Exit 'Spirituality' - Enter 'Clear-mindedness'
-- An Important Explanation About This Site

Until early October 2007 this site's title was Self Realization & Spirituality. Nothing wrong about 'Spirituality', you might well think. Evidently I had been thinking so too - otherwise I would not have used that title in the first place!

However, Have you ever paused to get asking the core of your own consciousness - your own deepest aspects - questions about the nature of what everyone is calling 'spirituality', and why, if 'spirituality' is so widespread, it is still the case that vanishingly few people actually become enlightened, let alone anything like optimally self realized / self actualized? -- And also, why it is that in EVERY spiritual tradition, if you look with real clarity you see that power hierarchies and control agendas on the one hand and beliefs / illusory realities on the other are always involved, even if they are relatively subtle?

Even if you have got questioning yourself so, unless you were very exceptionally advanced in your self actualization process - and well beyond just crossing the enlightenment threshold - it would not be your own deepest essence whose answers you would hear, for any answers from that source would not be 'heard' directly but would be relayed to you in adulterated form by the dark force (often thought of as astral or 'dark' entities or indeed even demons, but also actually presenting itself as guides, ascended masters, angels and any other type of supposed 'higher being'). The dark force has a seriously harmful agenda for all humans, and it is unrelentingly seeking to lure and divert people away from simple, direct self actualization and to prevent them from 'going home' ('recombining with Source')* when they die, for a very troublesome reason that I explain on various of my pages of original writings but particularly in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.

* These are commonly used expressions, but it is necessary for me to emphasize that I myself am using those expressions only in a figurative sense, for actually when a person dies healthily, 'as Nature intended', without dark force interference, the consciousness does NOT go anywhere at all, because it has no physical location in the first place. Rather, its experience of Earthly or physical life simply dissolves, and it reverts to its more or less non-dual state as a micro-aspect of fundamental consciousness (also known as universal consciousness). My preferred expression for what happens in a fully healthy death is that the person reverts to fundamental consciousness.

The major point here is that I myself have been asking myself these questions - and at a time when circumstances have directed me to be clearing out all my old interferences and influences from the dark force (the so-called 'dark side') in a way and to an extent that few people indeed are doing. This has resulted in all manner of new insights coming to me, at last clear of the almost universal confusions that the dark force has brought to people through the dark force sourced concept of 'spirituality'.

Indeed, at the beginning of 1997, when I had gained what I am calling fundamental clarity (i.e. I had "crossed the threshold of enlightenment" in more normal but also less appropriate terminology) and subsequently started getting into healing activities, at once I found myself continually being slightly bugged by an apparent schism or discrepancy between the following viewpoints that I had been holding onto:

• My innate, natural perception of reality through that fundamental clarity ('enlightened state') of mine, which perceived all experience as arising from naked awareness or fundamental consciousness (with no discernible levels of supposed higher reality interposed between my physical experiences and fundamental consciousness itself), and no 'story' concerning any supposed past lives of mine. I was simply 'the Ultimate' or at least an aspect of it.
• The supposed higher realities that were almost universally being postulated by healers and people in mystical traditions, even though they appeared to overlap with my view in an intellectual way in thinking that 'we are all Spirit [or God]'. Clearly none of these people was actually enlightened and therefore they could not have been perceiving things in the way that I was.

Now, because I am getting my awareness so much more grounded, I can see clearly what that schism represented, and have cut right through my fairly long-standing confusion over that, to arrive at unequivocal clear-mindedness, having jettisoned so-called 'spirituality' altogether without in any way having become more materialistic. Now I see, more clearly than ever before, why it was that I gained my fundamental clarity ('became enlightened') so easily and naturally. It was not "in spite of" my not having been on a spiritual 'path', as I had been half-believing, but, in good part, because I had not been on one!

Now I shall explain...

Why 'self realization' / 'self actualization'?

Much is made of spirituality in a plethora of varieties and 'paths' in cultures and traditions throughout the world - but one thing all those versions and paths of so-called spirituality are universally not directly focused upon is simple and direct self actualization or self realization*. Indeed, most spiritual traditions actively take your focus away from it and, if they acknowledge such a need at all, they hold it away from you and put a lengthy and usually convoluted 'path' in front of you to supposedly 'get there' (but somehow hardly anyone does 'get there'). It is treated as some sort of 'Holy Grail' that, if you follow your 'path' with sufficient diligence (and, I would be inclined to add, long-sufferingness), you might sometime in the future actually attain.

* As I explain in various locations on this site, I use these two terms interchangeably. They both have their respective different unfortunate connotations because of the way they are used in particular traditions or disciplines, but they both fundamentally mean the same thing.

Self actualization is simply the uncovering and unobscuring of your true, deepest nature, which is a 'part' (or, more correctly, a micro-aspect) of the all-pervading consciousness of which we are all manifestations (what I call fundamental consciousness, so as to be as unambiguous as possible), so that you then function in a full and undistorted way as a manifestation of that all-pervading fundamental consciousness ('the Ultimate'), and live a life of vibrant awareness, happiness, love, positivity, free choice and a resulting great flexibility.

Like that you are in a state of total clear-mindedness, and there is no concept of 'spirituality', for you perceive that things are simply as they are and you yourself are simply as you are. When you are functioning in that sort of way, when you die your earthly experience ceases, but you persist as a unique micro-aspect of the all-pervading fundamental consciousness, and are in a state of harmony and awareness, with further, non-sequential, non-karmic, incarnations (what I call no-soul incarnations) being possible.

Self actualization incorporates (but is more than) what is widely known as enlightenment - the recognition, through direct perception, of your deepest, non-dual, levels of consciousness as being your true nature and identity. Self actualization is a simple process that requires no ritual and no beliefs (and indeed would be obstructed or completely stopped by them), but does require consistent clearance of the issues that prevent you from functioning as a full and undistorted manifestation of your true, deepest nature, which, as I have indicated, is effectively 'the Ultimate'.

On this site I am in the process of showing just how direct and simple that process is - especially when you keep your focus on clear-mindedness and don not get lured and sidetracked by the 'spirituality' phenomenon.

The trouble with 'spirituality'

The very notion of 'spirituality' or 'spirit' implies movement - spatial movement. Implicit in spatial movement is separateness. The force of delusion, power / control agendas, fear and negativity (commonly referred to as the dark forces, plural, but actually the dark force, singular, if my own understanding is correct), brought in the concepts of 'spirituality' and 'spirit' as a potent device to ensnare and sidetrack everyone who has aspirations for self actualization, so as to bring the people progressively more under its control and domination. 

The dark force interferes with us ALL, usually covertly, using all manner of deceits, ploys and lures, to get us perceiving our life experience in terms of separation - specifically, separation from fundamental consciousness, which latter is actually our own deepest aspect and true nature. And so the dark force has covertly manipulated or controlled people into setting up countless religions and 'spiritual' paths in which people's true deepest aspect is misinterpreted as something separate from oneself. In many cases it is deified in a gross and really quite materialistic way as 'God' or equivalent, as in many religions, while in others various much more subtle and 'sneaky' deceptions are used. In the more mystical traditions it is normal to regard us all as being 'Spirit' (or some equivalent name, which in some cases is 'God', so nicely confusing people).

The all-pervading fundamental consciousness has thus been (mis)interpreted as Spirit (or God), which implies something that can move about and indeed think and speak to you. In fact, whatever that 'Spirit' or 'God' is (if indeed it existed), it would be something less than 'the Ultimate', which fundamental consciousness is (i.e. as far as anyone can tell), because the latter is all-pervading and so there is no sense of movement and the implied separation. It is thus not 'spirit' nor 'Spirit' nor 'God', in any actually used sense of the word.

Once you have lost or distorted the perception of yourself as being actually fundamental consciousness itself, and have at least an implicit sense of separateness from it, you have lost your direction for true self actualization, and then you find yourself following one of the myriad variations of 'spiritual path' that the dark force has put into people's minds to follow. Along with a sense of separation comes power and control agendas. In religions these agendas are usually very obvious, but in the more mystical or apparently purer spiritual  traditions and 'paths' the control agendas tend to manifest more subtly, such as in the use of rituals, initiations / attunements, mantra chanting, use of esoteric symbols, treating particular objects, people or locations as sacred, prescribing particular ways of going about your life or indeed of following your 'spiritual path'. Indeed, The very concept of a 'spiritual path' or 'spiritual journey' incorporates a sense of separation and obfuscates the simple fact that self actualization is right here, in the 'now'.

On other pages on this site I expand on this scenario, but the important point I am making here is that the dark force has been covertly manipulating everyone who has at least underlying self actualization aspirations into 'spirituality' in its countless forms, for the purpose of taking them away from their true self actualization - away from true clear-mindedness, and away from what we really need to happen when we die. So, in a nutshell, The whole concept of spirituality is actually given to us by the dark force to divert us from the self actualization and clear-mindedness that is our true natural, and thus 'right', way to be living.

In The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks I describe how the dark force is interfering with us and how we can get clear of its interference and influence, and in The Guide to Complete Self Actualization and the related pages linked to therein I point readers towards a direct and indeed clear-minded strategy and methodology for self actualization. As will become clear (sic) if you read the relevant pages, my insights relating to these matters are not a matter of belief, but stem from hard personal experience. It is not just from the hardships that the dark force inflicted upon me, but more particularly from my experiences of progressively clearing out its influence that I have been able to gain such deep and challenging insights.

The great hoo-hah in Sudan in November 2007 all because somebody perfectly innocently called a teddy bear Muhammad - the same name that many Muslims very happily bestow upon their male offspring - is symptomatic of the agenda of the dark force, in throwing all love, all reason, out of the window, and controlling humans into the most debased and inhuman outlooks and behaviours in which power, control, confused thinking and living on the basis of rigid rules is everything and love is distorted out of all recognition.

According to the logic of those strict Muslims, we might as well all have the person who called that teddy bear Muhammad sent to some delectable form of death because the very concept of the teddy bear has been insulted by calling one of them by the name of a messenger of the dark force, which Muhammad was, just like ALL other so-called prophets - as evidenced by the brazen rantings of power / control agenda that fill the primary scripture of the religion that followed on from him (yes, I have read it - a stomach-churning, horrifying experience!).

The red herring of 'no-self'

One of the particularly sneaky and troublesome distortions of the actual situation, which comes to us particularly from the various Eastern religions and 'spiritual' traditions, is the notion that in order for you to become enlightened and especially fully self realized / self actualized, you need to relinquish all sense of 'self' in your life experience. According to that sort of outlook, you are supposed to be striving towards a rarefied and much sought after (or indeed feared!) state of 'no-self'.

Yes, it is true that almost everyone has a deluded sense of 'self' that they do need to let go of (or, more realistically, progressively dissolve), but it is the delusions and attachment that need clearing - NOT the sense of 'self' in itself (i.e. the sense of one's having an intrinsic uniqueness). In other words your sense of your own uniqueness and your own abundance and variety of experiences in your own unique combination, and experienced from your own unique viewpoint, is very much at the core of your whole raison d'être / purpose of incarnation in the first place. To seek to minimize that is actually to point right away from genuine self actualization and into subtle illusory realities and indeed astral realms in which people believe that they have achieved 'no-self' (assumed by them to reflect a sort of terminal self realization), actually through a process of self denial, and are actually thus covertly ensnared by the dark force - and also are failing miserably with regard to their underlying primary life purpose.

The delusions of 'self' include everything that makes up one's self image - except for actual physical observations of genuinely positive aspects of one's functioning. A cherished or cultivated self image is necessarily a false image, so that one poses to everyone with a false ID. It is thus intrinsically a deception, a dishonesty. The only thing you can (sort of) know about yourself is that you are what you are - whatever that is. But the catch is that there is no means by which you can ever genuinely know 'what that is' - i.e. actually what you are! You can only know what you appear to be, or what is helpful for you to assume that you are (i.e. for practical purposes), neither of which are at all the same as what you actually are. The nearest that I have been able to get towards knowing what I am or anyone is, is described in On the Nature of Reality and Truth - but even that view is still conceptual and thus within 'relative truth', and so is still about how things appear to be, rather than how they actually are (which latter we have no means of knowing - i.e. as far as I can tell! ).

It is thus genuinely a crucial part of our self actualization process, to let go of all attachment to or cherishing of a self image, but it is actually equally important to cultivate our genuine underlying sense of 'self' - i.e. our awareness of our own uniqueness and abundance - but without actually getting attached to anything. It is a matter of observing clearly and being completely open minded and clear-thinking about yourself and how you interact with your (apparent) surroundings.

Some would claim that the latter approach requires a very great humility, but I would take issue on that. Yes, in one sense it could be seen as involving humility, in the eschewing of 'ego' - the attachment to some sort of self image - BUT it also involves uncompromising self honesty, and that involves standing one's full height and being prepared to speak out at times with uncomfortable or at least challenging 'truths', which paradoxically then get one accused of being arrogant and having an enormous ego. That is, indeed, what has been tending to happen for me. Basically, if we are serious about our own self actualization process we need to let go of such concepts as humility, pride, modesty and 'ego', and simply be open-minded, clear-thinking, well focused observers of all that we experience, and to dissolve attachments as we come to notice them - and always to stand our full height, in every meaning of that expression. (er, well, perhaps not actually physically if you are on top of a mountain in a thunderstorm! )

The red herring of choosing a 'right hand path' or 'path of the Light'

It may bring some people up with a bit of a wrench for me to say it, but I myself am NOT following a figurative 'right hand path' or 'path of the Light' at all! However, before you throw up your hands in horror, let's make it clear that neither am I following a 'left hand path' or 'path of the Dark (or of Satan)' at all. These polarities of non-physical or metaphysical left / right and dark / light all come to us from the dark force for the purpose of keeping us diverted well away from simply tuning into our own deeper levels and living as manifestations of fundamental consciousness. You do not need, and are far better off without, a 'path' for that - for the very notion of being on a 'path' or 'journey' helps keep you from the 'simply being' of genuine self actualization, and leads you by one means or another into the clutches of the dark force.

It appears that Satanists typically dismiss those who are on what they call a 'right hand path' as living impoverished lives*, just because the latter people are not indulging in the massive convolutions of awfulness and (often) depravity and suffering that the Satanists' or other 'magic' practitioners' own lifestyles bring about. However, even those who are on so-called 'right hand paths' or 'paths of the Light' (i.e. what most people would call 'spiritual paths') are themselves in a captivity of the dark force, albeit a much more covert and maybe subtle captivity -  believing that they are heading for some sort of self actualization, when actually they are keeping themselves firmly away from the real thing.

* This is strongly reminiscent of the drug addict who seeks to convince himself and others that people without that addiction and all the problems it causes in one's life are themselves living impoverished lives, and he is the real wise one who is living a full life.

When I myself cut caffeine out of my life, it was amazing what other people (all caffeine addicts, though few would ever admit to their addiction) came out with when I refused offers of a cup of tea or coffee. "What on earth will you drink, then?", was the most common amazed and mystified protesting response, as though anything without caffeine, including plain water, was poisonous. I even had the odd individual protest that "You can't drink water, because it's got lots of fluoride in it!" - a real 'own goal', because tea itself actually contains some fluoride and so adds to any that may be in the drinking water from which the tea is made.

What all these silly people were unable to recognise, because of their addiction, was that once you cut out your addiction you open the doorway to all sorts of much more healthy and enjoyable things that the addiction was keeping you away from. Thus in my case, once I stopped abusing myself by taking caffeine-containing beverages I could then enjoy drinking a wide range and variety of other beverages such as the so-called herbal teas (i.e. non-tea infusions, not different varieties of actual tea).

And just look through all five of my websites to get some idea of the abundance and freedom of my own life and lifestyle, and then ask yourself how much of all that abundance and variety I would have had if I had the almost universal addiction to watching the television. Indeed, not having a TV at all in my flat means that I have a great deal of time to get on with properly living my own life, and I have that extra bit of space in my flat for other, healthier, uses - so my lack of a TV actually represents in meaningful terms a big gain rather than a lack as compared with almost everyone else.

Thus an important aspect of coming out of any addiction, fixation or attachment is to recognise that when you let go of it you are not just 'giving it up' and thereafter living an impoverished life without something you were enjoying, but rather, you need to see the addiction as something of a ball-and-chain that you have managed to get free from, so that you have more freedom and can live a more varied and abundant life.

So, the real choice is not between 'left' or 'right', nor between 'dark' and 'light' but between (a) following a 'path' (whether 'dark' or 'light'), which necessarily incorporates the following of rules and taking on board illusory realities, and cultivates the occlusion of one's deepest awareness, and one's at least ultimate captivity at the hands of the dark force, and (b) opening to the simplicity of your own deepest aspects, the core of which is fundamental consciousness or 'What Is' itself, and gaining the freedom and happiness of having the deepest and broadest possible awareness, and becoming immune to all attempts by the dark force to bring you under its control.

Clear-mindedness - the (simple) way forward

The whole concept of clear-mindedness ties up in all manner of ways with straightforward manifestation of yourself as fundamental consciousness incarnate. You do not have to wait till you are optimally self actualized in order to start using and experiencing at least a basic level of clear-mindedness - you can start right now. If you go to The Complete Guide to Self Actualization, and follow that through also to Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way and other relevant pages that they link to, you have a succinct and potent set of pointers for speedy and direct self actualization, all based on clear-mindedness.

When you cultivate and open up your awareness in a well grounded manner, without beliefs, preconceptions and dark force sourced preoccupations or influences, then you are operating at least in some degree in clear minded mode. Paradoxically, on the one hand, through cultivating and increasing your grounding (i.e. your connectedness with the physical level of reality or consciousness) you progressively increase your manifestation of your true nature - 'the Ultimate', while on the other hand, if you seek to cultivate 'higher' awareness you progressively further open yourself to the astral sub-reality and all its problems, while actually obstructing any opening to your deepest aspects and core essence. So, if you try to point 'high', you get 'low' (which usually pretends to be 'high' or even 'Divine'), and if you get connecting really well with the physical level with an open and clear mind, you get 'the Ultimate', which actually transcends the concepts of 'high' and 'low'.

In clear minded mode you live without 'story' about yourself outside this lifetime, for you can never truly know any of that, and any such 'information' you do pick up is almost certain to be dark force sourced and distorted if not wholly fiction in order to try to divert you from self actualization. Similarly you live your life without 'story' about supposed.higher realities. I am not saying there are not any higher realities (whatever 'higher' would really mean!) - simply that we can never know about any because, as far as I can ascertain, anything of the sort that actually appears to us is illusions presented to us by the dark force.

You are NOT 'Light'! You are consciousness / awareness! Thus self actualization and clear-mindedness are not about light nor Light as so many healers and mystics claim, but are about vivid clarity of awareness and perception. It is the dark force that has led us into the fiction that we or indeed our so-called source (which term itself implies separateness) are 'Light' and we will 'go to the Light' when we die. By equating consciousness or awareness with light, the dark force has lured countless people away from true self actualization - the manifestation of their clear-minded natural state.

Similarly, you are NOT, and indeed there is no such thing as, a 'being of Light'. You are a being of clarity, of vibrant awareness - not of Light. 'Light', and indeed the whole light / dark polarity (apart from actual physical light) is solely of the astral illusion given to us by the dark force.

In a nutshell, then...

This site is about how you can be truly you - fully you - natural you - as a being of vibrant awareness and clarity, living a free and flexibly and creatively happy life, with the great personal stature and power that manifests naturally once all the dark force influences (including attachment to personal status and control agendas) have been cleared out or dissipated.

One thing that this site is NOT about is meditation, which all manner of traditions have seriously mistakenly associated with self actualization, so severely unbalancing and distorting the notions of self actualization that they embrace and promote. I do, however, show on this site what people can most usefully take up instead of standard meditation, to bring them forward into genuine, balanced and grounded self actualization. (Try Self-Power Walking, for example!)

"I have been reading this site for over a month now, and it is making things worse for me - please help!"

Many people who come to this site do so because they are looking for solutions to their own problems of gross interferences and attacks from the dark force. At least theoretically, they have come to just the right place, for not only do I present a potentially extremely helpful explanation of what they are experiencing, but I actually present a whole set of methods that, if they are properly and awarely applied in a balanced and grounded manner, would enable them to be progressively resolving ALL of those problems - and easily and joyfully! Believe it or not, there is nothing scary or intimidating about the real means to clear out all one's dark force interferences! Indeed, the whole mindset of these methods actually un-scares and un-intimidates whoever uses them.

However, there is a complicating factor. You do need to ensure that you are operating in the right mindset when you get using the methods. The dark force can often usurp a person's very discovery of ways to rectify their situation, and interfere with that person in a way that turns the 'solution' effectively into part of the dark force's arsenal of tools to bring about disruptive and potentially wrecking attack situations for that person. The person then is still sort-of using the methods, but inadvertently within a mindset that is counter to the real purpose of those methods! That then serves the dark force and not the person. I know about this deeply from my own personal experience, so let me mention a few examples.

• I took up The Work in 2006, and all was going well despite some dark force interference, but after a few months the dark force, posing as my 'higher consciousness', started giving me a whole lot of 'story' about myself and my alleged major role for all of Humanity and indeed all of 'Creation', and it got me listing more and more things that it was "imperative" that I put to inquiry - getting into an increasingly exhausting and indeed intimidating 'vortex' of 'story' and anxiety about my situation and the apparent inability of The Work to really resolve anything fundamental. This led into one of my biggest dark force attack crises - one that was indeed potentially lethal, at least if the findings of my retrospective detective work on that event are anything to go by.

• Similarly, in 2007-8, when I developed and got using the extremely helpful Grounding Point procedure, whenever the dark force managed to get an attack on me going, it sought to put into my mind a whole mass of pointers to particular illusory realities that could theoretically have been in my mindspace (but actually probably were mostly not to any material extent), each of which supposedly needed to be 'zapped' by use of that procedure if the attack were to be dissolved. The dark force was clearly seeking again to get me wearing myself out and getting increasingly ungrounded and panicked by apparently having to individually 'zap' an ever filling bottomless pit of illusory realities, each of which of course was supposedly imperative to 'zap' immediately. Fortunately, with my previous experience with The Work, I saw what was happening, and soon set a very low limit to the number of Grounding Point 'zappings' of illusory realities that I would carry out in a session or even in a day. I made a point then of choosing only the most all-embracing ones to 'zap', and concentrating more on defusing the other main element in the mechanism of dark force attacks - emotional 'button-pushing'.

• I also found that when I read certain books or articles that were at least impinging on things I really needed to know about the dark force and how it operates, I would be attacked with grossly exaggerated fear-related feelings together with 'pseudo-thoughts' and illusory realities insinuated into my mindspace to 'inform' me that I was now being taken over by this or that troublesome force or faction, usually related to something that I had just been reading. The insinuated 'story' combined with severe attack feelings was generally a truly hellish sort of experience, and it took all my clarity of mind to get myself rapidly out of what were actually the beginnings of seriously 'wrecking' feedback loops of distorted perception. One time it was supposedly Pleiadeans, and another time it was supposedly the 'Fourteenth Faction' (supposedly from another universe), while other times it was simply 'astral beings' claiming that they were my real 'masters' and now I had no escape from them... - and so on (I'd heard it all before...).

Some other people inevitably will get similar troublesome experiences precipitated by their reading things on this site or/and using certain of my methods that are supposed to be enabling them to progressively clear out their dark force interferences.

In Anatomy of a Dark Force ('Astral Entities') Attack Crisis I describe how I worked out for myself the primary mechanisms of a dark force attack, and how the feedback loop at the centre of an attack is created and built up. I suggest you read that now if you have not already done so, and then, below, let us see what we can do to advise the hapless person who has been reading this site for over a month and is getting increasing attacks and seemingly alarming effects that appear to be associated with my writings 'feeding' his fears and anxieties.

"I have been reading this site for over a month now, and it is making things worse for me - please help!"

Actually that 'quote' is a rough paraphrase from one actual e-mail communication in response to this website, but I am sure the fellow concerned was effectively speaking for a fair number of people and so I extracted a 'generic' version of a précis of his message.

Let us look at what the person is actually saying. He says he has been reading through this site for over a month - but actually nowhere in his e-mail does he say he has actually been using the methods that I present on this site, so we can reasonably assume that he is not using any of them, at least to any material extent; indeed it looks as though he is hardly or not at all even considering using any of them. Now, in that situation, what purpose could be served by all that reading through this site over such a long period? I am not saying it is wrong, but we do need to look and see what is really going on.

It is clear from the body of his e-mail that he is operating in 'victim' mode. He perceives nasty thing upon nasty thing as happening to him, but he appears not to be actively doing anything to resolve his situation, so of course the dark force automatically exploits his lack of aware positive action and plies him with further successive 'nasty' impressions of what is allegedly happening to him - all the time feeding in further pseudo-thoughts to the effect that he is a victim of nasty goings-on and needs help. Indeed, it looks as though, in a feedback loop of 'victim mindset'-related distorted perceptions, he is compulsively, albeit unawarely, using his reading of my writings as a red-hot iron rod with which to beat himself.

That is precisely what, I am sure, a significant proportion of people coming to this site would be doing. They are all good people who do not in the slightest mean to be doing anything crazy or less than the best for themselves, but I have seen for myself 'from the inside' how the dark force can get one into such feedback loops of distorted perceptions that make one feel that one has been taken over and is powerless to do anything about it, and 'needs help'. One's response to the situation is then inevitably dysfunctional and, frankly, crazy!

The 'I need help' bit is sheer poison, which the dark force insinuates into people's mindspace (usually covertly) with merry abandon. That is one of the most self-disempowering thoughts and indeed illusory realities that you could entertain or be carrying. With regard to ALL dark force interference issues, you are LOST as long as you do not cut straight through that powerless 'I need help' mindset and start being your own genuine helper by awarely using effective methods to clear yourself of that garbage.

Here are a few simple basic starting suggestions for anyone to get cutting through that 'powerless' crap that the dark force goes 'feeding' people with.

• Use the Grounding Point procedure, preferably with a suitable polished stone sphere or, best of all, a Clarity-Sphere, to 'zap' (i.e. bring about the dissolution of) the following, allowing a reasonable period between each of the zappings to ensure that you are keeping your awareness as grounded as possible:
  • A generalized 'visualization-with-your intent' of all the manifestations of your sense of your own powerlessness and needing help.
  • A generalized 'visualization-with-your intent' of all the manifestations of your dark force interferences and attacks.
  • All illusory realities in which I am in trouble or have nasty things being done to me or am a victim in any way - and all container illusory realities in which any of that is 'real'.
  • All illusory realities in which there are obstacles to my taking up the most simple and direct methods to clear myself of all dark force interference and attacks - and all container illusory realities in which any of that is 'real'.
• Do a formal reading of the following declarations of intent (DOI), preferably using a suitable polished stone sphere or, best of all, a Clarity-Sphere:
  • I affirm my intent that I am in full command of all aspects of my life and that no apparently external force or influence has any command, hold or sway over me - and that this is coming about with all speed.
  • I affirm my intent that I have no obstacles of any kind to my taking up the most simple and direct methods to clear myself of all dark force interference and attacks, and that I am my own best helper for bringing that about - and that this is coming about with all speed.

• Disable the emotional 'button-pushing' aspect of the sense of powerlessness. The most direct and effective method that I know requires a Clarity-Sphere (most effective) or an Energy Egg. You simply use the procedure for tuning the device to all current environmental stresses (ESs) that are being recognised by your deeper aspects. For this to work, the device must have already been 'energetically' connected to you, so that you are in 'contact' with it remotely. If you have more than one Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg, and they are all connected to you, this 'remote' procedure will tune them all simultaneously.

  For this you close your eyes, having both your hands in what I have so far been calling the Acceptance Mudra, with the straight fingers of each hand together, pointing out horizontally away from you.

   

  With your clear intent that you are tuning your Energy Egg / Clarity-Sphere to all current ESs, including emotional 'button-pushing', you allow your mind to be relaxed and observant of any current feelings or impressions, without judging any of them, for two or three cycles of complete breathing. Then, still with your hands held in that mudra, you open your eyes and immediately execute three rapid cyclic breaths.

  For best results you follow that with an end-of practice procedure.

• Further, take on the relevant measures given in Dark Force and Entity Troubles - The Real Way to Clear Them.

I hope, therefore, that people who feel disturbed or intimidated by my writings or some adverse manifestation apparently triggered by them will understand that what is really happening in such cases is that the dark force is actually unwittingly pointing out to them whatever vulnerability of theirs that it is exploiting, so that they can actually then use the above methods to heal that vulnerability and thus immunize themselves against any further interferences / attacks using that particular vulnerability. Isn't that handy!

"What this Philip Goddard guy is going on about is far too heavy, with his dwelling on problems and the 'dark' stuff. All you need to do for self realization is to focus on what is sweet and positive in the world, and you create your own better reality."

Various people who are into 'spirituality' come out with that sort of distorted thinking. In my experience this has been particularly people who are into psychic and to a certain extent Paganistic pursuits, though I have had this sort of rubbish also from individuals who regard themselves as Buddhists or at least Buddhism-aligned. In any event, what such people reveal is a degraded, relatively superficial awareness and an augmented level of self deception through denial of what they do not want to countenance.

One of the great problems about 'spirituality' is the way that it gets people into a seriously unbalanced and ungrounded outlook in which they are trying to create for themselves some sort of 'ideal' reality (i.e. actually an illusory reality) rather than actually look clearly at the current situation and recognise what needs to be changed in order to uncover and open out the 'ultimate' reality of their own deepest aspects. So, a highly distorted notion of self realization / self actualization has been cultivated in 'spirituality' circles, so that people believe that they can achieve 'self realization' through 'being positive' all the time without doing the essential groundwork. So, instead of using appropriate methods to get themselves clear of the untoward influences that are distorting their life experience and covering up their own deepest and 'truest' nature, they seek to deny any such untoward influences by creating their own illusion of everything being sweet in their own rose garden, actually within their dark force administered prison whose existence they do not want to know about, thank you very much.

Do you say, "I won't bother about all that stuff about computer hackers and viruses and supposed need for various layers of security on my computer, because that is all being too negative and heavy, and all you need to do is to focus on what is sweet and positive!"? If so, to be frank, you bloody fool - you are the sort of sucker that the computer hackers and phishers and all the rest of the cyber-criminals are after!

- But that is just the mentality of a very large proportion of people who are into whole 'regions' of 'spirituality'. Yes, they usually do acknowledge the existence of some sort of 'dark' presence or force, but then just shrug their shoulders about it and look the other way - or, indeed, in some cases, wilfully play with it, refusing to acknowledge that it is anything significantly harmful or injurious.

Surely, in real terms, the most positive outlook on your computer security must be to be as aware as reasonably possible of the threats to the security of your system and to take all reasonable precautions to ensure that your system does not get hacked / infected. By the same token, actually the most negative outlook would be the one that just did not want to think about such issues. It is one thing to compulsively dwell on problems just for the sake of dwelling on them (which would be harmful and thus 'negative' in effect), but quite another to be really practical and go identifying and addressing those problems, so that life gets better and better as a result! Is not latter the really positive outlook?

So, to all the abovementioned detractors of my own outlook and indeed person, who reckon that I am being 'negative' and 'heavy', I ask where is the material difference between my own actually identifying and addressing (or at least pointing people to means to address) very serious problems that do exist in people's life experience, and the extremely sensible and 'positive' matter of having proper security set up on your computer?

The problem here is one thing above all that those people do not want to know about. Hacked computers will usually seek to hide the fact of their being hacked, and similarly, the people who speak out against my being so 'negative' and 'heavy' are themselves hacked people who are compulsively not thinking straight because of the dark force sourced interference that is distorting their whole life experience. Naturally they would 'disagree' with anyone who has greater freedom and clarity than they do, and who can see the mess that they are really in, and they would seek to put pressure on others to similarly turn a blind eye to anything that might actually start getting people free from their captivity at the 'hands' of the dark force.

I would just point out, too, that inevitably my writings on this site cannot give a balanced depiction of what my own life experience is like. Inevitably I write much here about the dark force and its interfering with everyone. Why? Because I am constantly dwelling on problems and the dark force?  -- No! I am doing so because otherwise everyone would go on in just the same old way, allowing themselves to be increasingly distorted and captive, with no notion that there really are simple and straightforward means to get clear of all that garbage. It is other people's ignorance and confusions that necessitate my writing so much about the dark force on this site, to start putting the record straight and enable at least some people to start moving in the real self actualization and freedom direction. If you want to see some other aspects of my life experience that are in contrast with my writings about how to get clear of dark force interferences, you could, for example, explore my music compositions or the photos I take on my adventurous hiking outings. If I were not such a vibrant, buoyant and, yes, 'positive' individual with a really positive life experience, there would be no way that I could have been effective in 'cutting the dark force down to size' in the way that I have actually managed to do.