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Divorce Sparks Intuitive Awakening

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Dear Soul Arcanum:

I think that someone has cast a witchcraft spell on me and my children, and feel it may be my estranged husband or his lover. Yesterday I suddenly felt a cold unlike anything I’ve ever felt before. Our home is warm and there was no reason for this extreme coldness. My husband came over about 20 minutes after this, and this feeling came over me. There was then tension and disruption from my son, who had been perfectly sweet for weeks until then. Tonight when my husband arrived, the same coldness came over me, and tension filled the air. He is a very angry, selfish person, and I wonder if he might have a dark entity or dark spirit attached to him. Before I found out about his affair, I had a vivid dream of tiny gremlins running up my bed onto my hand and trying to pull my wedding ring off. I wrestled with them in my dream, and it was so vivid that I awoke holding onto my hand, covering my rings and crying for help. About a year later, I felt a soft energy leave my ring one day, and it felt like the blessings that had been placed on the ring on our wedding day were evaporating. I actually felt the energy of our vows go from the ring. What do you make of all of this?
– Soul Arcanum

Dear Soul Arcanum:

I found what you wrote about your wedding ring to be really interesting, for it reminded me of an amazing experience I had years ago when my own marriage was unraveling. At the time of this event, I was sitting in a college class, thinking deeply about my marriage. Silently, I asked God if my marriage would or could make it, and at that moment, I felt drawn to look down at my rings. To my surprise, I saw that one of the main emeralds in my engagement ring was missing; the setting was empty in that spot.

I thought this was the sign I was looking for, but I wasn’t totally convinced. I couldn’t remember the last time I had really looked at my rings, so I told myself that this stone could have been missing for a while. When I got home that night, I gave the engagement ring to my husband to take to the jeweler, so I was only wearing my wedding band after this.

While in that same class the following week, I remembered what had happened, and I decided to ask the same question again in hopes of receiving another sign. I never expected it to come to me through my rings again, so I spent a number of minutes looking around and listening to people in the class for a sign before I noticed that my wedding band was split in two. It remained on my finger without a problem, but when I really looked at it, I saw that there was a crack completely through it on one side. I knew this was new because I had just carefully examined my rings when I discovered the emerald missing. This convinced me! As you have probably surmised, the marriage didn’t make it, but it’s now ten years later and I’m very happily remarried, so it all worked out.

I think this story illustrates not only how asking for a sign can yield amazing results, but also how objects like wedding rings can and do hold energy. We imbue them with that energy when we bless and consecrate them as symbols of something we hold sacred, and they can reflect what they represent in some amazing ways. So I don’t doubt that you did indeed feel the energy of your vows evaporating from your ring that day.

I also found your dream about the gremlins fascinating, and I see two possible interpretations here. First, the dream may have been a literal reflection of something happening in the astral. In other words, maybe there really were astral entities at work in this situation, perhaps stirring up lust in your husband (his weak spot), and thus damaging your marriage. However, it’s also possible that your own inner being was trying to warn you about what was going on, and because you didn’t want to face the truth, it gave you this gremlin metaphor to try to warn you that something was tearing your marriage apart.

As for the other things you’re sensing, I have to say that it’s normal for there to be psychic/emotional tension when people are divorcing, and it’s common for kids to act out in response to that tension and their own emotional turmoil. At the same time, however, it’s clear that you are highly psychically sensitive.

Because you are so sensitive, you will be affected by everyday emotional tension more than most people, but you’ll also pick up on subtle energies and intuitive warnings. Further, there doesn’t have to be an overt spell cast on you for you to experience the things you’ve described. Some of these sensations are your intuition trying to tell you things to help you, and one of those things may indeed be that someone is sending ill will your way. We may experience this as cold, pain or tingling, or we may find that person frequently pops into our minds for no apparent reason.

It’s also highly possible that your ex does have a negative entity attached to him, which can also feel like the coldest cold. Many people have negative entities attached to them and never realize it. Certainly anyone who is in emotional turmoil or lacks emotional control is a prime candidate, as is anyone who is really “angry and selfish.” Negative emotions like stress, rage, grief, and jealousy make us vulnerable to attachment and big targets for these entities, so people who are going through divorce, grieving, or suffering any other major life crisis often struggle with lower astral entities.

It’s wise to make peace with everyone in our lives for lots of reasons, and the potential for psychic attack is a big one. When we harbor anger or resentment for others, we damage our own happiness, drain our own energy, and waste our time wishing others ill when we could be out fulfilling our dreams. At the same time, when people harbor resentment toward US, if we are not consciously cultivating well-being, it can affect us. (It will affect them adversely even more in the long run, but often people who are really ticked off don’t care as long as they get revenge.)

Besides, most people have no idea that by brooding over something that someone said or did, they are sending that person negative energy and potentially harming that person as well as themselves. (Remember: we get what we give, and whatever we focus upon expands in our lives.) Heck, most people don’t seem to realize that they can have control over their own thoughts and feelings – they think they just happen to them.

In light of all of this, I recommend you let go of the idea that a spell has been cast on you, and cultivate well-being in the following ways:

  1. Thank your intuition and learn to work with it and trust it. You are highly psychic, and are receiving lots of warnings, information and insights designed to help you.
  2. Make peace with your ex-husband and his mistress. Assume that they deserve each other, and that you must deserve better. I’d look upon this as a blessing, for you’ve been set free from marriage to a mean, selfish man, and can now move on to new and higher love.
  3. Wish everyone well. Love yourself and take good care of yourself and your children. Wish your ex, his new lover, and everyone you know all the blessings you desire for yourself. Cultivate love, peace, good will and happiness. Then even if others try to send cold shadows to disturb you, your bright inner light will keep those shadows at bay.

– Soul Arcanum

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Coping with Sudden Psychic Awakening

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Dear Soul Arcanum:

Two years ago I basically died. I stopped breathing, and while I was medically dead, I was pulled into a vortex where I saw obelisks with weird glyphs on them. Some were black and some white, and they were in a sandstorm. I was in a place I felt I had been before, and I heard a soft female voice speaking to me. She didn’t speak English, yet I knew what she was saying. She read something to me, and then she said, You must return. You’re needed. I was then sucked back and painfully reinserted into my body. I was in a state of shock for a week, and then I began to become aware of more things than any human could be. I’m now clairvoyant to the point where I scare myself. I have really frightening recurring dreams, and when I touch physical objects, I see things. It’s weird! I have always had a touch of psychic ability, but this is way more than that, and I don’t know what to do with it all. I have a friend who is clairvoyant, and she said that I have a psychic aura that is growing. She also said that my light is darkness. What does that mean? Can you help me sort this out? – Stephanie

Dear Stephanie:

In the West, psychic matters have largely either been dismissed as utter nonsense or are considered so frightening that the subject is taboo. By contrast, in many other cultures, psychic experiences are an accepted part of everyday life.

I think a lot of our struggles with spiritual awakening are culturally driven. Since the U.S. is such a melting pot of various peoples, we don’t have traditions or teachings with which to make sense of our psychic experiences. Further, the breakdown of organized religion has left most of us without any sort of spiritual community to lean upon during times of spiritual crisis.

Most people don’t give much thought to spiritual matters until something happens that totally rocks their world, and then they have no one they can go to for help and advice. When they get on the internet in search of answers, many end up at my virtual doorstep.

As I hear this sort of thing all the time, I can reassure you that what you’re going through is quite common. For most people, awakening is a gentle, gradual process. When it happens suddenly, as it did with you, it tends to create a lot of fear and stress.

Near death experiences are a very common cause of sudden spiritual awakening. Since sudden awakenings strike people who have not been consciously preparing for them, those people often feel really overwhelmed. Instead of trying to shut down or close themselves off because they’re afraid, what they need to do is stop focusing on the symptoms (the psychic phenomena), and instead focus on the cause of their discomfort (their need for greater spiritual development.)

It’s sort of like you read a book about being a pilot and then you were put in a fighter jet and told to fly. Instead of worrying about all the ups and downs, you must focus on getting the skills you need to have a safe, smooth journey.

Some key elements of preparing for spiritual awakening include healing old wounds to the psyche; purifying your being; and cultivating faith, compassion, spiritual knowledge and wisdom.

To heal old psychic wounds, you must cultivate self-awareness via tools like journaling, meditation, therapy, deep reflection, etc. You have to face and make peace with your own inner shadows. A big part of this involves learning to forgive yourself and others for past mistakes. It also involves accepting the truth that everything happens for a good reason, for this empowers us to stop blaming things outside ourselves (including God) for our suffering. Only then can we make peace with the past and relax about the future.

Purifying your being involves clearing your body, heart, mind and spirit of blocks and lower energies. On a physical level, this may mean changing your diet and working with something like yoga. (I highly recommend yoga, for its very purpose is to facilitate spiritual awakening.)

To purify your heart and mind, you’ll have to let go of anything of a lower nature and consciously cultivate higher energies. For example, if you harbor resentment against someone, you’ll have to learn to forgive them. If you lust after fame and fortune, you’ll need to cultivate awareness of what’s truly of lasting value to your soul and teach yourself to focus on those things first and foremost.

Setting a clear, high intention will give you tremendous psychic protection. If you don’t have any conscious intention at all, you’ll encounter all sorts of crazy situations. It’s like wandering aimlessly around town – you could end up in some beautiful museum, but you could also end up in a ghetto.

Further, as you learn how to lift yourself out of fearful self-interest to act with love and compassion, you’ll gain control over the quality of your spiritual experiences. For example, through awareness that fear draws frightening entities while love and compassion summon angels and other beings of a higher spiritual nature, you can manifest the quality of experience you desire. It’s essential that you own your power to create your own reality. You’re doing this anyway, so you might as well seize the reins and create wonderful, positive spiritual experiences instead of negative or frightening ones.

You must also learn to trust that whatever comes up for you is designed to teach you something. When you encounter shadows in your outer experience, they always reflect shadows in your own nature, or else they couldn’t enter your experience. Any darkness that comes up is reaching for your attention, and when you shine the light of your awareness on it, it will naturally disappear.

I feel this is what your friend meant when she said that your light is darkness. You have divine light within you that is waiting for you to let it shine. Right now there is much darkness in your aura because you’re afraid, and because you have yet to become aware of all that is happening within you. As you become more aware, you’ll turn that light on.

You’re also being called to learn to love all aspects of your being, and to trust your own inner guidance by pursuing all that you feel drawn to explore and letting go of all that you are guided to release from your life. The more you trust and act on your intuition, the faster you’ll find new balance.

I recommend you read up on psychic matters and undertake focused spiritual studies and training, for the more you learn, the more comfortable you will feel. This will help you leave fear behind and manifest a higher level of experience. Ask your inner being to guide you to the spiritual practices and information that are right for you.

Finally, I believe that everyone who is psychically active should develop a strong relationship with their spirit guides/ angels. These spiritual beings want to help, teach and guide us, especially as we evolve in spiritual consciousness. As they exist at a high vibration, you must shift into a high vibration to consciously connect with them. (I’ve written extensively on how to raise your vibration in other articles.)

Once you create a stronger spiritual foundation, it will be natural for you to have wonderful spiritual experiences, and easy for you to access Spirit’s help and guidance whenever you need it.

– Soul Arcanum

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Spiritual Awakening Chaos Syndrome

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Dear Soul Arcanum:

I’ve been trying to adopt a spiritual lifestyle for several years, and also trying to develop my psychic abilities. Why is it that when people make an effort to live this way, life seems to get harder? A lot of spiritual people always seem to be scraping through life, while most of the people I know who have no interest in spiritual growth seem to just float along. As the saying goes, “ignorance is bliss.” Sometimes I feel like walking a spiritual path is not worth the effort.
– Lisa

Dear Lisa:

As it is well known in spiritual circles, the early stages of awakening often turn one’s life upside down. It certainly does seem unfair; if we get more honest with ourselves and others and practice more kindness and compassion, why should we suffer more?

Awakening is like opening the door to a closet stuffed with emotional baggage from the past – perhaps even from past lives. When we open that door and start to consciously face these issues, all kinds of stuff may fall out on our heads.

Just as in physical life, no one really likes cleaning closets, but at some point, we get tired of all that mess and feel inspired to dig in and tackle the job. We want to feel more organized and on top of things, and to make room for new “stuff” – new experiences, insights, abilities, peace and understanding.

Some people will have a gentler experience. They may crack that door open and start slipping one item out at a time, and deal with that before going back for more. Others will throw those doors open, get swept away in the tide of junk that tumbles around them, flail and flounder for a while, get their footing, and start to dig themselves out.

It may take quite some time before progress becomes apparent. In fact, at first it may seem like life went from nice and orderly to a big mess full of hassles and endless problems. If we hang in there, however, we WILL make progress. We’ll also gain all kinds of new skills and gifts as we go. We build new self-esteem, confidence, and wisdom when bit by bit we handle deep issues, heal old wounds, make peace with past experiences, work our way toward our goals, etc.

I’ve seen many a spiritual seeker’s life fall apart as you describe, and I know how overwhelming it can be. In fact, I’ve often joked that I was once the “poster child” for what we might call Spiritual Awakening Chaos Syndrome.

When this happened to me, I had been on a conscious spiritual path for a number of years, and had had a lot of spontaneous psychic and spirit communication experiences. It wasn’t until I decided that this was my life path – that I was going to develop my mediumship abilities and devote myself to this line of work – that chaos erupted. I was married to my first husband and had two small kids when I decided to begin an intense training program in the spiritual arts. At this point, I considered my life and my marriage to be just fine; it was peaceful, I got along with everyone, I basically had no problems.

No sooner did I make this decision, however, than everything began to fall apart. For example, I became chronically ill, and suddenly my seemingly sound marriage began to crack. I didn’t really want to face the truth about it, however, because I wanted to focus on my “spiritual growth.” (Hah!) The more I tried to resist facing the truth, the sicker I got.

Eventually, I had to face facts: my marriage was basically a middle class illusion of what family life is supposed to be like. We were just going through the motions of what we both believed we “should” do. For two years I waffled between honoring my truth by trying to improve my marriage (which never worked), and denying my truth by trying to just hang in there and focus on other things. I might still be waffling today if health problems hadn’t scared me into making new decisions.

While separation brought immediate and complete relief of my health problems, divorce also led to all kinds of tumult. I had many fears to conquer: of hurting my children and other loved ones by being true to myself, of not being able to financially support myself, of being “bad” or wrong and one day regretting my decisions, of being alone, etc.

It took great strength and effort to not just push all of this stuff back into the closet, wedge an armoire up against it, brush the dust off my hands and go back to an unconscious life. Eventually, however, all of this inner and outer effort began to pay off in the form of great new blessings: new confidence, new inner peace, new skills, new success, new fulfillment, wonderful new relationships, etc.

These blessings were accompanied by new challenges. I met my current husband in a divinely destined way and knew he was “the one.” With him, however, came a whole new set of emotional baggage. His closet was bursting with strife-ridden relationship issues, and of course, when you marry someone, you bring their “stuff” into your life. Instead of my former peaceful, smooth existence, I was now drowning in other people’s “problems.”

Like you, I asked Spirit what I’d done to “deserve” this, and was shown that I had simply grown capable of handling more. Whenever I struggled or suffered, it meant that I was being presented with an opportunity to learn a lesson I’d yet to master.

I’m not suggesting that this has to happen to everyone, for some people have a much smoother experience. As spiritual awakening is in essence the realignment with our truest selves, the further we have strayed from our truest selves prior to that awakening, the harder it will be.

I’m reminded of a documentary called “Hoffman’s Potion” about the power of LSD as a therapeutic tool. LSD researchers discovered that some people had blissful spiritual experiences, while others had terrifying ones. The people who had wonderful experiences were basically self-aware and at peace with themselves to begin with, while those who had disturbing experiences were in denial of some kind.

For example, alcoholics tended to be in denial about how their behavior affected their loved ones, and through LSD, they were led to face the truth about their actions. The more in denial they had been, the more disturbing it was for them cope with the truth. It’s the same with spiritual seekers; the farther we’ve strayed from Truth, the harder it will be to face it when the time comes.

I do have some good news for struggling spiritual seekers: the worse things are now, the better they can become. If your life has been turned upside down since you began walking a conscious path, it means that much of your old life was based on illusions. With all of that torn down, you can now build a solid foundation for true fulfillment.

Ultimately, spiritual efforts are totally worth it. We don’t really have a good alternative to facing our “stuff” anyway, for whatever we deny or avoid will just get bigger and more painful until we deal with it.

As for all those folks who seem to be enjoying the “bliss” of ignorance, I encourage you to look beneath the surface. Some are living lives of quiet desperation. Some are in denial, and will eventually find themselves on a painful path that will force them to wake up. Some are indeed feeling just fine for now; we all go through periods when we can coast for a while, enjoy the fruits of our prior metaphysical labor and recharge for new progress.

Eventually, however, everything that is shoved into an inner closet must be cleaned out. The sooner we drag it out into the light and deal with it, the sooner we can move on to new peace, power and wisdom.

– Soul Arcanum

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