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• A PURPOSE
  - Dan. H The Nightwatchers

• Every persons psychic ability

• Each life has a purpose. A purpose to be discovered by many and a purpose known by many. We are created with a specific path in life and we are given special tools to achieve that intent. For some we are born and as a small child we know that we are destined to follow a specific goal and others of us discover this path later and still others never find it and ultimately deviate from it. I like so many others found that path and try to follow it as best as possible.

• As a small child I discovered that I possessed an ability that at first frightened me until I realized that an ability to communicate with those who have passed was not meant to be scary but looked upon as an opportunity to help others both living and non-living.

  As I grew I noticed that the more I opened my mind and willingness the more diverse my abilities became. I found myself able to in a sense hear, see, feel and talk to others whose existence goes unnoticed and ignored. I am able to pick up feelings or vibes from items, writings, photographs and from places and people, in which those feelings and vibes turn into images and sounds.

  As with any aspect in our existence there are many who falsely claim their gifts and attempt to fraud others, which hurts those who seek our help and the reputation of those of us who are true.
  As a student of law and behavioural sciences I attempt to find facts with logic and reason. As a psychic medium I attempt to find facts with mind and body, and I hope to share those perspectives with you in a clear and helpful manner.

  I remember a few occasions when I was a small child, one of few memories that I still have of my childhood. My family and I lived in a home that had a violent history prior to us moving in and with out our prior knowledge.

  We would sit in the living room area and watch television and occasionally we would notice a rocking chair would ever so slightly move. We never really paid any attention to it and did what most people do, ignore it. As time passed I noticed the piano would make sounds of keys being pressed, but still ignored it.

  On another incident one night we came home and as we entered the front door there was a mirror in the entrance way and in that mirror a female figure appeared as we entered. I don’t remember having or seeing a reaction from anyone but I know that we all saw her and never said anything.

  My most significant, most terrifying and last memory of this home was one night when I went to bed. My mother had tucked me in as usual and kissed me good night. She turned out the lights and slightly closed my door, as I was asleep I remember waking abruptly for no apparent reason.

  As I lay in bed I was drawn to my window where my windows were closed the shutters shut securely; there I saw two red eyes peering in at me with a cold stare. As I attempted to scream for my mother my voice was muted and I was pressed into my bed unable to move. Unable to move and speak I cannot describe the fear I had experienced. The red piercing eyes seemed to move closer to me. With all my energy I was able to run to the door then out of nowhere the door slammed shut and as hard as I tried I could not turn the doorknob, I stood at the door to what seemed to be an eternity. I remember trying to scream with no success. I kept my back to the eyes and just wish someone would help me. Then after a moment I felt a warm and safe hand take my hand and place it on the doorknob and then turned my hand. The door opened and as it did a voice softly and calmly said: “Nothing can ever harm you again I will protect you”.

  After that night I never felt the same again. It was after that experience that I felt a desperate need to help others so that they would never have to feel the fear that I felt that night whether the living or the non-living realms cause that fear.

  It was from that point that I began to notice that a window had been opened which allowed me to connect with the other side to those who would protect me and those who would guide me in helping others.

  While fast asleep I would go into different parts of the house and sit against a wall and talk to other people and have long detailed conversations with them as told to me by my mother.

  I then began to hold an ability to read the thoughts and emotions of others knowing what they were thinking and feeling before it was said.

  As I began to experience these unexplained things my grandmother while at lunch one day explained everything to me. Stating it was a gift and that she had an ability as well as my mother and sister; she told me to embrace it and that my mother and sister will never know these gifts because they fear it and deny it. She told me to embrace it and never fear it; and so I did.

  As I kept growing so did my abilities and they became stronger and more frequent. It was this point that set the foundation for me and my destined path to help and protect others.

  Some years later my grandmother fell prey to cancer, and during her last days my mother and I flew to her home to be with her. My grandmother stayed at a nearby hospital while my mother and I stayed at my grandmother’s home. That night my mother went to bed and I stayed up watching television, and as I sat there I became unable to breath and speak. It then felt as though someone was pulling a thread from out of my neck and was being pulled from my stomach. It seemed to last forever but only lasted a few seconds. I became limp as I caught my breath once again; I knew it was at that moment that my grandmother had passed. One second later the hospital called advising that she had in fact passed.

  I noticed after that I became seemingly stronger I was able to start controlling my abilities with more ease, turning it on and off at will with an exception of those that needed immediate help.

  I have always kept these gifts to myself only discussing it with a few family members and close friends; partly because I feared being looked down upon due to the average personal and general public opinion that many express about psychics. Especially when those opinions begin to relate to religious beliefs.

  But now I have found that my heart’s passion cannot and should not be contained any longer and I have finally realized that these gifts need to be shared with a purpose. 
   Types of psychic ability
           
  There are many different kinds and levels of psychic ability, which vary per individual. There are some predefined categories of abilities and these are:

  Automatic Writing - the art of writing through the subconscious mind without conscious thought, or through guided writing from the unknown.

  Channelling - the act of receiving information from an outside source.

  Clairaudience - the ability to hear or perceive sounds which are not normally audible.

  Clairsentience - an energy of knowing an event, past, present or future through a feeling.

  Clairvoyance - extrasensory perception of an event, which is not present to the five senses.

  Divination - a prophecy, prediction or foretelling the future by the act or practicing the occult arts.

  ESP - is a sense of perception outside or apart from the normal senses.

  Hiero - Scripting ñ automatic painting or drawing. The graphic version of automatic writing.

  Intuitive - knowing, learning, acting or perceiving by intuition.

  Medium - a person who channels by relaying information from an outside source.

  Precognition - seeing ahead in time, a premonition of an event or something that will happen in the future.

  Prophesy - to predict a future event under the influence of divine guidance.

  Psychometry - divining knowledge about an object or a person connected with it through contact with the object.

  Psycho kinesis - ability to move objects with the mind.

  Remote Viewing - to be able to see, describe a person, place or thing without being in their presence.

  Telepathy - mind to mind communication.

  Trans-Medium Channel - a consciousness enters into the human being and communicates through that person.

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• DEMONOLOGY
  - Demonology from a Roman Catholic Perspective - Adam Blai

• There is a trend in popular culture, and in the paranormal investigation field, of glamorizing demons, “demonologists” and exorcisms. There are popular movies, television series, books, and websites all devoted to demons in some form. Demonology has become the biggest draw at paranormal conferences and meetings. This is of great concern to those who actually work in this field. The interest is probably based on the perception that demons are the most “hardcore” or “serious” of the paranormal phenomenon, and therefore it is cool to call oneself a “demonologist.” Because of this trend, this material is being offered to educate and hopefully correct some of the misguided and dangerous assumptions of the public.

  When people use the word ‘demonology’ they usually mean investigating cases where demons may be present or affecting people, or they mean interacting with demons in some other way, such as in an exorcism. Some people mean simply studying demons as an academic subject without any intended interaction. The term ‘religious demonology’ implies approaching the subject from a religious framework, usually Christian or Catholic, and implies the person is working for good and is actively working against evil.

  This is not a guide on how to be a demonologist

  No functional information is provided here about: what a demon exactly is, how they came into being, their names, and their history, how to fight them or how to do or assist at exorcisms. This is not a “how-to” for being a demonologist. This is a broad overview and a set of warnings.

  The reality of demons

  Demons are real. They are not just people’s imagination or getting worked up and being scared of the dark. Demons are a very dangerous reality that can destroy your life. You simply will not understand this unless you encounter a demon, whether in a person or as a disembodied entity. Once you do encounter one, your worldview will be forced to accommodate the presence of evil as an objective reality. This will make you feel mentally unstable for at least a short time. And for the rest of your life you will be looking over your shoulder, because you will know that you are probably being watched because you know the truth of their existence. You will never be able to go back to thinking of demons as an abstract idea or thrilling possibility : they will forever be a part of your life and may attack you openly and personally because of your choice to step into the spiritual arena with them.

  The framework that demons exist in

  You need to be grounded in a Christian, preferably Catholic, viewpoint in order to understand demons. The reason for this is very practical: demons behave in a way that shows us they are defined and bound by the Catholic religious system:

  - They react with fear and anger to symbols or words related to Jesus, scripture from the Bible, Catholic prayers, and holy objects. Trying to influence a demon’s behavior on your own (i.e., asking it to stop or telling it you command it to stop) will only get you mocked and physically hurt, or worse.

  - They know when an object has been blessed by a Catholic priest, which causes them to react negatively to it.

  - They know when blessed objects are near them, even when not in view.

  - If you show a demon a Crucifix and a symbol from a non-Christian religion, it will not be able to look at the Crucifix and will get angry. It generally will not care about the other symbols.

  - They can read your mind and will know all of your unconfessed sins. This includes things you have never told anyone in your life and especially which the person the demon is in could never know. Sins confessed in the Catholic sacrament of confession are not knowable by demons.

  - Persons possessed by demons will almost never go into a Catholic Church voluntarily.

  - When they attack, they are only stopped and driven away by Christian prayers, holy water, and the name of Jesus.

  - The Catholic Church created the Roman Ritual of Exorcism that is used in cases where a person has been possessed by demons, or the Devil.

  Some tricks demons use

  The perspective of the religious demonologists sometime seems conservative or simplistic. This is true to an extent, but the reader must understand that this comes from experience. Here are some of the tricks of the enemy and the conservative stances that result from them.

  1. Appearing to be a helpful or needy spirit/ghost/phenomenon/guide.

  The enemy almost never appears in their true form, they lie and deceive constantly. We know from experience that many cases of demonic oppression and possession start with a “harmless” or “helpful” spirit haunting or interaction. They sometimes start with communications with a dearly departed relative or helpful spirit guide, or a pitiful soul that needs your help. If the demons showed up and looked horrible and menacing you would run the other way and right into a Church. They suck you in slowly by offering knowledge, playing on your pity, giving comfort or power. Only when they have a sufficient hold will their true intent (to take you away from God and destroy you) become clear. This leads demonologists to distrusting “harmless” haunting and spirit communication with “positive” entities.

  2. Convincing you that they will give you life/health/power/money/fame/sex/etc.

  The enemy often takes advantage of weakness or misfortune: they come when you are sick, bankrupt, depressed, or swollen with pride. They offer to fix your problems or elevate you above others. The trick comes later: when you are at your peak they tear it all down so that you suffer the most intensely. The enemy can lift you up, but only so that your fall is harder. This leads demonologists, or those that understand this, to eschew fame, undue attention or power.

  3. Tricking you into letting a “spirit” enter your body.

  The enemy has many tricks for convincing you to let a spirit into your body. Using your body as a tool to “free” or “remove” a spirit or demon from a haunted location is a bad idea. There is always an act of free will involved in letting a demon enter your body; you just might be unaware that it is a demon. Your permission might be given in response to a deception, but the door is opened nonetheless. You should never assume that you can get something out once you let it in. If someone advises you to channel spirits, use your body to transport a spirit, or use your body to remove a spirit from a location you need to say no. We have seen and read many cases of possession that started in these ways. This leads demonologists to be stubbornly against any form of admission of anything into the body.

  What is required to engage in Religious Demonology?

  There are a number of requirements for religious demonology, including some basic factors that must be present in the person and in their life. Without all of these you are putting yourself, your loved ones and your co-investigators in grave danger.

• 1. First and foremost, the religious demonologist must be called to the work by God, not by their own choice. If you want to be a demonologist, that is a problem. No rational person says they want to interact with pure evil and put their sanity, their physical life, and their soul at risk when they don’t have to. People in the work are called into the work and guided to the people and situations that train them. God is in charge from the beginning to the end. If you are meddling because you want to be cool, you want to be thrilled, or you are going to defeat evil, you will either be corrupted by evil, driven insane, or dead soon enough.

  2. Everyone functioning along with a demonologist must also be called to do so. There can be no bystanders or curious onlookers; they are open to being attacked and their presence is a major weakness that will be used against those present.
        
  3. You must have special supernatural protection and intervention from God in order to survive, remain sane, and be effective in religious demonology. It is not the human person or the priest who drives a demon from a person’s home or body. It is not the human will that makes a demon stop throwing objects around the room or causing horrible thoughts and pains in the people there. There is no personal power or authority in humans: all intervention, protection, and authority come from God on a moment-by-moment basis. You might be free from sin and close to God one moment and be covered in sin and vulnerable the next. If you meddle with demonic forces without the special protection that comes from a calling from God, and without living in a way pleasing to God, you will know it from the outcomes of your interactions with the demonic. If you see yourself depressed, isolated, suicidal, homicidal, obsessed with demons, thinking you are powerful or in control of demons, or working for evil, there is a problem.

  4. You must be under legitimate Church guidance and authority. Along with a legitimate calling from God naturally come the contacts, friends, and guidance from people with decades of experience in the work. It should come as no surprise that you cannot learn how to function as a religious demonologist from any book or website. Doing so and thinking you have any real knowledge or understanding is folly.

  5. You must understand what it means to give your life to God and surrender your physical life to the will of God. Without giving up your life to God’s will, not your will, you will feel fear and intimidation in situations where you might die. This cannot happen as death is a real possibility in this work and that reality cannot be used against you to intimidate you or control you. If you are afraid to die in God’s service, the demons will know -- and you will be crushed by your fear.

  6. You should be of a mature age. It is unhealthy for a developing mind and soul to interact with the demonic realm. Once you cross the line into knowing the reality of demons you will go through a psychological and spiritual crisis where you must come to terms with your new reality. This can be very challenging for any adult; the young forming mind is generally not equipped to handle this successfully. Better to live a normal happy life when young and leave this topic for later in life.

  7. The work must be done as an act of charity. You cannot mix any selfish motives into the work: fame, bragging rights, monetary compensation, social power, or other benefits. This must be work for good, for God, not for you in any sense. To do this for selfish reasons puts you in an arena with a supernatural force way beyond your comprehension with little or no protection.

  The sincere hope in sharing this information with the public is to increase safety and educate people on unsafe practices and some of the deceptions of the enemy.

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• HAUNTED DREAMS
  - Rosemary Ellen Guiley

• Visionary Living, Inc.

• A nightmare is any dream that is unsettling or frightening to the dreamer. Nightmares can vary from dreams in which we are in unpleasant circumstances to truly terrifying and vivid experiences in which we are threatened, harmed or in great danger. Some persistent nightmares are part of psychological stress syndromes and require therapeutic help. For many dreamers, the occasional nightmare or repeating nightmare deals with unhappy circumstances that need attention in waking life; they cease when the problem is rectified.

  Certain nightmares may have paranormal origins. The dreamscape may be invaded, such as by a haunting presence in a specific locale. If we accept the premise that we can encounter other people and beings in our dreams, we cannot assume that all of them are benevolent. One must consider the possibilities discussed in this chapter with great caution, however. I believe that our dreams generally are protected space, such as is the personal boundary around us. It is important not to leap to conclusions, but to eliminate all other possibilities through traditional dreamwork.

  When a nightmare isn’t “just a bad dream”

  “Adene” (a pseudonym) is a woman who has experienced a certain nightmare periodically throughout her life. An invisible but palpable evil presence suddenly makes itself known beside her bed and then sexually molests her. There are no sounds or smells, but the bedroom takes on a heavy, unpleasant atmosphere.

  To Adene, the nightmares are not “just bad dreams” but strange and very real experiences that involve dreams. Sometimes she isn’t certain whether she is awake or dreaming. The attacks are unpredictable and she has never been able to link them to anything in particular; however, she acknowledges she carries a lot of internal anger and frustration, and has never had a good sexual relationship. She refers to the invading presence as “It.” In the past, she had tried to send It away but it always came back.

  When Adene’s husband died, she was frightened that It would increase its attacks. On its next return, she screamed at It to go away and leave her alone for good. Perhaps her intensity of emotion made the critical difference, for It left without molesting her and never returned.

  A psychologist might regard these dreams as caused by repressed sexual tension and emotions that were relieved by the death of the husband. This explanation has never satisfied Adene, who regards “It” as an external force that somehow managed to invade her dreams.

  She is not alone in this experience, or in this conviction.

  Some dreams are “real”

  Modern dream researchers regard dreams as subjective, and distinguish between “dreams” that reflect our internal states and “reality” that is the outside world. But according to more universal and ancient beliefs, dreams can serve as a medium for visitations by otherworldly beings and the dead, some of whom may cause mischief. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans – as well as other cultures – believed that a person could be visited in one’s sleep for healing or receiving a message, or to be plagued by demonic beings who wished to molest the dreamer or suck off his life force.

  Numerous cross-cultural accounts exist of dream visitations by ghosts, poltergeists, vampires, demons and nightmare hags, as well as helpful and benevolent beings such as angels, fairies, religious figures and spiritual guides. Dreams of ghosts can be either pleasant or unpleasant.

  Visitation dreams are distinctly different from ordinary dreams. They are intense and vivid in imagery and sensory experience, and the dreamer often is not certain of being awake or asleep. The dreamer may awaken certain that the “dream” was a real event.

  Let’s look at some of the darker aspects of visitation dreams.

  Hag attacks

  The dreams experienced by Adene are a well-documented universal and ancient phenomenon known as the “hag attack.” The hag attack has been documented around the world. It intermingles with lore about vampires, werewolves, witches, incubi and succubi. Our term “nightmare” comes from the Old Hag syndrome: mare is Old English for incubus. In medieval lore, nightmares, or bad dreams, were caused by witches (hags) sitting upon one’s chest, riding the victim to exhaustion.

  The dominant characteristic of a hag dream is an unpleasant entity or presence that invades the room. Sometimes, but not always, it comes up on the bed and may press upon or sexually assault the victim. Other characteristics of hag attacks are awful smells; grunting, shuffling, scraping and unpleasant sounds; grotesque dark shapes which may have red eyes; and a pervasive atmosphere of fear. The victim may feel as though he is having a lucid dream, or may be uncertain whether he is awake or dreaming, or may feel completely awake. The victim often awakens in the morning feeling drained and exhausted, as in this example:

  From time to time I have these dreams in which a horrible “something” is trying to get into me to take possession of me. I never see it, but I can “feel” it – I know it is there. I always feel like I’m awake when this happens. I try to make it go away, but just when it seems that it’s going to get me, I wake up for real. I am always exhausted all day long after one of these dreams.1

  In his book The Terror That Comes in the Night, folklorist David J. Hufford describes different hag attacks, including this one had by a man:

  The first thing that occurred to me was that I was dreaming. When it [the hag] got into the room it sat down on the floor and it looked to me like an elephant of all things! Just a blob, but white. I was – ah – I knew I wasn’t dreaming! I thought I was dreaming but I knew I wasn’t dreaming! And I broke out into a sweat and was just forced onto the bed.2

  From my case files is the account of S., who had a history of related haunting and hag dreams from childhood. S. described herself as “a really happy, out-going person. I love life and I make a conscious effort every single day to thank God for something that he has shared with me or the experiences that I have had. I have prayed every night since I was a little girl because I used to hear my grandparents whispering prayers in their room before they went to sleep. I knew it must be important.” The nightmares were hard for her to understand:

• These have continued into my adult life. They are recurrences. They are both nightmares. The majority of my nightmares take place in this house. It is a mansion out in the country, very old southern style. I have never seen this house, been to anything like this house, nor have I any relatives that lived in such a house (as far as I know; I have a large family.) This is my nightmare house. Sometimes it is in its day, grand and beautiful, but the majority of the time it is almost demolished, overgrown with weeds, etc. It has a horseshoe driveway, there are more trees and such on the right side of it. It also has a big front yard. It is always haunted and only on a few occasions has someone I've known lived in it. I am always trapped in it. Usually I am either trying to open or close a door, but some force won't let me. It's very cold and I usually get a strange smell. I can't describe it. If fear had a smell I am sure that would be it. I don't associate it with anything pleasant. When I get it I know that something bad is going to happen.

  All kinds of different things occur in these dreams, but the house and it's surroundings are basically the same. This house has been with me for as long as I can remember. I am trying to figure out what it means.

  The other dream that I have is similar in nature in that I have had it since I was a child. The first one that I really remember was when I was about eight or nine. I was dreaming that I was lying in bed and I heard someone enter my parent's room and then my brother's room. I heard heavy breathing and got that weird smell that I mentioned before. Suddenly, this man (because that is what I sense) comes into my room. I wake up just as I see the silver blade of a knife coming right down at me. I literally woke up screaming and drenched. You could have wrung my clothes out.

  I don't really remember many of those types of dreams for a few years until I got into my twenties. At one time I was having them about every two to three months. These dreams were always the same. I'd be sleeping, I'd hear someone come into my room, I'd hear breathing, I'd even feel the pressure on the bed. At this point I'd start telling myself to open my eyes, that it was just a dream, but they are so heavy that it is nearly impossible. Later in life they did not include the knife aspect. I just awake with no one there and my heart beating out of control. On one weird occasion, I think it was a cat. I felt a cat-like creature walking on the bed and even felt its whiskers on my nose just before I woke up. (I don't have a cat.) Only once did I actually get a vision of a man's face as I woke up. All of these dreams took place in the morning. Usually after I would kiss my boyfriend goodbye and drift back to sleep. These dreams are so realistic that I feel like I am being haunted. They have occurred in many different places that I have lived.3

  S. acknowledged that psychic experiences had occurred to her mother and to herself: visions of the Virgin Mary, and also of the dead and ghosts. In dreamwork, she acknowledged that the house could represent circumstances in her life in which she felt trapped; however, the dream had recurred since childhood, and it stood out as distinctly different from her other dreaming.

  In earlier times, it was believed that such nightmares were caused by a demon called the hag. In medieval times, the hag was sometimes described as a witch who rode all night on the chests of victims. Dream sexual assaults also were attributed to demons called incubi and succubi, who had monstrous human forms.

  Modern attempts to explain hag dreams arrive at no definitive cause. They have been linked to psychological stress, mental disturbances, sleep disorders, physical discomforts, sexual repression, repressed anger and even diet, but there are many cases which simply have no obvious explanation. An average person is likely to experience at least one hag dream in life, and some people have them periodically or frequently.

  Just as there are no satisfactory explanations for hag attacks, there are no certain “cures.” Some people who experience them frequently have successfully repressed them through sheer will by telling the invading presences to go away, or invoking divine help. Others endure them. Medical help and counseling may or may not offer any relief. This dreamer was able to banish a hag attack dream by praying to her guardian angel:

  The first time I remember having this happen to me was when I was five years old. I remember the feeling of not being able to speak or talk; I remember trying to call my mom, but nothing came out, and I remember the feeling of the presence of something with me in the same room, and it was hard to breathe, and I was very wide awake. This has happened five or six times in my life so far. The last time this occurred, I remember feeling the presence of something there in my room like I was being watched, so I knew it [the choking presence] was going to happen, so I said the guardian angel prayer and the feeling slowly went away.4

  Another of the cases described by Hufford involved three college girls who shared a lonely country house. One of them had a history of being sort of a psychic lightning rod: wherever she lived, weird things happened, such as poltergeist and haunting phenomena and hag attacks.

  Soon after they had moved in, the “lightning rod” girl began experiencing nightmares. The nightmares spread like a virus to the other girls, increasing in unpleasantness and violent, bloody imagery. They were visited by a hag presence. Poltergeist phenomena occurred in the house. They called in a priest to bless the house, but that only made things worse. Finally they had no recourse but to leave the house, and went their separate ways.

  The two secondarily affected girls experienced relief. Whether or not the “lightning rod” girl continued to have problems in not known.

  Psychic attack

  Can the living invade dreams? Magical rituals exist in many cultures for causing a sleeping person to have a certain kind of dream or get a certain message in a dream. A person might be deliberately psychically attacked by wild or supernatural animals or demonic beings in dreams.

  A vulnerable person might also be “dream-attacked” by another person who harbors anger and intense dislike against them. Such dream attacks may occur without conscious effort, due to intense negative emotions finding pathways in dreamtime.

  The great occultist Dion Fortune wrote extensively on psychic attack. In her book Psychic Self-Defence, Fortune says that “characteristic dreams” are the first sign. She goes on to describe the features of hag attack dreams – a weight on the chest, foul smells – as well as other features, such as the precipitation of slime, mysterious footprints, poltergeist effects, and most important, a severe weakening of the victim. Fortune herself was the victim of psychic attack from a hostile superior at work, and learned on her own how to neutralize it. She stresses that though psychic attack can occur, the average person has natural auric barriers of protection against it and is unlikely to encounter it.

  Extraterrestrial encounters

  Many extraterrestrial abductions are said to occur while the victims are asleep. John Mack, Harvard psychiatrist and ET expert, reports in his book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens that typical of abductions are “frightening dreams that seem more real than ordinary nightmares.” The victim may recall the “dream” upon awakening, or may need hypnosis to remember. Mack divides ET dreams into three types: 1) abductions distorted as dream experiences; 2) dreams that relive abductions; and 3) ordinary dreams that contain UFO material. Many ET dreams are recurring. Said Mack:

  When abductees call their experiences “dreams,” which they often do, close questioning can elicit that this may be a euphemism to cover what they are sure cannot be that, namely an event from which there was no awakening that occurred in another dimension...

  Allow for the time being that there is little knowledge about the domain from which the alien beings derive – perhaps not even language or concepts to describe it. Yet acknowledge too that something is going on that cannot be dismissed out of hand.

  ET experiencers say they are sexually assaulted in medical probings, and some feel they are being used to propagate a hybrid race. These attacks bear a resemblance to old accounts of demonic dream invasions, and may be a modern version of “high strangeness” in a multi-dimensional universe.

  Not all dreams are unpleasant, however. Some ET experiencers feel they are contacted in dreams for special instruction, and to cooperate with aliens in benefitting the earth.

  Ghosts

  The ancients regarded dreams as a halfway house to the land of the dead. In dreams, the dead lament their deaths, give burial instructions and provide warnings. The Greeks in particular believed that the unburied dead would haunt the dreams of the living until they were properly interred.

  Ghosts also appear in dreams to reenact their own violent deaths or traumatic events in their lives. A person can spend the night in a haunted place, not knowing it was haunted, and be visited in dreams by the resident ghost.

  A case in my files concerns a woman who had strange dreams while vacationing in a cottage; no one else she knew who had stayed there had similar experiences. She woke up in the middle of the night choking, to find a strange man with his hands around her neck; she was looking right at him. The only man present in the cottage was her husband. The next night, she woke up to see a semi-transparent woman with a pillow in her hand in the bedroom. The woman went away.

  In another case, a ghost seemed to be reenacting a violent event. During a vacation in England, Carol and her husband Jack (pseudonyms) stayed overnight in an old pub. They settled into bed with expectations of a comfortable sleep. But during the night, Carol experienced a vivid and terrifying dream in which a man dressed in a bloody soldier’s uniform charged into the bedroom swinging a knife. The experience was so real that she thought she was fully awake and that they were under some bizarre attack. But just as the figure reached the side of the bed, it vanished. Jack slept peacefully throughout the entire episode.

  Carol shrugged off her experience as “just a bad dream.” The next morning, she learned from one of the employees that the pub was haunted by a ghost of a soldier from England’s Civil War during the mid-17th century. She was not the only guest to have that or a similar dream.

  Carol hadn’t known anything about the history or haunting lore of the pub prior to the dream. The probable explanation is that her dreaming mind tapped into a ghostly recording imprinted in the psychic space of the pub. Her husband did not share the dream because his dreaming mind did not, or could not, attune to the presence; perhaps he was occupied doing others things in the dreamscape.

  A recurring haunting dream was reported to me by a young woman:

  The first time I ever had the dream I was just walking around this big, old white house. I remember thinking to myself it felt familiar; like I had been there before. I was walking through the house feeling the walls as I walked. When I reached the stairwell I heard something and a little door, a panel in the wall, opened. I went through, I was in pitch black. I walked down the hall. Nothing but black. Before I knew it there was this girl. A beautiful little girl with long blonde hair. She is wearing a white dress or sleeping gown. She is probably about six or seven. I was so scared, I started running. I went down black hall after black hall, I couldn't find my way out. I was crying. Then I awoke. The next couple of times I would fall asleep I would end up looking for the panel on the stairwell. I could always hear my friends telling me not to go, it was dangerous. I always went over.

  Despite my fear I was drawn to her. The more I have the dream the more I began to enjoy it. You see, I am scared to death of this little girl because every time I see her I think she is trying to kill me. On the other hand, I like the mystery. The house isn't like a black maze anymore. I can now recognize rooms I have "been in" before. One room in particular. It's a bedroom with an antique barber chair in the comer. The room and everything in it has an iridescent glow. Its my safe room. She doesn't follow me in. I have only been in there once. Some rooms I run into are full of people. I beg for help but no one listens. It's like they don't even see me. I feel like I know the house. I just needed to familiarize myself with it again. If I wake up, I always fall back into where I left off.

  At this point, one might speculate that the little girl in the dream is symbolic of an aspect of the dreamer. However, the experience gets much stranger:

  The most confusing thing for me is my uncle and-my dad have the exact same dream. The only difference is, my dad has gotten chased to the attic. He said the ceiling is low and there are statues of gargoyles.

  I haven't had the dream in about a year. Since the last time I had it, I have built a house on my dad’s property. I live in front of his big, white farm house that was built in the 1700s. I have since found out it has tunnels in the basement and was used to move slaves underground. There are also two doors that will not open and look as if they lead outside. If you go outside and look, you don't see a door. We tried to bust the doors in with a 15-pound sledge hammer. No luck! Both my dad’s house and mine are haunted. The previous owners and neighbors have told us that a young woman and her child walk the house. There have been many sightings but that's another story.6

  In the American Civil War, the “underground railroad” was a network of anti-slavery people who aided slaves in their escape to northern, non-slavery states. Slaves were hidden and moved in underground tunnels. Many homes and buildings where these tunnels are located have haunted histories to them. Perhaps the intense emotions of fear and anxiety, combined with deaths that surely occurred in tunnels, have imprinted the spaces with ghostly presences.

  How can we explain haunted dreams?

  Non-paranormal explanations advanced are sleep paralysis and normal hypnagogic, or “near sleep” visions. It’s normal for the body to experienced a certain degree of “paralysis” during sleep; otherwise we might act out our dreams. In cases of sleep paralysis, people can wake up feeling paralyzed, choked and confronted by ghosts or presences. Experts say that the dreamer hasn’t entirely awakened; the effects of sleep paralysis and lingering dreaming create misleading impressions about supernatural attacks.

  Many cases of presences and ghosts seem to occur in the twilight stage of near-sleep, a state of consciousness that is well-known for its fleeting, jumbled images of faces and snatches of voices.

  These explanations can account for some cases of haunted dreams, but not all of them. They especially do not explain situations in which diverse people have similar dreams in the same place, without prior knowledge of a place’s “dream history.”

  Why do some people have visitation dreams and others not? In my book Dreamspeak: How to Understand the Messages in Your Dreams I tell about a woman whose dead mother-in-law explains in a happy visitation dream that she cannot appear in the dreams of her son to deliver messages to him because "of the way that he dreams."

  Our visitation dreams are influenced by many factors: emotions, physical conditions; auric fields; and natural psychic channels and abilities. Parapsychological studies show that most of our psychic episodes – up to 70 percent of them – occur in dreams rather than in waking consciousness. Some of us may be more naturally receptive to the “unusual” when in the dream state. Emotional links can play a significant role in dreams of the dead. Emotions seem to provide a “psychic electricity” for dream connections.

  Place also is important. Paul Devereux, an expert in ancient mysteries and earth energies, has researched dream patterns at sacred sites in the U.K. He has found certain patterns occur at certain places, which suggests that earth energies – perhaps electromagnetic forces – influence dreaming consciousness. Such patterns also may be linked to other phenomena reported at sacred sites, such as mysterious lights, hauntings, UFOs, fairy folk, etc.

  Perhaps the most important but unknown factor is our “consciousness DNA” – something within us that affects states of consciousness and psychic receptivity, and which is evolving within us on a collective level. This may be the most significant factor explaining why, for example, two people can sleep in the same haunted place and only one of them will have a disturbed dream.

  If you experience a haunted dream

  Don’t rush to assume that a nightmare is more than symbolic. Look for natural explanations first before assuming the supernatural. Nightmares and troubling dreams may need to be scrutinized in dreamwork with a qualified therapist or practitioner, as they are likely to carry symbolic meanings pertaining more to the dreamer than to any outside agents.

  If you do feel vulnerable, give yourself an affirmation of protection and light prior to going to sleep. The vulnerability itself must be dealt with, for fear can help to create the very dreams one wishes to avoid. Only by thoroughly understanding dreams through dreamwork can we sort out their true meanings.

  From The Dreamer’s Way, by Rosemary Ellen Guiley

  Copyright - Rosemary Ellen Guiley 2008

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• THE OUIJA THROUGH HISTORY
  - Allison Andrews

• In 1848 Two sisters by the name of Kate and Margret Fox began to heat strange rapping’s in their bedroom. They soon contacted the spirit of a deceased peddler and became known around as the founders of modern spiritualism.

• The whole world it would seem was fascinated and wanted  to make contact for themselves with the other side.

  A revolution was born.

  The Ouija, a harmless game or gateway to evil ? Over the last century we have been presented with countless stories from around the globe all depicting the Ouija in a certain light. Personal belief systems around the world all shed a different light on how the Ouija is portrayed, the 1973 movie the Exorcist set in motion a mass hysteria around the globe that portrayed the Ouija as nothing more than a doorway to hell, while the writings of Patience worth obtained by Pearl Curran beginning in 1913 would form a life long friendship and some of the most profound writings ever produced through the use of a Ouija board.

  While the reputation of the Ouija is shrouded is mystery its history is as equally fascinating.

  Elijah J. Bond a name that will forever be etched into history as the inventor of the Ouija Board. The First Patent was filed on May 28, 1890 and Granted on February 10, 1891 with Bond listed as the inventor and the assignees, Charles W. Kennard and William H. A. Maupin, Both residing in Baltimore, Maryland.

  Charles Kennard called this new board Ouija ( the pronounced we-ja ) after he was told at  sitting this was the Egyptian word for good luck. Although this is not the case the name stuck.  Many people also theorise the board named its self after the French and German words oui and ja meaning “ yes yes” but this is unlikely.

  Kennard and his associates incorporated as the Kennard Novelty Company and began producing the first line of commercial Ouija boards. Kennard would not last within the business, his partners lead by Baltimore Capitalist Washington Bowie decided to yield the further manufacturing of the boards bringing the business to a halt after only fourteen short months.

  The Firm would hold corporate control as the Ouija novelty company until 1898 when William Fuld and his brother Isaac would be appointed as the new manufacturers.

  This single moment would change the course of William Fulds life and he would forever be known as the father of the Ouija board. Unfortunately for Charles Kennard his later patents of the Ouija would be largely forgotten in this story.

  Together William and his Brother Isaac successfully manufactured Ouija boards in record numbers. Through history the Ouija has been the only game to ever out sell Monopoly.

  Unfortunately the partnership did not last , the contract to manufacture the boards only lasted three short years and at the closure of the contact William formed his own company and ended Isaacs right to continue to produce boards also. A legal battle followed that created a bitter family feud that would last in excess of many years.

  Isaac worked from home producing Oriole talking boards, pool and smoking tables.

  The Ouija Novelty Company collected revenues on the Ouija name from Fuld and then in 1919 relinquished  the remaining rights. William Fuld sold millions of Ouija boards and other games and kept his job as a customs inspector.

  In later years he would become a member of Baltimore’s General Assembly.
  For twenty long years Fuld saw the company though the good and bad. February of 1927 would see the death of William Fuld falling to his death while supervising a replacement of a flagpole on his roof.

  Following Williams sad and untimely death his children took over and ran the company marketing many of their own interesting versions of the Ouija board, some now very rare collectables. In 1966 they retired and sold the company to Parker Brothers. The Parker Brothers Company went on to produce an accurate reproduction of Fuld boards and for a short time even manufactured a deluxe Limited edition version of the Ouija.

  Parker Brother own all the trademarks and patents to this day.

  From Day one Fuld’s board suffered highly from the constant competition of other competitors, everyone wanted a make or improve the Ouija board and cash in on the craze. Some company’s like J.M Simmons and Morton E. Converse & Sons thought it wise to directly make an identical board in name and layout, but Fuld swiftly responded with legal threats and by marketing a secondary less expensive version of the board names the Mystifying Oracle.

  By the 1940’s there was a steady supply of Ouija boards and the artistic flair and ingenuity of more modern makers was certainly showing. Boards were now showing Egyptian themes and everything from crystal balls to cannibals and also demons like them or not they were a breath of fresh air from Fuld more simplistic design.

  The year 1999 saw parker brothers stop manufacturing the classic style of Fuld more original designs and incorporate a smaller glow in the dark version marketed to a much younger generation than in times past.

  Today like in times gone by there are many companies that produce artistes variations of the Ouija, a lot of boards focusing on designs to follow the latest trend and trying hard to dispel the negativity that surrounds this mysterious game.

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• THE ENDURING FORCE OF SPIRITUALISM
  - Rosemary Ellen Guiley

• In the 19th century, fascination with spirit communications and proof of survival after death created one of the most colorful social and religious movements of modern times: Spiritualism.

  Spiritualism did not begin as a religion, but became one, appearing at a time of interest in bringing science and religion together. Scientists, scholars, mediums, stage performers and charlatans vied for credibility. Ultimately, fraudulent mediums and the inability of science to validate the claims of Spiritualism led to its decline, but not its death. It remains a vigorous religion around the world, especially in Britain, the United States, and in Latin America, where it also gave birth to an offshoot,Spiritism. The official birth of Spiritualism is considered to be 1848 when the Fox sisters of Hydesville, New York, became famous for their rapping communications with alleged spirits.

  After strange thumpings began in the Fox farmhouse, sisters Katie, Margaret and Leah discovered that they could communicate with whatever was making the sounds. If they rapped, it answered back. They started intelligent communication by rapping out letters of the alphabet. Soon people from all over were coming to witness the marvel. The press seized hold of the story, and the Fox sisters found themselves instant celebrities. They started making public appearances, and even contracted with circus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum for a time.

  Over the course of time, their act and personal lives disintegrated, and they even
  confessed to fraud – but not before providing significant momentum to the budding movement of Spiritualism. The popular interest that made the fame of the Fox sisters possible had earlier been primed by the psychism-based movements of Swedenborgianism and mesmerism. The former, based on the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg's visionary trance visits to the spirit world, and the latter, based on paranormal phenomena exhibited by mesmerized (hypnotized) subjects, began in Europe in the late 18th century and were imported to America.

  Both movements carried direct contact with the spirit world to the masses.
  Of the two earlier movements, mesmerism was by far the more popular in America. Audiences would gather to witness "somnambules," as mesmerized subjects were called, report their visions of the spirit world, and demonstrated "higher phenomena" such as telepathy, clairvoyance, automatic writing, mediumship, precognition, xenoglossy (speaking in an unlearned foreign language), psychometry and psychic healing. Their mediumship of communication with the dead was especially fascinating to the public at large. The lecture circuits became filled with various prophets of the new age, among them Andrew Jackson Davis,
  who delivered lectures in trance on his "Harmonial Philosophy," concerning the fate of the soul after death.

  Following the sensation of the Fox sisters, mediums and mystics and Spiritualist journals proliferated. The public eagerly devoured almost any daydream as "visions of the spirit world," and virtually anyone could become a medium and communicate with the dead. Seances became the rage. Early seances were mostly rappings and a few spirit mutterings, but the sessions became more entertaining in order to attract steady and larger audiences. To demonstrate the verity of the spirit world, mediums performed paranormal physical feats, such as levitation, apports and materialization. Trickery was not uncommon, but exposure of fraud did little to dampen early public enthusiasm. Not all seances were public performances; many Spiritualists also conducted private home circles. By 1855, Spiritualism claimed two million followers and was a nascent religion onboth sides of the Atlantic.

  Spiritualism held that the soul, in a vehicle that was a duplicate of the physical body, survived death and made an immediate transition to the spirit world. Communication with these souls became possible through mediumship.

  Generally, Spiritualism rejected the doctrine of reincarnation (some adherents of reincarnation joined the Spiritist camp). Today, Spiritualists are divided on the question of reincarnation, with some believing in it and others not. From its beginnings as a religion, Spiritualism had an uncomfortable relationship with
  Christianity. Some Christians denounced it as Satanic, openly harassed Spiritualists, and attempted to have it banned by law. Some Spiritualists believed in breaking away completely from Christianity, while others sought the endorsement of the Christian Church by advocating beliefs in Christian tenets. Mediums (most of whom were women) often were shunned by family and friends.

  Spiritualism gave women the opportunity to take on new roles. In Victorian England, this meant freedom from many constraints, since entranced mediums were thought to be controlled by spirits and therefore not directly responsible for their actions. In the United States, this fact coupled with the doctrine of social equality espoused in spirit teachings attracted leaders of the woman suffrage movement. Several important suffragists, including Victoria Woodhull, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Beecher Stowe, were Spiritualists. Susan B. Anthony wasmuch inclined in that direction as well.

  When scientists began investigating Spiritualist phenomena--specifically mediumistic communications and feats--it was hoped that Spiritualist tenets would be proven. Even many of the investigators, who were among the leading scientists of the day, hoped to find scientific proof for the existence of the soul and its immortality. However, scientific proof was--and remains--
  elusive. What scientists did uncover was a great deal of trickery on the part of many mediums, especially those who claimed to materialize spirits.
  Systematic investigations began as early as the 1850s but did not become well organized until 1882, when the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in London. Although the SPR was soon followed by an American branch, the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), which eventually became independent, the more extensive research went on in England rather than in the American birthplace of Spiritualism.

  Psychical researchers encountered some of the same prejudices as did mediums, and many saw their academic and scientific careers suffer
  because of criticism and ostracism from their peers. By the early 20th century, Spiritualism was ended as a widespread, cohesive movement. It never became sufficiently organized to coalesce; dissension, internal politics and the exposes of
  fraud took their toll. Public interest also began to wane when science was not quickly forthcoming with proof of Spiritualist tenets. World War I brought thousands of bereaved back into seances. However, the heyday of the physical medium was at an end by 1920. Interest in Spiritualism continued on a smaller and more quiet scale on both sides of the Atlantic and elsewhere in the world. In the 1930s, psychical research left from the seance circle and moved into the laboratory.

  Although scientists were unable to prove the existence and survival of the soul, the early psychical researchers did much to establish that paranormal phenomena do occur, and also made great contributions to an understanding of consciousness. Modern Spiritualist churches still thrive round the world. Many are modeled on Protestant churches, but without an organized ministry. Emphasis is given to spiritual healing (laying on of hands, energy transfers and prayer) and mental mediumship; a few mediums still perform physical feats.

  Mental mediumship can include trance messages relayed from spirits to the congregation, and trance delivering of sermons. Some Spiritualists work with spirits of the dead, while others espouse contact with highly evolved discarnate beings that is more characteristic of channeling. Spiritualists consider their religion to be also a science; many say that Spiritualism has scientifically proved spiritual phenomena. The two largest Spiritualist organizations in the world are in Britain: the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain and the Spiritualist's National Union.

  The religion had no legal status prior to 1951 due to an old law, the Witchcraft Act of 1735, which enabled the prosecution of mediums as witches. In 1951, that act was repealed and replaced by a Fraudulent Mediums' Act. The largest organization in the United States is the National Spiritualist Association of
  Churches, founded in 1893 and based in Cassadaga, Florida. A Spiritualist camp continues to be run year-round there. During the summer, a second camp is open in Lily Dale, near another Cassadaga, in upstate New York. Besides offering Spiritualist worship services, the camps have lectures and run workshops on developing mediumship. One of the strengths of Spiritualism that has helped it to endure is the unending human quest for proof of the afterlife. Questions about life after death, and a desire to communicate with dead loved ones, bring a continual stream of fresh energy to Spiritualism. In the end, it may indeed provide the answers humanity seeks.

  Rosemary Ellen Guiley is one of the leading experts on the paranormal, with 31 published books on a wide range of topics. This article is adapted from her Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, published by Facts On File. for more information about rosemary and her books, visit her website HERE

  All articles written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley are copyright.

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• TABLE TIPPING
  - Allison Andrews

• At the turn if the nineteenth century  mediums world wider were claiming to be able to make contact with the other side and so grew an interest in psychic phenomena that is still on the rise today. Many of these people had no little to no experience and did not have access to an experienced medium and so developed home circles in an attempt make contact with the other side, most of these circles consisted of a small group of family and or friends. Over time people began to believe that their attempts at communication were actually governing some substantial results, even as armatures they believed they were making a connection with “the other side” but others questioned these results and the cause behind the alleged phenomena.

  People were beginning to realise that the causes behind the phenomena was in fact not the work of the spirit world but the collective work of the human mind, when thoughts were concentrated on a single purpose, and could produce startling results.

  Table Tipping was a popular form of communication during the spiritualist era but many people would play on the gullibility and venerability of those seeking closure for their own personal reasons.

  Every serious investigator should indeed explore this remarkable phenomenon , it is a interesting and some what interesting way to explore the abilities of the human mind.

  Lets explore table tipping a little further.

  As I have already mentioned table tipping is quite an easy way to promote psychokinesis (PK). What makes table tipping so interesting is that people can produce apparent PK without the intervention of a highly gifted medium, there is also a strong advantage as the phenomena produced can be controlled to a certain degree. While table tipping is a remarkable phenomenon it takes dedication and should be taken seriously  and not be taken lightly.

   What does table tipping involve? 

  The Basic idea is for a group (called a sitter group) to sit around a small table with their hands placed on top. In general terms a sitting will take place in complete darkness or a low lit room, when beginning it is also helpful to hold the sitting with the same group of people in the same room at the same desired time each week somewhere you will not be interrupted.

  Over these regular sessions the group will begin to experience minimal phenomena which with persistence and dedication will increase with time, each group is different and will experience different levels of phenomena , this may be due to the dynamic and make up of the individual group. Most often at the early stages phenomena may consist of merely creaks and groan within the table an perhaps slight movement, small light may also be seen and cold breezes are often also felt.

  In later sessions the phenomena will undoubtedly increase more dramatically in nature, often the table beginning to rock or slide along the floor, as the dynamic rises the table may also rise onto 1 or two legs and successfully the sitting may also achieve complete levitation with all attending sitters hand still on top of the table. Through history there have been reports of the table levitating without the sitters touch at all. There have also been reports through time of physical objects appearing from nowhere these are called apports.

  So you want to try table tipping what now?

• 1. Choose a quite location  for the experiments somewhere where you will not be interrupted. Ideally it should be a place where everyone feels comfortable and relaxed.

• 2. You will need to choose a suitable table, a small wooden table will be perfect preferably round but this is up to you.  Try to keep the table reasonably light as a heavy table will only cause problems.
  3. The Lighting in the room is important , and typically table tipping fairs better results in darkness, or low light situations, why I cannot answer ..

  4. Once the group is seated try not to focus on “making the table move” but more on just relaxing your body and mind, if you are not relaxed it simply will not work. Talk amongst yourselves if you wish you are trying to create a certain level of synchronization between your mind and being completely relaxed will help achieve this and bring better results.

  5. Keep your hand on the table at all times, even if events start to bring a tingle of excitement you must make sure your hands stay on the table top.

  6. Through out my research I have found that sometimes a little bit of encouragement helps the phenomena to begin as some of the sitters personal beliefs may be distracting them from letting go and opening up to the possibility of what phenomena may present itself.

  7. While nothing may happen at the first sitting or even the second don’t be discouraged like anything it takes time a dedication, some people may see results straight away others may not but don’t be discouraged practice makes perfect !

  Good luck relax and happy tipping

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• PSYCHIC VAMPIRISM AND ATTACK
  - Rosemary Ellen Guiley

• Visionary Living, Inc.

• Psychic vampirism, also known as psychic attack, is the draining of a person’s energy and life-force through magical or demonic attack. In magic and sorcery, certain individuals possess the skill to command demonic entities to attack and deplete other living things: humans, animals, and crops and plant life. The victim experiences a mysterious fatigue and exhaustion, troubling dreams and horrible nightmares, sexual assaults and perhaps symptoms of the Old Hag (nightmare) syndrome. Psychic attack also can be perpetrated by vampires, as attested in anecdotal accounts of attacks in the Eastern European vampire literature.

  The English occultist Dion Fortune is considered the leading authority on psychic attack. From her own experiences – first with a hostile boss and then with fellow occultists – she gained expert knowledge of how psychic attacks occur, their symptoms in unsuspecting victims, and how the attacks can be warded off or nullified. "I am of the opinion that psychic attacks are far commoner than is generally realized, even by occultists themselves," she states in her definitive work on psychic attack, Psychic Self-Defence (1930). She acknowledges that getting people to admit such attacks was not easy because of skepticism and fear of seeming to be mentally unbalanced.

  According to Fortune, there are two types of psychic attack: by nonphysical entities and by human beings. The nonphysical entities may be acting on their own accord, or be directed to attack by a human being. These entities are said to be either demons commandeered by magic, or thought-forms, beings created by magic. Psychic attacks by human beings are said to be possible through formidable mental powers or traveling out-of-body in astral form. The weight on the chest of a sleeper, the primary symptom of a Old Hag attack (see article on this subject on this website), is considered by Fortune to be a symptom of psychic attack. The purposes of psychic attack are to weaken, debilitate and destroy, to bend to the will of the attacker, or simply to draw off energy. In all cases, the victim ultimately is psychically vampirized due to a loss of life-force. Exhaustion sets in, and in extreme cases, the victim falls seriously ill and may even die.

  Most people normally are protected from falling victim to psychic attack because of the vitality of their own protective energy fields, and their inability to perceive the invisible forces of the Unseen. However, there are four conditions in which this protective veil can be rent, according to Fortune: 1) being in a place where occult forces are concentrated; 2) encountering people who are adept at handling these forces; 3) dabbling in the occult and getting out of depth; and 4) falling victim to certain pathological conditions.

  Fortune said that attack can occur at any time, but most occur at night, and especially when the victim is sleeping, because those are times when psychic resistance is lowest. Phases of the moon also are important: the waning moon and dark of the moon are considered to be the best times for the working of harmful magic.

  Symptoms of an attack are varied and include unexplained behavior, disturbed dreams, the Old Hag sydrome, repulsive smells, exhaustion, confusion, dizziness, mental breakdown, illness and the occurrence of poltergeist phenomena. In some cases, victims may show bruises or tiny bite marks, which may bleed. Fortune, who believed herself to be psychically attacked numerous times, awoke one morning with dried blood on her pillow from a small puncture behind the angle of the jaw. She attributed the puncture to the presence of a girl who was a psychic vampire. Others in the girl's proximity reported the same puncture marks and blood.

  Fortune's help was sought by many who feared they were victims of occult attack. One case she cites in Psychic Self-Defence is that of Mr. C. and his two wives who were victimized by Miss X. As a young girl, Miss X. had been engaged to a man who, soon after the engagement was announced, developed consumption and died of a violent hemorrhage. A few years later, she became engaged again and the second fiance also developed consumption. Although he, too, hemorrhaged, his illness was lingering, and he lived as an invalid for years. During his illness, Miss X. took a house, moved him in and installed an aunt as chaperone. The aunt soon developed listlessness and for days at a stretch would lie unconscious. However, no cause of her illness could be found.

  During the tedium, Miss X. entertained herself by visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. She became infatuated with Mr. C., but her attentions went unrequited. Mrs. C. soon died of cancer of the womb. Much to the chagrin of Miss X., Mr. C. married another woman. The health of the second Mrs. C. began to decline. She suffered nightmares, epileptic-like fits, weakness and fatigue. Eventually she as diagnosed as having cancer of the womb. She, too, died.

  At about the same time, Miss X.'s aunt and second fiance also succumbed. Miss X. suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted to a nursing home in the country. In all likelihood, her vampirism finally turned on herself.

  Another modern example of psychic attack is reported in The Psychology of Witchcraft (1974) by Tom Ravensdale and James Morgan. It concerns a young woman and her husband who were offered accommodation by an older woman whom they knew slightly. Soon after moving in, the young woman began to feel uncomfortable by constant attention from the old landlady. She would be waiting for the girl to come home from work every evening, and she would find a reason to visit the young woman when the husband was not present. She would fix the girl with an intense gaze. She seemed to emanate an unpleasant aura.

  The young woman's energy declined and her health deteriorated. As she suffered, the old woman blossomed with vigor and vitality. The girl's husband suggested a change of residence, but the girl declined and opted instead to stay longer at work. As soon as she decreased the time spent in the od woman's house, her condition improved -- and the old woman's deteriorated. Within a week or two, the old woman was bedridden. Unfortunately, the girl took pity on her and took to caring for her. The old woman's health improved immediately, but the girl's health declined to the point where her husband sent her to a doctor. The doctor diagnosed her as anemic and overworked, and ordered her to rest and eat a better diet. She followed his instructions, but made no improvement. Instead, she steadily grew worse and suffered from complete exhaustion and severe headaches.

• Then the husband noticed two small red patches on her throat. The marks didn't hurt and were of unknown cause, so they were ignored.

  The old woman, meanwhile, had become so rejuvenated and youthful-looking that she decided to take a trip into the country to visit relatives. During her absence, the girl's health returned. She decided to consult a psychic. The psychic clairvoyantly saw the old woman as a psychic vampire surrounded by an aura of evil, and advised the girl and her husband to depart the house immediately. They lacked the funds to do so.

• When the old woman returned, the girl's health once again declined. Now she was so weakened that she was hospitalized. Her red marks returned and now they bled. A Spiritualist friend visited and recommended that the girl wear a crucifix and a ring blessed by a priest, and have her room sealed with holy water. The terrified girl agreed. When these measures had been taken she experienced an immediate and marked improvement in her condition.

  The "vampire" in turn became furious and displayed an uncontrolled hatred toward the girl. But as the girl became stronger, the old woman weakened. At last the girl and her husband were able to move out. She made a complete recovery.

  Not all cases of psychic vampirism are perpetrated by a calculating and malevolent individual. Some people seem to be unwitting energy vampires. Fortune, whose occult study was coupled with a study of psychoanalysis, found some clinic cases to be unusually exhausting. A nurse informed her that these same patients had an extraordinary capacity to absorb high voltages of electricity from the various therapy machines in use at the time.

  Protection against psychic attack and vampirism

  According to occult experts, protection against psychic vampirism can be gained by picturing an ovid shell of white mist surrounding one’s body, becoming denser and denser with each outward breath. Project with the will determination that evil forces will not be able to penetrate the shell. Form it in the morning and repeat at midday and whenever entering crowds or undesirable or threatening areas. Repeat at night prior to sleep.

  When walking along streets, keep the hands closed to retain one’s magnetic energies. On trains, buses, and so forth, sit with hands clasped and the left foot placed over the right. This closes the circuit of the body’s electricity.

  The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters by Rosemary Ellen Guiley

  Copyright Rosemary Ellen Guiley

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