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Dear Soul Arcanum:
I would describe myself as a talented psychic who is confident about helping common poltergeists cross over. However, I once encountered a very dark, powerful energy in an old New England graveyard. The entire place reeked of corrupt, negative energy. I believe there was a portal there as well as one or more strong entities. At the time, I was young and unprepared for such matters, so I ran away and never went back. Is it possible for humans to cleanse a location that is this bad? What big guns or tools can psychics use to conquer evil?
A.
Dear A.
My views on this subject may surprise a lot of people. I believe we are wise to respect all life forms in the Universe, so I don’t see myself on the side of the good guys, battling evil. While good and evil DO battle, if we want to make the Universe a brighter place, fighting isn’t the answer.
Instead of conquering evil beings, my aim is to help people who want to heal find new well-being, guide people toward greater fulfillment, learn my own personal lessons and radiate love into the world. So if I had encountered what you did in that cemetery, I would probably have done the same thing you did by leaving that darkness for a lighter, happier place.
I view dark or evil entities much as most people view lions: they are dangerous when hungry and should be respected as such, but they have as much right to exist as any other creature. In some ways, they’re like deeply troubled teenagers: they may be lost and miserable but that doesn’t mean they want my help, share my values or are eager to become more like me.
Instead of endlessly trying to improve upon nature, I try to remain humble and trusting of it. We are all explorers in this vast spiritual wilderness. Some creatures are dangerous to humans, but we don’t have to destroy, banish or attempt to tame them, we just need to stay away from them.
In accordance with these views, I don’t think it’s our “job” to try to cross over every earthbound spirit we meet or convert every demon that crosses our paths. Even earthbound spirits have free will, which is why guides and angels let them do their own thing until they ask for help with moving on.
We’re also wise to trust our instincts and intuition, as you did when you fled that cemetery. Your question reminded me of the Grizzly Guy who loved bears so much it literally killed him. (I’m referring to the guy who befriended and made documentaries about bears and was attacked and killed by one.) We feel profound aversion to evil energies for a good reason. There are some endeavors that are foolish to pursue, and single-handedly cleansing the Universe of evil is probably at the top of that list.
While I’m not one to go looking for ghosts to bust, I do believe in helping the troubled people and spirits I meet when I feel called to do so. When I have felt called to try to clear a space of evil influences, it has always been because it was affecting people there who wanted my help, not because I felt the space itself should be different.
There are many people who actively engage dark forces out of a sense of personal mission. While I would never question another person’s calling, for me this is just another drama people like to get caught up in; instead of working on their own inner shadows, they seek shadows outside of themselves to wrestle with. Of course, life itself is one big drama we’re all caught up in. We are definitely wise to act on our passions and follow our hearts, so if some people feel called to wrestle with evil, I say more power to them!
As concerns protection from evil, you may be able to put fancy things like sage, incense, talismans, special rituals and the like to good use, but they are ultimately unnecessary because the only thing strong enough to ensure your success and well-being is an unwaveringly high vibration founded on a combination of perfect love and perfect faith.
Working with evil will certainly test the strength of one’s faith. This truth is often illustrated in great legends where many seekers fail by succumbing to fear/ego while the hero triumphs when his inner strength and faith shine brighter and more powerfully than anything dark forces can dish out.
I used to believe that there was great power in ancient religious belief systems based on the combined energy of its many devotees. While this may be true, I’ve heard from many people who called in a priest or minister from a local church only to have the minister flee, falter or fail in the face of evil. At the same time, I’ve heard many stories of one person transforming an evil situation with nothing more than the power of their own personal love, faith and wisdom. I thus believe that when it comes to good vs. evil, the outcome depends entirely on the inner qualities of the person or people trying to influence the situation.
To achieve perfect faith, you have to know that nothing can truly harm you because you are eternal. Our souls are like Etch-a-Sketches: every experience draws a unique picture across the screen. Some are beautiful and some are ugly, but none of them can damage us on a soul level. Once we shake an experience off, we’re ready for the next one. Further, every experience is to be embraced, for every experience blesses us with opportunities to learn and grow. When we are beyond any fear that evil can permanently harm us and we know that everything happens for a good reason, it’s easy to relax into a state of loving trust. When we love goodness more than we fear evil, we become powerful forces for good in the world.
Trying to conquer or destroy anything ultimately doesn’t work, so the wise focus on creating what they want instead of trying to destroy what they don’t want. It is thus far more effective to infuse a space with peace and love than to try to banish dark energies. Since what we experience is a reflection of our own inner landscape, if we encounter darkness and we want to be free of it, we have only to turn up our inner light, for this will naturally move us from troubling territory to a brighter psychic landscape.
The Universe is a mysterious, beautiful, wondrous and wild creation. There is so much here that is beyond our understanding that we are wise to trust in the way things are. To feel compelled to try to make things the way we think they should be everywhere we go is a bit like walking through the wilderness, trimming the hedges, pulling up weeds, mowing meadows, etc. Nothing is broken; it’s all perfect the way it is. Ironically, it’s when we can see and trust in this perfection that we become most empowered to influence it.
All of the above aside, we are all free to choose where we’d like to live via our vibration. Moment by moment, we are all always doing this through our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and expectations. There will always be mountain ranges, valleys and shorelines as well as swamps, deserts and ghettos. There will always be lions as well as lambs. If you focus on lions, whether you do so with love or a desire to rid the world of them, you will tend to attract more of them into your experience and give them more power through your attention. If instead, you seek to embody peace and well-being, you will naturally find yourself in beautiful places surrounded by lovely creatures, and the world will be a bit brighter because instead of worrying, struggling, and fighting the things that disturb you, you are radiating love, light and faith.
– Soul Arcanum