crowd around me, as they did Saturday night. The energy of an intelligent being is different from portal energy. Again, hard for me to describe, I am sorry.