For those that read my previous blog article about the only thing that worked against my friend’s astral attacks each night, this article might seem to contradict that. I am writing afterall about becoming a warrior in the astral, or if you like the non-physical realms. However both methods actually have a lot in common as you’ll see in the following paragraphs.
Contradictions between one method/view-point and another are often why I am hesistant to write generalised articles. What is great advice for one person may not be the best for another.
Like my website introduction page says, take what is useful for you in your current state and disregard the rest.
Don’t bury your head in the sand!
No matter how confused you might be about what to do with any spiritual problem you may be facing, it is not a good idea to hide away from it and especially pretend that the problem doesn’t exist.
If you hold a belief on a conscious or sub/un-conscious level (i.e. whether you are aware fully or not of the beliefs you hold within you) that you can be harmed by other people/beings/things, whether in this reality or not, then ignoring them will not suddenly make them go away.
Instead they will keep taking advantage of that limited belief and continue to influence/manipulate/attack you. As such, trying to pretend that there’s nothing wrong will allow such problems to grow in the background.
Many people allow such a thing to happen because they learn about the “law of attraction” but don’t take into account momentum of previous habits/beliefs/thoughts etc. Nor do they focus on strengthening the weaknesses they have in their energy fields to prevent them being a target to exploit.
It is always important to spend a lot of time focusing on the direction in life you wish to go in and developing momentum towards the “positive” but it is often necessary to also clear away that which anchors us to that which we don’t want.
Always acknowledge astral attacks
Now we know that ignorance of the non-physical realms doesn’t help, facing them and any problems you may have there becomes the only option.
While the law of attraction definitely works more quickly in the spiritual realms as momentum doesn’t take as long to build up nor slow down, people tend to take the beliefs they have in the physical world and apply them to the spiritual world, making difficulties in the spiritual harder to resolve.
This means that while theoretically you could just ignore the bad and focus on the good, such that the bad doesn’t exist, because of your attachment to the physical body and the collective consciousness of humanity, practically it doesn’t really work.
So whether you follow the advice of the rest of this article and try the warrior approach or you follow the advice of the previous article and focus on become the observer, both paths require you not to bury your head in the sand and instead get you to face your fears.
Courage
So the observer technique of the previous article and the warrior technique here, both require courage.
We often think of courage based on films, books and other story formats such as the hero standing up to the dragon is some big dramatic fashion. However, any situation where you try to better yourself or someone else’s situation despite having discouraging thoughts, uncomfortable emotions and other people/beings/things trying to stop you, is courage.
If you have the cravings of a cigarette whilst trying to give up smoking, a friend offering you a cigarette, thoughts of needing a smoke to feel better or to fit in with others, emotions coming up about guilt or regret from that too for example, choosing not to have a cigarette despite all this is also courage.
Learning to be ok with the conflict of thoughts and emotions especially and doing what is needed despite that, is important when facing your astral issues.
How to be a warrior in the astral/spiritual/etheric realms
In a way, this is the easy part to get across to people. The way in which you can fight the “negative” is as numerous as and limited as your imagination.
This is where Hollywood films can be of use in some ways (yes there are downsides to films too, especially if it generates chronic fear). There are a lot of examples of different powers and abilities of superheroes that you can imagine yourself using when you are in the spiritual realms.
You want to be super strong to fight off demons? No problem, imagine yourself being super strong and being able to prevent all of a demon’s attacks.
Maybe you want to have super strong armour to have their attacks bounce off you. Maybe you’d like to become ethereal so their attacks simply pass through you. Maybe you’d like to create worn-holes that suck them away and trap them in another reality and get burned up in molten rock.
It doesn’t have to necessarily be superpowers either. Maybe instead you’d like to imagine yourself as an inventor that creates things in the astral that prevents their attacks, or a detective that highlights to other benevolent beings any wrongdoing such that they are taken away.
Whatever power you wish to develop, all it takes is imagining it over and over in your mind, making the scenarios as real as you can make them. If possible you can also act out some things such as swinging a sword around in your living room.
Either way, start with an imaginary being that is easy to defeat in your mind and work your way up to more challenging creations such that eventually you can face the actual problem you are facing. Then, be courageous and face it.
If you fail, not a problem. Get back up and try again or try another power that can help.
Realising that your imagination can be made real in the astral is key to this working.
Of course if you are not awakened so much to the astral and thus cannot see/hear/feel entities beyond the physical then other techniques may be better, such as clearing statements, prayers, visual or sensory meditations. Things that can be covered in other articles.
Like any spiritual practice it won’t necessarily work straight away
A lot of people give up after one try of something. I often see the schooling systems on this planet producing people that give up after one or only a few tries of learning something new. Probably because they are made to feel bad about mistakes by their peers, teachers or parents.
Remember that mistakes and failures are a part of learning. It is often said in the business world that those that are “successful” are simply the ones who have been willing to and have made more mistakes than the ones who only tried a few times and just gave up. Even those that lost all their wealth from a silly mistake, simply just got straight back up and tried again and again and made back their wealth and more so.
You’ll eventually learn that the imagination training for becoming a spiritual warrior is actually challenging your beliefs held on a deep level. The more you practice, the more you’ll realise that your ability to defeat demons of any kind is simply limited to how you believe yourself to be rather than the apparent strength or ability the demons appear to have.
As I’ve said over and over again over the years and whether you take this option or other options when facing negative entities of any kind, they are only as powerful as you believe them to be.
So keep practicing and know that you can cleave any demon in two simply be knowing you can. I know it works as I spent many hours day-dreaming of being a superhero as a child and it greatly helped when I awoke to that beyond the physical. Now demons are very scared of me!
The possible downside of being a successful spiritual warrior
I mentioned this briefly in the previous article. Essentially you get out what you put in – one of the fundamental laws of these realities we choose to be in.
So, if you keep fighting as a warrior, the universe/god/all-that-is/source, whatever you would like to call it, will simply throw more and more experiences towards you where you need to fight and your life may seem like an endless astral war as a result.
Even if you defeat the demon/dragon/ghost. Your vibration will be of fight and so like attracting like will mean that any being that likes to fight will more likely come across you. It can be tricky for many to suddenly let go of the fight energy once their initial problem has been solved.
Is there a positive way through this path however? Yes.
The two paths to peace through being a spiritual warrior
1. Continuing as a warrior without realising this fundamental truth of getting out what you put in, can mean that you have a sudden awakening through the stress you put yourself through.
2. Or, it may seem like you gain more peace by knowing that nothing can really harm you now you are powerful enough to defeat anything that comes your way. You may develop techniques of eliminating them that take seemingly less and less effort, helping you to feel more ease and eventually peace because you are simply not bothered by beings anymore.
The first way to peace can be very stressful and comes about due to people being stubborn with their beliefs, continuing the fight, the blame, the judgement and all the beliefs of being the victim and that reality is terrible etc. When such high stress levels happen, people can sometimes awaken due to that stress, almost as if their soul finally steps in and snaps them out of their world-view. There is no guarantee to awakening this way however and you might simply end up having just a very stressful life with no solution.
The stress route is NOT something that I would recommend to anyone and I often wonder what terrible things some of the people I saw ask for this route whilst I was in Ashrams in India! Still many people unwittingly end up going through such a stressful life of fight because they are so unwilling to challenge their beliefs and be curious about a different way.
The second path of the warrior is more like what was highlighted in Eastern teachings. You can see it discussed in the film “Hero” when the emperor is confronted by the hero of the movie near the end (though their are certainly limiting beliefs presented throughout the film too so be careful of that!).
This path is more likely for someone who is courageous, challenges their beliefs, faces their fears and as such, starts to gradually realise that all forms of demon are only as powerful as they believe. Thus they start to realise that fighting demons is easy, that they have to do very little. Even eventually not really having to do anything at all because they start to realise that they are infinite and untouchable.
It is at this point that the “sword dissolves in the heart” as it is no longer needed. You fundamentally end up in the same state as the observation technique mentioned in the previous article, where those demons/entities/monsters are simply harmless curiosities.
Why I don’t recommend the warrior path to most people
The majority of people I come across wouldn’t do well to follow the warrior path. If I came across more of the general public that were in less of a crisis state, then I’m sure I would teach being a warrior more.
However, most I come across in my work are very much identified with the victim state and have tried to fight them off with a variety of techniques with varying success. Very often they have also seen a long list of other practitioners before they find me too.
Teaching warrior techniques to such people who have not questioned their beliefs, nor are willing to do so, can be counterproductive and means that they may end up fighting whilst holding onto those beliefs for a large portion if not the majority of the rest of their lives.
It is important to point out that if you struggle and keep generating fear, doubt, worry, blame etc, negative beings of all kinds LOVE that. You could say that it literally feeds them.
Unless you intend and work towards the peaceful path of the warrior mentioned above, continued fighting also maintains the belief that you can be harmed, making it more likely that you’ll experience some sort of harm again in future.
This is why in general I recommend the observation technique for most people as given by the previous article. For those that have had sessions with me in recent years, you may notice that I also don’t talk or act in a way that makes such beings significant.
This might seem cold or uncaring to some but I am that way because I cannot afford to join you in the lower vibrational reality of demons and even more so, I am trying to pull you out of that reality such that you can be calm about it like I am.
Walking down the valley of death & fearing no evil
You will notice that whether you use the observational technique or the warrior technique, the aim is to get you to a state where such lower vibrational entities are not a problem. You know they cannot harm you and only to the degree you believe. They are simply reflections of what energies you hold onto as an individuated consciousness from source/all-that-is/god.
You may still come across them from time-to-time, usually at your choosing but you have no fear of them. To an extent that you can literally walk with flimsy clothes on, no armour, no energy shields or other physical/technological/spiritual barriers, no weapons of any kind, no helpers/spirit guides/angels by you side, no need to use spells/affirmations etc you’ll just be comfortable in “the valley of death” with it’s ugly scenery, “dangerous” surroundings and “negative” entities, because they are no vibrational match to you without your fear of them. Instead they will run from you and/or be dissolved in your light.
Usually before this state of being, people start to realise that demons are your teachers from a higher perspective. They are simply reflecting back at you what you believe on a conscious and most importantly sub/un-conscious level. They are showing you what you don’t like/want. What you hold onto.
At this state of consciousness, you may even thank them for helping to guide you into the better state you are now in.
If there is interest, I can go into some other techniques for helping with astral attacks and how outside help can be of use. Many methods for many consciousnesses.
