Healing and self-actualization — the safest and quickest way

 

Introductory notes

Welcome to the ULTIMATE mental health, and the most effective methods for self-actualization in Town and very likely on the Planet!

If you're in a crisis situation or have a 'voices' issue…

I appreciate that if you're in any sort of crisis situation, and particularly if you're feeling desperate, this page may appear to be a hell of a lot to read when you're urgently wanting to stem your particular crisis, which may seem very threatening indeed. The Good News for such people is that I've produced a page specifically to function as a starting point for them — Crisis emergency self-help — Life upturn the SMART way. So, if you're in such a situation, I recommend that you go straight to that page, and leave this one till a bit later.

If you have an issue with so-called 'hearing voices' or getting any other type of communications apparently from a non-physical source or purportedly telepathically from people or extra-terrestrials, your best starting point is 'Hearing voices': how to stop them — The REAL self-help way!. That page links you at the end to the above-linked Crisis emergency self-help — Life upturn the SMART way, which you'd best work through before following its link back to this page.

If you're NOT in an actual crisis situation…

Perhaps surprisingly, if you do not consider yourself to be in any sort of crisis, your best starting point is NOT here, but still Crisis emergency self-help — Life upturn the SMART way. The title of that page is intended to draw in people who are in crisis, yes, but actually that page is an extremely helpful starting-point for anyone, because it takes you through the various steps to gain a proper foundation mindset for understanding and thus being able to make best use of the whole methodology that I present on this site.

This is particularly important because the whole approach here is so challenging to the outlook and mindset of the vast majority of people who come here. To get at all far with the methods that I give on this site you need to let go of all sorts of beliefs and preconceptions that you're initially carrying (very much including religious and 'New Age'-related ones), and start aligning with a very different, open-minded, belief-free, practical, self-empowering and indeed rational outlook on your situation and indeed the nature of 'reality' itself.

Still not a quick 'miracle' fix, but…

What I'm presenting on this page isn't yet another, say, 'alternative Reiki' (not that any sort of Reiki could do you other than harm!), but rather, a collection of the most efficient means that I know to address ALL the self-realization / self-actualization and truly holistic* healing needs of each one of us. For a concise introduction to the methodology presented here and on this site generally, please see Philip Goddard's self-actualization methodology — Introduction.

I'm using the word 'healing' here in a broad sense to include not significantly direct 'energy' work (which I've found to be relatively ineffective in its beneficial aspects and also insidiously seriously harmful at the same time), but the various means of achieving full, comprehensive and deeply based self-actualization and to bring us into full healthy functioning at all levels of the whole being. We are thus talking about what's reasonable to call the ULTIMATE mental health. The latter sounds like rather a cliché, maybe, but nonetheless it's an accurate description of where we're pointing from here!

Enlightenment is a natural result of following this process through, so that no issue need be made of it and it doesn't need to be sought for. No formal meditation is required, for a natural inner peacefulness will become apparent as old issues are cleared out, and indeed I warn against its use because of its insidious harmfulness for most people when used regularly. This whole new, more dynamic approach achieves the beneficial things that meditation often achieves, but without the harmful aspects and with one hell of a lot of additional benefits.

In fact, if you manage to be proactively peaceful observer of everything you experience — in other words making the whole of life experience in a sense your healthier equivalent of meditation (as I've done) — then, according to my current understanding and best information, you're doing far better than you ever would with ongoing formal meditation, to assist your progress to enlightenment and optimal self-actualization.

The purpose of this page isn't to function as a 'healing / self-actualization manual' but simply to bring together into one place my recommendations of the most effective ways that I currently know to bring about speedy progress to living vibrant and enlightened lives with no remaining buried emotional or karmic issues, and also to be free and able to revert to fundamental consciousness, 'as Nature intended', at the time of death — unfortunately currently a quite rare occurrence as far as my own indications go.

I make no claim about any method being 'the best' in an absolute sense, because nobody could know such a thing, and in any case different people have their own resonances with particular methods. I expect therefore that even among many people who find helpful things here, a high proportion will use methods not listed here to carry out particular healing / self-actualization tasks.

Whether those other methods would really be better than or even as good as the ones I present here is a different matter, however. It's widely assumed among 'healers' that methods that you're drawn to are the right ones for you — but the only trouble with that is that, as happened for me for several years, the garbage, which is interfering with you and indeed everyone on this planet, can give you the feeling of being drawn to particular methods, which are actually ones that help to maintain or even cultivate the garbage's hold on you rather than being really effective as healing / self-actualization methods.

I'm sure it's very significant that in 2007 I felt quite a lot of resistance against taking up various new methods initially (which I subsequently built upon), and had been deferring my having anything to do with them, because they'd somehow seemed too 'clinical' and 'unfriendly' compared with the various 'spiritual healing' methods I'd been using up to that point.

What I now clearly understand is that my feelings about these different methods were being manipulated by the garbage, to try to steer me away from methods that, at least with some adaptation, would truly clear out the interferences and influences of the garbage (over a period). Indeed, certain 'healing' methods that I'd been feeling really drawn to initially had been extremely harmful and garbage-connecting — especially the use of sacred geometry wands, which turned out to be instruments of my near-nemesis at the 'hands' of the garbage.

The methods I recommend

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Issues and Clarifications

You're excited because you've just discovered this site and it's prompted you to make immediate dramatic sweeping changes in your life

STOP!
SLOW DOWN!

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

What is really problematical about such happenings is that inevitably the individuals concerned have let go of their actually essential everyday 'inner balance' mechanisms and have gone shooting off into an enthusiastic overdrive in what is for them uncharted territory, so they're way out of balance and indeed not properly in their own control at all. Even though they may have intellectually got from this site an understanding of what real grounding is, perhaps for the first time in their lives, their awareness is actually weakly grounded while they're in that frenetic 'overdrive' state.

The garbage exploits these situations, cranking up that excitement and enthusiasm and general emotional 'high', further ungrounding the person's awareness, before, then, using its various attack methods to bring about an almighty 'low', feeding in all sorts of pseudo-thoughts of confusion and helplessness — the affected person typically then feeling that (s)he needs 'help' in order to progress properly on a genuine self-actualization process. And so I then get messages from such people, asking for advice and various sorts of assistance — most or all of which would actually be disempowering and thus unhelpful if I did attempt to give it!

So, if you yourself are currently in the above-described 'overdrive' situation or indeed in a post-overdrive 'low' or crisis, you need to get understanding the true nature of those 'highs' and 'lows', and to train yourself to recognise them as states of major imbalance, neither of which represents reality for you at all. The need is to regard your own genuine feelings and 'emotional outlook' as lying somewhere roundabout the mid-point between the highs and lows.

Then anything that you experience that's significantly 'high' or 'low' in relation to that can more readily be seen as something transient that has been superimposed upon the 'real me' — with at least very strong connivance from the garbage. That mid-point itself, however, would progressively become a greatly improved experience over time if you really are cultivating a genuine self-actualization process — and the 'highs' and 'lows' would fairly rapidly settle down, especially so if you recognise them for what they are and keep your real focus on your more stable 'mid-point'.

Thus a great big need in practical terms is to SLOW DOWN and take things more gently! You need to pace yourself so that you continue to keep properly in touch with the relatively unchanging things in life, and bring about your changes in a more relaxed, laid-back way. It's extremely ungrounding to your awareness to suddenly try to drop every perception that you'd had of life and its true nature and replace the whole lot, all within just a few days!

When you've just moved into a new 'permanent' living abode, do you drive yourself crazy by trying to set up all your 'contents' in new ways, all within just a day or two? Or do you unpack things in bits and pieces over the weeks and even months, and put many things initially in places corresponding with where you had them before you moved, so that you then have various 'anchors' for keeping your awareness grounded while you adjust to your new situation? I know which I'd do, and it isn't the first!

That necessary slow-down also applies to how you go about taking up your new self-actualization methods. If you're in a reasonable state of balance and grounding you'd recognise that all the information you need in order to take up the methods that I present is already on this very website, and, generally speaking, nothing would be gained from asking me for assistance.

So, it's simply a matter of being methodical about taking up the methods. If you try to take them up virtually all together, almost certainly none of them would work very well for you, because you're operating in an ungrounded 'driven' mode, and you wouldn't be getting in touch with the real essence of the methods. You need to take plenty of time to read up on each method that you might try, and maybe experimentally play around with it as part of your learning it, and to get using each method really well before taking on the next one.

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

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

"This is wonderful! I've been using your methods for a year now and I'm now enlightened and self-actualized, with no remaining issues to speak of, and clear of garbage interferences / attacks!"

Hmmm! — I must appear to be a real miserable old b*gger to be somewhat underwhelmed by such claims, which do occasionally come my way! I'm of course delighted to hear of anyone getting genuine benefit from use of my methods, but the reality is that the categorical claims made by such people betray to me certain actually major and serious issues that they're still carrying and frantically avoiding recognising.

A person who's making such categorical claims may or may not be genuinely enlightened, but I'd keep a completely open mind on that, never mind how much they seek to convince me. However, any notion that one has definitely become free of garbage interferences in such a short period, or indeed at all, is a sure sign that one is in trouble and is on some sort of self-deception trip in order to avoid recognising and addressing particular issues.

Generally I see in such people a deeply ungrounded state in which they have particularly open and 'raw' connections to the proto-archetype and thus experience the associated existential terror — well, except that their outlook and behaviour is shaped in such a way as to be constantly trying to avoid facing any issues of theirs that are perceived as likely to cause them to experience that existential terror!

Being so sure that one has actually 'got there' and has little further self-actualization work to do is a sure sign of the need to ease up on all that, and to become very open-minded about one's actual state and degree of self-actualization and immunity to the garbage's interferences. Without that open-mindedness one is still locked into a personal belief system, and actually closed to genuine self-actualization. When I myself started using proper, apparently garbage-free methods for self-actualization I assumed that I'd become clear of significant garbage interferences within at most just a few years, but the reality has turned out to be that this is an ongoing and apparently open-ended process, effectively with no recognisable point of 'full achievement', despite the self-actualization process always bringing further improvements into one's life.

I've no doubt that the primary reason for this is that the astral non-reality, through which the garbage operates, is simply a particular aspect of human consciousness, and indeed the garbage itself is effectively just a distorted aspect of human consciousness (i.e., human consciousness in general, not of specific individuals). Thus you can't just close yourself off from it, even though you can make yourself increasingly immune to the garbage's really significant interferences and so gradually fade them out of your life.

You'd still never be able to know for sure that you don't have the odd major vulnerabilities that the garbage might exploit at some stage in the future to control or seriously attack you, so vigilance is ALWAYS required, and there's no worthwhile place for complacency or the sort of ungrounded bravado that I hear from those who believe that they're now beyond the reach of the garbage.

"Your methods help me with my own garbage interferences, but what can I do about the garbage causing other people consistently to respond in adverse ways toward me?"

When a person asks such a question, I do greatly empathize, because I've had this sort of issue to contend with for myself — but the question also informs me that the person hasn't properly grasped the concept of a genuine self-actualization process as I've described on this site. A lot of it comes down to having hopelessly off-course expectations of how particular people, or people in general, would or 'should' respond to one and indeed to each other.

One thing you can't do (i.e., as far as I understand so far) is directly to use some equivalent of the methods that I give on this site for working on yourself to clear your garbage interferences, to achieve similar results for other people. Actually I make that very clear in various places on this site, not least my Contact page.

Always the need is to work on yourself, never mind how screwed-up anyone else is. If you direct your attention to trying to clear other people, (a) you're bound to fail in that task and weaken yourself significantly into the bargain through your getting involved with their material, and (b) you'd be keeping your attention away from your own self-actualization / clearance process, which is the really important thing. You apparently can't directly change the way they respond to you, but you can change the way you respond (i.e., inwardly) to their apparently adverse behaviour.

If somebody appears to emotionally hurt or shun you, who is really doing the hurting? — It's YOU, who are hurting yourself (albeit garbage attack undoubtedly being involved)! In fact, generally speaking, for each adverse response from a person or people in general, you could simply understand that they don't know what they're doing / saying, and get on with living your own joyful and vibrant life instead of caning yourself with whatever adverse spoken or unspoken messages have been poked at you by other people's adverse behaviours towards you. So, it's actually your own 'inner behaviour' that needs to be changed!

The general helpful approach where you have a perceived issue of people responding adversely to yourself (e.g., by discreet ostracism or particular sorts of overt unpleasantness) is likely to be at least two-pronged. Always there's a need to dissolve all illusory realities that you may be carrying, in which people are consistently behaving towards you in the perceived adverse ways. Also all illusory realities need to be dissolved, in which any of those people should behave in any way other than what you actually observe, and in which they should, or you or anyone could, make them behave in some particular desired way towards you. Grounding Point is the primary method that I know for effectively dissolving such illusory realities.

Additionally, my full set of affirmations needs to be used, together with the practices that I give on this site for a fully comprehensive genuine self-actualization process. Also you need to consciously and quite deliberately let go of all expectations of any sort of 'ideal' behaviour from any individuals or people in general, or any specific outcome of your measures in any particular time-frame. On the practical side there may be the odd situations where a friendly confrontation and gentle talk together may be helpful, while in other cases part of the solution would be simply to shun the particular individuals and recognise that your problem with them had been your own emotional 'clinging' to them and wanting them to behave in particular ways towards you.

If you feel isolated and it seems that everyone is ignoring you and passing you by, about the most unhelpful thing you can do is to blame some supposed curse or spell from a person or indeed supposed 'higher power', even if there has actually been such a psychic attack upon you. You can never really know whether there has been some sort of psychic attack like that, but in any case, if you have in your mind even the slightest possibility of that sort of scenario, then you need to dissolve any illusory realities that you're carrying, in which such a curse, spell, or what-have-you, has been put upon you or indeed could ever be put on you. Also, it's always good policy to use Grounding Point to initiate dissolution of any relevant vows that you may be carrying — which could have been made indeed by parasitic lost souls attached to you in previous incarnations of theirs.

If you're diligent over use of these various methods in an ongoing fashion, you'd progressively clear your own deep-seated feelings of isolation and loneliness, and so you'd be decreasingly troubled by people shunning you or 'passing you by' or otherwise responding to you in adverse ways, for you'd at least be getting increasingly comfortable and happy with your own company. So much human relationship and interaction is based on pervasive deep feelings of isolation and loneliness, which people seek all the time to hide through frantically 'relating' with each other without regard to the real healthiness of what they're doing.

So, if you feel that you're isolated and you have to end that isolation, you need first and foremost to clear the inner cause of your feelings of isolation, and understand that many people would generally behave in better ways towards you as you clear that material — but you wouldn't necessarily gain the situation that you were originally seeking, which itself would have actually been a dysfunctional and harmful one, which you'd come to recognise as not where you really need to be pointed. Your whole outlook on life and human relationships progressively changes through the course of a genuine self-actualization process.

There are some people who seem to get seriously troublesome individuals as neighbours or involved with them in various ways wherever they go (and they often have all sorts of other misfortunes, which may be ascribed to a spell or curse that has supposedly been put upon them). On the face of it such situations can look intractable, but the basic principles are just the same as what I've already described above. There would, however, be need to take what action one can to get away from seriously troublesome people. As you progress in your own self-actualization process, however, the tendency to keep coming across seriously harmful individuals would be bound to decrease.

Sorry to say, I have no 'silver bullet' to offer, and for people afflicted with that sort of scenario it would generally be a long and hard haul to get well out of their troublesome 'hole' — not least, because such people are generally too submerged in their troubles to have sufficient 'free awareness' to enable all that much of a full self-actualization process to occur for them. It is important in any case to Helpfulness Test choices that you make, so that you don't keep making the same types of error that you've so far been making.

If you yourself have such an issue, or indeed the related 'life of misfortune syndrome', then please DO NOT contact me for advice about it! It's up to you to understand properly the material on this site and to work out your own personal self-actualization action plan using the methods that I give, together with any others that you yourself may come up with through a careful process of Helpfulness Testing and experimentation. It's not reasonable to try to take up my time, effectively dumping your 'problems' on me and expecting me to work out solutions for you because you're unable to properly understand what I've written here (i.e., any understanding you have is partial and distorted, so you're unable to put it to effective practical use).

In any case, in my experience so far those individuals who do ignore my Contact page request / caution not to write in to me with such issues have distorted perceptions that make them impervious to any clarification I may give them, and they appear to be addicted to their particular troublesome situations so that they use writing to me as a means of helping to keep their issues in place and convince themselves that nothing will work for them. That's extremely unhelpful (mis)use of my time, and I may ignore and indeed delete such an individual's message or send him/her packing with a flea in their ear for being so inconsiderate in bringing their issue to me. Because all manner of garbage interference would be involved, it's important to put into action all relevant measures that I give in 'Dark force' and entity troubles — The real way to clear them.

Addressing gender and trans-gender issues

The reality is that gender (and indeed sexual orientation) is NOT part of your underlying, genuine nature or identity (i.e., as consciousness). Therefore one's perceived gender and sexual orientation are BOTH, at least to some degree, issues that need addressing for every single person. The point here is that one's perceived gender and sexual orientation make up part of one's everyday self image, which generally is a false image — a false identity.

As long as you cling to any aspect of that self image, you're potently obstructing any genuine self-actualization process, and denying your own true nature and identity. It's important, therefore, to use methods such as Grounding Point to dissolve all apparent / illusory realities that you might be carrying, in which you are the particular gender that you think you are, and have the particular sexual orientation that you think you have.

Fear not, though! Doing that isn't aimed at getting rid of your gender or sexual orientation, but simply at clearing out ingrained illusory realities and beliefs that are obscuring your true nature. The important thing is clearing out your attachment to your perceived gender and sexual orientation. As you do so, these may or may not overtly change, but what would change is your relationship to them, so that you'd perceive them as something very superficial and not representing how you really are; they're just little distortions inherent in incarnation, which get superimposed upon but don't actually change your true nature.

With regard to people with trans-gender cravings, the hopelessly wrong (i.e., unhelpful / harmful) thing to do is to go along with those cravings and to accept a supposed change of physical gender. The real need is to address the cause of those cravings and inharmonious self-perceptions of being in a wrong-gender body. This is bound to come down to various sorts of garbage interference, which also may be mediated by an elemental or some sort of spirit attachment, or at least a particular one of the person's own unedifying collection of attached parasitic lost souls. Means to clear those issues are given on this site, and indeed pointed to on this very page — though affected people would need to treat their issue as fairly major garbage interference, and thus to work carefully through the relevant measures pointed to in 'Dark force' and entity troubles — The real way to clear them.

If you're functioning genuinely well, gender and sexual orientation would never be an issue for you, so if you feel that it's important for you to be one way or another (no matter whether that particular 'way' is how you appear to be at the present time or is something different), that's an immediate sign that you have an issue that needs resolving.

Important tip for getting clear of ANY issue

Whether an issue of yours that you have in mind is an apparent entity tapping on your shoulder from behind and then pulling funny faces at you when you look round, or compulsive nose-picking, or speaking too loudly so your neighbours know too much about your bedroom antics, or a desire to be seen by your peers as Attila the Hun, or a fear of what might happen to you if you don't go to church every Sunday — there's one very basic way you can GREATLY help yourself towards clearing the issue, and indeed ANY issue.

Simply, STOP allowing yourself to think or speak of the issue in the present tense, and instead, train yourself to think / speak of it in an appropriate form of past tense.

For example, I keep doing stupid things with… becomes [Up to now | So far] I've kept doing stupid things with… (but now…).

Transform all your thoughts plus commentary to other people in that sort of way, so that you become increasingly secure in the basic understanding that NOW is always the time for change, even of the most radical type. Until you make that change of viewpoint you're inevitably helping to keep yourself imprisoned by your I keep doing… or this always happens… outlook towards your issues, and are potently obstructing your ability to bring about the requisite positive change.

How can I know that the practices work?

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

For the same reason, all the categorical claims made for commercially marketed 'energy' devices or methods are at least largely worthless, even where they aren't fully and wilfully dishonestly made. Such claims NEVER genuinely inform you that the particular devices or methods do work, either as claimed or indeed at all, and particularly that they'd work for a specific person. For the most part, money-back guarantees are simply an additional way to convince the gullible prospective customer that the items really do work, and rely on most people's reluctance to go to the trouble of returning them, and also on their wanting to keep the items over a longish period (beyond the expiration of any money-back guarantee) in case they really are getting some benefit from them despite not noticing any really significant improvements at the present time.

I myself was in that category for quite a time! And you can safely ignore any gaggle of glowing testimonials displayed in the sales blurb, because (a) you know nothing of the circumstances behind each of those testimonials (if indeed genuine at all), and (b) naturally, any reports of non-function or actual problems arising would be quietly filed away somewhere private, or, more likely, even more quietly discarded.

In that context, it's as well to be aware that the people from whom I bought devices that I'd been gulled into putting great expectations upon, and who were making such masses of glowing claims for their products on their websites and other promotional blurb, turned out to be unscrupulous rascals. I fell for them only because at that time I was so desperate to get clear of my own pressing issues.

Also it's become clear to me that the effects of any particular practice or genuinely beneficial 'energy' device depend very much on the context in which it's used — and that context very much includes the intent of the person using the practice. That's actually a great plus point, for it means that, within certain limits, if you can set a really deeply sourced and clear intent in your use of a particular practice or device, you can use it on different occasions for quite diverse purposes within the general self-actualization-supporting remit.

Soul programming and other problems that seem difficult to clear

From the self-actualization perspective, people with soul programming — and that's the vast majority of people — have a major problem, in that soul programming prevents them from embarking on or keeping themselves on a genuine self-actualization process. Indeed, the majority of those people are simply not motivated to any significant extent for positive life change at all, but even those who are so motivated are programmed not to connect with the very concept of genuine self-actualization.

A tiny proportion recognise it intellectually and even in some cases believe that they're going for self-actualization — but in virtually all cases there's a distortion and limitation upon their perception of what genuine self-actualization really is, and how they'd effectively cultivate and maintain a comprehensive genuine self-actualization process. Generally such people are diverted into various flavours of 'spirituality', which may or may not be masquerading as self-actualization.

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

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

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

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

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

With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that I'm a continuum of pure consciousness, with no programming or 'soul' obstructing or clouding that continuum, between the non-duality of fundamental consciousness and my superficial aware consciousness or 'ordinary mind', and that any such programming that I'm carrying is being dissolved with all speed.

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

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

"Based on your experience, how often should an individual go do an outdoor activity such as hiking?"

Somebody wrote in with exactly that question. It contains certain all-too-normal misconceptions. For a start, as I repeat ad nauseam in many places on this site, there's no 'should' about anything. The question needs to be re-worded as How often would it be best for an individual to do an outdoor activity…?. But then, we're still left with a question really rather like 'How long is a piece of string?'. In other words, there's no definitive answer, either for everyone or even for one person all the time. So, if you want to know as a general rule how often would be best for you, there's really only one way to find out, and that's to use Helpfulness Testing.

However, just to give yourself a rule to work by would still have you off course unless you also (the really important thing) use Helpfulness Testing to establish whether it would be 'strengthening' (i.e., genuinely beneficial) for you to go on that activity on a specific day or apparent opportunity.

I'll speak here from my own experience, though please remember that following me and doing as I do, sheep-wise, is no genuine solution for you. I have a very loosely held guideline (for myself specifically) that, ideally, given suitable weather, I'd go out hiking / sound recording (i.e., a whole day outing) once or twice a week. In practice the weather often gets in the way, so only occasionally am I actually having such outings twice in a week, and especially in the winter, one or two months can pass without one. But then, regardless of those main outings, I often have brisk local afternoon walks (1.5 to 9 miles), and, depending on the balancing of various priorities, I can sometimes have such walks most days in a week if the weather is inviting.

My hiking outings are so weather-sensitive because I rely on hitch-hiking to get out for nearly all of them, whereas for people with their own transport fewer potential hiking opportunities would have to be missed.

If you stick to a particular frequency, that would most likely mean that you don't make the most of the best conditions when they offer themselves, and, theoretically, if you stuck really strictly to a schedule, you could even put your life in danger by going out in the wilds in highly unsuitable conditions. Flexibility is definitely the key here.

Food choices to support one's self-actualization process

This is an area replete with unhelpful opinions, beliefs, 'old-wifery' and mumbo-jumbo to the n^th degree. Contrary to fairly widespread belief, for most people a diet supportive to a really effective self-actualization process would not be a vegetarian one, let alone a vegan one — though it would contain a higher proportion of fruit and vegetables and a lower proportion of meat than is currently the norm in Western diets.

Also, sweeping statements like tomatoes / citrus fruits / etc make your blood too acid, so you should avoid them in order not to get (or, to get rid of) arthritis, or you need to have a lot of alkaline foods in your diet, or You should avoid eggs because they bind you are simply nonsensical 'old-wifery' with no physical / scientific basis.

For the record, the acidity or otherwise of what you eat has little or no bearing on the pH value (acidity / alkalinity) of your blood because of the body's intrinsic pH regulating systems — both in the alimentary canal and in the tissues and blood and other body fluids. And also, blood acidity just happens not to be an obvious cause of arthritis; the physical mechanisms of arthritis in all its different forms are many and generally complex, and the underlying non-physical causes are generally even more diverse and complex, even though some particular instances may have a specific and relatively easily identified cause, such as a particular environmental stress*.

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

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

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

Also, you need NOT to be swayed by claims made for products in so-called 'health food' outlets. Their claims bear little relation to what would actually be most beneficial to you, and much relation instead to their seeking to sell as much as possible of each of their products and sell you a 'dream' of ideal health — for whatever good that 'dream' would do you!

In many cases too it may be helpful to take certain food supplements such as particular vitamins / minerals and other substances such as glucosamine. However, the way NOT to go about it is to go taking such things just because you've read or heard that they're good for you or good for some specific problem. Even a doctor's advice about those would more often than not point you away from rather than towards your healthiest choices. Also, the taking of multivitamin / multi-mineral supplements isn't necessarily a beneficial thing to do, even though for some people at particular times they may be genuinely helpful.

Again, it's Helpfulness Testing that you can use to inform you of any specific vitamins, minerals or other food supplements that would really assist you at the present time, and what dosage of each to use for optimal benefit and minimal risk to life and limb.

It's important to remember that, in principle, if you're eating a really healthy diet you wouldn't benefit at all from taking particular vitamins, minerals and other 'biosupplements' that are already in sufficient quantity in your food. In most people, however, particular health issues caused by their various emotional issues, unhealthy lifestyle choices, attached 'entities' and garbage interferences would unbalance their physiology to some extent so that (generally) a small number of specific trace food constituents could usefully be boosted to compensate for particular physiological imbalances of theirs.

That's where your own Helpfulness Testing comes in. There's no other way I know of to gain such information, complete with the actual required dosage of each supplement. Because the dosage of each supplement needs to be independently adjustable, all supplements need to be purchased separately, and not bought in combinations (e.g., glucosamine plus chondroitin plus MSM; if you have cause to use all three, then they need to be in separate tablets). Combinations of vitamins D and A can indeed be quite a menace, because both those vitamins can have serious harmful effects if overdosed, so you need to be sure that if you're going to boost one you're not inadvertently overdosing with the other.

Even if you're not overdosing to obvious toxic levels, just to be taking more of such a supplement than is helpful to you would be to some extent weakening for your system.

The raw foods fad

Although cooking does at least to some extent denature / destroy certain beneficial or indeed essential components of foods — especially complex organic molecules such as some (but not all) vitamins and co-factors — there's another side to the situation, in that cooking inactivates / destroys certain harmful substances contained in particular food items and of course kills harmful organisms, thus serving a decidedly beneficial purpose.

Thus there isn't at all a general 'wrong' about eating cooked foods, and, without cooking, certain foods would need avoiding altogether (including such staples as potato and kidney beans), and certain others would be relatively indigestible or simply not particularly pleasant to eat — so that one's diet and eating experience would be unduly restricted. Sort-of workable, yes, but with a strong element of the penitential and flagellatory about its austerity — no doubt indeed actually cultivating religion-sourced 'penitential' illusory realities in various people's mindspace.

Some people even go in for eating raw meat, claiming it to be more nutritious that way (and of course in Japan raw fish served as 'sushi' is ill-advisedly regarded as a national delicacy). Unfortunately, that opens one to a very high risk of potentially serious gut infections such as Salmonella, to which people in reasonably developed civilizations are not very immune.

Also, raw meat (including fish) can readily transmit to you very harmful parasitic worms of various kinds, so even at the best of times it's risky to be eating. Yes, on some particular occasion or indeed 'normally' you might be 'sure' that your source of the meat precludes it from having such parasites, but if you make a practice of eating meat raw, that would mean that sooner or later you'd unquestioningly eat parasite-bearing meat that either has 'slipped through' or was from another source anyway.

So, while I'm not saying that it's actually 'wrong' or 'bad' to eat raw meat of any type, it's a choice not to take lightly, and that particular choice wouldn't make sense without it being confirmed by careful use of Helpfulness Testing as a genuinely beneficial choice for you personally to make at the current time — and to Helpfulness-Test on every single lot of such meat that you're considering eating raw.

Detox and fasting — a clarification

Widespread in the whole healing and 'spirituality' scene is a piece of old wifery that claims that one's body accumulates a lot of toxins as a by-product of the healing / self-realization process, and so one needs to take measures to 'detox'. One widely promoted method of supposedly achieving this is through regularly drinking a lot of water — about which I say more much further below. Another angle quite widely taken on 'detox' is to promote fasting as a supposedly good, healthy and particularly effective way to 'detox'.

The reality is that, whatever things may be achieved by fasting, 'detox' isn't one of them, for generally 'detox' isn't a need in the first place — i.e., over and above what the body already does perfectly well without interference from people's fads and old-wiferies. Also, prolonged fasting is simply weakening and generally harmful to one's system, both physical and non-physical, and it helps cultivate religion-sourced (i.e., at least indirectly garbage-sourced) self-flagellatory and 'penitential' illusory realities in one's mindspace.

However, on the other hand our 'civilized' tendency to avoid real, tangible hunger is also harmful in its own way, because we're physically not evolved for a continuous state of satiety to near-satiety. The answer to this, however, is NOT then to go on the flip side of that imbalance and to starve ourselves and harm ourselves into the bargain, but to simply eat more sensible amounts to start with, and to miss out the odd meal now and again (perhaps just eating a little fruit then, for example).

The purpose of that isn't any supposed 'detox', but a combination of re-enabling a certain physiological balance in one's system and, specifically, enabling the digestive system to work more efficiently and in a more balanced way, because it's evolved to deal with widely varying loads, ranging from a very large 'fill' to more or less nothing for a mealtime or two.

My own perhaps rather genteel compromise here at the moment is on two days a week to eat little or nothing for evening meal, following a more or less large (but generally not enormous) lunch. Basically I follow the indications of my Helpfulness Testing, so that at any particular point I may amend that schedule.

It's important to understand that any rule or guideline that indicates a particular amount or level of fasting is 'good for you' is intrinsically wrong. This is because each individual's precise needs are different, and vary from time to time, and thus Helpfulness Testing is the only means for establishing what's actually most beneficial for oneself (at the current time).

There is, however, one type of situation where, following my Helpfulness Testing results and plain good sense, I do fast on a more extended basis, such fasts having been exceptionally as much as three days. That's when I have an infection that causes stomach upset.

There's no virtue nor detox value nor healthy pleasure in vomiting, and there are always harmful aspects of that phenomenon, even when there's a real need to vomit. So, whenever I feel nauseous or 'off colour' in any sort of apparently relevant way, prior to getting a meal I Helpfulness Test on my getting that meal, and usually, provided that the nausea isn't just garbage attack, I then don't proceed, and simply drink some water or herbal tea.

I then don't eat anything till my Helpfulness Testing gives me the all-clear to make a tentative start again (I then Helpfulness-Testing to establish what and how much to eat initially so as not to load the system more than it's yet ready to take). I do make a point of drinking my normal amount of water or herbal tea at each mealtime — but, unless there's obvious water loss through diarrhoea or sweating I don't drink more than my normal amount.

The quite commonly held notion that the best approach to a 'stomach bug' is to eat a large meal to overwhelm it and move it rapidly out of your system isn't based in any genuine data. At such times the stomach and indeed whole alimentary canal simply can't properly handle a load anyway, and so there would in most cases be large and particularly harmful vomits and, most likely too, profuse diarrhoea, which again is harmful through the loss of essential nutrients through the temporarily dysfunctional intestine wall. Also, that's wasteful of natural resources and one's money — eating food that you then throw away without actually using for anything beneficial.

Manifesting your 'wants'

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

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

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

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

None of those people, thus, really gets to know what would be genuinely beneficial for them to be seeking to manifest, and neither do they know the best and most harmonious way to go about the manifesting process. Indeed, the whole concept of 'manifestation' as understood in the healing and 'spiritual' traditions is really rooted in the 'magic' traditions, and has simply had a respectable gloss put on it so that the majority of people no longer think of it as magic or 'spells'.

Also, in real terms there's no basic difference between black magic and 'white' magic, and the 'benign' gloss put on magic to make it supposedly 'white' simply acts as a fig leaf to hide the covert garbage manipulations and collusions that are involved in that sort of thing, no matter whether that 'magic' is called 'Horrific Black', 'Crimson Lake', 'Brilliant White' or 'Divine Miracles'!

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

So, if you're going to be proactive about bringing to yourself what would actually be strengthening and beneficial for you, you need to go about things in a very different way. It's no good, for example, figuratively repeating to yourself the mantra We're all entitled to abundance, and so I want this and that, and it's harmonious with my spirituality.

Instead the first step that I'd recommend is to make regular use of my full set of affirmations, with thoroughgoing formal readings on a weekly basis over quite a period, so that, among many other very important positive changes, you progressively get more in touch with what your real needs are and are not. It's also necessary to use methods that I give further above for progressively clearing the emotional issues that you're carrying (including all the ones you don't know about) and progressively clearing yourself of garbage and 'entity' interferences.

Then, when you get particular ideas of things, types of people, circumstances or changes in your life that you feel that you want or would be nice, you can use Helpfulness Testing in a careful, rigorous and vigilant manner to establish which of those (if any) would actually be strengthening for you at the present time. You're fully entitled of course to make a choice that has been indicated as 'weakening' for you or simply doesn't make sense as anything helpful for you — but in doing so you're at least temporarily turning your back on self-actualization and thus the most genuine long-term life improvement.

If you're serious about your self-actualization you'd make only strengthening choices (or, 'least weakening' where apparently all available options are weakening).

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

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

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

The methods that I've mentioned above are for the specific purpose of enabling you to get bringing out into the open your most deeply sourced intents, so that your ordinary mind connects up properly with those deepest intents. Whereas the garbage would get you grasping for specifics on the basis of want, your genuinely deeply-sourced intents would all be of a more general nature (and thus allowing free will to operate properly), so it would be more in the nature of Dissolving all obstacles to my having what financial and other assistance needed for me to be a really effective positive force in the world, or Clearing all obstacles to my having whatever companionship is really healthy for me and supportive to my self-actualization process (keeping in mind that it could conceivably be that little or none of what you think of as companionship would fit that bill).

There may be certain specific projects to be focused on in this way — BUT not on the basis of 'want'. They'd be things that have emerged as likely beneficial steps in your self-actualization process and your carrying out your underlying life task — and your careful use of Helpfulness Testing would indicate whether you'd really be along helpful lines with setting a clear intent for any of those.

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

Particular adverse aspects of your life situation appear not to be changing significantly, despite major gains in your own state.

This is an area where I myself have apparent issues, and I haven't been able to give nice convenient answers to people who've asked me for suggestions / advice about similar issues that they have. In the past, during my involvement with spiritual healing / Reiki and my then having contact with many 'healers', psychics and people into various 'spiritual' and paganistic traditions, repeatedly such people would come out with variants of It's just an energy block that you need to clear, or sometimes something in the nature of All you need to do is clear out your negative self beliefs, and then your life will open out and everything will be okay.

Really their actually unhelpful and platitudinous view (just based in belief and not in an aware appraisal of any particular individual's own situation) is just part of their general belief in it being possible and good to manifest one's 'wants' (see previous section). The implication tends to be that if you have such issues they're in some way your own fault, brought on either by your own negligence, or / and by there being something 'broken' or flawed about you.

Usually the apparently problematical life issues revolve around not having enough money to do the sorts of things in one's life that would make the whole show have some point and meaning for you — though also a perceived lack of friendships / 'relationships' is another issue that can seem very frustrating for somebody who is using the methods that I give on this site and getting all sorts of positive change, yet for whom those particular aspects of their life seem resolutely and most frustratingly unchanging

Or it might be not having enough time for the activities / pursuits that one wants or indeed that one understands would be most beneficial for oneself / others. Indeed, also for including here is one's garbage interferences not going away to the extent that one had been expecting and wanting.

While I have no doubt at all that various troublesome self beliefs and what might be described as 'energy blocks' would be at least part of the picture for many people, it's become clear to me that the situation must be more complex than that (and also with no single causal factor or 'right' answer for everyone), for otherwise anyone who, like me, has been progressively strengthening their non-physical aspects and dissolving illusory realities / beliefs / patterns — including ones specifically related to the particular obstinate issues — should theoretically clear all these life issues reasonably rapidly and then be supposedly 'successful' in their lives.

As far as I've been able to understand so far, a major part of such issues is actually one's still rather distorted perceptions of what one really needs to be doing in this life. Clearly, keeping on trying to change one's life in ways that for some reason are unavailable to you at the present time (and may or may not continue to be so in the future) isn't a great formula for any sort of happiness or sense of a meaningful existence.

For one thing, it's little or no use looking at how other people are living their lives, and going on thinking that you need to have a similar income and similar material abundance or number of friends and so forth, because we're all different, and what you're looking at in other people is largely 'sheep' who are seriously out of touch with their own deeper aspects, and also out of touch with their own fundamental individuality and any notion of what their own respective lives are really meant (by their own deepest aspects) to be about. How many of them really need or are genuinely benefiting from the lifestyles that they're pursuing? — Not that many, I think!

Helpfulness Testing can certainly be helpful here, BUT its results can be so easily obscured / distorted by our own attachment to particular ways of living, so that it can be very difficult to get really helpful 'answers' on such matters — and of course because one tends to have actual questions in one's mind it's particularly easy for the garbage to get in and of course supply answers even if one was doing the Helpfulness Testing apparently correctly and seeking to test options for 'strengthening' / 'weakening' rather than actually ask the burning questions — and naturally the garbage's answers that come would be unhelpful to seriously harmful ones!

Also, a lot of clarity is required in order come up with the right notions or options to Helpfulness-Test. Helpfulness Testing can never help you significantly if you're simply not Helpfulness-Testing those very things that really need to be tested. Stands to reason!

However, I don't at all mean to sound discouraging about such situations. You need to recognise that your fundamental nature (in any situation) is actually joyful, buoyant, constructive and creative. Creativity is NOT just about art, but is also, more fundamentally, about how you function in everyday life. So, at any particular time, if you're functioning well, you take what's actually available to you for your own genuine benefit (which includes the benefit of others), and you joyfully make the most of it in the most positive and constructive ways available to you at that time.

Of course you also keep on the lookout for means to enable you to make still more of your life, but the point is, you don't spend your life moping around feeling frustrated or worse, that you haven't the money or/and time to do XYZ. And the whole show needs to be approached in a light-hearted way that cuts through 'Monday morning blues' and such everyday states of mind that the vast majority are unwittingly inflicting upon themselves.

If you go about among other people with that light joyful touch and a tone of voice that seems to be declaring Sod the lot of you! to all the silly and tiresome things that people are feeling bad about, then straight away, through being an infectious 'ray of light' for them, cutting through their own personal glooms and anxieties, you're making something worthwhile of your life. And through doing it apparently for the people around you, you're also doing it for yourself, and the present time will seem MUCH less frustrating!

Personally, I'm quite ready to add in little doses of coarseness into my light-heartedness, especially when there's any sort of perceived mishap. A pained and really expressive (e.g.,) Ooh, f*cking Ada! immediately leading into a pained laugh is a great sort of public (as well as private) response to many perceived mishaps. Great for that moment when a seagull has just shat over you or the clouds suddenly drop their load on you while you have no waterproofs / umbrella on you and it's a mile to the nearest shelter! Or you've just trod on a loose paving stone in the rain, and it's sent a delectable jet of muddy water up your best trousers, the crud then of course having run straight down to give you a lovely squelchy shoe-full! Or, at the bakery, you've just bought that nice fresh-baked loaf, which you'd just put in a carefully reused bag, only to have it drop through the bottom and onto the dirty floor! As they say, Oh Scheiss! (Excuse my German!), or (in a posh voice As they say, 'Oh b*gger!', and so on.

The effect of judiciously and humorously uttered expletives in such contexts is light years away from the harsh and abrasive effect of the standard 'effing and blinding' that you hear so many people doing, which is all aimed to maintain a stressed and negative view of everything. F*cking this, f*cking that, everything is f*cking!, sort-of thing!

The only caution I'd give about this 'infectious light-touch' approach to everyday life is to beware of any tendency to become an actual comedian through a compulsive overdoing of the light touch. That's a manifestation of serious issues (just as it is with all professional comedians), and needs to be let go of quickly if you see that sort of thing emerging (or of course if it's already extant) in your everyday manner of relating with people. It can make one very popular, but for actually harmful reasons.

So, to sum up, what we actually ALL need to be doing is holding up to proper scrutiny (and generally considerably modify) what we really mean by 'success', 'achievement' and 'fulfilment' in our lives, while also living our initially restricted-seeming lives in a light-hearted way that gives something of a figurative middle-finger salute to all those serious, dismal, frustrated or otherwise inharmonious feelings, of our own and of those around us, so that we are each effortlessly that infectious 'ray of light' for all who we encounter each day. That's a great foundation for generally making more of our lives and freeing ourselves from this troubling sense of the important life opportunities passing us by.

Visualizations — good or bad?

It appears that some people get quite confused by what I have to say in various places on this site, as to whether using visualizations is a helpful or harmful thing to be doing. My understanding is that, overall, visualizations are problematical, because they take one's attention away from the physical 'reality' and thus help to weaken the grounding of our awareness and make us more open to garbage interference / attacks.

That's why my methods aren't centred on visualizations, and when I do recommend what I call a visualization I make the point that it needs to be NOT really a visualization in the usual sense, but more of a 'visualization by intent'. In other words you do NOT seek to 'see' very specific things but are really just using the absolute minimal visual representation of focusing a particular intent of yours. Also, I recommend that when you do use procedures using such visualizations you keep them short and succinct and don't do much of that generally.

You want to keep the number of, say, Grounding Point sessions to a small number in any one day, and aim to keep the number of such sessions to a reasonable minimum generally, and to put your awareness squarely back on everything physical as soon as your very brief visualizations have finished — really just a matter of seconds each time. But even when you're using such visualizations you still need to have the major part of your awareness on the physical aspects of what you're doing at that point.

Other 'visualizations' that I recommend, say, in the Alexander Technique, are, or at least need to be, very subtle and thought of more as just a figurative mental aspect of re-training of your physical self-perception — the main mental / emotional self-perception can then naturally follow on.

By using this absolutely minimal approach to 'visualization', you're much less likely to be inadvertently using the astral for your visualizations — something that could only bring harm, so well worth avoiding. Actually, in a sense you'd still be likely to be using it, but in the correct and potentially beneficial way — that is, through your deeper aspects rather than your 'ordinary mind' using it. However, the extent to which the astral could actually be used beneficially by your deeper aspects would be greatly limited by all the pollution that people have projected into it — including of course the garbage itself.

Music and other recorded sounds to support the healing process

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

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

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

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

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

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

For a few examples of relatively suitable classical music for this purpose, I suggest keyboard (and especially harpsichord) music by any of the Bach family or Domenico Scarlatti, piano music of Chopin, Brahms, Schubert and Grieg (but what I've heard of Scriabin's music is for avoiding for this purpose because of its typically quite strong mystical and even Satanistic resonances), symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert or Dvorák — even symphonies of Sibelius if you skip the Kullervo symphony and his 4th, which both are really too emotionally loaded to be the most supportive for a healthy session (although they're tremendous works in their different ways).

Also most music of Debussy and Ravel. Much chamber music is fine, and also many pieces of organ music, provided the sound volume isn't set unduly high — though Messiaen and Jehan Alain are best avoided because of unaware Satanistic resonances in much of their music. A wide range of choral music is suitable, provided it's not of a discordant modernistic idiom, and provided any religious, mystical or 'spiritual' aspect is ignored.

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

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

Finally I mention music using metal — and especially Tibetan — or crystal quartz singing bowls. Originally I wrote a bit about those here, recommending them but giving some cautions about the need to use them in the right context not to have a harmful (very ungrounding) effect. Now I keep mention of them here only to advise against listening to that sort of sound for extended periods at all. Yes, the sound is generally exquisitely beautiful, but it's so confoundedly ungrounding, with a very strong tendency to cultivate 'spiritual' or 'mystical' illusory realities at the back of one's mindspace, that it's much the best thing to steer clear of them more or less altogether — subject to rigorously gained Helpfulness Testing indications, of course.

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

Environmental sounds

A wide range of natural environmental sound recordings are available and make much better backdrops than music to support our sessions and indeed one's overall self-actualization process if there's some reason why your 'native' environmental sounds aren't fully acceptable or are insufficient for the particular session. These include sounds of rain, thunderstorms, waterfalls and other running water, the sea, birdsong, wind, whales / dolphins. However, generally speaking, any recording of a more or less continuous, uneventful sort of sound is best not used, except possibly as a sleeping aid. So really continuous rain or a waterfall, for example, is best reserved for possible sleep-assist only.

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

I did list here a number of commercial natural soundscape recordings from various sources, but that's now redundant because the obvious place for me to point you is my own Digital Download Catalogue, from where you can order CD-quality digital downloads of a wide range of natural soundscapes that I myself have recorded, quite often with a rather exciting certain risk to life and limb!

My Broad Horizon Natural Soundscapes venture started in June 2012. At long last I invested in a Sony PCM-M10 sound recorder, with the intention of gradually collecting some choice CD-quality natural soundscape recordings on my hikes, particularly on rugged sections of Cornish coast path. I'm steadily accumulating a reasonable variety of such recordings, and building up my Digital Download Catalogue, where you can listen to excerpts and order CD-quality downloads of them. The Store now has a Section 2, which isn't premium price but premium sound quality, thanks to my having changed over to the Sony PCM-D100 recorder model, which gives a much wider and more sharply focused (i.e., more finely detailed) and more three-dimensional soundstage, which seems to extend well beyond any stereo pair of speakers playing the recordings.

In addition to 'pure' natural soundscapes (particularly interesting sea, bird and wind / weather sounds), in November 2012 I commenced a recording project called Wind Chimes In the Wild — Symphonies of Wind Chimes and Nature. As its title suggests, this is about recording of wind chimes out in wild places, so that the recordings are authentic natural soundscapes in which the chimes are a part and are moved only by the wind (which you can clearly hear), whereas the commercial wind chimes recordings that I've heard are all in their different ways faked and thus much less satisfying (and indeed much less healthy to listen to for extended periods).

The sets of chimes that I was using for these recordings were mostly high quality ones in the Woodstock and Music of the Spheres ranges and, later, the Davis Blanchard range, each set of chimes being precisely tuned to a particular scale, and ensembles of the chimes giving beautiful and intriguing musical effects caused by the interactions of the different scales.

CD-quality downloads of recordings of those are available from my Digital Download Catalogue.

In March 2020 I added to my Personal site COVID-19 Lockdown Stress-Reduction! - Free Natural Soundscape Downloads, presenting free MP3 downloads of a selection of my long natural soundscape recordings in their entirety (shortest 39', while longest is over 2 hours) as a stress-relief offering especially for people suffering lockdown / self-isolation blues during the COVID-19 pandemic shenanigans.

These recordings are engaging rather than soporific, with all the natural variability of natural soundscapes, including a more or less gusting breeze, so that the chimes are more or less silent at times and quite frisky at other times, and a certain amount of wind noise in the microphones is accepted as part of the soundscape, just as you get wind noise in your ears when you're out in the wilds.

 In addition, if you're prepared to do the necessary sifting and sorting, and, preferably, sometimes to use a sound-file editor such as Sound Forge, Audacity or Wavepad to tidy up some recordings, you can use environmental sound recordings from Freesound, a tremendous repository of sound-file recordings available for free use (though you may wish to support Freesound with the odd donations), and compile custom CDs for your own personal use. I myself compiled a whacking 16 CDs of wonderful thunderstorm recordings from this source, and also CDs of forest, bird, wind, water and sea sounds — which was actually what led on eventually to my starting to make such recordings myself (much more satisfying!)

Drumming effects and Synthesized sounds — Red Warning!

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

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

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

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

Grounding — an area of great misunderstanding

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

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

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

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

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

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

Getting yourself grounded

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

For a concise re-grounding talk-through for people who urgently need to 'get a grip upon themselves', Crisis emergency self-help — Life upturn the SMART way could be very useful before continuing reading here.

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

However, although it takes time to get yourself more grounded overall, you can get a more transient but still very beneficial grounding effect (which does also contribute a little to any long-term overall grounding strategy) by doing something to ground your conscious awareness ('ordinary mind'). For me, a dramatic example of this was actually when I had crisis-level attacks from the garbage, and got myself hospitalized on four occasions, and on some subsequent occasions when I just contacted the local crisis resolution team and had a chat with them about what was going on for me.

This action of mine each time brought about speedy dissolution of the attacks and great weakening of the apparent 'signal strength' of the interfering communications and a corresponding much greater hold for me upon everyday physical reality. It wasn't medication nor any notion of 'treatment' that achieved this but simply my having supportive people* around me, with whom I could interact positively — this working for me by grounding my awareness, or in other words restoring my balance so that I was focused on the physical aspects of experience rather than the 'astral' aspect of consciousness through which the garbage is always seeking to cause more havoc if one inadvertently 'looks its way', so to speak.

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

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

• Priority use of grounding self-healing methods. The methods that I describe or point to in Some potent self-actualization / healing practices are particularly grounding. Optimally, use a combination of some of those methods.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    N.B. Running and cycling, although being grounding in some ways, are not so comprehensively so, and both have physically harmful aspects. Running wears out leg joints prematurely, because the human body didn't evolve to cater for regular extended sessions of running (extended regular walking is what we're adapted for).

    Cycling actually puts abnormal stresses on limb joints, and indeed on many other parts of the body, and in almost all cases cultivates serious spinal distortions that can give rise to very troublesome problems later in one's life. Also, both activities reduce your connectedness with your surroundings and thus aren't helping you with your grounding in the way that walking does.

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

  • Sports or other activities that are significantly competitive, and also martial arts, are good for grounding but need viewing with circumspection and caution. Certain of these, in moderation, may be very beneficial for particular individuals, but for the majority of people they reinforce problematical emotional traits that need to be cleared, and so are NOT a suitable means of getting more grounded.

    If you feel drawn to any of these, or already participate, then your best course is to use Helpfulness Testing and, through using the appropriate testing procedure, find out whether the particular activity is or would be strengthening or weakening for you (i.e., for your ultimate good) at the present time, and to use that basis on which to decide whether to proceed with any such activity or to do something else instead (again Helpfulness-Testing it to get an idea of its current suitability or otherwise for you).

    Generally speaking, martial arts put your 'life force energy' very much under the control of your ordinary, conscious mind, this being a highly unhealthy state of affairs, pointing you in some degree in the direction of 'dark' practice and the wielding of personal 'ego' power rather than in a true self-actualization direction.

    You also need to bear in mind that 'ki'/'chi' is illusory anyway, according to my understanding, and is a concept that everyone needs to let go of because of all the problems that are caused for us by illusory realities in which that supposed 'energy' is real. Those problems include vulnerability to particular types of extremely harmful psychic attack.

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

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

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

  • Playing or learning to play a musical instrument — especially if you can play in an ensemble or even orchestra. However, if the music you're playing is low-grade and awareness-reducing, then your benefits would be minimized and screwed up by the harm you're inflicting upon yourself by your playing the instrument. Therefore structured classical music is generally the best option. Getting to grips with musical structures can be very grounding — especially you're involving yourself with contrapuntal music of any kind — canon, fugue and so on.

Troubles from supposed 'karma'

Somebody wrote in to me in the following terms (slightly edited here to improve clarity):

I'm particularly interested in karma because I seem to have a lot of bad things happening to me seemingly by chance despite my utmost attention to the causes and conditions for manifesting happiness. It seems that many in our society enjoy prosperity and apparent happiness despite actions that seem to harm many others. I wonder if karma is also a result of an attitude towards life based on what one deserves. Cosmic retribution from a past life makes sense but sounds like it could be coming from the dark forces, as you've said. Regardless, going through life looking for recipes for happiness, such as rotating a coffee table, seems tiring. Sometimes the best solutions are often the simplest. I recovered from fibromyalgia/ME (a horrible case) with simple mind-body techniques, and my therapist would always caution me against overcomplicating it. Now I have a new test with a broken neck.

One of the BIG problems here is this whole horribly distorted notion of 'karma', which is built into an illusory reality that the garbage cultivates in the vast majority of people's minds, whether or not they're aware of it. That illusory reality then creates a whole plethora of sort-of 'self fulfilling prophesies' that can readily blight a person's life with all manner of misfortunes that appear to be fully externally caused, and it will all be 'justified' by the story that the person actually 'deserves' the troublesome things that are happening for him/her.

The need in all cases is (a) to let go of the whole (very ungrounded / ungrounding) traditional concept of karma, and (b) dissolve the illusory reality/ies that one is carrying, in which karma is any sort of retributional process or influence, and (c) to gain the proper, grounded understanding of what karmas* are (not as a new belief system but to help dispel the previous beliefs and misinformation).

The best way that I know of for dissolution of one's 'karma' illusory realities is through use of the Grounding Point procedure and my full set of affirmations — though for full effect that needs to be undertaken as part of a comprehensive self-actualization methodology such as I give on this page.

With regard to the specific person's communication quoted above, there looks like being another problem, in that another garbage-sourced notion could be compounding her issue — the idea that people can or need to 'manifest happiness'. That again is an illusory reality that needs 'zapping' just as much at the 'karma' one. The seeking of happiness in itself, by any means, is a great self-delusion that keeps anyone right away from genuine happiness.

Yes, you can look about in the world and get the impression that there are people who do so and do have happiness in their lives — but if you look more carefully and awarely you'd see that the 'happiness' of such people isn't the real thing, and is the 'happiness' of self-deception and not being true to oneself. Such people are actually being driven by an unhappiness and lack of real purpose in their lives that they can't bring themselves to countenance.

Genuine happiness is found not through seeking to be happy nor indeed 'good' (i.e., according to anyone's expectations or requirements of you), but by a genuine self-actualization process in which one progressively manifests one's own underlying true nature, which is naturally positive and creative, loving and joyfully aware — and indeed one's underlying life purpose.

Trouble from kundalini and similar 'energy' disturbances

Actually, generally speaking, however such disturbances have been described or perceived, those descriptions / perceptions are, to put it politely, extremely unhelpful and indeed are part of the problem. They're simply unverifiable 'story', which needs letting go of in order for your particular trouble(s) to be readily addressed.

The Good News, then, is that one of the first things you need to do is to use Grounding Point and / or The Work in order to clear yourself of all illusory realities in which you've been harmed by a 'kundalini awakening' or however else your particular troublesome disturbance has been described. Indeed, you also need to dissolve all illusory realities in which there's such an 'energy' or phenomenon as 'kundalini' (or other named 'energy' manifestation that you think has been causing you trouble). You probably also need to dissolve all illusory realities in which any special method or assistance is required for your particular disturbance.

And then, of course, most likely by now you'll be guessing what I'm going to say next! — Yes, it's simply to use the methods already presented on this site, with particular attention to real, genuine grounding instead of the healer's / psychic's / New-Ager's twisted and often inverted notion of grounding! I particularly recommend regular use of the Perception Integrator procedure, provided that it's included among other methods that I give, and is used with full heed of the cautions and caveats that I give.

The 'healing crisis' — not what people think it is…

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

My understanding now (still necessarily somewhat speculative as a broad generalization) is that these phenomena are not what is generally believed, for, apparently, they're NOT caused by any genuine healing process, and thus 'healing crisis' would be a complete misnomer. What's apparently really happening in such instances is that the affected person is getting interfered with and attacked by the garbage to produce the symptoms or crisis, as a result of the particular 'healing' methods they're using, which are actually harming them and making them more open and vulnerable to the garbage.

That, also, would be what's really going on when somebody has adverse 'side effects' from a Reiki attunement. My understanding nowadays is that such attunements always do harm to a person's non-physical aspects ('energy system'), and this can in some cases almost immediately lead to unpleasant physical effects, depending on how the garbage is interfering with the particular person. It can in some cases indeed open the person to a severe attack from the garbage. I know one young guy who, the night following his Reiki I attunement, had a hellish attack of full-blown terror, and, in the thick of that, had to get up to vomit. He was already particularly vulnerable because he was a regular cannabis user, but theoretically this could still happen to many people.

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

The important thing in all such cases is to work on the understanding that it's NOT a problem with any of the healing methods that I present here, but is a problem of interference and attacks from the garbage. Thus the affected person would need to continue with these methods, and, in particular, to use Feedback-Loop Zapper to dissolve the particular attacks and to use the Grounding Point procedure to get clearing all the illusory realities that are being used in such attacks. Anyone having such problems will find additional helpful information and 'action' guidelines in 'Dark force' and entity troubles — The real way to clear them.

"healing crisis caused by protection spells"

That was actually a search string that brought somebody to this site from a Google listing, and it's quite educational — indeed, to me almost comical. Presumably the person concerned was aware of that particular phenomenon, and it hardly takes 'rocket science' to understand the sort of predicament that affected people are in. They're evidently Wiccans or following some other sort of 'magic' tradition, not understanding that the very concept of casting spells is a garbage-sourced one, which gets people seeking to use 'special powers' (i.e., using the astral non-reality and thus the garbage to supposedly carry out their conscious will).

Also, as I've sought to emphasize on this page, the whole notion of needing psychic 'protection' is very much from the garbage, because such 'protections' are all at least largely bogus, and the real protection is your own intrinsic immunity to the garbage, 'entities', psychic attacks and any other adverse non-physical influences.

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

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

The importance or otherwise of the compass directions

Traditional Feng Shui makes a lot of the supposed effects of the compass directions upon us. According to such traditions, for best health and happy and fruitful lives we're supposed to have different functional parts of our living space facing in particular directions, and so on. We even supposedly need to be pointing in a specific direction when lying in bed. — So, why do I not make significant mention on this site (i.e., apart from here) of the matter of how the directions affect us?

For a start, again there's the matter of the idiocy and unhelpfulness of traditional rules that are supposed to apply roughly to everyone. Actually direction is a quite significant element in most people's environmental stress issues, BUT that's very much an individual thing, and it does NOT mean that the compass directions are intrinsically of importance to us — i.e., apart from considerations of obvious physical factors such as sunlight, shade, prevailing winds, location of nearest mobile phone transmitter mast, and so on.

Each person has his / her own particular distortions and imbalances in their own non-physical aspects, and thus would tend to have particular imbalances whose effects manifest most adversely when one is facing in a particular direction, or, say, has a particular object in their living space, positioned in a particular direction in relation to oneself or some other part of one's living space.

So, you can spend your whole life, indeed even getting into a spiral of paranoia about it, trying to get your abode, your working space and all your actions aligned with compass directions that supposedly would be the least harmful or most beneficial for you — but you'd be begging the question as to WHY you're having to go through all that performance, and as to whether there really could be a much simpler and less troublesome way.

As I've already remarked, our apparent sensitivity to the compass directions is nothing intrinsic to us, but is the result of our individual particular non-physical distortions and imbalances. So, how about us actually applying real down-to-earth good sense — yes, real intelligence! — to the issue, and start addressing the underlying cause! — But hang on! If the underlying cause is distortions and imbalances in one's non-physical aspects, then surely the methods presented or pointed to on this page are the answer!

Yes, indeed! That's why I don't encourage people to dwell on direction issues. Such issues that they do have would generally fade out over time as a result of their self-actualization process — provided that they're using a really suitable range of methods regularly in an ongoing manner. There are, however, a couple of direction-related things that would greatly help reduce one's direction sensitivity, at least in many cases, and those are (a) to use Grounding Point to dissolve any illusory realities that you may be carrying, in which the compass directions have any intrinsic effect upon you, and (b) to make ongoing use of the Clarity-Power Pumping or Filtration Bed practice (using Helpfulness Testing to establish which of those two would be best for you to use on any particular occasion).

I'd caution that there are certain individuals 'out there' who sell devices that are supposed to eliminate environmental stresses, and who claim to be experts on environmental stress issues and run workshops on such issues — all of course at a considerable financial price. In 2007 I myself went on a workshop run by two such individuals (viz. Stephen and Lynda Kane, the Energy Egg people), and I've come to recognise that all the 'information' I got from them then about how the directions are supposed to affect us would effectively have been cultivating / reinforcing the workshop participants' illusory realities concerning direction effects, so that effectively they'd be resultantly more inclined to come back for more workshops and purchases of further devices to try to 'eliminate' their various workshop-augmented environmental stresses. How convenient for the bank balance of those environmental stress 'experts'!

In the meantime, while one still has various direction sensitivities, rather than accept the words and illusory realities that such 'experts' put forward, it's better to use Helpfulness Testing to establish for yourself when, where, and to what extent you really need to modify anything in your everyday life in order to avoid or minimize a current potential 'direction stress' effect. At least with some practice, YOU are potentially by far your own best expert on your own needs!

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

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

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

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

One thing NOT to do (because it simply couldn't work) is to 'throw healing devices such as Clarity-Spheres (etc) at the problem'. Once you've run into a healing snarl-up, no additional healing aids or methods would be able to work for you, and indeed every new attempt to force your healing process would actually add another bit of obstruction to it.

Here's a nice little pointer to the change of tack that you need to make if you've run into a healing snarl-up. Have a read of my little real life mountain 'scrape' experience in Fear versus Reality — A Salutary Mountain Experience. Your healing snarl-up situation is very much a parallel of my little scrape out there on the mountain, where it seemed that I'd got myself into a fatal predicament, and when I frantically scrabbled to try to get back up the extremely steep slope, things just came away with my every movement, and I was actually gradually slipping down further rather than ascending, and the slope was plunging away in precipitous crags not far below me.

Scary, hey! (Help!). And then you'll notice how I intuitively transformed the situation by STOPPING TRYING! Instead, I changed tack and accepted the current apparently hopeless situation — but with the rider that this was now just an assumption within a little experiment, and thus I'd neatly stepped out of the emotional involvement with the fear. And, as I had 'all the time in the world' while just stuck there (because I was as good as dead anyway), I'd bide my time by doing this little experiment, just to see what happens if, as a 'dead duck' now, just very gently and slowly, with all the time in the world, put one hand up here… And, ever so slowly and gently, the other hand up there… And — slowly does it! — one foot ever so gently up here, not trying to achieve anything, of course… And…

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

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

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

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

Another important measure to take is to ensure that your healing practices are appropriately scheduled. Typically, people who run into healing snarl-up are overdoing the frequency of their healing practices either through having no formal schedule for them or, less commonly, through having a schedule, but one that's too intensive.

The need, then, is to sit yourself down and work out a daily / weekly schedule aimed at rebalancing your whole life, and thus spacing out your healing practices chronologically, and actually also listing grounding everyday activities that are NOT normally thought of as healing practices, that you can do for making your life more enjoyable and balanced.

Walks out in the wilds, if at all possible, need to figure here, and, for example, creative / artistic activities, such as musical performance. Most people can actually sing perfectly well in a local choir, for example, if they but let go of any self doubt rubbish that they've been carrying. Competitive sports can help to a point for some people, but they have problematical aspects and so instead I recommend other, non-competitive ways of getting out and engaging with other people in positive ways. For some people, getting enrolled in particular courses may be a very helpful balancing thing — though obviously some courses would be much more suitable than others.

Helpfulness Testing is the real way to establish what are the best activities for you, to get your life optimally balanced to support your healing and self-actualization process.

Particular balancing activities of my own include:

• A bit of shopping almost every morning (rather than doing just one or two 'heavier' shopping outings per week).

• A daily (usually after-lunch) walk from my flat along the river and canal and back by a partly different route, which may be as little as two miles, but most typically is nearly 7 miles, briskly walked. This is weather dependent, though.

• A full day hiking outing, once or twice a week, weather permitting. On those hiking days I take a more or less complete 'holiday' from overt healing practices, though theoretically I could use the Grounding Point or Feedback-Loop Zapper procedure if something comes up into my mind that's worth 'zapping' there and then. However, because my balance has progressively increased, nowadays I hardly ever have cause to do an outdoor Grounding Point, and indeed normally don't have cause to use that procedure a lot even indoors.

  These hikes, like the afternoon walks, also give an opportunity for any Self-Power Walking that needs to be done. But even that needs to be limited to a sensibly small proportion of a whole walk (especially a full-day hike).

• Singing in a local choral society, with weekly (evening) rehearsals. I've dropped this one now, but it was a great thing to be doing for many years, and I recommend it to others, provided that they're careful and vigilant in not inwardly engaging with the religious and other garbage-sourced content of the vast majority of at least Western choral works — i.e., one does it for the music, not for the actually pernicious words and 'story'.

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

Less can be more!
As part of the process of spacing out your various self-healing practices, you may be able to find more efficient ways of carrying some of them out. Helpfulness Testing could point you to ways to achieve such greater efficiency. The use of particular declarations of intent in some cases would make a particular practice or procedure more effective.

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

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

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

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

However, I'm aware of one thing that at least I myself would do to assist a young child of mine if I were a parent and the child appeared to be having any problems. What I'd do, subject to my Helpfulness Testing indicating 'strengthening' for me to do it, would be to use my flexible common sense to 'make play' with the child to demonstrate doing Grounding Point and Feedback-Loop Zapper on myself, encouraging the child to do likewise to dissolve his/her troublesome manifestations — always finding ways to explain simply what any action is meant to be achieving.

In the case of Grounding Point I mean my now generally favoured simplest form of that procedure, which uses the top of the sternum as the 'grounding point', rather than a sphere or the top of a wooden post. There would most likely be other simple procedures of a similar nature that I'd intuit and confirm or otherwise on the spot, to further assist the child — but it would be very much a matter of playfully and creatively getting the child engaged with the clearance and grounding process. We need to keep clearly in mind, however, that one could hardly expect the child to become motivated to use any such methods if the parent isn't already using the methods for herself, and clearly benefiting from them.

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

I think one problem that so many worried parents have is that they don't understand that it's never too early for even a baby to start learning how to clear out unwanted visuals and other interferences of any kind. And also, because the parents themselves are so anxious and indeed frightened by what's happening, they simply are in no state to be able to be effective in showing any child how to rectify their night hells situation, even if they intellectually 'knew' what wanted doing.

That underlies the pressing responsibility of each parent to get on with their own process of self-actualization and clearance of their own garbage interferences (both overt and covert), NOW — and indeed far preferably, BEFORE they even think of having children! Then, if they still feel that they 'must' have children, at least they'd be in more of a state to give their very young offspring the joyful sort of play-teaching to start clearing out their own garbage interferences and attacks, that would really bring them forward and get them set on a genuinely healthy direction for their growing-up.

Baptism NOT a worthwhile answer

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

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

It's possible, however, that in some cases a Christening or otherwise getting the child initiated into a religion may appear to cause a reduction or cessation of the particular troubles. That happens with some adults too. However, when that happens it does NOT mean that something really positive has happened and the real problem has been solved. Indeed, it means that a new and more insidious problem has been created.

The garbage has a mega-plethora of alternative and variant strategies to use on different people to 'bring them to heel', and one of those is to give the person some very rough direct treatment, then, while that's going on, to manipulate the person into involvement in a particular religion to try to find help, and as soon as the person bites on the bait, so to speak (e.g., 'taking Jesus into my life'), the garbage suddenly lays off the rough stuff, so convincing the person that 'Jesus', or whatever religious involvement was taken on, has proved to be his / her saviour and protector.

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

"I'm in a desperate situation and I get worse every time I use your methods — please help!"

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

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

The problem comes down basically to the ways that the garbage interferes with particular people. It may cultivate a disempowered, anxious — even desperate — state of mind in which, even though the methods may be giving some benefit (probably not noticed), the very use of them plays into a destructive feedback loop of fear-related emotions and troublesome thoughts (which is actually being stoked up by the garbage), which causes all sorts of personal problems, including various very troublesome and often frightening physical symptoms.

The problem here isn't anything about the healing methods themselves, but about the way the garbage will exploit any vulnerability in one's outlook or state of mind (and weak grounding of one's awareness) to transform one's 'practice' sessions into effectively 'self harm' / 'self destruction' sessions. I've experienced it trying to do that to me and I've seen it successfully doing that in other people, so I do know what I'm talking about.

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

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

The worst times I had with that sort of problem were in 2006 and early 2007, when the garbage, posing as my 'inner guidance', effectively hijacked my inquiry sessions using The Work, transforming them into really nightmarish experiences, in which I was being directed to put to inquiry an intimidating ever-increasing list of troublesome thoughts and supposed inner beliefs, which were really just things that the garbage was feeding into my mindspace as it went along, based on convoluted 'story' that it was giving me about myself and my situation.

This very much helped to build up very major crisis events that could well have proved fatal for somebody who didn't have the protective strength of outlook that's gained by being enlightened and generally exceptionally clear-minded in outlook, as I had.

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

As well as the aforementioned type of problem, as a rare occurrence, by some means a person may have got loaded with an elemental* that makes it extremely difficult for the person to make any healing method really help them, and which itself may be causing intractable physical and mental / emotional problems. In some rare cases such elementals are actually programmed (by their creator, who would be a person who is into 'dark' practices) to bring about a progressive deterioration, which can be fatal if the affected person is unable to use appropriate methods (i.e., effectively) to bring about the quite rapid dissolution of the elemental.

Unfortunately I doubt whether there's anything much that another person could do to clear off such an elemental; to my best current understanding, it would need ongoing work by the affected person — the catch being that generally people who are so affected are in no state to be able to use the relevant methods sufficiently effectively.

It's important to understand that it would be quite unworkable and indeed impossible for me myself to go trying to sort things out for individuals who've run into any of the sorts of problem that I describe above. For the sake of my own well-being, it's necessary for me to maintain healthy balance in my life, and such balance would be seriously compromised by my attempting to 'help'* people who, for whatever reason, are unable to help themselves — and that includes such matters as people who don't sufficiently understand English or who for disability reasons can't properly read the pages here.

It also needs to be borne in mind that I myself am still working on clearing remaining vulnerabilities of my own to certain types of garbage interference and attack, so it's no good anyone looking upon me as somebody who's completely 'defeated' the garbage and has a simple magic 'silver bullet' that he can dish out to anyone who is in trouble, to 'save' them from their situation.

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

Some objects that are best jettisoned

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

• Crystals, whether naturally or artificially shaped — though spheres or at least completely rounded and more or less polished forms of some minerals / stones may be relatively benign.

• Any materials or objects that are supposed to generate 'orgone', 'chi' or 'life force energy' (what they actually generate is a disruptive and weakening effect in your non-physical aspects, which opens you more to the astral non-reality and thus the garbage) — regardless of any glowing claims made for them and any testimonials from users in purveyors' sales material.

  The only exception to this that I'm aware of is the Energy Egg 'family' of devices, but then to my understanding they're misdescribed in the first place with regard to their 'chi' effects.

• Jewellery of any kind.

• Sacred geometry in any form, whether it be wands, fashioned crystals, any other three-dimensional sacred geometry structures or simply graphical or pictorial representations of it.

• Wands of any type.

• Any object bearing 'sacred', religious, spiritual, 'healing', mystical, paganistic or esoteric symbol(s), including runes.

• Any object that's supposed to be some sort of charm or talisman.

• Any object that's supposed to be for protection or healing purposes (including any type of 'energy protection' and 'environmental stress elimination' device), unless it's a user-controlled energy device — which, as far as I'm aware, currently means just the Clarity-Sphere , the Energy Egg family of devices , and the not generally available tiny Light-Sphere and Energy Stone that look like these :

  

  Although I consider these green-ticked items to be benign and potentially quite helpful, please note that my own methods have advanced, and now don't use any of those devices or indeed any other external aids. So, yes, there's no longer any reason to hang onto even those notionally benign items — for their presence in your abode would be a distraction from what you really need to be doing.

• Metal around any part of your body — whether it be chains or things like bracelets and rings. A partial exception here is copper bracelets used to assist against rheumatic disorders. However, these do still have harmful effects despite their possible limited helpful effects, and these bracelets are effectively redundant when you take up the methodology presented on this page.

• Any sort of magnetic 'healing' device. Yes, these can in some cases have limited beneficial effects — especially for arthritis — but again they also are harmful to your non-physical aspects, and are made redundant by the methodology presented on this page.

• Pendants — apart from any that have a necessary practical purpose, such as an emergency 'panic' device for an infirm person living on his own. That doesn't mean that such latter devices aren't harmful, but clearly in such cases it would be necessary to weigh up the costs and benefits.

• Any sort of divining paraphernalia, including but not limited to angel cards, Tarot, I Ching, runes, dowsing rods, dowsing pendulums (really even the Perfect Pendulum from the Energy Egg people, because even that can cause significant problems for some people), anything to do with astrology, numerology, palmistry, fortune telling, and indeed predicting the future in any way.

• Candles and night lights — except any that are kept specifically for emergency lighting in the event of a power failure .

• Any sort of shrine or altar and any objects associated with it.

• Bibles, Q'rans (Korans) and other 'holy' books (including prayer books) and scriptures — apart from any that are retained as reference for some practical reason (i.e., NOT for any sort of devotion or personal involvement in the contents of those scriptures).

• Any aromatherapy oils (probably). This depends on personal circumstances, and for some people Helpfulness Testing may indicate specific oils to retain, at least for the time being, but the general direction is to clear out any such oils. Yes, some do smell quite lovely, but that isn't in itself sufficient reason to retain them.

• 'Vibrational' essences, flower essences and homoeopathic remedies. While theoretically some can contain beneficial programming, any benefits are only slight, and it only takes somebody who has particular garbage / 'entity' interference to quite unawarely put seriously harmful programming in any such essence. The latter can even be done by individuals who you assume to be the most pure and 'squeaky-clean' (as happened for me). To the best of my understanding so far, they're thus best ALL jettisoned, for they're completely redundant for anyone using the methods given on this page.

• Mobile phones. These are generally weakening, and subtly harmful for some of us on account of their electromagnetic radiation — but in addition there are other problems about their use. To a huge number of people, being 'on call' from all and sundry, wherever you are (and similarly, making calls just whenever the whim takes you, wherever you are), weakens your connectedness with your surroundings when you're out and about.

  For very many people now, mobile phones have become a seriously life-degrading and brain damaging addiction, so that instead of getting on with life in any meaningful and aware manner they're constantly messing around with their phones ('electronic willies'!) to look for new text messages or 'tweets', and thus not being properly in touch with their surroundings, including the people physically around them.

  Except for important specific tasks, it's much healthier to be completely free from phone calls (including text messages) when you're out and about, even when just out shopping in town. Your attention would be then much more on your surroundings and you'd more readily interact properly with people who you encounter — all assisting your grounding.

• Personal stereos, except where kept for occasional use where there's some special practical reason why the use of one is necessary. The normal regular extended use of these is extremely harmful. To have your ears plugged or covered like that to have your life experience continuously mega-polluted with continuous music that obliterates much of what you'd otherwise hear of your surroundings is ungrounding and tremendously harmful and destructive to your brain functioning, and your whole experience of life. That's true even if you don't have the volume turned up so that your hearing is being damaged (as a high proportion of personal stereo users do).

  It isn't even as though you can properly listen to the music like that. To really enjoy and benefit from music it's essential to listen reasonably infrequently. Otherwise its overall effect is just as a mind-number — a mental anaesthetic and awareness closer.

• Televisions. Quite apart from a certain level of harmful electromagnetic radiation from them (though not as much as from a mobile phone, especially with modern non-cathode-ray-tube screens), they're addictive and their use seriously diminishes nearly all users' life experience. Rather like the use of cannabis, their regular use actually damages the brain, so that the affected people then are completely unable to reduce their reliance on the television as the central interesting element in their lives. Vicarious living like that has no place in a genuine self-actualization process, and indeed is a total block to self-actualization or even the slightest understanding of what self-actualization really is.

  The 'justification' for television watching that's usually dished up to me is that there are, allegedly, some very good programmes on 'the box', and it's okay to be discriminating and watch just those. — Well, sorry to disappoint (except that I'm not sorry at all!), but that's plain self-dishonesty.

  The issue that I raise about televisions is NOT about the supposed quality or otherwise of programs — it's about the very fact of watching television instead of actively and creatively getting on with your life. If you really intend for self-actualization in your life, you don't use a television at all. You can get news and weather forecasts — indeed, much better weather forecasts — on the Internet, so you don't need the television for that.

• You can also use the Internet to gain information that particularly interests you. Actively seeking out information is MUCH healthier than passively being spoon-fed with pre-digested bite-size chunks of information (or indeed misinformation) in supposedly very good television programmes. The whole television-watching mindset isn't 'living' in any really meaningful way; rather, it's 'atrophying'!

"How can I respectfully dispose of crystals?"

The above question was asked in an email in response to this site, and it reflects a common misconception that would be best for me to address here. Indeed, this applies not just to crystals but to anything about which there's any sense of having some sort of obligation to be reverential or 'respectful' (i.e., in a reverential way) towards them.

A healthily grounded and clear-minded outlook has an intrinsic respect for all people and all things. However, that isn't at all the same thing as the sense of 'preciousness', 'sacredness' or 'holiness' that the garbage gets many people and indeed whole traditions putting upon certain categories of objects or indeed people.

With a healthy outlook, therefore, you'd dispose of objects that need to be disposed of without any affected 'respect' or sense of a sacred 'preciousness' about them, and without ritual or ceremony, but taking into account fully the environmental issues of disposal, and, where relevant, of ensuring to a reasonable extent that the object(s) won't fall into somebody else's hands and then cause them problems.

If the objects are to be damaged or destroyed, then that would be for practical reasons only (i.e., for the benefit of all involved), rather than, for example, just to 'beat the hell out of them' or to get any sort of 'buzz' out of the act of damaging or destroying them. Any sort of 'revenge' against the objects for perhaps having caused one harm is thus out of place, and any urge to take such action needs to be dissolved, for example by means of Grounding Point.

In my own case, when I started clearing out the objects that had actually been causing me great harm, I put my sacred geometry wands into my domestic refuse, which wasn't ideal because of the possibility of other people finding them at some point and taking them home — but it was a matter of urgency for me to get them disposed of as quickly as possible, and I had nowhere outside my flat to store them (i.e., where other people wouldn't come across them and potentially steal them and so gain major problems themselves), so I didn't take time to work out a more 'secure' disposal method.

Actually, in hindsight, with a lot like that to dispose of again I'd be inclined to use the heaviest hammer that I could find and attempt to flatten the merkaba or other geometrical structures on them on a concrete path outside, and also of course to shatter the crystal on the wand (eye protection needed in case of splinters flying out), so that nobody would then be drawn to play around with those then relatively harmless wrecks.

In the case of crystals and various unwanted stones, my own favoured way of disposing of them, with sea cliffs not too far away, was to take a smallish batch at a time (so they wouldn't be troublesomely heavy for me) on each hike that I went on, and throw the crystals / stones over a cliff where they'd fall into deep water and were unlikely to get washed up on a beach where people could then find them.

In fact I did something further, in that just prior to throwing the items 'overboard' I'd hold it/them in my cupped hands, and carry out a variant of the Grounding Point procedure, using a 'visualization by intent', directing into it/them a particular illusory reality or other problematical 'energy' configuration in my system, while power breathing, and then to throw the particular items over the cliff. That way, I was using them for a final positive purpose in taking some action towards the dissolution of those particular issues that I was carrying.

Had I not had such sea cliffs available, most likely I'd have put batches of the crystals / stones simply in my regular refuse to go to landfill. However, I'd encourage people to break up any crystals / stones that had been fashioned into sacred geometry shapes, using a reasonably heavy hammer, on a hard surface such as a concrete path — though taking care about eye protection in case of splinters flying out, and of course sweeping up as necessary afterwards as one would after a glass breakage there.

Destroying sacred geometry shapes / structures, done in an aware manner with the intent of furthering one's and others' self-actualization, is always a positive and very helpful action, and weakens your garbage connections, putting you in good stead for further weakening the garbage hold on you by whatever means you use.

Such purely practical behaviour is to be clearly distinguished from carrying out a ritual associated with the disposal — which would be harmful and actually compound rather than lessen one's garbage connection issues.

Unsurprisingly, I recommend the use of Helpfulness Testing to establish what are your own most helpful / beneficial choices with regard to how you might dispose of some crystals / stones or indeed other harmful objects.

Direct, active removal of entities

The supposed direct, active removal of entities from other people by 'healers' / 'lightworkers' is a highly problematical area of 'healing'. Indeed, the concept of 'lightworker' is itself extremely problematical in much the same way that 'spirituality' is, because the very concept of being a worker with, of or for 'the Light' or indeed 'light', is a garbage-sourced one that cultivates the garbage's hold on the very person who believes that (s)he is clearing entities and maybe garbage connections.

As I explain below, it's unlikely in the extreme that such supposed entity removal ever really works, despite superficial appearances of it sometimes giving spectacularly beneficial results. In any case the real need for anyone is to take up proper self clearance and self-actualization methods as enumerated in the list further above, for just to remove 'entities' from another person — even if that were really happening — would be to a considerable extent still trying to address a symptom rather than actually resolving the underlying cause(s).

My general observation is that people who make a thing of supposedly removing entities from people are themselves still at least to some extent being sidetracked by the garbage, because they're thus being diverted from getting their clients using appropriate methods to clear their own underlying issues and thus to make themselves truly clear of and invulnerable to 'entities' and the garbage.

This point is underlined by the fact that the garbage, generally posing as higher or indeed 'divine' beings, can and usually does hide from the 'healer' / 'lightworker'* the true state of affairs and readily present 'visuals' showing entities being cleared out when actually nothing of the sort is happening. In early 2007 I myself had the garbage (posing as my own higher consciousness and also as a supposed Divine Support Team) on several occasions give me stylized simulations of 'demons' attached to me being transformed into supposed angelic or divine beings and whisked away to a high 'dimension'. This was all a ploy both to keep my attention as ungrounded as possible and to try to convince me not to look further to clear my 'entities' (i.e., garbage interference) issue.

The 'lightworker' who was attempting to assist me at that time in clearing the 'astral beings' from me (he described them as 'demons') was being similarly — indeed extensively — deceived, and ended up assuring me that more or less all of my entities had been cleared and the remaining very considerable interferences (including attacks) that I was getting were from self created simulations of entities — what he referred to as 'self-created demons'.

He was making these claims in complete ignorance of the reality, as far as I've been able to establish, that there were no entities of the types that he was being shown (actually by the garbage posing as his 'Divine Support Team'), and so all the manifestations that he was seeking to cast out were nothing more than illusions created in his and my mind by the garbage.

The real entities that were attached to me — the parasitic lost souls — were something that the garbage naturally didn't show him or me, so that they remained unrecognised until I'd got right out of the mindset of having anyone supposedly casting out entities from me and had got using the effective self-clearance methodology that I present on this page.

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

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

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

Healing and resolving anal fissures and other problems of the anus

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

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

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

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

Use the Grounding Point procedure to 'zap' any (most likely covert) illusory realities involving your anal over-tightness and clenching, and Feedback-Loop Zapper to stall any associated emotional button-pushing or internal feedback loop that's occurring.

Use of a suitable stool softener when things are particularly difficult, such as with significant haemorrhoids or an anal fissure. Unfortunately many stool softeners, including lactulose and various natural products, cause adverse reactions in the gut, with excess gas production, which can further increase your misery, because farting itself can be very painful with an anal fissure or aggravated haemorrhoids in an over-tight anus. I eventually had a better stool softener prescribed for me by my doctor — Movicol, a preparation of polyethylene glycol. My use of Helpfulness Testing retrospectively suggests that it was no more harmful than any other stool softeners that I'd encountered, and actually didn't cause (me) any significant additional gas production.

It's a good idea to use the Environmental Stress Zapper procedure on whatever stool softener you're using, and at least over a shortish period you will very likely find that any adverse reaction of yours to it will have much reduced if not altogether faded away. When I was using the Energy Egg, before I'd developed the Clarity-Sphere, my own experience didn't tally with claims and reports of the Energy Egg causing immediate cessation of sensitivity reactions; for me it always took some time — commonly a few days or a week or so — to notice a clear difference, and in any case not all my 'sensitivity' reactions have responded really noticeably to my tuning the Energy Egg to them. Similarly, I didn't notice instant cessation of sensitivity reactions upon tuning the Clarity-Sphere to the particular stress sources.

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

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

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

'Nitroglycerin' (actually glyceryl trinitrate) ointment, which I myself tried a long time ago, can be used to help relax the anal sphincter when it's excessively tight, though I'd not recommend its ongoing use, because that would be mucking around with your natural functioning and may have disruptive effects on the sphincter function long-term. It can also give you a headache.

For me personally, it didn't seem to help me much, BUT my Helpfulness Testing now indicates that I'd needed to use a greater strength (the catch being that upping the strength makes headaches more likely and also increases the odds for long term harmful effects). One particular drawback of using 'nitroglycerin' ointment is that it has no other properties that you may need at that time, such as shrinking of haemorrhoids, antisepsis and pain and itching reduction. That's really why I discontinued using 'nitroglycerin', moving to the haemorrhoid ointments / creams instead.

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

Maintaining your faculties through your life

What is the point of seeking for supposed self-actualization if you're just allowing your body and 'mind' — indeed, your whole life experience — to atrophy towards your being a geriatric 'cabbage'? A genuine comprehensive self-actualization process includes measures, including mental disciplines, to cultivate ongoing prime functioning. That includes cultivating mental flexibility and maintaining the acuity of all one's physical senses. That also has the great benefit of helping to maximize one's groundedness.

Be aware that brain and nerve cells need to be regularly and actively used if they aren't to die or atrophy prematurely. Passive pursuits like watching TV or videos, or repetitive pursuits like surfing, when carried out over an extended period, cause brain damage through failure to stimulate whole areas and aspects of brain function. I know what I like and like what I know is a self-harm outlook, always to be turned away from!

For mental flexibility and rationality, it's necessary always to be on the lookout for pattern responses of yours to situations or people, and train yourself to interrupt such responses before they come out into the open, so that you can then respond in different, consciously chosen, rational ways instead. It's also necessary to think and work things out for yourself as much as reasonably practical, rather than keeping on going to other people for advice in order to avoid doing the necessary thinking yourself.

Reduce as far as is workable your reliance on rules or 'given' instructions to get you through a situation or indeed your life in general, and instead work out for yourself what would be your own most appropriate and effective responses to each situation as it arises, properly taking into account the uniqueness of each situation. For example, if you drive, keep any use of a satnav or equivalent to an absolute minimum, and make or keep it the norm that you drive using your brain and not the confounded satnav.

With regard to one's sensory faculties, the need is for one to apply the fullest possible awareness to each of one's sensory impressions, all the time. In other words, pay attention not only to what you can see, hear, feel, smell and taste, but really carefully observe the nature of what you're sensing. In the case of sounds, pay attention to the distribution of frequencies in each sound, particularly listening for the very highest and very lowest frequencies that you can discern, and fundamental tone and overtones where these are discernible at all. In the case of what you see, look frequently at the finest details of what you're looking at — even of distant objects.

Also pay aware attention to the nature of the colours you see — both of objects and indeed the ambient light itself, and cultivate awareness of the spectral wavelength distribution of the light's colours. Yes, perish the thought, that might well involve your reading up a bit to get a little bit of technical knowledge to increase your understanding of what you're seeing! (Go for it!)

The same principle goes for the other senses too. Learn to examine each touch or pain sensation, for example, and observe how it differs from such sensations on different occasions. This isn't just an academic exercise, for your life experience becomes much more abundant and vivid, the more difference you notice between each sensory experience of a broadly similar nature, and also, in the case of, say, pain, it then becomes much easier to examine particular pains and establish to what extent they're genuine (i.e., purely physically sourced) and to what extent they're garbage-sourced phantom pains.

By integrating such proactive physical awareness cultivation into your everyday life experience, you're helping your brain and nervous system to keep operating at the best possible level right into far old age. No magic is involved, however, and various factors would still generally lose some degree of one's faculties (I haven't actually recovered my ability to hear bats in flight, for example) — but, barring damage and loss caused by certain very specific physical conditions, and toxic effects of particular drugs, including alcohol (even in very modest quantities), people generally wouldn't have anything like the deterioration of brain function and the physical senses that is generally accepted as 'normal' (and therefore apparently good, dammit!) and 'just your age'.

All this of course needs to go hand in hand with being physically and mentally active. The repetitive and 'closed-in' nature of the gym experience means that using a gym needs to be seen only as a last resort, in situations where there aren't the wild places to get out on strenuous walks or indeed climbs. There isn't much in regular gym workouts to cultivate mental flexibility or expansion of horizons, so they're to be avoided if at all possible, or used sparingly where they really are your only option for getting some much needed physical exercise.

Particularly importantly, use your legs as much as sensibly possible in your everyday life. Walk whenever workable between locations rather than use motorized transport, and indeed in preference to cycling (which has significant negative health impacts regardless of any benefits that it may give).

Wherever workable to do so, walk rather than use escalator or lift in stores, Metro or wherever. If you do use an escalator, walk up or down it regardless of its already having you moving. The one caveat is that I found from personal experience that if my way was blocked by people standing on the escalator, and I asked them to let me pass, some would get obstructive and indeed abusive, for they're 'sheep', who greatly object to a more 'open' and healthy person wanting to get past them and, in the process show up their dull sluggishness.

To save undue aggro, it may be better usually just to appear to conform in such situations and simply stand when your way is blocked. Similarly, in everyday life, if you have the choice of a steeper or gentler route to walk in order to reach your destination, choose the steepest workable option (and yes, you may need to be more lightly clad when you're out if you're going to be more energetic like that!).

Finally, GOYA (Get off your arse), and get a (proper) life!

Internal physical damage done by 'entities'

This note is prompted by somebody writing in to me asking if there's a section on this site addressing the problem of damage to internal organs caused by 'entity' attachments and other interferences. The strict answer to that person's question was 'Sort-of, no', except that now at least for the time being this note will effectively be that section! I say 'sort-of', because anyone who reads through relevant pages on this site would actually get all the information and pointers they need for understanding and addressing an apparent issue of internal physical damage caused by 'entities' of some kind or another.

This note, then, simply collates and focuses some relevant information, bearing in mind that people with such issues would often be feeling too pressured or indeed desperate to spend all the time and mental focus that it would take to trawl the requisite information from the site as a whole.

Generally, if a person gets any notion that they have internal damage from such non-physical influences, it's very likely, although by no means certain, that they actually have no such damage and the garbage or at least one of its illusory manifestations has been feeding the person misinformation (probably including giving him particular pains or other sensations) to convince him that he has such damage.

In any case, the first thing they need to do is use Grounding Point to 'zap' all notions / illusory realities in which they have any such internal damage, or in which any actual physical problems have been / are being caused by such non-physical sources; it needs doing regardless of whether any such physical damage actually is or isn't present. This is crucially and pressingly important, even though the garbage and any of the illusions it creates in one's mind, and indeed any elementals or soul fragments or other attached human consciousnesses, can't directly cause internal physical damage.

The urgency is because what the garbage can and does do is to cultivate in one a belief or at least covert illusory reality in one's mindspace, in which some particular type of physical harm is happening to one, usually purportedly being brought about by some apparent 'entity', 'entities', demons, black magic and so forth. That 'story' can then, through use of appropriate emotional button-pushing, be incorporated into a destructive feedback loop of emotional trauma 'energy' that can actually bring about a progressive self-destruct process, so harming the person and indeed quite readily bringing about an early death — even though the actual destruction may well be different from what's being given in the 'story'.

The garbage tried this sort of destruction attempt on me on a number of occasions during my severest attack crisis events — but, as far as I can tell, it failed only because each time I recognised what was happening, and got my awareness sufficiently grounded to get out of the feedback loop and recognise the story the 'inner voice' was giving me for what it was, i.e., a pack of fictions to try to make me auto-destruct in one or other delectably horrific manner!

As with all garbage attack scenarios, the primary healing / clearance needs are for (a) getting the awareness much more grounded, (b) zapping relevant illusory realities, as mentioned above, and (c) using Feedback-Loop Zapper to zap the emotional button-pushing.

If you have succeeded in dissolving such a potentially physically destructive attack, but were unfortunately too late to stop some genuine physical harm from having occurred (usually such self destruct feedback loops need to run for at least a week before actual physical damage starts to manifest) — as distinct from the garbage simply giving you pains and other sensations to convince you that you have serious damage when actually you haven't — then you need to be using the self-actualization methods pointed to earlier on this page, for a pressing need is then to get progressively repairing the damage done to your non-physical aspects, for that's what would lead to the physical damage if not promptly healed.

Even if you already have such physical damage, you still need to work as efficiently as possible on using the self-actualization methods to heal the damage to your non-physical aspects, in order to minimize and limit the extent of any further physical damage that may occur. It's thus extremely important to completely disregard any feelings or pseudo-thoughts (covert messages from the garbage) telling one that the damage has been done and it's now too late to do anything about it. As long as you're alive and able to take appropriate action It's NEVER too late, at the very least, to minimize the harm that's manifesting for you, and maximize your healing / recovery prospects.

I can't guarantee any specific positive outcome of course, BUT I suggest that you take heart from a little bit of educational experience of my own. In September 2006 I had the one attack in my life that caused me obvious physical damage. The attack was potentially lethal but I got off lightly, with a major attack of apparent osteoarthritis in my right knee, which became at its worst late the following month and stayed like that through much of the winter. In that November I saw my doctor, who was sure that this was 'just your age', and sadly shook his head as he intimated that my hiking days were over now, and I needed to readjust to life without that activity.

Yet, from late winter I had intimations from within to start gradually increasing my weekly very short local walks, and by late March 2007 I was on a short but fairly strenuous Cornish coast path hike, and from the end of July I was starting once again to walk my longest and hardest routes (Polzeath to Tintagel, Exmouth to Beer, and so forth). Initially of course such long walks made the knee hurt a bit, but that progressively receded, and by the following year there were no signs at all of arthritis — only a residual nagging slight malalignment stress pain on a ligament during harder walks, and that pain gradually phased out during 2008.

Okay, that attack was of a different type from the self-destruct caused by a 'belief' feedback loop (it was apparently a psychic attack carried out by actual people, using supposed 'Earth energies'*), but the basic principle is just the same — you diligently work to heal / repair / strengthen your non-physical aspects (and also dissolve any related illusory realities), for which I give the methods on this site, and any physical healing that's at all possible will work through in time.

You need to be aware, though, that it may take some time, quite likely a few months, before physical improvements become obvious; this isn't magic, and instant cures aren't on the agenda (That is, if you do happen to get one, then you can simply count that as a bonus!). Inner inquiry using Helpfulness Testing would help give you some idea of your prognosis and what would be reasonable expectations for recovery, and also of course, if used well, could give you pointers to some specific additional or alternative things you need to do to promote what healing is possible.

Since the above notes were written, my methodology has considerably upgraded in effectiveness for addressing physical issues, and it nowadays covers not only what one would call 'healing', but also what I call 'corrective physical change'. For people using my methodology, who achieve sufficient alignment of intent between their conscious mind and deeply-sourced intent for positive change, it's possible to bring about many physical changes that the medical profession would regard as impossible (at least, without troublesome and hazardous / harmful medical interventions).

Shrines, sacred spaces and sacred objects — a warning!

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

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

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

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

However, in no way am I saying that there's a problem about having a dedicated space for healing work or your healing / self-actualization practices. In fact that's a GREAT idea! But that space would need to be physically and energetically harmonious with its intended purposes (with full and comprehensive self-actualization as the overall remit) — not regarded as 'sacred' or 'precious' and somehow connecting you to something higher. If you want the 'highest', you have it anyway, wherever you are, because it's your own deepest aspect, and it's also the deepest aspect of everything that your experience.

When you seek to connect to something 'higher' than yourself (including anything supposedly divine), whether by designated objects or any other means, you're actually connecting to 'lower' — i.e., the astral non-reality and the garbage. The choice is yours. What do you want? — Or, more to the point, what do you really know to be in your own best and deepest interest? (Try Helpfulness-Testing on that!)

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

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

Without going into details here, I myself have had experience of one such person, who offered himself, at the end of 2006, actually not for anything to do with hypnosis (or so I thought), but to assist me by clearing out my supposed 'astral beings' problem (really garbage interference and attacks), which was still a very serious issue for me then. In the course of his 'assistance', on a few occasions he sought to get me to submit to his attempts to put me into 'hypnotic trance', but my own deeper aspects fought against that and wouldn't allow me to do so.

His response was very much that of a control agenda driven person, repeatedly emphasizing that I must trust him and submit to him. This was also a repeated theme in subsequent email correspondence from him, always with this claim that I was supposed to trust him and submit to him.

Later on, as far as I could tell from some inner inquiry, he'd put some sort of problematical energy configuration in my 'energy system' during my sessions with him, and subsequently I heard from two of his ex-clients independently, and both had had really frightening and upsetting experiences in sessions with him, where he'd had the particular person on his couch and had been getting them supposedly under hypnosis, and both had been aware that something seriously untoward was happening — one having been able to glance at his face while pretending to be in hypnotic trance, and saw his face distorted, looking to her as though he were possessed by some sort of most unwholesome 'spirit'.

Both of those ex-clients had significant new ongoing problems afterwards, which pointed to their having received in those sessions some sort of 'entity' or other serious 'energy' problem. One of the ex-clients later confronted him about that, and he claimed that it was just part of her own healing process and that he and his methods had been squeaky-clean. And similarly, his failure to cause a cessation of my own 'entities' problem elicited from him the claim that he'd removed all my 'entities', and now I had just 'self-created entities'.

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

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

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

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

Insidiously harmful curate's egg methods

I have no doubt that there exist many of these, but the ones of which I'm particularly aware are 3D Mind and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). I call them curate's egg methods because, like the figurative curate's egg, they're 'good in parts'. I describe them as insidiously harmful because the apparently beneficial aspects look really attractive and, in a fair number of people, do bring about impressive changes that appear to be very positive, while the harmful effects are effectively invisible except to those who have sufficient depth of awareness and understand properly what to look out for.

Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)

Actually, it appears that a fair number of NLP practitioners do understand that their method has a potential down-side that could be harmful, and for that reason they seek to limit the circumstances in which it would be used — and I salute them for at least to some extent recognising the problem with NLP and attempting to address it — though if they understood that more deeply I think they'd move on from NLP altogether and use healthier life improvement methods.

Broadly speaking, the trouble with NLP is that, like regular formal meditation, it hides issues rather than addressing and resolving them. Actually, in specific situations a very limited use of the really neat mental 'tricks' of NLP could be used to support one's self-actualization, and indeed be used in optimally self-actualized living generally.

However, in practical terms, only exceptionally deeply aware people, well advanced in their self-actualization, would have sufficiently aware discernment to enable them to tell what's genuinely beneficial and what's harmful use of the NLP mental techniques, and thus NLP as a whole really can't be safely recommended. I'm at least glad to report that on a few occasions when I encountered people who were or had been into NLP, they had much the same reservations about it as I have — though, without a suitable alternative to it, most of them were still using it, though at least being aware of a downside that makes it to be far from the mental panacea that its foremost promoters claim it to be.

One particularly insidious thing about NLP, at least as promoted in various books that I've seen, is that its supposedly positive effects are chosen and 'shaped' by one's ordinary, superficial, 'mind'. Thus you try to make yourself how you want to be. But your perception of how you want to be is bound to be at least to some extent a distorted and very limited view of your true nature. So, this is NOT about genuine self-actualization at all (i.e., as I describe it on this site), whether or not you happen to like what you can do with it.

All this is a great pity, because superficially NLP does appear to offer quick fixes for a lot of problems and limitations that people experience, and can thus all too easily be seen as the real answer for resolving one's issues and indeed for one's self-healing and self-actualization.

3D Mind

(Important — please read right through this section to the annotation at the end!)
I was pointed towards 3D mind by one of its very active advocates during my desperate troubles from garbage attacks in early 2005. It looked at the time as though potentially 3D Mind could have speedily dissolved all my remaining major trauma material (which was being used in the attacks), but somehow I couldn't get my mind round its particular way of visualizing and manipulating the emotions. It uses a process of what you might call 'neutralization with opposites' using particular visualizations. I did use it apparently successfully on one occasion, but after that I floundered with it.

I soon came to see that, because few people would have sufficient clarity to be able to use it effectively, 3D Mind wasn't a method really worth recommending. And because it requires the user to be aware of an issue in order to address that issue with it, it's bound to leave major issues untouched if the person is unaware of them (virtually nobody is aware of all their issues).

The latter of course is to a fair extent also a problem with the EFT and The Work, which is why I now promote primarily methods that don't require such awareness of specific issues at all — particularly Self-Power Walking, backed up by other Regular Core Practices, which all require no major mental input at all, with Grounding Point being the most easy and effective to use when you can identify particular thoughts, beliefs or issues to 'zap'.

In any case, my inner inquiry brings up a serious caution about 3D Mind. If my indications from that inner inquiry are correct, there appears to be a problematical aspect of the way it affects its users — emptying / clearing their minds in an unhealthy, unbalanced way. The problem appears to be that it's so extremely effective in clearing particular issues (i.e., if / when a person hits it off just right with the method), that it gets one into a weirdly 'patchy' unbalanced state, in which one has areas of great clarity in one's awareness while there remain areas of actually virtually untouched confusion.

Such people can easily regard themselves and be regarded by others as enlightened — and thus be unmotivated to continue a process of personal change to clear the rest and become properly self-actualized. — And if indeed they're enlightened at all it would generally be only in a patchy way that could give rise to all sorts of problems for them.

To a certain extent theoretically the same problem could arise for particular people even with the use of any very effective piecemeal emotional clearance method — even The Work and the EFT — but with 3D Mind this issue is much more pronounced (with a much sharper demarcation between the various patches of clarity and of confusion) and potentially can be a very major problem for some people — part of the problem being that usually the affected people would have no idea that they have any such problem or that they've had anything other than wonderful effects from using that method.

That underlines the importance of Self-Power Walking and other Regular Core Practices for general emotional clearance, because, to the best of my understanding, they work on your 'material' much more across the board, presumably eventually clearing out or 'excommunicating' the attached lost souls, to which most or indeed all of the emotional issues would really belong. Although Grounding Point, which can be used for clearing specific emotional issues, is a piecemeal method, it really comes into its own when used with the former two methods, so that general clearance is occurring too.

I regard Self-Power Walking rather than Grounding Point as being the primary emotional clearance method, and Grounding Point is most useful for clearing thought forms, illusory realities, beliefs and indeed energy implants. So, overall, the methodology that I took up and developed is one for a particularly balanced self-healing and self-actualization process.

The Emotional Freedom Technique / EFT (original version)

This is probably less seriously harmful for most people than the previous two methods, and the use of setup statements to help you focus on a particular stressful thought or experience while you do tapping on particular parts of the body is basically sound and at least potentially effective. The trouble is that the basis of the tapping system used in the original EFT is itself based on the meridians — part of the illusory (and harmful) structured 'aura' system. Using that tapping system, then, would be quietly increasing or maintaining garbage connection for at least many people, and is incompatible with my methodology.

In 2018 I rose to that challenge and revamped the EFT, providing it with a tapping system that is none other than a slight adaptation of my Feedback-Loop Zapper procedure, and making the whole method more (and increasingly) effective by making initial alignment of intent a part of the method. See The Emotional Freedom Technique refocused (Clarity-EFT).

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

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

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

Also, these practices, and those who teach them, tend to encourage people to get fascinated by and attached to feeling what they believe to be 'energy flow' and consciously manipulating 'energy'*. That in fact aligns one with the garbage, and any such person who isn't of great integrity is liable to go manipulating such 'energies' inappropriately and harmfully. Potentially such people are, frankly, dangerous.

Further, because of this aspect of martial arts, many people are attracted to the latter who are already predisposed to negative or indeed overtly 'dark' behaviour or practices, so if you participate in any sort of martial arts class or group you're relatively likely to be putting yourself alongside people (including, sorry to say, not uncommonly the teacher or group leader) who might quite possibly put a serious psychic attack on you if for some reason they don't happen to like you — particularly if they feel that you present any sort of threat to their own self-perceived personal status.

To keep clear of garbage influence you need to stay completely clear of using the ordinary mind to manipulate or direct 'energy', and to allow what people interpret as 'energy flow' always to be directed and carried out by your own deepest aspects if it really needs to occur at all. Also you need to keep clear of fascination and attachment. Fascination is fine if it's completely without attachment — for then it's simply an aware enjoyment of what you're observing from moment to moment.

But when you concentrate on feeling 'energy flow' for the fascination of it, then you're getting into trouble — not least because the 'energy' is illusory to start with, and so by engaging with it as something 'real', you're cultivating an illusory reality in your mindspace, which is part of that in which the whole human 'aura' and all its purported structures exist. You're thus not only helping to keep yourself in garbage captivity by 'living' that illusory reality, but you're rendering yourself vulnerable to all manner of interferences and outright psychic attacks using that 'energy'.

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

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

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

Indeed, my understanding nowadays is that genuine healing 'energy' can't be directly felt by anyone and is really not energy at all as we generally think of it; it's more like a 'resonance' effect. When people feel what they take to be energy flow or 'energies', these are impressions that are being given to them to represent such 'energies'. The basic indications are given by one's own deepest aspects, and reflect genuine 'energy' (i.e., 'resonance') activity, but are so subtle that hardly anyone notices them.

Hugely magnified and distorted versions of those indications, not necessarily in sync with any actual processes, are routinely presented by the garbage, and it's THESE that people virtually universally feel and believe are their own direct perceptions of 'energies'. Therefore those 'energy' impressions need to be completely disregarded, and any practices or methods that actually use them need to be dropped like a hot brick, for they're every bit as beneficial as 'something really nasty in the woodshed'!

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

Scientology — a serious warning

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

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

When you get into Scientology you go through a process of supposedly making you 'clear', which would be clearing out certain selected emotional issues of yours to a point that you're declared to be 'clear' (but I can say with considerable confidence, you'd NOT be clear in the sense of being self-actualized in any balanced and healthy way).

Now, if that had really been about true self-actualization, you'd have no need for an organisation, let alone one that actually calls itself a 'Church', and, having 'cleared' yourself of your emotional issues, you'd at once go on your own way, a free person, free of any belief or control from others.

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

An illuminating personal experience

Back in 2003 I had a glancing encounter myself with Scientology, which firmly squashed any notion floating around, that my view of Scientology had been too uninformed and harsh against that movement. On that particular occasion I visited a Mind, Body and Soul fair at Bude, Cornwall.

At some point I sat on a seat outside to eat my packed lunch. Presently a woman came out of the entrance of the fair and sat on the same seat, and we got talking. I was actually surprised that she'd been in that fair at all for she was tartily made-up, with high heeled shoes and face heavily powdered, thick lipstick, and her eyes were also heavily made-up. She was clearly living an extremely unhealthy and unenlightened sort of life, and didn't look like being any sort of genuine 'healer' at all. She was nervously smoking cigarettes, and gave the overall impression of having a very shallow level of awareness — something also pointed to in retrospect by my inner inquiry.

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

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

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

— And she was then seeking to sell me the book Dianetics by the (in)famous L. Ron Hubbard and to get me to sign up there and then for a course of Dianetics sessions to clear that isolation issue. It would all 'clear' me of significant money — that was clear — but just how much I've no idea because I felt deeply from within that there was something fundamentally wrong about this whole setup and the people running it, and so I firmly turned away from that stand and indeed from Scientology.

I felt this all the more because that monumentally unaware, un-self-actualized and indeed extremely unhealthily living woman was out there presumably as an ambassador for Scientology, and supposedly as an example of what it could do for you. Also, her colleague, an older man, had a pronounced shady, furtive quality about him* as he hovered in the background, and I got a strong feeling as though this Scientology stand was being run by a criminal gang rather than people who genuinely had healing intentions for anyone.

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

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

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

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

Use of mechanical aids

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

I caution that any such 'healing' or Ki generation claims for such devices are BOGUS — a total SCAM, and the devices are actually harmful in that use of them engenders a 'caved in', passive approach to life improvement and indeed the whole life experience, which is actually a big obstacle to genuine self-actualization. They're the sort of thing that gullible 'therapy addicts' would go for, and would best be wiped off the face of the Earth.

There needs to be a full and integrated interaction between your conscious awareness and all other aspects of your whole being in order for any particular method to work.

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

Sound healing and colour healing

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

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

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

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

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

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

Homoeopathy and natural remedies — a big side-track

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

It's claimed that animals and very young children have had dramatic 'cures' from homoeopathy — which suggests something more than just placebo effect in those particular cases. On the other hand, in all cases it's difficult or impossible to know for sure that it was the homoeopathy itself that brought about the various apparently non-placebo cures or improvements, or whether it was the methodology and outlook surrounding it. Naturally users of homoeopathy would generally be emphatic that both are involved, but as yet I have no pointer to homoeopathy in itself being a useful principle for anything at all.

Many homoeopathic practitioners are strong 'healers' anyway, whether or not they recognise the fact, and it looks very likely to me that at least many of the beneficial effects that people are ascribing to homoeopathy are coming from particular healing effects of the respective practitioner — the use of homoeopathic 'remedies' simply giving a framework within which the practitioner is unawarely 'giving healing'. However, the 'healing' here would generally not be hands-on or energy-work 'healing' (which nowadays I regard as harmful rather than genuinely helpful), so much as elements of life-change counselling, given in an aware and supportive manner — which, after all, I'm sure was the real beneficial aspect of the 'healing' sessions I used to give people.

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

However, there's a fundamental principle here, which the vast majority of users of such products are overlooking. They're getting carried away with the notion that 'natural' or homoeopathic means 'good' and therefore you take 'natural' medicines instead of ones of synthetic origin. Unfortunately, while homoeopathic 'remedies' would, generally speaking, in themselves be harmless (because they contain effectively no active principle), herbal remedies have their own range of subtle or indeed not-so-subtle long-term harmful effects, just as do the synthetic drugs and medicines.

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

That's the point. Generally people opt for drugs or medicines to try to get rid of symptoms instead of resolving the underlying problem, and the fact of using a 'natural' or homoeopathic medicine rather than a pharmaceutical product actually doesn't change the situation at all.

Homoeopathy practitioners generally claim to be getting at the underlying root causes of people's health problems when they give consultations and dispense or prescribe particular homoeopathic 'remedies', but although their approach may be much more holistic than that of the average family GP, they're still working at medication level and not at all getting to or even recognising the true underlying cause of their clients' health problems.

Generally speaking, although they may recommend various beneficial lifestyle changes, and so have various beneficial effects, they know nothing of the accumulations of environmental stress effects that have given rise to the health problems that their clients present, and they also know nothing of the 'entities' and garbage interferences that will in most cases also be involved in causing those health problems.

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

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

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

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

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

The big problem about homoeopathy isn't so much homoeopathy itself but the sidetrack that it leads people into — which isn't the fault of homoeopathy but of the garbage-sourced interferences that relentlessly seek to divert people away from genuine self-actualization.

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

In The true nature of 'the forces of darkness' and its interference and attacks, I explain how the garbage commonly controls people by getting them unawarely creating illusory realities, which are the broader, astral, component of their beliefs. I have a sneaking suspicion that the true reason why homoeopathy appears to many people to work is that the garbage is using homoeopathy as a means of getting people unawarely creating illusory realities out of their belief in homoeopathy. Such illusory realities can impinge on the physical reality and could indeed actually cause some people to experience or witness real dramatic cures — and yet the underlying cause of that happening could be thus extremely sinister.

This is happening all the time in all spiritual healing traditions. It's all part of the general strategy of the garbage to set up lures to people who have any sort of motivation for self-actualization, to lead them into sidetracks in which not only are they diverted from true self-actualization but, through their illusory realities, they're getting more and more into the clutches of the garbage — even while appearing to be on extremely positive and beneficial healing 'paths'.

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

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

The myth of reincarnation within the same body

Barbara Brennan, in her classic (but still harmful overall) books on spiritual healing, described what she regarded as a very advanced stage in some people's self-healing process, in which they would actually reincarnate within the same body. No doubt because I'd read those books, in late 2003, when the garbage had got going in its campaign to destroy me it sought to convince me that I myself had just reincarnated in that manner — something that I very briefly sort-of took on board at the time but inwardly never really accepted as plausible.

My understanding nowadays is that that phenomenon is a total impossibility, and all the more nonsensical for a no-soul person such as me. So, if you get any intimations of that having happened for you, from any source or indeed particular personal observations / experiences, you can be sure that nothing of the kind is or has been happening for you, and that, if those intimations mean anything at all, they mean that you're in particular trouble with garbage interferences.

Indeed, in some cases the garbage could use impressions of such an 'in-body reincarnation' as a cover for installation of some sort of spirit attachment or even a partial walk-in. So, such impressions are all pointers to the need to get grounding your awareness and getting right out of the various bits of garbage-sourced story that you've been picking up.

Misinformation about water intake levels

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

In any case, what people who routinely recommend a large daily intake of water do NOT do is to use Helpfulness Testing to find out what is actually optimal for each specific person at a specific time and indeed generally. If they did use Helpfulness Testing (i.e., properly, following all the cautions and caveats that I give in my guide to it), they'd discover for themselves that drinking significantly more than a reasonable minimum of water is actually not helpful and indeed tends to be slightly harmful — not least because of losing sleep through having to get up in the night to pee.

No two people's water needs are exactly the same, and in any case one's actual water need varies greatly with time, according to ambient conditions and one's physical and emotional state and level of activity.

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

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

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

I also have this personal observation. I've read in hiking magazines at various times pronouncements from hiking-oriented doctors, telling readers that they need to take with them sufficient water to ensure that their pee remains no more than pale straw coloured throughout, as a sign that they're keeping clear of dehydration, which latter is spoken of as a sort of Big Bad Wolf for hikers.

But my own hiking experience has been revealing, and in fact demonstrated something of the real situation and the absurdity of those doctors' pronouncements. I became aware of this decades before I took up Helpfulness Testing and got inner confirmation of what was already physically apparent.

When I had major single-day mountain hikes in the Scottish Highlands, commonly for the duration that I was on the mountain(s) I'd keep eating snow (if clean enough) or drinking from streams. Indeed, it got to being a little bit addictive, especially eating the snow. I kept feeling a bit dry in the throat and so craving for more snow / stream water. And what else? — To put it politely, I was like the little piggy who went Wee-wee-wee all the way home! In other words, I had to keep stopping to pee.

Well, isn't that what the doctors tell us should be happening? — No, in fact not at all, because when I got back to my base for the day I then started to crave to drink and drink and drink, and so drank a very abnormally large amount of water during the evening — and yet I wasn't running to the toilet, and simply had a modest pee before going to bed and then didn't have to get up even once during the night.

What that showed me was that during those strenuous mountain walks, my body was readjusting its hydration level so that I had less water in my system, and by keeping on drinking / eating snow as much as I was, I was unwittingly trying to sabotage my body's water regulation mechanism and force it to be more hydrated than was best for it in those particular conditions, and thus it was seeking all the time to get rid of the excess water that I was forcing upon it. So, it turned out that my natural, healthy state while on such strenuous walks was what the doctors in their ignorance would have undoubtedly described as a quite significantly dehydrated state.

As to how one would distinguish between an appropriate and an untoward level of 'dehydration' during such hikes, that's where Helpfulness Testing would be a great help. If I'd had Helpfulness Testing to use during my long-ago Scottish Highlands trips, I'd undoubtedly not have been drinking and peeing frequently like that on my hikes, and yet presumably would have ended up at my base afterwards no more dehydrated.

Would using methods such as Healing from your Core Essence be able to cure a supposedly incurable virus in the physical body?

Actually I'd replace the word 'Would' there with 'Might', because with this sort of thing neither I nor anyone else could genuinely know the exact direct answer to the question 'as asked'.

But please note that I've chosen my words carefully there. All too often 'healers' believe that their 'healing' methods will or at least can clear supposedly intractable infections. Typically, if such an infection does clear, it's immediately believed that the 'healing' method has caused the clearance (in reality it most likely had little or no positive effect), while in the majority of cases such infections don't clear, at least readily, and the particular 'healers' turn a blind eye to what's actually (not) happening and still believe that their method(s) can deliver the goods!

However, the person who asked the headline question actually shows a comprehension problem that she'd need to address. You note that she highlights the methods that I gave on my now deprecated and removed Healing from Your Core Essence page, which described a notionally fully safe way to go about hands-on and related 'energy' healing.

But if you'd ever read that page you'd have found that although I outlined there an extremely important outlook and mindset that everyone needs to integrate into their lives, actually, as I said there, I'd come to regard even the much improved, and supposedly safe, hands-on healing method that I'd given there as something of an optional fringe activity in the light of all the other self-healing and self-actualization practices / procedures that indeed I've listed in this long account — which is indeed why I eventually pensioned it off altogether to improve the focus of this site.

I thus nowadays caution people not to spend time on any sort of 'hands-on [/off] healing' or 'energy healing' at all and concentrate on methods that are so much more effective and completely safe, as I give on this site.

When somebody puts particular attention on less — or even the least — important items in our self-actualization 'armoury' of methods, it's immediately clear that the person has a self-sabotaging pattern, which is causing the person to be 'titting around at the edges' while avoiding simply getting on with the main task. That task of course is to use the primary and most effective methods — and a comprehensive set of them, not just picking out one whose face you happen to like! — on an ongoing daily basis, to bring about a consistent active self-actualization process.

Then you'd have no cause to ask questions like the headline question here, because you'd simply know that you were doing the best possible for yourself.

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

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

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

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

It would be foolish indeed of me to say categorically that the methods that I give are the only ones for effective self-actualization, because I can't possibly know in detail, or indeed at all, every method that anyone uses or has used. What I present is simply the particular set of methods that I myself took on and found particularly effective when taken together as an overall far-ranging and comprehensive strategy.

Generally, what I observe about people who ask me whether their own particular methods are 'okay' (or indeed assure me that they are) is that they're generally using only one or two methods for the purpose and seem to think that they could achieve genuine self-actualization that way, and generally appear to be seeking to find reasons 'why not' to take up my own methodology* or indeed any other broader and more comprehensive range of methods at all.

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

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

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

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

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

I myself once, not long before my big shenanigans with the garbage started in late 2003, had a session with a qualified kinesiology practitioner. Using 'muscle testing' (which was the 'kinesiology' bit), she identified the odd food sensitivities and healing requirements that I supposedly had, and gave me a little bit of supposed 'energy' healing for certain of those, applying fingertip pressure to certain specific acupressure points, supposedly to free up the odd supposedly blocked 'channels', and prescribed the odd flower remedies and recommended some rather boringly predictable diet changes.

I felt even then, and much more recently have clarified a lot more by means of retrospective inner inquiry using Helpfulness Testing, that the issues she picked up, although generally sort-of true, were actually only minor issues and hadn't really touched on the things that I was really hoping she might assist me with. This isn't surprising at all, because she was operating with a 'spirituality' outlook and had no inkling of the garbage's involvement in her whole outlook and many of her methods, nor of the ways that it's interfering with people in general. She therefore missed ALL my really significant and indeed major issues.

One person who had been to that practitioner a few times talked of the latter having (apparently) used kinesiology to reveal a fair amount of detail about certain (supposed) past lives of hers. As I now clearly understand, that would have meant the practitioner was effectively dowsing or channelling, no matter that she thought of it as a different procedure (i.e.,'kinesiology'). It was only her means of dowsing / channelling that was different. This is the sort of confusion that's caused all the time by people in the New Age befuddlement of a 'movement' using a genuine scientific term for their own decidedly unscientific purposes.

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

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

Last but far from least, I have the following point to make with regard to reliability / 'safety' of the various sources / backgrounds of the various methods and methodologies available. I myself am not aware of one single such source or background that incorporates the level and extensiveness of awareness and understanding of the garbage's interference in all healing and self-actualization activities (and one's consequent need to have methods that are completely clear of such influences) that I have — and that isn't for want of looking! Even Steve Gamble, who undoubtedly recognises the problem to a considerable extent, still perpetuates his own version of that problem in his writings and methods.

On the other hand you only have to read on this site my clear, open and honest accounts of my own experiences and observations of garbage interference with me and other people, and how I forged my own powerfully effective means to get clear of all that garbage that had been on the verge of destroying me, to realize that my methodology is particularly soundly based ('proof of the pudding', and all that!). What other source of supposed self-actualization methods demonstrates such awareness and clear-mindedness about garbage influences and interferences? If you can find one, then their methodology may well (but not necessarily) be a really worthwhile alternative to my own. As already noted, careful use of Helpfulness Testing would help you choose the best methods for you personally.

"If your methods are as effective as you claim, why are you yourself still getting garbage attacks?"

That question has actually been asked of me, by somebody who was claiming to have read and read on this site and was expecting me to answer her question because she was either unwilling or unable to spend the necessary time and care in understanding what I've written about the true nature of the garbage, and about what my various self-actualization methods actually achieve and how they work (and she was repeatedly disregarding the notes on my Contact page about when it is and isn't appropriate to contact me). She was also operating as 'armchair critic' — a completely negative and time-wasting mindset, both for herself and for anyone she engages with. People who actually use my methods have no cause to raise such actually silly and frivolous questions.

Let me be clear that you can't summarily eliminate all garbage interference / attacks, because the garbage is actually a distorted aspect of consciousness itself (at a partially universal level), and what we achieve through self-actualization methods is to reduce the interferences progressively to the lowest possible level. If enough people were doing this, their mass weakening effect on the garbage itself would undoubtedly further reduce any interferences.

Indeed, as I eventually came to fully realize when I had another garbage macro-attack visited upon me in late 2017, what was causing me to become periodically extremely vulnerable yet again to attack was my use of Helpfulness Testing for inner inquiry. In that particular attack event at last I worked out what was actually happening — my 'sticky layer' contents adulterating my inner inquiry results on certain subjects and leading me into at least partially fictitious scenarios, which the garbage then used as the foundation and 'container' of a macro-attack.

Once I'd recognised that I simply disengaged from the story that my inner inquiry had led me into, and the attack started a swift collapse over about two days, helped on by my taking some other measures and my everyday attack-zapping methods rapidly starting to work again.

Indeed, during my working through and out of that attack I also recognised that if means could be found to dissolve the untoward contents of my 'sticky layer', I'd be at least mostly immune altogether from attack, and within a few days I was already working out experimental simple methods that potentially could achieve just that. — And much more recently I came up with a much more radical and indeed fundamental approach to fixing that issue. That's presented in Project 'Fix the Human Condition'.

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

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

Similarly, a research finding was fairly recently publicized, which, according to various reports, claimed that moderate alcohol consumption reduces your chance of getting rheumatoid arthritis. At least as reported, that supposed research finding is flawed to the point of being plain wrong — for a very simple reason, which few people appear to be interested in because nearly all people want to justify their own garbage-sourced lust for alcohol. It may be true that, statistically, people who consume a moderate amount of alcoholic drinks may experience reduced rheumatoid arthritis risk, but I'm not yet aware of any research findings that even begin to show what it is in those alcoholic drinks that's having that anti-RA effect.

Very likely the effect will be shown to come not from the alcohol at all but from another constituent of those drinks, just as in the case of the effect on the level of heart disease risk.

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

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

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

'Garbage'?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Well, quite apart from all the signs of the work of the garbage — which were there to be seen by anyone who had 'eyes to see' — there was the little matter of the results of my discreet inner inquiry / Helpfulness Testing while briefly connecting with the successive deepest aspects of each of the five people in that car.

Although inner inquiry like that couldn't tell me categorically that any particular 'hunch' or hypothesis was objectively true, and needs to be regarded as just potentially useful speculative pointers, its results in this case indicated that it was 'strengthening' for me to assume that the three who had had those baptisms just happened each to be (completely unawarely) members of the cacoprotean network, and indeed had become members at the time of the baptism. THAT is what's very likely indeed to happen to YOU if you undergo such an initiation.

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

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

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

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

Finally, I got a rather bizarre and confused email back from him, telling me that I'd somewhat freaked him by describing one of his problems as being caused by garbage interference. He said he'd immediately been assailed by very strong feelings of fear, and his response had been to use the Clarity-Sphere (I assume using the Grounding Point procedure) to enable him to dissolve the very notion of there being a garbage or any 'external' non-physical force interfering with him or indeed anyone else. He then went on to say that he'd always believed there was really no such thing as a garbage and such manifestations were just caused by thought forms that people created through believing in a 'dark' (or other troublesome) force.

The very clear subtext in his message was that he was shit-scared of the very notion of the garbage, and in the whole six months that he'd been engaging with my writings he'd been systematically filtering out all my references to the garbage, so that he'd read the various pages extremely selectively and thus got a considerably distorted picture of what I was on about.

Yes, he'd evidently taken on certain of my methods, but he was actually misusing them, because he was using them in a distorted context, to try to reinforce his fear-based belief that the garbage doesn't exist, and thus he was closing himself to genuinely seeing what was really going on for him and really clearing out his issues. This is the sort of thing that countless other people do though the use of ongoing regular formal meditation.

His fear-driven pattern of self-deception inevitably played back at me, so he was telling me with great conviction that he'd found 'the answer' that I'd so far failed to find (and so, supposedly, he'd suddenly become my 'expert'), and he challenged me now to let go of my belief in the garbage, and I'd find that the various issues of mine that I'd been ascribing to garbage interference would all dissipate. — Wow, what a discovery!

It was clear that, because of his tightly held preconceptions, he hadn't read the information on this site, and particularly that about my own experiences, with open eyes and open mind, and so he was unable to acknowledge that my own working model (not 'belief') is based on masses of actual observations that would be simply left unexplained by one's holding a belief that there's no such thing as the garbage.

And he'd clearly completely missed my pointing out that I myself used to think that most likely all the 'dark' and 'paranormal' manifestations that people experienced were caused by their particular beliefs in such phenomena*. Indeed, it was my rather holding onto that view that considerably hindered my recognising that my major garbage 'troubles', when they came, were real 'dark' manifestations at all, so that I got more and more entangled with the garbage instead of ceasing to have anything further to do with it.

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

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

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

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

"Would it be okay for me to modify method x by doing [xyz]?"

One person wrote in as follows:

"Do you need to breath in through the nose at the beginning of every cyclic blow to perform multiples (in out.. in out), or is it only necessary to inhale through the nose once for multiple cyclic blows through the mouth following it (In.. out out)?"

That's just an example of all manner of questions that could come to me from people who are using my methods but struggle in some way with following my instructions for a particular method, and really want to modify it so that it feels easier or more intuitive for him/her. Generally speaking, my answer would be the same to any such query.

There's actually no absolute right / wrong way to carry out any of my methods. I've simply given what my Helpfulness Testing indicated as being the best for me — though even that could easily be misinterpreted, for actually 'the best' here means 'the best of all the options that I've so far thought of and Helpfulness-Tested'. So in some cases there would very likely be still better options and possibilities that I'd simply not yet thought of and thus not Helpfulness-Tested, and which therefore have so far not been used.

Clearly, then, if you feel that a particular variant of one of my methods would be better for you, it's possible that it would indeed be so. However, I have some cautions to give about such situations. Let's take the actual case quoted above. What the questioner really needs to do is to Helpfulness-Test on doing actual cyclic breathing, which, by definition, is inhalation through the nose and exhalation through the mouth (i.e., for each and every breathing cycle), and replacing it with his own cyclic-then-non-cyclic version.

Provided that he carries out the Helpfulness Testing vigilantly and rigorously, heeding the various cautions and caveats that I give in my Helpfulness Testing Guide, and is already experienced enough with Helpfulness Testing to be getting really helpful results, he'd most likely then establish for himself what version is most helpful for him at that time. Because Helpfulness Testing results refer to a specific time / occasion (the default always being 'in this situation, right now'), he could theoretically get different responses on different occasions, so periodic re-testing would be important.

Spiritual 'healers' quite widely believe strongly in 'just following your intuition' in many aspects of healing as well as life at large — and indeed theoretically that would be all you'd need do in applying my methods in your own life. However, those 'healers' are compulsively ignoring the issue of garbage interference. The garbage routinely presents itself to 'sensitive' people as their supposed intuition, and thus people's 'intuition', if not rigorously checked against other observations and criteria, would tend to direct them to use methods that are minimally or not effective, or indeed downright harmful.

For this reason, then, intuition can't helpfully be used as your primary guide if you're serious about getting on with a genuine comprehensive self-actualization process. So, it's important to regard your intuition as no more than a possibly useful prompt to research the particular issue, such as by using carefully and rigorously applied Helpfulness Testing.

As for people who are using my methods but aren't using Helpfulness Testing, perhaps because they haven't yet succeeded in getting it to work for them, 'just using their intuition' as any psychic or spiritual 'healer' would have them doing, would be bound to lead them seriously astray. The answer, then, is simply to follow my instructions reasonably faithfully until you have the safe means to discriminate and establish whether any particular intuition of yours to vary any of my methods is being helpful for you at that time. If you insist on going ahead and just letting your intuition guide you, then you're at least potentially in quite serious trouble.

"Come on, man — no meditation or sacred geometry? — You're just making it all up as you go!"

Yes, I had somebody ignore the notes on my Contact page and write in to me in those scornful terms. What that individual showed was that he was fully locked into his own beliefs and preconceived notions and hadn't genuinely understood at all what I'm going on about on this site. You and indeed any visitor to this site are free to use meditation or/and sacred geometry as you think fit; all I can do is warn about such practices and methods on the basis of my own practical and down-to-earth personal experience and observations.

As for making it all up as you go, in an important sense that I rather think he did not mean, actually I am indeed 'making it all up as I go'! The trouble with people like that blindly unthinking criticiser is precisely that they themselves are NOT 'making it up as they go' — i.e., working out their own best answers from their own observations and genuine inner inquiry. Instead they live their limited lives as 'sheep', depending on traditions and other people's words, without holding those up to proper scrutiny to see if they actually have a genuine and worthwhile basis. I have no time for them, and any who write in to me in such terms as the above quote will be ignored or sent packing with some stern words in their ear for wasting my and their time.

Additional Resources

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

• Broad Horizon Natural Soundscapes — A growing resource of at least CD-quality recordings (yes, my own, again!) of natural soundscapes, which can be downloaded or purchased as CD-quality digital downloads, which would often be a much healthier sound to have in one's living space rather than lots of music. And then, when one does choose to listen to some music, one would appreciate it so much more! Particular specialities include wild sea and bird sounds on the rugged cliffs of Cornwall, UK, a number full-length birds' dawn choruses, and also a project that I call Wind Chimes in the Wild.

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