Mary
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Roberta Grimes:
What is your view of when people have very bad experiences with the dead? Are these the spirits of humans who were nasty in this life? Are there 'demons' as described in the bible?
Roberta Grimes
Hello Mary! There are few descriptions in the literature of anyone having actual negative experiences with people who have completed their transitions to the afterlife levels. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any. Nearly all of these negative experiences are actually one of the following:
1) Near-death experiences can be negative, and can involve encounters with nasty beings - PMH Atwater tells us that as many as one in five NDES is negative or hellish to some extent. But none of these experiences involves a trip to the genuine afterlife. Most are constructed by our spirit guides for our spiritual benefit (perhaps to shape us up?). These are, in other words, not encounters with real negative beings (although we might be visited in an NDE by actual transitioned loved ones).
2) Encounters with negative earthbound spirits. You're right: some of the nastiest characters who die will stick around here rather than completing their trip to the afterlife levels. And yes, they will plague susceptible people. An especial problem is the fact that addicts who die will often stick around and latch onto living addicts to try to feed their cravings, which is one reason why addictions (alcohol, drugs, even sex) can become so established and so hard to cure (spirit disposession techniques can work; little else often will). Some people will pick up a "shadow man" who bugs them at night, so they sleep with a nightlight. Each of us who is adult and in physical and spiritual health has an aura that offers strong protection against our even being aware of the nasty earthbound spirits that are always around us, but people with defective auras can sometimes be plagued by these guys.
3) Actual demons apparently do exist. This is one of those areas that I don't like so I haven't much researched it! Reports suggest that many of them are extraterrestrial and inter-dimensional in origin, and they are something like germs attacking healthy people: they can't penetrate a solid spiritual immune system, but they might get through one that is not healthy.
4) Spiritual fragments are another thing that I haven't much researched, and I don't know that anyone knows a lot about them. If someone has an extremely bad and intense experience, it is possible for a part of that person's mind/spirit literally to fragment off and become stuck in that spot. Sensitive people can sometime sense these fragments, and the experience can be quite unpleasant.
It is crucial to remember that the more evil an entity is, the weaker it is. That seems to be a fundamental law of the consciousness that is reality's underlying physics. So although the bad guys can scare you, it is extraordinarily unlikely that they will have the ability to harm you. The key to protecting yourself in all cases is to learn ever more perfect love, since that will very much strengthen you spiritually. Thank you for asking, Mary!
1) Near-death experiences can be negative, and can involve encounters with nasty beings - PMH Atwater tells us that as many as one in five NDES is negative or hellish to some extent. But none of these experiences involves a trip to the genuine afterlife. Most are constructed by our spirit guides for our spiritual benefit (perhaps to shape us up?). These are, in other words, not encounters with real negative beings (although we might be visited in an NDE by actual transitioned loved ones).
2) Encounters with negative earthbound spirits. You're right: some of the nastiest characters who die will stick around here rather than completing their trip to the afterlife levels. And yes, they will plague susceptible people. An especial problem is the fact that addicts who die will often stick around and latch onto living addicts to try to feed their cravings, which is one reason why addictions (alcohol, drugs, even sex) can become so established and so hard to cure (spirit disposession techniques can work; little else often will). Some people will pick up a "shadow man" who bugs them at night, so they sleep with a nightlight. Each of us who is adult and in physical and spiritual health has an aura that offers strong protection against our even being aware of the nasty earthbound spirits that are always around us, but people with defective auras can sometimes be plagued by these guys.
3) Actual demons apparently do exist. This is one of those areas that I don't like so I haven't much researched it! Reports suggest that many of them are extraterrestrial and inter-dimensional in origin, and they are something like germs attacking healthy people: they can't penetrate a solid spiritual immune system, but they might get through one that is not healthy.
4) Spiritual fragments are another thing that I haven't much researched, and I don't know that anyone knows a lot about them. If someone has an extremely bad and intense experience, it is possible for a part of that person's mind/spirit literally to fragment off and become stuck in that spot. Sensitive people can sometime sense these fragments, and the experience can be quite unpleasant.
It is crucial to remember that the more evil an entity is, the weaker it is. That seems to be a fundamental law of the consciousness that is reality's underlying physics. So although the bad guys can scare you, it is extraordinarily unlikely that they will have the ability to harm you. The key to protecting yourself in all cases is to learn ever more perfect love, since that will very much strengthen you spiritually. Thank you for asking, Mary!
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