Hi Starry-night thanks for sharing your view - welcome to Openhand :-)

In many ways I agree with you. What we're trying to do here at Openhand is take a very grounded, yet also expanded, approach to spirituality. So really to us the term 'spiritual' simply refers to our expanded consciousness through multiple dimensions and how we might be being influenced in some way from those other densities.

I can absolutely see how if someone is still locked in the lower reality and quite identified with it, how the idea of 'dark forces' would 'freak them out' as you say. I have indeed witnessed that myself. And it is also my experience that when people are helped to realise their interconnectedness with all and to experience their connection into the higher dimensions, plus the crucial realisation that all is simply the One Self realising out distortion, and that nothing nor no one is ultimately to blame, then it greatly eases any kind of 'dark' experience. It gives a plausible reason for them and you visibly watch people let go. I observe the approach helps enormously.

Very best wishes

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