Hi All,
All my life i wanted to be able to converse with, feel, see other-wordly beings. Well, after experiences associated with Chi Kung (Qi Gong) that became quite easy for years, yet now i am finding out, through different sources, that impostors can show up from the astral plane, pretending to be Christ, Buddha, spirit guides, Angels, mimicking the likes of anyone out or up there.
I also, at one point, suffered from a mild possession (obsession), which i resolved myself (as far as i know?). It took weeks of constantly dismissing the spirits who were attached to me, who also encouraged me to accept all the things that they could promise me like fame, fortune and the rest, if only i would let them stay in my body! It was more annoying than scary, but it did scare some of my poor friends![:0]
Anyway, lately i have been very much concerned with the matter of sorting all of this out.
A high-level spiritualist lately told me it is not safe to open oneself in the way i did with Qi Gong, yet that entire process has actually opened me to remarkable healing and amazing experiences. It has also lead me to the path that Yogani has composed for us, and where i feel VERY much at home and satisfied. Ch Kung instructors rarly address this matter or personal protection, and if someone or something is around, they don't get too bothered by it.
The matter of spirits comes up in every direction that i turn, and it is hard to get a base-line on how to discern what is really going on.
My Chi/Qi has saved me from accidents, heals other people, helps me with Divinations (readings for self and others), empowers any and every practice that i do (mantras, mudras, meditation, pranayama, etc.) and trains me in martial arts, when i open myself to that. I don't know if all of this is just another type of negative posession or if the nature of Chi (prana) really is to address every little aspect of one's life?
It has also put me i touch with what seem to be Boddhisattvas, Reiki Masters, Mother Shakti, animal spirits...and yet i have studied that these deific beings supposedly will not respond to common daily things that we should manage ourselves. It ia s also said that guardian angels and such, only feed us intuitional "nudges' when we are challenged in some way, it is then up to us, with our free will, to make he decision from that subtle input.
To those outside of this situation it may seem a cut-and-dried issue, but from the midst of it, it is confusing!
All that i have come up with so far is that:
* Perpetuating one's inner negative traits attracts negeative spirits of like kind, here and when in the astral world.
* There is no rule that says that when you invoke a particular being, that another can't show up in it's place.
* A true emanation of deity will leave if asked to, a clinging spirit or negative entity will insist on staying.
* A deity will suggest, a negative will command us.
* When in meditation with true Angelic/Boddhisatvic/Deific Beings, an abundance of warmth is felt as is loving-kindness. If one comes out of such a meditation and feels irritated and grumpy, then there was an impostor sitting in!
* Chi is in all things and is "The Breath Of G-D"
* If the main Chi channels are opened and the throat point is not as developed as others along the ren-du connection (microcosmic orbit), then spirits can enter and possess through that point (words of Mantak Chia).
* keeping one's energy field strong and healthy protects against hangers-on, as does keeping calm and not being reactive to external experience in negative ways.
So with that, if anyone feels they might have unbiased expertise on these subjects, i would LOVE to hear about it! Thank you for your direction Ananda, and everyone else for your accounts.
Can i also ask if AYP practices just do away with all of these issues somehow???
Peace Friends, and thank you for listening!
