Over the years I have been skeptical about most paranormal or mystical concepts unless I have experienced them and can validate them myself. I have had to change my opinions about some things and with other things, they are not worth a second thought. Meditation however is the one of the ‘Real Deals’. Unless one is so rooted in their beliefs, believing nothing exists that cannot be proven scientifically, it is well worth your time and effort to give meditation a try.

The first type of meditation I learned which we all share or used to share is daydreaming. Daydreaming is a powerful free resource. Whether daydreams are confined to our minds or occasionally tap into some other source, I do not know. I do know daydreams tend to slip from the context of Daydreaming and become something else.

We all used to daydream as children. As we grew up daydreaming was relegated to those childish things we put away, or leave behind. Daydreaming in itself does not go away. After we have forgotten we used to daydream, daydreaming comes back to us in new packaging. Sometimes called positive affirmation, perceptive visualization, or other vague name, it is daydreaming. Once the pretty wrapper is taken off and we look closely, we will see the daydreaming we knew as  children in adult form.

A second meditation method I learned was meditating on or against trees. The idea is a tree will trade you energies, refreshing you and taking away your stress. How much energy exchange comes from the tree and how much from the process itself is not clear to me, but there is no better place to relax under when outdoors than a nice shade tree.

I stumbled into a quasi-meditation form that is part of Shamanism. I am not sure if Shamanic Flight could be considered meditation per se, but the process is about the same, only with different focus. Shaman’s use Shamanic Flight to help one or more people in some fashion. Shaman’s do this by being active in two realities at one time. Shamanic Flight is also used for other reasons, but that is a different subject.

One interesting aspect of Shamanic Flight is most people I know have met a ‘Gate Keeper’ who questions their purpose at the beginning of their Shamanic Flight. If the purpose for Shamanic Flight does not satisfy the Gate Keeper, their entrance to another world is denied.

They are kicked out of their semi trance state, waking with an abrupt start. In some instances Shamanic Flight is put on indefinite hold by the Gate Keeper, and you will become spiritually mundane against your wishes.

I came across a most interesting meditation which is uses a word to achieve a meditative state. If you have ever watched a movie where someone is in a sitting posture and repeating the word ‘Ommm’ over and over you are familiar with this type of meditation. While I personally do not think repeating Ommm over and over would work for me, I have experienced very interesting outcomes from using other words that feel right in the moment.

If you want to try a simple type of meditation yourself, start with daydreaming. Ask around  and find someone knowledgeable about meditation. If you do not know anyone, find one or more good written resource(s) to help you. If what you read sounds soft and mushy, find another book or website. Sitting down and successfully meditating cannot usually be done the first try without help. For some, meditation is a tedious painful process to go through before any of those wondrous benefits you hear or read about begin to be realized.

Shamanic Flight deserves the utmost respect, and extreme caution. If you want to explore meditation leave Shamanic Flight alone. Some people in their ignorance have approached Shamanic Flight as a new playground to be explored. Some of them are ever sorry for their lapse in judgement because they did not understand that what they were doing has effects and consequences in this reality.

Personally, I have found each type of meditation produces different effects or responses. Daydreaming opens me up to possibilities, it is fun and relaxing. Resting with my back against a tree, or sitting somewhere that feels special brings me to a white cloud-like space and leaves me both refreshed and relaxed. For a little while the world is repainted in warmth with bright colors, and everything is perfect.

Shamanistic Flight has taken me to places I would never have imagined, and situations I would not have conceived, as I am not that imaginative. I recommend you stay away from Shamanic Flight and leave it to others as it can be harmful to you and your spiritual self.

Meditation while speaking a word is amazing! I am not sure yet where you end up, but in my experience there is someone there to meet you, and they will know an awful lot about you. They have demonstrated to me at least, abilities I have a hard time coming to terms with even though I am/was the recipient of those abilities. The experience is akin to meeting someone who knows everything about you and your life, and they can help you in areas of your life if they so choose.

If you think meditation may be for you, find someone who has experience with meditation and let them teach you what they know. I may be falling off the deep end here, but meditation is a spiritual practice, not a physical practice. With any spiritual practice or undertaking, caution should rule the day. Things of the spirit have a lot in common with high risk sports such as hang gliding, or cave diving.

In the land of the spiritual, practicing thoughtlessness and rash behavior will hurt you both emotionally and physically. Meditation is a somewhat arcane practice in the western world and for good reason. We are generally too into our ego and personal fears to think beyond ourselves. As I once read, and am now passing on, treat everything of the spirit the same as you would standing in a bad part of town on a full moon night. It is better to be a live mouse, than a crippled or dead warrior.

With that disclaimer out of the way, the rewards of meditation are many. Insight, answers, life mysteries explained, the list goes on and on. Give it a try, it may be just what you are looking for and you never knew it, until you tried it.

If someone knocks on a wall from the next room is that scary? If they touch your leg and you did not seen them is that scary? If there is really something close to him (as he thinks there is) he can not see, is that a good reason to be scared?

The majority thought of what is happening to him is collectively it is something bad. He hears some noise he can not find the source of. He feels something touching him he can not see. He sometimes feels a presence next to him that he can not see or touch, but it does not feel normal. He knows it must be something out to harm him. All the replies he received to his post were about various ways to either protect himself, or make it stop.

He is scared because this is something foreign to him. Why he would remain  scared is conditioning he learned growing up. What we as humans usually do that other large animals do not is we rarely transfer out of our fear state soon enough.

If you have a pet, or know someone who does, pay attention to what the pet does in a new situation where the pet is initially scared. When something happens that scares your pet, they react with fear as a healthy normal response.

After a few seconds if nothing hurtful happens, curiosity takes over and the pet becomes more interested in what is happening. It calms its fear because it understands fear is no longer an appropriate response.

The pet becomes curious as it tries to understand the new situation. What is in it for the pet, is there food, or is it something to play with? We humans on the other hand, stay stuck in a fear state knowing it must be something bad.

We allow ourselves to remain afraid even though nothing happens to be afraid of. Fear is a healthy emotion and has contributed to our being alive, however it is an emotion we overuse and abuse.

Unlike a normal animal, the poster won’t let go of his fear. He is more comfortable remaining in a state of heightened fear, than embracing the possibility of having nothing to fear.

One of our former Presidents in his Inaugural Address repeated an old quote, “[The] Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself“. Fear leads to inaction. Inaction does not contribute to our health and wellbeing. Inaction caused by fear leads us down the path to victimization.

Fear stops us of thinking of other possibilities. This poster, hearing noises and being touched is terrified. Perhaps there is a good reason for this happening. Maybe the poster’s attention is wanted, and this is the only way it can be garnered.

What would the poster have written for example, if the first time he heard the knocking and felt something touch him, he awoke and his home was on fire? What would he be writing then? I doubt it would be a fear based post about how terrified he is. The poster would have posted about how fortunate he is that something touched him, waking him up from a sound sleep, and saving him from a horrible end.

The Poster and his fear based state, who is the main subject of this post aside, it is time to change the focus to us. How many fears do we carry around, allowing them to shape the direction our life, and keeping us from what may be the best changes we ever made in our life?

Some amount of fear is good. Fear is a healthy emotion when used correctly. Allowing fear to take over our life, fear becomes a debilitating disease. We allow ourselves to become so overwhelmed with fear we cease to make choices we know are best for us.

As for the poster, what is causing his fear may have stopped already, or it may be with him for the rest of his life. To the end of his post, nothing had happened that could even be vaguely dangerous to him. Holding a detached view at what is happening to him, there is no reason to be terrified. Annoyed, upset, or angry are possibilities, but fear is not.

For a more in depth reading of our new fear based culture, here is a good read on the subject: The only thing we have to fear is the ‘culture of fear’ itself, a PDF file, which can be viewed in your web browser with a plug you may already have installed.

Worse yet, it does not leave or keeps coming back. This is a relatively brief, what you can do article if you are suddenly scared by visions, voices, sounds, supernatural, paranormal, ghosts, ghouls, vampires, werewolves, boogie man in the closet, or an unknown in the wall.

Whatever it is not of this world is scaring the heck out of you, and you don’t know what to do about it. Or if you think you may have sudden powers or gifts because of things that are happening to you, or around you and what is happening scares you.

This is quick reading for immediate help. Following this post will be a number of posts with better explanation, but due to total length it will be in several posts. If you are in desperate need of help, this will make it better for you quickly.

Now that the door is open, it is important to know you do not need to know exactly what you are or what is scaring you. You may be a Psychic, Clairvoyant, Empath, Healer, Sensitive, Medium, or other. What you define yourself as can be determined at some future point when you have the desire to decide who and what, or if you are.

If you are feeling overwhelmed or scared by voices, images, noises, whatever it is that is making you scared, you are be able to stop it, or at the very least slow it down to a manageable level. You will need to trust me for a moment and take a few minutes to be brave. Pretend that an Angel, your parents or siblings, trusted pet, me, or anyone you think of as strong is standing right next to you, ready to protect you.

Let your fear go out of your mind, there is nothing to fear. Take a breath, and tell it or them to stop, and leave you alone. Say it out loud and say it until you believe it. Be firm in your voice, and resolute in your mind. You may have to repeat yourself more than once. It may even take a few days before your message sinks in.

When you have said your piece, start ignoring whatever is scaring you. If it wants to cause you problems the intensity may increase in the short term, but will subside as long as you ignore it. Nothing you see, hear, smell, or touches you can hurt you.

When things start to slow down, you can begin to decide what you want to do next. For right now, don’t waver, don’t be scared, and don’t give in. You are living in this life in this time, and you decide what you do or do not want in your life. You are the only person who gets to decide what is okay, and what it is not okay for you.

If the above is not quite you, there is something else you can try. This is for you if your moods are effected without any known reason. If you start to feel depressed when you are around a group people for any length of time, or you do not like to be where people drink. If you are generally happy, and suddenly become moody without any reason. If you feel other people’s loneliness, and it effects your mood, you may be experiencing what is known as Empathy. All other things in your life being normal of course.

If this is you, this will help you. You need to build a wall of protection around yourself to keep other peoples, or things emotional states or projections from effecting you. You do this with your imagination and creativity. You are going to build a wall around yourself only you can see and only you know is there. The wall you are going to build is an emotion blocking wall. The wall is not a physical restraint.

Imagine a wall around yourself that you can see through, and others can see you through. It is so clear, that you are the only one who knows it is there. Make it out of energy, glass, air, a watery mist, anything you are comfortable using. Know it will be strong enough to block emotions of others no matter what you build it out of. Also know it takes nothing away from you to maintain your wall.

Think of what effects you the most and tell your wall you want that emotion blocked. If you find it creeps in anyway, add something more to your wall to keep it out. Perhaps adding a vacuum cleaner type device inside your space that catches those thoughts and blows them back out far away from you before they reach you.

Such is this the basis of this post. I am happily thinking of nothing really when something shows up. To some people it may have been called a demon. To me that is like calling everyone on the other side of the equator southerners, while those of us on my side of the equator are northerners. It is just too broad of a brush stroke to define everything so generally. There are people who choose to live a fear based life, and almost everything is evil to them, I choose to approach this differently.

What it was I am not sure. It wanted to give me the psychic equivalent of an e-book. Offering me information that some people spend their life looking for and never finding. In this interaction – rather than conversation, because I find it hard to converse things that give me primal feelings of loathing and dislike, this creature told me it is hungry and was offering me with something of value to myself, and to itself.

At first when I realized what I was hearing, I thought it was some kind of odd joke. As I thought about it, I realized that children’s books, lore, and late night conversation, along with some angered conversation, have many instances of what was being offered. Enough instances in fact I can not say it was not a joke. What would you do with a manual on, “How to Turn Someone Into a Toad”?

Kind of funny at first thought. Not a literal physical change into a toad, more of a psychic or spiritual changing. The images I saw were of it feeding off an unfortunate ‘human toad’ were not appealing. I became repulsed at what I saw. It was not a tearing and rendering of flesh feeding, but a spiritual draining, knowing that no matter what the victim does, this feeding does not stop for long. Somehow this creature gets what it needs to sustain its life from our human spiritual side.

This is where occult, or hidden knowledge is learned. There is no book or other access to it. Unless someone, or in this case something offers to teach you, you would never find it. In this particular case it had already been offered to me, unasked, and accepting the ‘gift’ was my choice. Sort of like Eve tasting the apple, or George Washington chopping down the cherry tree. Once taken, it can not be given back.

Most people in the world have experiences that can not be explained. Most people in the world think those other people who speak of their experiences have something wrong with them. It is interesting, believing what I experience is normal and real, but your unexplained experience is a result of a hidden flaw in your makeup.

We are conditioned over our lifetime to think that any experience unless it can be explained by our physical laws and rules, can not happen. We are conditioned to assume there are no dimensions or realities other than this dimension and reality. We are conditioned to think there is goodness and evil. In our conditioned minds, if we have not been told or taught it is good, it is evil by default. We are allowed no alternative explanation.

Psychic experience, arcane, occult knowledge, or overactive imagination, this type of thing has happened to most of us. Whether this really happened or not, the idea of intentionally damaging someone, is not in my character. Though reflecting on children’s stories and childhood lore, something like this has been happening for a long long time. Perhaps without our even being aware of it because we are conditioned to not notice.

Entities like this one exist. They are neither good or bad, light or darkness, even though we want them to be. If someone is approachable because they are in the correct mindset, or right frequency to hear, they approach and make an offer. What one does with what they offer is either good or evil. The choice of accepting a gift such as this is always ours to make. Choose carefully and with respect for the outcome, if or when an offer is made to you; when something slips up on you and offers you something before you are even aware of what is happening.

Demons would not exist without God in a Christian world. If you have no belief in a supreme being, you should have no belief in the existence of Demons as they are a part of Christianity. You cannot believe in God and pretend Demons do not exist. Demons exist, and are as real as you are. If you find this confusing, you have your belief system mixed up, or your logic does not flow correctly. As you can not have day without night, there is not God without Demon’s.

Demons can not be harmed or contained in the general sense of hurting or caging them. You are not going to affect a Demon with anything from our physical world. Demon’s are not overly affected by our physical laws, or rules as they are very different from we humans.

Demons are not the same as say a dog, someone can not really sick one on you as they could an attack dog. In comparison to people, Demons share at least one trait. Just like people there are average Demons, smart Demons, very smart Demons, and there are some Demons who can not function on their own.

To understand the relationship between people and Demons, pretend you have a strong tie to a political party. Demons are part of the opposing party. As in any opposing party, individual views range from indifference to outright hatred of you and your party. Views and action among those in the opposing party also run the gamut of staying far away, to actively seeking out humans to prey upon and feed off of.

God does allow Demons to exist for whatever reason God has. If you go on a campaign or crusade against Demons, you are in essence trying to destroy something God has created, or allows to exist.

For many possible reasons, Demons are attracted to humans, and a very few humans are attracted to Demons. Unfortunately in the end it is the Demon who comes out on top of the arrangement. The lifetime of human experience has a healthy respect for, if not ingrained fear of Demons. There is a good reason for this fear, so heed it. This means stay away from them, or you will be heartily sorry if you live through the experience.

In almost all cases of a Demon wreaking havoc in someone’s life, almost without exception the person involved gave permission for one or more Demons to settle in and make themselves at home. Demons can not harm you unless you give permission somehow. Do not allow yourself be compromised. Just like the commercial, JUST SAY NO!

• The safest defense against Demons is ignore them. You do that by:
• Live a life that improves yourself and those around you
• Live the best life you can
• Treat those around you at least as well as you treat yourself
• Make the most of your life, it is the only life you have
• Stay positive, or as positive as possible

As the saying goes, “It is all fun and games, then someone gets hurt”, don’t be that someone.

If reading this makes you feel funny, it is because your reading this entry has one or more Demons excited by your energy. They are never too far away. To get rid of the attraction you have created, read something that inspires you. Reading something uplifting is a good way to keep things out of your life you would rather not have around. A better way is to try to live a wholesome life other people will want to copy. I recommend some uplifting posts from this blog.

I recommend a post such as:

My heroes, and the hero you are too

Character lesson from a homeless guy

Rediscover your gifts and use them in your life

It certainly is funny to listen to people talk about any experiences they may have had with something they do not know how to explain. If they are not scared someone in the group they are talking to probably is. I have trouble with the fear part as it is self generated fear and really has no basis in a rational thought process. If someone who is a Christian calls upon God, or asks to have angels sent to complete a task, and it happened no one would blink an eye.

We seem to think that God just sits wherever God sits and waits for us to command something. We think for any number that this thought is completely rational and viable. We pray, implore, beg, or command, and God of course complies with our request. We have this thought so ingrained into our psyche, that in a prayer circle,  if a number of Angels showed up and told the group they were going to do what was asked, most of the group would be nonplussed. After all that is how religion works.

Take the same group of people and put them in a new environment and let them hear, say scratching on a door from a room they know no one is in and panic erupts with fear coming a close second. If someone experiences something that does not fit into their idea of life, it must be the work of some unknown evil entity. There is no room in most peoples thinking that allows for something to exist that is neither there to help nor hinder, but it must always be one or the other.

The more rational people of times passed understood that not everything in the world of the unseen was either good or evil from their personal perspective, but in our fast paced life where we file and catalogue everything we have lost most categories of anything past the first two. Those two categories being either good for us or bad for us. We have not left room for very much in between those two places.

Most people over the course of a lifetime experience something occult or paranormal. Whether it is a ghost, noises, vision, or visitation, very few people are immune from the paranormal. A few people will have many such experiences, and most of them come to understand and accept there is a lot in the world that they know very little about.

In most cases when you find yourself in a position of experiencing something you have never experienced before, the first thing to remember is not to panic or get scared. Once panic or fear rules, rational thought goes out the window. Once rational thought goes out the window, you are no longer in charge of yourself. Once you are no longer in charge of yourself, you have opened a door that you may prefer remain closed.

Try to remember to not to jump from an adult orientation to a child mindset. You need the adult part of yourself active and functioning. Keep calm, and observe whatever is happening. In scary movies people become frightened of the silliest things. It could be something as inane as a glass sliding, or a picture moving, or something floating. Really what is so scary about those things other than you have never experienced them before?

If you feel you can not control your emotions, then pray. It does not matter what you pray about as prayer has a calming effect on us. If praying is not part of your makeup, simply downplaying whatever is happening, and focusing on something else has the same effect.

One more thought to remember, probably the most important idea, one which you have been told since you were a child and have forgotten is this. Anything you experience can not harm you in any way unless you give it permission to (let it). A feeling of something unseen touching your shoulder is just a touch, no more, no less. There is no reason to lose control of yourself over the situation because there is nothing you can do about being touched, it is already in the past.

Now that I have your attention I want to mention in passing that the above ideas work just as well in our everyday lives too. Stay within yourself, and do not get rattled every time something changes in your world that you do not like and probably can not control. Nothing stays the same, and never has. Change what you can, and let the rest take care of itself.

I was with two other people (1981), and we were walking across the Green (a town square, sort of) on a path that met with another path in the middle of the Green at right angles. Think of two sidewalks crossing each other like streets do. There was a woman with a child of two or three years of age to our left, walking to my right. On our right were two teenage Girls of about fifteen, or sixteen years old walking from the right, laughing and giggling as Girls do. At this moment we were all about twenty-five feet apart walking towards the intersection.

In mid-stride, the two teenage ‘Girls’ appearance changes to something almost exactly what Dean Koontz describes in Odd Thomas. Between lifting one foot up and placing it down they changed from Girls into emaciated Werewolf like creatures. I could see no teeth, or claws, but their body structure was changed into that of a large dog walking, and their red eyes were glowing. They walked, and looked like a very large dog would on its hind legs. Even their appearance is hard to detail well. They kind of blurred into brown fuzz at the edges and center of their beings. They walked two to three steps in this Werewolf form, and just as suddenly, within a step, they turned back into normal teenage Girls.

When the ‘Girl’s’ changed appearance into this other state, the child of the Woman on our left started to run towards the ‘Girls’, calling out something. The Child’s Mother with a terrified look, ran forward, and roughly grabbed her daughter by the arm and yanked. She swung her daughter about three feet into the air, and walked a wide detour around the Girls, staring at them in fright, or downright fear, or maybe both as she did. I had no doubt that the woman at least saw these two Girls change into whatever they were/are, and then change back into girls again in the space of three steps. The woman’s daughter also saw them change be her reaction, but it may be she saw something other than we did, as she ran towards them.

Of course I saw this happen, and when I looked at the person with me, they also saw something from the shocked look on their face. When I asked after the Girls passed on the path, I heard a description of exactly what I saw happen, the Girl’s changed into something that looked like Werewolves for about three steps, and then changed back into young girls.

I filed this experience away as one of those things – not knowing any different at the time. By this time in my life seeing strange things for me, was not all that strange anymore. Then this last summer (2004) when I was reading Dean Koontz – Odd Thomas, the memory of that day came back when Koontz gave described his creatures in the book.

I can only surmise either Dean Koontz has seen these beings, read of them, or it is only a coincidence they ended up in his book? If you have experienced anything like this, I would like to read about it? Please leave a reply, or send me an email. Me email address in my about page.

The woman who was the fortune teller came out and said she only charged five dollars. At that time five dollars was almost an hours work. I told her it was too steep of a price for me, but I would appreciate anything she would tell me. She took me aside to the door of her little tent. There was nothing special about the tent, only a little table in the middle with a table cloth/shawl thrown over it, and a small candle in the center.

She did not do anything special, she did not even ask me to go in, or sit down. She did not look at my palm, or stare into my eyes, or anything of the sort. She said to me, “Your father died two years ago, in November.” I almost fell over! How could she possibly know this about me? I had never seen her before, nor did I think she really could read fortunes. She made a believer out of me just like that! looked in my wallet and I took out half the money I had in it, five dollars, and handed it to her.

I told her I did not need any more of my fortune told, but I would like to ask her a few questions. She agreed to answer some questions instead of telling more about myself. I no longer remember the conversation, but she did tell me a few other things about myself. She said she was not able to read anyone’s future as they had not made it yet, but she knew of some fortune tellers that could. She followed that up reading the future was tricky, because the future was fluid and had not happened yet. She told me a few other things about reading fortunes too.

She told me to know more would cost me another five dollars. I told her I would love to know more, but as five dollars was all the money I had for the next few days, I could not afford to spend any more. I thanked her for what she shared with me, and I said I hoped her future was a good one, and she did the same for me.

On another topic, we humans tend to use pattern recognition to make sense of our lives. Savvy marketers understand this, and create products that fit a pattern that may or may not be obvious to us. After they gain our trust, they speak a few key sentences, and we see a pattern unfold just like they want us to see it.

The Bible’s chapter of revelations is a good example. No matter what period in time, or where you live, and what access you have to news, the description of the beginning of the end of the world is obvious when you read the book of revelations. It is the same with Indigo children. The pattern was written down over a century ago, and every other generation sees the pattern and think they discovered something new or the time has arrived. Newspaper, book, and gum-ball machine astrology rolls, and fortune cookies are the same thing. They are general enough to fit almost any pattern, and personality. On the criminal side of fortunes, confidence men do this to separate the gullible from their money.

I suppose there is no real way to tell what is real from what is not, but when money is involved in the process it is time to start being curious about someone’s real abilities. Are they who they say they are, and can do what they are telling you, or are they professionals at parting you from your money?

Now that that is out of the way, let me predict your future, heal your spirit, or cast a spell for you….