Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way

Still not a quick 'miracle' fix, but...

What I am presenting on this page is not just yet another, say, 'alternative Reiki' but rather, a collection of the most efficient means that I know to address ALL the self realization /self actualization and truly holistic* healing needs of each one of us. I am using the word 'healing' here in a broad sense to include not just direct energy work but the various means of achieving full, comprehensive and deeply based self actualization and to bring us into full healthy functioning at all levels of the whole being. Enlightenment is a natural result of following this process through, so that no issue need be made of it and it does not need to be sought for. No formal meditation is required, for a natural inner peacefulness will become apparent as old issues are cleared out.

* The majority of methods that people describe as holistic actually fall short of being fully holistic, in that they do not address ALL aspects of our issues, at least in a balanced way. 

Indeed, it looks to me as though potentially you could effectively do comprehensive healing work on yourself to optimal self actualization without using direct 'energy-work' healing methods at all, and without extensive formal meditation. In fact, if you manage to be peaceful observer of everything you experience - in other words making the whole of life experience in a sense your meditation (as I have done) - then, according to my current understanding and best information, no formal meditation would be necessary at all in order to progress to enlightenment and optimal self actualization - and there appears to be a good reason for not using formal meditation sessions at all extensively, if at all.

On this page I am concentrating on self healing because that is the primary need for everyone. Anyone who is working diligently on themselves, with some reading up about the practical issues of giving healing to others, can start applying their methods judiciously to other people*, but it is important still to keep primary focus on maintaining your own self healing / self actualization process.

* That is, apart from attempting to directly and deliberately remove entities from other people, which is altogether a more questionable area of healing. Also I add the caution that giving any sort of healing or 'energy' therapy to another person is intrinsically very risky (because of dark force involvement) unless one works only from one's core essence and does not invoke or draw in any apparently external 'energies' or beings (e.g. working with 'guides' or supposed angels is completely 'out').

Also, I caution that giving 'healing' to others just because you want to is very liable to lead you astray. The best way to approach the issue would be to use energy testing to establish whether doing that at the present time, in the particular envisaged situation, would be strengthening or weakening for you. Unless it would be actually strengthening for you to be doing that at that time, it would be best for you to lay off from it and repeat the energy testing periodically to see if at any particular time it would be strengthening for you.

The reality is that if you get on diligently with your own self healing you would increasingly be a genuine healing influence for others - being catalytic towards their own self healing - without any cause to go disempowering people by putting yourself in 'healer' role and them in the 'client' role.

If you really are contemplating giving 'healing' to others, then I recommend a careful reading of Am I a Healer?, and that you take on board the various caveats and cautions that I give there.

The purpose of this page is not to function as a 'healing manual' but simply to bring together into one place my recommendations of the most effective ways that I currently know to bring about speedy progress to living happy and enlightened lives with no remaining buried emotional or karmic issues, and also to be free and able to revert to fundamental consciousness, 'as Nature intended', at the time of death - unfortunately currently a quite rare occurrence. I make no claim about any method being 'the best' in an absolute sense, because nobody could know such a thing, and in any case different people have their own resonances with particular methods. I expect therefore that even among many people who find helpful things here, a high proportion will use methods not listed here to carry out particular healing tasks.

Whether those other methods would really be better than or even as good as the ones I present here is a different matter, however. It is widely assumed among healers that methods that you are drawn to are the right ones for you - but the only trouble with that is that, as happened for me for several years, the dark force, which is interfering with you and indeed everyone on this planet, can give you the feeling of being drawn to particular methods, which are actually ones that help to maintain or even cultivate the dark force's hold on you rather than being really effective as healing / self actualization methods. I am sure it is very significant that in 2007 I felt quite a lot of resistance against taking up various new practices initially (which I subsequently built upon), and had been deferring my having anything to do with them, because they had somehow seemed too 'clinical' and 'unfriendly' compared with the various 'spiritual healing' methods I had been using up to that point. What I now clearly understand was that my feelings about these different methods were being manipulated by the dark force, to try to steer me away from methods that, at least with some adaptation, would truly clear out the interferences and influences of the dark force (over a period), and certain healing methods that I had been feeling really drawn to initially had been harmful and dark force connecting - especially the use of sacred geometry wands, which turned out to be instruments of my near-nemesis at the 'hands' of the dark force.

The methods I recommend

The Task	The Means
A solid foundation for ALL healing and self actualization plans and strategies	My set of affirmations and declarations of intent for self healing, self actualization and clearance of all non-physical interferences. A regular (preferably daily) reading of these affirmations not only strongly focuses you for full self actualization but also renders much more effective any healing or self actualization methods that you are using. These affirmations also give you a clear foundation for clearance of all dark force interference and influence in your life. Various outdoor pursuits, as listed below. These activities, when awarely undertaken*, have, as well as a general uplifting and invigorating effect on your mental and emotional state, a major energizing and clearing effect on certain aspects of your non-physical aspects, and also, while not being a substitute for the affirmations, they also enhance the effectiveness of just about any healing or self actualization method that you use. * 'Aware' pursuit of these activities includes such considerations as not having everyday-type conversations to any significant extent during the activity, so, generally speaking, such activities need to be carried out either solo (best where practical) or with one or two truly like-minded people who are also regarding the activity as supporting their own self healing / self actualization, and so, as far as possible, not in a group context, so that your focus can be properly on the experience and not sidelined by the chit-chat of what would be in effect a social gathering. • The use of a personal music listening device of any kind on such outings is to be avoided because it very considerably destroys the latters' effectiveness and is a potent way of ungrounding your awareness. • Also, the use of or even carrying a mobile phone considerably weakens the effectiveness of these activities in supporting healing and self actualization. If you feel that for some reason you must carry one, it is best kept switched off and used only for true emergencies or just before or after the activity, e.g. to make transport arrangements. Walking and especially hiking (i.e. walking longer and more 'serious' routes) in certain types of terrain, as listed below in descending order of effectiveness: on mountains by the sea, particularly where the sea is, or is usually, 'wild' on rugged non-mountain terrain with dramatic scenery that has some resemblances to mountain terrain. Especially effective, therefore, because it combines the above two aspects, is coastal walking on the more rugged stretches of Cornish coast path in the UK, particularly from about Hartland Point (in Devon) round to Land's End, for there you get not only a range of types of rugged quasi-mountain terrain, and plenty of physical challenge, but also you get the Atlantic surf coming in and pounding on the shores, rocks and dramatic cliffs, making it all a greatly invigorating and healing experience. Similarly, some even quite small hills that are rugged and on or close to the coast in the Western Highlands of Scotland make a particularly powerful combination. A particular one that comes to mind and always used to intrigue me as to why it had such a powerful positive effect on me is Sgurr Eireagoraidh, near Mallaig. (For more about this, please see my Hiking Routes page.) by rivers and other inland waterways - particularly those flowing fast, and especially those with water tumbling over rocks or/and forming actual waterfalls. by inland still waters such as lakes (beneficial but less effective) in woodland (beneficial but still less effective) in non-rugged open countryside without a significant water component (least effective) Rock climbing, when integrated into a broader outdoor experience Surfing - BUT with a big caution. Surfing is a relatively 'narrow' and repetitive activity (albeit extremely enjoyable to many people) and if done regularly, and particularly if it is allowed to become one's main outdoor activity, or indeed one's primary life focus (i.e. for any sort of enjoyment), it is very harmful, having an addictive, awareness and motivation damaging effect remarkably similar to that of cannabis. Indeed, to my perceptions people who go surfing a lot have for me a very similar 'energy appearance' to regular cannabis users - and I do mean even those surfers who don not use cannabis too. That particular 'energy appearance' indicates to me a damaged facility for clarity and discernment in the particular individuals' lives, and a fixation on going for easy pleasure and exhilaration without the discernment, clarity or motivation for significant really positive life change (i.e. genuine self actualization). Canoeing on fast or 'white' water Paragliding and hang gliding (highly beneficial but less helpful than the above activities), and again the caution relating to surfing applies here to some extent. N.B. Cycling and running, although much hailed as 'healthy' activities, are much less effective for healing purposes than brisk walking. They do not assist grounding anything like as much, and indeed can weaken it, for they make it difficult to have a real aware contact with your surroundings and 'Nature' (particularly in the case of cycling, where you have a mechanical device between yourself and your surroundings). They also are problematical in physical terms, in that:  Running subjects the knees and other leg and foot joints to a rate of wear that often outstrips the natural repair and regeneration processes - so greatly increasing the odds for early onset of arthritis and other degenerative problems;  Cycling almost invariably has people in extremely harmful distortions of the spine, which are bound to cause a whole range of problems, especially later in life. One complete 'no-no' for use during such outdoor activities is personal stereos . Use of one of those is seriously ungrounding and undoes just about any grounding effect of the particular outdoor activity. If you feel you must use a personal stereo while out and about, you have a BIG problem and indeed quite possibly the sort of brain damage that people generally gain through regular use of cannabis or watching of television. If you are serious about wanting genuine self actualization in your life, it is essential that you do not make a practice of using a personal stereo during your outdoor activities (and indeed when just out around town). Your attention needs to be on your surroundings and all their sounds - NOT the sound of a self-inflicted cocoon of incessant music (even if it is 'great' music!). Also, as already noted, generally speaking,  mobile phones  need to be left at home , or, at the very least, kept switched off and not routinely checked for messages while you are out. They are a great distraction from one's surroundings, and their ongoing use while one is out degrades one's life experience and is quite a strong awareness-reducing factor. Indeed, for the majority of their users they are actually an addiction, with all the problems that that brings. Use of the Light-Sphere and Energy Stone (illustrated below). This doesn't refer to any other devices that have been given either of those names. Unfortunately these were never available to the general public and appear not to be available at all now - but some people who have been clients of DZ, a particular 'lightworker' and hypnotherapist (who I do not recommend!) will have these devices. For examples of the sort of declaration of intent that enable their potential to be realized, please see my stone spheres page. Light-Sphere (left) and Energy Stone   - potentially very helpful for one's healing / self actualization process,   but for that potential to be realized they need to be programmed with   declarations of intent in ways that have not been given by their   manufacturer / supplier. Indeed, for me these devices have proved to be so good that I have been able to use a feature in their programming to bring me rapidly into the belated actualization of the next item. If they are being used fully, being suitably programmed with declarations of intent, they are a much superior alternative to the Energy Egg 'family'. Use of the Clarity-Sphere (the new and viable version). At the moment this option is for suitable people (primarily but not exclusively no-soul people) who choose to develop their own, following the method that I give in the Clarity-Sphere User Guide. When reasonably fully programmed, as indicated by careful energy testing, your Clarity-Sphere or at least incipient Clarity-Sphere would be a more effective alternative to or replacement for the Energy Egg 'family' (see below), and much safer (because you create it yourself and there is no dark-force-connected 'spiritual' mumbo-jumbo involved in its creation, and no potentially unscrupulous business interests are involved in its production), with a much broader and more balanced functionality, and with really extensive user programmability. Use of the Energy Egg 'family' of devices (described as environmental stress - ES - eliminators, though my own understanding is that such devices simply help one minimize many - but not all - ES effects and cannot actually eliminate any of them). Although the Clarity-Sphere is much more comprehensive and versatile in its functionality, the Energy Egg 'family' are commercially available (though costing quite a lot of money) - though, as I caution on my Clarity-Sphere page, there is cause for some circumspection about the origin and even shape of these devices, so my recommendation of them is distinctly qualified. Use of a suitable stone sphere (non-programmed) as a 'resonator' and focus of intent in a whole range of healing, clearance and self actualization procedures, enabling you to focus and direct your healing and other positive intents much more effectively and powerfully than otherwise.
Living with intent	When you are 'living with intent' you are actively and constructively engaged with the process of your everyday life, ensuring that each choice that you make, at any level of scale or detail in your life, is as strengthening as possible for you and, as far as possible, never weakening for you. Living with intent is thus very powerful for healing and self actualization, enabling you to break through all manner of limiting patterns and not only live truly healthily but also to truly 'be yourself' rather than being limited by your inevitably distorted self image. When you are living with intent, you have a sense of 'really living' instead of reactively coasting along on autopilot. Grounded 'energy' awareness and energy testing. Energy testing gives you the means to test objects, locations, people, relationships, choices and so forth, both current and prospective, as to whether they are or would be strengthening for you (i.e. for your ultimate best interests) or weakening and thus best avoided. Ongoing careful and aware use of energy testing, together with use of appropriate practices for progressively strengthening and 'undistorting' one's non-physical aspects (some of which practices are given in Some Potent Self Actualization / Healing Practices), enables one to develop a greater degree of direct properly grounded energy awareness so that you can then sense directly what is strengthening for you and what is weakening - though because of likely dark force sourced interferences it is best always to check important energy awareness impressions by aware and careful use of energy testing. This sort of 'energy' awareness is very different from the normal, ungrounded sort of energy awareness, in which people spontaneously open to the astral sub-reality and have the normal 'psychic' perceptions, which are generally problematical because of the covert involvement of the dark force.
Clearance of emotional issues	This is the most fundamental form of healing, even though it is not usually thought of as spiritual healing. As you become clear of emotional issues you are becoming more self actualized and progressing towards enlightenment (i.e. if you are not already enlightened). N.B. Except in the case of Self-Power Walking, I recommend the use of at least two efficient emotional clearance methods, as typically any one method can fall foul of particular personal 'blind spots', and often different methods work better in different situations. Self-Power Walking - special walking meditation practices that are wonderfully invigorating and empowering. Since I started using these practices in mid May 2007 (particularly during part of each of my hikes) I have had no further cause to resort to use The Work or the EFT - though I pragmatically remain open to doing so if at any time either looks like being helpful. I have since adapted and extended the practices, so that, as presented on this site, this set of practices is more comprehensively effective than the original that I learnt. The great thing about Self-Power Walking is that you do not need to have any special awareness or mental skill in order to be able to use the practice effectively, whereas with most other methods, including The Work and the EFT, realistically only people with considerable awareness, determination and mental acuity would get a lot from them. Having used Self-Power Walking for quite some time, I regard it as taking precedence over the The Work and the EFT for people in general, so that I now regard those methods as a useful adjunct for some people to use to address particular pressing issues while their overall emotional 'payload' is being progressively released through Self-Power Walking, and optimally, also use of the Grounding Point procedure (see below). Grounding Point - A beautifully simple, quick and easy means to dissolve emotional traumas, thought forms, beliefs, apparent past life memories (contrary to widespread belief, the latter are best dissolved, whether they are yours or belonging to an attached 'lost' soul) - and virtually any other distorted or 'foreign' energy that is affecting you, provided that you can to a reasonable extent recognise it (actual identification is not always necessary). It is a great way to speed the dissolution of individual issues of which you are aware, while Self-Power Walking and other practices that I give on the same page would be progressively but more slowly dissolving all issues. This method is fully safe and could NEVER dissolve anything that is truly part of you, or which you truly need. The following two great methods are basically left out in the cold by the above methods, which are much more comprehensive in their effectiveness, BUT some people may find one or both of them occasionally useful still for addressing particular immediate issues - though it would be foolish to spend your time in that way in situations where you could use the simpler and more effective Self-Power Walking and Grounding Point methods. The Work - an inner inquiry method based on four fundamental questions plus one or more turnarounds which are applied to each belief, judgement or stress-laden thought. When this method is used well (i.e. the key thoughts underlying an issue are put to inquiry and the inquiry is carried out rigorously and without rushing), even the most deep seated issues can be quickly unravelled as a result of inner re-evaluation or learning, and then the emotional 'payload' simply dissipates without requiring attention. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) -  It requires use of 'setup statements' that address particular beliefs or stressful thoughts associated with a painful emotion, and you tap upon a sequence of body positions to release the emotional 'payload'. Consistent ongoing tuning of your Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg to each current emotional restimulation ('button-pushing') that triggers particular emotional feelings or responses. This is NOT an alternative to the above-mentioned methods but is a crucially important addition, in that by using it you are progressively immunizing yourself against emotional 'button-pushing'. This in itself does not directly clear stored emotional stress / trauma energy, BUT (a) it prevents any such stored material getting triggered and causing you problems, and (b) over time, to have the underlying emotional material being 'challenged' in everyday life but without the 'button-pushing' happening would result in a progressive dissolution of that material.
Clearance of karma	Karma is almost universally misunderstood, even among healers and so-called spiritual Masters. Contrary to widespread belief among healers, it is actually harmful to focus on karma as such or try to give it special healings; when you do that you actually align yourself more with the dark force, and to a small extent increase your load of karmas. You dissolve karmas effectively simply by using effective true self actualization methods and not focusing on the concept of 'karma' (as normally understood) at all. Active use of the Clarity-Sphere (the new and viable version). This is particularly effective when an appropriate set of 'Clarity-Sphere companion' practices is being used in an ongoing fashion, as described in the Clarity-Sphere User Guide. This way, you can steadily and powerfully clear (potentially) ALL karmas (in the true sense of the word), as part of your broadly based self actualization process. The Returning Life Sequence* achieves this too, albeit in a manner that would be more limited for most people because of the unhelpful spirituality 'baggage' associated with it. It is much more effective if you are also using a Clarity-Sphere or the Guardian Angel / Archangel and Energy Egg. * For more about this please see Some Potent Self Actualization / Healing Practices. In fact to varying extents ALL methods recommended on this page dissolve karmas, and the effects of using more than one of the methods are not just additive but somewhat synergistic. So, let us now leave behind the outmoded notion of 'karma' and simply concentrate on the fullest and most comprehensive self actualization!
Minimizing 'ageing'	Particularly effective are: Use of the Clarity-Sphere (the new and viable version), together with ongoing more or less daily use of an appropriate set of 'Clarity-Sphere companion' practices. While complete restoration of all one's degraded 'life force energies' is not possible by any means, a large proportion of it can be restored by this means, thus increasing one's health and physical as well as mental vigour. On average this would lengthen people's lives, but it is necessary to point out that we appear to have fundamental (i.e. potential) lifespans that would not be possible to extend significantly. So, what is actually extended is one's actual lifespan, as constrained by all manner of adverse influences, but the fundamental lifespan would still keep a ceiling upon the extent to which your lifespan could be extended, regardless of what methods you use. However, that fundamental lifespan is quite long by normal standards, so most people would have considerable potential for longer lives. On the other hand, the really important thing is the improving quality of life. To live to, say, 140 but to be little more than a helpless weakly animated gurgling, burbling 'cabbage' for your last 20 to 40 years has absolutely no point. the Returning Life Sequence (see above). It is claimed to reverse the normal loss of life force energies with age, so progressively causing a halting, and in some cases actual reversal, of the majority of adverse physical changes that are normally regarded as age related. As already remarked, it does seem to be effective, at least to a point, though it is totally impossible to verify the very specific claims that are made for it by its originators. My own assessment is that its associated 'spirituality' baggage and the use with it of the Energy Egg 'family' of devices, although extremely helpful, is distinctly limiting as compared with what you can readily achieve with Clarity-Sphere and its 'companion' practices.
Opening up your deepest and most fundamental awareness (may also be described as opening up and clearing your core star / assemblage point)	All the methods given on this page achieve this to some extent, but, particularly bearing in mind that people with a more blocked awareness would not use most of the methods so effectively anyway (or even at all), I mention here what would most effectively open up and deepen their awareness despite their particular awareness blocks. Self-Power Walking, which I describe further above. Eight Point Eye Movements. My set of affirmations and declarations of intent for self healing, self actualization and clearance of all non-physical interferences - which of course you are using or going to use as your foundation for your self healing / self actualization plan anyway! This is not really an alternative to the two above methods but would greatly enhance their effectiveness, just as they would greatly enhance the effectiveness of the affirmations. Best to use all three methods. Healing method and visualizations as I give in Healing From Our 'Core Essence'. Active use of the Clarity-Sphere (the new and viable version). This works with all the above methods, making them much more effective, as well as facilitating that opening up of your deepest awareness through all other ways that you use it. This is particularly effective if you are using a set of formally designated Clarity-Sphere companion practices.
Gaining optimal use of the body, letting go of patterns, and increasing everyday awareness or 'mindfulness'	The Alexander Technique - Widely and mistakenly regarded as merely a type of 'body work', but in fact this is an important self actualization practice even though nominally it focuses on the body. It is a mental discipline of cultivating ongoing awareness that enables you to progressively undo your lifelong accumulation of habits of body misuse. Used fully (few people really do this), it is also a discipline of letting go of mental habits and cultivating everyday 'mindfulness', which can lead eventually to your crossing the enlightenment threshold (as it did in my case). The AT is an excellent companion for any of the above emotional clearance methods, especially in view of its grounding and balancing effects.
Getting guidance and protection in healing and 'lightwork'	Protection in the sense that is almost universally meant is actually NOT what is required! The need is for cultivating your own instrinsic immunity. So, instead of using supposed protection methods (all more or less useless, and most more or less harmful), the best way forward that I currently know of is to use my set of Affirmations and Declarations of Intent (using a suitable stone sphere or, best, a Clarity-Sphere, to assist the focus of your intent) and core point visualization practices, as well as the various other methods given on this page for self actualization, for opening up your very own self empowerment and self protection - the latter actually much more effectively thought of simply as your natural and inherent immunity. For guidance, look to only your own deepest aspects and not anything apparently external. The only way I know to do this at all safely (vigilance for dark force interference is still necessary) is by using energy testing. In this manner of working you do not channel or ask questions but you simply test the 'energy' of an object, person, situation or choice of yours (current or prospective) to see if it is or would be strengthening or weakening for your energy system (i.e. in practice, whether or not it is for your deepest and ultimate good). There is also a way to do this on another person's behalf. That is all that is needed for guidance in healing and self actualization work, and it keeps you away from getting into 'story', which latter the dark force would then use to get more hold on you. As for what would be helpful for 'lightwork', the answer is simply to completely drop 'lightwork' and keep clear of it, because even the very concept of it is sourced from the dark force, and ALL people who see themselves as 'lightworkers' are unawarely in serious trouble through the dark force connections that they are unwittingly cultivating. Think of yourself as a worker for clear-mindedness instead!
'Depossession' - Clearance of 'entities', attached 'lost' consciousnesses, dark force interferences and other foreign 'energies' such as elementals	It is a little-known fact that virtually everyone is affected and to some extent manipulated or controlled (usually covertly) by dark force influences and in many cases actual entities are involved too - though what people generally perceive as 'entities' are actually not true entities (i.e. conscious beings) at all. Although most healers and 'lightworkers' believe that entity clearance is an immediate sending-off of the relevant entities, my own experience and insights point to a very different situation. Basically, we are talking about healing, strengthening and empowering a person's non-physical aspects till any attached entities become forced out and the person eventually becomes immune to all dark force or entity interferences. Also, the best healing methods would heal any true attached entities so that they are less, or indeed not at all, inclined simply to return or to attach to somebody else. Genuine self actualization methods generally, including everything pointed to on this page. The use of  energy testing to establish what would be most helpful at any particular time to mitigate adverse effects, dissolve attacks and indeed to strengthen and empower you against 'entities' and the dark force. Use energy testing to find out what environmental stresses are making you more vulnerable to entities / the dark force, so that you can remove or protect yourself against those stressful factors and thus rapidly become stronger against the troublesome interfering forces. The various measures given in Dark Force and Entity Troubles - The Real Way to Clear Them.
Visualizations for entity protection and supposed aura / chakra cleansing	My core point visualization. Most other such visualizations that people come up with involve bringing in 'light' from some external source - which unfortunately tends to facilitate the dark force's getting more hold on you. My own visualizations work from your 'core essence' only and thus have no down-side countering their positive effects. I caution, however, that this visualization is not like a magic force field that would give you immediate total protection. It would simply be helpful for some people as part of an overall strategy of making themselves progressively immune to entities, the dark force and any sort of problematical non-physical 'energies'. The belief of so many healers, psychics and 'lightworkers' that they can more or less instantly and completely protect themselves from adverse non-physical 'energies' and entities is just one of the myriad deceptions sourced from the dark force. Also, the very notion of any sort of psychic 'protection' is seriously out of place, because that is intrinsically disempowering, carrying with it the implication and belief that one really has the vulnerabilities to what one is supposed to be protecting oneself against. What is needed instead of 'protection' is the opening up of one's intrinsic immunity / invulnerability, which is most readily brought about by use of the set of methods presented on this page.
Environmental stress (ES) 'elimination'	Actually, my understanding nowadays is that NO device actually eliminates ESs, so ALL 'environmental stress eliminators' are misdescribed. The most that any of them can do is to reduce, or enable the user's own deepest aspects to reduce, a few to many of the ESs affecting him/her, depending on the nature of the device. In general, environmental stress 'eliminators' or 'neutralizers' have serious limitations. Nearly all actually create further stresses themselves while they are to some extent neutralizing others, and nearly all neutralize only a very small number of types of such stress, if indeed they really neutralize any at all. Also, as far as I can ascertain, the vast majority of them are significantly harmful in themselves in certain specific very troublesome ways. Yes, those are actually particularly pernicious ES sources themselves! All that are electrically operated or/and contain faceted crystals are very harmful, and indeed nearly all others are also to varying degrees harmful. Two particular devices that appear to come out squeaky clean, with regard to bringing about the reduction of a very broad range of ESs and not causing significant ES for most people themselves, are the items listed below: First things first! - It is extremely important to actually use energy testing to establish what are the major ESs affecting one, and then to do what one can to actually reduce or eliminate one's contact with or influence from those sources. In some cases the latter would be partly or wholly impossible to achieve, and that is where the devices listed below have a major role to play. But because NONE of those devices can completely eliminate ESs, and also, because it is inherently somewhat weakening to one's system to attempt to rely upon one's immunity without reducing the ES influences as much as one reasonably can, it is a priority matter to reduce as much as sensibly possible the overall ES load that is coming your way, regardless of what immunity or 'protection' you think you have or could gain yourself. That is where careful use of energy testing comes in, to enable you to recognise ESs and identify their sources. The Clarity-Sphere (the new and viable version - as from 2011 onwards), developed by me. Potentially this is streets ahead of other 'energy' devices that are on the market, but unlike commercial purveyors of 'energy' devices I do not make categorical and exaggerated claims about it, 'creatively' distorting the actual situation into a long list of actually unverifiable claims in order to 'sell a dream' for one's invention or product. My experience so far strongly suggests that for people who are able and willing to do the necessary programming and configuration work (I give instructions for doing so), the Clarity-Sphere would be the most effective device that I know of for ES reduction (note that I still do not talk of 'elimination'), quite apart from its having such a range of other potentialities for comprehensive facilitation of one's healing and self actualization process. It does indeed appear to be working out that way for me, so that I have been able to declare all my Energy Eggs and 'Angels' redundant, even though I had sterling service from them as far as they could go. Although the Clarity-Sphere's ES reduction effects run largely parallel to those of the Energy Egg 'family' and include the healing of accumulated damage to one's non-physical aspects from past ESs throughout one's life, broadly they work at two levels: the 'Energy Egg' or 'chi' level and also at an additional, much deeper level that is apparently not significantly touched by the Energy Egg 'family'. This is because of the Clarity-Sphere's programming coming from much deeper aspects of consciousness (and thus much closer to fundamental consciousness and more free from distortions) than the more superficial 'chi-level' programming of the former devices. In practical terms this means that one's 'immunization' to the various ES sources and influences would be more thorough throughout one's system, and less likely to become eroded later on by further ESs. Anyone with 'entity' / dark force interference / attacks can benefit from using a very simple procedure to tune their Clarity-Sphere to current ES effects, for the latter include any emotional 'button-pushing', which is actually part of the basic mechanism of a dark force attack. By this means one can stall and dissolve many attacks and also progressively build up immunity to attacks generally. You can progressively immunize yourself against specific, identified environmental stresses by means of a simple procedure with a suitable non-programmed stone sphere. (This is a new method - untested as yet, but theoretically it is bound to at least help, and by its very nature it is completely safe). You can do this also - indeed, more effectively - with the Clarity-Sphere, of course. the Energy Egg 'family' of devices, including the Energy Egg (claimed to be a personal ES eliminator), the Guardian Angel (claimed to be a space ES eliminator) and the latter's 'big brother', the Archangel. I was using all of these myself till my further development of the Clarity-Sphere made them all redundant for me. For best effects they can be used in similar ways to the Clarity-Sphere - although their actual range of functions would still be more limited. One potent source of environmental stress is the food we eat, and indeed the various fluids that we drink, so an important part of reducing your ES load is to use energy testing in an ongoing manner in order to find out what food and drink is best emphasized in your diet, and what is best avoided. No 'received wisdom' from any other source is sufficiently reliable, because it does not take into account individual sensitivities and 'resonances'; you do need to use energy testing to enable your very own system to indicate to you what your own real needs are.
Soul retrieval	'Soul retrieval' is a misleading term, based in the widespread belief that the soul is the same thing as a person's consciousness or at least some 'higher' aspect of it. What is displaced in many people and needs to be recovered is fragments of their non-physical aspects - not specifically the soul - though according to my current understanding it happens only to people with some degree of soul programming, which latter creates the weak points that enable fragmentation to occur. Various sorts of severe trauma cause 'soul fragmentation', which again is an unhelpful term, because what fragments is not the soul itself, even though the programming that constitutes the soul causes the distortions that enable the fragmentation to happen. Anyway, as emotional stresses and traumas are healed, so the displaced fragments of the person's non-physical aspects need to be restored to and re-integrated into the person's whole being. There are various methods that people use to attempt to draw back such fragments to their owner, BUT they are problematical because they are trying to (normally prematurely) force a process that is actually perfectly natural and spontaneous. The real need therefore is simply the use of suitable grounding emotional clearance methods to enable the natural and spontaneous drawing in and re-integration to occur. If you are using really effective and grounding self actualization methods, such as are presented on this site, you are doing all that is needed for that 'retrieval' process to occur spontaneously and healthily. It would be helpful, though, for you to do a proper formal reading of the full set of affirmations once in a while.
Gaining enhanced energy awareness	I am not thinking here so much about 'higher' perceptions such as seeing people's auras (which in the 'real world' is generally ungrounded 'energy' awareness and thus a quite serious problem for the people who have that 'ability', and not the gift that so many people believe it to be), but more about awareness of 'energies' or 'resonances' affecting you and whether their effect on you is helpful or unhelpful. This is a very important part of making your life really healthy and happy, and so taking forward your self healing / self actualization process. Energy testing. When used awarely, diligently and vigilantly in an ongoing manner, this helps cultivate direct 'energy' awareness. The various practices that I present on this site, including the eight point eye movements, Returning Life Sequence and the 'Clarity-Sphere companion' practices.
Energy-work 'spiritual healing'	With such a range of healing methods as listed above, who has any use for old-fashioned hands-on healing? ...Answer? ...Everyone - but with moderation and vigilance! I say "with moderation", because, as noted further below, such 'energy work' healing (what many people would misguidedly think of as 'spiritual healing') is not very grounding, so it is best used as an adjunct to other, more grounding healing / self actualization methods rather than as your primary method. Yes, all manner of powerful healings can be received or given without recourse to laying on of hands or indeed using hands at all. However, none of that can be a substitute for certain real healing benefits bestowed by loving and aware hand contact, especially in the context of exchanging healing. To work always hands-off in healing work feeds 'egos' because it looks 'cool' and 'expert', but what it does not either display or communicate is human warmth and love. Actual warm and loving, aware physical contact and closeness are greatly beneficial for full emotional well-being, and are our birthright - not the sole province of sexual or attached 'relationships'. Indeed, I would go further to warn that 'hands-off' healing - i.e. using one's hands to 'work within the person's aura' - generally tends to be harmful, with even more harmful potential, because it reinforces illusory realities in which there really is a human 'aura' and its structures such as energy bodies, chakras and nadi, and can be the means by which the recipient can be unawarely or indeed maliciously harmed through those actually illusory structures. I thus recommend exchanges of full hands-on healing sessions, with great simplicity and intuitive flexibility about them, clear of any tradition or 'system' of healing. For the most safe and effective healing work: Open to only your deepest or core aspect - including fundamental consciousness itself (i.e. no external or supposedly 'higher' beings or energies are invoked). Indeed, best not to invoke or address your core aspect at all, but simply to trust that it is right here 'in the now', always 'on tap' without your having to think about it. Ensure that your awareness and that of the recipient remain as grounded as possible - NO going out of body and NO astral travel / projection. As part of your keeping grounded, keep your visual focus on the physical here and now, disregarding any 'visuals' or visions that may seek to appear. The recipient needs to do likewise. As implied above, both you and the recipient do NOT have your eyes closed during the session. Keep completely clear of any notion of anyone having an 'aura' or structured 'energy system', and having non-physical structures such as chakras and the 'third eye', and if you seem to 'see' any such structures in your inner vision, completely disregard them, acknowledging that you are being shown images that are aimed at leading you off-course and causing problems in your healing work. This is not about disbelief, but about letting go of any belief in the objective existence of those structures, and thus having a totally open mind. Disbelief would be just another belief - troublesome in its own right. Use NO symbols. Use NO wands nor sacred geometry devices. Use NO crystals / stones. Use NO chants (not even the OM), though some forms of non-syllabic sound healing are okay if used in moderation and in balance with other methods. Create NO energy implants or structures of any kind. Use no rituals. Neither give nor receive any attunements. Let your ordinary mind take a peaceful little rest to make way for that most fundamental healing source that is your own deepest aspect to do its work, and thus do not use your ordinary mind to try to direct the healing process. Do not thank any non-physical presence or 'energy' (even your own deepest aspect), because doing so would be implying your separateness from it, and also, doing so would help disempower you and empower the dark force over you. A loving and joyful acceptance of 'What Is' is what is necessary in healing work - not thanking anyone or anything. If people operated in this manner for hands-on healing, virtually no problems could be picked up or passed on. For more about this 'core essence' mode of healing, please see Healing From Our 'Core Essence'. At least at the end of a session, provided the other person is amenable to it, a really healthy and healing thing to do would be have a lengthy, warm and loving hug. Indeed, such aware, warm hugging is fully natural to people regardless of gender, and assists us to full emotional well-being. Such a hug is the best way to greet each other and to part from each other. Plenty of hugs, awarely and considerately used, therefore, are part of a healthy healing relationship.

You are excited because you have just discovered this site and it has prompted you to make immediate dramatic sweeping changes in your life

Occasionally I get people writing in, enthusiastically thanking me for this website and telling me that they had discovered it only in the last few days, and it had prompted them immediately to drop all their previous beliefs and harmful choices, turning their life right around, and to get taking up at once the methods presented on this site. -- Really tremendous, hey!

What is really problematical about such happenings is that inevitably the individuals concerned have let go of their actually essential everyday 'inner balance' mechanisms and have gone shooting off into an enthusiastic overdrive, so they are way out of balance and indeed not properly in their own control at all. Even though they may have intellectually got from this site an understanding of what real grounding is, perhaps for the first time in their lives, their awareness is actually weakly grounded while they are in that frenetic 'overdrive' state. The dark force exploits these situations, cranking up that excitement and enthusiasm and general emotional 'high', further ungrounding the person's awareness, before, then, using its various attack methods to bring about an almighty 'low', feeding in all sorts of pseudo-thoughts of confusion and helplessness - the affected person typically then feeling that (s)he needs 'help' in order to progress properly on a genuine self actualization process. And so I then get messages from such people, asking for advice and various sorts of assistance - most or all of which would actually be disempowering and thus unhelpful if I did attempt to give it!

So, if you yourself are currently in the above-described 'overdrive' situation or indeed in a 'post-overdrive low', you need to get understanding the true nature of those 'highs' and 'lows', and to train yourself to recognise them as states of major imbalance, which actually do not reflect reality for you at all. It is helpful to regard your own genuine feelings and 'emotional outlook' as lying somewhere roundabout the mid-point between the highs and lows. Then anything that you experience that is significantly 'high' or 'low' in relation to that can more readily be seen as something transient that has been superimposed upon the 'real me' - with at least very strong connivance from the dark force. That mid-point itself, however, would progressively become a greatly improved experience over time if you really are cultivating a genuine self actualization process - and the 'highs' and 'lows' would fairly rapidly settle down, especially so if you recognise them for what they are and keep your real focus on your more stable 'mid-point'.

Thus a great big need in practical terms is to SLOW DOWN and take things more gently! You need to pace yourself so that you continue to keep properly in touch with the relatively unchanging things in life, and bring about your changes in a more relaxed, laid-back way. It is extremely ungrounding to your awareness to suddenly try to drop every perception that you had had of life and its true nature and replace the whole lot, all within just a few days! When you have just moved into a new 'permanent' living abode, do you drive yourself crazy by trying to set up all your 'contents' in new ways, all within just a day or two? Or do you unpack things in bits and pieces over the weeks and even months, and put many things initially in places corresponding with where you had them before you moved, so that you then have various 'anchors' for keeping your awareness grounded while you adjust to your new situation? I know which I would do, and it isn't the first!

That necessary slow-down also applies to how you go about taking up your new self actualization methods. If you are in a reasonable state of balance and grounding you would recognise that all the information you need in order to take up the methods that I present is already on this very website, and, generally speaking, nothing would be gained from asking me for assistance. So, it is simply a matter of being methodical about taking up the methods. If you try to take them up virtually all together, almost certainly none of them would work very well for you, because you are operating in an ungrounded 'driven' mode, and you would not be getting in touch with the real essence of the methods. You need to take plenty of time to read up on each method that you might try, and maybe experimentally play around with it as part of your learning it, and to get using each method really well before taking on the next one.

A great little expression, therefore, to silently use upon yourself when you notice you are getting wound up in a high or a low, is simply "Down, boy!"! -- There is always another day and another week / month for taking more on board and making things still better for you.

Also, if you are really smart, just about the first thing that you would take up is at least a start with energy testing, so that, with any luck, you could begin to establish which prospective choices of yours would be genuinely helpful for you and which would be best to leave aside, at least at the present time. You could thus establish with some security as to how rapidly to proceed in bringing about positive change in your life without landing yourself with 'overdrive' or 'burnout' issues. Also, that would enable you to safely go ahead and bring the changes about rapidly if you really were one of the very rare people who would not get significantly ungrounded and 'driven' as a result of attempting to change all their ways in a matter of a few days.

How can I know that the Energy Eggs, Clarity-Sphere and yogic practices work?

You can't! Nobody can know such a thing! You can, however, experiment and make surmises and draw some tentative conclusions based on your own observations. That is what I myself have been doing. Life does not provide us with certainties on such matters, and thus the whole notion of 'knowing' is best thrown out of the window, in favour of applying real intelligence to one's body of actual observations.

In the case of the Energy Egg family of devices, a long list of categorical and very specific claims is presented by the makers of those devices, as to all the beneficial effects that the use of those devices is supposed to bring. Similarly, categorical and quite specific claims are made for what each of the yogic practices from the same source do. Also similarly, categorical and quite specific claims are made as to how these devices and methods work, in terms of changes they are supposed to bring about in one's 'energy system' or 'aura'.

The only problem is that such specific claims about affects on non-physical aspects of our life are intrinsically unverifiable - and indeed my own understanding is that the various models of the human 'energy system' or 'aura' - including that used by the Energy Egg makers, are all major distortions of the real situation, being various schematic depictions - effectively illusory structures - that the dark force shows to people with astral ('psychic') perceptions in order to divert them away from working directly from their own deepest aspects, and also to cause them potentially serious problems. It is thus highly questionable for anyone to be making such categorical and specific claims as though they are objective fact, and without qualifying them with regard to the context, intent and manner in which particular devices or practices are being used, and indeed taking into account the specific identity of the user (for we all differ in our particular issues, sensitivities and 'resonances'). All one can really say is that if you personally use one of those devices or practices in a particular way and in a particular context, with a particular intent, you are likely to find that you benefit in particular ways (but also might possibly not do so).

It is for this reason that I nowadays seek to keep clear of repeating such categorical and very specific claims or indeed go making my own claims of that sort - though I am seeking to be careful and unhurried about the process of reducing to a minimum the use of such passed-on claims on this site - for if I am not careful I could end up throwing out the baby with the bathwater. My own intuition, supported by my own inner inquiry, points to the user's intent and depth and breadth of awareness as being very important factors in what and how much positive effect such devices and methods actually have (i.e. upon the user). Thus my approach to all such methods and devices is a pragmatic, open-minded and experience-based one, and I encourage people to distance themselves from categorical specific claims about them by their purveyors, and to use energy testing simply to see whether any such methods or devices would be beneficial for oneself at the present time, and then, to use energy testing to establish what would be the most beneficial ways for you yourself to use the devices / methods for specific purposes at the present time. That has been my approach, and it is simple, with minimum risk of getting into any blind alleys.

It is also greatly helpful to understand that an inanimate physical object such as an Energy Egg or Clarity-Sphere cannot actually 'do' anything, never mind any claim as to it containing programming or (in the case of the  Energy Egg 'family' of devices) supposedly being charged with 'qi' energy. Any beneficial effects depend upon you yourself actually using it. Okay, with any luck your non-physical aspects will be quietly using it in the background, so that it would appear that the Egg is actively doing work for you, but that implies straightaway that the nature of your intent and particular level and breadth of awareness are going to be key factors in what beneficial changes, if any, you get through your use of it. Your non-physical aspects would not be able to make a strong and effective 'working' connection with it if you are of very limited awareness or simply had little or no intent for positive change.

It also appears to me that some of the claims about the Energy Egg 'family' of devices simply don't 'add up'. If an Energy Egg, for example, is 'charged' with particular 'qi' energies, and you are then taking up those 'energies', then surely the Egg would quickly run out of those 'energies'. Now, I am not saying that therefore an exactly false claim has been made, but rather, that the description of what has been done to the Egg to make it as it is, is based on a distorted perception of what is really going on, even though it might appear to be a convenient way of describing things. Also, the 'qi energies' and programming are claimed to have been put into the Eggs and the Guardian Angel and Archangel by means of a "light resonator" machine. That notion of course attracts potential buyers because of the mystique involved, but to my understanding no physical machine can create or impart non-physical 'energies' or programming - except possibly through the use of 'magic', which would actually be carried out by the dark force (and elementals under its control). Again I am not going so far as to say that a false claim is being made, but my own understanding is that something that is actually hidden from the devices' makers by their soul programming happens when they use their 'machine', and it is not actually the machine that is doing the work that they presumably believe it is doing. Furthermore, to my understanding, that would involve use of  a very specific type of illusory reality - which is something that is really best avoided.

That in itself does not invalidate the devices, however, because "the proof of the pudding is the eating", and it does appear that they bring actual benefit to many (though apparently by no means all) people - though whether they bring the exact range of specific benefits that are claimed for them would be impossible to verify towards a recognisable level of 'proof'. A string of testimonials on a purveyors' website are a notoriously unreliable indicator of the true effectiveness or otherwise of a device - and I myself have come across particular individuals who apparently got little or no obvious benefit from their Energy Eggs. Such latter people naturally would not figure in the purveyor's list of testimonials!

All I personally know about the particular devices and practices (the latter particularly as adapted / extended by me) is that my particular use of them appears to have already brought me a considerable degree of particular positive changes that had long been sought for - such as rapidly clearing my load of emotional stress / trauma, causing my life to become ever more joyful, free and clear of 'attachment' feelings, increasingly clear of and indeed immune to dark force interferences and attacks. Also, a very simple 'tuning' procedure for my Energy Eggs became the first line of 'attack' in my regular 'armoury' of procedures that I use nowadays for speedily dissolving and immunizing myself against all dark force attacks - though nowadays I use Clarity-Sphere instead for the purpose, having declared my Energy Egg 'family' redundant.

That is why I recommend the particular devices and practices. But that recommendation is not meant to imply that I am really happy about the source of those that I have not originated myself, nor that they would necessarily work (at least, well) for you; you would have to find out for yourself to what extent they do work well for you - and you could get a good advance idea of what is likely to be really beneficial for you by using energy testing.

However, because of the sense of certain things 'not adding up', and a certain lack of transparency about the manner in which the Energy Egg 'family' of devices are produced, and also the strongly adverse and unreasonable responses of their makers to my having at times publicly expressed some qualifications to my enthusiasm over their products and services, I do want to get away from the recommending use of such devices, at least from that particular source. Indeed, it would be still better to be able to achieve all the sort of benefits that those devices appear to bring, without recourse to physical aids at all - BUT I know of no healthy way to do that without reverting back to the slow lane in one's self actualization process. So, for the time being I am continuing to give qualified recommendation of the Energy Egg 'family', but, as already noted, I myself have discontinued their use in favour of the current version of the Clarity-Sphere, which is nowadays my first and foremost recommendation. I would remind, though, that completely unprogrammed polished stone spheres of the right type are very effective healing and self actualization aids in their own right - though not in such a comprehensive way as the Clarity-Sphere is.

Unfortunately, it appears that the vast majority of people who want some such 'energy' device are still addicted to mystique and illusory realities, and so they generally by-pass the Clarity-Sphere and use of non-programmed stone spheres, and instead plump for the actually less comprehensively effective Energy Egg family, where they are comforted by the categorical claims made for those devices, and are drawn by all the mystique surrounding them. That also lets them off the hook with regard to having to engage their 'minds' with the DIY aspects of the use of a Clarity-Sphere. Those people have not yet fully tuned in to a genuine self actualization intent.

As regards the practices, it has become clear to me that the effects of any particular practice depend very much on the context in which it is used - and that context very much includes the intent of the person using the practice. That is actually a great plus point, for it means that, within certain limits, if you can set a really deep and clear intent in your use of a particular practice, you can use it on different occasions for quite diverse purposes. I expect to go into this more on this site presently, and I am also beginning to apply this principle to working out a fully effective alternative to the Returning Life Sequence, so further getting away from dependence on or indeed connection with the Energy Egg people.

Soul programming and other problems that seem difficult to clear

From the self actualization perspective, people with soul programming - and that is the vast majority of people - have a major problem, in that soul programming prevents them from embarking on or keeping themselves on a genuine self actualization process. Indeed, the majority of those people are simply not motivated to any significant extent for positive life change at all, but even those who are so motivated are programmed not to connect with the very concept of genuine self actualization. A tiny proportion recognise it intellectually and even in some cases believe that they are going for self actualization - but in virtually all cases there is a distortion and limitation upon their perception of what genuine self actualization really is, and how they would effectively cultivate and maintain a comprehensive genuine self actualization process. Generally such people are diverted into various flavours of 'spirituality', which may or may not be masquerading as self actualization.

Such people are relatively ineffective in using the methods that I point to on this page - though they would be bound to get some positive life change from them. The point is that such methods all depend to a considerable extent on the nature, depth, strength and consistency of their clear intent for their self actualization - because the methods themselves are all means of focusing that intent and actively putting it to work. If that intent is largely blocked for you, you can go through all the motions of using the methods, yet that would not have a really big effect towards your self actualization.

However, even in the latter situation, if you were really persistent, gradually your soul programming itself would be dissolving, so that over quite some time you would become more effective in using the methods, as gradually your deepest self actualization intent becomes more connected and integrated with your superficial, conscious intent.

Unfortunately most people who would be trying to achieve that would either lose interest or simply get diverted into some distortion or side-track that would result in a weakening or indeed discontinuation of their gradual process of dissolution of their soul programming.

Is there, therefore, any means by which a person with some soul programming could take a particular focused action to dissolve their soul programming more speedily, and which does not depend on their having the clarity of insightful motivation that a no-soul person has?

The answer appears to be 'possibly', according to my inner inquiry. It simply involves periodic formal readings of my full set of affirmations, especially preceding sessions of the Returning Life Sequence practice, and additionally on occasions the following declaration of intent (DOI) taken separately (though there is an equivalent one within that set of affirmations):

I affirm my intent that I am a continuum of pure consciousness, with no programming or 'soul' obstructing or clouding that continuum, between the non-duality of fundamental consciousness and my superficial aware consciousness or 'ordinary mind', and that any such programming that I am carrying is being dissolved as speedily as can be.

The optimal way to go about reading that (and indeed any other) DOI is the same as that given for my sets of affirmations for self actualization, accessible from The Guide to Complete Self Actualization.

Whereas a no-soul person would not normally need to repeat the affirmations / DOIs to precede every Returning Life session (indeed, actually (s)he would not need to use them in the first place!), the person with soul programming would need to use them every time, at least for best effectiveness. This is because their soul programming would be constantly distorting and weakening the focus of their intent, and so they need to re-clarify and refocus their intent for each Returning Life session.

It is important, however, to understand that you would have no means to be sure at any time that you had dissolved ALL your soul programming, so, even when it looks as though you could well have done so, and your energy testing results appear to be indicating that you really have done so, it is best to assume at all times that you still may have some remnants still to clear. I myself, although being a no-soul person as far as I can ascertain, keep open to the possibility of my having some soul programming to clear - even though I have so far had no indications that I have any.

Food choices to support one's self actualization process

This is an area replete with unhelpful opinions, beliefs, 'old-wifery' and mumbo-jumbo to the nth degree. Contrary to fairly widespread belief, for most people a diet supportive to a really effective self actualization process would not be a vegetarian one, let alone a vegan one - though it would contain a higher proportion of fruit and vegetables and a lower proportion of meat than is currently the norm in Western diets. Also, sweeping statements like "tomatoes / citrus fruits / etc make your blood too acid, so you should avoid them in order not to get (or, to get rid of) arthritis" are simply nonsensical 'old-wifery' with no physical / scientific basis. For the record, the acidity of what you eat has little or no bearing on the acidity of your blood because of the body's intrinsic acidity regulating systems - both in the alimentary canal and in the tissues and blood and other body fluids. And also blood acidity just happens not to be an obvious cause of arthritis; the physical mechanisms of arthritis in all its different forms are many and generally complex, and the underlying non-physical causes are generally even more diverse and complex, even though some specific instances may have a specific and relatively easily identified cause, such as a specific environmental stress*.

* A case in point here is the arthritis that affected my own right knee from the autumn of 2006. During that winter it looked as though I would never be able to go hiking again, and various people gave advice, only some of which I heeded at all, as to changes I supposedly needed to make to my diet, because the recommended changes were supposedly 'good for arthritis'. In fact I had a quite good idea even at the time that the real cause was a particular weakening of my non-physical aspects by the very severe dark force attack crisis that I got drawn into in September 2006. My subsequent detective work on that event points to a particularly massive psychic attack of a potentially virulently lethal type apparently having been launched upon me on one particular day in that crisis event, and to that as having been the the primary cause of the weakening that went on to cause the arthritis.

Thus, in this particular case, what was actually needed first and foremost was a healing of the damage that had been done to my non-physical aspects - and because I was achieving that I was bringing about the healing of that particular outbreak of arthritis, and was back to full length hiking again during the summer of 2007.

A great starting point for a healthy and self actualization supporting diet - would you believe this! - is what a Western scientifically trained nutritionist would come up with. Sure, some detail amendments would need to be made, especially to accommodate individual needs and sensitivities, but nonetheless Western food science has given us an excellent basis on which to create our own eating regimes, founded on the body's actual physical needs.

Generally speaking, if you want to fine tune your food intake, the way to go about it is NOT to go following the latest 'health food' cult or fashion, nor to accept unquestioningly the advice of a healer or psychic (who after all would be unknowingly be guided by the dark force and so would be unreliable, to put it politely), nor to become vegetarian / vegan because you believe it is a healthy thing to do, but to use energy testing to find out what is most helpful for you personally. Nobody else can really effectively tell you that - it is something you need to find out yourself through your own carefully and rigorously applied energy testing.

I am thus not going to give you a list of supposedly healthy and unhealthy foods - because that would still be pointing you away from finding out exactly what is best (and worst) for you personally. The important thing is to let go of every single belief you have ever had about what is supposed to be good or bad for you and to use a scientifically based nutritionist's broad understanding of your food requirements, modified by what a combination of your own careful and diligent energy testing and your own clear-mindedness indicate.

In many cases too it may be helpful to take certain food supplements such as particular vitamins / minerals and other substances such as glucosamine. However, the way NOT to go about it is to go taking such things just because you have read or heard that they are good for you or good for some specific problem. Also, the taking of multivitamin / multi-mineral supplements is very unhelpful because by doing so you cannot tailor the amounts and balance of the different constituents to what would actually benefit you. Again, it is energy testing that you can use to inform you of any specific vitamins, minerals or other food supplements that would really assist you at the present time, and what dosage of each to use for optimal benefit and minimal risk to life and limb.

It is important to remember that, in principle, if you are eating a really healthy diet you have no real need to go boosting your intake of lots of vitamins, minerals and other 'biosupplements' that are already in your food. In most people, however, particular health issues caused by their various emotional issues, attached 'entities' and dark force interferences would unbalance their physiology to some extent so that (generally) a small number of specific trace food constituents could usefully be boosted to compensate for particular physiological imbalances of theirs.

That is where your own energy testing comes in. There is no other way that I know of to gain such information, complete with the actual required dosage of each supplement. Because the dosage of each supplement needs to be independently adjustable, all supplements need to be purchased separately, and not bought in combinations (e.g. glucosamine plus chondroitin plus MSM; if you want to use all three, then they need to be in separate tablets). Combinations of vitamins D and A can indeed be quite a menace, because both those vitamins can have serious harmful effects if overdosed, so you need to be sure that if you are going to boost one you are not inadvertently overdosing with the other. Even if you are not overdosing to obvious toxic levels, just to be taking more of such a supplement than is helpful to you would be to some extent weakening for your system.

Manifesting your 'wants'

A high proportion of healers and 'spiritual' traditions hold, and encourage in others, the notion that, as part of your 'spiritual growth' it is good and helpful for you to 'have abundance in your life' and thus manifest what you want, as long as it is (supposedly) positive and does not obviously impact negatively on other people. However, there is a problem about this in the way it is normally approached and done. Quite apart from its actually working much less than its proponents generally claim (and presumably actually believe), it is actually a very distorted notion of the sort of 'manifestation' that would be harmonious with and supportive to a genuine self actualization process.

One of the big problems about 'manifestation' as usually understood is that what one generally seeks to manifest is what one's ordinary, conscious mind wants. It tends to be wants rather than genuine needs or genuine benefits that people seek to manifest.

Yes, one may be a 'good boy / girl' and seek to manifest only those things that you think are positive and would not harm anyone - but a question is still left unanswered. Would any of those things actually be beneficial to you and supportive to your self actualization process? Your ordinary mind simply cannot know such things. It has at best only a shaky idea of what degree, and what sorts, of abundance in your life would be genuinely helpful for you. It may actually have some idea if you are already quite advanced in your self actualization process, but it still needs to be further informed from deeper levels of your being.

And so, what do so many of those healers and followers of the various 'spiritual' traditions do in order to try to get that more deeply based assessment? - Most unfortunately, they DOWSE or CHANNEL to get 'guidance' from supposedly higher sources - which means that they get answers from the dark force! They are thus kept on a harmful, dark force led side-track in all their choices as to what to attempt to manifest.

None of those people, thus, really gets to know what would be genuinely beneficial for them to be seeking to manifest, and neither do they know the best and most harmonious way to go about the manifesting process. Indeed, the whole concept of 'manifestation' as understood in the healing and 'spiritual' traditions is really rooted in the 'magic' traditions, and has simply had a respectable gloss put on it so that the majority of people no longer think of it as magic or 'spells'. Also, in real terms there is no basic difference between black magic and 'white' magic, and the 'benign' gloss put on magic to make it supposedly 'white' simply acts as a fig leaf to hide the covert dark force manipulations and collusions that are involved in that sort of thing, no matter whether it is called 'Horrific Black', 'Crimson Lake', 'Brilliant White' or 'Divine Miracles'.

It would be helpful actually to let go of the word 'manifestation' with that sort of meaning, because of its connotations of unaware and 'ego' driven attempts to cast some sort of magic or put out some sort of prayer to what is actually the dark force posing as some higher power to provide you with something you want.

So, if you are going to be proactive about bringing to yourself what would actually be strengthening and beneficial for you, you need to go about things in a significantly different way. It is no good, for example, figuratively repeating to yourself the mantra "We're all entitled to abundance, and so I want this and that, and it's harmonious with my spirituality". Instead the first step that I would recommend is to make regular use of my full set of affirmations, with thoroughgoing formal readings on a daily or at least weekly basis over quite a period, so that, among many other very important positive changes, you progressively get more in touch with what your real needs are and are not. It is also necessary to use methods that I give further above for progressively clearing the emotional issues that you are carrying (including all the ones you do not know about) and progressively clearing yourself of dark force and 'entity' interferences.

Then, when you get particular ideas of things, types of people, circumstances or changes in your life that you feel that you want, you can use energy testing in a careful, rigorous and vigilant manner to establish what of those (if any) would actually be strengthening for you at the present time. You are fully entitled of course to make a choice that has been indicated as 'weakening' for you - but in doing so you are at least temporarily turning your back on self actualization and thus the most genuine long-term life improvement. If you are serious about your self actualization you would make only strengthening choices (or, 'least weakening' where apparently all options are weakening).

Actually, there is a strengthening effect of making a 'least weakening' choice where this is necessary, so it is still important to be discriminating and choose 'the least of the available evils', even where you appear to have a really bad set of available options. In such a situation, if you are working your energy testing correctly, you would actually get a 'strengthening' response to the 'least weakening' option, provided that while you are making the test you have the clear intent that you are making a choice out of the particular options. You would need then to test actually the notion (visualize or preferably mime it) of your going ahead and making each respective choice, so that you are testing your making each choice rather than just testing each option in principle.

When you do identify particular things, people or circumstances that would be really beneficial to bring into or increase in your life, the next step is to work on dissolving your feelings of 'want' related to it. The Grounding Point procedure can greatly assist you with that.

You then use what I describe as the 'positive Grounding Point' procedure for setting and activating your particular deeply held positive intent, and, if your energy testing supports your doing it, write out a formal declaration of intent and do a formal reading of it, repeating that once in a while.

Generally speaking, if you try to set your intent on specifics (such as "a Mr Right [/soul mate / twin flame] in my life" or even "Wally Stuckett down the road to become my partner", or "$25,000,000 soon" or "Enough money for me to do xxxx and yyyy" or "A lucrative business running by the end of the year") you are off course for self actualization and indeed, the more specific your specifics, the more you are really on a discreet, 'plain clothes' black magic trip and well away from genuine self actualization. However, if you use the methods that I recommend, any 'black magic' aspect of your intent-setting simply would not work.

The methods that I have mentioned above are for the specific purpose of enabling you to get bringing out into the open your most deeply sourced intents, so that your ordinary mind connects up properly with those deepest intents. Whereas the dark force would get you grasping for specifics on the basis of want, your genuinely deeply sourced intents would all be of a more general nature (and thus allowing free will to operate properly), so it would be more in the nature of "Dissolving all obstacles to my having what financial and other assistance that is needed for me to be a really effective positive force in the world", or "Clearing all obstacles to my having what companionship is really healthy for me and supportive to my self actualization process". There may be certain specific projects to be focused on in this way - BUT not on the basis of 'want'. They would be things that have emerged as likely beneficial steps in your self actualization process and your carrying out your underlying life task - and your careful use of energy testing would indicate whether you would really be along helpful lines with setting a clear intent for any of those.

So, if, notwithstanding all the above, you still intend to attempt to 'manifest' your ideal partner (without even energy testing to see if having a partner at all would be beneficial for you at the present time) or a certain amount of wealth or a particular successful career, and so forth, with the notion that it is all okay because it is all part of being 'spiritual' that you manifest abundance in your life, I wish you well, but you are still functioning as a wannabe black magic practitioner of sorts, and thus are on a very different direction to that of genuine enlightenment and self actualization.

Music and other recorded sounds to support healing work and the healing process

This is something upon which I have a very ambivalent view. People who are into healing widely use certain types of (typically New-Agey) music during hands-on healing sessions, with the aim of it assisting one in getting more spaced out and indeed 'out of body' for the duration of the session, because they believe that the healing works better when the recipient goes to some extent out of body. That is an extremely harmful practice, disseminated through healers and psychics by the dark force, in order to make people more ungrounded and open to the dark force. The reality is that genuine healing works best in people who are maximally grounded and thus 'in-body'!

Does anyone actually need music at all during a healing session? -- Actually, nowadays I think not, at least in general. However where it could still come into its own as potentially helpful is where the healer and/or recipient are currently upset by something or have some dark force attack running at that time. Then, a careful choice of music could help get one's attention out of the upset / attack and so more balanced and thus in better shape for the healing work.

Apart from such a situation, it is really best to have your attention on your surroundings, including all its sounds, whether birdsong, the wind in the trees or the various sounds from the road outside or a nearby building site. Yes, if you have some music playing, that could also be described as an environmental sound and thus be counted as 'okay', but actually it is then cocooning you - to some extent taking your attention away from the 'native' environmental sounds. It would thus be somewhat ungrounding to your awareness, and also taking your attention away from the genuine healing process.

The following notes, therefore, are not meant to give the impression of a general recommendation of using music during healing sessions, but I give them for people who would use music anyway, so that at least they use the least unsuitable music for the purpose.

Any background music for this purpose needs NOT to be the usual sort of music that healers use for this purpose - i.e. soporific or spacing-out New-Age types of music. Pop music and jazz are also problematical because their repeated rhythmic elements and indeed the very intent embedded in the music and any lyrics reduce rather than deepen awareness and so again increase dark force connections and weaken the most deeply positive effects of the healing process. Various sorts of classical music tend to be the best compromise between the need to keep grounded and the need not to be getting significantly emotionally involved with the music.

Some examples of unhelpful classical music choices (too emotionally 'button pushing' for this purpose - I am not claiming at all that they are actually bad!) would include: symphonies by Mahler, Shostakovich, Holmboe, Kalevi Aho (the latter especially to be avoided!!!), and to a certain extent Tchaikovsky; the Double Concerto and The Epic of Gilgamesh of Bohuslav Martinu; Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky (though quite a bit of his other music is actually fine for the purpose); Kraanerg by Iannis Xenakis. Also unsuitable are many of what are popularly known as 'light classics' - particularly of the Johann Strauss / Franz Lehar / de Sousa variety - because they encourage closing down rather than opening up of our deepest levels of awareness (hence their great popularity!).

For a few examples of relatively suitable classical music for this purpose, I suggest keyboard (and especially harpsichord) music by any of the Bach family or Domenico Scarlatti, piano music of Chopin, Brahms, Schubert and Grieg (but what I have heard of Scriabin's music is for avoiding for this purpose because of its typically quite strong Satanistic resonances), symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert or Dvorak - even symphonies of Sibelius if you skip the Kullervo symphony and his 4th, which both are really too emotionally loaded to be the most supportive for a healing session (although they are in their different ways tremendous works). Also most music of Debussy and Ravel. Much chamber music is fine, and also many pieces of organ music, provided the sound volume is not set unduly high - though Messiaen and Jehan Alain are best avoided because of unaware Satanistic resonances in much of their music. A wide range of choral music is suitable, provided it is not of a discordant modernistic idiom, and provided any religious, mystical or 'spiritual' content is ignored.

The music can have a fair degree of rousing quality, provided that the rousing is of a positive nature - the most important thing is to keep clear of strong emotional pulls, for these would actually reduce one's depth of awareness and thus weaken the most important effects of the healing. Thus, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis or 9th Symphony would actually be good for many people's sessions, provided that the sound volume was set reasonably low and any religious connotations in the mass were put right out of one's mind, whereas, for example, my own 3rd Symphony, which is for the most part much quieter and more contemplative and portrays much beauty of nature, would, despite those qualities, be an unsuitable choice because of its troublesome emotional and indeed effectively second-level night hell resonances.

Regarding my own music works generally, actually I regard most of them as being at best not optimally suitable as an accompaniment to healing sessions, though perhaps an occasional use of my 1st and 5th, 8th and 9th Symphonies might pass (they are positive and colourful but quite intense), and the big organ work The Great Wilderness would be quite good for the purpose except for its emotionally loaded 8th movement. On the other hand, my Ascending suite was actually composed to be a suitable accompaniment for healing work, and in retrospect I still regard it that way, with the caveat that one needs to allow oneself to enjoy the beauty of the sound without 'switching off' and using  it to get oneself spaced out as people normally tend to in healing sessions.

Finally I mention music using metal - and especially Tibetan - singing bowls. The sound of these is immensely beautiful and has in many cases profound healing effects, but there is a problem because one is generally encouraged to go into meditation when listening to such music, whereas that is the most harmful thing you can do with it, because you are then just using it to weaken the grounding of your awareness and get you more spaced out and open and vulnerable to the dark force.

Therefore, my recommendation of singing bowls music comes with a strong caution to ignore any exhortations that you may find on the CD insert to meditate and get spaced out while listening, and instead, to keep awareness on everything in your immediate surroundings, including the great beauty of the sounds, but keeping clear of getting into any spaciness or indeed 'story' about higher beings and higher dimensions of reality that may be associated with the music and which would ALWAYS have originated from the dark force and thus would be there to try to lead you astray. For this sort of music, my top recommendation is that of Frank Perry, though the intensity about his music would not be for everyone, and you may prefer singing bowls music from some other sources.

I do not recommend quartz crystal bowls music, however, because the nature of their sound would for most people be strongly dark force connecting (an effect that is almost universally misinterpreted as 'spiritually opening / advancing'), and in the hands of some performers such as Elivia Melodey can have an almost Satanistic resonance in the overall sound that is produced (regardless of any noble intentions that Elivia may genuinely hold). There is certainly a fascinating beauty in the sounds, but, as they say, "all that glisters is not gold"... Really, the problem is in the vulnerabilities that we are carrying, for there is nothing wrong with the music in itself, but it just happens to resonate with problematical tendencies with which the dark force has loaded us.

I warn against any recordings containing special channelling or programming for healing, whether or not they contain actual music that you happen to like. They may indeed contain programming, but, whatever positive claims are made for it, because it is channelled it necessarily has come from the dark force and its effect will at the very least assist a weakening of your grounding, so making you still more vulnerable to the dark force. Generally it is by far the best to keep clear of all recordings that claim to be specially for healing or 'spiritual opening up / advancement'. Guided meditation recordings are all 'out' too, for they are all ungrounding to your awareness, quite apart from any additional problematical agenda or programming that may also be transmitted.

Environmental sounds

A wide range of natural environmental sound recordings are available and make much better backdrops than music to support healing sessions and indeed one's overall healing process if there is some reason why your 'native' environmental sounds are not fully acceptable or are insufficient for the particular session. These include sounds of rain, thunderstorms, waterfalls and other running water, the sea, birdsong, wind, whales / dolphins.

I particularly recommend the use of quality hi-fi speakers for listening to these recordings. A really clean and neutral treble without over-brightness and a really low bass (not boomy but extending down to the 'earthquake' frequencies that you feel rather than hear) not only make for the most satisfying listening but also maximize the healing quality of the natural sounds. Sounds like heavy surf breaking, or thunderstorms, contain a lot of the very low frequencies that you seem to feel rather than hear, and they have a natural healing-promoting effect - but they are completely lost in the vast majority of so-called hi-fi systems - and indeed, in their ignorance some recording engineers even filter such low frequencies out of their recordings!

Here is a small selection of especially recommended CD recordings of natural environmental sounds:

• Dawn Chorus - Geoff Sample (Particularly recommended)
• Dawn Chorus - British Library
• A' Mhoine - Moorland Soundscapes - Geoff Sample
• British Soundscapes - Jean C. Roché
• Scandinavian Soundscapes, volumes 1 and 2 - Krister Mild
• Coastal Walks - Jean-Luc Hérelle
• Le Chant Des Vagues / The Song of the Waves - Jean-Luc Hérelle
• Seas and Oceans - Frémaux & Associes
• Pastoral Bells - Jean-Luc Hérelle (Particularly recommended. This is a beautiful one of cowbells in the Alps, but also includes a very brief thunderstorm with two exhilarating and very well recorded close lightning strikes.)
• Night-time Concerts - Bernard Fort (The long first track (Provence) contains a brief and quite ferocious thunderstorm.)
• Storms / Orages - Frémaux & Associes
• Echoes of Nature - Thunderstorm
• Solitudes - Thunderstorm in the Wilderness - Dan Gibson (Very pleasant listening, though the thunder sounds a bit weird because of apparent electronic processing and added reverb.)
• Ultimate Thunderstorm - Victor Wedge, and that recording's 'Mellow' version (the same recording but with a more modest dynamic range), and also his mixes of Ultimate and 'Mellow' Thunderstorm with particular environmental sounds. I very strongly recommend these - though I caution that the non-mellow versions have an extremely lifelike dynamic range, and the closest lightning strikes are really startling - which of course is why the 'Mellow' versions are being offered.

An excellent source of a wide range of really high grade nature sound 'concert' CDs is Wildsounds (in their Products list, go to Atmospheres). Others, though of much more varied quality, can be found by doing appropriate keyword searches at major CD suppliers such as Amazon. I caution that recordings that are marketed specifically as relaxation aids are particularly liable to be low-grade or/and adulterated in some way.

If you are prepared to do the necessary sifting and sorting, and, preferably, sometimes to use a sound-file editor such as Audacity or Wavepad to tidy up some recordings, you can use environmental sound recordings from Freesound, a tremendous repository of sound-file recordings available for free use (though you may wish to support Freesound with the odd donations), and compile custom CDs for your own personal use. I myself have compiled a whacking 10 CDs of wonderful thunderstorm recordings from this source, and also CDs of forest, bird, wind, water and sea sounds.

Drumming effects and Synthesized sounds - Red Warning!

Some recordings of organized or synthesized sounds, which are aimed at directly creating a particular change in brain functioning, are extremely harmful. These include any using 'hypnotic' rhythms (especially antiphonal use of cross-rhythms) and the whole range of synthesized electronic sounds aimed at amending and supposedly either quietening or balancing brain functioning. Even something as apparently innocuous as a recording aimed at promoting alpha rhythm and thus a peaceful, restful state is actually a menace! The harmful effect is maximized if you listen to such recordings with headphones - as indeed you are usually advised to in the 'blurb' about the recordings!

The reason for this is that these all interfere with the natural functioning of the brain, without reference to what is actually causing any supposed over-activity or imbalance, and also without reference to what particular state of balance or indeed imbalance is actually needed at any particular time. It is really another version of the 'medical model' approach to healing issues, with disruptive sounds being used instead of disruptive chemical compounds. Such sounds not only make it more difficult for the brain to naturally rebalance and calm itself, but their disruptive effect occurs also in one's non-physical aspects ('energy system'), ensuring long term adverse health effects and a much more immediate general ungrounding of one's awareness that opens one more to the astral sub-reality and thus dark force interferences and influences.

It is of course the latter effect that draws people to use drumming so much for the purpose of supposedly assisting people's 'spiritual' opening up, and encouraging actually extremely harmful 'trance' states. As I have intimated in various places on this site, what people are generally regarding as 'spiritual' opening up is actually nothing other than becoming more weakly grounded and thus opening further to the astral sub-reality and all the massive problems that that brings us - so, generally speaking, sustained drumming is 'out' if you value your well-being.

So, if you want 'healing' sounds that are not straightforwardly music, then natural, unadulterated environmental sounds are the thing to go for - NOT special purpose 'healing' recordings, nor ones intended to produce some sort of trance (i.e. seriously ungrounded) state.

A caution about 'promiscuous' spiritual healing work

In my earlier years as a healer I so much enjoyed meeting other healers and going to 'Reiki shares' groups, and in the latter receiving healing from sometimes the whole group - and meeting potential new friends that way. However, I now know that such 'mixing around' with healing work is problematical in one remarkably similar way to promiscuous sexual activity. It is not that there is anything wrong or bad about 'promiscuous' healing work, but the problem is the 'entities' and increased dark force interferences that you may pick up in the process. It is worth bearing in mind that the dark force can interfere in healing work (posing as guides, angels or other supposedly helping beings) and give problematical guidance and maybe place implants directly or by directing the healer to do so. The healer may also have a partial walk-in or spirit attachment that adds to the problems, and the healer can in come cases have a highly troublesome type of energy implant known as a portal or conduit, which enables that individual to deliver dark force controlled 'entities' (elementals and 'combo entities') to their clients ('victims' might be a better term here!), who then go off with one whacking great new problem.

Also, picking up the various beliefs and many types of practice of other healers can greatly increase the hold of the dark force on you even while it appears on the surface that all is going beautifully and sweetly. That indeed was a significant part of how I myself came unstuck and eventually had very major problems with the dark force. 

Also, in 2002 I myself got a number of harmful energy implants put into my energy system by a so-called Reiki Master who was leading a Reiki shares group. He believed that he was putting temporary healing implants into people (having learnt to do so from a particular psychic surgeon who himself was unawarely being seriously led astray by the dark force), but was unawarely being directed by some sort of spirit attachment to create those implants, which were actually negative in their effect and permanent (until removed). You see what a mess develops even among supposedly highly reputable healers!

This is why I strongly favour and encourage ongoing healing exchange work with people who you know or at least can test out and not stay with if you feel that there is potentially something problematical for you about them. This way you can build up wonderful aware friendships, which can be very close without your getting sidetracked by sexual arousals and desires (which, if/when they do arise, simply point to particular emotional healing and dark force interference issues that can then be addressed and resolved).

Grounding - an area of great misunderstanding

Many supposed means of grounding are used or recommended by healers, including holding a supposedly grounding mineral such as pyrite or tourmaline (or wearing it), imagining you have roots growing out of your feet into the ground, directing the person's auric energy more into the lower parts of the 'aura' (supposedly to rebalance it), hugging trees, and wearing a pendant made of wood.

These methods have one overriding factor in common: THEY DO NOT WORK (well, not to any worthwhile extent)!

Okay, before some indignant healer writes to me to tell me that in her experience they do work, I have to say that that healer and indeed the vast majority of healers (of all traditions, certainly including Reiki) are chronically and seriously poorly grounded and have no idea of what a true, fully grounded state is like. Further, I would say the following:

We are ALL interfered with to some extent by the dark force. It is a consummate master of deceit. One of the many means by which it helps gain or increase its hold on us is through getting us more ungrounded - which makes us more vulnerable to it. One of its regular tricks with healers is to covertly direct them into useless measures for grounding, in order that they believe they are regrounding themselves when they are doing nothing of the kind and remaining poorly grounded, so that they do not go on to use actually effective measures to get themselves better grounded.

The dark force controls and manipulates healers and others into believing that they are regrounding themselves by the various measures that I say are useless, by actually giving people sensations of light-headedness or other sensations that people believe indicate ungroundedness, and then reducing or stopping those sensations when the people use those measures, so that they are convinced that those methods work and then take no action to get themselves really grounded.

This is not just belief of mine - I have on various occasions experienced the dark force trying to put such deceptions upon me, with all the relevant sensations as well as little 'pseudo-thoughts' in my mind to convince me that the sensations were genuine (indeed I have had that with regard to supposedly getting ungrounded to such an extreme that I was allegedly actually in the process of dying - a ploy used to get me to hospitalize myself in December 2004). Part of my awareness was certainly seriously poorly grounded at that time, but I was actually nowhere close to dying. My real situation then was that with my awareness so ungrounded I was open and spectacularly gullible to the dark force's convoluted fictions and deceptions, and similarly spectacularly open to its attacks.

Getting yourself grounded

Being properly grounded is to be fully connected into the physical aspect of existence - in other words fully incarnated, and having the optimal balance between your physical and non-physical aspects of 'being'. This balance involves a strong focus on the physical aspect, modulated by an awareness of the 'ultimate' reality of the non-duality one's deepest aspect, and almost totally excluding any focus on the actually peripheral astral sub-reality - the no-man's land where people project their illusions and through which the dark force operates, constantly seeking to take us over and control us.

There is no quick fix for poor overall grounding and, contrary to popular belief, you cannot be significantly grounded by anything that a healer might do for you; you have to ground yourself, and your overall grounding is something that you can increase only over a period of time. For more about this, please see further below.

However, although it takes time to get yourself more grounded overall, you can get a more transient but still very beneficial grounding effect (which does also contribute a little to any long-term overall grounding strategy) by doing something to ground your conscious awareness ('ordinary mind'). A dramatic example of this was actually when I had crisis-level attacks from the dark force, and got myself hospitalized on four occasions, and on some subsequent occasions when I just contacted the local crisis resolution team and had a chat with them about what was going on for me. This action of mine each time brought about speedy dissolution of the attacks and great weakening of the apparent 'signal strength' of the interfering communications and a corresponding much greater hold for me upon everyday physical reality. It was not medication nor any notion of 'treatment' that achieved this but simply my having supportive people* around me, with whom I could interact positively - this working for me by grounding my awareness, or in other words restoring my balance so that I was focused on the physical aspects of experience rather than the 'astral' aspect of consciousness through which the dark force is always seeking to cause more havoc if one inadvertently 'looks its way', so to speak.

* For this particular purpose, intention of the particular people to be supportive is not enough. In order to be supportive for re-grounding your awareness, those people must be well grounded themselves. Therefore it would be hopeless to do what might look to be the obvious thing and go to a healer or indeed group of them or at least of very 'spiritual' people. Such people are generally weakly grounded and so you would resonate with their poorly grounded state and thus find it much more difficult to rebalance yourself properly.

Other awareness grounding measures could be briefly listening to some appropriate music (but NOT in 'total immersion' mode, so headphones and personal stereos are 'out', going for an invigorating and preferably strenuous walk in the country, or carrying out some practical task. However, as I myself found, having supportive people around one - provided they really are supportive (and, as already noted, that must include their being well grounded) - is particularly helpful when your awareness has got seriously ungrounded and you are having, say, attacks of troublesome emotions or obvious interferences from the dark force, or you are simply having troublesome or unhelpful preoccupations in your mind (which most likely are caused or at least greatly aggravated by the dark force).

You achieve an increase of your overall, long-term grounding by adjustments to your everyday life, activities and outlook. I list below a few suggestions for grounding adjustments that could be made; no doubt you can come out with plenty more - especially if you make creative use of energy testing.

• Priority use of grounding self healing methods. The methods that I describe or point to in Some Potent Self Actualization / Healing Practices are particularly grounding. Optimally, use a combination of some of those methods.

• Any 'spiritual healing' (as described above) NOT to be one's primary healing method but rather, used as an optional adjunct (although basically beneficial when used in moderation, it is not particularly grounding and indeed can easily be used in distinctly ungrounding ways).

• Minimal or preferably no time spent on any overtly 'spiritual' pursuits, including formal meditation.

• Excluding use of alcohol, cannabis, tobacco products, and indeed all mind-affecting drugs. (N.B. From this perspective there is NO safe or benign level of alcohol to drink.) There are the odd exceptions, such as caffeine, which are not significantly ungrounding, but there are other contra-indications for these anyway, so exclusion of all mind-affecting drugs is an essential part of any person's full self healing / self actualization programme.

• Relinquishing any attachment to vegan diets, because, while these are not intrinsically ungrounding, their adoption is virtually always part of a whole ungrounded mindset. Also, they are generally not all that healthy because of certain deficiencies and imbalances. A varied and balanced mostly vegetarian diet including some animal products including fish (especially oily species) is a good compromise, but the inclusion of a regular small amount of mammal / bird meat would be still better.

  Please note that I am referring here to the quality of the diet for grounding and nutritional purposes and am not making any judgements about what one should or should not eat.

• Completely disregarding ungrounded and indeed ungrounding 'higher' perceptions, including but not limited to clairvoyance, seeing people's auras, prescience, seeing non-physical beings of any kind, and receiving communications of any type from any non-physical source (whether directly or through anyone else functioning as a channel, medium, fortune teller or any other type of psychic).

• Learning to recognise people who are weakly grounded (including virtually all healers and psychics) and make a point of not keeping significant company with any of them, and to keep one's dealings with any of them to the minimum reasonably possible, and to make a point of finding the lion's share of your company with people who are at least reasonably well grounded.

• Keeping clear of astrology and ALL types of divining, including but not limited to I Ching, Tarot, angel cards and runes, and all psychic 'readings'.

• Taking on or emphasizing practical, grounding activities in your daily life:

  • Going out for walks amongst Nature is one potentially very helpful activity, but is easily done in an ungrounded way, so it is best to pursue some practical interest or activity when you go out into the wilds. Maybe (like me) you would pursue an interest in wild flowers or insects or birds (or - much healthier and more rewarding - the lot!) and get identifying them or/and photographing them - maybe even recording your sightings for your local wildlife conservation organization, or/and making sound recordings of natural sounds (indeed, maybe sharing them at Freesound).

  • Going for hikes, as long as you can manage, on strenuous terrain, cultivates grounding through keeping your attention on practicalities while also finding it easy to get into an alert and very flexible type of meditative state (NOT a spaced-out state!) that is much healthier than what you achieve in formal sitting meditation. The grounding effect is even more so if you hitch-hike to and from your walking routes as I do, thus making the whole day quite an adventure!

    N.B. Running and cycling, although being grounding in some ways, are not so comprehensively so, and both have physically harmful aspects. Running wears out leg joints prematurely, because the human body did not evolve to cater for regular extended sessions of running (extended regular walking is what we are adapted for). Cycling actually puts abnormal stresses on limb joints, and indeed on many other parts of the body, and in almost all cases cultivates serious spinal distortions that can give rise to very troublesome problems later in one's life. Also, both activities reduce your connectedness with your surroundings and thus are not helping you with your grounding in the way that walking does.

  • Surfing and paragliding / hang gliding, used in small measure, are outdoor activities that have a particularly high self actualization effect while also being very grounding - but surfing in particular readily becomes a preoccupation and indeed addiction, and that is seriously harmful and so needs considerable vigilance to avoid.
    Other particularly eligible outdoor pursuits include sailing, canoeing, rock climbing and indeed mountaineering.

  • Sports or other activities that are significantly competitive, and also martial arts, are good for grounding but need viewing with circumspection and caution. Certain of these, in moderation, may be very beneficial for particular individuals, but for the majority of people they reinforce problematical emotional traits that need to be cleared, and so are NOT a suitable means of getting more grounded. If you feel drawn to any of these, or already participate, then your best course is to use energy testing and, through using the appropriate testing procedure, find out whether the particular activity is or would be strengthening or weakening for you (i.e. for your ultimate good), and to use that basis on which to decide whether to proceed with any such activity or to do something else instead (again energy-testing it to get an idea of its suitability or otherwise for you).

    To my current understanding, if you want a martial art because of its ki (or chi) cultivation benefits, you would be doing much better to use the 'energy system' strengthening methods given or pointed to in Some Potent Healing / Self Actualization Practices, for then you would get equally grounded 'ki cultivation', but it would be balanced, which martial arts 'ki cultivation' definitely is not, and would take you potentially the whole way in your self actualization. Generally speaking, martial arts put your 'life force energy' very much under the control of your ordinary, conscious mind, this being a highly unhealthy state of affairs and not pointing you in a true self actualization direction.

  • Gardening, and especially managing a vegetable garden / allotment to grow food for yourself. If you have neither garden nor allotment, at least growing a few well chosen house plants in your abode and looking after them well would help - and having suitable types plant there would help reduce the harmful effects of environmental stress sources in your abode.

  • Building / construction / decorating / landscaping activities - though it would be important to ensure, through energy testing, that what you wanted to do was genuinely 'strengthening' and harmonious for you (and that would also depend to a considerable extent on how harmonious it would be with the environment).

  • Carrying out shared creativity or practical tasks. I think particularly of how my regular singing in a local choral society was a great 'sanity saver' for me over many years. Drama groups and working with other people in appropriate charities can all be very grounding as well as greatly rewarding.

The 'healing crisis' - not what people think it is...

Many healers and people who receive healing or have some active self healing process 'running', at some time experience troublesome physical symptoms or/and emotional 'nasties' that appear to be related in some way to their healing process, and which not infrequently develop into some sort of crisis - whether it be physical health or emotional. This phenomenon is widely referred to as a 'healing crisis' (or just as 'side effects' of one's healing, if not at any sort of crisis level).

My understanding now (still necessarily somewhat speculative as a broad generalization) is that these phenomena are not what is generally believed, for, apparently, they are NOT caused by any genuine healing process, and thus 'healing crisis' would be a complete misnomer. What is apparently really happening in such instances is that the affected person is getting interfered with and attacked by the dark force to produce the symptoms or crisis, as a result of the particular healing methods that they are using, which are actually harming them and making them more open and vulnerable to the dark force. That, also, would be what is really going on when somebody has adverse 'side effects' from a Reiki attunement. My understanding nowadays is that such attunements always do harm to a person's non-physical aspects ('energy system'), and this can in some cases almost immediately lead to unpleasant physical effects, depending on how the dark force is interfering with the particular person. It can in some cases indeed open the person to a severe attack from the dark force. I know one young guy who, the night following his Reiki I attunement, had a hellish attack of full-blown terror, and, in the thick of that, had to get up to vomit. He was already particularly vulnerable because he was a regular cannabis user, but theoretically this could still happen to many people.

As far as I am aware so far, such problems cannot be caused by the healing methods that I present on this site. However, very likely there will be the odd person here and there who gets the impression that just that is occurring for him. That can come about if the person concerned is already very open and vulnerable to the dark force (in many cases no doubt particularly because of previous use of harmful 'healing' methods and use of crystals, wands, dowsing and so on), and the dark force then targets the person with particular types of interference and attacks to try to frighten him off using the very methods that would progressively clear him of dark force interference and attacks.

The important thing in all such cases is to work on the understanding that it is NOT a problem with any of the healing methods that I present here, but is a problem of interference and attacks from the dark force. Thus the affected person would need to continue with these methods, and, in particular, to tune their Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg to the particular attacks and to use the Grounding Point procedure to get clearing all the illusory realities that are being used in such attacks. Anyone having such problems will find additional helpful information and 'action' guidelines in Dark Force and Entity Troubles - The Real Way to Clear Them.

"healing crisis caused by protection spells"

That was actually a search string that brought somebody to this site from a Google listing, and it is quite educational - indeed, to me almost comical. Presumably the person concerned was aware of that particular phenomenon, and it hardly takes 'rocket science' to understand the sort of predicament that affected people are in. They are evidently Wiccans or following some other sort of 'magic' tradition, not understanding that the very concept of casting spells is a dark force sourced one, which gets people seeking to use 'special powers' (i.e. using the astral sub-reality and thus the dark force to supposedly carry out their conscious will). Also, as I have sought to emphasize on this page, the whole notion of needing psychic 'protection' is very much from the dark force, because such 'protections' are all at least largely bogus, and the real protection is your own intrinsic immunity to the dark force, 'entities', psychic attacks and any other adverse non-physical influences.

So, what people are doing to themselves when they put 'protection' spells on themselves is to weaken and distort their 'energy system' further, so ungrounding themselves further, and thus to UNPROTECT themselves even more! No wonder that they are then liable to experience what they misinterpret as a 'healing crisis', which of course is just more dark force interference and attack!

One big irony of this is that so many of the people in such 'magic' traditions feel that they have some sort of personal superiority through their use of 'magic' - yet when you actually look awarely at what is going on for them you do not at all find the good and improving physical health and mental / emotional well-being that one would associate with genuine self actualization. Indeed, poor health and a progressively (often pretty rapidly) deteriorating mental / emotional state are generally the lot for such people - albeit with individual variations, just as there is the odd person who scoffs "I have smoked 40 a day and I am 95 now and still in fine health [paroxysm of coughing], so I am not quitting smoking now!".

You are doing masses of self healing work, but nothing seems to be working very much...

This is a quite common phenomenon, not specific to any particular healing methodology, and it is quite often called 'healing burnout' - though really 'healing snarl-up' would be a much more accurate description. You appear to be doing all the right things (and more!), but your healing process has seemingly either ground to a halt or never really got off the ground.

However, before we get too worked up about this and assume that 'healing snarl-up' is really the main problem, let us consider the possibility that you are currently under attack from the dark force (whether overtly or covertly) and are being given a subjective and more or less false impression that your healing methods are not working when in fact, at least until you were getting this particular attack with self doubts, they were working, at least to a fair extent. This is a dirt common ploy of the dark force, and it can create an illusory reality in your mindspace, in which your healing methods appear not to be working - and that would very much interfere with the effectiveness of your healing methods.

Very often, though, this happens when there is already at least an incipient healing snarl-up situation, but the significance of the attack would be that you may not be in as much of a healing snarl-up situation as currently appears. So, the needs then are to clear the attack so that you can better see what your situation really is, and then take whatever 'healing snarl-up' remedial measures are necessary (if any).

This happens where a person* has a great enthusiasm or sense of urgency or even desperation about getting on with their healing process and getting clear of particular issues, and, in that state of enthusiasm / urgency, gets so immersed in all the self healing work that their awareness becomes increasingly ungrounded and their life becomes very unbalanced. This becomes increasingly a hindrance to the methods continuing to work, and that in turn becomes compounded by an anxiety feedback loop that is cultivated by the dark force, and that puts a much more definite block on anything working. That feedback loop involves an illusory reality in which one depends on the methods but they have simply ceased to work, and so one has become 'lost' and (so it seems) unable to be helped by anyone or indeed any other methods.

* Actually, this applies really not to just any person, but more specifically to individuals who have weak grounding of at least part of their awareness. Typically, susceptible people show evidence of this through quite a strong tendency to having 'psychic perceptions' - in other words, 'being psychic'. That of course would cover a considerable majority of people who regard themselves as healers.

Really, if you have that problem and have read so far, you hardly need me to tell you what you need to do about it, because once you realize what is going on you can work out your actually very simple solution. - But, just to make sure that I am not leaving anyone out in the cold, I shall continue.

One thing NOT to do (because it simply could not work) is to 'throw healing devices such as Clarity-Spheres, Energy Eggs, Guardian Angels (etc) at the problem' - though having one or a set connected to you would be helpful at least in some ways even if not obviously addressing the immediate problem. Once you have run into a healing snarl-up, no additional healing aids or methods would be able to work for you, and indeed every new attempt to force your healing process would actually add another bit of obstruction to it.

Here is a nice little pointer to the change of tack that you need to make if you have run into a healing snarl-up. Have a read of my little real life mountain 'scrape' experience in Fear versus Reality - An Experience of Mine. Your healing snarl-up situation is very much a parallel of my little scrape out there on the mountain, where it seemed that I had got myself into a fatal predicament, and when I frantically scrabbled to try to get back up the extremely steep slope, things just came away with my every movement, and I was actually gradually slipping down further rather than ascending, and the slope was plunging away in precipitous crags not far below me. Scary, hey! (Help!). And then you'll notice how I intuitively transformed the situation by STOPPING TRYING! Instead, I changed tack and accepted the current apparently hopeless situation - but with the rider that this was now just an assumption within a little experiment, and thus I had neatly stepped out of the emotional involvement with the fear. And, as I had 'all the time in the world' while just stuck there (because I was as good as dead anyway), I would bide my time by doing this little experiment, just to see what happens if, as a 'dead duck' now, just very gently and slowly, with all the time in the world, put one hand up here... and, ever so slowly and gently, the other hand up there... and - slowly does it! - one foot ever so gently up here, not trying to achieve anything, of course... and...

Now, it is very much like that for you if you have got into a healing snarl-up. You do not necessarily need to pause your healing practices altogether, but you do need to have a clear sense of backing off and relaxing about it all, recognising how you had actually been getting yourself wound up (with the assistance of the 'Universal Garbage', of course!). So, you have some things to let go of, NOW.

The #1 thing to let go of at this point is all your sense of trying. Isn't that tremendous news - you no longer have to 'try'! In fact you never had to do so, but it has taken this experience to get you to this crucial understanding.

So, how are you going to replace that 'trying' with something that is effective in enabling your healing process to resume (or indeed properly start)? -- Easy! For a start, get regarding your healing process and every bit of it (and indeed your whole life experience!) as an experiment! So, instead of trying to achieve something, in an interested and joyful manner you simply try things out, with the intent (NOT hope) that they produce positive results for you. Where something appears not to serve a useful purpose you can then, again as part of the experiment, find out what you would need to change in order to achieve the positive result that you intend (again, NOT hope for!). If you are using energy testing well, you would be able to come up with very precise answers to that, and speedily get things really focused and working optimally for you.

Indeed, for a short period at the beginning of your turning round such a situation you may find it helpful to stick up a notice above the main door to your abode, saying "Abandon hope all ye who enter!" - well, er, except you would need the notice to be invisible so that other people would not misunderstand your extremely positive new meaning for that infamous quote. So, in other words, you place that notice there with your intent rather than do it physically. And one further thing that would need to be on that notice is a great big SMILEY! 

Another important measure to take is to ensure that your healing practices are appropriately scheduled. Typically, people who run into healing snarl-up are overdoing the frequency of their healing practices either through having no formal schedule for them or, less commonly, through having a schedule, but one that is too intensive. The need, then, is to sit yourself down and work out a daily / weekly schedule that is aimed at rebalancing your whole life, and thus spaces out your healing practices chronologically, and actually also lists grounding everyday activities that are NOT normally thought of as healing practices, that you can do for making your life more enjoyable and balanced. Walks out in the wilds, if at all possible, need to figure here, and, for example, creative / artistic activities, such as musical performance. Most people can actually sing perfectly well in a local choir, for example, if they but let go of any self doubt rubbish that they have been carrying. Competitive sports can help to a point for some people, but they have problematical aspects and so instead I recommend other, non-competitive ways of getting out and engaging with other people in positive ways. For some people, getting enrolled in particular courses may be a very helpful balancing thing - though obviously some courses would be much more suitable than others. Energy testing is the real way to establish what are the best activities for you, to get your life optimally balanced to support your healing and self actualization process.

Particular balancing activities of my own include:

• A bit of shopping almost every morning (rather than doing just one or two 'heavier' shopping outings per week).
• A daily (usually after-lunch) walk from my flat along the river and canal and back by a partly different route, which may be as little as two miles, but most typically is nearly 7 miles, briskly walked. This is weather dependent, though.
• A full day hiking outing, once or twice a week, weather permitting. On those hiking days I take a more or less complete 'holiday' from overt healing practices, though I carry an ultra-mini-Clarity-Sphere in my pack, and occasionally I may use the Grounding Point procedure on a suitable wooden post if something comes up into my mind that is worth 'zapping' there and then - though because my balance has progressively increased, nowadays I hardly ever have cause to do an outdoor Grounding Point, and indeed do not have cause to use that procedure a lot even indoors. These hikes, like the afternoon walks, also give an opportunity for any Self-Power Walking that needs to be done. But even that needs to be limited to a sensibly small proportion of a whole walk (especially a full-day hike).
• Singing in a local choral society, with weekly (evening) rehearsals. I have dropped this one now, but it was a great thing to be doing for many years, and I recommend it to others, provided that they are careful and vigilant in not inwardly engaging with the religious and other dark force sourced content of the vast majority of at least Western choral works - i.e. one does it for the music, not for the actually pernicious words and 'story'.

N.B. Whatever your particular interests and 'likes', watching television or videos is NOT a healthy activity at all and would hinder rather than help any rebalancing process. If you normally tend to spend time on those pursuits (I would be tempted to say, 'non-pursuits'), then part of your necessary rebalancing would involve replacing them with more active and positive uses of your time. Even reading books would be better than that, but again for the most part is too passive an 'activity' to be helpful for this purpose. Generally, vicariousness in one's life is a problem (cultivated by the dark force), and needs replacing with active living.

If you are very tied up with family commitments, then there is more of a problem, for your balancing activities need to be ones that give you a clean break from those commitments as well as the overt healing practices. Careful and vigilant use of energy testing would point you to your particular way forward there. Undoubtedly there would have to be compromises there, and you would need to step out of some pretty strongly held beliefs, fears and anxieties concerning what are supposedly your responsibilities. It is important to keep clear focus at all times on the fact that if you do not properly look after Number One - i.e. yourself - you are no fit person to look after or assist anyone else. So, basically, almost certainly you would need to put more emphasis on taking time properly for yourself than you had been doing for a long time.

Less can be more!
As part of the process of spacing out your various self healing practices, you may be able to find more efficient ways of carrying some of them out. Energy testing could point you to ways to achieve such greater efficiency - for example, using a suitable stone sphere as an intensifier of some kinds of practice, in both direct and indirect ways. The use of particular declarations of intent in some cases would make a particular practice or procedure more effective.

Parents who want to help their young child with night hells (night terrors) or other psychic phenomena

As I have sought to make abundantly clear on this site, it is a grave error that people widely fall into, to imagine that they are supposed to, or indeed, it is possible to, directly heal or 'help' another person who has what one could call a 'healing issue' relating to 'entity' and dark force interferences (i.e. except possibly in the odd small ways). What one actually needs to attend to always first and foremost is one's own self healing / self actualization; there is no way round that. So, what is the poor beleaguered parent to do when she becomes aware that her baby or toddler is suffering acutely with 'night terrors' or experiencing other troublesome or potentially menacing things that appear to be 'psychic' or 'paranormal'?

- Well, actually, I have just said it! First and foremost, it is each parent's responsibility to get on with using methods (as presented on this site) for comprehensive and effective self healing, genuine self actualization, and clearance of all dark force interferences and 'entity' attachments, upon themselves and in an ongoing, regular and diligent manner. That includes taking measures throughout their everyday life to improve the groundedness of their awareness. If the parent is unwilling to do that, (s)he is letting down his / her children, big time (and of course letting him/herself down into the bargain)!

It will no doubt appear to the vast majority of people that I am addressing myself unduly harshly towards parents, who generally mean the best. The reality, however, is that I am not being harsh, nor judgemental, but am simply talking directly about cause and effect, and saying something that people are generally extremely foolishly tiptoeing around and backing off from so that the vast majority of parents are left doing immense harm through their unwillingness to take the measures for their own positive personal change that would enable them to awarely face and effectively address the dark force interference problems that their children experience.

Just "meaning the best" for your children is not enough! If you are unwilling / unable to sort yourself out so that you can be a proper parent, who can guide your offspring awarely and effectively through learning to begin to clear themselves of their dark force interferences, then you are indeed letting your children down, big time. Yes, I say it again!

Even if you do not like me saying that, the choice still remains there for you to make - to work towards being a proper, decent parent really helping your young children towards growing up into a happy and positive life, or a parent full of attachment to 'how things are for me', who is unwilling to bring about his/her own positive personal change and who thus sabotages all his/her supposedly 'best' intentions for his/her children.

By properly turning your own life around with self healing and self actualization, as a parent, (a) you would be increasingly having a catalytic effect that would be strengthening for your child and thus reducing the ability of the dark force and 'entities' to interfere with him / her, and (b) you would be functioning as the best possible sort of role model, thus increasing the likelihood of the child growing up to take on self actualization methods him/herself later on to get actively clearing his / her interferences and obstacles to living a genuinely healthy, happy, creative and positive life.

However, I am aware of one thing that at least I myself would do to assist a young child of mine if I were a parent and the child appeared to be having any problems. What I would do, subject to my energy testing indicating 'strengthening' for me to do it, would be to get or create an additional Clarity-Sphere (alternatively, one could do this with an Energy Egg and, very likely, an additional Archangel), and connect the child to the Clarity-Sphere , and then to keep the Clarity-Sphere sitting out of harm's way on its base. Then, when the child is having a nasty experience, I would come to the child with the Clarity-Sphere and 'make play' with it, actually teaching the child in whatever way (s)he can engage with, to tune it to whatever is troubling him / her. Very likely there would be specific things that would be helpful to do with the Clarity-Sphere, which I would intuit and confirm or otherwise on the spot, to further assist the child - but it would very much be a matter of playfully and creatively getting the child engaged with the clearance and grounding process.

Also, in such a situation, at an early stage I would include in such 'play' sessions the teaching of some semblance of use of the eight-point eye movements, because they are great for disrupting and clearing night hell and other unhelpful 'visuals', helping to ground the child's visual awareness. It would be an extremely helpful achievement if you succeeded in non-coercively getting your child to use the eight-point eye movements to stall any arising of night hell display or other troublesome apparitions, and thus to start getting in touch with his/her own personal power to disrupt and dissolve such garbage and to progressively become immune to it.

I think one problem that so many worried parents have is that they do not understand that it is never too early for even a baby to start learning how to clear out unwanted visuals and other interferences of any kind. And also, because the parents themselves are so anxious and indeed frightened by what is happening, they simply are in no state to be able to be effective in showing any child how to rectify their night hells situation, even if they intellectually 'knew' what wanted doing. That underlies the pressing responsibility of each parent to get on with their own process of self actualization and clearance of their own dark force interferences (both overt and covert), NOW - and indeed far preferably, BEFORE they even think of having children! Then, if they still feel that they 'must' have children, at least they would be in more of a state to give their very young offspring the joyful sort of play-teaching to start clearing out their own dark force interferences and attacks, that would really bring them forward and get them set on a genuinely healthy direction for their growing-up.

Baptism NOT a worthwhile answer

For the benefit of those parents who are wondering if getting their young children Christened / baptised or subjected to equivalent rituals in other religions would help protect them from 'night terrors' and other dark force sourced nasties, it is worth noting that sometime when I was a baby (most likely very soon after my birth), I myself was Christened at a local church at the behest of my mother. I am not aware of even a shred of evidence that having been so Christened had any beneficial effect for me, for I went on to have the most horrific and distressing night hells. So, if being baptised and thus officially supposedly made a Christian (and without one's genuine consent, too!) is really some sort of protection against such manifestations as night hells or indeed any other dark force related phenomena, then I am clearly a hippopotamus!

- But seriously, as I point out in many parts of this site, ALL religions are snares that the dark force has set up to divert people away from self actualization and into the control agendas and illusory realities that are the substance of the religions (and other 'spiritual' traditions). So, do you really think that a covert dark force initiation ritual (which is what baptism really is) would really be any genuine help for any of your offspring?

It is possible, however, that in some cases a Christening or otherwise getting the child initiated into a religion may appear to cause a reduction or cessation of the particular troubles. That happens with some adults too. However, when that happens it does NOT mean that something really positive has happened and the real problem has been solved. Indeed, it means that a new and more insidious problem has been created. The dark force has a mega-plethora of alternative and variant strategies to use on different people to 'bring them to heel', and one of those is to give the person some very rough direct treatment, then, while that is going on, to manipulate the person into involvement in a particular religion to try to find help, and as soon as the person bites on the bait, so to speak (e.g. 'taking Jesus into my life'), the dark force suddenly lays off the rough stuff, so convincing the person that 'Jesus', or whatever religious involvement was taken on, has proved to be the his / her saviour and protector.

So, that person then is sold to the control agenda and belief system (illusory realities) of his / her new found religion and thus has ensured his / her captivity to the dark force, while believing that (s)he has found happiness and freedom from 'Satan' or however (s)he has identified the dark force manifestations. In reality such a person has little notion of what real happiness and real freedom are like - and indeed few people yet experience those to any really major extent, for that requires genuine self actualization.

"I am in a desperate situation and I get worse every time I use your methods - please help!"

It is important to understand that I give no guarantee that any of the healing / self actualization methods that I present or recommend on this site will bring about noticeable positive changes and no adverse changes for every single person who endeavours to use them. In using any of the methods you take on full responsibility for your doing so, and you cannot expect me to sort things out for you if you have particular difficulties with any of the methods.

As far as I can tell, the methods that I present and recommend would theoretically bring about positive changes for anyone who uses them, or at the very least they would get no negative or troublesome changes caused by those methods. However, individual people can have particular obstacles that get in the way of healing / self actualization methods* producing really noticeable positive changes, and indeed which can in some circumstances lead to use of the methods even being associated with really troublesome symptoms and developments.

* This actually refers to ANY genuine healing / self actualization methods - not just the ones I present or recommend on this site.

The problem comes down basically to the ways that the dark force interferes with particular people. It may cultivate a disempowered, anxious - even desperate - state of mind in which, even though the methods may be giving some benefit (probably not noticed), the very use of them plays into a destructive feedback loop of fear-related emotions and troublesome thoughts (which is actually being stoked up by the dark force) that causes all sorts of personal problems, including various very troublesome and often frightening physical symptoms. The problem here is not anything about the healing methods themselves, but about the way the dark force will exploit any vulnerability in one's outlook or state of mind (and weak grounding of one's awareness) to transform one's 'practice' sessions into effectively 'self harm' / 'self destruction' sessions. I have experienced it trying to do that to me and I have seen it successfully doing that in other people, so I do know what I am talking about.

The chances are, too, that a person who is feeling at all 'desperate' would go about using the methods in an ungrounding way - for example, too much emphasis on using those methods and not enough on enjoyable and grounding activities in everyday life. Such a person may very well also not be using the individual methods very effectively. The latter is particularly likely with the Grounding Point procedure, because its effectiveness does depend on the right illusory realities and other issues being identified and 'zapped' - and the dark force can easily lead one astray in that, so that one is frantically 'zapping' a whole lot of low-priority items and getting increasingly wound up and ungrounded.

I well know about the latter sort of situation, because the dark force did that to me many times. The need is, as soon as it seems that one is being given a tedious succession of supposedly 'important' things to 'zap', to back off and concentrate on measures to ground your awareness*. In my case, during the most strong and sustained dark force attacks, I even called the local Crisis Resolution Team in order to get just a bit of supportive human contact to enable me to get my awareness properly balanced and grounded, thus causing the feedback loop of the attack to collapse.

* In my case, in addition, emphasis on another aspect of the attack situation has generally been greatly helpful - to tune my Clarity-Sphere to the current stress(es), using the procedure for tuning it to unidentified environmental stresses. You can do the same with an Energy Egg. I cannot guarantee that it would work for just anyone, but for me it has actually been a very major part of my getting clear of individual attacks and interferences from the dark force.

The worst times I had with that sort of problem were in 2006 and early 2007, when the dark force, posing as my 'inner guidance', effectively hijacked my inquiry sessions using The Work, transforming them into really nightmarish experiences, in which I was being directed to put to inquiry an intimidating ever increasing list of troublesome thoughts and supposed inner beliefs, which were really just things that the dark force was feeding into my mindspace as it went along, based on convoluted 'story' that it was giving me about myself and my situation. This very much helped to build up very major crisis events that could well have proved fatal for somebody who did not have the protective strength of outlook that is gained by being enlightened and generally exceptionally clear-minded in outlook, as I had.

The only general solution to such situations that I am aware of is to put a great deal of time and attention to enjoyable and grounding activities, and to almost sideline the overt 'healing' methods - but to still have the latter scheduled (with a suitably small time-slice) into one's daily life so that you can still benefit from them.

As well as the above-mentioned type of problem, as a rare occurrence, by some means a person may have got loaded with an elemental* that makes it extremely difficult for the person to make any healing method really help them, and which itself may be causing intractable physical and mental / emotional problems. In some rare cases such elementals are actually programmed (by their creator, who would be a person who is into 'dark' practices) to bring about a progressive deterioration, which can be fatal if the affected person is unable to use appropriate methods (i.e. effectively) to bring about the quite rapid dissolution of the elemental. Unfortunately I doubt whether there is anything much that another person could do to clear off such an elemental; to my best current understanding, it would need ongoing work by the affected person - the catch being that generally people who are so affected are in no state to be able to use the relevant methods sufficiently effectively.

* The elemental may or may not draw attention to itself as being apparently a troublesome 'entity' or 'spirit attachment'.

It is important to understand that it would be quite unworkable and indeed impossible for me myself to go trying to sort things out for individuals who have run into any of the sorts of problem that I describe above. For the sake of my own well-being, it is necessary for me to maintain healthy balance in my life, and such balance would be seriously compromised by my attempting to 'help'* people who, for whatever reason, are unable to help themselves - and that includes such matters as people who do not sufficiently understand English or who for disability reasons cannot properly read the pages here. It also needs to be borne in mind that I myself am still working on clearing remaining vulnerabilities of my own to certain types of dark force interference and attack, so it is no good anyone looking upon me as somebody who has completely 'defeated' the dark force and has a simple magic 'silver bullet' that he can dish out to anyone who is in trouble, to 'save' them from their situation.

* 'Attempting' is the operative word here, unfortunately, because in such cases, if I actually did attempt to 'help', pretty well anything that I attempted would actually be ineffective and, if anything, would tend to compound problems for the particular person because of the disempowering effects of receiving such attempts to help. Basically it is the self empowerment of actually using the appropriate methods oneself that is required to resolve such situations, and if the person is for some reason unable to achieve that effectively, there is nothing further that I or probably anyone else could usefully do to make up for that unfortunate fact.

I therefore ask people not to contact me to ask for such 'help', no matter how desperate they may feel. It would not help their state of mind at all to have me either turn them away (possibly with a flea in their ear because they have disregarded my clear indications in the notes on my Contact Me page) or indeed to have me not replying to them at all.

Some objects that are best jettisoned

If you are serious about your health, your self actualization, and getting clear of all dark force interferences and 'entity' attachments, you would greatly help yourself by getting shot of any non-essential objects on your person or in your living space, that weaken your non-physical aspects ('energy system') or otherwise increase you dark force connections / vulnerability. I list here some such items, but this is not an exhaustive list, and your own energy testing would be likely to pinpoint other types of object that are creating a problem for you.

• Crystals, whether naturally or artificially shaped - though spheres or at least completely rounded and more or less polished forms of some minerals / stones may be relatively benign.
• Any materials or objects that are supposed to generate 'orgone', 'chi' or 'life force energy' (what they actually generate is a disruptive and weakening effect in your non-physical aspects, which opens you more to the astral sub-reality and thus the dark force) - regardless of any glowing claims made for them and any testimonials from users in purveyors' sales material. The only exception to this that I am aware of is the Energy Egg 'family' of devices, but then to my understanding they are misdescribed in the first place with regard to their 'chi' effects.
• Jewellery of any kind.
• Sacred geometry in any form, whether it be wands, fashioned crystals, any other three-dimensional sacred geometry structures or simply graphical or pictorial representations of it.
• Wands of any type.
• Any object bearing 'sacred', religious, spiritual, 'healing', mystical, paganistic or esoteric symbol(s), including runes.
• Any object that is supposed to be some sort of charm or talisman.
• Any object that is supposed to be for protection or healing purposes (including any type of 'energy protection' and 'environmental stress elimination' device), unless it is a user-controlled energy device - which, as far as I am aware, currently means just the Clarity-Sphere , the Energy Egg family of devices , and the not generally available Light-Sphere and Energy Stone that look like these :
  

  
  Light-Sphere (left) and Energy Stone

• Metal around any part of your body - whether it be chains or things like bracelets and rings. A partial exception here is copper bracelets used to assist against rheumatic disorders. However, these do still have harmful effects despite their possible limited helpful effects, and these bracelets are effectively redundant when you take up the methodology presented on this page.
• Any sort of magnetic 'healing' device. Yes, these can in some cases have limited beneficial effects - especially for arthritis - but again they also are harmful to your non-physical aspects, and are made redundant by the methodology presented on this page.
• Pendants - apart from any that have a necessary practical purpose, such as an emergency 'panic' device for an infirm person living on his own. That does not mean that such latter devices are not harmful, but clearly in such cases it would be necessary to weigh up the costs and benefits.
• Any sort of divining paraphernalia, including but not limited to angel cards, Tarot, I Ching, runes, dowsing rods, dowsing pendulums (really even the Perfect Pendulum from the Energy Egg people, because even that can cause significant problems for some people), anything to do with astrology, numerology, palmistry, fortune telling, and indeed predicting the future in any way.
• Candles and night lights - except  any that are kept specifically for emergency lighting in the event of a power failure .
• Any sort of shrine or altar and any objects associated with it.
• Bibles, Q'rans (Korans) and other 'holy' books (including prayer books) and scriptures - apart from  any that are retained as reference for some practical reason (i.e. NOT for any sort of devotion or personal involvement in the contents of those scriptures).
• Any aromatherapy oils (probably). This depends on personal circumstances, and for some people energy testing may indicate specific oils to retain, at least for the time being, but the general direction is to clear out any such oils. Yes, some do smell quite lovely, but that is not in itself sufficient reason to retain them.
• 'Vibrational' essences, flower essences and homoeopathic remedies. While theoretically some can contain beneficial programming, any benefits are only slight, and it only takes somebody who has particular dark force / 'entity' interference to quite unawarely put seriously harmful programming in any such essence. The latter can even be done by individuals who you assume to be the most pure and 'squeaky-clean' (as happened for me). To the best of my understanding so far, they are thus best ALL jettisoned, for they are completely redundant for anyone using the methods given on this page.
• Mobile phones. These are generally weakening and subtly harmful for us on account of their electromagnetic radiation - but in addition there are other problems about their use. To a huge number of people, being 'on call' from all and sundry, wherever you are (and similarly, making calls just whenever the whim takes you, wherever you are), weakens your connectedness with your surroundings when you are out and about. For very many people now, mobile phones have become a seriously life-degrading and brain damaging addiction, so that instead of getting on with life in any meaningful and aware manner they are constantly messing around with their phones to look for new text messages or 'tweets', and thus not being properly in touch with their surroundings.
  Except for important specific tasks, it is much healthier to be completely free from phone calls (including text messages) when you are out and about, even when just out shopping in town. Your attention would be then much more on your surroundings and you would more readily interact properly with people who you encounter - all assisting your grounding.
• Personal stereos, except where kept for occasional use where there is some special practical reason why the use of one is necessary. The normal regular extended use of these is extremely harmful. To have your ears plugged or covered like that to have your life experience continuously mega-polluted with continuous music that obliterates much of what you would otherwise hear of your surroundings is ungrounding and tremendously harmful and destructive to your brain functioning, and your whole experience of life. That is true even if you do not have the volume turned up so that your hearing is being damaged (as a high proportion of personal stereo users do).
  It is not even as though you can properly listen to the music like that. To really enjoy and benefit from music it is essential to listen reasonably infrequently. Otherwise its overall effect is just as a mind-number - a mental anaesthetic and awareness closer.
• Televisions. Quite apart from a certain level of harmful electromagnetic radiation from them (though not as much as from a mobile phone, especially with modern non-cathode-ray-tube screens), they are addictive and their use seriously diminishes nearly all users' life experience. Rather like the use of cannabis, their regular use actually damages the brain, so that the affected people then are completely unable to reduce their reliance on the television as the central interesting element in their lives. Vicarious living like that has no place in a genuine self actualization process, and indeed is a total block to self actualization or even the slightest understanding of what self actualization really is.
  The 'justification' for television watching that is usually dished up to me is that there are, allegedly, some "very good" programmes on 'the box', and it is okay to be discriminating and watch just those. -- Well, sorry to disappoint (except that I am not sorry at all!), but that is plain self-dishonesty. The issue that I raise about televisions is NOT about the supposed quality or otherwise of programs - it is about the very fact of watching television instead of actively and creatively getting on with your life. If you really intend for self actualization in your life, you do not use a television at all. You can get news and weather forecasts - indeed, much better weather forecasts - on the Internet, so you do not need the television for that. You can also use the Internet to gain information that particularly interests you. Actively seeking out information is MUCH healthier than passively being spoon-fed with pre-digested bite-size chunks of information (or indeed misinformation) in supposedly "very good" television programmes. The whole television-watching mindset is not 'living' in any really meaningful way; rather, it is 'atrophying'!

Direct, active removal of entities

The supposed direct, active removal of entities from other people by healers / 'lightworkers' is a highly problematical area of healing. Indeed, the concept of 'lightworker' is itself extremely problematical in much the same way that 'spirituality' is, because the very concept of being a worker with, of or for 'the Light' or indeed 'light', is a dark force sourced one that cultivates the dark force's hold on the very person who believes that (s)he is clearing entities and maybe dark force connections. As I explain below, it is unlikely in the extreme that such supposed entity removal ever really works, despite superficial appearances of it sometimes giving spectacularly beneficial results. In any case the real need for anyone is to take up proper self clearance and self actualization methods as enumerated in the list further above, for just to remove 'entities' from another person - even if that were really happening - would be to a considerable extent still trying to address a symptom rather than actually resolving the underlying cause(s).

My general observation is that people who make a thing of supposedly removing entities from people are themselves still at least to some extent being sidetracked by the dark force, because they are thus being diverted from getting their clients using appropriate methods to clear their own underlying issues and thus to make themselves truly clear of and invulnerable to 'entities' and the dark force. This point is underlined by the fact that the dark force, generally posing as higher or indeed Divine beings, can and usually does hide from the healer / 'lightworker'* the true state of affairs and readily present 'visuals' showing entities being cleared out when actually nothing of the sort is happening. In early 2007 I myself had the dark force (posing as my own higher consciousness and also as a supposed Divine Support Team) on several occasions give me strong simulations of 'demons' attached to me being transformed into supposed angelic or Divine beings and whisked away to a high 'dimension'. This was all a ploy both to keep my attention as ungrounded as possible and to try to convince me not to look further to clear my 'entities' (i.e. dark force interference) issue.

* I include here even the ones who believe that they are clear of all 'entity' and dark force interferences.

The 'lightworker' who was attempting to assist me at that time in clearing the 'astral beings' from me (he described them as 'demons') was being similarly - indeed extensively - deceived, and ended up assuring me that more or less all of my entities had been cleared and the remaining very considerable interferences (including attacks) that I was getting were from self created simulations of entities - what he referred to as 'self-created demons'. He was making these claims in complete ignorance of the reality, as far as I have been able to establish, that there were no entities of the types that he was being shown (actually by the dark force posing as his 'Divine Support Team'), and so all the manifestations that he was seeking to cast out were nothing more than illusions created in his and my mind by the dark force. The real entities that were attached to me - the parasitic lost souls - were something that the dark force naturally did not show him or me, so that they remained unrecognised until I had got right out of the mindset of having anyone supposedly casting out entities from me and had got using the effective self clearance methodology that I present on this page.

Thus at least for myself I have come to see direct entity clearance, especially by a third party, as being something of a red herring, and comprehensive and powerful self healing / self actualization as being the true way to get oneself clear of ALL entities and the myriad types of dark force influence.

One common ploy of the dark force with 'lightworkers' and healers who supposedly remove entities is, as well as giving direct simulations of entities being removed, to discontinue or greatly reduce certain types of interference on the client, such as attacks, at least for a time following a supposed removal of entities, so helping to convince everyone that the client has been 'cured' or at least greatly helped by the 'lightworker' when actually little or nothing was really removed. So, I have to say it again - generally speaking, without effective self clearance and self actualization work on the part of the client, the underlying issues remain, even if the 'entity' (i.e. dark force) interference has become less noticeable - i.e. more subtle and covert.

Warning

It is necessary for me to warn that because healers and 'lightworkers' who seek to remove entities from other people are virtually always being considerably interfered with themselves by the dark force (although almost always they do not at all recognise the fact), it is remarkably common for people who receive healings and supposed entity clearances from such people to end up with serious 'entity' and dark force interference problems that they did not have before. It is rare for such a healer to acknowledge that such a thing has happened; they typically seek to explain the problem away by claiming that the client's problem is not a real entity (any more) and is just a self created simulation of one, or it is 'just a manifestation of part of the person's healing process and nothing to worry about', and so on. Such 'healers' thus remain oblivious of the harm they are doing and believe that almost all, if not all, of their supposed entity removals have been successful, and so continue confidently to go proliferating 'entity' problems in more and more people, while claiming to have a long and 'squeaky clean' track record of successes (and even to publish a long list of impressive-looking testimonials).

I put 'entity' in quotes because, to the best of my current understanding, usually what is passed on is not true (i.e. conscious) entities but elementals, which in rather rare cases can each be combined with a soul fragment to produce the most troublesome type of 'entity' attachment of which I am aware (what I refer to as a 'combo entity'). However, certain healers and 'lightworkers' get some their clients sufficiently out of body during sessions that the clients (i.e. victims) are liable to end up with a partial walk-in or powerfully controlling spirit attachment.

I also warn about ANY healer (whether or not claiming to remove entities) who sends supposed healing spirits to people to carry out healing on them. When they do such things they virtually always cause immense problems for their victims (a more appropriate word here than 'clients') - problems that can be greatly more serious and difficult to deal with than 'ordinary' serious troubles with the dark force. Such so-called spirits may possibly sometimes be dark force programmed and controlled human souls, though my understanding is that at least most of the time what is really sent is elementals or 'combo entities', which can cause disruption and destruction in a person's life to an extent that the dark force itself could never achieve directly.

Healing and resolving anal fissures and other problems of the anus

I give anus problems a mention here because I myself have had a gutful (sic) of them myself and have found them in my case to have been mostly if not entirely caused by dark force interferences. As I am aware that such troubles most likely have the same cause for people quite generally, whether or not they are aware of any dark force interference, it makes sense for me to give a little coverage here, so that sufferers can start getting a broader angle on their problem than the narrow medical one, and actually start resolving the underlying problem - the interferences themselves.

Generally speaking, ongoing or at least recurrent problems with the anus are a result of the dark force causing the anus to be chronically over-tight and often indeed acutely clenched, sometimes with more transient very painful spasms. In addition, the dark force may enormously magnify and distort even a quite minor pain or discomfort in the anal area, and torture the person with a well-nigh unbearable level of pain, which is not always much reduceable with ordinary painkillers or topical local anaesthetic preparations. Additionally the dark force can give the sensory impression of having a burning hot or intensely tickling or itching worm or maggot vigorously writhing in the anus, or of sharp objects such as shards of glass being poked into the anus.

The over-constriction of the anus is harmful broadly in three ways: (a) it makes the anal lining very prone to injury while passing faeces, leading to fissure formation, (b) it forces the person to strain in order to pass faeces or indeed even just gas, and that causes and aggravates haemorrhoids, and (c) it causes ongoing restrictions and disruptions of local blood supply in the anal canal lining and inner layers of smooth muscle, which makes the whole of it relatively dysfunctional, with any injury very difficult or impossible to heal and haemorrhoids tending to get painfully enlarged and aggravated, also with the distinct possibility of anal abscess and indeed fistula formation.

For this type of situation all methods noted on this page for clearance of dark force interferences and attacks are needed - in other words an actively applied ongoing full self actualization strategy.

Use the Grounding Point procedure to 'zap' any (most likely covert) illusory realities involving your anal over-tightness and clenching. If you have a Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg you can also tune it to the interference that is causing the clenching and indeed any excess pain.

Use of a suitable stool softener when things are particularly difficult, such as with significant haemorrhoids or an anal fissure. Unfortunately many stool softeners, including lactulose and various natural products, cause adverse reactions in the gut, with excess gas production, which can further increase your misery, because farting itself can be very painful with an anal fissure or aggravated haemorrhoids in an over-tight anus. I eventually had a better stool softener prescribed for me by my doctor - Movicol, a preparation of polyethylene glycol. My use of energy testing retrospectively suggests that it was no more harmful than any other stool softeners that I had encountered, and actually did not cause (me) any significant additional gas production. If you have a Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg you can tune it to whatever stool softener you are using, and at least over a shortish period you will very likely find that any adverse reaction of yours to it will have much reduced if not altogether faded away. My own experience does not tally with claims and reports of the Energy Egg causing immediate cessation of sensitivity reactions; for me it has always taken some time - commonly a few days or a week or so - to notice a clear difference, and in any case not all my 'sensitivity' reactions have responded really noticeably to my tuning the Energy Egg to them. Similarly, I have not noticed instant cessation of sensitivity reactions upon tuning the Clarity-Sphere to the particular stress sources.

It is best not to use stool softener except when you have an 'acute' and painful or/and bloody condition at the back end, for there is a risk of developing a certain degree of dependency on it if it is used long-term - and it can divert attention away from the all important task of clearing the underlying cause of the anal constriction that is in turn causing the various individual problems. Also, the most effective continence is without any interference in stool consistency. In other words, use of a stool softener always makes you at least somewhat more prone to embarrassing 'accidents' in your pants, or at least some inconveniently urgent toilet visits.

Use a specific declaration of intent, made most effective by use of a suitable stone sphere, to focus your intent that all pain signals beyond what is useful or helpful are to be redirected to a 'sandbox' area of your awareness where their 'energy' can dissipate harmlessly and painlessly. This would most likely not have immediate effect and would need periodic repeating at an interval of a week or two to gradually build up that ability. I give no guarantees that it would work for everyone, but theoretically it looks as though it would.

Apply a suitable topical preparation, using a cling film wrapped finger to insert it the full length of the anal canal (best not to use any applicator that comes with the preparation, for that can be very wasteful). Of the ones I have tried, Anusol was the best, though not exactly ideal. Generally speaking, preparations containing local anaesthetic, such as the Germoloids ones, are best avoided, BUT if you are getting exaggerated, troublesome pain that is in excess of  what would actually be a helpful warning about your condition, a topical preparation containing local anaesthetic may be the pragmatic short term option if used judiciously and not to keep your back end continuously anaesthetized. Energy testing would indicate whether this would be the best thing for you to do at the particular time, and to what extent to use such a preparation.

'Nitroglycerine' (actually glyceryl trinitrate) ointment, which I myself tried a long time ago, can be used to help relax the anal sphincter when it is excessively tight, though I would not recommend its ongoing use, because that would be mucking around with your natural functioning and may have disruptive effects on the sphincter function long-term. It can also give you a headache. Personally, it did not seem to help me much, BUT my energy testing now indicates that I had needed to use a different strength (the catch being that upping the strength makes headaches more likely and also increases the odds for long term harmful effects). One particular drawback of using 'nitroglycerine' ointment is that it has no other properties that you may need at that time, such as shrinking of haemorrhoids, antisepsis and pain and itching reduction. That is really why I have tended to go more for the haemorrhoid ointments / creams.

N.B. Use of such preparations is no substitute for actually addressing and resolving the underlying cause of the problem, so my suggestions here are on the basis of their being used in addition to the other methods given on this page.

Actually, when the anus is severely clenched, application of ointment in the manner that I have indicated serves another, mechanical, function - that of helping the anal sphincter to come out of the feedback loop that is causing the sustained clenching. It is very much like the anal equivalent of, say, grounding your visual awareness to dissolve night hell (night terror) visuals - but instead you are helping to ground your anal awareness.

For this reason, even if you do not have a particularly suitable ointment it can still be distinctly helpful to gently insert a cling film wrapped finger after each bowel movement, using whatever reasonably benign lubricant that is to hand - even if it is just a bit of K-Y jelly or a little olive oil (the latter actually being better, though it might dribble around and thus be rather a nuisance). When you do insert the finger, it is best to throw any embarrassment to the wind and gently feel the state of the anal canal, and gently to slightly push against the canal wall in each direction and also to very gently give some slight wiggles to your finger, as though encouraging your anus in a very loving manner to relax - sort-of telling it that everything is all right now and it can let go of all that excess tension.

I found that when my anus was severely clenched, so that I could not readily and more or less painlessly insert my finger into the anal canal, I could achieve this without using force (which would generally be harmful as well as very painful, and could cause troublesome injury), simply by maintaining a continuous gentle pressure with the fingertip onto the closed anal canal, while maintaining a firmer lateral pressure with that finger on a pain-free side of the (closed) anal opening. That side pressure often was enough to cause the sphincter to relax just enough to allow the finger to slide in very slowly without my actively trying to push it in. This could be greatly helped by doing some strong deep inhalations, for each inhalation would cause a momentary slight relaxation of the sphincter, which would allow the finger to get just a bit further in each time with no increase in my pressure with that finger. Similarly, a series of slight coughs or clearings of my throat would achieve this.

Shrines, sacred spaces and sacred objects - a warning!

It is almost universally accepted among healers, spiritual teachers and people who see themselves as being on some sort of spiritual path, that it is helpful if not essential to have in one's living space some sort of shrine, however simple, or a dedicated sacred space, and also to have, either in the shrine area or/and elsewhere in one's living space certain 'sacred' objects. Such sacred objects, depending on one's particular resonances or favoured tradition, may include Buddha figures or indeed figures or representations of any spiritual teacher, religious leader, supposed higher being such as Avalokiteshvara, Melchizedek, Kwan Yin or Shiva, or symbols such as the OM and the merkaba - and indeed candles / night lights.

That - yet again! - points to the universality of the influence of the dark force in all our religious, healing and spiritual traditions. The point here is that ALL the above are pointing you away from the ONLY focus for true, full self actualization, which is your own deepest aspect, and are devices that the dark force has been using to get people unwittingly increasing their 'dark' connections.

If you stop and think about it, it hardly requires rocket science to realize that the very notion of designating any specific objects or locations as 'sacred' or indeed 'holy' is crazy! Look at it this way. What is the 'highest' and therefore presumably most sacred or holy thing in the whole of Existence? -- Surely the all-pervading 'creating' consciousness, which you could call 'the Ultimate'. But every single one of us, and everything that we experience, is a manifestation of that all-pervading consciousness, and so is similarly sacred or holy. That means that everything and everyone is fundamentally as sacred or holy as each other - so that the very concept of sacredness or holiness is fundamentally meaningless, for things are simply whatever and however they are! 

So, it is an essential part of full self actualization and clearance of dark force influences, that you have NO shrine, no sacred or holy place(s) or objects. As long as you keep even one Buddha figure or a crucifix or purported image of Jesus, for example, you are keeping yourself tied to dark force agendas and are not fully understanding the true nature of your own deepest aspect (and thus of yourself).

However, in no way am I saying that there is a problem about having a dedicated space for healing work or your healing / self actualization practices. In fact that is a GREAT idea! But that space would need to be physically and energetically harmonious with its intended purposes (with full and comprehensive self actualization as the overall remit) - not regarded as 'sacred' and somehow connecting you to something higher. If you want the 'highest', you have it anyway, wherever you are, because it is your own deepest aspect, and it is also the deepest aspect of everything that your experience. When you seek to connect to something 'higher' than yourself (including anything supposedly Divine), whether by designated objects or any other means, you are actually connecting to 'lower' - i.e. the astral sub-reality and the dark force. The choice is yours. What do you want? -- Or, more to the point, what do you really know to be in your own best and deepest interest? (Try energy-testing on that!)

To use or not to use symbols in healing?

Symbols are used in certain healing systems, such as Reiki, and I was using two symbols especially in my healing work until 2007, when I came to understand that no symbols at all connect with the 'highest' and purest healing sources, so that if you want to connect to truly 'high' and pure healing 'energies', then the use of symbols (yes, even the symbols of Reiki and its extensions such as Karuna, and such highly 'sacred' symbols as the OM and the merkaba) is to be completely avoided as it would be an obstruction to manifesting your true positive and healing intent.

Furthermore, my understanding now is that most or all of those symbols are not just less beneficial than one would like but are actually in varying degrees harmful. I have become aware of dark force connections in the use of any supposedly sacred, healing or meditation symbol.

The name of the game, therefore, is to get focusing inwards to your own deepest aspects for your true and pure healing source, so that you can get the full spectrum of healing energies and indeed be using 'the Ultimate' in your healings. There is no purer nor more fundamental healing source.

Hypnotherapy and any other hypnosis-related therapies - a serious warning

Most times when I have seen a photo portrait of a person who uses hypnosis upon other people I have felt disturbed by them. There is something highly problematical in the gaze of many of these people - at least the ones I have seen. There is a penetrating, controlling feel about their gaze - not at all the love and warmth of a true healer. This points to these people having a very serious problem, which would cause or aggravate problems for any clients of theirs. They are among the sorts of people I have always been clear that I wanted to keep well away from, for I could feel a strong and very invasive control agenda in their 'energy'.

Without going into details here, I myself have had experience of one such person, who offered himself actually not for anything to do with hypnosis (or so I thought), but to assist me by clearing out my supposed 'astral beings' problem (really dark force interference and attacks). In the course of his 'assistance', on a few occasions he sought to get me to submit to his attempts to put me into 'hypnotic trance', but my own deeper aspects fought against that and would not allow me to do so. His response was very much that of a control agenda driven person, repeatedly emphasizing that I must trust him and submit to him. This was also a repeated theme in subsequent e-mail correspondence from him, always with this claim that I was supposed to submit to him.

Later on, as far as I could tell from some inner inquiry, he had put some sort of problematical energy configuration in my 'energy system' during my sessions with him, and subsequently I heard from two of his ex-clients independently, and both had had really frightening and upsetting experiences in sessions with him, where he had had the particular person on his couch and had been getting them supposedly under hypnosis, and both had been aware that something seriously untoward was happening - one having been able to glance at his face while pretending to be in hypnotic trance, and saw his face distorted, looking to her as though he were possessed by some sort of most unwholesome 'spirit'. Both of those ex-clients had significant new ongoing problems afterwards, which pointed to their having received in those sessions some sort of 'entity' or other serious 'energy' problem. One of the ex-clients later confronted him about that, and he claimed that it was just part of her own healing process and that he and his methods had been squeaky-clean. And similarly, his failure to cause a cessation of my own 'entities' problem elicited from him the claim that he had removed all my 'entities', and now I had just 'self made entities'.

That was typical of what such practitioners do - cause problems for clients, and indeed often very serious ones, but dismiss all that as being something wrong about the client, and still chalk up the 'victim'-client as another of his successes. Such practitioners therefore, readily show a supposedly long and impressive track record of purportedly successful healings that were really nothing of the kind.

Okay, that was just one example, and there are bound to be individuals whose outlook and personal state are relatively healthy who have got into hypnosis-involving work, but how would any ordinary person know that such a person was 'safe'? And in any case, hypnosis is tremendously disempowering and ungrounding, and thus simply a very harmful thing to be done to anyone, never mind the apparent bona fide of the particular practitioner.

The bottom line, therefore, is that anyone who uses hypnosis is an absolute menace, and for your own safety is best steered well clear of - never mind what credentials and 'client ratings' they appear to have. There are always more effective, safe and completely self empowering methods to address the issues for which certain people are using hypnosis.

This all points also to the general importance of using only SELF clearance methods for clearing 'entities' and dark force interferences, and not to trust anyone else - whatever their reputation - to try to do that work for you.

The place of Tai Chi, Qi Gong and martial arts in self actualization

I know that my saying this will cause disappointment, dismissal or even anger in some quarters, but actually there is no useful place for these practices for gaining fundamental clarity ('enlightenment') or true self actualization. Many people regard the practices indeed as the epitome of self actualization - but that is a part of the problem, for that view comes from the very sort of limited awareness that these practices cultivate. In fact, almost always they are a hindrance if not a definite obstacle to true and full self actualization, despite various beneficial elements.

Generally speaking, people who take on these practices cultivate an energy awareness that, although grounded in some respects, is also ungrounded - and is limited to certain aspects of one's entire being, just as the practices cultivate only a certain type of 'chi energy' and thus strengthen the practitioner only in certain respects while leaving other areas untouched or even weakened. The overall effect for one's entire being is in fact weakening because of the quite strong energy imbalance that accumulates as one aspect is strengthened without regard to other levels and aspects of the system.

Also, these practices, and those who teach them, tend to encourage people to get fascinated by and attached to feeling what they believe to be 'energy flow' and consciously manipulating 'energy'. That in fact aligns one with the dark force, and any such person who is not of great integrity is liable to go manipulating such 'energies' inappropriately and harmfully. Potentially such people are, frankly, dangerous. Further, because of this aspect of martial arts, many people are attracted to the latter who are already predisposed to negative or indeed overtly 'dark' behaviour or practices, so if you participate in any sort of martial arts class or group you are relatively likely to be putting yourself alongside people (including, sorry to say, not uncommonly the teacher or group leader) who might quite possibly put a serious psychic attack on you if for some reason they do not happen to like you - particularly if they feel that you present any sort of threat to their own personally perceived status.

To keep clear of dark force influence you need to stay completely clear of using the ordinary mind to manipulate or direct 'energy', and to allow what people interpret as 'energy flow' always to be directed and carried out by your core essence if it really needs to occur at all. Also you need to keep clear of fascination and attachment. Fascination is fine if it is completely without attachment - for then it is simply an aware enjoyment of what you are observing from moment to moment. But when you concentrate on feeling 'energy flow' for the fascination of it, then you are getting into trouble - not least because the 'energy' is illusory to start with, and so by engaging with it as something 'real', you are cultivating an illusory reality in your mindspace, which is part of that in which the whole human 'aura' and all its purported structures exist. You are thus not only helping to keep yourself in dark force captivity by 'living' that illusory reality, but you are rendering yourself vulnerable to all manner of interferences and outright psychic attacks using that 'energy'.

In 'hands-on' healing work, many healers are insistent on working hands-off, at least most of the time, and the usual justification that they come out with when confronted about this is that they can best feel the 'energies' when working hands-off. But where did this notion come from - that when you are doing healing work you need to maximally feel the 'energy flows'? Actually I have got a very good idea where that one comes from, and it is no place you would want to be! Yes, you guessed right - the dark force yet again!

I have found again and again that such people had very little true interest in the needs of the recipient of the healing; they were working that way just because they enjoyed feeling the 'energy flows' (and often 'seeing' various non-physical manifestations) - and also because they felt that working that way looked much more smart and 'cool' and thus helped boost their personal status as a healer. That's not a true healing or self actualization outlook at all. People who are into Tai Chi or other more overtly martial arts are particularly prone to that unaware approach to healing, in which their main interest is in feeling and consciously manipulating 'energy' (which, as I say, is illusory to start with).

In fact healing work functions best when the healer does not seek to feel energies or 'see' anything at all but simply lets the deepest aspect of him/herself and of the recipient do the work. In practice then the healer still does experience various things, but without being attached to them and being distracted from paying proper attention to the recipient and his/her healing requirements.

Indeed, my understanding nowadays is that genuine healing 'energy' cannot be directly felt by anyone and is really not 'energy as we generally think of it; it is more like a 'resonance' effect. When people feel what they take to be energy flow or 'energies', these are impressions that are being given to them to represent such 'energies'. The basic indications are given by one's own deepest aspects, and reflect genuine 'energy' activity, but are so subtle that hardly anyone notices them. Hugely magnified and distorted versions of those indications, not necessarily in sync with any actual processes, are routinely presented by the dark force, and it is THESE that people virtually universally feel and believe are their own direct perceptions of 'energies'. Therefore those 'energy' impressions need to be completely disregarded, and any practices or methods that actually use them need to be dropped like a hot brick, for they are every bit as beneficial as 'something really nasty in the woodshed'!

True self actualization practices open up your 'energy' awareness in a balanced and fully grounded way, without attachment - indeed, with actual releasing and dissolving of any attachments and compulsive fascinations that one may be harbouring.

Scientology - out of the frying pan and into the fire

It has been put to me occasionally that Scientology is about clearing yourself of all negative or otherwise problematical material and therefore it is the direction for you and me. As far as I understand, and this is supported by my energy testing, we all need Scientology just as we all need a great big hole in the head.

The mere fact that Scientology is based in an organisation called the Church of Scientology actually handsomely gives the game away, as does the record of the Church of Scientology in seeking to suppress, even through lawsuits, public exposure of the harmfulness of Scientology and the deviousness of the Church of Scientology and at least some of its leading members.

When you get into Scientology you go through a process of supposedly making you 'clear', which would be clearing out certain selected emotional issues of yours to a point that you are declared to be 'clear' (but I can say with considerable confidence, you would NOT be clear in the sense of being self actualized in any balanced and healthy way). Now, if that had really been about true self actualization, you would have no need for an organization, let alone one that actually calls itself a 'Church', and, having 'cleared' yourself, you would at once go on your own way, a free person, free of any belief or control from others.

In reality, making you into a 'clear' is just the first part of the process of Scientology seeking control over you, for once you are declared to be 'clear', an indoctrination process starts - loading you with their own belief system, which of course is really dark force sourced illusory realities, just the same as in any religion. As far as I understand it currently, the whole process also just happens to 'clear' you of quite a lot of money. If you are 'lucky', though, you might well get an unsolicited 'free gift' for your troubles - free membership of a very secret network, of which I say more further below...

Back in 2003 I had a glancing encounter myself with Scientology, which firmly squashed any notion floating around, that my view of Scientology had been too uninformed and harsh against that movement. On that particular occasion I visited a Mind, Body and Soul fair at Bude, Cornwall. At some point I sat on a seat outside to eat my packed lunch. Presently a woman came out of the entrance of the fair and sat on the same seat, and we got talking. I was actually surprised that she had been in that fair at all for she was tartily made-up, with high heeled shoes and face heavily powdered, thick lipstick, and her eyes were also heavily made-up. She was clearly living an extremely unhealthy and unenlightened sort of life, and did not look like being any sort of genuine healer at all. She was nervously smoking cigarettes, and gave the overall impression of having a very shallow level of awareness - something also pointed to in retrospect by my inner inquiry.

It turned out that she was, jointly with a colleague, running the Scientology stand in the fair - I having consistently bypassed that stand, feeling very negative 'vibes' from it. She talked to me about how Scientology, and especially their methodology that they call Dianetics, was the real answer to all my healing needs, and urged me, when I went back into the Fair, to go to their stand and take a simple test to see what I needed to clear (and, according to her, could easily be cleared by Dianetics).

Remaining sceptical, I did go to that stand after my lunch break, and the woman got me to hold a cylinder in my hand - the cylinder being attached by a wire to a small device with a meter window on it. It was clearly some sort of polygraph. She asked me to tell her (while holding that cylinder) what issues I thought I most needed to clear, and I mentioned the odd ones, including isolation. "That's it!", she exclaimed; "No need to bother about anything else. Isolation! That's the one. Now, with Dianetics..."

Even then I realized that there was something grossly flawed about that whole approach, for I well understood that just making a bee-line for some particular major issue to the exclusion of everything else would be a most unbalanced and unhelpful way of going about things. This did not sound to me at all like a genuine healing and self actualization approach.

-- And she was then seeking to sell me the book Dianetics by the (in)famous L. Ron Hubbard and to get me to sign up there and then for a course of Dianetics sessions to clear that isolation issue. It would all 'clear' me of significant money - that was clear - but just how much I have no idea because I felt deeply from within that there was something fundamentally wrong about this whole setup and the people running it, and so I firmly turned away from that stand and indeed from Scientology. I felt this all the more because that monumentally unaware, un-self-actualized and indeed extremely unhealthily living woman was out there presumably as an ambassador for Scientology and an example of what it could do for you. Also, her colleague, an older man, had a pronounced shady, furtive quality about him* as he hovered in the background, and I got a strong feeling as though this Scientology stand was being run by a criminal gang rather than people who genuinely had healing intentions for anyone.

* Indeed, he had a seemingly dark, mucky quality of his 'vibes', which, since I much more recently took up energy testing, I established to be an intimation for me of a person having attached soul fragments and possibly other troublesome entities and thus being in quite deep trouble and not being a healthy sort of person to have dealings with or indeed to have around at all. What an advertisement for Scientology!

Although I did not at that time know for sure that there really were 'dark forces' except as a figure of speech, I had a strong sense that if there were such 'dark forces', Scientology would be one of their hotbeds (or hell-holes!).

I have on the odd occasions encountered individuals who claimed that Scientology had changed their lives in very positive ways, but that actually does not tell one very much because there are also plenty of people who will say the same of Christianity, 'Jesus', Islam or Buddhism, yet they are actually all ensnared in the dark force agenda and they are all pointed squarely away from genuine self actualization.

Since writing the original of this note I have had pointers from my inner inquiry that the Church of Scientology looks to be one of the 'front' organizations of the postulated cacoprotean network, which latter, if indeed it exists, would appear to be the primary aspect of the dark force - i.e. what some people would regard as the true 'Satan'. That means that people who go through its methods / initiations are liable to end up as members of that network themselves. A quite sensational 'free gift', don't you think! ...And you still reckon Scientology is a Good Thing - right? 

Use of mechanical aids

There are mechanical devices on the market, which move some part or parts of one's body, and in some cases are claimed to thus generate a lot of Ki ('life force energy') for the user and thus to be the ultimate healing / strengthening system because you just let the device work on you and you can be completely passive about the process.

I caution that any such 'healing' or Ki generation claims for such devices are bogus, and the devices are actually harmful in that use of them engenders a 'caved in', passive approach to self actualization, which is actually a big obstacle to genuine self actualization. They are the sort of thing that gullible 'therapy addicts' would go for.

There needs to be a full and integrated interaction between your conscious awareness and all other aspects of your whole being in order for any particular method to work.  When you use an external aid that physically moves parts of your body, you have effectively 'caved in' and slumped into some degree of 'passive' mode, and that would be a major obstacle for your self actualization process.

For this reason, too, using a device that 'walks you', i.e. rather than your actually walking, is extremely unlikely to be of anything but very major hindrance to the effectiveness of any Self-Power Walking that you may do.

Sound healing and colour healing

Many healers believe that we can very beneficially be given healing sessions in which the recipient is exposed to particular colours or sounds (in the latter case usually various types of singing bowl or gong). The 'logic' of this is that each person has their own 'energy' imbalances that are reflected in or indeed caused by the state of their chakras. Each chakra is supposed to have its own colour and its own 'energy' frequency, and so, the 'logic' goes, any particular chakra that is underpowered relative to the others can be boosted by exposing the person to the colour of each underpowered chakra or / and particular sounds that are deemed to resonate harmoniously with the particular chakra.

Even before I understood the actually illusory / fictitious nature of chakras, I realized that something had to be amiss about this whole idea of colour healing, because different traditions see the chakras in different colour schemes. That made it clear to me even then that the very notion of a chakra objectively having a particular colour had to be wrong. Also, even back then I also did not see how something completely non-physical could have a colour at all, nor indeed a frequency or 'vibration rate' (to use New-Age-speak!). Nowadays I recognise that I was really onto the true situation in those early reservations of mine.

However, nowadays I recognise that the chakras are apparently illusory structures anyway. So, when you go seeking to 'heal' or otherwise affect chakras, what you are doing is reinforcing the illusory reality in which they appear to be 'real'. That is intrinsically harmful. Also, the supposed healing effects that people do notice from colour or especially sound 'healing' sessions are really just one's getting more ungrounded (which gets unhelpfully interpreted as 'spiritual opening up', which is mistakenly taken to be something very positive). So, for your own well-being, you would do well to completely discard as harmful virtually everything that goes on in a colour or sound 'healing' session.

Actually, theoretically sound healing and colour healing are fully valid concepts, but NOT relating to chakras nor any other structures of one's supposed 'energy system'. We all do have imbalances in our non-physical aspects, whose resolution can be assisted by seeing an emphasis upon particular colours or hearing particular sounds or indeed particular music. However, that is something that needs to be applied in an ongoing manner to be usefully effective, and its effect in just a specific healing session would not be enough to be worth devoting such a session to.

As to how to apply ongoing colour / sound healing to yourself (i.e. going about it the beneficial way), any sort of ministrations from supposed sound or colour healers are not the answer. What you would need to do for that is to use energy testing to find out which colours to emphasize in your surroundings, and indeed to energy-test each specific detail of your ideas for emphasizing such colours for yourself - and to follow up only those ideas that are indicated as most strengthening for you. The same also applies to the use of particular sounds and music for helping to improve the balance of your non-physical aspects.

Really this whole approach needs to be seen as simply an aspect of your overall self actualization process and not a specific type of healing at all. Indeed, it is just part of the more general issue of ensuring that you have surroundings that are as harmonious for you as reasonably possible, with minimum environmental stress. Thus really if you are being effective in your self actualization process, 'sound healing' or 'colour healing' would be meaningless concepts.

Homoeopathy and natural remedies - a big side-track

Most healers include homoeopathic and natural remedies in their healing strategies for themselves and other people. While the very concept of homoeopathy is totally nonsensical to me, I have no cause to get into the argument over whether it actually works or not. Certainly the placebo effect is real and is not to be sniffed at in the way that the vast majority of medical workers do, and I have a sneaking suspicion that in a fair number of cases homoeopathy would be more accurately named 'placebo therapy' - especially for cases of people buying homoeopathic remedies 'over the counter'. I know people who claim it has done wonders for them, and I know others for whom it has apparently done nothing (including myself).

It is claimed that animals and very young children have had dramatic 'cures' from homoeopathy - which suggests something more than just placebo effect in those particular cases. On the other hand, in all cases it is difficult or impossible to know for sure that it was the homoeopathy itself that brought about the various apparently non-placebo cures or improvements, or whether it was the methodology and outlook surrounding it. Naturally users of homoeopathy would generally be emphatic that both are involved, but as yet I have no pointer to homoeopathy in itself being a useful principle for anything at all. Many homoeopathic practitioners are strong healers anyway, whether or not they recognise the fact, and it looks very likely to me that at least many of the beneficial effects that people are ascribing to homoeopathy are coming from the healing effects of the particular practitioner - the use of homoeopathic 'remedies' simply giving a framework within which the practitioner is unawarely 'giving healing'.

In the case of herbal 'remedies', some herbal extracts are well known to lessen certain symptoms, such as Saw Palmetto and Pygeum bark extract minimizing or even to some extent reversing prostate enlargement.

However, there is a fundamental principle here, which the vast majority of users of such products are overlooking. They are getting carried away with the notion that 'natural' or homoeopathic means 'good' and therefore you take 'natural' medicines instead of ones of synthetic origin. Unfortunately, generally speaking, while homoeopathic 'remedies' would, generally speaking, in themselves be harmless (because they contain effectively no active principle), herbal remedies have their own range of subtle long-term harmful effects, just as do the synthetic drugs and medicines.

Also, the whole notion of using medication (whether natural, homoeopathic or synthetic / allopathic) for a problem is flawed, except for temporarily addressing some troublesome symptom while true holistic healing methods are used to resolve the underlying cause of the problem.

That is the point. Generally people opt for drugs or medicines to try to get rid of symptoms instead of resolving the underlying problem, and the fact of using a 'natural' or homoeopathic medicine rather than a pharmaceutical product actually does not change the situation at all. Homoeopathy practitioners generally claim to be getting at the underlying root causes of people's health problems when they give consultations and dispense or prescribe particular homoeopathic 'remedies', but although their approach may be much more holistic than that of the average family GP, they are still working at medication level and not at all getting to or even recognising the true underlying cause of their clients' health problems. Generally speaking, although they may recommend various beneficial lifestyle changes, and so have various beneficial effects, generally speaking they know nothing of the accumulations of environmental stress effects that have given rise to the health problems that their clients present, and they also know nothing of the 'entities' and dark force interferences that will in most cases also be involved in causing those health problems.

So, while I am not at all saying it is bad in any circumstances to take medication (whether natural or not), I am saying that in NO case does medication (even homoeopathic) resolve the underlying cause of any health issue (at least, at the deepest levels), and that is why I do not include any sort of medication in the listing above of recommended healing and self actualization methods. If you are using, for example, the Returning Life Sequence plus other methods given on this page, then any apparent need for medication of any sort would theoretically steadily dwindle eventually to (for most people) nil at virtually all times, because you would be steadily resolving, even at the very deepest levels, the underlying causes of your health problems - not just the present ones but all potential future ones too.

As already remarked, it is widely claimed that homoeopathy does address and resolve underlying causes of physical problems - but that is a narrow view, not based on the whole picture. You may get a dramatic 'cure' of some problem, yes (though, as I have already suggested, homoeopathy itself may well not be the true curative agent), but that in itself does not demonstrate that the deepest underlying cause has been resolved, even if an intermediate underlying cause has been resolved (which again would generally not be demonstrable and would be merely an assumption that is made - underlying causes generally being non-physical and thus not possible for ordinary people to directly observe).

Am I saying, therefore, that it would be best for users of homoeopathy and herbal remedies to simply drop those at once? -- No, not at all. Above, I have simply stated my own best understanding of the situation at the present time. The point is this. My interest is in promoting self actualization, which is the fullest, most profound and comprehensive healing that is possible and works on all levels and aspects of your whole being - which no 'remedy' can do, despite claims often made. It is not my business, and would weaken my promotion of genuine self actualization, for me to go championing healing methods that may seem to work well for 'curing' particular issues but are at best only partial or even non-measures with regard to true self actualization.

Am I saying that homoeopathy is not a self actualization method (even when practised 'properly')? Not quite, because I couldn't know such a thing. But nonetheless all the pointers from my own observations, inner inquiry and energy testing point to its not being so, even though in some circumstances, on the face of it, it could be quite useful if it is not used as a substitute for genuine self actualization methods.

It is up to each person to get on with their own self actualization process from wherever they happen to be at, so opening up their proper grounded deep awareness (as distinct from the highly problematical 'higher awareness' that is ungrounded and opens to the astral sub-reality and all its massive problems). As their awareness deepens, and especially through using energy testing and cultivating direct 'energy' awareness, they would see for themselves whether and to what extent they would do best to revise or discontinue their use of herbal or homoeopathic remedies at any particular time.

The big problem about homoeopathy is not so much homoeopathy itself but the sidetrack that it leads people into - which is not the fault of homoeopathy but of the dark force sourced interferences that relentlessly seek to divert people away from genuine self actualization.

However, before I leave this subject I have a great big caution to add - leading on from the last statement. This is speculation, but it does fit very neatly into the picture that I am building from my own observations of how the dark force interferes with people.

In The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks, I explain how the dark force commonly controls people by getting them unawarely creating illusory realities, which are the broader, astral, component of their beliefs. I have a sneaking suspicion that the true reason why homoeopathy appears to many people to work is that the dark force is using homoeopathy as a means of getting people unawarely creating illusory realities out of their belief in homoeopathy. Such illusory realities can impinge on the physical reality and could indeed actually cause some people to experience or witness real dramatic cures - and yet the underlying cause of that happening could be thus extremely sinister. This is happening all the time in all spiritual healing traditions. It is all part of the general strategy of the dark force to set up lures to people who have any sort of motivation for self actualization, to lead them into sidetracks in which not only are they diverted from true self actualization but, through their illusory realities, they are getting more and more into the clutches of the dark force - even while appearing to be on extremely positive and beneficial healing 'paths'.

If the abovementioned suspicion of mine is correct, I have a further suspicion that homoeopathy would not work significantly at all for no-soul people, and it would tend to work for other people only because of something in their (dark force sourced) soul programming, which is creating the relevant illusory reality in the people's minds, whether or not they consciously believe that homoeopathy works or not, or even know about it at all.

If people would but use energy testing (carefully and vigilantly, as described in my energy testing guide), they need not be concerned about what is true about all this in an absolute sense, for they would be able to find out simply what is in their own best interests from moment to moment.

Old-wifery about water intake levels

A widespread myth among 'spiritual' healers is that after a healing session or while applying ongoing self healing to oneself one needs to drink a prodigious amount of water per day, in order to clear from our body the toxins that are claimed to be released in our tissues as the healing progresses*. Indeed, basically this same myth also comes to us quite widely from the medical profession too, though in that case I think their recommendation of very liberal hydration is more based on the general notion that 'dehydration is bad for you'.

* This itself appears to be myth, because, as far as I have been able to ascertain, 'spiritual' / 'energy work' healing simply does not cause any significant release of toxins in the body. It appears to be a story given to people by the dark force, (a) to help convince people that the 'healings' are very much more powerful than they really are, and, (b) to give a (false, smokescreen) 'explanation' of why people quite often get untoward after-effects from healings. The real cause of the latter is generally the resultant weakening of the person's grounding, leading to increased interferences and indeed actual attacks from the dark force, and the general weakening of the person's physical condition that would follow on from all that.

In any case, what people who routinely recommend a large daily intake of water do NOT do is to use energy testing to find out what is actually optimal for each specific person at a specific time and indeed generally. If they did use energy testing (i.e. properly, following all the cautions and caveats that I give in my guide to it), they would discover for themselves that drinking significantly more than a reasonable minimum of water is actually not helpful and indeed tends to be slightly harmful - not least because of losing sleep through having to get up in the night to pee. No two people's water needs are exactly the same, and in any case one's actual water need varies greatly with time, according to ambient conditions and one's physical and emotional state and level of activity.

Medical 'authorities' tend to lay down that one should drink enough water that one's urine would always be a pale straw colour, but that bears no relation to anything other than a rule laid down to control people. Actually, a healthy person with overall optimal water intake will have natural fluctuations of his state of hydration, which would give rise to corresponding fluctuations in the yellowness of his urine.

Generally people drink a lot more water than is good for them, because of particular addictions that they maintain - such as drinking of caffeine-containing beverages or alcoholic drinks. In 1974, when I made a clear choice to cut out all mind-affecting drugs and thus cut out caffeine- and alcohol-containing drinks or beverages, my water consumption dropped markedly to something like a genuine healthy level, for then I drank only what my body told me I needed, instead of drinking as a habitual or indeed social thing.

One point that is generally missed is that an optimal water intake is lower in the evening than at other times of day. That flies right in the face of social custom very widely if not universally, in which people drink extra in the evening. No wonder so many people then need to get up to pee, or have unduly distended and usually uncomfortable bladder by getting-up time!

I make these points about the normal state of over-hydration of people in general, of course, with regard to people without specific medical conditions that require over-hydration and who are living in cool to reasonably temperate climates. Clearly, living in hot conditions, while not negating the general principles that I have put forward above, is complicated by the much higher speed of water loss from one's body through sweat and evaporation, so that much higher levels of water intake would be required. However, if you yourself live in such conditions and regularly used energy testing to establish how much water to drink at the current time, you would actually adjust your water intake so that your urine amounts and colour (i.e. concentration) would be remarkably similar to those for a person in a cooler climate who was similarly using energy testing to arrive at his optimal water intake.

In your optimal state, thus, you would be fluctuating on a daily basis between what a typical doctor would regard as a healthily hydrated state and what (s)he would regard as significantly dehydrated - particularly if you are strenuously active during the day. As they - or at least I - say, ...

"Are the methods given on your site the only effective self actualization methods?"

Somebody wrote in to me as follows (this is slightly edited for clarity):

Do you think the self-realization methods listed on your site are the only ones, or do you think there may be others? I ask because I study kinesiology and have found it very helpful in clearing out my emotional baggage and stress, one issue at a time. It seems to be a method that emphasizes personal responsibility so I was wondering if you had any familiarity with this? I didn't see it mentioned on your site. Also Acupuncture - that is okay, right, even though it deals with energy movements within the body?

Regarding kinesiology, the weird thing is that my instructor kind of freaks me out; I have always found him unsettling and I am considering dropping the class even though I love the material. I guess I'll have to work out for myself what to do, because now I know that I can't really ask for anyone's help or advice. I was wondering if you maybe had some words about kinesiology and/or acupuncture, or just in general?

It would be foolish indeed of me to say categorically that the methods that I give are the only ones for effective self actualization, because I cannot possibly know in detail, or indeed at all, every method that anyone uses or has used. What I present is simply the particular set of methods that I myself took on and found particularly effective when taken together as an overall far-ranging and comprehensive strategy. Generally, what I observe about people who ask me whether their own particular methods are 'okay' (or indeed assure me that they are) is that they are generally using only one or two methods for the purpose and seem to think that they could achieve genuine self actualization that way, and generally appear to be seeking to find reasons 'why not' to take up my own methodology* or indeed any other broader and more comprehensive range of methods at all.

* This is a pervasive and potent self sabotage strategy, and it is generally involved every time somebody asks me if I know of this or that supposed healing or self actualization method, and what my views on it are. You can spend your whole life looking around and getting people's views on this and that 'healing' method, and that is just what the dark force gets people doing - for the simple reason that they are thus side-tracked and effectively lost to self actualization. If you want self actualization, you take on suitable methods (there are plenty on this site) and get on with it ! You do so with the full intent (not belief) that the methods work for you, and, as appropriate, you use energy testing to assist you in modifying and improving your self actualization strategy and methodology through a plain common-sense process of trial and error - finding out for yourself what works best for you and what has not been so helpful.

What you do NOT do if you are serious about your self actualization process is to keep looking over the fence at other people's methods and wondering if you should take them on, because that is part of a pattern that is effectively rejecting any potentially really effective methods that you are using or could be using. It also reflects a continuing attachment to and preoccupation with what is tainted and distorted by dark force influence. Most people find those other methods always SO much more interesting than simply getting on with the actually effective methods given on this site! So, they come asking me about, for example, methods using magnets (always harmful) or this or that 'environmental stress eliminator' or supposed healing aid (also harmful) or this or that supposed self realization tradition or guru (also harmful). Why can they not instead actually get on with setting themselves up with a Clarity-Sphere, which is safer and potentially more helpful than any of those things, and use it according to my indications? That is the way they would really be getting on with their self actualization process.

That is an error of theirs, regardless of whether their particular methods are in some measure helpful. As I have already explained on this page, although some methods, such as the Alexander Technique or The Work could each in itself theoretically gain one optimal ('full') self actualization, actually it appears that nobody is able to achieve such a feat, because each person has his/her particular 'blind spots' and distortions of perception that limit the extent to which any one method can work for them. That is why it is necessary to be using a whole range of methods. If the latter are well chosen, the different methods work in complementary ways so that one method succeeds in facilitating aspects of the person's self actualization process that are not that much assisted by another particular method.

With regard to the particular methods that people are using, one very important consideration is, to what extent the methods are actually involving the dark force - either directly, or indirectly through involving the person in illusory realities. Most methods people are using for healing and 'self realization' do have some sort of dark force involvement or at least dark force sourced distortion. Also, the mere fact of a method apparently being helpful in clearing some issues does not necessarily mean that it is either a full self actualization method or even a worthwhile part of a whole self actualization strategy (i.e. bearing in mind that there would generally be more effective methods available).

In the case of kinesiology, how genuinely helpful it would be towards genuine self actualization depends very much on how it is being used. If it is being used the way that many - I suspect almost all - people are using it, fundamentally it is really only a particular form of dowsing, in which the dark force is at least to some extent mediating in the 'response' mechanism (though its practitioners would generally strongly deny that, but without sound basis for such denials). That means that, regardless of any apparently helpful results you get from kinesiology, it is almost certain to be taking you away from genuine self actualization and into one of the plethora of 'healing sidetracks' that the dark force has so kindly laid on for us through all the traditions and 'disciplines'.

In any case, kinesiology is not in itself a healing or clearance method. It is simply a (normally flawed) method for interrogating deeper levels of one's consciousness to get answers that one needs in order to further one's healing or self actualization requirements - but, unlike in energy testing as I present it, that is done without the awareness of the need to keep clear of dark force interference and indeed how to do so. There is, however, no sharp and clear dividing line between what is generally known as kinesiology and what I am calling energy testing.

So, when somebody describes kinesiology to me as a healing or self actualization method, that person is clearly in some confusion over what they are involving themselves with. Yes, they may be getting some healing / clearance, but that would be from methods that are being used alongside the kinesiology - not the kinesiology itself. In just the same way, I would not call energy testing a healing / self actualization method in itself, apart from its tremendous assistance in one's making 'strengthening' choices in one's life - but it is still, when used really well, an immensely powerful tool for using as part of one's overall self actualization strategy.

I myself once, not long before my big shenanigans with the dark force started in late 2003, had a session with a qualified kinesiology practitioner. Using 'muscle testing' (which was the kinesiology bit), she identified the odd food sensitivities and healing requirements that I supposedly had, and gave me a little bit of 'energy' healing for certain of those, applying fingertip pressure to certain specific acupressure points, supposedly to free up the odd supposedly blocked 'channels', and prescribed the odd flower remedies and recommended some rather boringly predictable diet changes. I felt even then, and much more recently have clarified a lot more by means of retrospective inner inquiry using energy testing, that the issues she picked up, although generally sort-of true, were actually only minor issues and had not really touched on the things that I was really hoping she might assist me with. This is not surprising at all, because she was operating with a 'spirituality' outlook and had no inkling of the dark force's involvement in her whole outlook and many of her methods, nor of the ways that it is interfering with people in general. She therefore missed ALL my really significant and indeed major issues.

One person who had been to that practitioner a few times talked of the latter having (apparently) used kinesiology to reveal a fair amount of detail about certain (supposed) past lives of hers. As I now clearly understand, that would have meant the practitioner was effectively dowsing or channelling, no matter that she thought of it as a different procedure (i.e. kinesiology). It was only her means of dowsing / channelling that was different.

Acupuncture has its genuine uses, particularly as an analgesic, but in no way is it a self actualization method or really even part of a self actualization strategy (i.e. apart from being able to use a non-drug analgesic where an externally applied pain relief method really is required). If you really want to know whether acupuncture would be helpful to you for any particular purpose, really the only worthwhile way to seek to find out is to take up energy testing and get used to using it really carefully and vigilantly as described in my energy testing Guide, and heeding all the cautions and caveats that I give there, and to use energy testing to see whether any particular use of acupuncture would be 'strengthening' or 'weakening' for you at the particular time. The same would go for other methods too.

I would also point out that, whatever methods you want to use in your own self actualization strategy, it is best to keep clear of reliance on any sort of ongoing instructor, because of the various problems that they can pass on to you. Not least of those problems, in almost all cases, would be the cultivation of a confusion that accommodates dark force connection and interference in use of the particular method - and that generally includes a certain hindrance in the self empowerment process.

Last but far from least, I have the following point to make with regard to reliability / 'safety' of the various sources / backgrounds of the various methods and methodologies available. I myself am not aware of one single such source or background that incorporates the level and extensiveness of awareness and understanding of the dark force's interference in all healing and self actualization activities (and one's consequent need to have methods that are completely clear of such influences) that I have - and that is not for want of looking! Even Steve Gamble, who undoubtedly recognises the problem to a considerable extent, still perpetuates his own version of that problem in his writings and methods. On the other hand you only have to read on this site my clear, open and honest accounts of my own experiences and observations of dark force interference with me and other people, and how I forged my own powerfully effective means to get clear of all that garbage that had been on the verge of destroying me, to realize that my methodology is particularly soundly based ('proof of the pudding', and all that!). What other source of supposed self actualization methods demonstrates such awareness and clear-mindedness about dark force influences and interferences? If you can find one, then their methodology may well (but not necessarily) be a really worthwhile alternative to my own. As already noted, careful use of energy testing would help you choose the best methods for you personally.

"Alcohol is beneficial - it's been proved!"

Oh no it hasn't!! Actually nothing of the sort has been proved nor demonstrated, even in the slightest degree! What has been shown in some research studies is that a certain component (NOT alcohol) in certain red wines can for some people reduce the incidence of heart disease.

Similarly, a research finding was fairly recently publicized, which, according to various reports, claimed that "moderate alcohol consumption" reduces your chance of getting rheumatoid arthritis. At least as reported, that supposed research finding is flawed to the point of being plain wrong - for a very simple reason, which few people appear to be interested in because nearly all people want to justify their own dark force sourced lust for alcohol. It may be true that, statistically, people who consume a moderate amount of alcoholic drinks may experience reduced rheumatoid arthritis risk, but I am not yet aware of any research findings that even begin to show what it is in those alcoholic drinks that is having that anti-RA effect. Very likely the effect will be shown to come not from the alcohol at all but from another constituent of those drinks, just as in the case of the effect on the level of heart disease risk.

If you are serious about wanting to reduce your risk of heart disease, arthritis of any kind, cancers or indeed any health problem at all, then you would not at all drink stuff that has a huge number of documented harmful effects (and that is in addition to the subtler long-term, undocumented harmful effects), and would instead eat fully healthy diets, have healthily active life-styles (no television, for a start), and use self actualization and life force energy cultivation methods such as I list further above on this page. Such methods completely supersede and obliterate any apparent reason to drink alcohol or indeed take any sort of medication supposedly to slightly reduce your chances of having one or two particular health problems while actually creating a whole lot more problems.

"All you need to do for healing is pray to the Lord..."

When you pray, you are at once invoking something outside yourself and thus have turned away from the 'highest' and purest healing source, which is your own deepest aspect - fundamental consciousness or 'the Ultimate'. Why on earth would anyone turn away from 'the Ultimate' in favour of something lesser? -- Answer: Because they are being misguided, whether directly or indirectly, by the dark force.

"Dark force?"

Yes, the dark force! Just look at what you are saying! You call this 'God' of yours "the Lord". In other words, that is not only something outside yourself, but something that is an icon of power and control over people. That is what the dark force is about, while your own deepest aspect (fundamental consciousness - 'the Ultimate') is about freedom of choice, not ruling people. 'The Ultimate' does not encourage people to look outside themselves for it, nor to call it 'Lord', nor to deify it.

Am I saying, therefore, that no healings occur when you pray for them? -- Correct, at least to any worthwhile extent - though with one particular exception, in particular situations where it suits the dark force's agenda for it to make prayer appear to work. In such situations even apparent 'miracles' can occur. They can indeed be said to be the work of God, because 'God' is just one of the 'Divine' faces of the dark force. What they are NOT is the work of anything truly beneficial or worthwhile. You may be desperate for a quick fix for a physical problem of yours, but if you try for a quick fix miracle healing from any sort of 'miraculous healing' sect or organization you would be doing tantamount to the proverbial 'selling your soul to the devil' - much more literally than you would care to countenance!

Let's now look at a family / friends group who picked me up during a return hitch-hike from Cornwall to Exeter on 9th May 2009.

Soon after I had settled down in the car the driver told me that they were members of a church group that carries out many miraculous healings through prayer to 'the Lord'. An elderly woman with a fair degree of dementia sitting next to me told me, with a little prompting from the driver, that she had had rheumatoid arthritis and it had gone virtually immediately after she had prayed to the 'Lord' to have it taken away. The driver and the man in the front passenger seat also told me of 'miraculous' more or less instant healings that they had allegedly witnessed upon the use of prayer by members of their group.

Most unsportingly, I was thoroughly underwhelmed. This was all about physical healings, and these were being seen as something extremely impressive and, supposedly, PROOF of this Lord God and His good and merciful works. These people had no inkling that there was a whole more aware and happy, positive and free mode of living that is opened up by genuine, fully comprehensive healing and self actualization as we get from our own deepest aspects. I was also already aware that the dark force uses seemingly miraculous physical healings as one of its lures to impress people and get them involved with it*. Unfortunately most people have soul programming that prevents them from looking more deeply at what is really going on, and indeed it predisposes those people to being mighty impressed by those actually most shady 'miraculous' physical healings.

* See, for example, what I say about psychic surgery in Am I a Healer?.

Indeed those people in the car gave the game away even further, because the driver told me how he and two others in the car had been complete sceptics and even disbelievers in God and all that, but the car driver had got talked by a very persuasive promoter of the latter's particular 'faith' (which latter, as I shall point out in a moment was very likely something much more sinister than just a 'faith') into going to a baptism service.

So, the good guy was duly baptised by total immersion in water, and, like all the others who underwent that process, he emerged spontaneously exclaiming aloud "Alleluia!" three times and then finding himself talking "in tongues" (by which he apparently meant some unfamiliar foreign language). This, he told me, was proof of God and His works. Impressive, hey?! Why didn't I promptly abandon all the rubbish that I have been going on about on this site and get myself baptised quickly and be able to speak 'in tongues' and do miracle physical healings instead?

-- Well, quite apart from all the signs of the work of the dark force - which were there to be seen by anyone who had 'eyes to see' - there was the little matter of the results of my discreet inner inquiry / energy testing while briefly connecting with the successive deepest aspects of each of the five people in that car. Although inner inquiry like that could not tell me categorically that any particular 'hunch' or hypothesis was objectively true, and needs to be regarded as just potentially useful speculative pointers, its results in this case indicated that it was 'strengthening' for me to assume that the three who had had those baptisms just happened each to be (completely unawarely) members of the cacoprotean network, and indeed had become members at the time of the baptism. THAT is what is very likely indeed to happen to YOU if you undergo such an initiation.

So, if the necessarily somewhat speculative results of my inner inquiry ('on the scene of the crime', so so speak) were correct, their 'church group' was actually one of the front organizations of the cacoprotean network - the primary aspect of the dark force! That would explain neatly just why people who had been baptised in their organization had certain 'special powers'! That is all dark force stuff through and through. Indeed, it appears that anyone who is a member of that network would be in effect a part of the dark force.

Anyone like to go for that baptism? -- Uh- Oh damn, I didn't think to get their contact details - and, of all stupid things, I courteously but firmly refused a bookmark that I was being rather insistently offered, which bore the web address of their organization. Sorry about that. Still, I am sure you can find plenty of such organizations on the Net if you are desperate. (i.e. to become part of the dark force yourself...) "There be none as quair as folk", as they say...

"The real answer is just to let go of the very notion of this so-called dark force. All you need to do when you get untoward manifestations is to dissolve the particular thought forms that have been created by your belief in the dark force."

That sort of view is likely to be relatively common, and I had one person write in to me in those terms. According to him, he had discovered this site some six months earlier and, in doing so, had at last found a really meaningful and workable answer to his own problems, which latter I myself would identify as dark force interferences. He expressed considerable gratitude, even sending a donation, and said he was consistently using my methods, including use of a Clarity-Sphere (which he must have created himself according to my instructions). So far, so good, and there was inevitably a little further correspondence between us.

Finally, I got a rather bizarre and confused e-mail back from him, telling me that I had somewhat freaked him by describing one of his problems as being caused by dark force interference. He said he had immediately been assailed by very strong feelings of fear, and his response had been to use the Clarity-Sphere (I assume using the Grounding Point procedure) to enable him to dissolve the very notion of there being a 'dark force' or any 'external' non-physical force interfering with him or indeed anyone else. He then went on to say that he had always believed there was really no such thing as a 'dark force' and such manifestations were just caused by thought forms that people created through believing in a 'dark' (or other troublesome) force. The very clear subtext in his message was that he was shit-scared of the very notion of a 'dark force', and in the whole six months that he had been engaging with my writings he had been systematically filtering out all my references to the dark force, so that he had read the various pages extremely selectively and thus got a considerably distorted picture of what I was on about.

Yes, he had evidently taken on certain of my methods, but he was actually misusing them, because he was using them in a distorted context, to try to reinforce his belief that there is no 'dark force', and thus he was closing himself to genuinely seeing what was really going on for him and really clearing out his issues. This is the sort of thing that countless other people do though the use of ongoing regular formal meditation. His fear-driven pattern of self deception inevitably played back at me, so he was telling me with great conviction that he had found 'the answer' that I had so far failed to find (and so, supposedly, he had suddenly become my 'expert'), and he challenged me to now let go of my "belief" in the dark force, and I would find that the various issues of mine that I had been ascribing to dark force interference would all dissipate. -- Wow, what a discovery!

It was clear that, because of his tightly held preconceptions, he had not read the information on this site, and particularly that about my own experiences, with open eyes and open mind, and so he was unable to acknowledge that my own working model (not 'belief') is based on masses of actual observations that would be simply left unexplained by one's holding a belief that there is no such thing as a 'dark force'. And he had clearly completely missed my pointing out that I myself used to think that most likely all the 'dark' and 'paranormal' manifestations that people experienced were caused by their particular beliefs in such phenomena*. Indeed, it was my rather holding onto that view that considerably hindered my recognising that my major dark force 'troubles', when they came, were real 'dark' manifestations at all, so that I got more and more entangled with the dark force instead of ceasing to have anything further to do with it.

* Indeed, like him, at that time (really, all my adult life up to well on in my own dark force 'troubles' from 2003 onwards) I had a great fear and indeed morbid dread of the very notion of any sort of 'dark entities' or 'dark' force or influence being 'real' - but apparently unlike him I did recognise that my own fear was bound to be distorting my own view of the situation, so I always kept an open mind about the true nature of 'dark' or 'paranormal' manifestations, and whether any of them were 'real' or not.

So, I simply did not have the belief in the dark force that the fellow was claiming that I had, which could have created all those 'thought forms'. As for how he would seek to account for the whole phenomenon of night hell experiences in babies and toddlers, who generally would have had no means to pick up any belief in a 'dark force' in the first place to cause their night hells and other very troublesome experiences, one can only amusedly speculate!

My 'message' here, then, is that if you want to be a self deceiving fool like that individual, that is your choice, but as long as you hold onto such disbelief / denial, you are lost to genuine self actualization. I am not claiming that you need to believe in the existence of the dark force, for the point is that a completely open, belief-free mind is required. I emphasize again that my whole concept of the 'dark force' is simply part of a working model that is for using to whatever extent it actually helps towards genuine life improvement and especially self actualization.

Towards the latter end, it would be very helpful for each of us to carry out Grounding Point 'zappings' and formal readings of relevant affirmations / declarations of intent to assist us in dissolving any beliefs that we are holding (whether awarely or not) as to whether the dark force or indeed any other troublesome non-physical influence exists or indeed does not exist. That is different, however, from using those methods to try to indoctrinate yourself, actually cultivating a notion that you are attached to - i.e. as was happening for the self-deceiving guy who I mention above.

Thus, an affirmation going something like "I affirm that there is no troublesome external non-physical force, presence or influence such as a 'dark force'" would need to be replaced with options more like "I affirm my intent that I neither hold nor unawarely harbour any belief or disbelief in the existence of any troublesome external non-physical force, presence or influence such as a 'dark force' - and that this is coming about with all speed", and "I affirm my intent that there is no troublesome external non-physical force, presence or influence such as a 'dark force' - and that this is coming about with all speed".

Summary of really helpful and safe healing / self actualization aids

• Clarity-Sphere - Although the development of this device had a false start in 2008/9, I have now re-developed it from a different basic working model, and the way it is used has a fundamental difference from the original, unsuccessful version, even though one can still get a lot of 'mileage' out of it if one uses it simply as though it were one of the Energy Egg 'family' (see below). The Clarity-Sphere, when used in a thoroughgoing and ongoing way, looks to be a powerful facilitator of one's self healing and self actualization process in a particularly comprehensive manner, working powerfully with one's deeply sourced positive intent. As far as I can tell at the moment, I myself am now finished with the Energy Egg 'family', for the new-version Clarity-Sphere has made them fully redundant for me, while also having much more potential for programming for additional functionality
  

  It is thus most suitable for people of particularly deep awareness, who are comfortable about programming the device to tune it to their own particular situation and issues in order to maximize their own self actualization process. I would describe the Clarity-Sphere as a 'serious' aid for self actualization*, including what is generally regarded as healing, and the progressive clearance of all unseen and troublesome or at least unhelpful influences from oneself (ranging from environmental stress effects to 'entity' and dark force interferences). That is in contrast to the Energy Egg 'family', which I see as something of a consumerist life improvement aid - definitely very helpful as far as they go, but decidedly limited as to the underlying 'vision' of their conception and how far they could assist a person in a comprehensive genuine self actualization direction.

  * One might somewhat flippantly call the Clarity-Sphere "the thinking person's 'Energy Egg'".

  The Clarity-Sphere is not commercially available, being basically something that you create for yourself. However, as I explain on the Clarity-Sphere page, I am informally offering for sale at a modest (non-profit) price pre-programmed mini- and ultra-mini- Clarity-Spheres, which can give a person a 'leg up' in having their own Clarity-Sphere setup up and running as soon as possible.

• Energy Egg - described as a personal environmental stress 'eliminator'*; Prior to my developing the current version of the still more effective Clarity-Sphere I had much ongoing positive effect from my use of these (originally just one but eventually four of them, three of them being the newer and allegedly more powerful ones in white jade; I also had one each of the four 'speciality' Eggs). As far as I can ascertain, they and a Guardian Angel played a major part in protecting me from certain potentially lethal situations during the last two of the severest of my dark force crisis events, and they are strongly implicated in laying the ground for the healing of a troublesome attack of osteoarthritis in my right knee, by progressively clearing harm that was done to my non-physical aspects during a particular dark force crisis event. More recently I found that I was able to nip in the bud the vast majority of incipient attacks from the dark force by remotely tuning all my Energy Eggs (including the four additional 'speciality' ones) to all current environmental stresses that were identifiable by my deeper aspects, which were affecting me at that moment - a simple and quick procedure that could be done anywhere even without having an Egg with one. Even for stronger attacks that procedure, usually repeated a number of times over a period, and used alongside Grounding Point and sometimes some Self-Power Walking, enabled me to limit the attack and cause its relatively early dissolution, also immunizing myself against future attacks attempting to exploit the same vulnerability.

  * Their developers claim that they are environmental stress eliminators and not healing devices. However, the situation is not at all that straightforward. The means by which they 'eliminate' (actually reduce, not eliminate) environmental stress effects and clear your accumulated 'stress load' is actually facilitating your functioning as your own best healer in those particular respects. So, it is incorrect to say that they are not healing devices, because clearance of environmental stresses and accumulated stress-sourced harm in your 'energy system' is very definitely 'healing' - albeit only a (quite major) aspect of it. It would be more correct to say that they are not comprehensive healing devices.
  

  Also, there is a further consideration. Just how the Energy Egg functions for you, and to what extent, is very much affected by your own depth of awareness and your own deeply sourced intent as to what the device does for you. So, we have the situation in which these Eggs are being developed and marketed by people with actually a very business oriented view of the nature of 'self realization' - it is evident that they regard the latter and its methodology as saleable products - commodities - that are narrowly defined (so that customers remain dependent on the developers to come up with more products to meet further of their life improvement requirements) - while anyone who has a really deep awareness and a strong motivation for comprehensive genuine self actualization would generally use Energy Eggs with a much broader remit and intent - i.e. if they are going to use Energy Eggs at all rather than a Clarity-Sphere setup.

  Because the latter people have a deeply sourced intent for a much broader and more comprehensive self actualization process than the Egg developers envisaged, without any need to think about it consciously (though that definitely helps), they would generally have the potential to get a significantly broader range of healing and self actualization facilitation from the Eggs than the latters' developers ever had in mind for them. Their functionality is still restricted by their original 'programming' (which is why the Clarity-Sphere would be the much better way forward for them), but the way that that 'programming' is used by one's deeper aspects enables one to get a broader range of healing functions facilitated by it.

  This is true also for all the 'speciality' Energy Eggs and the 'Angels' and Archangel (all mentioned below) - with the difference that the 'speciality' Eggs / Angels are supposed to assist you with other areas of life improvement than actual environmental stresses in the usual sense of the term. Again, for the right people they would facilitate a distinctly wider range of healing and life improvement function than what has narrowly been claimed for them by their developers.

  By the same token, the normal run of people who buy those devices are likely to get, at best, little or no more functionality from them than is claimed for them, because their awareness is not sufficiently deep for them to have a deep seated intent for a broader self actualization process.

  On the Clarity-Sphere page I explain about certain reservations that I have about recommending any of the Energy Egg 'family' of devices (i.e. including the various 'Angels').

  The 'speciality' Energy Eggs are called the Wealth Egg, Relationships Egg, Chronic Shock Egg and Security / Respect Egg respectively. However, to my understanding, their names are somewhat misleading in relation to what they actually do, particularly when they are used in a genuine self actualization context rather than the more limited approach to life improvement that is being promoted by the producers of these Eggs. I myself found it most helpful to disregard the names of those Eggs and simply intend that they assist me each in their most effective way. It is best to use energy testing to determine whether any of these 'speciality' Eggs would be of benefit to you at the present time. My own understanding is that they each did turn out to be of benefit to me, even though I never got besieged by prospective lovers, nor had any big financial windfall come my way (yet)! You see, their names tend to have more to do with 'selling a dream' rather than accurately telling you what they could do for you.

  I would caution about the Chronic Shock Egg, that the choice of stone type for it is, at least from my viewpoint, really strange, for it is sugalite, which is a variegated purple stone. Sugalite is far from the 'neutral' sort of stone that I would look to for a device of this kind, and is not something that I would want to have very close to me for long periods. People who are particularly sensitive would be especially liable to get 'sensitivity' reactions from the Chronic Shock Egg (i.e. just because it is made of sugalite), and I know somebody who has been having that trouble (while getting on at least reasonably with his other types of Energy Egg and a Guardian Angel).

  I recommend that all varieties of Energy Egg that you purchase each be bought with a transmitter base, so they can be functioning for you when you do not have them on your person. That all adds to the cost, of course, whereas you do not have that sort of consideration with the Clarity-Sphere.

• Guardian Angel and the still larger Archangel - an area 'environmental stress eliminator' (see annotation further above) which looks like a big brother of the Energy Egg but appears to work on a space (and all who are in that space) rather than functioning for one specific person only. I used a Guardian Angel and an Archangel, as well as the Energy Eggs. When you have both Egg(s) and Angel(s) they work synergistically, so that you get more powerful protection and self clearance than the sum of their effects individually. As already noted, the EE and GA, particularly when used together, can work (or strictly, act as facilitators for your own energy system to work) as a powerful tool for various aspects of your self actualization process (including to a certain extent 'entity' clearance over a period), and so are actually significantly more than just environmental stress 'eliminators' (i.e. reducers), even though the latter is the primary focus of the standard, white, versions.

  There are 'speciality' versions of the Guardian Angel (I am not sure about the Archangel), though I never obtained any of those.

  The cost of the 'Angels' is significant - and, as with the Eggs, to get the broadest spread of function that is available you would need one of each type - and even then you would not be getting a fully comprehensive and balanced spread of functionality. That lot would also 'cost a bomb' - another reason for creating your own Clarity-Sphere setup and having the simplicity of just one comprehensive type of device.

  Please see the previous annotation.

•  The Returning Life Sequence - a DVD from which you can learn to practise the Returning Life for yourself and massively transform your life over a period of ongoing use of the Sequence.

  
  I recommend the above items, but I would just like to point out that the people who are marketing those items do have a spirituality angle in their work, and I explain in Exit 'Spirituality' - Enter 'Clear-Mindedness' how my approach differs from a 'spirituality' one, and that page helps to make it clear why people who are using their methods as part of a full non-spirituality self actualization process as I present on this site would do well to disregard the various spirituality related details, such as names of some practices, mudras and so on, and descriptions of how various practices are supposed to work (i.e. in terms of aura and chakra dynamics), and any scenarios of supposed non-physical or 'higher' 'realities'.
  

  N.B. If my own experience is anything to go by, anyone who goes on workshops of theirs would do well to bear in mind that they are liable to run into problems if they subsequently want to share with other people (and especially publicly) any of the methods and practices that they have learnt at the workshop(s). This is because the Energy Egg people regard all the methods and practices that they teach as being their own intellectual property, and indeed copyright (which actually they are not, because methods in themselves are not subject to copyright - only particular descriptions of them are) - and also their approach appears to have a primary emphasis upon selling products and services rather than encouraging the spread of genuine self actualization in others.

  At least in my case they responded very unfavourably and indeed rather troublesomely when I presented on this site descriptions (my own) of mostly modified versions of the methods that I had originally got from a workshop of theirs - and they subsequently behaved in a particularly surprising way that necessitated my removing certain descriptions from this site for a year (just to help quieten the troubled waters), even though those descriptions were not copyright infringements at all. In fact their responses included their privately sending out copies of an eye-wateringly misinformational character assassination dossier on me, to individuals who had written to them asking about me, and one person who had a personal consultation with them reported to me that when he mentioned me they cautioned him that I was a "diagnosed schizophrenic" - a complete fabrication, based on a gross distortion of particular information in My Little Brush With Psychiatry.

  The observed latter sort of misinformational behaviour means that all information and claims from that source need to be treated as somewhat suspect - which underlines the importance of using energy testing yourself to establish what 'Eggs' / 'Angels', if any, would be of assistance to you, without your having to rely on the details of their sales 'blurb' - or whether the Clarity-Sphere approach would be better for you right from the start.

• Broad Horizon Photos - a growing resource of high-grade photos (yes, my own!) of nature and wild scenery subjects, including cloud formations, which can be valuable Feng Shui enhancements in your living or working space. If you use energy testing you can find out what is best for you in every position in your living / working space, including where to put any picture(s) and of what type of subject.

• The Biobulb, for improved lighting in your living space. Dim, and especially tungsten lighting - and indeed candles, which latter are often used because of their supposed spiritual associations, encourages negative and depressive feelings and outlooks and tends to increase the dark force connections which we actually need to clear, and is favoured by problematical 'entities'. Indeed, often troublesome 'entities' (usually really dark force interferences) 'guide' the affected people into installing dim lighting in their abodes. Such poor lighting also often causes or at least aggravates seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which again plays into the 'hands' of the troublesome influences.

  Daylight coloured lighting is best, and the closer the light's spectrum is to that of real daylight, the better. Although ordinary 'daylight' fluorescent lights could be a step forward from old-style tungsten lamps, their spectra are actually still not very healthy, and they can be too reminiscent of offices and other workplaces. I particularly recommend, then, the energy-efficient Biobulb, and for all basic room lighting to use the more powerful version, which claims to be 100W tungsten equivalent but seems brighter, and consumes just 25 W. I have been using these myself for a little while now, and know of no available type of room light which I would prefer. There is also a slightly less bright 20W version.

  There is little point in having a bright light and then hiding most of that light with a shade, so, for those who feel they 'must' use a shade at all (nowadays I myself do not), I recommend types of of 'shade' that spread the light around in a way that reduces dazzle when the light is looked at but still allows nearly all the light out into the room. Because most shades in one way or another create environmental stress effects, it is important to use energy testing to ensure that any shade that you do put up is not going to quietly be accumulating a problem for you over time.

  The Biobulb, like all electronic lighting, does emit a certain level of stressful electromagnetic energy, but this is at a low level and would not have a really major effect for most people, and that would need to be weighed against the disadvantages of continuing to use tungsten or other unsatisfactory lighting. In any case, if you are using a Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg or/and Guardian Angel, then you would have much reduced adverse effects from such a bulb, as well as an immense range of other life enhancing benefits.

  If you feel that you must have dim lighting, it would be helpful to put all your thoughts and beliefs about that to inquiry using The Work, or, better in many cases, to 'zap' them using the Grounding Point procedure - for you have objectively no need for dim lighting except possibly briefly for some specific purpose, and, as I say, dim lighting aggravates any problem with 'entities' and the dark force and has other long term adverse health and emotional effects. The notion that you need dim lighting for healing work or meditation is an insidiously harmful myth given to us by the dark force for the purpose of further ungrounding our awareness and getting us even more vulnerable to it. In any case ongoing formal meditation sessions themselves are highly problematical and are best not used at all - that is, if you want true self actualization and freedom from dark force interference and influence.

  N.B. There are actually other makes of 'natural' daylight colour energy-saving bulb, but because I have not tried any I am not detailing them here.
  

  Also, it is worth bearing in mind that it looks as though by about 2014 there will be widely available bright natural daylight colour LED 'bulbs', which would have much less of the disadvantages (including environmental stress effects) of electric discharge tube lamps, and would be considerably more energy efficient yet again. Some such 'bulbs' are already available, but the real full spectrum ones are expensive AND quite serious reliability issues are reported to plague them at the moment, so it looks to be best to wait for their design to be improved quite a bit before one pays out good money for them.

• More items are expected to be added here - but I shall not be putting here an extensive list of healing and environmental stress reducing products, because nearly everything that is available, if not actually having direct dark force connections, is in some way harmful to your non-physical aspects.

Please revisit this page occasionally, as it is liable to get quite frequent updates and additions.