The Middle World is a place you know already -- our planet Earth! It is the world of matter, but the less-known side of it, because when we journey in the Middle World we do so with our spirit bodies, and thus we experience the non-physical or spirit aspect of our world. While the Underworld is a place of primal power and beauty, and the Upper World a higher spiritual realm, the Middle World is very much like our every day world: a place of controversy and opposites. Here you can find the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, peace and harmony or violence and crime. Though the Middle World can be an interesting place to explore, offering knowledge and adventure, it also harbours many dangers and pitfalls -- more about this below. The inhabitants of the Middle World too can be more tricky to deal with --if not more dangerous -- than the inhabitants of the Underworld and Upper World.

To the experienced shaman and magician the Middle World is a realm of possibilities (read about possible uses of Middle World journeying below). But unfortunately the Middle World is also the realm of the sorcerer, the black magician and the vampire! To sum it up, it is definitely not a place to explore for the timid, the weak and the unprepared. Personally, I don't think beginners on the shamanic path should be exposed to Middle World journeying at all. Unfortunately nowadays many teachers of shamanism haven’t integrated their shadow and deny that there is sorcery and evil, thus leaving their students completely open and vulnerable to attack. And, worse, some so-called teachers of shamanism are sorcerers and vampires themselves and will intentionally put you in a realm where you are vulnerable whilst withholding information on effective protection.

Having read the above, you may now think, ‘no thanks, I won’t journey in the Middle World then I won’t get in trouble!’ Unfortunately it is not that easy. Even if you stay away from the Middle World, others make extensive use of it, and can invade your private space, even your home through Middle World journeying or astral projection. Denial is not going to protect you. Besides, a real shaman needs to be able to move around in all realms. In any case, it is good to have a working knowledge of this realm, and be it only for your protection and safety.

What is the Middle World?

As opposed to the Underworld, which is a totally natural environment, the Middle World features places of nature and of human habitation, plus anything man has created, such as roads, cars, buildings, etc. Here you will find mountains and forests, roads and cities, pristine nature as well as pollution and technology. But the Middle World is more than the world you know, more than what you experience with your five senses, simply because it also has a spirit side. And it is there that you go when you journey in the Middle World.

So what is the Middle World? In truth the Middle World is the lower astral realm. For those of you who are not familiar with the term “astral”, I shall try to explain it in simple terms. Maybe you have seen the film “Ghost”? When the main actor sees his dead body lying on the ground and finds himself still on the street, but unable to interact with the living, he has gone to the realm of spirit, also called the astral plane. There are higher and lower astral planes, the lower planes being quite useless for spiritual growth, but this is exactly where earthbound spirits hang around! It is also the place to which many sleepers unconsciously astral project. You may have gone there in your sleep and maybe you remember, though most people do not.

The lower astral is interwoven with the world of matter and the two influence each other. Any problem on the astral will eventually find manifestation in the physical world. Likewise, the pollution and desecration of nature and destruction of our planet Earth influences the lower astral realm or Middle World. In essence the Middle World comprises the world of matter as we know it plus its spirit part, which is the lower astral. When journeying in the Middle World you journey in the realm of spirit that permeates our physical reality.

How do I get there?

Before embarking on this journey, please read about the dangers and the inhabitants of the Middle World below. Make sure you are well protected and know what you are doing. It is your choice and your responsibility if you want to journey in the Middle World, so don’t blame me or anybody else for your choices.  For those of you who having read the precautions still want to journey in the Middle World, I am presenting two methods of entering the Middle World. These are by far not the only methods. You may have your own and if it works stick to it. However, always start the journey from a safe place, never a public place!

Method 1:  This is a well-known shamanic method. Starting from your safe place do a full protection (more on protection below), then call your power animals, helpers and guides. Look for a fog or a wall of mist and pass through with the intention of going to the Middle World. Keeping a clear intention is essential for entering the Middle World, as well as for any type of journeying. Do not start your journey from the World Tree or similar place. It isn’t safe to journey from a public place. I have explained the reasons for this in detail on the Underworld Page.

Method 2: This is a more advanced, and -- I find -- more powerful method for accessing the Middle World. It is a Yogic method of astral projection through one of the higher chakras. First prepare the physical place you are in and set everything up for your own safety and comfort. This is best done in your home or possibly a good friend’s home. Your physical location should have a good vibration, and be well protected. Do not attempt this while travelling, especially not in public places such as railway stations, on a plane, or in any public place. Definitely never use this method of Middle World journeying in a place of low vibrations or a haunted place such as a hospital, pub, graveyard, etc. or else you may leave yourself open to possession by negative entities. Please use your common sense and select a place of total safety for this kind of work. When working in nature, you may cast a circle to protect yourself.

Ideally you are attempting this from your own home, which should be clean (as negative beings love messy places), full of positive energy and set up with proper protection and wards to keep wandering spirits out. Switch off the phone, as loud sounds could give you a real shock with this method. Start with a full banishing ritual then make your body comfortable. Lie or sit propped up so you won’t fall over if you go in a deep trance. I find this easier when sitting in the half-lotus posture, rather than lying down. When you lie you are prone to get sleepy, but while sitting the mind tends to be more focused. Whether you sit or lie, you must be comfortable enough to forget your body or it won’t work.

Close your eyes and still your breath. Go deep into meditation. Affirm that you are not the body, that you are a spirit being loosely connected to your physical body. Your physical body is just the outer covering for the spirit that resides therein, and can be shed as easily as you take off your clothes every evening. You must really feel that. Now focus your awareness on one of the higher chakras, either the Ajna chakra (third eye) or the Sahasrara chakra (crown chakra). Withdraw prana (life force) from the rest of your body and focus it in that chakra together with your awareness. Get ready to exit by setting your intention to leave your body behind. You must trust that you are protected, and be fearless enough to do this! When you are ready, imagine your consciousness leaving your body through your chosen chakra. Feel yourself leaving your body and flying out of the room, passing through the wall or roof. Do not worry if your perception isn’t very clear at first. Just keep going, and it will work! Leave your body and your house behind and don’t look back. Now you can go wherever you like in the Middle World!

Note: You cannot succeed with the second method if you cannot meditate, if your mind is restless, or if you are afraid. Furthermore, if you haven’t developed your higher chakras sufficiently you will not be able to leave through them. Exiting through lower chakras on the other hand could get you into some nasty lower astral regions, even into the realm of the demonic. The posture for exiting is also important. I find this method works best while sitting in a Yogic posture, such as lotus or half-lotus pose. Of course, that won’t work if you aren’t flexible enough to sit cross-legged comfortably!

How to return

If you have used method one to enter the Middle World, return to the place where you first you emerged from the fog. Pass through the wall of fog, this time in opposite direction and with the intention of returning to your safe place. This should bring you be back to where you started. From your safe place you can return to ordinary consciousness with your usual method (see Safe Place).

After journeying with method two, you should fly back to your house. If you have problems finding it, think of your body intensively and with a strong desire to return and that should pull you back. Pass through the wall or roof and enter your body through the same chakra that you used to exit. Affirm that you are completely back in your body and ordinary reality then take a few deep breaths for grounding and finally move a bit and open your eyes.

Note: whichever method of Middle World journeying you use, it is advisable to do a banishing ritual once you are back. This will get rid of any entities or spirits that may have followed you. Smudging also helps but is more superficial. Smudging can get rid of minor entities when they aren’t firmly lodged in your energy field yet. It won’t get rid of demons and anything that are deeply embedded in your aura. In any case, it doesn’t hurt to do both, banishing and smudging!

Inhabitants of the Underworld

Spirits

On the astral you meet many people, both living and dead. Naturally, wherever there are people you find the good and the bad. Many New Age people have the erroneous idea that all spirits are “good”. How can that be? An angry spiteful person who becomes earthbound after death isn’t going to turn into a wonderful loving spirit! The spirit of a psychopath isn’t going to turn saintly either. Nor are all spirits wise! In fact, earthbound spirits are probably the dumbest, as they haven’t moved on to any higher spiritual plane because of fear, guilt or spiritual ignorance! If they had been highly developed human beings they would have moved on. You cannot honestly expect such beings to know answers to your questions about God/dess, the after-life, etc. This only as a side line, so please don’t think whoever you meet in the Middle World is good or a spirit guide! Keep in mind that spirits do lie, just as many living people do.

Entities too abound on the lower astral and can easily attach themselves to the unwary (more about them on the Entities Page). These entities range from tiny and insignificant to nasty and truly dangerous beings, in other words, demons. Some of them are just bothersome, like gnats and leeches in physical reality. Others are much bigger and more dangerous. The most highly developed, wiliest and most dangerous entities are called demons. What do they want? Food -- which means you! They can feed on your vital energy also called prana or chi. All they have to do is get into your aura, which is usually quite easy, as almost everybody has a few weak spots and holes in their aura. And even if you don’t, a good dose of fear will open you up nicely. So will any drug or alcohol, by the way! Never attempt to journey if you had alcohol or recreational drugs, sedatives painkillers or anything that makes you feel “out of it”! A real shaman doesn’t drink or take drugs. The sound of the drum is enough to put a shaman in an altered state of mind.

Astral travellers

When journeying in the Middle World you may see living people that go about their daily activities – though they usually can’t see you unless they have astral sight. You will also see people in astral form. These can either be the dead, who having lost their physical body, now exist purely in astral form, or people who have astral projected – both voluntarily and involuntarily. Among the involuntary astral projectors you find many dreamers. Many people do this automatically at night without being aware of it. They may look confused and are unresponsive if you talk to them. Other dream projectors may think it is just a dream, totally unaware that they are out on the astral. Others still have mastered astral projection in their dreams and know what they are doing. They can interact with you in various ways, both positive and negative. There are sexual predators and rapists out on the astral as well. Hopefully you will not come across them, but if you do, give them a good thrashing! Be bold, they can't harm you unless you play along or give in to fear!

Spiritually advanced people may also leave their body during meditation and travel on the astral planes, but they rarely hang around on the lower astral unless they have work to do on that plane. You may also meet the occasional shaman moving around in the Middle World, but those are few among the many spirits and confused people. The last group of astral projectors are the ones you really need to beware of: sorcerers and vampires.

Sorcerers and Vampires

Admittedly it is rare to run into them directly because usually they do their evil deeds concealed. Both sorcerers and vampires use astral projection to enter into another’s house and harm them in various ways. They can invade your dreams for example, to either scare you or drain your energy. The most common attack is in your sleep. Therefore it is important to have defences set up in your house, and most importantly in your bedroom. Once you start doing magick or shamanic work you will attract many spirits, both helpful and harmful ones. You must know how to do a banishing ritual and do this regularly, before and after any healing session, if you are a healer. Using a banishing ritual each night before you sleep will give you some protection from nightly vampire and spirit attacks. These attacks happen through the Middle World, or astral realm, and therefore anybody doing spiritual work, magick or shamanism needs to know how things work on the astral and how to defend themselves against unwanted “visitors”. Below is an example what can happen to anybody, not just to shamans and witches who comes in contact with a sorcerer:

When I was about 19 I once saw a tarot reader. The man was disabled but very evil -- as I found out later. He tried to hypnotise me and when that failed became livid and then predicted only doom for me. I too was doing tarot readings then. Sometime later he came to my house under the pretence of being a “client”. He then tried to scare me and bully me into joining his black magick circle, which I refused. When he left I thought that was the end of the story, but soon afterwards I was being attacked every night. It always started with a “bad dream”, in which I would see my actual bedroom exactly as it was. Then some dark being or animal would show up in the room and come for me. With a buzzing sound the thing would fly over me. In my alarm I woke up instantly but found myself completely paralysed, and unable to make any sound while my partner snored happily right next to me. These attacks happened at different times, mostly late at night but also in the early morning hours when the sun had already risen. I could see the daylight through my closed eyelids, and on several occasions I actually managed to open my eyes before the paralysis hit me. Once paralysed, my whole body was shaken vigorously by the spirit. I felt myself invaded and abused, but was unable to fight back. When the attack ended I was so drained that I usually dozed off immediately in spite of my terror. It then came back for round two, three, four and five, until I finally managed to rouse myself from my bed -- which needed a supreme effort of will as by then I was utterly exhausted from the attacks. I spent the day totally fatigued and in dread of nightfall and what would happen if I went to bed. This went on for almost every night for about 4 months. At times I thought I would go insane!

One of the worst aspects of those attacks was that I couldn’t talk about them with anybody for fear of being thought a nut-case! I told my mother and some close friends who believed me. (Years later when I lived in Asia I found out that this kind of spirit attack is very common and well-know there!) Though it was good to be able to talk about it, I didn’t know how to find practical help. A powerful shaman or witch would have finished my problem very quickly, but there was none around and I didn’t know my own power yet. I was totally on my own against sorcery and vampirism, untrained as I was in magick, and without guidance or help of any sort.

In my fear and desperation I tried various things -- most of which were totally ineffective. For example, on recommendation of my mother I wore a "blessed" cross, hung another cross over my bed, and even prayed the “Lord’s Prayer” mentally whilst under attack. All this was totally useless. Though I knew nothing about magick -- due to repression of magick in the country I grew up in -- even then I had a working knowledge of runes. My improvised rune charm kept the thing away for several days, but eventually it returned, more aggressive than ever. As I couldn’t use my body when under attack, I began to fight it with my mind and will. I learned to fend it off to some extent, but was soon attacked again. Eventually the Goddess sent me a client who said she was a hereditary witch. She couldn’t solve the problem for me, but meeting her was the trigger for me to find my own power which enabled me to finally beat the thing in one big battle! It never came back to bother me after that!

Protection

As journeying in the Middle World is more dangerous you need extra protection. Sadly this rarely taught to students of shamanism, as too many teachers do not “believe in evil”. Well, ancient shamans believed in it and protected themselves against sorcery, and so should we, or we best don’t dabble in shamanism. I will give you general pointers on how to protect yourself when journeying in the Middle World. But I will not reveal my specific protection method to you, as I had contact with a vampire “shaman” and he would be only too happy to know how to break through my defences. Sorry about this, you honest seekers, I would like to tell you more, but can’t out here in public, safety first! I do teach proper protection methods on my workshops though.

Before journeying in the Middle World you should do a banishing ritual in your physical location, your home, or wherever you are. Once you are in your safe place create a very strong and powerful protection (no, the white light won’t work, forget about it. There are realms where the white light doesn’t exist, and in any case it is a cobweb against danger!) The best protection is magickal protection. Use wards, sigils, anything that keeps negativity at bay, and surround yourself with it. Make sure you surround yourself on all sides, which includes above and below. I suggest you use several layers of protection. Ensure the protection you create will last through your entire journey. Long ago, when I was less experienced I once had a shield collapse on me in the middle of a fight with multiple adversaries and it wasn’t pleasant! I ended up being wounded and had to heal myself first before returning.

When you have set up your protection, call your power animals. Taking your power animals along helps to some extent, but is not a guarantee that you won’t pick up entities, nor will it make you immune against attack. There are things which are too much even for your power animals to deal with. If you have stronger allies than just power animals, take those with you, too. You will know what I am speaking of, if you are fit to go, otherwise, proceed at your own risk and peril or leave it be!

Lastly, be ready to fight if necessary. Take your astral weapons along and make sure you know how to use them. You should also know some good offensive and defensive spells. Memorise them so you can remember them even when under pressure. They shouldn’t be very long spells, as you won’t have time to recite for several minutes when under attack. Ideally you should be skilled in astral magick and combat, that is the best way to stay safe. If you lack those skills, acquire them and practice. Ask your guides or the Goddess to teach you those skills. A shaman needs to be able to fight in the Otherworld. Even when healing a client one often comes up against opposition, black magick and curses. You won’t overcome entities and sorcerers by talking to them nicely. I don’t make deals with entities and other evil beings, I kill them! If you think that is too ruthless, stay away from shamanism and take a Reiki course!

Shamanism is a path of light and shadow, of wholeness, and of integration of all parts of you. It is not a love and light path which leads to you being attacked and possibly damaged by evil because you are in denial about it or not ruthless enough to wipe it out when it gets in your way! Evil beings don't understand love, but they understand pain. Some things need destruction, be prepared to give it to them when necessary!

Applications of Middle World Journeying

Soul Retrieval

The Middle World is not the most common place to retrieve soul pieces from. I find that most lost soul pieces are in the lower or upper world. But sometimes, when a person is very attached to a place they are forced to leave, a piece of them stays behind in the place they love so much. Alternatively, a lost soul piece may hang around at the site of an accident or other traumatic incident. Therefore a shaman needs to be able to journey in all the realms of the Otherworld, including the Middle World to retrieve lost soul pieces.

Psychopomp Work

A psychopomp is one who acts as guide for the dead or the dying, a ferryman of souls of sorts! This is very advanced work and should only be undertaken by an experienced and skilled shaman. A shaman can help a dying person or pet to pass over more smoothly and easily. To accomplish this, the shaman has to go with them part of the way. The souls of the dying usually go to the Underworld, but they may linger in the Middle World first. Earthbound spirits are spirits of the dead that didn't move on properly and got stuck on the lower astral. This is very common nowadays as mainstream religion doesn't prepare people properly for what happens at death. An earthbound spirit still has an astral body which will break down in time if it isn't constantly fed. To maintain their energy body, earthbound spirits have to feed on the living, both humans and animals. Therefore if you have a spirit in your house, be aware that it constantly feeds on you and your loved ones and possibly your pets. In time it will drain you and your health will take a heavy toll. Having earthbound spirits around is not healthy.

For earthbound spirits this kind of existence is not pleasant either. They may visit the places and people that they used to like, such as the pub, their friends, but are unable to interact. They are frustrated and find no peace. Some of them are not moving on because they are carrying guilt and are afraid of hell and punishment for what they perceive as their sins (due to religious conditioning). An experienced shaman may help these souls to let go of their fears or make amends until they are willing to move on. The shaman then acts as a guide to the earthbound spirits. Obviously when dealing with spirits one has to be able to enter the realm where they reside, which is generally the lower astral or the Middle World. This can be done both directly at the site of the haunting, respectively where the earthbound spirit hangs around, or from a distance.

Distance Healing

There are various ways how distance healing can be done and not all of them require the ability to astral travel or journey in the Middle World. It can however be useful if one is able to view the energy body of the client from a distance. Personally I very much like this type of healing and have had good results with it in both humans and animals. Healing of the chakras and energy body of the client can be done directly through Middle World journeying or by astral projection. However, this should only be done with the client's permission and at a pre-arranged time! Anything else would be invasive and manipulative. Obviously the shaman also needs to have very good knowledge and understanding of the energy body and the chakras when doing this type of healing, or else s/he may do more harm than good. Even entities can be removed remotely by a skilful warrior shaman. Again this is not for beginners. There is a big difference between removing entities from a client in a hands-on session in a cosy room and finding yourself face-to-face with nasty entities and horrific demons on their home turf, the astral! If you panic easily or if you don't know how to fight on the astral, forget it!

Visiting Power Places

It is also possible to visit power places, or any other place, in the Middle World. We don't always have the financial resources to visit the sites of ancient civilisations, but we can go there in the Middle World! And it is more than sightseeing that you can do by Middle World journeying. You can speak to the spirits of the place and learn many secrets and forgotten lore. This may be combined with time travel as well. You may journey to the time when the pyramids were built, or to when the Inca Empire was in its prime. But even when staying in the present time much can be learned, and power absorbed by journeying to power places and the sites of ancient civilisations. This type of Middle World journey can be a great tool for learning and for getting a spiritual education!

Time Travel

This is quite advanced but you may try yourself at it. I haven’t attempted to go forward in time, simply because it doesn’t make much sense. The future isn’t fixed but depends on your actions now. There are always several possible futures that you have created, which are waiting to happen. They compete with each other and those that you give the most energy to are likely to make the race. So if you try to go forward in time, at best you can see the most likely future. If there was only one future and everything was fixed already, then why do we struggle and strive? Fatalism leads to stagnation – and frustration! The idea that everything is pre-arranged is simply incorrect and clashes with free will, which is one of the fundamental principles of the earth plane. When I was in the Oneness I was told over and over again that there is freedom of choice. As there is no fixed future it is quite pointless to go forward in time. Frankly, I never bothered!

I have however gone back in time with very good results. My grandfather on my mother’s side was a missing-in-action in World War II. We never found out what happened to him even though my mother and my grandmother did a lot of research. Obviously he was dead, but they would have liked to know how and where he died, and if possible locate his remains. Some years back, on the request of my mother I tried to find out more. I came to see his last moments. The vision was very clear. I got a good view of the surrounding scenery, the enemy forces, and the weather conditions. I didn’t just see it but felt his emotions as well. Luckily he died quickly and quite peaceful. He was covered by snow-drifts by a river bank and I immediately thought they would never find him in this place. Two weeks after this journey we finally got a letter that more information had become available on his division, which was almost entirely wiped out. Everything in the letter, the weather, locality, arrangement of enemy forces, etc., matched completely with what I had seen. That experience totally convinced me that time travel does work.

Remote Viewing

This form of Middle World journeying is a two-edged sword! Though it is definitely very useful, it has to be done in a very ethical way – and often this is not the case. Remote viewing is when you travel out of body or take a Middle World journey to see distant places, events, or people. This can be very useful for healing, as on the astral the energy body of the client reveals much. You may visit distant places that you can’t afford to go to by ordinary transport (though you won’t get a sun tan there), or you may use this to contact friends in case of emergency, or check that everything is okay at home in your absence. There are endless uses for remote viewing, just think, you can go anywhere and look at anything you like!

Because there is total freedom on the astral, this can also be abused. Consider, once you get out on the astral you can pass through natural and man-made barriers alike. No lock will keep you out. You can pass through walls and closed doors with total ease – unless the house has been warded, which is rarely the case. How would you like it if somebody came into your house that way, to spy on you, like a peeping tom? Or worse, if the person is a vampire they could drain your vitality and health while you sleep, unaware that your house has been invaded.

If you have no ethics sooner or later you will have a spiritual fall. You may lose the very gifts that you have abused and more. So do everything you do with love and good intent, but also respecting others’ free will. That clearly means: Do not enter anybody’s home without permission. If you use remote viewing during a distance healing session you must have permission of the client to do healing on them, have arranged the time for the healing and stick strictly to healing them. Do not snoop around in their house or visit them again later at your leisure!  Do not even enter a good friend’s house without their prior permission. They could be busy with private things and it is very intrusive to just get into their private space any time. Do not snoop around on the astral in general. I know people who get out of body with total ease, but have no spiritual growth from it at all, as all they do is hang around on the lower astral. If you have a full blown astral projection, make use of it to meet your guides and discuss personal issues, or if you can, try to rise to the higher planes, and if that is not possible, enjoy nature or visit power places in the Middle World instead of hanging around people’s houses like an astral burglar, thief and vampire! This brings us to:

Sorcery

As I said earlier on, the Middle World is also the realm of the sorcerer and the vampire. I am presently writing an essay on what vampirism is and how to defend yourself against it. Vampirism has become very common! If you want to read more about vampires please visit the Vampires Page. Here on this page I present to you only the information that is relevant to the Middle World and your protection from Middle World criminals, such as vampires, sorcerers and astral abusers. Before you can effectively protect yourself against any type of attack you need to know what you are up against, and how you are likely to be attacked. For example, with burglars you know they are likely to come in through your house door or your windows. So you lock your door, close windows when you go out. You may buy an alarm system for added safety. To defend yourself effectively against sorcery and vampirism, you also need to know at least the basics of their operations.

There are two ways you can be confronted with sorcerers and vampires in the Middle World: you come across them on a shamanic journey or they may astrally invade your home to harm you – which you may not notice immediately. Months may pass before your health and luck go downhill, but once this happens your life could be so awful that you curse the day you were born! Best is not to let it come to this! So what to do?

Fight or Flight?

If you meet them on a shamanic journey, you have two options: fight or flight. If you are strong enough and know how to use magick, by all means fight! Otherwise run as quickly as you can, back to your safe place! But make sure you aren’t followed by them! Try to shake them off and run like the wind! Once you reach your safe place do a banishing ritual in your safe place as well as in your physical world place, such as your home. I am generally not in favour of running, it’s the coward’s way, but if you are too weak to win the fight, be wise! As Bob Marley said, “He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day!”

The chance that you meet these sinister characters on a shamanic journey is not very high but it is possible. It happened to me some years ago and I was unprepared and had to improvise. It is much better to decide beforehand on what you are going to do if you meet powerful evil on a journey.  

Astral attack is much more common and often goes unnoticed. Sorcerers can send created beings out against you, as in the example above. They can also do other things, such as curse you, but that is not within the scope of our Middle World exploration. These created beings, elementals or demons that they send against you will however have to come into your space first. As spirit beings they have no problems passing through the walls of your house. So can the sorcerer himself, or the vampire who wants to take your life-force and your spiritual gifts.

Vampires

Vampires will create a link to you. Sometimes they give you objects as “gifts” which you keep in your house, thinking how nice of them to give you this lovely item… In reality they use the object as a link so they can invade your home and drain you! If you had contact with a vampire you must destroy all items they have given you, even books, pressed flowers, any herbs, stones, wands or sticks, potted plants, or any object really.

Vampires can also link to your chakras directly. If they astral project in your house in the night they can drain your vital energy in your sleep, or through scary dreams. They can attach to your chakras and drain your spiritual gifts also. Another way of creating a link is to have something with your DNA, such as your hair, fingernails or any body secretions. This is the worst case scenario! 

I had the bad luck -- and a lack of discrimination you may say -- to be manipulated into a bogus “initiation” with a vampire posing as a teacher of shamanism. During the so-called initiation we were blindfolded for over 30 hours, which gave him the opportunity to sneak up on us while we slept or were in trance. He cut hair from me and others. After that I began to have all the typical symptoms of psychic attack: lowered vitality, extreme bad luck, accidents, etc.

Basically, once a sorcerer or vampire has anything of your body, there is no stopping them. They can work spells against you or drain you as long as they like – which quite often means until the death of either party. There are ways to counteract this but it is very difficult. Best is not to let them have anything of your body or personal belongings in the first place.  

Protect yourself!

Never do initiations with people of low morals and doubtful ethics or if you have any doubts at all. Initiations should only be done with an ethical, pure and spiritually evolved person, else you be dragged down spiritually! Taking initiation means you create a permanent link to the initiator which is not a good thing if the initiator is a sorcerer, a vampire or a person without ethics or purity and devoid of spirituality!

Secondly, never let anybody get your hair, nail clippings or body fluids. Dispose of hair from your brush only in your home. Don’t let the brush lie around, and guard your hair like gold! Used underwear can also be employed to hex you, as well as your (menstrual) blood, so take good care of all these things. And, of course, be very selective in the choice of your sexual partners! A vampire can drain you, create a permanent link to you, or transfer his entities and demons to you during intercourse!

Fourthly, to protect your home: do regular banishing rituals. A banishing ritual will get rid of thought-forms and wandering spirits and all kinds of astral critters. Doing this once a day takes only a few minutes but will keep your place psychically clean for quite a while. If however you are under heavy psychic attack, you have to do banishing more than once a day. A banishing only lasts until the astral tides change, which is simultaneously with the ocean's tide and happens several times a day.

As you may not have time to do banishing rituals every few hours on a daily basis, it is advisable to put up some form of permanent protection in your home as well. Crystals, when properly programmed, can be used to grid the house. But you must have bonded with each crystal you use and programmed all of them properly (it is not enough to just hold the crystal and think “crystal protect me from all evil” or something along those lines). It is best to let your Higher Self program the crystals as well. Other magickal protection, various wards and talismans can help as well. Some tree spirits are quite effective against black magick.

Wearing protective jewellery is another method (as the above example of a psychic attack shows, wearing a cross won’t do it!) The jewellery would have to be on you 24/7, needs to be of the right materials and has to be magickally charged to be really effective. It is extremely practical to enchant jewellery because it can be worn during shamanic journeying as well and will give you extra protection!

Whatever form your protection takes, make sure you charge it to keep out any astral invasion. This includes spirits, living people who intrude into your home by astral projection or remote viewing, demons, entities, succubi and incubi (sexual predators), and vampires, of course.

Doing a complete exorcism ritual at least once a month will also get rid of many negative forces and reinforce banishing rituals and other protection. Hopefully I will get around to writing about some of these protection methods later on the Magick Page. If you want to read more about vampirism, pop in again, I will soon publish an essay with much more information on the topic.

And now, fearless travellers, enjoy safe Middle World journeying!

Copyright © Avalon Lau, 07.09.2008