An apparent dichotomy?

Goran wrote:

mac wrote:The 'ghost' debate is one currently active elsewhere and to which I've been a recent contributor.  The terms mentioned - 'ghost' and 'earthbound' - were brought up there too with a discussion about the customary confusion experienced without there being a clear and widely-accepted definition of the words/terms.

In response to Goran, I'm firmly in the reincarnation camp but do not see it has any relevance to ghosts or eathbounds....  A major stumbling block (I've found) is the holding of rigid - and probably misleading - notions concerning reincarnation.  Sadly there's not a lot of guidance from Spiritualist philosophy about it.

So if one accepts reincarnation (and the law of karma that powers it) as fact, how does one explain the existence of so many earthbound spirits? Since my face-to-face, I have been delving into the subject of ghosts, and there are simply too many occurrences for what I have been taught about reincarnation to explain. Between the hundreds of books I have read, TV mediums ('Dead Files'), etc., there are just too many ghosts documented for this phenomena to be called a rare event. Reincarnation cannot be the nearly inescapable process that Indian mysticism claims it is.