Night Terrors and Hearing Voices

Introduction

What I relate immediately below is how in 2005 I came to have an apparent explanation for the night terrors which I myself had experienced as a young child. This involved information which I'd channelled from a supposedly higher, non-physical source - the catch being that for an extremely important reason I've now completely distanced myself from all channelled information because of certain problems that are intrinsic to channelled information generally. For more about this please see Better Without Channelling.

This put me in an apparent dilemma, for I seemed to have a very convincing explanation of night terrors in general and mine in particular, and I was now wondering, did I really have to abandon that now and go back to square one because of my rejection of channelled information?

My conclusion here was that actually I didn't have to go back to square one at all, but rather, to show on this page how the channelled story, although itself unverifiable and virtually certainly distorted if not altogether wrong in its underlying tenet relating to a past life connection of mine, had served a useful purpose in pointing to sufficient explanation for us to use for healing purposes. It actually doesn't matter what is the actual truth about the precise origin of night terrors (except to satisfy people's intellectual curiosity); the important thing is to have enough understanding of the nature of night terrors that we can apply proper healing perspectives and methods to them and the related issues of emotional trauma and interfering astral or 'dark' entities (the prime cause of 'hearing voices').

In any case, my experience has been that channelled stories which appear to give truly meaningful explanations of things are generally based on good information but are merely distorted with the aim of leading one astray. This suggests again that it is wise to suspect that the particular channelled explanation which I'm writing about here points to certain things which really have been happening, even though there would be considerable discrepancies between story and the original historical facts.

So, what follows here starts with a certain level of original confusion of mine in that I was accepting information from a non-physical source which I know now to have been intrinsically deceitful and indeed to have had an agenda to mislead in a particularly pernicious way. Then, when I've told my story, further below I'll go into what we can then understand reliably while leaving all the channelled 'information' (i.e. story) behind, adding further insights as I've gained increasing clarity as I've come into what appears to be the final stage of clearing from myself the interference and influence of astral entities (of which latter, more further below).

One final note. If you read my account of my own experiences with astral entities, you will see that, despite some severe and harrowing situations that I was taken through, during my major 'troubles' with the entities from October 2003 I approached the whole issue with a sense of humour throughout* - seeing the funny or crazy side of everything wherever possible rather than sh*tting myself with fear. So, for "my troubles with the entities" read "my showdown with the entities". That is the real way forward. In truth there is nothing for any of us to be frightened of - only work to be done in joyfully making things better.

* If by any chance you 'hovered' your mouse pointer over that smiley in the blue panel above, you would notice that Mrs Violet Withering-Glance has a few things to say about my activities...

Making some useful sense of the story...

Okay, that was the story, so now let's see what we can get out of it while letting go of the unverifiable and no doubt in part fictitious channelled elements.

It was clear that my night terrors experiences had been drawing on something extraneous to this lifetime of mine - there was absolutely no rational way I could escape from that conclusion, based on what I'd seen in the night terrors. The story about the night terrors' origin in past lives of mine certainly appears to 'add up' and could explain my experiences, and could be true, but is it true? -- In fact not necessarily.

Another theory about supposed past life experiences is that they are some sort of memories or thought forms left in the Earth consciousness or human collective consciousness by different people when they died in the past, and by some means these have been getting 'parasitically' attached to people when their lives begin - so that the people are carrying often major issues which appear to be their own but yet clearly have no cause within their own lifetimes, and in reality are not their own at all and originated from other people who'd lived in the (often far) past.

Another possibility is that it is astral ('dark') entities which get those extraneous past experiences attached to us, and, in the case of 'dark' experiences such as night terror material, maybe they actually create the experiences rather than the latter just being lingering memories / thought forms left over from other people's lives. Certainly during my ordeals with astral entities in 2003 to 2007 the entities showed me a fair number of what were apparently night terror visuals, most of which I think were not from my own childhood night terrors. If they could show me such things, they could do the same for other people, and thus it's possible at least that in childhood night terrors it's really astral entities giving such hellish displays.

Update, post-May 2007 - increasing clarification

Now that I'm in the final stages of clearing myself of the obstructive influence of astral entities ('the dark side'), I now seem to have come to a clearer understanding of what has been going on, while keeping clear of belief on the matter, for beliefs are highly problematical and always get in the way of really resolving issues.

My understanding now is that the origin of night terrors is, generally speaking, NOT in a previous lifetime of the person experiencing the night terrors. Indeed, according to my understanding now, I and the majority of people who have night terror susceptibility are actually incarnations of NEW souls which have never incarnated before - yet ironically we are the very people who nearly all healers, psychics and mediums would say are very old souls who have reincarnated countless times so that we are highly evolved and thus fundamentally deeply aware and wise beings. So, what on earth is going on here?

The answer appears to be that the astral entities, which interfere at least to some extent with EVERYBODY - you included! - impart misinformation to 'sensitive' people (including healers, psychics and spiritual teachers) to seek to persuade them that everyone as a soul keeps reincarnating to learn lessons and evolve, so that people come to believe that they will reincarnate according to that scenario.

The BIG problem about this is that the astral entities are actually seeking to ensnare us in an illusory reality, particularly when we die, so that our consciousnesses (souls, if you like) fail to 'go home' (dissolve back into fundamental consciousness or 'recombine with Source') 'as Nature intended' and instead remain stuck in the so-called astral, non-physical realm of illusion where the astral ('dark') forces operate, usually pretending initially to be all manner of beneficial and loving higher beings but actually progressively reprogramming these 'lost' souls to accept power / control agendas and become less and less aware and loving, less happy and more driven by fear. Part of this process involves the souls being programmed to keep reincarnating in what you could call a retro-evolutionary sequence, so that the oldest souls incarnate as the least aware people.

Most humans are in fact incarnations of such 'lost' souls who are on this downward path towards what we'd view as a horrendous state of existence. Sorry to say this, but this appears to be the case, and running away from recognition of this (which state of denial is just what the astral forces cultivate in us) just helps seal our fate. Yes, this is serious stuff!

Eventually these souls become so degraded that they cease to incarnate and are then just non-physical puppets of the astral forces, and it is these degraded and reprogrammed 'lost' human souls which are the parasitic consciousnesses which attach (at birth) primarily to people who, like myself, are incarnations of new souls - and they are pre-programmed by the 'dark' or astral entities to cause these humans a variety of serious problems with a view to preventing them from achieving enlightenment and full self realization, and to become ensnared themselves or inveigled into the astral forces' agenda for them to be also progressively degraded and become parasitic puppets of the 'dark side'.

So, each one of us who is an incarnation of a new soul has some parasitic consciousnesses attached to him/her. These consciousnesses are of people who had died at various times in human history, and we can and often do experience their memories and traumas as though they were our own - which is apparently the reason why so many of us who haven't incarnated before still apparently have traumas and memories which are clearly not of this life (as indeed I had on a pretty grand scale!). So, yes, they have past life traumas and maybe memories, but not of their own! The results of past life regression (NEVER a recommended procedure), therefore, can be extremely misleading.

I write in more detail about this in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

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

Now, let's return to the night terrors issue. Although it is of course impossible to know for sure where the entities dredge all that virulent stuff up from (of which I was shown a lot more in late 2006 and early 2007*, so I'm still clearer about the unedifying nature of it), there is an important point here. These 'dark' or astral entities are completely non-physical, unlike us, and are thus not limited to a specific point in space and time. My own understanding, having slept on this and looked deep within my own consciousness over the days, weeks and months, is that the night terrors visuals have originated from visualizations by actual humans being controlled by the astral entities - because these astral entities do not have the creativity and abundance of awareness and experience that humans do, and so they cannot actually create such material themselves.

* Among the different and sometimes awesomely grotesque material that was shown to me was a whole subcategory of images which looked like an array of 12 or so animated children's drawings, often actually drawing themselves in a rather menacing nervous, twitchy manner (suggestive of many types of ichneumon wasp) as I watched. Even though I could see nothing particularly meaningful to trouble me in those 'drawings', they had about them an immensely troubling feeling of wrongness and their being about to display something desperately harrowing. My understanding here is that it was simultaneous attacks and covert suggestions or pseudo-thoughts from the astral entities which made those actually pretty innocuous images seem to be so virulently disturbing.

I was also shown a sequence containing spectacularly exaggerated flowing images of masses of ichneumon (or perhaps tachinid fly) maggots bursting out of caterpillars (something which has always horrified me in everyday life) - and this was made to feel as though it was the most virulent night terror material I'd ever seen. But I'd emphasize that one's subjective impression of the awfulness of night terror images depends to a large degree on how and to what extent the astral entities attack while showing you the images.

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

The astral entities can, however, direct humans to create the material so that the astral forces can then 'steal' copies of it, placing it in an astral repository of human memories, and present any of this to people as night terrors or any other sort of disturbing manifestation.

Furthermore, if my own 'reading' of the situation is correct, much of what I saw and other people see in their night terrors and other horror 'hallucinations' is drawn from visualizations by humans not here on Earth but in other parts of this Universe and very likely even other universes, and, what's more, the astral entities to varying extents distort the images in ways that they calculate will be maximally disturbing / upsetting for the affected person. Hence their seeming so freakishly grotesque to us, and so teeming with immensely, jarringly, disparate elements.

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

On the basis of my own experiences I'm pretty sure that the occurrence of night terrors is NOT directly a malfunction of the person, nor some karmic repercussion for them caused by things they have done or which have befallen them in a previous lifetime, but are actively produced by the astral entities, working through the attached parasitic human consciousnesses which they are controlling.

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

As for my experiences which could be described as 'second level night terrors' - i.e. my being terrorized and pursued by replicas of various objects which are inanimate in the physical reality - I now understand that these did NOT arise through some attempt of my own mind to get more focused on the fear. That had been just one more of the deceptions put on by the astral forces to deflect me from properly understanding what was really going on. Those second-level night terrors were also laid on by the astral forces, not by myself, in order to give me an exceptionally hard and harrowing time of each night.

The point of the 'second level' night terrors was to give me further terrifying experiences when I managed (as I often did) to get the focus of my awareness out of the primary night terrors and into a different aspect of consciousness where, if it were not for the astral interference, I'd have found some respite and peace. Standard night terror maelstroms couldn't operate in that aspect of my awareness, but astral realms (illusory realities) could be created there in which other types of troublesome experiences could be and indeed were regularly given to me by the astral forces.

-- and now Tögal revisited...

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

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

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

...And now a caution about believing 'story'

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

For this reason, I would encourage people not to get attached to the above explanation of the night terrors issue or the particular scenario I've outlined. What I'm really concerned about here is simply what we need to know in order to resolve the syndrome or 'package' of night terrors, hearing voices and related phenomena. What I'm presenting is a practical working model - NOT a statement of 'Truth'.

So, to what extent do we really need to know the precise origin of my or anyone's night terror experiences? - I think the answer to this is actually "Probably not that much" - but what is crucial is an awareness of the involvement of astral entities and parasitic human consciousnesses (giving rise to experiences and emotional traumas and issues which appear not to have an obvious origin in the person's life).

What all this meant for me

My initial understanding, complete with astral-sourced misinformation

So, in August 2005, armed with an initial explanation, albeit with the problems about channelled information, I could then start seriously looking at what the healing needs and possibilities were. All sorts of things then clicked into place for me. Now I understood why in 2004 and into 2005 I had had repeated crises involving intense surfacings of fear-related trauma emotions. This was most likely all material from the big trauma caused by the night terrors, and my own intensive self healing path was then freeing this formidable stuff up for release, and, as noted below, there was an additional, though related, significant factor which caused this material to surface at such a nightmarish or even hellish intensity.

How do you release stored fear and related trauma feelings such as anxiety, apprehension, panic and full-throttle terror? Certainly not with drugs or electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), which in their different ways put the lid on and prevent the necessary emotional release from occurring. Suppression of symptoms is for immediate and temporary crisis management only and has never been the basis of a true healing modality.

For people who have not reached spiritual enlightenment the primary and most basic means of releasing these emotions is trembling and laughter (not either/or but definitely both, though not necessarily simultaneously) - and generally speaking there would need to be some crying too, although that is a release of grief, not fear.

Over the decades, indeed from long before I crossed the threshold of enlightenment, I had been using trembling and laughter for fear release, and indeed when I had the more recent great upwellings of these trauma feelings I often spontaneously went into trembling, but it looked very much as though while the fear component of normal traumas could be healed in a reasonable time with a lot of trembling and laughter, I myself wouldn't have been able to clear this massive trauma from my system by such means within this lifetime. Most people would not countenance repeatedly and consistently getting into emotional release in the first place, so the possibility of their clearing such a large trauma with normal emotional release would be virtually nil.

I was not aware of astral entities interfering with me until I started channelling in October 2003, when these entities immediately posed as the supposedly beneficial higher beings from whom I was ill-advisedly seeking to gain information. They regularly adulterated any good information so that I was often given recklessly wrong answers to my questions and indeed often received whole fictional scenarios - but with enough seemingly good and important information coming through for me not to want to stop channelling. My dowsing with a pendulum quite soon gave way to my getting all communications within my mindspace, usually as visual yes/no answers, but increasingly with an actual 'thought voice' from whatever entity was communicating with me.

Once a 'voice channel' of communication had been established, the interfering entities really became my tormentors, posing as higher beings putting me under various supposedly necessary severe tests and trials, and the entities grossly intensified the upwellings of trauma feelings and certain other 'dark' and painful experiences so that they seemed to be potentially lethal psychic attacks. More about this in Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Entities - My Own Experience.

One thing I learnt about the entities was that a major part of the reason for their being with me was because they resonate with intense fear and other painful emotions - primarily the trauma resulting from night terrors, because that is so laden with fear and related emotions. So, even if no other measures were taken to exclude the entities, once nearly all of the trauma has been healed, the entities would be no longer attracted and would go away or could then easily be removed*.

* Later note (September 2007) - This was a distortion to the point of fiction from the astral entities posing as a 'higher' and supposedly reliable information source, and was based on a common belief among healers and 'lightworkers', which itself was originated from 'the dark side'. True, clearance of emotional traumas is crucial to getting clear of interference and influence of astral entities and the 'dark forces' generally, but the entities posing as my 'guidance' were obfuscating the true situation, which was that their special interest in me was NOT because I happened to have loaded myself with traumas but because I was a new soul incarnation who they themselves had encumbered with an exceptional load of parasitic lost souls with the specific intention of being able to overwhelm me, bring me down in one way or another and effectively wreck me, and then, over a downhill series of soul reincarnations, progressively make me into just another of their automaton-slaves.

My point here is that what the astral entities were seeking to hide (and what I'm so rudely exposing here!) was their agenda. In other words they were not like wasps attracted to a bit of jam, but had a 100% dead-serious agenda to cause mayhem and to wreck. And that is a very important point for everyone to take on board about astral or 'dark' entities. These types of entity are all agenda-driven, and will be as devious, scheming and deceitful as it takes to achieve their aim of gaining power, control and domination over people.

The number of ways they have sought to gain control over me has been breathtaking - staggering! If I were not clear that they were agenda-driven like that I would not have been vigilant enough to get as far out of their clutches as I have now. By the same token, most people remain much more in their control (though usually unaware of it) precisely because they are unaware of that agenda or indeed afraid to countenance it, and so are not being vigilant about preventing themselves from being covertly manipulated and controlled by these entities.

In my case I had a means of emotional clearance not available to anyone who isn't enlightened*, for I was able to experience upwellings of these extremely daunting feelings, sometimes intense, as peaceful observer. By doing this I could allow relatively rapid release to occur. In fact, the process itself was often very troublesome for me, especially as at that stage I didn't know fully what was going on, and on four occasions I got landed in a psychiatric hospital, which was certainly not where I needed to be (though, as I recount, my very positive approach ensured that I got the best possible out of those situations). The situation was complicated by the troublesome presence of dark entities (of which more below) which caused over-intensification of the surfacing trauma feelings as their way of attacking me with the intent of making an emotional wreck of me and getting me generally discredited as 'mentally ill'.

* I must qualify that statement, in that various people who are not enlightened but are relatively 'clear' and spiritually open can use that means if they apply considerable concentration over quite a short period for normal traumas, but they would be in dire trouble if they tried to be the peaceful observer of a powerful and more sustained upwelling of trauma emotions such as would be required to clear in a reasonable time the sort of massive trauma that I'm referring to here. That was at times a harrowing experience for me as an enlightened person; for a non-enlightened person it could well be fatal, at least through resulting in suicide.

Later note (January 2008) - Actually that notion of emotional healing through being peaceful observer of the trauma emotion feelings, although technically correct, would be absolutely crazy for anyone to use by choice, for it would be masochism on a grand scale. I now understand that it was interfering astral entities which had been distorting my emotional healing process by pointing me to and dragging me through the roughest, slowest and most difficult methods and diverting me away from efficient, quick and pretty well painless methods such as The Work and the EFT, and indeed my recently assimilated wonderful practices of Power Walking and Grounding Post (see Some Potent Self Realization / Healing Practices), which now appear to be a great advance over those former two. Indeed, the astral entities were actually the cause of every aspect of my troubles, so the statement above, that my situation was complicated by their presence was actually a hilarious understatement.

As I write this now in May 2007 I seem to be to a large extent (although not necessarily fully) clear of my night terrors trauma. This is not just though healing the trauma but also through having dissolved various highly inappropriate energy connections which I'd allegedly had with various other people and indeed archetypes in the human collective consciousness, which had been drawing emotional trauma energy to me from those sources and making my own emotional traumas thus appear unduly massive.

My current understanding (post-May 2007)

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

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

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

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

However, the astral entities have a means of making incarnations of new souls vulnerable to them in practice. What they do is to direct groups of the abovementioned parasitic 'lost' souls* to attach to them at or soon after birth. These 'lost' souls are consciousnesses of humans who'd died at various times in human history, and because they were at the bottom end of their degradational reincarnational sequence (which I've already explained about), they were carrying an accumulation of traumas from their various lifetimes, and, because their final incarnations would have been as real rock-bottom humans, many of them would have had horrendously traumatic circumstances (and often means) of death, so that many of the parasitic lost souls are not only carrying a lot of trauma generally, but a good proportion of them are still in a highly traumatized state.

* I explain more fully about parasitic lost souls and how they are used by the astral forces in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

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

However, there is a positive side to this situation, I'm pleased to say. As made abundantly clear in My Own Self Realization Path, I had a massive and highly exceptional amount of self healing work to do in order to get to where I am now, so, why was this so much more than most other new soul incarnations get from their attached lost souls? -- My understanding now is that for some reason* the astral ('dark') forces directed an exceptional load of lost souls to attach to me (I've got an intimation that the number of these attached to me was about 30, all traumatized and about half of them severely so, though let's not concern ourselves about exact figures, which may be wildly 'out'), so, my supposed 'self' healing process has actually been taking up and healing the emotional traumas and issues of ALL those lost souls.

* Well, actually let's not be so coy about this: actually I have a very good idea why I was so targeted. These entities are non-physical and are not limited in space and time in the way that we are. Basically the point is, "they could see me coming".

They knew that there was something exceptional about me in a way which would most effectively counter their worldwide agenda of seeking control over every single human, and if they didn't stop me I was very likely to be one of their strongest and most articulate adversaries, who would widely inform and assist other people in ways to get clear of all astral influence and become enlightened and fully realized, totally free of astral or 'dark' force control or interference. In particular I would make widely known the range of deceits that these entities use through such channels as religions and social conventions to ensnare people in their control and domination agenda - as in fact I've now started doing.

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

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

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

Mental health implications for other affected people

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

A fair number of people who have had night terrors may not be aware that they have had them, because the experience is so overwhelming that the memory of it had been firmly shut off upon waking. Thus psychiatric workers would often not notice the stored trauma material (actually generally that of the attached lost souls, which almost nobody yet knows about, rather than belonging to the person) or at least would not correctly identify it, because they do not have the awareness or training to look sufficiently below the surface and see what is really going on. Indeed in some of these cases the effects of the attached 'lost' souls with their big store of trauma emotions would be unhelpfully given one of the 'personality disorder' labels, then leading to 'treatment' (usually drugs and maybe ECT) for that supposed personality disorder - so further directing everyone involved away from the true cause of the problem and its real healing requirements, in addition to causing further harm to the affected person.

Night terrors

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

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

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

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

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

Substance misuse

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

I warn here, however, that alcohol and tobacco products, in their different ways, also achieve this end of increasing people's susceptibility to astral entities, and that any true healing methodology needs to involve cutting out ALL mind affecting, addictive or habit-forming drugs.

And now more about astral entities...

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

In fact, as already noted, entities are discrete non-physical consciousnesses or manifestations which mimic actual consciousnesses, and the astral entities which are the subject of this account are probably non-conscious ones (thought form complexes) for which power and control are their total preoccupation and fear the primary emotion which they work with (actually they probably do not have any true emotions of their own), while free choice is the fundamental 'thread' of humans and love is their primary emotion (even though usually much concealed by the effects of emotional traumas and astral entity interference). Indeed, my understanding is that ALL humans' preoccupations with power and control agendas arise because of interference and control from astral entities - so these latter are a major and pervasive issue for humans generally, including doctors, psychiatrists, healers and religious and political leaders. Yes, in important respects psychiatrists are just as 'ill' as their patients!

As already noted, I often use the term 'dark' for such entities to denote their negativity and fixation on power and control and living in fear. So, this is a practical label that I'm using for them, and not, say, a religion-based judgement upon them. All these entities appear to be mechanically following instructions which they receive from higher levels in what is most conveniently called the astral sub-reality*, and those instructions relate to a ruthless agenda of seeking control and domination over humans and preventing or at least hindering them from developing in the direction of genuine self realization and enlightenment, and ultimately, through a long process of degradation, apparently transforming human consciousnesses into astral (yes, 'dark') entities themselves.

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

They tend to be rudely intrusive upon one's awareness, although for many people they keep a low profile and interfere covertly. While they may at times make out to be trying to be helpful or positive, and indeed may manifest as supposedly loving and wise higher or even 'Divine' beings*, they are doing this with the ulterior harmful agenda of seeking to get more power over the person so that they or other astral entities can then cause serious problems. So, while astral entities can manifest as supposed higher beings of 'Light' and love, when they are not operating so strongly in impostor mode they will generally be harsh and negative, frequently telling lies and giving opinions, judgements and instructions, which latter may be very problematical and can in some cases point to self mutilation, suicide, all manner of depravity, suicide, rape or murder. They will find ways to make their 'victim' feel bad about herself and may get the person so emotionally wound up that some sort of crisis or so-called breakdown occurs. They can also attack the person, as is described in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'. I suspect that it is such attacks above anything else which drive people with this problem to attempt suicide.

* My understanding is that ALL supposed higher beings which manifest to people, whether through channelling, visions or whatever, are bogus and actually inventions of the astral ('dark') forces to lure people into getting ensnared by the astral forces through getting involved with what they believe are wise and loving higher beings. Such supposed higher beings include all guides, angels, archangels, ascended masters, gods, goddesses, God (sorry, this is too serious to be coy about!), Jesus, Allah, Jehovah, Shiva, great buddhas etc.

In Healing From Our Core Essence I explain what is our true, safe and reliable source of healing and support, in place of all those supposedly external beings, which is inherently pure and protective from all these influences and ploys and deceits from the astral entities, and in The Clarity-Sphere - 'The Ultimate' Healing Tool I introduce a powerful means to progressively open up your own core essence for healing and protecting yourself and clearing out all entities and astral interferences.

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

Astral entities in the night terrors syndrome

Unwanted, troublesome inner voices do not 'just happen'. To try and find a cause for 'hearing voices' in an abnormality of brain chemistry is missing the vital point. Such abnormalities of brain chemistry, where they occur, themselves have a cause. It is still not generally understood, even among researchers on brain function, that to a large extent the mind directs the brain rather than the converse. In virtually all cases these troublesome inner voices are communications from interfering entities. They are not figments of a pathological imagination, and are not auditory hallucinations.

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

Hearing voices

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

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

* Later note (June 2008) - This was well before I finally came to understand that these entities are almost certainly not consciously aware beings at all and indeed probably not even discrete units that could be called entities at all. By interacting with them as though they were actual conscious beings, I had unwittingly been perpetuating their manifestation in that form.

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

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

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

Children hearing voices

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

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

No matter whether the child's 'voices' appear to be beneficial or sinister, it is important for adults to be accepting of the situation and encourage the child to talk about her experiences and what sort of things the voice has been saying - but any sort of coercive pressure to reveal such things is a real no-no; the child's inner privacy and free choice must be respected.

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

Hearing voices while half asleep or going to sleep

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

Those particular voices, generally speaking, are simply the 'audio' equivalent of the visuals you get while in a dreaming state. So, this is nothing to do with night terrors, and although entities might intrude here and there, basically it is nothing to do with entities but is simply a natural part of the dreaming process - and thus NOT a 'symptom' of anything. I hope this reassures people who come to this page trying to find out about such 'voices'.

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

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

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

Attacks from astral entities

Please see the relevant section in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

'Self made demons' too!

In truth not all interferences which appear to be from astral entities come from external entities at all, but a fair proportion can come from the person's own mind. Please see the relevant section in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

However, not too much should be made of this phenomenon (I can already hear 'psycho' doctors and psychiatrists up and down the land crying out "I could have told you they're just creations of your own mind!"), because pretty well always a person creates self-made entities or other interferences precisely because of particular interference that (s)he is having from 'real' astral entities. Sorry, there's no true and honest way of escaping recognition of the existence of these entities, whatever their ultimate nature (which nobody can absolutely know)!

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True healing possibilities for night terrors and related phenomena

As I have shown, there is an underlying cause of the 'package' of night terrors and astral entity interference - although we cannot be sure about various aspects of its origin. These give rise to the following closely linked issues, which are at long last addressable, now that we recognise the cause:

• Displays of 'night terror' visuals, both as childhood night terrors and as the source of virtually all the disturbing hallucinatory experiences which may manifest in adults at any time of day or night;
• Attacks with trauma emotion feelings such as anxiety, fear, panic, nausea and depression. (I give a fuller list in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.);
• Troublesome inner 'voices', intruded 'pseudo-thoughts' or other forms of communication such as visual messages.

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

I did present below specific methods for addressing the main issues caused by the entities, but now, with a clearer understanding, I see all that as a bit confusing and so I'm taking them together, because really the overall and really fundamental issue is that of astral entity interference.

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

• Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Entities -- Managing and Removing Them
• Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way
• The Guide to Complete Self Realization - Affirmations and declarations of intent for fundamental healing and self realization (Use this daily as a powerful foundation of any personal plan for self healing, self realization or removal of non-physical entities.)
• Some Potent Self Realization / Healing Practices (These practices - especially Power Walking and Grounding Post - progressively clear your emotional issues and even those of any 'lost' souls attached to you, and greatly strengthen your whole being, both non-physical and physical, and a method is given for more directly clearing all entities.)
• The Clarity-Sphere - 'The Ultimate' Healing Tool
• Becoming Whole - Using The Work (One of the easiest and most powerful fast track methods that I know for emotional clearance, self realization and sorting out your life - and indeed bringing about the most fundamental healing of most 'mental heath' issues. However, now I would generally recommend Power Walking - see previous item - as one's primary means of clearance of emotional issues, stresses and traumas.)

Grounding is the crucial TOP PRIORITY

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

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

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

Because mental healthcare work at the moment is so much geared to trying to cope with crises rather than resolving underlying issues, it would be the grounding of awareness which needs to be the first line of action for mental healthcare workers. That is in any case the most immediate need even in a full healing strategy or methodology.

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

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

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

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

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

Reducing / eliminating night terror visuals

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

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

• As far as possible also keep clear of religion of any type, for that actually makes it much more difficult to truly clear your unhealthy astral connections.

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

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

  A simpler way which I have more recently found, which may be just as effective, of 'tuning out' of the night terror visuals is simply, while keeping your eyes closed, to 'look' with concentration at the inside of your eyelids. Of course you don't actually see anything in particular, but if you do that with clear intent, what you can achieve is the grounding of your visual awareness. That is also what you achieve by opening your eyes and seeing physical 'reality' around you, but if you're in bed and wanting to go to sleep, then this method, which you can use with your eyes closed and and which doesn't distract you from going to sleep, is exactly what's needed.

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

  These practices are much more effective if you are using a Clarity-Sphere.

• When you do see the display, maintain awareness that the display is just that - an 'empty' display. Never mind how horrific or menacing any images are, they are just a display and cannot physically harm you. Any feelings of fear or panic are old trauma feelings being restimulated or made to surface in an attack from the entities and do not represent any objective reality about the images.

• Never use cannabis or any psychedelic or so-called recreational drug, as these can cause future night terror visuals, not necessarily at night. They also make you more ungrounded and weaken your non-physical aspects, so making you still more open and vulnerable to astral entities - and indeed also to 'earthbound spirits' (discarnate human consciousnesses), which may attach themselves to you and further compound the problem.

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

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

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

Attacks with trauma emotions

The primary night terrors trauma emotions requiring release are generally fear, anxiety, apprehension, panic and possibly full-throttle terror. Most of the time what we call terror is some combination of fear and panic, but in my experience there does seem to be a still more powerful and pretty rare emotion that goes beyond these and which I'm referring to as terror. Encouraging trembling and laughter - the natural release processes for these emotions - would appear to be what is needed. However, the overwhelming amount of the stored relevant trauma emotion energy (even though, generally speaking, it would be the trauma of parasitic 'lost' souls attached to the person rather than his own) means that really there is just too much for the basic natural release processes to clear in any sort of reasonable timescale.

Additionally, a true healing regime would address other, apparently non-night-terror-related trauma emotions, not only for the general benefit of the affected person but also specifically to reduce and eventually eliminate all ammunition which the astral entities could use in their attacks. They can attack, for example, with depression, self doubt or anger, even though these would be mostly related to other issues than the night terrors. Thus the healing measures for the night terrors really need to be thought of as general emotional healing measures, albeit with a special emphasis on clearing the fear-related emotions.

Basically the stores of trauma emotion which are used in attacks which give night terrors their hellish quality are almost always too big to handle with the basic natural emotional release process on its own, or indeed some respected emotional clearance methods such as Re-evaluation Counselling (which you could be using till the cows came home on a blue moon before the relevant trauma material was cleared). However, help is at hand. Please see Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way, and note particularly Power Walking and Grounding Post, though I list some other effective methods too, and the Clarity-Sphere both operates directly as a healing agent and renders more effective all emotional clearance or other healing methods which you are using..

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

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

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

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

'Voices' and other inner communications

Basically, if you're dealing with voices you're dealing with entities, and so the two issues are really one. However, my understanding now, which seems to be getting borne out by experience of my own clearance process, is that astral entities cannot be 'bodily' (sic) removed in the way that most people believe they can - and indeed are thought-form complexes rather than awarely conscious beings (which would explain why they can't simply be removed), as explained in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'. Other types of entity such as attached parasitic 'lost' souls can be removed, however, but it takes ongoing self healing work to enable that to happen. In the case of astral entities, use of appropriate grounding and self realization practices can strengthen all your non-physical aspects in such a manner as to progressively fade the astral entities' interferences and attacks out of your life experience, but without your ever being able to know for sure whether they are still with you or not.

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

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

A related healing issue - soul fragmentation

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

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

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

In a nutshell, when a person experiences major trauma a part of that person's non-physical aspect (soul) commonly or maybe even always splits off - but remaining connected by an 'energy' cord - and usually remains separated until the trauma is fully healed. Indeed even then the person may benefit from special 'soul retrieval' healing to speed up the bringing back of that separated fragment and getting it fully integrated into the person once more. However, if well grounding emotional healing methods are used (such as I give in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way), then soul retrieval occurs much more readily and there is little benefit in using special soul retrieval measures.

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

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

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

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

Conclusion

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