Techniques for Psychic Protection (3)
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Sealing oneself
If you feel threatened in any way, bring your energies back into the centre of your body by concentrating your attention there. At the same time, quieten your thoughts as far as you can. You can also if you wish, visualise yourself surrounded by a tube of light, a transparent cylinder tough as steel which extends above your head and beneath your feet. Your Higher Self can release it to you at your request. But with visualisations, you have to relate to them and work with them in quiet times before you need them.
If you feel you are not grounded in your body, and under attack from psychic forces, take your mind off psychic things and concentrate on the most mundane, ordinary things you can think of. If it is dark, put electric lights on. Have a good substantial meal. Many spiritual people live on salads and other very light food, which is good, but there are times when you need something more dense and solid to eat. Watch some light comedy or whatever diverts you, but avoid dark shows about crime and other evils. Whatever you give attention to increases in your world. Avoid alcohol and drugs (unless medically prescribed). In this way you make yourself unavailable until you feel properly grounded and able to cope.
It is very important to live fully in the physical world as well as having adventures in other worlds. After all, we were born here. Anyone who wants to make spiritual progress has to be good at ordinary life. Paying attention to the demands of worldly life helps protect us from unwanted interference.
Many people open their chakras during a meditation and then forget to close them. There are many ways to do this, and the one I use is to pass the palm of my right hand over my chakras, starting from the lowest and going up to the crown chakra and over my head, saying: “I ask for these energies to be sealed in the Name of the Christ.” You don’t need to say this aloud if other people are present.
Strong emotions can hit the solar plexus chakra and cause one to lose energy. If you feel in danger of this happening, you can protect yourself by asking for the Great Sun Disc to be placed over your solar plexus (or anywhere else for that matter.) This is a visualisation of the sun and is extremely powerful once you have made an inner connection with it (see Invocations).
You can avoid a lot of problems simply by seeing danger ahead and avoiding it. Sounds obvious, doesn’t it. For instance, avoid being drawn into arguments, including long-winded intellectual arguments, which can steal an enormous amount of energy and which you are not likely to win. Sometimes a companion is simply vampirising your energy and you will end up exhausted, having wasted valuable time as well.
There is some useful further information in Judy Hall’s The Art of Psychic Protection.
(On a personal note, I get concerned about young people walking home alone at night. If you have to do this, don’t make eye contact with strangers and if you are cornered, you could try behaving in a really weird, insane way - make spooky noises so they don’t know who they are dealing with. Aim to scare them by acting in a way that is outside the limits of their mindset. I have not had to do this myself but I saw a reconstruction of a real incident of it once on film. Very impressive. It is also good to carry some car keys in your hand so you can poke an assailant in the eye if need be).
Crystals and gems
Much has been written about crystals by people who know more about the subject than I do, but briefly, crystals have the power to amplify whatever vibrations they are in contact with and can store power. They may be specifically programmed to a purpose. They are all alive, each with its own elemental.
It is important to demagnetise a crystal of any negative influences it may have picked up, before you use it, even if it is “new”. One way is to let it lie in cold water for 24 hours (never hot water), and then, cupping it in your left hand while your right forms a dome over it, ask for any negative energies to be transmuted (see Invocations). While it is being cleansed in the water you can also call to the water elementals to transmute any impurities. Then allow your will or intent to act upon the crystal so that it takes on the desired function, whether this be as a store for energy, a transformer of negative energies or a healing crystal. Force is not needed: the crystal will respond to your intention. Again holding the crystal in your hand, direct the thought into it that it should be used for a particular purpose and that it should retain that purpose in itself.
Crystals should be left to soak in cold water from time to time, and be put away if they are not in use. I keep crystals I am not using in a pot of clean garden centre compost so they are in touch with the earth and can revive.
There is much traditional lore surrounding gems and semi-precious stones. Many of them have links with celestial beings and will magnetise their help. Angels and cosmic beings wear a great many jewels and these jewels have great significance. The list is too long to go into here, but it is good to know that rose quartz amplifies love and that black tourmaline will soak up negative energies. If you are suffering from psychic attack get hold of a piece of black tourmaline and keep it with you.
Metals
Traditional lore will often show you what to use and what to avoid. Among metals gold is supreme because it represents the sun and divine intelligence. This spiritual value is the reason why people fall back on gold in times of financial crisis. Gold not only has an abiding monetary value but it is also good for your health if you wear it and has been used as a medicine. Divine beings wear gold. If you cannot afford to buy gold the colour gold will also work as an uplifting and protective feature, because it is in the same vibration. The symbol of something is actually the thing itself on another level.
Silver is lunar, so in terms of psychic protection does not have the same value as gold. This may be the place to mention silver or aluminium foil. Silver foil used to be recommended in books on nuclear warfare to protect radios from electromagnetic interference. It also protects from harmful psychic vibrations. If for some reason you have some questionable object in the house - perhaps you have dug up some archaeological curiosity which may carry an ancient curse - wrap it up in silver foil. Better still get rid of it, but in such a way that it will do no harm to anyone else.
Scents
Like music, scent can have a powerful effect on energies and certain scents can create or destroy atmosphere. There is very little in the psychic realm that can withstand a strong disinfectant - however, this is also true of humans!
Garlic and onions are old favourites in the war on hostile psychic influences, and the pungent smell of garlic is said to drive away vampires as well as witches. If you leave cloves of garlic or raw onions lying about, having dedicated them to the task of absorbing negative influences, they are said to be very effective, and you should burn them afterwards if they have been used in this way. Not everyone can live like this. Personally I would rather enjoy a good perfume. And if you want angels to visit your house you should spare them the onions and garlic.
Clean, fresh smells such as pine or lemon are unpopular with the demonic hordes. Conversely, you should avoid heavy, sensual perfumes such as patchouli.
Roses have always symbolised divinity. Certain types of mystical experience involve the scent of roses, and Mary and St Therese of Lisieux frequently use roses in their appearances. St Therese is always depicted with an armful of roses. If you are able to have roses in your house or garden you can create a focus for the divine and this in itself will help drive out evil influences.
Best of all are lavender and camomile. I have recently taken the advice to put drops of lavender oil on my upper chakras before going to sleep, and this feels good. I use lavender oil all the time and have taken to drinking camomile tea. If you don’t like the taste of camomile tea you can get it now with honey or vanilla or other flavours which makes it more palatable. Apparently camomile can be smelt on the skin if you drink enough of it, and the demonic forces don’t like it at all. Worth a try.
Music
Music has the power to change the vibrations of a place completely and immediately. Its psychological effects, for better or worse, are amazing. If you are experiencing psychic bombardment, one of the most efficient means you can use to combat it is to play the right kind of music night and day on a loop until the evil vibration is defeated. You don’t have to listen to the music if you don’t want to; it can be playing softly in an empty room or even in a cupboard. It can be so soft that you can barely hear it. Its beneficial effects will continually pour out to the world at large.
Music to counteract witchcraft or ghoulish attack must be strongly spiritual and positive in tone. Certain pieces of music were divinely inspired - Handel’s Messiah for instance is said to have been inspired by the Archangel Raphael - and to play such music is to make contact instantly, if you so desire, with angels and great heavenly beings.
If you are suffering psychic attack, keep away from the rock beat, the blues, jazz and any music which encourages disintegration. The subject would take too long to go into here, and I recommend David Tame’s The Secret Power of Music if you would like to know more.
Music that heals is integrative. The following are suggestions of music to play if you are under psychic attack, or would just like something uplifting:
Handel Messiah, especially the Hallelujah Chorus
Beethoven Ninth Symphony, esp. the last movement, the Ode to Joy
Wagner Overture to Tannhauser and the Pilgrims Chorus
The above are mighty spiritual affirmations, full of joy and positivity. Below are some more suggestions:
J S Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Mass in B Minor
Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor (to name but three works)
Mozart Jupiter symphony, No, 41 and other works
Beethoven Symphonies; Emperor Piano Concerto
Sibelius Finlandia
J Strauss Blue Danube and other waltzes
Wagner Prelude to Parsifal Act 1, Tannhauser: Evening Star
Bach-Gounod: Ave Maria
Schubert Ave Maria
Verdi Triumphal March from Aida
This is only a short list, and a good collection of hymns, Christmas carols or Gregorian chant would also serve.
The Power of the Spoken Word
If music has power, so has the spoken word, although in earlier times our words had more power than they have today when they have been so cheapened. The Word is the power by which the universe was created: “In the beginning was the Word.” When it is combined with intent, with visualisation and concentration the spoken word still has great power. We, especially in Britain, have been conditioned not to use the power of the word and people still can find it embarrassing to raise their voice and use it as a tool. Once this inhibition has been overcome, however, there is an enormous range of mantras and invocations available for our use.
The Name of Power
The greatest Word of Power there is has been staring us in the face all along, but those who do not want us to have power have conditioned us not to use it. It is “I AM”. The key to power is to say “In the Name I AM THAT I AM.” This is the name God gave to Moses, when Moses asked him who he was. It is more powerful than the word “God”, because “I AM” is the central fact of our being. “God” may seem remote and out there somewhere, but “I AM” is all there is.
“I AM” means that God and myself are one and the same, even though this current version of myself that I inhabit is exiled here in a restricted form. How much power this small self can attain depends on how far it can go within the I AM.
The Power of Visualisation
Many books have been written about visualisation, so all I will say is that I have found it easiest to visualise light. The easiest way to visualise the I AM is to visualise - simply remember - a blazing sun which can be white or magenta or another appropriate colour. As you practise this it becomes alive and you realise that this blazing sphere represents and in fact is the Divine individualised for each person. It can suddenly envelop you in healing light. It can suddenly appear in front of you as a large pearly orb, or as an almond-shaped eye directly above which suddenly opens and pours down light when you ask for it. People also very often see violet light in meditation. This is a very pure flame associated with transmutation and you can visualise it blazing through negative situations.
The Cosmic Cross of White Fire
Once you have practised visualising light you can use the thoughtform of the cross as it exists on the inner planes: the vertical bar symbolising spirit descending into matter and the horizontal bar signifying the matter plane. It is a giant cross ablaze with white fire, and you can visualise it standing in any terrible situation such as we see nightly on the news.
To work with it you can extend your arm full length and draw the cross with two extended forefingers of your right hand while saying aloud: “In the Name of the Christ (or in the Name I AM THAT I AM) I invoke the Cosmic Cross of White Fire upon…” whatever it is you wish the cross to counteract.
You may be troubled with a horrible memory or thought projection or even an image from a film which will not go away. Sometimes an evil picture can be pushed right up against the victim’s face and it seems impossible to push it back. Children are especially vulnerable and can be taught to use the Cosmic Cross of White Fire to completely cover the image and burn it up. Even if the unwanted image does not completely disappear it can be neutralised so that it loses its power.
Thoughtforms such as this should always be invoked in the Name of I AM or of the Christ, and if in doubt as to whether you should use them you can ask for them to be adjusted according to the Divine Will.
The Great Sun Disc
Even easier to visualise than the Cosmic Cross is this blazing, white-fire sun which symbolises God and was once worshipped as such. It has immense power. You can visualise a huge, incandescent sun placed over your solar plexus as a shield against unwanted influences or emotional disturbance. In fact, possibilities of visualisation are unlimited, since we are dealing directly here with the Divine Light. I have frequently used this sun image in illness and physical injury.
As always, the more you practise and build up a relationship with these thought forms the more powerful they become. You have to treat them with reverence and love if you really want to benefit from them. They are of course perfectly real and intelligent.
Invocations
It is easier to stand. Make your attunement by straightening your spine, collecting your energies and centering in your heart. Then say, aloud if possible: “In the Name I AM THAT I AM I call to beloved Jesus (or whichever heavenly being you are working with) for … (and state what it is you want done). When you have finished, don’t forget to express your thanks. There is no set wording; once you have had a little practice you can improvise. The essential is that you should align yourself with the task in hand and speak from the heart. Here are some examples:
“In the Name I AM THAT I AM I call to Mother Mary and Archangel Michael to demagnetise this room, to cleanse it of all evil influences and fill it with your Light. I thank you and accept it done.”
“In the Name I AM THAT I AM I call to the holy angels to cleanse me and I release into this water all negativity, tensions and burdens.”
“In the Name I AM I call for the Great Sun Disc to be placed over my solar plexus chakra as a mighty shield to deflect all evil.”
“In the Name I AM THAT I AM I call to the Divine Mother to demagnetise these clothes and return my vibrations that are in them to my heart flame/cleanse them of other people’s vibrations.” When doing this, hold the clothes in your left hand and hold the palm of your right hand over the clothes.
“In the Name I AM THAT I AM I call to the Divine Mother to demagnetise and cleanse this crystal, that it may be a fitting chalice for your Light, that my mantras may accumulate within it and be carried in its molecules. I call to the Divine Mother to charge this crystal by white fire and blue lightning to become a transformer/ cell to store the Divine light/ build a momentum for healing.” The crystal is held in the left hand while the right is above, blessing it.
There are countless such procedures available, and the aim should be to use them to create a relationship with the Higher Worlds without them ever becoming routine. All the techniques given here work, but sometimes one method needs to be given a rest and another brought into use. Like a good general one should change tactics every now and then. The important thing is to stay tuned to the right direction and always to maintain the thread of contact, a loving relationship with the Divine.
This was to have been the last article in this series, but I find there is still more to say, so there will be one more to come.
