SPIRIT ATTACHMENT & RETRIEVAL

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Spirit Attachment and Health    Dr Alan Lindsay Sanderson M.B., B.S. (London), M.R.C.P.,D.P.M.,M.R.C.Psych.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

The belief that the dead may return to trouble the living goes back to antiquity and it remains widespread in non-western cultures. In the west it continues in Christian teaching. The New Testament abounds with accounts of Jesus casting out devils and unclean spirits. Exorcism, as still used by the Christian churches, ritualises this practice. But expelling the attached entity in this way is an adversarial procedure, far removed from contemporary spirit release, which aims to help both host and entity.

Spirit release developed from spiritualism in the second half of the 19th century. The writings of Allan Kardec, a prominent French scholar, who compiled The Spirits Book (1857) and The Book of Mediums (1874) both still in print, have been influential, leading to the development of the Spiritist movement, world wide, with many adherents, especially in Brazil.

An American psychiatrist, Carl Wickland, and his wife, Anna, a spirit medium, were the pioneers of depossession, as it was then called, in North America. His classic, Thirty Years Among the Dead , first published in 1924, tells how static electricity was applied to the patient’s head and back, in order to drive out possessing spirits. The spirits then entered Anna, through whom they spoke with Carl, who persuaded them to leave. This was an effective, but dangerous, procedure. Mrs Wickland ended her life in a mental hospital.

Little more was written on the subject of possession until Edith Fiore’s The Unquiet Dead (1987), which describes her use of hypnosis in the treatment of possessed patients. Fiore had earlier written about past lives, and her work came from this perspective. She has had a big influence, most notably on William Baldwin, who has taken things further, particularly in categorising the different human and non-human entities and in developing protocols for clinical use. His book, Spirit Releasement Therapy - A Technique Manual (1992) is essential reading for anyone entering the field. The practice of spirit release is expanding rapidly in the materially-developed world. There are two professional organisations in the USA, based on the Baldwin model, one in Australia, see www.clairvision.org , another in Continental Europe, based upon channelled teaching by Carl Nowotny (1996) and two in the United Kingdom.

SPIRIT RELEASE TODAY

The secular approach to spirit release, increasingly practised in North America and the U.K., derives, not from religious belief, but from a pragmatic approach to therapy. There are two main approaches, the Intuitive, requiring psychic awareness in the practitioner, and the Interactive, in which the patient, in an altered state of consciousness, becomes self-aware. The first scarcely involves the patient; the second requires dialogue between patient and practitioner. The Intuitive in particular, has many varieties and is sometimes used at a distance. Each approach has its strengths. The Interactive method has the advantage that it fully involves the patient and the session can be recorded.

In the UK, The Spirit Release Foundation www.spiritrelease.com (originally the British Association for Spirit Release) was founded in August 1999. The SRF has around 160 members, many of them practitioners. It organizes conferences, workshops and a training course, leading to accreditation as Spirit Release Therapist.

SPIRIT ATTACHMENT AND THE CYCLE OF REBIRTH

Alternation between embodiment on earth and timeless, more or less blissful existence in the spirit world, preparing for reincarnation, is the essential pattern. At death the spirit usually passes to the Light, the white brilliance seen in a near-death experience. However, it does not invariably reach the Light. It may be confused, even to the point of not knowing that the body has died. Ignorance or fear of punishment may cause it to be diverted. Sometimes the spirit remains earthbound in a familiar place, when it may appear as a ghost (see Terry and Natalia O’Sullivan, Soul Rescuers (1999)). Spirits, not uncommonly, attach to other embodied persons, often relatives or friends. Spirits may stay behind with the clear intention of attachment, perhaps out of concern for a relative, or to satisfy an addiction, even for revenge. Family sex abusers seem commonly to attach to their victims. Suicidal persons may have with them spirits which encourage suicide.

VULNERABILITY TO SPIRIT ATTACHMENT

Vulnerability to spirit attachment varies according to predisposition, health and circumstances. The condition of the aura is an important factor. It has been postulated that people whose auras vibrate at high frequency are impervious to spirits of a lower frequency. Illness, injury, drugs, emotional disturbance and the presence of attached spirits may all impair resistance. Cases have been described in which organ transplant recipients appear to have received the spirit of the donor (Sylvia, 1997). Certain individuals seem to attract spirits, often from those who, during life, had a similar problem. For instance, those that have suffered sexual abuse may be drawn together. In other cases attachment may appear to be purely accidental, as in a case when a spirit, reliving the time immediately after his death, attempted to chat up a girl in a club. When she made no response, he exclaimed, angrily, “She’s ignoring me, the cow!” Then, with amazement, “Oh, I’m in her!” Karmic and past life factors may be involved.

EFFECTS OF SPIRIT ATTACHMENT

Spirit attachment can affect people in many ways, either mildly or profoundly. Here are some of the commonest:

1. Unexplained fatigue.
2. Unexplained depression
3. Sudden changes in mood.
4. Hearing a voice.
5. Addictions of all sorts.
6. Uncharacteristic changes in personality or behaviour.
7. Anomalous sexual behaviour.
8. Unexplained somatic symptoms.

It is important to note that there are many other causes of the above symptoms. Hearing voices is the symptom most suggestive of spirit attachment. However, this may also be due to other factors, notably to a more or less autonomous part of the personality, such as a child part, or to a spirit guide. Abusive voices featuring foul language are characteristic of lower spirits, whereas helpful spirits, such as those reported by Ghandi, Luther, Joan of Arc and others who have played a distinguished part in history, are attributed to spirit guides or to a divine source. Spirit guides do not attach to the aura and leach energy, as do the entities that affect human health. Such higher beings are essential allies in guiding souls to the Light and in healing the effects of spirit attachment. It seems likely that they play a covert role in many healing processes. Angels and spirit guides do not readily communicate during therapy, but they may sometimes do so, when asked. Such cases have been well described by Petrak (1996).

PHENOMENOLOGY

The effects of spirit attachment may be so slight as to be imperceptible or so great as to cause incapacity. In the great majority of cases, attached spirits have no executive power. They may influence feelings and perceptions, but do not displace the host from environmental awareness or from control of body movement, except rarely, for brief periods, as during fugue states and the “blackouts” experienced by alcoholics. Only a tiny minority show the switching of identity and memory gaps characteristic of multiple personality. It is not clear why spirit attachment should vary so much in its expression. There is also an enormous variability in people’s psychic sensitivity and it seems likely that these variables are connected. Hallucinatory experiences vary greatly. Some patients, much troubled by spirits, rarely hear voices; others, less disturbed in thought and behaviour, hear them often.

Attached spirits do not have the ability to help the host, except in rare instances. Not infrequently they seem bent on causing trouble. Even well-intentioned spirits often bring their own emotional problems, addictions or physical symptoms.

Most attached spirits are unable to leave without assistance, though occasionally they come and go at will. It is important that a spirit from the Light helps them to find the way; otherwise, they may return to the host or attach to another person. Sometimes an apparently earthbound spirit may be correct in protesting that its body lives. Soul fragments of living people may attach to others and have a controlling effect. Not uncommonly, parents affect their children in this way, apparently without conscious awareness.

In addition, there are non-human entities, both positive and negative. The latter may attach to human souls, in or out of the body, and cause troublesome effects. People may also be subject to psychic attack, in the form of spells or curses, or they may be subject to pacts, which they have made in this or in a previous life. These are real phenomena, which must be combated with appropriate measures. Negative thought forms may cause difficulties. They may appear as images symbolising fear, anger, destructiveness and other negative forces. Ireland-Frey (1999) has an approach to thought forms that I find particularly helpful. She uses the Baldwin approach of negotiation. Healing and angelic help are often effective.

Superior spirits, unlike earthbound souls and other lower entities, do not attach to the aura and leach energy. Such higher beings are essential allies in guiding souls to the Light and in healing the effects of spirit attachment. It seems likely that they play a covert role in many healing processes. Angels and spirit guides do not readily communicate during therapy, but they may sometimes do so, when asked. Such cases have been well described by Petrak (1996). It is important to note that lower entities can mimic spirit guides, and may use this method to gain influence and control.

DIAGNOSIS OF SPIRIT ATTACHMENT

Spirit attachment is not a recognised psychiatric diagnosis.

For this there are two reasons:

1. Current systems of psychiatric classification are symptomatological, not aetiological. The term spirit attachment would not be consistent with such a classification.
2. Spirits have no place in the materialistic paradigm of contemporary science.

Of the conditions which are confused with spirit attachment, by far the most important is multiple personality disorder, or dissociative identity disorder, as it has been renamed, in the belief that we understand the psychopathology. I prefer the term, multiple identity, which does not imply such knowledge. These cases are rare and extremely complex. The essential features are:

1. A history of childhood abuse, leading to the presence of distressed child personalities.
2. Two or more adult personalities, which take turns in claiming executive control.

Since these personalities usually have awareness only of their own periods of control, the patient lives a chaotic life. The nature of these adult identities remains open to dispute. The conventional view is that the patient creates them as a way of handling overwhelming distress. A frequent feature is the presence of an Inner Self-helper, which has a truly beneficial effect. One of my patients had an ISH who would tip me off when she was admitted in a suicidal state, for instance, “She’s got some razor blades hidden in her shoe.”

An important differential diagnosis is schizophrenia. It is probable that many of the voices heard by schizophrenic patients are due to attached spirits. It does not follow that attached spirits cause the condition, for they may be able to enter because of the patient’s illness. On the other hand, I think it probable that cases diagnosed as schizophrenic, on the basis of voices alone, start with spirit attachment.

IDENTIFYING AND TYPING THE ATTACHED SPIRIT

Those gifted with clairvoyance may be able to see attached spirits. To others a number of techniques are available for identifying and typing attached spirits:

1. Direct communication between spirit and therapist, via the patient’s voice. This is achieved with the patient in trance, induced either by hypnosis or by following an image or feeling.
2. The therapist works indirectly. To achieve this, therapists may work in pairs, the scanner in an altered state, the facilitator directing the session. The scanner projects part of her consciousness to the patient, who may be at any distance and does not have to be aware of the procedure. After obtaining permission from the patient’s higher self, the scanner makes contact with any attached spirits, which are then able to communicate through her voice, with the facilitator. Some therapists work individually, sometimes making use of a pendulum to communicate. This method has the disadvantage that responses are limited to “Yes” or “No”, but, when used over a specially-drawn chart, may give detailed information..
3. Regressing the patient to a previous life may inadvertently reach an attached spirit. This becomes apparent when the presumed past-life personality fails to go into the Light, as expected. The therapist then asks, “When did you join xxxx?” Of course, it could be that the patient’s soul from a past life attached itself, for a while, to another person. There are many possibilities.

Of the first two methods described, direct work has the advantage that the patient is consciously engaged in the procedure, a desirable state when important changes are undertaken. However it depends upon her acting as her own scanner, a role for which she is not invariably well-suited. The indirect approach has obvious benefits in treating children or others unable to co-operate, and it has the further advantage that an experienced scanner may pick up things of which the patient is ignorant.

With this technique, distance is immaterial, as is the patient’s state of conscious awareness. Therapists should obtain permission from the patient’s higher self when doing such work. When working directly with the patient, uncovering techniques may be employed to check for spirits:

1. The Use of Finger Signals. This is often helpful, since, with the patient in a relaxed state, these are produced unconsciously. Asking, “Is anybody with xxxx?” may bring a positive response, which can be followed with a request to use the patient’s voice for detailed information. A negative response should be followed by, “Is anyone hiding?” Any finger movement in response to this question suggests an entity. A “No” answer can be followed by, “Subconscious mind, did the No come from you?” Engaging a Voice. If the patient hears a voice, it is usually appropriate to engage the voice directly. “What is your name? Are you part of xxxx, or someone else? Did you ever have a human, physical body of your own? What effect have you had on xxxx? Why are you here?” etc. The patient’s voice may change markedly when an entity is communicating. Occasionally a patient will speak a language unlearned and not consciously known to the patient. This is known as xenoglossy and has been reported in detail by Stevenson (1984), both in hypnosis and in normal consciousness. Body Scan. The patient visualises light filling the body and then focuses on any shadowy areas or abnormal sensations. The therapist encourages communication. “If that dark area were to make a sound, what would it be? What has the heavy sensation in the back got to say?”
2. Mirror Scan. Have the patient imagine standing in front of a full-length mirror. Another figure or some unexplained bodily feature will be indicative of spirit attachment.

THERAPY

Having established contact with the earthbound spirit, it is necessary to persuade it to leave. Should there be any reluctance on the part of the patient, host and entity are told that both are being harmed by the attachment, and the matter must be resolved. Should an earthbound spirit be unwilling to leave, several possibilities will have to be considered. The spirit may feel that its presence is necessary to the host, or it may be out to harm, even to kill the host. If discussion fails to mend the situation, it may be that the reluctant spirit is itself the victim of spirit parasitism. Sometimes the entity does not see the Light, or the Light is only dim. This suggests fragmentation. In such a case it is necessary to locate the missing part in order to resolve matters. The entity is encouraged to take with it any other attached spirits. The spirit of a loved one or a spirit guide from the Light is called for. It is necessary to check that these rescuers are indeed who they claim to be.

When the last entity appears to have left, one asks for healing spirits from the Light to remove any residue of thought or feeling, which the foreign entities may have left behind. They must then fill with light the spaces where the entities were. The patient finally performs the Sealing Light meditation, filling the body with golden-white light, which extends an arm’s length beyond the body. Patients are advised to regard themselves as convalescent, to lead a quiet life for a few days and to be prepared for changes in behaviour. They should also do the Sealing Light meditation several times daily.

Spirit release may also be achieved through healing. This has the advantage that it occurs in a very gentle way, usually without the patient’s awareness. A problem here is that the spirit may not be adequately taken care of; it may even attach to the healer. This underlines the great need for all therapists in this or related fields to have adequate protection (see later).

The environment, both human and physical, in which the affected person lives, needs also to be considered in the treatment plan. Other family members may require treatment or the house may need to be cleansed of spirit infestation. Sometimes a portal, allowing spirit entry from another dimension, needs to be closed. The therapist faced with such situations will need to have heightened psychic awareness. Finally, it is essential that the patient’s way of life be examined. Gains will be compromised if the patient leads a life of emotional or material exploitation of others or is seriously addicted.

THE EFFECTS OF TREATMENT

Over the years, I have used spirit release therapy in hundreds of cases. While it can bring dramatic benefit, it is important to make clear at the outset that spirit release is only one aspect of the treatment process, and is rarely sufficient in isolation. To treat schizophrenia with this technique is a major undertaking, since the patient will almost certainly lack the ego strength and clear boundaries necessary for successful treatment. Another problem with schizophrenic patients is that of trust, for they find it very difficult to trust a new therapist, especially one who proposes a spiritual treatment, when for years they have been told that they have a purely biochemical disorder. Shakuntala Modi, author of Remarkable Healings (1997) reports a successful case, in which treatment was first given indirectly, through a relative who attended with the patient. Spirit release has been used successfully in the treatment of sexual deviation. Barlow, Abel & Blanchard (1977) reported the case of a 20-year-old male who had had a strong female orientation from 4 years of age. After careful assessment, he was accepted for a gender reassignment operation. He was on the point of being admitted to hospital when, to please a friend, he underwent an exorcism. This transformed him. He lost all his female behavioural characteristics and no longer wanted the operation. The change had been maintained 2 years later. Fiore has successfully treated a similar case; this can be viewed on Fiore case After only 30 minutes, a female spirit left. The man’s sexual orientation instantly returned to normal and was maintained over a 5-year follow-up.

I have had some failures, especially in the severely mentally-ill, but the great majority of my patients have improved. It is important to stress that, even after spirit release, there is often a need for other treatments, such as soul retrieval, regression and counselling. It is rare for a patient’s condition to be made worse following spirit release therapy. However, when anxiety is a prominent feature, it is necessary to proceed with special care. It is important to distinguish between the fear of the patient, secondary to existential concerns and the fear of an attached spirit, worried about being removed by the therapist.

How can we prove that the beneficial effect of treatment comes from the release of spirits? There is no proof, nor, in the nature of things, can there be. Even detailed verification of information provided by spirits about their bodily lives will not convince the doubters. But because the treatment works, we can claim clinical validity, a concept useful in research.

PROTECTION

The psyche has its own immune system - integrity.

If you have integrity, wholeness of the psyche and personal well-being, then all the little things which might attach to you don’t grab hold, just as the physical body fends off attacks every day. Even so, it is wise for those who practise spiritual therapies to take precautions. Many protective techniques are in use (Hall, 2001). These include awareness of subtle energy, cleansing the aura, protective visualisation and grounding. Crystals, essences and herbs are widely used.

Some people are especially open to spirit interference. They need to avoid any psychic activity. Even something as seemingly harmless as a Tarot reading has been known to induce a wandering spirit to latch on to an individual who is psychically open. Such people and all therapists would do well to arrange a regular scan by a psychic sensitive, in the same way as one might arrange a routine medical check.

THE NEED FOR RESEARCH

Case histories, however dramatic, will never convince the doubters. We need clinical trials. It is necessary to study conditions of long-standing, which do not respond to any known treatment. Persistent auditory hallucinations, transsexualism and paedophilia are examples. How does one go about it? One needs good experimental design, time, money and determination. These are not enough in themselves. Colleagues are understandably wary of getting involved in such “spooky” research. Without their co-operation, where will the research subjects come from? If one succeeds at that hurdle, how would any conventionally oriented ethical committee, conceivably approve? Even then, what reputable journal will publish the results? Fortunately, the climate is changing. The Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists www.rcpsych.ac.uk/college/sig/spirit formed in 1999, has a membership of 675. Under its aegis, research, though not yet research on spirit release, is under way. Prospects are improving steadily

THE FUTURE OF SPIRIT RELEASE

Things are moving. The increasing practice of spirit release and the appearance of books and specialised journals on a wide range of spiritually based therapies augers well for the future. Associations in the USA, Brazil where there are 12,000 Spiritist centres and many Spiritist hospitals, Australia, Continental Europe and Great Britain are in good shape, with training programmes and conferences. There is tremendous energy in this area and we seem to be moving on a tide of planetary changes in human consciousness.

It seems fitting to conclude with a verse by Carl Wickland, inscribed in a presentation copy of his book, Thirty Years Among the Dead.

A PROTECTION PRAYER FOR SOUL DELIVERANCE:

A preparatory statement of Positive Focus for the "non-religious"

(The statement "all that is Good" can be replaced with the word "God" if so desired)

May the pulsating Light of all that is Good - indwell and illuminate me;

May the vibrating Love of all that is Good - enfold and enthuse me;

 May the resonating Power of all that is Good - protect and guide me;

 May the ever-aware Presence of all that is Good -watch over me and deliver me.

For

Below link is the angry response I received when encroaching upon the 'space' of an earthbound female energy - you may possible note the annoyance of this particular discarnate personality upon being disturbed.  Seems 'going to the Light' not an option at this time.

  http://evp-itc-australia.org/doc/01012007Getoutofmyshelter.wav 

In his workshops afterlife explorer Bruce Moen teaches people how to carry out retrievals of those who become stuck after physical death.

It seems it is possible to get stuck for a variety of reasons such as:

A person may die in their sleep and on regaining consciousness in the afterlife, may not realise that they're dead. They may be rather confused when they realise that friends and loved one's, who they can see very clearly, are completely ignoring them and walking right past them.

Sometimes people become stuck if they have died very suddenly and don't realise they have died, or if they have died in a very traumatic way.

Also, what a person believes during physical life can have a great effect on what that person experiences after death. A person who believes utterly that after death there is nothing but complete blackness, emptiness and annihilation may often experience what appears like a deep sleep or dreamless state.

A Gathering of Angelics at my Home

Focus on Physical Reality

A person who has died and becomes stuck usually has their point of focus turned towards physical reality and earthly life. It is therefore often easier for a person who is still physically alive to make contact with them, and move them on to a place that most suits them, than it is for a being from a non-physical realm to assist them directly.

A person that has become stuck after death may often see people in the physical world going about their daily business. However, it can be very difficult for non-physical helpers to make contact with these people who have become stuck after death. The person who is stuck may actually perceive these helpers or non-physical entities as ghosts.

Bruce Moen (and the Monroe Institute's Lifeline Programme mentioned earlier) teaches people how to make contact with someone who has become stuck after death. Once this contact has been established the “stuck” individual may then be introduced to a non-physical helper who can then assist them to move on to their true destination.

Focus Levels

Robert Monroe and the Monroe Institute recorded much information about the various states of human consciousness and named these different states "Focus Levels". Through mapping these different focus states or levels of consciousness, we are in fact mapping the territory of the afterlife

 Map of the Afterlife

Physical Reality

Bob Monroe named this physical reality or state of consciousness as a C1. It contains all that we can see touch and feel with the physical senses. It is this physical reality that we all share. He described this level C1 as a circle with us at its centre.

Focus 22

The next level of consciousness he named Focus 22. Once again, the Monroe Institute describes this level of consciousness as a circle surrounding the the previously mentioned C1 level.

In Focus 22 we may find the consciousness of those who in physical life are in a Coma. Here we can also find the consciousness of those who are under the intoxicating effects of certain types of drugs or alcohol. So, when a person is under the influence of say, hallucinogenic drugs their consciousness is not fully here in this physical reality of the C1 level. So, therefore this Focus 22 is inhabited by those people who are in a coma or those who are very intoxicated. It is possible for someone experienced in reaching this level of consciousness to make contact with those who are comatose.

Focus 23

The next level of consciousness which surrounds Focus 22 is known as Focus 23.

Focus 23 is inhabited by people who have died. However, it is this level of consciousness in which we find those who have become stuck after death. The inhabitants of Focus 23 are usually in a very confused state. Their consciousness is focused towards the physical world of C1 consciousness. They can be very saddened and angered by the fact that those in physical life are completely ignoring them. They are often unaware that they have died.

There may be many attempts by helpers or guides to get the attention of those in Focus 23. Unfortunately however, those residing in Focus 23 may not even see these helpers, or if they do, they may think that there are seeing ghosts. It is therefore often very difficult for those already in the after life to make contact with those in Focus 23 and bring them to a better place. It is this level of consciousness that we visit when we do retrievals.

It is much easier for those still physically alive to make contact with individuals stuck in Focus 23 than it is for beings already in the after life. For those who carry out retrievals, it is their job to make contact with these people stuck in focus 23. If they can get their attention, then they can then introduce them to a helper who will be able to assist them onwards from there.

Focus Levels 24, 25 & 26

The next state of consciousness surrounding Focus 23 is known as The Belief System Territories and is made up of sub levels of Focus 24, Focus 25 and Focus 26.

Belief System Territories

It is in these belief system territories that we find groups of people who have been attracted together by their shared beliefs during physical life. Here we will find the heavens of all the major religions. These Belief System Territories have actually been created by human consciousness and by religious leaders preaching over the centuries about their heavens that their devotees will arrive at after death. Belief is an extremely potent thing. What we believe in life as a massive impact on what we will experience after death. A universal law states that like attracts like. Therefore when we die, unless we get stuck we will move on to to these belief system territories if we have strong religious beliefs.

This level of consciousness, or region of the afterlife is also known as the hollow heavens. People, who arrive in these hollow heavens after death, live according to what has been taught to them during life, as to what to expect in heaven. A person may reside in one of these hollow heavens until a point arrives when they start to notice inconsistencies in the particular doctrines that their religion preaches. At this point, they can no longer resonate with those present in that particular hollow heaven and they will leave and move onwards to a fuller state of being .

Focus 27

Focus 27 is the state of consciousness or after life region where most people arrive when they die, unless they have had a strong religious belief or have got stuck in Focus 23.

The options available to those in Focus 27 are vast. Those residing in Focus 27 are involved in many activities. Some may choose to help those physically alive as a guide or help those stuck in Focus 23 move onwards.

In Focus 27 we will also find people who are recuperating from a painful or difficult physical death, attended by doctors and nurses, just in the manner they might expect. Sometimes, due to a traumatic death, a person may need a period of recuperation before they can take up their new activities in full.

Here we can also find scientists and technicians working on projects, just like here in the physical world, only they have access to vast amounts of information and understanding.

***Electronic Communication with Afterlife***

Although it may sound remarkable, there are scientists working in Focus 27 who are in communication with those in physical life. Some of these scientists in Focus 27 are currently working on projects that will enable two-way communication between those who are physically alive and those who have died, using physical life technology. Although this may appear astounding, much progress has been made. Numerous groups around the world have been receiving messages on computers, audio tape, telephone and even television. Although it may be difficult for you to believe that such things are actually possible, you will hear a lot more about this technology over the next few years.

The 'Other Side' attempt a Soul Retrieval

A Glimpse of Hell
 
Posted on Jan 7th, 2008 by metgat

http://metgat.zaadz.com/blog/2008/1/a_glimpse_of_hell
 

Private Thomas Dowding, a 37-year-old British soldier, was killed on the battlefield in WWI.

On March 12, 1917, he began communicating through the mediumship of  Wellesley Tudor Pole.

After floundering in the ethers, not even realizing he was dead for a time, as time goes on that side, he was met by his brother, William, who had died three years earlier, and began his orientation.

“Hell is a thought region,” Thomas Dowding communicated on March 17, 1917. “Evil dwells there and works out its purposes. The forces used to hold mankind down in the darkness of ignorance are generated in hell! It is not a place; it is a condition. The human race has created the condition.”

Dowding explained that his brother needed help on a rescue mission in what humans call hell. It involved a very depraved soldier who had been killed – a degenerate, a murderer, a sensualist, who died cursing God and man. He was drawn towards hell by the law of attraction. “My brother had been told to rescue him,” Dowding wrote through Pole’s hand. “He took me with him. At first I refused to go.

Then I went…An angel of light came to protect us; otherwise, we should have been lost in the blackness of the pit. This sounds sensational, even grotesque. It is the truth.”

To be safe, Dowding was instructed to empty himself of “self” before undertaking the project. However, he failed to completely empty himself of self and felt a “strange allurement” about the atmosphere and hoped they might stay there. He “felt the giant lust of the human race. They thrilled through me. I could not keep them out…I cannot understand it. Something sensual within me leaped and burned.”

Seeing his attraction to the area, the angel and his brother refused to let him continue. “I waited for their return in what seemed to be a deep dark forest,” Dowding recorded. “There was no life, no light there. One felt stagnation everywhere. The angel said that was the most insidious kind of hell, stagnation, because no one recognized it as such.”

Dowding waited for his brother and the angel to return. “The darkness of the deep forests appals, the loneliness is intense,” he continued. “At last, light is seen ahead. It is not the light of heaven; it is the lure of hell. These poor souls hasten onwards, though not toward destruction; there is no such thing. They hasten down into conditions that are the counterpart of their own interior condition. The Law is at work. This hell is the hell of the illusions and is itself an illusion. I find this hard to credit. Those who enter it are led to believe that the only realities are the sense passions and the beliefs of the human ‘I’.

This hell consists in believing the unreal to be real.

It consists in the lure of the senses without the possibility of gratifying them…Hell, apparently, or that part of it we are speaking about, depends for its existence on human thoughts and feelings.”

Purgatory and hell, Dowding learned, are different states. He was in purgatory. “We all must needs pass through a purging, purifying process after leaving the earth life. I am still in purgatory. Some day I shall rise above it. The majority who come over here rise above or rather through purgatory into higher conditions. A minornity refuse to relinquish their thoughts and beliefs in the pleasures of sin and the reality of the sense life. They sink by the weight of their own thoughts. No outside power can attract a man against his own will. A man sinks or rises through the action of a spiritual law of gravity.”

And so it was that his brother and the angel failed in their rescue mission. “He would not come away,” Dowding communicated. “

They had to leave him there.

Fear held him. He said his existence was awful, but he was afraid to move for fear worse conditions befell. Fear chained him. No outside power can unchain that man. Release will come from within some day.”

Dowding returned to the Hall of Silence to ponder what he had just witnessed, determined not to return. 

I seem to have become a 'conduit' for earthbound spirits who are 'mindset bound' to this physical realm. 
 
This has been communicated to me through various images and audio contacts - and I believe this may have been activated through developing a high tolerance level to various emotional stresses as a result of spending many years in the funeral scene. 
 
I seem to have become a ' human catalyst '  for some kind of  'rescue' work for discarnate souls who have problems 'transitioning' from this physical realm into the fuller life of spirit.
 
As my day progresses I begin to become aware of a gradual 'collective heaviness' and I experience moments of 'disassociated' depression, frustration and anguish that is being experienced by various entities who are 'trapped' within their 'physical condition'. 
 
At night, following rest and often vivid dreaming about various people experiencing varying degress of human discomfort, I wake up lighter and refreshed with no after affect.
 
It seems I have a 'rescue crew' who assist with this 'soul transference' when I am sleeping.

http://evp-itc-australia.org/doc/29072006Weveadvancedfourpersons-itsbeenalongnight-weshallfasttrackthem.wav

A message from my Spiritual Support Group in a rather melodic group harmonic advising me that they have advanced four souls after a long night and they have been 'fasttracked!'

Reincarnation - a possibility!

Whatever activity we choose on arriving in Focus 27, there may comes a point where we decide to return to physical life in order to grow more fully or help others grow or even bring a wonderful new invention into physical reality.

There are also other Focus Levels, but it is not necessary to cover these here.

A Meditation to assist in the Deliverance of Lost and Wayward Souls

"May the Vibrant Light of Universal Truth and the Protection of my Guides – illuminate my mind and direct my soul

May the Guiding Light of Universal Love and the Protection of my Guides – inform my mind and guide my soul;

May the Resonating Light of Universal Goodness and the Protection of my Guides – focus my mind and uplift my soul;

May the Loving Light of Universal Blessing and the Protection of my Guides – infuse my being and deliver my soul.

For - All is well.   - And all shall be well    - and all manner of things shall be well."

(You will need to Centre yourself through the stilling of your mind by letting go of any thoughtful distraction)

My thoughts are now directed to all those discarnate energies gathered here – discarnate energies residing in this place - or energies who have travelled to this place –  energies who are perhaps feeling lost, confused, restless or who feel they have unfinished business in the physical world - or energies who have been unaware of their changed state of being.

I recognise your situation.  You need despair no longer – If you recognise my presence - I assure you that you now have a choice – a choice to recommence your soul’s journey into the higher and lighter realms of existence – or a choice to stay in your current situation.

It is a free will choice – and to move on - you will need to acknowledge and accept the reality that you have ‘died’ to your physical nature.

You are now living as discarnate personal energy and still attached to the earth plane.

You will need to accept responsibility –and name to yourself - any ties to the physical that may be holding you back – and then give yourself permission to move on beyond your current entrapment– releasing yourself from the binding limitation of all physical attachment.

NOW

Having come to terms with your situation –

Become aware of your current surroundings – and as you do so - you will begin to notice an immediate change of light intensity about you …..

You begin to notice that your resonating frequency is slowly increasing and you begin to feel lighter and more vibrant.

The Light grows stronger and brighter around you - moment by moment – pulse by pulse.

You now feel yourself being drawn towards its brightness, its warmth and its brilliant comforting presence.

Loved Ones, Guides and Helpers are waiting to welcome you.

They will help you to understand and accept whatever issues may have held you back in your progression.

Peace of Mind and clarity of purpose await you

You will experience unconditional love and non-judgmental acceptance.

Go to the Light!

Peace be with you!

Spirit Rescue: A Simple Guide to Talking with Ghosts and Freeing Earthbound Souls
By Wilma Davidson
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (November 2006)
Pages: 280 - Price: $12.95



This is a lively introduction to the spirit world, and readers of the paranormal will find reading this nonfiction work a delightful experience! This book covers a lot of territory, and covers it well. Ghosts, animal spirits, non-human entities, spirit rescue work, near-death experiences, angels, spiritual healing, psychic protection, astral travel portals, dowsing, geopathic stress, and reincarnation are among the topics shared with the reader.

Essentially, Spirit Rescue offers sound, practical advice for any reader wishing to develop his or her own psychic and healing abilities. This book is definitely worth your time!

Following an invigorating introduction, the first chapter discusses reincarnation. The second chapter is about astral travel. Other chapters cover earthbound spirits, spirit rescues, and information to excite the reader's imagination. Well-written, the book never lags!

The index is concise and helpful. The resources section is full of helpful references.

Those readers interested in the aura will find helpful information. Channeling is covered. Some interesting comments on the Ouija Board are given. Those interested in healing aspects will find much good reading. Wilma Davidson is sincere in her writing and it comes across honestly, and in a helpful manner.

This is a book that will find a ready audience. Well-crafted, it is enjoyable reading. Wilma Davidson is to be congratulated on an excellent book concerning the world of spirit and spirit rescue. If you like books that reveal how to talk with ghosts and helping to free earthbound spirits, this is a fine one.