Night Hells (Night Terrors) and Hearing Voices

Introduction - a dressing down for the 'experts'! 

It is not my normal practice in an introduction, nor indeed anywhere else in my writings, to speak to the reader in what would look to many people to be in severe terms, although generally I can certainly be challenging and even provocative at times in order to make particular points.

I speak in this manner quite deliberately here, to rattle the complacent ignorance and unawareness of those scientists, psychologists, and medical or psychiatric workers who regard themselves as any sort of authority on what goes on in human awareness - what is generally (actually deludedly) called the mind (implying a 'thing' that you can study or 'treat', which it is not).

Actually in what I write below I am not really speaking severely at all, but am simply being bluntly direct - cutting through the normal and extremely unhelpful (to put it politely) deference and 'politeness' towards supposed 'authorities' that helps keep certain very serious problems in place.

The reality is that nobody who isn't genuinely enlightened can even begin to understand the true nature of 'the mind' and what goes on in it. There may be the odd scientists or medics on the planet who are enlightened - though I myself am not aware of any, and indeed all of them that I know (of) are light years away from enlightenment. And in any case there CANNOT be such thing as a psychiatrist or psychologist who is enlightened - because it is particular delusions and unhealthy fixations of theirs that cause them to follow those particular professional pursuits, and at the same time their particular delusions and fixations completely block any possibility of their becoming enlightened and getting to even begin to really understand the subject on which they are generally supposed to be the experts.

But now, to quote from the daily Listen With Mother programme on the radio when I was young, (in a sweet voice to soothe babies and toddlers) "Are you sitting comfortably? ...Then I'll begin!"... 

The primary subject of this account is HELL*. It has remained hell throughout human history, and, as far as I can ascertain, through previous planetary civilizations of human-like beings since very likely well before this particular Universe ever existed. This scourge upon Humanity has remained completely unresolved, NOT because it cannot be resolved, but because nobody, whether in the medical or mental healthcare services, nor in the plethora of non-medical healing traditions, has applied real clear-mindedness - that is, genuine intelligence - to the situation. The great big stumbling block that has prevented the necessary genuine intelligence from operating with regard to this issue has been, and is, BELIEF.

* As will become clear as we proceed below, one thing that true hells do NOT consist of, except possibly for the odd people with particular beliefs, is the religion based notion of 'fire and brimstone', souls roasting in great pit-like furnaces, and so on. So, when I myself give a 'fire and brimstone' image for hells, that is a little joke of mine, and a little dig at the seriously harmfully distorted notion of hells put forward by certain religions to underpin their own fear based control agendas.

It doesn't matter how many letters you have after your name, nor that everyone touches their hat to you and calls you 'Sir', 'Doctor', 'Consultant', 'Professor', 'Lord', 'Your Holiness', 'Right Honourable', or indeed 'Your Majesty' - nor that you have the highest University degree(s) and indeed IQ on the planet, have written lauded learned theses and papers and books, and people flock in droves to your lectures, and the majority of the human population hangs on your every word or / and grovels before you. If you have belief you are NOT a fully intelligent person, however anyone regards you, and you will NOT be applying your mind fully intelligently to any aspect of your life experience that is impinged upon in any way by that belief.

Everyone who espouses materialism-reductionism or materialistic reductionism - and that definitely includes nearly all scientists, medics and psychiatric workers, and the vast majority of psychologists, particularly in the West - has his/her intelligence seriously blocked. Why? -- Because materialistic reductionism is every bit as much of a belief system as a religious, 'spiritual', paganistic or 'New Age' belief system. As long as you believe that what you perceive as the physical world / Universe is all there is to 'reality', and believe or 'know' that human consciousness or 'mind' is just a physical 'thing' that is part of a physical human (body), and is thus just a little transient part of an enduring Universe, and can be fully explained on the basis of brain physiology and electrodynamics, then, frankly, you are not being intelligent. You have the 'machinery' for full intelligence, yes, but it is blocked by that belief, and in practice you are a person of limited intelligence, as is almost everyone else on the planet in their various ways, with all their different beliefs.

How can you or anyone possibly know that there isn't a broader or deeper aspect to 'reality' than just the physical Universe? -- You can't! You can only believe it, and that's no good to man nor beast. In On the Nature of Reality and Truth I show, in simple language that just might be understood even by some Western scientists, psychologists* or psychiatric doctors, how the true nature of 'reality' is NOT anything physical at all, but consciousness itself.

* I separate psychologists from scientists because psychology is completely a pseudo-science, owing to its very basis (in all its different 'schools') being a serious misunderstanding of the nature of human experience, and its theories and methods thus being no more than a great pack of paper elephants that serve no useful purpose apart from gaining certain individuals completely unwarranted professional and social status and a completely undeserved living income.

So, if you mean to properly address and resolve issues that affect us and appear to be 'all in the mind', and you also regard that as basically a physical issue and apply a 'medical model' to it, you are espousing a complete absurdity, a total meaninglessness, and are onto a complete non-starter with regard to resolving the issue. You might sort-of hide certain of the issue's manifestations or 'symptoms' by applying your 'medical model', but that in itself would be extremely unhelpful, for then the real issue would never be addressed, let alone actually resolved - quite apart from the multitude of long term harmful effects of whatever means you've been using to try to suppress the tell-tale 'symptoms'.

This site, including this page, is dedicated to enabling us to find our full freedom and full intelligence / rationality. Being fully rational / intelligent does NOT mean just having a high IQ, a tremendous memory or a brilliant facility for logical reasoning - for you can logically reason absolutely brilliantly from false or distorted premises to disastrous conclusions, and belief provides no end of false premises to enable you to do just that!

Being fully rational / intelligent, then, means also to have the broad, deep awareness, free of belief, that enables you always to arrive at the most helpful premises on which to base your reasoning, and to have the vigilance and discernment that enables you constantly to filter out and discard unhelpful influences in your perceptions, outlook, thinking and reasoning. You thus actually observe and think about your thinking, and modify it according to what obstacles and errors you observe in that thinking.

Therefore, what you are going to read below, along with much else that is on this site, will very likely be very challenging to you - and all the more so if you are any sort of healer, medical, psychiatric or mental healthcare worker, or any sort of psychologist, and already believe that you have some notion of what night terrors are, and even how to address that issue. One thing these people almost universally have is, unfortunately, belief. Indeed, worse than that. Another, related block to the vast majority of such people's awareness and thus to their intelligence is a very significant attachment to their own perceived personal and social status.

Thus, for example, a psychiatric doctor would typically poo-pooh writings of mine, such as on this page (perhaps with a patronizing "That all looks very interesting!"), for no better reason, if the truth be really known, than to help maintain his personal (supposedly 'professional') status among his/her peers, colleagues and clients / patients. So, such a doctor continues to maintain a defensive wall against his/her becoming fully intelligent and getting properly in touch with reality in a comprehensive way and actually starting to really help people (i.e. to help them to completely resolve their so-called 'mental health' issues) - all for the sake of his/her perceived personal / social status as a psychiatric doctor or whatever. No doubt at all, any such doctors who do come here and read this won't be very happy at my pointing out that fact!

But then again, somewhere along the line somebody's got to go 'blowing the whistle' and getting pointing out what's really going on, instead of just politely going along with all that pretence and falsity that permeates our medical, scientific, and especially psychiatric / mental healthcare communities. In the event, as nobody else appears to be doing so with sufficient clarity and directness, it's fallen on muggins here to do just that.

Although on the face of it this page is about night terrors and the related phenomenon of 'hearing voices', what you are going to read is really about the primary cause (or in some cases, primary aggravator) of ALL mental health and 'personality disorder' issues. It is therefore for taking particularly seriously by anyone who really wants to to see people become free of mental health issues of any kind.

"So, what is that primary cause and aggravator, then? Something down-to-earth and physical, I hope, and none of that airy-fairy stuff about God or spirits or demons or anything like that!"

Ha-ha! That person is straightaway talking from a closed mind - talking from belief and non-intelligence. Please read on...

The primary cause of mental health issues and personality disorder issues is...

I hate to have to say this, but actually you've got quite a lot more reading to do in addition to this page, unless you've already done it. To the best of my understanding nowadays, based on a lot of personal experience and observations, that primary cause is none other than a particular almost universally misunderstood non-physical influence that is commonly referred to as 'the dark forces', but what, for good reason, I call the dark force (singular) or even 'the Universal Kak'.

- Yes, I know, the chances are, your eyes roll up or/and you want to change the subject the moment I mention 'dark forces' - a term much associated with religious belief and occultism. Please rest assured, however, that I am not working from the viewpoint of any belief system nor 'school of thought', but it's sometimes difficult to find a term to use that is both reasonably widely recognised and is completely free of religious / 'spiritual' / occultist connotations or associations. I would happily always refer just to the Universal Kak, which is really my preferred term - but who would then know what the hell (sic) I was on about when I go referring to this #1 troublesome influence?

So, I ask you to be aware that when I myself talk of 'the dark force' (i.e. in the singular), I have a very clear and specific meaning for it, which is based NOT in any belief system nor tradition nor New Age / occultism based paranoid story, but in actual observations of mine plus the best deductive and inductive reasoning that I've been able to apply to those observations. And it needs to be understood that 'dark' here is ONLY a figurative epithet, for it has nothing to do with actual darkness - though the dark force itself seeks to confuse the issue pretty widely by cultivating the notion that it is about, or associated with, some sort of darkness, albeit non-physical or metaphysical.

For a very specific reason, there is virtually universal confusion over what 'the dark forces' really are, with much talk of demons, dark spirits, archons, astral lords, dark angels, fallen angels, Satan, Lucifer and so forth, but what I myself have done - indeed I had to do it for my own survival! - has been to apply clear-mindedness and bits of personal detective work to the issue in order to start finding out what had been, and is, really going on, and indeed has been and is causing not only what are 'presented' or diagnosed as mental health / personality disorder issues but virtually all the negative and troublesome human behaviours in the world at large.

In The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks I explain in a fair degree of detail, as far as I've been able yet to ascertain, what this 'dark force' really is and how it interferes with every single person on the planet, whether or not they are aware of it, and how the vast majority of people are to varying extents actually captives of the dark force, without ever being aware of that fact. In The Dark Force ('Astral Entities') - My Own Tough Experiences I describe how the dark force (which was something I'd previously thought to be no more than a figure of speech or/and a completely avoidable product of certain people's wayward imaginations) forced upon me a recognition that it was a real 'external' influence that was much more than just a creation of one's supposedly 'sick' mind.

The dark force achieved this by actively seeking to wreck me in grand style, and through its attempts upon me it unwittingly showed me how it operates, and indeed it inadvertently gave me all the data I needed to eventually work out what it really was and how one might even be able to experimentally get to work at starting to dissolve it (nothing ventured, nothing gained! ). You would do well to read those pages in order to get not only some idea about the true nature and modus operandi of the dark force but also about my own credentials with regard to the validity or otherwise of the insights that I present on this page.

My own experience - for 'night terrors', read 'night hells'

As will become apparent from reading what I've written below, 'night terrors' is actually a partial misnomer, because the phenomenon is not only about terror in the strict sense, even though real terror is a definite part of it for just about any affected person. Really 'night torments' would be more correct - except that that's too prosaic and doesn't hint at the intensity and enormity of the experiences. I have now replaced 'night terrors' with 'night hells' - for that is in fact what the experiences really are. As I explain elsewhere on this site, according to my current understanding, the different religions' and other traditions' hells are nothing other than particular instances of what we have been calling night terrors, but simply perceived in a distorted way that is coloured with particular aspects of those religious belief systems. The beliefs in those hells have arisen in the first place from nothing other (nor more than) night terror experiences (which actually can include various drug induced hallucinatory experiences, which are just more of the same phenomenon).

However, I do have a practical reservation about generally talking of 'night hells' and not 'night terrors', because if I did start calling them that really widely, that might then cause a lot of highly undesirable confusion in various quarters, because very many people would then go believing that I'm making out that those hell experiences are equivalent to the hells of the various religions, and are associated with supposedly Divine judgement or severe retributional karma, and I want to keep completely clear of such distorted perceptions of what true hells ('night terrors') are. As we shall see, night hells - indeed, true hells - are NOTHING to do with judgement or one's having done anything 'wrong' - though the source of the night hells (i.e. the dark force) would often seek to convince people that they do result from previous 'wrongdoings' (say in past lives).

Until I got the beginnings of an explanation in August 2005, I'd had no idea that the extremely troublesome and disturbing nocturnal experiences that I'd had in my early childhood were what are generally known as 'night terrors'. That gap in my knowledge had always kept me feeling particularly isolated, for it seemed that there was some 'dark shadow' over me, which was unique to me, and which nobody would or could understand. Indeed, I was correct on the latter, even though what I'd experienced was a quite widespread phenomenon, because apparently nobody on the planet properly understood night terrors, and, at least in the West, night terrors are most often regarded as a medical issue, which is the worst possible 'understanding' of them. Giving an issue a name does NOT signify any understanding of that issue! Thank goodness my 'night terrors' were never 'diagnosed' (and then 'treated')!

Now, for a little 'treat', just try a little 'thought experiment' right now, if you would, and put yourself into my 'shoes'. ...However, not the actual shoes of myself at the time of your reading this, but the figurative shoes of myself in 1944 (initially) - when I came up to the princely age of two. Yes, two! So, let's pause a moment while you focus your awareness and put yourself 'in my shoes' right back then. ...Now, are you lying comfortably in your cot, and has Mummy turned the light out now? -- Then your torments will begin. (They're all waiting for you, as they always are - every night, without fail....)

You are still too young to have any concepts with which to describe in your mind what's beginning to happen, but as soon as your eyes are closed, instead of at once drifting off to a happy and contented sleep as you'd been doing previously, you are immersed in a visual maelstrom of moving images, often swirling or writhing, some moving with quivering and twitchings, also some kinds of things or images rotating or gyrating - all menacing or sometimes repugnant and revolting, and you are filled with the most intense feelings of fear, anxiety, panic and terror, or sometimes the most intense revulsion and loathing - and intense nausea may at times accompany either, albeit not usually with actual vomiting.

N.B. an intense feeling of panic or terror combined with strong and sustained nausea is in itself a truly hellish experience.

Unlike in a nightmare, for the most part you remain submerged in this hell - particularly as when you did cry out for help, Mummy and Daddy just sought to see that you were physically comfortable, verbally reassured you that everything was all right (except it was no reassurance because everything was not all right), and shrugged their shoulders and left you to 'it' again - in the dark again...

This is bound to have been impacting on your waking life experience, because you quickly develop a chronic sleep deprivation, which steadily gets worse, because closing your eyes to go to sleep has been becoming an increasingly intimidating prospect. Additionally, you've been becoming increasingly frightened of the dark.

However, that's only the beginning of the mischief, for by the age of about three, by which time you're seeing the maelstroms of visuals much more clearly, you've done a very smart thing. You've discovered that you can direct your awareness in a particular way that doesn't completely 'wake you up' (though actually you aren't really asleep either) but opens into some different level or aspect of your awareness where those completely unremitting hells are not running. Bravo! Clever boy (or girl)! - Except. Something has been waiting for you there. You feel a sinking in your tummy as you are faced with one of a whole range of types of sprose (looking like a violin case, with narrow end uppermost), and it comes menacingly towards you, making a slight humming and ticking sound. In extreme terror, lest it 'get' you, you try to escape.

You do somehow escape, whether by running or flying*, or going down or up in a 'thunder hole' (like a lift shaft), or by simply being somewhere else. You are now on your travels, but unfortunately your location and your direction and mode of travel** are directed by something other than your ordinary, conscious mind. The sense of extreme personal isolation is overpowering, and you are constantly seeking somewhere that might be safe for you, and even where you could find a friend / companion who would 'save' you. There is a twilight quality about everything, as in the maelstrom-type night terrors, but here that 'twilight' has a drab, cheerless quality, and a tendency for a drab and chill slightly bluish green tinge in its greyness.

You don't know it (at that age), but this particular 'world' that you've managed to escape to from the maelstrom is being constantly coloured by an attack upon you from the dark force with a highly distorted representation of birth trauma experience, with the impressions of disconnectedness, isolation, and a 'wet' sort of coldness greatly magnified, and you are seeing the drab dull greenish grey tones that a new-born tends to see before its sight function has properly developed and it can differentiate images properly, and thus which forms part of the birth trauma experience.

* Flying in all these experiences is nothing to do with wings or flapping anything. Sometimes you simply become airborne and move around like that. That would be great if you had command over it, but generally your flying simply serves to dump you in some new troublesome situation. You very rarely can become airborne like that to escape from a menacing situation, and on the rare occasions when that has happened you were struggling to get far enough off the ground as your pursuer (a sprose, sprouse or generic 'something nasty') came closer and closer just behind or below you...

** In this 'world' there's no such thing as mechanized transport. You just move, usually unaware of your legs unless you have to run to try to escape from something pursuing you.

Once in a very long while (not on most nights) you actually see somebody in the distance who seems meaningful to you - but the person disappears down some side street long before you've been able to get there, and you're searching in vain for him. - But it isn't long before you're in a room and you turn on the light switch because it's dark (though you can still sort-of see). The room light flickers menacingly, and then slowly starts lowering itself, hissing at you. It's a doot*, and it's coming down to 'get' you. HELP! - Except that there is no help to cry out for! You're gripped by an electrifying terror and panic, for there seems to be no escape.

* A doot is a room light that has a shade that is globe or frilly shaped, always opal whitish, which comes down to 'get' you, hissing at you as it comes (the hiss sounding like that of a menacing snake or goose or swan, though at that age you aren't consciously aware of that similarity), and encountering a doot always seems to be an absolute peak terror / panic experience. Its hissing at you seems to be one of the most unspeakably frightful things that could happen. You cannot run away from it, for you are somehow kept just within that small space, and the most you can try to do is keep your back to the wall...

There is another, related 'nasty thing' that appears more in your later night terrors, perhaps when you are more like 5 or so, when you've seen the lamp fittings in a particular café, which have five radiating wooden arms, each with a lamp on the end - together with a large ceiling fan that is reminiscent of the particular lamp fittings but rotates at a leisurely rate.

So, in your later night hells you sometimes get one of those five-armed lamp fittings revolving like the ceiling fan, in a very deliberate and menacing manner, and coming down after you doot-wise. That is even worse than a doot - though you never have a name for that type of 'thing'; you just recognise it as something akin to but even 'nastier' than a doot. These also get into your underlying maelstrom-type night hells, where all sorts of things are rotating or gyrating. Indeed, by that time, even in the daytime you have only to close your eyes and one of the first things to appear in the maelstrom of images is one or more of those most unspeakably frightful things revolving as it looms larger in your field of view, coming down towards you... Cause to open your eyes again - quick!

Also, in that small space with the doot coming down for you, you have to keep your back to the wall, because something might 'get' you from behind. It seems like 'this is it' and something unspeakably frightful is happening and going to happen to you - but then in a moment you've dropped down a thunder hole. Frantically, you travel down and up in that lift-shaft-like vertical shaft through all of existence, wondering, with a combination of desperation and foreboding, which landing or doorway or hole you may find yourself coming to rest on or in. You see that some of them have sproses or sprouses just waiting there for you, while others have nothing obvious there but are dingy-dark and menacing. What's worse - the nasty things you can see or the nasty things you can't yet see - the half hidden menace?

Maybe in a moment you're in a house and being menaced and chased by further sproses or sprouses*, or maybe it'll be another doot, or maybe a billow* will come after you - or maybe you'll be outside again in that drab greenish-grey tinged twilight landscape, on your never-ending lone quest for warmth and closeness, and for a person who really understands you...

* Sprouses look just the same as the equivalent type of sprose, except that a sprouse is broad end up, and, for a given type of sprose / sprouse, a sprouse is 'nastier'. A billow is like a particular leather-covered pouffe that is in the 'front room' of your home (in waking life), but it comes chasing after you, rolling on its side.

The names of these 'nasty things' have simply come to you to use for them; you don't, for example, know that 'billow' is an actual dictionary-defined word in general use.

Another possibility that may happen (it does once in a while, though you can never make it happen; it happens simply when it happens) is that you find yourself with the Talking Sprose*, which speaks to you in an apparently friendly voice and is apparently totally safe to be with. Indeed, you feel safe from everything as long as you're with Talking Sprose - BUT of course it's never long before you find yourself somewhere else, or Talking Sprose is no longer there and something 'nasty' is after you again.

* There is also a Talking Sprouse, and, in line with the general rule, the Talking Sprouse is by far the 'safest' and least 'nasty' of the sprouses, but not totally 'safe' and non-'nasty' like the Talking Sprose, and you always sense that it isn't fully trustworthy, so although you don't frantically try to escape from it in the same way you would from other sprouses, you do still feel ill at ease with it around, and avoid its presence as far as possible.

There's another, and on the face (sic) of it extremely puzzling, aspect of this tormented 'world'. You are apparently not a human being! - Why do I say this? -- Well, does a human being have a longish rather pointed muzzle like that of a dog or wolf? -- No? - But you do!

Every single moment you are in this tormented world you have this muzzle. You can see it clearly (albeit blurred of course because it's so close), just like what you can see of your nose in waking life, but it's longer, furry and greyish - and sometimes you're aware of your mouth being similarly the mouth of a dog- or wolf-like animal. However, you are never on all fours, so there's a weird ambiguity here about what you really are.

A bit of the stuff that's generally suppressed from waking memory...

Now let's look a bit more at the underlying 'base layer' or hardcore night hell / night terror experience - the stuff that you've been turning your nose up at in favour of the electrifying terror of being chased by sproses, sprouses and all sorts of other 'nasty' things...

There are actually two types of base layer or hardcore night hell that you experience (of course there may well exist additional categories of night hell experience that other people experience but never happen for you), and those two seem to be pretty well mutually exclusive, so at any one time you have just one or the other, though possibly with the odd minor overlaps. One I'll call here the 'revulsion' or 'disgusting' type, and the other is the terror type.

The 'revulsion' night hell

The 'revulsion' type sees you submerged in mostly poorly differentiated images all suggestive of putrefaction and degeneration. There always seems to be very shallow water trickling over ill-defined objects and lumpy substrates*, the objects and lumps, and even the water itself, tending to be quivering as though it all were still somehow alive - and you're absolutely in the midst of this. Not a lot seems to happen here, apart from sometimes there being the odd quivering, twitching insects** crawling over some of the objects and lumps, and parts of that substrate seem to be in the process of getting detached - moving irregularly to and fro in the disgusting water in such a way as to be the focus of particularly intense feelings of revulsion and wanting to get away from it all (but of course you can't).

* One peculiarity about this is that such material generally looks white or whitish rather than any of the darker colours that we would normally associate with putrefaction. This whitishness actually makes the stuff seem all the more horrifying and disgusting, and later on in your life buried memories of that are to cause you to feel a certain revulsion towards milk and certain white or whitish cheeses that typically come soaked (or 'swimming') in whey, such as feta or mozzarella (the latter especially) - and also to a certain extent cooked egg white (as in boiled eggs).

** Those insects bear a remarkable resemblance to ichneumon wasps, which you don't know about at that age, but which, only a little later on, in waking life, would come to be objects of some revulsion to you, even though not a full blown phobia as normally understood. Ichneumons lay their eggs in other insects - usually caterpillars - and their maggots progressively eat up the caterpillar from the inside while it's still going about its daily life.

Also often in that disgusting stuff is an impression of it being crawling with maggots - though you seem not to actually see any. On the other hand you sometimes get the impression of a particular disturbing quiet sound* emitting transiently from the maggots, and which seems to be an embodiment of absolute revulsion. The mess also often seems to be greasy too - like some of the most disgustingly filthy washing-up water you could possibly imagine.

* The sound can be likened to an extremely 'fruity' and 'wet' fart sound raised to a high pitch, so that it has an almost 'Donald Duck' quality to it, though in the context it seems absolutely horrific and not in the slightest funny! It is of far too high a pitch for any sound coming from a human bottom, but actually some years later on, when you're in junior school, you find a way to produce a slightly similar sound out of your mouth, and on one occasion you get told off by a teacher after the girl sitting opposite you at the dinner table has complained that you've put her off her food by making that noise!

There's always a general feeling of dread that this stuff might be getting onto you and contaminating you - a possibility that seems 'unspeakably frightful'. This comes especially from those bits and pieces of the substrate that are almost broken off and are moving menacingly to and fro in the disgusting watery liquid that is tricking over them. It is as though at any time one or more of those loose bits would break off completely and get onto you, making you contaminated by something just so unthinkably awful that you'd just have to die (and it would be a death of unspeakable, unthinkable frightfulness).

Because of the paucity of detail that you remember from your great amount of time spent in this particular type of night hell, it's highly likely that you've suppressed your memory of at least a good part of it.

The 'terror' night hell

In this particular case I can guide you through an actual, delectable sequence. In fact this particular sequence appears to pass into a 'straight' nightmare (actually something quite distinct from the night hell phenomenon), which is actually why the confusion of images fades out and leaves you in an actual scene, and also why you wake up out of it crying and screaming for help...

But that in itself is instructive, so, let's turn the light out again and leave you to your delectable 'entertainment'...

It's in the middle of the night and you are three. You are submerged in an immense maelstrom of squirming, writhing humanoid figures, some of them broken up or breaking up as they writhe and squirm, and it is all full of Satanistic sexual connotations (though of course at that age you don't know anything about sexual activity, Satanism or indeed occultism of any sort), and you are feeling a seemingly unending intense anxiety and foreboding, often mixed with other fear related emotions.

Among all that orgiastic sexual writhing there are various ejaculations of vomit and disgusting stuff that fills you with revulsion* (including semen - though of course at that age your ordinary, conscious mind doesn't have even a concept of that), and you're terrified that some of that stuff might get onto you and contaminate you, while you're also continuing to experience the unbearable-feeling anxiety and fear.

* However, unlike in the 'revulsion' type of night hell, your focus isn't really on the revulsion aspect, and your primary fear-related emotions quickly eclipse any revulsion, and similarly the chaos of writhing figures quickly obliterates any sort of ejecta or ejaculate.

Periodically a quiet inner voice, which sounds like a man's, and is completely emotionally detached from the proceedings, draws your attention to certain things that are going on, and in particular, indicates to you when something particularly tremendous is supposedly going to happen - so helping to build up your climaxes of fear and apprehension. Generally nothing 'tremendous' actually does happen, but you are totally at the mercy of what is going on and what you're being told.

At one point in the proceedings an enormously magnified image of a live human sperm (as seen through an optical microscope)* swims its way through all this confusion, burrowing from bottom to top through a broken-up human form.

* Of course, at your age at that time you have no idea what this is.

At another point in all the orgiastic writhings your attention is drawn to something that is going to be one of those 'tremendous' happenings, which, it's intimated, may make you be violently sick. Some space clears around a central confused figure that you sense is a woman, and a sort of gyration at her bottom end indicates that she is masturbating (though again your ordinary, conscious mind doesn't really know what the hell (sic) is going on). A flow of fine sand is issuing from the figure's bottom end, building up a little pile under it, as though this figure were part of an hourglass. Again nothing 'tremendous' actually happens, but you've been further wound up a treat.

Presently the confusions of writhings give way to a very slow and twitchy procession from left to right of troupes of successive types of the most weird and grotesque 'things', generally with insect-like qualities - especially their twitchiness. One 'regiment' of these that passes by has their eyes on very long stalks, a bit like snails' eyes, but the eyes themselves are bulging and gloating. They seem to be gloating over what is going to happen to you - for, after all, what else would there be for them to be gloating about at this time?

That troupe is closely followed by a troupe of weird figures that are a bit like 'matchstick men'*, but very insect-like in their twitchiness, and each with a fixed grin - a gloating grin. They are surely going to 'get' somebody. Although just at the moment they are just passing by and seem not to be noticing you at all, who else apart from you would they be going to 'get'?

* Actually, there's something about them that suggests a troupe of hunters, gleefully, gloatingly, coming after their prey.

The sense of menace and foreboding has been increasing, and now there is a quite different sense of 'this is it!' emerging as all the moving figures fade out in the increasing darkness. You now see pitch black silhouettes against a very dusky sky, of some conifer trees (shaped like some sort of spruce) looming up in front of you, and the whole atmosphere is of the utmost, unspeakable menace, foreboding and awfulness. Words cannot describe that awfulness!*

* Actually most people would describe it as a sense of immense evil - but you may have noticed that I do not use that word at all with regard to either night hells or any other manifestation of the dark force, nor indeed to the dark force itself. 'Evil' is not an intrinsic quality of anything; it is just a judgemental label that people put on various things, and indeed people, towards whom they feel particularly negative feelings and aversion. That sort of judgementalism is all part of the dark force agenda, and we need to drop it if we are to get really clear-minded and free of dark force interference and influence. When you drop using such labels you begin to be able to see what's really there - and that is crucially important.

Among those trees - or rather just in front of them, and most likely close enough to 'get' you -  is a cabin-like wooden house, which is also a pitch-black silhouette except that there is a light on in at least one window, so you know there are people in it.

How could a house 'get' you? -- In this 'world' potentially anything could! But just look at this house! Look how it menacingly moves to and fro in an erratic, unstable sort of way*, as though at any moment it would move out that bit further and 'get' you! ...And now look what's happening! LOOK! 

* Actually, the way it's moving is strongly reminiscent of how various disgusting bits and pieces move in the trickling filthy water in the revulsion hells.

With a sort of quivering added to that menacing to-and-fro movement, its whole right-hand side is starting to force itself towards the left, compressing the house (and, you remember, there seem to be people in there!). That side progressively tilts to the left as it compresses in more, so that the whole house is increasingly shearing to upper left as it continues to compress. And now, LOOK! -- LOOK!

At top left, with a sense of great violence, roof slates are starting to fly up into the air in a continuous volley, away from you till they've gone out of sight. More and more roof slates are all doing that - every one a black silhouette. As the house continues to compress and shear up to top left, so it's progressively converting at that top left position into roof slates, which all, with a sense of an intense violence, are similarly flying away up into the air till they've gone - till eventually there's nothing left of that house, and the scene is now somewhat lighter.

So, you're now facing that shocking, absolutely unspeakable emptiness where that house was, out of which any further such happening - perhaps even more unspeakably frightful - could emerge or erupt at any time, any moment. You're absolutely beside yourself with anguish and horror, and you break out into the real, physical world (in the dark of course, still), desperately crying out for help. No, don't be silly - not crying out for Mummy and Daddy! You already know what they'll do, don't you! You're crying out for help - and that's most certainly not Mummy nor Daddy nor the two of them!

And, sure enough, one of them comes into the room, shushes you up with all your screaming and crying, keeping on saying in an anxiously coaxing voice that everything's all right and there's nothing to be frightened of, and, after a few minutes, going out of the room again - and of course turning the light off again...

...And so it is, that despite every night's hell and your related intense fear of the dark, even when you're old enough to be able to talk about what you're going through, you don't do so. Indeed, you pretty speedily 'forgot' the sequence that is described above, and have certainly forgotten details of just about everything in those 'base layer' or 'hardcore' torments, apart from a general impression that there was an extremely nasty sort of background to your night experiences. What you remember much more is the 'second level' torments, in which all sorts of things are 'after' you.

Your apparent release from the nightly hells comes sometime when you are six. The Eagle comic makes its first appearance, and once you've read the second edition of it you have a night with seemingly little sleep because you're full of fantasies about your being Dan Dare and travelling in spaceships and all that - and you'll never experience a night hell again, because at last that aspect of your awareness that had so readily been opening to the astral sub-reality has become sufficiently grounded for it not to go opening up that way significantly any more. (That is, of course, provided that nothing happens later on to cause that part of your awareness to get less grounded again...)

Meanwhile, you are left with a very considerable fear of the dark, a morbid dread of 'the occult' or anything to do with 'the dark side' or 'dark forces', and feelings of revulsion and dread towards ichneumon wasps and masses of writhing maggots, even though, as a nature lover and naturalist, you see also much physical beauty about the adult ichneumons.

Taking a step back now to look at it...

Okay, you can come out of my infant 'shoes' now, and I hope and trust you enjoyed that little 'treat'! I think I must have shown you just enough to get a slight taste of what night hells (night terrors) are like, and also the difference between a night hell and a nightmare. Nightmares are extremely distressing, BUT they wake you up and do not - cannot - go on and on because they have a definite 'story' to them and they are true dreams. One always wakes from dreams when they become too disturbing. In fact it's possible that the above-related nightmare (i.e. the scene with the house among the trees) has been the only true nightmare in my whole life so far.

I'll tell you one place where you can see what looks like a formalized version of what you could see in a 'terror'-type night hell, and that is in certain of the masterful mosaics of Maurits Escher, including the Circle Limit series, where stylized animal or angel and demon forms are interlocked in the most fantastic ways. In night hells, however, everything is in constant motion, and you'd never get anything presented in such beautiful symmetry, except for perhaps the odd transient instant, which latter would at once make the whole show seem all the more bizarre and disturbing.

Another artistic parallel of night hell experience is in certain of the paintings of Heironymus Bosch - but in a real night hell you would get no sense of space or perspective - just an overwhelming visual tumult or maelstrom of moving and typically writhing or/and rotating figures, and there would be a sort of twilight quality about everything. Another well known painter who appears to have represented some elements of night hell experiences in a particularly masterful manner (though suggestive of an uneasy 'halfway house' between first and second level night hells) is Salvador Dalí. Indeed, he conveys the sheer awfulness (often with a sort of distorted beauty) of many night hell visuals with a most compelling and disturbing immediacy. No wonder his paintings always used to frighten and often sicken me!

Now, surely, don't you feel just a little bit shocked that anyone at the age of three or so could experience such things as I've related above, which represent genuine night hells or so-called night terrors? And let's just suppose that your response is to shrug your shoulders and say something about all those experiences just being signs of a mental illness (which needs 'treating', of course!). In that case you would be like a doctor who diagnoses a person as mentally ill just because she has troublesome and noisy neighbours, and gets her 'treated' with antipsychotics in an attempt to reduce her awareness of the ongoing problem.

And you'd be begging the real mega-question: "Just where the HELL (sic) has all that stuff come from?"

Just passing it off as creations of one's own sick mind (of a three-year-old, really?) tells no-one anything apart from your own unwillingness to even slightly begin to look at what's really going on. The words 'ill' and 'sick' to describe a person's mind may be convenient labels to use as fig leaves to cover up what you don't want to countenance, but the reality is that those two words are completely out of place except when referring to the state of one's physical body - and even in that case, for many purposes it would be more helpful and constructive to leave those words out of it and actually attend to what's actually going on in the particular situations.

Let's give another close analogy. If somebody bashes you hard on the head and you immediately see a bright flash and lights, which aren't in the physical world, would you say that your seeing the bright flash and the lights means that you have a mental illness, or that the flash and lights were caused by somebody bashing you on the head and causing a certain (hopefully temporary) change of function in your brain that gave the illusion of those lights? It's just the same issue with night hells - with one practical difference: the interfering influence is invisible and indeed non-physical, and can control what you experience.

Consciousness is not ill nor sick (such expressions are actually meaningless relating to consciousness), but as consciousness manifests in each one of us, that manifestation process has some distortions - but again the distortions in your own consciousness are not there because something is wrong or perverse about you or about consciousness itself but because something has caused those distortions in the manifestation of consciousness, or indeed is actively causing them in 'real time'. A little further below I shall explain about what that 'something' is, and, as far as I can ascertain, how it gives rise to the tremendous experience of night hells and thus causes so much torment, confusion and suffering.

But first I have a bit more to say about the actual content of night hells as I've experienced them. If you were sharp you may have noticed that I recounted in some detail a particular night hell sequence, which drifted into a nightmare, despite my having just a little previously said that I'd forgotten pretty well all the detailed content of my early childhood night hells (and indeed that nightmare!). A little bit contradictory, huh?!

Night hell periphery experiences

As I've already intimated, when I was six, at last the hells stopped dead for me, because the relevant part of my awareness had got sufficiently grounded. As far as I can ascertain, I never really got in touch again with that sort of phenomenon until into my adult life*, and then when it did appear (as quite a rarity) it was for a long time only in an apparently innocuous form**, which I didn't recognise as having anything to do with the early childhood hells.

*Actually there was one anomalous experience when I was about nine or ten, which I've now come to recognise was not just an extremely disturbing dream but was a very brief recurrence of a fragment of second level night hell, which itself, quite exceptionally, contained a particular element of base level revulsion hell rather than 'straight' terror material.

Also, throughout much of my adult life, every year, from early August (my birthday month) and gradually fading out during September, I would experience by day (only) a vague impression of some sort of depressing muckiness within myself - like some sort of distant memory of the revulsion hells, with a dismal, 'lost' sort of feeling, as though I were disconnected from anything worthwhile and had no meaningful future. My understanding here is that the dark force was able to exploit some slight emotional 'button pushing' caused by childhood mental associations with that time of year, to give slight attacks with birth trauma and related revulsion hell experience - even though my awareness was then too grounded for me to be given direct revulsion hell visuals.

** I'm coining the term 'night hell periphery experience' for for this quite distinct sort of 'visual', which can seem quite fascinating and not at all hellish but is actually an absolute menace, because the temptation for almost anyone would be to try to recreate and extend them and 'get into' them - so progressively opening themselves to the whole 'world' of night hells again (or even for the first time).

It was from the early 1970s* (i.e. the age of about 30) that these night hell periphery experiences very occasionally came to me. For me they were harmless - but that was because I didn't dwell on them and I let them fade away as I brought my attention back into the physical world. These visuals were initially almost stationary large simple geometric forms, and subsequently were some sort of display of slightly illuminated gracefully swirling forms, without any obvious unpleasant emotional feelings that would associate them in my mind with night hells. On two occasions, once during a hike and once after a hike when I had a very long hitch-hiking wait in the dark, I saw a continuously writhing mass of what seemed almost to be dancing spirits in the lower part of my field of view, but when I focused on them they had no identities and were more like writhing snake-like flames.

* The timing of the first occurrence may be highly significant, for it was in late 1971 that, for the first time, I smoked cannabis. I smoked it only pretty rarely - probably no more than about 20 times from late 1971 to sometime in 1974, when I set myself a firm policy of using no mind affecting drugs at all, including alcohol and caffeine (and of course smoking anything at all). What I'm not sure of, as I wasn't keeping a personal journal then, is whether the first occurrence of the night hell periphery experience came before or after my first smoke of cannabis.

Cannabis in fact does generally increase one's tendency to open the relevant aspect of one's awareness to the night hell aspect of the astral sub-reality, so actually I was extremely lucky not to have opened my old night hells right up again. However, I have no way of knowing how much that early smoking of cannabis contributed to my vulnerability to the dark force when in 2003 it started its massive ongoing assault on me to try to destroy me.

Many others have had terrible long term effects from cannabis smoking - typically far too late to save oneself by stopping the use of cannabis (though of course continuing it just further compounds the problem). Those night hell manifestations then get labelled as psychosis or indeed schizophrenia, and, most unfortunately, affected people are then 'treated' with harmful drugs and in some cases ECT, to try to suppress the 'symptoms' and hide the problem.

It looks to be highly significant that a high proportion of search engine based 'hits' on my page on Cannabis and its serious effects, and indeed some 'hits' on this page, have come on the basis of a search query for cannabis AND night terrors. Clearly many people already have some idea of a connection between the two before coming to this site.

All these night hell periphery manifestations had a disturbingly impersonal and 'inhuman' feel about them, and felt like a place where I didn't want to be - though the 'writhing flames' visual did have an almost joyful and hypnotic quality about it, reflecting my state of exhilaration from the hike, and thus was potentially quite dangerous in that I could feel a pull to keep watching it on that occasion when I was some three hours waiting in the dark at an unlit junction during my return hitch-hike.

As far as I've been able to ascertain by means of inner inquiry, the aspect of the astral sub-reality that gives us these night hell periphery experiences is effectively what is recognised in Tibetan Buddhism as the Sambogakaya and also as the 'bardo of Dharmata', which latter is claimed to be experienced by many adepts immediately following their death. Unfortunately Tibetan Buddhism very seriously misinterprets what Sambogakaya and the bardo of Dharmata actually represent, believing them to be levels of consciousness close to that of enlightenment, which indeed they are not at all. As I've just intimated, they are actually a particular aspect of the astral sub-reality in which people can be lured by particular types of illusions that are created in their minds by the dark force - those visuals very easily leading many people on to full-blown night hell experiences.

Indeed, descriptions of the 'bardo of becoming', which, according to the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana teachings (including the Tibetan Book of the Dead), generally follows on from the bardo of Dharmata after one's death, are very suggestive that people do readily slip through from the Sambogakaya (night hell periphery experiences) to actual night hell experiences (the bardo of becoming) - though the descriptions of the latter appear to be of mostly second-level night hell experiences rather than basic level ones. This all points to the need to NOT cultivate such visuals, and indeed to learn to dissolve them if / when a person happens to get them.

Night hell visuals in my adult life

Eventually there did come a time when I saw real night hell visuals again, but this was in a remarkably different situation. For a start I was adult and also by then I was enlightened, so it was possible to watch the visuals in a detached sort of way, and with a level of understanding of what was happening that would not be possible for most people who experience these things even as adults. Also, I was not immersed in them in the same way that I was as a young child, but was shown them more as a sort of 'movie', and was actually pre-warned that I was going to be shown that sequence, so it was very easy to remain relatively detached from whatever I was shown - and indeed to watch with a certain interested exhilaration, keen to learn what I could about the phenomenon (i.e. for healing purposes rather than out of an idle or compulsive fascination).

The first occasion that this happened was during the tremendous sequence of severe ordeals that the dark force was dragging me through in late November / early December 2004, which led to my second hospitalization. These ordeals were all being presented to me by my 'guidance' (actually the dark force pretending to be my own 'higher consciousness') as supposed self healing that I had to go through in order to heal an alleged absolutely massive trauma that I was carrying relating to my early childhood torments (i.e. the night hell experiences). Typical of the dark force, I was being given extremely harsh and in themselves traumatic 'healing methods' that I was told I'd got to use, and intensively so, day and night (i.e. 24/7, with no opportunity for sleep!) over a really pretty indefinite period.

The term 'night terrors' had still not been brought in then, and I still had no idea that this was a very common problem and not something pretty well unique to me.

Anyway, the point here is that one time during those ordeals, while I was in bed I was actually shown a re-run of the night hell and then nightmare sequence that I've related further above, and I recognised it as very much authentic, for it brought back (evidently weakly) suppressed memories of all that. I cannot vouch for the night hell sequence leading into that particular nightmare as having been portrayed accurately in every detail, but that doesn't matter, because night hell visuals are by their very nature pretty chaotic. So I regard the re-run that I was shown as being fully authentic even if not 100% verbatim historically - for any differences between that and the original could well have come from my night hells on other nights or even at some other time on the same night.

This, then, is how it comes about that I have been able to describe in some detail a terror night hell and nightmare sequence even though superficially I had forgotten it all.

I should add that that re-run of the visuals was not traumatic for me, for I was told in advance from within that I was going to be shown these, and I observed it all actually with an excited fascination and an overwhelming outraged compassion for the three-years-old Philip who had been subjected to such displays apparently completely beyond his understanding at that time - and indeed when I was shown the first re-run I had no explanation then and was mystified as to how such a young child in an ordinary family could be confronted with all this clearly 'dark' and apparently Satanistic stuff - except in so far as it had to have had some past life origin.

Then in a pretty spectacular crisis event that the dark force staged upon me in early September 2006, the relevant part of my awareness had evidently got distinctly more ungrounded, and I was shown many greatly diverse night hell visuals, which were most likely ones that I myself had not experienced before. They were very instructive for me, for I thus got a much better idea of the variety of imagery that is used in night hells - with pointers to possible origins and purpose of it all.

Interestingly, on this particular occasion I was shown most of the sequences in a clearly defined 'video screen' rectangle in my field of view. I'm pretty sure - and this is underlined by my inner inquiry results on the matter - that there's no way that the dark force would have presented me with such a genteel 'video screen', and that my own deepest aspects were at that time interacting with the night hell visuals that the dark force was giving me, to put the displays in that rectangle in order to make it easier for me to remain a detached peaceful observer and learn usefully from what I saw, rather than just have a very nasty (and indeed more harmful) time of it and actually believe that I was falling into any sort of hell, as the dark force was trying to achieve at that time.

Among the different and sometimes awesomely grotesque material that was shown to me on that occasion was a whole subcategory of images that was an array of what looked like 12 or so animated children's drawings on a page in a child's drawing book, often actually drawing themselves (sequentially) in a rather menacing, nervous, twitchy manner as I watched (indeed, the manner of movement of the 'invisible pen' was suggestive of many types of ichneumon wasp). Even though I could see nothing particularly meaningful to trouble me in those 'drawings', they had about them an immensely troubling feeling of wrongness and their being about to display something desperately harrowing - the inner 'thought voice' also telling me that those drawings were about to display something that would be extremely troublesome for me to countenance, but of course nothing obviously special actually appeared or happened.

I was also shown a sequence containing spectacularly exaggerated flowing images of masses of ichneumon - or perhaps tachinid fly - maggots bursting out of caterpillars (something that has always horrified me in everyday life), and this was made to feel as though it was the most virulent night terror material I'd ever seen.

Since 2006 it seemed to become easier and easier for night hell visuals to manifest when I'd got to bed - BUT since I started using really powerful self actualization methods in mid 2007 I developed a simple way of stopping such visuals in their tracks, by effectively grounding my visual awareness - so actually they have become less and less of an issue for me since then. However, in February 2007, before I gained those methods, I experienced a tremendous all-night spectacular ordeal that was based on night hell visuals, which latter were all tied up in an involved fiction that I was being given by the dark force - see the relevant section in My Little Brush With Psychiatry.

You can read short literary pieces of mine that to a fair extent reflect aspects of second level night hells - "There's Nothing to be Frightened Of", A Scheme for Nervous Wreckage and The Passing of All Things. The latter is not a portrayal of a specific sequence experienced in my childhood, but is a sequence that I could have experienced at that particular time in my early 30s when I wrote it, if I had been susceptible to second level night hells then. It does, however, incorporate various fragments from my childhood second level night hells (including the final scene), together with their overall quality, and finishes with just a hint of falling back into a (basic level) revulsion night hell, which is most likely what actually happened then in the real early childhood experience.

A Scheme for Nervous Wreckage contains only one fragment (which I'm sure you'd recognise) that is 'verbatim' from my childhood experiences, but really overall it reflects the dark force having been seeking to open up in my mind second level (and no doubt even basic level) night hells at the time I wrote that piece (in my early 30's), when my awareness was getting more ungrounded again through my unbalanced excessive time devotion to Re-evaluation Counselling at that time and indeed my 'consciousness stream' sort of poetry creation that was occupying much of my attention then - all without the grounding influence of the frequent hiking outings that I got into some years later.

Actually, A Scheme for Nervous Wreckage in particular had a small but significant healing effect for me, because every time I read it out I gave it a camped up operatic quality, with a deep baritone voice (and I can 'act' with my voice in a way that I've heard few people do), and that gave the piece a really healing humorous effect. Indeed, I remember one time when I performed that one to a group of three alcoholic fellows who I'd encountered in a particular street situation and wanted me to read one of my poems to them, and they themselves were spellbound and fell about themselves with laughter at the end (not of ridicule, unless intense exclamations of "Phil, you're a magician!" were meant as ridicule!), and it was clear that it was having for them too some sort of small but for them very important healing effect, in opening to them a way to handle their darkest of inner horrors and find a new level of balance in their life experience. They themselves had most likely experienced night hells, so it would have been particularly meaningful for them.

Making sense of it all...

My first breakthrough in gaining an understanding

It was in August 2005 that, while out on a hike, I channelled what was for me completely new information about my early childhood torments, and it was at this time that at last it became clear that what I'd been experiencing was none other than the phenomenon generally known as night terrors. However, there was a problem. Because I was channelling, what I thought at the time was Archangel Michael giving me all this information was in fact the dark force relaying to me a very distorted version of the real situation, which latter my own deepest aspects had been repeatedly gently seeking to bring to my attention.

So, the story that I picked up at that time, although it marked a great and positive gain in my understanding of what had been going on for me, was distorted by the dark force agenda in a way that was aimed to bring me a whole lot of further trouble*. I'll now give a summary of that story, because it is very instructional as to how the dark force distorts good information when it relays it via channelling, and I hope that it will help to serve as a warning to learn from my own errors and never to go channelling.

* I'd better explain here just why that distorted, partly fictional, version of the real situation was potentially so troublesome and harmful for me. Quite apart from its potential for throwing me off the scent of the real situation, and thus my still not having the real key understanding to enable me to resolve the underlying problem(s), the story about my having a major increment of massive trauma from childhood night terrors in this and successive previous lifetimes of mine was a potent weapon that the dark force could use against me - and indeed did start doing so. As already noted, it (posing as my 'higher' guidance) was then giving me the story that it was imperative that I clear out this allegedly massive accumulated trauma within this very lifetime, and because the trauma was, allegedly, so massive I had to work virtually full time night and day indefinitely in order to achieve that - and of course out of the 'kindness of its heart', the dark force had consistently guided me away from fast-track emotional clearance methods and was insisting that the methods that I'd got to use were ones that were harsh and even traumatic to use, and indeed were pretty well all 'dark' practices by any other name. So, it was all basically an attempt to rapidly reduce me to a worn-out wreck.

"Tögal - my nightmare-hell" - partial misinformation with an agenda!

The story began in a purported lifetime of mine in the 700s, when I'd allegedly been a student of Padmasambhava in Tibet. Padmasambhava had actually combined 'pure' Buddhism with various aspects of the native Tibetan Bön paganistic tradition to produce the supposedly highest 'wing' of Tibetan Buddhism - the Vajrayana. The topmost of the Vajrayana 'paths' and teachings became known as Dzogchen. The latter contained two main divisions, one of which was Dzogchen proper, which was called Trekchö, and, when shorn of its cultural baggage, was none other than the simplest and most natural way to cultivate genuine enlightened awareness, and indeed which is part of my own modus operandi, and what I encourage others to use.

The other division, called Tögal (also spelled Thodgal and Thod Gal), however, had no business ever to have been included with the core practice of Dzogchen, as it did not point practitioners really to enlightenment at all, but got them focusing their awareness into a level of consciousness that was, purportedly, just short of the fully enlightened state itself, which they called the Sambogakaya*, where they then projected visualizations of deities and then visualized themselves merging with those deities. A fair number of these practitioners actually had 'dark' leanings - especially those who were converted Bön practitioners, and so tended to visualize demonic entities in their Tögal meditations.

* I have a very strong suspicion that all visuals within the 'Sambogakaya' are none other than night hell periphery experiences - and that is strongly supported by my inner inquiry results on that.

That much is correct apart from me myself never having had a past life in Tibet nor indeed at all (at least with regard to sequential soul incarnations). However, according to this story, I myself had been one of those visualizing all sorts of bizarre demons (indeed some of the very things that I was shown in a certain re-run of night hell visuals from when I was three) instead of supposedly light infused deities in such meditations. And further, according to the story, like everyone else who used Tögal, I was training myself to open spontaneously to Sambogakaya at the time of death, when, purportedly (yes, it is in the teachings!) one then needs to see the dancing deities and merge with them in order thus to become released from further incarnations.

So, when one died, one carried with one the propensity to spontaneously open to this 'Sambogakaya' and see all those deities. According to the story, then, what would happen then is that actually nobody would be released from reincarnation as they believed would happen when they merged with the deities, but would simply spend a little time in some sort of limbo before reincarnating again, but this time with a serious problem - because they'd retained the tendency to spontaneously open to the 'Sambogakaya', and during their first several years of life would be inclined to keep opening to 'Sambogakaya' when really needing to go to sleep. What they would see there in that 'Sambogakaya' would be all the visualizations (not specifically 'Sambogakaya' ones) that they'd made in any of their lifetimes, including lifetimes when they'd been into dark practices and thus doing 'dark' visualizations. Hence all the demons and Satanistic stuff.

According to the story, this was what night terrors actually were, and they would be tremendously traumatic to a sensitive very young child, resulting in an accumulation of severe trauma over the nights, months and years. What's more, that tendency and the trauma would pass on into the next incarnation, so that a further childhood would be blighted with night terrors, and now they'd be more intense because they would be restimulating the stored trauma from the previous lifetime, in addition to the 'present time' new trauma, so the resulting effect would be still more severe. This in turn would lead to still more severe night terror experiences, incrementing in severity indefinitely with each further lifetime - an unspeakably massive problem!

According to my 'guidance' (actually the dark force, posing as my supposed 'higher consciousness' much of the time, but sometimes as 'Archangel Michael'), I thus had this absolutely massive trauma to clear, and it was imperative* that I fully cleared it in this lifetime. This was the excuse then to try to get me following directions to undergo an impossibly taxing regime of very severe 'self healing' practices - all really part of the dark force agenda to try to wreck me.

* As I well understand now in retrospect, any notion that comes to you from any source, that something is imperative for you to do, or that you should or must do something (or not do it), indicates control agenda, and that means the dark force - not any genuine source of beneficial guidance (and the latter can mean only one thing: your own deepest aspects). If I'd understood that simple thing during my 'dark years' (2003 to early 2007) I could have avoided much immense trouble, and would have been bound to have got clearing myself of dark force interferences much sooner than actually happened.

However, I did get a message come through - supposedly from guides of mine but really from my own deepest aspects, indicating that the situation wasn't as severe as that - but the dark force had still adulterated the message so that it appeared that I still did have this immense trauma to clear.

Despite these problems, I still knew from my depths that I'd got an important understanding of the night hells phenomenon, even if it wasn't yet fully 'there'. Also, that story about the cause of my night hells promptly gave me one interesting little bit of self healing relating to a detail of the first night hells re-run that I'd been given - the one that I recount further above.

As for the cause of the 'second level' night hell experiences, the story that I was given was again a fiction created by distorting the actual situation. The particular things that so terrorized and pursued me were mostly replicas (with various distortions) of objects that were in the living room of my home at that time, and I'm sure I was informed correctly about why those objects were used to terrorize me, because of a traumatic incident when I was about 18 months old (probably in late 1943 or early 1944), which of course was during the Second World War - my father told me about this.

On the particular occasion it was dark, and all the houses then had blackout on their windows, and I was in the living room, sitting on my mother's lap. A bomb fell in the recreation ground just behind the house, so there was a massive wham of an explosion, blowing the rear windows in and simultaneously causing a power outage, so we were plunged into darkness - absolute pitch black. I was silent for a second or so, then let out an almighty shriek, then clammed up, absolutely out of my mind with terror. Inevitably, I'd stored in my mind a 'snapshot' of the room and what was in it just before Existence had suddenly exploded into darkness and nothing and terror. That meant that, until such time as that trauma was healed, every image that could be brought to mind of objects in that room would be powerfully 'pushing buttons' - restimulating trauma feelings from that overpowering shock.

So far, so good, and, I think, quite correct. But the story went on, that my own mind ingeniously created the second level terror experiences in order to experience the fear and torment of the underlying 'true' night terrors in a more coherent form, in which I could have more specifically focused experience of that fear.

It wasn't till I'd taken up energy testing in 2007 that I came to the understanding that I've given further above about what the second level night hells really were.

As for that troupe of almost insect-like 'demons' that I mention in my account, it had been bugging me ever since I'd seen them in that late 2004 re-run of the relevant night hell sequence - actually because the dark force was bugging me with images of them and associated worrisome pseudo-thoughts that they were demons and were just waiting for their moment to take me over in some delectable hell, where they'd use pitch forks to dig my eyes out and do other nasty things to me.

In my 2005 channelling I was given the story that they were actually derived from perfectly benign ancient cave paintings of hunters in a cave in which I'd been practising black magic many lifetimes ago. Allegedly, at the time I'd regularly visualized the painted hunter images as demons using sharp implements to do very nasty things to people.

Even though there was actually one important bit of misinformation there (the past life involved was actually not mine), the notion of those 'demons' being just illusory images derived from cave paintings of hunters was a great liberation for me, and one day I had an unexpected spontaneous vivid visualization occur, of that whole troupe of 'demons' emerge joyfully from the twilight world of the night terrors garbage, all going off to wherever they really belonged (i.e. presumably on the wall of a cave somewhere). I felt greatly moved by that, feeling towards them a loving "Power to you on your way!" sort of feeling that I'd have had towards real humans who'd been liberated from some hellish prison. From that moment on they never bugged me again, and my memory of their appearance has ever since been much less distinct - no doubt because that particular memory had been largely cleared of dark force or night hell connection in my mind.

Gaining a proper understanding...

In 2007 I eventually completely finished with channelling, having come to understand how it operates, always involving the dark force and therefore NEVER being safe to rely on (nor indeed to use at all!), even when it appears to be giving important and 'squeaky clean' information - and then I took up energy testing instead. The latter enabled me, with great vigilance and care, to get a certain amount of information directly from my own deepest aspects.

So, okay, I'd got a channelled story, which had at least begun to make a great deal of sense of my night hell experiences, and in 2007 I was able get to work on that and use my later insights to weed out the channelling distortions and dark force agenda, and see what I could come out with then.

It was clear that my night hell experiences had to have been drawing on something extraneous to this lifetime of mine. There was absolutely no rational way I could escape from that conclusion, based on what I'd seen in the night hells. How the hell (sic) could a child of three come up with the sort of images that I'd been seeing, including Satanistic sexual stuff and ancient cave paintings? That simply doesn't make sense, no matter whether or not one cares to put a label of 'ill' or 'sick' upon the mind of that child! - All the more so in my case, because my parents were no hippies nor New-Age freaks who might have been getting up to or talking about 'dark' things that might have 'given me ideas'. No, in that respect I'm sure they were 'squeaky clean'.

My father was a highly intellectual atheist with strongly 'capped' awareness - the rigid character structure - while my mother was also highly intellectual but much more aware, but also very hamstrung by the conventions of her upbringing (which among other things diverted her into membership of the Church of England) and the horribly limiting effect of her having got paired up with such a much less aware person for a spouse (indeed, as noted, carrying the 'rigid' character structure). She was full of good intentions, and there was no hint that she might have had any sort of interest or knowledge of anything overtly 'dark'.

Regarding matters sexual, they were both quite strongly prudish, even though always trying to make out how broad-minded they were, and sometime before I was ten my mother told me in simple (and incorrect!) biological terms that to make babies, the man puts his 'wee thing' into the woman's bottom to put sperm into her to fertilize her egg(s). Apart from that, they sought to avoid talking about such things at all, even when I was in my teens (apart from my mother on a couple of occasions very awkwardly broaching the subject of "er-rubbing up" (she actually meant masturbation) and in a frigid tone of frightened admonishment advised that it was best that I (and boys in general) shouldn't do it.

So, I can safely count my parents, and indeed all relatives of mine of whom I'm aware who'd possibly have had some contact with me as a baby or infant, out of any quest to find where the night hell visuals had originated from. On the other hand the story about the night hells' origin in past lives of mine certainly appeared to 'add up' and, so it had seemed, could explain my experiences, and could be true, but was it actually true? -- In fact not necessarily.

My understanding now is that the origin of night hells is, generally speaking, NOT in a previous lifetime of the person experiencing the night hells.

Parasitic lost souls are part of the picture...

Here it's necessary to appear to deviate from the subject of night hells to explain an important aspect of their background. According to my understanding now, I and the majority of people who have night hell susceptibility are actually no-soul incarnations, who have no past lives in the sense almost universally meant (i.e. sequential, karmic ones) - yet ironically we are the very people who nearly all healers, psychics and mediums would say are very old souls who have reincarnated countless times so that we are supposedly highly evolved and thus fundamentally deeply aware and wise beings. So, what on earth is going on here?

The answer appears to be that the dark force, which interferes at least to some extent with EVERYBODY - you included! - imparts misinformation to 'sensitive' people (including healers, psychics and spiritual teachers) to seek to persuade them that everyone has a soul, and that the soul is their true identity, and that that soul keeps reincarnating to learn lessons and evolve, so that people come to believe that they will reincarnate according to that scenario.

The BIG problem about this is that the dark force is actually seeking to ensnare us in an illusory reality, particularly when we die, so that our consciousnesses fail to 'go home' (revert to fundamental consciousness or 'recombine with Source') 'as Nature intended' and instead remain 'stuck', attached to illusions in the so-called astral, non-physical realm of illusion, through which the dark force interferes with us, usually pretending initially to be all manner of beneficial and loving higher beings (such as guides and angels) but actually progressively reprogramming these 'stuck' consciousnesses to accept power / control agendas and become less and less aware and loving, less happy and more driven by fear. It is the programming and consequent distortion of a certain aspect of such consciousnesses that creates the soul - so actually the soul is a pathological manifestation that we need like we need a great big hole in the head. Part of this process involves the souls being programmed to keep reincarnating in what you could call a degradational-evolutionary sequence, so that the oldest souls incarnate as the least aware people.

The overwhelming majority of people are in fact incarnations of such 'lost' souls who are on this downward path towards what we'd view as a horrendous state of existence. Sorry to say this, but this does appear to be the case, and running away from recognition of this (which state of denial is just what the dark force cultivates in us) just helps seal our fate. Yes, this is serious stuff!

Eventually these souls become so degraded that they cease to incarnate and are then just non-physical puppets of the dark force, and it is these degraded and reprogrammed 'lost' human souls that are the parasitic consciousnesses that attach (at birth) primarily to people who, like myself, are no-soul incarnations (actually direct incarnations of fundamental consciousness) - and they are pre-programmed by the dark force to cause these humans a variety of serious problems with a view to preventing them from achieving enlightenment and full self realization / self actualization, and to become ensnared themselves or inveigled into the dark force's agenda for them to develop a soul and thus be also progressively degraded and become parasitic puppets of the 'dark side'.

So, each one of us who is a no-soul incarnation has some parasitic consciousnesses attached to him/her. These consciousnesses are of people who had died at various times in human history, and we can and often do experience their memories and traumas as though they were our own - which is apparently the reason why so many of us who haven't incarnated before (i.e. in the sense almost universally meant) still apparently have traumas and memories that are clearly not of this life (as indeed I had on a pretty grand scale!). So, yes, they do have past life traumas and maybe memories, but not of their own! The results of past life regression (NEVER a recommended procedure), therefore, give a completely wrong picture of the situation of the person who is being 'regressed'.

I write in more detail about this phenomenon of parasitic lost souls and their part in the scenario of a degradational sequence of soul reincarnations in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.

As far as I was able to ascertain by means of inner inquiry, a normal load of parasitic lost souls for a no-soul incarnation to be carrying is about three to five, with severe cases having around ten. In fact my 'reading' of the terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden was that he, like me, was a no-soul incarnation (and thus had tremendous potential for being a beneficial, positive influence), but had eleven of those parasitic lost souls attached to him, as well as having a partial walk-in.

However, in my case it appears that I had a truly exceptional load of parasitic lost souls - thirty (yes, 30!) of them, all of them traumatized, and about half of them really severely so. No wonder I seemed always to have such a load of trauma material to clear! Indeed, my energy testing indicates that I'd had very little trauma material of my own at all, even resulting from the childhood night hells, and had cleared all of what was mine, barring the odd relatively insignificant details, by means of the relatively slow and inefficient method of Re-evaluation Counselling, during the 1970s.

Actually, nowadays I prefer to distance myself from so much detail obtained from my inner inquiry, because it is generally unverifiable, and I much prefer to stick with only those details that are actually helpful and not to keep details just because they make a nice or impressive story. So, nowadays I no longer concern myself with the number of particular types of entity that anyone is or has been carrying. Suffice it to say that I myself did appear to be carrying a quite exceptional load, as evidenced by the huge amount of trauma, which couldn't have been my own (at least from this lifetime) that I was attempting to heal through most of my life - but it is of no useful consequence to me or anyone whether the actual number was 3, 30, 300 or 5½!

Thus the story about me having an enormous load of trauma looks to have been, like pretty well every story that comes to us via the dark force, based on a true situation but distorted into a fiction. My real need, then, as I came to realize in 2007, was to clear myself of those parasitic lost souls, and not to keep spending time and resources in trying to heal all of their traumas.

Now wait for it! -- The real origin of night terrors is...

Now, let's return fully to the night terrors issue. Although it is of course impossible to know for sure where the dark force dredges all that virulent stuff up from, there is an important point here. My own inevitably somewhat speculative understanding, having slept on this and looked deep within my own consciousness over the days, weeks and months, and using inner inquiry / energy testing upon the 'intuitions' that have come to me, is that the night hell visuals have originated from visualizations by actual humans being controlled by the dark force - because the latter, not being true conscious beings at all, does not have the creativity and awareness and experience that humans do, and so it cannot actually create such material itself.

Although the dark force has no true or direct creativity of its own, what it can do is to direct people to create the material so that the dark force can then 'steal' copies of it, placing it in an astral repository of human memories, and present any of this, suitably distorted, to people as night hells or any other sort of disturbing manifestation. That is very much how the dark force operates. Like viruses hijacking the 'machinery' of the body's cells, the dark force, 'empty' in itself, hijacks aspects of the human mind to actually create the illusions and gain the seemingly overpowering awfulness of its night hell displays.

Furthermore, if my own 'reading' of the situation is correct, much of what I saw and other people see in their night hells and other horror 'hallucinations' (which are really nothing more than night hell material in different contexts) is drawn from visualizations by humans not here on Earth but in other parts of this Universe and very likely even other universes, and, what's more, the dark force to varying extents distorts the images in ways that it calculates will be maximally disturbing / upsetting for the affected person. Hence the displays seeming so freakishly grotesque to us, and so teeming with immensely, jarringly, disparate elements.

Commonly there will be one or more particular 'phobia' elements in a person's night hell visuals. In my case this was most strikingly ichneumon wasps and impressions of writhing masses of maggots, but another person might get mice, bats, spiders, cats or really any type of living or non-living thing serving the same function. What this is clearly about is the dark force selecting particular material that pushes strong 'phobia' buttons relating to traumas and phobias carried by parasitic lost souls attached to the particular person, in order to increase the unbearableness of the night terror sequences. So, in my case the ichneumons and masses of maggots would have been chosen for me because one or more of the lost souls attached to me were carrying an intense fear / revulsion towards these owing to particular traumas that they were carrying and thus the particular fear / revulsion of theirs would be experienced by me as if it were my own.

One thing I noticed time and time again in the various maelstroms of night hell visuals was that the majority of the faces that appeared actually looked happy in a way - though there certainly were various others that looked too ugly or grotesque for one to be able so say that they looked happy at all. However, in the context of the night terror maelstroms such happy-looking faces were extremely disturbing. Of course they were not really happy beings in the midst of all that night terror garbage. They were simply images of the faces of various beings - 'snapshots' taken from civilizations in various planetary systems and most likely different universes - and most likely most or all of them had been distorted in any case, for the astral sub-reality doesn't deal in 'pure' representations and 'pure' truths, and, by its very nature, always deals in some degree of distortion. One way that I'm sure that at least most of the 'happy' faces had been distorted was in making their eyes bulge at least to some extent, giving them some sort of gloating appearance.

Even if you think you've never had night terrors / night hells you most likely have seen static reproductions of some of their images, for they can be found on a high proportion of people who have their bodies extensively tattooed (at least those I've seen), and there are all sorts of fantasy cults that reproduce major elements of such material in their artwork. Some of those people even believe that what they are doing is 'spiritual', while others are more clear that their interests are in some degree 'on the dark side'.

Incidentally, I would like to actually reproduce here photos of a couple or so really good examples of this, so if any of you nice folk out there have any relevant photos (i.e. of night hell sort of images tattooed on somebody) that you'd like to share with me for that purpose I'd be interested to hear from you. I haven't yet found anything just right in an Internet search, at least that I could use without having to pay a hefty fee.

Or of course if you yourself have such tattoos on yourself but no photos of them, and happened to live near enough for me to meet you (whether in Exeter, where I live, or, for example, on one of my Cornish hiking outings), I'd be very glad to grab the opportunity to take a few photos - though I wouldn't go photographing any 'private parts', even if carrying some night hell image.

N.B. The above is NOT meant as an invitation to individuals who want to display parts of their anatomy to me and then go to bed with me! I know that sort of game! 

I'd add, though, that in no way am I recommending tattooing, whether with night hell or any other images, for tattooing is always harmful and weakening to the person's non-physical aspects ('energy system'), and increases his/her openness and vulnerability to the dark force. Indeed, it's the dark force that gets people to have themselves tattooed in the first place.

On the basis of my own experiences all the pointers are towards the occurrence of night hells being NOT directly a malfunction of the person (i.e. caused by something wrong about him), nor some karmic repercussion for the person caused by things (s)he has done or which have befallen them in a previous lifetime, but being actively produced by the dark force hijacking aspects of the person's awareness to produce the visuals, and working through the attached parasitic human consciousnesses that it is controlling in order to attack the person with intense fear and related emotional trauma feelings.

So, let's spell out more prominently that last point. The cause of the intensity of the night hell experience is NOT that the presented images are intrinsically upsetting, for nothing is intrinsically so. What makes night hells so unbearable is their grotesqueness coupled with attacks with intense trauma emotion feelings - primarily fear related. And what is the source of that trauma material with which the dark force attacks? -- Why, of course, primarily or even exclusively the parasitic lost souls attached to the person! That is the primary role of the parasitic lost souls in night hell experiences. They do not attack you themselves. The dark force attacks them, causing particular stored trauma energies / feelings to arise intensely, and the person feels those as though they were his own.

Not only that, but the dark force is also constantly feeding in covert 'pseudo-thoughts' or/and open comments or commentaries (as I had) that are designed to make the person believe that something dreadful is about to happen. This ties in with the attack feelings to create a tremendous impression of unbearableness about what is going on.

By the same token, when I was shown night hell visuals during certain of my ordeals in 2004 and 2006 and a particularly spectacular extended all-night ordeal in February 2007, it was a quite different experience for me, even though, especially in the 2007 spectacular, I was being attacked really intensely at times. The point is, I then knew I was safe and was just being shown a display, and I recognised the odd intimidating intimations that were made to me as just a lot of old flatus (i.e. fart gas!). However, this was not just a matter of my being adult then, but also being enlightened, so I simply remained peaceful observer of whatever happened, including even the most intense attack feelings. Of course the poor young child has no idea that the feelings are not his own, and really, like the visuals, those feelings are nothing more than a display - albeit a pretty disruptively disturbing one - and so the experience is completely overwhelming and simply hell.

The origin and purpose of second level night hells

As for my experiences that could be described as 'second level night hells / night terrors' - i.e. my being terrorized and pursued by replicas of various objects that are inanimate in the physical reality - I now understand that these did NOT arise through some attempt of my own mind to get more focused on the fear. That had been just one more of the deceptions given to me by the dark force to deflect me from properly understanding what was really going on, and as part of a pretty well lifelong strategy to convince me that for healing purposes I needed to have experiences of extreme severity in revisiting and even re-experiencing old traumas (which, as already noted, I now know didn't belong to me in the first place). Those second-level night terrors were laid on by the dark force, not by myself, in order to give me an exceptionally hard and harrowing time of each night.

The real point of the 'second level' night terrors was to give me further terrifying experiences when I managed (as I often did) to get the focus of my awareness out of the primary night terrors and into a different aspect of consciousness where, if it were not for the dark force interference, I'd have found some respite and peace (but in that event of course, without dark force interference there wouldn't have been anything at all that I needed to escape from in the first place). Standard night hell maelstroms couldn't operate in that aspect of my awareness, but astral realms could be created there, in which other types of troublesome experiences could be and indeed were regularly given to me by the dark force.

Now I understand better the origin of my own impression of being a wolf-like animal during my early childhood night-time ordeals. I had actually been given the correct explanation in my 2005 channelling, apart from one crucial point - it was NOT ME that had been into dark practices and putting part of my mind in the brain of a wolf-like animal, but another person a long time ago, whose consciousness was in this lifetime of mine one of the parasitic 'lost' souls attached to me. So, in my night-time torments I was experiencing that person's memories (distorted by the dark force) as though they were my own.

-- and now Tögal revisited...

Does this more balanced insight now exonerate Tögal and similar esoteric meditation practices that I'd so grievously impugned? -- My answer to this is a resounding NO!

It has been through use of such practices that people on Earth and, if I understand correctly, human-type beings in many other locations in this Universe if not other universes too, have unwittingly, through visualizations covertly directed by the dark force, created the material that the latter would then subsequently use in people's night hells and any other troublesome hallucinations, apparitions or 'psychotic' manifestations. Even supposedly completely innocent and bona-fide visualizations, such as of great buddhas and beneficial deities are part of this arsenal used by the dark force, for, although it doesn't have the creativity to come up with the material in the first place, it is proficient in distorting material as it presents it to individuals, in ways that it calculates will be maximally disturbing / upsetting to those particular people.

Even if a person uses such meditation techniques without visualizing anything in them, that person is nonetheless creating an illusory reality that is being used by the dark force to ensnare that person when (s)he dies. So, NO use of such esoteric meditation practices is ever benign, even though in, say, Tibetan Buddhism, those methods are hailed as advanced practices taking you rapidly to enlightenment. In fact they do nothing of the kind and are an absolute menace, whether or not you do them 'correctly' under the guidance of a so-called qualified guru or 'Master'.

So, what is that 'Sambogakaya' level of consciousness that Tögal and various other Vajrayana Buddhist practices get you opening up to? Is it really just a gnat's whisker from the non-duality of the deepest level of consciousness - 'the Ultimate' - as all those Vajrayana practitioners believe? -- Not on your bloody nelly! It's simply an astral realm - that is, an 'action' illusory reality, created in the astral sub-reality. That is why I say these practices are an absolute menace. They are effectively 'dark' practices masquerading as ones for enlightenment and liberation.

...And now a caution about getting into belief about this

Now I must give a gentle caution about all that I've written above. My understanding is that it is highly problematical for us to go into belief on aspects of 'story' or supposed higher or non-physical reality surrounding our lives, for such beliefs increase our potential for interference and control from the dark force, of which I say more further below, quite apart from such beliefs' tendency to directly limit our ability to live happy and fulfilled lives, living fully in the present. It is through keeping out of belief (and indeed out of disbelief, which is also a belief) and living fully in the present with open minds that we render ourselves least vulnerable to the agenda of these extremely troublesome forces or influences, and indeed live as fully healthy humans.

For this reason, I would encourage people not to get attached to the above explanation of the night terrors issue nor the particular scenario I've outlined. What I'm really concerned about here is simply what we need to know in order to resolve the scourge of night terrors, hearing voices and related phenomena. What I'm presenting is a practical working model - NOT a statement of 'Truth'.

So, to what extent do we really need to know the precise origin of my or anyone's night terror experiences? - I think the answer to this is actually "Probably not that much" on the part of the average mental healthcare worker - but what is crucial is an awareness of the involvement of the dark force and parasitic human consciousnesses (giving rise to experiences and emotional traumas and issues that appear not to have an obvious origin in the person's life), for without that there isn't a dog's chance in hell (sic) of ever genuinely resolving such issues, because one would be pointing in hopelessly wrong and ineffective directions.

What all this meant for me

So, in August 2005, armed with an initial explanation, albeit with the problems about channelled information, I could then start seriously looking at what the healing needs and possibilities were. All sorts of things then clicked into place for me. Although still with certain serious inaccuracies, I was at last beginning to understand why in 2004 and into 2005 I had had repeated crises involving intense surfacings of fear-related trauma emotions. At that time in 2005 I was being given the story that those hellish experiences were nothing more than a healing process of my alleged absolutely massive night terrors trauma.

As already briefly noted, I now understand that the story of my carrying an absolutely huge trauma from the night terrors was a fiction from the dark force posing as a reliable, 'higher' information source. My current understanding is that, as a no-soul incarnation, which had not incarnated before (i.e. in sequential, karmic incarnations), I was NOT carrying any past life trauma of my own, and so I had no traumas or issues that could be restimulated by the night terror visuals, and actually I did not sustain major trauma from all that - even though it had been made to appear convincingly that I had done so massively.

How, then, did the dark force manage to create the impression of absolutely massively traumatic experiences at the time, and indeed massive amounts of trauma emotions that were subsequently presenting themselves for release during my lifelong self healing process and in the much more recent virulent and disruptive experiences from 2003 to 2007?

The answer is, through its attacking me to produce the intense emotional trauma feelings. However, that cannot be the whole story, because it can attack only with emotional trauma material that you are carrying, but I didn't have anything much in my childhood to give significant trauma. So, where was it getting all this material with which to attack me if I simply didn't have it for the dark force to attack me with? 

Now, this is where the issue of the already mentioned attached parasitic 'lost' souls (human consciousnesses) comes in. To be more precise about it, the dark force was not attacking me directly, because I had virtually no emotional material that it could use as 'ammunition' - and so theoretically I was almost completely invulnerable to it even then, as I have been (theoretically) right through my life up to the present time.

As I understand it now, the dark force has a means of making no-soul incarnations vulnerable to it in practice. What it does is to direct groups of the abovementioned parasitic 'lost' souls* to attach to them soon after birth. These 'lost' souls are consciousnesses of humans who'd died at various times in human history, and because they were at the bottom end of their degradational reincarnational sequence (which I've already explained about), they were carrying an accumulation of traumas from their various lifetimes, and, because their final incarnations would have been as real rock-bottom humans, many of them would have had horrendously traumatic circumstances (and often means) of death, so that many of the parasitic lost souls are not only carrying a lot of trauma generally, but a good proportion of them are still in a highly traumatized state.

* I explain more fully about parasitic lost souls and how they are used by the dark force in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.

What the dark force did to me, then, was NOT to attack me directly (it couldn't significantly), but to attack one or more of the lost souls attached to me - and because of the way that such lost souls are attached to one, I experienced the horrifically intense upwellings of those trauma energies brought about by those attacks as though they were my own. That is the way generally that the dark force attacks people whenever it cannot find enough emotional trauma material of the person's own for it to use for a sufficiently strong attack.

However, there is a positive side to this situation, I'm pleased to say. As made abundantly clear in My Own Self Actualization 'Path' - Part 1, I had a massive and highly exceptional amount of self healing work to do in order to get to where I am now, so, why was this so much more than most other no-soul incarnations get from their attached lost souls? -- My understanding now is that for some reason* the dark force directed an exceptional load of lost souls to attach to me (I've got an intimation that the number of these attached to me was about 30, all traumatized and about half of them severely so, though let's not concern ourselves about exact figures, which may be wildly 'out'), so, my supposed 'self' healing process has actually been taking up and healing the emotional traumas and issues of ALL those lost souls.

* Well, actually let's not be so coy about this: really I have a very good idea why I was so targeted. Basically the point is, in a sense "it could see me coming".

Although, as far as I can tell, the dark force isn't actual conscious beings, its programming would have automatically responded to me as one of those people who, in order to ensure the very survival of the dark force, would have to be diverted at any price from their self actualization direction (which would free them from dark force interference and open up the possibility of their being a real threat to the dark force). The dark force would have responded thus to me, even at birth, as a result of my having an exceptional degree of 'freedom energy', and it would have 'read' something of my underlying most prominent life purpose - both of which factors would have been 'seen' as a particular long-term threat to its agenda of interference with people, and indeed conceivably a threat to the very existence of the dark force. The latter might sound unlikely in the extreme, considering that apparently neither Jesus nor Archangel Michael nor God have proved to be much of a threat to the dark force's existence - but then, seeing that those three are all illusions created in particular people's minds by the dark force itself, it is hardly likely, is it, that they would be much of a threat to the dark force!

So, the dark force did what it could to stop me, by getting an exceptional load of lost souls attached to me, carrying an exceptional load of trauma, so that it then had a huge amount of 'ammunition' (the emotional trauma energy of the attached lost souls) with which it could launch massive attacks upon me and thus, supposedly, wreck me.

Well, it launched the attacks and tried all sorts of tricks to try to wreck or disable me in one way or another, and what has been the outcome? -- Why, it was shooting itself in the foot all along the way, giving me tonnes of ammunition in the form of information about its ways and how to simply and easily overcome its interferences - which information I could then pass on to other people!

Indeed, it eventually led to my finding out what the dark force really is, so that theoretically some way may in time be found to seriously weaken it or even bring about its dissolution. Without that information and only superficial appearances or a belief to go by, nobody stands a chance of even beginning to address the massive problem that the dark force represents for all the human race.

Understanding this situation of mine properly at last gave me the long awaited 'handle' for resolving it much more effectively than I'd ever have been able to do before. Clearly the need was to clear out those 'lost' souls, and there was no rule that said that I had to heal them all completely first before getting rid of them! You can read about how I dealt with those 'lost' souls attached to me, in My Own Self Actualization 'Path' - Part 2.

Mental health implications for other affected people

It is apparent that night hells (night terrors) are generally part of a 'package' that includes severe emotional trauma (which typically is mostly or even all belonging to attached lost souls and really does not belong to the particular person) and interferences from the dark force. Experience of such trauma is liable to have caused significant soul fragmentation, so soul fragmentation can be regarded as a non-exclusive part of the syndrome. However, generally speaking, the lion's share of soul fragmentation would be that of the attached 'lost' souls and not so much of the person to whom they are attached. On the other hand, in healing terms it makes no effective difference as to where any soul fragmentation lies, for the remedies are just the same regardless.

A fair number of people who have had night hells may not be aware that they have had them, because the experience is so overwhelming that the memory of it had been firmly shut off upon waking. Thus psychiatric workers would often not notice the stored trauma material (actually generally that of the attached lost souls, rather than belonging to the person) or at least would not correctly identify it, because they do not have the awareness or training to look sufficiently below the surface and see what is really going on. Indeed in some of these cases the effects of the attached 'lost' souls with their big store of trauma emotions (and indeed their fragmentation) would be unhelpfully given one of the 'personality disorder' labels, then leading to 'treatment' (usually drugs and maybe ECT) for that supposed personality disorder - so further directing everyone involved away from the true cause of the problem and its real healing requirements, in addition to causing further harm to the affected person.

It's exactly like a patient presenting to his doctor painful ears when he listens to music, and ringing in the ears afterwards, and the doctor obligingly gives the patient some medication to try and reduce the ear pain and 'ringing' - with absolutely no interest in what was actually causing the fellow's ears to hurt and be 'ringing' - the over-loud volume of the music! Okay, in that case the problem is self inflicted, but the principle otherwise is exactly the same. Indeed, if one looked even closer, one would see that almost certainly it was dark force interference that would direct the fellow to be harming himself with over-loud music in the first place (a splendid way of still further closing down a person's awareness and generally dehumanizing him!). So actually the true healing need there is not only readjusting the music volume but actually clearing out the dark force interferences, including, very likely, an assemblage of attached lost souls.

Another thing that mental healthcare workers ALWAYS need to remember (but sadly in almost all cases wouldn't even take on board in the first place) about people who have, or have had, night hells is that these latter people will be either no-soul incarnations, or very early soul incarnations (that is, people who are first or possibly second time incarnations from their particular soul). Regardless of night hells and other dark force interferences, such people will always be impossible for ALL psychiatrists and psychologists, and almost all other mental healthcare workers, to understand correctly.

* Their 'thinking' that they understand them just helps to demonstrate that they simply lack the awareness that makes true understanding possible. Unawareness makes people unwittingly totally dishonest about their supposed ability to understand other people.

Such people, with no or little soul programming, have much deeper awareness and sensitivity, and a much greater potential for excelling and manifesting a joyful and creative abundance in their lives, which is quite different from the normal (strongly soul programmed) person's narrow horizons and gauging his/her life's fulfilment on the basis of material pursuits and successes or getting stuck into some sort of narrow religious or 'spiritual' rut. They also, because of their lack of soul programming, tend to be a bit awkward socially and not to 'fit in' very readily, because they are more reluctant to learn or accept social rules and conventions, which for the most part seem alien to them*, and a much freer, flexible and more spontaneous manner of interacting with people comes most naturally to them.**

* Indeed, such rules and conventions would seem alien to any truly well functioning person, for they are simply don't make real sense!

** Such a person might well give me a warm, affectionate and really meant hug, full of love and the joy of life - regardless of gender. Now, imagine a psychiatric doctor, or even any ordinary, soul programmed person, trying such a thing with me! They'd be scared out of their pants, and simply couldn't do it! An extremely rare individual might conceivably put their arms around me, but, as the saying goes, "One swallow doesn't make a summer"!

Unfortunately, psychiatric doctors, psychiatrists and most other mental healthcare workers carry soul programming of their own (courtesy the dark force) that directs them not only not to understand such unprogrammed people but actually to seek to impose their own limited view of reality and the nature of 'mind' onto them, and to harm them in various ways to close their awareness (seeing the latter as a type of personality disorder that requires some sort of 'treatment' or at the very least deserves a prejudicial label such a 'schizotype'). This is all part of the dark force's overall strategy to use pressures from all sorts of sources and directions particularly upon no-soul incarnations, to limit them and keep them well sidetracked away from genuine self healing, self actualization, and clearance of dark force related obstacles such as their attached parasitic lost souls.

'Night terrors'

Typically, a child with what is labelled 'night terrors' wakes up in abject terror but cannot describe a specific nightmare or cause of the terror. Now that we are armed with the description of what I was experiencing as a young child we have some idea of the likely cause of this previously mystifying condition. The child has been receiving visual displays primarily directly from the dark force, while the latter was also attacking certain of the lost souls attached to the child to give the experience of intense fear and related emotions, even though those emotions for the most part did not truly belong to the particular child but were those of the attached lost souls. So, the unfortunate child has been having an absolutely overwhelming, hell-like experience that it cannot describe, and indeed in many cases the child would most likely block off the memory of the horror show upon awakening, so that all that is left for a concerned parent to observe is the naked terror.

The child's desperate experience is further compounded by the fact that the parents pretty well invariably cannot be truly supportive to him/her, because they themselves are troubled by their child's terror and really have no understanding of how they could be supportive. Thus, instead of real emotional support the child has worried parents, who would blindly seek to shush the child up - whether 'nicely' or roughly - simply to try to salve their own discomfort at what is apparently happening for the child. If the child repeatedly disturbs the parents through waking up in distress, inevitably a doctor of some sort would get involved, and of course the whole matter would then be treated as an actual medical condition that supposedly requires 'treatment', so drugs that shut down the awareness and have all manner of long-term very harmful physical effects are given to the unfortunate child to try to make him/her more 'normal' in order to keep the parents and the doctor comfortable in their unawareness. -- SICK!

We need to understand, then, that anyone who has night hells (and not all children will express their terror openly, so that some may pass undiagnosed, as indeed I did) is carrying a seriously large load of emotional trauma, which, although probably mostly not their own, is still real and needs to be cleared or healed. If this is not healed or cleared out it will lead to further problems, including keeping the person in the 'clutches' of the dark force, which WILL then cause further, serious problems in the future - which in the majority of cases would not be recognised as being caused by dark force interference and the presence of entities at all and so would remain unresolved. We should therefore not be deceived by the child coming to a point where the 'night terrors' appear to stop. THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE REAL PROBLEM HAS GONE AWAY.

It is sometimes thought that night hells have been caused by strict or abusive parents, but I must stress that, by the very nature of the phenomenon, this can NEVER be the case, although such parents would undoubtedly exacerbate the child's problems, and in rare cases could be a triggering factor of night hells for a child who otherwise would have been just about resistant enough to dark force interference not to experience them.

In my case the cessation of the nightly horror shows came about at the age of six through my starting to fantasize about an adventure serial in a comic. That helped to ground my awareness and mental focus, but although I didn't have further night terrors I still had the situation (which so many medics would in their unawareness describe as a 'condition') that would cause all manner of other problems in my life - all being put down to emotional, mental health or personality disorders, quirks or flaws of one kind and another, because nobody had an inkling about what was really going on.

Although night terror displays are typically a childhood occurrence because as we grow up our thought processes and fantasies take our focus more into a grounded state of perception, some adults do experience varying degrees of the horror shows, and these may not necessarily be restricted to night time and then would be described as hallucinations. These people are then typically labelled as mentally ill, psychotic or schizophrenic and given harmful drugs such as Diazepam, Haloperidol, or indeed ECT, to try to hide the problem and also to try to prevent the much needed emotional release - of which latter most mental healthcare workers, and especially psychiatric doctors and psychiatrists are greatly afraid, because the dark force has interfered with them to make them unaware in ways that exacerbate their patients' problems rather than truly address and resolve them.

Substance misuse

My understanding is that at least some of the troublesome hallucinations that some adults experience, not necessarily at night, apparently resulting from previous substance abuse, are actually night terror visuals that have been triggered by certain disruptions of normal brain function caused by the particular drugs - the underlying result being to reduce the person's degree of grounding (i.e. to increase the imbalance of their entire being, away from their physical experience and towards their non-physical experience), so making them more susceptible to interference from the dark force. Cannabis, LSD and various other 'psychedelic' drugs can cause this.

I warn here, however, that alcohol and tobacco products, in their different ways, also achieve this end of increasing people's susceptibility to the dark force, and that any true healing methodology needs to involve cutting out ALL mind affecting, addictive or habit-forming drugs, whether or not anyone regards some of them as beneficial or therapeutic. 'Therapeutic', my arse!

'Astral entities' and what they really are...

So far on this page I've concentrated on night hells (night terrors), but you may well already have been coming to suspect where 'hearing voices' comes into the equation. Clearly, if night hells are a product of severe interference from the dark force, there are other ways too in which the dark force is inclined to interfere with affected individuals, including indeed in adult life. Indeed, as I've already recounted, during my early childhood night hell experiences I myself experienced an inner voice* that almost constantly was giving a seemingly detached commentary on what was going on - though I never remembered anything particular of what it was actually saying. Then once I started channelling in 2003, I dropped myself into it, Big Time!

* This, however, unlike so many 'voices' experiences that people have, was not interactive. Or rather, I never interacted with it, for it always seemed as though it were some detached part of my own thinking - which in an important sense it was, but a hijacked part that was being 'worked' by the dark force.

Very often the dark force can interfere with people's minds in ways that create the illusion of apparent non-physical beings or entities, which may or may not be 'seen' by the person (in their 'inner vision'), but which generally will speak to the person in some manner. These actually illusory beings can appear to be light-infused and loving 'higher' beings or 'presences' such as angels, Jesus or even God, or they may be 'dark' beings, 'astral beings', demons or so forth. They are all indirect creations of the dark force in the particular people's minds.

You note that, like night hell visuals, although these entities are illusory and the person's mind has directly created those illusions, it has done so ONLY because it is being hijacked by an external influence. So it is extremely unhelpful to just conclude that the person is having delusions as a result of 'mental illness'. It's as a result of dark force interference and not of something wrong about oneself. As is noted further below, the genuine healing approach therefore is to enable the person to become stronger in ways that make the dark force unable to interfere like that.

Psychiatric doctors, with their limited, materialist-reductionist belief system (which, as already implied, is a result of interference and indeed actual soul programming that they themselves have had from the dark force), have a way of assuming that any talk of a 'dark force' or astral or dark beings / entities affecting a person indicates delusions and psychosis.

All the entity-like manifestations of the dark force could figuratively be thought of as like the latter's 'tentacles' individually interfering with each person. Power and control is the dark force's total preoccupation, and fear-related emotions the primary emotion type that it works with (actually I'm pretty sure that it has no true emotions of its own, as it has no aware consciousness to experience them). That is in fundamental contrast with humans, for whom free choice is the fundamental 'thread' and love is their primary emotion (even though usually much concealed or distorted by the effects of emotional traumas and dark force interference). Indeed, my understanding is that ALL humans' preoccupations with power and control agendas arise because of interference and control from the dark force - so the latter is a major and pervasive issue for humans generally, including doctors, psychiatrists, healers and religious and political leaders. Yes, in important respects psychiatrists are just as 'ill' as their patients - not infrequently more so than some of them!

As already noted, the dark force manifests not only as 'dark entities', 'astral beings' or 'astral entities', but also as supposed 'higher' and beneficial non-physical beings such as guides, ascended masters, angels, gods, goddesses, archangels, God, Allah, Shiva, the Holy Spirit, the Great Buddhas and so on. The agenda running throughout, though in widely differing ways, is that of disempowering people, diverting them from any possible true self actualization direction and cultivating within them an increasing acceptance of power and control agendas in their life. This can be gross and extreme, such as in fascism or religious fundamentalism, or it can be much more subtle, such as in Buddhism and various mystical traditions, and in atheism and materialism-reductionism (aka materialistic reductionism) - the latter being the basis of Western science, medicine and, bizarrely, psychology and psychiatry.

Because the dark force is not a true conscious 'presence' and is really being run by programming (in 'thought energy') rather than conscious awareness, it is agenda driven, just as for the most part animals are, and its unscrupulous and totally ruthless behaviour towards people results not from any conscious will to do harm but just from programming to interfere with people in ways that cause those people to reinforce and perpetuate the dark force. It's purely an issue of the dark force ensuring its own continued survival.

The dark force's 'entity' manifestations are for some people rudely intrusive upon their awareness, but for the majority of people they keep a low profile and interfere covertly, either directly or/and indirectly through soul programming. While such bogus 'entities' may at times make out to be trying to be helpful or positive, and indeed may manifest as supposedly loving and wise higher or even 'Divine' beings, as I've already noted, they are doing this as part of the dark force's harmful agenda of seeking to get more power over the person so that it can then cause serious problems.

However, while the dark force can manifest as illusory higher beings of 'Light' and love, when it isn't operating so strongly in impostor mode its 'entity' manifestations will generally be harsh and negative, frequently telling brazen lies and giving opinions, judgements and instructions, which latter may be very problematical and can in some cases point to self mutilation, suicide, all manner of depravity, suicide, rape or murder. Such 'entities' will find ways to make their 'victim' feel bad about herself and may get the person so emotionally wound up that some sort of crisis or so-called breakdown occurs. The dark force can also attack the person, as is described in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks. I suspect that it is such attacks above anything else that drive people with this problem to attempt suicide.

The dark force may covertly mimic or exaggerate a person's emotional responses in more subtle ways, also intruding covert messages posing as the person's own thoughts (what I call pseudo-thoughts), for the purpose of controlling the person - and this happens even for virtually all people who haven't had night terrors, being a particular cause of so many people's preoccupations with wielding of personal power and seeking to control others, and tendencies to follow religions (which all have elements of power / control agendas) rather than direct, belief-free routes to true self actualization, or to get into drug dependencies or unhealthily codependent or indeed abusive relationships - or indeed to become psychiatric doctors, psychiatrists or other mental healthcare workers, actually because of the personal status and control agendas involved in such roles.

'Astral entities' are not what they seem to be...

This is a case where, because of such entrenched and widespread beliefs about the nature of the dark force and its manifestations, it is wise for me to repeat and repeat again the 'sordid truth' (as far as I've yet established it) about the nature of 'astral entities', demons and so forth, till, no doubt, many people are sick to the teeth of my going on about it! 

The dark force and the way its astral thought form complexes operate is remarkably virus-like, using data and thought processes within an individual person's mind to produce a precisely tailored set of illusions, which may or may not include seemingly real non-physical beings or 'entities'. Indeed, just as a virus hijacks plant or animal cell 'machinery' for its own purposes, the dark force hijacks aspects of the person's mind, which actually itself, under dark force control, then creates the illusions. So, those illusory entities do not exist outside the person's mind, but the dark force, which has caused those illusions to be created, IS an external force or influence. It is thus highly misleading to describe such entities and other illusions such as night hell visuals as being simply creations of the affected person's mind - in just the same way that it would be stupid and unhelpful to tell a person with 'flu that his illness is just a creation of his own body and is not caused by any external factor.

Hearing voices

Unwanted, troublesome inner voices do not 'just happen'. To try and find a cause for 'hearing voices' in an abnormality of brain chemistry is missing the vital point. Such abnormalities of brain chemistry, where they occur, themselves have a cause. It is still not generally understood, even among researchers on brain function, that to a large extent the mind directs the brain rather than the converse - even though you can certainly affect what a person experiences by physically interfering with his/her brain. In virtually all cases these troublesome inner voices are communications from the dark force via its illusory 'entity' manifestations. They are not figments of a fundamentally pathological imagination, and 'auditory hallucinations' would be a greatly unhelpful label to put on them, just as it would be so for  a person's having trouble from noisy neighbours.

Again, as for the night terror visuals in adults, harmful medication and even more harmful ECT are almost universally used to try to suppress the manifestation of the voices - not because the doctors mean less than their best, but because nobody so far has known how to help the affected people - this being exacerbated by the doctors' rigid materialist-reductionist belief system that actually permeates the whole Western healthcare system. All of this is just trying to hide problems, and there has been no willingness to understand that there must be an addressable and indeed resolvable underlying cause. It has the logic of labelling a person who has troublesome neighbours as psychotic and drugging her to try and suppress her awareness of her still-rampant neighbours instead of addressing the troublesome neighbours issue.

Each person has their own experience of how the 'entities' (i.e. the dark force) communicate. Some people hear what seems to be one or more actual physical voices*. However, others get much more subtle 'thought voices', which do not have an apparent physical sound. In my case I got 'thought voices', which were just like my own thoughts except that they were not under my control and behaved as though coming from external entities. Because they were so problematical I kept the 'voice channel' closed as much as possible, but in my case the dark force had another mode of communicating - by visual yes/no answers to my thoughts, and these came through whether I wanted them or not. Actually these visual answers came in two forms. One was the actual words 'Yes' and 'No', as if on a message board, and the other was a dark flash for 'No' and a light flash for 'Yes' - though the latter I couldn't see unless I concentrated and looked carefully for it.

* However, seemingly physical voices that seem to be not 'in the head' but actually coming from one's physical surroundings are a different and much less common phenomenon - elementals.

So, most of the time it was the dark 'no' flashes that intruded so much on my awareness. These varied in their character to express degree of emphasis and indeed very often to communicate an impression of anger or menace. When I got a very angry comment or answer, then commonly I additionally heard the shouted or even screamed or thundered "NO!" as an extremely harsh thought voice - often so harsh as to sound almost like crushing rock, and sometimes when I actively tormented the 'entities' as part of my attempting to turn the tables on them*, their NOs could be so violent as to 'sound' like detonations.

* This was well before I finally came to understand that these 'entities' couldn't really be consciously aware beings at all and indeed probably not even discrete units that could be called entities. By interacting with them as though they were actual conscious beings, I had unwittingly been perpetuating their manifestation in that form.

It is no good imagining that a person can bypass the dark force's communications by using a pendulum to get yes/no answers from 'higher' (i.e. supposedly positive) beings, for, as I've already noted, all these supposed higher beings, and even what is purported to be one's own higher consciousness (when communicated with through dowsing or channelling), are nothing more than the dark force posing as the higher presences that you want to communicate with you.

Actually, there is one way that, with care and rigour, it is possible to get extremely valuable information for healing or positive life change purposes - what you could call true guidance, which is, if you're careful, free of dark force influence. That is energy testing, and I use this myself now. I can honestly say that it's been the key above all other things to the big upturn in my life in 2007, for I'm now able to establish reliably what is or would be strengthening or weakening (i.e. genuinely beneficial or in some way harmful) for me at any moment, and so can make consistently strengthening choices in my everyday life - including establishing the most effective ways to clear out entities and dark force interferences and influences.

Communications from the dark force's 'entity' manifestations may not be noticed by that person if (s)he has little or no psychic or supposedly 'higher' perceptions - but the dark force would still be responsible for many of what the person has been taking to be his own thoughts, typically including various dark and tormenting ones that come up from time to time, or severe mood swings and exaggerated emotional responses to particular people or situations.

Children hearing voices

Not only adults 'hear voices'. I have observed quite a number of search queries that have found this page, which are about children hearing voices, particularly at night. These will generally reflect different facets of an 'astral entity' (i.e. dark force interference) problem. The point here is that a fair number of young children are very psychic (i.e. have strong and poorly grounded perceptions of non-physical energies), and because of this they involuntarily keep opening their awareness into the astral sub-reality of illusion and delusion through which the dark force operates. Some of these children receive communications from what appears to be a whole range of sources, which can include what appear to be benevolent higher beings but almost certainly represent some particular ploy from the 'dark side' to lure and ensnare the child. They may also include the elementals that are commonly called ghosts, however, which are not themselves 'astral entities' and may or may not be immediately disturbing to the child, but are never healthy to have around.

My own early childhood experience points to what probably often or indeed always happens when a child or indeed an adult gets the impression of benevolent guides or other types of supposedly beneficial spirit or higher being speaking to him. During my desperate night-time experiences as a very young child I often had a voice in my mind that seemed to be of a very wise, peaceful and supportive man, and my 'reading' of this now, supported by my very recent observations of some of the sneaky deceits performed by the dark force, is that the apparent supportive presence was actually a simulation produced by the dark force, hijacking truly supportive and clear-minded messages that were emanating from the deepest levels of my consciousness, well below the 'conscious' level, and presenting them - no doubt with distortions to fit the 'dark side' agenda - as the voice of a fictitious supportive external being - an important aim being to start conditioning or programming the child (or indeed adult) towards looking outside himself for support and deep knowledge and clarity of 'vision', whereas the true source of that is in one's own deepest aspects - particularly what I call one's core essence.

No matter whether the child's 'voices' appear to be beneficial or sinister, it is important for adults to be accepting of the situation and encourage the child to talk about her experiences and what sort of things the voice has been saying - but any sort of coercive pressure to reveal such things is a real no-no; the child's inner privacy and free choice must be respected if he is going to be able to trust people around him and feel safe to share his experiences and discuss them in a helpful way.

Much inner hurt and harm is brought about by well-meaning parents, schoolteachers and indeed even peers through dismissing a child's experiences of communications from non-physical sources as 'just imagination' or something they shouldn't allow to happen or even something wrong about them. Yes, there is an issue that needs resolving, but it's important to go about this with awareness and sensitivity, so that one doesn't go unwittingly compounding the child's problems. Children need to be able to tell their story with total acceptance and respect, no matter how 'crazy', bizarre or indeed sinister the story may appear to be.

Hearing voices while half asleep or going to sleep

In my own experience - and to my understanding this is the situation for people in general - inner voices heard while half asleep, going to sleep or 'nodding off' are normally NOT the same phenomenon as what this article is about, and for the most part are NOT anything untoward.

Those particular voices, generally speaking, are simply the 'audio' equivalent of the visuals you get while in a dreaming state. So, this is nothing to do with night terrors, and although the dark force or 'entities' might intrude here and there, basically it is nothing to do with entities nor the dark force but is simply a natural part of the dreaming process - and thus NOT a 'symptom' of anything. I hope this reassures people who come to this page trying to find out about such 'voices'.

My own 'voices' in this completely benign phenomenon manifest just as a single voice at any one time, which seems of indeterminate identity - i.e. it could be me or somebody else, though it does have a feel of 'me thinking' about it. In all my own cases that I've been able to remember, the voice has had a detached 'commentary' quality about it, and for much of the time, although usually individual phrases are meaningful, these phrases tend to be put together in apparently nonsensical ways or in a seemingly nonsensical context, but nonetheless have, at the time of hearing them, some feeling of meaningfulness.

My understanding is that for other people this phenomenon may manifest as seemingly more than one voice, but the detached quality - not trying to engage your attention at all - is a giveaway.

So, if you get any inner voice seeking to engage your attention - speaking to you rather than just speaking as though it's part of your own thinking process, you can pretty safely assume it is the dark force mucking around, and thus not benign (whether or not it presents itself as supposedly benign!), and the further contents of this page would be relevant.

Attacks from the dark force ('astral entities')

Please see the relevant section in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks. As already noted, it is these attacks plus intruded 'pseudo-thoughts' that make the night hell visuals into such a hellish experience.

'Self made demons' too! --?

It is misguidedly claimed by some healers that not all interferences that appear to be from 'entities' come directly from external influences at all, but a fair proportion can come from the person's own mind. Please see the relevant section in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks to get understanding just how wide of the mark those healers are.

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Now, before I go on to present real healing possibilities for night terrors and hearing voices, let's just do a recap on the tremendous 'benefits' of our psychiatric and 'mental health' services...

True healing possibilities for night terrors and related phenomena

As I have shown, there is a single basic underlying cause of night hells (night terrors), 'hearing voices' and indeed all manner of human mental dysfunction. The following major issues typically come together - as a 'package', you could say - for particular people, and are at long last addressable, now that we recognise the cause:

• Displays of 'night hell' visuals, both as childhood night hells and as the source of virtually all the disturbing hallucinatory experiences that may manifest in adults at any time of day or night;
• Attacks with trauma emotion feelings such as anxiety, fear, panic, nausea and depression. (I give a fuller list in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.);
• Troublesome inner 'voices', intruded 'pseudo-thoughts' or other forms of communication such as visual messages. Yes, the phenomenon is not just a matter of actual voices but communications in any form.

The fundamental key, then, is reducing / eliminating the hold of the dark force upon the affected people, while simultaneously using the most helpful possible strategies to ameliorate the above issues while that underlying cause is being progressively addressed. It is important that such a balanced approach be maintained and never slide into a 'symptom suppression' mindset, seeking to hide the issue rather than resolve it.

I did present below specific methods for addressing the main issues caused by the dark force, but now, with a clearer understanding, I see all that as a bit confusing and so I'm taking them together, because really the overall and really fundamental issue is that of dark force interference, in whatever form it may manifest for any particular person.

Basically, I refer you to the following pages (and relevant pages that they link to), which give much information on methods to clear emotional traumas, get properly grounded, and to progressively strengthen your non-physical aspects, so that you eventually become invulnerable to all dark force interferences and entity attachments, and include some further, important notes further below.

• Astral Entities (The Dark Force) -- Managing and Removing Them
• Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way
• The Guide to Complete Self Actualization - Affirmations and declarations of intent for fundamental healing and self actualization (Use this daily as a powerful foundation of any personal plan for self healing, self realization or removal of non-physical entities.)
• Some Potent Self Actualization / Healing Practices (These practices - especially Self-Power Walking and Grounding Post - progressively clear your emotional issues and even those of any 'lost' souls attached to you, and greatly strengthen your whole being, both non-physical and physical, and a method is given for more directly clearing all entities.)
• Stone Spheres as Healing and Self Actualization Aids

Grounding is the crucial TOP PRIORITY

The primary and top priority general healing and crisis management need in the case of night-terrors-related phenomena, hearing voices, and indeed ALL so-called mental illness and 'personality disorder', is NOT medication but grounding (though certain well chosen medications (primarily something like Zopiclone, to get some sleep if indeed sleeplessness is a major issue) used briefly in addition may help to get through an in extremis situation before grounding measures have had time to take significant effect).

There are two aspects of grounding. One is the state of 'physical connectedness' of the whole person including their non-physical aspects. This fundamental aspect of grounding, contrary to what virtually all spiritual healers would tell you, cannot be quickly rectified, and needs ongoing healing and positive life change work of the right kind to cultivate the optimal state of 'balanced grounding'.

However, there is another aspect of grounding, and that is the state of balance or otherwise of one's awareness. You can be quite reasonably grounded overall and yet have particular circumstances such as dark force interference that unbalances and ungrounds part of your awareness. The state of your awareness is much more volatile than your 'physical' or overall groundedness, and a particular part of it can generally get poorly or well grounded relatively quickly, regardless of the state of one's underlying groundedness.

Because mental healthcare work at the moment is so much geared to trying to cope with crises rather than resolving underlying issues, it would be the grounding of awareness that needs to be the first line of action for mental healthcare workers. That is in any case the most immediate need even in a full healing strategy or methodology, for little else can be done for a person while their awareness is seriously ungrounded and they are unable to 'take a step back' from their issue to take a more detached and practical view of it.

To illustrate my point, let's look at the example of myself when I got hospitalized four times because of my particular dark force troubles. Each time I saw to it that I had either no medication or as little as the doctors would allow me to take, which for most of the time was little enough to have no more than marginal effect - on the basis that I had a fair idea of what was going on for me and was sure that all I really needed was supportive humans around me to enable me to get rebalanced - and explained it articulately to the doctors and nursing staff - and recovered very quickly each time. I'm pretty sure that, especially in my second two hospitalizations (in 2006), many of the hospital staff must have been wondering how it came about that such an articulate and apparently sane man had got admitted to the hospital in the first place, and was so speedily recovering from whatever it was (within at most a couple of days) without their having to do anything to him!

My situation was actually this. As compared with the vast majority of healers, mystics, psychics and so on I had been very unusually well grounded and was thus actually not particularly open to dark force influences and particularly the sorts of belief that such influences seek to cultivate in such people. My 'undoing' had been through my getting into various types of spiritual healing and then taking on the dark force connected methodology and beliefs of the healers I was associating with - albeit always holding everything at arm's length (because my awareness was still fundamentally quite well grounded) and never regarding anything as certain truth.

However, by taking those various notions on, I was progressively ungrounding a particular part of my awareness, and so it came that my awareness was getting quite open to the astral sub-reality (through which the dark force operates), and I really believed that I could channel from true higher beings, and when the results of my channelling turned out to be strange and troublesome I acted in a quite ungrounded manner in some respects, in holding onto the notion that I could, and actually needed to, channel from higher beings - so I kept channelling despite all the glaring evidence of massive dark force involvement and the continuing nasty tricks on me and then the nightmarish attacks. I also amazingly readily accepted stories that I was given by the dark force posing as higher sources - albeit always trying to filter out good information from the fiction.

However, because overall I was still relatively well grounded, the massive attacks from the dark force failed to achieve what the latter was really after, which was apparently something extremely sinister, which I won't go into here but you can read about in The Dark Force ('Astral Entities') - My Own Tough Experiences. I say this with considered hindsight and insight, and not in any mindset of paranoia. And it was my underlying relatively good groundedness which enabled me to progressively extricate myself from the morass that the dark force was trying to pull me down into - actually learning from its attempts to bring me down and using what I'd learnt in order to weaken its hold on me. It was this groundedness that enabled me to be so articulate with hospital and Crisis Team staff - and indeed also right here on this website! - and to speedily get back into excellent balance each time, once a bit of supportive human contact had assisted me in getting my awareness fully grounded again after the dark force had launched another crisis-level attack.

For measures to address grounding issues, see Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

Reducing / eliminating night hell visuals

• Permanently discontinue any esoteric meditation practices, and at least for the time being discontinue even any normal meditation that you may have been doing. 

• Discontinue or keep clear of any 'dark' practices of any type.

• Also keep clear of religion or 'spiritual' practices or beliefs of any type, for those themselves are ALL dark force sourced (unknown to almost everyone) and actually make it much more difficult to truly clear your unhealthy dark force connections.

• Grounding of your awareness - very important!
  When a night hell visual* occurs, best not to try to avoid it altogether, but rather, to look for just a few seconds clearly at the images and then to refocus your attention to the normal level of consciousness (everyday 'reality') and ignore any continuation of the display. If the display persists for at all long, it may be helpful after some time to look clearly at it again for a few seconds, and then again to withdraw your attention to the physical world. In this way you are (maybe gradually) retraining yourself to distinguish between the level of the 'dark' visuals and normal consciousness, and to habitually choose to keep your attention in normal consciousness - asserting your self command. On the other hand, to keep watching the display would perpetuate or even compound the problem.

  * Actually, this applies not just strictly to night hell visuals but to ANY visuals, such as faces of supposed entities, strange landscapes and so on, no matter whether your feelings towards them are adverse, neutral or even supposedly positive. Generally speaking, if you were not getting interference you would not get ANY vivid images coming up unbidden, and so the need is always to get your visual awareness grounded enough to cut off that sort of interference, whether or not you like what you're seeing.

  However, by far the most effective way of handling the above is, when you've looked at the display for just a few seconds, to use a powerful and grounding practice that I call eight-point eye ovements, which is fully described on my page Some Potent Self Actualization / Healing Practices. On that page I give directions for using the practice, both to initially disrupt the displays and to progressively eliminate the tendency for them to occur.

  A simpler way that I have more recently found, which may be just as effective, of 'tuning out' of the night hell visuals is, while keeping your eyes closed, to 'look' with concentration at the inside of your eyelids. Of course you don't actually see anything in particular, but if you do that with clear intent, what you can achieve is the grounding of your visual awareness. That is also what you achieve by opening your eyes and seeing physical 'reality' around you, but if you're in bed and wanting to go to sleep, then this method, which you can use with your eyes closed, and which doesn't distract you from going to sleep, is exactly what's needed. Also, you may find that there's a particular direction to point your eyes to have maximum effect while looking at the inside of your eyelids. For me it's bottom right, but the exact most helpful direction will no doubt be a very individual thing.

  It's also helpful to keep aware of other physical sensations - your breathing, the feel of your bedlinen, and ambient sounds, and so forth (inwardly reminding yourself all the time that they are reality - not the night hell visuals), for that all helps ground your awareness.

• When you do see the display, maintain awareness that the display is just that - an 'empty' display. Never mind how horrific or menacing any images are, they are just a display and cannot physically harm you. Any feelings of fear or panic are an attack from the dark force and do not represent any objective reality about the images. Also, any menacing or intimidating thoughts will almost certainly NOT be your own thoughts, and it's helpful to recognise them as messages intruded to try to frighten or upset you - and they are NOT your own assessment of the situation.

• Never use cannabis nor any other psychedelic or so-called recreational drug, as these can cause future night hell visuals, not necessarily at night. They also make you more ungrounded and weaken your non-physical aspects, so making you still more open and vulnerable to the dark force - and indeed also to spirit attachments (discarnate human consciousnesses and 'soul fragments') and troublesome elementals, which may attach themselves to you and further compound the problem.

• Keep off legal, socially accepted drugs too - particularly alcohol and nicotine in any form. They too make you more ungrounded and render you more vulnerable to the dark force and much more likely to pick up spirit attachments. If that's a bit hard for you to swallow, there is a considerable chance that it is the dark force that is manipulating you into wanting not to let go of the use of such harmful substances and maybe seeking to justify use of them. People often insist that 'moderate' drinking is okay - but that is just the words of their own addictions and dark force / entity manipulations. Why on earth make yourself more vulnerable to the dark force and open to 'entities' at all?

Caution!
It is important for those who have been using formal meditation practices (whether ordinary or esoteric) to understand that if they resume their practices after having used any methods to eliminate their night hells susceptibility, or any part of it, then they are to some extent undoing the beneficial effects of their 'anti-night-hells' methods - so it is important that such meditation practices never be resumed. There are much more effective means in any case to bring you towards enlightenment and self actualization, and formal meditation sessions are quite unnecessary.

The same principle goes for use of drugs. "Oh, just one more smoke won't do any harm" or "Of course I'll still have a pint with the boys - just one pint is harmless enough and will do me a world of good" is no option at all for anyone serious about getting clear of their dark force / entity issues, or indeed serious about self actualization / self realization (which is the definitive protection against all dark force and entity issues).

Attacks with trauma emotions

The primary night hell trauma emotions requiring release are generally fear and related emotions such as anxiety, apprehension, panic and possibly full-throttle terror. Most of the time what we call terror is some combination of fear and panic, but in my experience there did seem to be a still more powerful and pretty rare emotion that goes beyond these and which I'm referring to as terror (though I wouldn't want to be categorical about the exact nature of any such experiences, for the dark force can do so much to cause confusion).

Encouraging trembling and laughter - the natural release processes for these emotions - would appear to be what is needed. However, the overwhelming amount of the stored relevant trauma emotion energy (even though, generally speaking, it would be the trauma of parasitic 'lost' souls attached to the person rather than his own) means that really there is just too much for the basic natural release processes to clear in any sort of reasonable time-scale.

Additionally, a true healing regime would address other, apparently non-night-hell-related trauma emotions, not only for the general benefit of the affected person but also specifically to reduce and eventually eliminate all ammunition that the dark force could use in its attacks. It can attack, for example, with depression, self doubt or anger, even though these would be mostly related to other issues than the night hells. Thus the healing measures for the night hells really need to be thought of as general emotional healing measures, albeit with a special emphasis on clearing the fear-related emotions - except that the best emotional healing methods that I know now provide across-the-board emotional healing, so that any talk of an emphasis on healing a particular type of emotion is meaningless.

Basically the stores of trauma emotion (of attached parasitic lost souls) that are used in attacks that give night hells their hellish quality are almost always too big to handle with the basic natural emotional release process on its own, or indeed some respected emotional clearance methods such as Re-evaluation Counselling (which you could be using till the cows came home on a blue moon in a month of Sundays before the relevant trauma material was cleared).

However, help is at hand. Please see Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way, and note particularly Self-Power Walking and Grounding Post, though I list some other effective methods too

As to what can be done for people who are not willing to use the appropriate self healing / self actualization methods to clear their issues, much thought and awareness needs to be applied, because there are ethical issues involved in directly interfering in a person's free choice. However, there are certain ways that ALL healthcare workers - no matter whether medical or psychiatric or high-ranking consultants or student nurses - can assist even those who on the face of it would not get using self healing / self actualization methods themselves. I mention three here:

• For the workers to take up The Work, use it diligently upon themselves on an ongoing basis, and, when the method is truly 'in their blood', to give 'inquiry facilitation' consultations to clients / patients who would accept this. They could thus guide people through the inquiry process of The Work on their issues and at least bring them some genuine benefit even though not the full healing and self actualization that would fully clear the person's entity and trauma issues.

  It's also necessary to understand, when using The Work or indeed other emotional clearance methods such as the EFT (the latter not to be confused with ECT!), that traumas carried by the person which actually belong to an attached 'lost' soul cannot be cleared as speedily as those actually belonging to the person. Thus the latter sort of traumas may clear in a single well executed inquiry session using The Work, but any traumas belonging to attached entities may require a number of repeats of more or less the same inquiry sequence over a fair period to clear them.

• A potentially much more powerful pair of options is to have guided, supervised group sessions of Self-Power Walking and Grounding Post for clients / patients who are willing to do either of these, and even the Returning Life Sequence for suitably enthusiastic individuals. In a supportive group setting, many would surely be happy to have a go - and would enjoy it - even if they wouldn't dream of or be seen dead doing it on their own.
  I would very happily instruct groups of healthcare workers in these powerful and completely safe practices, as long as my time and expenses are reasonably paid for, and subject of course to practicability for me with regard to scheduling / location / travel.

• Discerning use of the Energy Egg 'family' of devices. These can assist greatly in the progressive healing of various weaknesses in people's non-physical aspects - certain of those weaknesses being ones that the dark force or 'entities' have been exploiting in order to carry out their interferences / attacks. 

'Voices' and other inner foreign or 'non-me' communications

Basically, if you're dealing with 'voices' you're dealing with the dark force manifesting as illusory 'entities' (except in the rare cases where elementals are involved). For this reason, 'astral entities' cannot be 'bodily' (sic) removed in the way that most people believe they can. True entities such as attached parasitic 'lost' souls can be removed, however (but themselves are not the cause of 'voices'), but it takes ongoing self healing work to enable that to happen. In the case of 'astral entities', use of appropriate grounding and self actualization methods can strengthen all your non-physical aspects in such a manner as to progressively fade the 'entities' and all the dark force's other interferences and attacks out of your life experience, but without your ever being able to know for sure that you are totally clear of dark force interference - you would most likely still have some subtle level of covert interference.

Clearly if you're no longer getting obvious interferences from the dark force, that is the immediately most important thing - though ongoing vigilance would always be necessary to ensure that subtle, covert interferences were not still coming in for the purpose of controlling you and pointing you away from self actualization.

In Astral Entities (The Dark Force) -- Managing and Removing Them I list various ways to manage the dark force interferences while you still have them, as well as pointing to the most effective means to clear out entities or, as I say, in the case of 'astral entities', to 'fade them out' rather than 'bodily' remove them.

A related healing issue - soul fragmentation

Soul fragmentation is an important and usually overlooked issue in holistic healing work - and of course it is ignored by mental healthcare workers who are applying the worse than useless 'medical model' to mental health issues.*

* I do not mean to imply that the 'medical model' is okay for physical problems, because, except for immediate 'patching up' of physical injuries and assisting recovery from severe infections, it is just as much an ass for these too. The point is, the medical model seeks to patch up physical problems and hide any underlying cause, which latter, apart from the case of direct physical injuries and infections, is non-physical or only partly physical (such as environmental stress effects).

The truly effective approach to dealing with heart disease or cancer, for example, is to prevent them - NOT to wait for them to happen and then have medics frantically trying to patch you up. Generally speaking, this prevention can be easily achieved by use of the sort of methodology that I present in Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

In a nutshell, when a person experiences major trauma a part of that person's non-physical aspect commonly or maybe even always splits off - but remaining connected by an 'energy' cord - and usually remains separated until the trauma is fully healed. Indeed even then the person may benefit from special 'soul retrieval' healing to speed up the bringing back of that separated fragment and getting it fully integrated into the person once more. However, if well grounding emotional healing methods are used (such as I give in Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way), then soul retrieval occurs much more readily and there is little or no benefit in using special soul retrieval measures.

Actually, the terms 'soul fragmentation' and 'soul retrieval' are not fully correct, because some degree of fragmentation of the consciousness of a no-soul incarnation can occur in really severe trauma situations, so really better terms would be 'consciousness fragmentation' and 'consciousness retrieval' respectively. However, the phenomenon is much more marked for people with souls (the soul, as remarked much further above, being a pathological manifestation (albeit a horrendously normal one) and not anyone's true identity).

I understand that severe multiple occurrences of this sort of fragmentation (which may have come about in previous lifetimes of a soul-reincarnated person or in a particularly severe and multiple early childhood trauma such as with seriously abusive parents) are a significant factor in many and maybe even all 'multiple personality' issues - though interference from the dark force and pretty well always attached entities are involved too. However, typically the primary cause of multiple personality issues is weak groundedness together with the presence of a number of attached parasitic 'lost' souls (which themselves would usually be at least to some extent fragmented), though actually the dark force would readily give anyone a simulation of such a situation or 'condition', if doing that suited its agenda.

So, anyone who is carrying severe trauma material, whether it truly be their own or/and that of attached 'lost' souls, almost certainly has some degree of soul fragmentation, which will in various ways impact on their life experience and would typically be the basis for extremely unhelpful medical or psychiatric diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia', 'psychosis', 'schizotype', 'dissociative personality disorder', 'bipolar disorder' and so forth.

Indeed, the effects of soul fragmentation can be very convoluted, because, as already noted, any attached 'lost' souls are liable to be fragmented themselves, for they are generally more or less traumatized, and usually severely so, and thus often severely fragmented.

My particular practical point here is that awareness of soul fragmentation effects helps us understand what is going on for people with entity or supposed mental health / personality disorder issues. The need then is not to dwell on those complexities and convolutions of a person's state,  but to see them as something that will resolve naturally if the person works to increase their grounding and to clear whatever traumas they are carrying. In Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way I show how this can easily and painlessly be achieved.

Conclusion

In my own four hospitalizations I saw for myself how at least most of the patients were bored out of their minds (sic), and various of them (including me quite often) were left to aimlessly pace up and down the corridors for a good bit of their time (especially if one didn't want to watch television or have one's lungs poisoned - and, usually, listen to pop music - in the smoking room). Wouldn't it be wonderful if that natural walking urge - because underneath the surface everyone knows that walking itself is therapeutic and life-giving - were properly harnessed and these people were encouraged (not coerced) into guided Self-Power Walking and even encouraged to do bits of it when pacing the corridors on their own - starting to get some sense of healing themselves and regaining their intrinsic power! And also to use the Grounding Post procedure at suitable spots when out on the odd walks.

In theory I would also strongly recommend that each patient has their own personal Energy Egg and be given ongoing instruction and guidance for tuning these to the various stresses affecting them, for clearing environmental stresses (both present and past) is another aspect of the resolution of mental health issues. However, unfortunately issuing these to patients would almost certainly be seen to be a 'Health and Safety at Work' issue, because they could so easily be used as missiles when particular patients become motivated to behave disruptively.

Of course upon my saying that last I can hear the chorus of despairing hospital staff - "But we haven't the resources to do that sort of thing!". -- To which my reply to them would be as follows:

Rubbish! At the moment your resources are being squandered by the extremely wasteful practice of the 'medical model' being used where it is signally inappropriate, and constantly focusing on coping with crises rather than enabling people (yes, themselves!) to get addressing the real causes. As I have shown, addressing the real causes is actually a remarkably simple and straightforward matter of getting the person's awareness grounded and getting them starting to clear their emotional stresses and traumas. If healthcare workers focused clients and patients straightaway on enjoyable, grounding and empowering activities for healing and self actualization - in a warm and accepting way - then their resources would not be so taken up with the demands and apparent needs of patients whose true needs were not being met in the first place.

So, what looks at a glance like just a political slogan of mine -- Self actualization beats Psychiatry - hands down! -- is actually a pointer to the fundamental change that we need in ALL mental healthcare. You don't solve any problem by harming people with drugs or ECT to try to hide it. On this and related pages that I have pointed to, you can find pointers to methods that, if applied diligently, with awareness and in an ongoing manner, can progressively resolve ALL entity related issues and indeed virtually ALL so-called mental illness and personality disorder issues. These methods are painless, uplifting and even joyful to use, and turn around a person's life in a much more comprehensive manner than just addressing the issue that has been presented.

self actualization - and nothing else - is the genuine 'mental health'.

Do you really mean to settle for less?

For interested people this page will be worth bookmarking and periodic revisiting as I expect to update and elaborate on various points in the light of new observations.