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Wednesday 4 May 2011

How spiritual energies work.





Many of us at some stage in our lives have felt or feared what we might believe is an evil spiritual presence. I have to say in my experience, most of the time they are mistaken. The usual cause is our own fears of the unknown. What people usually experience is their own spirit guide or loved one in spirit who has come for a visit. The feelings spirit give off at times can produce a number of sensations that can cause fear. That’s why I believe sometimes if you feel these sensations strongly it’s a good idea to do a Psychic Development course to understand what is happening. Once you understand the sensations, and how spirit use their energies to communicate, you'll find you have nothing to be fearful about. But, in saying that, everyone has their own natural in-built fears and caution of the unknown that can sometimes get the better of them. It stems from instinctual self preservation and also partly comes from our own beliefs concerning spiritual matters.

Here is how it works.

Spirit people blend their energies within our aura. This can cause you feel all sorts of strange sensations. Tingling on your face or body, the hairs on the back of your necks stand on end, along with goose bumps and cold shivers down your spine. Now many of these sensations are associated with fear, but let me tell you that true spiritual attacks or hauntings are very rare. I personally cleansed a house not so long ago and the spirit people there were not haunting, they were mostly having a look at the family or used to live in the house previously.




Years ago, people suffering from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and split personality disorders were said to be possessed by Demonic forces. That's how the word ‘possession ‘came about. Nowadays, medical science recognises that these illnesses do exist and are just disturbances of the mind. However I do need to add it is possible, to those who are spiritually aware, to experience a mild to quite severe spiritual attacks or unnerving experiences carried out on them by a spirit who is either cloaked in their own darkness (hell of their own making)or they are lost souls seeking help. These can be malignant spirit people and are often themselves in a confused and disturbed state of mind.

I know a lot of people believe that when you pass into the next world you go into a beautiful light. That is mostly true. But some don’t. Usually it’s those who feel that they have unfinished business or are not at peace enough to let their earthly ties go. Sometimes spirit people get stranded because they died very traumatically and on a very rare occasion, they don’t fully realise that they have died.

In the worst case scenario, vulnerable people can be over shadowed by a spirit person giving the feeling they are being Demonic Possessed, this is however very rare. Demonic possession to all intents and purposes is the ability for a bad spirit to have an effect on an individual’s mind.


Let me explain how I see possession.
Under normal circumstances Spirit do not have an ability to possess us whether they be good or bad in nature. HOWEVER, there are ways in which spirit can fool us into believing they are having a physical effect on us. Hence those who believe they are possessed. A Spirit person can over shadow the mind allowing them to mentally manifest within. This is known as Trance, a form of clairvoyance. Let me stress, unless the medium allows it, the spirit person can never enter the body. All they are doing is attuning their energy to the mediums aura. That way they can link and impose their mind. Mediums have excellent spirit guides that work with them, sometimes due to this close bond of trust, a medium will give over both their mind and body to be used. Not everyone can do this. It is usually only done for guides who come through to give inspirational words or healing for beneficial purposes and under tightly controlled situations.
If someone untrained does this, without their guides help, it is possible for a spirit with evil intent to push them to do something not very nice. This usually happens to the vulnerable and unstable. They have their own free will still; they are not being taken over. The person is choosing to listen to this spirit person. This would obviously be a very frightening and disturbing experience to go through and to be faced with. It would probably cause the victim to become very withdrawn and closed off, often feeling unable to turn to anyone who understands and believes what they are going through. Again, this is very rare.

Malignant spirit prey on your own fears, making you open and susceptible to their influences. Fear takes us to a more negative spiritual vibration, as fear itself is a negative vibration. The best defence is to keep a positive mind, therefore raising your vibration above theirs. Surround yourselves with a bubble of protective light to cast out and keep any negative influences away.
Fears are fuelled by superstitions which advocate the existence of evil such as demons and the devil.




Most mediums are aware there are those in spirit who are lost or cloaked in their own dark misery, but they aren’t demons, they are human souls. Hell exists within our own mind. No-one is denied transition into spirit, but there are lower planes within spirit for those who need to cast off their darkness and move on to higher planes of light. So it is important if we become awoken to spirit that we learn how to protect and shut ourselves down properly to avoid this conflict that might occur.




Has anyone ever experienced anything I have mentioned or do you have something you would like to say on the matter? Please do comment. All your words add to the teachings of spirit.

4 comments:

  1. Maggie,you have such a lovely way with words, writting them in an easy to understand format. Although I've never, (thank goodness), had a nasty experiance of feeling haunted by a frightening spirit, I feel sorry for those who have and think they have no-one they can turn to. I can't begin to imagine what mental trauma they must go through trying to deal with it.

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  2. Very insightful and interesting. I come for a completely different viewpoint, but still found this as wonderful information to read.

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  3. Had I been asked about this several months ago I probably would have said, Spirits? What Spirits? But then I had a strange experience.
    Our Mum has recently passed away, her battle with Parkinson’s and Old age is finally over. It is only now she is gone that I really recognise how brave she was and truly see how she must have suffered. I honestly don’t know whether we didn’t acknowledge the Parkinson’s because we were afraid of it or whether we didn’t see it because all we saw was the woman who had loved and raised us, Mum. Parkinson’s is a cruel disease bit by bit it took away her existence. I don’t think I knew much about Parkinson’s until Mum got it, apart from that Michael J fox is a sufferer and to be honest I don’t know an awful lot about it now, only what it did to Mum. I can only describe it like this, all her nerves that carried Messages to other parts of her body developed road blocks and the traffic could no longer flow from her brain to her body. First their where the terrible tremors which took away some of the things she would like to do, she could no longer embroider or knit and do some of the little things that we all take for granted like pick up a crossword puzzle to pass the time, write a shopping list. Holding a cup of tea became a bit of a juggling act. Eventually her medication brought some relief from this but it was short lived. As time went by she began to lose the loss of her legs and with that went her country walks she had always enjoyed slipped away.
    Then her Voice started to go, it wasn’t that she didn’t have anything to say she just couldn’t seem to get above a whisper, unless she was shouting at the cat! I can only assume that anger chose a detour and by passed the vocal traffic Jam? Suddenly she became almost smaller; conversations happened around her but more often than not did not include her. Not that she was excluded but sometimes the effort to be heard was too much for her and us.
    As time went by Mum Got more Muddled and Most of our conversations seemed to involve her tablets or god, I have written about These at some length already so I won’t bore you with the details, but in her final hours we decided to call for the chaplain in the hope that it Might bring Mum a little bit of comfort or reassurance. Although she had become so tired of her illness that she wanted to leave us I think her Salvationist upbringing had left her scared of what comes next. Anyway a very nice C of E chaplain came up to the ward and we explained that we had been struggling with God, Mum because deep down she did believe and us because we didn’t and where unable to give her the reassurance that she needed. Then it happened, the Chaplain read some psalms and bits from the bible then got out his holy water and as he made the sign of the cross on Mums forehead an unimaginable calm embraced the room, it was as if time had stopped and we were all just hovering in the now. I am sure we all felt it and I really hope my Mother did. There was definitely something or someone there with us. My good friend Mags suggested that it was angels waiting to take her with them and I quite like that idea so am sticking with it.
    So yes I think I do believe in another level of conciouseness, Spirits, Angels and God? not sure but there was something with us that day and I hope it is still with Kath McGovern, maybe we will meet again.

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  4. Very nice. I think you're right, for us to drive away negative forces to manipulate our mind and body we should always practice positivity in our daily lives, spread love and pray.
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