SACRED SPIRITS     

In many parts of the world, GHOSTS are a fact of life. In China the  dead are understood to co-exist with the living, a belief which gave rise to the practice of ancestor worship.
In South America, the deceased are honored with annual festivals known as the Day of the Dead which give as the idea that the material world of the living and the spirit world of the dead share their existence.
In the Eastern and Asiatic religions it is believed that death is not the end, but simply a transition from one state of being to another.
In the Scriptures the dead are shown to be "CONSCIOUS OF NOTHING AT ALL." In both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures death is likened to sleep with the hope of an awakening through the resurrection. The ancestors are related to the world of the living in a way that we harvest from them the choices they took either good collecting blessings or evil collecting curses. We are being given free choice and by heart we have to decide which way to go. Being alive in the material world but dead in the spirit is what we need to understand by the language of the heart.
Read this passage in the Scriptures.
Deuteronomy 30 : 1 - 19     "I have NOW given you A CHOICE between a BLESSING and a CURSE. When ALL THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED TO YOU, and you are LIVING AMONG THE NATIONS where the LORD YOUR GOD has SCATTERED YOU, you will REMEMBER THE CHOICE I gave you. If YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS will TURN BACK TO THE LORD and WITH ALL YOUR HEART OBEY HIS COMMANDS that I am giving you today, then THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL HAVE MERCY ON YOU. He will BRING YOU BACK from the nations where He has scattered you, and He will MAKE YOU PROSPEROUS AGAIN. Even if you are scattered the farthest corners of the earth, the Lord your God will gather you together and bring you back, so that YOU MAY AGAIN TAKE POSSESSION OF THE LAND WHERE YOUR ANCESTORS ONCE LIVED. AND He WILL MAKE YOU MORE PROSPEROUS AND MORE NUMEROUS THAN YOUR ANCESTORS EVER WERE.  The Lord your God WILL GIVE YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS OBEDIENT HEARTS, so that YOU WILL LOVE HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART, and you will continue to live IN THAT LAND. ......He will be as glad to make you PROSPEROUS AS HE WAS TO MAKE YOUR ANCESTORS PROSPEROUS, but you will have to OBEY HIM and KEEP ALL HIS LAWS that are written in this book of his teachings. YOU WILL HAVE TO TURN TO HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART. The command that I am giving you TODAY is not difficult or beyond you reach..... TODAY I AM GIVING YOU A CHOICE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.   ...But IF YOU DISOBEY AND REFUSE TO LISTEN, and are led away to worship other gods, YOU WILL BE DESTROYED - I WARN YOU HERE AND NOW. You will not live long in that land across the Jordan that you are about to occupy. I AM NOW GIVING YOU THE CHOICE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, BETWEEN GOD's BLESSING and GOD's CURSE, and I CALL HEAVEN and EARTH TO WITNESS THE CHOICE you make. CHOOSE LIFE."

The fact in this passage is that our spirit has to be in communion to the ONE who is representing us in the invisible world. If we fail to follow the commands already taught to our ancestors then we will suffer the consequences applied to our soul's eternity.