Dealing with Dark Forces

It seems timely to raise this topic as we witness the release of the latest Stars Wars movie, given it focuses on Anakin Skywalker, who is turned to the dark side by the evil empire and becomes the dark lord Darth Vader. It is good thatb people will be discussing the nature of the temptation and consequence of seeking power and control over others in the coming months as they see the movie. It is worth noting that Anakin had great gifts, as well as obvious weaknesses. His unresolved anger, pride, impatience and ambition were lying dormant ready to be aggravated by later events. The seeds of our undoing can lie dormant until fate allows them to sprout. This is why I have a healthy awareness and respect for my weaknesses and now welcome it when friends and mentors point them out to me. It is important that we learn to stomach such criticism.

t was not until I had some first hand experience of the dark brothers that I came to accept the existence of those who wish to destroy that which is good, beautiful and true within us. Until then I thought you just had bad people, but afterwards I realised that you have beings of various types who work on the subtle levels, just as do the adepts of our system. They are the personification of chaos and perversity.

Once while doing a group meditation I was focussing for a short time on each energy centre, something I had done without event many times before. However, on this occasion, as I focussed on each centre, I saw images of a shark and other aggressive creatures coming at me and attacking me. This was strange and didn’t abate until I opened my eyes at the end of the meditation.

Then as we did the Sacred Dance I saw this dark hooded figure try to enter the circle.  After the dance I mentioned this to my mentor and he said he had seen the dark brother too and he then asked me whom I had been associating with in recent months?  Somewhat taken aback by this, I then remembered I had been at a healing seminar some months before where we had been doing psychic protection practices. 

During a break in proceedings a woman had come up to me and asked me if she could sit next to me, because she was being attacked by someone else in the audience. I agreed but wondered what on earth was going on and whether she was paranoid or what! Then as the next session started I began to have these “crazy’ thoughts enter my mind, as if suddenly I was having a psychotic episode. This lasted a couple of minutes and I dealt with it by directing love and light to the source (unknown) of the attack. 

This is the sort of feeling you can get during a psychic attack. One moment your mind is clear like a lucid blue sky and the next it is as if a sudden psychic storm has arisen.  It isn’t that hard to discern that it has been directed at you from outside your own energy field, it is (hopefully) too sudden and unlike your typical state of mind. That is unless you are intoxicated or in some way unclear in your mind. it is important to know that psychic attacks can also be very subtle and work through growing doubt and negativity.

So I realised that it was this same character who had now turned up at the retreat and who was trying to freak me out. I have no doubt, and I speak as a psychologist with many years counselling experience with young people, that we risk obsession and possession, if we dabble in the black arts or hang out with people who do. There needs to be zero tolerance of such things if we hope to have happy lives and develop our spirituality.  Drugs, alcohol, excessive sexuality, the typical vices,  are all entry points for negative entities to attach themselves to us. 

Later in the retreat it became clear that the Brothers had allowed this sad creature to get through to me in order to test my ability to withstand his attacks. I don’t mind admitting that this event put the wind up me, and it was only by then taking a position of complete fearlessness that I was able to deal with it. As such beings feed on fear, greed, anger and delusion it becomes important to take a stance of love towards them and to direct pure white light from the brow and rose pink unconditional love from the heart centre towards the source of any attack you experience. Continue to effortlessly direct this energy each time you experience some disturbance in order to neutralise it. Also be firm and tell them to go away, as you would speak to a large and aggressive dog. Being darkened, deluded and some having no souls, they can’t stand the Light and will eventually be put off by the efforts you make. If they are not, you should seek out expert help in order to deal with them.

It is not good to focus on such issues for long, but in the world today these energies are rampant and with the media encouraging violence, promiscuity and the whole mix of materialistic strife, we need a routine that daily innoculates us against such forces.  Physical exercise, healthy diet and enough sleep can help long before the need for more extreme measures. Grounded meditation that links us to higher energy sources that allow greater love to flow into our lives are also a daily need.

I recently expressed some concern to a friend about a group she was involved in, because I knew of psychic attacks that had been generated by the leader of that group on another friend of mine. Whether or not she heeds that concern may colour her future. Either way I hope she recognises my concern as an expression of goodwill. It would be easy to remain silent on such matters but that would be tantamount to abandonment.   

There is an excellent article by Torkom Saraydarian on psychic attacks and how to deal with them and if it is a problem for you, I would recommend reading it. Psyche and Psychism. Volume 1, Psychic Attacks, Page 413.

To quote two of the most relevant sections:

“An aspirant invites psychic attack when he: 

Enters into the path of spiritual unfoldment.

1. Weakens his etheric, emotional and mental vehicles.
2. Cuts his relations with spiritual ideas and beauties or with his Teacher.
3. No longer absorbs the Spatial Fires or psychic energy because of disorders in his head and heart centres.
4. Forces himself into excessive activity because of his pride and vanity, overstimulating his centres and vehicles
5. Lives a life that wastes his energy through excessive sex, alcohol, cigarettes and various drugs, or when he is caught by venereal disease.
6. Chooses to follow the left-hand path through idle speech, lying, hatred, jealousy, negativity, separativeness, fanaticism, exploitation and possessiveness; by expressing greed and anger, committing crimes and turning his face to the past.

Who are the attackers that take advantage of these practises?

1. Very low level spirits who perhaps were or will be human beings.
2. Those who were killed in battle or in the criminal world.
3. Suicides.
4. Those totally enslaved by various vices on earth.
5. Those totally engulfed in materialism.
6. Those who were very doubtful about immortality, and who had no faith in the continuation of life after death.
7. Animals that were slaughtered.
8. Those whose Solar Angels have left them.  
9. Astral shells, drawn to a person because of some affinity or relationship.
10. Thought-forms, glamours, illusions.
11. Dark forces, or brothers on the left-hand path.

We really have reached the point where we are all having to make choices about whom we mix with, whether we allow emotionalism in any of its expressions to dominate us, what ideas and desires we encourage in our minds and what we aspire to in terms of lifestyle, associations and so on.

There is a need to be vigilant, lest we trip and fall by the wayside.