Re: Negative entities/presence

["Martin" <martin@...>]

William Bloom mentions what he calls "heavies" in his book (in the 
form of a ceremonail diary) "The Sacred Magician". He seems to have 
experienced these negative presences during prayer and meditation 
and also during sleep. Bloom performed the ritual described in "The 
Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage".

Here are a few extracts from the book - do these descriptions ring a 
bell?

"I felt a strong malevolent presence trying to interfere, tempting 
me with lazy peace and power if I should become his friend. He 
departed after five seconds. I do not know whether this is a good or 
bad start. I am torn apart and everything is in a sort of senseless 
limbo - but my head behind all this keeps on smiling. (NOTE BY 
AUTHOR: Throughout the six months I often experienced what I 
interpreted as malevolent energies. I did not see or hear them, but 
felt them.)"

"Shortly after I went to sleep last night, I was attacked(?) by an 
astral entity that seemed to try to enter my body - a feeling of 
suffocation and smothering. I was not frightened for one second and 
dismissed it by affirming my faith in our Lord Christ. However, had 
I been cooler I would have found out what it was. I wonder whether 
it is in any way linked with our guest [...] Or was it purely a test 
on me or something I alone attracted? Somehow I do not feel that it 
was dangerous - more lost and sad - perhaps I should have been 
gentler with it."

He also describes a psychic war with Hilter during one night!

Now, I don't know what all this means or what these entities 
described might be. Are they part of one's own psyche? Are they 
separate entities? Is it all simply a matter of perception?

Martin


--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "setiamon" <setiamon@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has ever experienced a sensation of a
> oppressive/threatening presence while in meditation,or relaxed,i
> experienced something very unusual recently a feeling of something
> coming up close to me and covering me pushing on me,i even for a
> second felt a slip into unconcioussness but came right out,i just
> focused my "will" on pushing it out of my awareness and after a few
> minutes it did.this isn't the first time i'v experienced the sense 
of
> a negative presence a few times i'v even opend my eyes to see dark
> figures where i felt the presence from.oddly anuff bardon doesn't 
say
> anything about this in the initial aspects,is that because there 
is no
> real danger?i have read and done shielding visualizations i found 
on
> various site but that really doesn't seem to do anything.this isn't
> continous just ocassionaly.is this something to worry about or 
should
> i just ignore negative entities?