Do you ever suffer from headaches, migraines or constant streaming thoughts that you can't switch off? Well instead of reaching for the aspirin bottle or that strong cup of black coffee, have you considered you might be suffering a “psychic attack"? So what is a psychic attack and how might we deal with it? I realise that some are none too comfortable with the idea that there is a sophisticated consciousness in the surroundinng field able to drain our energy so if you're not open to that possibility, I suggest you stop reading now.

For those of us who know denial is not a river in Egypt and wish instead to embrace reality the way it really is, lets carry on!...

Before I do however, I'd like to issue a warning - I believe it is very important for us to understand and deal with the affects of opposing consciousness but it is also vitally important that we don't bring too much energy to the phenomenon and descend into mind games, fear and worry. To do so is self defeating because our fear may invite in the very energies we are seeking to counter.

So what exactly is a “psychic attack" and how does it work? Personally I've had countless experiences and so I thought I'd share with you a very recent one including how I dealt with it.

A few days ago I awoke in the middle of the night quite restless. I'd been awoken by a dream, my head was thumping and I found it impossible to get back to sleep. I began having constant streaming thoughts about all kinds of things going on in my life right now. Fortunately I was able just to watch the thoughts and not become identified with the process - this then is the most important first step. Not to lose oneself in a continual battle of trying to stop, counter or resolve the thinking but simply letting it flow.

In so doing my consciousness was not completely swallowed up in the thinking, such that I was also able to scan my body for particular feelings. Through experience, I knew exactly what to look for; maybe a tightness in the solar plexus - a sure sign of energetic attack; or perhaps a tightness in the left temple. Both of these symptoms were present so it was becoming increasingly clear that an attack was in full flow.

For an attack to really have an affect like this however, there normally needs to be a channel of entry into ones field - a route by which Opposing Consciousness finds its way in. It could come from a judgment we're holding about ourselves, others or from for example an energetic connection with someone else. So I continued to scan my body and at this point asked my higher guiding consciousness for some help.

Sure enough within seconds of asking, I began to feel a slight tightness in my right chest. So I contemplated what this might be. It didn't take long for an answer to arise - my dear mother is currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Unsurprisingly she is currently in a good deal of fear and worry and therefore likely herself to be under some form of attack. Although I continually cleanse my field ensuring that little or no cords of energy are attached to me, it quickly became clear that there was an energetic bridge existing between me and my mum.

"There's nothing unnatural about this at all" many energy workers might profess, but it does not serve anyone to maintain energetic ties with another no matter how close they may be. We are each whole and integral beings and ideally (in enlightenment) we relate in that way. We don't hold interdependent relationships because they hold our consciousness back.

That's not to say we don't hold profound unconditional love for another - of course we do. However, contemplate what the word "unconditional" really means. It means that I won't hold a fixed idea or judgment about you - in other words I love you so much, I allow space for your consciousness to be whatever it chooses to be without limiting it with my idea (or energy) about it. To truly love someone is to set them free in this way.

So returning to my experience, I now knew I was being attacked by Opposing Consciousness and the route into my field was through an old energetic bridge between myself and my mother. I knew this would not be just a basic and simple counter.

So I got out of bed and went to my meditation room, lit incense and candles, deepened the connecting with benevolence. Next I intensified the energy grid I've created by walking the perimeter of the room and bringing loving attention to the four corners. Following that, I took up a meditative position in the centre of the room and opened a heart connection to Archangel Michael. The bridge established, I could begin to feel that loving consciousness begin to pour in.

The next step was to cut the energetic tie between myself and my mum. Some might use visualisations to achieve this, using a sword or scissors to "cut" the energetic web. If such visualisations help build energetic intention from the depths within, then this can be a good thing. Whilst I do appreciate it may help people get in the "zone" so to speak, personally I've found it unnecessary - simple heart felt action suffices.

Having dealt with the bridge, it was then important to recognise that my mother's consciousness might suffer from the removal of the bridge so it was important to attune internal empathy for her to soften the breaking of the bridge.

Now that protection was in place and the bridge severed, I still had to deal with the Opposing Consciousness which was still present in my field - in the background I was feeling a degree of nausea and my mind was still very active. At least now I knew that when I ejected the consciousness, there would be no open channel through which it could return.

So now to deal with the consciousness itself. There are a number of ways of doing this but at least initially, I've found the most effective is to “switch off" the energy source which the consciousness is feeding off. I've found the old Shaolin technique of “becoming as nothing" the best approach for this, because then they have nowhere to strike us. In multi dimensional terms, when we expand our consciousness (by doing spiritual evolutionary work - like meditating) we begin to “light up" through multiple dimensions and therefore attract in Opposing Consciousness.

Until we are adept at living through multiple dimensions and know how to move our energies through them, it is good practice to know how to turn one's energy off in those other dimensions and the way to do that is to become well grounded in the third dimension. This harmonises well with “becoming nothing" and in fact they are much the same thing.

The technique for doing this is to scan the body identifying areas of tightness - in my case there was still the lingering feeling in my chest. So I moved my awareness to that place and centred in it. Being very clear that there was no efforting to remove it, I simply dissolved into it by becoming awesomely okay with it - not needing it to be a certain way and not judging it as pain, simply accepting it the way it was. Within moments it had completely disappeared. I did this throughout my body - let's be clear though, not all pain is removed that easily. However, what you can do with practice is to instantly let go of the need for the pain to go away - we simply remove negative association connected to pain.

Within about 30 minutes of working through my body this way, the feeling of nausea had gone, my mind was quietening and a deep sense of peace and relaxation was descending over my body. I could feel waves of unconditional love washing through me and shortly afterwards drifted off into a blissful slumber.

In conclusion, its important to state that even though the process I've described might seem quite lengthy and involved, the more we practice, the faster, slicker and more effective the approach becomes until we find it is a natural part of our beingness and effective psychic attack becomes the rarity rather than the norm.

What experiences or questions do you have? I'd be interested to hear.

Love and best wishes

Chris

I feel like a classic case of someone who has been under psychic attack. Your article is very useful. I love to read about your personal experiences and can see how it fits in with my own.

The one thing I don't quite understand is this business about archangels and swords. How do you experience the archangels? I don't see things like this. Is there something I am not getting? I usally find it hard to believe in things I cannot see or feel.

Thanks
Turtle

Hi Turtle,

Thanks for your question. Yes of course in "spiritual" circles there's lots of discussion around angels, ascended masters, guides and the like. Some people seem to get really invested in the whole idea - do they exist? if so, how so?

The answer to any question (at all) rests in going right back to the source of all things. There is only one moment. Both space and time are illusions. The universe itself arises out of nothing and therefore IS nothing. A dynamic equilibrium exists between nothing (which is everything) and all that we experience.

So separation (any separation) is an illusion and therefore all experience is an illusion. Yet to truly know anything - in other words to know ourself - we have to have experience. In order to have experience we have to allow the separation to happen and therefore we have to allow multiplicity of form.

Every experience has but one purpose. To know ourselves as what we are, which is infinite potential. So here is the divine paradox....how can you know infinite potential? Well of course in truth you can't! However you can get extremely close to infinite potential - its being extremely close to absolute stillness in all things.

This means that all experience is a distortion. It is all just a mirror. Yet once more arises the divine paradox - the absolute (infinite potential) can be known as a total LACK of experience...

"To be and not to be....that is the answer!"

So what does this mean in relation to archangels? Well since ALL experience is a distortion then archangels are distortions of truth also.

The way to consider this is that we are each being the seer and we project aspects of ourselves outwards to see what we are being. In other words we create mirrors of an aspect of beingness we now choose to experience.

So in my experience with Archangel Michael, my higher self was choosing to experience something symbolised by an angel with a sword. However I'm under no illusion that this projection is merely a part of me.

It does still serve a purpose - a very valuable one. It adds colour joy and fun to life. It provides a beautiful multi dimensional, multi faceted experience to this existence. It helps build up waves of joy and love from the depths of our being.

So "vive la difference!"

Chris

The topic of psychic attack, vampires and connections is something I'm exploring at the moment. The synchronicity of the timing of this post hasn't gone unoticed. Lol

I've been aware of ppl tuning in since I was a teenager. They don't know they're doing it, unconsciously they are attracted to the likes of me, I s'pose, because I can serve the purpose of relieving them of the emotions maybe. However since the retreat, I've taken on a new awareness of it all, not only can I now channel without blocks (THANKS guys) but am more aware of when I'm being used by ppl even when they don't know it themselves. So I have a few questions.

1. How can I safely protect myself while at the same time be there in the convo with some1. I'm mentally surrounding myself with protection, drawing my auric field in, handing their issues back to them with love, but I'm still feeling stressed and drained. Limiting contact is not an alternative.

2. How do I cut off a telepathic connection with some1. This is for their benefit as well as my own, so while I've cut my side, they haven't done the same and are still very aware of my emotions from a distance. Is there more I can do from my side? Or am I unconsciously being a psychic vampire myself? The emotion they always pick up on is when I'm upset, which they feel in their solar plexus. I'm aware that it's actually their need to be connected with me that's stopping them cutting the connection, but how do I help.

3. How do I carry on my lucid dreaming without taking extra travellers on board. I'm asking this question in this thread as I feel it's connected. My dreamworld is my other reality, I get alot of spiritual work done while I'm asleep but quite often either the dream is taken over by some1 else or I have tag-alongs. I've actually asked some1 before why they were using me and they said "sorry love, I have unfinished business and need you to get it done". Problem is I wake up exhausted and feeling like I've run a marathon. If I close myself off before I fall asleep I don't get the work done that I need to do.

4. Any ideas on how to hand back some1's issues without them noticing and putting up at fight? Since the retreat I've been aware of which issues are my own blocks and which 1s aren't. Am currently handing ppl's issues back to them and while they aren't aware of what I'm doing they are aware that they're not getting the same relief and they're not happy bunnies. This is kind of connected to Qu1 I think.

So many questions! Sorry, I hope this helps others as well as myself.

With Love

Michelle xxx

CHRIS SAID
"So in my experience with Archangel Michael, my higher self was choosing to experience something symbolised by an angel with a sword. However I'm under no illusion that this projection is merely a part of me.
It does still serve a purpose - a very valuable one......."

Ahhh! That puts it all into perspective. It fits with how I have been feeling. Thanks so much the explanation.

Love
Turtle

Hi Michelle,

Thanks for your thought provoking questions! I'll offer my perspective below....

"How can I safely protect myself while at the same time be there in the convo with some1. I'm mentally surrounding myself with protection, drawing my auric field in, handing their issues back to them with love, but I'm still feeling stressed and drained. Limiting contact is not an alternative."

This is a difficult one! Its all about identity. Who are you and what are you being when you're working? What do I mean by this? Bare with me here. Protection is a double edged sword. If there is something in us that fears attack, then we build an identity around that fear. Holding that identity is tiring because in authenticity there is no identity - simply non-identified awareness. When you can be "nothing in it" then there is no effort in setting up a psychic defence.

To be "nothing in it" is to understand, confront and release your fear of attack. Probably the best way of doing this is not to resist attack at all! As we are being attacked in some way, we need to feel ourselves being awesomely okay in it watching where tension arises and releasing that; watching our fears and understanding exactly what it is that we fear. If we allow ourselves to go deeply into them without needing the cause of the fear to be removed, then we will have dissolved identity in that kind of attack and it can no longer harm you and neither is it tiring - it just is.

So the question then arises "why do we need psychic defence at all if we can be "nothing in it"? The answer is this: in order to act and work authentically, you have to hold consciousness in a particular space and time. In your case, you need to be able to feel the energy of the person you're working with. When we are really skilled at this, we find we become as one with the person we are working with. We actually blend with their energy tasting the fullness of it, darkness, distortions and all. However since our own buttons are no longer being pushed, we don't loose ourselves in the interaction by identifying with the energy. There is always just a "wafer thin slice" of us there in the background which is untouched. I know it sounds a little complex but it comes with practice - by being nothing in it. Then when we can be nothing, this is the time to really put up psychic defence to keep out opposing consciousness.

I know it sounds strange but the key to great strength in these matters is first to be able to surrender completely!

Second question...

"2. How do I cut off a telepathic connection with some1. This is for their benefit as well as my own, so while I've cut my side, they haven't done the same and are still very aware of my emotions from a distance. Is there more I can do from my side? Or am I unconsciously being a psychic vampire myself? The emotion they always pick up on is when I'm upset, which they feel in their solar plexus. I'm aware that it's actually their need to be connected with me that's stopping them cutting the connection, but how do I help."

The question is are you being upset with them when they feel it? If so, then its likely that in truth you may still be holding some form of energetic connection - some kind of mutual need. Please don't be offended by this, it happens to us all! It just takes profound self honesty in dealing with it. When you're sure you have no neediness of them, then you may cut the tie energetically but it is unlikely to be released until you're sure there is no neediness on your part.

So assuming we're not projecting at the person we've just cut the tie with, how best can we help them? Well causing them to be authentic is the very best help we can give and we've already made the first step by proverbially "kicking away their disempowering emotional crutch". It may sound harsh, but the kindest thing we can do to another is cause them to confront reality the way it really is and that means becoming complete and whole. Of course it can be done as gently and compassionately as possible - so for example making them aware of what you're doing and why. You might also feel to give them something energetically - as I did a rose in the example with my mum.

Sometimes you may still feel their negativity and this may cause negative or emotional thoughts to arise in you about them. If you are both psychically sensitive then yes they will feel it and most likely in the solar plexus. So what can you do about it? If you suspect that you've projected negative energy at someone (and it can happen quite easily), one thing you might try is this... with your intention visualise and feel all the negative energy being drawn back towards you and gathering in a dense ball in your hand. Then either throw or kick the ball into space (!) and watch is exploding into light in the heavens. Give it a try, its worked wonderfully for me in the past!

So to the third question....

"3. How do I carry on my lucid dreaming without taking extra travellers on board. I'm asking this question in this thread as I feel it's connected. My dreamworld is my other reality, I get alot of spiritual work done while I'm asleep but quite often either the dream is taken over by some1 else or I have tag-alongs. I've actually asked some1 before why they were using me and they said "sorry love, I have unfinished business and need you to get it done". Problem is I wake up exhausted and feeling like I've run a marathon. If I close myself off before I fall asleep I don't get the work done that I need to do.

I'd like to ask you here, are you actually aware of what you're doing whilst you're asleep? How is it determined what work you're doing?

So to the final question...

"4. Any ideas on how to hand back some1's issues without them noticing and putting up at fight? Since the retreat I've been aware of which issues are my own blocks and which 1s aren't. Am currently handing ppl's issues back to them and while they aren't aware of what I'm doing they are aware that they're not getting the same relief and they're not happy bunnies. This is kind of connected to Qu1 I think.

Yes it is completely related to question 1. I would add that if someone really was projecting at me, I believe I would want to let them know what I was experiencing as a result of their stuff - I'd want to "call them on it" even if gently. So if the person kept confronting me with it, I would make them fully aware of what they're doing. If they don't listen and keep doing it, then when their energy interacts with you, at this point it will help to become completely "as nothing in it".

To give you an example of this, I was once called to break off a long standing relationship and the person involved continued to project negative energy at me. It was extremely powerful. What helped me was imagining the energy coming in as bullets (because that's how it felt) but then I imagined the bullets passing straight through me and all the while remained calm. Eventually the person tires of what they're doing and ultimately, because you've taken the target away, may well be caused to realise their own judgmental behaviour and actually might then have the impetus to do something about it.

At the end of the day, if we are being profoundly honest with ourselves about our motivations, then that's all we really have responsibility for.

Hope this helps!

Love and best wishes

Chris

Hi Chris

Thanks for all that feedback.

I've worked on what you said about the fear of attack being the opening for them and it's so true. To become nothing is definately working. A total acceptance of the situation, and of the emotion being handed over is the key for me. The phrase "fear feeds fear" is never truer. I'm finding this way works for every part of life that could potentially cause negative emotions, to accept the emotion, be as 1 with it, does set it free without any residue. There are many good ways of protection, the crystal grid is fab, but all these are made much stronger if worked alongside acceptance.

My dream world is way too complicated to explain on here. It'll have to wait to when I next see you guys.

With love and thanks
Michelle x

Hi Sunshine,

Elsewhere on the site you asked...

"I have always practised the traditional psychic protection of surrounding myself with a shield or bubble of light and found it to be very effective. I have been meditating more lately, but have also neglected my usual protection and wonder if I am under attack with headaches and racing thoughts. I live and work in London and surrounding myself with a bubble is my ‘lazy’ way of protecting myself. However I have started to wonder whether it was the right approach to the problem of psychic attack, in that yes it is fear-based but it also affirms myself as being separate to the whole and creates a boundary between.

Your approach of becoming nothing to it makes sense, but also feels a little advanced for me and I’m not sure I’m sensitive enough to locate where the attack is, why it’s happening and then to feel confident that it’s been removed. I will definitely give it a go however, and any more tips you could give would be very helpful."

I would say psychic attack in London is inevitable and rife due to the denseness of the energy there. So firstly how do you know if it is happening?

The key is to continually (or as much as possible) be in a place of the observer of yourself and watch the times when you loose inner peace. It could be for example that someone in authority over you - like your boss - "attacks" you with judgmentalism negativity or control. Or it could be someone being rude on the tube or in a shop which pushes your inner buttons making you stressed and tight inside. It might even be a friend a relative or a partner who had a hard day at work. These would all be instances of possible psychic attack - the instigator is possibly having their internal buttons intentionally activated.

Becoming nothing in this involves always having "an eye" on our internal state of consciousness - what we are feeling. If we feel ourselves "rising to the bait", we have a choice: either continue to be manipulated by this energy or relax into it and not rise to it - become awesomely okay in it. I've found it may help to do visualisations - in some instances for example at the beginning if the attack was very powerful from someone, I'd see the incoming energy as bullets but then watch them pass straight through me.

Its also important however to afterwards process what happened and ask why did you "rise to the bait" in the first place? It tends to signify an attachment to an outcome - where we wanted or felt we needed a particular outcome. In so doing we may release attachment and then the distorted neural pathway in the brain (the button) will dissolve so that we are less and less effected.

Best wishes

Chris

Why bother incorporating psychic attacks into your reality? I would rather incorporate love, laughter and the sound of cicadas singing in the night.

For psychic vampires, I suggest psychic garlic..

Hi Spurious thought,

I understand your way of thinking - assuming of course you're trying to make a serious point beyond the humour!

So it seems you've made the realisation that our reality is shaped and distorted by the state of our inner consciousness right? It also seems like you've made the next leap that so many seem to do - "if I shape reality by my state of consciousness why not change my state of consciousness to create a new reality?"

Or alternatively, if there's something I don't like why not simply process it out?

Unfortunately, (or fortunately which ever way you look at it) this is a flawed understanding of reality. That part of you which makes a statement like "I intend to create a reality like this" is that part which is still separate from the "all that is". It is that part which still considers itself to be an identity. In other words an ego desiring or choosing and is not willing to accept things the way they are. That identity is what can be termed the "shadow" or "imposter" of the "seer" - the seer being absolute non-identified awareness.

In enlightenment there is no need for intention or even choice - who is here to make the choice? There is simply awareness and an arising from that awareness of authentic purpose - what you might call "soul". The soul is our unique expression of the absolute and arises without intention, desire or effort. It is only the ego that then wishes to own what does or does not arise.

It is of course possible to distort our reality with intention - or rather I should say, YOU can distort YOUR own reality with you own intention. However the illusion that you create will not persist indefinitely - why not? Because we are all interconnected and every single thought word deed effects every other part.

You might be able to override in your mind what is really going on but what you won't be able to do is override the consciousness of EVERY CELL OF YOUR BEING (billions of them of course ) which are interconnected to every cell in the universe. If you could do that, then you would change the reality of every other being in the universe - and here's the divine paradox - you'd have to be enlightened to do that and in enlightnement there is no need of a choice - there is simply flowing as one with the universe.

I also have to say this view of manifesting false realities seems to me to be without real compassion of where other people are at and the reality they are experiencing. Try telling the monks in Burma currently being brutalised by the military dictatorship "all you really need do is choose not to be attacked". Would you suggest they try psychic galic too?

Chris

Spurious thought wrote: "I would rather incorporate love, laughter and the sound of cicadas singing in the night."

Sounds lovely

I would like to share from my perspective.

My experience is not that I 'incorporate' anything into my state of being. This would be overlay something over my authentic experience of being.

Instead I have found that these things (such as love and laughter) emerge as a natural expression of my unfolding when I am complete and in absolute acceptance of ALL THINGS).

If I feel psychic attack then I cannot find it in myself to deny that that is my experience. I watch the experience as see why it is that I am undergoing such a thing, effectively embracing the experience with open arms.

It is only then, with unconditional love and acceptance does the blockage that I was experiencing fall away and fully unveil my attributes of higher consciousness.

Warm Regards
Trin

I agree Trin

Recently (ok since the retreat!) I've been casting off the misconceptions I had about myself and embracing unconditional love without the fears of if I'm worth it. Consequently much has changed in my life, the psychic attacks that I now know I was almost "inviting" have gone, the blocks fall like leaves as each emotional breeze drifts in. In their place comes warmth and joy. While some see attack coming from outside, ultimately, for me, it was being invited from within even if I couldn't acknowledge it at the time.

I'm still amazed at how the world walks with you when you change to a new path.

With Love (unconditional obviously )
Michelle

It's beautiful to hear how things are unfolding for you Michelle.

It is so powerful when we recognise that everything outside of ourselves is an outward manifestation of what we are being inside. Life completely turns around when we accept responsiblity for attachment to our preception experiences 'out there'. Allowing those self imposed blockages to fall away allows us to ignite a much stronger connection with the flow of higher consciousness, at which point we feel more more supported, guided and bathed in unconditional love and acceptance.

With Love and ((((hugs))))
Trin

Sharing my experiences here with psychic attack.

In Ascension, most colds and flu are physical symptoms of psychic attack (negative thoughtform being directed at self).
Sore throat/stiff neck,and headaches. (anothers judging, causes headaches)
Sometimes there is karma attached to this, which must be investigated and cleared. (as you have stated Chris)

Using a pendulum one investigates whose energy is attacking, and sends it back, and forgives.
In fact all kineseology requires a pendulum. Guessing, assuming or intuiting falls short in the majority of cases.

The worse case scenario i have ever encountered was a friend in the U.S., her psychic attack put her in hospital.
Initially, she kept getting the flu, and couldnt shake it - months went by.
I penduled, that she was being attacked by her (then) spiritual teacher. She wouldnt have it, as she had a 'good relationship with X'
(pendulum and dreams were informing me that friend was irritating teacher with her knowledge .. that seemed to imply his lacks (ego causes psychic attacks).

She lost so much chi, her physical health couldnt combat the viruses that are waiting to attack the body all the time. And she went down like a sack of spuds.

One cannot really prevent another from directing negative thoughts, (the 'bubble' does not always work) only to be aware of ones kinesthetic body responses, and then return the energy directed at self.

Namaste
Relik

Greetings

After i posted the prevous post on psychic attack, i was led to some 'ascension information' that i have in notes.

Something called running the ' the lotus configuration'.

Not many know about this, as it encompasses the 12 chakra dynamic.
And many are still working with the 7 chakra system.
When we have the 7 chakra system, we run a 'figure 8' energy through our etheric body.

When we have acquired the 12-chakra system, we run what is called the lotus configuration (three loops instead of 2).

This has the abiity to push back all disresonant matter, or incoming disresonance.
Or 'karmic manipulation'... thereby preventing a psychic attack.

All Ascension information is to be experienced and then shared.
This is not a lack of humility on my part, but a sharing of all that i have experienced and now know as Universal Truths.

Namaste and Blessings
Relik

Hi Relik

I think the point Trinity was making with regards to humility, is that from the Openhand perspective there are NO Universal Truths. Why not?

The Universe arises from relativity. We cannot know one thing without the presence of another. So in the beginning, the Everything/Nothing sub divided into parts of Everything/Nothing. Relativity was created so that experience may be had. We cannot know up without down, hot without cold, left without right etc etc.

Therefore the Everything/Nothing cannot be experienced because experience can only be had in the presence of relativity. From my perspective we can get very close to it though. To me, absolute truth is experienced as a lack of experience; what some might refer to as infinite peace or nirvana.

The point is that when ANYTHING arises into being, it is ALWAYS a distortion of absolute truth. Therefore we cannot say this is true and this is not. We can only say "from my perspective of reality this is what I experience" or words to that effect.

In your posts, you are writing as if you are the source of absolute truth and I can most definitely say you are not. Not least because some of what you have written is not my truth. If its not my truth, then it is not absolute truth even if I am the only one in the Universe who disagrees with you.

That's why in the Openhand community, we invite people to communicate with one another from their perspective. Perhaps you might like to consider this approach? I think more people would be be open to what you have to offer and look for the resonance you might generate in themselves; encouraging others to unveil a more complete version of their own truth not trying to supplant it with our own.

Just a thought!

Chris

Hi all

I am newly on your site so I am saying 'hi!'

I feel I have always been drawn to understanding more of my spiritual experience and that of others. I have done some meditation and spiritual work and am deeply aware of intuition and also trust myself in how I 'see' intuitively. However, I do feel so naive - you know newly born to this.

Recently I went to see a spiritual worker in my home town. I was asking her for guidance about a woman I felt was my soul mate but our relationship was very difficult. She told me that our paths were intertwined and that we were meant to have a meaningful relationship but that she was surrounded by negative energy; this energy was coming from someone close to her. After a while it has transpired that her ex-partner is attacking she and I psychically with the help of an organisation of people. The spiritual worker I am seeing is now sending that energy back to him with the help of others at her church. I can hardly believe how comforting that is that she is helping me with this.

The attack is manifesting in all sorts of ways. Before my spiritual worker (I will call her that) started her work I would often experience a swollen stomach; I would feel depressed and, at times, suicidal. My negativity would know no bounds I felt. I have not got a swollen stomach and not had one since her work but my negativity washes over me in waves.

I have been angry and have found myself wanting to attack him back but I just go with this as an awareness of my process around this. I resonate with you, Chris, as you talk about this.

I think I am also coming to terms with my shock at this attack. I think I am allowing experience of the many dimensions of creation and that all that I thought sure and safe in the world is not quite as I thought. No bad thing but . . . gosh . . making me grow.

I remember one day I was in my bedroom and I saw a dark shadow fall behind a chair. The shadow was the darkest and most defined I have ever seen. At the time I didn't think too much about it but now I think I recognise it as part of the attack.

I am not sure what I want to ask but I know that in writing all of this to you I find a sense of comfort from my reaching out so I guess I am wanting to connect as the world begins to become clearer and also less rigidly defined as I previously believed.

With best wishes

Mrs Sapphire

Hi Mrs Sapphire,

You are most welcome here - thanks for your posting

Yes indeed it seems like you've had a tough experience. Fortunately you seem to have taken a very positive attitude to it. In so doing, the incident is only likely to make you stronger and more positive. Well done!

I've sometimes heard of spiritual workers sending negative energy back from where it came. It seems that its worked in your case. However I know its not something I would do myself. Where I've previously felt negative energy attaching to me in the way you describe, I've tended to first 'become nothing in it all' (as I described in the intro article at the top) and then filled myself with light and heat - that way, anything of a lower vibration tends to just melt away. Sometimes I have felt that light and heat flow out of me to the source of the darkness - ideally to heal it.

I spent many years studying and practicing the martial arts. We used to have a saying "every attack is a cry for help". If someone attacks us its because something is hurting inside of them. That's why I think forgiveness is perhaps the most important thing in our spiritual journey. It makes us more open inside so that more light can flow in.

The objective of Opposing Consciousness is to make us tight, fearful and negative - why let them win?

Realising that everything happens for a purpose is vital to our unfolding. Here below is a snippet from a favourite book "The Little Soul and the Sun". At Openhand we often use it in meditations to invoke forgiveness. I've always noticed how such an approach helps uplift people and bring an extraordinary sense of joy and lightness...

Once upon no time there was a Little Soul who said to God, "I know who I am!"

And God said, "That's wonderful! Who are you?"

And the Little Soul shouted, "I'm the Light!"

God smiled a big smile, "That's right!" God exclaimed. "You are the Light."

The Little Soul was so happy, for it had figured out what all the souls in the Kingdom were there to figure out. "Wow," said the Little Soul, "this is really cool!"

But soon, knowing who it was was not enough. The Little Soul felt stirrings inside, and now wanted to be who it was. And so the Little Soul went back to God (which is not a bad idea for all souls who want to be Who They Really Are) and said, "Hi, God! Now that I know Who I Am, is it okay for me to be it?"

And God said, "You mean you want to be Who You Already Are?

"Well," replied the Little Soul, "it's one thing to know Who I Am, and another thing altogether to actually be it. I want to feel what it's like to be the Light!"

"But you already are the Light," God repeated, smiling again.

"Yes, but I want to see what that feels like!" cried the Little Soul.

"Well," said God with a chuckle, "I suppose I should have known. You always were the adventuresome one." Then God's expression changed. "There's only one thing..."

"What?" asked the Little Soul.

"Well, there is nothing else but the Light. You see, I created nothing but what you are; and so, there is no easy way for you to experience yourself as Who You Are, since there is nothing that you are not."

"Huh?" said the Little Soul, who was not a little confused.

"Think of it this way," said God. "You are like a candle in the Sun. Oh, you're there all right. Along with a million, ka-gillion other candles who make up the Sun. And the sun would not be the Sun without you. Nay, it would be a sun without one of its candles...and that would not be the Sun at all; for it would not shine as brightly. Yet, how to know yourself as the Light when you are amidst the Light--that is the question."

"Well," the Little Soul perked up, "you're God. Think of something!"

Once more God smiled. "I already have," God said. "Since you cannot see yourself as the Light when you are in the Light, we'll surround you with darkness."

"What's darkness?" the Little Soul asked.

God replied, "It is that which you are not."

"Will I be afraid of the dark?" cried the Little Soul.

"Only if you choose to be," God answered. "There is nothing, really, to be afraid of, unless you decide that there is. You see, we are making it all up. We are pretending."

"Oh," said the Little Soul, and felt better already.

Then God explained that, in order to experience anything at all, the exact opposite of it will appear.

"It is a great gift," God said, "because without it, you could not know what anything is like. You could not know Warm without Cold, Up without Down, Fast without Slow. You could not know Left without Right, Here without There, Now without Then."

"And so," God concluded, "when you are surrounded with darkness, do not shake your fist and raise your voice and curse the darkness. Rather be a Light unto the darkness, and don't be mad about it. Then you will know Who You Really Are, and all others will know, too. Let your Light shine so that everyone will know how special you are!"

"You mean it's okay to let others see how special I am?" asked the Little Soul.

"Of course!" God chuckled. "It's very okay! But remember, 'special' does not mean 'better.' Everybody is special, each in their own way! Yet many others have forgotten that. They will see that it is okay for them to be special only when you see that it is okay for you to be special."

"Wow," said the Little Soul, dancing and skipping and laughing and jumping with joy. "I can be as special as I want to be!"

"Yes, and you can start right now," said God, who was dancing and skipping and laughing right along with the Little Soul.

"What part of special do you want to be?"

"What part of special?" the Little Soul repeated. "I don't understand."

"Well," God explained, "being the Light is being special, and being special has a lot of parts to it. It is special to be kind. It is special to be gentle. It is special to be creative. It is special to be patient. Can you think of any other ways it is special to be?"

The Little Soul sat quietly for a moment. "I can think of lots of ways to be special!" the Little Soul then exclaimed. "It is special to be helpful. It is special to be sharing. It is special to be friendly. It is special to be considerate of others!"

"Yes!" God agreed, "and you can be all of those things, or any part of special you wish to be, at any moment. That's what it means to be the Light."

"I know what I want to be, I know what I want to be!" the Little Soul announced with great excitement. "I want to be the part of special called 'forgiving'. Isn't it special to be forgiving?"

"Oh, yes," God assured the Little Soul. "That is very special."

"Okay," said the Little Soul. "That's what I want to be. I want to be forgiving. I want to experience myself as that."

"Good," said God, "but there's one thing you should know."

The Little Soul was becoming a bit impatient now. It always seemed as though there were some complication.

"What is it?" the Little Soul sighed.

"There is no one to forgive."

"No one?" The Little Soul could hardly believe what had been said.

"No one!" God repeated. "Everything I have made is perfect. There is not a single soul in all creation less perfect than you. Look around you."

It was then that the Little Soul realized a large crowd had gathered. Souls had come from far and wide ~ from all over the Kingdom ~ for the word had gone forth that the Little Soul was having this extraordinary conversation with God, and everyone wanted to hear what they were saying. Looking at the countless other souls gathered there, the Little Soul had to agree. None appeared less wonderful, less magnificent, or less perfect than the Little Soul itself. Such was the wonder of the souls gathered around, and so bright was their Light, that the Little Soul could scarcely gaze upon them.

"Who, then, to forgive?" asked God.

"Boy, this is going to be no fun at all!" grumbled the Little Soul. "I wanted to experience myself as One Who Forgives. I wanted to know what that part of special felt like."

And the Little Soul learned what it must feel like to be sad. But just then a Friendly Soul stepped forward from the crowd.

"Not to worry, Little Soul," the Friendly Soul said, "I will help you."

"You will?" the Little Soul brightened. "But what can you do?"

"Why, I can give you someone to forgive!"

"You can?"

"Certainly!" chirped the Friendly Soul. "I can come into your next lifetime and do something for you to forgive."

"But why? Why would you do that?" the Little Soul asked. "You, who are a Being of such utter perfection! You, who vibrate with such a speed that it creates a Light so bright that I can hardly gaze upon you! What could cause you to want to slow down your vibration to such a speed that your bright Light would become dark and dense? What could cause you ~ who are so light that you dance upon the stars and move through the Kingdom with the speed of your thought--to come into my life and make yourself so heavy that you could do this bad thing?"

"Simple," the Friendly Soul said. "I would do it because I love you."

The Little Soul seemed surprised at the answer.

"Don't be so amazed," said the Friendly Soul, "you have done the same thing for me. Don't you remember? Oh, we have danced together, you and I, many times. Through the eons and across all the ages have we danced. Across all time and in many places have we played together. You just don't remember."

"We have both been All Of It. We have been the Up and the Down of it, the Left and the Right of it. We have been the Here and the There of it, the Now and the Then of it. We have been the male and the female, the good and the bad; we have both been the victim and the villain of it."

"Thus have we come together, you and I, many times before; each bringing to the other the exact and perfect opportunity to Express and to Experience Who We Really Are. And so," the Friendly Soul explained further, "I will come into your next lifetime and be the 'bad one' this time. I will do something really terrible, and then you can experience yourself as the One Who Forgives."

"But what will you do?" the Little Soul asked, just a little nervously, "that will be so terrible?"

"Oh," replied the Friendly Soul with a twinkle, "we'll think of something."

Then the Friendly Soul seemed to turn serious, and said in a quiet voice, "You are right about one thing, you know."

"What is that?" the Little Soul wanted to know.

"I will have to slow down my vibration and become very heavy to do this not-so-nice thing. I will have to pretend to be something very unlike myself. And so, I have but one favor to ask of you in return."

"Oh, anything, anything!" cried the Little Soul, and began to dance and sing, "I get to be forgiving, I get to be forgiving!"

Then the Little Soul saw that the Friendly Soul was remaining very quiet.

"What is it?" the Little Soul asked. "What can I do for you? You are such an angel to be willing to do this for me!"

"Of course this Friendly Soul is an angel!" God interrupted. "Everyone is! Always remember: I have sent you nothing but angels."

And so the Little Soul wanted more than ever to grant the Friendly Soul's request. "What can I do for you?" the Little Soul asked again.

"In the moment that I strike you and smite you," the Friendly Soul replied, "in the moment that I do the worst to you that you could possible imagine ~ in that very moment..."

"Yes?" the Little Soul interrupted, "yes...?"

"Remember Who I Really Am."

"Oh, I will!" cried the Little Soul, "I promise! I will always remember you as I see you right here, right now!"

"Good," said the Friendly Soul, "because, you see, I will have been pretending so hard, I will have forgotten myself. And if you do not remember me as I really am, I may not be able to remember for a very long time. And if I forget Who I Am, you may even forget Who You Are, and we will both be lost. Then we will need another soul to come along and remind us both of Who We Are."

"No, we won't!" the Little Soul promised again. "I will remember you! And I will thank you for bringing me this gift ~ the chance to experience myself as Who I Am."

And so, the agreement was made. And the Little Soul went forth into a new lifetime, excited to be the Light, which was very special, and excited to be that part of special called Forgiveness.

And the Little Soul waited anxiously to be able to experience itself as Forgiveness, and to thank whatever other soul made it possible. And at all the moments in that new lifetime, whenever a new soul appeared on the scene, whether that new soul brought joy or sadness--and especially if it brought sadness--the Little Soul thought of what God had said.

"Always remember," God had smiled, "I have sent you nothing but angels."

Much love

Chris

Hi Chris, thanks so much for that story I have never heard it before. It is a bit of help for me at this time.
I feel like I am going through such a dark time just now and being pulled back into an old world. I am not sure If this is happening as a test for me, a kind of reminder of the world i used to live in. Or has opposing consciousness stepped in to stop me moving forward.
I feel so miserable, negative and disconnected and even though I should know how to reconnect, for some reason I can't seem to get myself to do anything about it.
May have to have a chat with you soon but thought i would put this up in case anyone else is going through the same thing.
It appears that my friend who lives on the land here is being brought very similar experiences as well.

Hi Marion,

You're not the only one - fear not!
There are huge movements of energy right now. Remember everything on the outside is a reflection of what's inside - I'm referring now to the 'big picture'.

So the onset of the economic recession signals a significant process commencing in our collective human story. Much energy is moving - its kind of like we're dealing with collective karma. Its sending a lot of people into worry and fear - its probably this that you're feeling.

I believe the Opposition is in a great deal of fear too. It signals a huge warning bell for them. Economic recession is limiting their objectives too. I sense there is a great deal of projection our way.

The key is to be strong. We have to keep doing those things that connect us. Trust in the Divine and that there is a deeper purpose for all this. Trust in yourself - that you're in exactly the place you need to be right now. Nothing that was ever worth having ever came easy!

Take heart. Work at your connection. As confucius said "If there's no wind, row!"

Much love

Chris

Hello all

Chris, was great to read you and the story you left here, and thankyou for your encouragement. I haven't heard that story before but I think I have seen that 'story' in all of life, especially the beauty of being with each other, however we are.

I am not sure how the spiritual work is going at the church, was happening this weekend, and I haven't spoken to my spritual worker yet. I also am learning about myself in relation to it and can see glimpses of the gift of growth through all of this type of contact with the man who is sending the attack. I believe he is hurting. Through him I am living with my impatience and frustration and anger and finding the 'green shoots' of a balance through compassion and reaching out to others and I am also finding a realisation that love is all but needs the darker side to grow. I am a psychotherapist and I believe in the wholeness of us, that light and dark are hand in hand.

Hello Marion, sending you a wave and best wishes

Bye for now

Andrea

I would really like to talk more about psychic attacks to people who already know about them and believe it exists.

Hi Lynnsky,

Welcome to Openhand. I think you'll find if you read above there's plenty to begin with. Then if you have a specific question or sharing, I'm sure members of the forum would be delighted to share their views.

Chris

I have been under constant attack by a group of beings for three months now. It was quite a strong experience. It manifested in a feeling like there would be a hook in my solar plexus pulled out with full force. The physical pain was so strong at peak-times that I could not think clear, eat or sleep. I was quite desparate for some time. Now I finally had a series of breakthroughs (also thanks to a great deal of advice and encouragement from Chris) and came to handle them. Here are my conclusions and observations so far.

1. I invited them. There is a pathway in my psyche that allows them to enter my field, a need of mine. There is an interest and gain in my psyche that I had to find and close.

2. If I am not in my body, something else is. That is always true. It must not be beings, but can also be unconscious patterns.

3. If I am fully in my body, they can enter my field to some degree, but are not able to affect me that much. It is still uncomfortable, but not too much so.

In that sense it was a very good "Zen-Training" for me: Every time I popped out of the body, I would get "the stick" in form of solar plexus pain, wich would alarm me to go back. Great teaching.

4. There is nothing to fear. The intense pain and also my fear of affecting other people would draw my soul-energy away from the solar plexus into the upper part of the body, leaving the solar plexus "unattended" - and therefore open for them to be there. It was a fight against fear but I finally managed to bring my full attention into the solar plexus and calmly stay there, this would drive them out. Again: Either I am there or them, we can't be both at the same time. (At least not long)

Taking the fear out of the game and reclaiming my own field was very empowering. I saw they ultimately can't stand up to the power of soul unless we imagine ourselves to be helpless/smaller then them, may they be as 4th dimensional as they want.

5. Be in my own energy and stay there. I totally stopped to breathe in any light from outside of myself other then the light of my own soul through the eigths chakra. Chris pointed me too the fact that it is actually possible to feel wethe rit is your own higher self you are bringing down or some other light, wich is true in my experience. It just fits perfectly and feels like "me".

I could not allow any need for love, appreciation or energy from outside. That would cause me to leave my center - and solar plexus pain would start. Again: Invaluable Teaching.

I would now warn everybody of interactions with any beings inside who offer great experiences, information, healing, or energy. They are not what they seem. I had ecstatic experiences with some of them and when I started rejecting them they would suddenly start to attack.

6. It is vital that I am in my center line. This was quite a revelation. Working with the central energy channel (breathing light or what have you) I somehow always imagined my self "out" of it, like "looking at it" in some way. I found it is vital, to actually "BE" the central channel, feeling it from inside. Not visualizing it, being it. This would immediately bring me fully into the body and stop the attack.

This insight came through a profound statement I read in a hatha-yoga book. The teacher there explained:

"Most people try to relax their muscles from the outside in, imagining themselves outside of the body, like looking at the muscle from above our outside. This will never work. We cant truly relax a muscle moving from the skin inwards. What we have to do is to let our awareness "crawl" into the core of the muscle from the inside and just let it rest there. In this way the muscle will unravel the tightness on its own accord. Such is the power of awareness"

This was a very profound insight for me, both for my yoga-practice, but also for working with distortions - or psychic attacks. It is always the same pattern: I have to crawl in from the inside, stay in with full awareness and let it unravel.

7. Working in this way, I found "black spots" in my energy field. There were several spots along the spine that I could not feel - at all! In my case I could not get myself to feel my field, the spine or even the skin at the backside of my solar plexus. There was like a hole in my perception of the bodyscape. Very interessing to observe! I found several of these spots. Also when I would try to feel my central channel all the way up, I could not get a clear sense how it goes in that areas of the spots.

Gathering all my awareness I after several hours managed to feel these black spots and fill them with awareness, wich caused my central channel to reconnect, enabling me to feel it in its completness. This would stop the psychic attack completely and immediately.

My guess is that these black spots were the entry-points for them, but I do not know.

8. I changed my interaction with these beings. Before I was either scared or desparate, sometimes begging them to leave me alone. Wich was futile as they anyway could only enter because of my shadows and of me not living in my own field! Moving out of a "victim state" into being a sovereign soul made a big difference psychologically.

So I would now tell them that I was not liking what they do, but I would still continue to love them. That I take full responsibility for my karma. That I respect them as devine beings, but reject their behaviour. I told them that their attacks are futile and no matter how much they torture me, they will neither corrupt nor break me. That I decide for light and love and nothing will shake that. That I reclaim my power as a sovereign soul and reject any deals and interactions with them. I do not need their power and I am not afraid of their attacks. That they should be aware that their time in my field is limited and they will have to leave, it is already decided. That I love them and thank them for the invaluable teaching I recieve through them.

This helped me to overcome my fear and despair, wich was quite big sometimes as alone the physical pain was unbearable. But also it would totally close my heart and bring quite dark thoughts. To stay in the center line with the above mindset, slowly brought me to a place where I did not feel like their puppet anymore.

I still don't quite get what their intention is. I think there are two kinds of beings: Those who live from intense emotional energy (fear, despair, anger, sadness...) and those who live from worship.

So far my experiences.

David

It's absolutely fantastic that you've had these experiences David - even as unpleasant as they may seem. Now when someone else comes to you experiencing similar, you'll be able to speak from direct knowing. There is nothing more valuable than that, and those who you will help, will resonate and feel the truth in what you say.

There is only ever one way out - that is through!

Much love and empathy

Chris

Chris, I posted this in an old thread to avoid double-topics.

I now noticed you seemed to have changed your approach quite a bit since opening this thread - above you talk about Archangel Michael wich is not your current vocabulary anymore.

My question is: What happens if someone opens his field with the intent of opening to Archangel Michael? Is it the internal configuration (e.g. needy) that determines what he will bring in? His imagination?

What made you change your approach? How to determine wether the being we contact is from the 4th or 5th dimension? )or lower and higher aspects of ourselves if you want to see it in another way)

Great questions David.
Clearly we all go through different stages of evolution.
I still 'call' on four Archangels: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael and Uriel. However, what's actually going on for me, is that these are really symbolic of something that is already welling up from inside of me. So as I feel that energy building, or when I'm drawn to a resonating synchronicity, these metaphors help me invoke more of that energy from inside myself.

I do believe in these beings as separate entities. However, for them to truly work, I sense they're working through the spirit-light-body at a high dimension of connection. So they help cause a resonance inside of ourselves.

The only way to really understand and get to know this is through experience. Sometimes energies will come in, appear to be 'friendly', then increasingly take control of our field - many people willingly give up their autonomy because it may initially appear benevolent. This is (from my perspective) mostly what goes on during 'channeling'. We mentioned the film "The Adjustment Bureau" - the metaphor gets it pretty well.

So in my experience, it can greatly help to open to higher dimensional influences. But we need to become very discerning as to what those influences are. It's actually fairly straightforwards PROVIDING we're truly being honest about our motivations. Glamour often gets in the way, or neediness. And if you find yourself being spoon-fed (like so many of the channelings), I'd be exceptionally careful of 'who' is holding the spoon!

Chris