Brief background.  I took part in Gateway Voyage at TMI in early December.  I had worked with most of the Gateway Experience CDs before and have continued since, usually listening to a Free Flow 12, 15, 21 or Gateway Take Home Exercise 3 to 5 times a week.  I am very left brained and don't visualize well.  While I achieve the focus levels, I don't feel I have made the connection with Guidance or breakthroughs that others have.  I've worked through the Afterlife Knowledge Guidebook exercises through the first Retrieval exercise, but mostly felt I was pretending so have put further work with that material aside for the time being.

Today, I visited Marc, my chiropractor and long time friend.  He has been treating me for over 20 years and knows me well.  We both belong to the same Buddhist sangha, although he has been following a different spiritual path the last few years.  We talk about such matters during my visits, including my interest in Bruce Moen's work, my work with the TMI material, etc.

Shortly after I arrived in his office today, he asked if I was still doing the consciousness expansion work.  Then he told me that he had sensed as soon as I came in the door a crowd of entities around me.  He said they were all neutral, i.e. none were malevolent.  He said they seemed to like the attention they were getting from my activities, even though I have been completely unaware of them.  This is the first time Marc had ever perceived this sort of thing as to me.

Marc was concerned that one of the entities might be a significant drain on my energy.  This entity seemed to be insecure and looking to be mothered.  As Marc was doing his chiropractic and energy balancing work on me, he suggested we both politely suggest to this entity that he move on along his path.  After awhile, Marc said he was going to ask an angel to come and help in moving this fellow along.  At the end, Marc said the entity had not transitioned but had loosened his attachment to me.

I did a Free Flow 12 after I got home and asked for Guidance in moving all the crowd along as well as sent messages to them to move along, politely of course.  But I didn't have any sense of a response from either Guidance or any of the entities, although some of the images I perceived could be related.  So I don't know if I am still trailing a crowd of entities or not. 

I'm not scared, but I really would like to perceive my visitors myself and be able to interact more directly.  Perhaps what I have been doing is having more of an effect than I have felt and I'll have a breakthrough sometime soon.

Has anyone had a similar experience or do you have any thoughts about my haunting?  We all know about haunted houses, but carrying my own crew of ghosts around seems a bit much. 

Hi Pat,

I agree with StoneCT that the view of another sensitive to back up (or not) Marc's vision might be a good next step.
Also please make sure that you pay attention to your own health, especially nourishment and rest. Spectrals do take some of our energies.

What is your goal now from your afterlife studies? I wonder if you are aiming high enough. Guidance is a worthy goal but it won't come from 'hitch-hikers.' 
Historically Spiritualists have had their troubles, I think due to the deep exhaustion of allowing spirits into their energy field.

"I see you not there"  repeated firmly over a period of days seems to discourage such entities. This website had some extensive discussions on that several years ago but I don't know how to access those back up.

Bets

I don't know if its germaine to this discussion, but I have been told that certain obsessive thoughts can cause energy that attracts types of beings that "feed" on that energy.  I received a "clearing" to rid me of those thoughts, the energy and thus the stray "beings".   I don't know if it worked but the obsessive thoughts are certainly gone.

Thanks, Sparky.  I like your advice on visualizing and will incorporate that into my practice.

Hi Pat,

Congratulations on finding a method/ person for clearing out those folks!

Try not to think about them as our thoughts tend to connect us with what we think of.

Did the healer give you any information to keep them away, like types of incense or diet?

Bets

Bets

I would urge caution in assigning meaning to this in your own life.  Usually, the gulf between Focus 27 and our plane is substantial; no one from there is "hanging around."  That would mean any hangers on would be "stuck spirits." 

It is unclear to me how many guides or angels we truly have, and how often they are "with us."  I don't really believe in the image of each person surrounded with hangers on, as I think the primary focus of life incarnate is to think and act on one's own.  Free will seems to be a key factor in earth life (sorry Spooky - I know you think all will is conditional, but I will leave it at that for now). 

The problem I have for people who see hangers on everywhere is that they use it as a crutch or excuses for the actions of the living.  "Oh, he drinks to much, but I see 3 malevolent beings around him, coaxing him to do so."  This, to my mind takes away the responsibility of thought, action and thinking/acting on love of the affected person. 

I'd be interested in how often this chiropractor sees others attached to people, and then how other psychics agree or disagree.

I do think for Pat E., that positive affirmations are a key way to assert your dominance and individuality.  You, as the incarnate person have a mllion fold higher connection to the physical plane than any hangers on could.  You can see them as gone for the higher good.  You can ask for peace, love and guidance.  You can meditate on this while relaxed and I have no doubt it would work.

But I guess I'm just somewhat doubtful about all these hangers on really being there.


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Thanks, all.  I don't think the "knowledge" of the crowd has had any particularly negative effects on me.  Just as my left-brainedness and groundedness in the physical have kept me from visualizing and perceiving in the nonphysical, they have kept me from perceiving or being affected by these folks.  The one good thing is that it has given me encouragement that my efforts at using TMI CDs to visit Focus 10, 12, 15 and 21 before and after Gateway are having SOME effect, so I'm sending even if I'm not receiving.  Marc attributes the attraction I have for them as a certain mothering energy I'm sending out.  He says compassion is good but I need to rein in the mothering thing.  Since my explorations were initiated by wanting to contact my daughter who died in Oct., 2008, I probably to send more mother energy than might be wise.  The ones Marc saw as energy drains he saw as being very needy and drawn to that energy.

Bets, the healer gave me some herbs to burn and use in other ways along with some prayers to way while burning.  In the nature of smudging a room or house. 

Matthew, thanks for your thoughts.  I always appreciate your posts and observations.

Thanks, Jean.  I will check out Linn's forum, which I was not aware of.