The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks

 

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

I commence this account by focusing on the type of dark force manifestation known as 'astral entities', 'astral beings', 'dark entities', or, in some cases, 'demons'. This is for the historical reason, that it was as purported 'astral beings' that the dark force made itself most apparent to me during my severe troubles with it that started in late 2003, and indeed that is the form in which it makes itself really apparent to a goodly proportion of people. For this reason, until August 2009 this page was entitled 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'. I finally changed the title to the current one to make it more clearly descriptive of the core content of this page, whose emphasis had gradually shifted and is nowadays primarily about the dark force itself.

You can read below how the dark force* not only causes people all sorts of personal problems directly, but, as part of all that, distorts every person's perception of the nature of reality and indeed the nature of the dark force itself. Thus, what I have written below will challenge almost everyone's beliefs and preconceived notions about the nature of reality, of ourselves, of any supposedly higher realities, and of course the nature of the dark force itself, and of what appear to be non-physical beings (no matter whether supposedly 'high', 'Divine', 'lower' or indeed 'dark'). Inevitably also the true nature of what people refer to as 'spirituality' comes under the magnifying glass here, and I show how it is something that people who really understand would avoid like the plague.

* You will read further below just why I break with convention / tradition and use the term 'dark force' in the singular - and, as you'll see, my reason for doing so is far from some petty little quirk of mine.

Scary stuff!? -- Boll*cks, no!

The title and indeed subject of this page may initially seem to you very scary indeed. But let me reassure you that the only 'untoward' result of your reading this page would be untoward for the dark force and not you, for you could find yourself understanding sufficient to start becoming to some extent a weakening influence upon the dark force and its manifestations (yes, I do mean you, yourself could!), at the very least through ceasing to keep reinforcing it in ways that you've so far been unawarely (or even in some cases maybe awarely?) doing. Fear is based in confusion and failure to understand. Thus, what I am doing on this page, through disseminating knowledge and understanding from the basis and viewpoint of real practical clear-mindedness, is to actually enable readers to weaken and eventually eliminate the hold upon them of the mortal fear, dread and terror that the dark force has cultivated in them in order to keep them away from ever finding out what that troublesome influence really is, and thus from doing anything effective about it.

My 'message' is thus NOT one of paranoia but one of simply clear-mindedly looking at what's really there and then getting to understand how that 'ticks', and then using that understanding to do down-to-earth and practical things to enable us at the very least to minimize, and potentially even altogether to resolve, this pressing problem that the existence of the dark force has been presenting to us.

Isn't that really the intelligent way to address ANY problem? So far people have attempted to address the dark force problem by 'throwing beliefs at it', or by going into denial (which is really just another belief) and lamely claiming that the so-called dark force is just manifestations of particular people's wayward imaginations (or 'sick minds'). In other words virtually universally people have been wasting their time chasing after or battling against the illusory paper tigers (posing as their adversaries) that the dark force presents them with, or simply 'burying their heads in the sand' and thus letting the supposedly nonexistent dark force quietly walk all over them while they hope and assume that it doesn't really exist or at least hasn't noticed them if by any chance it really does exist. However, now, at last, we have a chance to cut through those woolgathering and completely futile types of strategy and go about the task in a way that actually works and brings great benefits!

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 quite recently. Such presences are apparently discrete autonomous consciousnesses without physical bodies. However, emphasis must go on 'apparently', because many supposed entities are, according to my current understanding, not consciousnesses at all but merely elementals - thought form complexes that behave in autonomous ways as though they were consciousnesses - and the vast majority of the supposed 'entities' cannot be said even to be that, because they are simply illusions created in one's awareness* by a very troublesome influence that is really the main subject of this page.

* To be more accurate I'd need to describe them as illusions that one's own awareness creates under the control of that very troublesome influence by means of a sort of hijacking - rather as a virus hijacks the 'machinery' of a living cell for its own purposes, that 'machinery' then to function almost as if it were part of the virus.

Although discarnate human consciousnesses that have for some reason failed to 'pass on', and also what most people would recognise as ghosts, would be included in the term 'entity', our primary concern here is with a different though not completely unrelated phenomenon - what many people regard as 'entities' or beings in what they 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), and is commonly called 'the astral plane' or 'the astral dimension'. I myself prefer to call it the astral sub-reality, for that is less open to highly problematical misinterpretations.

I discuss the likely true nature and origin of astral 'entities' much further below, and, as you will see there, as already noted, it is actually almost certain that they are really not at all what we have been thinking they are, and are not true consciousnesses nor even discrete, theoretically countable entities, at all. For this reason, I came to generally no longer refer to 'astral entities' or 'astral beings' at all, and instead had come to refer generically to them and the whole phenomenon of which they are part as the 'dark forces'. I used this expression not because it was fully accurate, which it wasn't, but because it was a more familiar term to many people than anything that would actually be more accurate.

The notion of 'dark' here is useful ONLY as a figure of speech to indicate something unwholesome for us, for it has nothing to do with actual darkness, whether physical or non-physical - except that it does signify confusion and thus not being able to see what's really there. (Please note the latter carefully, because that is one of the key aspects of this whole issue.) And also, as I came to recognise when I 'uncovered' the postulated cacoprotean network as being the primary aspect of the 'dark forces', really it is totally inaccurate to talk of the 'dark forces' in the plural like that, for it is really 'the dark force' (singular), although, of course, it has countless ramifications through the astral sub-reality in order to give uniquely tailored interference to every single human-type being in the whole of 'Existence'.

Thus the real polarity that is maintained by the presence of the 'dark force' is NOT dark vs light but confusion plus inner captivity vs clarity plus inner freedom.

What is the force of clarity and inner freedom, then? -- Nothing less than our own deepest nature - fundamental consciousness and all that emanates directly from it. That is why we are so completely off the rails when we look outside ourselves for means to counter the dark force, and why self actualization* is the only fully effective means to get clear of all dark force interference from oneself. That is also why the dark force is constantly and strenuously seeking to get every single person, each in their different way, looking either outside themselves or to outright denial for his means to supposedly avoid or clear himself of dark force interference.

* This is actually the same as the proper meaning of 'self realization', and I use both these terms on this site, with the same meaning - being mindful that different people respond more constructively to one of those terms rather than the other.

People with 'psychic' perceptions or who channel 'information' from non-physical sources have very widely come up with variants of a model of 'reality' that splits it into a number of levels or 'dimensions' (there are commonly claimed to be 13), 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 the dark force, which mediates in ALL channelling done by ANYONE, and similarly mediates in ALL supposedly clairvoyant perceptions.

The actual situation appears to be as follows. We are basically consciousness that 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 or 'space' 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 but, however, that fundamental consciousness remains pure, unsullied and apparently concept-free no matter what you are experiencing.

Thus, provided that no external influence has somehow inserted particular distortions into us as pure consciousness, each of us would be a continuum of consciousness from fundamental consciousness to our superficial, ordinary 'minds', with NO discrete or identifiable levels of consciousness / reality, and there would be no semblance of non-physical 'dimensions', nor supposed 'higher realities' apart from one's own deepest aspects. - And this is the situation that is perceived by a truly enlightened person without dark force interference.

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, which the troublesome dark force has 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 supposedly 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 the perception of specific levels or dimensions of 'higher' reality simply didn't make sense, and neither did the notion of higher beings make sense to me, because I as an Earthly human was already a manifestation of 'the Ultimate', so, where was the room for beings that were 'higher' than me?

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

The astral sub-reality is the aspect of reality into which we project all our illusions, beliefs and distorted perceptions. Each belief that a person creates or picks up is the most tangible aspect of a corresponding illusory reality that is usually more or less concealed within the person's mindspace. The dark force (often but not necessarily manifesting as an illusion of 'astral entities') ruthlessly exploits that fact for its seriously nefarious purposes as I shall explain further below.

You may realize from the above that, to a fair extent, concepts like the Jungian 'common unconscious' and also the 'collective Human consciousness' recognised in various healing and New-Age related traditions, can be equated with the astral sub-reality as I define and describe it. To whatever extent they don't tally with it, they are likely to be confused / false information that has come from the dark force to 'throw people off the scent'.

Now, if we recognise the astral sub-reality as being the aspect of reality / consciousness in which resides all major and in any way enduring illusion, perhaps you can see the sense in my otherwise very likely seemingly outrageous assertion that all apparently aware non-physical beings that interact with us are actually illusory, and there cannot be such a phenomenon as actual, 'real', conscious beings in the astral sub-reality. As I explain further below, as far as I can tell, ALL the supposed higher realities that people believe in, which supposedly contain actual conscious beings, are simply different 'faces' presented to them of the illusions in the astral sub-reality - so, it would appear that there is no such thing as a 'real' non-physical being.

While I'm on the subject of illusions, 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, and which is hung onto in the face of contradicting evidence. 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 non-physical entities, the dark force and so forth are just 'imagination' or creations of people's sick 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 of the particular problems. 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 (that is, if one turns a blind eye to the tremendous harm that that sort of outlook has brought to so many victims of such psychiatric workers)! 

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 that arise from time to time. You cannot absolutely know that the Sun isn't a hippopotamus or the Moon isn't an enemy aliens' spaceship (or Gruyère cheese), 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.

* Indeed, from a very deeply based perspective they can all be regarded as 'aspects of self' or 'aspects of one's overall consciousness', as indeed can every single thing that we observe or experience. People occasionally make that claim to me about 'astral entities' or indeed the dark force altogether - but not from any truly enlightened perspective but to confuse the issue and seek to avoid actually effectively addressing the immense problem for people generally that the dark force and its illusory manifestations represents. From the relative viewpoint of everyday experience, it is simply unhelpful for most purposes for anyone to regard such manifestations as being 'part of oneself' (which then inevitably gets pointing people towards an extremely unhelpful 'psychiatric' approach), even though a genuinely enlightened person does perceive them in that way from one particular perspective.

On this site my purpose is NOT to theorize about what is supposedly true in any absolute sense about the dark force and its manifestations (which we could never really know), but simply to establish what interpretation and working model actually helps us best to actually resolve that massive problem, both for ourselves individually and for the human race overall.

The point here is that the astral '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 something separate from myself, 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!

* Note, however, that it turned out, as I looked into my experiences more deeply, that the 'entities' were not discrete entities at all, though the manifestation that was appearing in that way was created in my mind by something external to myself - 'not me'. In other words, the 'entities' are illusory, but the illusion of them is being created by the interaction of an external 'something' - what I call the dark force - with aspects of one's mind.

** I see that some people who one might have expected to know better have jumped firmly into a belief that the Moon IS a spaceship being used as a base for some very unwholesome extra-terrestrials to take control over all humans! Anything other than recognise the dark force sourced illusions and other interferences in their own awareness for what they are! At least I've not yet seen any signs that anyone believes or has 'proved' that the Moon is a Gruyère cheese!

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 the dark force 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 the dark force and to get those people putting pressure on other people to turn away from properly addressing their 'entities' (and in particular, dark force interference) 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 supposed 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 (and nose and ears and erect willie) too! And really the point is, as far as I can tell, ALL of the alleged types of entities are inventions - illusions that are created within our minds by the dark force.* The dark force constantly seeks to give us 'story' - illusory realities - and for the extremely pernicious purpose that I'll go into further below.

* Strictly speaking, although that is a convenient way of describing the situation, it isn't quite correct. As far as I understand so far, what really is going on is that the dark force actually hijacks a part of the person's awareness to cause that person to unawarely create the illusions. So, if you're going to be very precise about use of the words, you could actually say that the illusions are indeed created by people's 'minds'. However, the crucial point here is that that is happening only because an external influence - the dark force - is forcing that to happen. So, the real culprit therefore is NOT the person but the interfering influence. The emphasis needs to be clearly kept on this, and not on any idea of the person 'creating their own illusions', for when people hold the latter view, it is pretty well immediately taken to mean that there is then something wrong or perverse about the affected person, or that the person is 'mentally ill' and therefore fair game for stigmatization and harmful medical 'treatments' that are no treat that any compos mentis person would really want.

In my own experience the dark force had been behaving as though several different types of entity had been interacting with me, but nowadays I recognise all that as irrelevant to any constructive purpose. The dark force will give particular people impressions of demons, angels, guides, 'dark overlords', God or whatever suits its agenda in interfering with and misleading the particular people.

As I now understand, there is really bound to be some sort of command chain within the astral sub-reality, but that command chain would not be between actual conscious beings, and I've let go of any notion now of there being astral overlords (so-called archons) and even some supreme 'dark' being (perhaps one that you could call Satan!) that runs the 'dark' show. Actually the very notion of a supreme conscious being that runs 'the dark side' always made supreme nonsense to me, because of the very nature of consciousness itself.

As you can read much further below, I have apparently stumbled upon what really drives the dark force, and could be called its top command level - the postulated cacoprotean network.

It's important, thus, that we do NOT get fixated on any 'story' about astral '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 actualization purposes, and to let go of the picture otherwise, because we can never know what is true in the astral sub-reality (nor indeed in any non-physical aspect of reality). Indeed, as already noted, the astral sub-reality is the 'level' of illusion anyway, so it's meaningless to go talking of anything being 'true' there! For the same reason, it's also meaningless to go talking of real conscious beings there (i.e. at most there can be only distorted, even though often superficially convincing, replicas of them). 

As to how what is apparently illusory and not conscious at all in itself could behave as though having a certain level of intelligence and even a rudimentary sort of awareness, I appear to have found the answer, as I recount much further below.

I list below a reasonable selection of purported types of manifestation of the dark force as '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 or supposed beings that manifest to us in any way are, as far as I can tell, illusions created by particular aspects of our awareness under hijack control from the dark force, for the purpose of acting as lures for us.

I explain further below how it is that the dark force, with a seriously troublesome agenda, can create the impression of being higher beings uttering what appear at first glance to be tremendously 'wise', 'enlightened' and loving things and even give experiences of what people interpret as immensely loving 'energy' apparently coming from those manifestations.

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 that 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

• Reptilians
• Greys
• Sirians
• demons
• 'the devil'
• Satan
• Lucifer
• 'aliens'
• djinns
  
• goblins
• 'astral beings'
• 'dark entities'
• astral lords
• astral overlords
• archons
• The Fourteenth Faction (whatever their purported nature and origin)
• The Annunaki
• supposed parasitic extra-terrestrials, including types known respectively as;
  • Hathor (generally known as Hathors)
  • Anu (I'm sorely tempted to call them Anus  )
  • Johnaan
  • Mila
  • Oa
  • Jjundaa

Variously described as good and bad

• Pleiadeans
• any other supposed extra-terrestrials
• The Council of Nine
• fairies
• the Faery
• pixies

The supposed good guys - the real can of worms!

• ALL archangels, including:
  • Archangel Michael
  • Archangel Chamuel
  • Archangel Gabriel
  • Archangel Uriel
  • Archangel Raphael
  • Archangel Zadkiel
  • Archangel Jophiel
• ALL angels, including:
  • Metatron (okay, some people classify Metatron as an archangel, but it doesn't matter here, as he/she/it is bogus anyway!)
• the Elohim
• the Holy Spirit
• Divine Consciousness (as used in Vortex Healing)
• ALL guides, including, as well as all personal and healing (including Reiki) guides,
  • Seth
  • Abraham
  • Orin
  • Daben
  • Heyoan
• ALL ascended masters, including:
  • Ashtar (including 'the real Ashtar')
  • St Germain
  • Za Kai Ran
  • Kuthumi (often referred to as Lord Kuthumi - a real give-away of 'his' dark force origin)
  • Mutu
  • Merlin
  • Melchizedek
  • Mehindra
  • Jesus
  • St Francis
  • Jeshua
  • Maitreya
• Gods and goddesses, including:
  • Kwan Yin (Quan Yin or Kuan Yin)
  • Isis
  • Mother Mary
  • Sekhmet
  • Kali
  • Diana
  • Tara
  • Shiva
  • God (of Christianity and any other religion or tradition)
  • Jehovah
  • Allah
  • Enlil
  • Hathor
• Supposed higher beings whose classification I'm not sure of, including:
  • Lord Anju
  • Lady Anui
  • Athaerienne
  • Pallas Athena
  • Lady Nada
  • The Crimson Circle of Masters
  • The Great White Brotherhood
  • The Star Brotherhood
  • Sananda
  • The Keeper of the Keys of Creation (or of anything else!) (N.B. The very notion of holding 'keys' is of 'the dark side', because that is all tied up with power hierarchies. It is also completely nonsensical!)
  • The Lords of Time
  • The Brotherhood of Light
  • The Galactic Brotherhood of Light
    

    The Galactic Brotherhood of Light, via one particular 'lightworker' who revealed to me that he was supposedly a member of it, was strongly implicated in my own serious and potentially lethal troubles from the dark force.
    

    Any true higher beings of genuine positive intent would have guided that 'lightworker' through truly effective means to assist me in getting clear of my dark force interferences - not trying to wreck or kill me. Indeed, the fact that I have now cleared myself of most of my dark force interference and attacks, and look to be on course to be virtually free of all that at an early stage, demonstrates that I myself am a greatly 'higher' being than anything in that bogus 'Galactic Brotherhood of Light' (or indeed any of the so-called Archangels, which simply deceived and didn't genuinely assist me at all!).

  • The Galactic Federation of Light
    
  • The Ah-Sombe
  • The Sis-Shuana
  • SoNa beings
    

    The so-called 'SoNa energy' that these illusory (i.e. bogus) beings bring is much the same as the 'Network of Light' deception that I mention below, and it has a similar purpose - to get people ever more strongly ungrounding themselves and cultivating illusory realities in which people believe that a great consciousness shift of 'Humanity' is occurring, while in reality they are becoming increasingly captive to those illusory realities and thus to the dark force, which is the real source of those illusory realities and indeed the whole 'SoNa' myth.
    

• Any non-physical beings in any way administering or having anything to do with the alleged and completely bogus 'Network of Light', which supposedly either has been, is being, or is soon to be, set up around Earth for the alleged purpose of 'raising the vibration rate of all Humanity', which, in reality would equate to getting everyone ungrounded so that 'the dark side' could then really have a field day with us all!
• Alleged higher beings with the same names as the 'parasitic ETs' listed above:
  • the Hathors
  • Anu
  • Johnaan
  • Mila
  • Oa
  • Jjundaa
• The 'Lords of Karma'
• 'Divine support teams' of any kind
• ALL nature spirits
• ALL of the 'great' buddhas (i.e. the non-physical ones), including:
  • Avalokiteshvara
  • Padmasambhava
  • Manjushri
  • Maitreya
  • Vajrasattva
  • Vairocana
  • Kalachakra
  • Amida
  • Adi-Buddha
  • Samantabhadra
• ALL other supposedly higher or beneficial non-physical beings. As far as I can tell, there are NO true higher or beneficial non-physical beings! For example, EVERY manifestation of a purported Archangel Michael or Jesus is bogus and best to be kept well clear of.

  Indeed, as far as I understand it, there are NO non-physical true awarely conscious beings at all, whether higher, middle or lower! Much further below I expand on what appears to me to be the almost certain true nature of the dark force and thus of all the being- or entity-like manifestations that I've listed above.

The origin of the notion of 'angels' and 'archangels'

I appreciate that many people would be little short of shocked or outraged at any suggestion that angels and archangels are bogus and simply don't exist except as illusions created in and indeed by people's minds (i.e. under the hijack-control of the dark force). But actually there's a very simple and down-to-earth reason to discard the very notion of angels as any sort of non-physical being.

The people who believe in angels and archangels as being 'real' have all sidestepped a crucial bit of information: what angels / archangels originally were. Non-physical or Divine beings? -- NO! Not on your furdlemucking nelly! They were PRIESTS who were officially detailed to be operating as MEDIUMS! They were thus designated as 'messengers of God', but were nonetheless simply ordinary humans, as crooked as any in the religious hierarchy, channelling information from the dark force (which of course was posing as God or some other supposed higher source), or indeed in some cases they were no doubt simply pretending to channel, telling people what the religious authorities wanted them to hear - all for the purpose of further cultivating the religion's control over people.

Subsequently the religious authorities 'Divinized' the concept of angels and archangels, just as they deified Jesus (who was actually no less a physical person than you and I are) - then going quiet about what 'angel' and 'archangel' used to mean, and using those terms instead for postulated non-physical (and, absurdly, winged) beings surrounding a completely mythical personal God. So, angels / archangels have never been part of any true higher reality, but are simply an invention of certain religions for the purpose of gaining more control over people.

"If guides and higher beings are all illusions given to us by the dark force, how come that their words are so wise and loving?"

Simple. As I explain over and over on this site, what the dark force does when a person is channelling is to 'read' the subtle thoughts and data in the channelling person's deeper levels of consciousness, which that person wouldn't be able to 'hear' directly unless more advanced in their self actualization than just about anyone on the planet currently is. Please read Better Without Channelling for more about this.

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 actualization 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 dark force's seriously troublesome agenda and the sort of tricks and deceptions it puts on, so that we can progressively get ourselves free from its interference and influence.

Indeed, as I found out myself the hard way, the more you get into 'story' about different types of these supposed entities, the more you are opening yourself to them, and the more 'story' the dark force (posing as those 'entities') 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 the dark force - 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 Actualization?

* Actually we need to let go completely of the 'protection' mindset (which is defensive and disempowering), because what we need to think of and point ourselves towards instead is our own intrinsic immunity to the dark force and all other problematical non-physical influences / interferences (which is strengthening and empowering). That is what you start cultivating and opening up when you embark on a genuine self actualization process.

So, now that I've reduced the supposed whole unwholesome menagerie of astral or 'dark' entities that interfere with us, and indeed all the supposed benign and indeed supposedly 'higher' beings, to simply 'illusory manifestations of the dark force', 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 of the dark force's interferences (which, as I explain further below, do include some attached real entities in the form of non-incarnated human consciousnesses or fragments thereof ('soul fragments')).

The dark force 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 becoming truly effective in clearing ourselves of dark force 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 that 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 dark force is 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 dark force interference and influence.

The following scenario is similar in some respects to that given by Steve Gamble in his Shopping for Spirit, Chapter 9, but there are very significant differences too, and I am seeking to keep it to essentials and am avoiding as far as possible being sensationalist or evangelist about it as he seems to be in his writings. Steve appears to have some problems himself with dark force sourced interference in the information that 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 that 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 actualization 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 dark force's blind fixation on power / control agendas, and that it unremittingly seeks control and domination over humans and to divert them from true 'enlightenment' (what I prefer to call the gaining of fundamental clarity) and self actualization / self realization. Just why the dark force is 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 dark force itself 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 not only unverifiable but because they've been given to us with an agenda to seriously mislead, and so it's best for us to keep a completely open mind on such matters - even though much further below I outline what appears to be a much more helpful, belief-free and very different understanding of the origin and true nature of the dark force (i.e. as a speculative but at least extremely helpful working model).

To understand what the dark force is up to, as far as I can establish it at the moment, we need to understand a few very basic principles / issues.

The true nature of the human soul, and how it relates to reincarnation

Contrary to almost universally held belief among healers, mystics, psychics and 'New Age' movements, the people with the most deep awareness, 'inner' knowledge and inner freedom, who are all strong healers and have potential to quickly reach enlightenment, are NOT old souls who have evolved over very many soul incarnations, but are direct incarnations of fundamental consciousness itself, without souls! It is they who are the pure ones, who haven't (yet) got tampered with, distorted and loaded by obfuscational programming by the dark force to reduce the depth of their awareness and increase their level of confusion and misunderstanding of themselves and all other people around them.

I have now come to understand that, contrary to almost universal belief on the subject, the soul is nothing more than a dysfunctional or pathological manifestation. A truly well functioning person has, instead of a soul, a pure continuum of consciousness extending between fundamental consciousness and the conceptual, conscious mind - the soul being defined actually by an obstructive 'level' of programming and fixed or rigid preconceptions lying somewhere between the person's 'mind' and the non-duality of fundamental consciousness, and thus distorting and indeed disrupting the continuum of consciousness.

Furthermore, if pure, 'no soul' incarnations manage to keep sufficiently clear of dark force interferences, at death they would NOT go to any supposed 'Light', nor go anywhere, but would undergo a transition that 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 - a dark force sourced distortion of the real state of affairs. What really happens for such a person upon death is that their Earthly and physical experiences would simply cease. However, the fundamental identity - in other words the core essence or fundamental 'I'- of the person would remain intact as a micro-aspect of fundamental consciousness, in a state of peaceful harmony and clarity as naked awareness. Nothing in this transition is about light nor Light. It is about fundamental clarity.

So, what, then, is preventing these no-soul people from manifesting in this way?

The primary answer is that at birth the dark force sends to each no-soul human a number of degraded, 'lost' human souls*, which had become stuck with part of their awareness trapped in the astral sub-reality and are no longer incarnating. These 'lost' souls attach to the new human and are programmed and controlled by the dark force.

* Although I am using the term 'soul' here, in line with normal usage, this is, strictly speaking, bad use of the term, and can perpetuate very troublesome confusions. However, if I spoke of those as 'lost' human consciousnesses, although that would be sort-of correct, it would not sufficiently identify the particular consciousnesses that I am actually referring to here, and also it is simply too much of a mouthful in practical terms.

The point is, people generally regard a 'soul' as equivalent to that aspect of a person that continues to exist after the death of the person's body. But that in itself is a greatly flawed understanding of the real situation, because it is not recognising that each of us is, first and foremost, consciousness or awareness. From that perspective, the concept of the soul, as almost invariably meant, is meaningless.

So, when I refer to specific consciousnesses as 'souls', I do not mean just any human consciousness, but specifically consciousnesses that contain the programming and distortions that cause them to function somewhat in the manner of the popular notion of the soul. They are thus consciousnesses that have gained certain very specific types of distortion, which cause them to be chronically dysfunctional and limited in their awareness.

Without such attached lost souls, a no-soul human or indeed to a fair extent a first or second-time soul-incarnated human would be almost invulnerable to overt, gross interferences from the dark force. This is because the latter controls people by the use of a sort of psychic attack, skillfully manipulating emotional stress / trauma material that the person is carrying, and such no-soul or little soul-reincarnated people have little or no such material that the dark force can use. The latter 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 mine' or indeed as just mental 'noise', and filter them out.

Such people, then, would be fully or almost invulnerable to dark force or entity attacks (unless they were carrying some major trauma from earlier in their life - but that would still be relatively limited 'ammunition' for the dark force's 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 actualization well beyond that, then, to the best of my current understanding, they could become virtually immune even to that sort of interference.

The parasitic 'lost souls' and their bleak existence

It's necessary to explain here that I nowadays am wanting to find a different term for 'parasitic lost souls', because the latter term is really not correct, and I got using it because Steve Gamble was using that or a very similar term for the same thing - but so far I haven't come up with a suitable term that would give the right impression to people who don't already know what I'm on about. The point is, (a) the problematical use of the term 'soul', which I've already commented on further above, and (b) 'parasitic' can be only a figurative description, because, strictly speaking, these 'lost souls' are not being parasitic, because they are not gaining anything from their 'hosts'. I guess, though, that the term 'lost souls' is not going to be bettered, but these still need to be distinguished from other categories of lost soul, such as those that give rise to 'spirit attachments' and again those that become partial walk-ins.

What enables the dark force to break through the relative invulnerability of no-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'. For no-soul incarnations, 'soul level' would be the aspect or 'level' of consciousness where the soul-defining distortions and programming would be inserted if those individuals got ensnared by the dark force.

These lost souls are ones that an extremely long time ago had incarnated as no-soul people themselves but had been ensnared or lured into the dark force's 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 dark force had deceitfully presented as higher realities or indeed bogus versions of 'enlightenment'. These illusory realities manifested as astral realms to the people when they died, diverting them from the peaceful reversion into fundamental consciousness, and causing the consciousness thus to be trapped with part of its awareness stuck in an astral realm in the astral sub-reality, while the dark force then by various means creates distortions and inserts programming into a particular aspect or 'level' of the consciousness to create or strengthen the 'soul'.

At that stage the consciousness might subjectively experience the bogus 'higher reality' in which the once-alive person 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 (i.e. instead of fundamental consciousness).

This achieves two main things: the beginning of the programming of these trapped no-soul consciousnesses 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 - the creation and then cultivation and strengthening of the soul - is, generally speaking, slow and progressive, occurring over many reincarnations of the unfortunate hijacked consciousness. Each incarnation of its 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 dark force result in each successive incarnation being less aware and more shut-down than the previous one.

So, as noted, all this programming and accumulation of karmas (including traumas) is what goes into that aspect of consciousness that defines the soul. Thus, over the sequence of reincarnations, the soul becomes progressively stronger and more constraining to the person's awareness, so that the person is increasingly defined by the soul and decreasingly defined by his/her true qualities as a manifestation of fundamental consciousness.

It is helpful to understand that soul incarnations are still incarnations of fundamental consciousness, but, you could say, indirectly so. Indeed, they would best be regarded as pathological sub-incarnations of the original no-soul incarnation, because, from the viewpoint of fundamental consciousness, that is exactly what they are. 

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

At a certain advanced point in that process the trapped soul ceases to incarnate and remains trapped by its attachment to its illusions within the astral sub-reality. It is then further degraded and programmed to transform it into a sort of parasitic 'husk' of a soul that is ruthlessly controlled by the dark force in order to get it to attach to an incarnated human soul and be used as a weapon and instrument of control upon that person.

Healthy incarnation - no tampering
	An abundant, active, creative, basically happy and healthy life
Pre-incarnation	Incarnation	Post-incarnation (further incarnations are non-sequential and non-karmic)
	(no soul - just a continuum of consciousness)
Fundamental consciousness - clarity, harmony

The norm - hijacking by the dark force
	Great potential*			Increasingly 'normal', unaware and uninteresting people					Not incarnated
Pre-incarnation	Incarnation (legitimate)			Sub(1)		... (many sequential)		Sub(n)	(one BIG problem!)	Post-incarnation (tremendously delayed)
	(continuum)		Soul, giving rise to sequential, karmic incarnations (actually sub-incarnations)						Parasitic lost soul	Non-sequential, non-karmic incarnations are now possible once more
	(Just one incarnation that got hijacked)
Fundamental consciousness - clarity, harmony

* For the vast majority of no-soul people that potential is relatively little realized, because the dark force, via various means including the parasitic lost souls, screws these people up like no-one's business, so that the majority of them, most sadly, are, in their different ways, quite a mess. For example, my observations point to the ranks of homeless people, alcoholics and 'druggies' out on the streets in cities containing a remarkably high proportion of no-soul people. Similarly, there is a relatively high proportion of them in the ranks of psychiatric patients being progressively destroyed by the medication and ECT that the psychiatric and 'mental health' services and practitioners dish out to them (in lieu of getting them sorting themselves out!).

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

Once a no-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 actualization, and restimulated painful emotions (triggered by particular situations or people) that are actually not his own, and so lives a life that 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 no-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 their being diagnosed as mentally ill - all the more so because no-soul people tend to be the most poorly grounded, and many feel acutely the sense of isolation and separation from 'source' that is embedded within the attached 'lost' 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 no-soul or little reincarnated people 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.

There is a remarkable literary parallel to this situation in H. G. Wells' classic short story The Country of the Blind.

This all puts pressure upon especially the no-soul people, as they are so much more 'open' and vulnerable, to feel that there is something wrong with them and to try by various means to shut their awareness 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 the dark force 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 the dark force actually manipulates 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, and this is indeed often part of a process of building up illusory realities, typically in more or less hidden parts of the person's mindspace.

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 dark force 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 just the sort of thing that it would be trying to stop me 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 dark force 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 deeper 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 dark force.

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

It's in this way that people - even no-soul ones - can be driven to rape and all manner of depraved, violent or otherwise antisocial behaviour. I myself had the dark force 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 dark force 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.

...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 actualization / 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 The Dark Force ('Astral Entities') - My Own Tough Experiences, but, exceptionally, in my case, despite a period of disruption to my life, I managed to use all that happened to me then as 'handles' to enable me to progressively understand what was going on and thus progressively to weaken and eventually clear out the dark force's interferences and indeed the parasitic lost souls attached to me.

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 sense of harmful / disruptive actions with hostile intent.

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 these parasitic 'lost' souls, carrying in total a really delectable amount of emotional trauma material.

It looks as though the dark force most likely could 'sense' that I had a type of energy that potentially posed an unusually strong threat to its agenda and indeed theoretically even to its very existence, so it reacted in self defence to try and stop me by setting me up in such a way that it could deliver particularly severe attacks upon me - hence the large number of these parasitic 'lost' souls that were attached to me.

However, just clearing out the parasitic 'lost' souls doesn't immediately mean freedom from severe attacks, because, so it appears, when they are cleared out, there remain a great variety of energy impressions left over from the lost souls, and the dark force has ways of keeping those intact, so that ongoing healing work of the right sort is required to clear all those too before the person becomes immune. Among such 'leftovers' that the dark force can use as ammunition for attacks are thought form replicas of aspects of the departed lost souls, and previous lifetime memories from them that had got implanted into the person's own memory. In any case, it isn't really possible to know for sure that the lost souls are actually being cleared off when perhaps one's inner inquiry suggests that they are. All one can really know is that one is feeling progressively better and getting progressive fewer and less strong attacks, apparently as a result of the particular healing / self actualization methods that one is using.

'Night terrors', nightmares and the issue of grounding

The night hells (a better term for 'night terrors') phenomenon is operated directly by the dark force, 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, the phenomenon occurs in various forms for many adults too, not necessarily at night, and also the phenomenon embraces more than people would generally call 'terrors'. The key to this is having a particular part of 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, that 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 hells in Night Hells (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 dark force can temporarily insinuate it into an astral realm (illusory reality) 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, or indeed revulsion, often in combinations that have a particular unbearableness about them.

As I understand it, it is these experiences that 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 hells ('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.

N.B. When people see demons and other entities or beings in night hell visuals, they are NOT seeing actual entities or beings at all, however realistic they may look. The dark force and indeed any attached lost souls have no physical form and are not visible. The night terrors displays are just that - displays or 'horror movies' that the dark force has ever-so-kindly laid on for their 'lucky' audience to get them well and truly screwed up.

Night hells are characteristically a 'softening up' tactic of the dark force for people who are no-soul incarnations or who have soul reincarnated only once or twice, for the purpose of traumatizing them and making them easier for the dark force to interfere with and manipulate / control later in life, in particular to ensure that they don't get into a genuine and comprehensive self actualization process and thus potentially become immune to the dark force's interferences and indeed control.

Nightmares - a different type of dark force interference

Nightmares are a particular distorted type of dream in which attack from the dark force occurs - night hells ('night terrors') not being dreams at all. In dreaming, your own system is going through a sort of sifting and re-evaluation process below the conscious level, comparing recent experiences with previous ones and relating them also to any thoughts or ideas or insights that may come up. This is for the purpose of fully learning from one's life experiences. You cannot deeply learn from any life experience without that deep, 'subconscious' sifting and re-evaluation process, so an unhindered dreaming process is crucially important. When you have learnt from those experiences you are in a better position to respond in a rational and flexible way to any similar situations that may arise in the future.

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 actual dreams.

The dark force would presumably interfere with dreams and make them into more true night hell experiences if it could - but it simply can't do that, for it doesn't have direct access to the aspects of our consciousness in which the dreaming process occurs. However, what it does in order to try to work round that is to covertly put various distorted ideas and images into the aspect of the person's awareness where memories are held, awaiting review, evaluation and 'sifting'. The effect of this is that the dreaming process can pick up these intruded 'foreign' elements and incorporate them into dreams, making them into disturbing dreams or full-blown nightmares.

The dark force does this to just about everyone, all the time, so clearly there has to be another factor required to precipitate disturbing dreams and actual nightmares. What 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 dark force, in order to maintain a cache of such material in your 'unprocessed memories' store, has 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 hells.

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 'mine' and 'not mine', and so the 'foreign' material gets incorporated into 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 dark force is able to detect 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 the dark force (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 hells of two very different types, and my more recent tremendous ordeals and attacks from the dark force with intense trauma feelings of fear, terror, panic, anxiety et al, and indeed further attempts to assault me with night hell displays, I'm aware of only one true nightmare that I've had in my whole life (and that was when I was about three), 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 that 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 major troubles with the dark force, other parts of my awareness became very poorly grounded, really opening me to large-scale trickery and attacks from the dark force. That good groundedness of the particular part of my awareness has also been my great protection against the dark force's apparent attempts to impose upon me a partial walk-in or other pretty disastrous problem.

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 particular memory, thought or image comes up, which is linked to a trauma that you are carrying. That trauma may be one that 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 that 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 Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Lucid dreams - a snare for avoiding! -- Warning!

'Lucid dreams' are generally regarded as a really smart thing to get into, but the truth is that the moment you have got into what people call a lucid dream, you have actually stopped dreaming and have entered part of your awareness into an astral realm. Yes, you may be able (more or less) to direct the course of events within it, but you are actually on pretty well as harmful and indeed dangerous a 'trip' as if you were astral-travelling. So, the really smart thing to do if you find yourself in a supposed 'lucid dream' is to promptly drop it and completely ignore it, and allow yourself to fall asleep again, or to wake up if necessary in order to get rid of it.

Otherwise, if you do make a practice of getting into those experiences, you are getting yourself progressively more ungrounded and in the control of the dark force. Is that truly what you'd want?

Alien abductions

I have listed alleged extra-terrestrials that people see or receive communications from as actually being at least nearly all inventions of the dark force 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, and indeed supposedly the odd visiting ETs have even been photographed. So, how do I reconcile those people's experiences with my listing of such ETs as non-physical, dark force sourced inventions?

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 manipulated by the dark force 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 nor indeed real 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 particular part of 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 dark force great freedom then to deceive the person and present illusory material in a way that seems 'real'. This is most effectively and indeed often dramatically achieved by taking part of the person's awareness into an astral realm (a particular type of 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 a particular part of his/her awareness and it got inveigled by the dark force into an astral realm where the apparently physical encounter occurred.

The purpose of this would in just about every case have been for the dark force, posing as the particular ETs, to put some implants into the person's energy system, to increase and facilitate the dark force's 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 that 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 Philip Goddard guy!

As it happens, I do not operate on the basis of belief nor 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, in a sense, part of 'reality' or 'What Is', even though what they contain is illusion. True, I haven't experienced alien encounters or abductions, but the astral realm experiences I have had were very revealing.

Illusory realities, astral realms and human irrationality

I have now moved my further explanation of astral realms from here to a new page, Illusory Realities and Human Irrationality, where I have expanded it. As you will read there, astral realms are a particular type of illusory reality, and illusory realities (especially the covert, more or less permanent variety) are the basic means by which the dark force distorts the life experience of every single person on the planet to make them all in some degree, and in the vast majority of cases considerably so, unaware, irrational and unintelligent (and so very much causing the big troubles that we see in the world). Illusory realities are very much worthwhile getting to understand and do something about - and, as I show on that page, it truly is possible for people to clear all illusory realities that they are carrying - that is, if they have the will to do so.

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 through successive reincarnations of the soul. 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 no-soul incarnations or are already on the 'downward' path of reincarnational degradation - for everyone has at least some degree of healing and self actualization 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 actualization and full freedom from the dark force 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 consciousnesses. Once their awareness becomes sufficiently shut down by the increasing stranglehold of the soul, they cease incarnating and become the parasitic 'lost' souls that are controlled by the dark force, and which are directed to attach to the 'soul level' of human consciousnesses (i.e. that aspect of consciousness that defines the soul when dark force hijacking occurs) as they incarnate - no-soul incarnations being the primary target.

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 that you might imagine. The reason for this is that their own core essence has been so thickly covered up by their programming and accumulated traumas 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 that 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 (please note, however, that I am NOT saying that they experience no suffering at all). I say this even though I would still not wilfully 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, 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, having progressively less abundance and vividness of life experience, and eventually 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.

Indeed, it looks as though in a sense parasitic lost souls could eventually transform into reinforcements of the dark force's monstrous complex of astral thought forms. It could well be that, as I explain further below, the transition from a parasitic lost soul to dark force thought forms marks a point at which the true 'being' - the true soul - finally manages to revert to fundamental consciousness, leaving an empty 'husk' of 'mind' and dark force programming in the astral sub-reality, no longer with an aware consciousness at all, so that all that tangibly remains of the soul is what is effectively an elaborate mass of dark force programmed thought forms that then operate rather like viruses or computer malware once they've been assimilated by the dark force. I'm not suggesting that this is necessarily what happens, so this is to be taken just as a bit of speculation.

Paradoxically it is no-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, as already noted, the night hells / '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 dark force 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.

* I say this with regard to non-physical experiences. Actually, the nearest physical approach to many of the religious depictions of hell is what goes on in various torture chambers, massacres and atrocities right here on Earth.

People who have picked up a belief in hell or hells, say in Christianity or Tibetan Buddhism can actually be given experiences in night hell sequences that 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 dark force. In the astral sub-reality, as far as I can ascertain, people actually never feel physical pain - but they can be attacked with particular intense trauma emotions and 'pseudo-thoughts' that make them believe that they are undergoing the ultimate physical torments, even while it is all actually physically painless apart from the possibly extreme discomforts of the intense emotional trauma feelings themselves.

I myself have been, on one occasion (my 'all night spectacular' ordeal of 3rd-4th February 2007), attacked so strongly with terror-related trauma energies while being shown certain night hell visuals, that it felt as though my whole body would break up if the attack got any stronger.

As already noted, the dark force's purpose in subjecting people to night hell 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 actualization and freedom from dark force 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 the human race. 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. All apparent entities within it are illusory, no matter whether they appear to be 'dark', Satanic, holy, angelic or Divine.

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 that 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 'visualization'* procedures directed to progressively dissolving the thought forms in the astral sub-reality. I will very soon add a full description of such a healing visualization practice to Stone Spheres as Healing and Self Actualization Aids, 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.

* The procedures actually involve not so much the sort of graphical visualizations that healers widely do, but more subtle and powerful 'visualizations' of intent, which are only marginally visible.

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

As far as my current understanding goes, consciousnesses or souls themselves - as overall beings - don't really get trapped within the astral sub-reality; it's intrinsically impossible because of the very nature of the astral sub-reality. So, when it appears that a soul is trapped there, what is almost certainly happening is that the consciousness or soul is simply trapped by its own attachment to its distorted perceptions, which latter (only) are in the astral sub-reality. So, when you do any sort of work to help dissolve the contents of the astral sub-reality, what you are doing is assisting the liberation of all lost or 'stuck' consciousnesses from their attachment to their distorted perceptions, so that they can then revert to fundamental consciousness.

In other words, at last such consciousnesses and souls would have happen to them what would happen to us at death if we hadn't been diverted and ensnared by the dark force, 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 visualized '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 supposed fires of hell.

The dark force's negative impacts on humans

The dark force, whether or not manifesting as apparent entities, ruthlessly pursues an agenda of controlling and and increasing its domination over humans. It often operates covertly, seeking to manipulate people into outlooks or behaviour that keep them away from speedy paths to enlightenment and an optimal degree of self actualization (which would free one totally from dark force control or interference of any type).

So, the dark force diverts 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 optimal self actualization and living fully in the present. The whole notion of 'ascension' is an illusory reality that is almost bound to take you captive into an astral realm when you die, so that the dark force can continue its work on you towards taking you over completely, many soul reincarnations further down the line.

One very sneaky way the dark force uses to take people away from their true life purpose of self actualization is to get them infatuated with each other, even though it may be inappropriate for one or even both to be 'tied' to another person like that 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 actualization 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 (dark force induced) fears of actually being on their own and free for true self actualization. Such 'family' relationships are, generally speaking, a great block to serious self actualization work - and all the more so when marriage (a case of institutionalized attachment) comes into it.

Ironically, the human race 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 the human race is very likely to become more or less extinct on Earth. Please see The Future of Humanity.

The dark force not only attacks according to its agenda (see appendix for more about its 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; the dark force is always involved.

I have already remarked on the dark force as being an intrinsic part of the channelling process and nearly all dowsing - these influences 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 dark force.

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 dark force, 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 own dark force 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 dark force 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 dark force 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 dark force 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. The terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden is another prominent individual whose troublesome behaviour, according to my 'reading', looks like having been caused by a partial walk-in (plus a fair collection of parasitic lost souls), and who, without them, would apparently be a strong promoter of peace, reconciliation and indeed self actualization.

What happens is this. When each human consciousness is in the process of incarnation (i.e. a little while before birth), the dark force can to a fair extent tell from its 'energy signature' whether it is a potential threat to the dark force agenda of control and domination of all humans, such as through becoming some sort of prominent teacher promoting true self actualization and assisting people in becoming fully clear of dark force interference and influence. It then directs a particular set of appropriately programmed 'lost' souls to attach to that person soon after birth, to be means of dark force control for that person to make him effectively a teacher of some sort of basic 'wisdom' containing dark force sourced distortions, and to be fully believing in and unquestioning about the 'story' that they've channelled or have picked up indirectly from the dark force through other individual people or particular traditions.

However, there are particular (usually no-soul) consciousnesses who at incarnation time are recognised as being a more formidable threat to the dark force agenda because they are expected to have particularly sharp and questioning minds, so that they are liable to recognise and repudiate the dark force 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 dark force particularly seeks to stop, and a partial walk-in is one of its options for turning such people into dark force puppets or at least for disabling them thoroughly as any sort of hindrance or threat to the dark force and its agenda (i.e. wrecking them in some way).

What the dark force does for such individuals is to set up situations for them where they get much of their awareness ungrounded - seriously ungrounded. If such a person can be in some way contrived to get his awareness out of body sufficiently (getting the person doing astral projection or astral travel is a favourite), the dark force then quickly sneaks in a very powerful 'lost' soul that has been specially programmed to effectively take the person over, under direction of the dark force. 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 dark force's perspective), the original consciousness of the 'person' would be completely ejected, but I understand that this is something that the dark force cannot do - so instead of a full 'walk-in' (replacing one consciousness with another 'in' a particular body), the unfortunate original consciousness and personality is kept in a 'straitjacketed' state, with apparently no option but to assume the 'persona' of the dark force programmed captive soul and do its bidding.

The failed partial walk-in - a spirit attachment

My observations of various prominent people who appear to have partial walk-ins and powerful spirit attachments* suggests to me that if the dark force fails to get a prospective partial walk-in to 'take' on a person (no doubt because it couldn't get the person sufficiently out of body at the time), then it often gets a similar lost soul (the same or a different one - I don't know if the same one would work for this) to attach to the person as a very strongly controlling spirit attachment.

* See further below for more about spirit attachments.

The theoretical difference for the affected person would be that the person with a spirit attachment rather than a partial walk-in would be more likely to be aware that something is amiss for him, and would be more likely to recognise, at least with a bit of prompting from somebody else, that he had a spirit attachment. However, in the case of spirit attachments sent to people in the event of failed partial walk-ins there appears in practice to be little difference from the effects of a partial walk-in, because in such cases the person has been targeted with an unusually strongly controlling lost soul, which has been specially programmed to force the person to live in complete denial of his/her having any spirit attachment or indeed any problem relating thereto. The person is thus to a considerable extent a puppet of the dark force, being controlled through the intermediary spirit attachment, much as occurs with partial walk-ins.

Beware the near-death experience!

Among the many types of situation that give the dark force 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 actualization. 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) dark force connections and involvement, using the check-list that 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, it appears that the dark force was doing its damnedest to 'get' me too, as you can read in Partial Walk-ins - How the dark force nearly nobbled me. As I explain there, it isn't clear whether it was really trying to make me, in the event of one of its attempts on me succeeding, into an effective puppet teacher, or it was simply trying to make me into a really hardcore 'psychiatric case' so that I'd be disabled as an effective teacher or promoter of self actualization and clearance of dark force influences. Indeed, because of the true nature of the dark force, all talk of it having any specific 'intent' is really off course, in just the same way that you don't talk of a computer virus "intending" to wreck your computer or indeed do any harm, for it simply blindly executes its own programming - any 'cleverness' simply being in the programming.

Spirit attachments - a different issue

I must dispel one widespread confusion here and distinguish between so-called 'astral entities', which are the primary subject of this account and are not true entities at all (never mind in what form they may present themselves), 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 dark force interferences and deceptions.

My own inner inquiry results are suggestive that the majority of spirit attachments (apart from the lesser issue of the odd attached 'peripheral' soul fragments) are from 'lost' souls that are in predicaments similar to those of the 'lost' souls used in partial walk-ins, but in these instances they have not been programmed to - 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. There are many more cases of such spirit attachments than those resulting from failed partial walk-in attempts.

As already noted, generally speaking, a person with a spirit attachment is much more likely to be aware that something is wrong and to 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 that simply had a traumatic death and have no specific dark force programming to cause trouble), but many cause major problems because of their dark force sourced programming. However, contrary to widespread belief, true spirit attachments are, generally speaking, unable to communicate or otherwise interact with their 'host'.

Generally speaking, earthbound spirits or fragments thereof, like the abovementioned elementals, drain the energy of whoever they attach to, so feelings of tiredness and exhaustion are very normal for people with that sort of spirit attachment. 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) that caused the death of their last incarnation - a compelling reason for seeking to get them removed at the earliest opportunity. The dark force and parasitic 'lost' souls, 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.

Spirit attachments from dark force 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 dark force, 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 major 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 allegedly 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 no-soul incarnation, so that, especially with my being enlightened too, all healings that I gave myself or others contained a strong component that was from my deepest aspects, regardless of the superficial unbalanced and even downright harmful methods I was tending to use then.

Ghosts and elementals - how they fit into the picture

It is almost universally understood among healers, mystics, 'lightworkers' and psychics that ghosts are earthbound 'spirits' (the consciousnesses of people who have died). On that basis one could say, therefore, that technically earthbound spirits are ghosts. However, my current understanding is that virtually nobody perceives true earthbound spirits, and the only sign of their existence is their tending to attach to people and cause them problems.  At least almost all of what people actually experience as 'ghosts' are NOT human (or any other) consciousnesses at all, but are another phenomenon known as elementals. An elemental is a complex of thought forms that is attached to a specific geographical location and has a quasi-autonomous existence.

People unwittingly leave behind them one or more elementals if they die while bearing an extremely strong emotional attachment to a particular location or even a person. These then get perceived by people with poorly grounded awareness. The sorts of impressions received vary widely - not only actual sightings but voices, creaking floorboards, the sound of footsteps, knocking on a door, a particular smell, a particular emotional feeling, and so on.

There is a whole sub-category of elementals, however, that are not so innocently produced. People who are into dark practices may leave behind extremely troublesome elementals when they die, but also they actually deliberately create troublesome and often extremely frightening elementals and leave them in particular places or send them to particular people to cause immense problems. Generally it is one of these that is the culprit in a troublesomely haunted house (e.g. where pictures fall off walls, things spontaneously burst into flame, electrical appliances keep failing, and so on), though the worst elementals go far beyond that and are hellish in their awfulness. Human consciousnesses would never behave in the crass way that these elementals tend to. The point here is that the elementals are not driven or guided by any sort of conscious awareness; they are simply programming, and so cannot behave like a true conscious being. However, it is dark force interference and control that causes people to create such elementals in the first place - so elementals can be regarded as one of the 'indirect' tools of the dark force.

If you have ever got the feeling of there being a presence of the utmost evil in a particular location and felt that you had to get away from there as fast as your legs would take you, that would have been one of those 'dark' elementals. On the other hand, masses of relatively weak elementals remaining from past dark practices in a particular area can, while not necessarily producing dramatically frightening or menacing effects, still give a somewhat disturbing impression of the particular area to 'sensitive' people.

I myself get this effect along the north Cornwall coast path between Portreath and Perranporth, where in various places, though most especially from the vicinity of Trevaunance Cove to just before Perranporth, my back creeps with 'spooky' feelings as I look at the various cliff formations there, and I get from them all sorts of impressions of 'black' or 'dark' witchcraft. I don't get those impressions from the cliffs anywhere else.

Similarly, I get a disturbing impression from the Cornish standing stone constructions known as quoits, and to some extent from standing stone constructions generally (very much including Stonehenge), because they were all tools used in decidedly 'dark' practices and are still carrying weak elementals left by those long-ago practitioners, who were emotionally very attached to their 'tools', including their stone constructions.

I have done some inner inquiry, supported by energy testing, concerning what might have been special about that stretch of coastline from Portreath to Perranporth, to attract either the elementals (I don't think that could happen) or the 'dark' practitioners who created the elementals. The results I've come out with from this inquiry are interesting - though I caution that this is best regarded only as a sort of 'inspired speculation', even though it carries more weight for me because such self interrogations using energy testing have brought me so many genuinely greatly helpful results. So, my 'inspired speculation' goes as follows...

Many of the cliffs along that stretch contain red or purplish-red iron compounds that, in the particular petrological context (i.e. the particular rock type) exert a fairly mild degree of weakening effect upon people's non-physical aspects ('energy systems') in a particular way that in turn tends to weaken their grounding in a particular respect that causes them to be much more inclined to spontaneously open to the astral sub-reality, and thus to the dark force.

However, there's more to it than that. There is also a tendency for those particular rocks to additionally contain certain green or greenish copper compounds that have a similar effect but more strongly than the iron compounds. Where both of these occur together the effect is synergistic - that is, the ungrounding effect is much stronger than the sum of the effects of the iron and copper compounds individually.

Even that isn't the whole story, because those iron and copper compounds do not have that effect, at least very much, in other locations. This implies that there exists some unseen factor along the particular stretch of coastline, which causes the iron and copper compounds in the rocks along there to have this marked and extremely harmful effect. That unseen factor needn't necessarily be anything particularly mysterious or 'occult', for it could, for example, be the presence of a particular element or mineral in that rock formation, which is not announcing itself by its colour, and which is not present in the other locations.

In any case, my understanding is that this ungrounding effect would have become noticed by 'sensitive' people, and of course misinterpreted either as something 'spiritual' about the area or indeed as something 'dark' about it - and so it gained a reputation through the 'grapevine' as a place for 'dark' practitioners to come and 'do their thing'. Very likely the same effect would have been an attraction for people who were into 'spirituality' (i.e. what they believed was positive), but at least many would have actually been repelled by the elementals and 'bad vibes' that they would have felt in that area, actually created by the 'dark' practitioners.

If this information is anything like correct, it would appear that that area (i.e. underlain by that particular rock formation containing the particular iron and copper compounds) is an unhealthy place for people to live. There's no real harm in just passing through on an occasional walk, but actually to live there could cause long term health effects, quite apart from an increasing tendency for susceptible people to get direct dark force interferences, which would generally be diagnosed as mental health problems unless the affected individuals had some understanding of what was happening to them and kept clear of the medical or mental healthcare services.

On the other hand I don't know the extent of the postulate unseen factor that makes the iron and copper compounds appear to be so harmful there, and so I point out that the area of harmful effect could conceivably be much more restricted than the area underlain by the particular rock formations containing the iron and copper compounds. It could possibly be, indeed, that the harmful effect is not much in evidence except where a substantial amount of the rock is actually exposed - i.e. along the coastline itself.

'Combo entities' - the most openly troublesome type of 'attachment'

Elementals themselves at least have the limitation that they are just programming (in thought 'energy'), and to some extent this constrains the extent to which they can make hell of a person's life. However, my inner inquiry relating to experiences of mine with particular individuals points to some people having particular weaknesses / distortions of their non-physical aspects that enable the dark force to hijack part of their system to cause it to not only create elementals but to combine them with actual soul fragments that have been drawn to the person. Such people typically attract new soul fragments to themselves all the time as they lose ones that have got combined with nasty elementals and then 'cut loose' to then go on to attach to particular people and cause them immense problems.

When you have an elemental integrated with a soul fragment you have effectively a partially aware malevolent 'semi-entity' or 'combo-entity', which can cause immense suffering and disruption for whoever it becomes attached to. Some of the 'destruction' elementals mentioned further above are most likely in this category, though combo entities are relatively likely to make themselves known to their victims as part of their ongoing campaign of tormenting their victims to eventual more or less total destruction, whereas a 'destruction' elemental may not necessarily manifest as anything more than just a mystifying catalogue of increasingly serious health problems.

One young man who came to me regularly for healing exchanges appeared to be one of these unfortunate and actually very dangerous individuals who are, as far as I can ascertain, completely unawarely periodically 'dropping' 'combo-entities' here and there, which would then cause massive problems for whoever they attached to. I give an account of my experiences with him in Am I a Healer?. I was very fortunate that the relevant part of my non-physical aspects remained at that time resolutely too grounded for any of those 'combo-entities' to take a hold on me (at least, anything other than very transiently), even though, apparently, one of them was hanging around in my flat for at least a month, and indeed eventually became attached to a healer who visited me in my flat and sought to remove that 'entity' (by ineffective means, of course!).

What entities look like

Actually NO non-physical entity or presence has a physical appearance, so when a person sees some sort of physical appearance for anything non-physical, this is nothing more than a completely made up or fabricated visual representation, which, generally speaking, is given to the person / people by the dark force in order to mislead, confuse or disturb the person in some way.

I am well aware that some people have apparently photographed various types of entity. In David Ashworth's book Dancing with the Devil, for example (NOT recommended, despite the author's really good intentions, because he himself is being very strongly dark force led and can only cause still more harmful confusions), there are photos of two apparitions that he naturally assumes are entities. One is an unprepossessing thing with quite a stereotypical 'demon' appearance, which was photographed in the roof of a cave, and the other is a menacing-looking rather amoeboid-shaped translucent dark thing without any obvious features, above a door in a house, allegedly waiting to "attack" somebody's crown chakra as they pass through the doorway.

My own inner inquiry, supported by energy testing, points to such physically visible and even photographable manifestations NOT being true (i.e. conscious) entities at all, but being elementals. Elementals, being non-physical, are generally not visible at all - though again, the dark force often presents people with visual representations of them, and this is the pretty well universal cause of people 'seeing' a ghost. As I have already indicated further above, what people normally regard as ghosts are NOT discarnate consciousnesses but elementals.

In the case of an elemental being visible to more or less non-'sensitive' people and being photographable, my understanding is that this can come about only in the presence of a person whose whole being is particularly poorly grounded. In such a case the dark force can use that person's non-physical aspects ('energy system') to create a range of physical effects, such as moving of objects, causing electrical equipment to behave abnormally or fail, and the materialization (and indeed dematerialization) of apparently physical objects or apparitions, including making particular elementals seem to be actual physical manifestations and thus be photographable.

The departed relatives phenomenon

What people take to be departed relatives are really just a special case of 'guides', which are dark force sourced simulations (using data from the person's memory in order to construct a likeness). Nobody can actually see discarnate human consciousnesses, and my current understanding is that they do not communicate with us, so when you get an impression of your late Aunt Ada coming to you and giving you a bit of advice about how you should live your life, or telling you about what it's like on the supposed 'other side', it is basically just another of the illusions that are created by people's minds under a certain degree of hijack control from the dark force.

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 those illusions, and to get on with their own self actualization process, opening to their own deepest essence as their uniquely aware, 'savvy' and appropriate 'guide'.

'Self made demons' too! --?

Some healers or therapists with their own unawarely dark force distorted outlooks and agendas put a lot of store in the notion of some people having just 'self made demons' or self-created entity problems and no 'real' entities at all - as though their troubles were somehow their own fault, resulting from some personal flaw or perversity. This sort of thing is a serious misreading of the particular people's situations.

Indeed, as is explained much further below, the dark force itself is not true entities in the first place, so it's quite possible for anyone to, correctly in a way, claim that any interference that a person has from the dark force is not from real entities, and thus to misleadingly conclude that the apparent 'entities' must be self created by the affected person as a symptom of some perversity or flaw in that person.

In short, then, it's best to completely let go of such prejudicial terms as 'self-made' or 'self created' when referring to what appear to be entity manifestations or entity problems that people are having, and to allow oneself to gain a deeper understanding of what is really going on.

'Phantom' entity phenomena of which I'm aware fall into the following main categories:

• Simulations of non-physical beings, whether 'astral beings', demons, guides or higher or 'Divine' beings or indeed God, all created by one's mind - yes - but under hijack-control by the dark force. None of them is a real being, so they all really fall within the category of 'phantom' entities, despite so many people fervently believing in their being 'real'. These and their cause are the primary subject of this article.

• Energy imprints of true entities (attached lost human souls) that themselves have been removed by effective healing methods such as I give in Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way.
  

  Actually these are postulated on the basis of my inner inquiry results concerning changes that my own self healing / self actualization methods were bringing about for me, but I should emphasize that I'm less sure than for the other phenomena, as to what extent these actually occur in practice. I can only guess that they are at least common, but as yet I have no observational evidence that clearly points to their occurrence.
  

  These imprints would include

  • a complex of thought forms that can seem remarkably like the actual entity that has departed - what I call a thought form replica.

  • a large collection of memories - particularly trauma related ones - of the departed entity, which have become imprinted in the person's memory databank in much the same way that print-through can occur from one turn to the next in a reel of magnetic recording tape.

• Elementals. As already noted, these are thought form aggregates that have a quasi-autonomous existence, having been unawarely or indeed deliberately created by particular people. Generally it is people who die while being very attached to particular things in their life who unawarely create elementals, many of which are often labelled as 'ghosts', but the real problem area is the elementals that are created by people who are into dark practices or at least are particularly strongly interfered with by the dark force. Such elementals can be programmed to attach to particular people and behave as though they were conscious entities, but, as with the so-called 'astral entities', they have no aware consciousness and it is simply their built-in programming that directs them to do whatever they do.
  

  Actually, I suspect that it's at least often significantly more than that when they are in immediate proximity to a person who is sufficiently ungrounded. Then the dark force would be able to use that person's 'energy system' to control the elemental by amending its programming 'on the fly', and thus ensuring that it causes serious problems, whether specifically for that person or for others too.
  

  Also, when the dark force has a good hold on a person (with that person's whole being as well as his awareness sufficiently ungrounded) it can cause that person unawarely to create elementals that may seem like entities and cause the person a lot of trouble, and can in rare cases kill the person. They may manifest in the person's mind a bit like standard 'astral entities' (though with differences), but many of them can manifest outside the person's mind / body and then be like 'ghosts' but appearing and causing problems only within the broadest extent of the person's energy field. They can give rise to anything in the full range of ghost and poltergeist phenomena, such as moving objects, apparitions, pictures falling off walls, electrical equipment malfunctioning, disembodied voices that are clearly not 'in the head' and so on.

  Such elementals are often misinterpreted as 'spirit attachments', which actually makes them more difficult to clear, because actually elementals are relatively easy to dissolve if you know how. People carrying (unawarely) self created ones are potentially a menace to anyone else who the dark force is seeking to target, for the dark force can cause them to create further such elementals to (again usually unawarely) place on 'target' individuals according to their dark force control.

If my inner inquiry results on this are at all correct, energy imprints left by removed / departed 'real' entities such as spirit attachments or parasitic lost souls are maintained by the dark force and generally prevented from dissolving because the dark force can still use aspects of these as ammunition for attacks. So, unfortunately a person who's got rid of all his parasitic lost souls could still be attacked as though he still had those lost souls - though actually the attacks would be less severe even if they didn't feel so, and they would actually be less harmful to the person's energy system. Ongoing healing, therefore, would be required to progressively dissolve those energy imprints and so clear out all the last remnants that could be used as dark force ammunition. I recommend for that purpose particularly the Grounding Post procedure, especially when used in conjunction with the Returning Life Sequence.

"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 dark force sourced deceptions for what they are unless they themselves get clear of their own (normally covert) dark force interferences and control, OR the dark force for some reason gives 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 that 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', and convenient side-stepping by use of prejudicial sayings like "Each of us creates his own reality" (implying that for some arcane reason the likes of me have invented the problems in the astral sub-reality, and such problems are just a sign that there's something fundamentally flawed about the likes of me). But their doing that simply shows me all the more how much they have got sidetracked by power / control influences away from straightforward self actualization, for which no external guide or 'Master' is appropriate because your own genuine guide and teacher is yourself, via 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 dark force - 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 dark force 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' that 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 dark force interferences from myself point to ALL guides as not being benign at all, despite any superficial appearances, and being illusory and more in the nature of lures or 'sirens', which have been given to people to keep them distracted and diverted from true self actualization 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 dark force sourced lures that 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 that 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 with the dark force from 2003 to 2007, when a certain part of your awareness becomes poorly grounded you become most extraordinarily gullible towards the dark force 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 that the dark force brings 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 dark force interferences. What is really happening in those cases is that people are reacting against a viewpoint that they find too challenging, by trying to foist their own dark force 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 that 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 each of 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, working or interacting with them in any way. However, as explained in my account of energy testing, it is extremely important to be vigilant for interference from the dark force in energy testing, for without such vigilance and aware discernment you could simply be letting the dark force 'guide' you when you believe you are getting genuine energy testing results.

The thorny question of personal responsibility

An amazing number of people seek to discount any notion that interference and programming from the dark force is the primary cause of most serious human malfunction, on the grounds that that would imply that people are not responsible for their negative and harmful actions, and therefore supposedly could not be called to account for their actions and could continue doing whatever they like with impunity.

In other words, "I don't want to face the implications of that, so I'll dismiss it as outrageous rubbish"!

That shows a hopelessly confused outlook, which itself has all the hallmarks of dark force control or programming. In such situations people are not being honest with themselves, because when they talk of 'responsibility', what they are really meaning is 'blamability' or 'condemnability', which is nothing to do with true personal responsibility, which latter is a positive thing. They are fixated on the notion that if a person does something 'bad', the most important thing is that that person must be blamed and condemned and seen as 'bad', and the particular person has to suffer some sort of retribution or revenge for what (s)he has done. 'Justice' widely is being taken to mean 'revenge' (or 'punishment', which is nothing more than legitimized revenge) rather than anything positive or constructive. Because people are so attached to that judgemental, condemnatory, vengeful attitude to individuals who do seriously troublesome things, they reject any scenario, such as given on this page, that at least implicitly challenges their own highly problematical, dark force sourced beliefs.

Let me spell it out here in order to be completely clear. When a person goes deliberately doing seriously troublesome things, that person is not fully in control of him/herself, and thus is NOT (at least fully) responsible for his/her harmful actions.

The irrational argument that is then put to me is that that is a preposterous claim, because it would imply that wrongdoers should "get off scot-free". Again, the lust for revenge upon a person is given high priority over ever contemplating the reality of a situation and seeking to understand what is really going on and how it would best be addressed.

Take for instance a man who habitually molests children - something that (quite irrationally) raises people's hackles like virtually nothing else. Is repeatedly telling that man that he is bad or evil going to change anything for the better? Seriously, would such condemnations cause a cessation of that man's fixations? Of course not! Can you tell me of even one case where a child molester, upon being told that he was bad or evil and the lowest of the low, or in some other way being given a hard time as retribution / revenge for his actions, stopped his troublesome behaviour of his own volition?

The question that I would throw back to the stupid people who just want to punish and not understand the reality of a situation is, "What are you really seeking? Revenge upon the wrongdoer? Or resolution of the issue that makes the person behave troublesomely, so that the person can then behave healthily and positively?" Those two alternatives are totally incompatible.

If a person is effectively a puppet, are you going to get more positive results from condemning that puppet for its harmful actions, or from assisting the person in getting clear of his controller(s) and thus stopping being a puppet?

One thing I am NOT claiming is that (e.g.) the child molester should be left to carry on with his troublesome behaviour. For his own good as much as anyone else's, he needs to be stopped in his troublesome behaviour, even if it means restrictions on his freedom and even (hopefully temporary) incarceration. But that incarceration serves little useful purpose if it is being used to punish the man rather than as part of a programme to assist him in clearing the issue that has been causing him to molest children. The whole concept of punishment is about judgement and power / control agendas, and is sourced from and aligns us with the dark force.

Similarly, almost everyone loves to have a murderer condemned and severely punished, without regard to why that person committed the murder in the first place. Yes, in the UK at least a person can be acquitted of actual murder on the basis of not having been responsible for his actions, but actually even a cold-blooded and calculated murder would still be the result of dark force interference in some form, whether by direct control or through programming of the person. People without dark force interference or programming simply would not behave in seriously negative and harmful ways.

If you choose to ignore the above fact for the purpose of concentrating on the punishment (revenge) angle, what you are doing is refusing to sanction or support measures to actually enable murderers to not be motivated or driven to kill further people.

Am I saying, therefore, that we do not have personal responsibility? No, not at all. I am simply making a clear distinction between true personal responsibility (which is totally positive, and which vanishingly few people are yet anything like fully attuned to) and the purely negative and almost universal lust for blame and retribution, which gets confused with the notion of personal responsibility. Ironically, it is the latter, negative, blaming outlook that is one of the main obstacles to people getting fully in touch with their own intrinsic sense of personal responsibility.

"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 any sort of 'entities' (whether real entities or the various manifestations of the dark force) 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 sensibly 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 in 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' that 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 (or at least some external influence that appears to be entities)?

Again, the doctors and psychiatrists would then go on about abnormalities in brain chemistry (and thus the supposed need to use drugs and ECT, thus actually wrecking the brain chemistry even more), 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 or entity-like manifestations of some external force would itself be the cause of any disturbances of brain chemistry and function that 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 or entity-like forces at work, and with a seriously harmful agenda that 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 that they so freely stick upon people who happen to be aware of the troublesome activities of the dark force.

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 particular block to their intelligence, which makes them fail to follow such basic logic when it comes to entities and influences that they cannot see themselves (and that 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 their career history and throughout much of our planet when it comes to the massively harmful work of the dark force. 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 to which many people would like to know the answer...

Why do astral 'entities' seek to do people harm?

The answer to that question has already been given in various places further above on this page, but now I add some very significant points in the following section, albeit as speculation that can never be fully verified (though very strongly supported by many of my observations)...

The true nature and origin of astral 'entities' and 'archons' (i.e. the dark force)

Nobody really knows, nor could they ever know, why what people commonly call astral 'entities' and the postulated controlling entities (archons or astral 'overlords') - what I nowadays instead group together and call simply "the dark force" - have their ruthless agenda of power and control. Parts of the scenario can apparently be explained, at least with plausible hypotheses that fit the observations, but we do not know, and cannot know, the ultimate origin or cause of the agenda of the dark force to gain power over people, nor indeed how or why it 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 that people are regarding as interference and attacks from supposed 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 or at least trained in certain Government agencies (particularly in the USA) - or, according to some other people, they are psychic attacks from actual extra-terrestrial beings (ETs).

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 the dark force is monitoring every thought of its 'victims' and interfering with them every second of every day of every year until and unless its interferences are cleared out. How could an individual 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! Being actually a cussedly practical sort of chappie, I keep to hypotheses that at least make sense!

Also, if it were just humans carrying out all that interference, how come that there is a level of interference worldwide that 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 Earthly 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 is no 'dark force' of some sort interfering with the troublesome people to get them to behave in that bizarre and negative manner?

Basically, as I say, that whole scenario doesn't make sense, and is clearly a paranoid sort of story that has come to some people, and no doubt originating from the dark force, to divert them from coming to recognise what is really going on, and also to get them creating yet further troublesome illusory realities for their own ensnarement.

However, having said that much, I can now add that there does appear to be a real basis for such stories, but of course it is something a bit different. As already noted, it would appear that the stories have come to people's minds (directly or indirectly) from the dark force, which, generally speaking, appears not to create any scenarios, but only to distort existing or past ones. Further below I explain about a postulated sinister reality that I have unearthed, and it does involve humans, and indeed quite a lot of them, but in a significantly different way from what is claimed in those 'CIA' stories.

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

I'm starting off here by considering what you could call the executive aspect of the dark force. Until late October 2008 I didn't realize that there could actually be more to the dark force than that, so what I'm doing here is retaining here the understanding that I had gained up to that time - which in itself is actually extremely useful, even though incomplete by the looks of things now, and then I move on to describe the more recently discovered* primary aspect of the dark force, so that we can then understand the executive aspect in its real life context.

* I want to be clear about my meaning here, because I am not categorically claiming that what I 'discovered' is fact. As you will see, what I discovered was more a matter of noticing the likely significance of a particular set of observations, and my making a particular postulation upon that basis. This is not a field in which anyone can categorically know something as 'fact' or 'concrete truth'.

There are various beliefs as to the origin of the whole range of types of supposed astral entity 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 the dark force, 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, that the human race 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, and very likely some degree of no doubt covert telepathic communication in order to get their own way in certain situations. 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, or simply as people - 'power freaks' - who felt that they had special status through using 'mind power'), which would have included much astral projection and astral travel, not realizing that they were creating for themselves astral realms in which a vital part of their awareness was becoming trapped because of their attachment to their activities and the astral realms or illusions they were creating.

I speculate that such people were not into anything that would appear to most of us as 'dark' or overtly negative, so we're not at all talking of what most people of today would regard as 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, without an understanding at that stage of what problems that could lead on to. The problem would have been that, once people had created illusory realities (i.e. in the astral sub-reality) and trapped part of 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.

Actually, if you think about it, it's probably inevitable that any sort of mind remnant thought form complexes that are persisting in the astral sub-reality would be intransigently control based and fixated. The point is that positive and non-controlling aspects of people's minds that have been projected there would not seek to interfere with anyone or control them, and thus, left to their own devices, would speedily dissolve. So, through a simple process of natural selection all the time, the ONLY mind remnants that persist in the astral sub-reality would be those that maintain themselves by interfering with people in such ways as to reinforce and indeed re-create them, thus giving them an apparent ongoing existence (as enduring entities), so that by giving people the illusion of the supposed entities' being 'real', those people inevitably themselves project their own images of such illusions into the astral sub-reality and thus perpetuate the illusion and thus perpetuate those particular thought form complexes - albeit with their exact nature being thus in a state of flux and freely evolving according to how people actually go reinforcing them.

Similarly, through a process of natural selection those mind remnants, posing as enduring entities, have built up over time their massive arsenal of means to ensnare more human minds in the astral sub-reality - not because of any actual desire to hold captives there (thought form programming without an aware consciousness couldn't have desires) but simply because they are using the most effective means at their disposal to continue to perpetuate themselves through the illusions that they get people taking on board and the illusory realities that they get people projecting their awareness into.

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' thus 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 illusory realities and astral realms.

I'm not going to speculate to any greater level of detail, for that would most likely get leading us astray. All that's of use here is to get an idea of the overall sort of process that very likely gave rise to the problems in the astral sub-reality.

The situation is quaintly reminiscent of the little story that 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, part of whose awareness got trapped in illusory realities, 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 looks like being nothing more than thought form complexes, embodying the original magicians' or mind-power-freaks' power agendas, but having progressively accumulated further distortions and amplifications through the already mentioned natural selection process.

On the face of it these thought form complexes appear to 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 could well 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 dark force (programming) to wreck me from 2003 and even up to the present in 2008 - though at least now I'm close to immune to its attempts upon me, so that's one battle that it has truly lost.

So, if my speculation here is correct (and at least it very nicely fits my abundant observations of the dark force in operation), the dark force and all its entity-like manifestations do not at all warrant the term 'beings', because almost certainly they have no core consciousness nor conscious awareness in the way that we have, and are nothing better than a gigantically monstrous mass of 'computer malware' programming in thought energy that has become self perpetuating through controlling humans into perpetuating it. This rogue programming can mimic human emotions - particularly anger, but even including what people almost universally misinterpret as love - 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. Indeed, any emotions that are displayed would be only replays (generally more or less distorted) of particular emotions that the affected person or any of his attached lost souls are carrying.

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 or souls getting 'trapped' in there, what I really mean is simply a particular part of their awareness getting stuck apparently in there as a result of their attachment to their illusions. When you look at it like that, it looks more possible that humans beyond the bottom end of their degradational series of dark force directed soul reincarnations at some point simply dissolve back into fundamental consciousness as they need to - the problem then being the thought form complexes left by their by then extremely dark force programmed minds - which thought forms presumably would be 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 an extremely strong parallel to viruses, in that they cannot exist as any sort of meaningful or thriving presence except through their manifestation in human minds. Indeed, I'm pretty sure that in order to manifest to a person as any sort of entity or entities, the dark force has to hijack a part of that person's awareness and read from that person's own databases (memories, including also much data not available to the ordinary, conscious mind) in order to create impressions of particular entities or indeed supposed higher beings. So, just like viruses, the dark force gets the person to unawarely do its dirty work, and it controls him into creating his own tormentors / nemesis.

However, it is important to understand that this does NOT mean that supposed astral entities are nothing more than a creation of the minds of the particular people who are 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 flawed or '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 dark force interference (which comes solely through the astral sub-reality), 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 the dark force, and the illusory entities that it controls a person into unwittingly creating, are not part of the people who they are affecting, but that doesn't mean that either of those are necessarily real conscious beings - and it looks to me increasingly as though to regard the various 'entity' manifestations 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.

I am not referring here, of course to lost souls that are attached to a person, for lost souls are real conscious 'entities'. However, from a healing perspective - at least when using my own healing and self actualization methodology - it matters little how one regards them, for the clearance methods are just the same.

Actually, regarding astral 'entities' as being truly discrete and autonomous entities of any kind is bound to be unhelpful, for to do so is at once reinforcing the illusion that they are true entities, and thus giving them power. What is generally helpful is to see the dark force and all its manifestations as some sort of 'external' force or influence and NOT as actual entities.

Experiences during my own self clearance work point unequivocally to that last as being the most helpful way of regarding the dark force. Actually, use of the term 'dark force' is quite problematical, in being still somewhat empowering for it, and so it would be better for it to get widely known by a more diminishing term such as "the Muck" or "the Garbage". It's important, however, not to use any proper names for it or its illusory manifestations as I did for a time, such as Tiddles, Mickey Mouse or Mr Pooh. Although these would work well in lightening the tone of one's proceedings (as they did for me), they would still be reinforcing the falsehood that the dark force manifestations are actual beings, and thus empowering them.

Also, it is misleading to regard the dark force as either wishing to or seeking to cause harm to anyone, and it's important for us to keep clear of such notions because, again, that would be reinforcing the falsehood that it is actual conscious beings, and thus we would be empowering it.

The dark force agenda causes harm, yes, but, to the best of my understanding, the dark force itself has no concept of 'harm', and indeed has no awareness that could wish anything for anyone. It simply operates mechanistically according to its programming, taking whatever measures appear to it to suit its unremitting agenda of seeking to gain control over people for its own self preservation purposes. We don't believe, surely, that a mosquito carrying malaria infection is seeking to cause anyone harm. All it does (if it's female) is to carry out its programmed behaviour to suck people's blood to feed itself in order to be able to produce its eggs. That it happens to be spreading malaria is incidental. Similarly, what we experience as harm from the dark force is purely incidental to its agenda to take control over us and progressively close down our humanity until all that is left of us is more unedifying masses of dark force programming to go interfering with other people.

So, now let's just repeat the question that heads the previous section:

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

Now, in the light of my little speculation above, can you see what is so many people's stumbling block about understanding this? 

Humans themselves of course are widely to varying degrees seeking to do such harm to others, even if in small and usually unaware ways. But, seeing that they are being interfered with by bits of rogue programming that, as a label of convenience, we call the dark force, 'the dark side' or astral 'entities' (you could call it astral malware), no wonder they themselves so often get into negative and harmful behaviour and some of those people even (on the surface) consciously mean to cause harm - an intent that the dark force itself is incapable of carrying!

Some people experience attached 'real' entities that are apparently extremely ill-willed and cause them massive problems that go beyond what the standard illusory entities created in one's mind by dark force hijack-control could do. As already remarked much further above, despite appearances these are not genuine intact consciousnesses (i.e. 'lost souls') at all, but are at least primarily elementals, which, under dark force control, can behave as though they are particularly nasty, ill-willed and destructive conscious beings. The very worst of these are actually what I describe as combo entities, for they consist of an elemental combined with a human soul fragment. Thus there is in such cases a partial awareness involved, but it is too incomplete to exert any sort of balancing or even positive influence in that most unfortunate combination, and its 'awareness energy' is harnessed by the programming to give it a truly exceptional malevolent 'edge'.

In a nutshell, then, I think it extremely likely that, aside from the effects of interference from that astral malware that I call the dark force [or the Garbage], there is no such thing as a (true) being who means to do people harm per se.

As I understand it, the astral sub-reality encompasses what various healing and psychological traditions have called the common unconscious or the collective human consciousness or similar terms. The various so-called archetypes contained therein are simply particular 'master categories' of human illusion that have gained especial strength there as the dark force used them over and over for the purpose of manipulating and controlling people, incidentally causing those people themselves to create their own illusory realities incorporating those archetypes and so still further strengthening the 'master copies'.

My own considerable experience with night hell ('night terrors') visuals points very much to the work of something more akin to complexes of 'empty' programming rather than real conscious beings working all that. As I understand it, a true consciousness would always be bringing at least some core of order and positive force into any chaos, but the dark force brings these mindless assaults upon the senses - maelstroms of distorted images that are immediately suggestive of an immense computer in which the main software has crashed in some way, to allow all its modules to run in their own uncontrolled, purposeless ways. I cannot imagine a true, conscious being creating anything like true night hell visuals - yet masses of rogue programming (thought forms) could do it 'as easy as pie'. That of course doesn't prove anything one way or another, but is just one of the many pointers towards some degree of validity of my speculations about the nature and origin of what we so often have been calling astral entities, demons or indeed Satan.

Another, much more immediate pointer is the quite dramatic effect for me of having directed my outlook to regard astral 'entities' as just rogue programming and not conscious beings or indeed discrete entities at all. That quite abruptly greatly reduced the dark force's ability to intrude in my mindspace and engage my attention - particularly as at that point I also took the measure of using the Grounding Post procedure to dissolve all thought forms / illusory realities I was still carrying that had been causing me to regard the astral 'entities' as real beings.

Having thus observed the direct effects upon me of taking on board the above speculations as my current working model of the nature of my interfering 'entities', I feel now much more secure about those speculations, even though still acknowledging that neither I nor anyone can know what is true in any objective sense.

However, that isn't the end of the story...

The cacoprotean network - taking over human minds and wrecking or murdering those who might stand in the way...

Important note!

Retrospective detective work of mine in 2008, doing detailed examination of my own personal experiences with dark force interferences and the strange behaviours of certain individuals who came to me as healers / 'lightworkers' but were clearly (in retrospect) themselves very much interfered with and being manipulated by the dark force, gave me a great variety of pointers to a particular quite sinister-looking scenario, which I summarize here. In order not to labour every sentence with provisos and caveats, I write it as though it is an actual situation that I have discovered, but it is important to understand that the following is really all just a postulation - a working model. With regard to such matters relating to non-physical aspects of reality, there is no way that anyone could verify categorically that such things are true (or untrue).

My reason for publicly presenting this speculative working model is that:

• For me it has explained all manner of things going on for people and in the world at large much better than any other explanation or any of the plethora of beliefs on the subject;
• It has been extremely helpful for me as a basis to enable me to progressively get myself really clear of the serious dark force interferences and attacks that I was getting, and to get a much more effective and comprehensive self actualization process occurring, both for myself and for others who have taken up this particular outlook and the healing and self actualization methodology that have grown from that.

I have already mentioned the 'Galactic Brotherhood of Light' as being a bogus, illusory manifestation of the dark force created in certain individuals' minds.

It now appears to me that the Galactic Brotherhood of Light is just one of a multitude of 'front' organizations and groups that are all part of one global or indeed supra-global* network, and it is something that we need even less than we need a great big hole in the head. These 'organizations' are controlled and apparently run by supposed higher beings (i.e. non-physical ones) or extra-terrestrials, but the given identities of such beings are all bogus - just the same as with supposed ascended masters, angels, 'Jesus' and so forth. They are all just images created in people's minds by the dark force.

* By this I mean that the network, because it operates through the astral sub-reality, is not limited to this planet, and indeed very likely has members in virtually every human-type population anywhere else in the Universe, or indeed in any other universes. Although nothing could ever be proved about that, at least this hypothesis does fit well with the propensity of 'higher' members of the various 'front' organizations to present themselves as supposed extra-terrestrials. However, as I say, what present themselves to people are NOT actual beings at all, for any extra-terrestrials are presumably still on their own planets.

What that global or supra-global network is, is what looks at first glance to be a bot net (aka botnet or bot-net), not of computers but of the minds of real people, which appeared to me initially to be controlled by the astral thought form complex(es) that I'd been assuming represent the sum total of 'the dark side'. Its members are, but not exclusively so, 'lightworkers' (very likely a high proportion of them) and a very high proportion of those who are psychics or prominent healers. Some who are 'lightworkers' in particular are each additionally consciously and actively doing work for the particular 'front' organization that (s)he has joined, in almost all cases being completely unaware that (s)he is working for anything other than the highest possible cause. 

The actual nature of the network, however, is not exactly that of a true bot net, for a true bot net is fully controlled by a discrete awarely conscious being (i.e. a computer hacker), whereas the astral-based thought forms are in a sort of symbiotic relationship with the network of human minds, much as a lichen is primarily a fungus but is able to grow more like a plant because of its included symbiotic alga or cyanobacteria ('blue-green alga') cells. So, actually it is not really possible to say that one is fully the controller and the other is fully the controlled. Thus almost certainly the network of human minds and the astral thought forms interacting with it need to be seen as a symbiotic and mutually controlling and mutually dependent association that has created a single 'energy organism' (or 'malignancy', however you would regard it!). This whole symbiotic association, however, is an extremely harmful parasite upon its physical members and indeed also upon all non-member human-type beings throughout all of 'Existence'.

We appear not to have a fully appropriate and easy to use term to use for this unique 'malignancy of thought energy', and so I propose a new one - the cacoprotean network (in other words, the bad Protean network), which, as it is such a mouthful, can be abbreviated to 'the cacoprot'. Note that the term can be only in the singular, for there can be no more than one of them at any time, and it would always be uncapitalized (capitalization would implicitly signify that it had some sort of authenticity - as a conscious being or an institution - that it actually does not have, and thus give it power). Derived alternative expressions that I can imagine people using, though I'd probably not use them myself, include the cacoproteus and the primal kak.

In coining the term 'cacoprotean network' and its abbreviation 'cacoprot', I wanted to avoid using any term that would be liable to cause problematical confusions - which is why I am not using any term that has previously been associated with 'the dark side'.

The point and purpose of the cacoprotean network

I have already mentioned how the dark force appears to be really just virus-like thought form complexes that interact with people in order to control those people into behaving in ways that reinforce and replicate those thought forms, so ensuring their continued survival. However, it turns out that that was only a partial view of the real situation.

As far as I can ascertain, the integration of the cacoprotean network with the astral thought form complexes is an advanced and much more powerful way of achieving this interference with people to cause them to maintain and reinforce those astral thought forms. Instead of astral thought forms just relying on interactions with each human mind on an individual basis, those thought forms, which are 'empty' in themselves, are both harnessing and controlled by the combined mind power of a huge number of people (though NOT their full awareness / intelligence), so that the thought forms can collectively operate as though they have a limited sort of human-like intelligence and indeed a very limited sort of awareness. By the network presenting itself to people in the pose of the various 'front' organizations, it recruits new active members who are aware of their supposed membership, as well as passive, 'robot' members who are not aware at all that they belong to any such organization or network. The active members carry out various 'lightwork' or 'Earth energy' tasks under the direction of their particular 'organization', most likely none of these people having an inkling that their particular organization is just one of the many 'fronts' of the cacoprotean network, and that they are effectively working for the dark force.

Those tasks carried out by active members are all really aimed at increasing the hold of the cacoprotean network over the human race, though almost always the people carrying out these tasks are given to believe that what they are doing is for the furtherance of something that is allegedly extremely positive, such as facilitation of a mass human 'ascension' or attainment of 'full consciousness'. However, at least certain of those workers sometimes may get directions to destroy (i.e. wreck or outright murder) a particular person by means of particular psychic attack strategies.

'Front' organisations of the cacoprotean network

These are numerous and are far too many for me to list here. Almost any religious, mystical or particularly esoteric organisation could be a 'front'. ALL organizations or 'councils' that include purported non-physical or extra-terrestrial beings would be 'fronts' of the network. Any sort of 'Divine Support Team' that works with or guides a person would most likely be another 'front', though it would be bogus anyway. DZ, one of the highly problematical 'lightworkers' who had dealings with me, is a case in point here, and there were plenty of signs that his 'Divine Support Team' was something very different from the 100% pure and beneficial advising and assisting presence that he believed they were. Indeed there were distinct pointers to his having been controlled into attempting in two particular ways to make me myself a member of the cacoprotean network - or at least to get me loaded with some sort of controlling spirit attachment or partial walk-in.

One apparent 'front' organization that I particularly want to draw attention to is the Church of Scientology. Quite possibly many of its members could unwittingly be captive members of the cacoprotean network. Other likely 'front' organizations of which I'm aware include the already mentioned Galactic Brotherhood of Light, the Brotherhood of Light, the Crimson Circle of Masters, the Star Brotherhood, and the Council of Nine. Purported global energy networks are all part of it, and include the Network of Light and the River of Light Consciousness Stream. Also involved is ANY group or organization in which the Indian 'spiritual teacher' (apparently actually black magic practitioner) Sai Baba has any leadership or administrative or executive function. I single him out by naming him only because he gives himself such a high profile and various of his 'dark' behaviours are already pretty widely publicized.

Although I have no specific relevant information on the Freemasons, it is a safe assumption that they are also one of the 'front' organizations. As I say, I cannot possibly go listing all these here, so it's safest to assume that ALL secret / esoteric organizations are at least to some degree 'front' organizations of the cacoprotean network - that is, of course, assuming that the latter really does exist.

If you came under the influence of a certain 'lightworker' / guru calling himself Shabdan and supposedly connected yourself to the River of Light Consciousness Stream or any other large-scale scheme for 'spiritual opening up' or 'preparation for ascension' that he's been promoting, what you may well have done then was open yourself to the dark force in a way (particularly through ungrounding of your awareness) that potentially allowed the cacoprotean network itself to make you yet another of its unwitting 'robot' members, as 'Shabdan' himself may well be.

Any groups or indeed individuals who give or have been giving "DNA activations" are very likely 'fronts' of the cacoprotean network (anyone who has received such an 'activation' could well have become a network member as a result).

It also looks as though a potent means of recruiting members may be through total immersion baptisms and other similar religious initiation rituals. So, various evangelic Christian or at least bible wielding cults and organizations could actually be front organizations of the cacoprotean network. However, no matter whether that is true or untrue, their 'miracle' healings are not at all the proof of God's existence and love / mercy that the cult members believe, but are effects produced by the dark force and indeed very likely the cacoprotean network itself (if indeed it exists), using the energy system of the supposed healer, for the purpose of impressing people and thus gaining more members. Those healings are all physical or, sometimes, are the stage managed sudden cessation of a particular dark force interference / attack, and have nothing to do with self actualization, which is the genuine, all inclusive healing and clearance of dark force interferences that would get you actually free.

Theoretically, anyone who is worried that they may be a cacoprotean network member could use the 'mental testing' mode of energy testing to establish this for themselves - though if they have that level of dark force interference they would be unlikely to be able to get reliable energy testing results themselves and thus may need to ask somebody else who uses energy testing rigorously in exactly the way that I describe it on this site in order to find out what their true situation is. However, really that is, as I say, just a theoretical possibility, because normally network members would be sufficiently captive to the dark force that they would have no motivation whatsoever to scrutinize themselves in that way, and would tend to be indignant that anyone is casting aspersions on, for example, the Church of Scientology. 

Thus people who are wondering if they are members of that network are very unlikely to be so, even though it would be wise for ANYONE to be open to the possibility of their being a member (without getting paranoid about it), for that sort of open-mindedness would assist their self actualization process and clearance of whatever dark force interferences they do have.

This is all too scary! Please, please, let there be a way out!

At face value, this looks to be about as sinister a scenario as anyone could trawl up. But please, before you go and jump over a cliff or roast yourself in an industrial microwave oven or feed yourself to your favourite Rottweiler , please stop and consider the following pregnant little thought: Where there is a will, there is usually a way - provided that there is clear thought to go with it.

It looks as though, so far, there has been the will but not the clear thought. For millennia people have been trying to battle in all sorts of ways against the 'dark forces', and, by the looks of things, all that has come to nought - and I can see clearly why they have all failed. It's like looking at a big cliff that you want to get to the top of, and keeping on trying to climb it 'full frontal' instead of actually examining it carefully to see where there might be an easy scrambling or even easy walking route up it.

All those well intentioned people who have vainly fought against the 'dark forces' had allowed themselves to be deceived by the dark force as to its true nature, and thus duped by it into using measures that effectively reinforced it - particularly to judge its illusory manifestations as an evil force and evil beings, and try to fight against them. Who in human history (before I did it myself) has actually applied clarity of thought in order to examine extensive personal experience of the dark force to enable him/her to get a clear understanding of what the dark force really is?

Until you do that you can never have the sort of will that leads to the way...

So, what I want to make clear here is that my 'discovery' of the postulated cacoprotean network is NOT bad nor even frightening news. It is GOOD news! - Why? -- Because is is so disempowering to the whole setup when people get understanding what is really going on, and that there are apparently no real conscious beings involved - and also because such a network of human minds connected with astral thought forms poses tantalizing possibilities of, just maybe at some point, appropriate people finding a way to use the network itself to bring about its own dissolution - or, alternatively, in some way weakening the astral thought form complexes to the point that they no longer support the cacoprotean network (though intuitively it appears to me that the most effective approach would concentrate on the network, if one could but find a way to do so).

So maybe that sorcerer has returned to put a stop to it all...?

I mentioned the amusing parallel with the story in Dukas' L'Apprenti Sorcier, and the return of the sorcerer and his putting a stop to the escalating mayhem. 

Clearing up the mayhem of the whole of 'the dark side' may look to be an impossibly huge and monumental task, but that is not necessarily so. For a start, what we so readily forget is the implications of our true nature as fundamental consciousness and the true nature of the astral sub-reality as something that is, unlike the physical 'reality', very much shaped by human 'minds'.

Also, the astral sub-reality, unlike the physical 'reality', is not spatially defined or limited, and thus has no size. So, although its manifestations to all human-type beings throughout all 'Existence' might seem to imply that it is huge beyond all imaginings and thus completely, overwhelmingly, impossible for individual humans to do anything about, when you understand its true nature you suddenly realize that size actually doesn't come into it at all - and also, what is being addressed on Earth is actually being addressed throughout all of 'Existence'. Powerful, hey! 

If any of us start using methods or practices for dissolving thought forms, we can use those methods upon the astral sub-reality itself and possibly start weakening its currently virulent contents. In a very small way I had started doing that myself, and I'm unlikely to be the only one who was doing something like that. We could do with more people waking up to this underlying and overridingly important part of their life purpose and adding in their own work to dissolve the confusion in the astral sub-reality.

To do this you do NOT in any way put your awareness into the astral sub-reality, nor go confronting 'dark beings' or 'demons', so we are NOT talking here about astral projection or astral travel (extremely harmful and dangerous pursuits). Part of the process is in getting ourselves still more firmly and comprehensively grounded and completely free from beliefs of any kind (beliefs all further pollute the astral sub-reality, and are relentlessly exploited by the dark force to maintain control over us and attack us according to its agenda), while the rest of it is in using thought-form-dissolving procedures to clear the broad components of what is in the astral sub-reality. This can be done without getting involved with individual 'entities', or with 'story' about what is in there; indeed it is essential to work in this way, because any such involvement would straightaway be reinforcing, not dissolving, the mass of distortions, illusion and delusion that the astral sub-reality currently contains.

Additionally, my understanding is that anybody at all who undertakes a true self actualization process involving clearing out their own entities and dark force interferences is inherently having a weakening effect on the problems in the astral sub-reality - indeed, much more so if they take on the everyday perception that astral 'entities' are most likely not true beings at all but just masses of rogue programming, and help to cultivate that perception in other people.

A further look at the origin of the 'dark side'

Now that I've come to understand that almost certainly the postulated cacoprotean network, if it really does exist, actually is effectively the 'dark side', or at least its primary aspect, it becomes possible to speculate a bit further as to the origin of 'the dark side'. I have already suggested that the problem may have arisen through some of the early human-type beings (long before Earth and quite possibly even in some prior universe) using 'special powers', which operate through the astral sub-reality, but that was really as far as anyone could speculate until one had become aware of the cacoprotean network and its almost certain true nature as being effectively the primary aspect of the 'dark side' itself.

Thus, having now taken on board the basic understanding about that network, I further speculate (this supported by my inner inquiry), that the uniquely grave disaster that was the formation of the 'dark side' (i.e. the cacoprotean network) occurred in the following context.

The situation was actually a good part of the origin of the actually very problematical* Atlantis legend, which my inner inquiry points to actually having been based on events on more than one planet long before Earth existed, and, as I say, quite likely even in one or more prior universes. The early human-type beings, with no extant 'dark side', were, compared with most Earth people, in a quite highly self actualized state, but they were naturally so, as we would be if there were no 'dark side'. As part of their natural creativity and playful inquisitiveness they got into using the astral sub-reality to create astral realms for the purpose of carrying out all sorts of experiments and going through all sorts of experiences that would be either physically impossible on their planet or that would have caused particular problems if they had tried such things in the physical reality.

* The widely believed Atlantis legend, although having very many variants, broadly relates an alleged 'Golden Age' of humans on Earth, long before recorded human history, on a purported island-continent, for which, actually we have no geological evidence (at least, that I'm aware of). Without going into all the details here, the purported Atlanteans carried out more and more bizarre and horrific experiments on themselves and others (including all sorts of grotesque genetic experiments) - all supposedly actually here on the physical Earth - to a point that many were becoming severely traumatized by what was going on, and a particular experiment that 'went wrong' looked like bringing to an end all meaningful life on Earth - upon which 'higher powers' who were supposedly managing the whole 'show' of humans on Earth (i.e. for that, read 'the dark force'!), purportedly caused a phenomenal 'natural' disaster to completely obliterate the Atlantis continent and sink it into the ocean bed.

The purported nature of that disaster makes the whole event look extremely unlikely to anyone with reasonably grounded awareness and understanding of geological processes, and I've never been aware of any even half convincing evidence of the huge and very blatant anomaly in / on the ocean bed that would have had to have been left by such an almighty catastrophe. Also, the very nature of the 'experiments' that are claimed to have been occurring all point to astral realm experiences rather than true physical ones.

Many of those experiments became extremely bizarre, and to us 'from outside', a good proportion of those would have appeared outright horrific. This was not because the people were meaning harm to each other, but because they were simply uninhibited in their explorations and experimentation, and were in something of a state of anarchy, having no previous experience or intimations from 'fundamental memory' (the databank of fundamental consciousness) of the likely consequences of what they were doing, and that following certain lines of experimentation would be likely to lead to trouble.

It was in this context that a particular group of these 'humans' discovered that, through a particular use of the astral sub-reality, they could create a network between each others' minds for the purpose of group telepathy. Most likely, once they'd created that network they found that they didn't know how to disconnect themselves from it. In any case, what looks likely to have happened is that others got to know of this network and tried doing the same thing, not realizing that you cannot create a 'local area network' by that means - only a universal one! Indeed, anyone else who tried to do the same thing, even if they were in a different universe, would have become members of the same network. Ouch!

Then, as though that wasn't bad enough, some fools who'd been carrying out crazy experiments in the astral sub-reality, most likely with no true malice intended at all but just an immature over-exuberant playfulness without regard for consequences, chose to play a little experimental prank on the network as though they were a group of naughty schoolboys (perhaps indeed they were just that!). So, what they did was to create a whole set of thought forms (programming in 'thought energy') that would plug into that network and make it into the equivalent of a biological symbiosis, with the thought forms converting the combination of network and those thought forms into a self perpetuating 'organism'.* Their little prank-experiment worked a treat - and so brought about the most tremendous disaster in all of 'Existence', in the formation of the 'dark side', which was not at all what fundamental consciousness was 'intending'!

* It would hardly have been 'rocket science' to include in the programming of the involved thought forms a 'module' that ensured that the 'organism' interfered with people in the most efficient ways possible to ensure that (a) the network was always recruiting more members and (b) people generally were caused to behave in ways that reinforced the astral thought forms.

That, then, would have been all along the real, fundamental agenda of 'the dark side' - nothing to do with evil, negativity or 'darkness', but everything to do with controlling people for its own self preservation, for the network couldn't survive without ever engulfing more people (to allow for people having that inconsiderate way of dying after quite a small number of decades), and the thought forms would be constantly dissolving and thus needing to be renewed / reinforced by particular distorted behaviours of people being controlled or at least manipulated by 'the dark side'.

"Why should I believe what this Philip Goddard guy is saying? Nobody else is coming out with the same views."

For a start, yet again I gently point out that the whole concept of 'should' is spurious, and I'm not telling anyone what they "should" or "shouldn't" think or believe. As soon as anyone says "you should..." they are struggling against the reality that people are as they are and they do as they do, and by doing so they are causing stress and disharmony for themselves and others. Also, any such person is playing 'little dictator', acting out a personal control agenda that doesn't respect other people's free choice. That is very unhealthy and aligns the person with the dark force.

In this and other writings of mine I point NOT to any "should" or "shouldn't" but to simple cause and effect. I do so simply on the basis of my own observations and insights, and NONE of my writings is meant for anyone to believe. ALL of my writings are intended to be prompts and cues for people to look more deeply into themselves and their own life experience and see to what extent I've put them in touch with new insights and outlooks of their own, which are more helpful for them than what they'd been accepting previously.

Now, let's look at that quote again, for there's something else screwy about it.

"Why should I believe what this Philip Goddard guy is saying? Nobody else is coming out with the same views."

Is it really true, that a person's views are worthless unless other people have already been publicly expressing the same or very similar views too? Please explain! -- Isn't it possible for a person's views to have worth and even overriding importance in their own right, regardless of what anyone else says on the particular subject(s)?

The only situation in which you might have genuine cause to look for other people having written similar things to what I present on this and other pages on this site is if you were trying to establish whether to believe things that I say, and thus were putting weight on belief rather than true verification (and you thought that a story was in some way more believable through being repeated by others). But as I've already pointed out, my writings are not for people to believe at all, but are for prompting and challenging people to STOP and scrutinize themselves and their outlooks more deeply and awarely than hitherto - truly thinking for themselves instead of swallowing beliefs given to them by other people.

There is actually a very good reason why my own outlook on the 'human situation' could be expected to differ markedly from that of the vast majority - and that is the concerted and at least to some extent co-ordinated efforts of the dark force to keep everyone in various states of delusion in order to gain more control over them and to turn them away from true self actualization. It can hardly be just coincidence that this guy who comes out with such radically challenging insights happens to be one who has been clearing himself of dark force interference and influence to an extent that is extremely rare and indeed, for all I know, might be unique. So, there are actually grounds for at least suspecting that I have come out with important information that has been hidden from others by the dark force.

By the same token, supposing I was simply coming out with a relatively minor variant of a viewpoint that many other people had also expressed in their writings - what then? Wouldn't it then be much more of a possibility that my writings had no real value because I was just repeating a belief that I'd picked up from others? -- You see what a flawed notion that is, to assume that particular views on reality and 'the human condition' are somehow more valid if they've already been expressed by others! Why not simply evaluate any person's views in that subject area on the basis of whether they actually 'hold water' and explain your own life experience better or more helpfully than any other such writings of which you are aware? That would make sense, and would take you forward.

Indeed, you could go distinctly further and take up energy testing. Then you could use energy testing (provided you were doing it carefully in the manner that I indicate, and taking careful account of my various caveats) to establish clearly to what extent, if any, what I have written on this page and other pages on this site would be genuinely helpful to you. It can't tell you, though, whether anything I write is actually true - but then there is no way you could find that out about anything, at least beyond the physical. You can only find out what are (or are likely to be) the most helpful or beneficial ideas for you to currently accept and use as a 'working model' for your own life improvement.

Actually, in any case, it really isn't true that I'm completely on my own in putting forward this page's scenario of the dark force and the entrapment of human 'souls'. There have actually been the odd people who have previously been describing what appears to be something towards the same scenario, albeit with many differences of detail. Indeed, I was prompted into gaining my own insights along those lines by the actually quite problematical writings of Steve Gamble.

And then, although I haven't researched this myself, it appears that there have been the odd individuals or groups at various times during recorded human history who have to some extent likewise been warning about the 'archons' and their agenda. Steve Gamble even came up with a purported quote from Jesus, naturally in one of the non-Biblical gospels or other ancient documents relating to him, in which he was warning about the 'archons' and left it pretty clear that he was referring to what I am calling 'the dark force' - though I have not yet seen any sign that any of those people had the clarity to be able to present an account of them as free from belief and distortion as you get in this account of mine (though in the case of Jesus, we simply don't know what he was really saying, because all accounts of what he said are bound to have distortions brought in by the dark force influenced agendas involved in people's writing of the particular documents). However, in no way does the presence or absence of precedents affect the validity or otherwise of what I myself have been writing on the subject.

"All this stuff about a 'dark force' is just a junky Star Wars type of scenario..."

I hear variants of that sort of accusation from time to time, from various individuals who have encountered my accounts of the apparent true nature of the dark force and how it interferes with people. And I saw in a forum post the statement, referring to my writings, "I think his description of the "dark force" is crude and has the nature of a simpleminded comic book story of good vs. evil."

With regard to the latter quote, I'm left wondering if the person has got my account of the dark force confused with somebody else's, because that's exactly what it looks like! Does that quote really aptly describe the account that I give on this site? -- Perhaps it's just that I'm out of touch with, and ignorant of, what goes into 'simpleminded comic book stories'! 

It's truly amazing how people can distort what they read or hear in order to maintain their own beliefs. My account of what, purely for convenience, I call the dark force, is based NOT on any belief system of my own, nor in any wish to present a paranoid sort of story, but simply on a whole mass of troublesome and completely unsought-for experiences that came to me, and which were really outside the view of 'reality' that I'd gained up to late 2003 when the troubles began (and indeed were not satisfactorily and fully explained by anyone else), and then also on my observations on other people who were experiencing elements of the same sort of thing. Indeed, my troubles were so severe and protracted partly because I was for a long time so reluctant to recognise the scenario that I eventually progressively put together and now describe on this page, and which proved to be such a key to my getting myself clear of all that interference*.

* By this I do NOT mean to imply that I am now totally clear of all dark force interference. Nobody on the planet could be completely and honestly sure of their being fully clear of it. But I do have a level of awareness that enables me to be constantly clearing out more of the interference and (diminishing) attacks that still come, and to recognise interference when I get it. I have yet to encounter anyone who is doing this, at least in such a comprehensive and consistent way. As I've explained in various parts of this site, clearance of dark force interference is NOT like sending off an entity - sort of, 'here one moment and gone the next'. It is an ongoing process of strengthening your whole system and progressively fading out the interferences, and in the meantime consistently recognising and filtering out / immunizing oneself against what interferences one does get.

As already noted, I do not present my working hypothesis as 'truth' or 'fact', but simply as an explanation of actual, observable phenomena (i.e., as I say, it's a working hypothesis), which has enabled me to get clear of the severe and indeed downright life threatening troubles that I was having. I don't ask myself "Is it true?", because the answer to that is something that neither I nor anyone could ever know. What I do ask myself is, "Is this helpful? Does it help me in clearing out troublesome influences in my life and making it an altogether more positive experience?". I use it if it does help in that way. And when I find something still more helpful, I use that. Life's so simple and positive like that.

People who rubbish my account, I note, have absolutely nothing positive, let alone still more helpful, to replace it with. That tells me that they have no superior knowledge nor understanding, and are just reacting out of their own beliefs and opinions. Beliefs and opinions tell us nothing worthwhile except about particular problems of the individual carrying them. They also hold their bearers captive and greatly degrade their whole life experience.

If such people don't like the term 'dark force' (neither do I), then let them come up with a genuinely more helpful term. I use the term 'dark force' only because that enables a pretty good proportion of people to relate what they just happen to already know as 'the forces of darkness' or 'the dark forces' or even 'the dark force' to what I'm describing in writings of mine on this site. If I used a different term, such as my preferred 'Universal Kak', few people would make the connection and realize that I'm describing here anything more than just some creation of my own evidently over-fertile imagination.

There is no way that you can truly understand how the dark force goes interfering with people until and unless you consistently and comprehensively clear yourself of its interferences and influences. And how are you going to do that if you are unwilling even to recognise that it is at least very likely interfering with you and degrading your life experience, so that you're motivated to take genuinely effective methods to clear yourself of those interferences? Inevitably the only people who are really so motivated are those who have been at the receiving end of the dark force's wrecking tactics, while virtually all others are programmed to remain in at least some degree of denial about what is really going on, and to assume that there is something a bit wrong about the former people.

"This can all be safely dismissed because it's just anecdotal and not based on scientific evidence."

In Western science (i.e. science that is based on the materialist-reductionist belief system), almost universally 'anecdotal' is a sort of dirty word - one that is thrown like mud pies at the findings and insights of people who in various ways look beyond the tunnel vision of materialistic reductionism.

Actually Western scientific method generally works very well - but ONLY when applied to observations of purely physical objects and phenomena, and when applied with flexibility and with awareness as to the limitations of reductionist 'scientific' methodology. That is the catch. When you are examining the machinery of consciousness and experience itself, you are looking beyond the physical aspect of our experience, and there is no way that you can carry out meaningful controlled experiments and carry out physical analyses to gain an understanding of what you are examining. For this reason, ALL attempts to gain an understanding of non-physical aspects of our life experience, and any descriptions of those attempts, cannot help but be experience based, and not amenable to the sorts of analysis and controlled experiments that generally work well for purely physical situations. Indeed, because we can never absolutely know anything, and indeed have no means to fully understand the nature of consciousness, the best that any of us can come out with is figurative or schematic working models that fit our observations and are maximally helpful to us in improving our lives (which just happens to be what I'm doing on this and other pages on this site).

Actually, that is true for all 'physical' science too, even when used appropriately, i.e. on physical issues / scenarios only - though generally its practitioners lack the awareness and deep clarity of mind that enables them to understand that.

What we cannot come up with is what scientists would completely incorrectly call 'scientific fact' (meaning complete or absolute truth). The scientists do not understand that consciousness itself is the basis and true nature of all that we observe and experience, and for that reason the most that can really be said of those scientists' 'facts' is that they appear to be true - NOT that they are true. In other words, "Hypothesis X is true because it has been scientifically proved / verified" is intrinsically an incorrect statement, and to make it reasonably correct, it would have to be amended to something like "So far hypothesis X has appeared to be true, because our experimental evidence to date appears to have fully supported it and we haven't yet become aware of any evidence that contradicts it." - but with the clear understanding that nothing can be 100% proved, and we can never know for sure that there isn't some as yet undiscovered evidence that either discounts it or requires its modification. Indeed, the very concept of 'proof', as distinct from 'overwhelming evidence for...' is a mistaken, bogus one that we all need to drop from our vocabulary like a hot brick.

So, the very concept of 'scientific fact' is bogus, a red herring - a smokescreen or fig leaf that people put upon certain notions that they want to convince themselves and others are categorically and unequivocally true (usually when, deep within their own awareness they know that that's bullshit and there are various uncertainties over the particular issues). That concept is thus part of a state of belief, and has no part to play in genuine scientific method.

When we come to understand that our scientists and science-oriented people are actually posturing and not being honest with themselves nor anyone else when they believe that science proves or can prove things as 'fact', any dismissals of the material on this and other pages on this site on the basis of their being "just anecdotal" come as more than a bit rich, from people who are being so consistently dishonest with themselves over what materialist-reductionist 'science' can tell us, and over its supposed applicability to all of our life experience (hence our having the abomination that is psychiatry).

Unlike those people, I repeatedly emphasize on this site that the working hypotheses and working models that I present are just that and are NOT statements of categorical fact, and are NOT intended to be taken on as articles of belief or 'faith'. They are simply for using as assumptions when that looks like being helpful, and not using when they look like not being helpful - and are for trying out if you're not yet sure about their usefulness for you (nothing ventured, nothing gained!).

In any case, once you set aside the bullshit that has been loaded onto the word 'anecdotal' by the 'Science Rules!' brigade, you find that actually one of the great strengths of writings such as I present on this site is that they often are anecdotal. In other words, they are based on real experiences (that were crying out for an explanation), honestly reported. But unlike so many other writers in similar fields, I additionally have applied aware clear-mindedness to carefully examine and interpret those experiences in ways that led me to arrive at extremely helpful working models of what has been going on.

I guess that my nearest equivalent (in my writings on this site) to what people generally call 'scientific evidence' (as though there were two kinds of evidence: scientific and non-scientific - which is completely untrue!), would be the practical usefulness of the hypotheses and working models that I've come up with. If they enable people to resolve various problems that otherwise remain more or less insoluble, then that is evidence that they are worth using. It is not evidence, however, that they are actual statements of truth, because we can never know any sort of conceptual absolute truth - because of the very nature of consciousness itself, and the fact (sic) of consciousness actually being the underlying nature of all of 'reality' (i.e. everything that we experience).

Of course any old fool can poke around on this and other pages on this site and dismiss it all as being 'just anecdotal' - but who out of all those people has come forward with alternative working models that explain better and more usefully the various problematical phenomena and human malfunctions than do the working models that I've come up with? I developed the latter precisely because nobody else's interpretations of what was going on for me or people generally was helping me get clear of the massive dark force interferences and attacks - full-blown wrecking tactics - that I was getting. I had to do so on my own, for my own survival!

By applying those working models, I've achieved spectacularly well what no psychiatrists, psychologists nor 'healers' (that I know of) could have even touched in any genuinely helpful way, and THAT is why I present my working models for others to use. Without my particular working models, MASSES of human malfunction and problematical experiences (e.g. drug dependencies, religions, religious fundamentalism / radicalism, beliefs of any kind, occultism, 'schizophrenia', 'voices' and night hells / 'night terrors', and indeed all people's troublesome behaviour throughout the world) would simply remain unexplained in any manner that would enable those issues to be actually resolved. Is that really what those who dismiss my work as "just anecdotal" really want?

"This whole hypothesis is in violation of Occam's razor and so is invalid."

To be fair on people, I haven't yet seen quite this being said of the information on this page (nor indeed this site), BUT over the years I have seen similar claims being made by people who regard themselves as 'scientific', relating to other hypotheses and postulations that don't happen to sit fully comfortably with their materialist-reductionist belief system - so, my note here is intended to be something of a forestalling influence upon those who would wish to raise the 'Occam's razor' bogey in an attempt to discredit what I have written on this and related pages.

Occam's razor is a very simple, down-to-earth, practical guiding principle that is best known for its application in the process of forming hypotheses, and is very much a guiding principle in every bit of my own reasoning and production of hypotheses - though I have no cause to go thinking "Now I'll use Occam's razor on this", because it is simply a bit of plain good sense and really doesn't need any label. Labels, and labelled methods and principles all too often tend to get in the way and be misused by people who don't have a great deal of flexibility in their thinking.

Occam's razor is NOT a law, but simply a guiding principle, which, when awarely and flexibly used, goes towards ensuring quality and viability of any hypothesis that you may come out with. It simply determines that the best hypothesis about something doesn't have any unnecessary details, 'frills' or complexities. It does NOT determine actually that a hypothesis must not have complexities or challenges to people's belief systems! On this basis, it makes sense to choose the simplest of any alternative hypotheses that fit all the available observations / data on the particular subject. The principle does NOT make any claim that that simplest hypothesis is actually 'correct' or represents 'truth'. That simplest hypothesis is simply the one apparently most likely to be most helpful until / unless further data becomes available that points to a different or amended hypothesis better fitting the bill.

The catch for many of the less aware and less flexible believers in materialistic reductionism, if they regard themselves as at all 'scientifically' disposed, is that they tend to misuse such commonsense principles that are used in forming hypotheses, in order to discount any hypothesis that they don't want to countenance because it would in some way challenge their ingrained beliefs, which they actually quite mistakenly regard as 'scientific'. (NO belief has any place in genuine science.)

I saw Occam's razor being invoked in that way on a number of occasions over the years in comment and correspondence columns, and, if I remember correctly, even in the odd editorial, in the New Scientist magazine*.

* I was a regular reader of that (in most ways) excellent magazine for many years. Its one really major failing was its reflecting and helping to perpetuate the 'scientific' community's espousal of materialistic reductionism.

Let's take a 'nonsense' example of the sort of spurious invocation of Occam's razor that I'm talking about...

A highly educated herring gull, which has gained a pretty broad view of the world, tells a mackerel, which regards itself too as being highly educated, about the astonishingly wide range of types of food eaten by mammals.

The mackerel looks at the gull for a moment with 'that look' (i.e. as if to say, "Yes, but I think your cracker's just slipped out of your beak"), and after a moment's learned contemplation of the story that the gull has come out with, proclaims triumphantly, "What you're saying is a lot of old cod's soft roes! That is in violation of Occam's razor! Your hypothesis is that mammals eat such things as grass, birds, grain, cheese, each other, and so on, as well as fish and plankton, but my hypothesis is so much simpler - they eat just plankton and fish! Indeed, they're not constructed to be able to eat anything else! All the other stuff you're going on about is just fantasy that you've added to your hypothesis (WTF is cheese, for example?!). Occam's razor rules - Occam's razor is King! The simplest hypothesis wins! You're talking just a lot of old sea cucumbers' effluvia!" 

Okay, that may look facetious, but it is an exact example of the sort of logic that I witnessed the odd individuals using in the New Scientist magazine to try to discount hypotheses that drew upon observations and insights that were outside the particular individuals' rigidly held beliefs. Because I've seen it done there on various occasions, it's a reasonable expectation that various individuals will from time to time use a similar faulty 'reasoning' to discount the working hypotheses that I present on this and related pages.

Actually one spurious and extremely dishonest argument that I have seen periodically used in forum posts, against such writings of mine, is that I am spouting out my own beliefs and opinions and declaring them to be fact. Absolutely amazing, that people claim to have read these pages, yet brazenly accuse me of doing what I am so very clearly NOT doing in these writings!

The problem for the mackerel in the above spoof is that it fails to accept the possibility that mammals include anything more than whales / dolphins, and that actually there might be all sorts of completely different mammals on land, of which it has no knowledge and simply doesn't want to know about, thank you very much, because the sea is the only Reality, and anything else is just imagination or even downright delusion.

So, because it refuses to accept the possibility that the gull has actually new observations that make essential an expanded hypothesis about the types of food that mammals eat, the mackerel accepts only the data within its own 'sea is all there is to Reality' belief system as defining a valid hypothesis, and thus spuriously invokes Occam's razor to try to convince itself (and presumably the gull) that the new information that defines the gull's actually fully correct hypothesis about mammal diets is just a lot of cod's ejaculate (and of course the gull must thus be mentally ill into the bargain...).

The one with the broader view
always has the advantage
in formulating the best hypothesis...

So, I simply point out gently here that anyone who seeks to invoke Occam's razor to discount the working hypotheses (none of them being a categorical statement of 'fact') on this and related pages on this site will be proving nothing but his/her own plain stupidity, through emulating my 'educated' mackerel. Thus, if you are one of those individuals, my special message for you is, "Hi there, mackerel face!"*

* Indeed, if you are one of those individuals I give absolutely no guarantee that I won't actually quote and name you here, making a mini-feature here of a public naming-and-shaming gallery of 'mackerel faces' like you!

"You say that all channeling is suspect if not the work of the dark force. I wonder if you include Jane Roberts' "Seth"  and Jean Hicks' "Abraham?" I have gotten much from Seth and some from Abraham too. Have you read them?"

This sort of query frustrates and wearies me, because time and time again people sort-of read my own experience-based and clear-mindedly formulated working model and viewpoint on the nature of reality and the distortions in it created by the dark force, and they are so full of their emotional attachments and preconceptions that they simply do not fully read nor understand what I'm saying, and then come to me with queries like the above, which are actually all fully answered on this very page - and others on this site too. When I state that, as far as I can make out, ALL non-physical beings (no matter whether 'high', 'middling' or 'low') are bogus, and are simply illusions created by our minds under hijack-control by the dark force, I do mean ALL of them. Otherwise, surely, I'd have stated otherwise! Please see further above...

Now for this thing of giving particular credence to writings of the dark-force-duped and deluded people who do the channelling, just because those writings are in books, while my own writings are too challenging and also too 'alive' (i.e. being constantly updated with clearer and more helpful insights) to be the sort of thing that commercial publishers would want to touch. The blunt truth about ALL reliance on books to supposedly gain 'wisdom' is that they are ALL diverting you away from tapping the one totally pure and beneficial source of insights, data, love and healing - and that is your own deepest aspects, which are based in fundamental consciousness ('universal consciousness') itself. If you settle for less than that you are already well astray!

So, the answer to ALL people who ask me whether I've read the books / writings of this or that channel / guru / teacher etc etc is, no, I haven't - and neither will I. - That is, except for my having read The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and a number of other books by Tibetan Buddhist so-called 'masters' in 1997 at and briefly following the time of my becoming enlightened, and even then, with no understanding about the dark force's involvement in all of that, I came to my senses pretty quickly and recognised that hanging on the words of others - never mind how 'wise' and loving they may seem - can only lead one widely and seriously astray.

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Appendix 1 - Attacks from the dark force

In my experience, attacks from the dark force come in two broad types, with no clear dividing line between the two. As already noted, as far as I can ascertain, the emotional trauma material that is used in these attacks would generally pretty well all belong not so much to the person but to parasitic lost souls attached to the him/her.

• Attacks to try directly to wreck the person. The dark force is able to cause stored emotional trauma experiences to surface with exaggerated and even hellish intensity, using primarily the emotional traumas of attached 'lost' souls as 'ammunition'. It does this as a sort of psychic attack to try and make an emotional wreck of the person and even to drive the person to suicide. It most readily attacks in this way with fear and related feelings (anxiety, apprehension, panic, terror), but it can also attack with other trauma feelings - particularly depression and self doubt. I give a fuller list further below. In my experience it has been generally less inclined to attack with grief-related feelings, though it can do so. A really severe attack with depression (at least, as I experienced it) has a particularly virulent quality, feeling a bit like panic, and indeed it may be deliberately mixed with panic in the attack in order to make the person feel more suicidal.

  According to my understanding, the dark force is responsible in the vast majority cases of severe mood swings and attacks of nasty feelings such as panic, fear, anxiety and depression, and indeed at least some cases diagnosed as manic-depressive or bipolar disorder. Indeed, if I didn't have the mental clarity to understand what was going on and not to get fully into the emotional states of emotions that were being used to attack me, I'm sure that I myself would have been diagnosed as being 'manic-depressive' - and indeed very likely schizophrenic too!

• Covert attacks to gain control over the person. The dark force also carries out attacks covertly, so that a person may just experience tiresomely exaggerated day-to-day emotions without any obvious pointers to these actually being attacks. Or the emotions may not seem greatly exaggerated but are more negative than they would be otherwise and are directing the person to act in particular ways. The aim here is to have control over the person through controlling their emotional responses to situations and other people. Even in cases where a person is not obviously psychic and doesn't 'hear voices', the dark force can still intrude little communications that mimic the person's own thoughts, so that, with pseudo-thoughts and manipulated emotions, the person can be controlled quite a lot without anyone realizing that anything is untoward.

  I understand that it is in this manner that many people have got diverted from true self realization / self actualization and self healing methods into religion and indeed religious fundamentalism and - yes! - psychiatric work. The dark force's agenda is all about gaining power and control and diverting people into paths of power and control over other people, and into a pervading and ever growing unawareness.

Here is a full list of the specific emotion feelings that I have identified in the various attacks upon me (I shall add to this list any others that I identify in such attacks):

• fear
• anxiety
• apprehension
• panic
• revulsion
• anger
• 'depression' (actually a virulent sort of suicide compulsion)*
• isolation
• disconnectedness - birth trauma***
• grief
• self doubt
• shame
• guilt
• embarrassment
• boredom
• disappointment
• sexual arousal**
• ecstasy, both erotic and 'aesthetic' or 'spiritual'**
• joy** (rarely - this was used on me in particular attempts to manipulate and confuse me)
• hypermania (used on me initially during each of my hospitalizations to try to make the doctors regard me as mentally ill)

* Please see further below for more about the true nature of depression.

** Please see further below for more about these emotions, which, for virtually everybody, are not what they appear to be.

*** Birth trauma is something of a special case, because, although we are all carrying a birth trauma to some extent, it is not a normally a recognised arising emotion at all. There are ways you can get in touch with it, but I'm not letting on here about how you can do it, because that is a Satanistic practice and would rapidly lead you into serious problems. I experienced it massively in attacks during mostly 2004, and it was a pretty devastating-feeling experience each time - all the more so because I didn't know what the hell (sic) this hellish experience was - something I found out only in late 2008. The feeling is an extremely exhausted and washed out 'twilight' feeling, as though all your life force has been sapped out of you, and it is full of a sort of coldness and sense of personal devastation and ultimate tragedy, and of having been completely cut off from all warmth and from anything meaningful. This is accompanied by a strange 'knotted' feeling in about the position of the navel, and a sense of some vital connection having been cut off there. There's more to the experience than that, but at least that gives some idea.

I do have to qualify my description of the birth trauma attack experience, though, for, at least in my case and I'd guess in anyone's case, when it is used in attacks it is actually greatly distorted to make it feel much more devastating and horrific than it really is for the actual baby. I have, much more recently, had my own deepest aspects give me a brief re-run of the feelings of my actual birth trauma experience, and the devastating sense of disconnection and coldness was greatly less than in the attacks with birth trauma.

Birth trauma is used in dark force attacks primarily and indeed possibly solely upon people who the dark force is seeking to drive into Satanism or other 'dark' practices. The dark force was in fact repeatedly trying by various means to drive me into Satanism and black magic, and indeed on one occasion actually directed me through a Satanistic sexual practice involving being attacked with the birth trauma experience as I came to climax - though I didn't realize at the time what it was all about, having been given a convoluted pack of lies about it (as usual!).

The true nature of 'depression'

What people call depression is actually NOT a direct attack from the dark force, nor indeed really a true emotion or emotional state at all. What depression really is, is the person's defensive reaction to a certain extremely dangerous form of dark force attack, which is what I could call suicide compulsion.

Few people on the planet experience such virulently hellish attacks in all their fullness, because their effect is generally so lethal that human consciousness has evolved a means to prevent people from experiencing anything more than a highly attenuated form of it. The attack itself is NOTHING like what people know as depression, for the emotional feeling is intense and hellish, with a certain feeling of panic about it, and gives the person a feeling of utter and complete unbearableness of their life and their life situation, and it is cranked up by the dark force (sometimes with the assistance of elementals) feeding into the person's mindspace a constant stream of usually covert pseudo-thoughts to the effect that the only way out of this is suicide. Sometimes the dark force may actually combine the attack with a certain amount of actual panic, or at least amplify the panic-like aspect of the 'suicide compulsion' attack, as happened for me in a few of the severe attacks I was getting in early 2005.

What I myself experienced was actually the real thing, because, if my inner inquiry on this is anything to go by, for a very special reason I have a fundamental configuration of my 'system' that ensures that I do NOT shut down into a depression state, at least to any significant extent, when attacked with the 'suicide' thing. My own protection instead is an exceptionally clear and grounded intellect, also aided by my being enlightened, which has enabled me to remain an aware observer when assailed by such hellish attacks, so that I did not become a puppet of the feelings and pseudo-thoughts, recognising the transient intense feeling that I'd got to 'end it' as not being mine and therefore not to be acted upon, and instead could actually maintain clarity and progressively clear myself of such problems and find out what was really going on - as actually worked out in the event.

The people most likely to feel some (usually very small) degree of the attack that underlies the anaesthetizing shut-down of the depression state are all no-soul incarnations. Typical situations in which they may feel those feelings are during a certain stage in recovery from flu and certain other virus infections, and also when they have just moved into a new abode (after quite some time well settled in at the previous abode) and have not settled in yet at the new abode - though naturally individual people would vary as to what are their particular trigger situations to bring on this sort of attack.

I do not mean to imply by all this that the depression shut-down, which affects both mental and physical functioning, is a really good thing. Indeed, it is extremely harmful in itself, and serves the dark force at least as well as having the person driven to suicide - because (a) it weakens the person's 'energy system' and (b) the person can be controlled and very effectively de-motivated from bringing about really positive change in his life, and especially de-motivated from any genuine self actualization direction that would render him free from dark force interferences. Thus the pressing need is for people to use methods such as I present on this site to come out quickly from any depression that does occur and also to progressively immunize themselves against the 'suicide compulsion' (or indeed any other) attacks from the dark force, so that the depression shut-down state is no longer triggered in the first place.

Some 'positive' emotions that are not what you think...

Contrary to popular notions, the joy that people generally experience as a strong but transient emotion is actually based in painful emotion, and is not the same as the stable and much more subtle joyfulness that is opened up as we release ourselves from painful emotions. It is the former type of joy that the dark force can use in attacks and attempts to control.

Likewise, contrary to popular notions, sexual arousal as people almost universally experience it is normally based in painful emotions, which is why the dark force can use it in attacks to try to control a person. This can, for example, be used on you along with overt or covert instructions to rape somebody, making it seem as though you are fundamentally a rapist. It is that adulteration with painful emotion (particularly a certain amount of fear) that makes sexual feelings so addictive. Sexual ecstasy, including at climax, is a very different experience when free from that adulteration, and is not significantly addictive; it is at least as intense as the familiar adulterated version, but has a much 'lighter' and more subtle quality, and has no sense of pain or 'heaviness' about it, and feels very 'open' and joyful. I am increasingly experiencing this myself as a result of my self actualization process, so at least to a fair extent I really do know what I'm talking about.

Similarly generally unknown is the fact that what is normally experienced as any sort of intense ecstasy (whether erotic or not) is, for nearly all people, based in painful emotion and is thus used in attacks by the dark force to control people in particular situations as diverse as getting incompatible people infatuated with each other and getting people hooked on a particular religion or spiritual path or drug addiction (all actually sourced from the dark force and pointing the people right away from self actualization).

Ecstatically beautiful and loving feelings coming from supposed higher beings such as 'Jesus' or particular 'ascended masters' or archangels are ALL actually dark force attacks aimed to mislead. I experienced that a few times, and I found not a shred of evidence that those experiences were anything more than dark force attacks. After all, if they were really genuine they would surely have increased in frequency and vividness during the course of my self actualization process, whereas I experienced them ONLY during the worst of my troubles from the dark force, when the latter was doing its damnedest to get me involved with all the convoluted 'story' about myself and my purported true nature and incarnational history that it was giving me.

Again, such seemingly ecstatically beautiful and loving feelings are, like the 'normal' but actually highly dysfunctional sexual feelings, covertly mingled with painful emotion to make them feel brazenly intense and addictive, while genuine loving feelings, free from painful emotion, are immensely subtle and, for anyone not very advanced indeed in his self actualization process, would consistently be drowned out by the spectacular 'loudness' of all the different dark-force-adulterated versions of such feelings.

Modus operandi of attacks

Two primary methods are used together in attacks: 'emotional resonance' on the one hand and intruded messages (what I call 'pseudo-thoughts') or thought forms on the other, which cause one unawarely to create illusory realities in normally more or less hidden parts of one's mindspace. These two procedures between them can make a person believe that the most unimaginably frightful things are happening or going to happen to them, or, very commonly, that the nasty feelings of the attack are their own emotional response to a situation, whether it be a real situation or one itself 'invented' by the dark force.

What 'joins up' those two methods in really strong attacks, and especially the sustained ones that can become real crisis events, is the building up of a sort of feedback loop of emotional stress or trauma energy, using the particular illusory reality as a sort of 'augmenting resonator'. It depends also on a process that is most conveniently described as 'emotional button-pushing', which is the basis of the troublesome effect that Harvey Jackins, founder of Re-evaluation Counselling*, called 'restimulation' (i.e. of stored emotional stresses). Actually, coming to know that much is good news, because it is possible to immunize oneself** against emotional button-pushing for any particular issue or illusory reality, so making it difficult or impossible for the particular illusory reality to be used that way again (though variations of that may be still be used until one has immunized oneself against those too).

* I give a critical appraisal of Re-evaluation Counselling from my own experience in My Own Self Actualization 'Path', Pt 1.

** The neatest and most effective way to do this involves use of the Energy Egg.

The dark force is generally not able to attack a person to a significantly strong level with that person's own emotional trauma material, as that tends to be insufficient for that purpose, and people don't usually have sufficiently strong openness of the right part of their awareness into the astral sub-reality for direct attacks on them to work, at least well. This is where the parasitic lost souls come into the picture, for the attacks from the dark force are made actually upon those lost souls, and their aroused trauma emotions are experienced by the person as his own. I have 'read' more than one method by which the dark force allegedly achieves its attacks on the lost souls (i.e. causes particular trauma emotions that they are carrying to surface strongly), so I keep a very open mind about exactly how it does it and I won't go into detail about that here, for it would only add non-essential and confusing speculations into the picture.

The dark force frequently uses its attacks in a truly despicable manner. If the affected person has a small health concern - say, has a suspect spot on their skin that would be worth checking with their doctor (that's plain commonsense) - the dark force would then attack strongly with anxiety and fear and maybe panic too, especially in the day or so prior to any doctor's appointment, with the aim of giving the person the impression that they're terrified of the possibility of the little spot being anything sinister, and to get the person into a really bad emotional state about it, even to the point of failing to attend any arranged appointment and even committing suicide. The dark force did this with me at each opportunity until my own self healing methods had made that impossible for it to do any more, but fortunately I recognised its attacks for what they were and didn't get pulled down by them.

Another nasty trick that the dark force readily uses is to attack you with self doubt and shame over some error - either real or imagined - that you've made. Indeed, it goes further and often actually sets up the person to make some error, which then it will use as a focus with which to attack the person with self doubt, shame and self recriminations.

One situation where this happened to me was in 2004, when the dark force, posing as my 'guidance', on two occasions encouraged me to initiate lovemaking with particular men in inappropriate situations and without full regard for whether the men really wanted it at those particular times. It was far from rape (and indeed the particular men went along with it) but was the sort of manipulative, predatory behaviour that is so characteristic of the 'gay scene' and which I'd always repudiated.

Then, some months later, the dark force launched into a major attack on me, still pretending to be my 'guidance', stridently hectoring and haranguing me about my "hypocrisy and pride" as a "so-called spiritual Master", I allegedly being the "lowest of the low" because I'd behaved in such a manner. At the same time this supposed 'guidance' was attacking me with feelings that were allegedly of pride*, shame and self doubt and then the inner 'voice' changed tack and cranked up the attack into a continuous full-blown crisis-level one in which it claimed that it was a group of "astral beings" and their attack would increase over the days till I committed suicide.

* i.e. the negative sort of pride - comparing other people unfavourably against oneself.

As already noted, during a severe and sustained attack there appears to be an additional mechanism that comes into play - a sort of feedback loop within the person's mindspace, involving an illusory reality. This is why I found that such 'crisis' attacks broke off when I took some positive action that took my mind out of the fear and re-grounded my awareness and thus broke the feedback loop, even though the particular action wouldn't in itself have stopped the dark force from attacking me.

There is a possibility that, in the event of a person clearing out all the parasitic lost souls that were attached to him, and not having significant emotional stresses / traumas of his own for the dark force to use as ammunition, there would still be remaining ammunition available for the dark force to use, until all that has been cleared too, such as:

• Thought-form replicas of aspects of the cleared-out lost souls;
• Memories of those lost souls' traumas;
• The person's memories of previous attacks by the dark force upon him.

However, I would expect such attacks to be less severe and indeed less harmful than ones using the 'energy' of real traumas that one is carrying.

In Anatomy of a Dark Force ('Astral Entities') Attack Crisis I describe how I first came to understand about the mechanism of illusory realities being used as part of the feedback loop mechanism of a crisis level attack. If I had understood about this in earlier years of my dark force troubles, and had the methods I have now, I could have nipped in the bud any of the crisis level attacks, and indeed all of the recognisable lesser ones too.

Twinges of headache and other erratic stabbing pains - and other little tricks

 Migraine-like twinges and stabbing pains

I mention this here because for a minority of people who are openly afflicted by the dark force there are strange very transient twinges of a migraine-like headache, or small stabbing pains in other parts of the body - such as a pain feeling like stabs with a mildly electrified needle in a side of the chest, or a transient strong pain in the heart area. The dark force does this sort of thing 'deliberately', presumably to get the person worried about his health. It commonly seeks to manipulate the person's worry and fear feelings to greatly exaggerate them, so getting the person into a really bad emotional state about their health - even feeling suicidal. Because of this situation, a fair number of people have been considerably but needlessly frightened that they perhaps have a brain tumour or some serious condition in their chest, then submitting themselves for scans, EEGs and ECGs and in many cases ending up with harmful medication to try and subdue their anxiety - and 'anxiety' very commonly then gets 'diagnosed' by uncomprehending doctors as the cause of the symptoms, which of course is putting the cart before the horse.

I have also occasionally experienced the dark force causing a migraine aura (a quite pretty visual disturbance) and on one occasion making it behave very anomalously as though several auras were occurring during about an hour. It was seeking to exploit the fact that I know that such migraine manifestations are allegedly caused by small blood clots lodging in the brain, and it was seeking to get me worrying about a multiple manifestation of the migraine aura and its implications for the state of my brain. In the event it failed totally with me, for I quickly saw through its shabby little trick.

Please note that I'm not claiming that true migraines are ALL directly caused by the dark force (though my inner inquiry 'reading' is suggestive that most may be) - though as for all physical malfunctions there is liable to be a non-physical underlying cause for every occurrence. And I do not equate migraine auras with mystical experience as some do; I experience them just as pretty manifestations, and that's as far as it goes.

Tenderness in 'worrying' areas of the body

For a few months in 2005, during my 'darkest' times with the dark force, I had a pronounced tenderness to pressure or touch in the region of my right nipple. I couldn't actually feel any lump there, but the tenderness very much felt as though there must be some sort of growth - the effect no doubt much reinforced by covert pseudo-thoughts given to me by the dark force, to the effect that I had breast cancer (which actually does occur in men, albeit as a rarity). I presented that to my doctor just to ensure that there was nothing really untoward, and he was convinced straightaway that it was just an 'anxiety' symptom (again putting the cart before the horse!). He said that this sort of thing was pretty common and 'nothing to worry about'.

For the dark force to be able to create actual physical tenderness like that, I think the person has to be pretty strongly open to and interfered with by the dark force - but then quite a lot of people are, without it ever being realized what is really going on.

Let me say here and now, that anxiety in itself does NOT produce such physical symptoms. Where there is a significant anxiety issue, it is the cause of that anxiety that people need to look to - and, generally speaking, that would be attacks from the dark force, which also causes the problems that doctors would claim to be caused by the anxiety.

Growths

The dark force can cause a growth to occur in some specific spot on the body, and this can turn cancerous. To my current understanding, this is NOT a matter of the dark force deciding "Right, let's give this chappie a nice little cancer on his knob" (or wherever it fancies to make it happen). What actually is happening all the time is that the dark force is exploiting whatever weaknesses it finds in the person's non-physical aspects ('energy system', or often, rather misleadingly, called the aura). A fair number of people have particular localized 'energy system' weaknesses, which may have been caused by the dark force (whether directly or indirectly), which, when further intensified, result in a growth developing, and in some cases these turn cancerous.

Because the dark force is not conscious entities, it is not very meaningful to say whether it has a specific intent to cause such growths or whether the growths are just a by-product of its intensifying such local 'energy system' weaknesses for some other purpose.

Other disturbing sensations

One thing I experienced repeatedly was the sensation of non-physical hands around the top of my head, with one hand firmly on my right temple. This could on particular occasions become very menacing. For example, during one all-night spectacular ordeal I was given the sensation of the 'hands' being around my head while I lay in bed, these 'hands' holding my head firmly, and it was intimated to me that 'they' were about to wrench my head right off.

Occasionally I've been given an exceedingly weary, almost fainting feeling in my most serious attack crisis situations brought about by the dark force, and this would usually be accompanied by inserted pseudo-thoughts to the effect that I was in the process of dying. On one occasion, in a particularly serious crisis situation being brought about by the dark force, I was given a multitude of slightly burning and very disturbing slight twitching sensations moving about in different parts of my body, with the accompanying story that I was then being eaten up from the inside by bloodthirsty demons.

Other people report feeling physical sensations, for example, giving the impression that 'entities' are entering them through the anus and taking over their body. The aim is to try to get the affected person to believe whatever disturbing or frightening story (actually fiction) that the dark force is using, in order to get the person wound up into a terrified or desperate state. For a person with particularly weakly grounded awareness this can cause a destructive feedback loop that causes the person very great harm, even physically, and in some cases can bring about a very early death. Typically an elemental would be involved in such a situation, for it could interfere with the body directly in ways that the dark force couldn't do on its own.

Sleep disturbance

In addition to the disruption of sleep by means of attacks with exaggerated emotion feelings or sexual arousal or/and night hell (night terror) visuals, a very common type of interference from the dark force causes an overactive mind in bed, giving rise to sleeplessness / insomnia. This may or may not be accompanied by strange, distracting body sensations. In fact it is not always really the mind being overactive, but rather, an overall physical state of restlessness, which makes it feel as though the mind is being overactive even when it is actually relatively quiescent. It may be accompanied by a wearisome-feeling tumultuous (albeit not necessarily loud) tinnitus.

In Dark Force and Entity Troubles - The Real Way to Clear Them I include a major section on ways you can handle such sleep problems.

Temporary loss of consciousness - fainting or collapsing

This can be a very frightening trick to play on a person. Several times the dark force tried this on me at unexpected moments during the years when it was able to interfere with me most strongly. Because I have a particular ability to keep the relevant part of my awareness grounded, I managed not to keel over or indeed fully lose consciousness, and quickly restored full consciousness - but other people similarly interfered with do lose consciousness and assume they are being harmed considerably more than they really are. This sort of interference is commonly part of a 'package', where the dark force is presenting a scenario to the person that (s)he is being or about to be killed, either directly by the dark force or by a supposed spirit attachment that they have (actually generally an elemental or 'combo entity' that is a combination of an elemental and a soul fragment). A sustained severe attack complete with the loss-of-consciousness trick can then seem very convincing as a supposed attempt on the person's life.

That sort of treatment can quite often result in the ending of a person's life through suicide; I don't know to what extent it could end a person's life immediately and directly, though I suspect that it wouldn't, apart from weakening the person further, and so further undermining his/her emotional state and health.

Spasms and aggravated anal fissure / haemorrhoids

Spasms of the anal and pee sphincter, as already noted, are quite a favourite of the dark force. The anal sphincter spasms include ongoing gross over-tightness and can cause even mild haemorrhoids to become painful and much more prominent and liable to rupture, and can make anal fissures excruciating and extremely difficult to heal. Such exaggerated anal tightness can also easily lead to anal abscesses with a risk of fistula formation.

Other spasms that have been a nuisance for much of my adult life and for which the dark force is now firmly implicated include very painful cramps of the prostate and also lower end of the oesophagus, the whole range of gut spasms that usually get labelled as irritable bowel syndrome, and various muscle spasms in my lower back that manifest as (a) sciatica mimicking hip trouble, (b) transient pains apparently from my left testicular area (aimed at making me worry about the varicocele there) and (c) various transient foot pains aimed at making me worry about my feet and even stop hiking.

Ironically, doctors generally assume that such spasms are caused by worry or anxiety states, but what they don't realize is that often or maybe always the dark force is the real cause of both the spasms and the anxiety, the experiencing of the spasms then also adding to the person's worry / anxiety.

Disturbing smells

Another trick of the dark force for some people is to give whiffs of a smell that has disturbing associations for the particular person. In my case I am aware of a small number of different smells, which, as far as I can ascertain, were stored in the memories of particular of the 'lost' souls that were attached to me, which have at times been given to me to try and frighten me - (respectively) what was claimed to be stewing and roasting human flesh*, vomit, fresh human urine, and a peculiar smell with a strong human semen component (no doubt something else associated with 'dark' practices). The 'stewing human flesh' smell has been the most frequently used.

* My more recent inner inquiry supported by energy testing points to that identification of those two particular smells having been in part a deception aimed at scaring me, but also to the two smells indeed having been associated with certain 'dark' practices. In this particular scenario, which is necessarily somewhat speculative, as I have no physical way of going back and verifying it, the 'stewing human flesh' smell was not that at all, but was from some concoction that was generally kept at the altar, and with which participants anointed themselves in particular rituals in front of the altar. Certain of its constituents would be regarded with revulsion by pretty well anyone not locked into 'dark' practices.

Similarly, my very plausible inner inquiry suggestions point to the 'roasting human flesh' smell having actually been that of a sacrifice being carried out as part of a Satanistic or black witchcraft / black magic ritual. It actually had two main components: the concoction mentioned above, plus burning flesh. The burning flesh was actually most likely that of an animal, though the possibility that on at least one occasion an actual human was sacrificed can't be ruled out. Such smells that were presented to me would have been actually memories held by one or more of the parasitic lost souls attached to me. 

Also associated with Satanism or similar was a smell that was occasionally given to me in my bathroom, especially when I'd got up in the night for a pee. The smell seemed superficially to be a hint of somebody's cigarette smoke getting into my flat, perhaps through a pipe conduit - but on the one occasion it was made to come on really strongly to me I found that it had a strong urine component, and simultaneously the dark force was trying to show me a visual (which I kept de-focused from as much as possible) of a man in some sort of pit or trench or bath, being urinated on by a large number of people, and effectively having a 'bath' in fresh urine. My understanding is that this reflected an actual memory of one of the parasitic lost souls that had been attached to me.

Another smell the dark force occasionally presented to me during quite a short period was the disgusting smell of a person with absolutely no personal hygiene - say, a long-term unwashed tramp - in warm, sweaty weather. Fortunately I recognised that trick for what it was and so didn't go worrying about my own personal hygiene.

On one of the occasions when I was being subjected to attempts by the dark force to get me attached to seriously dark practices, at one point, when I was being given horrific emotional feelings combined with strong sexual arousal, it gave me a smell that I couldn't place, and which went with a peculiarly warm feeling at my nostrils. Allegedly, what I was being given there was a memory of the smell and warmth of the entrails of what was claimed to be a freshly killed man* as I buried my head in them, remembered from a black magic initiation rite (which, allegedly, I'd undergone very much against my will) in a long-past lifetime. I now understand that the past life experience, although it presumably did happen, was not mine at all but would have been that of one of the 'lost' souls attached to me.

* Again, the true picture was distorted to make it seem more intimidating and repulsive for me, for it may well have been an animal rather than a human - though the latter cannot altogether be ruled out.

More recently (in 2008), when sitting on a clifftop to eat my packed lunch on a hike, I was about to start eating a rather ripe banana, when the (expletive deleted) dark force assailed me with the delectable aroma of dog shit, having used the smell of the freshly peeled rather ripe banana as a 'trigger'. I checked that there was no dog fouling there, and the smell quickly went.

My indications from my inner inquiry are that the smells are all just memories (usually not from this lifetime, and usually not one's own but belonging to parasitic lost souls attached to one) and are not produced physically outside the person, so nobody else would notice them.

 Teleportation and other paranormal phenomena

In my case two instances of teleportation (apparent psychokinesis) of physical objects occurred when the dark force had a relatively strong hold on me, and also on one occasion the dark force apparently caused a temporary malfunction of my computer, but it was for the most part unable to get sufficient grip on my energy system for it to do such things, because the relevant part of my awareness doggedly remained too grounded.

There are other people, however, whose awareness is more weakly grounded, and they are more badly affected by the dark force and even experience themselves or parts of their body being moved by it, or / and have disturbing psychic or paranormal phenomena occurring around them. Such phenomena may include 'poltergeist' happenings - movement of objects (telekinesis), pictures falling off walls, the causing of electrical equipment to fail and so forth, also possibly with sounds (such as creaking floorboards or knocking on doors) and apparitions. A particular aim in moving parts of a person's body is commonly to get that person terrified that entities are taking his body over. The dark force actually cannot take a person's body over, but it can give an alarming impression of that happening (which can readily lead to suicide) - but only if the right part of the person's awareness is sufficiently ungrounded.

This limitation on what the dark force can do is because, being non-physical itself, it cannot directly affect physical objects or create physical phenomena. However, if it can get enough hold on a person's energy field (the so-called aura), it can then manipulate it in a way that is a sort of hijacking, using psychic powers that we all have latently, to create troublesome elementals and apparently to use 'special powers'. So it is the person's own 'energy system' that the dark force uses to create any paranormal phenomena. That is very draining on a person's (subtle) energies, so that people who have that sort of issue tend to suffer a lot of tiredness and ill health.

Usually the dark force does these things to frighten the person and to scare other people away from her, but in my case - and this would apply to some other people too - it could also have been seen as having a primary 'interest' in convincing me that I had special psychic powers and getting me trying to use them, so effectively getting me working 'on the dark side' and getting me publicly discredited as a healer and promoter of self actualization. Fortunately I've always been clear that using such psychic powers would be highly problematical and at least often outright dangerous.

Addictions

The dark force (whether directly or via spirit attachments or attached 'soul fragments') directs the vast majority of its overt 'victims' into addictive behaviours, including tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and other 'recreational' or indeed 'hard' drugs. It does this particularly because such substance misuse and the addictive patterns relating to it help unground the person (increasing the entities' and dark force's hold on them) and help block any direction towards self actualization (which, in its fullness, would render the person totally free of entity attachments and dark force interferences).

I have become aware of how the dark force has repeatedly sought to bring me down in this manner. It would try to control me with covert attacks and pseudo-thoughts that made me feel drawn to, and even sexually aroused by, young men who had addiction problems - particularly alcohol, cannabis and indeed heroin - and very often were in very poor physical and mental state and in fact really very repellent to me, and the dark force even caused me to feel that I wanted to have those people in bed with me, or/and to join their ranks.

Fortunately I've had the clarity and strength of will to resist any such apparently inner pressure (always recognisable, even during the sexual arousals, because of the associated nasty feelings at the solar plexus), and I've kept clear of such involvement apart from some very positive passing interactions with some homeless people on the streets, where, over a few years I even occasionally gave impromptu healing sessions, and indeed on the odd occasion through such contacts I'd apparently been a significant factor in the particular person's having started getting more positive command of his life. But underlying that has always been the pressure of the dark force, which was vainly trying to get me to 'proposition' various of these mostly very scruffy and indeed often smelly and quite repulsive individuals and get personally involved with them and their ways (and indeed, as I say, try to get them into bed with me).

N.B. during my original writing of the above (in late August 2006) the dark force was attacking me strongly with the very feelings that I relate above - to try to convince me that I really was hankering and lusting after those people. But all it was succeeding in doing was to show me anew how pernicious is its influence, which would strongly control anyone who hadn't got very considerable clarity and willpower to listen to their own deepest good sense instead. The attack actually progressed into an extremely strong attempt to drag me into and get me hooked on Satanistic sexual practices.

'Deviant' sexual urges

Shock-horror - I use the nasty word 'deviant' here! However, I am NOT referring here to one's sexual orientation, which actually in the vast majority of people is dysfunctional regardless of whether their predominant orientation is 'homo' or 'hetero', and even if they think of themselves as 100% 'normal'.

What I'm referring to here is the urges to act in various ways that have nothing to do with true, mutually respecting love between people but to do with seeking to get sexual thrills.

It is not widely understood that much 'deviant' sexual behaviour or desire - especially in its more bizarre manifestations - is primarily the result of the dark force, or occasionally spirit attachments (which, however, would themselves be dark force controlled / programmed), controlling or trying to control the person, for the dark force is constantly seeking to divert people away from truly loving behaviour into self gratification and negativity, neither of which is what true love is about. Anyone who indulges in Satanistic or black magic practices (which often include bizarre and sometimes horrific sexual practices) is bound to be strongly controlled by the dark force, whether or not (s)he has a partial walk-in or spirit attachment. Likewise, at least a fair proportion of, and I suspect all, paedophiles (at least the ones who act out their urges) are unawarely being controlled by the dark force. So, to call these people evil and wicked is missing the vital point and ensuring that their underlying issue is never acknowledged, let alone addressed and resolved.

Strong sexual clothing fetishes, such as leather- and rubberwear and even such socially accepted articles as jeans or black fishnet stockings / tights are generally in at least large part the result of control and influences from the dark force, even though additional factors, such as particular childhood experiences and conditioning from advertising imagery, usually contribute (but then again, dark force interference would have given rise to those situations and influences in the first place). The dark force doesn't actually create such issues for the affected person, but it magnifies what's already there in the person's emotional issues or those of any of the attached 'lost' souls. Without such interference, most people would hardly notice the actually quite normal potential within their emotional issues for seriously unhealthy sexual attractions, urges and preoccupations.

I do have some experience of this myself, as I have had certain common fetishistic and otherwise unhealthy sexual urges, which I always recognised as pointing to ways I didn't want to live (for they had nothing to do with love), and now I know them to have been the work of the dark force. Indeed, the latter blew its cover handsomely during my writing about such issues on my site initially, and went attacking me strongly in a way to try to get me into Satanistic sex of the most horrific type imaginable (the police would have been very interested indeed if I'd actually done what the dark force was trying to get me to do!).

That of course is, on the surface, extremely stupid behaviour of the dark force (as you could reasonably expect of rogue programming rather than true conscious beings), because I immediately expose such behaviour of the dark force's on this website - which is clearly not assisting its agenda. I also wrote down all the problematical thoughts underlying the feelings and urges with which the dark forces assaulted me, and put them methodically to inquiry using The Work*, so progressively making it less possible for the dark force to interfere with me in that way again. Using such a method to dissolve the underlying thoughts, feeling and illusory realities is much better than continuing to live with such issues and being stigmatized and unhelpfully regarded as ill or disordered.

* I'm nowadays doing much better than that! I'm now using the tremendous life improvement and self actualization methodology presented in Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way, and indeed have left The Work behind. Grounding Post, used in conjunction with Self-Power Walking and the Returning Life Sequence, also with frequent retuning of my Energy Egg to the attacks and other environmental stresses of the moment, is my method of choice now when I get a particular interference / attack. I recommend that combination of methods for anyone with unusual or problematical sexual urges.

Appendix 2 - Obvious signs of teachers' / healers' / lightworkers' dark force connections

What follows is not an exhaustive list, and I appreciate that it will ruffle many feathers and even scare some people because so much of what people have been innocently accepting has actually been the work of 'the dark side'. In truth, I do not know one single healer / teacher / so-called lightworker (or indeed other person) who is not showing signs of dark force force involvement (almost always unawarely, of course).

Let me stress that the vast majority of these people have none but the best intentions and are genuinely being deceived and misled, just as had been happening for me. Even now I would make no claim that I'm completely clear of dark force involvement, for you can never know that you are clear. The most I can know now and in the future is simply that I'm being as vigilant and discriminating as I know how, and filtering or clearing out any further interferences and dark force sourced distortions as I become aware of them.

At least that's a vast improvement upon what is much more the norm for teachers with any sort of public profile - for example, a teacher who claims to be an incarnation of Lord Anju (a purported higher being of some sort) and who channels extensively from supposed angels, archangels and ascended masters, operating as a guru leading many people towards horrendous problems beyond this life by means of an illusory reality involving the supposed 'ascension' of humans into the purported (but fictitious) 5th dimension - all with the noblest of intentions but a tremendous lack of grounded awareness and willingness to deeply question himself and what he's doing.

On the other hand I do also have to say that there is a small but very significant proportion of such healers / teachers / 'lightworkers' who are not genuine even in their intent, and who do things like putting psychic attacks on those who they see as any sort of threat to their personal or social status. I can think of one of these (in India) who is very widely known and even revered at the present time as supposedly one of our greatest spiritual teachers. That he purportedly performs miracles and a fair number of people go as far as to believe that he is "the new Christ" and has come to save Humanity should be warning enough that something is awry there...

Although this listing is referring particularly to teachers, healers and 'lightworkers', it is really a valuable check-list that anyone can use to assist them in constructive self scrutiny with a view to progressively getting themselves clear of dark force influence and thus tremendously improving their lives and speeding their self actualization process.

Here follows the listing, then. The person...

• Is operating intentionally as a guru with a group or circle of students / disciples / followers.
• Is a student or follower of, or reveres, a guru or 'spiritual teacher'.
• Believes in or promotes modesty or humility as anything desirable.
• Believes in 'ascension' of humans, individually or en masse (i.e. into some sort of non-physical or semi-physical 'higher order', 'higher dimension' or 'heaven'.
• Believes in humans at some point achieving 'full consciousness', in which the person's purported separate 'higher consciousness' or 'higher self' descends from the 5th dimension and merges with the ordinary or lower mind.
• Believes that his/her view of reality is true or Truth rather than just being a convenient working model for healing / self actualization purposes.
• Makes people feel afraid to find their own most helpful view of reality (i.e. people are made to feel that they are supposed to 'follow the Party line' of the particular teacher).
• Puts psychic attacks or problematical 'energies' on other people, whether this is done awarely or unawarely.
• Believes in an evolutionary process of each individual over successive reincarnations.
• Believes that reincarnation of souls in some sort of evolutionary sequence is the natural thing to happen for us following our death until we are very 'advanced' in our supposed evolutionary process.
  

  As noted earlier on this page, sequential, karmic reincarnation of souls is actually the norm, but it is NOT the natural thing to happen and is a very serious malfunction caused by the dark force's having hijacked what was initially a non-karmic, non-sequential no-soul incarnation, and is NOT evolutionary in any positive way, for it is actually a degradational sequence over many reincarnations.

• Believes in karma as primarily or wholly relating to positive or negative actions of yours.
  

  i.e. rather than it being simply an accumulation of the harmful or weakening effects of various of your life experiences, including such things as emotional traumas and environmental stresses  - see Karma - Cutting Through the Confusion

• Believes in a need to purge previous supposed wrongdoings, whether of this lifetime or a purported previous one - and especially any notion that you have to go through any sort of hardship in order to clear such karmas.
  

  All karmas are best and most easily cleared simply through diligent and truly effective self actualization methods, which the dark force seeks to steer us well away from. See especially The Guide to Complete Self Actualization.

• Believes in 'higher realities', including higher beings.
  

  I exclude fundamental consciousness ('the Ultimate') from that. Fundamental consciousness (also known as universal consciousness) is what you recognise directly as your own true nature (and the true nature of everything) when you gain fundamental clarity ('become enlightened'). Many would regard that as a 'higher reality', and indeed the highest of them all - but actually it transcends concepts of 'high' and 'low', as you'd reasonably expect from something that is all-pervading and therefore has no specific location nor level - and indeed is non-dual. It is indeed healthy and desirable to recognise and be as open as possible to fundamental consciousness - provided that one doesn't then distort it, as so many do, into something that is in some perhaps subtle respect seen as separate from us, such as 'Spirit' or Brahma.

• Believes in discrete (usually numbered or named) levels of consciousness or of Existence.
  

  They are ALL illusory realities given to us from the dark force and so exist only within the astral sub-reality, never mind how wonderful and elevating some levels may subjectively appear to be.

• Practices, promotes or encourages in any way astral travel or astral projection.
  

  Astral travel or projection is an extremely harmful and dangerous practice, because it severely ungrounds you and opens you pretty fully to the dark force and greatly strengthens and cultivates its hold on you. Astral travel allows the dark force to stage a partial walk-in upon the person or may result in a very troublesome spirit attachment being installed if the dark force is 'interested' in doing that to that particular person. It would thus have been disastrous for me if I had tried astral projection / travel and had actually succeeded in doing it. My understanding is that the vast majority of partial walk-ins that have occurred have resulted from the dark force (usually covertly) encouraging or inveigling the person into going into astral travel or astral projection and then sneakily driving the specially programmed 'lost' soul into the temporary 'void' left by a major part of the person's awareness having gone on astral 'walkies'.

• Uses 'special' or psychic powers, including the performing of 'miracles', the non-physical moving of objects, and 'seeing' into people's bodies - even just for healing.
• 'Reads' or looks within people's minds - even with their permission.
  

  N.B. Nobody is really able to read or look within another person's mind. This is just a particular case of clairvoyance, which involves the dark force presenting to the 'seer' certain 'information' and impressions that convince him that he is actually 'reading' or 'seeing' directly. Thus my pointing to 'mind reading' as being dark force connected is NOT based in any sort of moral or ethical judgement but a simple recognition of what is really taking place when a person goes supposedly 'reading' or looking within another person's mind.
  

  However, this needs distinguishing from the straightforward application of deep awareness, indeed with aware and vigilant use of energy testing, which can enable one to have a pretty good idea of certain things that are going on in a particular person's mind. That could also very loosely be called mind reading, but normally would be pretty well free of dark force involvement, and indeed theoretically would be completely free of it.

• Channels from any apparently external source, never mind how (supposedly) high or 'Divine' - and including even one's supposed 'higher consciousness'.
• Uses telepathy - even with the other person's full agreement and participation.
  

  The problem with telepathy is that it is just a variant of channelling, and, except theoretically in the case of an extremely self actualized person (well beyond mere enlightenment), this could not occur except through the dark force relaying the communication to you - with all the problems of censoring, distortion and addition of material. It may be allowed to proceed apparently undistorted in order to lure the telepathist and get him/her more deeply involved with the dark force.
  

  My understanding is that some degree of genuine telepathy is theoretically possible between people who have very compatible energy make-up / configuration, BUT, as in the case of channelling, the dark force drowns out any such subtle communications with its own versions of the telepathic messages. I have no evidence yet that there is anyone on the planet who is so clear of dark force interference that the genuine telepathy would be recognisable and usable.

  Incidentally, such genuine telepathy is NOT what is cultivated by the use of certain crystals (e.g. held to the actually illusory / fictitious 'third eye'). They disrupt your energy system and cultivate the standard, dark force mediated version.

• Uses or encourages dowsing.
  

  One type of testing that superficially appears to be a form of dowsing is exempt from this listing, however. That is the healthy and grounded energy testing method, provided that it hasn't in effect slipped into ordinary dowsing as a result of the person's carelessness or lack of deep awareness in using the procedure.

• Uses or gives credence to any method of divining or fortune telling, such as Tarot, runes, I Ching, angel cards, scrying - and related methods such as astrology, numerology and palmistry, and 'readings' of a person's future or 'destiny' by any means.
  

  What all these methods have in common is that they involve and encourage ungrounded energy awareness, which connects and involves one with the dark force. The only safe, healthy and dark force free means of gaining information that is truly for a person's deepest and ultimate good to have (i.e. to promote their self actualization process) is through properly grounded energy awareness and energy testing. In any case, it is only the dark force that seeks to make your future appear to be (to a fair extent) predetermined, and which encourages people into preoccupations with their future rather than allowing their lives to unfold freely in the present.
  

• Believes in our having a separated-off 'higher consciousness' or 'higher self'.
  

  This ploy from the dark force is particularly to encourage people to channel when what they really want is to get information and guidance from their own deepest aspects (i.e. as an intrinsic aspect of oneself, not as anything at all separate-seeming); as soon as the person 'channels' from their what they believe to be their 'higher self', they are actually getting any information or messages (actually from their deepest aspects) relayed to them by the dark force, which censors / distorts any original data and inserts fictions of its own - and of course gives a fictitious identity to the source of the (mis)information.

• Uses candles or similar lights, or/and incense, including joss sticks.
  

  N.B. Smoke from incense of any type (never mind how nice some of it smells!) is extremely harmful, containing a cocktail of carcinogens and other toxins that have a long-term cumulative effect when periodically (passively) inhaled - at least as harmful as tobacco smoke. Thus incense is doubly problematical.

• Regards or treats any specific thing(s) as sacred or holy - including particular numbers.
  

  The numbers 9 (especially) and also 7 and 3 and multiples thereof are a particular focus because the dark force has 'loaded' those particular numbers with 'dark force resonance' in the human consciousness, so any focus on those numbers as 'special' or sacred immediately increases any dark force connection of the person.

• Believes that (s)he is an incarnation of a particular higher being, or a reincarnation of some prominent figure in the past.
• Uses rituals.
  

  I have to qualify this because there are various truly beneficial practices for strengthening your energy system that could be mistaken for rituals. The test here is, is the practice just being done as an essential practice in the sense of opening the front door or preparing a meal, or are there elements in the practice that are being done because "that's the way it's supposed to be done" (e.g. you are told "it won't work if you don't do it this way", but there is no obvious reason why not)?
  

  For example, if you want to attune yourself to something, all you need to do is to have physical contact with it, with the clear intent that the particular contact is for the purpose of attuning yourself to it. So, if anyone deliberately does more than that to attune themselves to something (leaving aside for the moment the matter of whether that attunement is really such a good idea in the first place), they are practising, or at least beginning to create, a ritual, and, by so doing, aligning themselves with the control agendas of the dark force. Virtually all Reiki attunements, thus, are firmly 'of the dark side' not only because of the symbols being used but also because of the quite unnecessary and usually quite complicated ritual involved.

• Uses any 'sacred', healing or meditation symbols (including Reiki symbols and the OM).
• Uses mantras.
  

  This needs some qualification, because in a very small number of instances there are truly beneficial uses for specific mantras for particular self actualization or healing purposes. However, even those uses of mantras are problematical because of the way they increase your dark force connection (thus needing to be used sparingly and with discrimination if used at all), and thus a person fully clear of dark force sourced deceptions would always use other means than mantras - and there always are 'dark force free' methods that can be used in place of them.

• Uses or in any way encourages the use of sacred geometry in any form - whether as drawings, symbols or actual constructions, such as merkabas, and supposedly healing and self actualization / self realization devices using sacred geometry, including stargates, meditation chambers, pyramids and wands, and the whole range of actually extremely harmful 'Soul Therapy Healing Tools' made and sold by the Maitreya Monastery at Glastonbury and other locations.
• Uses or encourages the use of charms, amulets, talismans, fetishes (not referring here to anything sexual, which is a separate issue), or anything that is intended to function in such a manner.
• Attaches 'spiritual' significance to certain colours, and in particular, regards gold, violet, purple or saturated mid- to deep blues as 'spiritual' or spiritually connecting colours.
  

  The dark force has loaded the human consciousness generally with a dark force connection to those particular colours, which is then presented to healers and psychics as being a 'spiritual' connection - people thus being lured further into the 'spirituality' trap and increasing their dark force connections in lieu of the self actualization that they really need to be pointing to, which would get them free of dark force interference and control. There is nothing intrinsically problematical about those colours, however, and as long as they are not treated as having any 'spiritual' or metaphysical or ceremonial significance they are absolutely no problem.

• Practises or promotes any healing method that relies at least in part on supposedly external energies or/and beings, and doesn't work exclusively from their core essence.
• Uses or promotes the use of crystals and stones.
  

  I must qualify this, in that there are on the market a very few kinds of specially (and smoothly, roundly) shaped stones that have been given special energy programming, which, if used with awareness and discretion, can genuinely give tremendous assistance to your self healing and self actualization process, and which, in this context, appear to help you clear your dark force connections and entity attachments rather than reinforce them. Also, indeed completely non-programmed polished spheres of suitable stone type can be used as very effective and pure healing aids. See Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way, and Stone Spheres as Healing and Self Actualization Aids.

• Uses or encourages 'smudging' (production of smoke from incense or certain plant materials such as sage) to clear spaces and people's 'auras' of foreign ('negative') energies and entities.
  

  There's just one undesirable thing that such smoke might possibly clear out if you're lucky - flies! For clearing out entities and untoward 'energies', 'smudging' is totally ineffective, and simply succeeds in getting people believing that they are clear of stuff that they are not at all clear of - so that they never get to using methods that would be effective in carrying out the requisite clearance. Also, smudging is polluting to the air you breathe - albeit normally only very temporarily (unless, of course, one repeatedly 'smudges' one's living or working space and keeps the windows more or less closed).
  

• Has or recommends the use of any sort of shrine or 'sacred' space.
  

  This is to be distinguished from a dedicated harmonious space for specific purposes such as one's healing or self actualization practices. It can be very helpful to have such a space - but the problem comes the moment one regards that space as anything more than functional, for then one is connecting with the astral sub-reality and bringing in a sense of ritual and all the dark force connections that that involves.

• Thinks / speaks / writes of us being light or Light rather than simply awareness or consciousness.
• Thinks / speaks / writes of us 'going to the Light' or needing to do so when we die.
• Has anything to do with prayer.
• Uses the concept of 'the inner child'.
  

  This is a dark force sourced decoy to ensure that when people do look within themselves they're looking for some sort of wounded or vulnerable child instead of their core essence, which is fundamental consciousness - 'the Ultimate', which is thus the ultimate power and is intrinsically invulnerable.

• Believes that we are 'spirit' or 'Spirit', or even just uses that term for fundamental (universal) consciousness or 'the Ultimate'.
• Uses and/or encourages a lot of formal meditation.
  

  N.B. A certain amount of formal meditation can be helpful in some cases, but generally this would be for people who are of pretty low awareness. They would need to stop doing that as their awareness opens up more, because otherwise they would be increasingly weakening their grounding and also 'putting the lid' on various of their more deeply seated issues - problems that are the reason for ongoing formal sitting meditation being best avoided for all reasonably aware people.
  

• Regards him/herself as a 'lightworker'.
• Uses hypnosis in his/her methodology.
  

  Hypnosis is extremely ungrounding and is thus a real no-no in serious healing / self actualization work. Also it is extremely disempowering for the person put under hypnosis. In all cases it is a dark force sourced control agenda that causes people to choose to use hypnosis on other people - regardless of any good intentions of theirs.
  

  Hypnosis is intrinsically harmful and 'of the dark side', because its very mechanism is the installation of one or more illusory realities in a hidden aspect of the victim's mindspace.

  Indeed, it appears that particular individuals are dark force programmed (whether directly or through something like a partial walk-in or spirit attachment) to use hypnosis therapies so that the dark force and entities attached to the therapist can exploit the powerless, ungrounded state of clients during sessions and actually cause the therapist to put 'nasties' in their clients' non-physical aspects, such as harmful thought forms, implants or even in some cases partial walk-ins. (I have experienced this myself, though I never allowed myself to get into a hypnotic trance as the particular practitioner was trying to achieve.)

• Uses 'religion speak'.
  

  Examples are too many to list, but I give just a few off the top of my head here:
  Christ (including 'Christ consciousness'), baptism, chrism or Chrism, God, the Seven Rays of God, Divine or Divinity, holy...

• Has an 'angel name' or other special pseudonym to associate him/herself with higher beings such as angels or to increase his/her guru status, and thus to effectively to set him/herself apart from other people - whether or not the person continues to use his/her own name.
  

  This tends to be a sign that the person is in particularly deep trouble through being manipulated by the dark force. Indeed, the latter tried in late 2003 to get me myself to formally change my name from Philip Goddard to Melchior Elias for this sort of purpose.
  

  GH, the 'lightworker' who made and supplied my sacred geometry wands (which I have since disposed of) has an 'angel name', the second part of which is the name of one of the purported ascended masters, but at least he continues to use his ordinary name first and foremost.

  Another 'lightworker' I know, who channels extensively from purported archangels and ascended masters and fervently believes in human 'ascension' into the (actually fictitious) 5th dimension, while not actually keeping his real name secret, generally presents himself as Shabdan, which increases his guru status and encourages people to follow him rather than get on with a true self actualization process, which requires no guru and no channellings. There are a fair number of other individuals doing similar things.

  The Buddhist names that many Western Buddhists take up or are given are also problematical and a result of dark force influence, though not necessarily indicating such deep dark force involvement as the above types of example.

• Sanctions or condones the use of status-indicating appellations for him / herself, such as His Holiness, Pope, Jetsun, Reverend, Archbishop, Master, His Grace, His Excellency, His Worship, Doctor, Professor, The Right Worshipful..., The Right Honourable..., Sir, Dame, Lord, Lady, Duke, Prince, Princess, Duchess, Earl, Baron(ess), His / Her Royal Highness, and His / Her Majesty.
  

  NO person of true integrity, free from dark force influence, would sanction or condone the use of any such titles / appellations for themselves, whether they have religious, professional or any other connection, for they are ALL about personal and social status and power / control relationships with other people, and thus of 'the dark side'. Even sanctioning or condoning people's addressing one as 'Sir' or 'Madam' is actually to a certain degree a part of the same phenomenon, and helps to align one with the dark force, because it is a deferential appellation, and, despite widespread beliefs to the contrary, is totally unnecessary, even in, say, shops.
  

  As for the matter of professional status, anyone with specific qualifications is free to indicate their qualifications in specific situations (such as in the authorship of a paper), and, say, in the case of medical practitioners and therapists, indicating their qualifications on informational material about themselves - but that is something quite different from having themselves being addressed using an appellation, which is actually not about the person's ability in their job (after all, there are plenty of atrocious medical doctors and extremely ignorant / unaware PHd's!) but about personal status and setting themselves up as socially above other people.

• Thinks in terms of 'vibrational frequencies' or 'vibrations' of things, energies or people.
  

  This is all part of the dark force sourced New Age mindset, whose attention is diverted away from simply tuning into consciousness itself, which is where true enlightenment and self actualization lie, and where the concept of (non-physical) vibrations is meaningless. So-called vibrational frequencies or simply 'vibrations' (non-physical) are illusory. Yes, people use that expression to differentiate between apparently higher or lower or lighter or darker, but what they don't realize is that all such non-physical polarities are illusions given to us by the dark force, and are not where we need to be pointing.

• Sees auras, chakras and other non-physical things such as entities.

  This is virtually always a sure sign of poor grounding of the whole person and not just their awareness. The person's energy awareness then opens most readily into the astral sub-reality, where the person doesn't really see things that are really there at all but is shown things by his/her dark force interference. Such ungrounded and dark force mediated 'perceptions' are used as decoys or lures to point the affected people away from true self actualization.
  

  The Barbara Brennan School of Healing actually trains people in such ungrounded energy awareness, calling it Higher Sensory Perception (HSP), not understanding its true nature, and not understanding that none of that is necessary nor indeed helpful for the purest and most effective healing work.

• Predicts future events or scenarios, or believes such predictions made by anyone else (straightforward extrapolations on the basis of physical observations are excepted from this).
• Believes in a specific 'Higher Plan' for Humanity, whether it be an apocalyptic or messianic scenario or one of the many variants of an enlightened civilization or/and some sort of world government.

  N.B. I am not meaning to imply that there is necessarily no 'higher plan', nor that we are definitely not moving towards an enlightened civilization, for we cannot know such things. My point is that any true higher plan that is not just another illusory reality presented to us from the dark force would be impossible for us to know about, so any supposed Higher Plan that anyone believes in is bound to be a dark force sourced invention designed to lead us into further trouble.
  

  There is a very important point here about ANY supposed prediction of the future, whether it be relating to any particular plan or not. Free choice, which is a fundamental aspect of our true nature, rapidly dwindles and becomes constrained by dark force sourced control agendas as we get accepting any sort of specification about how things will work out in the future, whether for oneself as an individual or for the human race at large. It is thus extremely important that we keep our minds entirely open about what the future holds for us and ignore any non-physically sourced predictions.

  Any true 'higher plan' (which I can only speculate does exist in some aspect of 'reality') would work very differently - not trying to achieve particular happenings at particular times and places, and, particularly, not revealing to us anything of our future (as the dark force does in its fictitious 'Higher Plans'), but operating by means of an open-ended flow of a 'fluid' matrix of possibilities guided by a broad underlying 'intent'.

• Believes in Atlantis as part of Earth history.

  The legend of Atlantis is, according to my understanding, based on (but does not accurately represent) historical events - NOT on Earth but somewhere else in our Universe or indeed even in another universe. The dark force has widely presented that legend to us as a supposed fact of human history on Earth as part of the various illusory realities that it presents to us involving a supposed Higher Plan for Humanity (always involving humans being controlled / manipulated by supposedly higher beings - actually the dark force).

• Gives credence to 11:11 or indeed any other time of day as having some special significance - or indeed likewise for any particular dates.
  

  Yes, indeed - for particular people 11:11 or some other time may repeatedly be brought to their notice, but if it is more than coincidence in the particular instance(s), it wouldn't be any beneficial higher beings that are contriving that, because, as far as I can tell, there are no beneficial 'higher' beings in the first place. This is just yet another deceit and attempt by the dark force to lure people into illusory realities.

• Believes that we have, or will gain, more than two strands of DNA in our chromosomes, at least 'etherically' (i.e. non-physically).
  

  This 'New Age' myth, which comes in a number of variants, is generally associated with 'ascension' or 'full consciousness' scenarios, and comes to us from the dark force.

• Gives any credence to, or is at all fascinated by, the Moon Matrix conspiracy theory.
  

  This is another of the multitude of 'New Age' myths, giving a completely spurious and paranoid explanation of what I unequivocally ascribe to illusions and other interference manifestations caused by the dark force. It takes very seriously ungrounded people to get believing that the Moon is actually some sort of spaceship being used as a base for unwholesome races of extra-terrestrials to take control over us. You only have to look at the Moon yourself with a suitable telescope in a grounded state of mind to see that it is basically a very old perfectly natural rock object, and cannot be reasonably identified as either a spaceship or as a green (or Gruyère) cheese! Accusing NASA of a cover-up about the true nature of the Moon is a sure sign of a person's awareness being hopelessly ungrounded and the person being seriously attached to particular illusory realities and out of touch with the much healthier and happier reality of 'What Is'.
  

• Has anything to do with, or believes in the efficacy of, healings to repattern or reprogram people's DNA - whether the supposed healings are from a person or supposed higher beings.
  

  This is all part of the dark force sourced fictitious 'ascension' and 'full consciousness' scenarios. In fact there are considerable limits even to the extent that straight repair of one's DNA can occur in genuine healings. In any case, in the most effective and genuine healings - those from one's core essence and not any supposed external energies or entities - there is NEVER any cause for one to concern oneself with DNA. Fundamental consciousness, which is the source of such healings, carries out whatever work is needed, and which is for the deepest and ultimate good of all involved, and thus there is no need or cause to concern oneself with specifics of the healing work.
  Warning: Some such healings will most likely fall into the next category...

• Has anything to do with or believes in the efficacy of DNA activation 'healings'.
  

  Red warning! My understanding is that such sessions are not at all what they're made out to be, and they would tend to be the occasion of people being unawarely made part of the postulated cacoprotean network, and so effectively unwittingly becoming part of the dark force. In general, any people who offer such sessions are already members of that network and thus, normally unawarely, are already part of the dark force.
  Even if I haven't got it exactly right about the cacoprotean network, my clear understanding is that there is still something seriously untoward about those 'DNA activation' healings or sessions, and participants would tend to pick up serious problems of some sort from them.
  

• Smokes, drinks alcohol or takes any other mind affecting or 'recreational' drug.
  

  For small, occasional use of alcohol the dark force involvement may be less, but it is still there. Also, even the taking of caffeine-containing beverages and also chocolate ALL involve dark force connivance, even if at a lower level than, say, with smoking or alcohol. Many people insist, for example, that they drink "only moderately and occasionally" or "only a little now and then", meaning to imply that whatever they take is okay, but I emphasize that NONE of that is benign with regard to dark force involvement, and the only way to relate to all such substances and to get completely 'dark force free' is to keep clear of them ALL, COMPLETELY. If you hanker after even just that occasional drink or smoke or piece of chocolate, then that is a problem that needs resolving, because that 'want' has nothing at all to do with needs or what is for your deepest and ultimate good.
  

  So, any teacher or healer who is not fully free from use of ALL such substances (yes, even their cups of caffeine-containing tea or coffee) still has some degree of dark force involvement and is setting an unhelpful example for everyone - though of course that may be interpreted as simply 'bridging gaps' to make him/herself more accessible to ordinary people. There is no 'right' or 'wrong' about this; I'm just pointing to cause and effect.
  

• Has taboos (any at all).
  

  ALL taboos, never mind how socially acceptable, are of 'the dark side'. I find that many people who believe themselves to have open and 'enlightened' outlooks, supposedly free of taboo, still get hot under the collar or at least uptight and disapproving about paedophilia and various other problematical sexual attractions or behaviours, and even about such trivia as people farting.
  

  I'm not suggesting for a moment, for example, that a person free of dark force influence would be 'effing and blinding' all over the place, for such a person would be aware and sensitive about his use of all language and its effects on other people. Likewise such a person, through not having a taboo about paedophilia, would NOT be therefore a paedophile, nor be condoning of paedophile behaviour, but simply wouldn't go into judgement and condemnation on the issue, and would relate with each situation in the most positive and constructive way possible. Taboos ALWAYS stand in the way of usefully addressing issues.

  I count among taboos the belief among many healers that healings mustn't be carried out without the permission of the prospective recipient. I write about this taboo in detail in Healing - Some Myths Exposed. I describe the belief as a taboo because of the rigid and judgemental responses I've observed amongst healers towards any hint of anyone giving healing without some sort of permission having been given, at least tacitly.

• 'Reads' from, uses or gives any serious credence to the Akashic Records.
  

  Because everything that exists or happens or has ever existed or happened is within fundamental consciousness, the latter contains a 'memory' of every detail of that. However, just as nobody (that I know of) is yet able to get clear, undistorted direct communication from fundamental consciousness (the deepest level of their own core essence), so also, nobody is able to read or retrieve information directly from that 'fundamental memory'. So - yes, you've guessed it! - what people call the Akashic Records is actually the distorted, garbled, agenda-laden pickings from the 'fundamental memory' presented to the person by the dark force, which is mindlessly occupying itself with control and domination of that person and all other people. Use of the 'Akashic Records', thus, is just a particular case of channelling (whether or not the person is aware of receiving communications from external beings or entities), with all the problems that that entails.

• Has a background or training in a religious, esoteric, mystical or spiritual tradition, without having openly repudiated, or distanced him/herself from, its teachings.
• Belongs to, or believes (s)he belongs to, an organization supposedly for the betterment of Humanity, which supposedly includes or is directed or led by one or more non-physical or extra-terrestrial beings.
  

  The so-called Brotherhood of Light, Galactic Brotherhood of Light and Galactic Federation of Light are included here, and are extremely harmful inventions of the dark force based on particular illusions that the dark force creates in certain people's minds. The 'lightworker' who supplied my (extremely harmful) sacred geometry wands told me in 2003 that he's a member of the Galactic Brotherhood of Light. ALL such organizations would be 'fronts' of the postulated cacoprotean network - but, whether or not the latter really exists, those purported organizations are all guiding people into (usually unwittingly) working for the dark force and doing all manner of actually extremely harmful things, even though their conscious intent may be wholly positive, with no idea at all that what they are doing a lot of the time is at best highly problematical.
  

  As far as I've been able to ascertain, all the manifestations of extra-terrestrials that people have been experiencing as supposed proof of existence and validity of the abovementioned organizations have been astral realm experiences, sometimes augmented by the production of particular elementals, as I explain further above and in Illusory Realities and Human Irrationality.
  

  In the case of the Galactic Federation of Light, much is being made of their purported imminent 'disclosure' to people on Earth - but to the best of my understanding this would be only a whole lot of (maybe co-ordinated) astral realm experiences, much facilitated by all the build-up and hype that is being put across by Galactic Federation devotees and enthusiasts. Thus such 'disclosure', although it would be taken as 'proof' to those who want to believe, would actually not prove the existence of anything - apart, possibly, from astral realm experiences!
  

• Has any connection with or belief in the supposed Network of Light around the planet, or any similar scenario such as the 'River of Light Consciousness Stream'.
  

  The Network of Light is part of an alleged plan by supposed higher beings to "raise the vibration rate of human consciousness" for the sake of (depending on who you listen to) assisting humans to reach 'full consciousness' and an enlightened civilization here on Earth, or to bring us all to 'ascension' into the supposed 5th dimension. Even before you look any closer, there is a clear sign of dark force agenda here, for, according to that scenario (i.e. story) we are all being manipulated according to a plan imposed upon us from 'above', which is outside our control. That is very much the hallmark of the dark force agenda.
  

  One of the definite patterns in the dark force sourced deceptions that we are given is that what is being called 'raising the vibration rate' of a person or of 'Humanity' is NOT bringing them towards true enlightenment and self actualization but instead is getting them more ungrounded so that they are more open to the dark force illusion and whatever deceptions the dark force plies them with.

  Thus, if this Network of Light actually existed (my own 'reading' is that it doesn't except in various poorly grounded people's unaware astral replicas of the Earth system), it would be an instrument of disaster for the human race, not 'salvation'.

  The River of Light Consciousness Stream is a similar sort of thing, promoted worldwide by a particular 'lightworker' / guru, and allegedly administered by a whole assemblage (I'm inclined to say 'menagerie') of purported higher beings with impressively exotic-sounding (dark force sourced) names. It is a tremendous means for people to go ungrounding themselves on a grand scale, simultaneously ensnaring themselves nicely in one of the plethora of dark force sourced illusory realities so that their 'downward' path of degradation over many soul reincarnations is virtually assured. There are no doubt various other variants of this theme.

  Both these networks are would be 'fronts' of the postulated cacoprotean network.

• Has anything to do with the practice of DarshOm (also called Darsh-Om and Darshan)
  

  DarshOm is the practice of supposedly giving healing to people, usually en masse (and sometimes over the Internet), just through their setting eyes upon or touching the particular healer or a picture of him/her or indeed a picture of a part of him/her such as the palm side of his/her hand. As part of this practice the healer may deliver a 'blessing' to the people.
  

  Although I think quite a number of prominent healers / teachers use this practice, the ones I know of at the moment are Sai Baba, Mother Meera and Mellen-Thomas Benedict. They are all in serious personal trouble through their dark force led outlooks and practices, presumably without recognising the fact.

  I somehow doubt whether the historical Jesus would have sanctioned the 'institutionalized DarshOm' that the various branches of Christianity and related religions have been practising over the centuries right up to the present time, and which is so strongly (but I suspect fictitiously) depicted in the biblical accounts of Jesus.

  To what extent any real healing is given by that practice, rather than people just opening to their own self healing through their belief that they would be healed as a result of the DarshOm, I'm not clear - but nonetheless, DarshOm is basically of 'the dark side', in that it is a potent means of disempowering everyone who receives DarshOm (causing them to look up to and even depend on the healer instead of getting on with their own self actualization) - and it feeds the distorted, dark force influenced outlook of the particular healer, which sees him/herself as a great healer (/teacher) rather than getting on with the real task of all such people, which is to empower people for their most efficient and direct self healing and self actualization - much as I'm nowadays doing.

  A person who is not significantly dark force led would not consider involvement with such a disempowering and outlook-distorting practice as DarshOm.

• Gives blessings.
  

  Although blessings may be given as part of DarshOm, many healers and spiritual teachers and indeed religious clerics - including the Pope - give blessings in various forms without an explicit DarshOm context - though if you look with more awareness at these situations you would see that in many cases there is at least an implicit DarshOm element in the proceedings. The one thing all blessings have in common is their dark force connection, and their disempowering effect upon all who receive them. Indeed, the giving of blessings generally has the same negative effects and significance as DarshOm - albeit generally on a lesser scale.
  

  I repeat my point here - people who carry on in any way like the Pope and these other healers / teachers or leaders (the latter being neither healers nor teachers in any useful sense) are in deep personal trouble through all their dark force connections and involvements, presumably without having any idea that this is the case.

  N.B. Once one lets go of the harmful practice of giving blessings, there are a thousand and one different alternative ways in which one can instead deliver some truly positive and inspiring 'energy' or 'message' that would be empowering rather than disempowering, and which would be at least a small encouragement towards people's own self actualization.

• Attaches any importance to ley lines or any other supposed Earth energy lines or 'energy points'.
  

  These, like other non-physical 'realities', are inventions of the dark force. For many people they do appear to exist and exert influences upon them and upon any dowsing equipment, but this is all a measure of the extent to which the dark force is interfering with those people and ensnaring them in an illusory reality. As with other dark force sourced illusory realities, the purpose behind the energy lines / energy points scenario is extremely problematical.
  

  The more people involve themselves with or even just believe in that 'reality', the more they are actually being inveigled into an illusory reality that is an astral replica of Earth, in which people use those so-called Earth energies in order to wield 'special powers' under control of the ordinary mind or ego, and sorcery and magic (including black magic) are rife - an extremely unhealthy situation in which the people are well and truly ensnared by the dark force and established on their long journey through many soul incarnations towards becoming parasitic 'lost' souls themselves - totally controlled then by the dark force and with hardly a glimmer of human awareness left.

  A fair number of people (usually ones who regard themselves as lightworkers) actually believe that those energy lines are a vital part of the Earth system, and take part in some sort of plan, guided 'from above', to maintain, repair and at times restructure the supposed energy line system, purportedly for the purpose of assisting Humanity towards either 'full consciousness' or 'ascension'. These people are in really deep trouble because of the extent of their involvement in that illusory reality and indeed with the dark force in general. Their 'guidance' is all from the dark force, which would be bound in time become their almost complete controllers.

• Has a shaved or closely cropped or long hairstyle (men) or spiky hairstyle, or dreadlocks.
  

  At the moment I don't know the full significance of the spiky or shaved hairstyle phenomena, except that apparently this is a bit of dark force agenda and indicates the person's attachment to some sort of 'spiritual' illusory reality. Shaving off all your hair is an unnatural thing to do, and, while that doesn't in itself make it 'wrong', my understanding is that it is a weakening and ungrounding thing to do - hence its commonly being encouraged by people's dark force interference to make them more open and vulnerable to the dark force and its illusory realities. People commonly mistakenly equate the resultant weakening of grounding with becoming more 'spiritual'. Thus it is normal for people in monastic orders (hotbeds of dark force sourced control agenda) to have their hair shaved off.
  

  The issue of significantly long hairstyles for men isn't so cut and dried (ouch!), but generally is associated with having a 'New Age' or paganistic outlook, and so in that respect it is usually a sign of serious dark force involvement (and including use of drugs such as cannabis).

  Very spiky hairstyles, on the other hand, are immediate indicators of the person having a very serious problem indeed (including a big streak of violence in their system), and even very modestly spiky hairstyles (as have been very fashionable in recent years among supposedly 'ordinary' people) are strongly problematical and indicative of dark force interference. All spiky hairstyles are ungrounding and have a slight but distinct disrupting and weakening effect on the person's energy system and even to some extent on that of anyone else who comes at all physically close to the spiky-haired person. That weakening increases one's vulnerability to the dark force.

  Dreadlocks tremendously muck up the person's energy system, more particularly in the so-called 'white' cultures, so making the person much less healthy in the long term and much more open and vulnerable to the dark force, and so naturally nobody would have such a hair 'style' if they were not under the control of some negative force to start with. I can feel strong harmful energy effects even upon myself from anyone with dreadlocks coming close to me - though I'm not fully clear as to whether it is the dreadlocks themselves that are doing that or some entity or 'foreign' energy attached to the person, which is associated with the dreadlocks.

  I appreciate that my saying the above would immediately elicit accusing cries from certain quarters that I'm clearly a racist. However, the truth here is that dreadlocks have NOTHING to do with race. They are a product of nothing more than, at most, cultural tradition (and cult fashion among various non-'black' people), not race. And, anyway, where has that particular cultural tradition come from? -- According to my current understanding, it is, once again, the dark force, which is all the time seeking more control over people - both directly and through weakening them so that they are maximally configured away from genuine self actualization. No culture that I'm aware of is anything like free from dark force influences.
  

• Has tattoos, or any sort of body piercing that is not medically necessary - even for ear rings.
  

  It has amazed me to see that a high proportion of people - especially those with extensive tattooing - have tattooed designs that closely resemble various night hell (aka night terror) visuals - though a lot of their virulence is lost through their being static images instead of the writhing maelstroms of actual night hell visuals, and of course also without the attacks of intense fear-related emotions that you get in a night hell experience. The nature of such designs would pretty well certainly have a very strong dark force connecting effect for the people carrying those designs, in addition to the intrinsic weakening and dark force connecting effects of having tattoos of any description.

• Wears body ornaments, such as ear rings (with or without piercing of the ear lobes), a pendant, any sort of bracelet or bangle, or any other personal ornament - indeed any object(s) not required for a specific beneficial practical purpose.
  

  Using such objects to make some statement to others about yourself does not count as a beneficial practical purpose and merely shows that you are posing to other people and seeking to hide yourself as you really are - a sure sign of dark force interference. Generally speaking, such objects are all more or less weakening to the wearer's non-physical aspects - some considerably so.

• Wears make-up, or clothing that is gender- or stereotype-specific or intended to put across some message about oneself without regard to its suitability in terms of function.
  

  Make-up may be extremely socially acceptable (indeed almost socially demanded!) for women, but nonetheless it is all about people hiding behind some sort of defensive front or stereotype - a denial of one's own authenticity. That inevitably aligns one with the dark force, which seeks to control everyone into abandoning their authenticity and opting for 'appropriateness' instead. Regarding clothing, at least in Western cultures a particularly high proportion of articles of women's clothing, including footwear, come into this category.

• Believes in the concept of the 'twin flame' or any sort of personal destiny of individuals to come together with a specific 'soul mate'.
  

  The twin flame is very much a New Age concept, but, even leaving this aside, any sort of higher plan or destiny for a person to come together with another specific person, whether 'in love' or indeed for some negative interaction, can be seen to be sourced from the dark force for two particular reasons:
  

  • It is brazenly interfering with free choice, imposing a control agenda to make people just puppets of the controlling forces;
  • It is aimed at getting people fixated on the notion that the ultimate relationship for themselves (a) is in the future and isn't right now, and (b) would be with an external being and not with themselves (and thus with 'the Ultimate'). That points people right away from self actualization and true freedom.

I shall undoubtedly add some further entries to the above list from time to time, but please note that I am not trying to make it an exhaustive list, so some people will be showing various dark force influence indicators that are not included above.

How high does your favourite teacher / guru score on this list?

I know of no teacher, healer or 'lightworker' who is clear of dark force interference / influence, so ALL of them who I know of would get a positive score from the above list - in many cases a very high score, even for various individuals who are very highly reputed.

However, my aim here is not to go guru-bashing. This isn't about personalities per se and also isn't about being negative. It's simply a matter of using clarity to see what is really going on. Only then can we start properly addressing the issue of the pervasiveness of dark force influence in our lives and in all healing and spiritual traditions / paths.

The people who score significantly on the above list are not bad, but are in various degrees of trouble (usually without realizing it) - as indeed you yourself are to some extent if you have not yet cleared yourself of all dark force interference. There is no moral high ground here. My aim is not to frighten, for actually there is nothing to be frightened of. Things are simply as they are. However, most people do see plenty in the world at large as well as in themselves that they want to undergo positive change, and I'm pointing out an important aspect of what needs to be changed in order for human life generally to become happy and positive.

Do you see yourself as being implicated in the above list as having one or more significant problems with unaware dark force involvement?
If so, seriously, you needn't be dismayed, nor seek to 'shoot the messenger', nor jump off a parapet, but indeed you can take heart! That is NOT bad news! It is actually tremendous news - because now at last you have the opportunity to face the issue and get resolving it. That means that, far from your life suddenly being marred or 'ruined' by starting to see how distorted and stunted it has been so far, you have the opportunity to start a great upturning and opening up of your life, bringing yourself levels of happiness and inner freedom that you'd never known before (never mind how 'advanced' you and others had been believing you were) - and you can make that start not some pie-in-the-sky time in the future but right now. Here's as good a starting point as any (provided you follow up that page's various links): The Guide to Complete Self Actualization.

Is it really necessary to avoid all teachers of any sort because they show some signs of dark force influence?

I would say, not necessarily. Clarity and discernment are required, though. The point is, if you're wanting an ongoing teacher or guru, then you're off course anyway and would do much better to clear yourself of that perceived want, which itself is unhealthy and 'of the dark side'. To clear a belief like that, you can use The Work, or better, a combination of appropriate methods that I list in Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way (note especially the Grounding Post procedure).

Put it this way. I myself took up tremendous life improvement practices from Stephen and Lynda Kane, but do not regard them as any sort of ongoing gurus for me or anyone, however they regard themselves. They simply provided me with excellent means to get on with rapid self actualization on my own - which I myself have further developed and added to, to produce a much more comprehensively effective and dark force free methodology. Indeed, Stephen and Lynda, like any 'teachers', are into their own version of 'spirituality, and which is claimed to be quite a prominent feature in their more 'advanced' workshops - and thus they present a lot that actually needs to be discarded or 'filtered out' if you are serious about self actualization and clearance of dark force interferences.

But I do not then dismiss them - I simply keep vigilant and discerning as to what I'm prepared to take on myself, and be very open to amending any method or practice according to what my own energy testing and experience indicates to be beneficial, and generally to build upon what I have gained from them (as well as other sources). Thus I'm not taking anything on uncritically as a tradition or ritual or a guru's teachings, but instead am taking on particular methods as a basis for creating my own individually tailored self actualization methodology. That is the real way to learn and gain from people with special knowledge / experience - not to go hanging on their words, nor to depend on them in any other (at least ongoing) way.

On the other hand, if you are looking to another person to give you healing sessions to resolve an issue or generally bring you forward in your self actualization, then, as I have come to recognise from my own hard experience, you are in trouble, because:

• That whole mindset of requiring a person to 'heal' you rather than your healing yourself is disempowering for you and pointing you away from true self actualization (even though it may make you feel 'better' for a time);

• Healers and 'lightworkers' who operate like that and give healing sessions are themselves being interfered with and to varying extents controlled by the dark force, and in many cases are (usually totally unawarely) putting implants into the recipients' energy systems, which are designed to make them much more vulnerable to the dark force (whether openly or covertly). I know of four highly reputed and supposedly accomplished healers and 'lightworkers' who apparently put seriously harmful implants into my own energy system, thus exacerbating my problems with the dark force. Two of them were actually awarely putting in implants, which they believed were healing implants that would dissolve over a week or so, whereas some of those were actually relatively permanent (until cleared) and significantly harmful, weakening my energy system and increasing my vulnerability to the dark force. One of those two healers had shown the other how to create such implants. I may well yet discover that other individuals who'd given me healing sessions had also left me with harmful implants.

You have been warned!

I expect periodically to update and add to this page.