Are Closets And Mirrors Portals For Spirits?

Hello Sunshine,

There are actually lots of issues in what you asked.

The human imagination is a wonderous thing – but, since humans create their reality, it can also lead to mischief.

Starting with mirrors – the mirror reflects the person who looks into it. While the figure copies the movements of the viewer, it is without the personality or emotions, regardless of the look on the face of the reflection. It is, or could be, an ‘alternative self’. Ancient people would wonder “What if this ‘self’ was real and living in another world, or dimension”.

A mirror reflects the room behind the person, so the question arose “what if the person in that other ‘room’ could step out of the mirror and change places with me and force me into its world”, “can I step through the mirror into its world (if they wanted to escape this one, or for some other reason)”? There are stories about events such as this from many cultures in ancient history. I know I have read at least one said to be a legend in ancient Rome.

In not-so-ancient times people believed that the spirit of the person could be captured in the mirror, which is why they would cover mirrors in the house of someone who had just passed over.

People still use reflective surfaces, such as pools of still water, and polished metal, to help focus their clairvoyance to show them ‘step into’ (psychically) the future or the past.

Not all mirrors are gates (vortexes, portals), some are simply reflective, but some have been imbued with the power of belief, by either someone very psychically (magically) strong, or by many people over hundreds of years (thinking mirrors in old houses that are handed down through families etc), and can ‘become’ a doorway, by the will of the living. Once the door is open, it can be closed, but the average person won’t be aware its open, so entities from the other ‘dimension’ can use it, in either direction .. particular if the opener uses it for astral travelling.

Windows – the reason mirrors are gates and windows are not, is that, even in the darkest night, you can still see ‘through’ the windows, and the reflections are often distorted by whatever light is behind you in the house. A mirror traps the image against the silver back and sends it back to us .. think an ‘in’ and then ‘out’ again loop of energy, like a swinging door.

And there are far less demons than people imagine. They don’t need portals to travel through if they are already on this plane. A living person is more likely to be ‘possessed’ by a ghost than a demon. It is not true possession, just attachment and influence. And just because a mirror is a portal does not mean that some entity is going to be hanging around on the other side waiting to leap through and haunt/grab the living, as you wrote, if that were so, more people would have trouble with hauntings, and other nastier experiences.

How does it work .. belief creates a door .. but .. it takes a lot of strength of belief to do so. It doesn’t usually happen at the first vague thought.

Love & Peace
Ama