Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Entities
-- Managing and Removing Them

Introduction

This account started off as part of my page Night Terrors and Hearing Voices, but as that section expanded it seemed more appropriate to present it separately so that it could be more easily linked to and found in Web searches - especially as it is not specific to people with night terrors or hearing voices issues, and indeed most of it is applicable to earthbound spirit attachments and other types of interfering entity as well as astral entities (also known as 'astral beings' or 'astral entities', and actually including what many would regard as demons and other 'demonic' entities).

For more about astral entities please see my articles Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Entities - My Own Experience and Interference and Attacks From Astral ('Dark') Entities.

Most of what appears below is based on my own experience with astral entities plus my observations of their affecting others (and some information from other affected people). If you have information on removing or managing troublesome entities that isn't already covered here, please feel free to let me know about it, and, if I consider it appropriate I will add it to this page.

I expect to quite frequently add to the information below, so if you are interested it is well worth periodically revisiting this page.

Some prerequisites for fully addressing your astral entities problem

The following is not an exhaustive list; I may add some further items to this list.

• You need to be clear that you really do want to be free from the entities. Many people believe that they want to be free from their entities (and on the surface may be desperate to get rid of them), but actually are unwilling to embrace such radical positive change in their lives. Such people are unlikely to get much clearance of their entity interferences.

  However, although this is generally true, if you are using self realization methodology like what I present in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way, it is much less critical about having a specific intent to be free from entities (assuming that at least you are at least being serious about your ongoing use of the methods for overall life improvement), and indeed such methodology would progressively clear any entities and their interferences whether or not you acknowledged even their existence. However, a specific, deeply felt intent to be free of entities would assist and thus speed up the process.

• Discontinue or keep consistently clear of all mind-affecting drugs, including alcohol and tobacco products and the various so-called recreational drugs, including cannabis and psychedelic drugs. That is extremely important, for they muck up your non-physical aspects as well as your body, and make you much more vulnerable to the entities - hence astral entities seeking to get people into use of these drugs and indeed other substance misuse such as glue sniffing. Although probably not essential, it would be a good move even to get fully clear of caffeine, for every dependency or attachment of yours to some extent supports the hold of astral entities on you.

• If you have a significantly codependent or abusive relationship, it would be greatly helpful for you to resolve the issue (with emotional clearance methods - see below) or simply get out of the relationship. Holding onto such relationships, with all their emotional attachment and power / control issues, makes it very difficult to get rid of astral entities.

• Discontinue or keep clear of all 'dark' practices or preoccupations, even if it means letting go of friends, partner, etc. As you align more fully with the positivity of your own core essence you would gain new friends anyway, who would be more supportive of your new, more positive direction.

• Keep as clear as possible from covert astral or 'dark' influences - such as connections or preoccupations with so-called ascended masters, guides, angels, archangels, gods and goddesses. Their given identities are generally - apparently always - inventions of the astral forces ('the dark side'), and so even believing in them or associating with them in any way increases the astral entities' hold on you. If you want to invoke a fully pure and positive energy, e.g. for hands-on healing* (of yourself or others), simply visualize the energies from your own core star (a point source deep in your 'middle') expanding outward in all directions, and trust them to carry out whatever healing or energy clearance is appropriate at that time. Basically, let go of any notions of an external non-physical reality and focus deep within yourself instead.

  * You can read more about such healing in Healing From Our Core Essence.

• Do not attempt to channel or dowse (i.e. gaining guidance or information from non-physical sources) - however tempting it may seem. That is one of the prime means by which entities gain or retain a hold on people. If you do channel or dowse, the information you receive is bound to contain distortions introduced by the astral entities, or to be altogether from them posing as a higher source, and the moment you accept any such communications, what you are doing is tacitly accepting the entities' interference, which is pointing you away from a full commitment to be free of it.

• Avoid readings from mediums and channels, and keep clear of any channelled information or messages that you may encounter anywhere. Any reliance on channelled information - no matter what its purported source - increases the hold of astral entities on you, quite apart from such information very likely containing distortions of the truth which would in some way(s) be problematical for you. It's best also to keep clear of astrology, numerology and divining (such as with Tarot, I Ching, runes or so-called angel cards), which are all, covertly or openly, used in various ways by the astral forces to manipulate people.

• Avoid use of symbols (including Reiki ones and even the most hallowed ones such as the OM) or so-called sacred geometry; these are potent in increasing one's astral connections.

• Keep a clear and consistent resolve to align only with the positivity and clarity of your own core essence - being clear that this is effectively 'the Ultimate'. Any apparent higher being can't be anything other than lesser that 'the Ultimate' which your own core essence and deepest nature is, so needs to be ignored.

• Take up appropriate fast-track methods for clearance of emotional issues and accumulated effects of all manner of environmental stresses (more about such methods below) and strengthening all your non-physical aspects, and use these methods on yourself regularly in an ongoing manner to progressively weaken and clear all your emotional issues and accumulated effects of environmental stress, and thus 'squeeze out' any attached or otherwise interfering entities.

• Keep a very open mind about the true nature of the entity manifestations, and let go of belief in any 'external' reality involving them. Although for healing purposes they may be treated as external entities, it's best as soon as possible to cultivate the dissolution of the whole 'entities' mindset through progressively opening to your own core essence (your deepest nature, which is 'the Ultimate') and expanding it from your core through your whole being and indeed to apparently fill all of Existence.

Means to remove troublesome entities

There is a huge variety of methods which people use to try to address this issue, but actually virtually none of those methods works well, if at all. True, quite often particular obvious problems caused by entities may reduce or cease after a healing or exorcism to remove entities, but actually the normal main problem is astral entities, and they cannot be sent off in that way. So, when astral entities do seem to have been sent off, it's virtually certain that nothing of the kind has really happened and for their own purposes they have chosen to deceive both healer and the recipient of the healing, making them think the entities have been cleared off when actually they are still fully present but just keeping a lower profile and interfering more covertly. I've had all these tricks played on me, so I speak from experience - and I've seen massive signs of continuing but more covert entity interference in virtually everyone who's claimed to me to have had their own troublesome entities removed, and now to be free from entities.

Indeed, I have come to the understanding that although 'spirit attachments' (which are discarnate human consciousnesses in various types of predicament), partial walk-ins and parasitic 'lost' souls can be sent off (although, generally speaking, they require quite a bit of self realization / emotional clearance work before they can be dislodged), astral entities are a different matter and cannot be sent off at all in the way that almost all healers and 'lightworkers' believe they can. For astral entities, it appears that the name of our game is to use various self realization methods to build up and strengthen all our non-physical aspects to such an extent that we simply progressively fade the entities out of our life experience, so that we eventually become invulnerable to their interferences (as far as one can tell; vigilance would always be required) while never knowing for sure whether or not they have actually gone or are still hanging around and waiting for any apparent opportunity still  for them to interfere.

Please note that most healers and psychics cannot 'see' astral entities, and those who do are not truly seeing them but are being shown representations of them, by none other than astral entities pretending to be the person's own 'higher' perception. Thus they are being shown only what the entities want them to see - NOT what is actually there. This is thus an area replete with deception and misunderstandings.

Caution
Generally speaking, it is highly problematical for one person to attempt to remove entities from another person, because of the almost certain astral ('dark side') involvements in working in that way. However, I do know methods to do this*, which, if carried out by appropriate people who are also using the particular method daily on themselves, along with other daily self realization practices / methods, appears to be genuinely safe, and, if used sparingly and with great discretion, would be strengthening and healing for the practitioner rather than accumulating problems as virtually all other methods I know of do.

* It can be done with moderate effectiveness by use of the healing devices called the Guardian Angel and Energy Egg, but is much more effectively done with the Clarity-Sphere.

However, even with this latter method, it is important in any attempted entity removal work on other people to ensure, through energy testing, that each prospective session of such work would actually be strengthening for oneself, and not to proceed if the testing indicates that it would not be a strengthening thing to do at that time.

I had listed below a variety of means for entity removal, some I now understand to be useless or worse, and some genuinely useful. Now that I have new and much more focused pages on healing from one's core essence, and true self realization, that is where I now have cause to direct you for the reliable and safe means to clear out entities and their interferences - so the listing below is now cut right down to two items, so simplifying things no end!

However, first I draw to your attention one particular method that can be common to pretty well everything else that I recommend, and that is, use of the Clarity-Sphere. My own experience strongly points to the Clarity-Sphere as being by far the most powerful and comprehensive foundation for any entity clearance strategy that I have yet come across.

The two (actually very much interrelated) main prongs, then, of a strategy to clear your entities are:

• Self realization (including clearance of one's emotional issues, stresses and traumas) is the only basic process which really works for astral entities and is truly safe for clearing other types of entity. Even then, most available supposed self realization methods have limits on their usefulness because of astral-sourced distortions that weaken them.

  However, on this site I present methods, almost all of which I have been using myself, which, if used with care and awareness, both clear your emotional issues and build up the strength of your non-physical aspects so as to progressively 'squeeze out' any entities, whether they are attached to you or are interfering by more remote means. Included is a method for actually sending off any spirit attachments (earthbound spirits or discarnate human consciousnesses) and parasitic 'lost' souls once the other practices have sufficiently weakened their hold on you, and to help speed the process of 'fading out' the interferences from the astral beings, which, I now understand, actually cannot be sent off 'bodily' as can the other types of entity.

  For a starting point to examine your options, I recommend either The Guide to Complete Self Realization or Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way. Either of these pages will give you links to the other relevant ones.

• Eliminating environmental stresses. We are ALL subject to environmental stresses (ES), whether we are aware of them or not, and they cause a progressive accumulation of distortions and weaknesses in our non-physical aspects, which in the long term (and in some cases pretty well immediately) impinge seriously upon our health. Particular environmental stresses make many people much more vulnerable to astral entities. Therefore, even if no other self realization and entity removal measures were taken, usually a distinct reduction in the strength of the noticeable interferences, and in some cases apparent elimination of them altogether, results from elimination of the offending stress(es).

  To give an idea of the sorts of things that may have such an effect, let's mention my own situation. When I did the appropriate energy testing in late 2007 (shutting the door after the main horse had bolted, though), I found that a particular type of lampshade that I had for the two room lights in my living room and for the one room light in my bedroom were particular offenders - all the more so as quite some time ago I'd scratched onto their plastic the so-called Am Re symbol which had been channelled to me by astral entities posing as a higher source. This was adding a definite astral-connecting element to the environmental stress effects from those lampshades.

  Then, once I'd removed those lampshades I did further energy testing, which led me to my kitchen, where I found that I was getting particular environmental stresses which were aggravating my astral entity interferences, from three main sources: the fridge-freezer, the central heating boiler, and the microwave oven. The former two were inherently stressful for me by their very presence, whereas the microwave was not significantly stressful for me in itself, but was having a stressful effect because it was in an unharmonious position. Unfortunately there was no practical alternative to its particular placing.

  I was able to virtually eliminate all those stresses as follows. For the fridge-freezer and boiler I simply took my Energy Egg (already energetically connected to the space-clearing device called the Guardian Angel), and, while looking at the respective items and holding the Energy Egg with all my fingertips, I did three 'weaving blows' on the Egg to tune it to the particular stress and thus enable my own energy system to adapt to the particular energy so that it was no longer stressful for me. I also did the same for the microwave, but the beneficial effect was only partial, because 'wrong location' stress cannot be fully eliminated by the Energy Egg and Guardian Angel.

  Next, I used energy testing to find out how I might eliminate the remains of the 'wrong location' stress from the microwave. I found that putting a particular potted smallish house plant on top of the microwave virtually eliminated the part of the stress which had been aggravating the entities issue, but left largely intact some other parts of the stress, which would have been impacting adversely upon me in other ways. Further energy testing and experimentation led to my placing a particular sphere of verdite (on its little wooden stand, for stability) on the microwave instead of the plant, and this apparently virtually eliminated all the stress I'd been receiving from it which was not already being eliminated by the combination of Energy Egg and Guardian Angel. Furthermore, I found that at least one major stressful item in my living room (the music peripherals next to my computer - 'wrong location' stress again) was considerably less stressful (though still with some significant elements of stress) once that verdite sphere was on the microwave.

  You can find out more about environmental stress elimination and the Energy Egg and Guardian Angel, and the much superior Clarity-Sphere,  in The Clarity-Sphere - 'The Ultimate' Healing Tool.

Some of the purported entity removal options to AVOID

• Shamanic healings (astral forces ALWAYS involved)
• Exorcisms (astral forces ALWAYS involved)
• Taking on a belief (e.g. in Jesus or God) (astral forces ALWAYS involved)
• Invoking supposed higher beings such as Archangel Michael (astral forces ALWAYS involved)
• Specialist healers and 'lightworkers' (astral forces ALWAYS involved, with one qualification) - Various such healers genuinely believe that they are clear of astral interference and influence, but in my experience so far they are ALL mistaken about that. A healer who is truly clear of astral involvement would not be offering to directly remove entities from people (except for the relatively uncommon matter of earthbound spirit attachments) and would point you to your own self realization as the real solution. Even in the case of earthbound spirit attachments, the primary solution, which ensures that you don't go picking up any more of those, is still your own self realization.
• Methods involving hypnosis (astral forces ALWAYS involved) - All hypnosis is seriously ungrounding to your awareness and thus increases your vulnerability to astral entities and tends to impair your motivation for true self realization. There is always an astral-sourced control agenda operating in people who choose to use hypnosis as one of their methods, and many of them actually tend to pass on new troublesome entities or related problems to their clients.
• Use of mantras, symbols or sacred geometry (astral forces ALWAYS involved, and the latter in particular is extremely harmful)
• Use of crystals or healing devices other than those which I unequivocally recommend (ineffective and also harmful to the person's non-physical aspects, so making them MORE vulnerable to entities)
• Formal meditation sessions (astral forces ALWAYS involved when meditation is used supposedly for this purpose) - Also, meditation is ungrounding, which is just what you don't need if you want to get clear of entities.
• Rituals of any kind (astral forces ALWAYS involved) - though these need to be distinguished from various yogic or energy-active practices for self healing, some of which* are very helpful indeed towards clearing of entities and their interferences (while others such as Sahaja Yoga are decidedly harmful despite their usual superficial appearance of benignness).
  

  * For example, practices pointed to in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Removing 'self made demons'

I briefly explain about 'self created entities', which could also be described as 'self made demons', in Interference and Attacks From Astral ('Dark') Entities. The self realization methods which I present on this site all assist in the steady and often speedy dissolution of these. As with removal of 'real' entities, and probably even more so, the process would be greatly assisted by daily or at least very frequent use of the set of affirmations which you can find in The Guide to Complete Self Realization, and by the use of particular procedures such as Grounding Post for assisting the dissolution of thought forms (which are the true nature of the 'self created entities').

...And then, Soul Retrieval?

It is widely believed among healers in many traditions that a soul retrieval healing is generally necessary after removing certain types of entity - especially earthbound spirit attachments. That would also give the opportunity for the retrieval of soul fragments which were already able to be retrieved before the entity removal rendered the retrieval of further fragments possible.

The rationale of this is that soul retrieval is necessary because a spirit attachment (or certain other types of entity) occupies a space in your energy system where a part of your non-physical aspect has been displaced and separated off. When the spirit attachment is released and sent away to its proper place, a void is left in your non-physical aspect which would readily attract in another problematical entity. It is therefore important to draw back in the separated-off part of yourself and re-integrate it in your system. That not only prevents another entity from attaching to you but also brings about an increase in your wellbeing. After a successful soul retrieval you would most likely feel much happier and more 'present' and more centred and grounded than before.

Soul retrieval, then, is clearly a Good Thing. So, you need to have, or carry out on yourself, soul retrieval healings as part of your entity clearance process, right?

Well, actually no - unless, maybe, you've had one of the 'best-to-avoid' types of entity removal healing which I've listed further above. The only reason for needing assistance in soul retrieval (which is actually a natural process) is that your interfering astral entities would obstruct the process if you were not well grounded at the time of the entity removal (or even a major emotional clearance), so that if it's going to occur at all at that time it has to be forced.

If you use properly grounding methods for self realization and entity clearance, as I've pointed to above, then the astral entities cannot interfere in that particular process, at least to any great extent, and so it occurs spontaneously, speedily and smoothly.

The one bit of assistance for the process which you can usefully give is simply by having a clear intent that it should occur for you. This is facilitated by the relevant entry in the set of affirmations which you can find in The Guide to Complete Self Realization.

Management options - Management for MASTERY, not just Coping!

Please note that I emphasize 'management' and 'mastery' and not the popular expression 'coping strategies'. In the mental health services we often hear about 'coping strategies' for 'hearing voices' or other mental health issues, but that's not about true healing and is really just a policy of 'managed defeat'. When I talk of 'management' of the entities and their interferences I mean an active and positive healing and empowerment approach aimed to minimize their negative impact and eventually get rid of the pestilences altogether, and which also makes you immensely stronger and wiser and more able to enjoy life without having to wait for your little nuisances to go.

For example, mental healthcare workers involved with their 'patient' Tim Bawlscroper may consider that they have achieved real healing and something of a cure for him because they've got him more or less no longer seeing demons and angels, by means of a combination of what they've found to be the 'best' medication for him and getting him to go out to a friend's most evenings to watch television, and to take up stamp collecting, instead of moping on his own at home. But in real terms what they have done for him is in important respects worse than useless, because they've just sought to get him more comfortable within his continuing very serious predicament, so that any motivation of his for true self realization (and getting really clear of his entities issue) is still further occluded. That is what 'coping strategies' are largely about, and true healing and self realization is one thing they are never about.

Management of the entities
(i.e. MASTERY of your situation!)

• Non-interaction. Non-interaction with these entities is crucial. For the person to interact with them is to give them power over him. Some people find that if the beings are repeatedly told to go away they appear to do so, but, to my understanding, it is unlikely in the extreme that ANY entity would really go away because you told it to; almost certainly, in just about every such case the particular entities have simply changed tactics to keep a low profile and make the person think they've gone, when in fact they're still there and covertly still interfering to control the person.

  Indeed, keeping on telling the beings to go away is stressful if in fact they don't go away or they keep returning, and this stress then provides them with emotional energy 'hooks' which they can grab in order to launch attacks. "Total ignoring is therefore best if one can manage to do this"*.

  * It's important here to clarify that I do NOT mean going into denial. It's actually best to keep as aware as possible of the beings' interferences, but not actually dwelling upon them or getting emotionally involved or wound up about them, and if possible not to allow yourself to 'see' or interact with them. That way you can maintain and increase your awareness of any ways they are trying to control you, and then to resist or, better, sidestep those attempts. (Resistance implies a certain degree of engagement with the entities, which is why a light-hearted but grounded side-stepping and simply doing something different is preferable wherever possible.)

  In my case the entities had been too intrusive to ignore, but rather than tell them to go away (which didn't work) I developed active and even proactive strategies as I enumerate below - but letting go of all that interactiveness as soon as my self realization process had advanced sufficiently that the entities' intrusions were much less distracting and 'aware ignoring' became a workable option.

• Do not attempt to dowse or channel or listen for inner guidance (AT ALL!). As long as you do, you are allowing the entities to manipulate you, and you are actually keeping them in some degree in control of you. The point here is that, as explained in Better Without Channelling, it is astral entities which relay to us any potentially useful information from our deepest aspects, and it is also they which present themselves (with such information from your deepest aspects) as supposedly higher beings such as guides, ascended masters, angels and archangels. ANY channelling or seeking inner 'guidance' therefore puts you into or keeps you in the power of the astral entities.

  The only inner guidance that is reasonably safe to heed at all is your own deepest intuition and good sense. I learnt the hard way that trying to get channelled information or 'guidance' from any seeminlgly external source just helps perpetuate the situation with the entities.

  If, like me, you have already been dowsing and channelling, please do not despair. All that's necessary is to shut down on that with determination. If you slip up and let something through, just distance yourself from it and resume your embargo. I found that, to make that transition to not channelling at all, a mental 'image' of a sort of 'energy cotton wool' filling all my inner communication channels (whether from supposedly high or low sources) considerably helped. However, if you are using self realization methods as effective as the methodologies given in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way, your awareness would rapidly be getting more grounded and it would soon come naturally to ignore all apparently external entities or 'sources'.

  However, there is a way that you can still, with great care and vigilance, get certain types of information from your deepest aspects, which can take you forward powerfully in your self realization, and that is energy testing. In its less advanced forms it could be described as a particular form of dowsing specially configured to be able to bypass entity involvement, provided you use it with care, rigour and vigilance. In its more advanced form it is not so much a testing method as actual direct energy awareness (but grounded, and so nothing do do with what people usually think of as psychic perceptions) and openness to receipt of data directly from one's deepest aspects.

• If you feel you must 'say' anything at all to the entities (there is actually no true need to do so), 'speak' as far as possible only in the third person, i.e. so that you are communicating not to them but to yourself about them. That is because to 'speak' directly to the entities gives them more power over you than if you communicate indirectly. For example, when I was taunting the astral entities around me, I'd commonly 'say' something like "Is my little Tiddly Widdly Widdles enjoying themselves?" (with a thundered NO! in response), rather than "Are you enjoying yourselves?". It is far less empowering to them if you direct your thoughts so that you seem to be communicating to yourself and not to them. They're so intrusive that they answer all the same, and so any apparently necessary dialogue can still proceed like that.

  An important point here too is that the more you keep any communications directed to yourself rather than anything apparently external, the more you are beginning to build up a direct communication pathway with your own deepest aspects, which in time would be weakening the interferences and making it increasingly possible to get direct communications from within (whether or not they be verbal ones). However, there's no point in actually asking questions of your deepest aspects, for the entities would at once intrude and present their own versions of any such answers to you, and you'd still be in the realm of channelling.

• Orders and instructions are to be disregarded without question at all times! If the entities give instructions, or instructions just arise in one's mind, then it is important for the affected person to understand that such instructions - even quite benign-seeming ones which appear to be good guidance - are for ignoring or disobeying despite any threats or coercive attacks that may be made. Any interfering entities thrive on every hint of power they have over a person, even when seemingly only symbolic, and every non-compliance with their wishes or instructions adds to their disempowerment. Such non-compliance needs to be done with a positive, light-hearted, good humoured or even joyful outlook, for the entities thrive on seriousness and indeed grimness. Another thing they thrive on is defensiveness, for that is living in fear, and that is just what the entities seek to have you doing. Learn to think 'No!' with a twinkle in the eye, a smile or indeed a laugh. Let your 'no' be felt not so much as a defence for you but as a positive gift for it or them. (It IS actually a gift to them, for it is a further tiny step towards their transforming into positive energy.)

• Train yourself to regard the entities as just bits of rogue thought form programming and not real conscious beings at all. We have no means of knowing for sure what is the true nature of astral entities, and it is important that we don't hold an actual belief that they are one thing or another, but I myself am finding that it is extremely beneficial to live with a working assumption (rather than a 'this is Truth' type of belief) that astral entities of any kind are nothing more than rogue programming. I explain about this in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.
  

  My own experience in using this approach is that rapidly the entities became easier to ignore and not to engage with, and indeed their intrusions became noticeably weaker and less consequential, and I felt altogether less threatened and constrained by them and their activities. I think the point here is that the whole programming of the 'astral forces' or 'dark forces' relies for its effectiveness upon its not being seen for what it really is, so when its cover is properly 'blown', it simply cannot function properly, and theoretically could actually start dissolving.

  Although on the face of it this applies only to astral entities and not the various extremely troublesome types of 'spirit attachment' (including partial walk-ins), a helpful working assumption to keep in mind in the latter cases is that the 'lost' human consciousness involved is in itself benign but is being driven to its negative and harmful behaviour by - yes, you've guessed! - bits of rogue programming (thought forms) in the astral sub-reality of illusion and delusion. In other words, it is empowering for the affected person to cultivate a perception that the harmful forces affecting them are NOT coming from any actual malevolent awarely conscious beings (which I suspect actually do not exist), but are from completely unaware rogue programming which you can progressively dissolve (at least, as far as concerns yourself).

• Use the Grounding Post procedure or/and and Clarity-Sphere to dissolve particular thought forms. This follows from the last item. I have established that the astral entities cultivate thought forms in many people's minds, which cause them to automatically interpret the astral interferences as being from real conscious beings, because that gives them a lot of power then to behave as though they are actual beings, and it makes them seem much more intrusive and intimidating. If you dissolve those thought forms, it would be much easier not to perceive the entities as being other than just bits of rogue programming in the astral sub-reality of illusion and delusion - so greatly disempowering the entities.

• Let go of all addictions and mind affecting substances. Any interfering entities, but especially the astral beings and many earthbound spirit attachments, encourage people's addictive tendencies and behaviours, including sexual ones, in order to get the people more ungrounded and have less command of themselves and thus being more in the entities' power. Therefore through letting go of such addictions you help reduce the entities' control and power over you. Smoking (of anything) and ALL use of alcohol (even only occasional modest drinks) is definitely included here. Although the following isn't top priority, even cutting out caffeine (tea, coffee, Coke and other caffeine- or stimulant-containing beverages) would help, as even that very socially accepted and supposedly benign addiction (okay, call it a habit if you like!) helps a bit to empower the entities and disempower you against them.

  Please refer to Letting Go of Addictions and Compulsive Behaviours, where I write more on this issue and point in the appropriate directions for means to do that letting go.

• Poke fun at the entities in disempowering ways - "Mickey Mouse is mighty, but Tiddles is just Tiddles!" I considerably changed the balance of power in my favour by consistently poking fun at the entities and laughing at their antics and attempts at menacing bluster. It took a steady nerve and a will to ride out the various attacks which the entities put upon me initially, allegedly in retaliation. I came to collectively call the entities Tiddles (and other belittling variants of that) all the time and lovingly tease and taunt them, which made them put on a show of great anger*.

  * At the time I thought the anger was genuine, but nowadays I'm sure that that wasn't so; they simply put on whatever show happens to fit their agenda of seeking control over you.

  That might sound dangerous, but actually their show of supposed anger is a good sign that you are threatening their status of supposed power over you and that they are in some difficulty with you, even though the angry display is not a genuine emotional response at all. As long as the person laughs at their display of anger and doesn't allow himself to be intimidated by it, then this is a joyful and positive path to follow, even though in my case it got me some notionally retaliatory attacks which I had to ride out. (I say "notionally" because I'm sure that the entities would have attacked anyway, so that I would not have got off any lighter through not being confrontational in this manner.)

  I give a lot of additional suggestions for actively disempowering the entities on my page Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Entities - My Own Experience (see especially Appendix 2).

  I gently remind again, though, that the ultimate aim needs to be to get to the point of being able to get on with life without interacting with the entities at all.

• The 'Energy Egg' - a personal environmental stress eliminator, which strengthens you against negative effects from any entities.

  If my impression of the Energy Egg is correct, it would be extremely valuable for anyone with any sort of entity problem.

  I bought one of these, complete with transmitter, in July 2006, and within a few days it was seeming as though my steady increase in peaceful happiness and deep inner power which was already being brought about by my ongoing use of The Work had dramatically accelerated. I later obtained and started using a related device called the Guardian Angel (not to be confused with non-physical entities which have been so (mis)named), which is a space environmental stress eliminator.

  The Energy Egg is claimed to steadily disperse one's lifelong accumulation of environmental stress, and the negative energy effects of non-physical entities is included in the egg's 'remit'. My own experience with the 'egg' was so dramatic in this respect that I purchased a second one and a Guardian Angel in order to have a massively swift retrospective process of clearance of all the negative effects on my energy system of the entities as well as of people and all other negative influences.

  I was very sceptical when first introduced to the Energy Egg, and was convinced to buy one only after apparently conclusive muscle testing demonstrated the dramatic positive effect of having one of these attuned and energetically connected with oneself. Because of the nature of this device, it will be dismissed as a con by all people who espouse the materialist-reductionist belief system. I, however, keeping an open mind, speak from experience and not belief. More about these devices in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

• The Clarity-Sphere™ - This has all the functionality of the Energy Egg and Guardian Angel (mentioned above), plus a great deal more, to make it the most comprehensive and powerful tool for self healing, self realization and entity clearance that I know of. The Clarity-Sphere progressively strengthens you powerfully against all entities, by a process of healing all weaknesses in your non-physical aspects, whether they be caused by environmental stress, emotional issues or anything else. When very simple procedures given in the Sphere's User Guide are used regularly with it, it even begins to heal any attached entities (though astral entities, which do not attach and which, as far as I can tell, are not true beings at all, apparently cannot be healed; they can only be progressively dissolved).

• Improved lighting in your living space. Dim, and especially tungsten lighting - and indeed candles, which latter are often used because of their supposed spiritual associations, encourage negative and depressive feelings and outlooks, and both by that means as well as directly are favoured by problematical entities. Indeed, often troublesome entities 'guide' the affected people into installing dim lighting in their abodes. Such poor lighting also often causes or at least aggravates seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which again plays into the entities' 'hands'.

  Daylight coloured lighting is best, and the closer the light's spectrum is to that of real daylight, the better. Although 'daylight' fluorescent lights could be a step forward, their spectra are actually not not very healthy, and they can be too reminiscent of offices and other workplaces. What I particularly recommend, having been using them myself for a little while now, is the energy-efficient Biobulb*, and for all basic room lighting to use the more powerful version, which claims to be 100W tungsten equivalent but seems brighter, and consumes just 25W. I caution, however, that, like ALL fluorescent or other electronic lighting devices, these create a certain low level of environmental stress, so it is best to also have an Energy Egg or / and Guardian Angel (better, both), or, still better, a Clarity-Sphere and ensure that they have been tuned to any stress from these lights.

  * N.B. This is not an affiliate link, and I make no financial gain from any sales of these.

  There's little point in having a bright light and then hiding most of that light with a shade, so I recommend a type of 'shade' which spreads the light around in a way that reduces dazzle when the light is looked at but still allows nearly all the light out into the room. As is the case for all lampshades, it is advisable to use energy testing to ascertain that any lampshade isn't itself causing significant environmental stress (most do), or at least to have an Energy Egg or / and Guardian Angel (optimally, both), or, better still, a Clarity-Sphere, and ensure that they have been tuned to any stress from the shade(s).

  If you feel that you must have dim lighting, it would be helpful to put all your thoughts and beliefs about that to inquiry using The Work, for you have objectively no need for dim lighting except possibly briefly for some specific purpose, and, as I say, dim lighting aggravates any problem with entities.

• An appropriate and truly empowering set of affirmations for self realization and entity removal. This increases your mental focus in various greatly empowering ways, so weakening the hold and interferences of entities upon you, and makes all your self healing, self realization and entity clearance methods more effective.

  The best such sets of affirmations that I found originally had serious astral-sourced distortions which would make them in some ways quite harmful despite their helpful aspects, so I produced by far the most comprehensive set of self realization affirmations that I've yet seen, and have worked carefully to eliminate every trace of astral influence that I could find (and will no doubt still fine tune various parts in that respect). These affirmations are contained in The Guide to Complete Self Realization.
  

  These affirmations are especially powerful when used by somebody who has a Clarity-Sphere, for the affirmations greatly enhance the effectiveness of the Clarity-Sphere, and likewise, the Clarity-Sphere greatly enhances the effectiveness of the affirmations - a real case of synergistic functioning.

Management of the attacks
(i.e. gaining MASTERY over them!)

• Keep hold of your sense of present time reality! The attacks which some people experience consist of the entities causing old, stored feelings of fear, anxiety, panic, depression etc (even inappropriate and sometimes bizarre sexual arousals or feelings of ecstasy, even including supposedly spiritual ecstasy) to surface strongly, even sometimes with a hellish intensity, and the feelings may be made to feel still more horrific by the entities adding in nasty feelings to make the experience bring to mind 'dark' experiences such as being killed by a curse or taking part in horrific black magic rituals. This nasty little trick was used on me to make it seem that I was being killed by a curse, and more recently, to try to drag me into Satanistic (and worse) sexual activities.

  These attacks can be accompanied by alarming or even horrifying threats or descriptions of what is supposedly happening to you. For example, during one long-sustained attack I was told that a lethal curse had been put on me and my internal organs were in the process of liquefaction, and once I'd died I'd fall successively into each of the hells described in the Buddhist teachings. On another occasion the inner voice was claiming that it was "Anlil (sic), King of the Underworld", and he was in the process of killing me and when I died he would take me captive in the "astral dimension" so that I wouldn't be able to move on to where I needed to go. Another time I was told that the particular attack would continue in a slow crescendo over the days and nights until I committed suicide. On yet another occasion allegedly I had bloodthirsty demons let loose upon me and these were supposedly eating my body so that I'd die and fall into the (alleged) Dark Realm and become a 'dark' being myself.

  My point here is that it's crucial to keep hold of the understanding that despite the sometimes horrific threats and horrific feelings to match, the threats are empty words and the feelings are only old trauma feelings which are being manipulated by the entities and need releasing, and they do not represent any true threat in the present time. If the entities say they are going to kill you, that is just more hot air and you can happily laugh at them and say "Go on, then, and enjoy your day [or night]!" If they say they will do something terrible to somebody else unless you, say, kill yourself or burn the house down, you can laugh at them and say "Go ahead, then and have a nice day!", knowing that it was a completely empty threat.

  I gently remind yet again, though, that the ultimate aim needs to be to get to the point of being able to get on with life without interacting with the entities at all.
  

  It's also worth pointing out here that my descriptions of 'attack' experiences are based on my own experience, which was extremely atypical because I was already enlightened. I was experiencing the feelings of particular emotional traumas but without getting into their emotional states. Thus I could feel the nightmarish feelings of intense anxiety, fear or terror without actually being anxious, frightened or terrified - indeed my emotional state remained pretty well just that of 'peaceful observer' of the feelings throughout the attacks. Because of this, as I understand it, the entities were able to attack me much more intensely than the vast majority of affected people would experience.

• Understand that any transient stabbing pains, whether of migraine-like headache or elsewhere on the body, are almost certainly directly caused by the entities, and they are absolutely nothing to worry about as they do not reflect any underlying physical problem. I experienced these myself, and my response to them was to think towards the entities things like: "Tiddles, just grow up!" or "Little Tiddly-Widdly Widdles, just go off and make love with your boss!" - and since I ceased such  proactive interaction with the entities I'd just think to myself a light-hearted comment something like "Uh-uh, they're at it again, the stupid little creatures!". The light-heartedness was important, as getting into heavy judgement against the entities would be actually playing along with part of their agenda (just as some religions do in judging upon and condemning 'demons' and other 'dark' entities, not realizing that the religions themselves are sourced from such entities).

• Similarly recognise troublesome spasms or clenching of the anus or pee sphincter and many kinds of gut spasm as probably caused by the entities and nothing to worry about. These entities often cause a collection of troublesome gut spasms which get diagnosed by doctors as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)*. The anal clenching can make even very mild haemorrhoids very painful and can also greatly aggravate and sometimes actually cause anal fissures, making the latter agonizingly painful and extremely difficult to heal. The clenching of the pee sphincter causes difficulty of peeing and is easily mistaken for prostate trouble or 'shy bladder' syndrome - the latter especially as the entities may deliberately produce that effect by attacking with the particular anxiety feelings and anxious pseudo-thoughts.
  

  * I should stress, however, that not all cases of alleged IBS necessarily have this cause. Indeed, another major factor is commonly environmental stress. You can do something about the latter - see Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

• Recognise sensations of (invisible) hands on yourself as being from entities seeking to unsettle you. They are not actually doing anything to you through having real hands upon you. I have had this sort of experience as an ongoing thing, with sensations of hands round the top of my head and especially a hand on my right temple. One time during a particularly severe ordeal from astral entities I was given the impression of hands holding both sides of my head and I was told that my head was about to be wrenched off. It was all hot air to try to frighten me, and nothing happened.

  There has to be some degree of qualification here, however, because the entities may indeed be weakening or distorting your non-physical aspects where you sense the hand(s) and so some sensible vigilance for abnormal developments on the body there is required. In my case this phenomenon led to a blatantly, obviously abnormal almost chalky white raised skin lesion which, bizarrely, three successive doctors independently refused to recognise as any sort of a lesion, and in the end, when it was starting more purposefully to enlarge and was actually just in the process of becoming malignant, I managed to bypass the useless doctors and present it to the nurse who was giving me cryosurgery for some normal solar keratoses. She was quite clear that what I knew to be an incipient cancer was for 'zapping' there and then, and did the honours.
  

  I can only speculate that the doctors had actually been unawarely guided by astral entities into failing to recognise the growth as being anything significant, for the specific purpose of giving me a cancer.

• Recognise inappropriate and particularly any obviously unhealthy sexual urges or desires* as most likely being controlling attacks from the entities. I am not referring here to plain sexual orientation (homo or hetero), but I do include paedophilia and strong clothing fetishes and desire for lurid or obviously unhealthy 'variations' as occur in Satanistic sexual practices, or lusting after obviously inappropriate or unhealthy types of people (e.g. alcoholics or other drug addicts). It is important to resist such urges, not for any moralistic reason but because such fixations directly bar you from true happiness in your life and they give the entities more power over you and so bring you further unhappiness and indeed potentially great torment that way.

  * One relatively common instance which hardly anyone dares admit to having is some degree of sexual arousal at thoughts or images of torture or other traumatically dehumanizing behaviour. Astral entities may or may not be directly involved in any specific case of this, but in probably nearly all cases attached parasitic 'lost' souls would be involved. In any case, if you have such an issue, know that you're far from alone with it, and that there's nothing wrong with you - and just know that these would dissolve as you progress in your use of self realization methods such as I give in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

  If you use the inquiry method of The Work on such issues it's greatly helpful in such work that you do not regard some of your sexual urges as okay and therefore not requiring being put to inquiry. It's very necessary to work in the same way on the thoughts and beliefs underlying ALL your urges or desires, however 'right' or normal they may seem to be. That will not in any way harm or take away your true, healthy sexual feelings, and indeed will help uncover your true healthy (and happy) state.

  In the meantime, if the urges are too distracting to ignore, it is much better to find some relief through solo sex based on a relevant fantasy, rather than to act out what the urge (usually sourced from the entities) is trying to get you to do. I say this not in any judgemental sense, but just because the more you comply with the urges and desires, the more you are allowing yourself to be in the control of the entities and the more unhappiness if not torment you would be bringing yourself in the long run.

  Please also refer to my article Letting Go of Addictions and Compulsive Behaviours.

• Recognise exaggerated nasty feelings or emotional responses over small matters as being almost certainly attacks and not your natural emotional response to the situations. For example, if you're a little nervous about some irregularity of bowel function (which the entities may indeed have caused) or have a suspect spot on your skin and are wanting to check it out with a doctor (a perfectly reasonable thing to do), if you are experiencing strong anxiety / fear / panic feelings about the matter, that is almost certainly the entities attacking, and if you recognise that as an attack you can actually start also recognising that your true natural response to the situation is nothing more than a mild concern. That doesn't make the nasty feelings any more pleasant but it does help you to start detaching yourself from the feelings and getting out of the emotional state of fear / anxiety / panic - an important part of your healing and self realization process.

  Exaggerated self recriminatory or anger feelings are also almost certain to be attacks from the entities rather than your own true emotional response to the particular people or situations.

• Know that the attack will pass! Like a great thunderstorm, an attack may seem to fill the whole of existence and look as though it will go on for ever, and the entities will feed in pseudo-thoughts and feelings to make the attack seem like that, and even that it will consume and destroy you. But, like the thunderstorm, the attack WILL pass, and all the sooner if you keep hold of this perspective.

• Supportive company. The presence of supportive people around you is greatly helpful as it tends to ground and balance you and take you out of any feedback loop of fear, anxiety and panic and get your attention on the supportiveness of present time reality. Because almost all hospital psychiatric workers have little or no understanding of such issues and are geared up for medication and ECT to suppress symptoms, hospital is not the place to go if at all possible*.
  

  If you live on your own, when significant attacks are occurring it is tremendously helpful to sleep out with supportive friends for a few nights. Failing that, which indeed was an option which I myself didn't have, a good move is to contact a local crisis service, which may be able to put you out into respite care* for a few nights instead - much preferable to hospital unless you know how best to handle the hospital situation (as I came to). Or even, if you have the money to do it, you might go away to somewhere you like for a few days, staying in a B&B or guest house which feels friendly to you. However, unless you can be sure that your choice of the latter would get you some supportive people around you, that would be unlikely to be an effective option, even though support services might recommend it to you (one community psychiatric nurse without full understanding of my issue actually recommended that option to me).

  * If respite care isn't available and a psychiatric hospital appears to be the only option, contrary to popular supposition, that isn't the end of the world and could even be the better option if you have the right outlook. See how I got on with my third and fourth hospitalizations, when that had to suffice as my 'respite care' during entities-induced crises. I explained articulately to the doctors and nurses that my real need was respite care and not specifically hospital and the inevitable medication, so that I could get fully grounded again by having supportive people around me. Like that I got the support and regrounding that I needed from the lovely people there working as nurses. Meanwhile the doctors quickly accepted my taking only a token medication which really had no significant effect on me, either positive or negative (although even that little would have a harmful event in the very long term), but admirably served its purpose as a sop for the doctors. On that page I also give a list of suggestions for ways in which you can make a positive experience out of a psychiatric hospital stay.
  

  I also recommend that if at all possible, if faced with such hospitalization, you seek in an articulate sort of way to get any consultant, doctors and nurses who are involved with you to read My Little Brush With Psychiatry, Night Terrors and Hearing Voices and Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side' to help them become more aware of the real healing issues involved. They may not appear to respond positively at that time, but it will at the very least have been an important learning opportunity for them, and may actually have got them quietly starting to really think about the important issues for the first time. Truly, you can choose to make any hospitalization of yours a positive and constructive (even enjoyable) experience for all involved!

  In Exeter, where I live, there is an excellent although underfunded Crisis Resolution Team attached to the psychiatric hospital, and members of this team recognise that many crises are not medical issues, and in fact they placed me in respite care on what would have been otherwise the occasion of a third hospitalization (May 2005), and, in the absence of respite care for my September 2006 crisis, at least facilitated my hospitalization. Actually on other occasions with looming crises, just phoning the team and having a brief chat about the possibility of needing respite care or hospitalization grounded me enough to stall the attack. If more resources were made available for crisis team expansion, many more hospitalizations could be avoided and the cost of the team recouped that way.

• Breath control. Learn to breathe deeply and slowly throughout attacks, using your diaphragm so that you seem to be breathing deeply into your abdomen. If initially you cannot do this while you have panic feelings, and find yourself panting, try blowing up a large paper bag or a balloon, as this will take you out of the panting response and give you focus for concentrating on the necessary slow and deep breathing. Be slow and deliberate about the blowing, with pauses between breathing cycles if necessary, as you need to avoid hyperventilation. If you have no bag or balloon, pretend that you have, and go through the motions of blowing it up.

• Active practices. You can use the EFT tapping sequence (preferably but not necessarily with a setup statement) to speed the release of the trauma energy and help dissolve the attack - though nowadays I'd recommend instead a picking from the practices given or pointed to in Some Potent Self-Realization / Healing Practices - particularly Power Walking, which releases emotional trauma energy at a prodigious rate, and is wonderfully grounding, which latter is especially what you need for getting your attention out of the feedback loop of trauma emotion so that the attack can dissolve. Another tremendously helpful method, described on the same page, is Grounding Post. This too releases emotional traumas and other problematical things such as thought forms, but on an individual rather than wholesale basis.

• A healing visualization. During an attack, never mind how severe, know that it will pass, and concentrate on the breathing and use the core star visualization which I give in Healing From One's Core essence.

  Using such breath control and visualization helps take you out of the emotional state of fear / anxiety / panic / depression so that you are becoming the peaceful observer of the nasty feelings and then you can feel fear without being frightened and feel panic without being in a state of panic, and feel anxiety without being anxious, and feel depression simply as a nasty feeling without being depressed.

  When this happens you are actually releasing significant amounts of those old feelings from your system, so that the attacks are becoming actual healing sessions for you - albeit extremely uncomfortable ones. You can learn to keep this peaceful breathing and visualization going during attacks even while going about your everyday life, and that is greatly empowering.

  Note that in such circumstances you are actually carrying out a powerful self realization practice - learning to be the peaceful observer of even the most difficult experiences - and this is a highly beneficial discipline for the whole of your life, bringing you quickly towards the possibility of gaining fundamental clarity (enlightenment). It is a much more powerful and beneficial practice than standard formal sitting meditation.

• Trembling and laughter. Trembling is the natural release process for fear, apprehension and panic, while laughter is the natural release process for anxiety and the lighter levels of fear and other fear-related emotions (including embarrassment). On the face of it, therefore, it would appear logical to allow these fully, together with any crying that may come up, so again making the attacks into self healing sessions, which are progressively reducing the amount of 'ammunition' that you are carrying which the entities could use for further attacks.

  The problem with this approach, which indeed the entities may actually encourage you to adopt (as they did with me) is that the store of trauma emotion which is being tapped is most likely a very big one indeed, from one or more severely traumatized parasitic 'lost' souls attached to you and thus not your own material at all. It would take far too long to release a significant proportion of such material through your own natural, 'biological' release processes. Also, sustained use of such release processes tends to keep you focused on the attack and the trauma emotion(s), so helping to perpetuate the attack.

  For this reason, although it's unhelpful and unhealthy altogether to suppress such natural releases, it's best to turn your attention to either purely grounding activities to get your attention right out of the attack, or to use special practices for both grounding and rapid and painless release of emotional traumas - see Active practices, above.

  Laughter is not necessarily such a problem here. Indeed, in its healthy form it is a tremendous healer and, provided it comes out in a light-hearted and not greatly sustained way, is greatly helpful. It is also disempowering to the entities. Laugh at the comical nature of any threats, for they are all hot air, just trying to play on your fears, and laughter wins through handsomely. Tease and taunt the entities through the attacks! Thank them for each attack because, however unpleasant it felt, it was effectively a healing session and has made you a bit stronger. Even congratulate them on their great victory over the forces of darkness, because once you recognise the attacks as actually healing sessions you can see each attack as being an 'own goal' for the entities. Laugh at their fury as you thank and congratulate them!* All that will weaken and shorten the attacks, and over time they should become less frequent too.

  * That is, if you are clear that proactive interaction with the entities is your best strategy at that time. Otherwise (actually preferable), just have some little laughs and chuckles to yourself at what stupid little asses they're really being, and enjoy talking in such terms with the odd people with whom you are sure it's okay to go talking about that issue; indeed, you'd most likely be able to laugh a lot more when relating things to a friend than when you're just thinking things to yourself.

  The sort of laughter to recognise as problematical and actually get right away from if it starts happening is the very intense sort that brings tears to your eyes and tends to come in repeating paroxysms, when something seems just too funny to be true. That is actually the result of an entity attack with a particular type of emotion energy. A telltale sign that it isn't healthy for you is that if you do allow it to sustain significantly you quickly get to feel exhausted and weary - which strongly suggests that when that happens entities have actually been draining energy from you. This type of laughter is in fact ALWAYS the result of an attack for the purpose of draining your energy, whether or not you are aware of any other sort of attack or even believe (almost certainly incorrectly) that you have no entity interference at all.

• Empower yourself - disempower them, even during attacks! If you really can't ignore them (by far the most preferable approach), 'jaw' them! The more you awarely and thoughtfully use self empowering pro-active confrontational strategies, the more difficult is it for any attacks to 'take' on you and become major problems.On my page Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Entities  - My Own Experience (see especially Appendix 2) I enumerate many ways of shifting the balance of power and turning the tables on your unwelcome intruders.

  A sense of humour against them is a key element in all this. The entities may initially put on some attacks allegedly in retaliation, but it must be remembered that they will find any pretext for putting on an attack, and if you play timid and don't confront them and get them putting on shows of anger (which is NEVER genuine) they will actually still attack and indeed take advantage of any timidity that you show them - so you might as well be bold and appear to infuriate them, for you would find that as you establish your proactive self-empowerment and entities-disempowerment regime, over time the attacks would become progressively less disruptive for you, and you are getting closer to the state of being able to drop all that banter and just ignore them (as an empowering thing for you to do).

• The 'Energy Egg', listed in the previous section. If you have one of these, there is a simple procedure described in the egg's instruction leaflet, for attuning it to specific energy stresses that you are receiving, such as from particular electronic equipment. This procedure will also help if used when you are getting an attack from the entities. It will probably not stop a current attack, but it will enable the 'egg' to be more efficient in reducing the negative effects of any attacks upon your energy system (aura), so that you become progressively more resistant to any attacks and indeed become plain healthier.

  Also, a strongly recommended procedure with the Energy Egg - much more effective, though, if you also have a Guardian Angel, and the Energy Egg has been energetically connected to it - is to use a particular test for environmental stresses which are making you vulnerable (or more vulnerable) to that attack, and then to attune the Egg to the source(s) of the stress.

  For the test itself you do not hold the Energy Egg, but it needs to be on your person or sitting on its transmitter base. Put one hand, with all fingers well splayed out, with palm across your forehead. Put your other hand (fingers naturally placed, not splayed, with palm across your upper abdomen. Standing like that, say, in the middle of a room, slowly turn around, pausing to look at objects in the room, and particularly anything which your eyes are drawn to, and keep aware of the feelings in your hand on the upper abdomen. When you are looking at a source of stress which is causing or aggravating your vulnerability to the current attack, there will be a subtle change of sensation in that hand. For me, in the case of stresses relating to entity attacks, the sensation is a faint chill within that hand, which immediately ceases as I look at something else, and returns when I look back at the stress source - but you might experience a different change of sensation for the same thing.

  Next, you take up the Energy Egg, hold it with all fingertips, and do three quick 'weaving blows' on it while looking at the source of the particular stress. There is no need or point in trying to explain or understand why something is having that effect; you just use that simple procedure to eliminate or at least reduce the stress for you from that source.

  Next, you repeat the procedure, also looking at each doorway of the room, because, as well as further sources in that same room, you may feel an indication of a source of relevant stress which is actually in an adjoining room. You can then go into that room and repeat the test to find the particular source. Again, retest after tuning the Energy Egg to the particular source, for there may be yet other sources also to deal with. This may sound to be rather a performance, but actually it is extremely simple, doesn't take long, and doesn't need to be repeated for that type of attack - though is probably best repeated if you get an attack of a quite distinguishably different sort of emotion or feeling. You would most likely not notice an immediate cessation of attack, because it would take some time (probably a few days) for the changes to 'settle in', and there would also be longer term improvements due to progressive clearance of your previous accumulation of stress from the particular source(s).

  One very nice thing about doing testing like that during an attack is that it strongly focuses you on the physical here-and-now and is thus a very grounding thing to be doing, so in itself it is helping to weaken or dissolve the attack through grounding your attention.
  

  Earlier on this page I give an account of my carrying out such testing myself. On that occasion I was also using energy testing with the acceptance mudra to gain additional relevant information.

• The Clarity-Sphere. This is more effective than the Energy Egg, and you use it in the same way fundamentally, but it has a lot more flexibility in the details of how you use it, with a much more comprehensive range of functionality. Generally, to tune it to sources of stress you would be using the Clarity-Sphere Sentinel, a small stone 'egg' which you have energetically connected to the Clarity-Sphere. You can tune the Sentinel (and thus the Clarity-Sphere) in just the same way as the Energy Egg, but the way that I recommend is to hold the Sentinel with all fingertips and its broad end pointing downwards, and focus for a few seconds on the stress source (actual or possible) and then gaze at the Sentinel for about a second. For an attack it may be more effective to close your eyes to focus on the attack, then open your eyes to gaze at the Sentinel, and it may help further to repeat this once or twice while you are holding the Sentinel there.

• Medication. As already stated, medication used in an ongoing way is highly problematical (NO depot injections!), but something like Haloperidol or Risperidone (taken orally) and suitable sleeping tablets (Zopiclone is one of the less harmful ones) can sensibly be used OCCASIONALLY in order to get a night's sleep during an attack. The entities, when attacking, would like to deprive you of successive nights' sleep to make you still more vulnerable to them and make a wreck of you. Thus, ensuring that you have at least a minimum of sleep to keep going is part of empowering yourself and disempowering the astral bully-boys.

  Some people may find herbal preparations of valerian and hops such as Kalms useful, but I myself found them ineffective, and more recent energy testing on them shows them actually to be harmful for me. In any case the notion of natural drugs being better than synthetic drugs, although having grains of truth, is highly misleading, because the important point is, as far as sensibly possible to avoid medication altogether.

  I strongly recommend using energy testing to establish what medication options are likely to give the best compromise between harm to you and benefits through managing to get much-needed sleep. My own findings on this matter relate specifically to me, so your own testing for yourself may come up with different answers, for we are each unique in our particular combinations of sensitivities, 'resonances' and vulnerabilities.

  In most cases if you have an Energy Egg you can minimize (note that I do not say 'eliminate') the harm from any medication of yours by tuning your Egg to it, using the method which is given in the instruction leaflet (though I have described it in the previous list item). The same is true for a Clarity-Sphere, which is more effective.

  Side effects. My personal experience was that one 7.5 mg Zopiclone or one 5 mg Nitrazepam* sleeping tablet taken at bedtime or up to about midnight didn't cause me noticeable problems, but doses of Haloperidol greater than 1.5 mg taken at or after bedtime consistently caused me a troublesome drowsiness for much of the following day, even when taken without a sleeping tablet. Although I didn't identify any other side effects at home, the hospital consultant who saw me told me that urine retention was a known side effect of Haloperidol and thought that that was very likely the culprit in my urine retention episodes in hospital (though I'm fairly sure that the entities were the prime culprit). I keep an open mind on the issue.

  * My energy testing (relating specifically to effects on me) has shown that Nitrazepam, Temazepam, Diazepam and all the related, benzodiazepine family of drugs are seriously harmful. This is not so much in terms of any immediate side effects which would get recognised as caused by the drugs, but long term effects which would cause a whole variety of health problems, most likely appearing over many years, and thus nobody who doesn't skilfully use the sort of energy testing that I now use would be able to trace the origin of the various health issues when they do arise, and link them to these actually very nasty drugs.
  

  I had found Zopiclone more effective anyway, but with my new energy testing results I know now not to use any benzodiazepine drugs, even supposing the entities managed to put upon me another crisis-level attack.
  

  I'didn't notice any effect, either positive or negative, from 0.5 mg Risperidone tablets (an alternative to Haloperidol). My energy testing indicated that it wasn't seriously harmful for me when taken only occasionally in that dosage - though taking it regularly as the medics wanted would have been distinctly harmful, with long-term harmful effects which no medics would have associated back to the use of Risperidone. The same actually can be said of most medications, including non-pharmaceutical, so-called 'natural' remedies.

  My very strong recommendation is that if you have ever used any of these, you use a Clarity-Sphere (the most effective) or Energy Egg to enable yourself to progressively heal the long-term harm which those medications have done for you (which would cause various physical and maybe mental problems later in life). You would need to tune the device to the particular medication(s); you could do this by means of doing an Internet search for images of the particular medication, and tune the device to a photo of a tablet, capsule or even an original manufacturers' pack or container for the medication. That would enable a retrospective healing to start occurring, and needs to be done only once for each medication type.