Philip Goddard

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Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'

Presented here is information which briefly describes the nature and activities of troublesome non-physical entities (often called dark beings, dark entities, astral beings, astral entities, demons or demonic entities) - and their postulated astral 'overlords' ('archons') - which are interfering with every human regardless of whether or not they are aware of that interference or believe in the existence of such entities.

Not only can the entities cause untold misery and suffering for some individuals, but pretty well universally they have been covertly controlling people, often in apparently small ways, and diverting them from effective and direct means to enlightenment and self realization and towards power/control agendas, in order to gain control and domination over them in a most pernicious and insidious manner.

The understandings given here of the likely nature and origin of these troublesome manifestations give us real possibilities for disempowering them and indeed theoretically eventually eliminating them from the whole of Existence as we know it.


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Related pages: For the sake of completeness I link here to the writings which prompted me towards establishing my current insights into the modus operandi of the astral forces and the pernicious, illusory nature of supposed higher realities and higher beings, but I caution that I cannot actually recommend the particular person's writings, because he himself shows clear signs of significant astral entity interference, even while proclaiming against it all, and he puts out a highly problematical, even (to me) paranoid-seeming campaigning stance and 'energy' which further distort his already quite distorted 'message'. I refer you also to his behaviour relating to me which I recount in The Guide to Complete Self Realization, which shows that he is currently far from having the degree and depth of awareness which he appears to believe that he has.


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What are astral entities?

The term 'entity' in this context is equivalent to 'non-physical being' - or rather, that is how it is generally understood, and how I had been taking it till very recently. Such presences are apparently discrete autonomous consciousnesses without physical bodies. However, emphasis must go on 'apparently', because many entities are very likely not consciousnesses at all but merely thought form complexes which behave in autonomous ways as though they were consciousnesses.

Although discarnate human consciousnesses which have for some reason failed to 'pass on' (including ghosts) would be included in the term 'entity', our concern here is with a different though not completely unrelated phenomenon - entities in what many people call the astral level of reality / of consciousness (bearing in mind that a clear and undistorted perception of reality sees consciousness and all that it perceives as not being separate) - what I prefer to call the astral sub-reality, for that is less open to highly problematical misinterpretations.

I discuss the likely true nature and origin of astral entities at the end of this article, and, as you will see there, it is actually very likely that they are really not what we have been thinking they are, and are not true consciousnesses at all.

People with 'psychic' perceptions or who channel 'information' from non-physical sources have very widely come up with variants of a model of 'reality' which splits it into a number (commonly 13) of levels or 'dimensions', giving the physical level as being the 3rd dimension, with the 4th commonly being called the astral dimension and the 9th being the place where all the angels and archangels hang out. However, as I now only too well understand, ALL such scenarios and stories are bogus - inventions of interfering astral entities which mediate in ALL channelling done by ANYONE, and similarly mediate in ALL supposedly clairvoyant perceptions.

The actual situation appears to be as follows. We are basically consciousness which is going through the experience of seeming to be in a physical body in a physical 'reality'. The deepest aspects of each of us as consciousness are very subtle and are actually the all-pervading 'universal' consciousness, which I am calling fundamental consciousness (I'm trying to remember not to use the definite article with that term, because it is even less a 'thing' than water or air is).

When we become enlightened we perceive directly that deepest and most fundamental reality and recognise it as our true nature and identity. That level of consciousness is non-dual and apparently totally devoid of concepts, and thus within it you can't say that anything exists or not; you simply experience. This is the consciousness out of which all experiences arise, however, but that fundamental consciousness remains pure, unsullied and apparently concept-free no matter what you are experiencing.


Getting clear about what 'astral' means

There appears to be another broad, non-physical aspect of consciousness or reality, which is strongly dualistic and conceptual and thus very different from fundamental consciousness and yet which is not that of our worldly or physical awareness. It is this that I am calling the astral sub-reality, and which the troublesome astral entities (whatever their true nature) have got people to divide up into 'dimensions' and all manner of supposed 'higher' realities. I myself had 'bought' the story of all these 'dimensions' of higher reality, but it never matched up with my direct perception of myself as simply a manifestation or micro-facet of fundamental consciousness - in which perception of specific levels or dimensions of 'higher' reality simply didn't make sense, and neither did the notion of higher beings, because I as an Earthly human was already a manifestation of 'the Ultimate'.

So, although it could sound more familiar for me to talk of the astral 'level' or 'dimension', really it would be most helpful to talk of the astral sub-reality.

The astral sub-reality is the aspect of reality into which we project all our illusions and beliefs. Each illusion or belief which we create or pick up creates an illusory reality or astral realm within the astral sub-reality. Astral entities ruthlessly exploit that fact for their seriously nefarious purposes as I shall explain further below.

Please note something important here - of especial importance to put psychiatric workers in their place and get them thinking awarely about their own situation. A delusion is an illusion that is believed. Indeed, if you stop and awarely think about it, every held belief of anybody's is a delusion (if something is really true, there's no Earthly cause to hold a belief about it anyway). So, if you are, for example, a psychiatric worker and believe that there is no non-physical reality and that entities and so forth are just 'imagination' or creations of people's minds, then you yourself have a delusion right there in holding that belief. A favourite delusion of psychiatric workers is the notion that so-called mental health issues can usefully be addressed by means of medication and ECT rather than finding and addressing the underlying causes. So, when a psychiatric worker talks of another person as 'having delusions', with no reference to any delusions of his/her own, (s)he is actually saying something absurdly funny!

A fully open, belief-free mind is the only helpful way forward. ...Now, with fully open and belief-free minds, let us continue...


How do we know that these 'entities' aren't just part of our minds?

Actually, we don't, and can never, know for sure that they aren't just part of our minds. But I say this in the context that when we look at all our life experience with a truly clear mind we realize that we cannot absolutely know anything. All we ever can do is work on the basis of how things appear to be - preferably with open and aware minds so that we can respond flexibly according to the new perceptions and insights which arise from time to time. You cannot absolutely know that the Sun isn't a hippopotamus, but in practice you live your life on the basis of your observations on how things appear to be plus your most helpful interpretations of your observations.

The point here is that the entities (in many but actually not all ways) behave and interact with us as though they are separate, discrete entities or beings, and in my own very hard experience with them, for most purposes treating them as though they are separate entities, or at least a separate 'force', and 'not me' has been an essential part of my handling and mastering my situation with them and clearing out their interferences and influence - so why go denying what appears to be the case? To do so would be a bit like people still insisting that the Earth is flat and that there must be some other explanation for all the evidence that points to its being roughly spherical. Maybe somebody's yet going to convince us that the sun really is a hippopotamus! Let's get cracking right now, gathering up all the masses of evidence for that!

Indeed, I see the common tendency of people to claim that entity troubles are just creations of one's own mind as being the result of such entities interfering with those very people who make such claims, to give them that belief in order to obstruct any move to recognise their own interference from these entities and to get those people putting pressure on other people to turn away from properly addressing their entities issues.


All the different types of interfering entity...

That's a joke, that is - me listing here all the alleged types of entity! Yes, there may well be a wide range of types of these entities, but if I knew them and were to list them all this page would probably be longer than my right arm and the other one and both my legs too! And really the point is, most if not all of the alleged types of entities are inventions. The astral entities constantly seek to give us 'story' - illusory realities - and for the extremely pernicious purpose which I'll go into further below.

In my own experience the entities have been behaving as though several different types have been interacting with me, but again I cannot tell whether this is really different types or simply a matter of their being proficient 'chameleons' in 'changing their spots' according to the requirements of their troublesome agenda (dictated from their hypothetical archon 'overlords') from moment to moment. They, or at least many of them, are certainly arch-impostors, so quite possibly just one basic type might be able to put on any sort of persona. However, having said that, my gut feeling from my own mass of experience with such entities is that at least some of the different types are genuinely different types - but not necessarily with the identities which a particular psychic or 'lightworker' would place on them. After all, such people are told of or shown those identities by the astral entities themselves, so they are being 'pixie-led' and all their detailed information is virtually worthless (indeed worse than worthless because of the agenda underlying the distortions and deceptions).

Actually I would expect there to be some different types of astral entity involved, simply because theirs is a realm of control agenda and it would appear that they are all following instructions received from some higher level in their 'command chain'. According to Steve Gamble's (albeit problematical) writings and indeed my own 'reading' from my deeper aspects, there appears to be some sort of command chain which comes down from astral 'overlords' known to some as archons. I must stress that the latters' presence can only be postulated, for any information we get about them will be suspect at best.

Elsewhere you may read details about types of troublesome entities which I don't give here, but I caution that such details are at best suspect because of the astral entities' involvement in the production of such 'information'. Deceit is their middle name - and every other name of theirs!

It's important, thus, that we do NOT get fixated on any 'story' about these entities and their background as any sort of 'reality' or 'truth'. The healthiest and most problem-free approach is to build the simplest and most basic working model of what's going on, which helps us for healing and self realization purposes, and to let go of the picture otherwise because we can never know what is true in the astral sub-reality. Indeed, the astral sub-reality is the level of illusion anyway, so it's meaningless to go talking of anything being 'true' there!*

* Later note (April 2008) - For the same reason, it's also meaningless to go talking of true conscious beings there! I explain further about the likely true nature of astral entities in the final section of this account.

I list below a reasonable selection of purported types or manifestations of these astral or 'dark' entities of which I'm aware - not by any means an exhaustive list - for the purpose of setting off some alarm bells.

And I can well imagine that some individuals will find some inner alarm bells start ringing here as they begin to realize something of the predicament of their favourite guru who claims to channel from, consort with, bring healing from, or to be an incarnation of any of the following. ALL the following, and indeed ALL non-physical entities which manifest to us in any way are apparently either astral entities (with an extremely pernicious and insidious agenda), more or less degraded 'lost' human souls programmed by astral entities to lead us astray (especially in the case of so-called guides and supposed departed relatives), or are simulations created by those astral entities as lures for us.

I shall explain further below how it is that such entities with a seriously negative agenda can create the impression of being higher beings uttering what appear at first glance to be tremendously wise, 'enlightened' and loving things.

Our little astral 'chamber of horrors'

The following list is little more than 'off the top of my head', and so really is just a selection to give you some idea of the range of purported entity types and personae which may be presented to people. None of them is benign, regardless of how they present themselves.


The well known 'bad' or at least dubious guys

Variously described as good and bad

The supposed good guys - the real can of worms!

What on earth do we make of all this?

Actually you can take heart, because what I'm pointing to is a great simplification of approach, for, despite what you may have been told from other quarters, it's much, much better NOT to concern yourself about different types of troublesome entity, because for healing and self realization purposes it's greatly more effective not to engage with any apparently external entities at all, and so we actually have no need to know anything about them (not even whether they're supposedly good or bad guys!), except for having overall knowledge of the astral entities' seriously troublesome agenda and the sort of tricks and deceptions they put on, so that we can progressively get ourselves free from their interference and influence.

Indeed, as I found out myself the hard way, the more you get into 'story' about different types of these entities, the more you are opening yourself to them, and the more 'story' they will give you to lead you astray.

Although it may initially look horrifically scary to suddenly realize that there are really no Archangel Michael or other higher beings to protect or assist you in dealing with entity problems, actually this is really part of some truly great news and the beginning of the solution of those problems, for the point is that people have almost universally - again thanks to being led astray by astral entities - been looking in the wrong direction for their protection and truly supportive strength, which is immensely greater and closer at hand than any postulated archangel. That's where we unequivocally turn to our own core essence -  fundamental consciousness or 'the Ultimate' itself - to start doing the real clearance work and get functioning as our real protection. What better starting point for that process than The Guide to Complete Self Realization?

So, now that I've reduced the supposed whole unwholesome menagerie of astral or dark entities which interfere with us to simply 'astral entities' directed by archons, we can deal with them all as a single issue and can focus much better on the real task at hand, which is to clear ourselves from their interferences.


The entities' agenda

Forewarned is forearmed! What you are about to read here is not pleasant, and may indeed frighten you. I don't at all enjoy writing such things, and do not want to frighten anyone, except in that here I'm actually giving out important information that assists us in being truly effective in clearing ourselves of astral interference and influence. You NEVER resolve an issue or problem by running away from it or by whistling in the dark, hoping it's not really like that.

Let me say now that I am NOT putting forward the following scenario as 'fact' or 'truth', because NOBODY on Planet Earth can know anything as objective 'fact' or 'truth' in any postulated non-physical reality - whether or not they are supposedly enlightened. The scenario which I'm about to put forward is nothing more than a working model or theory which best explains my own observations of the ways in which the astral forces are interfering with people (I have masses of first-hand experience of this) and which points us to the most effective means of healing ourselves and clearing from ourselves all astral ('dark') interference and influence.

The following scenario is similar in many respects to that given by Steve Gamble in his Shopping for Spirit, Chapter 9, but I am seeking to keep it to essentials and avoiding as far as possible being sensationalist or evangelist about it as he seems to be. Steve appears to have some problems himself with astral-sourced interference in the information which he presents, so it's important not to get involved with or attached to it as he seems to have done. He presents it all as though it is reality, and by doing that he's helping to create yet another harmful illusory reality or astral realm which could cause him and many others great trouble.

As I say, the healthy way forward is to see this as just a working model to use for healing and self realization purposes and which is best let go of as any categorical description of reality (but not actually disbelieved, for that would would be a belief in its own right and cause its own serious problems). As I've said before, a fully open, belief (and disbelief) free mind is the basis of any truly helpful way forward.


The bits we'd rather not know about...

In various places on this site I've mentioned the astral entities' blind fixation on power / control agendas, and that they seek control and domination over humans and to divert them from true 'enlightenment' (what I'm calling the gaining of fundamental clarity) and self realization. Just why they are like this, nobody knows. Many traditions and individuals have their beliefs, generally based on channelled information (often via esoteric teachings), which, as I repeatedly point out, has actually come at least in part from the astral entities themselves and so needs to be steered well clear of. Some say that the formation of the whole 'dark side' was an essential part of the differentiation of the Cosmos at the supposed event of Creation - while others claim that this apparent 'dark side' was not intended by the alleged Creator Consciousness but formed as a result of a small 'accident' at the very beginning of differentiation at the time of the supposed Creation. But, as I say, whatever any ultimate truth, all such stories need to be discarded as unverifiable, and it's best for us to keep a completely open mind on such matters.

Okay, now, this is it. What actually are these astral entities? -- As far as I can ascertain, they are none other than immensely degraded and distorted human souls, which themselves had got ensnared and so degraded by other astral entities which had previously met the same sort of fate at the 'hands' of yet further astral entities which themselves had been so degraded by... and so on over some enormous timescale.

As already noted, all these astral entities are being controlled through some sort of command chain from particular astral 'overlords' known as archons, which themselves are apparently not derived from human souls.

What is actually happening, as far as I can establish it at the moment, is as follows. Contrary to almost universally held belief among healers, mystics, psychics and 'New Age' movements, the really aware and wise humans, who are strong healers and have potential to quickly reach enlightenment, are NOT old souls who have evolved over very many soul incarnations, but are incarnations of NEW souls!

Furthermore, if they manage to keep sufficiently clear of astral interferences, at death they would NOT go to any supposed 'Light', nor go anywhere, but would undergo a transition which is almost universally but highly misleadingly called 'recombination with Source'. This term is misleading, because it implies that they'd become separate from a supposed source in the first place - an astral-sourced distortion of the real state of affairs. So, for such a person upon death, Earthly and physical experiences would simply cease, and the soul would simultaneously dissolve into the all-pervading fundamental consciousness, but the core persona or ID of the person would remain intact as a micro-aspect of the fundamental consciousness, in a state of peaceful harmony and clarity as naked awareness. Nothing in this transition is about light or Light. It is about fundamental clarity.

That micro-aspect of the fundamental consciousness can then at some point incarnate again - but via a new soul. Yes, when we incarnate and die 'as Nature intended', each soul is simply a transient non-physical vessel for ONE incarnation, just as are the physical and energy bodies; our true identity is something much deeper and more fundamental than the soul. And, what's more, each of these incarnation is non-karmic*. That is, it carries absolutely no burden of repercussions from whatever went on in any of its other such incarnations. It is liable to accumulate karmas during the present lifetime, but carries nothing from previous lifetimes. The person arrives, then, 'with a clean slate', initially with no emotional issues, no karmas, and is potentially a radiantly powerful and positive being. Even with a certain accumulation of emotional issues caused by unaware parents and other adults and peers, such people could quickly become enlightened and indeed fully self realized - yet in the 'real world' this is not happening, at least as far as I can tell.

* This is because it is at soul level that karmas accumulate. Your core essence - your true nature and identity - never gains any sort of trauma or karma.

So, what, then, is preventing these new-soul people from manifesting in this way?

The primary answer is that at birth the astral entities send to each new-soul human a number of degraded, 'lost' human souls, which had become stuck in the astral sub-reality and are no longer incarnating, but have not yet become fully processed to become fully fledged 'dark' astral entities themselves. These 'lost' souls attach parasitically to the new human and are fully controlled by the group of astral entities which are detailed to interfere with that particular human.

Without such attached lost souls, a new-soul human or indeed to a fair extent a first or second-time soul-reincarnated human would be almost invulnerable to the astral entities. This is because the latter control people by the use of a sort of psychic attack, skillfully manipulating emotional stress / trauma material which the person is carrying, and such new- or nearly-new-soul people have little or no such material which the entities can use. The entities can still interfere by putting little messages (pseudo-thoughts) into their minds, but as long as they keep really well grounded they would most often recognise such thoughts as 'not me' or indeed as just mental 'noise', and filter them out.

Such people, then, would be fully or almost invulnerable to entity attacks (unless they were carrying some major trauma from earlier in their life - but that would still be relatively limited 'ammunition' for the entities' purposes), but would not be fully invulnerable to interference through having pseudo-thoughts intruded into their minds. However, if they become enlightened and continue their self realization well beyond that, then they could become virtually invulnerable even to that sort of interference.


The parasitic 'lost souls' and their bleak existence

What enables the astral entities to break through the relative invulnerability of new-soul people, and others who haven't yet had more than one or two previous soul incarnations, is the presence of the already mentioned parasitic 'lost' souls attached to the person at soul level.

These lost souls are ones which an extremely long time ago had incarnated as new-soul people themselves but had been ensnared or lured into the astral entities' agenda for them - often though not necessarily through religions and so-called spiritual paths, which all lead to one's creating illusory realities, which the astral forces had deceitfully presented as higher realities or indeed bogus versions of 'enlightenment'. These illusory realities or astral realms manifested to the people when they died, diverting them from the peaceful dissolution of the soul back into the fundamental consciousness, and causing the soul thus to be trapped in an astral realm in the astral sub-reality.

At that stage they might subjectively experience the bogus 'higher reality' in which they believed, such as 'ascension' into a non-physical 'heaven' (exactly what is most likely to happen for all the people currently believing in 'ascension' into the so-called - and indeed fictional - 5th dimension), or undergo hellish experiences, because within the astral sub-reality of illusion and delusion the delusion of a severe, punitive externally administered karma is alive and kicking (so to speak!). Even if they are apparently in some sort of beautiful 'heaven', they will become gradually conditioned to accept power / control hierarchies - seeing power hierarchies of, say, angelic beings, as being the Highest Order.

This achieves two main things: the beginning of the programming of these trapped new souls to accept control within and from the astral sub-reality, and to progressively close down their awareness of their true nature as manifestations of fundamental consciousness - 'the Ultimate' - so that increasingly they perceive themselves as separate from 'source', and they perceive the astral sub-reality of illusion as the highest reality, together with all its control agendas, and its replacement of love with fear. This process is, generally speaking, slow and progressive, occurring over many reincarnations of the unfortunate 'lost' soul. Each incarnation of that soul will contain a further increment in its accumulation of emotional stresses / traumas and other karmas, and these together with new increments of programming from the astral control freaks (archons or so-called 'astral lords') via their minions which are themselves end-products of this degradational process, result in each successive incarnation being less aware and more shut-down than the previous one.

So, contrary to widespread belief, the most unaware individuals are generally NOT incarnations of new, unevolved souls, but are of OLD souls who are advanced on a downward 'spiral' of degradation and being changed progressively into automatons who will be at the beck and call of the astral forces.

At a certain advanced point in that process the trapped soul ceases to incarnate and remains trapped in the astral sub-reality. It is then further degraded and programmed - I can only surmise what sorts of hellish treatment such degraded souls might get in order to transform them so - to transform it into a sort of parasitic 'husk' of a soul that is ruthlessly controlled by the archons via the astral entities in order to attach to an incarnated human soul and be used as a weapon and instrument of control upon that person.


The parasitic 'lost' souls as weapons and instruments of control

Once a new-soul person has such parasitic 'lost' souls attached to him, he experiences any emotional issues / traumas and karmas of those 'lost' souls as if they were his own. These cause health issues, various misfortunes, all manner of obstacles towards enlightenment and self realization, and restimulated painful emotions (triggered by particular situations or people) which are actually not his own, and so lives a life which is very much as though he has accumulated all these issues over reincarnations of his own. He will have all manner of impressions, 'resonances' and even actual memories from earlier lifetimes (which may be experienced directly or revealed in so-called past-life regression), which belong to particular attached parasitic human 'lost souls' and not genuinely to himself at all.

For new-soul people in particular this commonly causes a great deal of confusion and bewilderment, because as they have not yet had their awareness shut down, they are very open to their feelings and inner impressions, and may be plagued with exaggerated emotional feelings in response to everyday life situations. This can readily lead to being diagnosed as mentally ill - all the more so because new-soul people tend to be the most poorly grounded, and many feel acutely the sense of isolation and separation from 'source' which is embedded within the parasitic souls' trauma feelings.

This inner confusion and even torment tends to be greatly accentuated by the responses to them from the majority of people, who have had many soul reincarnations and whose awareness is well shut down. These latter people regard new- or nearly-new-soul incarnations as a bit weird, flaky, 'not quite all there', and so on, because these many-times-incarnated people have no awareness of their deeper aspects and cannot understand anyone who has such awareness and has much more vivid life experience (including suffering) than they do.

This all puts pressure upon the more 'open' and vulnerable new- or nearly-new-soul people to feel that there is something wrong with them and to try to shut themselves down - alcohol, smoking, use of so-called recreational drugs such as cannabis (or indeed any of the other drugs available out there on the street) and getting put onto psychiatric medication are among the means which such people commonly try to shut off their awareness in order to dull their sense of confusion and suffering. They are also strongly 'nudged' or manipulated by their interfering astral entities into following such routes.


...Used as instruments of control

However, the attachment of the parasitic 'lost' souls is not just a matter of a passive parasitism, for astral entities actually manipulate the stored emotional traumas of the parasitic souls, usually in covert ways, in order to indirectly manipulate and control the affected person. Normally this is done together with putting into the person's mind certain pseudo-thoughts.

For example, while I was writing this section a little earlier on, I broke off to register the new domain name clarity-of-being.org to use for this website. The astral entities had been interfering with me and attacking me a lot while I was putting information on this site such as is on this page - for clearly it's among the last things they want me to be doing. On this occasion, when I checked the domain name for availability and was about to order it from my hosting company, I suddenly had an urge to do an Internet search for "clarity of being" to see if there might be confusions caused by my using that name.

When I got the listing and saw various references to "clarity of being", I was assaulted with nightmarishly strong feelings of self doubt and strong messages were coming supposedly from within my mind that I was doing the wrong thing and going to make a complete mess of everything, and that I'd got to get this right but couldn't, and it was all falling apart, and that the astral entities had now 'got' me - a nightmarish sort of feeling. I did actually defer ordering the domain name (by about an hour) just so that I could re-check within my deepest aspects when the attack had subsided sufficiently for me to be sure that I was acting out of clarity and wasn't being led into that particular choice by the astral forces.

But as far as I can see, few other people would so clearly recognise, or indeed recognise at all, the entity interference - nearly everybody just assuming that their thoughts and feelings are their own and 'are me' and so being a puppet of them.

It's in this way that people - even new-soul ones - can be driven to rape and all manner of depraved, violent or otherwise antisocial behaviour. I myself had the entities in 2003 try to get me to rape a particular man. That was not a typical situation because I actually had a voice (of a supposed ascended master) instructing me to do it (whereas for most people I think such messages would occur at a more or less subliminal level), but what I assume was typical was that these instructions were accompanied by immensely strong feelings of a mixture of sexual arousal, sexual ecstasy and craving. Fortunately I had the clarity to realize that those feelings were 'not mine' and were being used to try to manipulate me, even though I didn't know about the parasitic 'lost' souls phenomenon then. Those sexual feelings were actually resultant upon the astral entities attacking one or more of the attached parasitic souls with particular emotional trauma feelings which tend to get interpreted as sexual feelings or lust, and then I'd felt those feelings as though they were my own, although, as I say, I had the clarity to know that attempts were being made to manipulate me and so I resisted the alarmingly strong sexual and lustful feelings.

In fact some of the most virulent of the so-called religious fundamentalists are actually new- or nearly-new-soul incarnations who are being very strongly controlled by astral entities via parasitic 'lost' souls and partial walk-ins. People who've been through many soul reincarnations are more shut down and unaware, and do not have the sort of inner energy or 'fire' or indeed charisma to enable them to operate like that.


...Used as weapons

I have already mentioned attacks being used for control purposes. Those are usually the 'gentle' ones. For most people these remain covert and just serve various discreet control and manipulation purposes (such as ensuring that the person gets into a religion or 'spiritual path' or materialism rather than going for true self realization). However, for others the attacks are often used with brutal force, to 'bring the person down' in some way. This happened to me massively, as I recount in Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Entities - My Own Experience, but, exceptionally, in my case, despite a period of disruption to my life, I managed to use all that happened as 'handles' to enable me to progressively understand what was going on and thus progressively to weaken and eventually clear out the entities' interferences.

Normally such attacks are regarded as mental illness, and get diagnosed medically as 'attacks' (sic) of anxiety, panic, depression etc - the doctors having absolutely no idea of the non-physical cause of these and that they are indeed the result of attacks in the military sense.

Some of the parasitic 'lost' souls are extremely heavily traumatized, having died horrendous deaths in their final incarnation quite apart from having accumulated massive trauma loads from nasty deaths in previous lifetimes. These are used for the really strong attacks. As far as I can establish at the moment, I was 'kindly given' at birth an exceptional load of about 30 of these parasitic 'lost' souls, about half of which were very severely traumatized in that way.

It appears that the astral forces (the controlling archons), being outside our notions of space and time, could see that I was almost certain to be a problem for their plans if I wasn't stopped, so they chose to set me up in such a way that they could deliver particularly severe attacks upon me - hence the large number of these parasitic soul remnants that were attached to me. At the time of writing this (at age 65), I'm at last apparently clearing them out in ones and twos, and it could well be a matter of weeks or a very few months before I'm fully clear of them - and then I would be completely invulnerable to attacks*, though still to some extent susceptible to their interfering intruded pseudo-thoughts.

* Later note (January 2008) - The situation has turned out not to be quite so straightforward, because although allegedly I completed the clearing-out of the lost souls in October 2007, I still had thought form replicas of the lost souls and their important memories and traumas, which were being kept in place by the astral entities. This meant, then, that attacks didn't cease at that point, but at least they have been diminishing in strength (albeit with ups and downs) at a distinctly accelerated rate.

'Night terrors', nightmares and the issue of grounding

The night terrors phenomenon is operated directly by astral entities, but also incorporates the parasitic 'lost' souls being used as weapons. It is much more common than generally supposed. In fact, although the term 'night terrors' is generally used just for childhood night terrors, it occurs in various forms for many adults too, not necessarily at night. The key to this is having the person's awareness sufficiently ungrounded for this to work. Typically young children's awareness is not well grounded, for they are still in the late stages of the incarnation process, and so they are particularly susceptible, but anyone of any age can be affected if something happens, or they live in a particular way or with a particular outlook, which sufficiently undermines the grounding of their awareness - that is, their balance of awareness between physical and non-physical reality.

I explain at some length about night terrors in Night Terrors and Hearing Voices, but the main point here is that if a particular part of a person's awareness is sufficiently ungrounded, the astral entities can temporarily insinuate it into an astral realm in which (s)he is presented with a maelstrom of distorted and grotesque visual images and is simultaneously severely attacked (via the attached 'lost' souls) with fear and related emotions such as anxiety, panic and apprehension, often in combinations which have a particular unbearableness about them.

As I understand it, it is these experiences which form the basis of all the stories and beliefs in hells (or Hell), and there is no such thing as a hell otherwise. So, I and everyone else who has experienced true 'night terrors' (or the same phenomenon by day, probably labelled as schizophrenic or psychotic hallucinations) has actually experienced a real hell, as far as hell can be said to exist at all.

Nightmares - a different type of entity interference

Nightmares are a particular distorted type of dream in which attack from astral entities occurs - night terrors not being dreams at all. In dreaming, your own system is going through a sort of sifting and re-evaluation process, comparing recent experiences with previous ones and relating them also to any thoughts or ideas or insights that may come up. Certain superficial aspects of this process periodically impinge on the conscious level of awareness and are then experienced as dreaming. These experiences tend to go unnoticed or get quickly forgotten except when they form into some sort of 'story' sequence, and it is these sequences that are generally thought of as dreams.

Astral entities generally want to interfere with dreams and make them into more true night terror experiences - but they simply can't do that, for they don't have direct access to the levels of our consciousness in which the dreaming process occurs. However, what they do in order to try to work round that is to covertly put various distorted ideas and images into the level of the person's awareness where memories are held, awaiting review, evaluation and 'sifting', so that the dreaming process can pick these up and incorporate them into dreams, making them into disturbing dreams or full-blown nightmares.

Astral entities do this to just about everyone, all the time, so clearly there has to be another factor required to precipitate nightmares. What actually happens is that during the dreaming process anyone with reasonably well grounded awareness automatically recognises thoughts, images or apparent memories that are 'not mine' and simply discards them. With an important exception noted further below, they are at that point not just ignored but actually dissolved because they are not useful data worth retaining. That means that the astral entities, in order to maintain a cache of such material in your 'unprocessed memories' store, have to add new material on a daily basis. It also means that your dreaming process cannot be transformed into a virulent maelstrom of disturbing images like true night terrors.

The problems come for a person when a particular part of their awareness is poorly grounded. Then their dreaming process doesn't always immediately succeed in distinguishing between 'not mine' and 'mine', and so the 'foreign' material gets incorporated in the dreaming process up to an eventual point at which it is recognised as 'not mine' and discarded. It is in such situations that nightmares and also dreams incorporating particularly weird, distorted images, can occur. The astral entities are aware when such dreams are occurring and usually attack then with fear or related emotions to make the dream a harrowing experience - hence the 'nightmare'.

Physical illness - particularly infections - can also make it more difficult to immediately recognise and discard 'not mine' during the dreaming process. Hence the tendency for weird and often disturbing dreams with distorted images when one is going down with a cold, 'flu or other infections.

Overall, thus, people who are having a rough time from astral entities (their awareness being sufficiently weakly grounded for this to be occurring) are particularly prone to disturbing dreams and nightmares. However, that is not invariably the case, and indeed I myself am a very clear exception. Despite my early severe night terrors of two very different types, and my more recent tremendous ordeals and attacks from astral entities with intense trauma feelings of fear, terror, panic, anxiety et al, and indeed further attempts to assault me with night terror displays, I have never in my life had a true nightmare, and indeed dreams of any degree of disturbing character have always been a rarity for me, usually linked to the onset of an infection.

The reason for there being such exceptions appears to be that it is a specific part of a person's awareness which needs to be poorly grounded if nightmares are to occur, and in my case that particular part of my awareness has remained consistently pretty well grounded, even when, as in my 2003 to 2007 troubles with the entities, other parts of my awareness became very poorly grounded, really opening me to large-scale trickery and attacks from the entities. That good groundedness of the particular part of my awareness has also been my great protection against the astral forces attempts to impose upon me a partial walk-in.


Recurrent disturbing dreams or nightmares

When, during the dreaming process, you discard useless and 'not mine' material, as I've already remarked, generally that material is at that point dissolved, so that it doesn't present itself again and so cannot turn up in more than one dream. However, there is one big exception to that general rule - and that is where a memory, thought or image comes up which is linked to a trauma that you are carrying. That trauma may be one which you have undergone yourself (in this or a previous lifetime) or it may belong to one of the parasitic lost souls attached to you, which are affecting you to a fair extent as though they were your own traumas incorporating your own memories.

When such material comes up for sifting in the dreaming process, everything proceeds just the same as related above, but with one important difference. The material cannot be properly sifted, and indeed any attempt to discard it is likely to fail, because the distorted 'trauma' energy attached to that material acts like a sort of sticky 'glue' which keeps memories and thoughts relating to that trauma all stuck together. Until release of that trauma has occurred, the same material will periodically come up again for sifting during dreaming - particularly if anything in everyday life has reminded you (normally subconsciously) of anything relating to that trauma again. The sifting process is then bound to run into the same sort of problem that it did before, and it is thus that recurrence of disturbing dreams and nightmares occurs.

A recurring true nightmare thus always points to an emotional trauma which the person is carrying - and this trauma may well belong not to her at all but to one of the parasitic lost souls attached to her.

The healing answer for ALL issues of recurring disturbing dreams and nightmares, therefore, is the clearance of all one's emotional traumas and the removal of the attached parasitic 'lost' souls. Please see Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.


Alien abductions

I have listed various types of alleged extra-terrestrials as actually being inventions of the astral entities in the same way that purported angels or ascended masters are. Indeed, I have done that in the clear knowledge that many people have had apparently real visitations or abductions by seemingly physical extra-terrestrials. So, how do I reconcile my listing of such ETs as non-physical, astral inventions with those people's experiences?

Let me say now that in no way am I rubbishing their accounts, even though there are bound to be the odd individuals who have been controlled by their interfering entities into telling stories that are more or less entirely fictional. I'm satisfied that in the vast majority of cases 'alien-abducted' people have had genuine experiences of encounters or indeed abductions, pretty well as they describe them.

Yet my current understanding is still that almost all - if not all - such encounters were NOT with physical beings at all, even though the affected individuals are almost invariably convinced that they'd had real physical encounters. So, what's going on here?

The answer yet again comes down to the issue of poor grounding, and the fact that when a person's awareness is sufficiently ungrounded, his awareness spontaneously opens more into the astral sub-reality of illusion and delusion. This gives the interfering astral entities great freedom then to deceive the person and present illusory material in a way which seems 'real'. This is most effectively and indeed often dramatically achieved by taking part of the person's awareness into an astral realm (illusory reality), where everything seems 'real' and physical. My understanding is that in more or less all cases of encounters with and abductions by ETs, the person had very poor grounding of part of his/her awareness and it got inveigled by astral entities into an astral realm where the apparently physical encounter occurred.

The purpose of this would in just about every case have been for the astral entities, posing as the particular ETs, to put some implants into the person's energy system, to increase and facilitate the astral entities' control over that person. Usually the person would be unaware of that taking place - though some individuals have actually reported this happening - not realizing that the implants were not the positive things which the supposed ETs would have claimed them to be.

The sighting of UFOs is, to my understanding, a similar phenomenon. It's significant that various astronauts are claimed to have seen UFOs while away from Earth - because then not only their awareness but their whole being becomes poorly grounded - which indeed is responsible for much of the adverse health effects of going into space.

I can now hear various ET and UFO enthusiasts piping up, asking in accusing tones how the hell I could know that the visiting and abduction ETs and indeed UFOs are really astral realm phenomena and are not in the physical 'reality'. Surely, this is just a belief of this clearly very opinionated Phillip Goddard guy!

As it happens, I do not operate on the basis of belief or held opinion, and in this particular case I have personal experience to back up my postulation about astral realms. You see, I've actually experienced astral realms and know that they are part of 'reality' or 'What Is', even though what they contain is delusion. True, I haven't experienced alien encounters or abductions, but the astral realm experiences I have had were very revealing.

A major instance was during my September 2006 hospitalization, briefly described in My Little Brush With Psychiatry. Quite apart from the various 'hell' (night terrors) realms that I was briefly taken into, repeatedly I was taken into astral realms which were seemingly completely lifelike replicas of that particular hospital, in which a variety of crazy and bizarre things happened (according to the breathtakingly convoluted 'story' agenda which the astral entities were trying to get me to engage with), which all seemed completely real (not as in a dream at all). These happenings included:

It came as a relief but no complete surprise to me to establish afterwards that none of these things had happened in physical reality. I did eventually get the opportunity to check with the particular nurse as to whether I'd behaved strangely with him and had even sought to get him into bed with me, and he seemed a little taken aback as I asked him about that, and assured me that nothing of the sort had happened. Yet that astral realm in particular had seemed immensely 'real', and I'd really 'physically' felt his hand as I'd sought to drag him into bed with me! wink

It turns out that there was a sinister significance about the involvement of that particular nurse, who was one of the two there then who never seemed to me as though they were really nurses, and who I (still) regard as quite unsuitable to be employed in caring professions at all. Indeed, that guy seemed much more as though he was a handyman who was visiting to do some manual task - or even as though he was a patient himself! My energy testing indicates that the particular nurse had a strong spirit attachment which the astral forces were opportunistically seeking to get transferred to me by getting me infatuated with him through all the astral realm encounters and then supposedly trying to involve myself closely with him in everyday life (my 'reading' is that he was gay and so potentially responsive to me if I had made the right sort of advances to him). Fortunately I remained far from infatuated and in any case saw him as far too loaded with serious issues of his own for me to want to be involved with him at all.


How do I tell if I'm in an astral realm, then?

Although astral realms appear superficially realistic, they do so only because of the ungrounded state of your awareness, which makes you hypersuggestive and super-gullible. In my case, being a new-soul incarnation and enlightened too, even when I was in those astral realms I had the clarity to also be aware that they were astral realms or at least were most likely so. I give here a few observations that seemed to be identifying features of astral realms:

So, in my experience, and according to my 'reading' of what is the general situation, it is theoretically possible to tell if you're in an astral realm while you are in it, though few people have sufficient clarity or depth of awareness to recognise it for what it is 'from the inside', and therefore would regard the experiences as being 'for real'. However, armed with the information I've listed above, I think many more people could retrospectively identify astral realm experiences that they've had. In particular, the extended timescale of most astral realms is a giveaway.


Is soul reincarnation really a pathway to hell?

In The Five Human Character Structures - Their True Significance, which I refer you to at this point, I explain how each of the five so-called character structures can typically be linked to a specific - albeit not clearly demarcated - stage in the soul degradation process. Although in some ways that looks a pretty chilling picture, actually it does give us much more of an understanding of the actual type of issues and healing requirements of people who are either new soul incarnations or are already on the 'downward' path of soul degradation - for everyone has at least some degree of healing and self realization potential and motivation, never mind how much it is hidden / distorted.

But now, let's take the bull by the horns and see that actually the situation isn't quite as scary as it's been looking - though, speaking for myself, I'd choose self realization and full freedom from the astral agenda any day rather than to go the way of that bull...


So, where's the hell, then?

I have already indicated what is apparently the end product of this degradational process for human souls. Once their awareness becomes sufficiently shut down, they cease incarnating and become the parasitic 'lost' souls which are controlled by astral entities which themselves are being controlled through some sort of command chain from the archons, and which are directed to attach to human souls as they incarnate - particularly new souls.

Apparently they eventually become transformed and programmed to become actual astral entities ('dark' or 'demonic' entities) themselves - though I cannot be sure of this (and neither an anyone else, at least if they are honest with themselves). I do not know if the astral sub-reality is becoming ever more and more full of these, who are seemingly trapped there for the rest of the life of the Cosmos, or whether there is some process by which they eventually dissolve back into fundamental consciousness and thus become free again.

One thing I should say here to put this whole issue into proper perspective is that, as far as I understand it at the moment, these 'lost' souls actually do not suffer the unspeakable hellish torments through all this which you might imagine. The reason for this is that their own core essence has been so thickly covered up that they have insufficient depth of self awareness to experience suffering as we understand it.

As an illustration of what I'm talking about, imagine the countless caterpillars throughout the world which get progressively eaten from the inside by the maggots of ichneumon wasps. The process looks horrific to most of us, and it's easy to believe that unimaginable suffering is involved - but insects simply don't have the sort of self awareness that can experience suffering as we know it. I say that even though I would still not willfully cause harm to even one insect if it could reasonably be avoided.

So, the vast majority of humans, who are currently on the 'downward' process towards being parasitic lost souls and eventually 'dark' or 'demonic' astral entities, are NOT heading into what we'd recognise as a hellish existence of tremendous suffering and torment. The subjective experience of a soul going through this degradational process would actually be primarily one of becoming less and less aware, and progressively entering a sort of 'twilight' of oblivion, in which it is simply unaware of what is going on or what it is being used for. This end-state has been reached by the time the soul has become a non-incarnating parasitic entity, and it remains so when the soul has reached its apparent end-state as one of the 'dark' or 'demonic' astral entities.

Paradoxically it is new soul incarnations and those who have soul-reincarnated no more than a few times who can really experience 'hell'. And what is hell, then? Why, the night terrors phenomenon of course! It is the most deeply aware individuals who experience such things most vividly, and are sufficiently  poorly grounded for the astral entities to present them with the powerful maelstroms of grotesque visuals coupled with intense attacks with emotional trauma feelings largely or wholly drawn from the attached parasitic 'lost' souls. It is such people who are able to suffer most deeply and intensely, so they are the ones who experience 'hell' if anyone does.

People who have picked up a belief in hell or hells, say in Christianity or Tibetan Buddhism can actually be given experiences in night terror sequences which match the hells they've been taught about - yet another good reason for people to let go of all beliefs and all religious connections if they want to become free from that sort of interference from the astral forces.

The astral forces' intention in subjecting people to night terror experiences appears to be to start 'softening them up' by traumatizing them and making it more difficult for them to spontaneously move to full self realization and freedom from astral interference, and to increase the likelihood of their getting ensnared in an astral realm when they die.


A healing perspective on this

The above scenario may look horrific and to be one of unspeakable despair for almost the whole of Humanity. However, what I've written above is not the end of the story. First, we need to remember that we and everything that we experience are, first and foremost, consciousness*. We have no way of knowing of any 'external' enduring reality. Therein lies our key to coming to terms with the situation (or indeed any apparently difficult situation!).

* Please see On the Nature of Reality and Truth.

The astral sub-reality is the aspect of our experience (and thus of 'reality') into which all our beliefs and illusions are projected, and the entities within it are all existing within that state of delusion, believing the myth that they are separate from the fundamental consciousness - which latter they don't even recognise, because to recognise it truly for what it is would at once dissolve their delusion of separateness.

There is actually a very simple healing approach for all this, which is for us to recognise the whole astral sub-reality for what it is - a whole mass of distorted energies and perceptions which itself is a state of illusion or indeed delusion. Healers or in fact anyone (for we all have some healing ability) can do simple but profound healing visualizations directed to progressively dissolving the astral sub-reality. I will very soon add a full description of such a healing visualization practice to The Guide to Complete Self Realization, but I can say here briefly that the core of the visualization is simply seeing the whole astral sub-reality as an open book of distorted fictions and gently closing the book and, with aware and 'open' intent, facilitating its dissolution back into fundamental consciousness. There are also methods using the Clarity-Sphere, which are more powerful and indeed can incorporate the abovementioned visualization.


"But what about those poor souls all trapped in there?"

So, let's look at what would presumably happen to all those human souls trapped there if/when that practice does actually result in dissolution of the astral sub-reality - well, if indeed it's not just an illusion of mine or of ours that there really are human souls trapped in there at all. Indeed, I suspect that the whole notion of souls being trapped in the astral sub-reality is a misinterpretation of what really happens, for most likely it's just a part of a soul's awareness that gets thus stuck 'in the astral'.

Dissolution of 'the book' back into fundamental consciousness would imply that all souls and other entities in it would at last be liberated - that is, at last have happen to them what would happen to us at death if we hadn't been diverted and ensnared by astral forces, so we'd be dying 'the way that Nature intended', which is really not dying at all except in the most superficial sense. So, we're not talking of throwing the 'book' into a fire and roasting all those beings alive, and we're in a different world altogether from those who talk of 'God' at some shortly-coming time throwing all the 'demons' (and I assume all humans who don't share those people's beliefs) into the fires of hell.

I expect to write more here presently...


Astral entities' negative impacts on humans

Astral beings, following their instructions, ruthlessly pursue an agenda of seeking control and domination over humans. They often operate covertly, seeking to control people into outlooks or behaviour which keep them away from speedy paths to enlightenment and full self realization (which frees one totally from entity control or interference of any type).

So, the entities divert many people into religions or other power / control hierarchies or systems, and in many other cases into beliefs about imminent 'ascension' or 'full consciousness' for Humanity, so that the people get fixated on 'ascension' or various sorts of global-change-for-humanity scenario, which distract from or distort their whole process of developing towards full self realization and living fully in the present. The whole notion of 'ascension' is an illusory reality which is almost bound to take you captive into an astral realm when you die, so that the astral forces can continue their work on you towards taking you over completely many soul reincarnations further down the line.

One very sneaky way the astral forces use to take people away from their true life purpose of self realization is to get them infatuated with each other, even though it may be inappropriate for one or even both to be 'tied' to each other at that time, and, in the case of male-female relationships, to covertly manipulate the couple to ensure that the man makes the woman pregnant - thus putting an implicit 'seal' on the relationship.

I've seen this happen again and again, where people whose real needs were clearly for going their own ways and developing in the self realization direction, severely stunted their development by tying themselves to each other by having a child - all because they really knew that they were not truly compatible at that time and so chose to force themselves into staying in the relationship because they had (entity-induced) fears of actually being on their own and free for true self realization. Such 'family' relationships are, generally speaking, a great block to serious self realization work - and all the more so when marriage comes into it.

Ironically, Humanity and Planet Earth tremendously need HUGE numbers of people turning away from procreation, because at the moment there are far too many people on the planet and in a remarkably short time Humanity is very likely to become extinct on Earth.

These astral entities not only attack according to their instructions (see appendix for more about their types of attack) but also will often manifest as troublesome inner voices. They are the cause of the supposedly medical phenomenon of 'hearing voices' - no matter whether the voices appear to be benign or troublesome; astral ('dark') entities are always involved.

I have already remarked on the latter being an intrinsic part of the channelling process and nearly all dowsing - these entities posing to countless people as guides or supposedly higher beings such as archangels, all in order to lure people away from tuning into their core essence, and to get people taking on board, even if in greatly disguised form, the control agendas of the astral forces.


The partial walk-in - How to produce a puppet 'teacher' in one easy stage...

How is it that various supposed spiritual teachers, who on the face of it have genuinely beneficial intentions to assist people in becoming 'whole' and enlightened, are actually working in tandem with the astral ('dark') forces, and, while apparently greatly and deeply aware in many ways, seem to have a complete block on looking in a questioning manner at what they're doing and recognising their astral connections / involvements and eliminating them?

How come that you get individuals like Sai Baba, a particularly famous current teacher in India who is on the one hand widely revered and claimed to be 'pure as the driven snow' and on the other hand shows massive signs of serious astral or 'dark' involvement, such as regularly performing supposed miracles (I'm not concerning myself whether the 'miracles' are real or faked), putting severe psychic attacks on people who don't see eye to eye with him, and deliberately having around him a huge assemblage of followers who he manipulates emotionally?

Is such a man fundamentally evil or flawed?

My current take on this, strongly supported by the masses of experience that I've had of astral agenda relating to myself, is that that particular teacher, as is the case with most other prominent teachers for that matter, is fundamentally not at all flawed or evil, but has been a victim of an extremely serious and indeed sinister astral-sourced type of interference which is best described as a partial walk-in. I know four healers / teachers in the UK who are very likely manifestations of this type of scenario, and that is no doubt the tip of something of an iceberg - though how big, I have no idea.

What happens is this. The astral forces - the archons and all their command chain of astral minions - are to a fair extent outside our physical limitations of space and time, and, when each human soul is in the process of incarnation (i.e. a little while before birth), the astral forces have a good idea which ones are liable to become serious opponents of the astral agenda of control and domination of all humans, such as through becoming some sort of prominent teacher promoting true self realization and assisting people in becoming fully clear of astral interference and influence. They then direct a particular set of appropriately programmed 'lost' souls to attach to that person around the time of birth, to be means of astral control for that person to make him effectively a teacher of some sort of basic wisdom containing astral-sourced distortions, and to be fully believing in and unquestioning about the 'story' that they've channelled or picked up from astral sources through other individual people or particular traditions.

However, there are particular souls who at incarnation time are recognised as being a more formidable threat to the astral agenda because they are expected to have particularly sharp and questioning minds, so that they are liable to recognise and repudiate the astral agenda they are being given, and even - horror of horrors! - find out about their attached lost souls and use effective means to get rid of them. It is such individuals who the astral forces are most afraid of and target for a partial walk-in.

What the astral forces do for such individuals is to set up situations for them where they get ungrounded - seriously ungrounded. If such a person can be in some way contrived to get himself out of body sufficiently (getting the person doing astral projection or astral travel is a favourite), the astral forces then quickly sneak in a very powerful 'lost' soul which has been specially programmed to effectively take the person over, under direction of the astral forces. This 'lost' soul is not nearly so degraded or unaware as the 'lost' souls parasitically attaching to people on a routine basis, and so is much more powerful, and in healing terms is a much more formidable proposition to get rid of - especially as it is so strongly controlling and in almost all cases that control would force the affected person to be very resistant against recognising his true situation and doing anything about it.

Ideally (from the astral forces' perspective), the original soul of the 'person' would be completely ejected, but I understand that this is something which the astral forces cannot do - so instead of a full 'walk-in' (replacing one soul with another 'in' a particular body), the unfortunate original soul and personality is kept in a 'straitjacketed' state, with apparently no option but to assume the 'persona' of the astral-programmed 'lost' soul and do its bidding.


Beware the near-death experience!

Among the many types of situation which give the astral forces a clear opportunity to stage a partial walk-in upon somebody is the near-death experience (NDE). THAT is why it is something of a norm that people 'return' from such experiences with a personality change. True, on the surface the personality change usually appears to be positive - but it's in the direction of 'spirituality', NOT true self realization. With this in mind, for example we can now have a new clarity upon cases like the celebrated one of Mellen-Thomas Benedict, where the functioning of such people as 'spiritual teachers' can be seen to be very much 'of the dark side'. You only have to visit Mellen-Thomas's website and look for signs of his (no doubt completely unaware) astral connections and involvement, using the checklist which I give in the appendix further below, to realize that he and the likes of him are in serious trouble and leading countless others into problems way beyond their worst imaginings.


How I very nearly became one of them...

Yes, the astral forces did their damnedest to 'get' me too, as you can read in Partial Walk-ins - How the astral forces nearly nobbled me. As I explain there, it isn't clear whether they really expected me, in the event of one of their attempts on me succeeding, to become an effective puppet teacher of theirs or whether the intended result had been just to make me a really hardcore 'psychiatric case' so that I'd be disabled as an effective teacher or promoter of self realization and clearance of astral influences.

I shall very soon be adding another page to this site, concerning what we can do, in healing terms, about people who are victims of partial walk-ins - who in nearly all, if not all, cases would be very resistant against recognising the nature of their situation and doing anything about it. "Watch this space...".

Later note - Some such information is actually now already available, although not yet on a dedicated page on the subject. Please see The Clarity-Sphere - 'The Ultimate' Healing Tool.

Spirit attachments - a different issue

I must dispel one widespread confusion here and distinguish between the entities which are the primary subject of this account and spirit attachments. The latter are sometimes consciousnesses or soul fragments of people who have died in some traumatic way and were too afraid to let go of the physical aspect of reality. Indeed, nearly all healers and 'lightworkers' believe that pretty well all so-called spirit attachments are such 'earthbound spirits'. However, that is not my own 'reading' now that I'm getting relatively clear of astral interferences and deceptions.

It appears that the majority of spirit attachments (apart from the lesser issue of the odd attached 'peripheral' soul fragments) are from 'lost' souls which are in predicaments similar to those of the 'lost' souls used in partial walk-ins, but in these instances they have not been programmed - or have simply not been able - to 'walk in', in some cases no doubt because the particular person has been remaining too grounded for the latter to happen, but instead have been able to attach themselves in some way to the person's non-physical aspects.

Generally speaking, a person with a spirit attachment is much more likely to be aware that something is wrong and want to do something about it than somebody with a partial walk-in, which latter almost invariably would seem to be just a part of the person's self identity and would be strongly resistant to being questioned or 'exposed'.

Some attached 'spirits' mean no harm and are really seeking help (i.e. a good proportion of those who simply had a traumatic death and have no specific archon programming to cause trouble), while the majority, because of their archon programming, are ill-willed (albeit sometimes in covert ways) and cause massive problems for their 'victims'.

Generally speaking, earthbound spirits or fragments thereof drain the energy of whoever they attach to, so feelings of tiredness and exhaustion are very normal for people with spirit attachments. This can lead to physical health problems, and also it is a quite well known phenomenon that spirit attachments can cause in their host the same ailment(s) which caused the death of their last incarnation - a compelling reason for seeking to get them removed at the earliest opportunity. Astral entities and parasitic 'lost' souls (which are trapped in the astral sub-reality), in contrast, do not drain one's energy to the same extent, although they do have other negative effects in one's energy field, which can give rise to serious health problems - even cancers if it suits the astral entities' agenda.

Spirit attachments from archon-programmed 'lost' souls are not the same phenomenon as the previously described 'parasitic lost souls', because, like the candidates for partial walk-ins, they have not been so far degraded and still have a fair amount of self awareness. They drain their host's energy, but much less than earthbound spirits, yet more than the fully degraded parasitic 'lost' souls.

Curiously, throughout even my roughest times with the astral entities, my immune system appeared to be little or not at all compromised, and colds and other infections still came to me only rarely and flu not at all - and, apart from sleep deprivation sometimes, I was never feeling drained or exhausted (apart from during a few brief encounters with human 'energy vampires'). I understand that this was exceptional, and it is all the more remarkable in the light of the very large load of parasitic lost souls that I was carrying. My 'take' on this in April 2008 is that I got away so lightly primarily because I was enlightened and so had exceptional emotional detachment from what I was going through, and I was also distinctly helped by the great amount of self healing work that I was doing throughout that period. Although that self healing work was nothing like as powerful, balanced and healthy as what I have been doing more recently, it was helping me a lot to keep my energy level remarkably high and stable.

The key here was my being a new-soul incarnation, so that, especially with my being enlightened too, all healings that I gave myself or others contained a strong component which was from my deepest aspects, regardless of the superficial unbalanced and even downright harmful methods I was tending to use then.


The departed relatives phenomenon

What people take to be departed relatives are really just a special case of 'guides'. They can be either astral sourced simulations (using data from the person's memory in order to construct a likeness) or the actual souls of particular recently departed relatives.

If they are the latter, then they are in deep trouble because they have not dissolved back into fundamental consciousness as we all need to at death, and are captives of the astral ('dark') forces, which apparently often direct them, or have them programmed, to hang around and seek to communicate with particular still-incarnated relatives for the underlying purpose of keeping them in confusion about the nature of themselves and of reality, and turned well away from true self realization. It makes no difference how loving and wise they may seem; departed relatives do not belong with us at all, and are sent to us to cause us serious problems - though, generally speaking, they themselves would not know at all about that, because they are 'lost' within the illusions of the astral sub-reality.

Thus people who have what appear to be one or more departed relatives around or communicating with them actually would do best to have nothing whatsoever to do with them, and to get on with their own self realization process, opening to their own deepest essence as their uniquely wise and appropriate 'guide'.


'Self made demons' too!

In truth not all interferences which appear to be from astral entities come from external entities at all, but a fair proportion can come from the person's own mind as 'self made demons' (i.e. simulations of entities). However, before all the psychiatrists and psychiatric doctors up and down the land go chorusing at me "We could have told you all along that they're just creations of people's minds, and they are ill and need our treatments!", I emphasize here that such self created entities generally do not affect a person who is not also getting interferences from real entities - so they are not the issue which some people make them out to be. The self realization methods which I recommend not only give the most effective clearance of entity interference but also are just as effective at dissolving self-created simulations of entities.

The time that self created entity interferences is generally most noticed is when a person has cleared out all his real entity interferences (or maybe completely cleared out one specific type of interference), when patterns and thought forms remaining from the previous situation continue for a while, giving the impression that the particular 'real' interferences are still continuing. Although such effects would fade out pretty quickly if allowed to do so, a complicating factor would be that there would still be some astral entities around the person, which would seek to amplify and reinforce any patterns and thought forms which were simulating entity interferences. The result of this would be an extension of the 'life' of these self created interferences.


"But I've had none of these problems you talk about, and have gentle, loving guides who work with me..."

Yes, and here lies a BIG problem for a huge number of people. It's extremely difficult for virtually anyone to get seeing the astral-sourced deceptions for what they are unless they themselves get clear of their own (normally covert) astral interferences and control, OR the astral forces for some reason give them a rough time so that they cannot escape recognition of the fact that something untoward is going on for them.

There are very many people out there who regard themselves, and are regarded by others, as highly 'spiritual' and believe that all the right things are happening for them through their 'spiritual' or healing direction and activities, and who have had nothing happen in their lives which would make them question their own sense of 'reality' more deeply. Generally they look with disbelief and dismissal upon my writings on this and other pages on this site, and tend to back up their own outlook by reference to various supposedly great teachers or 'Masters'. But their doing that simply shows me all the more how much they have got sidetracked by power / control influences away from straightforward self realization, for which no external guide or 'Master' is appropriate because your own genuine guide and teacher is your own deepest aspects.

As I've already indicated, I fully recognise that I do not and cannot know anything, and that is just as true for everyone else, so I cannot say categorically that those people are mistaken or are being extensively deceived and misguided by the astral ('dark') forces - only that they appear to be so on the basis of the experiences and insights that I myself have gained through my own process of clearing myself of astral interferences.

To be blunt about it, there is nothing that I can do for or usefully say to those people, for they simply do not see what I see, and, generally speaking, discussion or dialogue with them is pointless, just as it is with, for example, Jehovah's Witnesses. It's a waste of resources for me even to hold a belief that they are wrong or mistaken, for they are simply as they are and do as they do, and they are in a different world of experience from my own.

I'm well aware that many people have experienced 'guides' which seem to be consistently gentle, loving and non-intrusive, and I cannot say categorically that none of these at all are genuine - only that all the observations and insights that I've gained during my clearance of astral interferences from myself point to ALL guides as not being benign at all, despite any superficial appearances, and being more in the nature of lures or 'sirens' which have been sent to people to keep them distracted and diverted from true self realization and opening to their own deepest essence as their genuine and bona fide guidance.

Indeed, the very concept of any sort of external guides is implicitly of the 'dark side' - not in the sense of immediate negativity or darkness, but in the sense of diverting us away from opening up our own power and our own deepest essence. So, on that basis it is actually meaningless to talk of at least some guides as being 'genuine' or 'of the Light'. And again, as I have already pointed out, the very concept of a non-physical light or Light is another of the astral-sourced lures which beset us to divert us away from tuning into the true 'higher' reality, which is nothing to do with light nor Light but is everything to do with naked awareness and clarity - something which very few 'spiritual' people recognise.

Similarly, some people fervently believe that they or certain people they know are incarnated angels, and they take some degree of umbrage at what I have to say about that issue. They insist that they (or the particular people they know) have actual etheric angel wings and thus their angel nature is demonstrated for real. Yet apparently none of them have even begun to ask themselves the rather obvious question - as to why a non-physical being would have wings in the first place! As I know from my own hard experience from 2003 to 2007, when a certain part of your awareness becomes poorly grounded you become most extraordinarily gullible towards the astral deceptions that are given you, and readily accept all manner of stories as fact, particularly if they seem to have some sort of appeal about them - and I have seen for myself something of the awesome and convoluted abundance and profusion of stories and deceptions which the astral forces bring to us in order to keep us focused into and attached to the astral sub-reality of illusion and delusion.

Yet it is pointless my directly drawing these things to such people's attention, because they are so habituated to their way of interpreting what they experience, and I cannot prove to them that things are other than how they perceive them. They either see or they don't see. This site is not aimed at them, for the whole concept of trying to 'convert' people to a viewpoint is 'of the dark side' (i.e. the forces of power and control). This site is primarily aimed at those who do see or who are able, with a little prompting, to begin to see.

Despite my various disclaimers on this site (including on this page), people still quite regularly accuse me of trying to impose my opinions or beliefs upon others - the clear implication being that I have no business to make public at all my challenging observations and insights gained through my process of getting clear of astral interferences. What is really happening in those cases is that people are reacting against a viewpoint which they find too challenging, by trying to foist their own entity sourced control agenda upon me to try to suppress what I have to say.

The real answer to all this - again which I guess the majority of people will not want to countenance because it's liable to give answers which contradict their own beliefs and life patterns - is for people to take up energy testing. Then, instead of remaining attached to the "This is true, and that is untrue" approach to life experience, they can find out what particular assumptions or working models are most beneficial for them personally to use in their life at the present time. Such results from energy testing are always specific to the person who is energy testing, and thus would not necessarily come out the same for different people. This very neatly gets us right away from any perceived need to hold beliefs and opinions about what is supposedly right for us all, and we can each establish what are the best and healthiest choices for us to make in every aspect of our own lives.

If you are using energy testing, you can, for example, find out NOT whether any apparent guides are real or not real but whether or not it would be strengthening (truly beneficial) or weakening for you to be communicating or working with them in any way. However, as explained in my account of energy testing, it is extremely important to be vigilant for interference from astral entities in energy testing, for without such vigilance and aware discernment you could simply be letting astral entities 'guide' you when you believe you are getting genuine energy testing results.


"But why on earth would there be beings who seek to do people harm like that?"

When questions of that nature have been put to me, usually this was not because the particular people were really seeking to understand, but rather, they were posed as rhetorical questions to express a disbelief that there could be any such thing as negatively willed entities. People who are doctors, for example, are particularly inclined to come up with such a response to being told of astral entities causing a person's troubles.

So, for the benefit of the doubters and disbelievers, and indeed the believers too, let's look at that question and see what we can learn from this.


The disbelief angle

For a start, let us consider the implications of the disbelief that is usually being expressed by asking that question. Suppose there really is no such thing as astral entities that mean negativity and harm for people. Such negativity and harm is abundantly observable to us all, so we cannot disbelieve in that too. How, then, does all that negativity and harm arise? From people's minds? -- In that case, why are those disbelievers (in entities) not asking in a disbelieving tone, "But why on earth would a human mind so turn upon itself and others with such unremitting negative and harmful intent?". You see, nothing has been in any way resolved or explained by those people holding their particular disbelief (which itself is a belief every bit as much as a belief in God or the Earth being flat).

The typical doctor's / psychiatrist's response to that last question would be to say that the person is mentally ill. But 'ill' is just their label - a fig leaf to cover up the reality, that they haven't a clue what is really going on. How can people's supposed 'mental illness' consistently produce 'symptoms' which are remarkably like autonomous entities communicating with, controlling and attacking the people, and which in many instances show clear co-ordination between those affecting different 'host' people even in different parts of the world, and all operating on the basis of a ruthless and usually extremely deviously applied agenda of seeking control over people - unless it really is interference and attacks from such entities?

Again, the doctors and psychiatrists would then go on about abnormalities in brain chemistry (and thus the supposed need to wreck the brain chemistry even more by the use of drugs or ECT), but in no way does any talk of brain chemistry explain what is actually happening for the affected people. What the medics and psychiatrists turn a complete blind eye to is the likelihood that severe interference from entities would itself be the cause of any disturbances of brain chemistry or function which they detect.

So, while there is no way of proving that the entity-like manifestations are not just dysfunctional aspects of a person's mind, the fact is that when you really look at what is going on, all the observable signs are of actual autonomous entities at work, and with a seriously harmful agenda which is pursued ruthlessly.

When I go on a summer hike and I get bitten by horse flies, I'd actually be behaving in a bizarrely dysfunctional manner (which might indeed be described by some as mental illness) if I held the belief that those horse flies didn't exist and were just manifestations of my 'ill' mind. Yet that is exactly the dysfunctional outlook and behaviour of the vast majority of our medics and psychiatrists, who are every bit as worthy of the 'mentally ill' label which they so freely stick upon people who happen to be aware of the troublesome activities of astral entities.

If I see frogs sometimes jumping out of the tussocks when I'm walking over Dartmoor, am I supposed to think to myself, "Oh, there goes my mind again, giving me those 'frog' hallucinations; let's take my next dose of Haloperidol [an antipsychotic] now..."?

Surely, if the frogs look, sound and feel like frogs, just possibly they are, of all things, frogs!!!! -- But almost universally, medics and psychiatrists have a block to their intelligence which makes them fail to follow such basic logic when it comes to entities which they cannot see themselves (and which are actually invisible anyway) but are nonetheless causing massive problems for people.

Somebody lies badly injured in the road, and manages to tell the paramedics, when they come, that a car knocked her down and sped off. "Right, give her a shot of Haloperidol to 'cure' her of (i.e. try to hide) her delusion that she'd been run down by a car, because there was no car to be seen, and thus clearly her mind had invented the impression of a car and had even broken her body a bit in order to try to convince herself and everyone that she'd been knocked down by a car!" So, she'd better be 'sectioned' in the psychiatric unit because she is clearly a danger to herself, doing things like that to herself and then blaming it all on a nonexistent car!

Okay, absolutely crazy! Yet that is precisely what medics and psychiatrists are doing throughout much of our planet when it comes to the massively harmful work of astral entities. They, too, in this regard, are absolutely crazy!

Now let us look at the other part of the issue - the question that few medics or psychiatrists ever get round to asking, and which many people would like to know...


Why do astral entities seek to do people harm?

That question has already been answered much further above on this page as far as one could normally answer it, but now I add some very significant points in the following section, albeit as speculation which can never be fully verified (though supported by many of my observations)...


The true nature and origin of astral entities and archons

Nobody really knows, nor could they ever know, why astral entities and the postulated controlling entities (archons or astral 'overlords') have their ruthless agenda of power and control. Parts of the scenario can apparently be explained, at least with plausible hypotheses which fit the observations, but we do not know, and cannot know, the ultimate origin or cause of the agenda of the (postulated) archons or 'astral overlords' to gain power over people, nor indeed how or why they ever came to exist in the first place. However, that doesn't mean that there aren't some very useful pointers for "those who have eyes to see and ears to hear"...


The CIA - a big red herring!

Before I go any further, let me here knock on the head (fatally, I hope!) a moderately commonly held notion, that the troublesome manifestations which people are regarding as interference and attacks from entities (astral or otherwise) are usually or even always not from non-physical entities at all but are psychic attacks from various human individuals, especially ones who are or have been employed in certain Government agencies (particularly in the USA) - or, according to some other people, psychic attacks from actual extra-terrestrial beings.

Let me say, loud and clear, that that sort of notion holds no water at all, regardless of whether or not there are ETs or people in government agencies putting psychic attacks on people. The point is this. Actual observations pretty consistently show that astral and attached entities are monitoring every thought of their 'victims' and interfering with them every second of every day of every year until and unless they are cleared out. How could a human or indeed any ET, however malevolent in intent, possibly be doing such a thing? What about their own time requirements for eating, sleeping, peeing and shitting and other basic life requirements? That just doesn't make sense!

Also, if it were humans carrying out all that interference, how come that there is a level of interference worldwide which would require a group of interfering people for every person on the planet? I didn't know that (e.g.) the CIA was that huge (i.e. at least several times the size of the human population)!

Also, what is the source of such postulated interfering people's motivation to interfere with and seek to control / attack other people like that, in such an unremitting way, if there are no entities interfering with the troublesome people to get them to do behave in that bizarre and negative manner?

Basically, that whole scenario doesn't make sense, and is clearly a paranoid sort of story given to some people by the astral forces to divert them from coming to recognise what is really going on, and also to get them creating yet further troublesome astral realms (i.e. illusory realities) for their own entrapment.


...And now for what DOES make sense - echoes of The Sorcerer's Apprentice!

There are various beliefs as to the origin of these various astral entities and their power agenda, but beliefs are not just a poor guide but a complete obstacle to ever coming to know the true situation. Indeed, generally speaking, the beliefs themselves have originated from astral entities which placed them in particular people's minds, so we can be pretty sure that they were given to us to mislead us.

To me the most convincing general hypothesis starts on the basis that our whole life experience, which includes everything we experience, whether supposedly external and 'physical' or supposedly internal and 'of the mind', is a result of a particular experimental or exploratory differentiation of an aspect of fundamental consciousness, in which distortion and confusion differentiated from what you might call 'purity' and non-distortion. This, then, gave us the experience of the Universe as we know it, and all the complex interactions of what appears to us to be positive and negative.

However, that needn't necessarily have been anything like the troubled existence, so full of pain, suffering and destruction, which Humanity experiences here on Earth now. I'm not sure that even what I could conveniently call Mother Nature need have been so mindlessly ruthless in the competitiveness of its living components (especially the animals) as we actually observe.

My experience-based speculation is that the big problems arose as humans and humanoid beings (probably in other universes long before this one came into existence), without understanding the likely consequences of their actions, got using the astral sub-reality (where we project all our illusions) by their ordinary or 'ego'- minds for performing 'magic' to increase their experience of personal power. They became inexorably more and more attached to that sort of existence (operating as some sort of magician, though they may not have been regarded as magicians as we know them) which included much astral projection and astral travel, not realizing that they were creating for themselves astral realms (illusory realities) in which they were becoming trapped because of their attachment to their activities and the astral realms they were creating.

I speculate that such people were not into anything that would appear to us as 'dark' or overtly negative, so we're not at all talking of black magic or real nastiness here - i.e. at that stage - but simply a matter of cultivating a sense of personal power of the problematical, ego type. The problem would have been that, once people had created illusory realities (i.e. in the astral sub-reality) and trapped their awareness there together with their attachment to 'magical' practices (all somewhat distorted energies in the first place as otherwise they wouldn't have gone into the astral sub-reality like that), the distortions proliferated and increased in their divergence from the natural state of consciousness. Because the distortions included an illusion of ego-self (including separation from 'source') and seeking of a sense of ego-power, there was an increasing trend for these tendencies to become like self replicating computer viruses which actually became more virulent through the successive replications, as the control-seeking became more and more dominant and aggressive.

Because the astral sub-reality is open to all deeply aware consciousnesses, what some people had put in there and not 'cleaned up after use' proliferated and strengthened enough to start trying to control and take over all other people who were sufficiently open to the astral sub-reality, and thus to cause them to add to the accumulation of problems in the astral sub-reality by creating their own astral realms.

The situation is quaintly reminiscent of the little story which is illustrated in Paul Dukas' well known and quite beautiful orchestral work, L'Apprenti Sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) - except that there the sorcerer returns and promptly uses magic to stop the rapidly escalating mayhem (caused by his apprentice) in its tracks, whereas in the astral sub-reality there has been no returning magician to put a stop to what's going on there and clean it all up.

I do not know whether the original human consciousnesses whose awareness got trapped in astral realms remained (and even still remain) in some sort of hidden or dormant state as the programming of their illusions took over, or whether at some point those human consciousnesses dissolved back into fundamental consciousness, but in any event what remained and has steadily been accumulating in the astral sub-reality (which could otherwise have been a useful aspect of our life experience) has been extremely complex and powerful masses of programming, which may be nothing more than thought form complexes, which embody the original magicians' power agendas as they had been conducting them with their 'magic', but having progressively accumulated further distortions and amplifications.

These thought form complexes behave as though they are actual beings, but lack the awareness and 'heart' of what you might call 'true' (i.e. human-like) beings. They represent all the cold and calculating programming of the power agendas of the humans who trapped themselves (initially) or were inveigled into astral realms to likewise eventually become just empty husks which may be nothing more than programming that in turn seeks to inveigle further humans into its clutches. With no true controlling or guiding awareness or consciousness there comes total unscrupulousness - which is just what we observe about astral entities, and what has hitherto been a subject of great bewilderment to many people.

Because these supposed astral entities are just programming, there is no sense of achievement and satisfaction anywhere along the line in what they do - just an unremitting unscrupulousness towards the one objective, of, by whatever means, entrapping every human and to seek to destroy whatever stands in the way of that process of gaining control and entrapping humans and indeed human-like beings wherever they are in 'all Existence'. Hence, for example, the massive and grotesque attempts by the astral forces (programming) to wreck me from 2003 and even up to the present in 2008 - though at least now I'm virtually immune to their attempts upon me, so that's one battle which they have truly lost.

So, if my harmless little speculation is correct (and at least it very nicely fits my abundant observations of astral entities in operation), these latter manifestations do not at all warrant the term 'being', because very likely they have no core consciousness or conscious awareness in the way that we have, and are nothing better than a gigantically monstrous mass of 'computer malware' programming which has become self perpetuating. They can mimic human emotions - particularly anger - but it is all done with 100% cold and calculating purpose to intimidate or manipulate people and is nothing to do with true emotions of an aware being.

I would actually go as far as to suggest that by the very nature of the astral sub-reality, it cannot contain 'real' beings at all, so when I loosely talk of people getting trapped in there, what I really mean is simply a particular part of their awareness getting stuck there. When you look at it like that, it looks more possible that humans beyond the bottom end of their degradational series of astral-directed soul reincarnations at some point simply dissolve back into fundamental consciousness as they need to - the problem then being the thought form complexes of their by then extremely astral-programmed minds which are left in the astral sub-reality, so adding to the tremendous mass of rogue programming already in there.

In fact very likely the nature of astral entities as 'empty' thought form complexes is highly reminiscent of viruses, in that they cannot exist as any sort of meaningful or thriving presence except through their manifestation in human minds. However, it is important to understand that this does NOT mean that they are a creation of the minds of the particular people who are currently having trouble from them. I do not want to find that people are misinterpreting what I've written and are using it in support of notions that people with severe entity problems are 'ill' or have otherwise brought their troubles on themselves (and thus are supposedly 'bad' in some way). As I have already emphasized, ALL people have some degree of openness to the astral sub-reality, and ALL people have at least some degree of astral interference, even though that is most usually covert or/and indirect (i.e. through programming of the less aware people).

For the majority of healing purposes it is still most effective to work as though astral entities are actual autonomous entities that are not part of the people who they are affecting, but that doesn't mean that they are real beings, with an aware consciousness - and it looks to me increasingly as though to regard the entities just as rogue programming and not true beings at all is greatly helpful to just about any truly effective methods for minimizing or clearing out their interference altogether.

Actually, even our regarding astral entities as being truly discrete and autonomous entities of any kind could be unhelpful - though it is generally helpful to see them as NOT being a part of an affected person. The point is, we can never really know whether a person is being interfered with by a clearly defined group of discrete entities or simply one entity or indeed a non-discrete mass of thought forms (astrally based programming) which pretends to be a group of discrete entities.

My own self clearance works points unequivocally to that last as being the most helpful way of regarding them, so it would really be most helpful to get using some alternative expression to describe what just at the moment I am calling astral entities. For my own personal purposes, I sometimes now refer to them in my mind as "the Non-Entities", "the Splurge", "the Muck"  or "the astral garbage". Best to use a term which is humorous and doesn't appear to give that mass of rogue programming any sort of 'kudos', empowerment or self identity. Calling it Tiddles or Mr Pooh, for example, as I did for a while, would be helpful in humour terms but would still be implying that one was dealing with some sort of conscious being(s), and thus would on balance be distinctly unhelpful.

Also, it is misleading to regard ast