I. Negative Entities 101: Introduction and Types of Entities
II. Negative Entities 101: Personality Profile of a Neg
III. Negative Entities 101: Who is Targetted?
IV. Negative Entities 101: Negs and Addiction
V. Negative Entities 101: Occult Dabbling and Spiritual Arrogance
VI. Negative Entities 101: Natural Metaphysical Abilities and Awakening
VII. Negative Entities 101: Mistaken Spiritual Beliefs
VIII. Negative Entities 101: Subconscious Wounds and the Shadow Side

Hands up, who here has gone through personal trauma? Anyone carrying around emotional baggage? Past resentment? Unbalanced emotional issues? Personal traits you aren’t proud of? Ever take something someone said to heart? Ever realized you were holding a self-limiting belief about the world, other people or yourself?

(Peering out over my readership…)

(Now addressing anyone who’s left that’s not creeped out by my Jedi-like ability to see you through my monitor, muahaha…)

Ahem. Well, that’s all of us. So we should probably all keep reading, no?

In my last post I discussed why conscious belief is not necessarily a cure-all for solving the problem of negative interference. All the issues I mentioned above are keys as to why that is.

Anyone who has grown up on planet earth will have ended up taking on subconscious baggage and other internal debris that causes discord in our lives; causes us to limit and even sabotage ourselves. We’re indoctrinated with self-limiting beliefs; we go through trauma and heartbreak; we have personality traits that negatively affect our relationships with ourselves and others.

We all have a shadow side which is called that partly because it’s where all our flaws reside, and partly because it’s our blind spot; the things we don’t like to look at or are unable to see for what they are.

In this sense, negative entities can be considered external representations of our collective shadow side. Any of the above mentioned issues are fair game for an entity attachment. Over time a long term attachment can exaggerate our most destructive qualities into something that causes much pain to ourselves and others. Even in the short term, an entity’s influence can have effects such as ramping up our emotions in such a way that, say, a minor yet heated disagreement turns into a full on raging inferno where things are said and done that we regret.

There are some who believe that this is the “purpose” of such entities in our lives – they draw our attention to our shadow side so that we can take responsibility for, and integrate it in a balanced way. Some, particularly very religious people, take this even further – a Christian might say it’s “God’s will.” God has been portrayed variously in the Christian tradition, as sending entities, or allowing people to come under their influence, whether as punishment or a growth experience. This theme is prominent in the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose for instance. It’s not limited to Christianity though; a Hindu might say this is one’s “karma.”

I would strongly caution that any belief that suggests a “purpose” for negative entities in your life is dangerous, because it’s all the permission they need to stick around.

Yes, entities can have the effect of forcing us to grow. The problem there is that rather than just drawing our attention to an imbalance in ourselves – entities work to throw us off balance by any available means. It is well within the realm of possibility for negs to find a small hairline crack in one’s personality, and depending on the strength of the entity, chipping away, jackhammering away or launching missiles at the crack until it’s a serious all-consuming problem. In situations like this, even the most diligent, self-empowered and responsible individual can have old problems being targetted and new problems piled on faster than is humanly possible to clear them out.

For a real world example, imagine that in a moment of anger and carelessness, an adult calls a child stupid. As is usually the case in these situations the child takes it to heart, and this statement finds its way into the subconscious. As the child reaches adulthood, although the statement is still there on some level, at this point it’s just subconscious debris, and may well be mostly counteracted by other, more positive influences and successes in the person’s life. However, now imagine an opportunistic entity comes into the picture, finds this piece of debris and attaches to it as the basis for a sabotage campaign. Over the long term, through mental and emotional conditioning, “stupid” is reinforced, and on top of that is piled worthless, lazy, ugly, miserable failure, socially inept… you get the idea. After months and possibly years of this, the original comment has been turned into something that consumes the person’s entire self image. Since our self image and the contents of our subconscious are the basis for much of the way we experience life, pretty soon other people and circumstances will begin to mirror all this extra crap the person is carrying around that they weren’t to begin with. Thus a vicious cycle is born that takes a whole lot more work to fix than would have been the case if the individual only had to clear the original bit of debris. Technically it requires the individual’s ongoing consent for this process to continue. This is one of many instances where “consent” and “permission” can get very fuzzy however. For someone who has never considered the possibility that maybe not all their thoughts and emotions are really theirs, or even that we can take responsibility for our thoughts and emotions and consciously decide which ones to allow into our mental space, breaking this sort of cycle can become very difficult. The silver lining is that many entities of this sort depend on their host’s ignorance of their presence – meaning as soon as you demonstrate some willpower and start taking steps to change your own mental habits, they’ll leave without a struggle and simply find an easier target. Unfortunately negs are notoriously messy houseguests, so you may still be stuck taking out the trash they’ve left behind.

Volumes could be written on ways to clear out entity attachments as well as how to clear subconscious baggage and integrate the personality… and probably will be, in future posts here. For the purpose of this one, the best place to start is with the same basic tool I’ve been hammering on throughout this series: total personal responsibility for your own thoughts, actions, words and emotions. Working toward self mastery has a host of benefits, not the least of which is that it makes us less vulnerable to malicious influences in our lives, whether physical or nonphysical. It also brings us to the conclusion that we have the authority, and responsibility to ourselves, to be vigilant about choosing who and what to allow into our space.

At this point I’ve decided to shift gears. I had originally planned on carrying on this series a lot longer… but as others who have written on this subject will attest, it’s not an easy thing to write about for a lot of reasons, especially for an extended period. Beyond that, this has been a major period of insights and breakthroughs for me, and my backlog of topics to write on is growing immense (just ask some of the poor unsuspecting people I’ve been bombarding with babble to let some steam off my suddenly overactive throat chakra. :D) I’m at a point where I personally am less focused on “what to avoid” and more focused on what I actually want, so dragging this on any further at this time is creating conflict for me that I feel is starting to affect the quality of the writing. The fact remains that this is a complex subject that deserves a lot more attention than it gets, and I’ve got enough material that I could keep this going for months. But that’s a long time to spend on any one subject… especially this one.

So.

I’m thinking that the Negative Entities 101 series will be kind of an ongoing thing that I will keep adding to as I feel so compelled, and I’m open to requests on what info my readers are specifically looking for on the subject.

For further reading:

Astral Dynamics – A site with a forum on many aspects of metaphysics and spirituality, including sections on psychic self defense and negative interference.

Practical Psychic Self-Defense — Required reading for anyone with negative entity problems.

To be continued!

–Palehorse

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1. Negative Entities 101: Who Is Targetted?
2. Negative Entities 101: Occult Dabbling and Spiritual Arrogance
3. Negative Entities 101: Personality Profile of a Neg
4. Negative Entities 101: Negs and Addiction
5. Negative Entities 101: Introduction and Types of Entities

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