Spirit Mediums
On Being Possessed
The Possession Phenomena
If you believe in life after death, then you must consider also the possibility that some folks just don't lift off from the planet after death - and also that some energies from other dimensions can find their way back here...
Being possessed by some energy from "the other side" is not just a figment of our imaginations...
Possessions are terrifying experiences, and not so rare as we might think. In the last months, we've received so many requests for help, that we decided to publish some basic information for you. While the spiritual specialists are best equipped to handle this problem and we have several to whom we will refer inquiries, there is a lot one can do to release oneself from discarnate entities.
If you're afraid that you have, or someone you know has been possessed, you should know that these invasions most often occur when:
- there is some mental, emotional, or physical dis-ease, or disturbance
- there has been a traumatic event, usually involving sudden death
- we are holding repressed negativity, anger, resentment, fear, hostility
- we need our cages rattled, ie, when we are avoiding some action or change that is important to our life purpose.
- we unwittingly open our channels to the lower realms, in the process of connecting to discarnate entities in other realms. (See our articles on channeling for more information here.)
Without exception, the key to exorcising entities "in possession" is to raise one's vibrational frequency past the point where these entities can hang on. This means that those who are possessed as a result of some illness must submit themselves to treatment - "follow the doctor's orders"... as they recover their health, the issue of possession will drop away since there is nothing left for the entities to feed upon. Possessions as a result of a traumatic event can be relieved by intense prayer and the extension of loving energy into the space and people who were affected. (Leaving flowers at an accident scene is an excellent way to help the victims move on.)Possessions that occur as a result of repressed feelings require a somewhat different approach... In these cases, everyone involved in or associated with the possession will need some therapy... both psychological and spiritual, in order to move away from the feelings that have been attracting the problem and to everyone recover their self-esteem and their personal power.
Sometimes we need a knock on the head to wake us up and see that we're moving in the wrong directions - and sometimes a loving spirit will invade our space to give us the kick we need to look at what's going on and decide to make change... In these instances, the possession is not so much an invasion as it is loving guidance... if we're willing to respond to these occurrences with some positive action, the issue of possession quickly disappears.
Following are some of the letters about being possessed that we have responded to recently. Answers from the Global Psychics team of mediums provide more detail about the dynamics of possession and what you can do about it.. Tell us what you think goes on after death, or about the Possession Experiences that you have encountered, or submit your own list of questions.
A Battle With the Dark Side...
It started without warnings A power wanted to enter me in my sleep. The reason I say power is because that’s the only way I could perceive it. It was frightening. I fought not physically but with the same sort of power that I was being assaulted by. The type of power that does not have a shape nor size, but is overwhelming in every sense. Night after night. Month after month. I fought it with all the strength my power had until out of fatigue almost slipping into a coma within my sleep- into a darkness - a lifeless darkness- hanging onto my very last breath. It is at this moment that I would begin to chant prayers, each round of chant made me stronger- stronger until I had become stronger than the power that was assaulting me.
The dreams persisted for over a year and within this period my life turned into hell. My husband and myself became immoral, to the point of self-destructiveness. Now, the dreams have gone. But I still couldn’t understand why. Do you think you can throw some light on this.? Mrs D.
This sounds like a truly disturbing time in your life - you are fortunate that you managed to overcome it... as to the why of it, that one is difficult... it seems that you were being challenged by some dark force to either accept it or move on from it... as if your light side wanted to battle it out with the dark so you would make a clear a definite choice for the light...
This could have happened because someone around you was very focussed on sending you some negative energy, or because you had some old karma from previous lifetimes to clear, or because you have been "playing" with the dark side of yourself for a long while and needed to be shaken out of it - or into it... as if you were being told you couldn't sit on the fence any longer... anyway... it seems that you figured out how to clear it - raising your vibrational frequency is the surest way to prevent this kind of energy from getting to you... there's a whole lot more to this world than meets the eye! Best wishes and Lotsa LLLove, Danielle
Our dead grandmother is trying to possess our mother,
what can we do?
I'm hoping you can put me in touch with a psychic in my area - Florida - that could help me with a haunting of a person - not a place. We are hoping that the psychic could send these entities to wherever they need to go, and to leave our mother alone. I hope you can help. Here is the story:
My mother lives in Florida and has a problem with some entities. However, they are not in their house but on and around her. They follow her everywhere, even out of state. It all started when my grandma died. Before she died, she was a bit senile and thought my father was her husband and that my mother was her husbands' mistress. After she died, she would move things in the house; ring bells, etc. At first, it was cute and didn't bother anyone. Then about 2 years ago, it started getting worse with the bed shaking; things moving about the room; and sounds like "water hitting hot oil" when "she" moved about. Eventually, my mother would feel a heavy hand on her head and poking at her privates, then would also hear something in the hall at the same time, which made her think there was more than one entity now. This pretty much only happened at night and at home, until she took a trip to St. Louis and told someone on the way what was happening to her, thinking she was leaving the entity behind at home. That night it was worse than ever before with her being physically attacked repeatedly throughout the night in the hotel room by the "entities". Now the entities follow her everywhere. They go into her nostrils and she can feel them go in and fill her sinuses. There is one around her left ankle and she says it's cold there all the time. They travel up and down her spine and into her hair. Whatever is around her is not cute anymore, but evil and malicious. I know this may sound terrifically unusual, but my mom is very sane and I believe her. She is very religious and many prayers have helped her lessen this situation somewhat, but she cannot banish these things herself and her church has turned away from her. This is why I'm asking if you know of some resources that may help.
Goodness, dear, this sounds like a real haunting and rather frightening, let alone bothersome. I am forwarding your note to several psychics I know with some experience in these matters, none of whom is in Florida. They may know of someone local who can help here... and sometimes this work can be done remotely.
In the meantime, it is important for your mother - and all around her - to do her best to raise her vibrational frequency... laugh a lot, try to laugh at grandma's silliness in not knowing she should move on, rent funny movies, sing, dance, lift your spirits in every way.... The reason this is happening is because the lower astral energies which your grandmother manifested in her senility, have found some energy within your mother's space with which they can resonate - guilt, fear, resentment - perhaps your mother does have some minor "sins" from the past for which she has never quite forgiven herself. This is the vibrational frequency upon which the lower energies can feed...
So, to counteract, if your mother can really focus on her loving light self right now, and to send as much love, light and laughter as she can into the world around her, thinking loving joyful thoughts as often as possible - especially towards your grandmother - along with the words "go to the light, you are dead, this is my space and you cannot invade it without my permission, go to the light, there is someone waiting for you who will make you feel a lot better..." Ask your mother to call on her guides and angels and God to intervene here and to help your grandmother back on her path, and on her way... the more loving and forgiving you can be of grandmother, the more often you address her soul and remind her of who she was before she lost herself in her senility, the less it will be possible for her to interfere in your mother's space.
This is truly a case of soul who got lost after death - because she was senile, and it seems a little angry with life, she got confused after death and attached herself to whomever she could - the more she found she could interrupt your mother's life, the more fearful your mother became of her ghost, the more power she gained... However, underneath all this is still a soul who was loving at least at one time, and if you can remind your grandmother of this, she can be encouraged to come and kind of "collect herself"... remind her that she really wants peace in her soul and the only way to get it is to move on to the light...
Tell your mother that every time she feels her around she must light a candle and tell her mother to go find the light... to look for the light and follow it... Might I also suggest some prayers - and if you can get your family together for a memorial service, I think that would be very useful in reminding your grandmother that she is dead and must move on, publish a notice in the paper, do the whole memorial trip... - all the extra prayers for her soul right now will help to move her on to a more loving space... Lighting candles with your prayers enhances their power... place flowers on her grave also, and do your best to honour her in death... prayer in these circumstances can be a very effective way for helping to remove the soul's lower energies from the planet and helping it collect itself fully so it can move on in peace and wholeness... and honouring her death is a good way of reminding her that she needs to find another dimension in which to hang out... Best wishes and Lotsa LLLove, Danielle
Illness as the Cause of Possession
This is not really a story but a brief summary of what happened to me. In my last job I started to hear voices talking. . . two distinct voices, one male and one female. The male voice was friendly whilst female one was hostile seeking to put me in difficulty whenever possible. I could hear the voices just as well as you can hear anyone else talking. They pestered me night and day, sometimes not allowing me to sleep. . . I've contacted I psychiatrist (actually I spoke to various psychiatrists regarding the phenomena. One gave me some medicines which I am still taking now. The voices slowly disappeared . . . though I strongly believe that their disappearing has nothing to do with the medicines taken because I started to take them after the voices had started to diminish in intensity. I have to be honest that I am glad that the voices disappeared because they were making my life unbearable. . .but I feel disoriented now. . . I don't know what happened and in the light of today I just can't believe that I imagined everything because both voices had there distinct and autonomous personality. On a couple of occasions they also gave me hints regarding the world which surrounded me, like telling me where I had put my sunglasses . . . but they were persecuting me with my behaviour of the past, day in and day out. Can you somehow help me understand what happened? Lorenzo, Milan, Italy
On the surface, this sounds like a quite typical chemical or psychological or emotional disturbance - good spirit guides and angelic forces are very positive and reinforcing and while they may observe patterns of behaviour that aren't working for you, they will lead you to seeing and responding to these desirable changes in a very gentle way... without reprimanding or criticizing, always in a very loving way... However, it is possible that you allowed some darker forces to enter your sphere and that these have attempted to gain control of your behaviour... psychologists might want to call this a split personality in its extreme manifestations, and certainly there are valid psychological cases to support this view... however we do not yet know how we function on the spirit planes and how much influence other entities can have on our day-to-day existence. Many folks in the spiritual community are certain that is possible for other forces to take over our bodes and attempt to live vicariously through us... If you are concerned that this might have happened to you, I would recommend some spiritual healing work, in addition to following through with the work with your doctor. The spiritual work should make you feel better and can help you get rid of any entities that have attached themselves to you. I can especially recommend the work of the folks over at http://www.soulwisdom.com/.
In any case, whatever is going on for you, following your doctors orders will help you to get clear - whatever is going on, you will need to do some inner work, building your self-esteem and dealing with the personal issues that drive you to be so hard on yourself that you pulled in some bad spirits to help you beat yourself up... While the spiritual work can give you some temporary relief, as the medication does, the real cause is rooted in your own attitude to yourself and your life, so when you work on those issues, the spiritual work will have a more lasting effect, and you may find that ultimately you may not need any medication... but only when you've dealt with the source of the problem. And if you are suffering from some sort of chemical imbalance, you will probably need to take some medication all of your life, since the inner work will only help you to stay grounded and to maintain a basic balance; ie, spiritual work may prevent the voices from showing up so much, but unless you get the chemistry balanced, you may always risk hearing voices and some such. Best wishes and Lotsa LLLove, Danielle
Dr Geri DeStefano responds with practical advice...
Dear Lorenzo,
I'm a psychologist in addition to being a psychic. . . . This is a very interesting situation for you. . . and not at all unheard of in the realm of the paranormal. I'll try to give you some insights here.
First off. . . I work a lot with the chakras which are the subtle energy circuits in our bodies. These "energy wheels" align themselves along the spinal column. . . .from the tip of the spine up through the top of the head. Each chakra regulates various activities, and like an electrical circuit, these subtle circuits can get blocked, congested, overloaded and "fried"!! These circuits regulate things like (from the bottom up) survival, self-image/sexuality, power, emotions, verbal/psychic communication, intellect and connection with a Higher Power. At its best, we want all the energies to flow through these circuits freely.
Practically, we all have some kind of block or possible "blow out" in one or more of these centers. When there is a problem with these circuits, energies can get misdirected or we may experience a back-up in energies which will cause us to feel nervous, anxious, spaced-out. . . .
OK. . . .sometimes, spontaneously one of our top or psychic centers may open up. This can can as a result of trauma, meditation, stress. . . .or a perceived threat from the environment. There's always something that will trigger this off. It's as if the crown chakra (connection with a Higher Power. . . .or a higher state of consciousness) suddenly opens up. . . .and the sense of it is. . . .like being able to access a different radio frequency! Quite suddenly. . . .you're aware of voices! Who knows what these voices are or where they originate from. Some theories hold that they are the voices of disincarnate beings. . . .guides, angels, the newly departed. Whatever they are. . . .they are annoying to most folks. . . unless they're "invited" to come through and communicate. The easiest way to deal with these voices. . . .is to ask them to leave and stop bothering you!! Most of the time they'll simply move on and look for another "host" . . . . .
There's another possible way of looking at some of this. . . . again, if a chakra opens spontaneously. . . .there is the possibility of a "past life bleed through". . . . .that there are parts of the personality from a previous life that bleed through into present day consciousness. . . .I've treated schizophrenics with this particular issue. . . .where voices, old personas leak through. . . .demanding some level of "voice" and integration into the psyche. . . . This is where a good psychic therapist can come in handy. . . to assist one in that integration process. I suspect that this is a very difficult process to manage on one's own. . . .
It is difficult and sometimes impossible for Western style medicine or therapies to address these paranormal activities. Often, these psychic phenomena are looked at as pathology or a dysfunction of the psyche. . . .to be treated with drugs or other therapies. . . . .and after working in the field for over 25 years. . . .I've come to believe that there are parts of our psyche and realities. . . .that do not come under the purview of traditional therapies!! I've worked with far too many people who were given up on by their psychiatrists. . . or spent countless years in institutions. . . . .who were able to heal. . . .after accessing these paranormal realms and integrate them, in a healthy way, back into their psyches. . . .
The Recommended Treatment
at this point you may want to go into the simplest of strategies. First with the physical body. Do whatever you can to get a balance there through a good healthy diet, (no alcohol, sugar, wheat, drugs) lots of vegetables, protein. . . .fresh water, vitamins (C, Niacin, B Vitamins, E) good exercise daily. . . . to get your blood sugar levels balanced and the endorphins running again. . . . .meditate for 20 min a day. . . . .get grounded, meaning a clear connection with the earth. . . . .keep a simple and consistent schedule. . . . .regular sleep. . . .and keep a journal or your experiences. . . .sometimes being able to write these things down. . . .distances ourselves from the phenomena aspect of all of this and allows us to be more detached from it. . . . . I hope this helps!!. . . . . .Warmest regards, Geri De Stefano PH.D.
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