Answered Questions From the Forums

The questions listed below are mostly not exact quotes from the Forums, for I generally edit or even completely paraphrase them for use here, so as to maintain optimum conciseness and clarity. In a few cases I am having to leave intact some impenetrably confused English because it's unclear enough that I don't know what the questioner means at that point, and so would quite possibly distort the questioner's meaning further by trying to render the particular bit clear.

Some sort of creative force outside or beyond ourselves

I hold no belief about anything, for belief is one of the most potent things to obstruct our self actualization process. However, my best understanding (i.e. so far my most useful working model), based upon a combination simple direct observations of mine from the enlightened viewpoint and my inner inquiry supported by energy testing, is that all notion of any sort of beneficial or 'higher' presence outside or beyond ourselves comes to us from the dark force, for the purpose of diverting us away from self realization and into the clutches of the dark force.

Yes, many people do get the impression of some sort of 'higher' presence, and in Better Without Channelling I explain how such completely bogus beings or presences can appear to be immensely wise and loving and indeed apparently 'all knowing', despite their being just illusions given to us by 'the dark side'.

The point is, basically, that the dark force, which is really just an elaborate mass of thought forms without an aware consciousness apart from its overall control by the cacoprotean network, can cause any particular person to experience 'external' beings or presences by, in a remarkably virus-like way, hijacking part of the person's awareness and using that person's memory databanks and other databanks in deeper levels of that person's consciousness, to which the person's ordinary mind generally doesn't have aware access. So, when a particular person is aware of, for example, an apparently all-knowing and loving 'creator consciousness', all that is happening is that the dark force has given an externalized impression of various aspects of that person's own deepest aspects, so that the person would regard that as the 'creator consciousness', God, the Holy Spirit, and so forth.

The trouble is, this externalized relaying of what the person's conscious mind doesn't pick up directly is bound to contain distortions, which may from an ordinary person's point of view be very subtle indeed, but which all point the person away from self realization. The mere fact of externalization is in itself a potent deflector of people away from self realization.

I caution that it is a very common distortion believed by many healers and mystics, that there is a loving and creative force, God, Spirit, or 'the Ultimate' within ourselves. On the face of it, that sounds to be in line with what I myself am saying, and it isn't exactly wrong, but the trouble is, the moment you talk of any such presence or force being within yourself you are implying and tacitly assuming that, whatever that presence is, it is within you and not actually you. It is thus important to let go of any notion of such a positive, creative force having any physical location at all, such as 'within myself'.

So, yes, there is a truly positive and beneficial force that can counter the tamperings with us of the dark force, but it is not outside ourselves, NOR something within ourselves - it is ourselves! We are the Ultimate. We are the creative and loving force! Self realization is the process of enabling us to be fully functioning as direct manifestations of the Ultimate.

Sleep disturbances caused by entities / the dark force

I have no specific recommendations for a quick fix for your particular situation, because the dark force gives each person a unique combination of interferences. However, if you used energy testing you could start finding out what would be genuinely helpful for you personally (as distinct from what some other people have found helpful, probably in situations which weren't even really the same).

The most important thing is to be progressively strengthening yourself against all entity attachments and dark force interferences, so that all interferences progressively lessen. The most effective means that I know are presented in Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way. If I were to pick out a 'core' combination of means to recommend for effective clearance (though still by no means instantaneous), then I would recommend use of the following:

• the set of Affirmations for self realization and entity clearance;
• An Energy Egg (preferably connected to a Guardian Angel or, still better, Archangel), for tuning to and dissolving elements of the attacks, including emotional 'button pushing', as types of environmental stress;
  

  In order that the most effective technique be used for this purpose, let's be specific, because there are various ways to tune your Energy Egg to an environmental stress. Here the procedure required is the same as for unidentified environmental stresses. For this you have your eyes closed and are holding the Energy Egg in one hand, which is closed around it, down by your side (the arm loosely hanging if you're upright). While standing, sitting or lying like this, you go through one to three cycles of complete or extra-complete breathing, allowing your mind to be as empty as possible with the intent that you are tuning your awareness to whatever environmental stresses are affecting you at that point (whether or not you can feel any of them). Then you open your eyes and hold one end of the Energy Egg (the broad end if it's one of the old egg-shaped ones) to your mid-brow position and swallow once while it is held there.
  

  I use this procedure routinely every time I become aware of an attack or other dark force interference, and I keep an Energy Egg on its transmitter base on my bedside cabinet top so that when an attack or other disturbance comes to my attention during the night I can simply reach out, pick up the Energy Egg and go through the above procedure while lying on my back, and then replace the Energy Egg on its base, without having to get out of bed at all.

• the Grounding Post procedure, for helping dissolve illusory realities, thought forms and troublesome thoughts, any of which can be part of the mechanism of an attack;
• Self-Power Walking, for dissolving stored emotional issues in a particularly healthy and grounding way.

A very important part of the strengthening process is also to use energy testing to find out what particular environmental factors are stressing and weakening your non-physical aspects ('energy system'), and to remove or minimize as many of those as possible. Again, energy testing, carefully and vigilantly used, can point you to what specific measures you can usefully take to minimize particular environmental stress influences that aren't workable for you to actually remove. Sleep problems have a particular way of being triggered or greatly exacerbated by environmental stress sources in your home.

'New souls' and 'old souls' - how do I know whether I am one or the other?

I guess you wouldn't be surprised to know that on most days at least one person comes to my Self Realization site looking for an answer to that question - and I do effectively answer it in 'Old Souls' - People said to be incarnated 'angels' and other higher beings and The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.

In a nutshell, it appears that all the psychics, mediums and 'lightworkers' are being taken for a ride by the dark force, as I explain in Better Without Channelling, and are being given wrong information for an extremely troublesome purpose, and, according to my own understanding, the true situation is that it is the oldest souls who are the most unaware, limited in their horizons and rigid in their outlooks and behaviour, while the most aware, open and 'free' individuals are actually NO-soul incarnations (because they are direct incarnations of fundamental consciousness). There - you never thought there would be good reason to describe me as soul-less! 

So, if you are reading this page you would be at least somewhere close to the 'no-soul' end of the range - for the less aware people simply wouldn't connect with this sort of 'rubbish'.

Incense - is it useful?

Not only are they not useful, but they, like ALL incense of any kind (whether resin granules or cones, joss sticks or any other form), are harmful.

For a start ALL incense is greatly harmful physically, its smoke having been found in many cases to be even more harmful to breathe in than passive inhalation of similar concentrations of tobacco smoke. It is thus a serious pollutant for people who use it, and for anyone else who is in the same space and happens to passively inhale it. Sorry to have to have had cause to say this, because I well know that some incenses do smell nice (in small concentrations).

And then, with regard to its metaphysical or 'spiritual' properties - just look at the claims being made for those incense sticks on the page the questioner linked to - having first read The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks and Exit Spirituality - Enter Clear-Mindedness, so that you can understand how dark force sourced are the ideas and motivations of the people making and marketing those sticks, despite their likely best intentions!

Those incense sticks come bundled with thought forms, which you don't see but which insinuate themselves into your mind, making you much more accepting of opening to the astral sub-reality and to supposed 'deities' (which are ALL simulations given to us from the dark force). Indeed, this is true of incense from any source, because it is all linked to religious or 'spiritual' beliefs that are actually dark force sourced, and ALL incense is made for the purpose of encouraging us to become more 'spiritual' or 'spiritually open'. But as I've explained on various pages on my Self Realization site, what that really means is becoming more ungrounded and open to the astral sub-reality (through which the dark force interferes with us), which actually contains the whole polarity of 'dark' / 'light' (in any non-physical sense).

Incense thus helps point you away from comprehensive self healing, self realization and clearance from yourself of entities and dark force connections, and towards the very influences and tendencies that you supposedly want to get clear of.

So, the world would become a better place if all forms of incense, like antipsychotic drugs, were wiped off the face of the Earth.

No, as to whether the incense sticks should be used. When you are living in harmony with 'What Is' you recognise that "should" and "shouldn't" are meaningless, for things are simply as they are. What it comes down to is, what sort of life do you want to lead? Do you want self realization, with a secure and dynamic happiness and clarity of being, or do you want 'spirituality', which opens you to increased dark force interference, with all the problems that that brings? The two point in opposite directions and are thus totally incompatible.

Wearing of stones or crystals

The best way to answer your question, as relates to your own situation, is for you yourself to use energy testing on your wearing of jade or indeed any other type of stone that you wear or want to wear.

However, I can make a general observation based on my own inner inquiry / energy testing - and that is, wearing of stones or crystals generally is weakening to a person's non-physical aspects ('energy system') and thus is not only not helpful against entities, but actually to some extent makes you more vulnerable to them - contrary to the (dark force distorted) beliefs of many healers and psychics. Also, if you use metal (e.g. a metal chain for a pendant) around your neck, or a metal bracelet or bangle, then you have additional weakening to your system.

Crystals are the worst offenders, because of their edges and points, which are directly disruptive and weakening to your non-physical aspects, and although they supposedly do channel various healing energies, they do so in non-customizable and distorted ways which again are weakening to your non-physical aspects and serve the dark force well in rendering you more ungrounded and open to them.

To my understanding nowadays, the only type of stone that would be beneficial to carry around with you would be the Energy Egg, which, because of its shape, is minimally weakening, and which carries programming that actually protects you from that weakening effect and benefits you in many ways.

If you seriously want a stone to help clear yourself of entities and dark force influences, then, apart from the very portable Energy Egg I know of two main options, which are things you'd keep at home rather than wear:

• The Guardian Angel or its big brother the Archangel
• A suitable non-programmed stone sphere.

They would both need to be used in specific procedures, however, to do anything significant for you towards clearance of entities, dark force and other interferences.

Aliens or Extra-dimensional Interference?

I know that it may look a bit drastic to passing visitors, my having just jumped in and deleted something in the very first post on the forums I'd just set up, but I'd like to explain to everyone that the questioner actually wrote to me first with this one, and I said it was best put it in the Forum, and also I'd looked at the page she'd linked to, and it was seriously harmful, and the link to it would have to be removed - but also that if she left it in place, it would give me the opportunity to more strongly draw attention to why it was necessary not to publicize it.

The page concerned was on a site presenting videos concerning one of the dark force sourced scenarios of aliens or non-physical entities being about to take over the human race. You may well wonder why the hell I don't allow the opportunity for people to go seeing what this was about, and my answer to that is clear and practical.

Surely nobody would question the wisdom of sealing off a source of poisonous gas, even though that would be interfering with people's free choice by denying the opportunity to sniff the gas themselves and decide for themselves whether it really was poisonous! Well, the same principle applies to the link that came with the above question.

The particular video that the link caused me to see at that site - and indeed the whole site - delivers powerful thought forms to whoever reads its pages or watches its videos. Those thought forms strongly reinforce in the reader's / listener's mind notions that we really are about to be taken over by some unspeakably terrible external force. The particular video that I saw was putting across implicit "proof" that it is not physical aliens that are about to take us over but some sort of non-physical beings.

In fact, what was happening was that the people involved in that site and its reports were all being handsomely manipulated and controlled by the dark force into seeking to spread yet another paranoid belief, which would reflect a seriously troublesome more or less covert illusory reality that each lucky recipient would have been landed with - a hellishly paranoid one - which would, together with the supplied thought forms, tremendously unground the astral-connected part of the awareness of most people who've been to that site, opening them a lot more to the dark force and causing them major problems. Indeed, they run a very strong risk of getting so ungrounded that the particular paranoid illusory reality could become a more or less permanent astral realm that poses as their predominant reality, so that they get to leading a hellish existence in which they believe they are being or have been taken over by the alleged entities, and the dark force would fill in any missing parts of the scenario with simulations. Such people would generally sooner rather than later get shunted into psychiatric units and labelled as having schizophrenia (no doubt of the paranoid variety).

So, what that site and any like it are doing is putting an extremely serious psychic attack upon all who visit it - albeit the site owners most likely being completely unaware of this because they do not realize that they themselves are being controlled by the dark force. I thus strongly caution against visiting any sites dealing with scenarios involving aliens (extra-terrestrials or ETs) or any sort of non-physical beings. I myself could feel that site starting to have that harmful effect on me - aided and abetted by what little attack the dark force could still put on me directly, but I was a lucky one because I saw what was going on and could dissolve the nasties as I kept in touch with what I have consistently found to be the helpful view.

For that helpful and indeed balanced view (well, as balanced as I can yet manage!), please see The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.

As you will read there, the reality (as far as I or anyone can really establish what is 'the reality') is that every supposed manifestation of either physical extra-terrestrials or non-physical beings is a fabrication sourced from the dark force. And we are ALL already to various extents being manipulated and controlled by the latter, so, that's not news!

One final point - a small correction. Nowhere in my writings do I describe anything as extra-dimensional beings, nor as being 'extra-dimensional'. As explained on the latter-mentioned page, the dark force appears not to be true beings at all - but, for the purpose of its very own survival, it seeks to get people believing that it is actual beings - whether extra-terrestrials, demons, 'ascended masters', angels or God.

Actually, if you stop and really think about it, the very term 'extra-dimensional' may sound impressive, but it doesn't really make sense. It's just one of the myriads of confused elements that come to us from the dark force via, in particular, the New Age movement. Although within the New Age movement and no doubt certain other 'spiritual' or mystical traditions, the dark force is regarded as being in a 'dimension' (usually given as the 4th dimension), actually the whole concept of non-physical dimensions has come to all these traditions from - yes, you've guessed of course! - the dark force, as part of its agenda to get us creating illusory non-physical or 'higher' realities that can ensnare us then when we've died.

If you call something 'extra-dimensional', what do you think you are meaning by that? If you look at the meaning of the constituent words of that expression, the latter appears to be saying that the 'something' is outside of dimensions, which doesn't make sense, because the whole concept of non-physical dimensions involves everything we experience being in one 'dimension' or another. Of course, if 'dimensions' here were referring just to the physical dimensions, then anything non-physical could be described as extra-dimensional, but then 'non-physical' would be the most clear and unambiguous expression to use.

So, basically, let's all pension off that extremely confusing expression 'extra-dimensional' as an absurdity equivalent to 'violently nonexistent' (which latter at least has a sort of poetic ring about it!), and consign it to the recycling / transformation bin.

An apparent entity attachment problem

Actually, what you relate, while bizarre, is run-of-the-mill stuff to come from the dark force. The latter is constantly seeking to get people loaded with 'story', which may be relatively simple religious beliefs, but can be all manner of grotesque and convoluted stories that fill one's life. It was doing that to me, as you can read in The Dark Force ('Astral Entities') - My Own Tough Experiences. In my case it didn't give me much impression of direct physical interference, except for my frequently getting the sensation of a hand or something pressed against my right temple, though during certain of my severe attack crisis events I got the sensation of non-physical hands holding both sides of my head (with a strongly implied threat that 'they' were about to wrench my head off).

Many other people, though, have reported to me impressions just as bizarre as yours, though each person having their own unique set of experiences. Naturally, they believe that it is actually a spirit attachment, or 'astral beings' that are 'attached' to them.

While a spirit attachment may be involved, the dark force can mimic these effects, but in any case for healing purposes not only do we not need to know the details, but actually it is usually greatly helpful to take your focus right away from the specifics of what you are experiencing, for doing so would be helping you to let go of all the 'story' that the dark force is seeking to get you attached to.

The good news is that the healing methodology that I present on this site, say in Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way, steadily strengthens your whole system against both attached entities and the interferences from the dark force (which latter is never attached but is simply always connected to one, like an always-on broadband Internet connection which one cannot turn off).

Incidentally, I counsel to let go of the notion of the well known chakras, for they are not real structures but schematic representations of much more subtle energy activity centres, which actually are not physically located at all. Your self healing and self clearance will proceed more swiftly and smoothly if you let go of all those actually dark force sourced concepts and simply regard yourself as a (grounded) facet of fundamental consciousness ('the Ultimate') instead.

Energy testing working little or not at all

Actually I doubt very much whether you are doing anything particularly wrong. Indeed, it sounds to me as though you've been doing basically the right things. The non-working of energy testing methods for you just now would reflect particular (very normal) blocks or distortions in your non-physical aspects ('energy system') that are obstructing the energy testing process and indeed blocking or attenuating your energy awareness (i.e. the healthy, grounded type).

It is best NOT to keep trying to make the energy testing work, because (a) you could stress yourself over the particular difficulty and get discouraged - which could well help to maintain the block, and (b) persisting in this situation would render you more likely to open eventually to the dark force rather than get genuine responses from your own deepest aspects.

I therefore recommend trying again by your chosen means about once a month, until it begins to work properly for you - when you could then use it regularly, though always with vigilance as cautioned in the guide. However, I say this on the assumption that meanwhile you would be using one or preferably more methods to progressively clear that block.

The Good News is that pretty well any method that genuinely strengthens your whole 'energy system' would in time clear that block, so if you regularly use the Returning Life Sequence, Self-Power Walking, Grounding Post, or any combination of those (for best results, the lot), you would be progressively resolving this issue. Additionally, there is a specific method to use for opening up your healthy energy awareness and your energy testing 'pathways' - eight-point eye movements. This also makes it increasingly possible to distinguish between genuine energy testing responses and bogus responses intruded from the dark force.

Regardless of any other methods also being used, I recommend daily short sessions with the eight-point eye movements. I suggest about 8 to 10 repeats of the sequence of movements in a session, though any at all would help, and to have at least one session per day, and optimally three or four sessions per day. I myself schedule 4 such sessions per day (after breakfast, after lunch, after evening meal, and just before going to bed).

Incidentally, I have a gut feeling that if I did the strong arm test with you, you'd find that it worked straight off. Working with a person who has plenty of the right sort of energy awareness can be a potent unblocker - which is why generally people come away from Stephen and Lynda Kane's Energy Awareness workshops with at least some degree of energy testing ability.

Grounding Post procedure - is this particular post suitable?

That 45mm post is definitely not ideal in its narrow width, but it is MUCH better to use it than not to use the method at all. With regard to the posts set in concrete, I'm not sure about this; I would share your reservation about them, BUT I would energy-test on using any particular seemingly doubtful post. Indeed, I would most likely experimentally use the post anyway, because then my deepest aspects would have actual experimental data on which to base responses to energy testing on that or similar posts in the future. I should emphasize that those fence posts would still work pretty well, but it's just a matter of just how good they are.

In situations like this, with less-than-ideal posts at hand, and especially if I didn't have energy testing available to enable me to know how effective any particular Grounding Post session had been, I would be inclined to repeat the session on another post. So, you could do one session on the 45mm post and then repeat on one of those fence posts or simply do both sessions on different fence posts. Best not to repeat for the same issue on the same post the same day - though it's fine to repeat the procedure for a succession of different thought forms or issues.

However, there is another option always open to you, which you can use if you have a suitable stone sphere. You can actually use the sphere as though it were the top of a suitable post.

Dark force influences in dreams

It's really heart-warming to hear from people who are constructively holding up to question their previous assumptions on such issues.

First, let's make it clear that the whole notion of needing to 'make amends' to people with whom you no longer have contact (whether or not they are still alive) is part of an agenda of 'obligation' that the dark force puts upon people to help entangle them in control agenda and keep them firmly pointed away from the freedom of self realization. All sense of 'should' or 'ought to' is fighting against the reality of 'What Is', in which things are simply as they are. The true way of making amends about anything is simply getting on with your own self realization process, for it is in this way that you heal the distorting effects upon your non-physical aspects of any less-than-ideal ways that you've behaved in the past and learn fully what you need to learn from all your past experiences.

So, in reality there are no amends for you to make (at least in the sense that I think you are meaning), especially as you no longer have any contact with those particular people. And even if you did have regular contact with them, the real way to make any amends with them would NOT be through acting out of a sense of obligation, but would be simply through your own self realization process and the resultant very positive changes in the way you relate with those people*.

* It is worth bearing in mind that such clearing-up of the way you relate with particular people doesn't necessarily mean that you would become great friends with them. Indeed, in particular cases your more 'enlightened' and aware response to them could be even to cut off all contact with them, because your involvement with them at any time in the past was itself weakening and problematical for you (even if at the time you believed that you were in love with them and it had appeared to be a very positive relationship).

Now, about those dreams. My own inner inquiry results make it look extremely unlikely that you were getting contacts from the souls of the particular people, so, what you were experiencing was most likely some sort of personal 'thinking-through' process. I explain about the dreaming process in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks. As I explain there, the primary re-evaluation process that is the essence of our ongoing learning from all our experiences is our real dreaming process, and it occurs well below the conscious level. What we experience as dreams is various images that surface at points where there are (usually very small) difficulties or 'hiccups' in the re-evaluation process. So, those images generally are just a by-product of the important process and are in themselves serving little function for us, never mind how fascinating and apparently meaningful they may appear to be.

However, in certain cases the conscious mind can take up certain of those dream images and use them to try to resolve certain issues at its own level. In your case this was clearly what was happening, so it was a good thing to have happened - right?

Well, actually in an important respect, no. I'm pretty sure that direct dark force interference wasn't involved here, but you were still being driven by that dark force sourced sense of obligation towards those people, and your conscious mind trying to work things out according to that agenda of obligation was actually being a potent obstruction to the underlying re-evaluation process. You came out of those dream experiences with the impression that those issues had been in some way resolved (probably little more than a bit of attempted wish fulfilment, whereas those experiences had actually been hindering their true resolution. I don't know to what extent the real issues have now undergone full re-evaluation, but I can say that it's always best to disregard dreams as far as possible and simply trust the completely unconscious underlying re-evaluation process, which flows progressively more freely as you continue your self realization and clearance process.The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.

There would undoubtedly also have been elements of your own deepest aspects communicating with your ordinary mind in those dreams - that is always happening to some extent - but of course the problem about that is that it comes with all sorts of distortions and adulterations superimposed upon it by interference from the dark force and indeed from preconceived notions held in the ordinary mind.

Dream/Experience ... Dark force influence?

Wow, sort of scary, don't you think! 

-- Except that once you've 'twigged' you can look on it all as something of a laughing matter. Yes, seriously! 

Note particularly how convoluted and seemingly daunting or impossible all that appears to be to resolve. The story or sequence of experiences seeks to draw you into it and create a never-ending state of troubles and torments. That has all the hallmarks of the dark force mucking around, and the solution to this is NOT to involve yourself at all with the details, the convolutions and 'story' (whether or not any of the story is true!) but to use some extremely simple and down-to-earth clearance methods that will become stock in trade for you as a major part of your self realization process.

I would explain here to readers generally that the person who asked the above question has expressed to me an inspiringly clear-minded intent to clear herself of all attachments and 'baggage' from the past or any other source, and to come into the tremendous freedom of self realization. That means that she is already poised to clear the above-described garbage like a dose of salts.

Other people have contacted me in the past with similar or indeed even more daunting-seeming scenarios, and actually for every one of them the solution would be the same.

So, in order to address the issue(s), you take a good step back from it all, let go of any notion that you need to know at that point what was or is going on here or there - and you can even let out a great sigh of relief that you don't have to worry about any of that any more and it's going to be just this simple to clear! Joyful laughter is allowed too! 

You are about to get focused on clearing yourself fast of thought forms, implants, illusory realities and distorted 'energies' (which include emotional issues), and you don't even need to know which of those any particular issue would be, for you just go ahead anyway.

The Number One procedure to use is Grounding Post. I'm not going to repeat the instructions here, for they're given in Some Potent Self Actualization / Healing Practices.

You don't need special instructions as to what images and thought forms and feelings to subject to Grounding Post - you simply use what presents itself in your mind or bugs you in any way - or anything you become aware of that you feel attached to, such as a supposedly wonderful sexual experience. However, by applying some clear thought without getting tied up in it, you can increase your focus and efficiency with the procedure by recognising what are likely to be the most fundamental issues for subjecting to Grounding Post. Many of the subsidiary issues would then be cleared without having to address them individually.

The Co-Number One procedure to use, if you have an Energy Egg, is to tune the latter to the issue(s) and any 'foreign' energies that you may seem to be experiencing at that moment. Again it doesn't matter what the true nature of your experiences is, for the method works anyway. The dark force will play all sorts of tricks on you, simulating this and that, but you simply dissolve the untoward influences and associated distortions in your own non-physical aspects ('energy system'), whatever they appear to be.

It's greatly helpful, too, to use energy testing to establish just what are the priority issues to subject to Grounding Post or to which to tune the Energy Egg, for then you can be more focused and use the procedures a remarkably few times to clear even nightmarishly huge and complex-seeming issues. However, you need to be vigilant in your energy testing, for one trick of the dark force is to try to hijack any energy testing, and it would try to point you to subjecting this and that detail to Grounding Post, so you are getting wound up with the apparent hugeness of your task, in having such an unending plethora of details all to try to clear individually.

If you ever get a sense of it even slightly getting like that, STOP, relax and recognise what's bound to have started happening. You can use your own deepest good sense and clear thinking anyway to establish what are likely to be the one or two fundamental 'core features' of your apparently major issue to 'zap' at the present time.

Do you then ignore all the details, then? -- I'd say, not exactly. But the point is, you recognise them as subsidiary material and, with your clear intent, just bundle them all in with the primary or core issue, which you may well represent by a simple statement like "That is happening to me!" or "I'm about to have no money to carry on living" or "I'm doomed", "Vampires are raping and eating me" or whatever your particular 'thing' is. You can simply, in a very basic and unspecific way, visualize all the details piling into your cupped hands as a seething mass of distorted energies (perhaps like a writhing and flailing mass of worms - though best not to get into clearly defined specifics in any visualization*), before you zap the lot. Simple!

* Another way of putting this is, think in terms of 'visualizing' with your intent rather than creating images of specific things that you clearly see. So, you have a sense of seeing the things rather than actually seeing them. If you go for actually seeing specific images you weaken the procedure because you're not so focused on your intent. The dark force cultivates all manner of very clear and vivid visualizations in the healing traditions for exactly that reason - it seeks to get people believing that they are doing really powerful healing or meditation practices when actually the primary thing they're doing is creating illusory realities for themselves and actually having remarkably limited healing effect. Typically such people equate the vividness of their 'visuals' with powerfulness of their healings, whereas the reality is that they've got it all upside down and indeed are unawarely in pretty deep trouble through their unaware dark force involvements!

Regarding the matter of sexual experiences in dreams or other non-physical experiences, I caution that it makes no odds whether such experiences felt pleasurable / satisfying or not. I myself have had the most intensely ecstatic and seemingly satisfying sexual experiences while alone in bed - and I'm well aware that the dark force has always been at least to some extent and usually very much involved. Thus such experiences are ALL for subjecting to Grounding Post (they can all be processed together, en masse). That doesn't destroy anything that is truly you, but simply transforms distorted energies into healthy, life supporting energies and brings you more into command of yourself.

As you clear out the garbage you actually gain true insights into what was most likely going on for you (but of course one can never absolutely know anything), so I'm not in any way saying that you shouldn't have any interest in what was really going on. The problem comes from our attachment to trying to understand - which is strenuously cultivated by the dark force in order to get you ensnared in all its 'story' and associated illusory realities. So, the very general practical dictum is for us to clear ourselves first and then to enjoy the insights as they open up to us as our awareness gets increasingly free of blocks and dark force interferences.

Holding the tip of the tongue on the palate

Placing the tip of the tongue on the palate seems to close (i.e. activate) some sort of 'energy circuit' in your non-physical aspects, and it is recommended for certain practices in various meditation and healing traditions (which of course isn't in itself a recommendation!). Stephen and Lynda Kane recommend this in various of their practices, and it allegedly acts as an intensifier, making the practices more effective. My own inner inquiry / energy testing has indicated likewise. All the practices or methods work without your holding your tongue thus, but some are more effective 'with'. However, in practices where you are doing fast weaving breaths, such as the Returning Life Sequence, it simply isn't practical to hold your tongue there.

On the other hand, in the case of energy testing, the problem is a bit as though you're partially short-circuiting your communication pathways from your deeper aspects when you hold the tip of your tongue to your palate, so weakening the 'signal' and enabling dark force interference to crowd it out. I myself find very definitely that if I forget to remove my tongue from my palate for doing an energy test, I almost invariably get a clear answer from the dark force interference. Great care and vigilance (but not paranoia!) is thus always necessary.

You can also assist your self healing / self realization process by holding your tongue in that position for some (but NOT ALL) of your everyday life. The catch, however, is that if you do that, you are liable to make it habitual, as indeed I had, and thus to do it too much. It was only through questioning this through energy testing right now that I've found that I myself have been overdoing it quite considerably in that way, and so had actually been hindering the process of clearing my own energy awareness and energy testing of dark force interference.

 Are all psychic / clairvoyant phenomena astral in origin?

I too have a 'scientific' background (albeit, thankfully, not in the bogus science of psychology), which actually has helped me a lot towards getting a balanced outlook on all this.

Neither I nor anyone could truly honestly and categorically say what is the exact nature and cause of each individual non-physical manifestation that you describe above. However, my best understanding, very much based on my own observations and insights as I've been unravelling and dissolving my own dark force interferences, is that ALL such experiences - whether of yours or anyone else's - are presented to the person by the dark force, and that nobody ever truly sees such things directly. Those manifestations are bound to be presented with the aim of getting the person involved with those astral perceptions and so (usually unwittingly) engaging with the dark force and indeed opening their perceptions even more to the astral sub-reality and getting themselves still more interfered with. Indeed, such manifestations can be extremely beautiful (good lures!), and particular supposed higher beings can seem wonderfully warm and loving ('sirens' - beware! There's nothing more warm and loving than you yourself as a fully realized manifestation of fundamental consciousness!).

However, there is still something very important in your question, because your own deepest aspects are all the time seeking to communicate to your ordinary mind, not only with thoughts but often visual impressions.

The catch is that until you get very clear of your various energy blocks and dark force interferences (i.e. are very advanced in your self realization process, and well beyond mere 'enlightenment'), such communications are very subtle and faint, and are drowned out by those from the dark force. Indeed, as I explain in Better Without Channelling, the dark force routinely relays to people 'thoughts', messages and visual impressions that their deepest aspects are seeking to present to the person's ordinary mind but are more or less not being 'heard'. By doing this it completely covers up the much more subtle 'original', and always add distortions in its amplified, relayed version according to its agenda of the moment. It can and does sometimes allow such material through in an apparently undistorted state in order to lead the person on in accepting such communications or ascribing importance to the particular visuals. However, 'apparently' would be the operative word, for, to put it squarely, the astral sub-reality, by its very nature, is not about reality, truth or 'What Is', but only about illusion - which implies at least some level of distortion in everything that the dark force relays to you, however 'genuine' it seems.

One of the things that this means, then, is that, yes, some of the impressions you pick up would contain elements that have come from your own deepest aspects (including fundamental consciousness), but the only way you could use any of it would be to use your own deepest good sense to see if anything is really beneficially prompting you in some way. In other words, to get yourself clear of dark force interference it's essential not to take any such impressions at face value, and to apply an extremely strong 'anti-dark force filter' to anything to that you feel moved to give a second glance. Safest just to let go of all that and carefully and vigilantly to use energy testing. Indeed, with care you can use energy testing to see if some supposedly psychic impression that you'd received would be anything useful for you (though great care is needed, because a 'strengthening' response there might well be just the dark force interfering with your testing).

My inner inquiry supported by my own energy testing is that none of the manifestations that you report are the sort of things that your own deepest aspects would be seeking to show you - for your deepest aspects would show you 'visuals' only for very specific purposes, such as to give you some very general details and indications of progress during a healing you're giving, and would give you subtle, sometimes visual, impressions that tell you particular things about your surroundings and people who you observe - all for practical healing / self realization purposes and not given to you gratuitously.

In my case there is one predominant type of 'visual' that does apparently reach me from my own deepest aspects - though it can still be exaggerated / distorted by the dark force, so it needs considerable care in interpreting - and that is, a very subtle whitish or silvery radiance that I perceive about a small but significant minority of people. The dark force, posing as 'higher guidance', used to give me the story that this indicated people who were new or very recent incarnations of angels and other higher beings - but my understanding now that I've got clear of all that bullshit is that I'm shown that radiance to indicate weak grounding. Thus people who appear to me to have such a radiance have a significant grounding problem. That does actually tend to be people who are no-soul incarnations (particularly) or at least have reincarnated no more than a few times, so it is actually quite a handy indirect indication to me of at least a certain degree of energy compatibility of such people with me, and of people who could be worth my making some sort of contact with for the purpose of promoting healing / self realization.

Similarly, I sense a 'sticky' or 'mucky' darkness or greyness around certain individuals, which indicates very serious problems indeed - generally with attached entities that go well beyond the normal run of parasitic lost souls. Such people are ones for me to avoid or at least be very wary of, and I think this is why I'm given those impressions.

You see, things like this are not psychic perceptions in the normal sense (I never see auras, chakras and all that, for they are more dark force distortion), but instead they are really practical, grounded energy awareness. That is the sort of non-physical awareness that we need to be cultivating - not the more flashy and alluring dark force sourced visuals.

As far as I can understand at the moment, our own deepest aspects would not be giving us clearly defined images at any time, even when we've cleared out all our dark force interferences - for that would encourage people to get hooked on such images and get less grounded again and thus open themselves once more to the dark force. Your own deepest aspects know what is in your best interests and so wouldn't go giving the sort of clear and compelling visuals that the dark force does.

Possible origins of channelled information?

Immediately I hear the word 'book' I think "Stop!". The moment you are involving yourself with books instead of getting on with your genuine self realization you are doing just what the dark force is seeking of you. You see, it doesn't matter a toss how wise or seemingly 'enlightened' any particular book may appear to be, and no matter also whether it is deemed 'holy' or contains channellings from some supposed higher being. The clear-minded answer is the same, whatever. ALL those writings contain a dark force sourced agenda of diverting people from simply looking within themselves for their answers. Nobody needs other people's 'wisdom'. Everybody needs their own deepest awareness and good sense. Nobody but you can have the precisely best answers for yourself. A Course in Miracles is an instrument of the dark force and has been doing immense harm by cultivating people's attachment to other people's words, illusory realities, and to the spirituality phenomenon in general, instead of getting on with their self realization and dark force / entities clearance process.

In any case, what would you really be meaning if you were saying that the particular book is 'genuine'? I've no doubt that it is genuine in the sense that presumably Helen Schumann really was the author! But her claim to have been channelling "Jesus Christ" - that's a different matter! Yes, in a sense no doubt she was channelling "Jesus Christ", but she was not understanding in the slightest what that so-called "Jesus Christ" really was.

If you just let go of your beliefs and dark force sourced gullibility (no 'moral high ground' here, for I myself got deceived in such ways while I was channelling), you would wake up to the simple fact that although 2,000 years ago there was a supposedly great 'spiritual teacher' who, after the event, got to be called Jesus, like all humans he died in due course and isn't around now. Therefore whatever people are channelling and is announcing itself as Jesus or indeed the absurd and very clearly dark force sourced appellation of Jesus Christ, it cannot be anything to do with that particular historical man. If the channel sees a supposedly Jesus-like face while receiving channelled (mis)information, that is simply because the dark force is the source of all our so-called psychic 'higher' perceptions and thus it shows us what suits its agenda for us to see - not what is true.

In Better Without Channelling I explain just how it comes about that the dark force can present to people what seems to be 'good' or 'genuine' information, and indeed apparitions of seemingly wise and greatly loving guides or 'higher' beings. As I say there, even when apparently 100% 'good' information has been channelled, there is ALWAYS a distortion or catch somewhere - not least, the very fact of encouraging people to look outside themselves for the answers that actually need to come from within themselves. No genuine positive 'higher' presence would channel 'wise words' to us, for any such presence would understand the seriously negative effect of doing so, and indeed would keep well out of our way!

But then again, as each of us is a manifestation of fundamental consciousness ('the Ultimate'), nothing outside ourselves can be 'higher' than ourselves anyway, except physically of course. Another clear reason for looking to our own deepest aspects for all our answers. Energy testing (with great care) is a potent practical aid towards that end together with the whole healing and self realization methodology that I present on this site.

I point readers again to The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks, for that's the key place where I explain what's really going on.

One final point. The questioner wrote:

However, as our host Phil points out all too frequently, there are no absolutes...

I hate to say this, but that particular questioner is doing it yet again - putting words into my mouth because of hasty overinterpretation of my own words! I don't remember pointing out to anyone that "there are no absolutes"! Sure, in a sense the latter could be taken as a true statement, but it can be greatly misused through unawareness in its application, which is precisely why I keep clear of saying "there are no absolutes" or indeed anything to that effect. Rather, I keep pointing out in various ways that all we can ever get to know is simply 'What Is'.

Indeed, 'What Is' fits the bill rather nicely for being described as an absolute - or, more to the point, the absolute!

Why self realization?

Actually I want to sidestep some of this, because none of this is anything that we could definitely know. In The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks, I do make some relevant postulations that are supported by my inner inquiry / energy testing and help to make sense of the overall working model that I'm using.

However, let's take a quick look and see if there are things I can really usefully clarify here.

Strictly speaking, we do not have 'form', even when we incarnate. We are fundamental consciousness all the time (i.e. formless) but simply go through a particular set of experiences (which you could call illusions), in which, until we become enlightened, we fail to perceive our true formless nature. The 'soul' itself is part of that level of illusion, and indeed is a dysfunctional / pathological manifestation of dark force tampering in what would otherwise remain a pure continuum between fundamental consciousness and the 'ordinary' mind. So, what I had been calling new-soul incarnations now are most helpfully seen as direct incarnations of fundamental consciousness - in other words, no-soul incarnations.

So, when I talk of us at death dissolving back into fundamental consciousness (as though we were even temporarily something other than or separate from FC), this is actually not correct, but is simply a compromise that I make in my accuracy in order to say something that is at least tolerably comprehensible to most people. We do not dissolve at all. What dissolves is our illusion of incarnated life, including any belief that we have a soul. In fact, I shall in future talk of 'reverting to pure fundamental consciousness' - which looks to me to be getting closer to my true meaning.

So, when 'trapped' by an illusory reality (i.e., as distinct from the 'kosher' illusion of incarnated life that our deepest aspects were intending for us to have) the consciousness is actually 'trapped' (i.e. prevented from dissolving) by its own attachment to that illusory reality. If the consciousness has a soul it is much more prone to getting 'trapped' like that - for the soul contains programming to encourage that to happen. It does look to me as if any consciousness that has got trapped and programmed is then forced by their programming to go right through to the bitter end of their degradational soul-incarnation sequence, beyond which it is, apparently, just one of the parasitic lost souls that the dark force gets attached to no-soul incarnations. The reversion of such lost souls back to fundamental consciousness at the very end is just a querysome surmise of mine, though supported by my inner inquiry.

Now to your numbered questions:

1. As I understand it, there is no specific underlying intent that an incarnating no-soul consciousness should forget its true nature. It's just that a certain actually quite small amount of such forgetting is inevitable because of the trauma of birth and entering the dualistic illusion. Additionally, in the current 'real world', birth trauma is usually much greater than it need be, and then additionally there are the problems of unawareness and traumatizing behaviour of all the people around the new person, not to mention the problem of parasitic lost souls becoming attached to the person soon after birth.

So, the more 'realized' and aware a 'dark force'-free civilization is, the less 'forgetting' would happen to its new entrants, but there would always be a certain degree of initial forgetting. Thus, unfortunately, a high level of self realization in one lifetime doesn't enable you to completely bypass the 'forgetting' upon birth into another lifetime. However, my inner inquiry suggests that once you have attained a high level of realization in one lifetime, even though in most respects healthy non-sequential, non-karmic lifetimes have no carry-over from one lifetime to any other, you would then be strongly predisposed to rapid and direct self realization in further lifetimes that you choose. Similarly, specific positive traits may be intrinsic in your individual imprint in fundamental consciousness, so that they manifest wherever you incarnate.

2. Definitely - though I suspect that a consciousness that has managed to avoid getting trapped by the dark force from one no-soul incarnation would be successively a little bit less likely to get trapped in each subsequent no-soul incarnation. I don't know this for sure, but it feels intuitively to be what I'd expect, and it is supported by my inner inquiry.

3. Once a consciousness finally reverts to fundamental consciousness, it is free, and its further incarnation would be a pure, no-soul one.

(a) Self realization (like everything else) has no intrinsic quality of 'importance'. It's simply that it would appear that consciousness itself naturally seeks for abundance of experience in a basically joyful and maximally free manner, in ways that seem meaningful to it - that is, which have a certain order of beauty about the way they are organized (like a great work of art), and this is best achieved without serious limitations upon one's freedom and ability to experience and to be joyful about it, and without undue emphasis on pain and suffering. Self realization is simply our attempts to get clear of such limitations (primarily the stranglehold of the dark force upon us and all its ramifications) and thus to live increasingly as consciousness itself really has been intending to all along.

(b) Sounds a little confused - but I think is probably redundant in the light of my answer to (a).

Energy testing for everyday specifics

I would add here that the questioner wrote to me with this question privately initially, doubting whether the particular issue had much relevance for people outside the current Indian situation, and rather suspecting that it would look a bit odd to most people that she was considering using energy testing for a seemingly mundane issue.

I do understand such doubts, which I'm sure many people would have, but the reality is that energy testing is very much something to use (albeit with discernment) for everyday purposes. Doing so not only can very much turn your life around because of the better choices you make in your life, but also makes energy testing a much more grounding procedure, and this helps cultivate really effective energy testing and indeed energy awareness. If you restrict your energy testing to the 'airy fairy' and the esoteric, you are in error - indeed, I'd be inclined to say, gravely so! Doing that is very ungrounding indeed for your awareness and also makes energy testing itself ungrounded and much more open to the dark force and all its interferences.

Also, almost certainly, when you are using energy testing for testing hypotheses you are using the less deeply based form of energy testing, which I now describe as mental testing. This is much less reliable and more interference prone than rigorously applied deep level awareness testing. I explain about the difference between these approaches in my Energy Testing Guide.

If you are using an internal energy testing such as the smile test, it can be very helpful to use it even when you're out shopping, and in such situations there are often two tests to be done on a prospective purchase - first, testing on the item itself, and second, testing on your actually buying it at that time. Something may be perfectly beneficial for you in principle but yet it might be weakening for you to buy it at that time.

On the other hand, if you are using an external testing method, and particularly a pendulum, then it's important to use it only sparingly, because the pendulum method in particular can weaken your energy system through being used very frequently.

I'm not aware of any special type of energy testing to use for avoiding a particular threat. I would simply use my normal method to energy test on an image of making the particular excursion. If you are 'mental testing' as I often do, then you can test for more specific details and get more information. But going into 'mental testing' mode is a choice not to be made lightly because of its lesser reliability, and it isn't necessary for testing on a threat, and indeed is best used minimally, where there is some specific requirement to use it.

You can simply test on the mental image of sending the children to school 'today', keeping in mind at the same time the possibility of a terrorist attack there. You thus don't actually need to ask a question - doing of which latter would invite our old 'friend' the dark force to 'helpfully' answer.

However, because of the possibility of dark force interference in your energy testing results you would still need to apply discernment to the answers you get. I've indicated in the energy testing guide how I myself learnt to discriminate between genuine answers and bogus ones, and to get to the genuine ones when initially they were getting swamped by stronger bogus ones.

I caution that energy testing cannot guarantee safety in avoiding terrorist attacks or other threatening / harmful situations, but at least theoretically it would considerably reduce your risks. In other words, energy testing results are never based on an actual watertight prediction but rather, on the overall energy configuration of yourself and your surroundings, and the various resultant probabilities of untoward or indeed beneficial events occurring in relation to any particular choice that you make.

What's going to happen when you die?

This group of questions tickles me, because it speaks volumes (in a constructively revealing way) about the questioner. It simply has to be coming from a no-soul incarnation who has at least a fair element of the 'scared to be here' character structure. Such individuals are always carrying a lot of deep-seated fear (actually belonging to parasitic lost souls and in pretty well all cases accentuated by night terrors that they'd have been given when they were very young), and, because of their lack of soul programming to limit their awareness, a certain proportion of that inner fear and indeed terror manifests as what tends to get labelled as 'existential terror'. I've had my own chunk of that, and even now I still carry traces, albeit in the process of dissolution.

My speculative understanding about what will happen when I die is that I'd revert to fundamental consciousness, which would mean that my Earthly, physical and indeed conceptual experiences would cease. As far as I can ascertain so far, it would most likely be remarkably like going to sleep, but without the dreams. All the experiences that people describe in near death experiences, and which are described in, for example, the Tibetan Book of the Dead are illusory realities being presented by the dark force in order to ensnare the dying person. That's why it's so crucially important to get completely clear of beliefs about reality, and also any illusory realities that have been very likely covertly insinuated into the back of your mind by the dark force.

As to what it would be like for me after death, I wouldn't even attempt to speculate, except to understand that, as a micro-aspect of fundamental consciousness presumably I'd be in a state of harmony. Most likely from an incarnated viewpoint it would appear to be oblivion, a bit like a deep sleep, because, while incarnated, one is equating 'existence' with experiencing concepts, but from the viewpoint of myself as non-incarnated fundamental consciousness, I just cannot say, and I'm sure it wouldn't be possible to put into words anyway, as it would be at least largely outside concepts (at least, as we experience concepts). Very likely indeed, the subjective effect would be much like if you fell asleep at the end of a day, with no dreams, and woke up to a new day with no memories of the previous day, and no notion of any time duration between the two, though the two days may actually be aeons apart.

But that's all speculation - as far as it's worth entertaining at all.

I'm not sure to what extent I fulfil the criteria for answering the final pair of questions, but I'll answer them anyway.

1. Being apparently a no-soul incarnation myself, with a certain element of 'scared to be here' character structure (albeit now much reduced because of my self realization work), I have experienced that existential fear or terror, but it has always been moderated by the very unusual degree of grounding of a particular part of my awareness that is usually pretty weakly grounded in no-soul incarnations. Also, when I became enlightened, that fear took a great big bonk on the head, because then I perceived myself as being naked awareness, which appeared not to be limited to lifetimes, and thus the very concept of going out of existence ceased to have meaning. True, I still had the fear, but it couldn't translate so easily into being concerned about what would happen when I die.

Actually, if you think about it, death isn't really so special. Every moment is a death - you as you were experiencing yourself in each moment, have gone - and in an important sense it is a new you in each moment! And every one of those moments appears to contain the possibility that no further moment will come and you will thus cease to exist. -- So, where's the issue? We exist except when we don't exist! That's the reality. It's only the fear plus the related pseudo-thoughts put into our minds by the dark force that get us worrying about what simply is (or is not!). Do we worry every time we go to bed? Do we keep ourselves constantly awake just in case we might not wake up again? The reality is that "what is, is", and whatever happens happens.

2. That one really makes me laugh. That's just like the multiple choice questions given to me by the dark force at one stage during my severe ordeals in October 2004, which led to my first hospitalization. In that particular case the 'horror' option wasn't non-existence but the "Hell of Ultimate Torment" of Tibetan Buddhism.

Such inquiry is always a product of dark force interference, because the reality is that things are as they are, and one would never have such a choice - it's simply not in the nature of 'Existence' as we experience it (that is, aside from harmful illusory realities that the dark force may put in our minds). So, what the questioner is really doing here is telling me of a particular detail of how the dark force has been tormenting him with his own 'existential terror', which itself is really a product of dark force interference. He has some great 'candidates' (i.e. illusory realities) there for 'zapping' by means of the Grounding Post procedure.

The nature of enlightenment

These are the sort of questions that anyone with a really deep awareness is going to tend to come out with in response to the multitude of distorted notions of enlightenment that are in the various 'teachings' of the supposed 'great' traditions.

One of the great sources of confusion is the fact that the vast majority of people who have been publicly recognised as having become enlightened have done so through the extremely unbalancing means of ongoing use of formal meditation and related harmful and unbalancing practices such as prolonged mantra chanting. In those traditions it is regarded as important - even essential - to deny 'mind' or 'self' and to eliminate it. This is a distortion based on what is the real situation, which latter is that when we are enlightened we perceive directly that there is no true thing that can be identified as 'mind'; there is just awareness, out of which all experiences (including all phenomena) arise.

However, that doesn't mean that when you become enlightened your mind ceases to exist. It couldn't, because it never existed in the first place! All that ever existed was an illusion - indeed a delusion - that you have a thing that one calls the mind. All there really is, is awareness, and that has always been the case. There is an aspect of awareness that I generally call the mindspace, but that is not the same thing as a mind, but is more one's 'awareness' equivalent of your computer desktop, where you bring particular things into conscious focus.

When you become enlightened, you simply experience a change of perspective, so that you directly perceive yourself as awareness that is in itself non-dual, within which duality (i.e. all that you could call 'experience') arises or could be said to 'exist'. You become, as I often describe it, the peaceful observer of all that you experience. You really had been that all along, but simply hadn't consciously connected with and recognised that simple fact, so instead of being peaceful observer you'd seemed to be an active protagonist rather than a peaceful and loving observer and director of that illusory, even though in an important sense still real, protagonist. You are indeed in transcendence of time, yet you experience the illusion of time through the experiences that arise within the expanse of your non-dual awareness. From your perspective as an enlightened person, this is not a contradiction.

So, nothing actually stops when you become enlightened, except a particular delusion or distorted view of the nature of reality. A nice comparison, which I read in a book on Buddhism (Buddhism hasn't got everything wrong! ) is the experience of being in a high tower with windows on all sides and a big skylight. You see that you are in a high tower and surrounded by sky. Wow! -- Then, unexpectedly, the tower dissolves and you suddenly perceive that you ARE the sky - WOW!!!

But when that happens, nothing stops nor disappears, apart from your previous delusion, which was simply that you were in a tower and surrounded by sky instead of actually being the sky. One way that I often describe this state is, your having the ongoing direct perception that you are the meta-space within which all that you experience arises or exists - including the whole Universe. So, this meta-space of naked awareness is, in its deepest aspect, nothing less than 'the All', or, yes, fundamental consciousness.

Enlightenment is the true nature of every one of us. We do NOT leave Earthly life, even for a moment, simply through being enlightened - but an awful lot of people who believe they are enlightened (some of whom are actually so), go getting their awareness seriously ungrounded and into various vacuous illusory realities that they believe represent an enlightened state. It is these hopelessly misguided individuals who, thanks to their dark force interferences and deceptions, have spread about the notion that enlightenment means some sort of cessation of Earthly experience.

In fact, as I understand it, absolutely complete self realization (something that in Buddhism is typically confused with enlightenment) would result in one's ceasing Earthly experience. However, I've come to the unorthodox and pretty challenging understanding that it is not beneficial for us to become self realized beyond a certain level, though the exact optimal extent would be an individual thing. The point is, we come into this life to experience as fully as possible, and self realization beyond a certain point starts to actually reduce your life experience, because it then becomes less and less strongly dualistic. In any case, it makes no sense to come into life in order to get out of it as quickly as possible!

The important thing for a person to do in order to optimize their self realization is clearance of all emotional traumas, other karmas, beliefs and illusory realities, attached entities and other 'foreign' energy attachments or implants, and all dark force interferences / influences. That, then, enables the person to experience life to the full, and in a truly positive and abundant way.

Further self realization is a much more subtle process, and and for at least nearly everyone would have not only no benefit but would be going increasingly into the realm of ungrounding one's whole being as one becomes progressively less incarnated - NOT a process that we came here for, regardless of the fervently held beliefs of many people, especially in various Eastern traditions. Yes, such further self realization is often referred to as "deepening one's enlightenment (or 'realization')", but what is not generally understood in such traditions is that such maximizing of one's 'depth of enlightenment' is nothing more than a sacred cow of theirs. It's automatically assumed that because becoming enlightened is extremely beneficial and indeed important, indefinitely continuing to deepen it is just as important, whereas all it is really is just yet another seriously harmful sidetrack into which the dark force points various people. People who are doing that are not getting on with truly grounded concerns like clearing from themselves their dark force interferences and enabling themselves to live life fully and abundantly in as grounded, positive and creative ways as possible.

At the moment the situation is all distorted by the dark force interference with everyone, so that we need to work particularly hard at self realization, just to get ourselves clear of dark force interference and influence. Without that particular impediment upon us we would generally have no cause to make an issue of self realization, and would become enlightened naturally at an early age, possibly in some cases actually being enlightened right from birth.

Questions about the dark force...

My heart goes out to everyone beset by all the sorts of doubts, fears and convoluted questionings that the dark force brings to them. I myself used to feel deeply terrified (a deep morbid dread) by the very thought or mention of 'dark forces', 'dark practices', 'dark entities' and so forth. The emotional state that I'd have got into if I'd known in advance that I was going to have a concerted effort by the dark force to destroy me doesn't bear thinking about!

One of the many things that I've learnt from my quite prolonged phase of dark force 'troubles' (from 2003 onwards) and from the various measures that I took that actually helped me get all that behind me, was that the practical reality, even though not in every way comforting, is unimaginably simpler and less threatening than all the 'story' about 'dark' influences that the dark force puts into people's minds.

Yes, dark force interference is at least as pervasive as pretty well anyone could imagine, BUT this is not some new invasion of us, for us to get scared about. The dark force will do everything it can to scare people who look in any way as though, without being made scared about the issue, they might start doing effective things to weaken the hold and even the very existence of it. Even nowadays, every day the dark force is seeking to insinuate into my mind frightening and intimidatory scenarios in which the dark force is actual beings of some sort. A tediously common ploy of its with me is to give me a little painful clenching of the anus, while inserting little 'thought voice' messages to the effect of "Look, we're still here and you can't get away from us. You're a captive of ours and there's nothing you can do about it, and we're going to destroy you..."

Actually, in the above questioning about the dark force, the questioner has unawarely distorted her understanding of the information in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks because of the confusions that she's still in the process of resolving. It is extremely unhelpful to think of the dark force as having an 'army', even in figurative terms. What it does is to present to people the illusion of its having a huge 'army' and arsenal of 'weapons'. But actually, when you really deeply understand, you come to see that the dark force is extremely limited in the types of resource at its disposal. Perhaps its biggest resource / weapon of all is simply the ability to create confusion in people's minds, so that, unwittingly, under the control of the dark force, the people effectively create the illusory entities and other identities that the dark force may appear to have, and all the troublesome illusory realities that it uses, and indeed its appearance of having an unassailable, insuperable vastness.

Yes, in the abovementioned page I certainly have listed various manifestations of the dark force, and related phenomena, but the list, apart from all the illusory and indeed fictitious types of non-physical entity, is really very short.

• Astral entities and aliens are simply instances of those illusory manifestations, so actually they are not the problem that many people believe they are. If anything is the problem, it's simply the dark force itself, and people's being tricked by the latter into believing that all those 'entities' and 'aliens' are real (and thus giving them apparent power).
• Parasitic lost souls are a very major issue - BUT we do have simple means for progressively clearing ourselves of them. It is the obfuscations and confusions with which the dark force besets people that is the only thing stopping people from getting on with clearing them out.
• Discarnate human consciousnesses that may become spirit attachments or partial walk-ins are another major issue, albeit less abundant, but, broadly, the same consideration applies.
• Elementals are generally a relatively minor issue, and have major significance only where particular individuals are exceptionally poorly grounded and where people get into 'dark' practices.
• So-called 'self made demons' - these, where they really exist at all, are pretty well bound to be either elementals or imprints of one or more genuine entities that have left you, the dark force then doing what it can to maintain those imprints, so that you get a semblance of the entity still being there when it isn't.

Also on that abovementioned page I explain the true nature of the dark force and how it cannot delight in anything at all, because it is just programming and not based on an aware consciousness. You surely don't imagine that a computer virus actually delights in wrecking your computer, or that malaria parasites delight in causing you physical suffering and possibly death? Well, it's just the same consideration with the dark force. Yes, according to my speculative working model, it very likely does use human 'mind power' via the cacoprotean network, BUT that is not the same thing as it actually being any sort of consciously aware being or presence. As far as I've been able to ascertain so far, it has no will nor intent to harm nor hurt anyone for the sake of doing so.

What it does have is simply programming, in much the same way as living organisms without a human-like awareness, that ensures its ongoing survival - and that includes the disablement of anything that it detects might be a threat to it. So, although in practice the dark force can be seen as a negative influence, its fundamental nature is nothing to do with being negative (nor positive), but simply 'looking after its own'. Because it has no human-type awareness, it has no inner moderating influence that would tend to make it seek the least destructive means to ensure its ongoing survival - and that is the reason why there is no depth to which it wouldn't sink in the nature of its intrusions and interferences upon people.

Let's now take the other points:

The ghosts can, in very few cases even kill the person in question.

Ghosts, being elementals, can in extremely rare instances kill a person, but this is only in situations where extreme ungrounding or/and dark practices are involved. Apart from such extremely rare situations, ghosts are relatively harmless apart from their being sometimes used by the dark force to scare people. They are still not healthy to have around, though.

Ghosts and elementals use a person's own energy to kill that person? Also, as we see in horror movies, can a knife or weapon just come flying on a person to kill the person?

As I say, ghosts are elementals, so actually we have only one category to deal with here. As I understand it, in order to function at all, and especially to do anything physical, they require a quite massive input from one or more people's energy systems (thus seriously depleting whoever is 'feeding' them). One prerequisite for this to be able to happen is that one or more people who are extremely ungrounded or/and are into dark practices must be involved.

As I understand it, moving objects with precision by non-physical means, such as with a 'flying knife' to murder somebody, is so difficult to achieve, and is so liable to have unpredicted results (tending to rebound upon the practitioner), that it is more a dark practitioner's pipe dream or 'Holy Grail' rather than a practical proposition. 'Dark' practitioners who try such things are inclined to end up in various horrifically grievous predicaments that bring them a horrible and very early death.

My understanding is that one or more of the parasitic lost souls that were attached to me had had exactly that sort of fate, and this to a great extent underlay my feelings of morbid dread of anything to do with 'the dark side' - even just a passing mention by somebody of 'the occult' sending a deep shudder of dread through my awareness.

It's not that non-physically moving objects is so very difficult to achieve in itself, but the big issue is the extreme unpredictability of outcome, and the fact that the dark force and the elementals involved can at that point exploit the practitioner's energy system for far more than (s)he was intending.

My inner inquiry supported by energy testing indicates that it's highly likely that a particular very early childhood nightmare of mine was based on the experience of an incarnation of one of the parasitic lost souls attached to me, coming to a horrific end as a result of some such black magic that 'went wrong'. I give an account of that nightmare in Night Hells (Night Terrors) and Hearing Voices; it forms the culminating scene in the night hell (aka night terrors) sequence that I recount there.

Elementals would not kill a person 'off their own bat' - except in the rare case of it happening accidentally, where an elemental was, for example, causing pictures and even such things as chandeliers to fall from their fittings, and a person was accidentally hit by one of those falling things. But even then, no elemental would be doing such things without having been set up by an actual person who is into 'dark' practices. So, basically there always needs to be at least one human with pretty ill intent involved before any sort of 'murder via elemental' could even theoretically occur.

Does the dark force decide an agenda for each incarnation or does it act randomly?

If my current understanding is correct, the reality is neither of those alternatives. My own experience shows clear non-random operation, BUT we need to remember that the dark force is not awarely conscious, and therefore anthropomorphic descriptions of its modus operandi very much get in our way and indeed help to give it power.

The point here is that, as a self maintaining complex of programming in thought energy, the dark force responds in an automatic, 'mindless' way to each newly incarnated person according to what is in that new person's make-up and 'energy signature'. As far as I can tell so far, for most people any agenda would be almost all or indeed entirely in their soul programming, and so little or no 'agenda' would have to be set. The big issue of more 'visible' life agendas affects primarily no-soul incarnations, who have no soul programming. However, my indications are that an agenda is set ONLY in the sense of a certain 'program template' being set up by the dark force as its programmed response to any particular no-soul incarnation.

When we talk of an agenda, generally we mean an actual consciously intended plan, but the dark force has no such consciousness to intend anything at all, and so when we talk of its having an agenda this is only a convenient figure of speech, whose down-side is that it tends to perpetuate the harmful myth, that the dark force is an actual conscious being or presence (or menagerie of them!). I think maybe 'strategic life program' would be a better description, but it's just too much of a mouthful, and few people would know what I was on about.

Certainly in my case there are indications of there having been some sort of very harmful and restrictive 'agenda' or plan having been applied to my life by the dark force, but from the way things developed during my big troubles from 2003 onwards, it looks as though a sort of interactive opportunism was involved, and it's very difficult to know to what extent there was an initial 'agenda' or 'plan', and to what extent the constraining and distortion of my life was just a result of the dark force's ongoing reaction to my particular 'energy signature' as a no-soul incarnation who appeared to be potentially an exceptionally strong threat to it.

How is it that it has influence on the physical aspects of a being? Mental can be understood but physical is a surprise!

For a start we need to let go completely of the confused distinction between physical and 'mental'. When we understand that the fundamental nature of reality is consciousness / awareness itself, that distinction no longer makes sense. I write further in my general FAQ page about some of the ways that the dark force may cause a person physical harm.

How to demolish dark force attacks

Isn't that bloody typical!  The moment one points oneself seriously towards genuine self realization, the dark force at once tries something on to try to put the person off. At least such attempts (including attacks) can be seen in the positive light, that they indicate that most likely one is on the right track.

Fortunately the means for dissolving such attacks are straightforward and easy to use, and they also result in one becoming immunized against any further attempts to use the particular vulnerabilities for attacks. Thus over time, through consistently 'zapping' each attack when it does come, you are progressively building up your immunity to dark force attack altogether.

For such a strategy to be really effective you need a suitable stone sphere and an Energy Egg (preferably connected to a Guardian Angel or, better, its big brother, the Archangel), and it works because a major component of dark force attacks pretty generally is the creation / cultivation of particular illusory realities (you could roughly equate these with beliefs) within one's mindspace. These illusory realities may be more or less hidden from your ordinary, conscious awareness, but whether or not they are hidden, the dark force can use them to create feedback loops of emotional trauma energy such as fear or anxiety, grief, depression or indeed sexual arousal.

As well as the illusory realities, another component - and indeed almost always an initiating one - of an attack is some stimulus that triggers re-experiencing of particular emotional feelings - what you could call 'emotional button-pushing'.

So, to respond effectively to an attack when it comes, you have two things to do (they are not alternatives):

• 'Zap' the particular button-pushing vulnerability. That is easy, because emotional button-pushing is one of the plethora of types of environmental stress that the Energy Egg can enable you to develop some degree of immunity to. So, what you actually do is simply to tune into how you are feeling at that point and be aware of the attack (or likely attack) and tune your Energy Egg to that particular stress, using the method for tuning it to unidentified environmental stresses.

  It may take some days or weeks for full protection to that particular vulnerability to develop, but in my experience typically it would take no more than half an hour for the particular 'button-pushing' feedback loop to have stopped, and in the case of slight attacks or at least ones addressed as soon as the first slight pangs are noticed, they would often dissolve over just a few minutes.

• 'Zap' the illusory reality that is underlying the attack. That too is easy, using the Grounding Post procedure. However, actually identifying the relevant illusory reality does take a bit of skill and quite a bit of awareness and understanding of the way that attacks are carried out, if the process is to be efficient and not require lots of repeat 'zappings'. I recommend, therefore, that you read my account of how I came to develop this approach to dissolving attacks and simultaneously immunizing myself: Anatomy of a Dark Force ('Astral Entities') Attack Crisis.

There is another important thing to do, which is not specific to any particular attack, and that is to do regular (daily if possible) Self-Power Walking. That progressively clears the load of emotional trauma energy that you are carrying - whether it be genuinely yours or belonging to parasitic lost souls attached to you. By that means you progressively clear out the primary element of the ammunition that the dark force uses in its attacks. Thus over time any attacks become less strong and indeed less harmful even for a particular subjective level of discomfort.

I keep an Energy Egg within easy reach beside my bed, so that when the dark force puts a disturbing element into a dream and then uses the emotional button-pushing in that in order to start an attack on me as soon as I've woken from that dream, all I need do is reach across for the Energy Egg and use it for a moment to tune it to that particular incipient attack. That works brilliantly, and enables me to get to sleep again with minimal disruption - not quite what the dark force was presumably aiming for!

'Miracles'!? or seemingly physical manifestations

It's absolutely amazing (and to me pretty horrifying), the extent to which a paranormal phenomenon or supposed 'miracle' is taken to 'prove' something supposedly positive. To me, at the most basic level it simply supports the hypothesis that there is more to human experience than just 'the physical'.

So, we have a photo of Sai Baba - a pretty brazen practitioner of black magic - allegedly eating sweets while 'holy water' (maybe urine? or even semen? ) and ash (maybe from all those burning sulphurous pits of hell?) are coming out of the photo, and this is supposed to be proof of some sort of Divine power? -- Well, all I can say is , "That's no 'good face of' anything! Get shot of that supposed Divine power, and get the hell out (so to speak), effing quick!"

This shows so clearly how the dark force distorts people's reasoning so that they take something like that grotesque manifestation as a sign (even proof!) of the operation of a benign or benevolent 'higher power'! Anyone without such interference when faced with such a manifestation, would see at once that something seriously untoward is going on there - even if they don't have the sort of knowledge / understanding that I do of the modus operandi of the dark force.

Just look at the menacingly chaotic nature of that manifestation! A photographic figure of that black magic practitioner* eating sweets, of all things! Why the hell (sic) would such an individual, whether in the flesh or as a photographic representation of him, do something so perfectly silly and unhealthy as going eating sweets and making such a public spectacle of it? And why would 'water' be issuing from the photo (unless perhaps, he was bursting for a pee)? How could anyone know that any such water is 'holy'? -- Only because they've put that label 'holy' upon it as part of the working of their own superstition! As I've explained in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks, holiness is not an intrinsic quality of anything, and the regarding of anything at all as 'holy' is straightaway a symptom and sign of dark force influence and control.

* Okay, if you want to call him a 'spiritual teacher', then it looks even more grotesque!

And what the hell (sic) is ash, of all things, issuing from a person or a representation of him, really signifying? To people who manage to retain sufficient clear-mindedness in the face of such manifestations, serious chaos is manifesting there, and it is clearly the product of some extremely troublesome and harmful influence, just as is the bizarre and grotesque behaviour of so many people towards it in seeing it as a sign of something supposedly positive and 'good'.

If there were really such a thing as a person who is in some way 'Divine' (in any genuinely useful sense) and 'above' other people, the real way to make this apparent to people would be in being consistently loving and considerate to other people (i.e. always taking into consideration what is genuinely in their best interests), clear minded, abundantly creative, always seeking to inspire and encourage others to develop towards their own self realization, and consistently discouraging any sort of idolization or worshipping... - But then again, that is the fundamental nature of every single human-type being throughout the whole of 'Existence', and so it is not particularly special in the way that the vast majority would think. Such a person would simply be better functioning than - not really 'above' - other people.

On the other hand, what the use of 'special powers' (i.e. what people commonly call 'miracles') does is to simply drive people into 'worshipping mode', so that they look up to the supposedly 'great' teacher or whatever the person is posturing as. The use of such powers also indicate straight off for those with clarity of mind and 'eyes to see', that the particular practitioner is in deep and serious trouble, being under very considerable control from the dark force. Thus even apparently positive and beneficial 'miracles' carry a seriously harmful subtext and agenda.

Anyway, thankfully the questioner here is not taken in by that chaotic confusion of superstition concerning Sai Baba and photos of him, and clearly wants to understand more deeply what is really happening there.

I'm not going to go into detailed specifics about how one goes about using 'special powers' or 'performing miracles', which are all within the realm of black magic, because that is extremely unhelpful information to have while we still have dark force interference. Indeed, I don't know those specifics myself and don't seek them, for just that reason. I have, however, come to understand something of the odd basic principles involved, and it comes down to ways that it's possible to use or 'harness' illusory realities.

The bit of grotesquery involving the photo of Sai Baba mentioned further above would have come about through such harnessing of particular illusory realities and getting them to be so strongly manifesting in particular individuals' awareness that what is technically still illusory actually starts to intrude into the physical reality of 'What Is', so that other people witness it and in some instances the particular manifestation can even be photographed. I won't waste my or anyone else's time and energy in speculating as to the details of how that or any other paranormal happening came about, but I can add that these events involve extremely active involvement of the dark force, which is really what is performing those so-called miracles, and the individuals who appear to be performing them are unaware of the dark force's 'puppet strings' that are controlling them.

Very likely, more often than not, part of the process involves the dark force causing one or more involved people to unawarely create particular elementals, which actually are the intermediaries that carry out the 'miracles' or 'magic', because the dark force itself cannot directly affect physical objects. There are thus likely to be two main levels of 'puppetry' involved each time such 'magic' is performed.

It's just the same means that are used for various types of psychic attack, including potentially highly lethal ones, such as what was apparently attempted upon me.

Incidentally, if the man who, subsequently to his death, became known as Jesus, really did go performing so-called 'miracles' (though I strongly suspect that he didn't, and knew better), every single one of them would likewise have involved the dark force and similarly would have had an extremely troublesome and harmful subtext and agenda underlying them. As long as we have the dark force, there is simply no possibility of using 'special powers' without dark force involvement, because they all involve some sort of harnessing of aspects of the astral sub-reality and indeed usually harnessing illusory realities.

A mystery 'package' of emotional issues centred around homosexuality

Actually I had something remarkably similar myself (although no doubt many details would be different), so I have a particular empathy with J the questioner and his particular predicament. For me at least it was a pretty tormented and lonely-feeling sort of state, and felt horribly complicated and absolutely impossible to actually resolve. Another thing in common between me and the questioner is that he and I are apparently both no-soul incarnations (i.e. according to my particular working model of how reincarnation works), and for this reason we are much more open than other people to experiencing the existential terror that we are carrying - and the dark force exploits this in some very specific troublesome ways.

I haven't explored in any great detail the convolutions of all that, because it would be loading me up with unnecessary 'story' that would just get in the way (i.e. for healing and self realization purposes), but we can take it as 'read' that all that troublesome sort of emotional stuff is part of the dark force's interferences with us, whether directly or indirectly. In my case, extreme separation / loneliness traumas of certain of the parasitic lost souls that were attached to me were being used to create all those different - sort-of-sexual and indeed homosexual related - impressions and emotional feelings, longings and desires, with a sense of some sort of immense emotional agony underlying it all. Inside and surrounding that agony, in fact, was the existential terror - a desperate sense of being about to be annihilated - and it was all coloured and distorted by a very dismal slightly dull green-tinged greyness and washed-out hopeless feeling of disconnection from everyone in the whole of 'Existence'.

To my best understanding so far, what that really was, was an ongoing attack by the dark force with not only the existential terror in certain of the attached lost souls' separation / loneliness traumas, but also with a highly distorted rendering of birth trauma, which adds in that desperately awful sense of disconnectedness and a complete powerlessness to take power and change anything.

I actually pick up just the same 'energy' in the particular questioner's communications, so I have no doubt at all that he's getting just the same garbage put upon him.

Anyway, from a healing and self realization perspective we don't need to know even that much detail, as long as we recognise that those impressions and desires / urges are not genuinely one's own, and will get progressively cleared if one applies the sort of self realization methodology that I present on this site. This way, you don't have to keep exercising yourself in trying to decide whether a particular impression or issue belongs to you or to an attached entity, because, quite simply, the methods clear from you what is 'not you', and cannot in any way harm or diminish what is genuinely you.

Now getting to the bottom of it - the issue of a certain underlying life task...

In this context it would be particularly unhelpful and wide of the mark to concern oneself whether one is genuinely 'homosexual' or 'heterosexual', because as long as you concern yourself with such rigid and unhelpful categorizations you are obstructing your simply coming into peace and harmony with your own true nature, which doesn't at all warrant labels like those. However, as I shall now explain, there could be a particular significance of that 'homosexual' orientation.

In my case it appears that, regardless of the garbage that I was carrying, I was, and still am, 'hard wired' in such a way as to resonate most strongly in overtly loving ways with men rather than women.

That was not because I was specifically meant to have one 'orientation' or another, but simply that my particular 'orientation' appears to be a by-product of particular characteristics that are associcated with a particular life task of mine - something to do with promoting genuine self realization and doing what is possible towards weakening the influence of the dark force and indeed at least theoretically eventually taking actions that might bring about its full dissolution.

That, then, could be significant for J, the questioner here, for his underlying (at least predominant) sexual 'orientation', if any, could quite easily itself be 'homo', as in my case (BUT without any of those emotional issues, longings, desires and urges, which are nothing to do with his own intrinsic, natural feelings), and, quite possibly, for the same reason - i.e. the same underlying sort of life task. It's highly unlikely that I'm the only no-soul person to have incarnated in current times with an underlying life task concerned with recognising the dark force for what it is and, at least theoretically, doing something effective towards weakening it or indeed wiping it out, and again, if any other such person has a similar set of characteristics to further that life purpose, there would presumably be bound to be a similar resultant 'homosexual' orientation.

My inner inquiry supports the hypothesis that the particular set of very lonely and troublesome issues revolving around 'homosexuality', existential terror and a distorted rendition of birth trauma, with very deep and intense longings, often including some desires that one recognises as quite strongly 'deviant' and not healthy, tends to be a 'package'* that comes with agenda from the dark force to certain individuals, who would all be male, who are no-soul people and tend to be exceptionally independent- and clear-minded, who just happen also to have the weakening and indeed potentially the rooting out of the dark force as being a particular underlying life task of theirs. So, anyone who reads this and is such a man may well have that particular underlying life task, even though most likely being completely unaware of it.

So, then we have the question as to why the dark force is giving that particular unwanted gift package specifically to people who have that particular life task. Well, clearly it must be something to do with rendering those individuals ineffective to carry out their life task that is potentially a threat to the dark force. So, let's just look at this, because there is an important message here for anyone who has this issue and has not yet started effectively addressing it.

As I've just noted, such individuals are exceptionally independent- and clear-minded, which makes them much more resistant to normal dark force deceptions and side-tracks than most no-soul people would be. Because they are probably all predominately 'homo' in their sexual orientation, the dark force exploits that by making them feel intense 'homosexual' desires, including obviously 'deviant' ones, and also, by means of the existential terror and birth trauma, create out of it all a sense of intense isolation, loneliness and unfulfillability, also with a great fear of letting go of those issues, because the existential terror makes it seem that one would be annihilated if one didn't hold onto those desires and keep trying to fulfil them (though actually they are all unfulfillable in any really meaningful way).

If it were not for this unedifying little 'package' from the dark force, these particular people would tend to recognise each other as highly compatible in particular important respects, and tend to come together to further their own and each other's self realization and clearance from themselves of obstructions to their self realization. They would tend to form relatively very healthy companionships thereby. The companionship, if it were without attachment, would, in balanced amounts, have a strong grounding effect for these people. But with that 'acute isolation' package, these people cannot come together in any meaningful and healthy way, and most are too wrapped up in their emotional issues to pay proper undistorted attention to their self realization.

Because such people are isolated and cannot relate properly with other people, they have relatively weak grounding of a particular part of their awareness, which in turn makes them especially vulnerable to dark force interference and attacks, so that they can very readily become psychiatric patients - sometimes intractably so.

Thus it has been that once in quite a long while what appears to be one of these people gets in touch with me through this website, because he sees portrayed here a person with an amazing similarity of various experiences and indeed 'energy signature' (i.e. of a no-soul person), and, underlying that is the person's deepest aspects nudging him towards me because of the underlying common life task, which so far apparently none of these people has recognised as his own as well as mine. Unfortunately, that package of emotional issues ensures that the person cannot come together with me in any healthy or helpful way, and so far such individuals have all been driven by their emotional issues into communicating to me with highly problematical agendas based in their own feelings of isolation and existential terror - and I've had to avoid them because they've been seeking to drag me down with their own personal insecurity and emotional neediness issues.

For all such people the answer is actually very simple. As already noted, they can progressively clear out that package of issues using the healing and self realization methods that I present on this site. Once they're advanced enough in that process to be in sufficient clarity to recognise their difficulties and set them aside in communicating or relating with me, they could come together with me to become more effective in carrying out our common life task. I myself would surely be more effective when working in a team of such people, who all have sufficient clarity to be continuing to clear their emotional issues and become increasingly grounded instead of dumping loneliness, attachment or personal status issues on me or other members of the team - ungrounded behaviour that would screw everything up like no-one's business.

Nonetheless, whatever the apparent difficulties, I am ever so patiently waiting here for the first of the type of people who I'm referring to here to come together with me in a healthy way with that common and very practical purpose.

The nature of communication from one's deepest aspects

The simple answer is, no - at least, in any gross sort of way that would grab the attention of a person who isn't very advanced indeed in his self realization process and thus reasonably clear of dark force interference. Messages and intimations are pretty well constantly coming from your deepest aspects, but they are very subtle, even when relating to something that's pretty urgent. It's the dark force that 'reads' those and then relays them to us in amplified and distorted form to give various types of pushiness and feelings of compulsion or urgency to do or not do something. It will of course in any case give you such 'pushy' and 'urgent' feelings also when there is no corresponding 'message' from your deepest aspect. We thus think we're getting bona fide genuine 'inner guidance', when the 'guidance' is actually from the dark force, quite often using various messages or intimations from our deepest aspects as lures, to cause us to misidentify the true nature of that actually most troublesome 'guidance', which would distort various of those 'inner messages' almost beyond recognition.

I've experienced masses of that myself, so I do know what I'm talking about. I'm aware of particular situations during my big troubles from the dark force, where I was getting exceptionally strong warning messages from my deepest aspects, and still didn't really 'get the message' because the dark force was giving me a distorted version of what the warning really was. Without the dark force's interference those inner warnings would have been felt much more subtly, and they would have been just impressions without any sort of 'story' to them. It would have then been up to me to 'inquire within' to find out their meaning - and, as things are, energy testing, very carefully applied*, is really the way to do that. At that particular time I didn't have energy testing and was channelling instead, so whenever any of those inner impressions prompted me to inquire, I was getting answers from the dark force (posing as some 'higher' source), which of course did what it could to 'cover up' and give me a distorted version of what the underlying warning was really about, so that I then continued causing myself great harm, e.g. by continuing to use sacred geometry healing wands, which my deepest aspects were actually constantly seeking to warn me about.

* Indeed, particular care and discernment would be required, because one would pretty well have to use the intrinsically less reliable 'mental testing' mode of energy testing for this purpose.

However, there were certain situations where I did 'get the message' despite the dark force's 'best' efforts, and my own deepest aspects managed to a fair degree to keep me from using one extremely harmfully programmed sacred geometry wand, and eventually, in 2007, it pointed me very clearly to very promptly getting rid of two new sacred geometry wands that had just been sent to me, which had even more harmful programming and, according to my inner inquiry, could have been lethal if used over a quite short period.

Except in very rare instances your deepest aspects do not urge you to do or not do something, and the overall quality of its messages and intimations I would describe from a normal sort of viewpoint as very subtle and of an informational, NOT compulsional, quality. However, when we get really in tune with our deeper aspects, free from dark force interference, we'd find that the inner communications actually do on very rare occasions have a compulsional element to them - but in the 'real world' at the moment the dark force would work like the blazes to cover up such warnings by superimposing its own, amplified and distorted version, in order to ensure that you don't understand the genuine message that your deepest aspect has been trying to get into your conscious awareness, so that you would then go ahead and fall into whatever potential trouble that your inner warnings were seeking to get you to avoid - as indeed happened for me during my 'dark years' of major dark force troubles from 2003 to the first part of 2007.

Environmental stresses and beliefs without the dark force...

Of course, anything that I or anyone else says in answer to those questions must necessarily be speculative, but at least it can be based on 'reasonable' reasoning based on actual observations of how the dark force is interfering with people. And of course we have no means of knowing whether the dark force will ever be dissolved - though my own indications are that it would be strengthening and healthy for us to maintain a working assumption that at some point that will be the case.

Because of what I see as the extremely pervasive involvement of the dark force in pretty well all human dysfunction, at least as a major aggravator, by the same token I would expect life without the dark force to be pretty well unimaginably different from how we experience it currently. Indeed, I'm pretty sure that there would in that situation be no concept of 'mental illness' at all. Also, without the dark force people would generally be in a much more advanced state of self realization than almost anyone here in the world at the moment, and thus would be much healthier and would heal from injuries and infections much more efficiently.

Beliefs as we generally know them would really not be an issue - because it's the dark force that cultivates in us the fear and attachment that makes us hold onto beliefs and opinions.

There would always be some accidents, injuries, various environmental stresses and indeed the odd minor and transient conflicts between people - the latter generally between different populations where conflicts of interest arise.  But people's depth of awareness would ensure that they always sought to minimize stress and never got to the point of the sort of hostilities that are routine in the world as we see it today.

Undoubtedly some whole classes of environmental stresses would be less or absent without dark force presence, but many environmental stress influences are very like specific physical characteristics of physical materials and objects, and naturally vary with geographical location. For example, you can enjoy running your hand over the smooth surface of a flat piece of stainless steel - except that if you run it along a particular part of that piece you cry out in pain and your hand is dripping blood - because what you were innocently stroking was a sharp knife, and you'd just run your hand along its beautifully sharpened edge!

In terms of energy effects of our surroundings, it's a bit like that, albeit the contrasts not usually being so extreme. However, I'm sure that the dark force, both directly and indirectly, does increase our susceptibility to environmental stress sources, so without it most of the stress effects upon us would presumably be less, and probably some probably wouldn't be there at all. Just as in the case of 'good' and 'evil', there is no intrinsic quality of stressfulness in anything; it is our response to our surroundings that constitutes the 'stress' effects.

So, in a nutshell, I'd expect there still to be environmental stress issues, but they would generally be less numerous and less intense.

''Schizophrenia'' and medication

Yes, it is an unenviable and pretty appalling situation that 'voices' hearers can find themselves in, where their basic human rights are ridden over roughshod by people who themselves have a breathtaking ignorance, unawareness and general lack of understanding of how the 'mind' functions, of what the 'mind' is, and of what are the real problems that need addressing when people have problems that appear to them to be 'all in the mind'. Very likely, if I had been unequivocally 'hearing voices' myself during my 'dark years' of 2003 to early 2007, I myself would have had a much more difficult passage.

Of course one of the signs of the woeful inadequacy of the whole psychiatry mindset is the sticking of supposedly diagnostic labels on people, such as 'schizophrenia'. That label is nothing more than a fig leaf, put there to hide the actual issue(s) and also to hide the supreme ignorance of those who give such so-called diagnoses or work with them. The 'voices', together with all the troublesome thoughts and feelings, such as anxious and paranoid ones, that come with the voices, are simply particular interferences and attacks from the dark force, and I present on this site a great set of means to progressively clear out that garbage.

First, we need to be consistently cultivating the understanding that the voices are NOT from actual beings, but are just illusions created in one's mindspace by the dark force, which itself is just 'rogue programming in thought energy'. So, however tiresome and intrusive those voices are, they are just a lot of flatus (i.e. fart gas). They will be all the easier to disregard, the more consistently you cultivate that understanding of their true nature.

The issue of the so-called 'mental healthcare' services requiring one to take medication (and backed up in that by draconian legislation) is certainly a real and very pervasive problem. Although of course you may have got false answers in your energy testing - and good on you for using the latter! - I'm inclined to think the answers you got were bound to be genuine, simply because when you're caught in a situation like that, the only workable way forward tends to be a pragmatic one of at least appearing to conform with the requirements placed upon you, at least until you can show that you're turning your own situation around.

That was my real 'lifesaver' when I myself was in psychiatric hospital - the doctors so much wanted to get me stuffing myself with more drugs, but I was too damned articulate and self confident about my ability to understand the problem and resolve it myself, and I was too damned articulate in explaining to the doctors and other support staff as to why the doctors and indeed psychiatry altogether had got it all wrong - and indeed also because my dark force attack crises cleared so quickly (dramatically so, from the doctors' perspective), and primarily under my own steam, so to speak, so that the doctors and other support staff realized that I was best listened to carefully when I spoke of what was helpful and what would be unhelpful for me. They might 'disagree' with me, but they were still faced with the disconcerting reality of my ability to sort out my situation quite dramatically in a way that they didn't see with other 'patients'. Gaining such self 'mastery' is a sure-fire way to get oneself free of the clutches of the 'Psychiatry Brigade' pretty quickly.

Incidentally, if for some reason I got 'voices' now, in the current disgusting climate of 'mental health' legislation, and got caught up with the 'mental health' services, while I would reckon on being perfectly straightforward and honest with the people I was dealing with in all normal circumstances, if I were clear that my own methods were working and the (very harmful) medication was doing nothing helpful for me, and they were still insisting on my taking their full medication despite all the observable evidence pointing to the need to drop it forthwith, as appropriate in specific situations I would be fully prepared to reduce or stop the medication and LIE to the professionals to keep them quiet. I would do that with care and discernment, of course, but there is no ethical justification for allowing such people with serious mental health issues themselves (as is the case with all those 'professionals') to try to bring me down to their degraded and debauched level of 'understanding' and undermine my own self healing and clearance process.

However, one would have to be very smart for such lying to work the way that one wants, because the 'professionals' would be well used to 'patients' lying to try to get out of taking their medication, and thus lying would be immediately suspected. First and foremost, one would need to be able to show clear improvements in one's state, and a really visible self assurance and self command about one's whole approach to positive life change, so that it really looks as though your own methods are working. Without that the professionals would just assume that you weren't telling the truth when claiming that you were taking your full medication, and would take whatever measures they wanted to force you into a full medication regime.

The particular energy testing results that you mention certainly wouldn't be meaning that the medication in itself is beneficial, but presumably that it would be more weakening for you to act in a way that simply gets you into still more of a pickle. In that particular case you have been faced with a choice between options that would all be weakening for you, and so your energy testing would indicate 'strengthening' for making the least weakening choice. In any case, if the medication does weaken the 'voices' sufficiently for you to ignore them and gain more confidence, then indeed that medication could be viewed as a pragmatic very positive temporary emergency measure to use just while, as you say, you use genuine methods to build and strengthen your system and so progressively resolve the underlying problem. As you're effectively forced to use the medication, that, then, is part of the current lie of the land for you, so it's up to you to make the most positive light of it rather than stressing yourself out telling yourself that this is terrible and you're a victim. Yes, you can be smart and 'ride' the regime that is enforced upon you, just till you can get yourself clear of it!

The really important thing is that in an ongoing manner you use the various healing and self actualization methods that I've pointed to on this site, to progressively clear your problem, because if you don't take command of yourself over that, the problem will not clear and would be bound to grow. Nothing that the so-called 'mental healthcare' services can offer you will in itself genuinely solve anything.

I particularly recommend that you use the eight-point eye movements at least twice a day, and have an Energy Egg (the more powerful white jade version), preferably connected to a Guardian Angel (or best of all, to an Archangel) (I mean, the programmed polished ovoid stones and not the bogus non-physical beings!), and to frequently use the simple procedure to tune the Energy Egg to all current unidentified environmental stresses affecting you - and to have the Energy Egg at all other times sitting upright on its transmitter base when you are not actively doing anything with it. The environmental stresses that the Energy Egg helps you to become immune to include all emotional 'button-pushing', so that over time, with repeated use of that simple tuning procedure, you should find that any 'voices' or indeed anything else that 'pushes buttons' for you has less and less of that effect for you.

You may have already read Dark Force and Entity Troubles - The Real Way to Clear Them, and I recommend that as a particularly relevant ongoing reference for you in your clearance process. Please be aware that that page is one of those that are most liable to get periodic updates and additions, so it's not enough to have just read it once. It's a real mine of information, and needs periodic downloading and re-reading - that is, if you're serious about turning your life situation around.

Why is 'fear' associated with astral thought forms?

Actually there is one sentence in the above that isn't fully clear to me as to its meaning (I think a grammatical matter) - "Till the time we are unaware of the same, we do fear." - but in practice this doesn't make any difference to the points that need making here.

Let's take one particular statement in the above, because this lies at the heart of our misunderstandings about what fear really is. 

It's fine that fear does arise to warn us about dangerous possibilities that can be a life threat, so that we take corrective actions on time.

Sounds sort of superficially convincing, doesn't it, but is that actually true?

People almost universally believe at least something like that, yet when you really look at such claims that so many people make, you can't help but see that those claims are patently and obviously incorrect. Fear itself doesn't warn us of anything. This is a significant part of the problem - remarkably few people properly understand what fear is, for they confuse fear itself with the thoughts and dark force intruded pseudo-thoughts, nasty feelings and indeed irrational behaviours associated with the experience of fear.

In its most basic and natural form, all fear is, is a 'flight or fight' response to situations that are recognised (correctly or incorrectly) as being threatening to one's existence, and for which an immediate and pressingly urgent escape response is required. In humans, because they've the intelligence to create a relatively very safe environment for themselves, fear is largely redundant, and as long as they are functioning reasonably well they would generally not experience fear, and when it does arise it would still be only a transient 'pang' that might spur them to flee all the more immediately and powerfully from a tiger or a charging rhinoceros or indeed a rockfall or avalanche that's coming fast down the precipitous mountainside towards them.

However, if I'm negotiating the crest of a breathtakingly narrow mountain ridge, precipitous both sides, fear is one of the last things that I need in order to be as safe as can be in such a situation. What I need is my own aware vigilance and level headed clear thinking - and of course my own will to live and remain alive until there is good reason not to do so. Fear in that situation would make me tense (tremendously unhelpful), it would make me breathless, rapidly fatiguing, very likely trembling, and unable to think properly - and thus MUCH more likely to make a fatal mistake. The same is true if you're driving a car. It's not fear that makes you safe (it would make you a menace on the road) - it's your own rationally considered assessment of your observations of the potential hazards of your situation that would keep you as safe as the situation can allow.

So, fear itself does NOT inform nor warn. What informing occurs is either from programmed behaviour patterns or from aware intelligent thought or some combination of the two. Whenever either or both of those informs you that if you don't get the hell out bloody quick you'll be dead or badly injured, and there is a perceived immediate urgency about it, fear (i.e. in its genuine, undistorted form) then would kick in to attempt to physically yank you out of that dangerous situation - so you spontaneously 'get the hell out', probably running much faster than you ever thought you were capable of, and possibly jumping and vaulting over obstacles that in normal times you'd have thought impossible to surmount like that.

Nowadays, and especially in 'developed' civilizations, that has much less relevance for humans than for animals, because the aware, intelligent thought processes of humans generally enable them to respond in fully appropriate ways to each situation, taking account of each situation's uniqueness - so there is rarely or indeed never need or appropriateness for a pattern type of 'flight' reaction to a situation. So, when people tell us that we "need" fear in order to protect ourselves from hazards and thus to survive, they are, to put it bluntly, talking out of their back ends! The reality is that we can respond more effectively to any threatening situation by aware vigilance and understanding the nature of any threat and the uniqueness of the particular situation, so that we can provide a uniquely appropriate response to each individual situation. It's only where there is some immediate physical threat, such as an out of control bus bearing down on you or a rockfall threatening to splat you into carrion for the vultures, where an almost instant 'yank myself out of this' response is required and the 'lightning bolt' of a genuine fear response would serve a useful purpose.

However, because humans do still have that fear potential, the dark force is consistently exploiting it, overtly or covertly feeding pseudo-thoughts and illusory realities into people's awareness, which make all manner of aspects of self realized life (such as a joyful openness to and exploring 'the unknown'), and indeed all manner of manifestation of their fundamental flexibility of outlook, appear to be threatening situations. Because there are normally no real physical charging elephants or clouds of 'angry' hornets or rockfalls coming for you, you do not actually, physically, flee - but nonetheless your fear (i.e. 'flight or fight) 'buttons' are being pushed. And so you experience a progressive accumulation of emotional stress or trauma because your 'flight or fight' response is being constantly stimulated but you are not fleeing nor doing any genuinely, helpfully defensive fighting, either of which would give release to the transient emotional 'lightning bolt' that the basic natural fear response represents.

So, what we are usually calling fear in humans is best regarded NOT as genuine natural 'biological' fear itself at all, but as an almightily unwholesome emotional MESS that we are all in because of the way that the dark force exploits our basic fear (i.e. reflex 'flight or fight') mechanism by constantly stimulating it, to make us cowering, gibbering travesties or indeed wrecks as compared with what we would be like if we were really healthily functioning.

As to how to clear this - it's simply a matter of dissolving the illusory realities / thought forms that pseudo-inform us that 'the unknown' and other aspects of our life experience are genuinely threatening (Grounding Post is a great method for this), and also progressively dissolving the accumulated emotional stress / trauma 'energy' that has resulted from the dark force's continual inappropriate stimulation of that basic, biological, fear 'machinery'. Self-Power Walking is the best and most efficient way I know so far to clear that accumulated stress, though The Work and the EFT can also be helpful for many people. Please note, incidentally, that NONE of the methods that I give on this site would in any way remove or impair your genuine biological fear mechanism. What they would be clearing is all the accumulated illusory realities and distortions in your 'energy system' that have resulted from the dark force's abuse of your fear mechanism.

As far as concerns the astral sub-reality, isn't it inevitable, really, that so much to do with the astral sub-reality gets associated with fear, considering that the dark force works through the astral sub-reality and uses its tampering with our fear mechanism all the time to manipulate and distort us?

Actually, I rather think that in at least some cases a person would feel 'fear' (i.e. the distorted  feelings that I've mentioned above) towards many aspects of the astral sub-reality and what it may contain, because his/her deeper aspects are giving subtle indications that because of the dark force problem it is better to keep clear of nosing into the astral sub-reality and getting fascinated by anything therein.

Those indications would not usually be 'heard' or felt directly, but the very subtle sense of unease would readily be relayed to the person by the dark force, amplified and distorted with distinctly unsubtle 'fear' feelings. However, for some people such 'fear' feelings would be mixed by the dark force with others such as natural curiosity, ecstasy or indeed sexual arousals to give them a markedly addictive quality, so that some people, far from recognising the underlying unease or the superimposed dark force intruded 'fear' distortions for what they are, would be lured into addictively mucking around with various aspects of the astral sub-reality. Hence people getting hooked on 'magic' and dark practices in all their different forms, and on all sorts of distorted erotic and sexual activity, whether it be in black magic rituals or in Tantra, which latter is actually a whole hell-hole of dark practices dished up as supposedly something ultra-pure that takes people into enlightenment and self realization (as almost universally practised, it's actually a serious obstacle to them).

Levels of consciousness?!

Well, actually, to be strict about it, we can't absolutely know whether there are or aren't discrete levels of consciousness or of reality (the true nature of reality being consciousness anyway). Consciousness / awareness is what we basically are - yet it appears to be impossible for anyone to know what it is or to really understand it in any sort of objective way. So, I want to be careful and not go categorically saying that there are no discrete levels of consciousness. What I would say, I think quite reasonably, is that neither I nor anyone else has any sound basis for assuming that consciousness has discrete levels (implying a 'high' / 'low' polarity)*. The basis that people are using is simply passed on teachings and channelled or clairvoyantly obtained information, or, of course, visionary experiences. But, as I've explained in various places on this site, it appears that there is just one underlying source of that 'information', which has come to us through all those different means - and that, of course is the sweet little dark force, which sticks its disgusting stinky fingers (figuratively speaking of course!) into all walks of human life regardless of whether people recognise it or not.

* Actually, there is one polarity that does appear to exist, and that is simply that between duality and non-duality. However, enlightenment notwithstanding, I have so far perceived no indications that would point to there being discrete (i.e. somehow demarcated and definable) levels within that polarity, which, in the absence of such pointers, I'm left to assume to manifest as a straightforward continuum without any sudden 'steps' between one pole and the other. Even within our physical experience there appears to be a gradation of degree of duality, so I cannot say that even our physical experience represents a genuine clearly defined 'level' of consciousness. It appears to be so to most people only because they do not look at their life experience with sufficient depth of awareness and so are extremely ready to be fooled by superficial appearances - and in particular they do not perceive the non-dual aspect of all experience and so they recognise only duality*.

* well, except that as they don't understand the concept of duality vs non-duality, they can't be said even to recognise duality, but instead, in important respects, they live as unaware automatons without any genuine awareness of what they are or what their life experience is really about.

Many people believe that the ability to perceive 'higher realities', including all the supposed 'levels' or 'dimensions' of consciousness or of reality, is one of the hallmarks of enlightenment and self realization - but that appears to be just one of the multitude of gross distortions of the actual situation that have been dished out from the dark force via all the spiritual, mystical, metaphysical and 'New Age' traditions.

My own inner perception since my having gained fundamental clarity (i.e. crossed the enlightenment threshold, in more 'normal' terminology) has consistently been of myself being a simple continuum or gradation of awareness / consciousness between the dualistic physically aware aspect of consciousness (what people call the mind) and the non-duality of the essence of 'What Is' - what I call fundamental consciousness (for the sake of a label, so I can talk about it). That in itself doesn't at all prove that there are no discrete levels of consciousness, but at least it doesn't in the slightest degree support the notion that the different levels or 'dimensions' objectively exist.

Indeed, during my channelling years, from late 2003 to early 2007, the dark force, posing as higher sources, sought to give me some notion that those 'dimensions' were real, but the illusions I was given were, frankly, rubbish. Those different levels or 'dimensions', and the supposed higher beings within them that manifested to me, were so stylized and amateurishly contrived that it was a great pleasure and relief for me in 2007 to drop the whole notion of their existence. Not only did it feel so much nicer and less stressful, but, more importantly, at once it was clear that I was in the process of actively disempowering the dark force in its ongoing attempts to wreck and destroy me. During all that time while I was engaging with those illusions and deceptions (and, by doing so, unwittingly helping to maintain the dark force's ability to interfere with and attack me) I'd been continually bugged by the discrepancy between all that supposed higher reality on the one hand and the simple continuum of consciousness between my mindspace and 'the Ultimate' that I perceived directly, and it was such a relief to let go of that and no longer to have such a discrepancy to bug me!

However, precisely because nobody really knows what consciousness is, nor in the slightest degree knows how it 'works', we inevitably use schematic descriptions to assist us in various practical ways. So, for some particular purpose even I might talk of a particular 'level' of consciousness - though usually nowadays I prefer to use the more neutral term 'aspect' rather than 'level', because 'aspect' doesn't imply any specific polarity. I keep completely clear of the term 'dimension', however, because that has extremely unhelpful New-Agey connotations. When I do talk of a 'level' of consciousness, I mean it very much including the quotes, for I'm using it only as a figure of speech, not as an intimation that I believe that discrete levels of consciousness objectively exist.

As the questioner observes, beliefs and illusory realities that we carry, and indeed emotional issues, can be conveniently regarded as working upon us and distorting our life experience in different 'levels'. But I don't take that to imply that they're occupying different objective discrete levels of consciousness. Rather, it's those accumulated issues that get laid on like layers of dirt and can thus be regarded as operating at different levels, except that they tend to interconnect a lot between their mucky 'layers'. Again, however, this is just a convenient figure of speech, but at least a helpful one from a healing perspective. It's all the more helpful if you understand that any sense of such layering is just particular aspects of the distortions and so is all for dissolving through the healing / self actualization process. It can help a lot in explaining why some issues don't clear readily at a particular time while others do.