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SYMPTOMS OF PSYCHIC OR MAGICAL HARMPotential symtoms of psychic or magical harm from another, intentional or otherwise, include the following:
*A feeling that you are being watched by something creepy, unfriendly, or malevolent, particularly during a time of quiet refelction alone or when doing any spiritual work.
*A sense of heaviness or pressure, as if something were sitting on your chest or shoulders. This physical presence may be accompanied by a sense of cold or heat manifesting as a sudden change in an otherwise normal temperature, without a proper weather change in the environment to support such a temperature shift.
*Hearing voices of a malevolent nature. Usually these are "psychic voices" heard in the mind, but at times they can feel is real that they seem audible. Sometimes more than one person in the same vicinity can hear them at the same time.
*Unusual psychic manifestations of fearsome things. These manifestations can occur as obsessive thoughts of accidents or attacks, when you are not normally prone to obsessive thinking. Manifestations can also include visions. Some visions occur as brief but disturbing glimpses in day-to-day woking life. Others appear in full detail during meditations and rituals, interrupting your spiritual work.
*Vivid, recurring nightmares. Often, the images are of things that are generally considered fearsome, but are not necessarly your personal fears and phobias.
*A sharp stabbing pain in the body. Such a pain usually maifests as a headache. Traditionally, it is said to occur when the antagonist's name is mentioned in the presense of the target for psychic attack, or when the target thinks about the antagonist. this is often felt as a strong headache at the third eye without explanation, or is a sharp pain where the skull and neck meet. Pains could also be located at chakra points.
*A slow and steady drain on your personal energy. Such drains can affect your work and personal life.... Your intuition and ability to use energy can diminish. This is usually accompanied by intense feelings of cold when you are not normally prone to being cold.
*An experience of psychic loss or entrapment. In certain traditions, harmful practictioners curse you by trapping a portion of your energy body and preventing it from returning to your body. Some consider this portion to be a part of your soul. You do not lose your soul itself, but what is considered a fragment or shard of your soul, in the shamanic traditions.
Traumatic experiences can cause parts of our energy to fragment. If we do not heal and rest to integrate them, the trauma can cause them to leave our proximity and hide in the other world for safety. Healing either of a shamanic or traditional nature, can usually coax these parts back to us, unless they are purposely blocked by another.
In the Voodoo traditions, harmful practitioners are said to grab your "ti bon ange" or "little angel" also referred to as the astral body, which travels when you sleep. They use spells to trap this little self in hope of exerting influence over the peron in the waking world. Symptoms of this experience incude a feeling of loss; a loss of power, purpose, or self-identity; a lack of will; a lack of interest in life or a walking-zombie-like attitude; or going through the motions of life, but never fully paritcipating. Other healers call this ghost walking, and it can occur either through harmful magick or naturally through trauma or illness.
*Losing many personal objects of importance when you are not naturally prone to misplace things
*Suddenly becoming accident-prone when you are normally graceful. Accidents may cause you to break precious objects or to injure yourself or others, from bumps and bruises to more severe injuries
*A sudden and unexpected illness when no other causes of the illness are apparent. If you in touch with your body, do a deep meditation and scan to determine the source of the illness and the message your body is giving you. If you can't find a cause, this can be a potential symtom of psychic attack.
In many folk magic traditions, practitioners of harmful magic would curse an entire family. Usually their weakest member of the family, the baby, is most susceptible to the harmful energy of the curse, and will experience an extended bout of colic that is not cured by traditional methods.
In many indigenous traditions of healing, it is believed that many illnesses are caused by a source of harmful energy outside of the afflicted. If someone wishes you ill will, even unconsciously, it can manifest as illness or injury. Breaking the energy of ill will, or banishing the spirit of sickness, heals the illness.
*A long chain of events that can only be catagorized as "bad luck" paritcularly in financial, personal, or romantic areas of life. Again, as when we look at illness as a potential symtom of psychic attack, you must be introspective to find the root of your "bad luck" often we create the circumstances of our situation, and cannot blame them on other people wishing us ill. Just as illness can be a sign from our body and spirit telling us to find balance and healing, experiences with unfortunate circumstanes can guide us to a life in geater harmony.
*An unconscious change in your physical upkeep and appearance, as if part of you were trying to hide. The few times that I felt I was the target of harmful psychic energy. I found myself not shaving for long periods of time, and constantly changing my facial hair and usual wardrobe, like I wanted to throw someone off my trial. I didnt realize I was doing this at the time. It was only in retrospect that I could see the reasons for my behaviour.
*Any of the previous symptoms manifesting after recieving a strange, unexpected, or unwanted gift from either a stranger or from someone who you suspect means your harm. Practictioners of harmful magic will often link their curses and spells to objects, and transfer thier harm through the object.
A friend of mine received and expensive sweater from a very sickly woman who wanted my friends job at a metaphysical store. As soon as she wore it, she became deathly ill. It was only after the sweater was buried with a protection ritual that her sickness left, as mysteriously as it began. I recieved a neclace under similar circumstances, but burned it before I ever wore it, recongnizing the intent. My gift giver was surprised to see me up and around.
*An experience of partial or full possession. Possession is when a malevolent spirit, often referrred to as a demon or devil, attempts to control a physical body. Partial possession created the feeling that something foreign is attempting to take you over, or that you are simly not "alone" inside your body. Full possession ranges from the feeling that you have lost motor control of your body or that someone else has motor control of you, to the clasic sterotypical images of possession with speaking in malevolent voices and foreign languages, physical contortions, and feats of strength. It is important to note that true, full possessioin is the least frequent cccurrence of those listed, and that most recorded cases of demonic possession during the witch trials of Europe were most likely cases of ergot poisoning, a fungus growing on grain that produces a bad LSD like effect and also confers temporary strength and madness.
now i'm not sure why i relate to this subject matter. i don't discount the notion that i myself could be the cause of the disharmony i feel. here's what the author says about harmful energy:
i don't own this book, but hope to purchase it soon. i have read elsewhere that when a person feels this level of psychic disharmony, for whatever reason, that usually a shamanic healer can be very beneficial in helping to move through harmful energy.
i just don't feel equipped to resolve this myself.
Lindaland
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posted October 02, 2004 03:37 PM
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