Hello George,

You asked,
When spirit beings in the afterlife make reference to the Holy Spirit are they talking about god? In short, who is the Holy Spirit?

Yes, they refer to the Holy Spirit often. Understand that most of those who came through in the Leslie Flint séances were English, so they came out of a Judeo-Christian perspective. The vocabulary they used was Judeo-Christian. The English Bible refers to the Holy Ghost in modern English. It came from the Anglo Saxon, hālig gāst, a translation of Latin spīritus sānctus. So "Holy Ghost" is just a name that has changed over the centuries.

Because Christianity is so thoroughly steeped in anthropomorphic images because man created God the Father in his own image, we can't really use Holy Ghost without thinking of a man, either Jesus (mistranslated from Yeshua) or God the Father. But we really have to get rid of those old images of God's being a man living in the sky with all the anatomy of a male. And we need to stop thinking of the Holy Ghost as somehow being the spirit of that man or his equally human son, Jesus Christ.

Those on the next plane of life sometimes do refer to God the Father, but also only because that's the common Western Judeo-Christian vocabulary for God. They describe God as a force, not a man, and they insist that Jesus (Yeshua) was entirely a man, with unusual abilities and an unusual mission to bring the truth about humankind, the Higher Power, the afterlife, and the universe to man. He was not God, but he was a celestial man.

Those on the next plane of life explain that the Higher Power is the creative force behind all that exists in the physical realm and all the millions of planes and spheres in the spiritual realm. As Amit Goswami, the quantum physicist says, "There is nothing but God."

So when the speakers on the next plane of life refer to the Holy Ghost, they're using the standard Judeo-Christian vocabulary to refer to the Higher Power, the creative force that is behind all, is in all, and is all. We are able to avail ourselves of the power of this energy or force, if we just have faith and high spiritual motives. The Power of the Holy Spirit means the force or energy that is available to all of us if we just turn away from the physical realm and relax into allowing the Higher Power to provide the energy, vitality, love, and optimism that is available to us. Then, the Holy Spirit, this energy, will work miracles in our lives.

We are instruments of the Higher Power or Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit works through us and through those on the next plane of life, including loved ones and guides, who are always endeavoring to help us live happy, productive lives in which we grow spiritually. We just have to be like little children, open to the influence and guidance. The spirit of the Divine, the Holy Spirit, will then work in our lives and give us guidance.

The power of the Holy Spirit is available to all of us if we just accept it.

Love and peace, Craig