My Interactions With A Shadow Being.

[DNA]

My Interactions With A Shadow Being.


Have you ever stumbled on to a piece of knowledge that flashes a view onto a possible reality before your eyes? Kind of like how a lightning flash does?
My revelation is rather distastefull, and probably unnerving. I think the sexual energy of mankind is a food of sorts, for a shadow race.
This is all conjecture based on an isolated personal incident. Of course I'm wrong in my assumptions, so no need to worry, but for the sake of not letting my interaction die with me, I'm going to share. On the offhand chance that someone else can use my conjectures and make something more usefull of them.

January of 2005 I was meditating daily with some beings I will refer to as the folks (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22614-Holographically-Projected-Human-Alien-Healers). Helpfull non-physical beings that appear golden in color.
Their main concern seems to be in guiding me in meditations, they will bring something up in my energy field that is a blockage of sorts, and I have to go through the self exploration and self exposure of releasing those blocks.
I would like to mention that I learned a while back how to cross ghosts over. I mention it here in post #11 and #16 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?21695-How-To-See-A-Ghost-For-Your-Self&p=250651#post250651)
This comes into play later.

So, I'm meditating with the folks (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22614-Holographically-Projected-Human-Alien-Healers), when I notice a being in the room with us.
This being for all intents and purposes appeared to be a man, except that he was not something I could see with my meditation eyes.
I could only see him from the corners of my eyes.
In order to keep him in my vision, I had to move my head from side to side to keep him in my field of vision.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/asset.php?fid=6110&uid=6168&d=1307776664

This should have told me that he was not a ghost. But, having had no experience with whatever this (shadow being) was, I continued to treat him like a ghost.
I placed my palms forward and began the breathing exercises that would allow me to project energy through my palms towards him.
This man of pure black hovered in front of me, accepting my offering of energy and a sort of communication then began to occur.
I began empathizing with the man, trying to find out why he was a ghost so that I could help him.
I figuired that if I helped him forgive himself, for whatever it was he had done, then he could pass over.

I should mention that this was one of those rare times when the folks (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22614-Holographically-Projected-Human-Alien-Healers)interjected.
I should have known at this point that something was a-miss.
The folks were telling me that it was not a good idea to continue what I was doing.
"Posh! What the hell do they know!"
For the record, I have noticed now, (hindsight is 20/20) that when the folks (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22614-Holographically-Projected-Human-Alien-Healers)appear, ghosts can not stay, so the fact that the folks were there meditating with me and this (shadow being) was there means the shadow being was not a ghost.
I don't know how or why, but the presence of the folks (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22614-Holographically-Projected-Human-Alien-Healers) banishes ghosts.
But, this being, (this being of dark and shadow) was not being banished like ghosts are subject to being when the folks show up.
This could tell me a lot if I could extract the right answer from it.

As I meditated with this, shadow creature that looked like a man I began to extract certain pieces of knowledge.
For instance, he had done something that he regretted immeseurably, and it was this guilt that kept him from moving on.
Now this seems like typical ghost stuff. But now it get's weird. When I began an immersive meditation of forgivness of myself so that I could project the energy of forgiveness onto the shadow man so that he could feel how good this felt and begin to forgive himself he stopped me.
He told me how afraid he was of those he considered to be above himself,(his superiors) and how there was no way he would be able to move on so to speak.

It was then that I noticed that this being had a cord attached to me.
This cord was attached to myself and I don't know how many others, but I wasn't a singular connection for this entity.
This entity had other humans attached to it.
And this entity also had cords attached to it by other shadow creature entities that seemed to be above it.
There seemed to be a pyramid scheme of sorts, and this entity connected to me was a gatherer of human energy and there were those above it, who could take this creatures stolen and personal energy.

I continued meditating with this being, and he eventually forgave himself enough to detach from me.
At this point, he noticed the "folks (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22614-Holographically-Projected-Human-Alien-Healers)", and they led him off to what looked like an upward ascending spiral staircase.
Now, I have to tell you, this was weird too, because the folks (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22614-Holographically-Projected-Human-Alien-Healers)don't deal with ghosts.
They are not angels. I can only use conjecture at this point when contemplating what happened to said individual.
It is my rationale(though I was never told this) that the folks (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22614-Holographically-Projected-Human-Alien-Healers) had to do work with this individual to get him to release his cords that were connected to other human beings(before he could cross over).
Further more, he may have had to have had help in releasing the cords that were attached to those above him(in the pyramid scheme) before he could pass over.

The folks then began concentrating on healing my area of recent connection and detachment. (This area was sore for a couple of days).
I was then capable of receiving a message from them, and the message was that, the reason they had suggested I not try to do what I did, wasn't so much in that I couldn't do it, (which is what I thought at the time, because this being was by far the most difficult being to cross over I had ever accomplished) it was that this being was sure to be replaced by another and you didn't know if the new one would be better or worse than the previous one.

Such is the state of our hyper-sexed society. For the cord of this being was definatly attached to my sexual area. I don't consider my self an over sexed person, but averagelly so. One must admit that an immense amount of energy, wether you call it psychic or spiritual is projected here. I can't help but to be reminded of Carlos Castaneda's admonishments about not wasting one's energy in the sexual arena and the later mentionings of the "mudshadows", a group of non-organic life forms that feed on human energy.
This seems like a good enough note to end on as any.

All questions and speculations are welcome.
DNA

[RMorgan]

Well, I have a lot of experience with "shadow people". I agree with Castaneda, as I believe they are inorganic beings, that never were and never will be human. They are a full different race.

There was a moment in my life, when I had trouble with them, because they feed from our energy indeed, specially when we´re sleeping. I also think they have the abilities to induce nightmares, because they like to feed with fear. By that time, when I was about 12, I was introduced to meditation and all sorts of spiritual works, by one of my guides, who presented himself as an old, African tribal warrior.

I was indeed told to not try to engage talking or any kind of interaction with "shadow people". I was also introduced to a symbol, that, if drawn on doors and windows of a room is incredibly effective to keep these beings away.

If you are in touch with your inner animal guide, growling might be pretty effective against those beings as well. When one of those beings surprises me, my first reaction is always to growl and grumble.

Anyway, this is my advice. Don´t ever try interacting with them. There´s a hierarchic among them. Some of them are harmless and will just suck a small amount of your energy. Some others are pretty bad-ass.

[delfine]

Well, I have a lot of experience with "shadow people". I agree with Castaneda, as I believe they are inorganic beings, that never were and never will be human. They are a full different race.

There was a moment in my life, when I had trouble with them, because they feed from our energy indeed, specially when we´re sleeping. I also think they have the abilities to induce nightmares, because they like to feed with fear. By that time, when I was about 12, I was introduced to meditation and all sorts of spiritual works, by one of my guides, who presented himself as an old, African tribal warrior.

I was indeed told to not try to engage talking or any kind of interaction with "shadow people". I was also introduced to a symbol, that, if drawn on doors and windows of a room is incredibly effective to keep these beings away.

If you are in touch with your inner animal guide, growling might be pretty effective against those beings as well. When one of those beings surprises me, my first reaction is always to growl and grumble.

Anyway, this is my advice. Don´t ever try interacting with them. There´s a hierarchic among them. Some of them are harmless and will just suck a small amount of your energy. Some others are pretty bad-ass.

Could you share this symbol with us?

[RMorgan]

Well, I have a lot of experience with "shadow people". I agree with Castaneda, as I believe they are inorganic beings, that never were and never will be human. They are a full different race.

There was a moment in my life, when I had trouble with them, because they feed from our energy indeed, specially when we´re sleeping. I also think they have the abilities to induce nightmares, because they like to feed with fear. By that time, when I was about 12, I was introduced to meditation and all sorts of spiritual works, by one of my guides, who presented himself as an old, African tribal warrior.

I was indeed told to not try to engage talking or any kind of interaction with "shadow people". I was also introduced to a symbol, that, if drawn on doors and windows of a room is incredibly effective to keep these beings away.

If you are in touch with your inner animal guide, growling might be pretty effective against those beings as well. When one of those beings surprises me, my first reaction is always to growl and grumble.

Anyway, this is my advice. Don´t ever try interacting with them. There´s a hierarchic among them. Some of them are harmless and will just suck a small amount of your energy. Some others are pretty bad-ass.

Could you share this symbol with us?

Yes! Sure! It´s attached!

[Ecnal61]

thanx DNA for posting your piece some of it resonated with me very much and given me food for thought.

[DNA]

There was a moment in my life, when I had trouble with them, because they feed from our energy indeed, specially when we´re sleeping. I also think they have the abilities to induce nightmares, because they like to feed with fear. By that time, when I was about 12, I was introduced to meditation and all sorts of spiritual works, by one of my guides, who presented himself as an old, African tribal warrior.


It took me quite a while to get my third eye open to the point I could see into this stuff. I was seeing/looking at ghosts for years before this shadow incident, and I just want to say, ghosts are far more common than people think. And they do in fact parasitize people, and their favorite time to do so is while folks are sleeping. And yea, depending on the ghost, some really do like to use fear or bad dreams to illicit an emotional reaction, which is energy for them. I wrote a thread about ghosts here - How To See A Ghost For Your Self (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?21695-How-To-See-A-Ghost-For-Your-Self)

Thanks for your input RMorgan.

[PurpleLama]

shadow entities are not all the same as sucubbi or incubi, meaning sexually oriented. Not all of the sucubbi or incubi are shadow beings. Sometimes they appear human, but they feed off of the same energy, sure as shooting.

[seehas]

very interesting, i searched a bit and find this symbol to be the dagaz rune.

http://www.bewitchingways.com/images/Futhark-Daeg.jpg


"Dagaz, which traditionally means day, has a lot to do with attitude-it can indicate a change of mind or heart on the part of a querent. Sometimes, it shows that querent has decided to make the best of a situation that he can't control.


Spiritually the rune represents divine light that takes a person from darkness towards light. The magical powers of the rune can be used to make a fresh start or to make a person come to his senses and understand life.

Being nonreversible, Dagaz doesn't necessarily have a negative aspect. Even in otherwise negative casts, the presence of Dagaz indicates that the querent may still be able to salvage something out of an otherwise disastrous situation.

If you look at it closely, you can start to see that Dagaz resembles the lemniscate (sideways figure eight), the symbol of infinity. In this way, Dagaz in a cast indicates the unlimited possibilities before a person, the idea of "the sky's the limit." "

[DNA]

shadow entities are not all the same

This small phrase says a lot as far as I am concerned. I believe there may be several classifications here but I can think of two that may help in deriving applications that make sense.

1. I think first off we could classify shadow beings by what energy they feed on. I have mentioned sexual energy but I am just one person, my experience may not be indicitive of all forms of energy fed on so I would not/never consider my experience to be a one size fits all application.

1.a
Every Chalkra may in one form or another depending on the person be a possible energy source for the Shadow beings.

1.b
Certain circumstances humans put them selves in may contribute to a shadow being ie - Drug Addiction (indeed many songs about drug addiction seem to indicate a dark presense, especially heroin) Cruel Behavior (Using position/authority or a particular skill to steal energy from people may make you a shadow person's favorite tool) Fame (Think about all the folks who succumb to fame and end up in early graves, could it be that they could not handle being the abode of a force that wished to take advantage of all they attention/energy they were receiving?) Secret Societies (Is it possible that when making pacts and promises in ancient greek that folks are willingly asking strange entities into themselves? To this I really think yes) Human Sacrifice (I know this seems rather dark, but human sacrifice has been going on for as long as mankind has been on the planet and only very recently has become a shunned practice,,,many think that this practice is still carried about by secret societies bohemian grove etc, there are parts of the CHI body that are said to linger behind when the soul passes over, could this decaying energy body be a feast for shadow beings? I think it very possible.

2. If there is indeed a pyramid scheme going on, couldn't this be classified as an orginization? Could there be competing orginizations?

[PurpleLama]

I absolutely agree, DNA. Other dimensional parasitic entities exist in many variations, but just as often as they would be termed coherent engergetic constructs that we ourselves create! As you well know "thoughts are things" and "mind is the builder" the implication being that we manifest our experiences, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. So in some instances, if not most, what we see as shadow may be the constructs of ourselves or of other people around us. Or it might be other dimensions bleeding through. The dimensions are supposed to flow one into another, but our mass consciousness had been led to damming up the flow. I think that blocking the flow from some dimensions may be what makes ours open to others, others where these shadows prevail. Perhaps with the turn of the yuga, or the precession, or whatever, perhaps this flow naturally goes from one way to another, and we are in the midst of the balancing point now, just starting to swing back the other way.

[DNA]

Hi PurpleLama
I agree there are a multitude of parasitic orgnisims that exist in this state of fine matter.
To disscuss these multitudes I started this thread Parasitic Non-Organic Multidimensional Beings (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?21614-Parasitic-Non-Organic-Multidimensional-Beings)
I discuss tulpas and I even give what I think is a new spin on the tulpa manifestation.

This thread on shadow beings, started as an entry on the afore mentioned thread, but, buried posts on threads are some times worth their own thread. And I would love to be able to discuss this topic at length.

I give an explanation of "The fourth Dimension (http://www.kahealani.com/articles/fourth_dimension.html)" on the afore mentioned thread, and this link does a decent job as well.
I think most of these parasites, shadow beings included, make a permanent abode in this fourth dimension, and this is because in the fourth dimension it is as you say "thought becomes reality", they just need the energy to exist in this dimension, and that is where we come in to the equation.

[BMJ]

It took me quite a while to get my third eye open to the point I could see into this stuff. I was seeing/looking at ghosts for years before this shadow incident, and I just want to say, ghosts are far more common than people think. And they do in fact parasitize people, and their favorite time to do so is while folks are sleeping. And yea, depending on the ghost, some really do like to use fear or bad dreams to illicit an emotional reaction, which is energy for them. I wrote a thread about ghosts here - How To See A Ghost For Your Self (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?21695-How-To-See-A-Ghost-For-Your-Self)

Absolutely DNA I have seen the grey shadows day or night for years, and I agree with your conclusions I think they feed of "any" negative energy.

You might be interested in reading my experience, link below:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14614-Physical-possession-by-another-spirit

[delfine]

Thanks a lot RMorgan! :)

[vansak]

thanks for the post! I actually just posted today about my recent experience & awakening to all of this. I have had 1,000's of encounters with "shadow people" - that is beings that do not appear as though they reside within our physical reality & leverage human hosts to operate & control the world in which we live in. On top of that I also concluded in a huge way that these entities feed off of human energy - but based upon my experience it is like a drug - a highly addictive one. It is through this "addiction", feeding off of sexual energy, fear, paranoia, and obsession that they can find themselves pushing it too far, just like an addict, which causes them to make poor decisions. It is ironically that through these poor decisions I have come to the realizations that I have. There is benevolence out there of course, but we are in the midst of a hidden war in which a mutation of humanity is in effect now - being invoked through subconscious frequencies & vibrational patterns omitting from everywhere & planted around us in the form of sounds of "nature", but they are synthesized & a huge contributor to this ongoing attack. Please see my other posts "mutation of of humanity" as well. I'm not a conspiracy theorist nor UFOlogist. I only realized what the New World Order was all about this year. But I have had a very realy experience & uncovered substantial information that ties directly to what folks like Alex Jones, Jordan Maxwell, and David Icke have been saying all along - that as a race we are gradually being genetically mutated into taking on physical anomalies & being further dumbed down into a controlled state & slave race. Unbelieveably these guys were right - please channel yourselves towards the truth as I really need people to start believing in me - and as importantly in each other.

[TWINCANS]

shadow entities are not all the same

This small phrase says a lot as far as I am concerned. I believe there may be several classifications here but I can think of two that may help in deriving applications that make sense.

1. I think first off we could classify shadow beings by what energy they feed on. I have mentioned sexual energy but I am just one person, my experience may not be indicitive of all forms of energy fed on so I would not/never consider my experience to be a one size fits all application.

1.a
Every Chalkra may in one form or another depending on the person be a possible energy source for the Shadow beings.

1.b
Certain circumstances humans put them selves in may contribute to a shadow being ie - Drug Addiction (indeed many songs about drug addiction seem to indicate a dark presense, especially heroin) Cruel Behavior (Using position/authority or a particular skill to steal energy from people may make you a shadow person's favorite tool) Fame (Think about all the folks who succumb to fame and end up in early graves, could it be that they could not handle being the abode of a force that wished to take advantage of all they attention/energy they were receiving?) Secret Societies (Is it possible that when making pacts and promises in ancient greek that folks are willingly asking strange entities into themselves? To this I really think yes) Human Sacrifice (I know this seems rather dark, but human sacrifice has been going on for as long as mankind has been on the planet and only very recently has become a shunned practice,,,many think that this practice is still carried about by secret societies bohemian grove etc, there are parts of the CHI body that are said to linger behind when the soul passes over, could this decaying energy body be a feast for shadow beings? I think it very possible.

2. If there is indeed a pyramid scheme going on, couldn't this be classified as an orginization? Could there be competing orginizations?


I might also add that Illness can also be a cause. ie that the person cannot defend themselves due to a weakness caused by illness. Hubby has Chronic Fatique and Fibromyagia with the resulting depressed immune system. Personally he has done much inner work so his aura has quite a lot of Light/high frequency. So when he's in a bout of his ME/Fibro he is abused like crazy on many occasions by those who live in the shadows.

[DNA]

I might also add that Illness can also be a cause. ie that the person cannot defend themselves due to a weakness caused by illness. Hubby has Chronic Fatique and Fibromyagia with the resulting depressed immune system. Personally he has done much inner work so his aura has quite a lot of Light/high frequency. So when he's in a bout of his ME/Fibro he is abused like crazy on many occasions by those who live in the shadows.

You may have something there Twincams, I had a dialogue a few years back,,,,(well,,,,ten years back to be exact) with a man from Toronto. He talked at length about having FibroMyalgia and thinking that he was in a state of extreme parasatism. He blamed ghosts. I was in agreement with him.

[TWINCANS]

I might also add that Illness can also be a cause. ie that the person cannot defend themselves due to a weakness caused by illness. Hubby has Chronic Fatique and Fibromyagia with the resulting depressed immune system. Personally he has done much inner work so his aura has quite a lot of Light/high frequency. So when he's in a bout of his ME/Fibro he is abused like crazy on many occasions by those who live in the shadows.

You may have something there Twincams, I had a dialogue a few years back,,,,(well,,,,ten years back to be exact) with a man from Toronto. He talked at length about having FibroMyalgia and thinking that he was in a state of extreme parasatism. He blamed ghosts. I was in agreement with him.

Sorry what is parasatism?

[TWINCANS]

I might also add that Illness can also be a cause. ie that the person cannot defend themselves due to a weakness caused by illness. Hubby has Chronic Fatique and Fibromyagia with the resulting depressed immune system. Personally he has done much inner work so his aura has quite a lot of Light/high frequency. So when he's in a bout of his ME/Fibro he is abused like crazy on many occasions by those who live in the shadows.

You may have something there Twincams, I had a dialogue a few years back,,,,(well,,,,ten years back to be exact) with a man from Toronto. He talked at length about having FibroMyalgia and thinking that he was in a state of extreme parasatism. He blamed ghosts. I was in agreement with him.

Sorry what is parasatism?


Yes, I get the typo now. Yes, that has certainly happened. Also triggering of past experiences - of a life threatening nature, including appearing as one particular individual from the past who was indeed very evil- so stimulating the adrenaline/fight or flight response, so running for hours, which is exhausting to one with chronic fatigue syndrome as you can imagine. This happens so often I can't count.

[DNA]

Sorry what is parasatism?

Sorry, spelled it wrong.

Parasitism. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism)



Parasitism is a type of symbiotic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis) relationship between organisms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism) of different species (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species) where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_(biology)).

[TWINCANS]

Sorry what is parasatism?

Sorry, spelled it wrong.

Parasitism. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism)



Parasitism is a type of symbiotic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis) relationship between organisms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism) of different species (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species) where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_(biology)).



Thankjs for that. It all sounds very friendly (symbiotic) doesn't it. Not.

It has made me wonder on occassion where these diseases came from, and whether the weakness and thus vulnerability wasn't their primary reason for being introduced/ induced on us poor sap humans. Our understanding of ME as its called in the uk (chronic fatique over here) is that it's a fungus that attaches itself to the brain stem. We understand that hubby got it at aged 11 yrs from the hospital when the body was opened for appendicitis op. It grew and was encouraged by injections for Hep1&2 due to work requirements, and then heavy metals and trauma in dentistry, then life & work stress, then auto rear ender that hits the vertebra at a bad point and sets it into major attack mode. Thus the stage is set for all these shadow entities to feed and abuse to their heart's content. I'm sure there's more to the path of domination it takes, and each person's is probably a bit different, but the original fungus is not natural, I think.

That brings to mind your idea, which I agree with that:
1.a
Every Chalkra may in one form or another depending on the person be a possible energy source for the Shadow beings.

[ghostrider]

I was an atheist, till a shadow person invaded my room one night, scared the bejesus out of me and I went church hunting and after 50 different churches I found God's spirit and became a lay minister and strange things began happening and till this day I know things before they happen. I try to hide this ability from everyone, but at least here people won't judge me, some days I'd rather be normal, ignorance is bliss. when knowledge increases sorrow increases. happy to say I've broken past the constucted religion program , being aware of the unity of mind and spirit/connection of us all as one, is true freedom, thus the truth shall SET you free.... shadow people are very real, and can take many forms, even the reflection of you looking back at you. NEVER trust them .. no matter what anyone says, NEVER trust shadow people.....

[TraineeHuman]

DNA, I have a different explanation of “shadow beings”. Firstly, though, in my experience they don’t have the (dazzling and bright) golden aura of a higher god or a senior angel, but instead a somewhat dirty pale yellow aura. I suppose maybe they have that yellow colour because yellow is the colour of intellect and thought, and as far as I can make sense of it, these beings are thought forms or disembodied personalities or identities.

Second point – at least as far as my own experience goes. DNA, it’s really great that you can see that the “shadow beings” have cords joining them to you and to other shadow beings. However, what I see is that 99.9% of people have many, many cords tying them to all their family members and lovers, and usually to a lesser extent to their friends, co-workers, employers, teachers, etc etc, both past and present. Once a cord gets created, it stays there until removed, or until death. Yes, and also there are some cords tying a person to certain “shadow beings”, which are often the person’s personalities from some past lifetimes.

So, let’s talk more about cords. At least 99.9% of people have at least one cord attached to every last square inch of their (physical) body, according to my perception. The genitals or chakras aren’t somehow primary in any way you seem to want to suppose. It’s just great that you can see cords at all, but cords – and “energetic vampirism” -- are not a phenomenon in any way special to “shadow beings”. Rather, they are a human phenomenon.

What are cords? In a word, they are (the energetic part of) all your attachments. If you didn’t have sub-conscious attachments to certain of your past lifetimes and to other identities, you wouldn’t have any cords to “shadow beings”. The proper cutting of cords – freeing yourself from them – is a very concise summary of everything that spiritual liberation is about. Whenever you have a cord tying you to anyone or anything else, “energetic vampirism” goes on, in both directions.

The next question logically is: “What exactly is an attachment, and how does one cut it in a clean and healthy and constructive and amicable way?” Well, my short answer is that what most people (and the advertising industry) call “love” is probably over 50% attachment. there’s nearly always at least some genuine love in there, too. But the attachment is precisely the thing that gradually destroys the love. Attachment is to do with “liking” as distinct from passion. Passion is part of genuine love. Attachment can just as easily also get formed from “disliking” as from “liking”. You are so determined to avoid that pink elephant that in your mind and heart you single pink elephants out for special clinging on to, for special resisting.

[DNA]

DNA, I have a different explanation of “shadow beings”. Firstly, though, in my experience they don’t have the (dazzling and bright) golden aura of a higher god or a senior angel, but instead a somewhat dirty pale yellow aura. I suppose maybe they have that yellow colour because yellow is the colour of intellect and thought, and as far as I can make sense of it, these beings are thought forms or disembodied personalities or identities.

That's interesting. It may be that we are talking about two different things.
How do you percieve what you are seeing?
Do you see it with your minds eye with your eyes closed?
Are you seeing them in glimpses?




Second point – at least as far as my own experience goes. DNA, it’s really great that you can see that the “shadow beings” have cords joining them to you and to other shadow beings.

I never actually saw them. The cords were more of an intuition.



However, what I see is that 99.9% of people have many, many cords tying them to all their family members and lovers, and usually to a lesser extent to their friends, co-workers, employers, teachers, etc etc, both past and present. Once a cord gets created, it stays there until removed, or until death. Yes, and also there are some cords tying a person to certain “shadow beings”, which are often the person’s personalities from some past lifetimes.

I can see that. I have a friend who attends group shamanic events.
They claim to use a cord cutting ceremony to indicate rites of passage.
But, she claims that cord cutting is a major ceremony that most folks go through just because it is considered unhealthy to be corded to too many individuals.

I've never had one done, and for that matter, I don't know if they work.
A obsidian blade is used.
What rational is behind the use of this mineral is unknown to myself.

I personally disagree with the idea that shadow beings are former personalities of one self.



So, let’s talk more about cords. At least 99.9% of people have at least one cord attached to every last square inch of their (physical) body, according to my perception. The genitals or chakras aren’t somehow primary in any way you seem to want to suppose. It’s just great that you can see cords at all, but cords – and “energetic vampirism” -- are not a phenomenon in any way special to “shadow beings”. Rather, they are a human phenomenon.

When you say your perception do you mind clarifying that? I would just like to get an idea of how you are percieving them is all.

I agree that energetic vampirism is not confined to this topic.





What are cords? In a word, they are (the energetic part of) all your attachments. If you didn’t have sub-conscious attachments to certain of your past lifetimes and to other identities, you wouldn’t have any cords to “shadow beings”. The proper cutting of cords – freeing yourself from them – is a very concise summary of everything that spiritual liberation is about. Whenever you have a cord tying you to anyone or anything else, “energetic vampirism” goes on, in both directions.


This sounds very much like the recapitulation exercises talked about in the Carlos Castaneda books.
I've seen the folks who profess to do this cord cutting thing in my freinds Shaman group, and I just don't know if I believe this sort of thing can be done with one simple swipe.

I'm more inclined to believe the Castaneda version of this. Unfortunatly, the Castaneda version is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,DIFFICULT.
One is supposed to sit inside of a small enclosed space, a small cave not ussually being accessible to most folks so a large crate with air holes will ussually do.
One is then supposed to turn off one's internal dialogue, and as you remember your life, you are supposed to breath in the energy you left behind in other people as you slowly move your head from right to left and as you move your head from left to right you breath out the energy that was left behind in you by others.

What makes this DIFFICULT is that you are supposed to do this for every single memory and interaction you have ever had.

Oh cool,,,I found the exact Castaneda quote on RECAPITULATION



A recapitulation is the forte of stalkers as the dreaming body is the forte of dreamers . It consists of recollecting one's life down to the most insignificant detail.
The first stage is a brief recounting of all the incidents in our lives that in an obvious manner stand out for examination.
The second stage is a more detailed recollection, which starts systematically at a point that could be the moment prior to the stalker sitting, and theoretically could extend to the moment of birth.
A perfect recapitulation can change a warrior as much, if not more, than the total control of the dreaming body . In this respect, dreaming and stalking lead to the same end, the entering into the third attention. It is important for a warrior, however, to know and practice both.
The key element in recapitulating is breathing. Recollecting is easy if one can reduce the area of stimulation around the body. Theoretically, stalkers have to remember every feeling that they have had in their lives, and this process begins with a breath.
Write down a list of the events to be relived. The procedure starts with an initial breath. Stalkers begin with their chin on the right shoulder and slowly inhale as they move their head over a hundred and eighty degree arc. The breath terminates on the left shoulder. Once the inhalation ends, the head goes back to a relaxed position. They exhale looking straight ahead.
The stalker then takes the event at the top of the list and remains with it until all the feelings expended in it have been recounted. As stalkers remember the feelings they invested in whatever it is that they are remembering, they inhale slowly, moving their heads from the right shoulder to the left. The function of this breathing is to restore energy. The luminous body is constantly creating cobweblike filaments, which are projected out of the luminous mass, propelled by emotions of any sort. Therefore, every situation of interaction, or every situation where feelings are involved, is potentially draining to the luminous body. By breathing from right to left while remembering a feeling, stalkers , through the magic of breathing, pick up the filaments they left behind. The next immediate breath is from left to right and it is an exhalation. With it stalkers eject filaments left in them by other luminous bodies involved in the event being recollected.





I hear what you are saying in regards to the human condition HumanTrainee, and I used to think one could extricate one self from it, but, I just don't know if that is possible any more.
Or even preferable.


The next question logically is: “What exactly is an attachment, and how does one cut it in a clean and healthy and constructive and amicable way?” Well, my short answer is that what most people (and the advertising industry) call “love” is probably over 50% attachment. there’s nearly always at least some genuine love in there, too. But the attachment is precisely the thing that gradually destroys the love. Attachment is to do with “liking” as distinct from passion. Passion is part of genuine love. Attachment can just as easily also get formed from “disliking” as from “liking”. You are so determined to avoid that pink elephant that in your mind and heart you single pink elephants out for special clinging on to, for special resisting.

I understand detachment, I really do.
It is indeed exceedingly important.


Castaneda

I am already given to the power that rules my fateAnd I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend.
I have no thoughts, so I will see.
I fear nothing, so I will remember myself.
Detached and at ease,
I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

[Aoichi]

I personally had never had a "Shadow Person" interaction until I met my fiance 5 years ago. From the get go she was "Haunted" if you will, by these and other beings. It was a normal daily thing to her, luckily I have always been able to "Feel" entities but never "See" them, so I was not put off when she would tell me things. The really interesting part is that she distinguished the difference between "shadow beings", ghosts, spirits and "Demons".

I have been personally held down by something that I can only describe as a shadow being in my room one night:
I was sleeping on my bed with my bedroom door open and my fiance and her "friend" where in the next room talking in a well lit living room. I remember waking up very peacefully and tilting my head to look at them. I then got this very odd feeling that I was experiencing sleep paralysis. I had that feeling before so I was not frightened or panicked. But then I realized that I had moved my head so I did again. I looked up to my left and there was a clearly defined person standing over me but it was just black, like a fog that became dense toward the center. I had always been able to concentrate my energy into any area of my body so I focused on my arms where it was holding me and pushed as hard as I could and physically lifted it off of me. As soon as I succeeded in freeing myself it ran through the wall and I jumped out of bed and ran to the living room.

[TraineeHuman]

Hi again, DNA. Thank you for some very interesting and very detailed comments. My theories/observations are all based on my own direct experiences and not on anybody’s writings, such as Castaneda’s. (As far as Castaneda is concerned, some of the things he said suggest to me that he did indeed have some conversations with a genuine, very advanced shaman. Other things he wrote seem to me to be almost certainly pure fiction and designed to be sensationalist or paranoid or whatever sells, I’m afraid.)

How do I see cords or “shadow beings” or energy fields? Well, I simply centre myself (really get into my body) and look, and the pale yellow colour and the shape of “shadow beings” is what my brain records just exactly as if what I was seeing was a physical object that is pale yellow in colour. I “see” these things with my eyes open. I don’t usually see these things in glimpses. (However, I only see nature spirits in glimpses unless I make a determined effort to concentrate on focusing on what I’ve seen a glimpse of, in the case of nature spirits. But it seems that most other people who can see nature spirits only ever manage to see them in glimpses. For some reason I have a special affinity with nature spirits, though.) Cords are much more subtle and even fainter than “shadow beings”, and kind of colourless but also look a very pale grey. By the way, I don’t like “shadow beings” as a term. I don’t like it because it could create confusion with our “shadow side”, which is roughly the same as our “ego”. By the way, I’ve also seen some real ghosts, and they were white or grey in colour.

How does a person learn to “see” auras and spirit entities and conscious energy forms and even cords etc? Well, I believe, for example, that Castaneda described some techniques for learning to do that in at least one of his books – if you can’t already do it naturally. It’s not too hard for anybody to learn. Basically it’s almost a matter of initially learning to squint in a certain way, and then the brain will latch onto the hint that you want it to show you UV and infra-red frequencies as if they were in the visible light spectrum.

I have also had “visions”, which are long like movies, and which occurred with my eyes closed but while very relaxed but definitely awake. But the visions have been very precise and much clearer and “real”-feeling than ordinary life. For instance, in a vision you can follow all the thoughts and feelings of many different people at once without any confusion whatever. However, the visions I have experienced haven’t involved “shadow beings” at all.

I'm sure you’re certainly correct in saying that cutting one’s cords necessarily involves what Castaneda calls “recapitulation”. In other words, it involves recalling all the significant incidents you had with the person with whom you have the cord – which does mean going all the way back to your birth in the case of your parents. Yes, I’m sure you’ve found that difficult to do. But it seems a necessary thing to achieve if you want to get close to spiritual and emotional liberation. Personally, I believe I can recall everything that happened all the way back to birth, and I’ve known quite a few others who could do the same or were well on the way. But it seems to take years of effective meditation combined with never-ending self-inquiry and frequent self-healing or psychotherapy and ruthless commitment to be honest with yourself about yourself, and so on. I find you don’t need to recall every single memory, DNA. You just need to recall all the major incidents in general terms – what was the overall issue, and what was the overall response from each of the parties involved, and what caused you to be wounded or dulled.

Maybe your lack of success so far at remembering all the way back to birth is what you mean when you say you don’t know if it is possible any more to extricate oneself from “the human condition”? Let me assure you it is possible. You just have to get into the habit of questioning everything in your life and watching yourself constantly. I’d say it’s all about “know thyself”, and “to thine own self be true” – if you know who the heck that is. The remembering isn’t strictly speaking the thing that frees you. What frees you is the insights you get when you see how your past really was – and always you see that it was different from how you’d assumed up till now, and it had written on the slate of who you (have believed you) are, but now you can wipe that part clean.

I don’t understand how the pale yellow intelligent energy forms that I see could be a different phenomenon from your “shadow beings”, DNA. Any further comments? You are perfectly right in saying we shouldn’t give them energy. But still, we do need to identify them so that we can get rid of them.


Aoichi: You seem to have described an attempted walk-in. I don't believe any "shadow being" has sufficient life-force to be able to do that. Rather, that would probably have been a powerful human "soul" or "spirit", or maybe an alien attempting an abduction?

[Flash]

I personally had never had a "Shadow Person" interaction until I met my fiance 5 years ago. From the get go she was "Haunted" if you will, by these and other beings. It was a normal daily thing to her, luckily I have always been able to "Feel" entities but never "See" them, so I was not put off when she would tell me things. The really interesting part is that she distinguished the difference between "shadow beings", ghosts, spirits and "Demons".

I have been personally held down by something that I can only describe as a shadow being in my room one night:
I was sleeping on my bed with my bedroom door open and my fiance and her "friend" where in the next room talking in a well lit living room. I remember waking up very peacefully and tilting my head to look at them. I then got this very odd feeling that I was experiencing sleep paralysis. I had that feeling before so I was not frightened or panicked. But then I realized that I had moved my head so I did again. I looked up to my left and there was a clearly defined person standing over me but it was just black, like a fog that became dense toward the center. I had always been able to concentrate my energy into any area of my body so I focused on my arms where it was holding me and pushed as hard as I could and physically lifted it off of me. As soon as I succeeded in freeing myself it ran through the wall and I jumped out of bed and ran to the living room.

similar thing happened to me. I had never heard anyone else talking about it until now. Almost a relief! The being was caped in black, with no face I could distinguished, and was strongly holding my left arm. I focused very much because I was sleep paralysed and finally freed my arm and punched him. He disappeared on the spot. I woke up in sweat.

I also did some cord cuttng exercises in therapies, you put you and the other in circles underneath your and his feet. Both circles are touching. You make an 8 or infinity around them and then you cut at the junction of the 8, with an imaginary knife of scissor.

[DNA]

I personally had never had a "Shadow Person" interaction until I met my fiance 5 years ago. From the get go she was "Haunted" if you will, by these and other beings. It was a normal daily thing to her, luckily I have always been able to "Feel" entities but never "See" them, so I was not put off when she would tell me things. The really interesting part is that she distinguished the difference between "shadow beings", ghosts, spirits and Demons".

Hi Aoichi
Thank you for your experiences. Fascinating stuff.
I was like you as a teenager and young adult, I could "feel" entities but I had never "seen" one either.
And I chuckle as I read how you put "luckily" there. LOL :)
It is here I have to agree.
I would not wish seeing into the astral on anyone who wasn't prepared for it.
Myself included at a young age. :)

I agree with your statement about your fiancee being a "haunted" person.
I don't know her of course, but I'm a "huanted" person and it is a lot more common than folks care to believe.
As a matter of fact, those whose perceptions are tinged towards the gifted side tend to attract said beings from my experience so you may have a few yourself. :)

I find it interesting that she could distinguish between different types of astral beings. This is very interesting. Did she say how she percieved them?
You may want to her show her this thread. Parasitic Non-Organic Multidimensional Beings (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?21614-Parasitic-Non-Organic-Multidimensional-Beings)
It sounds like she may have a few stories she could contribute. :)





I have been personally held down by something that I can only describe as a shadow being in my room one night:
I was sleeping on my bed with my bedroom door open and my fiance and her "friend" where in the next room talking in a well lit living room. I remember waking up very peacefully and tilting my head to look at them. I then got this very odd feeling that I was experiencing sleep paralysis. I had that feeling before so I was not frightened or panicked. But then I realized that I had moved my head so I did again. I looked up to my left and there was a clearly defined person standing over me but it was just black, like a fog that became dense toward the center. I had always been able to concentrate my energy into any area of my body so I focused on my arms where it was holding me and pushed as hard as I could and physically lifted it off of me. As soon as I succeeded in freeing myself it ran through the wall and I jumped out of bed and ran to the living room.

I couldn't help but note your fiance was talking to a "freind" in the next room.
Was there a hidden meaning here?
Was your fiancee talking to an entity?

The incident you described is mosts commonly known as "Old hag Syndrome".
I have had it myself numerous times.
I wouldn't worry to much about it. What you experienced is the worst they can do.
It is ussually caused by a ghost, but I'm sure other astral parasitic entities could perform the manuever as well.

When we dream we leave our bodies. A ghost takes advantage of this by some how not allowing the soul to fully come back to the body upon waking.
And while not awake or asleep, you see with you astral eye more, and can make out the entity attacking you.

[DNA]

Hi again, DNA. Thank you for some very interesting and very detailed comments. My theories/observations are all based on my own direct experiences and not on anybody’s writings, such as Castaneda’s. (As far as Castaneda is concerned, some of the things he said suggest to me that he did indeed have some conversations with a genuine, very advanced shaman. Other things he wrote seem to me to be almost certainly pure fiction and designed to be sensationalist or paranoid or whatever sells, I’m afraid.)


You may be right about Castaneda being sensationilistic and fictitious.
I wrote a paper in college debunking him.
It was a lot of work because I really wanted to get to the bottom of it myself.
Amidst all the reports of descrepencies in his log books by (Richard Demille) and the accusations that many of the teachings came from the Huichol indians not the Yaqui Indians by (Peter Furst) the one thing continuity that jumped out at me was this, his freinds and colleagues never intimated there was a deception.

Mulitple occasions fellow anthropologists were asked and baited in my opinon to out Castaneda with charges of creative license. Not only did this not happen, but folks reported a profound change in him upon his arrivals back from deep within the Mexican country side.





How do I see cords or “shadow beings” or energy fields? Well, I simply centre myself (really get into my body) and look, and the pale yellow colour and the shape of “shadow beings” is what my brain records just exactly as if what I was seeing was a physical object that is pale yellow in colour. I “see” these things with my eyes open.


I find that profound. Maybe your a crystal child or something. I worked for years. And only by luck did my third eye open up.
I used the open eye meditation "shadow gazing" as outlined in the Castaneda books, and "pebble gazing" as outlined as well. I didn't do these meditations because I thought my third eye would open up. I did them because they provided me with the easiest entry into meditation, and the deepest voyages into meditation.

Even with this "luck" I still have to enter into a full meditaiton before I'm able to see any more than a glimpse into the etheric world.




I don’t usually see these things in glimpses. (However, I only see nature spirits in glimpses unless I make a determined effort to concentrate on focusing on what I’ve seen a glimpse of, in the case of nature spirits. But it seems that most other people who can see nature spirits only ever manage to see them in glimpses. For some reason I have a special affinity with nature spirits, though.) Cords are much more subtle and even fainter than “shadow beings”, and kind of colourless but also look a very pale grey. By the way, I don’t like “shadow beings” as a term. I don’t like it because it could create confusion with our “shadow side”, which is roughly the same as our “ego”. By the way, I’ve also seen some real ghosts, and they were white or grey in colour.

I agree seeing nature beings is a bit more difficult than the other stuff.
I have forever been at a loss as how to describe nature beings properly.
Nature beings are "alive", they are not astral entities living in the fourth dimension.
Nature beings seem to be "living" off the land so to speak.
There seems to be a direct corrolation to "nature" and them survivng there, ie, they are not there for asctetic purposes only, but depend on sustainance.






How does a person learn to “see” auras and spirit entities and conscious energy forms and even cords etc? Well, I believe, for example, that Castaneda described some techniques for learning to do that in at least one of his books – if you can’t already do it naturally. It’s not too hard for anybody to learn. Basically it’s almost a matter of initially learning to squint in a certain way, and then the brain will latch onto the hint that you want it to show you UV and infra-red frequencies as if they were in the visible light spectrum.

HT I don't know who you are hanging out with or what kool aid you guys are drinking but you need to pass some of that sh!t around. :)



If you can't do it naturally?
Let me tell you HT, you are far in the minority of poeple who can do it naturally.

As for the difficulty in learning. I don't know. Does it depend on the person's proclavities? I would think so. For instance, those folks who said they can feel the presence of astrals and ghosts, those folks I think would fall into a class that could learn this stuff for sure. But, easy? I don't think so. It wasn't easy for me.
And as far as going all snake eyes like you said, Castaneda mentions that in his books, but that never worked for me. For me, it was all about getting to a point in my meditations where I could see the morphegenic field that surrounds everything. Once there my third eye enhances my actual eyeball vision and other things become visible.



I have also had “visions”, which are long like movies, and which occurred with my eyes closed but while very relaxed but definitely awake. But the visions have been very precise and much clearer and “real”-feeling than ordinary life. For instance, in a vision you can follow all the thoughts and feelings of many different people at once without any confusion whatever. However, the visions I have experienced haven’t involved “shadow beings” at all.
I'm sure you’re certainly correct in saying that cutting one’s cords necessarily involves what Castaneda calls “recapitulation”. In other words, it involves recalling all the significant incidents you had with the person with whom you have the cord – which does mean going all the way back to your birth in the case of your parents. Yes, I’m sure you’ve found that difficult to do. But it seems a necessary thing to achieve if you want to get close to spiritual and emotional liberation. Personally, I believe I can recall everything that happened all the way back to birth, and I’ve known quite a few others who could do the same or were well on the way. But it seems to take years of effective meditation combined with never-ending self-inquiry and frequent self-healing or psychotherapy and ruthless commitment to be honest with yourself about yourself, and so on. I find you don’t need to recall every single memory, DNA. You just need to recall all the major incidents in general terms – what was the overall issue, and what was the overall response from each of the parties involved, and what caused you to be wounded or dulled.

I'm just curious, are you part of a shamanic group of sorts?
You seem to use some "we's" and "others" and such words signifying you are part of a group of folks joined in common practice.
And for one who says Castaneda is "certainly pure fiction and designed to be sensationalist or paranoid or whatever sells", you certainly go to his well often enough. In your first post I cited Castaneda in reply because I could hear his vocabulary in your post, I thought you would be happy to know I'm a fellow Castanaden. :)
But your second post seemed almost offended by that, and yet, you describe his technique exactly how I posted it in my first reply to you.
The "recapitulation technique" is not a native american technique as Castaneda's detractors love to point out.
There is no record of it anywhere before Castaneda wrote about it.


I found a Shamanic group here in Phoenix Arizona. They are called the "Deer Tribe".
I thought they were cool when I was first introduced to them. I was 20 years old and I was duly impressed that they were using all of Castaneda's catch phrases.
But then they started dogging on Castaneda and I was like "what the hell! you guys are basically practicing everything he teaches verbatum, how can you guys dog him?"
They were trying to say they came up with this stuff, and Castaneda was a sensationalist.
I thought it was hilarious. And then the truth came out, the group was basically a cult as far as I was concerned, more concerened with orgies and money than true spirituality.






Maybe your lack of success so far at remembering all the way back to birth is what you mean when you say you don’t know if it is possible any more to extricate oneself from “the human condition”? Let me assure you it is possible. You just have to get into the habit of questioning everything in your life and watching yourself constantly. I’d say it’s all about “know thyself”, and “to thine own self be true” – if you know who the heck that is. The remembering isn’t strictly speaking the thing that frees you. What frees you is the insights you get when you see how your past really was – and always you see that it was different from how you’d assumed up till now, and it had written on the slate of who you (have believed you) are, but now you can wipe that part clean.




And here you talk about "Erasing Personal History" another Castaneda philosophy.
I'm not making accusations or anything, but you could pass for a Castanedan scholar my friend. :)

As far as my lack of success with doing the "recapitulation", it is because it is extremely hard. One has to be dedicated to a fault.

When I speak of no longer thinking it is nessasary to extricate myself from the human condition, it is because we are born to be human.
I've come to personally believe that we are not here to conquer death, or escape drama so to speak.
Interpersonal relationships, "chords", that is part of being human.
It is indeed these human characteristics which keep out souls coming back to earth to reincarnate.

A heavy infusian of "The Seth Material" and "The Michael Teachings" helped me come to that realization. :)

As well as passing confused souls over to the other side and witnessing the journey first hand. :)



I don’t understand how the pale yellow intelligent energy forms that I see could be a different phenomenon from your “shadow beings”, DNA. Any further comments? You are perfectly right in saying we shouldn’t give them energy. But still, we do need to identify them so that we can get rid of them.

I think they could be ghosts. I've seen pure white ghosts and dull gold ghosts and reddish ghosts. Shadow beings are a unique phenomenon because the are the "absense" of light. They are only defined by the fact that they have "no" visible light relfected from them, and in fact they are an outline of the purest black, just like the picture in my post. I mentioned there that I could only see it out of the corners of my eyes not even with direct vision looking straight at it. I had to keep moving my head back in forth to put it into my periphial vision.

I agree we need to identify them and that is what I'm attempting to do here. Parasitic Non-Organic Multidimensional Beings (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?21614-Parasitic-Non-Organic-Multidimensional-Beings)

Take Care HT
Hope to hear more from you.

[TraineeHuman]

Hi again, DNA. OK, my apologies. When I said some psychic skills are “easy” to develop, I didn’t exactly mean overnight. Yes, developing psychic skills is something of a lifelong occupation, rather like turning into a true musician. Even if you’re born with a natural proclivity for it. It’s kind of like becoming a pro basketball/hockey/football/tennis player. Even after you’ve learnt the skills through full-time practicing them for hours every day, you still need to keep on practicing. The natural ability to have psychic skills also gets released once (and if) a person experiences spiritual enlightenment, but it’s only potential even then, and lots of practice is still necessary. As far as I’ve seen, though, the ability to see auras is about the simplest of all the psychic abilities. That was why I suggested – overoptimistically, as it turns out – that you should hopefully be able to relatively quickly learn to do it just by practising squinting in the right way.

Another thing to note is that initially one probably doesn’t see a nature spirit or an aura or whatever. Instead, one catches a glimpse at the corner of their eye of what seems to be a fleeting movement, quite often slightly dark-looking. Only by concentrating on what one seemed to glimpse does one then bring into focus the aura or whatever it is. There’s a kind of time delay because it takes time to change gears, so to speak, to turn the lights on, so to speak, in the 4D world. So please don’t sell yourself short if you're assuming you don’t have the skill because you don’t see much straight away.

Talking of selling yourself short, you now mention that you’ve watched the process of passing over into the afterlife. That’s an example of a reasonably advanced psychic skill, I would have thought? By the way, how do you do it, and how do you stay in touch throughout the crossing over?

You say I keep using concepts or methods or whatever that sound exactly like they’re straight out of Castaneda. Well, all I can say is that I know you’ll find that a number of different traditions of advanced meditation from different parts of the world all say many things which are pretty much identical. One example of that is that it just happens to be the case that you can’t reach liberation unless you can in broad terms remember the major events and traumas from each year in your life all the way back to birth. Castaneda didn’t invent that. As I said, some of the things Castaneda wrote were very true and quite advanced, or very advanced, along the path. And no, I’m not apart of any shamanic group of any kind.

I don’t have any qualms about supposing Castaneda inserted at least some fictitious material or exaggeration in with the genuine wisdom, because he was after all a commercial writer. In the past I’ve had a number of spiritual/psychic teachers with extraordinary psychic abilities, who could be quite comparable to Castaneda’s Don Matus. However, they were all also very, very flawed in one way or another. One was an out-and-out conman who created a cult which I eventually discovered was controlled by the archons (the bad greys) and was also a sadistic pedophile and general sexual pervert as long as I knew him. He couldn’t open his mouth without lying, yet he was also very psychically gifted.

I haven’t had a teacher who was a shaman or who followed any shamanic teaching, though. And although my teachers taught psychic development, in every case their emphasis was at all times that meditation and self-observation and psychological self-development come first, and to regard most psychic experiences as distractions and not EVER to indulge them, except for brief periods while practicing them under their guidance and in their presence. Actually, all my teachers would assume I knew all sorts of things they knew even though, as far as I was aware, I didn’t. It’s taken decades of working on my self-knowledge before I could admit to myself that I really did know all those things. People are often their own worst handicap.

I guess in a way my mother was my teacher when I was a child. She was extraordinarily psychic. (Actually, she was from the Franco-Prussian royal bloodline. Her family had basically financially and economically dominated the country she was born in. But she ran away penniless when the second world war came, and I was born after she had reached Australia, still penniless.) The funny thing was, she actually believed that everybody was like that – as psychic as she was. She parented her children by watching accurate “movies” in her mind’s eye of absolutely everything my brother or I ever did. No matter if she wasn’t physically present at the time we dared to try something.

Also, as far as I can work out I came to this world as a volunteer, without any previous human lives. That tends to make a person naturally psychic. Because all the gods also sometimes choose to incarnate here on a volunteer basis, some of the best of them have taken an interest in my experiences and have sometimes pointed me towards which direction I might go in next. I guess that’s a rare privelege. So maybe that’s helped me develop psychic abilities faster. But on the other side of the ledger, when I was young I had abnormal difficulty understanding such things as sexuality and money and greed. DNA, you say you find psychic skills difficult to develop, but have you ever considered how complex the “rules” around sexuality are? People who have had previous human lives can instinctively follow them, but that instinct was built up over previous human and animal lifetimes, which I just ain’t got.

Finally, in one earlier post you had said that “shadow beings” looked “golden”, but now you say they look black. In the astral, I do know the colour black always means negative or sick energy, so yes, that’s another kettle of fish from the pale yellow or pale pink ones.