The Reality
Of Negative Energy & Negative Entities
The "New Age" movement has once again made it fashionable
to be involved in occult practices. There have been other
periods in recent history when this has been the case, most
notably *fin de siecle* Europe (IE the 1890's) and more recently
the late Sixties "Age of Aquarius" which faded into
the "Me" decade and its plethora of self-help, "Human
Potential" organizations. This era did not truly die.
The "Me" decade became the age of the Yuppie, and
the "New Age" emerged from the human potential movement
and handed everyone out a crystal.
The main problem with the neo-Aquarian movement is that the
whole concept of evil is so blithely scoffed at. "There's
no such thing as evil," says the New Ager, "there
is only imbalance." This is a refrain you hear all the
time, not just from the practitioners, but from so-called
channeled entities. In this essay, I wish to show you that
there is something very dangerous in channeling, something
which has been ignored to the peril of not only the channelers,
but those who consult them.
In the 1890s, when mediumship was quite a fad, somebody estimated
that only 25% of the mediums were actually contacting spirits.
Fully 75% were charlatans, who used elaborate and not-so-elaborate
means to fake contacts with spirits at seances. The famous
magician Harry Houdini drew large crowds to seminars he conducted
to show people just how the flim-flam artists conducted their
phony seances.
There is evidence that much of the people who are self-described
channels are doing the same thing. "Ramtha", the
famous "channeled being of light", was shown to
be a fake on national television when 60 Minutes did an expose
on the former housewife in Oregon who "channels"
him at $300.00 a session.
This, however, leaves 25% of authentic channelers, if you
use the old figures, which I suspect to be pretty true now
as it was in the Turn of the Century. And just as Dion Fortune,
one of the foremost occultists to come out of the Order of
the Golden Dawn, had warned about the mediums of her day,
I must sound anew a very important warning:
CHANNELING IS DANGEROUS, not only to the channel, but to those
who consult them as well. Most channelled entities come from
a facet of reality that is woven, warp and woof, into the
reality our physical senses can penetrate. This realm is known
to the Native American as well as the Ancient Norse as the
Middle World. (Mitgard) These entities from here are people
who once had bodies but have died and for some reason have
become lost on their way to the "West".(the realm
of the dead) They crave the sensations of embodiment, and
so they roam, trying to find a living person they can possess
for this purpose.
Channels "invite" these entities into themselves
in their quest for knowledge. And these entities are more
than willing to give them whatever "knowledge" they
sense within the conscious and subconscious dreams and hopes
of their living host, and create whatever personality they
sense
their host would like, be it the personality of a starship
captain from Planet Zed, or an cranky ancient Egyptian priest.
These "earthbounds" are only as dangerous as their
embodied personalities were. Unfortunately, those humans that
wind up "earthbound" were usually mentally disturbed
in life, and this mental disharmony can cause mental damage
to even the most adjusted person who opens themselves up to
them.
Even more dangerous is the fact that entities who never HAVE
had bodies and can truly be called "evil spirits"
also make themselves available to the potential channel. These
entities have been known since time immemorial as "demons,"
"devils," "pretas,"(Sanskrit: Hungry Ones),
"kwaidan," (Japanese: Unquiet Spirits) "asuras,"
(Indo-persian: Not-gods) "djinni" (Arabic: Demon)
and "gan'n"(Teneh Athapascan: Evil Spirit(of the
mountains). In all cultures that have practiced magic(k),
these spirits were actively guarded against. It is a relatively
recent occurence that
some magicians and Wiccans have abandoned the warding practices
that have been used for millenia for protection against them.
The magick circle, unlike what Gerald Gardner has claimed,
is to keep these negative entities OUT, not to keep the good
magick in until it is cast, which although a nice thought,
is totally erroneous.
Protection From Negative Energy
& Negative Entities
The most basic protection is the magick circle. Those magicians
or Wiccans who work without a circle are worse off than an
aerialist who does his trapeze act without a net. If you fall
down, you bite the dust REAL HARD. The circle is a line drawn
in the dust of matter that says to beings of evil to stay
clear under pain of intervention by the forces of Good.
If you cannot draw a circle in the earth or with chalk or
with a line of corn meal or (better) cattail pollen (called
Hod'nt'n by the Teneh), you should smudge the area where a
ceremonial or a healing will take place, or use one of the
good banishing rituals at www.spiritual.com.au,
or if all else fails or if you cannot do anything else without
drawing too much attention (like in a public place) visualize
yourself encased in a shimmering globe of white or violet
light, or wrapped in white or violet smoke or fog. Under no
circumstances should you feel or show fear. Fear is a way
these entities can get to you. Affirmations against fear are
a good way to combat these feelings. I like the "litany
against fear" from the Frank Herbert S-F classic "Dune."
The book is a work of fiction, but the actual litany sounds
like it was taken from an old Wiccan Book of Shadows.
"I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the
little death that brings total annihilation. I will face my
fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and
when it is gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will
remain."
If you must invoke a spirit, even if it's identified as an
angel, DO NOT invoke it without being well situated in a GREATER
THEURGIC CIRCLE. This is well documented in books on high
magick, and I will not detail it here. Invocations are truly
risky business, not the province of dabblers. This kind of
working is something I encourage you not to attempt, and do
not do myself, even though I have been active in the occult
for years. Unless you are especially adept and power-FULL,
this is something extremely prone to backfiring on you. I
also believe that the practice of automatic writing and ouija
is far too risky to be fooled with, as well as direct consultation
of spirits for divination.
Symbolic divination like Tarot and casting runes should be
done after protecting yourself as I have detailed above. And
most importantly, stay well away from the rituals that allow
discarnates to possess a person who desires to become a channel.
You will quite possibly put your mental health and even your
soul in grave peril if you do this. It is my belief that Aleister
Crowley, who was a giant in occult philosophy up to the point
where he seemingly went crazy and dissipated himself in debauchery
and drug abuse, was pushed over the edge by his contact with
Aiwass, a discarnate entity whom he allowed to possess him.
It may not have been the only thing that did it, but it was
certainly one of the major elements in his fall.
Any path that teaches you to disengage your rational mind
is extremely dangerous. Logic and rationality are very important,
and are a gift from Usen'. Anything that shortcircuits the
faculties of intellect and critical thought is very dangerous.
"Turn off your mind/Relax and float downstream..."*
is a tempting proposition, but also a dangerous one. This
not only opens you up for possible possession, but also to
domination from fellow human beings too.
The alpha state, which can be extremely perilous when used
in mind control, is also the state that the shaman uses in
their travels through Non-Ordinary Reality. The difference
is that shamanic training teaches an individual how to enter
the Shamanic State of Consciousness in an aware
manner, and to maintain total control of yourself within it.
One practice that is useful in cultivating this ability is
lucid (aware) dreaming. Brett Hallett, a student of the Cherokee
Medicine Path, gave me this method to retain awareness in
the Dreamtime:
Look at your hands or your feet while you are in the dream.
If you can, looking at your reflection in a shiny surface
like water, or a mirror, or highly polished stone is even
better. It takes exertion of Will to do this but it does work
very well.
Another helpful thing to use when learning lucid dreaming
techniques is affirmations. One good one is this. "I
will remain aware and in control in the Dreamtime. When I
wake up, I will remember all that I see. So shall it be."
Go to sleep with this either on your mind or on your lips.
Another practice that cultivates awareness in the Alpha state
are the Harner shamanic exercises. The book "The Way
Of The Shaman" details a few of Dr. Harner's methods.
In summation, there are some very important things to remember
regarding any sort of occult practice and the reality of negative
energy & entities.
1.) Do NOT open yourself to entities other than your Power
Animal, which is your "lower" self, which doesn't
necessarily mean inferior but just more instinctual and a
source of the primal power that makes a shaman do things;
and your Inner Shaman (Inner Teacher, Inner Wizard) which
is
also known as the Guardian Angel, which is the personification
of your "higher" or spiritual self. One can have
several Power Animals (the more you get, the higher the level
of shamanic power) but only ONE Inner Shaman. The Inner Shaman
must be gotten through the journey to the Upper World, and
no other way. A Power Animal can be dreamt about, or seen
in glimpses of the Non-Ordinary Reality one sometimes gets
after some training, but unless you take the Upper World journey
and meet your Inner Shaman there, there is a good chance this
entity identifying itself as your Teacher is in truth an earthbound
or worse.
2.)Any spiritual discipline which teaches you to reject rational
thought and/or refers to logical, critical thought as "maya"
or illusion is dangerous, especially when it is also taught
that one must give allegiance to a "spiritual master"
or a group.
3.) Do NOT try channeling even in a dabbling sort of way,
or even consult a channel. The information a fake channeler
will give you is entirely useless, and your'e throwing money
away on a fraud anyway. The information an authentic channeled
entitiy may give you will be untrustworthy, and possibly even
HARMFUL.
4.) Learn a way of warding yourself from attack or possession
by earthbounds or gan'n. Do NOT show fear or even THINK fearful
thoughts when confronted by malevolent entities.
5.) Practice lucid dreaming and travel in the Upper and Lower
Worlds.
6.) Do NOT allow yourself under any circumstances to be hypnotized.
I hope this series has been thought-provoking and helpful,
and perhaps even sanity-saving for you. Books with further
information that I recommend are Psychic Self-Defense, by
Dion Fortune, and The Way Of The Shaman, by Michael Harner.
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Negative Entities
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