FAQ Corner --
Frequently Asked Questions
on Self Realization and Healing issues

N.B. Wherever in the following notes I use the word 'master' or 'Master', I have put it in quotes because I no longer accept the use of that word to mean a spiritual teacher - even a supposedly high level one - because of the issues of status, power and control that are fed by use of that term, and indeed the latter's dark force source.

What is spirituality?

What is generally called 'spirituality' is people's valiant aspirations and attempts towards true self realization that are to varying degrees sent off-course by dark force sourced beliefs in and preoccupations with illusory realities. The dark force* has also almost universally tricked people into believing / imagining that what is actually their getting more ungrounded is their 'becoming more spiritual' or 'spiritually opening up', which is regarded in religions and other so-called spiritual traditions as extremely good, beneficial and even virtuous or holy. Sure, it is 'opening up' all right, but not in any way you'd want at all if you really understood what's going on, for when this happens, people are unwittingly opening to the astral sub-reality, through which 'the dark side' interferes with us. The dark force, being replete with deceptions, presents itself as apparently higher realities as well as 'lower' ones, but they are all illusions within the astral sub-reality. Countless 'spiritual practices' are available, all of which to varying extents achieve this all-too-magical 'opening up' to the apparently Divine face of the astral sub-reality or 'the dark side'.

* This is the forces of unawareness / delusion, ego power, control, fear and negativity, which are commonly known as 'the forces of darkness' (but it is really the dark force, singular) and which appear to exist in and interact with us from an aspect of reality (or of consciousness) that I call the astral sub-reality [of illusion and delusion].

My point here is that the more weakly grounded your awareness becomes, the more you open to the astral sub-reality - within which are ALL the so-called higher realities, including all the supposedly Ultimate and Divine ones, and ALL supposedly higher beings, from guides, through so-called ascended masters and Lords and Ladies to gods, God (of any religion), the Holy Spirit and indeed anything you'd call Divinity. They are ALL deceptions given to us by the dark force seeking to gain (more) control over us. You can read more about how so-called spirituality relates to self realization in Exit Spirituality - Enter Self Realization and  'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

So, now it just remains for me to point you to a good starting point for true self realization, where you can start seeing how different it is from any normal notions of 'spirituality' - and it doesn't in any way mean becoming more unaware or materialistic. What it does involve is becoming more aware but also greatly more grounded, so that you cultivate grounded awareness, which does not spontaneously open or connect you to the astral sub-reality and all its serious problems, and which allows your own core essence increasingly to open out and manifest in your Earthly presence - something which cannot happen much while your awareness is ungrounded.

But I caution - the dark force, which is already interfering with you (to some extent it interferes with everyone), may seek strenuously to make you feel that you don't want to face the challenge of true self realization, and you may initially need some strong determination to push through your dark force manipulated feelings in order to get on with the true self realization that would free you from all dark force interference. Go to The Guide to Complete Self Realization and the pages that it links to, and I wish you every success in stalling and puncturing the inevitable attempts from your own dark force interference to turn you away from the direction that would bring you the true freedom that at least your deeper aspects have always been seeking for you.

What is the soul?

Owing to a new understanding gained in November 2008, I have deleted what I'd previously written here, and I refer you to a section in 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'. I now understand that the soul is actually a dysfunctional or pathological distortion of part of the consciousness, caused by serious tampering from the dark force. The soul is actually the means by which the dark force is able to hold the vast majority of people captive and direct them in a series of sequential, karmic reincarnations that bring them increasingly under the control of the dark force. You are thus better of by far if you do not have a soul, but simply have a pure, undistorted continuum of consciousness between fundamental consciousness ('the Ultimate') and your 'ordinary', conscious, mind.

"What is your view of God, the life of Jesus, and Christianity?"

As explained in 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side', ALL religions and so-called spiritual paths and traditions are sourced from the dark force for the purpose of turning us away from true self realization and becoming increasingly under the control of the dark force. In all those traditions and indeed all so-called spiritual paths the dark force has got people taking on board beliefs that create for them astral realms (illusory realities) that are aimed to ensnare them when they die.

Part of this process is the inveigling of people into taking on beliefs in various sorts of supposed higher reality, which almost always contain supposedly higher, non-physical, beings. These include God, the Holy Spirit and Jesus (as a current manifestation) as well as angels, archangels, Elohim and so on. So, sorry to say, Christianity and ALL other religions are very much of 'the dark side', and the supposed realities that they try to get people believing in are all likewise and are bound to cause tremendous problems on a time-scale unthinkably beyond this lifetime for those who have taken on such beliefs.

I am not disputing, however, that there was a man who eventually got widely known as Jesus operating as some sort of high-level spiritual teacher approximately 2,000 years ago. However, the accounts of him and his life and teachings distort them almost beyond recognition - nowhere more so than in the accounts given in the Bible.

One thing that becomes clear if you stop and think about it in a clear-minded way is that  JESUS WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN!! Indeed, he couldn't possibly have been! And the vast majority of Christians for most of the time since Jesus' time have been and are extremely far removed from following the true teachings of Jesus, which themselves, apparently, were more about being 'spiritual' (and thus actually, unawarely, captives of the dark force) than about true self realization and the tremendous freedom that that brings, because of the dark force sourced distortions in those teachings. Indeed, the Church has strenuously sought to suppress information about the true, historical person who came to be called Jesus, because even his distorted teachings were seen as empowering people too much and threatening the hold and authority upon them of the Church - a more blatantly dark force sourced tradition, very much about power / control and hardly at all about the genuine love of a genuinely free person, which latter any of us could become if we kept out of religion and 'spirituality' and cultivated our own true self realization process.

Christianity (or at least its mainstream elements) was very much under the influence of the dark force when it deified what was really just a dark force sourced caricature of 'Jesus' and insisted that people should believe in all that (and an external, judgemental God). Anything to turn people right away from self realization and into the clutches of the very force that the religious authorities would condemn as 'the devil', 'Satan' and so forth! Yes, Christianity is an organisation of their own self created 'devil' or Satan - not of anything truly beneficial to us!

I refer you again to 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side', where I put forward the overall picture which, I hope, will make sense of the above apparently outrageous claim that Christianity and all religions are of 'the dark side' and are seriously harmful to us.

"Would you like to tell me more about your crossing the threshold of enlightenment?"

That is where I have to refer you to my very full account here.

"I've never been to a crystal shop or met a healer in person who used crystals, so I am totally ignorant of them. Any advice on what types tend to be more useful than others - any particular characteristics to look for or avoid? Or should I just find a shop and start touching up crystals until I find one with good energy?"

I did write here a quite long answer to the above question, but now I actually warn against using crystals at all - and healing wands* (most of which use crystals or even are constructed almost entirely of crystals). There are several issues that make crystals best avoided - even though it's almost universally believed among healers that crystals are a Good Thing and can assist in healing work.

* I particularly caution that sacred geometry healing wands or devices, including merkabas, despite any good intentions of their makers, are products of dark force influence, and, despite any healing effects that they may have, they also have disruptive effects in one's non-physical aspects ('energy system') and increase one's susceptibility to dark force interference and influence. I was using such devices myself and I have little doubt that they significantly contributed to the serious problems that I experienced with the dark force from late 2003 to the first half of 2007.

It's true that crystals and fashioned mineral stones can gather and focus subtle energies that, if used appropriately, can have a healing effect for some people. The problems include the following:

• Environmental stress - the outputting of disruptive energies. Whatever positive and helpful energies the crystals emit, all crystals or crystal-shaped (i.e. faceted) mineral stones give off harmful, disruptive effects (known as sha chi or cutting chi) in one's non-physical aspects from their edges and points. They are thus unhealthy to have around you at all, even just placed ornamentally on a ledge in your living space. The only forms of crystals or stones free of this effect are rounded forms free of facets and points - particularly spheres. However, spheres of these crystals and minerals still are subject to the following problems. 

• Individual sensitivities and appropriateness. We are generally told that a particular type of mineral or stone has a specific set of positive and healing effects for particular issues for people generally (or at least of a particular Zodiac sign - which itself is a lot of very harmful misinformation from the dark force). What we are virtually never told is that each individual has his/her own unique set of resonances, sensitivities and susceptibilities. What this means in practice is that it's a serious misunderstanding to operate on the basis of, for example, "Mabel would benefit from more love energies in her life, so let's use some rose quartz on her and recommend that she has rose quartz around her for much of the time, because rose quartz resonates with love energies". Also, categorizing people by the twelve Zodiac signs doesn't really take one forward, because it still is avoiding the issue of each individual's uniqueness, and the whole field of astrology is of the dark force and connects you with problems beyond your wildest imaginings when you use it.

  Yes, rose quartz may resonate with love energies (but then again that may be one of the vast number of healers' myths promoted by the dark force, which interferes with each of us), but what actually are Mabel's own needs and sensitivities? Most healers would seek to answer that question by asking supposed guides or other higher beings - but as I explain in Better Without Channelling, that is simply asking the dark force, which in such situations typically present itself as some higher source.

  There is a method of finding out what a particular person's needs / sensitivities are, and I use it now: energy testing.

• The supposed healing energies from crystals and stones are inherently unbalanced, being to a large extent fixed by the nature of the crystal / stone. Why mess around with seeking to apply the most appropriate (or indeed least inappropriate) unbalanced energies to a person when you can instead work from your core and bring out the exactly appropriate, highest-possible-sourced and purest healing 'energies' in the whole of Existence, allowing them to arise from 'the Ultimate' itself so that they are always appropriate and balancing for the recipient, whether that is another person or yourself?

• The myth that we need to receive healing energy from 'outside' ourselves. In fact, as noted above, the 'highest' and purest healing 'energies' are accessed from our own core or deepest essence, which is based in fundamental consciousness (aka universal consciousness). Thus if you invoke supposedly higher beings or use any sort of device such as a crystal or a wand to bring in healing energies, what you are doing is bringing in energies that are 'lower' and generally less pure than 'the Ultimate', which latter is what you can get from your own core. The dark force has sidetracked healers almost universally into using methods that are inferior and that in various ways allow the dark force to gain access into people's non-physical aspects in order to gain more control over them. Encouraging the use of crystals and stones is part of that strategy.

• Crystals, stones, wands and other devices (even symbols), as well as giving out disruptive and unbalancing energies, can become possessed by problematical entities (actually not true entities but elementals) or other troublesome foreign energies, which are commonly hidden from most healers and psychics. Healers generally glibly tell you methods of clearing the items of any 'negative energy' that they are holding, but you have no guarantee that whatever methods you've used have actually and completely worked - and even if they have, how soon would it be before the items become 'possessed' again? In reality, these various items cannot be cleared of their problematical energies or 'possessions' by normal healers' methods, despite most healers' belief that they can.

• Strong channelling crystals such as Lemurian seed crystals (a striking and beautiful form of quartz crystal) are a MENACE, because they do indeed assist channelling* and thus, however pure your intentions, will increase your dark force connection, whether or not you realize that it is the dark force and nothing truly beneficial that is communicating with you (and even if it does call itself a Lemurian or Archangel Michael or Maitreya / Jesus / St Germain / Ashtar / Merlin, etc., and seems to be very wise and 'enlightened'). I was actually using one of these Lemurian crystals when I started dowsing systematically, trying to channel from supposed higher beings, and that landed me in a nightmare scenario that has taken me several years of determined work to get out of. Please see The Dark Force ('Astral Entities') - My Own Tough Experiences.

  * I explain why channelling isn't a cool option in Better Without Channelling.

If you want to use a truly beneficial type of stone for healing, then you are left with the user controlled programmable energy devices such as the Energy Egg and particularly the Clarity-Sphere, which are free from the various problems listed above and work in a quite different way.

"What's your secret?"
-- asked by a group of mountain walkers taking a refreshment break on the Coire Dubh Mor track gently ascending round the flank of Beinn Eighe in the North-West Highlands (Scotland), as they watched me gliding with seemingly no effort up the rocky track towards them (May 2000).

My immediate reply was "An inefficient digestion!" - to which there were sounds of puzzlement, so I helped them out: "Jet propulsion, my friends!". I sailed on, accompanied by the receding guffaws of laughter. Well, my legendary farting status was good for a laugh, but then I started slightly regretting that I hadn't stopped and actually told the good fellows what it was that was really easing my walking so much.

Having reached Beinn Eighe's main summit by a direct and very steep but secure route that not many people take, and eaten my packed lunch up there in blissful and elevated solitude, I moved on towards the main part of the summit ridge, to be greeted by further hoots and guffaws as I encountered that group again as I approached the col that most walkers aim for from Coire Mhic Fhearchair on their way to the main summit. Then I told them the real cause of my ease of walking - the Alexander Technique, which among a multitude of other benefits makes for a much looser and more efficient mode of walking. This more efficient walking mode enables you to make maximum use of gravity, which can greatly help you even in walking up steep mountain slopes.

"What is the one most essential piece of advice you would give to everyone - say, on a brief TV interview?"

Be fully true to yourself!

However, I must immediately add some provisos here. Most people are not only far from being true to themselves but also don't even know what that means (though of course they believe that they do). Many people would interpret that exhortation as an instruction to be all the more direct in their irrational and negative communications and behaviour, irresponsibly indulging every feeling that they experience. That sort of thing is precisely what my core advice is intended to steer away from.

To be fully true to yourself you have be ruthlessly honest with yourself. You have to look deeply at all levels of your life experience, right down to the deepest levels of your consciousness, and recognise the way that all manner of uncomfortable feelings are causing you to avoid them by presenting a false ID to the world and even (usually) to yourself. So, to be fully true to yourself you have to be constantly vigilant for manifestations of your false ID and set them aside. You must learn to observe, recognise and set aside your ordinary, conscious mind's many little agendas. You must never assume that you're now fully self-aware and manifesting your true ID so that you needn't hold yourself and your experiences up to question any more. The latter is what is known as 'living in denial', and to some extent we all fall into that trap at times. To cultivate the rigorous honesty that I'm pointing to, you need always to keep open the possibility that you are or have been fooling yourself and there are truths about you and your everyday motivations that you have so far not recognised (or acknowledged).

We have the irony that the more honest you are with yourself, the more you acknowledge the possibility that you are not being honest with yourself...

The simplest and easiest way that I know of to develop and cultivate such self awareness and become increasingly 'self honest' is to take up the methodology that I present in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

"I have meditated for years and years, and life has now become a flat, almost dull experience with no real feelings. Please, is this really what enlightenment is like?"

Emphatically, no, my friend!

The trouble has been that you have been using meditation to try to 'get there', no doubt because you were deceived by others, such as in the various Buddhist traditions, who themselves have been extensively deceived by the dark force, which is interfering with ALL of them, including the so-called 'great Masters'.

That fixation on meditation, quite apart from denying much of the abundance of life experience, results in the creation of astral realms (illusory realities) in which it ultimately appears that one has achieved one's aim when actually one is experiencing only a distorted facsimile of the real thing. It is thus important to extricate oneself from such methodologies and traditions - which are ALL of 'the dark side', in that the dark force has brought them to us in order to divert us away from true self realization and into illusory realities that would make us captives of the dark force.

I have come to the clear understanding that enlightenment and self realization are most readily achieved without formal meditation, even though for some people an occasional meditation session can be helpful.

For 'dark force free' methods of gaining true and balanced self realization and enlightenment, please see Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Any tips on mind chatter? As soon as I start to meditate my brain goes into overdrive!

Yes. A great starting point would be to stop trying to empty your mind of chatter, and let it run! -- Sounds sort of unlikely and contradictory, doesn't it! Also, it's most likely that formal meditation is not the most helpful way for you to be going about quietening your mind.

Instead of worrying about all that mental chatter and gossip, just train yourself to observe it without responding to it, and to recognise that you yourself are not the chatter but are instead the peaceful, indefinable presence that is the observer of the chatter, and are indeed the very space within which it arises. You will find after a while that as you focus your observation upon any specific thought, it will tend to dissolve, and with practice over the weeks and months this will happen more and more, and less thoughts will arise, so making your mind quieter. That focusing on thoughts to make them dissolve needs not be done in a manner that is striving to clear the mindspace, but to be just allowed to occur in a relaxed and peacefully joyful manner. Anytime you notice you're trying to achieve anything, relax again and let go of that 'trying' urge.

This is best carried out NOT in formal meditation sessions but simply as often as you manage in everyday life (aiming for it to become all the time), so that you are directly changing for the better the way you experience everyday life.

I counsel against anyone seeking to achieve a completely thought-free mind, even only in formal meditation sessions - and note also my answer to the previous question. Trying to achieve a thought-free mind can be a very problematical sidetrack and is completely unnecessary for you to become enlightened. Your innermost level of consciousness, which is effectively your enlightened state already there within you, is and always has been 100% thought-free, so you don't need to clear it of anything. As you learn to perceive yourself as the silent observer of your thoughts, you are progressively taking yourself towards the eventual moment of recognition, when you perceive directly that innermost nature of yours and recognise it as your true identity. That is all that is entailed in the gaining of fundamental clarity (as I  prefer to call it) or becoming enlightened (as it is widely called). Anything more complex or esoteric, e.g. as taught in the religions (even in Buddhism), is a sidetrack.

When you have that recognition you perceive directly that you have been, in a sense, thought-free all along, even while thoughts were arising and dissolving again within your mindspace. As you progress, so at times even that mindspace will have apparently thought-free spells, but it is important not to make that state a goal at all, and to let it occur naturally if it does happen, without regarding it as good or bad or anything to try to aim for or maintain. Just perceive all thoughts, feelings, objects and phenomena as temporary arisings within the expansive space of your indefinable enlightened presence that always observes.

The beauty of this approach to meditation - what has often been called 'non-meditation' - is that it is carried out (most likely to a varying extent until you've got thoroughly used to it) all the time in everyday life, and really doesn't require formal meditation sessions at all, though for some people the sparing use of formal sessions can be useful initially just to get the process well started. I don't have formal meditation sessions at all myself, though my self-healing sessions are in a sense meditation of a sort - but for a more focused 'mindfulness' meditation within the context of my continuous 'non-meditation', which is what I've been describing here, my everyday life finds all sorts of slots for me to have moments of 'observational repose' (just invented that expression this moment!).

Just think of your waits in queues - supermarket checkouts, airports, traffic tailbacks, and so on - and how you can joyfully use each such experience to bring yourself back into a state of peaceful harmony and balance, not drifting off into preoccupations with non-thought or spaciness, but simply being fully aware and at peace. But you don't need to be stuck in a queue as your cue (ouch!) to enable it to happen, and neither is it helpful to think of it as 'meditation'. I find that whenever I'm walking, whether on a hike or simply about in town, it's a great time to just let go of preoccupations and relax into full 'peaceful observer' mode, which, after all, is nothing contrived but simply my (and your) most fundamental and natural state. Not going into a vacuous blankness of mind, but remaining aware and alert. ...And so on...

Actually, also much more effective and safer than meditation is the methodology that I present in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way. That assist you tremendously towards being a buoyantly happy and peaceful observer of all you experience, while opening up fulfilment of your underlying life purpose in a balanced and comprehensive way that formal meditation could never achieve.

So, you believe in reincarnation?

The strict answer to that is, no, I don't. I hold no belief in anything, but simply live on the basis of what I experience and observe, and the best possible working interpretations of my observations. So, what are my observations and conclusions, then, with regard to reincarnation?

In fact many aspects of my life experience have appeared in various ways to relate to lifetimes before my present one, and which thus, on the face of it, appear to support the hypothesis that I've lived through a great number of different incarnations, just as various healers, mediums and psychics had told me.

However, it's not as simple as that, because we have a complex situation in which the dark force is constantly interacting with us in extremely harmful ways and seeking to lead us away from true enlightenment and into illusory realities that can then manifest after our death, leaving us trapped by the dark force and progressively processed by them to become increasingly unaware and closed to our true nature as manifestations of fundamental consciousness ('the Ultimate').

One of the tricks of the dark force is to get us believing we've had past lives that we haven't had, and this appears to be the cause of  my own supposed past lives. I have no way of knowing about this for sure, but it looks to me as though what had seemed to be past life memories and traumas of mine were actually experiences of parasitic human consciousnesses that were attached to me - so that I was indeed experiencing memories and trauma feelings from particular past lives, but those past lives were not of mine but of people who'd died at various times in the past and whose consciousnesses themselves had been entrapped by the dark force, with their awareness 'stuck', attached to their illusions in the astral sub-reality, then behaving parasitically, but under the full control of the dark force - attaching to new consciousnesses (especially no-soul ones) as they incarnated, as directed by the programming they'd received from the dark force.

You can read more about this scenario in 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

As indicated on that page, it looks as though there are two distinct types of reincarnation that occur. The generally recognised type is reincarnation of the soul, which occurs only for people whose awareness has become ensnared by the dark force and so prevented from simply reverting to fundamental consciousness. Such reincarnations are sequential ones in which karma carries over from one to the next, so they can be described as 'karmic' reincarnations. For those people karma tends to operate in a distorted way (reflected in the distorted teachings about karma in, e.g., much of the Buddhist teachings), which appears to be pretty well totally concerned with the supposed rightness or wrongness or positivity / negativity of your actions. Emotional traumas also carry over, and, although they are true karmas in the undistorted sense, they are not generally included in the dark force distorted, moralistic, concept of karma.

On the other hand, those no-soul people who didn't get ensnared by the dark force upon death, and thus reverted to fundamental consciousness, still have their own unique individuality as microfacets of fundamental consciousness and can incarnate again, but without a soul each time (they have just an undistorted continuum of consciousness between fundamental consciousness and the 'ordinary' mind, with no 'soul' obstructing communication and awareness between those two 'poles'). Such reincarnations do not follow any particular chronological or karmically determined sequence (no karma carries over from one incarnation to another because it is the soul and 'lower energy bodies' that carry any karmas), and so can be described as non-sequential and non-karmic.

I would emphasize, though, that this view of the two modes of reincarnation is simply the best working hypothesis that I've so far come up with to explain very many things about the life experience and why particular things work out the way they do in our lives. I am not putting any of it forward as categorical fact, because nobody could ever know such a thing, and belief takes us nowhere they'd want to go if they really saw what was going on.

You are presumably a Buddhist...?

No. Because I'm a no-soul incarnation with the viewpoint of enlightenment and thus of an aspect of fundamental consciousness, I transcend all religions and named viewpoints. In fact the same can be said even of many deeply aware people who have not yet become enlightened. If you must put a label on my outlook and lifestyle, 'mystic' would at first glance appear to come close - except that that still implies a lot of baggage that actually I do not carry, especially nowadays. Really I know of no fully suitable word for it. Off the top of my head, let's say that I'm a self realized clear thinker.

The general problem about the Buddhist teachings is that in a wide range of specifics and fundamentals they are distorted depictions of reality for the purpose of scaring and coercing people into following a Buddhist path rather than opening directly to their own inner 'truth' (which is what true self realization is about). Their distortions also lead people into astral realms (illusory realities) mimicking enlightenment and self realization rather than true and balanced self realization.

Do you do your healing in the name of Jesus Christ? The only true healing is in His name. Any other healing is the work of the devil.

That question is the voice of ignorance, prejudice and bigotry - a preaching of fear and hatred, not love. It's that very sort of attitude that got Jesus crucified. It's also words from the dark force - i.e. that 'nice' man's words are actually from what he himself would call the devil!

The 'energies' emanating from fundamental consciousness (universal consciousness), which is the true 'Ultimate' as far as any enlightened person can tell, and which is the core essence and fundamental identity of every single person, are to a considerable extent attenuated and distorted by invoking any sort of supposedly higher beings or higher energies. Thus the only safe and healthy way to give so-called 'spiritual' healing is purely from one's own core essence, without invoking any supposedly higher source at all - for nothing can be higher than 'the Ultimate', which is what your own core essence is.

Indeed, from this viewpoint, gained from much hard personal experience, I can say with some security that every single person who does their healing in the name of 'Jesus Christ' or 'God' or 'the Holy Spirit' is actually invoking the dark force for their healing work - with all the problems that are implied by that, and so can be said to be working with the devil.

I have seen a message on a website, from a group of extra-terrestrials who are wanting to help Humanity and are asking us to open to them telepathically. Shouldn't we open to them?

My immediate response is a "DANGER!" warning, and my short recommendation is "No, definitely not!". Any apparent approaches from aliens or indeed higher beings seeking to assist us are, to my understanding, simulations given to us by the dark force with the aim of luring us into getting more involved - and indeed, especially in the case of supposed aliens, very deeply involved - with 'the dark side'. The dark force is a tremendous deceiver, and the magnitude and convolutions of its deceptions are breathtaking. Almost certainly, opening to supposed telepathic (or any other) communications from supposedly beneficial aliens will actually get you involved with the dark force in a particularly harmful and sinister way - getting you connected to (i.e. made a part of) the cacoprotean network - what I understand to be the primary aspect of the dark force. That is how serious the issue of approaches from supposed aliens are - especially when there is anything to do with telepathy, astral projection, astral travel, hypnosis, or abductions.

I can't rule out for sure that in a very few cases the approaches are from real physical aliens*, but most likely they would have an agenda of deceit directed by the dark force. You may never in this lifetime realize that you're dealing with anything other than truly beneficial beings, but you would pretty well certainly pay a horrendous price beyond this lifetime, in having come to accept an illusory reality that manifests after your death and so prevents you from dissolving back into fundamental consciousness then and instead commits you to being progressively processed and degraded by the dark force into one of their unaware, programmed minions. And in the meantime, in this lifetime, most likely you'd have unawarely been made, through membership of the cacoprotean network, into an actual part of the dark force.

* Actually my 'reading' on this by means of energy testing is that the whole notion of interstellar travel being a real possibility for any sort of human-type being is a myth, no matter how advanced is their technology. And where is that myth sourced from? -- Why, the dark force, of course! The purpose is to help convince people that when they get the dark force's simulations of actual extra-terrestrials, they will uncritically assume that these are the real thing, not realizing that their arrival here would actually be impossible. The dark force can give us apparently very lifelike virtual images of real extra-terrestrials, actually still on (or perhaps very close to) their own planets.

For more about what you could be letting yourself in for if you involve yourself with the dark force in such ways or indeed at all, see 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

There is no evidence that...

Anyone who makes a statement starting in that manner is being dishonest to himself, let alone anyone else. You can NEVER know that there is no evidence for something. You can only not be aware of any evidence for something, and that proves nothing except possibly your lack of awareness. All too often people use the "There is no evidence" line to support their denial of a non-physical reality and the efficacy of healing methods - the fallacious notion that you can somehow prove a negative hypothesis. Not many people like to use the honest statement - that they aren't aware of evidence for... - because that wouldn't conceal the fact that they hadn't exactly looked very hard for such evidence in the first place or had dismissed what they'd found.

I have no time for people who seek to argue in that opinionated manner. Let them all become politicians on a planet in some far-removed star system, where I'm not going...

Do dreams have any purpose or meaning?

I explain the apparent true nature of dreams and the dreaming process in 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side', also explaining the mechanism and significance of nightmares. It must be clear from that account that there is no overall 'meaning' nor any real significance in one's dreams.

However, that isn't the end of the story, because your own deepest aspects often single out particular sequences in order to to draw something to your attention - to give you some sort of message or 'nudge'. It is important to understand that such 'messages' are not intended as 'story' but they can serve prompts for you to subject something in your life to scrutiny, which may lead to positive change. They are thus not in the business of telling you "Things are this way" or "This is the truth about what is happening", but, rather, are simply "Here's something worth examining / important to examine". In other words your scrutiny needs to be NOT of the dream contents but of something or some aspect in your waking life.

Additionally, the dark force (whether or not via an attached entity or an elemental) may give you a vision that is not part of the true dreaming process, and this would usually be thought of as a dream, in ignorance of the fact that there are at least two distinct types of visual experience in our sleep that we usually call dreams (and that's completely apart from true night terrors, which are a completely distinct and separate phenomenon).

There are various books on dream interpretation, but I have to say that those I've seen are totally unhelpful, because they give specific interpretations for particular images, in ignorance of the fact that each person's symbolism is ultimately unique to that person and even the particular moment of the dream. Best to put all those books on the paper recycling pile, as they will greatly mislead.

In any case, the very notion of dream interpretation is beside the point, for, as I say, the only useful function that a dream of any type might have, at least as regards your own conscious mind, is to act as a 'nudge' or prompt to you to examine and question something in or about your waking life. It's important, though, not to get het-up about this if you're not clear as to what a  particular image is about, because those dream prompts operate at all levels of the awareness, and really they're primarily meant for deeper levels of the mind than your superficial, ordinary 'conscious' aspect. So, any particular issues will get examined in response to such dream prompts whether or not you consciously 'twig' as to what a particular dream image was pointing you towards.

My counsel, therefore, on the matter of dreams is simply for one to consider whether anything in one's own dreams might be a useful prompt for some positive change in one's life - without theorizing or getting into 'story' about any of the dreams. This can actually be very useful and indeed powerful if used in conjunction with rigorously and awarely applied energy testing (NOT channelling), which I myself am using to great effect. However, I know from my own experience that even energy testing can be seriously interfered with by the dark force, so great care is needed, and if that method is to be used, it's wise to also use the methodology that I present in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way, for those methods progressively strengthen your ability to 'read' from your own deepest aspects and also progressively to weaken and 'squeeze out' the interference and influence of the dark force and any entities.

It is actually the dark force that encourages us to try to find out "what a dream means" (and so ensnare us with more 'story' and illusory realities), and so, that approach is best dropped in favour of "Let's consider how I might use the dream content in a useful way" (i.e. as prompts). It's important, though, that you don't see anything of a dream as being an instruction, for if you do that you are at once enabling the dark force to control you through dream content (and it would do just that if you gave it half a chance!). It's very important therefore to stick to using dream material only as possible prompts (yes, I know I'm repeating myself!) for you to then consider for yourself what are the most useful and positive choices to make in your life - and to then to let go of the whole dream, no matter how powerful or alluring it may appear to have been. Indeed, if a dream seemed particularly powerful / compelling, then it is almost certain that the dark force was involved and it would be better completely ignored.

You also need to be very aware and thoughtful about what particular types of dream image or experience may mean (also bearing in mind that they may contain elements that are not truly dream but are insertions from the dark force) if indeed you are going to attach any significance to them at all. Suppose you see a forbidding or frightening dream image that you think relates to a choice that you may make tomorrow. Does that mean that it would be best not to make that choice, or is it simply suggesting to you that you have fears relating to that choice, which latter actually is important for you to make - or, again, that the dark force is trying to scare you off that one? Carefully applied energy testing would give you the opportunity to establish whether that choice would really be best for you at that time.

Do we need to destroy the ego?

The whole notion of destroying or getting rid of the ego is a distortion, which has come to us primarily from various Eastern religious traditions that misguidedly seek to diminish or even eliminate people's true individuality and any abundance of experience in a person's life. Hence the typical gross overemphasis of formal meditation and the ritualization of many areas of life.

As anyone who truly becomes enlightened will know from actual experience, there is actually not such a thing as the ego, for it is just a particular delusion that non-enlightened people have, in which they believe that there is actually a discrete thing that they perceive as 'I' or 'me', which interacts with a real external 'reality'. Enlightened people still have that perception as an illusion, but they also perceive their true, deepest identity as being the actual 'space' within which all experiences arise, and which is the peaceful observer of everything that one experiences.

What you do by focusing on trying to eliminate 'ego', for example to achieve the supposed state of 'selflessness' so much prized by certain Buddhist traditions, is to (a) make an impoverished, distorted travesty of your life, and (b) to create for yourself an astral realm (illusory reality) in which you believe you have achieved your aim of full enlightenment or self realization, and which will ensnare you when you die, so that then you have become captive of the dark force instead of dissolving back into fundamental consciousness. I explain more about this scenario in 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

The most effective way to clear the problematical aspects of what people often call the ego is to use a grounding and balanced self realization methodology such as what I present in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way. When you work that way you have no need nor cause to think about the ego as such at all, and you simply progressively clear from your system all that is not right for you as a unique individual. At the same time, that sort of methodology cultivates a healthy abundance and sense of your own, deepest, uniqueness in your life, which meditation based methodologies universally fail to.

Cannabis and personal growth

Here is an e-mail from a visitor to this website, followed by my reply to it (updated in September 2005):

I have read your article Cannabis - a Serious Warning and I'd like to ask you about personal growth.

I smoke it about once a week and lately I have been exploring the personal growth and the nature of the mind while on the drug. I want to be able to take the effects that happen while on the drug (ex: presence in the moment, very strong will-power, ability to concentrate, gratitude for life) into my normal everyday state. You have a good quote on this exact subject in your article: "I knew intuitively that these experiences were showing me capabilities and potentialities in my mind, and my task was to leave cannabis behind and work through various means to open up those potentialities so that my mind was every bit as expansive and creative as in the cannabis experiences - indeed much more so - and fully under my own control, without need for any further drugs or 'props'".

So I am interested to how you went about enacting this change. The last time I smoked cannabis I started paying attention to my belief system. While 'high', I have a high level of confidence, and a deep gratitude for the present moment (unlike my normal consciousness where I seem to always be in resistance to it). So, the way I see to make this change is to change some of the deep seated limiting beliefs. Do you have any suggestions on what is the best way to change deep rooted beliefs?

Anyway, I hope that you, having gone through this experience, can offer me some advice on my path of personal growth.

The best thing to start with is to come right off cannabis, as regular smoking of it reduces people's motivation and capacity for the very sort of personal change that is needed and indeed which you recognise that you want. In my case, Re-evaluation Counselling was my initial, and for a long time, only, formal means of effecting my personal opening up and 'growth', but the Alexander Technique, fully applied as an ongoing mental discipline, became equally important later on, and then still more recently, through convoluted and difficult experiences in 'spiritual' healing, about which you can read in My Own Self Realization 'Path' - Part 1, I arrived at the safe and efficient methods given in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way. For people wanting to let go of cannabis or other addictions / habits, I also recommend  Letting Go of Addictions and Compulsive Behaviours.

One belief that you and countless other cannabis or other drug users need to drop like a hot brick is the very notion that you need that drug for anything to do with the mind or your awareness. In your case you clearly do understand the various life changes that you need to make.

Cannabis has shown you some things, and now the need is to fully and completely leave it and its experiences behind, otherwise you will have still more problems later on. One of the problems is the tendency to assume that while one is 'high' one is experiencing 'it' - enlightenment or a highly 'spiritual' or self realized state, so there is an understandable tendency for people to want to keep on repeating the experience and to kid themselves that their drug use is a workable spiritual or indeed self realization path. That is not a way forward, for we need to let go of our attachment to any type of experience. Cannabis gives one only a temporary facsimile (like a sort of cardboard cut-out) of the real thing, which is achieved in a state of considerable dysfunction. Being truly self realized and indeed enlightened involves enhanced function - light years from the mental and physical impairment caused by such drugs - so it is a very different experience yet again.

Shamans routinely use drugs to open their consciousness, but they are attached to their particular ways, which commonly involve drug-induced dysfunction and for the most part are not on an effective path to enlightenment and self realization (i.e. within this lifetime). In any case the opening of their consciousness that they do achieve is to the astral sub-reality, so drawing them further into the illusions given to them by the dark force. Is that what you'd really want?

A true self realization process is like a bridge - you pass over it but you do not settle down on it - and the very notion of a 'path' is best let go of, because that implicitly puts self realization somewhere out there in the future, which is no use to man nor beast, for it is increasing self realization here, now, that is the only worthwhile aim.

Note, however, that I am not talking of anything here as being right or wrong, but simply of cause and effect. It is not my task to tell anyone what he ought to do; in my writings I am just giving pointers to what is most effective to take one towards self realization and functioning as a complete human - the fullest possible incarnated manifestation of fundamental consciousness.

How did you discover you were a healer?

Actually I didn't experience a sudden discovery that I was a healer, and my start into healing was most undramatic and tentative. The dramatic discovery came before that, when I crossed the threshold of enlightenment at the beginning of 1997. At that point, at age 56, I suddenly recognised that I was on what I interpreted as a 'spiritual path'* and indeed what would be seen as a very 'high' one. It then made sense to me to accept that there was something in spiritual healing, for until that point I'd regarded all that as most likely the province of cranks and charlatans. However, I didn't at once point myself towards getting into any sort of healing work, because although I had a gut intuition that my life had some underlying purpose involving benefiting the human race generally I was concerned that healing could easily become an ego trip for me. So I just assumed that I would be able to do healing, at least with a little training and practice, and shelved the notion, assuming that at some point if I were really meant to involve myself in healing, somehow I would be guided into it.

* Yes, and it was the dark force, via the highest of the Buddhist teachings, that got me taking on board the confusion between self realization (which is what we need) and the dark force sourced phenomenon of 'spirituality' and so-called spiritual paths. As you can read in My Own Self Realization 'Path' - Part 1, my getting into 'spirituality', which is really a dark force sourced distortion of self realization, got me into tremendous problems with dark force interference and attacks, and I consider myself lucky to have come out from all that in good (indeed great) shape, and indeed even to be still alive at all.

In September 1998 I had a strange hitch-hiking encounter that functioned as that 'guidance'. I'd hitch-hiked out to Bude, a Cornish coastal resort, for a hike on the coast path but found the wind just too strong, and so I abandoned the outing and hitch-hiked back on the same route as my outward journey. I got dropped at a village along the way, and was almost immediately picked up by a strange man who I could feel had a strong charisma about him, and he immediately remarked that he could tell I was a highly 'spiritual' person and he wanted me to be his guru. I felt uncomfortable about that, feeling that there was something not quite right about him. He said he lived down a turning only a little way along the road, and he wanted me to come with him to his home, and he would drive me further along later. Although I felt a little unease about this, I was mindful that I had plenty of spare time and so might as well venture a little bit into the unknown.

At his home he introduced me to his sister, who was physically and in some ways mentally retarded, and he told me that her problem was possession by a 'spirit', and he said he wanted my help in finding an effective healer for her problem. This was the first time I'd ever knowingly had contact with such an issue, and I felt rather nervous about it.

I took this as a sign to me, and then I started reading up about spiritual healing and found a small local group of healers who met every Thursday lunchtime above a shop in central Exeter and accepted novices. At the time I was not able to help the strange man or his sister, for, as I quickly realized, he was in the grip of a strong manipulative pattern that was seeking to use me in a quite negative agenda of his, and he rapidly lost interest in me because he could sense that I could see what was going on.

In the sessions with the healers' group (led by an 'Usui' Reiki teacher) I started without having any idea whether I was really channelling any healing energy at all. I just felt that I had to trust the process and keep looking out for signs that something significant was happening. Indeed, after a few sessions I did increasingly get experiences that I assumed (till 2007)* couldn't be explained satisfactorily except through accepting that healing energy was being channelled. Later, I went on Reiki I and then Reiki II workshops with the leader of that group, though that teacher on the Reiki II workshop set some homework to be completed before she would issue a Reiki II certificate, and it included one particular item which I could not complete because of my situation of isolation - and so on the basis of a completely unnecessary technicality I never received my Reiki II certificate. I was in no rush anyway to get a Reiki III certificate, and it wasn't till some two years later that I went on a Reiki III workshop with another teacher, who fully accepted that I'd 'done' Reiki II even though I lacked the certificate.

* The point here is that I now understand that pretty well all the strong impressions that people get of 'flowing healing energy' are actually impressions given to them by the dark force, and thus in the vast majority of cases do not accurately represent what is (or isn't) really going on - and the impressions that I'd had of healing energy flowing and other non-physical effects during healing sessions had all been presented to me from that source, and so had far less meaning than I thought at the time.

I didn't at any point observe 'miracle' instant physical cures to prove to me that I was a healer, but I did find that I was being catalytic in various people's positive life change, and the channelling of healing energy was presumably part of that, although also my functioning as an effective positive life change and emotional counsellor was part of the equation. Being a complete healer is a lot more than just channelling energy, and calls upon a wide range of disciplines and skills. The underlying primary purpose of spiritual healing is what I used to call 'spiritual opening up' and emotional / karmic healing, but actually I now understand that what people are achieving with all the various types of spiritual healing is a distortion of what people are really needing, which is self realization, and for a long while I was actually using healing with the normal, distorted view of its real purpose, not at that time recognising how I'd parted company with the true self realization direction.

In any case, physical improvements follow through as a by-product of any improvements in one's non-physical aspects brought about by 'spiritual' healing, so they are not a main focus.

Now I've gone beyond and indeed jettisoned Reiki and all recognised forms of 'spiritual' healing altogether, for I now understand them to be highly problematical, with various covert dark force influences, and those that I used no doubt contributed to my eventual big troubles with the dark force. I now work (as any of us could) only from my innermost core, which is actually based in 'the Ultimate', and so not invoking any supposed higher beings (which are apparently always simulations from 'the dark side') and no longer using any crystals, wands or other supposed healing aids, except for certain user programmable energy devices - particularly the Clarity-Sphere - which connect only with one's own deepest aspects and do not channel any external energies or 'presences'. Also I am now using and promoting extremely powerful yet simple self realization / healing methods - see Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Later note (January 2008) - I have more recently established that I had picked up various problematical energy configurations, ranging from thought forms to implants, from the various Reiki teachers and other healers with whom I worked - so I do strongly caution that getting involved in 'healing' as usually understood is highly problematical and could very easily cause you major problems, even if only covertly. That underlines the importance of the lattermost page that I link to above, where you can find truly safe means of self healing, self realization and clearing yourself of all dark force interferences and entities without depending on teachers or other healers who can so easily unawarely give you more than you bargained for.

Are night terrors caused by fear of the dark?

No, not at all. If anything it's the other way round - night terrors are often (probably always) a contributory factor in fear of the dark - though there would also be an element of common cause as well as than one causing the other. As I say on my page Night Hells (Night Terrors) and Hearing Voices, to which I refer you for a full explanation, true night terrors are the result of certain types of interference and attacks from the dark force. Their underlying cause is thus not something traumatic that has happened to one in this life, though they can be precipitated by a traumatic event or indeed the use of certain psychoactive drugs such as cannabis or LSD.

Similarly, the primary cause(s) of any major fear of the dark would be interference and attacks from the dark force, plus the effects of having one or more lost human souls attached to you, which in one or more past lives had had particular traumas relating to being in the dark, and indeed, being into 'dark practices'.

In my own case, although undoubtedly other material was involved, I understand now that one of the parasitic lost souls attached to me had in a previous lifetime had a tremendously frightening and traumatic experience apparently in total darkness, in which (s)he was pursued by a presence that made a particularly frightening noise, and, in the course of his attempted fleeing, had fallen into some deep hole or ravine, presumably to his/her death. That had most likely happened not in the physical state at all, but in an astral realm (illusory reality), and would most likely have been connected with that individual's involvements in serious 'dark' practices, opening him/herself very strongly to whatever horrors the dark force might seek to try out on him/her.

There were various severe traumas carried by particular lost souls attached to me, which related to 'dark' practices, and various of them would undoubtedly have added to my own fear of the dark.

I used mind power to try and divert a tornado. The tornado did divert but there was a severe flood instead. Had I done anything wrong?

I wouldn't get into judging something as right or wrong, because 'right' and 'wrong' are just labels that we put on things and are not an intrinsic quality of anything. However, this question raises an important point. The principle here is exactly the same as in healing work upon a person. If you use your ordinary mind to try to achieve a specific outcome, (a) you are very likely using some of your own energy and thus wearing yourself out and threatening your emotional wellbeing and health, and (b) you are most likely trying to achieve something that is not for the general ultimate good. Your ordinary mind does not know what is for any one person's ultimate good, let alone what is most beneficial for the whole of 'Existence'.

The way to keep clear of this dilemma is to set your intent that whatever is for the ultimate good will happen, whether or not it's what your ordinary mind wants. There may be specific reasons why it's for the ultimate good* for all that a tornado comes ripping through a particular community, causing considerable hardships and loss of life - so you could be doing people a great disservice by diverting that tornado - just supposing you were able to do such a thing. You would find that if you face situations with an intent for the outcome to be for the ultimate good of all concerned, without fixating on a specific outcome, then you would have a positive effect if indeed that is appropriate and possible, and your own energy would not get used, so that you would then not end up drained and eventually health-compromised.

* This is something our ordinary minds can know little or nothing about. It is not about seeking to make people happy (or indeed unhappy) at the present time, and would very likely have more do do with simply the way that we relate with Nature rather than any sense of direct higher purpose about it.

However, the real point is that, owing to dark force influences, human-type civilizations, not only on Earth but anywhere else too, have tended to over-expand and to spread into all sorts of disaster-prone areas, and the real lesson from the resultant disasters - though almost always going unheard - is to stop overpopulating the planet, and indeed to reduce its population as rapidly as possible by humane means to a small fraction of its current level, and for all people to withdraw from known disaster-prone areas as primary living bases, or at least recognise that if they don't they'll have to face the consequences and not expect people then to come running in to bale them out.

The same principle applies to other types of world events such as wars. Your ordinary mind cannot know what is for the ultimate good of even one person, let alone everyone. If you think it does, that is just belief, which can be speedily released by putting the thoughts relating to that to inquiry using The Work, or, more simply and reliably, but 'zapping' them with the Grounding Post procedure, especially when it is combined with use of the Clarity-Sphere. By releasing such beliefs from your system you are then enabling yourself to be radiating an intent and wish for what is for the ultimate good of all concerned. That's much more helpful at every level. The important thing is to address the underlying cause of wars - and, as with all major problem issues for people, both individually and globally, is interference and control from the dark force.

Thus, the effective way for individual people to really help towards elimination of war is not through busying themselves opposing or trying to stop individual wars (which is generally done out of painful emotion) but by directly addressing the dark force interference issue. And the first step in that is ongoing balanced and comprehensive genuine self realization, for which I present a very effective methodology in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Aren't your troublesome entities just creations of your own mind?

I periodically get people asking that question - usually not because they really want to know the answer but as their means of expressing their very confused belief on the particular issue and their fear-based desire to impose their own level of unawareness upon me. I do empathize with such people to a point, because until I started channelling and ran into major problems with the dark force, I myself strongly suspected - though held no full belief - that 'lower' or 'dark' entities were manifestations of the fear in particular people's minds and were not really anything separate from themselves. Significantly, I felt a great deal of fear at the notion of 'dark' entities having any sort of independent existence, and was really being driven by the fear to half-believe that as long as I disbelieved in the existence of such entities I would not encounter them. Real head-in-the-sand stuff. Things are as they are, whatever anyone believes.

To the people who ask the actually quite unhelpful question quoted above, I'd like to say, "Aren't all your experiences of this fellow called Philip Goddard, and indeed all other humans, just creations of your own mind? Wouldn't it be better if you just ignored them all?"!

You see, that question - or rather, the belief that would underlie it - is confused and unhelpful thinking. Where does it actually get you? If you have no personal experience of what appear to be troublesome entities, then isn't it better to keep a very open mind about the issue and leave it to people with such experiences to seek to understand and explain them?

Yes, it's true that from a truly enlightened viewpoint all experiences and objects can be seen as illusory and indeed creations of consciousness - but is it realistic for me or anyone to turn away from all experience, therefore?  "Oh, that dratted alarm clock is illusory - I won't get up.  Indeed, there's nothing to get up for, because all experience is illusory." The fact is, we do have this experience of life, whether or not anyone puts a label of 'illusion' on it, and regardless of whether it is ultimately 'real' in any objective sense. We do get up in the morning and breathe and eat and drink and shit and piss and interact with people, whether or not we could describe any of that as illusory. Oh yes, "I won't go to the toilet because my discomfort is just a creation of my mind." (which in an important sense it is.) - try it! 

There is a very simple practice generally associated with Tibetan Buddhism, called Dzogchen, in which, having recognised your innermost nature (naked, non-dual awareness) as your true identity, you allow yourself simply to be peaceful observer of your thoughts and feelings and allow them to dissipate. This is widely used in a distorted way by people to enable them to go into a very deep denial of major issues that they are carrying. They regard all their issues as illusory and simply get on with life as though they didn't have those issues.

Yes, they do often find immediate comfort and peace that way, but at a great price. What that practice results in, if not integrated into an abundant and varied lifestyle incorporating other, actually grounding self realization methods (as it rarely is), is various deep and major issues such as emotional traumas remaining buried and never being addressed and resolved, so that they then cause problems which may extend far beyond this lifetime.

This is also to a considerable extent true of ongoing use of formal meditation generally. Thus there is a huge body of people in the world who believe that they are outside or beyond the reach of any possible troublesome influences, or simply believe that such things don't really exist and are just manifestations of the minds of people who haven't 'sorted themselves out' by use of meditation / Dzogchen or more esoteric meditation practices. They are in an important sense in the deeper trouble, because they have no 'handle' or reference point to enable them to free themselves from their ongoing dark force captivity achieved by the particular astral realms (illusory realities) that they have unawarely created for themselves via their reliance on their meditation or Dzogchen practices.

And so, if you get manifestations in your non-physical levels of experience - what you'd call your mind, though your 'awareness' would be a better term to use - that behave as though they are entities separate from yourself, and particularly if you find that regarding them as separate from yourself is helpful in dealing with those manifestations, then why on earth go denying that they are what they appear to be? It's not as though you have to hold a belief as to what their precise nature is!

And it's not as though the people who claim that the entities are one's own creations actually have a useful or constructive angle on dealing with them (I don't count denial or medication as constructive). For myself, I hold no belief about what is absolutely true or 'real', because nobody can ever know such a thing. I operate on the pragmatic principle of "If it works or is helpful, use it".

I've found not one good reason for believing that what had seemed to be interfering entities that had caused me so much trouble from October 2003 were just creations of my mind (i.e. off its own bat). But if I did believe that, then what? Do you really imagine the 'entities' would be good little boys and girls and then evaporate and trouble me no more? Or do you really imagine that I'd then 'come to my senses' and get a doctor to prescribe for me some nice antipsychotic drugs to try and hide the issue?

In fact, in early 2005, while I was getting frequent severe attacks from the dark force, I did briefly appear to benefit from taking on board a 'reading' that I'd had from one very psychic young enlightened teacher, who reckoned that I didn't have any entities and most likely what was troubling me was just thought forms created by my own mind. He told me that not all that long ago he'd had strong anxiety attacks, and these had created troublesome thought forms, and most likely the same sort of thing was happening for me.

I eventually got to understand that almost certainly the particular fellow had got things the wrong way round, and what he had interpreted as troublesome thought forms were actually 'astral entities' (which I now recognise as not true entities at all, but as the dark force, which is actually in part a complex of thought forms), which were attacking him to produce his anxiety attacks.

The reassurance of this idea that it was only thought forms and not actual beings (the thought of which still at that time aroused fear for me) actually took me out of the feedback loop of fear and panic of one attack, and briefly I imagined that I'd found the solution. Just perceiving all the troublesome communications as being from thought forms rather than actual beings did hold the trouble off for a few days.

Later note (December 2008) -- Ironically, I more recently came to understand that it is extremely helpful to regard the various dark force 'entity' manifestations as being just thought forms - but, because of the continuing severe attacks and intrusive communications that I was experiencing at that time back in 2005, I actually very reasonably concluded that it must be actual, conscious beings. In 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side' I explain how it is that astral thought form complexes can behave as though they were conscious beings and even appear to have some degree of intelligence.

My understanding now is slightly different as I get still more clear of the confusions, and I would now describe all astral entity manifestations, whether 'demonic' or 'Divine', as being actual illusory creations of one's mind (after all!), but with a crucial difference from the meaning of that expression when used by my critics. The creation of those illusions by a person's mind is caused by the astral thought form complex that is the executive aspect of the dark force. So, it is not a person's supposedly sick mind perversely creating those entity illusions, but the dark force actually hijacking an aspect of the person's awareness to cause it to create them.

Then more severe attacks came, and then, without recognising any such thing as attacking entities, and knowing nothing then of the true nature of the dark force, I had a problem, in that I hadn't a clue what these hellish and highly disruptive upwellings of fear, anxiety, panic and even full throttle terror were or how to handle them. For a little while my intensive use of powerful sacred geometry healing wands* became the scapegoat, but the attacks still came even when I'd temporarily stopped using those wands, and there appeared to be no rhyme or reason about why these trauma emotions were coming in such disruptive surges like that. Surely, if the problem had been just that my possibly over-zealous use of the wands had freed up more old emotional trauma to release than was comfortable for me, then I'd have had a steady arising and release of that material and not having it concentrated into a succession of hellish episodes that were highly disruptive to my everyday life. And why the concentration on fear and related emotions in those upwellings? Straight away that suggested to me the work of 'dark' entities and not a straightforward self-induced healing crisis, which would incorporate a good measure of grief and related emotions.

* As I came to understand much later, those wands were a quite major part of the problem, but in a quite different way from anything I understood at that time. They had been progressively disrupting and weakening my non-physical aspects ('energy system') and so had been the most major factor in opening me to all the dark force interferences and particularly the attacks. So, of course just laying off them for a short while couldn't at all be expected to reduce or stop the attacks, because so much damage had already been done, and at that time I had no really effective methodology for repairing that damage, which didn't even begin to get repaired in any significant way until I bought my first Energy Egg in July 2006, eventually bringing in additional methods in 2007 and the Clarity-Sphere in 2008.

Eventually - especially with a crisis brought about by the dark force in late April 2005 - I could stretch the credibility of the 'thought forms created by my anxiety' hypothesis no more. The behaviour of the 'astral entities' (i.e. the dark force) was so calculated and scheming - as was so much of my supposed guidance (also really from the dark force) during my 2004 ordeals - that it made no sense at all not to recognise the troublesome 'entities' as something separate from myself that was interacting with me and attempting to cause me very major problems. To have continued to regard what was going on as being just manifestations of my own mind, with no external cause, would have kept me in a state of powerlessness to understand and resolve the issue.

In any case, one does have to ask why on Earth one's own mind would turn upon itself so and behave like immensely malevolent entities - at least without some external influence interfering to make that happen. Doctors and psychiatric workers would of course 'explain' that by sticking the label 'mentally ill' on an affected person - not realizing that the label has merely serves as a fig leaf to put over the person's problem because they haven't a clue what is really going on. The 'ill' label then is used as an excuse for further disrupting the person's mental functioning by use of medication or ECT to try to hide the problem.

It has actually been through my going against all my fears of 'dark' entities and recognising the entity-like manifestations as being as 'real' as you and me (though eventualy I've come to understand them to be illusions given to me by the dark force), that I've developed understandings and insights that have brought me forward tremendously and given me great strength against the dark force and all its manifestations. I note too how many people who have troublesome 'entity' problems themselves have been finding the wealth of information about these manifestations that I've put on this website extremely helpful for them in their own difficult and in some cases desperate situations.

What do you think about homosexuality being taught to 5 year olds at schools?

I'm not aware that homosexuality is being taught to anyone at schools, let alone 5 year olds. Indeed, I'm not aware that homosexuality can be taught to anyone, period.

The above question reflects a confused, judgemental anti-gay outlook that dishonestly makes out that teaching people about homosexuality or homoeroticism is actually teaching them homosexuality (i.e. turning them into 'homosexuals') and is therefore bad.

Whether it really is helpful to be teaching such young people about sexual orientation, I really don't know, and my deepest intuition is that there is no general rule about this because each person, each child, is unique. If I myself had the opportunity to teach young people about sexual orientation, I would use energy testing to establish for each person whether it was helpful to him/her for me to teach him/her about the subject at the present time.

As long as you are living by rules and judgements, you are effectively living 'on the dark side', allowing yourself to be controlled by the dark force, which operates on the basis of power, control and fear rather than love and free choice, even though you may justify it with 'morals' or religious belief (both of which are also products of the dark force). Living on the basis of genuine love, you don't follow rules but instead you listen to your deepest essence and ascertain what is currently most advancing and strengthening for each person in their uniqueness.

I say more about sexual orientation in Love Is Not What Nearly All People Believe.

"I have an increasing awareness of the sexual field / sexual history of others [account given] and wonder if you have such perceptions yourself..."

My counsel is that, if you want to become healthy and complete, and free from dark force connections and influences, for the time being you totally disregard ALL those impressions that are coming to you through non-physical means - whether clairvoyant or channelled, and also to completely disregard any such perceptions or 'readings' or channellings which come from other people. I'm serious about this, for a very serious reason.

You, like virtually every healer, psychic or other 'sensitive' person in the world, have an important part of your awareness poorly grounded, and thus your awareness tends to be open to the astral sub-reality, and thus, whether you intend it or not, your psychic or supposedly 'higher' perceptions are mediated by or/and indeed sourced from the dark force, through the astral sub-reality. To heed such perceptions cultivates your connection to and interference / control from the dark force, whether or not you are ever aware of it, and would lead to very serious problems for you that go way beyond this lifetime.

Grounded energy awareness is very different.  Such grounded awareness senses 'energies' around us simply in terms of how they are affecting us - specifically, whether they are strengthening or weakening for us - so that we can make the most strengthening choices at every point in our lives.  Such grounded energy awareness operates without 'story'.  It is the dark force that continually seeks to insinuate 'story' into people's energy awareness, and divert their attention from the reality of 'What Is', and away from their own core essence, which latter is our only worthwhile source of information / guidance / healing.

As my own experiences showed, the dark force will relay to you an amazing array of supposedly accurate clairvoyant or channelled information, but it will ALWAYS come with distortions and usually virtually total fictions too, and often purporting to come from 'higher' sources. This happens not in some sort of chaotic or random way, but following a ruthless agenda of seeking to lure or manipulate the 'sensitive' person into getting more into their control.

So, do you want to be yet another of the myriads of humans who have become 'lost' to the dark force because they have fallen to the latter's lures (particularly fascinations and illusory realities), or do you want to become free, happy and fulfilled and to revert to fundamental consciousness ('the Ultimate') as Nature intended when you die? -- If it's the latter alternative you want, then getting properly grounded is crucial, as is using self healing / self realization methods that are free from dark force connections (nearly all aren't) and which are grounding in their effect. In Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way I outline a range of such methods, and I include a section on proper grounding. Also crucially important (actually linked to from that page) are Healing From Our Core Essence and The Guide to Complete Self Realization - for fundamental self healing / self realization and removal of entities and dark force influences.

The most powerful way that I know to cultivate grounded energy awareness is by use of the energy awareness methods that I present in Healing and Self Realization - The Quickest and Safest Way. I use these methods myself nowadays, and it is they more than any of my other methods that are empowering me, turning my life around and rapidly wiping out dark force interference and influence.

And finally, to answer your query directly - my answer is "Yes and no". That is, I do pick up certain non-physically derived impressions about people, but they are generally NOT of a clairvoyant nature, but more in the sense of my having a recognition of the areas of energy/awareness openness, blocks and distortions that a person is carrying. If I do get a more detailed element of 'story' about a person come into my mind, nowadays I filter it out, because I know from experience that this would have come to me from the dark force and, whether it is true or false, it has been presented to me with an agenda to lead me astray in some manner or other, and get me more into the clutches of the dark force again.

If you're in any doubt as to whether openness to the astral sub-reality and thus the dark force is worth excluding entirely from your life, just read The Dark Force ('Astral Entities') - My Own Tough Experiences and related pages that are listed underneath that page's Contents list. If, having read all that, you're still happy to be ungrounded and open to the astral sub-reality, well, that's your choice, and I have more constructive priorities than minding your business rather than my own!

Why is there a pain around my solar plexus while I'm astrally projecting?

-- To which I'd be inclined to say, "Why the hell are you astrally projecting anyway?", and also "Why is there a searing pain in my hand when I put it in a flame?".

Astral projection / travel is one of the most dangerous things you can possibly do, with regard to non-physical aspects of reality.

When you do astral projection or astral travel, you are massively ungrounding an important part of your awareness, and opening yourself Big Time to the dark force, for it to do what whatever it will with you, including giving you a partial walk-in or a serious spirit attachment problem. Indeed, if you've been doing astral projection / travel, there's a high chance that you already have one of those, and this is a major part of the cause of the various problems and issues that you are nowadays experiencing. The dark force widely interferes with particular people to cultivate an interest in and fascination with astral projection / travel for just that purpose.

Also, what you perceive during astral projection / travel is NOT anything 'real' or 'concrete' but instead is simply images and impressions given to you by the dark force in order to mislead you and get you ensnared in astral realms (illusory realities), so making you a total captive of the dark force on a timescale extending unthinkably far beyond this lifetime, as I explain in 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

Thus let's spell it out clearly - there is in truth NO travel or projection that you can do through the astral sub-reality. So-called astral travel or astral projection is actually illusory, because the very nature of the astral sub-reality is that of illusion and distortion of 'reality'. So you are creating big problems for yourself by engaging with that stuff and believing that it is 'real'.

When people use astral projection in healing, they have a tremendously misguided notion of how to go about healing work, and every time they use such a method they put themselves in extreme danger, quite apart from not even doing very effective healing work. You NEVER need to use astral projection or travel for truly effective healing, nor indeed for anything at all that is worthwhile.

So, to answer the original question, I'd say that any such solar plexus ache clearly indicates an attack from the dark force, though it would most likely be using attached parasitic 'lost' souls or other attached entities as weapons for this purpose.

Are you so sure now that you want to be astrally projecting / travelling?

If you have been doing so and now want to clear yourself of the problems you have thus created or greatly exacerbated for yourself, there is still real hope for you! Please see Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

As a teacher, can I be myself?

To me that question is utterly bizarre, and it reflects an almost universal misunderstanding as to what makes a worthwhile teacher. There is an almost universally held notion that to pass on information to another person for the purpose of that person's learning it you have to put on what I call an inscrutable front of 'perfection'. In other words, Teacher has to be perceived as 'right' and unflawed, or at least superior, and unquestionable.

This is all bullshit which has come to us from the dark force, which seeks to get us all inextricably tied up in personal status and control agendas.

So, to come back to that question, I'd say that anyone who is not openly being him/herself cannot be a worthwhile teacher (except of deception). Period.

Why is self realization so difficult?

Wrong question! Try this one instead: "Why does self realization appear to be so difficult?".

There can be nothing really difficult about self realization, because it's simply a matter of learning to be fully yourself, and to stop doing the 1,001 things you habitually do that point you away from tuning into your own deepest aspects. To achieve that requires releasing all the emotional stresses, traumas and beliefs that you carry - which actually can be a simple and easy matter, albeit an ongoing process and not instantaneous.

So, how come that not doing all those things that get in the way seems so difficult?

The answer is habitual tendencies or patterns, and the very much related issue of attachments.

These arise as a result of emotional stress or trauma that we fail to clear from our system, and are very much kept in place and indeed by various means augmented by the dark force, generally via attached 'lost' human souls. The dark force in particular consistently seeks to divert everyone's focus away from any direct and simple means towards self realization. The dark force's means to divert people in this way include ALL religions and ALL so-called spiritual paths and traditions. These have come to us from the dark force to lure people into distorted views of self realization that make true self realization at best a long and difficult process and indeed for most people frankly unattainable.

The solution to this situation is simply to turn away from so-called spirituality altogether and use methods such as those that I present in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way, you can be working from and with your own core essence, which is effectively 'the Ultimate' and are no longer being led astray by the dark force and the obstructive beliefs that it cultivates.

What are the karmic consequences of a grudge?

When a person asks this sort of thing I can be pretty sure that they have in mind the troublesome distortion of the real meaning of 'karma', which the dark force has cultivated in various religious, spiritual and healing traditions. I explain about the real and distorted meanings of karma in Karma - Cutting Through the Confusion.

So, I reject any notion that you will get some sort of punishment (i.e. from some external force or presence) for holding a grudge (i.e. because it is a Bad Thing). However, that is far from the end of the story, because even with the undistorted meaning of 'karma' (i.e. the accumulation of weakenings and distortions in your non-physical aspects caused by unharmonious choices, events and situations in your life) you do gain a karma from holding a grudge. Indeed the grudge itself is a karma, but as long as it is held, it continues to generate further levels of karma through the ways that it causes your outlook and behaviour to be distorted and thus stressful to yourself - each further stress that is stored in your system actually being another karma. Even though any such karma in itself may be very tiny indeed, these all accumulate, so that the eventual harmful effects of holding that grudge can be very major.

A grudge itself is a distortion of your emotional energy, which creates distortions in other parts of your non-physical aspects, and, quite apart from the grudge itself greatly marring your life experience, you would over time get physical health issues and very likely various 'misfortunes' that result from 'fruition' of those distortions and the accumulation of all the consequent ones as they all increasingly distort your physical being and life experience. Held grudges, for one thing, are well known to be potent causes of eventual cancers.

However, for many (but far from all) people, there can be an apparent sort of retributional or 'an eye for an eye' quality about the harmful effects that eventually manifest. That is because the particular people are (often unawarely) carrying beliefs that karma operates in that retributional way. Beliefs create for us astral realms (illusory realities) in which the beliefs appear to be true, and these can impinge upon and distort one's experience of the 'real' physical world. The dark force is constantly cultivating such beliefs for most people, making distorted perceptions of reality to appear to be 'normal' and thus supposedly to represent the true reality.

The simple way out of this mess is to take on a direct and effective genuine self realization methodology, such as I give in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way. Then you could be rapidly clearing yourself of any grudge and any distorted notions of the nature of karma, and indeed retrospectively clearing from your system the accumulated harmful effects of having been holding onto those over time. Such methods also progressively weaken the hold of and eventually 'squeeze out' in one way or another all entities and dark force interferences that have been cultivating such distortions and helping to keep them in place.

Does masturbation interfere with self realization?

It isn't masturbation itself that interferes with the self realization process. In many ways masturbation is just as neutral in itself as, say, sitting on a clifftop rock to admire the tremendous view - though it is a bit weakening when practised more frequently than is biologically beneficial. As to what is biologically beneficial, it is NOT to do with when you want to 'do it' but to do with how frequently you need to do it in order not to get certain physical problems later in life - the widely recognised one being prostate enlargement in men. I don't know if there are any equivalent considerations for women, but there might well be, whether or not they are medically recognised.

The main problem about masturbation (as with all sexual activity) is in the enormous degree of attachment that nearly all of us have to erotic and orgasmic ecstasy feelings, and the way that this is cultivated and ruthlessly exploited by the dark force in order to control us and keep us pointing firmly away from true self realization.

Because of this, masturbating at one particular time or in one particular context would be highly problematical, while on another occasion, in a different context, a particular masturbation could be actually supportive to your self realization process. A key consideration is, to what extent are you allowing yourself to be driven by desire (which is an aspect of attachment) and are keeping your awareness within that desire and attachment rather than maintaining a balanced and more detached perspective?

If you are seeking some sort of reconciliation between self realization and masturbation, a prime need is to keep aware all the time of the extent to which feelings of desire and attachment are taking you out of balance, and to seek in a loving and non-judgemental manner to get yourself more into balance. It is extremely unhealthy and unsupportive to self realization if you are constantly trying to suppress urges to masturbate or have particular sexual or erotic experiences, so aware balance is what is called for, not a general suppression, and NOBODY is truly in a position to prescribe to you how much or how little masturbation or eroticism would be healthiest for you, because they simply haven't a clue and are just mouthing dark force sourced beliefs if they do say anything on the subject.

As I intimate in Love Is Not What Nearly All People Believe, the most effective way to assist yourself into a truly healthy balance is to take up careful, aware and discerning use of energy testing. Then you can test for yourself as to whether it would be 'strengthening' or 'weakening' for you to masturbate or have some particular erotic experience at the present moment. Provided you are using the energy testing method carefully and aren't getting misled by dark force interference, you would almost certainly find that the answers that you get point to some prospective masturbations as helpful while others would be 'flagged' as 'weakening' or unhelpful. And again, energy testing, if used awarely and creatively, would point to particular ways of going about that solitary sexual or erotic experience that would be more or less strengthening for you - so, this way, you can choose whichever way of going about it that is either most healthy or least unhealthy for you, depending on the circumstances at the particular time.

However, if you are being strongly driven by an arousal that won't go away (almost certainly caused by dark force interference), it is important to energy-test not only the notion of masturbation but the notion of continuing to try to resist that particular pressure to masturbate. While during the daytime you may be able to get your attention on to other things and so get it more grounded, when you are in bed the dark force can keep you awake all night if you keep trying to resist the urge, and that would be exhausting and actually harmful to you because of its stressfulness. Your own deepest aspects would recognise that and in such circumstances almost certainly, if given the appropriate 'query' via energy testing, would indicate that it would be healthiest for you to 'go ahead' just so that you could get that pressure off you and then get some sleep. If you do that with the clear intent that you are aiming for a better balance and are simply making pragmatic interim choices towards that end rather than making your masturbation or sexual / erotic experiences an actual goal in your life, then you are on a very healthy and 'strengthening' course despite sometimes having to pragmatically make the odd 'weakening' choices.

I do not mean by this that one needs to avoid enjoying and indeed getting the most out of the experiences while one is having them, for such avoidance would be getting into self denial, and that is just as harmful as attachment to seemingly pleasurable or ecstatic experiences.

Even if you seem not to be getting 'driven' at all towards masturbation, if you are male and do energy testing you would probably find that if you don't have moderately regular opportunities for eroticism with one or more appropriate people, you get an indication, via energy testing, that periodic masturbation is actually beneficial, and not doing it at all is actually harmful, because not to have periodic ejaculations adversely affects hormone levels in the blood and quite potently encourages prostate enlargement. I don't know whether there is an equivalent situation for women, but in any case energy testing is the way to find out what is uniquely 'right' for you at the present time. The words of supposed 'experts' on the subject are worth nothing against the results of your own energy testing, provided the latter is carried out with due care and awareness - in particular, with vigilance for dark force interference.

Can masturbation draw dark spiritual entities into your life?

For starters, I would keep completely clear of the adjective 'spiritual' for anything, because of the problematical and highly confused connotations with which the dark force has loaded it in people's minds. I assume that by 'spiritual', the questioner meant 'non-physical'.

As explained in my answer to the previous question, masturbation itself is relatively neutral, and indeed it doesn't actually attract entities to you. However, if, as is generally the case, masturbation (or indeed any other sexual activity) is being practised out of feelings of compulsion, the dark force would be involved in that compulsion, and your doing it more frequently than is biologically beneficial would be rather weakening for your energy system, and there would be other, probably much greater, weakening effects caused by allowing yourself to be driven and controlled by your desires, which themselves are being cultivated and manipulated by the dark force. Indeed, the dark force drives quite a few people to extremely frequent sexual activity, and that is seriously weakening.

Everything that weakens your non-physical aspects ('energy system') is in some degree rendering you more open and vulnerable to the dark force. So, depending upon a person's individual situation, it could look as though doing a lot of masturbation has brought the person a problem with entities, BUT it would be almost certain that what was really happening was that the dark force was already interfering a lot with the person, even if only covertly, and had managed to get the person to weaken himself sufficiently to enable the dark force then to interfere more intrusively, posing as 'entities'. Excessive masturbation could well have been part of the means used to weaken the person*, though most likely the primary means would have been something else more potent, such as alcohol, smoking or other drugs, or indeed some types of supposed healing methods such as use of moldavite or sacred geometry devices (which latter indeed dropped me myself right in it!).

* Actually it would most likely be more a symptom rather than a major cause of the problem.

Why do we need channelled information?

Why do you need a hippopotamus in your bath? Why do you need a hungry ferret up your trousers? Why do you need to go to bed with a green mamba? -- The answer is just the same: you don't! Indeed I'd go further and say we need channelled information like we need a great big hole in our head. My own hard experience demonstrates a definite need for us to keep completely clear of any channelled information, never mind how elevated or even 'Divine' the source may appear to be. See Better Without Channelling, The Dark Force ('Astral Entities') - My Own Tough Experiences and 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

Can chakra meditation remove a spirit attachment from a person's aura?

Not to my knowledge. Indeed, it would be greatly helpful for a start if you let go of the very concepts of 'aura' and 'chakras' and worked only from your own core essence, which for healing purposes you can visualize as your core point. If you want to remove entities from yourself or somebody else, truly effective means to achieve this are given in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way and certain related pages that that one links to.

Please note that I warn about seeking to remove entities from other people; most people's involvements with doing that are ineffective and are extremely unhealthy and liable to cause them serious problems, as well as very likely compounding the problems of the people they are seeking to help. The most important thing is always to be working consistently on clearing your own entity attachments and dark force interferences. When you are doing that, it may be appropriate and safe in particular cases to give entity clearance healings to the occasional other person. It's best to use energy testing to establish whether and when it is appropriate for you to do such a thing.

However, spirit attachments generally involve dark force interference, and very often what people identify as a spirit attachment is nothing other than dark force interference (though usually involving attached parasitic lost souls, which are a related but rather different phenomenon to the so-called spirit attachment). Fortunately, at least with my methodology, you have the simplicity of using the same methods for both those issues.

How can I remove dark astral energies from my aura?

Although that particular description of the troublesome energies or entities is probably a bit confused, my answer is the same regardless of the exact nature of those energies: by taking up the methodology presented in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Can positive entities attach to me?

Actually, no, because anything that would attach to you is harmful and therefore can't sensibly be regarded as positive, regardless of any appearances. You may certainly get the impression of positive, benign or beneficial entities around you, but those would all be bogus, as I explain in 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'. The dark force, which poses as those supposedly beneficial entities or beings is actually NOT entities attached to you at all, but rather, you are simply open to it because the astral sub-reality is an intrinsic aspect of consciousness itself. Indeed, as I explain in the abovementioned article, astral 'entities' appears to be a misnomer, because they just illusions create in one's mind by the astral thought form complexes that are the executive aspect of the dark force, which may put on the appearance of being entities or indeed conscious beings, but in reality is something completely different.

How can I tell if dark entities are around?

If you mean astral entities (also known as 'dark' entities), then the question is irrelevant because they are always around and interfering with you and other people whether or not you are aware of the fact - except that the reality is that they appear not to be true entities at all, as I explain in 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side', and nowadays I generally refer to all such manifestations and their underlying cause generically as 'the dark force'. Unlike people, the manifestations of the dark force are not geographically located, but earthbound spirits and elementals are, and it may well be that the questioner is really thinking more of troublesome manifestations relating to what seem to be ghosts or ghost-like things.

My understanding is that what are generally recognised as ghosts are not earthbound consciousnesses ('spirits') at all but elementals, which are effectively thought form complexes that can appear to be at least aspects of actual conscious beings even though they are not. These can be unawarely left by people when they die, but also can be deliberately created by unsavoury individuals who are into various sorts of 'dark' practices, and some of these can be extremely frightening and troublesome, and may get labelled as 'dark entities'.

They can also be created unawarely by dark force interference with particular individuals who are not necessarily into 'dark' practices but are sufficiently poorly grounded for the dark force to hijack an aspect of their energy system in a particular way.

The one sure way to tell if there are any entities or troublesome elementals attached to a particular location or person is to use energy testing (NOT dowsing or channelling). Your direct impressions may well give you false information, because most likely they would come from your dark force interference and thus would be given to you with the purpose of misleading you.

How can I remove astral masters' power to control?

First of all, and crucially importantly, you need to get right out of your mind and right out of your whole being the very notion that anything at all in the astral sub-reality is a 'master' or indeed any sort of conscious being at all. As long as you regard the dark force as actual beings with power, you are cultivating and reinforcing its ability to manifest in that way. The astral sub-reality is that aspect of reality into which we project all our illusions, beliefs and distorted perceptions and distorted notions. It is thus not at all a place where there ever could be such a thing as a 'real' being, let alone a 'master'.

Indeed, if every single human-type being in all 'Creation' completely cleared themselves of all notion that the astral sub-reality contains 'masters' or consciously aware beings, and recognised that what is there is nothing more than empty, virus-like thought forms, almost certainly within a matter of months in Earth time the whole massively troublesome contents of the astral sub-reality would dissolve, humans then being free to start developing healthily and positively at last.

I explain more about the true nature and origin of the dark force in 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'. As for means to clear out your own personal interferences from the dark force, I refer you to Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Can a self realized person have a partner?

It isn't a matter of "can" or "can't", but of whether a partner would be helpful or supportive to the person's self realized state or/and self realization process. What people almost universally mean by a partner is a strongly and exclusively attached companion, and that is incompatible with true self realization or indeed fully 'whole' and healthy living. So, if you know a supposedly self realized person who has such a partner or indeed a spouse, it's a pretty good indicator of a serious limitation of and block to that person's full self realization.

Companionship and indeed great closeness between highly compatible individuals is in itself perfectly compatible with self realization, and indeed supportive of it, but ONLY without attachment. Most people don't understand that closeness does not require attachment and so tend to confuse the two. I refer you to Love Is Not What Nearly All People Believe.

How does alcohol attract dark entities?

This question prompts me to clarify, for two different manifestations tend to be involved with alcohol use, and they both tend to get called 'dark entities'.

• The dark force, which commonly manifests as apparent entities, and everyone has connection and some degree of interference from it via the astral sub-reality. You cannot therefore attract the dark force because you've already 'got' it. You can, however, cause its interferences to become stronger and more extensive.
• Earthbound spirits (consciousnesses of people who for various reasons have failed to immediately 'move on' at death) and also soul fragments.

What alcohol does is to harm the drinker's non-physical aspects ('energy system') in ways that make the person much more open to interference and attacks from the dark force (which has most likely controlled the person into drinking in the first place), and also make the person more open to getting spirit attachments and soul fragments and other problematical energy forms such as thought forms and elementals attaching to him/herself. Drinking alcohol even in the most modest quantities always has this effect, at least to some extent, so there is no truly safe or healthy amount of alcohol to drink.

How can I move my assemblage point?

Contrary to what various others may tell you, my understanding is that you can't move it - not because it is in a fixed position but because it actually has no real physical position in the first place. As explained in Healing From Our Core Essence, the assemblage point, also known as the core star, but what I myself nowadays am calling the core point (because that avoids confusions that surround the other two names for it), is a virtual structure, not a real one, and is really just a schematic representation of something far too subtle for any of us to see as any sort of discrete object or structure.

If you use the healing / self realization methods given in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way, you have no need nor cause to concern yourself with purported energy structures and can get on with your self realization and dark force / entity clearance process with maximum effectiveness.

How can I recognise my twin flame?

Sorry to disappoint you (though glad to have the opportunity to point you to the real situation!), but you can't recognise your twin flame, ever, because in the 'real world', objectively there is no such thing even as a soul mate, let alone a twin flame. The whole notion of the twin flame - a sort of super-soul-mate with whom you are destined to come together at some point in your purported evolution - is one of the many troublesome fictions that have come to us from the dark force, as I explain in Love Is Not What Nearly All People Believe. See also Exploring Close Relationships - Exit the Soul Mate.

However, as pointed out in those articles, in no way am I claiming that there aren't some individuals out there who are potentially extremely compatible for you and would make great companions for you in appropriate circumstances. If you use energy testing carefully and awarely, heeding all the caveats that I give about using it, you would be able to confirm any particular person's suitability or otherwise to be any sort of companion for you.

Why does it hurt so much to meet my twin flame?

It doesn't, because there is no external 'twin flame' to meet, as noted in the previous answer. The reason for what you are experiencing is quite major interference that you are receiving from the dark force, which cultivates attachment in us and thus gets us believing in and hankering after predestined soul mate or twin flame relationships.

Actually, it is painful emotions that are the basis of attachment, and if you feel such painful emotion when faced with a particular person with whom you have a strong positive energy resonance, that indicates that you have a relatively deep level of awareness and are better able to clear yourself of such attachments and the underlying emotional issues than the vast majority of people, who are simply driven by such attachments and even experience them as pleasurable, much as a smoking addict experiences the harm and physical pain of tobacco smoke in their lungs as 'pleasurable'.

You feel the pain so much because the dark force, in response to certain emotional 'buttons' being pushed, attacks you with the relevant emotional trauma energy and feelings in order to greatly magnify what would otherwise be quite slight painful emotion feelings. The chances are, too, that all or nearly all of the substance of those feelings will be from trauma material and experiences that are not yours at all, but which belong to parasitic lost souls attached to you. These can be removed over a quite short time-scale by ongoing use of the methodology that I give in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Can twin flames be homosexual?

No, because in the 'real world', 'twin flames' don't exist! Yes, within an astral realm (illusory reality) they may appear to exist, but you would get that impression only as long as you are allowing yourself to be interfered with by the dark force. As noted in the answer above, the notion of the twin flame is one of the multitude of lures used by the dark force to bring people under its control and away from genuine self realization.

Also as noted in the previous answer, if your real concern is about whether you can come together with a truly compatible person, then I can say with confidence that there are bound to be such people available somewhere, and the deepest and closest friendships and companionships can be between people of same or opposite gender.

However, you would do best to concentrate on your own self healing / self realization process, because your interest in twin flames and seeking a particular 'orientation' of relationship suggests that you have major issues to clear before you are able to relate healthily and satisfyingly in a really deep and close way with anyone, and indeed also there is need to clear out the dark force influences that are affecting your perception of what would really benefit you in terms of relationships.

Could I be stuck if my twin flame [/soul mate] is stuck?

It's not a matter of 'could', nor a matter of whether the particular person you have in mind is 'stuck'. If you believe that a particular person is your twin flame (or soul mate) you are stuck - seriously so! As noted in the preceding three answers, the twin flame and indeed the soul mate is an illusory concept that the dark force seeks to get us engaging with, for it seeks to cultivate attachment in us in all manner of ways, and being attached to another person is a very potent limiting and stultifying means of being kept away from genuine self realization and freedom from dark force interference and influence. So, you can take a big step forward in your liberation by getting a Clarity-Sphere and using the Grounding Post procedure to enable you to clear yourself of your attachment both to any particular individuals and to the very notion of anyone being a twin flame or soul mate of yours, and indeed to the very concepts of the twin flame and the soul mate.

That doesn't mean, of course, that there aren't some people out there who are highly energy-compatible with you and with whom it would be a great experience to encounter or indeed be companions with when there is some particular circumstance that brings you together for a while, such as a particular shared activity. But attachment to and belief in some 'bond of love' is a very serious obstacle to the genuine self realization process. A 'bond of love' is indeed a bond, but a bond of attachment or/and desire, not of love. Love is our innate propensity to experience delight in everything and everyone in our surroundings, and is nothing to do with bonds.

Does your spirit leave your body sleeping and astral travel to heal?

It is a common belief among healers and psychics that this occurs, and they use this purported happening to explain why some people who are at least to a fair extent 'psychic' find themselves waking up in the morning feeling drained or 'shagged out' after what was apparently a peaceful night.

My understanding, however, is that this is NOT what is happening, and indeed it simply doesn't happen. This notion of people going on 'astral walkies for healing purposes' in their sleep is one of the multitude of deceptions that have been given to healers and psychics by the dark force in order both to divert them from finding out the real cause of their tiredness and exhaustion and to lead them further astray with a belief that is very troublesome in its own right and that also cultivates an interest in astral travel.

If you are waking up of a morning feeling 'shagged out' with no obvious physical explanation, it is almost certain that your energy is being drained by one or more spirit attachments, which may be more or less entire or may be soul fragments. THAT is what (or rather, one of the many things that) the dark force is seeking to hide from you, for it's a regular part of its agenda to get people set up with entity attachments that make them weak and more vulnerable to the dark force.

So, the practical answer, then, is that for your own wellbeing you need to let go completely of any notion of your doing astral travel or astral projection for any purpose at all, and instead to take on genuinely effective self realization methods that clear out the attached entities and progressively clear you of dark force interferences - such as I give in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way. An excellent starting point would be to get and then to actively use a Clarity-Sphere.

Where can I find some spells to protect me from astral / dark entities?

You can't, because ALL spells are sourced from the dark force - regardless of whether they come from 'white' or 'black' witchcraft or any other tradition - and thus are no true protection at all - though the dark force may organize its interferences in such a way as to deceive you into believing that certain spells do protect you. Of course there are plenty of spells out there that are claimed to protect you from entities / 'dark forces', but 'claimed' is the operative word there.

If you are serious about wanting to get clear of the dark force's interferences, you need to get right out of Wicca or whatever 'spiritual', mystical or paganistic tradition or group that you are in, and take on true self realization methods, such as I give in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way. As noted in the previous answer, an excellent starting point would be to get and then to actively use a Clarity-Sphere, and, further, as a direct replacement for the hopelessly useless and dark force reinforcing notion of 'spells', you'd do yourself an immense favour by regular use of my set of affirmations for self realization and entity clearance.

Can Reiki help with night terrors?

Not to any useful extent. Indeed, because of Reiki's strong dark force connections*, it could well in some circumstances exacerbate any night terrors problem. In Night Hells (Night Terrors) and Hearing Voices I explain about the true nature of night terrors and go on to give pointers as to how you can address and resolve any night terrors issue.

* Sorry, but true! Read My Own Self Realization 'Path' - Part 1 to see how spiritual healing, including Reiki, was part of the means by which the dark force was leading me astray and into very big troubles. My certificate that laughably claims that I'm a Reiki "Master" is not worth the paper it's printed on!

Why do night terrors involve insects?

I assume that the questioner is referring to insects being among the images presented in night hell (aka night terror) displays. Actually, they wouldn't necessarily appear to a significant extent in everyone's night terrors, but I would expect them to be at least a common feature for many. Certainly particular types of insects were quite a significant feature in my own childhood night hell visuals - primarily masses of writhing maggots on the one hand and quivering, twitchy ichneumon wasps and similar insects on the other.

As I understand it, this arises from particular types of insects having historically been the focus of many people's feelings of revulsion and indeed fear. Some of the parasitic lost souls attached to a person may well have had traumas that involved such insects or in some way got emotionally linked to their revulsion / fear of those insects. The person would experience those traumas and their related past-life memories and feelings as his own. So, the present-time person experiencing night hells would have the dark force presenting visuals that restimulate such trauma feelings, and then would attack with those feelings in order to greatly intensify the unbearableness of the experience.

I suspect that such trauma experiences carried by attached parasitic lost souls would in a fair number of cases relate to experiences in Satanism and other traditions of 'dark' practices, where various kinds of insects - both real and visualized / illusory - may be used for the purpose of heightening feelings of fear / revulsion during some of their practices - particularly sexual practices, and men would even direct their ejaculations into images of those insects (women visualizing their being raped by the insects).

For more about the true nature of night terrors, please see Night Hells (Night Terrors) and Hearing Voices.

Which part of the brain is involved in night terrors?

That is actually an extremely unhelpful question, because it is based in the materialist-reductionist belief that our experiences are based in aspects of brain function. As I explain in The Nature of Reality and Truth, the very impression or concept of our having a brain is itself a construct of mind or consciousness, and thus in trying to understand any of our experiences, the brain is not a useful place to start looking. You can get to understand or explain experiences only by reference to, or in relation to, experience itself.

If you really want to get understanding night hells (aka night terrors), and actually start doing something useful about them, then you're in luck and have come to the right website, for the information that you need (albeit not necessarily what you thought you were after) is in Night Hells (Night Terrors) and Hearing Voices and the related pages that that page links to.

Is hearing voices demonic or psychotic?

This question is understandable, and clearly is coming from somebody who is genuinely seeking to get a deeper understanding of 'hearing voices', but who still has some very basic (and normal) confusions.

In order to start gaining a proper understanding of the true cause of 'hearing voices', one prerequisite is that we let go of labels like 'demonic' or 'psychotic'. Those labels have belief systems attached to them, and so in order to really get understanding what is going on, you have to drop those labels and never use them again.

Now, having given my little (but important) homily, I refer you to Night Hells (Night Terrors) and Hearing Voices, in which you will find an explanation of 'hearing voices', indeed with pointers as to how to clear oneself from the underlying cause of that phenomenon.

How do you stop astral nasties from following you?

You can't, because they're not following you (at least, if they are anything astral)! The dark force, which so often manifests as apparent entities (whether 'dark' or 'Divine'), is non-physical and not physically located, so if you get the impression of any such (actually spurious) entities following you, that is simply an impression given to you by the dark force to unsettle, disturb and frighten you.

The astral sub-reality is an intrinsic aspect of consciousness, so everybody is at least potentially open to whatever is in the astral sub-reality - and so, in reality (sic), nothing in the astral sub-reality would really be following anyone, but the dark force would simply be already with you and interfering with you in various ways via the astral sub-reality.

It's possible, however, that the questioner was really referring to experiences with certain kinds of elemental, which could indeed at least seem to be following a person around - and the dark force could use the non-physical aspects ('energy system') of a particularly poorly grounded person to create elementals that would indeed follow the person in order to frighten him.

Elementals are not true (i.e. conscious) beings and thus can only loosely be called entities, but unlike the dark force they are physically located - or, more correctly, they are 'semi-physically' located. I explain about them in 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

So, if it is elementals that are troubling the person who asked the above question, then there is a range of ongoing measures to take, which would progressively clear the problem. The best starting point is probably Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Can wearing of crystals bring on a period?

I hope not - at least, not for me! For women the picture might be a little different, though... 

Generally speaking, wearing of crystals (or using them in any way or just having them around in your living space) is decidedly harmful to your non-physical aspects ('energy system'), as I explain in Sacred Geometry, Wands and Crystals - A Serious Warning. For this reason, different people can experience widely varying undesirable physical effects - nearly all of which would have a long-delayed onset, for it takes time for a serious amount of 'energy system' damage to accumulate and for this to progressively translate through into physical effects.

So, yes, for a particular person one of the adverse effects could indeed be that of bringing on a period - though I'm not aware of any general tendency for crystals to specifically cause period disturbances for any woman who goes wearing or otherwise using them.

Can fear lower your vibrations during astral travel and take you to the lower astral world?

Methinks whoever asked that question is in BIG trouble and could do with a Clarity-Sphere, quick!

I have already briefly explained further above the big problem about astral travel and astral projection. Also, this person has taken on board beliefs and illusory realities that greatly help to bring him/her under the control of the dark force. The whole concept of higher and lower 'vibrations' is a New-Age one given to us by the dark force to divert us away from simply seeking to expand and deepen our awareness in a grounded way and thus maximize our clarity. For 'high vibrations' you can pretty safely read 'ungroundedness with dark force connected awareness', and for 'low vibrations' you can similarly read 'ungroundedness with dark force connected unawareness'. In other words, it's by far the best to keep right away from the whole notion of 'vibrations' (in the non-physical sense).

The concept of a lower astral world (or 'dimension' or 'plane') is another bogus one that has been given to us from the dark force, which presents to us a range of polarities that appear to make the astral sub-reality into a place where actual beings could reside and where people could go. So, for example, you have the polarities of 'light' and 'dark', good and evil, positive and negative, and 'high' and 'low'. However, once you understand the true nature of the astral sub-reality you'd realize that such concepts are meaningless there, except as aspects of illusions that the dark force is constantly trying to get us involved with and incorporating in our perception of 'reality' and so getting ourselves ensnared by the dark force.

Also, the whole concept of there being any sort of astral world at all in which people could travel or project themselves is a deception given to us from the dark force in order to get us believing that story and thus creating an astral realm (illusory reality) in which all that appears to exist and be true, to encourage people to involve themselves with their illusory reality and the dark force. In 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side' you can find out what is almost certain to happen to people who involve themselves to any degree at all with all that. In that article you can also find out more about what the dark force really is - which is something quite different from what nearly everybody believes it is.

How can I protect my solar plexus from negative vibrations?

Contrary to what almost all healers and psychics would tell one, I can say with some security that the person who asked that question is seeking the wrong thing because of seriously troublesome misinformation that the dark force has given to healers, 'lightworkers' and psychics pretty well universally. Indeed, the whole notion of the aura and its detailed structure, including different 'energy bodies' and the chakras, has been given to us to lead us astray and divert us from genuine self realization - which process brings us the most comprehensive and effective healing and strengthening against all weakening or 'negative' so-called energies.

Although you may feel nasty feelings in your solar plexus area when you experience 'negative energies', it is NOT specifically your solar plexus that needs protecting, but your whole being. It just happens that many harmful 'energy' events are felt at the solar plexus, and the dark force cultivates the notion that therefore you need to protect your solar plexus, in order to divert you from taking fully effective protection measures.

And those protection measures are NOT visualizations of white or coloured light around you (that is more stuff from 'the dark side' to lead you astray, and it simply doesn't work), but are measures to progressively build and strengthen your whole being so that you progressively become immune to all weakening or harmful 'energies', no matter what their nature or origin. That means, in effect, true self realization methods, and the best place that I know of for you to find such methods is Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Does my belief in karma mean I should remain in my situation?

Actually that's a funny sort of question, because the answer is both clearly 'yes' and clearly 'no', according to from what viewpoint you approach it.

If you hold a belief in karma, almost certainly your 'understanding' of karma would be the seriously troublesome distortion of its true nature that is sourced from the dark force and disseminated in various religions (including Buddhism) and the majority of healing and mystical traditions. Please see Karma - Cutting Through the Confusion. Because of the dark force source of the distorted view of karma that people believe in, that whole set of beliefs contains an underlying thread of seeking to keep people feeling that they are tied to obligations from their past and are at the mercy of 'their karma'. If they have supposedly done some dark deed in a purported previous lifetime, then supposedly they are obliged to go through certain hardships in this lifetime to clear their 'karmic debt'.

So, if you hold that sort of belief, as long as you live your life within that belief - actually a completely illusory reality - it would be true that you are stuck with your adversities until and unless they change of their own volition, and your life events would tend to work out in ways that underline that belief.

However, to allow yourself to be so bound is, frankly, crazy!

The point here is that the moment you are into belief (any belief), you are living an illusory reality - in other words you have then to a certain extent parted company with the simple reality of 'What Is'.

From the viewpoint of reality (i.e. 'What Is'), there is no such thing as "should" or "shouldn't", for use of those words is arguing or struggling against 'What Is'. The reality is that things are as they are and people do as they do. There is thus NO obligation upon you or me or anyone - there is only cause and effect. The whole concept of karma is thus best thrown right out of the window. -- Well, no, please don't do that, because other people would pick it up and reuse it! The real way to dispose of it is by use of the Grounding Post procedure, which is at its most effective when you have a Clarity-Sphere.

As long as you believe in karma as any sort of retributional or obligational force upon you or people in general, you are potently keeping yourself under control of the dark force, and the distorted and actually illusory sort of karma that you believe in would tend to manifest, and would prevent you from reverting to fundamental consciousness, as needs to happen, when you die, so that you would then instead be pretty well fully at the 'mercy' of the dark force (to which the concept of 'mercy' is completely meaningless!).

The good news is that by completely dropping any belief about karma (and indeed anything at all) and by using genuine self realization methods, you free yourself totally from any dark force sourced illusion that you are in some way bound or obligated by any karma that you may be carrying. What karma really is, is simply your particular accumulation of weakenings or damage to your non-physical aspects, and a genuine and comprehensive self realization process progressively clears all that. No obligation in sight! Nobody on this planet is obliged to remain in their particular situations - and indeed bringing about positive change in one's life is all part of a genuine self realization process, progressively freeing you from the interference and control of the dark force.

That is in any case actually by far the most effective way you'd make any sort of amends for past unfortunate happenings - not through submitting to retributional hardships nor going around and trying to make amends to people or the world at large out of some sense of obligation. The only fully and deeply meaningful amend for anyone to make is simply to clear their internal 'energy blocks' and distortions that are causing or have caused one's errors and misunderstandings. Through doing that you enable an inner 're-evaluation' process to occur, which is a retrospective deep learning from all your past experiences that you hadn't already learnt fully from. That's the real amend - anything else is just titting around at the edges!

What Reiki symbols would be best to use for an anal fissure?

My question to that person is, do you want to resolve your anal fissure problem, or do you want to keep it or indeed make it worse? I suggest you do a keyword search in the Google 'Search this site' box at the bottom of this page, for "Reiki symbols", and indeed just "Reiki", and see what I have to say about them, and then do a similar keyword search for "anal fissures", and see what I have to say about the normal underlying cause of them. I don't think you need me to go drawing conclusions on your behalf...

Is it normal to hear voices in meditation?

I don't know about exactly 'normal', but it is a tremendous warning sign that one is way off course in using formal meditation sessions. Those voices, whether seemingly malign, benign or even Divine, would all be manifestations of the dark force seeking to cause the person problems, and the dark force is able to do it particularly in meditation sessions because the sessions are seriously ungrounding the person's awareness (or at least a particular part of it).

As I've indicated in various places on this site, extensive or ongoing use of formal meditation by anyone is highly problematical and best avoided. Yes, I know that many a Buddhist will claim that the problems come only when people are doing their meditation without a 'qualified' guide or guru - but, sorry to say, that is bullshit that those people have picked up from the dark force via their (ALWAYS) dark force led gurus. Even if you go using ongoing meditation under the direction of a 'qualified' guru (the 'qualification' is actually worthless because it is sourced from 'the dark side'), and things seem to be going brilliantly, with no problems, you would still be progressively building a subtle astral realm (illusory reality) that is a negation of what true self realized life is like and is about, and it would be very quietly and covertly bringing you increasingly under the control of the dark force, whether or not you were ever aware of it.

If you want to do a really constructive and grounding meditation, then I strongly recommend Power Walking. That, like the other practices and methods that I present on this site, assists you in really clearing yourself of entities and dark force interferences, whereas formal sitting meditation sessions make you both more open to dark force interference and often also more oblivious of it.

I also strongly recommend giving a full and very careful read to 'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side', and generally to take up the methodology presented in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

What is the quickest way to become psychic?

Hmmm... What is the quickest way to fall over a cliff? What is the quickest way for me to blow my head off? What is the quickest way for me to wreck myself? What is the quickest way to get 'sectioned' in a psychiatric hospital? ...

Well, without knowing all available means to become psychic I couldn't possibly know what is the quickest way, but I do reckon that the various methods that I was using from the time I first got into healing in 1998 up to early 2007* would be pretty effective - though you'd have to keep clear of the Energy Egg family of devices, and also the Light-Sphere and Energy Stone, and especially the Clarity-Sphere, for they progressively help you come to your senses and get away from the whole, highly troublesome, 'psychic' mindset. I think, looking back to those severely 'dark' and troubled times of mine, the use of lots of moldavite, Lemurian seed crystals and sacred geometry 'healing' devices would all 'greatly help' you become more psychic, and I could even give you a couple of very psychic-enhancing (and actually very beautiful) symbols that I channelled at that time (except I wouldn't give them to anyone now because I don't want to go causing people harm).

* You can read about them in My Own Self-Realization Path, and indeed about what they were actually achieving...

For that purpose you'd also need to keep clear of all the healing / self realization practices and methods that I give on this site, for those would progressively undo the 'good work' of any psychic-enhancing methods you take on.

...Well, actually I can easily remark thus with a certain dry humour, because I'm doing so in hindsight. When I originally got into healing I too wanted to be psychic - indeed more psychic than anyone else! And just look what I dropped myself into by seeking to 'open myself up' in such ways. Like so many other people, I thought I was 'opening myself up spiritually' - not realizing that that was something different from genuine self realization, which is what I was really after (and which we all need), and was actually sinister in its implications. What I was really doing was progressively ungrounding myself and in various ways distorting, disrupting and generally weakening my non-physical aspects ('energy system') in ways that enabled the dark force to have more and more control and ability to interfere with me and disrupt my life with severe attacks.

The reality is that being 'psychic' or indeed 'spiritual' is NOT being enlightened nor self realized, but is being open to the astral sub-reality, through which the dark force operates and, as far as I can tell, interferes with every single person on the planet. That is true no matter whether any supposed non-physical beings that one perceives appear to be demons, guides, ascended 'masters' or archangels - they are all illusory and of 'the dark side', and none of them is benign, no matter what the appearance. So, 'being psychic' is NOT something that anyone with a proper understanding of the situation would want to aim for at all, and it represents a serious problem for the affected person (whether or not the person recognises it) - which problem, as I've intimated, can be progressively addressed by the methods given on this site.

When you let go of the seriously troublesome urge to be 'psychic' in favour of pointing yourself towards genuine self realization you do NOT lose all 'extra-sensory' perceptions, but you do let go of those that are ungrounded and open into the astral sub-reality and thus expose you further to the dark force. Indeed you don't even lose your ability for those perceptions, for you can still, even as an optimally self realized person, choose to temporarily open any such astral or 'psychic' perception - for whatever good that would do you!

On the other hand you would steadily gain and cultivate proper grounded energy awareness, which is what is truly valuable in our lives, and become increasingly able to know what you need to know from the deepest aspects of your own consciousness, without reference to any supposedly 'higher' source (which is always bogus).

But the choice is yours. Just don't let it be said that I didn't warn...

But then again, "every cloud has a silver lining", and maybe when you find the magnitude of the error of your ways you'd be sending me some much appreciated cash for a Clarity-Sphere to help you get out of your self created 'hole'...

I was really scared after reading your Astral Entities article. For two nights I could not sleep  But now am more composed. The problem is still that my chakras are open, which scares me a lot. But I'm coping and am sure will come out of it...

That was the 'bad' news. Now for the good news. It looks pretty clear to me in this case as though the fear is mostly coming from attacks from the dark force, which is using your belief in the chakra system, and the belief that your chakras are vulnerabilities that can be 'open' (and supposedly let nasty things in), as its 'footholds' for attacking you. In fact that is very normal misinformation about what chakras are and how they supposedly function.

So, the answer to this is remarkably simple - to dissolve all belief and thought forms that you are carrying, relating to the aura and chakra system being real, and also the notion that 'open' chakras are vulnerabilities and even dangerous. Also, cultivate the self perception that your true nature is consciousness and clarity (not 'light' nor 'energy'), which is inherently immune to all 'nasties'.

As far as I can establish it, the reality is simply that we are consciousness or awareness, and NOBODY (including ALL so-called Masters) knows nor understands really what that is. Consciousness is basically immune to all interferences and attacks, and our vulnerabilities are simply our accumulation of distortions and weak points in superficial levels of that consciousness or awareness.

It is the dark force that has given people and traditions the various beliefs in a specific 'energy' system that people can 'see' and draw. The purpose of its giving us those beliefs has been to divert people away from the simplicity and directness of working purely from their own core essence, and thus away from a genuine, healthily balanced self realization process.

So, my point here is that by getting clear of notions of the chakras and indeed the human 'energy system', you wouldn't be losing anything beneficial, let alone important, and would be pointing more squarely in the genuine self realization direction.

How does one most easily clear oneself of such beliefs and thought forms? -- Not by going into disbelief (which is just another belief), but by using the Grounding Post procedure to dissolve them. That is still more effective once you are using a Clarity-Sphere; indeed, ALL practices become more effective when you are using a Clarity-Sphere.

As for cultivating your self-perception as being pure consciousness that is totally invulnerable apart from the odd superficial distortions that you are progressively clearing, a particularly helpful practice is the core point breathing visualization that I give in Healing From Our Core Essence. It's particularly important not to get into detailed visualization in that practice, for the dark force would exploit that and get leading you into more of its illusory realities. So, you visualize more with a sense of your figurative 'core point' (which is just a stylistic representation and is not a 'real' structure) expanding its radiation outwards in all directions (but not itself expanding), and you need to actually ignore or discard any visually clear or vivid representation that comes up. Also, when doing that practice you need to keep aware of your surroundings (with your eyes open) and cultivate your groundedness, avoiding getting 'spaced out' or into any sort of 'visualization trip'.

For releasing stored fear and indeed any other painful or problematical (trauma) emotions that you are carrying, I recommend Power Walking as by far the most effective and indeed enjoyable.

If my experience is anything to go by, with both those methods you will rapidly gain a sense of joyful self empowerment, and be rapidly letting go of any sense of the self realization process being some sort of grim struggle against the dark force.

Is leaving home needed for self realization?

Theoretically no, but in practice yes, in virtually all cases. For an optimal, comprehensive and balanced self realization it is essential to let go of all attachments. How on Earth are you going to achieve the latter if you are living in your original home and are unwilling to move out? Yes, theoretically a person could remain there even while clearing all his attachments to staying there - EXCEPT THAT without moving out, the person would have no way of telling whether (s)he had really cleared out all attachment to remaining there, AND almost certainly in fact the person wouldn't have cleared out such an attachment, because, why is the person hanging on th