For centuries the ritual for exorcism was one of Roman Catholicism's most closely guarded secrets. What had changed in the spirit world to make banishing evil spirits something that not just priests, but the average Giuseppi needed to know?
With all the channelling, hauntings and possessions going on it seems the earth's getting overpopulated by a variety of spooks, ghosts, demons and sundry creatures that go bump in the night. Some students of abnormal phenomenon theorize that the number of spirits is not really on the rise. They've been around a long time. But the modern belief system has only recently expanded to allow for the possibility that non-physical beings may exist and even impinge upon human affairs.
Believing is seeing. It is quite difficult to see something one doesn't believe is possible. The mind will restructure or camouflage "impossible" events so that they comport with one's belief system.
The lifestyle since the '60's has eroded some of the barriers between this actuality and others so that people are so often encountering the bizarre and paranormal that the materialist paradigm can no longer explain people's experiences. By entertaining the notion that "maybe there's more" the senses have opened to the point that more and more people are experiencing non-physical reality.
Oddly enough, in acknowledging spirits the West is coming into accord with most of the world's cultures and with the ancient paradigm which held that spirit beings existed and could teach, guide, assist and harm human beings.
Those people gifted with the ability to see or otherwise sense the spirit realm -- shamans, medicine women, pirs, walis, mirs, psychics, witches, seers et al -- were prized and cherished by their countrymen as gifts from heaven.
Helen Fatir, formerly Helen Labovitch, is a psychic seer of astounding ability who happens to be not only my wife, but at expert at identifying and dispatching unwanted spirits from people, houses, babies and even animals.
The Good, Bad and Ugly
Helen has encountered various categories of non-physical beings. She generally refers to negative spiritual beings as "entities." "They don't have our best interest in mind," she says.
Among entities there are low-level, not very intelligent ones whose sole purpose seems to be to suck energy from people. This can be stressful, debilitating and perhaps lead to illness. But those larval types aren't completely stupid. "They know how to push our buttons," Helen says, "to cause us to give energy. They push anger buttons, fear buttons or sex buttons -- anything to provoke us to generate the energy they need."
One signal for the presence of entities is the aggravation and exacerbation of negative emotions. An entity can make a mountain out of a molehill. A minor irritation can mount and mount until it becomes utter rage.
Higher up the spook food chain are reptilian looking entities which are much more intelligent and which can be both manipulative and domineering. Helen says, "The reptilian entities have a sharp cunning intelligence. They are tenacious and don't give up easily, and are as obsessive as they are manipulative and seem to see us as inferior and subject to them."
Equally lethal are the humanoid ones which can sometimes masquerade as guides teachers and even goddesses and gods, a trait that reptilian beings are also capable of.
"Some of these have a good deal of knowledge," says Helen, "but never as much as they pretend to have. They're experts at echoing your knowledge back to you, perhaps slightly altered, to make you think they are beings of vast wisdom."
The advanced humanoid kind may appear in ornate robes and other trappings of splendour to produce the image of grandeur.
Dead humans also interact with living humans. Some such beings often are "lost," having died suddenly or violently, or under medication such as morphine. Often they don't know they're dead. They tend to haunt the same place for long periods, trying to make sense of their situation.
More positive spirits include light workers, guides, healers and energy-providers.
Helen says "Light workers are beings that work through and for us, they can remove entities and negative energy, however only that which we can see and pinpoint accurately.
Guides teach and instruct people according to their capacity to learn.
Helen is mostly self-taught. All her life she was sensitive and saw things her mother, Rita, told her did not exist.
"When I was a little girl, there was a being in my room at home. I told my mother, but she said that there was no-one there.
Because she's self-taught her perspective is fresh and she doesn't spew the same platitudes most New Agers repeat ad nauseum. Yet, occasionally, Helen encounters traditional spiritual phenomena without having read of them or heard other teachers expound upon them.
"One of my early guides told me, 'Develop your 'feelings, they are your best guide, even better than me.'"
Helen's first guide called himself her "Knowledge Tree Person". He showed her a different way of looking at astrology, which was to shrink down onto the chart, planet and planet's position, and 'feel' what that meant. Mainly he opened the door to understanding guidance and its availability.
After a while, "He stopped being available. He said I'd learned all I could from him," Helen explains.
Helen's next guide referred to himself as "Tibetan." At the time Helen was unaware that a similar guide had communicated with Alice Bailey and perhaps others.
Helen isn't sure if her guide is the same "Tibetan" or from the same school of organization. The Tibetan taught Helen in the ways of employing energy in the awesome and spectacular way that she does. This writer has never encountered anyone who can project, receive, and conduct energy like Helen does.
Guides, Helen explains "have no personality. They are not subject to the same imbalances in their energies that we have, and therefore are unlikely to have a personal agenda other than the development of all. They are more impersonal than personal, although there is often a sense of unconditional love and patience. They don't manipulate or tell us what to do. They answer questions in such a way that opens our mind to further questions, they assist in our learning and development.
Sex Demons
Throughout antiquity, stories of incubi and succubi (male and female sex demons) have persisted. Helen explains that sex spirits prey on our sexual energy, trying to get us, and sometimes succeeding, to interact sexually with them. Sex energy creates a powerful bond or energy link, between people as well as entities. Once a strong energy link is formed with an entity, it allows the entity control to its victim. The sexual link also makes it more difficult to remove them.
Energy Vampires
Many negative entities are able to attach themselves to chakras to suck off energy like spirit vampires. The run off of energy depletes the human energy system so that the depleted victim becomes vulnerable to serious illness.
Helen and I are currently exploring whether all illness is, in fact, entity related. Many healings that Helen has accomplished included locating and removing entities which were feeding upon the client.
"The Tibetan told me that true insanity is very rare," states Helen. The vast majority of the people considered insane are actually possessed by a negative spirit.
Helen helped a client with Tourette's syndrome and found that the poor man had an entity attached. The embarrassing words issuing from the man's mouth were actually those of the entity.
Modern medicine, unfortunately, would drown the man in drugs, treating the symptoms, instead of eliminating the problem at the root. However, this type of entity removal can take a very long time, with gradual improvement as the process takes place.
Despite their dependence on human energy, occasionally demonic spirits will try to make a person commit suicide. One lady said "Years ago, on several occasions I felt an overwhelming compulsion to throw myself in front of an oncoming train, as I resisted this unwanted compulsion and clung to the wall, the ground seemed to slant down toward the tracks triggering a great fear that I would fall helplessly in front of the train. During that period of time in which I was having to visit the dentist, I was also having to resist an equally unwanted compulsion to put my tongue in the path of the drill. Those compulsions lasted approximately three months, after which time they left as suddenly as they had arrived, and were totally out of character".
Houses can indeed be haunted by either dead humans or entities. For 16 years Helen was aware of a presence in her family home that her mother denied existed. She subsequently found out that a woman had remained locked in that room all of her life during a time when people hid relatives that were unbalanced in some way.
One of Helen's cases involved a house which had been built in a place where the barriers between planes were not as defined as is usual. Consequently the energies were particularly uncomfortable to anyone living there who was sensitive, though all would be affected in different ways. Such energy "fault lines" result in entities being able to come and go more easily. The daughter of the family, who was particularly sensitive, had grown up strongly affected by an entity which resided in what could be described as an energy corridor that ran diagonally through the house. The centre point crossed through her room and was where the entity was lodged. She experienced feelings of despair and suicide from an early age, which left her when she eventually moved away. Subsequently another member of the household, Spencer, became affected by this being, and he gradually became aware that something non physical was causing his feelings and experiences.
At this point, Helen was consulted, and with the help of the guides with whom she works, found this proved to be the case. Improvement resulted when the being was removed and the corridor sealed off.
Then another entity, angry at the closing of the corridor, started to ferociously attack Spencer causing him physical pain and psychological distress. Each time the entity was removed, it fought to return so that Spencer was unable to remain in the house and had to leave, after which all of his symptoms immediately disappeared. The entity then left and further work with the guide enabled Helen to use a particular method of closing openings between planes, and the house became safe, Spencer was able to return and now lives there free of any attack.
Helen can see entities with her eyes open, though sometimes she meditates to locate them. When necessary she calls upon her light workers, guides and even deceased relatives to assist.
"I have to do everything in my power before they will help me. Usually, I have to see and identify the entity and then, if I can't, my light workers will help me remove it," Helen says. The exception to this is when the entity is particularly powerful and dangerous, then Helen works with a guide from a protected place, which disables the entity from being able to locate her energy.
Helen often wraps energy around an entity to get rid of it and, years ago, she use to drag the entity onto train tracks where the electrical energy of an oncoming train would drag it away.
She's since learned easier methods. Helen's able to remove entities long distance. She doesn't have to be near the person she's helping.
"All I need is the person's name," Helen says, "and I can tune into them any place in the world."
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