Illusory Realities and Human Irrationality

 

Introduction

Haven't you ever wondered how it could be that a seemingly intelligent person who you'd have thought would know better holds a particular belief about or view upon himself or/and the nature of the reality around him, which appears to defy common-sense and clearly has to be incorrect? Haven't you ever wondered how it could be that particular people are completely convinced that they've encountered or indeed have been abducted by 'aliens' (i.e. extra-terrestrials), or that some governmental organization has infiltrated the population with agents who are seeking mind control over everyone (or perhaps just those who don't 'conform'), or that extra-terrestrials from another planet and indeed even from another universe, are set to very soon take us all over?

A pretty standard response to such people from various quarters would be to regard them as being 'psychotic' or even 'schizophrenic'. Medics and psychiatric workers in particular do that. But what in the name of Winnie the Pooh do those latter individuals think they are explaining by placing such labels upon people? What they show is that they themselves are in the grip of serious irrationalities, believing that somehow they are explaining and indeed solving particular problems of human functioning by putting specific pejorative labels upon people who have had particular experiences that they (i.e. the medics and psychiatric workers) do not understand. Thus medics and psychiatric workers themselves need a major sorting out before they are in the slightest able to start understanding what is going on for other people.

People who use such 'diagnostic' labels upon other people may feel better for it - just as they would feel better for having farted - but the reality is that by doing so they are actually explaining nothing and helping no-one, and indeed helping nothing apart from their professional and social status as psychiatric doctors or whatever. As we shall see, on this page I 'do the unthinkable' and actually look at and get explaining what is really going on for people who are holding unusual beliefs and indeed also depressingly 'normal' beliefs.

Or, what about the person who holds a religious belief, and, for example, believes in the existence of a non-physical 'Ultimate' father-figure such as 'God', despite having no real evidence of the existence of such a presence? Such a person will typically accept the contents of a designated 'holy' book* as a factual statement of reality to support his belief - a complete absurdity to any even half-intelligent person - and interpret all manner of aspects of life experience as being incontrovertible evidence of the existence of 'God', on the basis of persistently defective reasoning to interpret his actually highly selective observations. Typically, people with religious beliefs do not get labelled as mentally ill on that account, because those particular beliefs are sort-of socially acceptable, though actually in their own way those people are just as dysfunctional and in just as much trouble as people who believe that they've been abducted by aliens or are being pursued by CIA mind control agents.

* Yes, and how in the name of Beelzebub does a book become tagged (or perhaps one might better say, blighted) by that blessed word, 'holy'? What sort of 'intelligence' is at work doing stupid things like that?

Our standard response to such blatant instances has generally been less than intelligent, to put it very politely, for, aside from the matter of religious beliefs, as already noted, we have simply dismissed such people as being 'nut cases' or 'not quite all there', or 'mentally ill', and thus we've kept the door firmly closed to gaining an understanding of what is really going on, and how that sort of problem can actually be resolved. In the case of religious beliefs, the normal response has been to regard them as somehow 'sacrosanct', even if we disagree with them, and therefore something that, if they are to be seriously challenged at all, are to be challenged on the basis of belief only and not reason (i.e. basically "My belief is better than yours!", instead of the more rational "Let's see if that really 'adds up'...") - and also, to defend to the hilt people's 'right' to their religious beliefs, never mind how irrational, absurd or indeed harmful they may be.

But then, leaving aside those blatant examples of bizarre / stupid beliefs, haven't you wondered also how it is that nobody on the planet is fully intelligent and is also in various ways needlessly limited in their outlooks by particular rigid patterns, opinions and what you could call 'self beliefs'? Maybe you've never even thought about that because you've just grown up with the notion that humans are intrinsically irrational or, at best, not fully intelligent, and generally 'imperfect'. But a sizeable minority of the more aware people do have some sort of inkling that the underlying true nature of every person in the world is such that if (s)he could uncover it completely, (s)he'd be fully rational and intelligent, and in all sorts of ways would fit the description of 'perfect' to an extent that would leave your favourite present day idols, and also idolized historical figures such as Jesus and Buddha, gnawing at the post.

In my experience, all such phenomena, and very many more, are most effectively and helpfully explained as being examples of interference and distorted perceptions caused by particular types of illusory reality* into which parts of people's awareness has become sneakily inveigled** (by the dark force) in such a way that they believe that the contained illusions actually are 'reality', and these people are thus completely unaware that they are basing their whole lives on any sort of illusion.

* Up to the time of my writing this page I'd been inclined to use the terms 'astral realm' and 'illusory reality' completely interchangeably, but my writing this page has caused me to become clearer and more focused about this, and to use 'astral realm' for a subset of illusory realities - the really up-front and normally temporary ones in which some scenario or 'story' is acted out. I sense that that would be more helpfully meaningful.

The term 'astral' in my usage refers to what I call the astral sub-reality, which is that aspect of reality (and of consciousness, because consciousness is actually the underlying true nature of 'reality') into which we project all our illusions and distorted notions. The dark force works within this and exploits it to interfere with every single person on the planet. With caution one could to a fair extent equate the astral sub-reality with the Jungian concept of the so-called Common Unconscious or what various healing and New Age related traditions call the 'collective human consciousness' - but none of those traditions has properly understood the astral sub-reality's true nature and full significance.

** Important note - This is merely a convenient way of describing the situation, for actually it isn't possible to say whether such a description is objectively correct and true. The problem is that consciousness can never objectively understand itself nor know its own inner workings, and the underlying nature of 'reality' and indeed all experience is none other than consciousness (or, strictly, awareness) itself. Thus, whatever consciousness experiences, any description of that experience and its true nature can be only schematic or figurative. In the case of astral realms / illusory realities, I think really a more accurate description would probably not refer to a person's awareness getting into or being within an astral realm or illusory reality at all, but rather, its becoming attached to a particular illusion, and it's the means of attachment (which we really can know little or nothing about) that is what we are tending to think of in the figurative terms of an illusory reality that (part of) one's awareness actually enters.

I explain in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks how the use of astral realms by the dark force - occasionally also involving production of elementals that can be seen by other people and even photographed - could very nicely explain at least the vast majority of alien (i.e. extra-terrestrial) encounters and abduction experiences. Here I'm drawing your attention additionally to illusory reality involvement in the whole issue of human irrationality and limited outlooks, and reactive and 'driven' rather than aware and intelligent behaviour.

When you get looking closely in an aware and clear-minded way at what is going on for people, you find that, time and time again, the limiting and distorting factor is rigid patterns of outlook and behaviour, and these are ALL based in particular beliefs, the vast majority of which do not pronounce themselves openly as such (though others most definitely do!) and are generally betrayed only to people who have the awareness to notice the patterned behaviour and see how that indicates certain deeply ingrained beliefs. If you can get a person freeing himself from a belief, any pattern that it was causing can then start to dissolve.

For the purpose of getting a broader understanding of such beliefs, I've found it greatly helpful for healing purposes to regard each belief as being the contents (or part of the contents) of an illusory reality just in the same way that the up-front temporary astral realm experiences are, and indeed to regard them as being, as I've already noted, just a different version of the same basic phenomenon. This understanding actually leads us to a great simplification of approach, for while the psychologist or psychotherapist would 'thrive' on convolutions and complexities of proliferating categorizations, and thus making mountains out of Aunt Ada Doom's goose-pimples (and also mountains of doctorate theses to infest the vaults of higher education establishments), the real, practical way to address issues of what people would call 'mental functioning' is to find the very simplest and most direct, 'common underlying principles' working model, so that any remedial approach can then likewise be simple and aimed directly at the common underlying factor(s) in all the diverse problems that one sees 'in the flesh'. 'One size fits all', sort-of thing - wouldn't that be convenient! -- It may not get me a doctorate, but at least it appears to work! 

Sorry about the smiley's rabid channellings (seen when you hover your mouse pointer over that and indeed other smileys). Clearly Lady Violet Withering-Glance or other similar 'higher' and evidently superior being is channelling through these smileys, and, whoever it is, he / she / it clearly needs to clear a few illusory realities from him/her/itself!

Here it's my task to explain just what illusory realities are, how they are used by the dark force to ensnare, control and confuse us, how we can (in some cases - generally astral realms) recognise that we are or have been in one, and what we can do to clear ourselves of these seriously troublesome distortions of our life experience.

Let me emphasize that although for educational reasons I give particular attention here to rather spectacular, 'brazen' astral realm experiences, NOBODY in the world is without at least some covert illusory realities in his own mindspace, which are at the very least acting as distorting filters upon the person's view of himself, the world and reality itself. So, if the experiences of my own that I relate below appear to you to mark me out as 'a bit weird', this is in part because you have not yet recognised the illusory realities that you yourself are carrying, and which are distorting your own world view and indeed your own view of me and what I've written on this site.

Some example astral realm experiences of my own

The puzzling questions that I relate further above about people's nonsensical beliefs had been bugging me through my life, and it was only during the dark force's attempts to disrupt my life and indeed destroy me from late 2003 onwards that I became familiar with the concept of the astral realm and the ways that the dark force uses illusory realities of all sorts to cause us a whole range of very serious problems.

During those troubles of mine, my first significant acquaintance with the astral realm concept* was one night during the extremely gruelling sequence of ordeals over five days and nights (with no sleep), which culminated in my first psychiatric hospitalization, in October 2004. By that stage I'd become immensely, bafflingly, gullible towards my non-physical 'guidance', which was really the dark force posing as something 'higher'. Supposedly as part of my 'testing and training' for a very special purpose, when in the bathroom in the middle of one particular night then I was instructed to roar out at the top of my voice "I am Archangel Michael!".

* Of course that was NOT my first acquaintance with astral realms, but was just the first time that I'd got hold of the concept of an astral realm and thus a handle on beginning to explain for myself what the eff was really going on. Indeed, quite apart from astral realm involvements in other aspects of my life right from early childhood, my disruptions from the dark force from late 2003 involved a multitude of astral realm illusory reality experiences of different kinds.

Now, roaring out "I am Archangel Michael" in the middle of the night* would have been all very well in an isolated country house or some therapeutic centre where people are expected to do odd things like that, but here I was in a small flat in a seemingly respectable scheme of flats in central Exeter, and my (open) bathroom window opened into a sort of courtyard enclosed by other flats and houses, so any loud sound in my bathroom would be nicely heard by anyone living adjacent to that enclosed space. And, what's more, when I roar I really ROAR, with a penetrating and indeed, you could say Stentorian, voice! I was thus immediately most concerned when I was given that instruction, for (a) I didn't want to disturb neighbours, especially in the middle of the night, and (b) no useful purpose could be served by all the neighbours thinking I'd lost my sanity, and maybe getting me taken away and incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital "for his own good" and then, against my clearly stated will, being progressively destroyed with drugs and electro-convulsive therapy (ECT).

* It might appear a bit loopy of me to consider accepting even in the slightest degree an instruction to call out that particular crazy thing. However, within the particular context it did actually make a sort of sense. This was within a convoluted fictitious scenario that my 'guidance' had been giving me, in which I was allegedly one of five concurrent incarnations of Archangel Michael (which latter, as I now understand, is one of the multitude of bogus, illusory higher beings that the dark force causes to manifest to various people), and allegedly I was destined thus to be very soon a 'great world leader / spiritual teacher'. My doing certain self-challenging things like roaring out "I am Archangel Michael!" was supposed to be strengthening me for that role, assisting my self healing process by breaking up old restrictive patterns of outlook and feelings that would hinder my carrying out that prominent role.

Actually, that and certain rather similar acts of mine on other occasions did, I think, have a genuinely beneficial and strengthening effect for me towards being comfortable with a genuinely strong and effective high profile in public, for those acts were indeed in various ways breaking through and weakening various highly restricting patterns that I was carrying - which meant that I was then in a significantly stronger frame of mind to speak out challengingly about important things in public. Ironically, this represented a complete backfiring against the poor old dark force, for in that respect it had unwittingly helped prepare me for what I've been doing more recently - ruthlessly exposing in public the dark force's 'agenda' and modus operandi, together with disseminating means to actually clear oneself of its interferences.

In the event my 'guidance' assured me that the neighbours wouldn't hear anything because I was then temporarily in an "astral realm" that contained a replica of my flat, and I was even in a different time-scale there. So, still with some reluctance I did ear-ticklingly ROAR out to the world "I AM ARCHANGEL MICHAEL!", I think a few times. I still felt uncertain and embarrassed about that, for I well knew by that time that my 'guidance' was unreliable and all too often highly reckless in the 'information' that it gave me - but at least in the quiet of the small hours I heard no hint of telltale signs of my having disturbed anyone, and also I had a sort of 'gut feeling' (undoubtedly coming from my own deepest aspects) that this concept of the 'astral realm' was a genuine one, whether or not I was actually in one at that time. Anyway, there followed no sound of people talking or walking anywhere around, nor of windows or doors opening or closing. Just maybe I really had been in such an astral realm at that point.

I remained very unsure about the true nature of that experience until I got seemingly clear indications from my inner inquiry in 2009 actually while writing these notes here. The results of that inner inquiry gave clear support to the hypothesis that a major part of my awareness had actually been in an astral realm at that time, and in the physical, 'real' world that particular event simply hadn't happened, and thus no neighbours had been disturbed. However, because I have no physical proof of this I still keep an open mind about what really happened then. On the other hand, the possibility that my inner inquiry indications really have been correct over that is underlined by later experiences of mine, where I did indeed have physical 'proof' that certain seemingly 'real' experiences of mine had actually not happened in the physical 'reality'...

So, what would you like to do about that, then? - To stick a 'diagnostic' label such as 'psychotic', 'schiozophrenic' or 'schizotypal' upon me and to feel due superiority for having done so, or to begin understanding the real issues involved so that they can start being addressed and actually resolved? - That choice is yours, not mine...

So, enter here my very major instance of 'real' experiences that never physically happened during my September 2006 hospitalization, which latter is briefly described in My Little Brush With Psychiatry. Quite apart from the various hell ('night terrors') realms that I was briefly taken into, repeatedly I was taken into astral realms that were at face value completely lifelike replicas of that particular hospital, in which a variety of crazy and bizarre things happened (according to the breathtakingly convoluted 'story' agenda that the dark force was trying to get me to engage with), which all seemed completely real - not as in a dream at all. These happenings included (but there were others too):

• An absurd scenario that involved my having accidentally having got hold of the credit card of one of the nurses (who I shall call X*) from the ward office instead of my own, and the police being all over the place looking for the 'thief', who they 'knew' was me (but somehow they never found me, even though I wasn't doing anything anything apart from withdrawing into my room a bit to hide from them!);
  

  * He was a nurse in the real, physical hospital. At that time I didn't know his real name, and my 'guidance' of course filled in the gap, making it David Wilson, which I found out afterwards was totally fictitious. Within the particular astral realm there was supposed to be something pressingly important about his name and who he was supposed really to be - though I can't remember details about that now.
  

• My obeying instructions from my 'guidance' to keep on pestering and psychically manipulating the abovementioned nurse X and eventually (following further specific instructions from my 'guidance' and being quite embarrassed about it) actually trying to get him into bed with me - yes, for that! (He - or rather, his astral replica - reasonably patiently refused!)

• My repeatedly obeying my 'guidance' to try to get out of the hospital during my first evening there (which seemed to be not just one evening but a whole succession of them), and my way being barred at the door by a particular very well intentioned nurse. One of my escape attempts half succeeded because I managed to get down into the ward below, which has a confusingly almost identical appearance and layout, though with a smaller reception area - but there I was confronted by a particular nurse called Jamie (mentioned below), who was surprised and apparently pleased to see me (we knew each other from my previous hospitalizations). I didn't let on that I was trying to get out, and sheepishly returned to the upstairs ward where I was supposed to be.

• A disturbance I created when I was going into one of the hell (night terrors) realms in the corridor*, near where my bedroom was, in which my 'guidance' instructed me to keep crying out and screaming to get the nurses to get me some ECT treatment (actually extremely harmful). A fair number of nurses came around me, as I then lay on the floor, still deafeningly screaming at times, in a quite large room that actually I found afterwards didn't exist in the real hospital, and the nurse Jamie (the one mentioned above) was very nice and forbearing as he very patiently insisted to me that it wasn't a good idea for me to go for ECT at once**, and to take time to think about it before they took any action about that.

  * The subjective experience at that point was of a wide area of the floor of the corridor just immediately in front of my feet dissolving into a seemingly bottomless pit of seething darkish mass of night hell maelstrom, into which I seemed to be starting to fall - accompanied by a marked increase in hellish-feeling dark force attack that was evidently trying to give the impression of being the intrinsic feeling of starting to enter hell.
  

  ** This is an interesting anomaly, because the dark force would have had a totally harmful agenda for me in its use of the astral realms that it took me into. My 'reading' now of this situation suggests that to some extent my own deepest aspects were able to communicate with my ordinary mind in those astral realms, by means of directing particular astral replica people to behave differently from how the dark force was trying to make them behave.

  Indeed, one particular sign of this active involvement of my own deepest aspects as a positive force in the proceedings was that this whole crisis event was the first in which the concept of astral realms (in the sense of a type of illusory reality) had come into my mind as a major factor in the proceedings, and, despite all my confusions, I quickly came to understand, right at the time, that the various weird experiences that I was going through were in astral realms and thus not to be taken for reality nor indeed taken really seriously as any real threat to my safety and wellbeing. That must have reflected subtle communications coming through from my own deepest aspects, because, surely, the dark force would have been actually trying its damnedest to scare the brown stuff out of me, and it would hardly have told me of such things itself, seeing that knowing them enabled me to handle the situation so much better and indeed get clear of it dramatically quickly as compared with how things would(n't) have worked out for any regular sort of 'psychiatric' patient.

  It appears that in this particular case the dark force was actually seeking to get me into an actual ECT experience within an astral realm, for the purpose of its possibly getting me ungrounded enough for it to stage a partial walk-in upon me or have something else seriously nasty to happen to me, but my own deepest aspects foiled that one by bringing in the replica of Jamie, who in the 'real' world seemed to me to be a particularly warm, well intentioned and responsible nurse, to actually operate as a mouthpiece for my own deepest aspects in order to squash that whole notion of ECT. Even as his replica spoke to me in that astral realm, I felt a considerable relief that I was being 'let off the hook', and no longer had to press for something that I well understood to be extremely harmful, and which would have had no true benefits for me whatsoever.

  Actually, Jamie and his role in that astral realm reflected a memory from when, in December 2004, in some desperation through that particular crisis of attacks, I'd presented myself for my second hospitalization. Jamie, as a senior nurse at Wonford House, was then detailed to interview me as part of the process of deciding how to deal with me, and, under great pressure from my 'guidance' (i.e. the dark force) to do so, I then had repeated to him the reckless rubbish that I was getting from my 'guidance', that I thought that possibly my only way out of the situation was to have ECT. At that time Jamie gently urged a measured consideration about that, and suggested to have a day or so's pause first and see if that was then still what I really wanted - but if at that time I were still sure about that, "we could certainly consider that then".
  

  Fortunately my awareness had grounded quickly enough there that within a few hours I'd completely dropped the ECT notion as I ceased to pay attention to the 'guidance', and no staff member mentioned ECT to me, so, that was clearly not on their agenda for me at all. Something within even the most narrow minded staff there seemed to recognise that, no matter what the issue was that had been troubling me, I was just too mentally healthy, albeit in ways that they didn't understand, for them to even contemplate (i.e. on their own initiative) using upon me what they did recognise was a drastic measure.

  Ironically, if I had actually been making an disturbance in the 'real' world, crying out for me to be given ECT, I might well have encountered much less or even no resistance to that being used - though it would have undoubtedly depended on which staff were attending the disturbance, and I think the real Jamie would have been one of those who most likely would have (again) urged me to think very carefully before getting involved with that, even though I don't suppose he realized anything like how destructive ECT really is.

  

• An extraordinary and very long sequence in which 'my guidance' (i.e. really the dark force) was, in an abrasive and hectoring manner, taking me through carrying out a series of what even then I took to be Satanistic practices, involving a sort of peculiarly fascinating completely ritualized masturbation in my hospital bed during which I was attacked with various levels of fear or/and anxiety emotion feelings while focusing on the sort-of erotic sensations and pre-orgasmic and eventually actual orgasmic sensations. This was allegedly to increase the 'pleasure' of the tiresomely ritualized 'handwork'.
  

  To increase my fear and anxiety further for this purpose, I was periodically instructed to absolutely roar out (and, as already noted, I can roar quite deafeningly!), "FIRE! FIRE! - HELP! HELP!", the 'guiding' voice assuring me that this was happening in an astral realm and so, although the Fire Service and Police would arrive and search, nobody would actually find me. I actually obeyed (deafeningly), and each time there were voices of people apparently searching for the source of the fire and the person who'd called out, and indeed the Fire Service arrived and were searching too - but nobody found me.
  

  Actually, on one occasion during all that, somebody did briefly open my door and peek in, but my 'guidance' told me just to keep facing the other way and to ignore the person and anything that he or she might say, and nothing would happen. To my surprise, after my having pretended to ignore a few things the person said to me, that person withdrew, closed the door, and left me to a continuation of this bizarre situation.
  

  Curiously, in that particular astral realm experience, when there were sounds of people apparently searching for the source of the disturbance, my room seemed to be in a large multi-storey building (and with quite reverberant corridors that sounded as though there was a lot of concrete in the building's construction), so that there was quite a bit to be searched, whereas in the real hospital (which was just two storeys and constructed with bricks, not concrete) there was no way that I'd have escaped being identified as the culprit pretty well at once if I'd made a big noise of any sort.

  Also, that astral realm was within another astral realm with its own - indeed Cosmos-scale - convoluted and really way-out story in which allegedly this whole Cosmos was just starting to implode. Consequently, during the above scenario there were periodic sounds of heavy things falling and breaking in nearby rooms in the hospital (supposedly as the beginnings of the whole of Existence starting to disintegrate). Again, those crashings and breakings seemed to be happening at different levels in the large multi-storey building with quite reverberant corridors, whereas in the Cedars I was simply on the upper of two floors, and there was nothing especially reverberant about the corridors.

One thing that was new during the continuing ordeals in those first two days of that hospital experience was that my ongoing frequent inner dialogue about what was actually going on for me was actually providing me with very helpful information among all the distortions and confusions, and I was noticing that and using it to my advantage, to assist me in very gradually getting my awareness detached from the astral realms and more grounded again. Frequently I'd have a hunch that this or that experience was really just within an astral realm, and my 'guidance' indicated that this was the case. This enabled me to be building up a picture of what astral realms were like, how they could be recognised (at least sometimes), and how they worked and could be used by 'astral beings' (i.e. the dark force), and it also meant that, time and time again, I knew not to take seriously the various bizarre and at times extremely untoward things that appeared to be going on (including my even starting to fall into a sequence of hells), and to regard it all as various sorts of 'movie' that were being presented to me.

Indeed, at that time there were some fairly extended periods when I was lying on my bed and the dark force was sort-of giving me the impression then that I was already starting to fall into the promised sequence of hells ("for aeons and aeons until the Cosmos has sufficiently expanded again after its implosion that is now under way"), and I was emotionally preparing and 'steeling' myself for that actuality - though actually not being het up about that, for if it was inevitable and was actually starting to happen, then it made sense simply to accept it peacefully, even while still carefully observing to see if that really was happening or in any way really had to happen to me.

But yet I seemed to be increasingly getting additional, more subtle information, which was indicating that this was all just an astral realm in which I was being shown 'night terror' movies rather than genuinely falling into any objectively existent hell, and I was pointed to periodically checking the time on my bedside alarm, for I'd find that my time-scale in this astral realm would be much extended compared with actual physical time - and so it turned out to be, amazingly so. Indeed, an afternoon lie-down of some 20 minutes in 'real' time apparently lasted for a good hour or two). Thus, during my two days of these astral realm experiences in the hospital before I got my awareness sufficiently grounded and came out of all that, the subjective time that I spent in all those experiences was very considerable - probably fitting something like four to six days' / nights' worth of weird experiences into that 48 hours. 

Also on those occasions when I was being shown 'hell' visuals, almost at once those visuals became limited to displaying on a sort of 'video screen' rectangle in my 'inner vision', as indeed had been happening during some of my experiences in this crisis just prior to my hospitalization. Then the 'story' from my 'guidance' became much more that I was just being shown various sorts of 'night terror' for some sort of educational purpose, and mention of my dropping into hells soon quietly faded out.

I think what was actually going on was that my own deepest aspects were being very active in seeking to head off a potential major disaster for me that the dark force was trying to engineer at that time through its use of an incredible complex of astral realms to confuse and unground my awareness and then to get me into some sort of 'auto-destruct' feedback loop of trauma energies within a sustained 'hell' experience. Theoretically, what the dark force was trying to do could have resulted in my going into a coma, within which I'd experience 'aeons upon aeons' of real hells (well, they would be 'real' within the illusory reality in which my awareness would have then been trapped), while nobody in the physical reality would have had a clue as to how to help me. I understand that this sort of horrifically disastrous thing happens occasionally to people who are into 'dark' practices, and sometimes to particular susceptible individuals to whom 'dark' practitioners send particular types of psychic attack.

Fortunately for me, my doggedly remaining 'peaceful observer' of whatever was happening (thanks particularly to my being enlightened) was actually scuppering those attempts by the dark force anyway, but my deeper aspects were assisting me in that by ensuring that what I did see of the night hell visuals was presented on a 'video screen' as something interesting that I could learn from, so that there was no chance that I would mistake any of that for something that was actually happening to me, or for somewhere where I was actually going. Thus it pretty quickly worked out to have for me more of a sort of entertainment and educational value rather than anything else - albeit that hardly being any sort of way that I'd choose to spend my time!

The Cedars psychiatric hospital, Exeter, 
 where the above-listed (and a lot more) weird experiences took place.
 -- Or is it an astral replica of The Cedars?

It came as a relief but no complete surprise to me to establish afterwards that none of the things that I relate in the above list had happened in physical reality. No police, no fire crews, no credit card confusions! I couldn't even find traces of tell-tale ejaculate in my bed, where I'd deposited it seemingly so realistically (albeit hardly satisfyingly!) in that Satanistic-style masturbation astral realm (Let off the hook over one prospective little embarrassment! ). I did eventually get the opportunity to check with nurse X as to whether I'd behaved strangely with him and had even sought to get him into bed with me, and he seemed a little taken aback when I asked him about that, and assured me that nothing of the sort had happened. Yet that astral realm in particular had seemed immensely 'real', and I'd really 'physically' felt his hand as I'd sought to drag him into bed with me!

It turns out that there looks to have been a sinister significance about the involvement of that particular nurse, who was one of the two there then who never seemed to me as though they were really nurses, and who I (still) regard as quite unsuitable to be employed in caring professions at all. Indeed, that guy seemed much more as though he was a handyman who was visiting to do some manual task - or even as though he was a patient himself! My inner inquiry results concerning the particular nurse pointed to his having a strong spirit attachment, which the dark force was opportunistically seeking to get affecting him in particular ways to get him wanting personal involvement with me, in tandem with the dark force's trying to get me infatuated with him through all the astral realm encounters and then supposedly my trying to involve myself closely with him in everyday life (my 'reading' is that he was gay and so potentially responsive to me if I had made the right sort of advances to him). Fortunately I remained far from infatuated and in any case saw him as far too loaded with serious issues of his own for me to want to be involved with him at all - even though it was clear that he did like me quite a bit*

* Actually, as I found out later, he tended to get quite stressed out by his work there, and by the other nurses, and I think he was drawn a lot to my positivity (particularly my positivity towards the nurses), which he felt as something of a foil to all the stress he was getting from pretty well everyone else.

As though all that wasn't convoluted enough, I've more recently come to recognise that during ALL of that set of experiences related above (indeed, starting with my ordeals in that crisis even before I got to hospital), part of my awareness was within yet another astral realm, which thus appeared to contain the lot. That one didn't give me clear, seemingly 'real' impressions like the others, but rather gave a more vague 'backdrop' sort of impression and perceptual 'coloration' to the whole crisis sequence. It had a strange and to me curiously fascinating sort of 'atmosphere', linked to a vague but still quite strong impression of being in some sort of building with very bright rather steely daylight flooding into all the rooms, and there seemed to be a great deal of angular squareness about everything in the rooms and the building overall, including the very large windows that let in all that daylight.

My retrospective inner inquiry results relating to this are suggestive that this impression was actually based on a particular memory of one of the parasitic lost souls attached to me, and the occasion was the particular individual being in a psychiatric hospital in which he or she had actually been given ECT (or at least an equivalent treatment). As far as I can tell (indeed quite likely not having the parasitic lost soul attached to me now, so that I couldn't 'read' any further from it), that experience would have been a very long time ago, and not on Earth - indeed in some far removed star system, which may or may not have been in this particular universe. Hence the strange atmosphere and peculiar qualities of the room and indeed building - though of course the dark force could distort anything to give strange impressions like that anyway.

Actually each of my most serious crisis events had its own strange 'backdrop' atmosphere and 'vibes' and vague impressions, and my inner inquiry supports the hypothesis that in each case these were the most noticeable signs of a sort of 'backdrop' astral realm within which more or less the whole crisis event was operating. It would appear, thus, that such a 'container' astral realm was part of the whole mechanism of such very serious crisis events. My inspired guess is that the purpose of that 'container' astral realm was to cultivate in me an increasing ungroundedness of my awareness so that then I'd be far more gullible towards whatever convoluted fictions, distorted notions and general rubbish that the dark force then gave me about myself and my situation.

This would certainly help explain my otherwise pretty baffling degree of gullibility and my even more baffling state of 'commandability'* during my most serious crisis events - especially the first three of my four 'hospitalization' crises (two in late 2004 and two in late 2006) and that of February 2007).

* I.e. my just obediently doing what I was instructed to do, even if it was crazy and potentially lethal for me - though even then still with some very definite boundaries beyond which I would stop in my tracks and rebel.

Interestingly, my fourth 'hospitalization' crisis (October 2006), although it did have its own peculiar 'coloration' indicative of a 'container' astral realm, was unable to really develop, because on that occasion I'd to a fair extent learnt my lesson about the gullibility problem and the need to get my awareness grounded*, and decided very firmly to disregard all 'guidance' and other inner communications, and the crisis immediately collapsed when I got myself hospitalized (just to get some supportive people around me to help ground my awareness).

* Actually there was a little more to it than just that. My inner inquiry indicates that the underlying main factor was the gradually accumulating effect of my using two Energy Eggs and a 'Guardian Angel' , which were already beginning to have a noticeable positive effect resulting from their gradually bringing about healing of the multitude of weaknesses and distortions in my non-physical aspects that had been caused by my extensive use of crystals and especially sacred geometry healing wands. This was already resulting in my awareness becoming slightly but significantly better grounded and thus I was better able to be discriminating when things got rough, and to be more liable to think, figuratively, "Sod the lot of you!" to my supposed 'guidance' and get my awareness more squarely into the everyday reality instead of doing what the dark force was trying to get me doing.

In the February 2007 crisis event (described in My Little Brush with Psychiatry) I'd 'caved in' again, having been sneakily enticed into the relevant 'container' astral realm while being given a lot of pretty convoluted channelled (mis)information that seemed rather convincing at the time. This led into a potentially extremely serious situation, where, fortunately, I was sufficiently open to the strong warning signals from my own deepest aspects when the 'all-night spectacular' eventually started developing an actually dangerous aspect, and I rebelled pretty well in the nick of time with very decisive and determined action to get re-grounding my awareness.

About illusory realities more generally

It's very evident from all the above-related experiences that astral realms can be 'nested', one inside another, and this is true of illusory realities generally. My understanding is that there can be a pretty well indefinite number of levels of 'nesting'. This applies not only to serious crisis-level attack events, but also to dark force interference with every single person, both directly and through soul programming, about which I explain further below.

Another thing evident from those experiences and indeed many other experiences that I've had with interference and attacks from the dark force is that there appear in practice to be various types of illusory reality, in addition to the 'straight' astral realms. For the most part I suspect that they are basically the same, but it is just the type of content and the details of how they've been applied that make them seem to be different. On the other hand, my understanding is that the 'night hell', 'night terrors' or simply 'hell' type of astral realm is fundamentally a bit different, for what one sees there is basically a 'display-only' astral realm, in which the person is simply observing visual displays while also being attacked by the dark force with very nasty emotional feelings and also by some means being informed that unthinkably terrible things are happening or about to happen.

What is actually happening in a full night hell, as distinct from the versions that I've been shown in my adulthood, is that first of all a 'container' astral realm has become established, in which is placed some sort of belief that whatever one is experiencing within it is happening for real and is one's entire reality - and presumably also, that any feelings you experience are your own genuine emotional responses (i.e. thus not caused by any external interference). So, the grotesque maelstroms of the night hell visuals, accompanied by intense attacks from the dark force with feelings of fear, terror, anxiety, panic and so forth, are occurring within that 'container' astral realm, in which its contents seem to be your entire 'reality'. That is hell indeed, by pretty well anyone's definition!

Similar concoctions of astral realms are actually used in certain virulent types of psychic attack that are sent to people by some black magic or voodoo practitioners, and, depending on their content, they can put a person into a horrific potentially lethal auto-destruct feedback loop - just as the dark force was apparently trying to achieve for me in certain (or indeed perhaps all) of my most serious attack crisis events. I doubt very much, however, whether any of those human 'dark' practitioners understand the mechanism of their attacks as I've described it here; they would simply carry out particular rituals that they have learnt have the particular dire effects, and it would actually be elementals controlled by the dark force that would actually do the detailed work.

This nesting or 'layering' of astral realms is not just an interesting little quirk that occurs more or less fortuitously, but it is applied by the dark force in a more or less purposeful way to progressively insinuate people into increasingly distorted perceptions, and into beliefs that initially they would have no truck with.

As I've already noted in outline, in terms of superficial 'appearances', non-night-hell illusory realities can be generally divided into: 

• 'Foreground' illusory realities, which I am calling astral realms, which, more often than not, are only temporary. These astral realms are used by the dark force in a very up-front way, to give the person a specific normally temporary experience that is illusory but seems to be real. These include encounters with and abductions by 'aliens' or extra-terrestrials, and also (in the case of some people into 'dark' practices) experiences of consorting with purported astral 'lords' or magicians. They also include experiences in the nature of 'seeing something nasty in the woodshed' (see above), which some people are prone to. If you meet up with 'The Council of Nine' or 'The Galactic Brotherhood of Light' or any such council or group of non-physical or 'Galactic' beings (as some 'lightworkers', healers and psychics do), you are having such an astral realm experience, and the beings in it - however real and 'physical' they seem - simply do not exist in the physical 'reality'. The astral realm experiences of my own that I've described further above all come within this category.

  Caution! It occasionally happens that a person who's had one of those seemingly realistic astral realm encounters comes away from the encounter with some apparently physical object that he's been given by the supposed beings. Any such person is in particularly big trouble, for (a) that object serves to 'confirm' his belief that it was a 'real' experience and that the actually illusory beings actually exist, and (b) it shows that he has sufficiently weak grounding that the dark force can cause elements of his illusory realities to actually start manifesting in a particularly direct way in the physical reality of 'What Is'.
  

  That sort of occurrence can be the beginning of a sort of catastrophic breakdown of the personality, as the person gets more and more confused and disjointed interpretations of what is 'real' and what is illusory. Such a person is actually theoretically in a small degree a threat to the integrity of 'What Is' itself, in being the vehicle by which the dark force can start converting illusory astral objects and events into actual physical ones, so, potentially just beginning to convert the order of 'What Is' into a chaotic state of disorder that theoretically could lead to the destruction of 'Existence' as we understand it. Fortunately this process appears never to be able to go at all far before the person meets his (usually untimely) death. Theoretically, however, a very large number of people with that problem could pose a more serious threat for us all, but, thankfully, I'm not aware of any signs of a trend towards increasing frequency of that problem - very likely because fundamental consciousness itself ensures that anyone with that sort of problem to any threatening degree wouldn't last long enough to do significant damage.
  

  Astral realms cannot be created in a person's mindspace unless a particular part of that person's awareness is sufficiently weakly grounded. For this reason a quite large majority of people cannot experience them, and herein lies a serious practical problem, because that majority is particularly inclined to regard anyone experiencing astral realms as being inherently disordered or 'mentally ill'.

• 'Background' and 'covert' illusory realities, which almost always remain in place in a person's mindspace until / unless the person takes deliberate measures to clear them. These are the sneaky ones and indeed the most ubiquitous, and to at least some extent everyone is carrying some - and generally a person would have no idea that he is carrying such illusory realities, for they simply act like distorting filters, (mis)shaping the way he perceives 'reality'. These underlie all beliefs and strongly held opinions. Typically multitudes of these are nested or 'layered' in various ways that would not be possible to achieve, say, with a group of piles of sheets of paper, for there would be interrelationships and interactions between elements of different 'piles' or 'nests' of illusory realities.
  

  As just noted, a particular feature that distinguishes these illusory realities from the ones that I call astral realms is that their content is more some sort of belief (i.e. distortion of reality) rather than any specific 'action' scenario. However, this distinction, although important, is not always clearly defined, and many people experience plenty of illusory realities that lie between those two categories.
  

  Generally speaking, this category of illusory reality is readily created in anyone's mind, regardless of how well grounded their awareness is. However, some of these illusory realities are created more readily if a particular part of the person's awareness is weakly grounded.

More about the nesting or layering of covert illusory realities

A sort of 'layering' that looks superficially similar to that of illusory realities, though in simpler form, is familiar to people who use image editing software such as Photoshop. You can take a particular drawing or photo as your basis, then add various 'layers', each of which contains some additional element. One or more of them might contain some text, or different images can similarly be superimposed upon the underlying image to add bits to it or distort it in some way, each being movable independently of any of the other layers, so that you can have very fine control over the final synthesis, which can thus quite transform the original image. However, whereas the blank areas of each superimposed layer in such a composite image are simply transparent so that you still see something of the underlying image, things are not so simple with the 'layering' of illusory realities.

The illusory reality 'layers' superimposed upon 'reality' are not what they appear to be. Supposing, for example, that you have one particular 'layer' whose only obvious content is a notion that angels exist or that seagulls are incarnations of demons, or that nothing exists that is not physical, or that antipsychotic medication really is beneficial for some people. That 'layer' contains the 'code' in 'thought energy' for the particular notion or belief, and otherwise is 'transparent', so that in all other respects you still perceive 'reality' correctly. -- Or is it?

My own experience and inner inquiry results suggest a different picture. That appearance of 'transparency' in all those illusory realities superimposed upon one's view of 'reality' is illusory. In each such illusory reality there is the 'code' for the intended content, plus some 'code' that 'reads' the person's underlying view of reality and then relays that via the dark force (in the astral sub-reality of course) to his conscious awareness ('ordinary mind') to give his actual conscious perception of 'reality', actually completely within that illusory reality; he is thus seeing an astral replica of reality, supplied by the dark force, and thus not reality itself!

Because the astral sub-reality is, by its very nature, an aspect of reality that is intrinsically the latter's 'distortion' aspect, what is relayed back to the person as 'reality' is actually NOT exactly 'reality', but contains subtle distortions that are in addition to the intended and specifically programmed distortion(s). Thus the astral replica that the person actually sees has hidden the actual reality from that person and substituted a variant astral replica of it.

Thus each of the many 'layers' of illusory reality that a person is carrying is like a (usually subtle) distorting filter over his perceptions and interpretations of the 'reality' that surrounds him but which he actually isn't seeing directly at all - and those distortions are in addition to distortion elements specifically intended and programmed by the dark force.

However, there is a self limiting effect with increasing number of such 'layers' - for as more and more get added, the more deeply buried ones become no longer perceptible to the person, and their direct effects become increasingly attenuated. This comes about through a process of progressively closing off the deepest (and progressively less deep) aspects of the person's awareness. This process actually occurs progressively over many soul incarnations, and it results in the vast majority of people throughout the world actually having a very shallow awareness and being hopelessly out of touch with their true nature or any deeper or broader aspect of reality than the mere physical appearance of things and their own crude emotional reactions to them.

In soul-reincarnated people many illusory realities do not need to be replaced by the dark force when the person is born, for by then the person is carrying the coding for those illusory realities actually in the part of his awareness that defines the soul - what I generally refer to as the person's soul programming. This causes a whole range of awareness-limiting illusory realities to automatically install themselves in the person's mindspace during his first few years of life.

It's hardly surprising, then, that so few people are able to get even a glimmer of a grasp upon understanding the true nature of themselves and of reality, and of the ways that the dark force obfuscates and confuses the situation. They have in their mindspace not just one illusory reality to try to see out of, but a whole plethora of nested illusory realities, each giving some distortion of reality. No wonder that almost everyone who comes to this site and reads things here about self realization and getting clear of dark force interference still fundamentally fails to 'get the message' and then do anything effective about it! And no wonder that pretty well universally, never mind how 'brilliant' and supposedly intelligent a person is, that person has various beliefs and irrational and distorted perceptions that fly in the face of the reality of 'What Is', even though the latter is right there staring him in the face.

No wonder indeed that humans overall are in all sorts of pervasive ways irrational and are effectively, in functional terms, sub-humans! Everyone has the fundamental capacity for fully rational, positive and healthy functioning, but a varying but generally large part of that capacity is occluded, hidden, shut down - and illusory realities are a major part of the mechanism by which the dark force has achieved this sad state that human-type beings are in throughout all of 'Existence' (i.e. wherever they occur - not only on Earth).

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

Generally, in the case of covert and notionally permanent illusory realities, you can't recognise them directly unless you're very highly self actualized indeed - but if you were that far self actualized you might well not have any illusory realities to experience and recognise! However, pretty aware and clear-minded people generally can deduce the presence of various illusory realities in their mindspace, sufficiently well for them to use an appropriate measure to initiate their dissolution - provided that they gain sufficient understanding of the sort of things to look out for in their life experience, particularly where things don't seem to be going ideally for them. Sufficient of the necessary understanding for starters can be gained by reading relevant pages on this site - though further understanding is gained through actually working on clearing these illusory realities and thus gaining more awareness and thus more accurate perceptions and making more accurate interpretations of one's observations.

However, in the case of astral realms in which you're being given specific temporary experiences, there are certain signs to look out for. That doesn't mean that if you don't notice any such signs your particular experience is genuine and 'physical', but it does mean that if you do notice the telltale signs you can be pretty confident that it is indeed an astral realm experience that you're putting under scrutiny. So, the following notes refer specifically to temporary, 'action scenario' astral realms and NOT to the really ubiquitous covert illusory realities.

Although astral realms appear superficially realistic, they do so only because of the ungrounded state of a particular part of your awareness, which makes you hypersuggestive and super-gullible. In my case, being a no-soul incarnation and enlightened too, even when I was in those astral realms I had the clarity to also be aware that they were astral realms or at least were likely to be so. I give here a few observations that seemed to be identifying features of temporary astral realms that I experienced:

• The astral realms had a different time-scale from real, physical time, and much more happened in each than could ever have occurred in the 'real' world within the physical duration that I spent in them. This was very much my own experience in those hospital astral realms, but also in others that I'd been in during certain other crises brought about by the dark force getting my awareness ungrounded.
  

  N.B. My understanding is that the time distortion can in some cases work the other way round, so that a person seems to have lost a chunk of time in the physical 'reality', which doesn't seem to be accounted for by any astral realm experience, and indeed the person may be unaware of any particular 'inner' experience at all that coincided with the 'lost' chunk of time. Probably as something or a rarity, in such cases a watch or clock in the 'real world', belonging to the affected person, may also show a baffling time discrepancy corresponding with his 'lost' chunk of time - presumably because some part of his awareness was sufficiently ungrounded that the dark force could use his 'energy system' to, in a small way, start replicating astral distortions in the physical 'reality'. I actually have an acquaintance for whom this happened on one quite recent occasion.

• There was a peculiar dreary and disconnected / disembodied quality about the hospital replica in the astral realms, completely lacking the warmth and vibrancy of the real hospital.

• The people in the hospital replicas all appeared superficially to be the same people - nurses, doctors and patients - yet I was aware again of a sense of disconnectedness about them all, which was not how things were in the real hospital. In the astral replicas these people were like actors who'd been put there to look like the particular people. Some would talk together as they purposelessly came and went, but overall there was a sense of no real interaction between them, and indeed it seemed that when any did talk together, if I'd got closer to them to hear what they were saying I'd have most likely heard just actors' 'crowd talk' - a repeated "ru-ba-shi-mon" or other gibberish. The meals woman went into the kitchen towards mealtimes, and did the preparation work there, but apparently there was no food to prepare and nothing was prepared!

  Nobody interacted with me, except when my 'guidance' directed me to interact with somebody, as in the disturbance I caused, and when I was trying to get the previously mentioned nurse X into bed with me, and on another occasion when I kept trying to get out of the hospital (once again following 'guidance' to do so!) and a different nurse very patiently stopped me from going out the door.

  Even those interactions with me were all part of a 'story' that the respective astral realm had been set up for, and there was nothing of the warmth and vibrancy of my spontaneous interactions with nurses in the real hospital.

• Whereas in physical 'reality' all sorts of external things, such as the sun, the sound of birds, traffic etc, would impinge on my awareness, the astral realms were all lacking in such external 'impingers'. Within the astral replica of the hospital I saw my shadow in a shaft of sunlight only while my 'guidance' was giving me a somewhat distorted description of how I could tell whether or not I was in an astral replica of the hospital, and that was given as a particular indicator. Otherwise, I didn't notice the sun or indeed anything or any sounds that weren't some specific element of the illusion and the 'story' of which it was part. Indeed, there was an 'outside' (of the hospital) only at those moments and in those respects in which something 'outside' was part of the story that I was being given.

  I think this was a major part of the cause of the already noted dreary and disembodied quality of the astral realm experiences. What really 'wakes one up' and keeps one interested in life is all the external 'impingements' - all the sounds and unexpected details, which do not form part of some single-minded 'story' that's being laid down for you, and which keep your attention much more on living joyfully 'in the present', with whatever it brings you from moment to moment.
  

So, in my experience, and according to my 'reading' of what is the general situation, it is theoretically possible to tell if you're in an astral realm while you are in it, though few people have sufficient clarity or depth of awareness to recognise it for what it is 'from the inside'. Therefore almost everyone undergoing such experiences would regard them as being 'for real'. However, armed with the information I've listed above, I think many more people could retrospectively identify astral realm experiences that they've had. In particular, the extended time-scale of most of these temporary astral realms, and their lack of 'irrelevant' details (i.e. all the external 'impingements') is a giveaway.

For example, if you've had an experience of being abducted by 'aliens', can you remember details of your surroundings during that encounter? For example, was there a planetary landscape? If so, what was it like, and what was the weather doing? Were there birds (or some equivalent) flitting about and singing? Was the air cold, cool or warm? Was there any wind? If there was a sun shining, did you notice your shadow (something typically omitted from astral realms)? Were there plants, and did any of the plant species look familiar? Were there insects (such as butterflies, flies and so on)? - And so on...

How illusory realities are created

I'm concerning myself here with how the dark force gets people unawarely creating their own, completely unbidden and unwanted illusory realities, and not with how some 'dark' practitioner may create them (which would no doubt involve some sort of ritual based on a very 'ritualized' perception of the nature of what he's doing, without necessarily knowing that he's actually creating illusory realities).

As I understand it, there are two or three primary steps by which the dark force achieves this:

• Getting a particular part of the person's awareness sufficiently weakly grounded (if it isn't already so). This is achieved most often through interfering with the person in ways that cause the person to unground his own awareness. In my case it was through the dark force keeping on intrusively communicating with me and giving me a lot of 'story' that seemed sort-of convincing at the time, and which seemed progressively more convincing as my grounding got further weakened. For many people, controlling / manipulating them into certain drug dependencies is a particular means to get them ungrounding their awareness - notably use of alcohol or / and cannabis.
  

  Cannabis and other hallucinogens such as LSD and similar substances are something of a special case, in that they have a devilish effect in inhibiting the very controls in the brain that are there to help ensure that opening of one's gross perceptions to the astral sub-reality doesn't occur except under the person's conscious intent to do so. The result is an uncontrolled opening of one's gross perceptions to the astral sub-reality, resulting in one seeing all manner of 'visuals' that the dark force chooses to show them, including (for many such people) actual night hell visuals, which may indeed be experienced as full night hells if the dark force attacks strongly too at that time. All these drugs, especially when used repeatedly, tend to leave the natural, healthy "default = closed" state weakened, so that they are liable to have phases of night hell experiences or other highly troublesome experiences from dark force sourced visuals, attacks and very often paranoid illusory realities getting installed. These unfortunate people typically then get diagnosed as 'psychotic' or 'schizophrenic', and remain in a chronically acute state of weak groundedness - game for any further dark force interferences - illusory realities and astral realms included.

  Actually the ungrounding of a person's awareness is required only for creating astral realms and also any (usually) covert 'belief' illusory realities that the dark force is trying to get established quickly as a preliminary in an attack situation. All my dark force attack crisis events started off with a sequence of persistent attempts to get me progressively ungrounding my awareness. Some people are already more than sufficiently ungrounded, so that no ungrounding measures are necessary for them to get landed straightaway in whatever astral realm / illusory reality that the dark force kindly chooses for them.

• Intruding covert messages into the person's mindspace, which are perceived as thoughts or in some case 'thought voices' and NOT as anything like what people generally mean by 'hearing voices'. I refer to these pseudo-thoughts, unsurprisingly, as pseudo-thoughts. The dark force constantly feeds pseudo-thoughts into the mindspace of even supposedly normal and intelligent people.

  However, in a well functioning person, without the dark force doing something additional these pseudo-thoughts would mostly be recognised at a deep level as 'not mine' and would be discarded and mostly forgotten, without being consciously noticed - except perhaps by the odd person, as part of the inconsequential faint background 'noise' of their mindspace.

• Covertly attacking the person with specific cocktails of painful emotion feelings, usually at a very low level, to coincide with particular pseudo-thoughts. This is often consciously perceived as 'the feelings of my thoughts'*, and it confuses the person's deeply situated 'machinery' for summarily recognising and discarding 'not mine' thoughts, messages and signals, and then the targeted pseudo-thoughts are not immediately recognised as 'not mine' and then are passed to the next level of inner scrutiny for the person's deep levels of consciousness to use different 'self tests' to determine whether those queried pseudo-thoughts are still worth a second glance.
  

  * Thoughts that don't have emotional stress (or a dark force attack mimicking stress of one's own) associated with them actually have no feeling in the sense that almost anyone would recognise, and have a much more light and 'transparent' quality about them than what almost anyone actually experiences from their thoughts (so pervasive is stored emotional stress plus the sort of dark force interference described above).

  When these pseudo-thoughts are thus scrutinized, it is not just them that are looked at but the feelings that came with them. Some are discarded at this stage, but others get misidentified as 'own thought, but with emotional issue attached', and then are stored in a sort of personal 'repository' for memories of a whole range of types of experience that have emotional stress or trauma associated with them. Within that holding area there is no means to distinguish between 'mine' and 'not mine', and so everything in that holding area effectively behaves, and is treated, as though it is 'mine'. One big problem!

  This happens because experiences cannot be properly evaluated and then sorted into one's memory databanks while they are 'glued up' with emotional stress of any kind, and so until their 'payload' of stress energy has been cleared they have to be put in a 'holding area' in the memory, where no energy is wasted in futile attempts to evaluate them properly. Such memories are thus still unsorted and little evaluated.
  

  The trouble with that memory 'holding area' is that not only are its memories unsorted so that they cannot be usefully be called upon to assist in a rational appraisal of any new situation, but in practice, for the most part the only 'handle' that can be used to call up particular memories from there is how those memories feel - in other words the 'feel' of their emotional 'payloads'. The result of this is that all sorts of things in your everyday life 'push buttons' that remind you of particular memories that are in your 'holding area', and thus call up those memories with their emotional stress 'payload'. This is a troublesome process that Harvey Jackins, founder of Re-evaluation Counselling*, called 'restimulation', which results in the new experience, often fundamentally unstressful in itself, being experienced as stressful and provoking a response that is based on a reaction to the emotional stress and not on a rational appraisal of that situation.
  

  * You can read about my own experiences with and critical appraisal of Re-evaluation Counselling in My Own Self Actualization 'Path' - Part 1.

At its most basic level, that is how the dark force cultivates irrationality in every single person. There are variations in the specifics from person to person and to some extent according to particular situations that a person may encounter, but those two or three steps described above are the foundation of the vastly major part of all human irrationality.

Stress as a vehicle for accumulating illusory realities and unawareness

Note how, once some distorted notion, associated with stressful feelings, has got insinuated into one's 'holding area' just in the same way that a 'real' stressful or trauma situation would, that can progressively grow in time, like a cancer (actually in just the same way as an actual stressful or trauma experience), because it keeps getting restimulated by various everyday situations, which then, whether awarely or not, themselves have a stressful effect because of that memory restimulation, and then the memories of those situations themselves have to be stored in the 'holding area', so that the person becomes increasingly 'booby trapped' by having all those stressful 'restimulation' memories, which themselves then can be restimulated by further everyday situations.

Like this, distorted outlooks and attitudes become deeply ingrained over time, giving rise to what in Re-evaluation Counselling are called chronic patterns. However, in Re-evaluation Counselling there was no understanding of dark force involvement in the process, nor of the really chilling long-term significance of those 'chronic patterns'.

The dark force uses various means to facilitate and intensify this process, particularly for individuals who it has targeted for some sort of disabling or 'wrecking' treatment. It can magnify emotional stress feelings that one is experiencing, so causing greatly exaggerated restimulation experiences and thus greatly speeding up the process of blocking the person's intelligence and awareness by causing a big proportion of his new memories to be diverted into his holding area so that they can't get sorted into the 'filing system' of what was supposed to be his main memory system and 'intelligence / rationality databank'.

Rational and intelligent operation depends on use of that memory filing system so that you can understand what is unique in each situation and produce a unique and appropriate (i.e. positive and constructive) response to it - but a whole mass of gunged-up memories in your holding area instead of in your memory filing system ensures that the major part of your awareness and overall intelligence is blocked or distorted by illusory realities created by every one of the stress laden distorted notions and perceptions that are in those memories, and that thus you are effectively living as a sub-human. You wouldn't necessarily be aware that anything was untoward at all, because of the way that your awareness is distorted by the illusory realities that are created by your attachment to those stress-laden distorted notions that are crawling about in your 'holding area'. You would simply perceive your limited and distorted state as 'how I am', and, very likely, would resist any notion that you had all or indeed any of this material to clear, or indeed could be any way other than how you now appear to be. Also, you would regard anyone who is functioning significantly better and more awarely than you as being 'a bit weird' or even disordered.

Your intelligence deficiency is thus a 'double whammy', because on the one hand a lot of your memory data that you need for rational or intelligent appraisal of new situations is not in your inner 'filing cabinets' where you need it for fully intelligent functioning, but in your horrendously overfilled and clogged up holding area, and on the other hand you have a whole mass of illusory realities that have been created from your still unevaluated experiences, the key to whose proper evaluation is the memories of them in your holding area, which, as I've indicated, are unavailable for such appraisal or 're-evaluation' until / unless their emotional stress 'payload' has been cleared.

And hardly anyone does anything really effective to clear that mass of emotional stress energy, so the holding area continues to fill and the person to become steadily more rigid in outlook, unaware, and indeed still less intelligent...

That is not the end of the damage, however. If those gunged-up memories in your holding area are not mostly cleared out by the time you die, the more 'loaded' ones will have created distortions or 'imprints' in your 'subtle', non-physical aspects, which, with some assistance from the dark force, become seemingly indelibly imprinted when you die, so that then you are tied to your emotional attachments that are 'coded' in those imprints, and you then cannot revert to fundamental consciousness, as we all need to when we die, and instead, you, as a trapped consciousness, which is now what is known as a soul, are programmed by the dark force to reincarnate, as a soul reincarnation.

Each successive soul reincarnation is more distorted and unaware / irrational than the previous one, until eventually the end product is a non-incarnating 'parasitic' lost soul under the complete control of the dark force. The vast majority of people are soul incarnations and thus have soul programming, which results in their deepest awareness getting speedily attenuated as a whole range of illusory realities pretty well automatically get installed in their mindspace during their first few years of life. These people are all effectively captives of the dark force, even though generally completely unaware of their very serious predicament, and indeed very resistant against any such notion.

I explain more about this phenomenon in The True Nature of the Dark Force and its Interference and Attacks.

The dark force is thus intricately involved in the whole phenomenon of human unawareness, irrationality, negativity and general paucity of really positive and constructive creativity and achievements - and in every direction that you could look, if you had sufficient awareness and clarity of sight you'd see that illusory realities are a big and essential part of this unedifying mess that we are in.

People who get 'the rough treatment'

As already noted, particular individuals get strongly targeted and 'up-front' harsh treatment from the dark force. These are generally people with no soul programming or at most very little, and the dark force gives these people a hard and very often pretty horrendous time, seeking to get them loaded with sufficient emotional stresses and illusory realities that (a) they lose any motivation for effective and genuine self actualization (which would free them from dark force interference and captivity), and (b) they are ensnared by those illusory realities and thus made captives of the dark force when they die. Such people are targeted in that way because they are inherently pretty resistant to taking up beliefs and getting attached to illusory realities, or indeed getting much attached to anything, so, to ensnare them the dark force has to work hard at it, trying to cultivate attachment in all sorts of ways and also manipulating the people into ungrounding pursuits and drug dependencies - especially nicotine, alcohol and cannabis - the latter two in particular making people wide open to dark force attacks and other wrecking tactics, and picking up dark force controlled entities. For a high proportion of these people the process starts with early childhood night hells (aka night terrors).

Such people tend to get really strong and disruptive attacks from the dark force, in addition to all the covert 'controlling' types of attack. These strong attacks are with emotional stress and trauma energy / feelings, at an intensity that can be anything up to 'truly hellish', and may be any sort of cocktail of recognisable emotions such as fear, panic, terror, anxiety, depression, grief, and even with a strongly adulterated sexual arousal / desire /ecstasy that, although seeming to an ordinary person to be immensely pleasurable, is actually based in painful emotions and is highly addictive and thus extremely problematical, and doesn't reflect one's natural, well functioning state at all. This is all part of the process of building up illusory realities and beliefs in the individuals' mindspace, and strong attachment to those distortions of their perceptions. The dark force can use 'flood tactics', feeding in a constant stream of repeats of a particular pseudo-thought (or group of them), intruding them into a more or less hidden part of a person's mindspace so that the person doesn't know it's happening. This in itself can progressively build up a more or less hidden illusory reality containing a belief that the person's 'ordinary mind' would dismiss out of hand as 'rubbish'.

I well know about this latter phenomenon, because it's featured high in the means by which the dark force has been able to keep staging attacks on me, long after I'd supposedly cleared out the primary ammunition that the dark force could use for attacks on me - i.e. all the emotional issues that I'd been carrying. A menacing (but actually nonsensical) illusory reality could be covertly built up in the back of my mindspace, while on the surface, if I became aware of its contents I'd regard them as absolute rubbish. The dark force would then establish and progressively build up a feedback loop of some usually fear based trauma emotion feeling, in some way using that illusory reality as an 'augmenting resonator' of its associated emotional stress. I describe the attack crisis event of mine in which I first came to notice this mechanism, in Anatomy of a Dark Force ('Astral Entities') Attack Crisis.

Okay - then what the hell can we do about illusory realities?

Get rid of them of course!

... - What's that? "Impossible", you say?

... - Oh, drat it, what a lot of rubbish you're coming out with! Look. By the same token it's impossible for anyone to drive a car.

... - "What do I mean by that?"? -- I'll tell you. It's impossible for you to drive a car - until and unless the car's tank has the appropriate fuel in it and you turn on the ignition (or power, if electric), and indeed you actually drive it - which requires your conscious choice to do so! Driving a car remains impossible for anyone until or unless those particular criteria are fulfilled.

... - Ah, so you're just starting to wake up! Now I'll tell you what criteria need to be fulfilled for you to start getting rid of the illusory realities that you're carrying. Here goes...

• Read my page Some Potent Healing and Self Actualization Practices, and learn to use the Grounding Post procedure, which is described there, and which enables you to dissolve illusory realities, astral realms, beliefs, emotional issues and indeed a wide range of problems within your non-physical aspects.
• Do it! (i.e. the Grounding Post procedure).

Okay, there is a bit more to it than that to make it really effective, but, provided that you don't have too much obscuring soul programming (in which case you'd be extremely unlikely to be interested in doing this anyway), even doing that much would start making some inroads upon your own load of illusory realities and getting you a bit closer to perceiving the 'real reality' of 'What Is', and thus you'd be already starting to become a nicer, more intelligent and indeed happier person than previously.

You can make much more of the Grounding Post procedure by these straightforward means:

• If at all possible, use energy testing to help you establish which are the real top-priority illusory realities to 'zap' with Grounding Post at the present time, and to get them really accurately identified (in order to 'hit the nail squarely on the head').
• Get using a basic set of additional methods for your comprehensive genuine self actualization. In Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way I point to a collection of such methods. By using more or less concurrently several methods for this purpose in a regular ongoing fashion, you are speeding the clearance process, and you make it possible increasingly to recognise (at least by deduction) all manner of illusory realities that you'd previously not been noticing. Once recognised, they too can be 'zapped' by use of Grounding Post.
  Of the methods presented on that page, I particularly recommend the use of regular Self-Power Walking, for this is an exceptionally effective and joyful means of clearing the emotional stresses and traumas that you are carrying, and this works especially effectively when used alongside use of the Grounding Post procedure. With Self-Power Walking you don't have to know about or (re-)experience any emotional nasties at all, and instead you simply have the enjoyment of getting progressively clearer and clearer - and better grounded too.