Dark Force and Entity Troubles -
The Real Way to Clear Them

Introduction

This account started off as part of my page Night Hells (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 spirit attachments, which are genuine entities, as well as what people take to be 'astral entities' (also known as 'astral beings', and actually including what many would regard as demons and related entities), which are actually not real entities at all.

For more about 'astral entities' please see my articles The Dark Force ('Astral Entities') - My Own Tough Experiences and 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'. As I explain in the latter article, what are widely known as astral entities, and indeed pretty well all non-physical entities or beings that one percieves or interacts with, are not true entities at all, but are illusory manifestations that the dark force parasitically causes the affected person's mind to create. So, one greatly helpful thing for us to do right now is to stop talking of astral entities, astral beings etc, and instead to talk instead of dark force interferences or dark force manifestations / illusions.

One important immediate consequence of this understanding is that we can now see why you cannot actually ever 'bodily' remove 'astral entities' - for, being illusory, they are actually not there in the first place to be removed! All you can do, therefore, is to progressively weaken (towards non-existence) the dark force interferences that you are getting, which are creating those illusions - and that is truly possible, but it does take time!

Most of what appears below is based on my own experience with the dark force (which I had been interpreting as 'astral beings' or 'astral entities') plus my observations of its affecting others (and some information from other affected people). If you have information on genuinely removing or managing entities and dark force interferences 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 entities and dark force interference problem

• You need to be clear that you really do want to be free from entities / dark force interferences. Many people believe that they want to be free from their entities and dark force interferences (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 problems.

  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 or dark force interferences (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 dark force interferences whether or not you acknowledged even their existence. However, a specific, deeply felt intent to be free of them would greatly 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 dark force and much more inclined to pick up or retain entity attachments such as soul fragments - hence the dark force 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 (including tea, coffee and Coke - and related drinks - and all cocoa / chocolate products and any regular or significant eating of confectionery, for every dependency or attachment of yours to some extent supports the hold of the dark force on you, and none of those substances truly benefits 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 dark force interferences. Actually ALL attached relationships, however 'normal' and socially acceptable, are a problem in this respect, and letting go of them (or rather, letting go of one's attachment to the other person) is an essential part of any genuine comprehensive self realization process.

• Discontinue or keep clear of all 'dark' practices or preoccupations, even if it means letting go of particular 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. You can to very great advantage carefully and vigilantly use energy testing to vet both extant and potential friends or companions.

• Keep as clear as possible from covert dark force influences - such as connections or preoccupations with so-called ascended masters, guides, angels, archangels, gods and goddesses, and even 'Jesus', the Holy Spirit and 'God' / Jehovah / Allah / Shiva - indeed any non-physical beings, entities or presences of any sort, never mind how 'Divine' they may be supposed to be. Their given identities are apparently always inventions of the dark force, and so even believing in them or associating with them in any way increases the dark force's 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 point (a point source deep in your 'middle') expanding outward in all directions, and trust (not ask) 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 for the ultimate source of deeper knowledge, clarity of mind, and healing.

  * 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 the dark force increases its hold on people. If you do channel or dowse, the information you receive is bound to contain distortions introduced by the dark force, which would be the true nature of any apparently 'higher' source, and the moment you accept any such communications, what you are doing is tacitly accepting the dark force's 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 (and, yes, that does include such figures as 'Jesus', 'Archangel Michael' and indeed 'God') - increases the hold of the dark force on you, quite apart from such information almost certainly containing distortions of the truth that would in some way(s) be problematical for you. It's important 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 dark force 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 dark force connections. Sacred geometry is especially harmful and can be used even by supposed 'lightworkers' to bring great harm to a person - even to the point of covert murder. It was used in that manner towards me, though thankfully I was relatively immune to the most lethal type of attack that was used on me.

• 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 is what your own core essence and deepest nature is, and 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 entities and dark force interferences.

• Keep a very open mind about the true nature of any 'entity' manifestations, and let go of belief in any 'external' reality involving them. Although for healing purposes they may be treated as an external influence, it's best as soon as possible to cultivate the dissolution of the whole 'entities' mindset through:

  • Letting go of the whole notion that the 'entities' are true entities at all, and regarding them instead just as thought form complexes, 'rogue programming in thought energy' or illusions presented to you by the dark force - and thus not interacting with them at all.
  • progressively opening to your own core essence (your deepest nature, which is 'the Ultimate') and allowing it to appear to expand from your core through your whole being and indeed to apparently fill all of Existence.

• Let go of any 'story' that your situation or interference has created for you, including any interpretation of your experiences, never mind how vivid, real-seeming and bizarre. The 'story' and exact details of your experiences are actually NOT important from a genuine healing perspective (at least the healing methodology that I present), and are generally presented by the dark force to confuse a person and keep him / her locked into a sort of 'loop' of recreating the troublesome phenomena through believing that they are 'real' (i.e. as presented) rather than as completely 'empty' illusions that are being given to him / her and would dissolve if allowed to do so.
  

  Important note! The actual material and building blocks of all types of non-physical interferences, whether from the dark force or even psychic attacks from people, are fundamentally the same, and, using my methodology, are all cleared by the same means, without any need to identify particular troublesome phenomena as being one thing or another. The name of the game is not chasing after the (illusory) paper tigers that the dark force is constantly besetting you with, but simply strengthening and un-distorting all those aspects of your whole being that are currently distorted and weak, thus progressively rendering you immune to all those interferences and attacks, whatever their apparent nature or source. That makes life so much simpler!

Means to remove entities and dark force interferences

There is a huge variety of methods that 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' (really almost always dark force interferences) may reduce or cease after a healing or exorcism to remove the supposed 'entities', but because the normal main problem is dark force interferences, they cannot be 'sent off' in that way. So, when 'astral entities' or 'demons' do seem to have been sent off, it's virtually certain that nothing of the kind has really happened and for its own purpose the dark force has chosen to deceive both healer and the recipient of the healing, making them think the 'entities' have been cleared off when actually the dark force has just become more covert in its interferences. 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 dark force 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), dark force interferences 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' (i.e. dark force interferences), 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 those interferences out of our life experience, so that we eventually become invulnerable to the dark force (as far as one can tell; vigilance would always be required) while never knowing for sure whether or not there is still any covert and subtle interference or any as-yet undiscovered vulnerability that might be exploited at some point.

Please note that, because 'astral entities' are not only not physical but are actually illusory, they cannot be seen by anyone in any truly objective or 'physical' way. A small minority of healers and psychics believe that they can 'see' these manifestations using their supposed 'higher perceptions', but it is only visual illusions that they are being given by the dark force. Thus they are seeing only what the dark force shows them - NOT what is actually there (if anything!). 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' (whether real entities or dark force interferences) from another person, because of the almost certain dark force 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 methods daily on themselves, along with other daily self realization practices / methods, appear 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. I myself have been using the latter to progressively clear out entities and dark force interferences from a small number of prominent individuals who are causing serious problems for a lot of people. (Naturally, I am not indicating publicly who I'm working on.), and indeed am currently running a little experiment to see if it's possible to use the Clarity-Sphere actually to bring about the dissolution of the entire dark force. Crazy of me? -- Maybe, but see what you make of this!

However, even when using my basically fully safe Clarity-Sphere methodology, the dark force can still attack you handsomely to try to scare you off (unless, of course, you're sufficiently advanced in your self realization process and your consequent gaining of immunity to dark force attacks), and 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 both entities and dark force interferences - so the listing below is now cut right down to two items, so simplifying things no end!

However, first I draw your attention (again) to 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 clearance strategy for entities and dark force interferences that I have yet come across - though even so, for full effectiveness you need to use it in tandem with certain other methods.

As already noted, for these genuine healing / clearance methods, the details of a person's particular tribulations and bizarre experiences are not relevant - which simplifies things enormously. Indeed, the more a person concerns himself with such details and any 'story' involved in his troubles, the more is he obstructing any genuine clearance process. You have been warned!

The two (actually very much interrelated) main prongs, then, of a strategy to clear your entities / dark force interferences are as follows.

• Self realization (including clearance of one's emotional issues, stresses and traumas) is the only basic process that really works for 'astral entities' (i.e. dark force interferences) and is truly safe for clearing other types of entity or interference from oneself. Even then, however, most available supposed self realization methods have limits on their usefulness because of dark force sourced distortions that limit those methods' effectiveness for the purpose.

  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 (which are one of a person's primary vulnerabilities to the dark force) and build up the strength of your non-physical aspects so as to progressively 'squeeze out' any entities and dark force interferences. 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' interferences from the dark force.

  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 (ESs), 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 the dark force or indeed spirit attachments. Therefore, even if no other self realization and entity removal measures were taken, elimination of the offending environmental stress(es) usually results in a distinct reduction in the strength of the noticeable interferences, and in some cases apparent elimination of them altogether.

  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 the dark force posing as a higher source. This was adding a definite dark force 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 that were aggravating my dark force 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 neutralize or even eliminate all those stresses as follows (this being before I'd developed the Clarity-Sphere, which would have been much better for the purpose). 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 smallish potted house plant on top of the microwave virtually eliminated the part of the stress that had been aggravating the dark force attacks 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 that I'd been receiving from the microwave's positioning, 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.
  

  However, prior to my locating and dealing with those particular environmental stress issues, in 2007 I'd established that the collection of crystals strewn on my window ledges, and, first and foremost, my regular use of a collection of sacred geometry 'healing' wands from late 2003 to early 2007 had been a very major factor in opening me to the dark force for the severe troubles that I had then. So I took the immediate step of discarding all those, and my use of (initially) the Energy Egg and Guardian Angel and subsequently the (more effective) Clarity-Sphere, plus other methods, progressively got to work healing all the damage done to my non-physical aspects by the wands and crystals.

  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 (the dark force ALWAYS involved)
•  Exorcisms (the dark force ALWAYS involved)
•  Taking on a belief (e.g. in Jesus or God) (the dark force ALWAYS involved)
•  Baptisms and other initiations (the dark force ALWAYS involved) - Danger! These can make you actually a member of the cacoprotean network and thus a part of the dark force itself! Total immersion baptism is a particular case in point. Network members are virtually always unaware that they are connected in to such a network, and believe that their 'guidance' through the network is from a Divine source.
•  Joining or involvement with any sort of religion or spiritual / esoteric / mystical organization (the dark force ALWAYS involved). Danger! Many of these, including the Church of Scientology, are front organizations of the abovementioned cacoprotean network, so they can actually make you, unawarely, a member of that disgusting network and thus part of the dark force.
•  Invoking supposed higher beings such as Archangel Michael (the dark force ALWAYS involved)
•  Specialist healers and 'lightworkers' (the dark force ALWAYS involved, with one qualification) - Various such healers genuinely believe that they are clear of 'astral' or dark force interference and influence, but in my experience so far they are ALL mistaken about that. A healer who is truly clear of dark force 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.
  The dark force wouldn't be materially involved, however, in the case of a healer using a Clarity-Sphere for progressive healing / clearance - BUT usually such healers would know better than to be spending their time in that way rather than promoting self directed self healing / self realization.
•  Methods involving hypnosis (the dark force ALWAYS involved) - All hypnosis is seriously ungrounding to your awareness and thus increases your vulnerability to the dark force and tends to impair your motivation for true self realization. There is always a dark force 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 (the dark force ALWAYS involved, and the latter in particular is extremely harmful)
•  Use of crystals or healing devices other than those that I unequivocally recommend (ineffective and also harmful to the person's non-physical aspects, so making the person MORE vulnerable to the dark force)
•  Formal meditation sessions (the dark force 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 / dark force interferences.
•  Rituals of any kind (the dark force 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 dark force interferences (while others such as Sahaja Yoga are decidedly harmful despite their usual superficial appearance of benignity).
  

  * 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 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'. Basically they are something of a myth, though when you have genuinely cleared off real entities you are still left with their energy imprints, which the dark force maintains and manipulates in ways that make it seem as though the entities are still present.

The self realization methods that I present on this site all assist in the steady dissolution of such energy imprints. 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 that you can find in The Guide to Complete Self Realization, and particularly by the use of the Grounding Post procedure for assisting the dissolution of thought forms (which are the true nature of the energy imprints). Grounding Post, like all other genuine healing / self realization methods, is most effective when used in conjunction with the Clarity-Sphere.

...And then, Soul Retrieval?

It is widely believed among healers in many traditions that a soul retrieval healing is generally necessary after removing entities - especially earthbound spirit attachments. That would also give the opportunity for the retrieval of soul fragments that 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 that the separated-off part of yourself is drawn back in and re-integrated into your system. That would not only prevent another entity from attaching to you but would also bring 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 that I've listed further above. The only reason for needing assistance in soul retrieval (which is actually a natural process) is that the dark force 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, the dark force cannot interfere in that particular process, at least to any great extent, and so the latter occurs spontaneously, speedily and smoothly.

The one bit of assistance for the process that you can usefully give is simply your having a clear intent that it would 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. That's it!

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 dark force 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, more aware and clear-minded, and more able to enjoy life without having to wait for your nuisances to actually have gone (yet).

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 visit a friend 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 serious dark force interference plus 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 interferences and entities
(i.e. MASTERY of your situation!)

• Non-interaction. Non-interaction with any apparent 'entities' (really the dark force, because genuine entities - lost souls - communicate little or not at all except where the dark force makes them appear to be communicating) is crucial. For the person to interact with them is to give the dark force power over him. Some people find that if the apparent entities are repeatedly told to go away they appear to do so, but, to my understanding, that is not at all what really happens when people get the impression that it has happened. All that really happens in such cases is that the dark force has simply changed tactics to keep a low profile and make the person think its 'entity' manifestations have gone, when in fact it's still there (because it actually cannot go away because it has no specific physical location to start with) and covertly still interfering to control the person.

  Indeed, keeping on telling the supposed entities 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' that they can grab in order to launch attacks. Also, the mere fact of regarding them as actual beings to whom any communication would be meaningful is potently maintaining the situation, for they are, by their very nature as illusory manifestations, produced by rogue thought forms (like computer malware but made up of thought energy), and would eventually cease to manifest as entities at all if consistently seen in that light and disregarded and not interacted with over a longish period. 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 dark force 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 the dark force is trying to control or otherwise interfere with 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.)

• Do not attempt to dowse nor channel nor listen for inner guidance (AT ALL!). As long as you do, you are allowing the dark force to manipulate you, and you are actually keeping it in some degree in control of you. The point here is that, as explained in Better Without Channelling, it is the dark force that relays to us any potentially useful information from our deepest aspects, and it is also the dark force that presents itself (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' (apart from carefully and vigilantly executed energy testing) therefore puts you into or keeps you in the power of the dark force.

  The only inner guidance that is reasonably safe to heed at all is your own deepest intuition and good sense, which can be supported by means of energy testing. I learnt the hard way that trying to get channelled information or 'guidance' from any seemingly external source just helps perpetuate the situation with the dark force and 'entities'.

  If, like me, you have already been dowsing and channelling, there's no cause for despair; indeed you can take encouragement from the fact that I came out of my own dark force 'troubles' despite that. 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, for a little while 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, as already noted (yes, I'm unashamedly repeating myself here!), 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 dark force 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 what appear to be '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 the dark force more power over you than if you communicate indirectly.

  However, the real need is to cease even regarding the supposed entities as actual beings at all, with which one could meaningfully interact. As already noted, what are generally regarded as 'astral entities' are almost certainly not true consciously aware beings at all and indeed are most likely not even discrete entities - even though they strenuously try to convince everyone that they are real beings. Would you bother to have a personal dialogue with some virus or other malware program on your computer that pretends that it's a real person and is flashing up messages to try to get you engaging with it (maybe to steal your bank account and credit card details)? Surely, best to see it as it really is and not to interact with it at all as though it were some sort of awarely conscious being, for then you're in a much better position to clear it out.

  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 at this stage of the proceedings, for the dark force would at once intrude and present its own versions of any such answers to you, and you'd still be in the realm of channelling, and thus still in considerable trouble.

• 'Guidance' and instructions are to be disregarded without question at all times! If the 'entities' give instructions or recommendations, 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 that appear to be good guidance - are for ignoring or disobeying despite any threats or coercive attacks that may be made. The dark force thrives on every hint of power that it has over a person, even when seemingly only symbolic, and every non-compliance with its 'wishes' or instructions adds to its disempowerment. Such non-compliance needs to be done with a positive, light-hearted, good humoured or even joyful outlook, for the dark force is generally empowered and you are disempowered by your being attached to seriousness and indeed grimness. Another thing that empowers the dark force and disempowers you is any defensiveness of yours, for that is living in fear, and that is just what the dark force seeks to have you doing. Learn to disregard such interferences with a twinkle in the eye, a smile or indeed a laugh.

• Train yourself to regard the 'entities' as just illusions created by 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 have consistently found it extremely beneficial to live with a working assumption (rather than a 'this is Truth' type of belief) that 'astral entities' of any kind (and indeed all apparently awarely concsious non-physical being or presences) are nothing more than illusions created by rogue programming (as noted further above). 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 dark force 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' (i.e. dark force interferences) 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! - the dark force again. 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 that you can progressively dissolve or at least disempower.

• If you have what you or others think is a spirit attachment that is communicating with you and interfering with you in brazen and apparently deliberate ways, that is almost certainly NOT a true spirit attachment, nor a real awarely conscious entity at all, but an elemental that is being manipulated by the dark force via seriously ungrounded aspects of your 'energy system'. That, therefore, needs to be regarded and treated in much the same way as 'ordinary' 'astral entities' - that is, regarded as just rogue programming. Although it isn't illusory in the way that 'astral entities' are, no harm and very likely some benefit would come from your actually regarding it as illusory, provided that you don't use that to go into denial of the problem. The point is, the less you regard it or interact with it in any way that implies that it's a conscious being, the more you are weakening it and of course strengthening yourself against it.

• Use the Grounding Post procedure with the Clarity-Sphere to dissolve particular thought forms, including elementals. This follows from the last two items. I have established that the dark force cultivates thought forms in many people's minds, which cause them to automatically interpret the dark force 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 dark force interferences as being other than just transient illusions created by bits of rogue programming in the astral sub-reality of illusion and delusion - so greatly disempowering the supposed entities.

• Let go of all addictions and mind affecting substances. Any attached entities, and especially dark force interferences 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 dark force's power. Therefore through letting go of such addictions you help reduce the dark force's control and power over you, and the strength of attachment of any genuine entities. 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 dark force and disempower you against it.

  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.

• 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-active 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 a demonstration of apparently conclusive energy testing (using the strong arm test) 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 The Clarity-Sphere - 'The Ultimate' in a Sphere.

• 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 and dark force interferences, 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, cannot be healed; they can only be progressively dissolved or 'faded out' of your life experience).

• 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 weakness of grounding of one's awareness and also negative and depressive feelings and outlooks, and thus are favoured by the dark force. Indeed, often the dark force 'guides' 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 dark force's 'hands'.

  Daylight coloured lighting is best, and the closer the light's spectrum is to that of real daylight, the better. Although ordinary 'daylight' fluorescent lights could be a step forward, their spectra are actually 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' that 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).
  

  It's also worth noting that many lampshades that are okay for incandescent bulbs are unsuitable for such low-energy electronic bulbs, which latter tend to be readily damaged by even very modest overheating produced by inadequate ventilation.

  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, or better, dissolve the relevant troublesome thought forms / belief / illusory reality by means of the Grounding Post procedure, 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 and dark force interferences.

• An appropriate and truly empowering set of affirmations for self realization and clearance of entities and dark force interferences. This increases your mental focus in various greatly empowering ways, so weakening the hold and interferences of entities and the dark force 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 dark force sourced distortions that 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 dark force 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 that some people experience consist of the dark force 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 dark force 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 that are being manipulated by the dark force 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 such flatus and get on with your life. 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 such an inane bit of old bairy hollocks and go ahead and have a nice day, knowing that it was a completely empty threat from a bit of rogue programming.

  It's 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 very much into their emotional states. Thus I could feel the nightmarish feelings of intense anxiety, fear or terror without actually being to any great extent anxious, frightened or terrified - indeed my underlying emotional state remained pretty well just that of 'peaceful observer' of the feelings throughout the attacks. Because of this, as I understand it, the dark force was able to attack me much more intensely than the vast majority of affected people would experience - but on the other hand the usually lesser attacks that most people would experience would be actually much more upsetting.

  However, attacks from certain 'spirit attachments'* (something that I myself have not experienced) are a different matter, and for quite a number of people these can be more severe than what one would get from the dark force directly, and in unusual cases, when used repeatedly to weaken and wear a person down, can be fatal (but, generally speaking, ONLY where the person already believes that (s)he is being killed). This is thus a more serious situation, but the catch is that if a person 'knows' that spirit attachments can attack more severely and harmfully, the dark force will readily seek to persuade the person that it is such a spirit attachment, so making its attacks more severe in effect just because of the person's particular belief being exploited by the dark force.
  

  * Actually, as already noted, my understanding now is that true spirit attachments do not themselves attack, and what affected people experience is a powerful type of elemental that is programmed to pose as a supposed spirit attachment. The elemental doesn't attack in the way that the dark force does itself, but it can attack in other ways, such as having a whole range of physical effects, including shaking the person about (I'm not referring to ordinary trembling here) and indeed even pretty well throwing the person about, causing the person to fall over or collide with objects and so quite often injure himself. Such elementals also can do harmful things inside a person's body, and I suspect that this is what is happening when particular people think they are being killed by a spirit attachment.
  

  However, such an elemental wouldn't be working in isolation, and attacks and very troublesome pseudo-thoughts and illusory realities intruded by the dark force would be still a major part of the picture; it's just that the elemental would fill in some gaps in the awfulness of what the dark force can normally do to a person.
  

  Where has such an elemental come from? -- It can be (usually unawarely) created by and passed on from another person, or if the affected person gets sufficiently ungrounded, the dark force is able to hijack a particular part of that person's energy system in a way that enables the dark force to cause him to unawarely create the elemental. Only people being severely controlled by the dark force can create such elementals; the dark force cannot do it directly, and indeed it cannot cause this to happen for most of the people to whom it's giving a hard time.

  People who are seriously into 'dark' practices deliberately create such elementals, and indeed other elementals that most people would regard as still worse.
  

  That is why graveyards are places worth not lingering in - because it's common for people who are into dark practices to carry out various practices in graveyards at night, indeed creating various highly problematical elementals there. All it takes then is for a sufficiently weakly grounded person to come along (at any time of day) and linger in such a graveyard for some perfectly innocent reason, and that person can easily get landed with an extremely harmful 'spirit attachment' that is really one of the elementals that had been left there in the graveyard.
  

  My first knowing encounter with the 'spirit attachment' phenomenon was actually through being introduced to a mentally retarded and physically distorted woman in Devon, England in 1998, who had tormenting 'voices' which appeared to her to be of three people who were then still living in India. The story was that she had a "spirit attachment" that had caused all this, and she had picked it up as a very young child, when she'd been playing in a graveyard and, allegedly, had at one point urinated on one of the graves - at which point, allegedly, the 'spirit' had entered her by travelling up her urine stream.
  

  I think the bit about anything entering her system via her urine stream would have been superstitious rubbish (elementals, or indeed discarnate human consciousnesses, being non-physical, don't need a physical means of entry into one's energy system), and I'd say that urinating on a grave wouldn't necessarily have had anything to do with the problem - though that would have depended on the specific programming of the elemental concerned. The primary thing would have been simply her lingering in the graveyard, where, pretty evidently, some 'dark' practitioners had been leaving elementals behind, probably with the specific intent to cause problems for innocent visitors there.

  The latter point underlines the inadvisability of getting into 'story' about what sort of entity or other manifestations are affecting you, and the great benefits of simply concentrating on the means to clear ALL entity and dark force interferences (including elementals), as are given on this site.

• Understand that any transient stabbing pains, whether of migraine-like headache or elsewhere on the body, are almost certainly caused by the dark force, possibly through the intermediary of an elemental, and they are absolutely nothing to worry about as they do not reflect any underlying physical problem.

• Similarly recognise troublesome spasms or clenching of the anus or bladder sphincter and many kinds of gut spasm as probably caused by the dark force (again, possibly via an elemental) and nothing to worry about. The dark force often causes a collection of troublesome gut spasms that 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 dark force 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 the dark force (possibly via an elemental) 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 the dark force 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 dark force may indeed be weakening or distorting your non-physical aspects where you feel 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 on my right temple, 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, so destroying it.
  

  I can only speculate that the doctors had actually been unawarely guided by the dark force 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 dark force. 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 dark force more power over you and so bring you further unhappiness and indeed potentially great torment that way.

  * One relatively common instance that hardly anyone dares admit to having is some degree of sexual arousal at thoughts or images of torture or other traumatically dehumanizing behaviour. The dark force 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, you're far from alone with it, and there's nothing wrong with you - and you can take it from me that the tendency for such inappropriate arousals 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 Grounding Post or the EFT or 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 'process'. 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 would not in any way harm or take away your true, healthy sexual feelings, and indeed would actually 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 (and preferably less unhealthy) fantasy, rather than to act out what the urge (usually sourced from the dark force) 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 dark force 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 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 dark force 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 dark force 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 bound to be attacks from the dark force 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 dark force 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.

  The worst thing you can do is to believe any story you are given to the effect that you are being seriously harmed or even killed, for it is the dark force's exploitation of such a belief that is one of its most potent sorts of attack.

• Supportive company. The presence of supportive people around you is greatly helpful as it tends to ground and balance your awareness and take you out of any feedback loop of fear, anxiety and panic and get your attention onto 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 that 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 well intentioned 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 dark force induced crises. I explained articulately to the doctors and nurses that my real need was respite care and not specifically hospital and definitely not 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 that really had no significant effect on me, either positive or negative**, 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.
  

  ** Actually even that little did have subtle harmful effects that potentially would have caused problems in the very long term, as I later established by means of energy testing. However, I've healed those harmful effects by use of the Clarity-Sphere.

  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 Hells (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 some of 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, despite any down-sides of the experience!

  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 and October 2006 crises, 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.

  Alternatively, a more effective method would be for you to use focused and aware Complete Breathing, with the tip of your tongue held to the front of your palate, as described in Some Potent Self-Realization / Healing Practices.

• Active practices. If you can't get out walking at the particular time, 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 (and very likely some sort of threatening illusory reality that's been covertly put into the back of your mind), 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 a more individual rather than wholesale basis. Ideally, use both of these methods, in conjunction with a Clarity-Sphere.

• A healing visualization. During an attack, never mind how severe, know that it will pass, and concentrate on the breathing and use the core point visualization that 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.
  

  However, I do not mean this practice to be used as a substitute for Power Walking, Grounding Post or indeed the EFT. This is simply another string for your bow. Using a range of methods is much better than being attached to one - particularly as the dark force would seek to get you attached to a method that was not being all that effective for you - surprise, surprise! - And no, I'm not going to recommend the Bible (or Koran or other major religious 'Good Book') as yet another string for your bow, although, if you have one, tearing out its pages and putting them all into your paper recycling bin would be a seriously positive and helpful step, seeing that the Bible and all equivalent religious books are actually dark force sourced tracts (remember? 'God' is just an illusory manifestation of the dark force!), never mind what 'pearls of wisdom' they appear to contain.

• Trembling and laughter. Generally speaking, trembling is the natural release process for deeper levels of fear and related emotions, while laughter is the natural release process for 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 dark force could use for further attacks.

  The problem with this approach, which indeed the dark force may actually encourage you to adopt (as it did with me) is that the store of trauma emotion that 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 to any great extent your own material at all. It would very likely take far too long to release a significant proportion of such material through your own natural, 'biological' release processes, and in any case that is really hard and taxing work when it is sustained for long periods, and can readily get people around you stigmatizing you as 'emotionally unstable' (or worse). Also, sustained use of such release processes tends to keep your awareness ungrounded and 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 when they first arise, 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 sustained way, is greatly helpful. It is also disempowering to entities and the dark force, which generally seek to keep the person taking their entity / dark force troubles seriously. You can healthily have much more of an inner 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. The problem with a lot of overt laughter, even of the healthy type, is just the same as with crying or trembling - including the problem of people getting to see you as 'emotionally unstable'.

  The sort of laughter to recognise as problematical and actually get 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 a dark force 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 the dark force or one or more entities has 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 or dark force interference at all.

• 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 dark force. It will not necessarily stop a current attack, but at least it will enable the 'egg' to be more efficient in reducing the negative effects of any attacks upon your energy system (aka your 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 that are making you vulnerable (or more vulnerable) to that attack, and then to attune the Egg to the source(s) of that 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 dark force 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.

• Progressive self immunization, using the Clarity-Sphere. The latter is more effective than the Energy Egg, and you use it in the same way fundamentally, but it has a lot more simplicity and 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' that 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.
  

  I have developed an ongoing very simple strategy for using the Clarity-Sphere during dark force attacks, whether they be minor, brief ones or at least attempts at major crisis events. If you apply this to each attack that comes to you, however minor, and to individual waves or types of attack during a more major and sustained attack event, you can progressively build up genuine immunity to attacks. Once this strategy has immunized you to a specific attack, an identical attack can no longer work on you. So, if you consistently use this strategy, over time the dark force's options for attacking you are steadily reduced in number, and attacks would become steadily less common and, generally speaking, of decreasing strength (though with ups and downs).
  

  There are two prongs of my 'counter-attack' strategy, both to be used on each attack. The attack will not usually go away instantly, but in my experience has typically dissolved over about an hour - though minor attacks could largely be gone in a matter of minutes. If the attack is persisting, there is bound to be something else that needs 'zapping', with a repeat of the twin procedure with a different emphasis. You may find Anatomy of a Dark Force ('Astral Entities') Attack Crisis to be useful reading too.

• Tune the Clarity-Sphere, using the Clarity-Sphere Sentinel, to whatever is causing stress at that time, as described above. In the case of very minor attacks, particularly when you're in bed and want if at all possible to avoid the disturbance of getting up to 'do Grounding Post', this may be all that is needed to cause the attack to dissolve over a few minutes to about half an hour. I keep a Sentinel within easy reach on my bedsite cabinet for this purpose.

• Use the Grounding Post procedure on the Clarity-Sphere (i.e. using the Clarity-Sphere as though it were the wooden post, as described in the Sphere's User Guide) to 'zap' any belief or illusory reality that is underlying the attack. You may initially imagine that it's "just an attack" and there is no underlying belief or illusory reality in your mind, but actually there would be (because that's all part of the attack mechanism), but the dark force can bring this about in a very covert way by means of feeding a constant flow of 'pseudo-thoughts' into the back of your mindspace, and can thus create a more or less hidden belief or illusory reality that, if you became properly aware of it, you'd dismiss as absolute rubbish. Unfortunately, just dismissing it intellectually doesn't get rid of it, but the Grounding Post procedure does, though it may take anything from a few hours to a few weeks for it to clear enough to be ineffective for obvious attacks, and up to a few months to be completely gone.

  The effectiveness of using Grounding Post for this purpose does depend on fishing up and identifying the key belief or illusory reality underlying the attack. There may be a number of them, but in any particular attack, generally speaking, there would be one particular key thing to 'zap'. If you don't identify that correctly you could have a lot of work, individually 'zapping' what are really more peripheral details, whereas if you identify the key item (which will tend to be something that is both general and far-reaching in its implications), that would more or less embrace all the peripheral details so that they don't also need to be 'zapped'.
  

  I strongly recommend the careful and vigilant use of energy testing to help you establish whether any particular belief / illusory reality that you have in mind to 'zap' is actually the key one that needs 'doing' at that point. That can save you a lot of unnecessary Grounding Post work and keep things very much to essentials.

• Medication. As already stated, medication used in an ongoing way is highly problematical (NO depot injections!), but a sleeping tablet (Zopiclone is one of the less harmful ones, but beware of all benzodiazepines including Diazepam, Temazepam and Nitrazepam, which are all much more harmful long-term than the medics recognise) can sensibly be used OCCASIONALLY in order to get a night's sleep during an attack. The dark force, when attacking, generally seeks to deprive you of successive nights' sleep to make you still more vulnerable to it and make a wreck of you. Thus, ensuring that you have at least a minimum of sleep to keep you going is part of empowering yourself and disempowering the dark force interference.

  Some people may find herbal preparations of Valerian and hops such as Kalms useful, but I myself found Kalms ineffective, and more recent energy testing on them showed them actually to be significantly harmful for me in terms of likely very long term effects. 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 and work on resolving the underlying causes of problems, as you can with the methods pointed to in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

  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 energy testing for yourself may come up with different answers, for we are each unique in our particular combinations of sensitivities, 'resonances' and vulnerabilities, even though there are also particular vulnerabilities that everybody has.

  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 that is given in the instruction leaflet (though I have described it in the next to previous list item). The same is true for a Clarity-Sphere, but it is distinctly 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 dark force was the prime culprit). I keep an open mind on the issue. My energy testing indicates that in terms of prospective long term effects all my use of Haloperidol was significantly harmful - though I have now pretty well cleared out all that harm through use of the Energy Egg and, more recently, the much more powerful Clarity-Sphere.

  * As already noted, 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 that would get recognised as caused by the drugs, but long term effects that 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 dark force 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 that 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. Basically, in terms of long-term harmful effects, my energy testing indicated that, dose for dose, Risperidone was no less harmful than Haloperidol.

  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 that 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.