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Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'


Presented here is information that briefly describes the nature and activities of troublesome non-physical entity-like manifestations (often called dark beings, dark entities, astral beings, astral entities, demons, demonic entities and astral lords, astral overlords or archons) that are interfering with every human regardless of whether or not they are aware of that interference or believe in the existence of such influences or 'entities'.

Not only can the astral or 'dark' forces cause untold misery and suffering for some individuals, but pretty well universally they have been covertly controlling people, often in apparently small ways, and diverting them away from effective and direct means to enlightenment and self realization, and towards power/control agendas, in order to gain control and domination over people in a most pernicious and insidious manner.

The understandings given here of the likely nature and origin of these troublesome manifestations give us real possibilities for disempowering them and indeed theoretically eventually eliminating them from the whole of Existence as we know it.

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Related pages: For the sake of completeness I link here to the writings which prompted me towards establishing my current insights into the modus operandi of the astral forces and the pernicious illusory nature of supposed higher realities and higher beings, but I caution that I cannot actually recommend the particular person's writings, because he himself shows clear signs of significant astral entity interference, even while proclaiming against it all, and he puts out a highly problematical, even (to me) paranoid-seeming campaigning stance and 'energy' which further distort his already quite distorted 'message'. I refer you also to his behaviour relating to me which I recount in The Guide to Complete Self Realization, which shows that he is currently far from having the degree and depth of awareness which he appears to believe that he has.


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What are astral entities?

The term 'entity' in this context is equivalent to 'non-physical being' - or rather, that is how it is generally understood, and how I had been taking it till very recently. Such presences are apparently discrete autonomous consciousnesses without physical bodies. However, emphasis must go on 'apparently', because many supposed entities are, according to my current understanding, not consciousnesses at all but merely thought form complexes that behave in autonomous ways as though they were consciousnesses.

Although discarnate human consciousnesses that have for some reason failed to 'pass on', and also what most people would recognise as ghosts, would be included in the term 'entity', our primary concern here is with a different though not completely unrelated phenomenon - what many people regard as 'entities' or beings in what they call the astral level of reality / of consciousness (bearing in mind that a clear and undistorted perception of reality sees consciousness and all that it perceives as not being separate), and is commonly called 'the astral plane' or 'the astral dimension'. I myself prefer to call it the astral sub-reality, for that is less open to highly problematical misinterpretations.

I discuss the likely true nature and origin of astral 'entities' at the end of this article, and, as you will see there, it is actually almost certain that they are really not at all what we have been thinking they are, and are not true consciousnesses or even discrete, theoretically countable entities, at all.

People with 'psychic' perceptions or who channel 'information' from non-physical sources have very widely come up with variants of a model of 'reality' that splits it into a number (commonly 13) of levels or 'dimensions', giving the physical level as being the 3rd dimension, with the 4th commonly being called the astral dimension and the 9th being the place where all the angels and archangels hang out. However, as I now only too well understand, ALL such scenarios and stories are bogus - inventions of the interfering astral forces, which mediate in ALL channelling done by ANYONE, and similarly mediate in ALL supposedly clairvoyant perceptions.

The actual situation appears to be as follows. We are basically consciousness that is going through the experience of seeming to be in a physical body in a physical 'reality'. The deepest aspects of each of us as consciousness are very subtle and are actually the all-pervading 'universal' consciousness, which I am calling fundamental consciousness (I'm trying to remember not to use the definite article with that term, because it is even less a 'thing' than water or air or 'space' is).

When we become enlightened we perceive directly that deepest and most fundamental reality and recognise it as our true nature and identity. That level of consciousness is non-dual and apparently totally devoid of concepts, and thus within it you can't say that anything exists or not; you simply experience. This is the consciousness out of which all experiences arise but, however, that fundamental consciousness remains pure, unsullied and apparently concept-free no matter what you are experiencing.


Getting clear about what 'astral' means

There appears to be another broad, non-physical aspect of consciousness or reality, which is strongly dualistic and conceptual and thus very different from fundamental consciousness and yet which is not that of our worldly or physical awareness. It is this that I am calling the astral sub-reality, and which the troublesome astral forces (whatever their true nature) have got people to divide up into 'dimensions' and all manner of supposed 'higher' realities. I myself had 'bought' the story of all these 'dimensions' of higher reality, but it never matched up with my direct perception of myself as simply a manifestation or micro-facet of fundamental consciousness - in which perception of specific levels or dimensions of 'higher' reality simply didn't make sense, and neither did the notion of higher beings, because I as an Earthly human was already a manifestation of 'the Ultimate', so, where is room for beings that are 'higher' than me?

So, although it could sound more familiar for me to talk of the astral 'level' or 'dimension', really it would be most helpful always to talk of the astral sub-reality instead.

The astral sub-reality is the aspect of reality into which we project all our illusions, beliefs and distorted perceptions. Each illusion or belief that we create or pick up creates an illusory reality or astral realm within the astral sub-reality. The astral forces ('astral entities') ruthlessly exploit that fact for their seriously nefarious purposes as I shall explain further below.

Please note something important here - of especial importance to put psychiatric workers in their place and get them thinking awarely about their own situation. A delusion is an illusion that is believed. Indeed, if you stop and awarely think about it, every held belief of anybody's is a delusion. If something is really true, there's no Earthly cause to hold a belief about it anyway. So, if you are, for example, a psychiatric worker and believe that there is no non-physical reality and that entities and so forth are just 'imagination' or creations of people's sick minds, then you yourself have a delusion right there in holding that belief. A favourite delusion of psychiatric workers is the notion that so-called mental health issues can usefully be addressed by means of medication and ECT rather than finding and addressing the underlying causes. So, when a psychiatric worker talks of another person as 'having delusions', with no reference to any delusions of his/her own, (s)he is actually saying something absurdly funny!

A fully open, belief-free mind is the only helpful way forward.

...Now, with fully open and belief-free minds, let us continue...


How do we know that these 'entities' aren't just part of our minds?

Actually, we don't, and can never, know for sure that they aren't just part of our minds. But I say this in the context that when we look at all our life experience with a truly clear mind we realize that we cannot absolutely know anything. All we ever can do is work on the basis of how things appear to be - preferably with open and aware minds so that we can respond flexibly according to the new perceptions and insights that arise from time to time. You cannot absolutely know that the Sun isn't a hippopotamus, but in practice you live your life on the basis of your observations on how things appear to be plus your most helpful interpretations of your observations.

The point here is that the astral 'entities' (in many but actually not all ways) behave and interact with us as though they are separate, discrete entities or beings, and in my own very hard experience with them, for most purposes treating them as though they are something separate from myself, and 'not me', has been an essential part of my handling and mastering my situation with them and clearing out their interferences and influence - so why go denying what appears to be the case? To do so would be a bit like people still insisting that the Earth is flat and that there must be some other explanation for all the evidence that points to its being roughly spherical. Maybe somebody's yet going to convince us that the sun really is a hippopotamus! Let's get cracking right now, gathering up all the masses of evidence for that!

Indeed, I see the common tendency of people to claim that 'entity' troubles are just creations of one's own mind as being the result of the astral forces interfering with those very people who make such claims, to give them that belief in order to obstruct any move to recognise their own interference from the astral forces and to get those people putting pressure on other people to turn away from properly addressing their 'entities' issues.


All the different types of interfering entity...

That's a joke, that is - me listing here all the alleged types of entity! Yes, there may well be a wide range of types of these supposed entities, but if I knew them and were to list them all, this page would probably be longer than my right arm and the other one and both my legs too! And really the point is, as far as I can tell, all of the alleged types of entities are inventions. The astral forces or 'entities' constantly seek to give us 'story' - illusory realities - and for the extremely pernicious purpose which I'll go into further below.

In my own experience the astral forces had been behaving as though several different types of entity had been interacting with me, but nowadays I recognise all that as irrelevant to any constructive purpose. They will give particular people impressions of demons, angels, guides, 'dark overlords', God or whatever suits their agenda in interfering with and misleading the particular people.

As I now understand, there is really bound to be some sort of command chain within the astral sub-reality, but that command chain would not be between actual conscious beings, and I've let go of any notion now of there being astral overlords (so-called archons) and even some supreme 'dark' being (perhaps one that you could call Satan!) that runs the 'dark' show. Actually the very notion of a supreme conscious being that runs 'the dark side' always made supreme nonsense to me, because of the very nature of consciousness itself.

It's important, thus, that we do NOT get fixated on any 'story' about astral 'entities' and their background as any sort of 'reality' or 'truth'. The healthiest and most problem-free approach is to build the simplest and most basic working model of what's going on, which helps us for healing and self realization purposes, and to let go of the picture otherwise because we can never know what is true in the astral sub-reality. Indeed, the astral sub-reality is the level of illusion anyway, so it's meaningless to go talking of anything being 'true' there! For the same reason, it's also meaningless to go talking of real conscious beings there (i.e. at most there can be only distorted replicas of them).

I list below a reasonable selection of purported types or manifestations of the astral forces as 'entities' of which I'm aware - not by any means an exhaustive list - for the purpose of setting off some alarm bells.

And I can well imagine that some individuals will find some inner alarm bells start ringing here as they begin to realize something of the predicament of their favourite guru who claims to channel from, consort with, bring healing from, or to be an incarnation of any of the following. ALL the following, and indeed ALL non-physical entities or supposed beings that manifest to us in any way are apparently simulations created by the astral forces as lures for us - though astral programmed lost souls may in some instances (such as some 'guides' and supposed 'departed relatives') also be involved, as intermediaries.

I shall explain further below how it is that the astral forces, with a seriously troublesome agenda, can create the impression of being higher beings uttering what appear at first glance to be tremendously wise, 'enlightened' and loving things.

Our little astral 'chamber of horrors'

The following list is little more than 'off the top of my head', and so really is just a selection to give you some idea of the range of purported entity types and personae which may be presented to people. None of them is benign, regardless of how they present themselves.


The well known 'bad' or at least dubious guys

Variously described as good and bad

The supposed good guys - the real can of worms!

What on earth do we make of all this?

Actually you can take heart, because what I'm pointing to is a great simplification of approach, for, despite what you may have been told from other quarters, it's much, much better NOT to concern yourself about different types of troublesome entity, because for healing and self realization purposes it's greatly more effective not to engage with any apparently external entities at all, and so we actually have no need to know anything about them (not even whether they're supposedly good or bad guys!), except for having overall knowledge of the astral forces' seriously troublesome agenda and the sort of tricks and deceptions they put on, so that we can progressively get ourselves free from their interference and influence.

Indeed, as I found out myself the hard way, the more you get into 'story' about different types of these supposed entities, the more you are opening yourself to them, and the more 'story' they will give you to lead you astray.

Although it may initially look horrifically scary to suddenly realize that there are really no Archangel Michael or other higher beings to protect or assist you in dealing with 'entity' problems, actually this is really part of some truly great news and the beginning of the solution of those problems, for the point is that people have almost universally - again thanks to being led astray by the astral forces - been looking in the wrong direction for their protection and truly supportive strength, which is immensely greater and closer at hand than any postulated archangel. That's where we unequivocally turn to our own core essence -  fundamental consciousness or 'the Ultimate' itself - to start doing the real clearance work and get functioning as our real protection. What better starting point for that process than The Guide to Complete Self Realization?

So, now that I've reduced the supposed whole unwholesome menagerie of astral or dark entities that interfere with us to simply 'the astral forces' (really better described as 'the astral garbage', as will become apparent much further below), we can deal with them all as a single issue and can focus much better on the real task at hand, which is to clear ourselves from their interferences.


The astral agenda

Forewarned is forearmed! What you are about to read here is not pleasant, and may indeed frighten you. I don't at all enjoy writing such things, and do not want to frighten anyone, except in that here I'm actually giving out important information that assists us in becoming truly effective in clearing ourselves of astral interference and influence. You NEVER resolve an issue or problem by running away from it or by whistling in the dark, hoping it's not really like that.

Let me say now that I am NOT putting forward the following scenario as 'fact' or 'truth', because NOBODY on Planet Earth can know anything as objective 'fact' or 'truth' in any postulated non-physical reality - whether or not they are supposedly enlightened. The scenario that I'm about to put forward is nothing more than a working model or theory, which best explains my own observations of the ways in which the astral forces are interfering with people (I have masses of first-hand experience of this), and which points us to the most effective means of healing ourselves and clearing from ourselves all astral ('dark') interference and influence.

The following scenario is similar in some respects to that given by Steve Gamble in his Shopping for Spirit, Chapter 9, but there are very significant differences too, and I am seeking to keep it to essentials and avoiding as far as possible being sensationalist or evangelist about it as he seems to be. Steve appears to have some problems himself with astral-sourced interference in the information that he presents, so it's important not to get involved with or attached to it as he seems to have done. He presents it all as though it is reality, and by doing that he's helping to create yet another harmful illusory reality or astral realm which could cause him and many others great trouble.

As I say, the healthy way forward is to see this as just a working model to use for healing and self realization purposes, and which is best let go of as any categorical description of reality (but not actually disbelieved, for that would would be a belief in its own right and cause its own serious problems). As I've said before, a fully open, belief (and disbelief) free mind is the basis of any truly helpful way forward.


The bits we'd rather not know about...

In various places on this site I've mentioned the astral forces' blind fixation on power / control agendas, and that they unremittingly seek control and domination over humans and to divert them from true 'enlightenment' (what I'm calling the gaining of fundamental clarity) and self realization. Just why the astral forces or astral 'entities' are like this, nobody knows. Many traditions and individuals have their beliefs, generally based on channelled information (often via esoteric teachings), which, as I repeatedly point out, has actually come at least in part from the astral forces themselves and so needs to be steered well clear of. Some say that the formation of the whole 'dark side' was an essential part of the differentiation of the Cosmos at the supposed event of Creation - while others claim that this apparent 'dark side' was not intended by the alleged Creator Consciousness but formed as a result of a small 'accident' at the very beginning of differentiation at the time of the supposed Creation.

But, as I say, whatever any ultimate truth, all such stories need to be discarded as unverifiable, and it's best for us to keep a completely open mind on such matters - even though much further below I outline what appears to be a much more helpful, belief-free understanding of their origin and true nature.

To understand what the astral forces are up to, as far as I can establish it at the moment, we need to understand a few very basic principles / issues.


The true nature of the human soul, and how it relates to reincarnation

Contrary to almost universally held belief among healers, mystics, psychics and 'New Age' movements, the most aware and 'wise' humans, who are all strong healers and have potential to quickly reach enlightenment, are NOT old souls who have evolved over very many soul incarnations, but are direct incarnations of fundamental consciousness itself, without souls!

I have now come to understand that, contrary to almost universal belief on the subject, the soul is nothing more than a dysfunctional or pathological manifestation, and that a truly well functioning person, has instead of a soul a pure continuum of consciousness extending between fundamental consciousness and the conceptual, conscious mind - the soul being defined actually by an obstructive 'level' of programming and fixed or rigid preconceptions lying between the person's 'mind' and fundamental consciousness and thus distorting and indeed disrupting the continuum of consciousness.

Furthermore, if pure, 'no soul' incarnations manage to keep sufficiently clear of astral interferences, at death they would NOT go to any supposed 'Light', nor go anywhere, but would undergo a transition that is almost universally but highly misleadingly called 'recombination with Source'. This term is misleading, because it implies that they'd become separate from a supposed source in the first place - an astral-sourced distortion of the real state of affairs. What really happens for such a person upon death is that their Earthly and physical experiences would simply cease. However, the fundamental identity - in other words the core essence or fundamental 'I'- of the person would remain intact as a micro-aspect of fundamental consciousness, in a state of peaceful harmony and clarity as naked awareness. Nothing in this transition is about light nor Light. It is about fundamental clarity.


Reincarnation the healthy way - 'as Nature intended'!

When a person has reverted to fundamental consciousness, that micro-aspect of fundamental consciousness that the person represented can then at some point incarnate again - but with no soul. Yes, when we incarnate and die 'as Nature intended', there is no such thing as a soul. And, what's more, each of these incarnations is non-karmic*. That is, it carries absolutely no burden of repercussions from whatever went on in any of its other such incarnations. It is liable to accumulate karmas during the present lifetime, but carries nothing from previous lifetimes. The person arrives, then, 'with a clean slate', initially with no emotional issues, no karmas, and is potentially a radiantly powerful and positive being. Even with a certain accumulation of emotional issues caused by unaware parents and other adults and peers, such people could quickly become enlightened and indeed optimally self realized - yet in the 'real world' this is not happening, at least as far as I can tell.

* This is because it is in the soul that karmas accumulate. Your core essence - your true nature and identity - never gains any sort of trauma or karma.

So, what, then, is preventing these no-soul people from manifesting in this way?

The primary answer is that at birth the astral forces send to each no-soul human a number of degraded, 'lost' human souls, which had become stuck with part of their awareness trapped in the astral sub-reality and are no longer incarnating. These 'lost' souls attach parasitically to the new human and are programmed and controlled by the astral forces.

Without such attached lost souls, a no-soul human or indeed to a fair extent a first or second-time soul-incarnated human would be almost invulnerable to overt, gross interferences from the astral forces. This is because the latter control people by the use of a sort of psychic attack, skillfully manipulating emotional stress / trauma material that the person is carrying, and such no-soul or little soul-reincarnated people have little or no such material that the astral forces can use. The latter can still interfere by putting little messages (pseudo-thoughts) into their minds, but as long as they keep really well grounded they would most often recognise such thoughts as 'not mine' or indeed as just mental 'noise', and filter them out.

Such people, then, would be fully or almost invulnerable to astral or entity attacks (unless they were carrying some major trauma from earlier in their life - but that would still be relatively limited 'ammunition' for the astral forces' purposes), but would not be fully invulnerable to interference through having pseudo-thoughts intruded into their minds. However, if they become enlightened and continue their self realization well beyond that, then they could become virtually invulnerable even to that sort of interference.


The parasitic 'lost souls' and their bleak existence

What enables the astral forces to break through the relative invulnerability of no-soul people, and others who haven't yet had more than one or two previous soul incarnations, is the presence of the already mentioned parasitic 'lost' souls attached to the person at 'soul level'. For no-soul incarnations, 'soul level' would be the aspect or 'level' of consciousness where the soul-defining distortions and programming would be inserted if those individuals got ensnared by the astral forces.

These lost souls are ones that an extremely long time ago had incarnated as no-soul people themselves but had been ensnared or lured into the astral forces' agenda for them - often though not necessarily through religions and so-called spiritual paths, which all lead to one's creating illusory realities, which the astral forces had deceitfully presented as higher realities or indeed bogus versions of 'enlightenment'. These illusory realities or astral realms manifested to the people when they died, diverting them from the peaceful reversion into fundamental consciousness, and causing the consciousness thus to be trapped with part of its awareness stuck in an astral realm in the astral sub-reality, while the astral forces then by various means create distortions and insert programming into a particular aspect or 'level' of the consciousness to create the 'soul'.

At that stage the consciousness might subjectively experience the bogus 'higher reality' in which the once-alive person believed, such as 'ascension' into a non-physical 'heaven' (exactly what is most likely to happen for all the people currently believing in 'ascension' into the so-called - and indeed fictional - 5th dimension), or undergo hellish experiences, because within the astral sub-reality of illusion and delusion the delusion of a severe, punitive externally administered karma is alive and kicking (so to speak!). Even if they are apparently in some sort of beautiful 'heaven', they will become gradually conditioned to accept power / control hierarchies - seeing power hierarchies of, say, angelic beings, as being the Highest Order (i.e. instead of fundamental consciousness).

This achieves two main things: the beginning of the programming of these trapped no-soul consciousnesses to accept control within and from the astral sub-reality, and to progressively close down their awareness of their true nature as manifestations of fundamental consciousness - 'the Ultimate' - so that increasingly they perceive themselves as separate from 'source', and they perceive the astral sub-reality of illusion as the highest reality, together with all its control agendas, and its replacement of love with fear. This process - the creation and then cultivation and strengthening of the soul - is, generally speaking, slow and progressive, occurring over many reincarnations of the unfortunate hijacked consciousness. Each incarnation of its soul will contain a further increment in its accumulation of emotional stresses / traumas and other karmas, and these together with new increments of programming from the astral forces result in each successive incarnation being less aware and more shut-down than the previous one.

So, as noted, all this programming and accumulation of karmas (including traumas) is what goes into that aspect of consciousness that defines the soul. Thus, over the sequence of reincarnations, the soul becomes progressively stronger and more constraining to the person's awareness, so that the person is increasingly defined by the soul and decreasingly defined by his/her true qualities as a manifestation of fundamental consciousness.

It is helpful to understand that soul incarnations are still incarnations of fundamental consciousness, but, you could say, indirectly so. Indeed, they would best be regarded as pathological sub-incarnations of the original no-soul incarnation, because, from the viewpoint of fundamental consciousness, that is exactly what they are. 

So, contrary to widespread belief, the most unaware individuals are generally NOT incarnations of new, unevolved souls, but are of OLD souls who are actually advanced on a downward 'spiral' of degradation and being changed progressively into automatons who will be at the beck and call of the astral forces.

At a certain advanced point in that process the trapped soul ceases to incarnate and remains trapped by its attachment to its illusions within the astral sub-reality. It is then further degraded and programmed to transform it into a sort of parasitic 'husk' of a soul that is ruthlessly controlled by the astral forces in order to get it to attach to an incarnated human soul and be used as a weapon and instrument of control upon that person.

Healthy - no tampering
An abundant, active, creative, basically happy and healthy life
Pre-incarnation Incarnation
 Post-incarnation
(further incarnations are non-sequential and non-karmic)
(no soul - just a continuum
of consciousness)
Fundamental consciousness - clarity, harmony

The norm - hijacking by the astral ('dark') forces
Great potential right arrowIncreasingly 'normal', unaware and uninteresting people right arrow Not incarnated
Pre-incarnation Incarnation
(legitimate)		 Sub(1)right arrow ... right arrow
(many
sequential)		 Sub(n)right arrow (one BIG problem!)
 Post-incarnation
(tremendously delayed)
(continuum) Soul, giving rise to sequential, karmic incarnations (actually sub-incarnations) Parasitic
lost soul		 Non-sequential, non-karmic incarnations are now possible once more
(Just one incarnation that got hijacked)
Fundamental consciousness - clarity, harmony



The parasitic 'lost' souls as weapons and instruments of control

Once a no-soul person has such parasitic 'lost' souls attached to him, he experiences any emotional issues / traumas and karmas of those 'lost' souls as if they were his own. These cause health issues, various misfortunes, all manner of obstacles towards enlightenment and self realization, and restimulated painful emotions (triggered by particular situations or people) which are actually not his own, and so lives a life that is very much as though he has accumulated all these issues over reincarnations of his own. He will have all manner of impressions, 'resonances' and even actual memories from earlier lifetimes (which may be experienced directly or revealed in so-called past-life regression), which belong to particular attached parasitic human 'lost souls' and not genuinely to himself at all.

For no-soul people in particular this commonly causes a great deal of confusion and bewilderment, because as they have not yet had their awareness shut down, they are very open to their feelings and inner impressions, and may be plagued with exaggerated emotional feelings in response to everyday life situations. This can readily lead to being diagnosed as mentally ill - all the more so because no-soul people tend to be the most poorly grounded, and many feel acutely the sense of isolation and separation from 'source' that is embedded within the attached 'lost' souls' trauma feelings.

This inner confusion and even torment tends to be greatly accentuated by the responses to them from the majority of people, who have had many soul reincarnations and whose awareness is well shut down. These latter people regard no-soul or little reincarnated people as a bit weird, flaky, 'not quite all there', and so on, because these many-times-incarnated people have no awareness of their deeper aspects and cannot understand anyone who has such awareness and has much more vivid life experience (including suffering) than they do.

This all puts pressure upon especially the no-soul people, as they are so much more 'open' and vulnerable, to feel that there is something wrong with them and to try by various means to shut their awareness down. Alcohol, smoking, use of so-called recreational drugs such as cannabis (or indeed any of the other drugs available out there on the street) and getting put onto psychiatric medication are among the means which such people commonly try to shut off their awareness in order to dull their sense of confusion and suffering. They are also strongly 'nudged' or manipulated by the astral forces into following such routes.


...Used as instruments of control

However, the attachment of the parasitic 'lost' souls is not just a matter of a passive parasitism, for the astral forces actually manipulate the stored emotional traumas of the parasitic souls, usually in covert ways, in order to indirectly manipulate and control the affected person. Normally this is done together with putting into the person's mind certain pseudo-thoughts.

For example, while I was writing this section a little earlier on, I broke off to register the new domain name clarity-of-being.org to use for this website. The astral forces had been interfering with me and attacking me a lot while I was putting information on this site such as is on this page - for clearly it's just the sort of thing that they'd be trying to stop me doing. On this occasion, when I checked the domain name for availability and was about to order it from my hosting company, I suddenly had an urge to do an Internet search for "clarity of being" to see if there might be confusions caused by my using that name.

When I got the listing and saw various references to "clarity of being", I was assaulted with nightmarishly strong feelings of self doubt and strong messages were coming supposedly from within my mind that I was doing the wrong thing and going to make a complete mess of everything, and that I'd got to get this right but couldn't, and it was all falling apart, and that the astral forces had now 'got' me - a nightmarish sort of feeling. I did actually defer ordering the domain name (by about an hour) just so that I could re-check within my deepest aspects when the attack had subsided sufficiently for me to be sure that I was acting out of clarity and wasn't being led into that particular choice by the astral forces.

But as far as I can see, few other people would so clearly recognise, or indeed recognise at all, the astral interference - nearly everybody just assuming that their thoughts and feelings are their own and 'are me' and so being a puppet of them.

It's in this way that people - even no-soul ones - can be driven to rape and all manner of depraved, violent or otherwise antisocial behaviour. I myself had the astral forces in 2003 try to get me to rape a particular man. That was not a typical situation because I actually had a voice (of a supposed ascended master) instructing me to do it (whereas for most people I think such messages would occur at a more or less subliminal level), but what I assume was typical was that these instructions were accompanied by immensely strong feelings of a mixture of sexual arousal, sexual ecstasy and craving.

Fortunately I had the clarity to realize that those feelings were 'not mine' and were being used to try to manipulate me, even though I didn't know about the parasitic 'lost' souls phenomenon then. Those sexual feelings were actually resultant upon the astral forces attacking one or more of the attached parasitic souls with particular emotional trauma feelings which tend to get interpreted as sexual feelings or lust, and then I'd felt those feelings as though they were my own, although, as I say, I had the clarity to know that attempts were being made to manipulate me and so I resisted the alarmingly strong sexual and lustful feelings.

In fact some of the most virulent of the so-called religious fundamentalists are actually no-soul or little soul-reincarnated people who are being very strongly controlled by the astral forces via parasitic 'lost' souls and partial walk-ins. The terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, for example, had a partial walk-in and at least 11 parasitic lost souls when I took a 'look' at him (using energy testing). He also happens to be a no-soul incarnation (i.e. a direct incarnation of fundamental consciousness) and thus is potentially (once all the entities and other crap are cleared from him) a powerful promoter of peace, reconciliation and indeed self realization. People who've been through many soul reincarnations are more shut down and unaware, and do not have the sort of inner energy or 'fire' or indeed charisma to enable them to operate as powerful high-level leaders of any kind.


...Used as weapons

I have already mentioned attacks being used for control purposes. Those are usually the 'gentle' ones. For most people these remain covert and just serve various discreet control and manipulation purposes (such as ensuring that the person gets into a religion or 'spiritual path' or materialism rather than going for true self realization). However, for others the attacks are often used with brutal force, to 'bring the person down' in some way. This happened to me massively, as I recount in Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Entities - My Own Experience, but, exceptionally, in my case, despite a period of disruption to my life, I managed to use all that happened as 'handles' to enable me to progressively understand what was going on and thus progressively to weaken and eventually clear out the astral forces' interferences and indeed the parasitic lost souls attached to me.

Normally such attacks are regarded as mental illness, and get diagnosed medically as 'attacks' (sic) of anxiety, panic, depression etc.. - the doctors having absolutely no idea of the non-physical cause of these and that they are indeed the result of attacks in the military sense.

Some of the parasitic 'lost' souls are extremely heavily traumatized, having died horrendous deaths in their final incarnation, quite apart from having accumulated massive trauma loads from nasty deaths in previous lifetimes. These are used for the really strong attacks. As far as I can establish at the moment, I was 'kindly given' at birth an exceptional load of about 30 of these parasitic 'lost' souls, about half of which were very severely traumatized in that way.

It appears that the astral forces could 'sense' that I had a type of energy that potentially posed an unusually strong threat to their agenda and indeed even to their very existence, so they chose to try and stop me by setting me up in such a way that they could deliver particularly severe attacks upon me - hence the large number of these parasitic soul remnants that were attached to me.

However, just clearing out the parasitic lost souls doesn't immediately mean freedom from severe attacks, because when they are cleared out (as can be progressively achieved by active use of a Clarity-Sphere), there remain a great variety of energy impressions left over from the lost souls, and the astral forces have ways of keeping those intact, so that ongoing healing work of the right sort is required to clear all those too before the person becomes immune. Among such 'leftovers' that the astral forces can use as ammunition for attacks are thought form replicas of aspects of the departed lost souls, and previous lifetime memories from them that had got implanted into the person's own memory.


'Night terrors', nightmares and the issue of grounding

The night terrors phenomenon is operated directly by the astral forces, but also incorporates the parasitic 'lost' souls being used as weapons. It is much more common than generally supposed. In fact, although the term 'night terrors' is generally used just for childhood night terrors, it occurs in various forms for many adults too, not necessarily at night. The key to this is having a particular part of the person's awareness sufficiently ungrounded for this to work. Typically young children's awareness is not well grounded, for they are still in the late stages of the incarnation process, and so they are particularly susceptible, but anyone of any age can be affected if something happens, or they live in a particular way or with a particular outlook, that sufficiently undermines the grounding of their awareness - that is, their balance of awareness between physical and non-physical reality.

I explain at some length about night terrors in Night Terrors and Hearing Voices, but the main point here is that if a particular part of a person's awareness is sufficiently ungrounded, the astral forces can temporarily insinuate it into an astral realm (illusory reality) in which (s)he is presented with a maelstrom of distorted and grotesque visual images and is simultaneously severely attacked (via the attached 'lost' souls) with fear and related emotions such as anxiety, panic and apprehension, often in combinations that have a particular unbearableness about them.

As I understand it, it is these experiences that form the basis of all the stories and beliefs in hells (or Hell), and there is no such thing as a hell otherwise. So, I and everyone else who has experienced true 'night terrors' (or the same phenomenon by day, probably labelled as schizophrenic or psychotic hallucinations) has actually experienced a real hell, as far as hell can be said to exist at all.

N.B. When people see demons and other entities or beings in night terror visuals, they are NOT seeing actual entities or beings at all, however realistic they may look. The astral forces and indeed any attached lost souls have no physical form and are not visible. The night terrors displays are just that - displays or 'horror movies' that the astral forces have ever-so-kindly laid on for their 'lucky' audience to get them well and truly screwed up.



Nightmares - a different type of astral interference

Nightmares are a particular distorted type of dream in which attack from the astral forces occurs - night terrors not being dreams at all. In dreaming, your own system is going through a sort of sifting and re-evaluation process, comparing recent experiences with previous ones and relating them also to any thoughts or ideas or insights that may come up. Certain superficial aspects of this process periodically impinge on the conscious level of awareness and are then experienced as dreaming. These experiences tend to go unnoticed or get quickly forgotten except when they form into some sort of 'story' sequence, and it is these sequences that are generally thought of as actual dreams.

The astral forces would presumably interfere with dreams and make them into more true night terror experiences if they could - but they simply can't do that, for they don't have direct access to the levels of our consciousness in which the dreaming process occurs. However, what they do in order to try to work round that is to covertly put various distorted ideas and images into the level of the person's awareness where memories are held, awaiting review, evaluation and 'sifting'. The effect of this is that the dreaming process can pick up these intruded 'foreign' elements and incorporate them into dreams, making them into disturbing dreams or full-blown nightmares.

The astral forces do this to just about everyone, all the time, so clearly there has to be another factor required to precipitate actual nightmares. What happens is that during the dreaming process anyone with reasonably well grounded awareness automatically recognises thoughts, images or apparent memories that are 'not mine' and simply discards them. With an important exception noted further below, they are at that point not just ignored but actually dissolved because they are not useful data worth retaining. That means that the astral forces, in order to maintain a cache of such material in your 'unprocessed memories' store, have to add new material on a daily basis. It also means that your dreaming process cannot be transformed into a virulent maelstrom of disturbing images like true night terrors.

The problems come for a person when a particular part of their awareness is poorly grounded. Then their dreaming process doesn't always immediately succeed in distinguishing between 'not mine' and 'mine', and so the 'foreign' material gets incorporated in the dreaming process up to an eventual point at which it is recognised as 'not mine' and discarded. It is in such situations that nightmares and also dreams incorporating particularly weird, distorted images, can occur. The astral forces are able to detect when such dreams are occurring and usually attack then with fear or related emotions to make the dream a harrowing experience - hence the 'nightmare'.

Physical illness - particularly infections - can also make it more difficult to immediately recognise and discard 'not mine' during the dreaming process. Hence the tendency for weird and often disturbing dreams with distorted images when one is going down with a cold, 'flu or other infections.

Overall, thus, people who are having a rough time from the astral or 'dark' forces (their awareness being sufficiently weakly grounded for this to be occurring) are particularly prone to disturbing dreams and nightmares. However, that is not invariably the case, and indeed I myself am a very clear exception. Despite my early severe night terrors of two very different types, and my more recent tremendous ordeals and attacks from the astral forces with intense trauma feelings of fear, terror, panic, anxiety et al, and indeed further attempts to assault me with night terror displays, I have never in my life had a true nightmare, and indeed dreams of any degree of disturbing character have always been a rarity for me, usually linked to the onset of an infection.

The reason for there being such exceptions appears to be that it is a specific part of a person's awareness that needs to be poorly grounded if nightmares are to occur, and in my case that particular part of my awareness has remained consistently pretty well grounded, even when, as in my 2003 to 2007 major troubles with the astral forces, other parts of my awareness became very poorly grounded, really opening me to large-scale trickery and attacks from the astral garbage. That good groundedness of the particular part of my awareness has also been my great protection against the astral forces' apparent attempts to impose upon me a partial walk-in.


Recurrent disturbing dreams or nightmares

When, during the dreaming process, you discard useless and 'not mine' material, as I've already remarked, generally that material is at that point dissolved, so that it doesn't present itself again and so cannot turn up in more than one dream. However, there is one big exception to that general rule - and that is where a particular memory, thought or image comes up, which is linked to a trauma that you are carrying. That trauma may be one that you have undergone yourself (in this or a previous lifetime) or it may belong to one of the parasitic lost souls attached to you, which are affecting you to a fair extent as though they were your own traumas incorporating your own memories.

When such material comes up for sifting in the dreaming process, everything proceeds just the same as related above, but with one important difference. The material cannot be properly sifted, and indeed any attempt to discard it is likely to fail, because the distorted 'trauma' energy attached to that material acts like a sort of sticky 'glue', which keeps memories and thoughts relating to that trauma all stuck together. Until release of that trauma has occurred, the same material will periodically come up again for sifting during dreaming - particularly if anything in everyday life has reminded you (normally subconsciously) of anything relating to that trauma again. The sifting process is then bound to run into the same sort of problem that it did before, and it is thus that recurrence of disturbing dreams and nightmares occurs.

A recurring true nightmare thus always points to an emotional trauma that the person is carrying - and this trauma may well belong not to her at all but to one of the parasitic lost souls attached to her.

The healing answer for ALL issues of recurring disturbing dreams and nightmares, therefore, is the clearance of all one's emotional traumas and the removal of the attached parasitic 'lost' souls. Please see Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.


Alien abductions

I have listed alleged extra-terrestrials that people see or receive communications from as actually being at least nearly all inventions of the astral forces in the same way that purported angels or ascended masters are. Indeed, I have done that in the clear knowledge that many people have had apparently real visitations or abductions by seemingly physical extra-terrestrials. So, how do I reconcile my listing of such ETs as non-physical, astral inventions with those people's experiences?

Let me say now that in no way am I rubbishing their accounts, even though there are bound to be the odd individuals who have been controlled by the astral forces into telling stories that are more or less entirely fictional. I'm satisfied that in the vast majority of cases 'alien-abducted' people have had genuine experiences of encounters or indeed abductions, pretty well as they describe them.

Yet my current understanding is still that almost all - if not all - such encounters were NOT with physical or indeed real beings at all, even though the affected individuals are almost invariably convinced that they'd had real physical encounters. So, what's going on here?

The answer yet again comes down to the issue of poor grounding, and the fact that when a person's awareness is sufficiently ungrounded, his awareness spontaneously opens more into the astral sub-reality of illusion and delusion. This gives the interfering astral forces great freedom then to deceive the person and present illusory material in a way that seems 'real'. This is most effectively and indeed often dramatically achieved by taking part of the person's awareness into an astral realm (illusory reality), where everything seems 'real' and physical. My understanding is that in more or less all cases of encounters with and abductions by ETs, the person had very poor grounding of part of his/her awareness and it got inveigled by the astral forces into an astral realm where the apparently physical encounter occurred.

The purpose of this would in just about every case have been for the astral forces, posing as the particular ETs, to put some implants into the person's energy system, to increase and facilitate the astral forces' control over that person. Usually the person would be unaware of that taking place - though some individuals have actually reported this happening - not realizing that the implants were not the positive things that the supposed ETs would have claimed them to be.

The sighting of UFOs is, to my understanding, a similar phenomenon. It's significant that various astronauts are claimed to have seen UFOs while away from Earth - because then not only their awareness but their whole being becomes poorly grounded - which indeed is responsible for much of the adverse health effects of going into space.

I can now hear various ET and UFO enthusiasts piping up, asking in accusing tones how the hell I could know that the visiting and abduction ETs and indeed UFOs are really astral realm phenomena and are not in the physical 'reality'. Surely, this is just a belief of this clearly very opinionated Philip Goddard guy!

As it happens, I do not operate on the basis of belief or held opinion, and in this particular case I have personal experience to back up my postulation about astral realms. You see, I've actually experienced astral realms and know that they are part of 'reality' or 'What Is', even though what they contain is delusion. True, I haven't experienced alien encounters or abductions, but the astral realm experiences I have had were very revealing.

A major instance was during my September 2006 hospitalization, briefly described in My Little Brush With Psychiatry. Quite apart from the various 'hell' (night terrors) realms that I was briefly taken into, repeatedly I was taken into astral realms that were at face value completely lifelike replicas of that particular hospital, in which a variety of crazy and bizarre things happened (according to the breathtakingly convoluted 'story' agenda that the astral forces were trying to get me to engage with), which all seemed completely real (not as in a dream at all). These happenings included:

It came as a relief but no complete surprise to me to establish afterwards that none of these things had happened in physical reality. I couldn't even find traces of tell-tale ejaculate in my bed, where I'd deposited it seemingly so realistically (albeit hardly satisfyingly!) in that Satanistic-style masturbation astral realm (Let off the hook over one prospective little embarrassment! wink). I did eventually get the opportunity to check with nurse X as to whether I'd behaved strangely with him and had even sought to get him into bed with me, and he seemed a little taken aback when I asked him about that, and assured me that nothing of the sort had happened. Yet that astral realm in particular had seemed immensely 'real', and I'd really 'physically' felt his hand as I'd sought to drag him into bed with me! wink

It turns out that there was a sinister significance about the involvement of that particular nurse, who was one of the two there then who never seemed to me as though they were really nurses, and who I (still) regard as quite unsuitable to be employed in caring professions at all. Indeed, that guy seemed much more as though he was a handyman who was visiting to do some manual task - or even as though he was a patient himself! My energy testing indicates that the particular nurse had a strong spirit attachment, which the astral forces were opportunistically seeking to get affecting him in particular ways to get him wanting personal involvement with me, in tandem with their trying to get me infatuated with him through all the astral realm encounters and then supposedly my trying to involve myself closely with him in everyday life (my 'reading' is that he was gay and so potentially responsive to me if I had made the right sort of advances to him). Fortunately I remained far from infatuated and in any case saw him as far too loaded with serious issues of his own for me to want to be involved with him at all - even though it was clear that he did like me quite a bit.


How do I tell if I'm in an astral realm, then?

Although astral realms appear superficially realistic, they do so only because of the ungrounded state of a particular part of your awareness, which makes you hypersuggestive and super-gullible. In my case, being a no-soul incarnation and enlightened too, even when I was in those astral realms I had the clarity to also be aware that they were astral realms or at least were most likely so. I give here a few observations that seemed to be identifying features of astral realms:

So, in my experience, and according to my 'reading' of what is the general situation, it is theoretically possible to tell if you're in an astral realm while you are in it, though few people have sufficient clarity or depth of awareness to recognise it for what it is 'from the inside', and therefore would regard the experiences as being 'for real'. However, armed with the information I've listed above, I think many more people could retrospectively identify astral realm experiences that they've had. In particular, the extended time-scale of most astral realms is a giveaway.


Is soul reincarnation really a pathway to hell?

In The Five Human Character Structures - Their True Significance, which I refer you to at this point, I explain how each of the five so-called character structures can typically be linked to a specific - albeit not clearly demarcated - stage in the soul degradation process through successive reincarnations of the soul. Although in some ways that looks a pretty chilling picture, actually it does give us much more of an understanding of the actual type of issues and healing requirements of people who are either no-soul incarnations or are already on the 'downward' path of reincarnational degradation - for everyone has at least some degree of healing and self realization potential and motivation, never mind how much it is hidden / distorted.

But now, let's take the bull by the horns and see that actually the situation isn't quite as scary as it's been looking - though, speaking for myself, I'd choose self realization and full freedom from the astral agenda any day rather than to go the way of that bull...


So, where's the hell, then?

I have already indicated what is apparently the end product of this degradational process for human consciousnesses. Once their awareness becomes sufficiently shut down by the increasing stranglehold of the soul, they cease incarnating and become the parasitic 'lost' souls that are controlled by the astral forces, and which are directed to attach to the 'soul level' of human consciousnesses (i.e. that aspect of consciousness that defines the soul when astral hijacking occurs) as they incarnate - no-soul incarnations being the primary target.

One thing I should say here to put this whole issue into proper perspective is that, as far as I understand it at the moment, these 'lost' souls actually do not suffer the unspeakable hellish torments through all this that you might imagine. The reason for this is that their own core essence has been so thickly covered up that they have insufficient depth of self awareness to experience suffering as we understand it.

As an illustration of what I'm talking about, imagine the countless caterpillars throughout the world that get progressively eaten from the inside by the maggots of ichneumon wasps. The process looks horrific to most of us, and it's easy to believe that unimaginable suffering is involved - but insects simply don't have the sort of self awareness that can experience suffering as we know it (please note, however, that I am NOT saying that they experience no suffering at all). I say this even though I would still not wilfully cause harm to even one insect if it could reasonably be avoided.

So, the vast majority of humans, who are currently on the 'downward' process towards being parasitic lost souls, are NOT heading into what we'd recognise as a hellish existence of tremendous suffering and torment. The subjective experience of a soul going through this degradational process would actually be primarily one of becoming less and less aware, having progressively less abundance and vividness of life experience, and eventually entering a sort of 'twilight' of oblivion, in which it is simply unaware of what is going on or what it is being used for. This end-state has been reached by the time the soul has become a non-incarnating parasitic entity.

Indeed, it looks as though in a sense parasitic lost souls eventually transform into reinforcements of the 'dark forces'. It could well be that, as I explain further below, the transition from a parasitic lost soul to astral or 'dark' force thought forms marks a point at which the true 'being' - the true soul - finally manages to revert to fundamental consciousness, leaving an empty 'husk' of 'mind' and astral programming in the astral sub-reality, no longer with an aware consciousness at all, so that all that tangibly remains of the soul is what is effectively an elaborate mass of astral-programmed thought forms that then operate rather like viruses or computer malware.

Paradoxically it is no-soul incarnations and those who have soul-reincarnated no more than a few times who can really experience 'hell'. And what is hell, then? Why, the night terrors phenomenon of course!* It is the most deeply aware individuals who experience such things most vividly, and are sufficiently  poorly grounded for the astral forces to present them with the powerful maelstroms of grotesque visuals coupled with intense attacks with emotional trauma feelings largely or wholly drawn from the attached parasitic 'lost' souls. It is such people who are able to suffer most deeply and intensely, so they are the ones who experience 'hell' if anyone does.

* I say this with regard to non-physical experiences. Actually, the nearest approach to many of the religious depictions of hell is what goes on in various torture chambers, massacres and atrocities right here on Earth.

People who have picked up a belief in hell or hells, say in Christianity or Tibetan Buddhism can actually be given experiences in night terror sequences that match the hells they've been taught about - yet another good reason for people to let go of all beliefs and all religious connections if they want to become free from that sort of interference from the astral forces. In the astral sub-reality, as far as I can ascertain, people actually never feel physical pain - but they can be attacked with particular intense trauma emotions and 'pseudo-thoughts' which make them believe that they are undergoing the ultimate physical torments, even while it is all actually physically painless apart from the possibly extreme discomforts of the intense emotional trauma feelings themselves.

The astral forces' intention in subjecting people to night terror experiences appears to be to start 'softening them up' by traumatizing them and making it more difficult for them to spontaneously move to full self realization and freedom from astral interference, and to increase the likelihood of their getting ensnared in an astral realm when they die.


A healing perspective on this

The above scenario may look horrific and to be one of unspeakable despair for almost the whole of the human race. However, what I've written above is not the end of the story. First, we need to remember that we and everything that we experience are, first and foremost, consciousness*. We have no way of knowing of any 'external' enduring reality. Therein lies our key to coming to terms with the situation (or indeed any apparently difficult situation!).

* Please see On the Nature of Reality and Truth.

The astral sub-reality is the aspect of our experience (and thus of 'reality') into which all our beliefs and illusions are projected. All apparent entities within it are illusory, no matter whether they appear to be 'dark', Satanic, holy, angelic or Divine.

There is actually a very simple healing approach for all this, which is for us to recognise the whole astral sub-reality for what it is - a whole mass of distorted energies and perceptions that itself is a state of illusion or indeed delusion. Healers or in fact anyone (for we all have some healing ability) can do simple but profound healing visualizations directed to progressively dissolving the astral sub-reality. I will very soon add a full description of such a healing visualization practice to The Guide to Complete Self Realization, but I can say here briefly that the core of the visualization is simply seeing the whole astral sub-reality as an open book of distorted fictions and gently closing the book and, with aware and 'open' intent, facilitating its dissolution back into fundamental consciousness. There are also methods using the Clarity-Sphere, which are more powerful and indeed can incorporate the abovementioned visualization.

The new development is Phase 2 of the highly experimental Project Clear Mind Agent, which, if it did happen to produce the currently purely conjectural results that are indicated for it, would completely resolve the whole problem in the astral sub-reality and go on to a whole further level of human liberation...

Project Clear Mind Agent - Setting people free...
1. Develop
technology 		2. Dissolution of
'the dark side' .....		 3. Further human liberation
-- explore possibilities ...
(N.B. This is an experiment, and no categorical claim is yet being made that
anything is actually happening or will happen as a result of it.)


"But what about those poor souls all trapped in there?"

As far as my current understanding goes, consciousnesses or souls themselves - as overall beings - don't really get trapped within the astral sub-reality; it's intrinsically impossible because of the very nature of the astral sub-reality. So, when it appears that a soul is trapped there, what is almost certainly happening is that the consciousness or soul is simply trapped by its own attachment to its distorted perceptions, which latter (only) are in the astral sub-reality. So, when you do any sort of work to help dissolve the contents of the astral sub-reality, what you are doing is assisting the liberation of all lost or 'stuck' consciousnesses from their attachment to their distorted perceptions, so that they can then revert to fundamental consciousness.

In other words, at last such consciousnesses and souls would have happen to them what would happen to us at death if we hadn't been diverted and ensnared by astral forces, so we'd be dying 'the way that Nature intended', which is really not dying at all except in the most superficial sense. So, we're not talking of throwing the visualized 'book' into a fire and roasting all those beings alive, and we're in a different world altogether from those who talk of 'God' at some shortly-coming time throwing all the 'demons' (and I assume all humans who don't share those people's beliefs) into the fires of hell.

I expect to write more here presently...


Astral "entities'" negative impacts on humans

The astral forces, whether or not manifesting as apparent entities, ruthlessly pursue an agenda of controlling and and increasing their domination over humans. They often operate covertly, seeking to manipulate people into outlooks or behaviour that keep them away from speedy paths to enlightenment and full self realization (which would free one totally from astral control or interference of any type).

So, the astral forces divert many people into religions or other power / control hierarchies or systems, and in many other cases into beliefs about imminent 'ascension' or 'full consciousness' for Humanity, so that the people get fixated on 'ascension' or various sorts of global-change-for-humanity scenario, which distract from or distort their whole process of developing towards full self realization and living fully in the present. The whole notion of 'ascension' is an illusory reality that is almost bound to take you captive into an astral realm when you die, so that the astral forces can continue their work on you towards taking you over completely, many soul reincarnations further down the line.

One very sneaky way the astral forces use to take people away from their true life purpose of self realization is to get them infatuated with each other, even though it may be inappropriate for one or even both to be 'tied' to another person like that at that time, and, in the case of male-female relationships, to covertly manipulate the couple to ensure that the man makes the woman pregnant - thus putting an implicit 'seal' on the relationship.

I've seen this happen again and again, where people whose real needs were clearly for going their own ways and developing in the self realization direction, severely stunted their development by tying themselves to each other by having a child - all because they really knew that they were not truly compatible at that time and so chose to force themselves into staying in the relationship because they had (astral-induced) fears of actually being on their own and free for true self realization. Such 'family' relationships are, generally speaking, a great block to serious self realization work - and all the more so when marriage comes into it.

Ironically, the human race and Planet Earth tremendously need HUGE numbers of people turning away from procreation, because at the moment there are far too many people on the planet and in a remarkably short time the human race is very likely to become extinct on Earth. Please see The Future of Humanity.

The astral forces not only attack according to their agenda (see appendix for more about their types of attack) but also will often manifest as troublesome inner voices. They are the cause of the supposedly medical phenomenon of 'hearing voices' - no matter whether the voices appear to be benign or troublesome; the astral ('dark') forces are always involved.

I have already remarked on the astral or 'dark' forces as being an intrinsic part of the channelling process and nearly all dowsing - these influences posing to countless people as guides or supposedly higher beings such as archangels, all in order to lure people away from tuning into their core essence, and to get people taking on board, even if in greatly disguised form, the control agendas of the astral forces.


The partial walk-in - How to produce a puppet 'teacher' in one easy stage...

How is it that various supposed spiritual teachers, who on the face of it have genuinely beneficial intentions to assist people in becoming 'whole' and enlightened, are actually working in tandem with the astral ('dark') forces, and, while apparently greatly and deeply aware in many ways, seem to have a complete block on looking in a questioning manner at what they're doing and recognising their own astral connections / involvements and eliminating them?

How come that you get individuals like Sai Baba, a particularly famous current teacher in India who is on the one hand widely revered and claimed to be 'pure as the driven snow' and on the other hand shows massive signs of serious astral or 'dark' involvement, such as regularly performing supposed miracles (I'm not concerning myself whether the 'miracles' are real or faked), putting severe psychic attacks on people who don't see eye to eye with him, and deliberately having around him a huge assemblage of followers who he manipulates emotionally?

Is such a man fundamentally evil or flawed?

My current take on this, strongly supported by the masses of experience that I've had of astral agenda relating to myself, is that that particular teacher, as is the case with most other prominent teachers for that matter, is fundamentally not at all flawed or evil, but has been a victim of an extremely serious and indeed sinister astral-sourced type of interference, which is best described as a partial walk-in. I know four healers / teachers in the UK who are very likely manifestations of this type of scenario, and that is no doubt the tip of something of an iceberg - though how big, I have no idea. The terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden is another prominent individual whose troublesome behaviour has been caused by a partial walk-in (plus 11 to 15 parasitic lost souls), and who without them would be a strong promoter of peace, reconciliation and indeed self realization.

What happens is this. When each human consciousness is in the process of incarnation (i.e. a little while before birth), the astral forces can to a fair extent tell from its 'energy signature' whether it is a potential threat to the astral agenda of control and domination of all humans, such as through becoming some sort of prominent teacher promoting true self realization and assisting people in becoming fully clear of astral interference and influence. They then direct a particular set of appropriately programmed 'lost' souls to attach to that person soon after birth, to be means of astral control for that person to make him effectively a teacher of some sort of basic wisdom containing astral-sourced distortions, and to be fully believing in and unquestioning about the 'story' that they've channelled or have picked up indirectly from astral sources through other individual people or particular traditions.

However, there are particular (usually no-soul) consciousnesses who at incarnation time are recognised as being a more formidable threat to the astral agenda because they are expected to have particularly sharp and questioning minds, so that they are liable to recognise and repudiate the astral agenda they are being given, and even - horror of horrors! - find out about their attached lost souls and use effective means to get rid of them. It is such individuals who the astral forces particularly seek to stop, and they target these for a partial walk-in.

What the astral forces do for such individuals is to set up situations for them where they get much of their awareness ungrounded - seriously ungrounded. If such a person can be in some way contrived to get his awareness out of body sufficiently (getting the person doing astral projection or astral travel is a favourite), the astral forces then quickly sneak in a very powerful 'lost' soul that has been specially programmed to effectively take the person over, under direction of the astral forces. This 'lost' soul is not nearly so degraded or unaware as the 'lost' souls parasitically attaching to people on a routine basis, and so is much more powerful, and in healing terms is a much more formidable proposition to get rid of - especially as it is so strongly controlling and in almost all cases that control would force the affected person to be very resistant against recognising his true situation and doing anything about it.

Ideally (from the astral forces' perspective), the original consciousness of the 'person' would be completely ejected, but I understand that this is something that the astral forces cannot do - so instead of a full 'walk-in' (replacing one consciousness with another 'in' a particular body), the unfortunate original consciousness and personality is kept in a 'straitjacketed' state, with apparently no option but to assume the 'persona' of the astral-programmed captive soul and do its bidding.


The failed partial walk-in - a spirit attachment

My observations of various prominent people with partial walk-ins and powerful spirit attachments* suggests to me that if the astral forces fail to get a prospective partial walk-in to 'take' on a person (no doubt because they couldn't get the person sufficiently out of body at the time), then they often get a similar lost soul (the same or a different one - I don't know if the same one would work for this) to attach to the person as a very strongly controlling spirit attachment.

* See further below for more about spirit attachments.

The theoretical difference for the affected person would be that the person with a spirit attachment rather than a partial walk-in would be more likely to be aware that something is amiss for him, and would be more likely to recognise, at least with a bit of prompting from somebody else, that he had a spirit attachment. However, in the case of spirit attachments sent to people in the event of failed partial walk-ins there appears in practice to be little difference from the effects of a partial walk-in, because in such cases the person has been targeted with an unusually strongly controlling lost soul, which has been specially programmed to force the person to live in complete denial of his/her having any spirit attachment or indeed any problem relating thereto. The person is thus to a considerable extent a puppet of the astral forces, being controlled through the intermediary spirit attachment, much as occurs with partial walk-ins.

All seven people who have been receiving ongoing entity clearance healings from me (using Clarity-Spheres, this being done without their knowledge or consent), appeared superficially to be directed by partial walk-ins, but actually two of those had strongly controlling spirit attachments instead. Those who had genuine partial walk-ins included one very prominent and widely revered so-called spiritual teacher and one infamous terrorist leader. The other people I've been working on are particular healers, 'lightworkers' and spiritual teachers / gurus who in various ways are causing major problems for many people.

N.B. I mention these individuals' partial walk-ins and spirit attachments in the past tense because, as far as I can tell by means of energy testing, as a result of the ongoing healing work I've been doing for them, they have all now lost all their entities, including all their standard parasitic lost souls. However, that doesn't signify an immediate change of those people's behaviour, because they still have masses of thought forms and other 'energy debris' left over from their entities, and it takes some time to clear those in the ongoing regular healings that I'm giving, as the astral forces are strenuously seeking to keep all that material in place and cause it to function as though it was the entities themselves.

Beware the near-death experience!

Among the many types of situation that give the astral forces a clear opportunity to stage a partial walk-in upon somebody is the near-death experience (NDE). THAT is why it is something of a norm that people 'return' from such experiences with a personality change. True, on the surface the personality change usually appears to be positive - but it's in the direction of 'spirituality', NOT true self realization. With this in mind, for example we can now have a new clarity upon cases like the celebrated one of Mellen-Thomas Benedict, where the functioning of such people as 'spiritual teachers' can be seen to be very much 'of the dark side'. You only have to visit Mellen-Thomas's website and look for signs of his (no doubt completely unaware) astral connections and involvement, using the checklist that I give in the appendix further below, to realize that he and the likes of him are in serious trouble and leading countless others into problems way beyond their worst imaginings.


How I very nearly became one of them...

Yes, the astral forces did their damnedest to 'get' me too, as you can read in Partial Walk-ins - How the astral forces nearly nobbled me. As I explain there, it isn't clear whether they were really trying to make me, in the event of one of their attempts on me succeeding, into an effective puppet teacher of theirs, or they were simply trying to make me into a really hardcore 'psychiatric case' so that I'd be disabled as an effective teacher or promoter of self realization and clearance of astral influences. Indeed, because of the true nature of the astral forces, all talk of any specific 'intent' of theirs is really off course, in just the same way that you don't talk of a computer virus "intending" to wreck your computer or indeed do any harm, for it simply blindly executes its own programming - any 'cleverness' simply being in the programming.

I shall very soon be adding another page to this site, concerning what we can do, in healing terms, about people who are victims of partial walk-ins - who in nearly all, if not all, cases would be very resistant against recognising the nature of their situation and doing anything about it. "Watch this space...".

Later note - Some such information is actually now already available, although not yet on a dedicated page on the subject. Please see The Clarity-Sphere - 'The Ultimate' Healing Tool.

Spirit attachments - a different issue

I must dispel one widespread confusion here and distinguish between so-called 'astral entities', which are the primary subject of this account and are not true entities at all (never mind in what form they may present themselves), and spirit attachments. The latter are sometimes consciousnesses or soul fragments of people who have died in some traumatic way and were too afraid to let go of the physical aspect of reality. Indeed, nearly all healers and 'lightworkers' believe that pretty well all so-called spirit attachments are such 'earthbound spirits'. However, that is not my own 'reading' now that I'm getting relatively clear of astral interferences and deceptions.

It appears that the majority of spirit attachments (apart from the lesser issue of the odd attached 'peripheral' soul fragments) are from 'lost' souls that are in predicaments similar to those of the 'lost' souls used in partial walk-ins, but in these instances they have not been programmed - or have simply not been able - to 'walk in', in some cases no doubt because the particular person has been remaining too grounded for the latter to happen, but instead have been able to attach themselves in some way to the person's non-physical aspects. There are many more cases of such spirit attachments than those resulting from failed partial walk-in attempts.

As already noted, generally speaking, a person with a spirit attachment is much more likely to be aware that something is wrong and to want to do something about it than somebody with a partial walk-in, which latter almost invariably would seem to be just a part of the person's self identity and would be strongly resistant to being questioned or 'exposed'.

Some attached 'spirits' mean no harm and are really seeking help (i.e. a good proportion of those that simply had a traumatic death and have no specific astral programming to cause trouble), while the majority, because of their astral programming, are ill-willed (albeit sometimes in covert ways) and cause massive problems for their 'victims' - indeed giving them a particularly rough time if they seek to use any effective entity clearance measures.

Generally speaking, earthbound spirits or fragments thereof drain the energy of whoever they attach to, so feelings of tiredness and exhaustion are very normal for people with that sort of spirit attachment. This can lead to physical health problems, and also it is a quite well known phenomenon that spirit attachments can cause in their host the same ailment(s) that caused the death of their last incarnation - a compelling reason for seeking to get them removed at the earliest opportunity. The astral forces and parasitic 'lost' souls, in contrast, do not drain one's energy to the same extent, although they do have other negative effects in one's energy field, which can give rise to serious health problems - even cancers.

Spirit attachments from astral-programmed 'lost' souls are not the same phenomenon as the previously described 'parasitic lost souls', because, like the candidates for partial walk-ins, they have not been so far degraded and still have a fair amount of self awareness. They drain their host's energy, but much less than earthbound spirits, yet more than the fully degraded parasitic 'lost' souls.

Curiously, throughout even my roughest times with the astral forces, my immune system appeared to be little or not at all compromised, and colds and other infections still came to me only rarely and flu not at all - and, apart from sleep deprivation sometimes, I was never feeling drained or exhausted (apart from during a few brief encounters with human 'energy vampires'). I understand that this was exceptional, and it is all the more remarkable in the light of the very large load of parasitic lost souls that I was carrying (allegedly 30 of them). My 'take' on this in April 2008 is that I got away so lightly primarily because I was enlightened and so had exceptional emotional detachment from what I was going through, and I was also distinctly helped by the great amount of self healing work that I was doing throughout that period. Although that self healing work was nothing like as powerful, balanced and healthy as what I have been doing more recently, it was helping me a lot to keep my energy level remarkably high and stable.

The key here was my being a no-soul incarnation, so that, especially with my being enlightened too, all healings that I gave myself or others contained a strong component that was from my deepest aspects, regardless of the superficial unbalanced and even downright harmful methods I was tending to use then.


Ghosts and elementals - how they fit into the picture

It is almost universally understood among healers, mystics, 'lightworkers' and psychics that ghosts are earthbound 'spirits' (the consciousnesses of people who have died). One could say, therefore, that technically earthbound spirits are ghosts. However, my current understanding is that virtually nobody perceives true earthbound spirits, and the only sign of their existence is their tending to attach to people and cause them problems.  At least almost all of what people actually experience as 'ghosts' are NOT human (or any other) consciousnesses at all, but are another phenomenon known as elementals. An elemental is a complex of thought forms that is attached to a specific geographical location and has a quasi-autonomous existence.

People unwittingly leave behind them one or more elementals if they die while bearing an extremely strong emotional attachment to a particular location or even a person. These then get perceived by people with poorly grounded awareness. The sorts of impressions received vary widely - not only actual sightings but voices, creaking floorboards, the sound of footsteps, knocking on a door, a particular smell, a particular emotional feeling, and so on.

There is a whole sub-category of elementals, however, that are not so innocently produced. People who are into dark practices may leave behind extremely troublesome elementals when they die, but also they actually deliberately create troublesome and often extremely frightening elementals and leave them in particular places or send them to particular people to cause immense problems. Generally it is one of these that is the culprit in a troublesomely haunted house (e.g. where pictures fall off walls, things spontaneously burst into flame, electrical appliances keep failing, and so on), though the worst elementals go far beyond that and are hellish in their awfulness. Human consciousnesses would never behave in the crass way that these elementals tend to. The point here is that the elementals are not driven or guided by any sort of conscious awareness; they are simply programming, and so cannot behave like a true conscious being. However, it is astral interference and control that causes people to create such elementals in the first place - so elementals can be regarded as one of the 'indirect' tools of the astral forces.

If you have ever got the feeling of there being a presence of the utmost evil in a particular location and felt that you had to get away from there as fast as your legs would take you, that would have been one of those 'dark' elementals. On the other hand, masses of relatively weak elementals remaining from past dark practices in a particular area can, while not necessarily producing dramatically frightening or menacing effects, still give a somewhat disturbing impression of the particular area to 'sensitive' people.

I myself get this effect along the north Cornwall coast path between Portreath and Perranporth, where in various places, though most especially from the vicinity of Trevaunance Cove to just before Perranporth, my back creeps with 'spooky' feelings as I look at the various cliff formations there, and I get from them all sorts of impressions of 'black' or 'dark' witchcraft. I don't get those impressions from the cliffs anywhere else. 

Similarly, I get a disturbing impression from the Cornish standing stone constructions known as quoits, and to some extent from standing stone constructions generally (very much including Stonehenge), because they were all tools used in decidedly 'dark' practices and are still carrying weak elementals left by those long-ago practitioners, who were emotionally very attached to their 'tools', including their stone constructions.


The appearance of entities

Actually NO non-physical entity or presence has a physical appearance, so when a person sees some sort of physical appearance for anything non-physical, this is nothing more than a completely made up or fabricated visual representation, which, generally speaking, is given to the person / people by the astral forces in order to mislead, confuse or disturb the person in some way.

I am well aware that some people have apparently photographed various types of entity. In David Ashworth's book Dancing with the Devil, for example (NOT recommended, despite the author's really good intentions, because he himself is being very strongly astral led and can only cause still more harmful confusions), there are photos of two apparitions that he naturally assumes are entities. One is an unprepossessing thing with quite a stereotypical 'demon' appearance, which was photographed in the roof of a cave, and the other is a menacing-looking rather amoeboid-shaped translucent dark thing without any obvious features, above a door in a house, allegedly waiting to "attack" somebody's crown chakra as they pass through the doorway.

According to my own understanding, supported by energy testing, such physically visible and even photographable manifestations are NOT true (i.e. conscious) entities at all, but are elementals. Elementals, being non-physical, are generally not visible at all - though again, the astral forces often present people with visual representations of them, and this is the pretty well universal cause of people 'seeing' a ghost. As I have already indicated further above, what people normally regard as ghosts are NOT discarnate consciousnesses but elementals.

In the case of an elemental being visible to more or less non-'sensitive' people and being photographable, my understanding is that this can come about only in the presence of a person whose whole being is particularly poorly grounded. In such a case the astral forces can use that person's non-physical aspects ('energy system') to create a range of physical effects, such as moving of objects, causing electrical equipment to behave abnormally or fail, and the materialization (and indeed dematerialization) of apparently physical objects or apparitions, including making particular elementals seem to be actual physical manifestations and thus be photographable.


The departed relatives phenomenon

What people take to be departed relatives are really just a special case of 'guides'. They can be either astral sourced simulations (using data from the person's memory in order to construct a likeness), or they can be the actual souls of particular recently departed relatives. In the latter event, it would still be the astral forces that present the likeness of the departed relative to the person, because nobody can directly perceive human souls.

If the 'departed relatives' are indeed the actual souls of the respective individuals, they are in deep trouble because they have not dissolved back into fundamental consciousness as we all need to at death, and are captives of the astral ('dark') forces, which apparently often direct them, or have them programmed, to hang around and seek to communicate with particular still-incarnated relatives for the underlying purpose of keeping them in confusion about the nature of themselves and of reality, and diverted well away from true self realization. It makes no difference how loving and wise they may seem; departed relatives do not belong with us at all, and are sent to us to cause us serious problems - though, generally speaking, they themselves would not know at all about that, because they are 'lost' within the illusions of the astral sub-reality (which include the so-called spirit world).

Thus people who have what appear to be one or more departed relatives around or communicating with them actually would do best to have nothing whatsoever to do with them, and to get on with their own self realization process, opening to their own deepest essence as their uniquely wise and appropriate 'guide'.


'Self made demons' too!

Some healers or therapists with their own unawarely astral-distorted outlooks and agendas put a lot of store in the notion of some people having just 'self made demons' or self-created entity problems and no 'real' entities at all - as though their troubles were somehow their own fault, resulting from some personal flaw or perversity. This sort of thing is a serious misreading of the particular people's situations. The only situation in which a person would have an issue of 'phantom' entities is where real entities (i.e. attached lost souls) have been removed and the remaining 'energy imprints' of those entities in the person's non-physical aspects are being maintained (as they always would be) by the astral forces, so giving the impression that the entities are still present.

So, although in a sense those simulations might very loosely be described as self-made or self-created, to view them in that way would be extremely misleading and unhelpful. If it were not for the astral forces actively maintaining such energy imprints in the person's non-physical aspects ('energy system'), those energy imprints would naturally dissolve over probably just a few weeks - and they wouldn't be manifesting anything like as strongly as simulations of the removed entities.

On the other hand, as is explained much further below, the astral forces are not true entities in the first place, so it's quite possible for anyone to, correctly in a way, claim that any interference that a person has from the astral forces is not from real entities, and thus to misleadingly conclude that the apparent 'entities' must be self created.

In short, then, it's best to completely let go of such prejudicial terms as 'self-made' or 'self created' when referring to what appear to be entity manifestations or entity problems that people are having, and to allow oneself to gain a deeper understanding of what is really