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Spirit Release & Spirit Attachment
H-A Through Tony Neate
10.1.02

Part 1 Spirit Release. Both incarnate and discarnate spirits can become stuck in their evolution and need to be released. If incarnate, unable to communicate with the body properly. If discarnate, fixed in a state of shock - as after September 11th. Love and understanding to help them move on.

Part 2 Spirit Attachment. The imposition and control of a discarnate spirit on an incarnate person. Causes and questions, including one on exorcism. Definitions and advice on both subjects.

Part 1. Spirit Release

I would like to start by asking each one of you to connect with your spirit through your heart. . . . Can you feel the energy in the room changing? I wish to speak with you on spirit, when it needs to be released because it is stuck, and when you find another energy attached to you.

Spirit is first created by the Godhead as a lone creative thought with free will and choice. On one level it has nothing - no accumulated wisdom or understanding but a blank page on which to start writing its journal. In another sense, it comes with everything for it is a part of God; and it is important to understand that. It goes through various processes of learning why it has been created and it has the opportunity of creating its own vision, its own mission and its own direction.

Now most spirits choose some form of physical incarnation, either on planet Earth or on some other planet or star in the universe - and let me say that there is more than one universe. Your spirit has chosen this particular universe in which to experience. It needs to spend some time coming to terms with what it is, why it is, where it is, and how, why and where it needs to direct itself. There is one thing for sure and that is that it has choice of direction that it undergoes.

One of the very early lessons that a spirit has to come to terms with is that, having choice, means it has to understand the difference between light and shadow; or as you may refer to it in a more orthodox way - good and bad, heaven and hell. I prefer light and shadow, although heaven and hell are terms which humans use: they represent the two extremes, the two extreme possibilities of your choice.

You have decided to embark on physical experience in homo sapiens on Earth. Now you are helped and guided by other spirits to make your first choice into a physical body and you enter at the moment of conception.

That first incarnation is a tremendous challenge, for you are truly in a world of the unknown, encountering experiences that you have never encountered before, experiences that may have been shown to you but until you actually experience them for yourself they are just an idea, a concept.

Ancestral Energies
Now in entering a physical body you start to loose your innocence, because the physical body is in a certain stage of evolution itself and is far from perfect, with its own light and shadow. You inherit a brain, a mind, a physical body that is carrying with it the energies of its own ancestors. So you suddenly find you are having to cope with the energies of your father and mother, your grandparents, your great grandparents, going right back. And this is your first experience in a physical body, having to deal with other energies that are very real ones because they are there in that physical body that you are inhabiting. How are you going to deal with them?

You begin to wonder if you have made a wise choice; maybe your father doesn't turn out to be what you had hoped he would be, maybe he provides a very different challenge to the one you had anticipated - and your mother too. You begin to become aware of their frustrations, their problems, how they are coping with light and shadow. Already you are beginning to feel stuck.

The reason I am telling you all this is that this is one of the very first times that the spirit can become stuck, in that first incarnation, having to deal with a whole host of invading issues - and they are very invasive. The spirit is desperately trying to cope and sometimes it will retreat into its own shell; it will cut itself off from the heart, it will cut itself off from the physical body that it is inhabiting. So what will happen to that physical body, losing that vital energetic bonding between the spirit and the physical?

The physical body will start to become very caught up in the energies of the parents and this may begin to manifest as diseases associated with its ancestors. And the spirit will feel out of control and totally stuck. It has choice, it can go forward, it can stay where it is, it can go backwards - if it tries to go backwards it will call for a very early death to that body. It may say to itself, 'My goodness, I am not ready to take on physical life - it may be alright for some spirits, but not for me!' And that is quite a clear cut decision. It is OK because the physical body will die and that spirit will go back through - to use one of your expressions - a rehabilitation process. But the real difficulty arises if that spirit really does become stuck. It becomes almost atrophied in that physical body and the person concerned will become very mechanical, very lifeless. They will do things because they have to be done; they will go through life protesting, grumbling all the time, not able to reach out.

Now, if perchance the personal guide of that spirit is able to get through to it, it may enable it to say, 'I need help, I need healing' and it may draw towards it someone who can release that spirit to live more fully in its body. So one of the areas to look for with stuck energy is where somebody is living their life in a totally automated, totally uncreative, unproductive way, very much a slave to parents, very much a slave to their needs and what they want to do.

So often people think of stuckness coming about through some kind of overriding energy, which of course it can; but it can also come about through exactly what I have described.

Trauma
Another way in which a spirit can become stuck is through an accident, a shock, a very deep trauma that somehow takes all the energy out of it. It could be an accident, it could be war, a catastrophe, losing a loved one, being very stressed or not evaluating its own life - denying its own freedom of choice, its free will. You can see why these are very important times because on one level the whole planet has allowed itself to become stuck through control, through the power of the few dictating how people should think, how people should believe in God. These are all areas that create stuckness in spirit.

Healing
So the stuckness that I am talking about is not just one that is limited to the odd person here or there; it is affecting millions of spirits on your planet. And it needs to be dealt with through healing, holding healing circles in which you offer freedom of choice all around the planet. Because the energies right round the planet are ripe at the moment to take something like this. This is the time for it - and the year 2002 is offering humankind this opportunity. What is important is that those of you who believe passionately in freedom do not become dogmatic in your own belief. You can only offer it; you cannot force it.

One of the things I must stress is that it is important that there is a self-discipline. Many religions have a forced discipline, with punishment - sometimes a very severe, torturous punishment - if you don't follow the rules. Each individual has to impose their own book of rules, their own code of conduct, their own understanding of where they are and where they need to be. This means recognising your own vulnerability, facing your light and your shadow, and that means moving beyond condemning others; it means moving forward with an unconditional view of love and all-being.

The Earth planet is desperate for spirit release and I plead with any organisation involved with it to hear my words and to try and recognise that they need to do whatever they can to create a new energy throughout the whole planet. Yet it isn't a new energy, it is really contacting the God energy in the most loving way.

Fear
Now spirit stuckness can also come about through fear, through becoming involved with psychic/spiritual exercises that encourage stuckness by closing the mind, closing the heart, closing the spirit. In mentioning religions, I am not just talking about religions as you would understand them, I am talking about archetypal stuckness where you become caught up in a belief - it can be philosophical, it can be political. It means dealing with the fears in your heart, in your being, it means sitting back and looking at your life and saying, What can I do about it? Understanding that there is a great deal you can do about it. You can stand on top of the highest hill and reach out and feel that cosmic energy coming down.

So spirit release is a tremendous vision and understanding and I would like to just pause and ask you if you have any questions about spirit release, now.

Question: Supposing you were trying to release a shattered spirit, for example, that had been in an air crash and the body had been very badly mutilated and the spirit very shattered. I would be interested to know the various ways one can gather up that spirit in order to give it healing, because I have found that when looking in at crashes, sometimes these energies are scattered far and wide and need to be brought together first before you can do anything else.

First of all the spirit must be given time, because when a catastrophe happens such as happened on the 11th September, that spirit is wrenched out of the body and it may take a long while for it to come to terms with what has happened. So you cannot do anything which is manipulative, for a start. All you can do is to surround it with love and that will help it to become more focussed; also place it in a cocoon of love, and then occasionally, when it feels right, start to give a little energy to that cocoon or those cocoons.

You could say, 'I am going to give healing to a thousand of those spirits, I am going to put them all in my mind, in my vision - and then I shall gently energise that cocoon, so that they will gradually become conscious of a feeling of peace, a feeling of serenity. They need to be helped to understand that what has happened to them has been a major challenge in the evolution of their understanding.

When a spirit makes a choice to do something like this, it may do it to create an example, it may do it to draw attention to a problem - it doesn't always fully appreciate the violence that it is bringing on itself in order to do it. So it needs a lot of understanding, it needs a lot of energy giving to it in a way that is going to very gently awaken it to the situation, allowing it to be almost reborn with an understanding of what happened.

Love is very important because such a trauma can push that spirit into the shadow and the last thing you want is for all those spirits that were shocked out of their bodies to come back to Earth in anger, seeking revenge and retribution. They need very active energy placed around them, an energy of unconditional love that can enable them to see the service they gave; and many of them gave it willingly, most of them gave it willingly. They sensed that they were part of a happening that was beyond their normal ken and they had chosen to be part of it because they realised the world was in a desperate need for an awakening, so as to provide that unprecedented opportunity for a greater world understanding. Does that answer your question?

Yes, thank you.

Sometimes it would be necessary to mentally talk to the spirits and those of you who are gifted psychically in that way will find that you are very aware of what they are trying to communicate. So communicate back to them, talk to them, give them your wisdom, your understanding, help them, support them, say to them, 'I am here to support you and to help you forward; I want to help release you from your stuckness'.

Question: H-A. I do a lot with consciously developing people and one of the things that struck me is that there are many, many people who are incarnate now whose spirits are stuck at some level, and that that is the cause of the problem that blocks their learning. And I was looking for some insight as to a complementary type of idea that can be done on the level of the spirit to give them a choice about learning on a conscious level.

Reach out to them in the way that I have just described.

So it doesn't matter that they are still incarnate?

All the same principles apply. But when the spirit is stuck within an incarnate person it is much more difficult because you have to help it in a way that is non-invasive and non-manipulative. You could only surround them in so much love and enlightenment that would give their spirit a chance to say, 'I don't need to be stuck here, there are other ways in which I can move.' It is like shining a light to illuminate the darkness that they have placed around themselves, because they have retreated right into the total shadow of their being. Now in shining that light on them you must be careful not to polarise the darkness otherwise you will fling them into a state of total imbalance. The light has to surround them in a very gentle, subtle way, and you have to be prepared to be very patient, very loving - just put it around them. There is no magic potion on this one.

And of course on an emotional level you will need to help them into the reality of feeling that you are there as a form of support. You will need to listen to them and hear them, for often they will feel that they have been unheard. That is one of the signs, if you like. So be patient, hear them, enable them to realise that they are being heard and that will be part of the enlightenment. Often people like this are condemned and criticised and pushed to one side and that of course buries them even deeper. I am sure you are aware of the procedures that you use in your own therapy.

Question: Whether one uses the techniques that you have just described, to help a thousand spirits and bring them all together in one group, or whether one uses the Homoeopathic one-to-one type of healing, which isn't going to cover the numbers, presumably one has a choice as to which way one prefers to do the healing, or which seems more appropriate?

I have not gone into the details tonight about the type of healing you would choose to use, but the Homoeopathic healing could be very, very effective. This is where the energy is given using a one hundredth potency of the normal energy in a very focussed way. Because of its subtlety it can often touch the heart where more blatant and fuller forms of healing can cloud the issue. And one spirit healed in this personal way will have a powerful effect on others around it. So the answer is, yes, you choose the type of healing.

When you are talking about the large group and surrounding them with unconditional love would you work with that group as a whole or would you surround each spirit?

I suggest it depends entirely on the experience and the approach of the individual healer. Healing is something which is totally individual and whilst one may be working within certain patterns, using certain techniques, it is up to you personally to work in the most comfortable way for you. That rule always applies and it is essential for any healer working in this area to make sure that they are in a very balanced state before they start and to rebalance themselves at the end of the healing process. I have given examples of how to cleanse yourself, balance yourself and protect yourself and I do recommend that people follow these procedures. Because when you offer healing it needs to be done in such a way that you are not entering that person's situation, otherwise you can become as they are. You need to stand back and work within a discipline within yourself. Remember, to be in balance and well centred within, is in itself a protection.

I am wondering if it is possible, with somebody who is incarnate but retreating into themselves more and more, to try and bring balance using the mandorla* - using the polarities: love and fear or something like that?

[A 'mandorla' is the almond shape created between two overlapping circles. Robert Johnson, the Jungian analyst, writes about the mandorla in his book 'Owning Your Own Shadow'. He asserts that until we have undertaken the task of accepting the shadow within, we cannot be balanced or whole. He says,"It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise . . . . that is where God is." ]

Using the mandorla as a way of giving healing is fine, yes, that is a technique which I would totally endorse.

Would it be possible to use a mandorla with someone who is in spirit when you are trying to bring balance before releasing them? Some spirits who are full of fear or not quite sure of where they are, although they want to be released they are a little afraid. Would it be possible to use the mandorla to try and bring balance during a spirit release, do you think?

Providing it is not manipulative; providing that it is offered and they have the opportunity to accept or reject it. . . . And you my son?

I wanted to ask you about stuckness but I can't word it really - because I feel stuck in the sense that I understand a lot of what you say but it is the body that feels stuck. It is feeling fear, I think. A lot of what you say is interesting and reflects the things I need to do and in a sense I feel that the spirit is racing ahead - I have got the ideas and the inspiration, but I feel panic within that, really.

Find love within it, my son. Yours is not a young spirit, yours is an old spirit that wants to bring wisdom and understanding to those around. So try and evaluate and deal with your fear, acknowledge that light and energy within you; allow it to fill your heart, to fill your body, to fill your whole being with love. You are a lovely person and there is so much love in you my son, just allow it, allow it, allow it! Do you hear me?

I do. . . but I have another question. Why, generally speaking as a human race, do we tend to gravitate more towards depression than towards love and bliss? Why do we tend to spiral downwards rather than…?

Because you are carrying the hurt of many past lives and because there is built within you an inner fear of a repetition of what happened in those past lives. So I say to you, my son, when you commune with yourself say to your spirit, 'I want to move ahead, I acknowledge my past, I honour the experience that it has given me but I know that I have a great deal to do in this life. So I am going to take that experience within and use it positively - that is my choice, that is my inheritance'. And every time you feel that fear come up, smother it in love - and then say to yourself, 'I am very fortunate that I hold these past hurt energies, because if I allow them they will guide me and help me to avoid repeating that past life pattern. I know that I have the opportunity in this life of escaping from that' - and you have, you have, you have! Do you hear me?

Yes.

So, my son, please stop beating yourself so hard. Acknowledge that lovely spirit within, feel its gentleness, feel it touching your heart, feel it wanting to bring out that gentleness within you. Do not be afraid of being gentle, do not be afraid of being wrong, do not be afraid of being right, cherish yourself, love yourself, be yourself! I love you - do you hear? Are you really hearing me? Are you really hearing me?

Yes.
 

Thank you, and thank you all for your questions.

Part 2. Spirit Attachment - Definition and how it happens.

Now spirit attachment, very simply, is when a spirit other than the native spirit or the host spirit starts to interfere with that body. It may just latch itself on to a person's aura, draw off some of your energy, it may actually enter your aura and be inside your body together with the native spirit, which can often result in what you call schizophrenia. It can also reject the native spirit and take over the body entirely.

These things happen a great deal, particularly in traumatic situations, for when there is an accident or a deep trauma and the native spirit is in a state of shock for a time, it can lose control of the body. And if the protecting energy - the auric field - is not in balance because of the negative state of mind of that person, it can easily draw negative energy in the form of an unbalanced spirit towards it. A spirit that attaches itself in this way is usually an angry or damaged spirit. [An unbalanced auric field can also occur through alcohol or drug abuse, or through the body's ingestion of highly chemicalised food.]

The attachment can be drawn from another person; or it can be a spirit earthbound in an area where there has been a lot of tragedy and many people have been killed unfairly or unjustly. This can happen in places like prisons where death sentences are carried out, for this can draw angry spirits, particularly if someone is put to death who is innocent. And I can assure that you many people who are put to death in the name of justice are innocent, or they have not been understood, or they have not been helped; so they die bitter, angry, and resentful, hating the society which has condemned them.

Such a spirit may move on; but it may stay around and look for those whom it feels condemned it. It may attach itself to someone's aura to try and bring on a disease that is particularly agonising and cause immense pain and distress, for it is looking to re-create what it feels has happened to it.

Oh, when humankind kills in the name of justice, little does it realise the dreadful karma that it creates for the spirit of the person who is killed! There will be the rare occasion when the spirit feels that it would be just that it should die in this way, but in the majority of cases it will carry the anger and the hatred of the society that caused it.

Spirits who Choose to Reject God
Then we have to remember those who reject God and look at yet another way in which spirit attachment can happen. [This does not refer to those who simply do not believe in God.] A spirit may reject God at any moment in its evolution because it has the freewill to do so, it may pander to its fears, and it may look for personal power and control over others. But when that power and control over others is exercised to the extent that the spirit completely rejects God, it can only exist by drawing on the energies of other spirits. And it will draw towards it negative energies, 'evil' spirits if you wish. 'Negative energies' is the term that I prefer to use.

So the spirit that has rejected God can itself become possessed, drawing other spirits towards it that are too weak to resist. Then instead of being just one spirit, there will be a conglomeration of evil spirits. This is a form of self-induced spirit attachment and can be seen in evidence on a physical level in any organisation that is creating and pandering to the ego, looking for personal power, offering energies that are far beyond its ability to deliver.

Abuse, Trauma, Depression.
Spirit attachment, as I said, can happen in times of trauma, in accidents but it is of course dependent on the state of the person at that time. The sort of states that can encourage spirit attachment are extreme stress, drugs, alcohol, and physical and sexual abuse - particularly from an adult to a child. It can cause degenerative diseases; it can cause chronic depression which in itself will draw negative energies. Imbalance in the way that you live, and a failure to deal with your own shadow are also situations that can bring about spirit attachment.

Healing
Spirit Attachment needs a very special kind of healing; no spirit has the right to control another, incarnate or discarnate, especially if the host does not wish it to be there. So you have a right to move that attaching spirit on and away from the person that it is holding onto; but it must be done without malice, it must be done without judgement. It must be done in the sense of helping that spirit into the light by offering it not punishment, not imprisonment, not torture; but by offering it an understanding in which it can realise that it does have choice. So not only are you moving it away from the person to whom it is attached, but you are actually offering it the opportunity to open to choose to move out of the state that it is in. Sometimes you will be successful; but even if you are not successful in that particular healing, at least you have given it the opportunity - and that is what matters.

I always advise that healings of this nature should be done by two people. However, it is not the remit of this lecture to go into details of the process. The healers that have worked with me in the College of Healing are fully conversant with how to deal with such eventualities.

But I do want to emphasise that there is a great difference between spirit stuckness and spirit attachment - and when you give the healing you must have some kind of certainty within you, which it is. It could be that the person's own spirit is in a stuck state and needs releasing. Or it could be that another spirit is linking on - attaching itself - and drawing from the incarnate person, in some cases even ousting the native spirit and living through them. If it is the latter case, it can usually be evidenced by feeling another spirit energy with the person. There are so many different ways in which it can happen.

So that, my dear friends, is spirit attachment. Any questions on that?

Question: H-A, I have been thinking about these issues, for instance in a team or a department, an organisation, a community or even a country, I guess and I am particularly interested in discerning in what stuckness in the incarnate individuals who make up that community, and attachment; discerning stuckness from attachment in a community. How do I spot it and how do I tackle it?

You spot it by the form of healing that you use and I want to be very clear about this - psychological techniques can be used in spirit release, with either an incarnate or discarnate stuck spirit; they cannot be used in clearing spirit attachment, except in conjunction with healing energy. I would advise you, if you find it difficult to make a decision to always opt for using your healing energy as well as your psychological technique; it is as simple as that. It is not a sledgehammer to crack a nut; it is just a sensible way of protecting yourself and the people whom you are trying to unstick. Does that answer your question?

Yes I think it does, have you any particular thoughts on a collective level about how best to approach it?

I have suggested techniques such as Archetypal healing [described in New Dimensions in Healing by H-A, available from Ann Neate - e-mail: annneate2@hotmail.com] which I think you would find helpful in a collective way, but if you use an Archetypal healing method without consulting them, you have got to do it from within you and use a very strong protection. In talking about spirit attachments, there is a spirit attachment that has happened through circumstance; and there is spirit attachment that is deliberate so as to gain power over another.

 

So, if in doubt always clear psychically with healing energy?
 

Yes.

Question: H-A, you have mentioned extreme trauma and stress and I was thinking about the massive numbers of children but also adults who have been in war situations for long periods of time and have experienced sustained trauma and stress. And I guess the children have been born into it - and I have seen images of them and they look almost dead. And I wondered what the implications are of what you are saying on a scale like that and how one could begin to help.

When this type of situation happens you cannot change it overnight, it is something that is ongoing. You must remember that they have incarnated for that purpose, although they still have the freewill to change out of it if they wish. So you are dealing with a kind of archetypal stuckness that has come through from a past life, which you have to help them to move beyond in order to find love. You can see it happen in Northern Ireland.

I guess what I am wondering is, I can understand that that kind of situation creates certainly mental difficulties, but I wonder how much of that is exacerbated by the effect of trauma and possible spirit attachment?

Trauma is a big cause of spirit attachment, especially where a child is abused by parents or by an institution, or by the state. Because when a spirit enters a body it doesn't fully mature into the body until the person is twenty-one, so during those twenty-one years there is a vulnerability. And it needs to be understood. The wise spirit will be able to say, ' Yes, I had a traumatic childhood but it has enabled me to understand what it is like to be in that situation, therefore I have much to give others who are in a similar situation - because I can understand.'

So often if we can deal with our fears, we can realise that that which we fear most can be our strongest ally and motivation for being in touch with our true mission.

Question: H-A, I watched a programme the other night which I found rather shocking, it was about exorcism in the Catholic Church. A very charming old priest was exorcising a young lady who he reckoned was afflicted with the devil, pure evil. It sounded as if she was, bless her!

He had her chained to a table and a chair and what concerned me, apart from what looked like awful cruelty inflicted on this young lady in trying to contain her, was the fact that everything they took to be of the devil, they slung into a room saying it belonged to the devil and must go back to the devil. Nothing was healed or sent to the light or given an opportunity to heal itself. I thought this is a dreadful thing to do with anyone who has got a negative energy so profoundly affecting them. I thought this was very bad for everyone concerned and they weren't healing anything at all; they were compounding everything that was happening, it seemed to me.

And this is the understanding I believe the planet is ready to move beyond. Maybe it is useful to understand that that can happen - and it can help you to see how valuable and how important the work you are doing is. It is a new phase for the whole planet, an opportunity for the planet to move beyond this state of condemnation. Condemnation can only produce more evil.

What concerned me, H-A, was who is going to tell the Church, how are they going to be enlightened into changing their methods? It has obviously been going on for many hundreds of years.

My child, I would like to say to you one simple thing - you are the only person incarnate on this planet that you can change. But if you are able to change yourself, you are giving out an energy that will reach right round the planet. The more people who begin to think in this way and to move beyond the old way of approaching it, to move beyond the need to condemn, who can teach unconditional love and the freedom of liberating the spirit, the more those organisations will lose their power. They will either have to change or lose their power; and if that happens, they will crumble.

It is terrible that that is on television, isn't it?

There is no other way forward than by changing yourself and that is the most powerful thing that you can do; that anyone can do. And with that thought I want to say that I love you all, so much. Thank you and goodnight.