Previously entitled

'Astral Entities' - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'

by Philip Goddard

The understandings given here of the likely nature and origin of the garbage and its troublesome manifestations give us real possibilities for disempowering it and indeed theoretically eventually eliminating it from the whole of 'Existence' as we know it.

Not only can the garbage cause untold misery and suffering for some individuals, but well-nigh universally it has been covertly controlling people, often in apparently small ways, and diverting them away from effective and direct means to enlightenment and self-realization / self-actualization , and towards power/control agendas, in order to gain control and domination over people in a most pernicious and insidious manner.

This influence, which the Author is nowadays generally calling the garbage (mistakenly equated with 'forces of darkness', 'dark force', 'forces of evil'), commonly but by no means always manifests to people as (always illusory) troublesome non-physical entity-like manifestations (often called dark beings , dark entities , astral beings , astral entities , demons , demonic entities and astral lords , astral overlords or archons ), and also, much more insidiously, as one's 'higher self' and any and all of the supposedly benign, beneficial and indeed 'divine' non-physical beings and presences such as God / Allah / Jehovah / Shiva (and so on), Jesus , angels , ascended masters , spirits , guides , gods / goddesses , great buddhas , guiding or potentially ruling extra-terrestrials and so on.

Presented here is information that describes the nature and activities of the extremely troublesome influence that limits, distorts and often openly disrupts the life experience and behaviour of every single person regardless of whether or not they're aware of that interference or believe in the existence of such an influence.

The contents of this detailed report / exposé amount effectively to the basis of the most fundamental and powerfully helpful human dysfunction psychology that there could be, because the Author is examining the primary underlying cause of almost all significant human dysfunction and pointing to effective means to address serious human issues far beyond just those widely labelled as 'mental illness' or 'personality disorder'.

It's best that if possible you BOOKMARK it but do NOT print it, for the simple reason that most of these pages are frequently updated and so any printed copy is likely soon to be out of date, and also in a printed copy you wouldn't be able to click on the many explanatory hyperlinks.

For the sake of completeness I link here to the writings that prompted me towards establishing my current insights into the modus operandi of the('dark force') and the pernicious illusory nature of supposed higher realities and higher beings. As you'd see, I parted company with him in various ways.

Crisis Emergency Self-Help - Life Upturn the SMART Way - A more recent page, created in 2012. Now, if I'd found a page like that when my 'dark force' shenanigans started in earnest, I could most likely have avoided most if not all of my own contacts with the 'mental health' services!

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Important! A cursory reading and instant opinion is not enough! Over the years I've regularly looked in forums where people have posted about the contents of this and certain other pages on this site, and so far every time this has been a pretty frustrating and discouraging experience. Why? Because people are disagreeing with me? -- No, it's not that (although indeed, predictably, plenty of people do 'disagree' with me). It's because so far I've seen no sign of even one person having read this (or the other respective pages) really carefully and without some sort of preconception that causes them to have a seriously distorted interpretation of at least some part of what I've written - even on the rare occasion when somebody does more or less 'agree' with what they think I've written. It would be so helpful if people who come here would let go of their preconceived notions and read carefully what I'm actually saying - and then sleep on it and then re-read it to see where their interpretation of what I've written has actually turned it into something else, so that they can at least get a more accurate view of what I've written - whether or not they eventually choose to 'agree' with it. I'd not mind so much if people at least took issue with what I'm actually saying, but they almost invariably go telling the world that I "believe" or am saying this and that and the other that actually I hadn't said at all*, or they radically change the meaning of something by taking it out of context, and typically a succession of people then go pulling the stuffing out of what I'd actually never said in the first place, then regarding me as some sort of deluded 'nutter' with very confused ideas, who is best steered clear of. * A related claim that's sometimes made about my writings is the generally completely false one that I've "obviously" based my own insights on the views of a particular specified tradition, 'teacher' or organisation. Let me emphasize here, as is really made clear throughout this site - at least for those who are genuinely prepared actually to look at what's there - that, apart from getting some useful initial prompts from Steve Gamble in April 2007 just to get me ditching the 'received wisdom' from the healing and New-Agey mystical traditions, my insights are NOT to any really significant extent based on any person's, tradition's or organisation's views or outlook .

I've worked things out for myself, based on my own observations plus the results of my own inner inquiry supported by Helpfulness Testing. The fact that there are apparent overlaps between my own working model and the scenarios believed in by various teachers, traditions and organisations DOES NOT in itself mean that I've therefore derived any of my ideas from them - though naturally I'd have got initial prompts from various views that I've seen expressed. The reality is that it's the people who keep misinterpreting and misrepresenting my writings who are the confused ones. It would help so much if those who are about to make forum posts about any of my material checked carefully the accuracy of any supposed quote or interpretation of that material before making their post. N.B. There's an inherent problem with forums generally, in that these are places where people discuss ideas. Unfortunately doing that is one of the myriad side-tracks that point people away from self-actualization - for the 'forum-heads' forever consider and discuss other people's views and outlooks instead of turning to the one source of the vital information and insight that they actually need - their own deepest aspects.

So, asking another person, for example, "What do you think of this fellow Philip Goddard?" may be a fascinating pastime, but that sort of behaviour is also a well-nigh complete block to any genuine self-actualization direction. I talk here NOT about right and wrong, nor "should" and "shouldn't", but simply of cause and effect. What do you want in your life - forever fascinating discussions relating to various notions of self-actualization, or genuine self-actualization itself? The two are virtually completely mutually exclusive. Also, a careful reader would understand from what I've written, that I hold no beliefs, and that what I present below is a set of helpful working hypotheses (at least they've helped me greatly) - NOT a statement of categorical fact, apart from recounting actual observations / experiences of mine. So, anyone who says "Philip Goddard believes that..." is straightaway off the rails, simply spouting opinion, and isn't worth heeding at all. It's in the light of this pervasive tendency to misunderstand and misrepresent my writings on this site that I indulge in apparent redundancy by frequently repeating certain explanations and clarifications - particularly on substantial pages like this one. I appreciate that some readers may find this tiresome (indeed, I myself do!), but hard experience has shown this repeated-clarification approach of mine to be necessary in order to hammer certain points home to the many less receptive people, so with any luck minimizing the quantity of pointless come-back and misrepresentational forum posts relating to this site's contents!

If you understand, things are as they are. If you don't understand, things are as they are. If you believe that things are, or should be, one way or another,

you have not yet understood.



Important! In order to properly understand the contents of this and many other pages on this site it's necessary to carefully read Exit 'Spirituality' - Enter Clear-Mindedness, which provides essential background information.

Introduction - Starting to cut the 'forces of darkness' down to size

'Forces of darkness' >> 'dark force' >> 'the garbage'!

Let me emphasize here that such terms as 'dark force' and 'forces of darkness', as used on this site, are metaphysical-cum-psychological references, and are NOTHING to do with any 'dark force' or 'dark matter' or 'dark universe' (or 'dark' anything) that is postulated, such as by cosmologists, with regard to the structure or functioning of our physical Universe. Their only connection with any 'dark force' (or just 'Force') in the TV Star Wars series is that the latter has creatively adapted the notion of the metaphysical 'forces of darkness' for a whole pile of fiction, upon whose quality / helpfulness I'll not comment here!

"The 'dark force'" was a term of convenience that I'd been using for some years, to signify an extremely troublesome non-physical influence that interferes with every single person on the planet, whether or not they recognise that interference or even acknowledge its existence. It's widely recognised by people at large in various partial / distorted versions, as 'the forces of darkness', 'dark forces', Satan (and other cultural equivalents) and all manner of manifestations of 'dark' beings / entities and influences.

It constantly puts illusory manifestations into people's minds and cultivates actual illusory realities there, so all the time obscuring its true nature while it goes about interfering with those people in very specific ways that are all based on a consistent, purposeful and extremely harmful 'agenda'.

You will read further below just why I broke with convention / tradition and came to use the term 'dark force' in the singular (i.e., instead of the usual 'forces of darkness') - and, as you will see, my reason for doing so was far from some petty little quirk of mine.

'Dark force' is a great term for what I'm writing about here, except that it's not dark and it's not a force in any helpful sense! It's thus only a figurative expression, which I always used only very reluctantly because it seemed to me that all the better terms I'd come up with would be completely unfamiliar to other people within this particular context, and it would undoubtedly create still more confusion if I switched over to using one of them publicly instead of 'dark force'.

My own 'internal' personal term for what I was calling the 'dark force' was actually the 'garbage', and that was the term I was using in my own personal daily journal. However, for quite some time I considered that that would be too confusing for me to use generally in public, except in particular circumstances where it was clear to everyone what I was referring to. Other terms for it that I came up with at that time included 'the universal cack' (probably the best term to use in a formal treatise; very likely capitalized), 'the cack influence', 'the caco-influence' and 'the naff influence' or even just 'the cack' or 'the naff'.

A really suitable term would be at least reasonably free from pre-existing connotations - and therein lies the BIG problem with calling this troublesome influence the 'dark force', because the latter term embodies almost universal misconceptions of what this influence actually is, and triggers a whole lot of extremely unhelpful fear in people almost universally - albeit some people responding in a distorted, inverted manner to that fear by being drawn to what they're calling 'dark' and playing about with it, much to their and many other people's major detriment. At least I sought to emphasize the figurative nature of the term as I used it, by always enclosing it in single quotes.

In February 2013 I decided to take the bull by the horns and actually switch over to using primarily ' garbage ' on this site rather than 'dark force' - but with enough uses of the latter term to make it clear what I was referring to, and also to ensure that Internet search queries for 'dark force' and 'forces of darkness' would still find all the relevant pages on this site.

You can read further below how the garbage not only causes people all sorts of personal problems directly, but, as part of all that, distorts every person's perception of the nature of reality and indeed the nature of the garbage itself. Thus, what I've written below will challenge almost everyone's beliefs and preconceived notions about the nature of reality, of ourselves, of any supposedly higher realities, and of course the nature of the garbage itself, and of what appear to be non-physical beings (no matter whether supposedly 'high', 'divine', 'lower' or indeed 'dark').

Inevitably also the true nature of what people refer to as 'spirituality' comes under the magnifying glass here, and I show how it's something that people who really understand would avoid like the plague.

You can now perhaps begin to see why I'm inclined to describe what I'm presenting in this exposé as being the most fundamental and powerfully helpful human dysfunction psychology that there could be - bearing in mind that when you have an effective working model of human function and dysfunction, which pinpoints an underlying cause of the dysfunction, at last you have a way in, to starting to address all that dysfunction, at least on an individual level, and possibly even on a global or universal level.

Hang on! - No, the garbage isn't the 'forces of darkness' after all!

For years I'd actually been careless about this point and written in many places on this site in ways that equated the garbage with what people would recognise as 'the dark force', 'forces of darkness', Satan, and so on. This was actually incorrect, so over quite some years I'd been unwittingly helping to sow confusion about the garbage 's true nature (okay, real true nature! ), and in 2020 I'm seeking to put the record straight. This itself, however, will undoubtedly also generate some further confusion, just to entertain us all - not helped by this site being so large that some of my old confused bits of writing about this will no doubt remain for quite some time yet, until I eventually find and fix them!

The crucial point is this. The garbage is actually the underlying unseen troublesome influence that causes human 'minds' to experience the full range of non-physical beings and presences, from the supposedly 'divine' right through to everything 'dark' in any metaphysical or non-physical sense - including what people regard as 'forces of darkness', and everything 'demonic'.

But it itself is something underlying all that hideous show on which most people are hooked, and it in itself is not any of the illusory manifestations that people experience. It can't communicate directly with you any more than a computer virus can; it can do so only through causing you unwittingly to create illusory manifestations in your 'mind', which then may appear to communicate with you.

It's the invisible 'something' that causes those to occur. It's the underlying cause of the apparent (illusory) existence of 'Satan' and all that the latter represents, AND the equally illusory 'God' or 'the Creator Consciousness' and all that those represent!

It's crucially important to understand this - all the more so because in writing about the garbage in ways that most people could relate to, I can't help but often write almost as though the garbage is roughly the same thing as the so-called 'forces of darkness'. It's really tricky keeping this distinction clear, while maintaining plenty of references to 'dark forces' and so-on so that the right people would find this and other relevant pages in search engine queries.

NOT force / forces / spirits of Nature!

Before moving on from defining what I mean by the garbage , it's as well for me to lay to rest an insidious distortion of 'understanding' about it that's maintained by probably a large majority of those who actively consort with or otherwise muck around with it, getting some perverse 'kick' or thrill out of their 'playing with fire'. Typically, Satanists and others who deal with the garbage seek to justify their 'dark' practices and dealing with the garbage (variously named) by claiming that what they're dealing with is actually the 'forces of Nature' (or a similar term) - then going on to claim that as 'the dark forces' are just forces or spirits of Nature it's better that we work with them rather than against them.

That latter claim can sound horribly convincing until you actually stop and think about it properly. The obvious question that such people are begging is, "Where has this notion come from, that what's widely known as 'the forces of darkness' or similar terms is really the force / forces / spirit(s) of Nature?". Tell me even just one means by which I can verify that this extremely troublesome influence is simply an essential part, or indeed the 'driving force', of 'Nature' (and also, please include your definition of 'Nature')!

In the absence of means for physical verification, there's only one possible source of such notions, and that is, directly or indirectly, the garbage itself! - And the garbage is honest and accurate in telling people what it is, huh? - See if you still believe that after reading through this mammoth exposé!

So far I've seen no sign that a single one of those people holds that view about the garbage being the 'force(s) of Nature' on the basis of anything other than a belief that they've taken on, effectively to try to cover over the subtle and 'quiet' warnings that they're each getting from their own deepest aspects, that their involvement with the garbage is extremely harmful and for the benefit of the garbage only and not for the benefit in the slightest degree of any person in the whole of 'Existence'.

It's no good, of course, my trying to convince any of those misguided individuals that they're off the rails and in seriously deep trouble, because of the way their beliefs and garbage control operate. However, at least it's worthwhile for me to counsel here to other people to stop and think before they seal their more or less horrendous fate by buying the story that the garbage is something to do with what we loosely call Nature, and using that then as a supposed justification for dealing with what, for good reason, I prefer to call 'the garbage' but could equally call 'the people destroyer' and similar terms.

Please read on here and see for yourself whether there's really a rational basis for thinking or indeed just assuming that the garbage is anything to do with 'Nature' or is otherwise anything that makes sense for anyone to be dealing with...

Scary stuff!? -- Boll*cks, no - just garbage!

The title and indeed subject of this page may initially seem to you very scary indeed. But let me reassure you that the only 'untoward' result of your reading this page would be untoward for the garbage and not you, for you could find yourself understanding sufficient to start becoming to some extent a weakening influence upon the garbage and its manifestations (yes, I do mean you, yourself could!), at the very least through ceasing to keep reinforcing it in ways that you've so far been unawarely (or even in some cases maybe awarely?) doing.

Fear is based in confusion and failure to understand. Thus, what I'm doing on this page, through disseminating knowledge and understanding from the basis and viewpoint of real practical experience and clear-mindedness, is actually to enable readers to weaken and eventually eliminate the hold upon them of the mortal fear, dread and terror that the garbage has cultivated in them in order to keep them away from ever finding out what that troublesome influence really is, and thus from ever doing anything effective about it.

My 'message' is thus NOT one of paranoia, nor of needing to confront and in some way battle against something overpowering and terrifying, but one of simply clear-mindedly looking at what's really there and then getting to understand how that 'ticks', and then using that understanding to do down-to-earth and practical things to enable us at the very least to minimize, and potentially even altogether to resolve, this pressing problem that the existence of the garbage has been presenting to us.

Isn't that really the intelligent way to address ANY problem? So far people have attempted to address the garbage problem by 'throwing beliefs at it', or by going into denial (which is really just another belief) and lamely claiming that the so-called 'forces of darkness' or garbage is just manifestations of particular people's wayward imaginations (or 'sick minds').

In other words virtually universally people have been wasting their time chasing after or battling against the illusory paper tigers (posing as their adversaries) that the garbage presents them with, or simply 'burying their heads in the sand' and thus letting the supposedly nonexistent garbage quietly walk all over them while they hope and assume that it doesn't really exist or at least hasn't noticed them if by any chance it really does exist.

However, now, at last, we have a chance to cut through those woolgathering and completely futile types of strategy and go about the task in a way that actually works and brings great benefits!

Illusory 'identities' of the garbage

The different kinds of higher and lower beings - time to debunk!

Virtually universally, the garbage has got itself identified in people's minds as various kinds of 'dark' being or 'entity', such as Satan, Lucifer, 'dark' spirits, demons, 'lower astral beings', archons, astral lords, dark angels, dark guides, forces / spirits of Nature, and so on, which are perceived as being pitted against 'positive' or 'higher' beings and presences such as God, the various angels and archangels, and other 'higher' beings such as 'ascended masters' and a whole 'menagerie' of supposedly highly beneficial astral gods / goddesses.

Further below I show how wide of the mark the popular notions of the nature / identity of those various beings / entities / presences really are - i.e., according to the working model that I developed in order to usefully explain the masses of observations of mine that were not helpfully explained by the angles on major troublesome influences that are presented by the various traditions and belief systems.

Please note the special use of the term 'entity' that's widely used for any sort of non-physical being or 'spirit'. Generally a more or less 'low' or in some way 'negative' or harmful being is implied by that term. Thus, a supposed angel would technically count as an 'entity' in this special sense, but in practice that term wouldn't be used for any such supposedly 'higher' beings - and for many there's a certain loading of fear / menace in use of that word.

I remind that the notion of 'dark' here is useful ONLY as a figure of speech to indicate something unwholesome for us, for it has nothing to do with actual darkness, whether physical or non-physical - except that it does signify confusion and thus not being able to see what's really there. (Please note the latter carefully, because that's one of the key aspects of this whole issue.)

Thus the real polarity maintained by the presence of the garbage is NOT dark vs light but confusion plus inner captivity vs clarity plus inner freedom.

What is the 'force' of clarity and inner freedom, then? -- Nothing less than our own deepest nature - fundamental consciousness and all that emanates directly from it. that's why we're so completely off the rails when we look outside ourselves for a 'force of light' as means to counter the supposed 'dark force', and why self-actualization* is the only fully effective means to get clear of all garbage interference from oneself.

That's also why the garbage is constantly and strenuously seeking to get every single person, each in their different way, looking either outside themselves or to outright denial for his means to supposedly avoid or clear himself of garbage interference.

* This is actually the same as the proper meaning of 'self-realization', which latter is the more popular term in 'spirituality' circles.

Metaphysical dimensions and their contents - illusory from top to bottom!

People with 'psychic' perceptions or who channel 'information' from non-physical sources have very widely come up with variants of a model of 'reality' that splits it into a number of levels or 'dimensions' (there are commonly claimed to be 13), giving the physical level as being the 3rd dimension, with the 4th commonly being called the astral dimension and the 9th being the place where all the angels and archangels hang out. However, as I now only too well understand, ALL such scenarios and stories are bogus - inventions of the garbage , which mediates in ALL channelling done by ANYONE, and similarly mediates in ALL supposedly clairvoyant perceptions.

The actual situation appears to be as follows. We're basically consciousness that's going through the experience of seeming to be in a physical body in a physical 'reality'. The deepest aspects of each of us as consciousness are very subtle and are actually the all-pervading 'universal' consciousness, which I'm calling fundamental consciousness (I don't use the definite or indeed indefinite article with that term, because it's even less a 'thing' than water or air or 'space' is).

When we become enlightened we perceive directly that deepest and most fundamental reality and recognise it as our true nature and identity. That level of consciousness is non-dual and apparently totally devoid of concepts, and thus within it you can't say that anything exists or not; you simply experience. This is the aspect of consciousness out of which all experiences arise but, however, that fundamental consciousness remains pure, unsullied and apparently concept-free no matter what you're experiencing.

Thus, provided that no external influence has somehow inserted particular distortions into us as pure consciousness, each of us would be a continuum of consciousness from fundamental consciousness to our superficial, ordinary 'minds', with NO discrete or identifiable levels of consciousness / reality, and there would be no semblance of non-physical 'dimensions', nor supposed 'higher realities' apart from one's own deepest aspects. - And this is the situation perceived by a truly enlightened person without garbage interference.

So, apparently, from the viewpoint of a person who is sufficiently free of garbage interference, the locations in which all supposedly 'higher' non-physical beings and presences are believed to reside simply don't exist, and thus must be illusory or indeed completely fictional! What are we to make of this?!

Yes, the clear implication is that not only the 'bad', 'lower' or troublesome beings / presences have no objective existence, but also the same is true of any of the supposed 'higher' beings / presences!

So, now we need to look more closely at how it is that all those apparently non-existent non-physical 'realities', and the beings and presences that they supposedly contain actually seem to many people to be 'real'.

Getting clear about the meaning of 'astral'

There appears to be another broad, non-physical aspect of consciousness or reality, which is strongly dualistic and conceptual and thus very different from fundamental consciousness, and yet which isn't that of our worldly or physical awareness. It's this that I was calling the astral sub-reality, but on the basis of the new insights presented below am now calling the astral non-reality, which the troublesome garbage has got people to notionally divide up into 'dimensions' and all manner of supposed 'higher' realities.

I myself had 'bought' the story of all these 'dimensions' of supposedly higher reality, but it never matched up with my direct perception of myself as simply a manifestation or micro-facet of fundamental consciousness - in which the perception of specific levels or dimensions of 'higher' reality simply didn't make sense, and neither did the notion of higher beings make sense to me, because I as an Earthly human was already a manifestation of 'the Ultimate', so, where was the room for beings that were 'higher' than me?

Also, I'd point out that in all the time I was channelling, every single communication that was supposedly coming from a 'higher' source, such as an ascended master, angel, archangel, 'higher' guide, the supposed Creator Consciousness, or indeed my own 'higher self', revealed its source as having of a much lower order of awareness and intellect than I myself have, and definitely light-years away from enlightenment - which very much supports my subsequent recognition of those apparent beings / presences as not at all being what they were making out to be. At best they all appeared to be shallow cardboard-cut-out copies of very ordinary people who thought they had some sort of superior position or status.

So, although it could sound more familiar for me to talk of the astral 'level' or 'dimension', really it would be most helpful always to talk of the astral non-reality instead - especially in the light of my December 2015 insights into its true nature - please see the panel below and long note following it.

Other confusing terms for very roughly the same thing, used in various quarters, are the 'astral plane' and the 'astral realm'. Note that the latter is just one (uses the definite article 'the'), whereas my own much more precisely defined use of the term 'astral realm' is countable (uses the indefinite article 'a') and has a different, albeit somewhat related, meaning.

New understanding, December 2015 The de facto situation is that what we perceive as the astral sub-reality is the aspect of subjective 'reality' into which we routinely project all our illusions, beliefs and distorted perceptions - BUT that's NOT its true nature or purpose! That aspect of consciousness is NOT, and never has been intended (i.e., by consciousness itself) for use by our 'ordinary mind' at all, and thus was never meant to be, nor to function as, any sort of 'reality' at all, no matter whether 'real' or illusory! Its real purpose is to be a much deeper-level and more expansive parallel of our conscious imagination - a sort of 'scratchpad' and working-out area in which deeper, subconscious aspects of our awareness can try things out as a deep and fundamental part of our creative processs in the physical 'reality'. Throughout the whole history of 'Existence' human-type beings have been mistaking that 'scratchpad' aspect of consciousness for an alternative reality, and thus deliberately using it for all manner of purposes for which it was neither 'designed' nor intended, so causing all the immense problems that the astral non-reality contains and causes us today. If you regarded your ordinary imagination as an alternative reality and used it accordingly, you'd quickly run into serious problems and very likely would soon find yourself in your local friendly psychiatric establishment! Yet people are widely doing just that with the astral non-reality. Far from being a genuine alternative reality, it's simply a particular backwater of the reality of 'What Is' - a reserved area not intended for significant attention from the conscious 'mind', and certainly not active conscious use. Hence my previously calling it the astral sub-reality to distinguish it from an actual alternative reality that people could sensibly use. Think of it as being analogous to a system-reserved partition on a computer's system drive. You wouldn't seriously use that for your own purposes, would you? - No wonder we're in such a mess!

In the light of the contents of the above panel, perhaps you can begin to get a sense of the enormity that people have been committing by playing about with or indeed purposefully using the astral non-reality - all because nobody was looking into its true nature and purpose, and understanding the inevitable consequences of their actual misuse of what was really meant to be a special reserved area of our awareness, intended for the use of 'system' processes only.

So, now that I've thrown down the gauntlet and indeed in an important sense 'read the Riot Act' regarding people's misuse of the astral non-reality while they still have access to it, let's now return to the matter of what's actually happening for people, thanks to that horrendous mess that the astral is in, and the matter of its nowadays being routinely, automatically, used as a repository of our illusions and distorted notions.

Each belief that a person creates or picks up is the most tangible aspect of a corresponding illusory reality that's usually more or less concealed within the person's mindspace. The garbage (often but not necessarily posing as one of it plethora of illusory identities such as 'astral beings') ruthlessly exploits that fact for its seriously nefarious purposes as I shall explain further below.

You may realize from the above that, to a fair extent, concepts like the Jungian 'common unconscious' and also the 'collective Human consciousness' recognised in various healing and New-Age related traditions, can be equated with at least part of the astral non-reality as I define and describe it. To whatever extent they don't tally with it, they're likely to be confused / false information that has come from the garbage to 'throw people off the scent'.

Now, if we recognise the astral non-reality as being the aspect of reality / consciousness in which resides all major and in any way enduring illusion, perhaps you can see the sense in my otherwise very likely seemingly outrageous assertion that all apparently aware non-physical beings that interact with us are invariably illusory, and there can't be such a phenomenon as actual, 'real', conscious beings in the astral non-reality.

As I explain further below, as far as I can tell, ALL the supposed higher realities that people believe in, which supposedly contain actual conscious beings, are simply different 'faces' presented to them of the illusions in the astral non-reality - so, it would appear that there's no such thing as a 'real' non-physical being - at least, that we could ever know of.

While I'm on the subject of illusions, please note something important here - of especial importance to put psychiatric workers in their place and get them thinking awarely about their own situation. A delusion is an illusion that's believed, and which is hung onto in the face of contradicting evidence. Indeed, if you stop and awarely think about it, every held belief of anybody's is a delusion.

If something is really true, there's no good cause to hold a belief about it anyway. So, if you are, for example, a psychiatric worker and believe that there's no non-physical reality and that non-physical entities, the garbage and so forth are just 'imagination' or creations of people's sick minds, then you yourself have a delusion right there in holding that belief.

A favourite delusion of psychiatric workers is the notion that so-called mental health issues can usefully be addressed by means of medication and ECT rather than finding and addressing the underlying causes of the particular problems. So, when a psychiatric worker talks of another person as 'having delusions', with no reference to any delusions of his/her own, (s)he is actually saying something absurdly funny! - That is, it would seem funny if one turned a blind eye to the tremendous harm that that sort of outlook has brought to so many victims of such psychiatric workers.

A fully open, belief-free mind is the only helpful way forward.

...Now, with fully open and belief-free minds, let's continue...

How do we know that troublesome 'entities' aren't just part of our minds?

Actually, we don't, and can't ever, know for sure that they aren't just part of our minds*. But I say this in the context that when we look at all our life experience with a truly clear mind we realize that we can't absolutely know anything. All we ever can do is work on the basis of how things appear to be - preferably with open and aware minds so that we can respond flexibly according to the new perceptions and insights that arise from time to time.

* Indeed, from a very deeply based perspective they can all be regarded as 'aspects of self' or aspects of one's overall consciousness, as indeed can every single thing that we observe or experience. People occasionally make that claim to me about 'astral entities', or indeed the garbage altogether - but not from any truly enlightened perspective but to confuse the issue and seek to avoid effectively addressing the immense problem for people generally that the garbage and its illusory manifestations represents.

From the relative viewpoint of everyday experience, it's simply unhelpful for most purposes for anyone to regard such manifestations as being 'part of oneself' (which then inevitably gets pointing people towards an extremely unhelpful 'psychiatric' approach), even though a genuinely enlightened person does perceive them in that way from one particular perspective. On this site my purpose is NOT to theorize about what's supposedly true in any absolute sense about the garbage and its manifestations (which we could never really know), but simply to establish what interpretation and working model actually helps us best actually to resolve that massive problem, both for ourselves individually and for the human race overall.

You can't absolutely know that the Sun isn't a hippopotamus or the Moon isn't an enemy aliens' spaceship (or Gruyère cheese, if different!), but in practice you live your life on the basis of your observations on how things appear to be plus your most helpful interpretations of your observations.

The point here is that troublesome 'entities' (in many but actually not all ways) behave and interact with us as though they are separate, discrete entities or beings, and in my own very hard experience with them, for most purposes treating them as though they are something separate from myself, and 'not me'*, has been an essential part of my handling and mastering my situation with them and clearing out their interferences and influence - so why go denying what appears to be the case?

* Note, however, that it turned out, as I looked into my experiences more deeply, that the 'entities' were not discrete entities at all, though the manifestation that was appearing in that way was created in my mind by something external to myself - 'not me'. In other words, the 'entities' were illusory, but the illusion of them was being created by the interaction of an external 'something' - what I call the garbage - with aspects of my 'mind'.

To do so would be a bit like people still insisting that the Earth is flat and that there must be some other explanation for all the evidence that points to its being roughly spherical. Maybe somebody is yet going to convince us that the sun really is a hippopotamus!** Let's get cracking right now, gathering up all the masses of evidence for that!

** I see that some people who one might have expected to know better have jumped firmly into a belief that the Moon is a spaceship being used as a base for some very unwholesome extra-terrestrials to take control over all humans! Anything other than recognise the garbage -sourced illusions and other interferences in their own awareness for what they are! At least I haven't yet seen any signs that anyone believes or has 'proved' that the Moon is a Gruyère cheese!

Indeed, I see the common tendency of people to claim that 'entity' troubles are just creations of one's own mind as being the result of the garbage interfering with those very people who make such claims, to give them that belief in order to obstruct any move to recognise their own interference from the garbage and to get those people putting pressure on other people to turn away from properly addressing their 'entities' (and in particular, garbage interference) issues.

All the different types of interfering entity and...

That's a joke, that is - me listing here all the alleged types of entity and other non-physical beings / presences! Yes, there may well be a wide range of types of these, but if I knew them and were to list them all, this page would probably be longer than my right arm and the other one and both my legs (and nose and ears and erect willie) too! And really the point is, as far as I can tell, ALL of the alleged types of non-physical entities / beings are inventions - illusions that are created within our minds by the garbage .* The garbage constantly seeks to give us 'story' - illusory realities - and for the extremely pernicious purpose that I shall go into further below.

* Strictly speaking, although that's a convenient way of describing the situation, it's not quite correct. As already noted, as far as I understand so far, what really is going on is that the garbage actually hijacks a part of the person's awareness to cause that person him/herself to unawarely create the illusions.

So, if you're going to be very precise about use of the words, you could actually say that the illusions are indeed created by people's own 'minds'. However, the crucial point here is that that's happening only because an external influence - the garbage - is forcing that to happen. So, the real culprit therefore is NOT the person but the interfering influence. The emphasis needs to be clearly kept on this, and not on any idea of the person 'creating their own illusions', for when people hold the latter view, it's generally taken to mean that there's then something wrong or perverse about the affected person, or that the person is 'mentally ill' and therefore fair game for stigmatization and harmful medical 'treatments' that are no 'treat' that any genuinely compos mentis person would accept except under duress.

In my own experience the garbage had been behaving as though several different types of entity had been interacting with me, but nowadays I recognise all that as irrelevant to any constructive purpose. The garbage will give particular people impressions of demons, angels, guides, 'dark overlords', God or whatever suits its agenda in interfering with and misleading the particular people.

As I now understand, there's really bound to be some sort of 'command chain' within the astral non-reality, as some people believe, but that 'command chain' wouldn't be between actual conscious beings, and I've let go of any notion now of there being astral overlords (so-called archons) and even some supreme 'dark' being (perhaps one that you could call Satan!) that runs the 'dark' show. Actually the very notion of a supreme conscious being that runs 'the dark side' always made supreme nonsense to me, because of the very nature of consciousness itself.

As you can read much further below, I've apparently stumbled upon what appears to be really driving the garbage , and could be called its top command level: the postulated cacoprotean network.

It's important, thus, that we do NOT get fixated on any 'story' about non-physical 'entities' and their background as any sort of 'reality' or 'truth'. The healthiest and most problem-free approach is to build the simplest and most basic working model of what's going on, which helps us for healing and self-actualization purposes, and to let go of the picture otherwise, because we can never know what's true in the astral non-reality (nor indeed in any non-physical aspect of reality).

Indeed, as already noted, the astral non-reality is the 'level' of illusion anyway, so it's meaningless to go talking of anything being 'true' or 'real' there! For the same reason, it's also meaningless to go talking of real conscious beings there. That is, at most there could be only distorted, even though often superficially convincing, replicas of them.

As to how what's apparently illusory and not conscious at all in itself could behave as though having a certain level of intelligence and even a rudimentary sort of awareness, I appear to have found the answer, as I recount much further below.

I list below a reasonable selection of purported types of manifestation of the garbage as 'entities' (and other non-physical beings) of which I'm aware - not by any means an exhaustive list - for the purpose of setting off some alarm bells.

And I can well imagine that some individuals will find some inner alarm bells start ringing here as they begin to realize something of the predicament of their favourite guru who claims to channel from, consort with, bring healing from, or to be an incarnation of any of the following. ALL the following, and indeed ALL non-physical entities or supposed beings that manifest to us in any way are, as far as I can tell, illusions created by particular aspects of our awareness under hijack control from the garbage , for the purpose of acting as lures for us in one way or many.

I explain further below how it is that the garbage , with a seriously troublesome agenda, can create the impression of being higher beings uttering what appear at first glance to be tremendously 'wise', 'enlightened' and loving things and even give experiences of what people interpret as immensely loving 'energy' apparently coming from those manifestations.

Non-exhaustive list of named entities and non-physical beings

Our little astral 'chamber of horrors'

The following list is little more than 'off the top of my head', and so really is just a selection to give you some idea of the range of purported entity types and personae that may be presented to people. None of them is benign, regardless of how they present themselves.

The well known 'bad' or at least dubious guys

Reptilians

Greys

Sirians

demons

'the devil'

Satan

Lucifer

'aliens'

djinns

goblins

trolls

'astral beings'

'dark entities'

astral lords

astral overlords

astral magicians / sorcerers

archons

ghosts (a fair proportion of such manifestations - though, as I indicate further below, they're NOT 'real' ghosts. There are actually 'real' ghost manifestations too, but those aren't what they're almost universally believed to be, and they're illusory in a different way).

The Fourteenth Faction (whatever their purported nature and origin - I'm aware of the psychic surgeon Chris Thomas's claim in one of his books that I read, that these are seriously troublesome beings from an adjacent universe, who are seeking to take us all over!)

supposed parasitic extra-terrestrials, including types known respectively as; Hathor (generally known as Hathors) Anu (I'm sorely tempted to call them collectively Anus ) Johnaan Mila Oa Jjundaa



Variously described as good and bad

Pleiadeans

any other supposed extra-terrestrials

The Council of Nine

The Annunaki

fairies

the Faery

pixies

The supposed good guys - the real can of worms!

ALL archangels, including: Archangel Michael Archangel Chamuel Archangel Gabriel Archangel Uriel Archangel Raphael Archangel Zadkiel Archangel Jophiel

ALL angels, including: Metatron (okay, some people classify Metatron as an archangel, but it doesn't matter here, as he/she/it is bogus anyway!)

the Elohim

ALL devas

the Holy Spirit

Divine Consciousness (as used in Vortex Healing)

the Creator Consciousness

ALL guides, including, as well as all personal and healing (including Reiki) guides, Seth Abraham Orin Daben Heyoan

ALL 'ascended masters', including: Ashtar (yes, including 'the real Ashtar'. No exceptions!) St Germain Za Kai Ran Kuthumi (often referred to as Lord Kuthumi - a real give-away of 'his' garbage origin) Mutu Merlin Melchizedek Mehindra Jesus St Francis Jeshua Maitreya Walt Disney (the cartoonist, creator of Mickey Mouse et al)

To me this latter had to be a joke, but somebody sent me photocopies of part of an annotated list of supposed 'ascended masters' in a book - The Light Shall Set You Free, by Norma Milanovich and Shirley McCune - which appears to be 'serious' in intent even though, from a grounded and clear-minded viewpoint, its contents would be seen as extravagantly nonsensical and indeed extremely noxious New Age garbage.

Of all things, it included Walt Disney (yes, the cartoonist) as an ascended master. To make it all the more surreal, in that book Walt Disney was listed immediately following Archangel Michael, which suggested to me an implication that Mickey Mouse is really an incarnation or other manifestation of Archangel Michael! Thus it's possible that Archangel Michael's proper name would be Archangel MickeyMouse (okay, I think Erzengel MichelMaus if you're German) - the problem being that people have been universally taking him too seriously!

Gods and goddesses, including: Kwan Yin (Quan Yin or Kuan Yin) Isis Mother Mary Sekhmet Kali Diana Tara Shiva God (of Christianity and any other religion or tradition) Jehovah Allah Enlil Hathor

Supposed higher beings whose classification I'm not sure of, including: Lord Anju Lady Anui Athaerienne Pallas Athena Lady Nada The Crimson Circle of Masters The Great White Brotherhood The Star Brotherhood Sananda The Keeper of the Keys of Creation (or of anything else!) (N.B. The very notion of holding or keeping 'keys' is of the garbage , because that's all tied up with power hierarchies. It's also completely nonsensical!) The Lords of Time The Brotherhood of Light The Galactic Brotherhood of Light

The Galactic Brotherhood of Light, via the 'lightworker' Gordon Hughes , who revealed to me that he was supposedly a member of it, was strongly implicated in my own serious and potentially lethal troubles from the garbage .

Any true higher beings of genuine positive intent would have guided that 'lightworker' through truly effective means to assist me in getting clear of my garbage interferences - not trying to wreck or kill me. Indeed, the fact that I have now cleared myself of most of my garbage interference and attacks, and look to be on course to be virtually free of all that at an early stage, demonstrates that I myself am a greatly 'higher' being than anything in that bogus 'Galactic Brotherhood of Light' (or indeed any of the so-called Archangels, which simply deceived and didn't genuinely assist me at all!). The Galactic Federation of Light The Ah-Sombe The Sis-Shuana SoNa beings

The so-called 'SoNa energy' that these illusory (i.e., bogus) beings bring is much the same as the 'Network of Light' deception that I mention below, and it has a similar purpose - to get people ever more strongly ungrounding themselves and cultivating illusory realities in which people believe that a great consciousness shift of 'Humanity' is occurring, while in reality they're becoming increasingly captive to those illusory realities and thus to the garbage , which is the real source of those illusory realities and indeed the whole 'SoNa' myth.

Any non-physical beings in any way administering or having anything to do with the alleged and completely bogus ' Network of Light ', which supposedly either has been, is being, or is soon to be, set up around Earth for the alleged purpose of 'raising the vibration rate of all Humanity', which, in reality would equate to getting everyone ungrounded so that the garbage could then really have a field day with us all!

', which supposedly either has been, is being, or is soon to be, set up around Earth for the alleged purpose of 'raising the vibration rate of all Humanity', which, in reality would equate to getting everyone ungrounded so that the could then really have a field day with us all! Alleged higher beings with the same names as the 'parasitic ETs' listed further above (just to confuse us all!): the Hathors Anu Johnaan Mila Oa Jjundaa

The 'Lords of Karma'

'divine support teams' of any kind

ALL nature spirits (NO exceptions - sorry, Pan!)

ALL of the 'great' buddhas (i.e., the non-physical ones), including: Avalokiteshvara Padmasambhava Manjushri Maitreya Vajrasattva Vairocana Kalachakra Amida Adi-Buddha Samantabhadra Dorje Shugden

ALL other supposedly higher or beneficial non-physical beings or deities. Yes, I do mean ALL, and from ANY tradition or none!

In other words, as far as I understand it, there are NO non-physical true awarely conscious beings at all (at least, that could manifest recognisably to us), whether higher, middle or lower! For example, EVERY manifestation of a purported Archangel Michael or Jesus is bogus and for keeping well clear of. Much further below I expand on what appears to me to be the almost certain true nature of the garbage and thus of all the being- or entity-like manifestations that I've listed above.

Do angels really exist? - The origin of the notion of 'angels' and 'archangels'

I appreciate that many people would be little short of shocked or outraged at any suggestion that angels and archangels are bogus and simply don't exist except as illusions created in and indeed by people's minds (i.e., under the hijack-control of the garbage ). However, actually there's a very simple and down-to-earth reason to discard the very notion of angels / archangels as any sort of real non-physical being.

The people who believe in angels and archangels as being 'real' have all sidestepped a crucial bit of information: what 'angels' / 'archangels' originally were. Non-physical or divine beings? -- NO! Not on your nelly! They were PRIESTS - yes, here on Earth! - who were officially detailed to be operating as MEDIUMS ('seers')!

They were thus designated (by the religious authorities) as 'messengers of God', but were nonetheless simply ordinary humans, as crooked as any in the religious hierarchy, channelling 'information' from the garbage (which of course was posing as God or some other supposed higher source) - or indeed in some cases they were no doubt simply pretending to channel, telling people what they thought the religious authorities wanted them to hear - all for the purpose of further cultivating the religion's control over people.

Subsequently the religious authorities 'divinized' the concept of angels and archangels, just as they deified 'Jesus' (who was actually no more nor less a physical person than you and me) - then going quiet about what 'angel' and 'archangel' used to mean, and using those terms instead for actually fictional non-physical (and, absurdly, winged) beings surrounding an equally mythical personal God. So, angels / archangels have never been part of any true 'higher' reality, but are simply an invention of certain religions for the purpose of gaining more control over people.

In any case, the whole popular concept of angels / archangels as winged beings simply doesn't make sense (i.e., except as a bit of religious iconography). Non-physical beings (a) would have no cause to have wings, for they'd have no weight nor indeed physical location and thus would have no need nor indeed use for wings except for the purpose of deceiving people, and (b) wouldn't even have a physical appearance - again because of their lack of physical location.

It amazes me, the way that even otherwise really intelligent people fail to understand those two so-obvious points and so happily believe in the existence of angels as beings who have a human or quasi-human appearance, with wings.

Thus, when a person gets the impression of seeing an angel or other non-physical being, that person is actually not genuinely seeing one, but is being shown something. Or, to put it another way, that person is having an illusion created in his/her awareness. Now, what's the point of that, except to deceive?

"If guides and higher beings are all illusions given to us by the 'dark force', how come that their words are so wise and loving?"

First let's clarify, that the questioner here is still confusing the garbage and the illusory manifestations that it causes one's 'mind' to create. The 'dark force' is just yet another part of the whole arena of illusory manifestations that the garbage causes us unwittingly to create.

And now for my answer. Simple! -- As I explain over and over on this site, what the garbage does when a person is channelling is to 'read' the subtle thoughts and data in the channelling person's deeper levels of consciousness (but without genuinely understanding it), which that person wouldn't be able to 'hear' directly unless more advanced in their self-actualization than just about anyone on the planet currently is - and it relays such communications to the person's conscious 'mind', complete with distortions aimed to mislead and cause problems for them.

It's common garbage practice to maintain or indeed accentuate an appearance of the communications coming from a 'wise and loving' source while still having distorted it in potentially troublesome ways. Please read Problems About Channelling & Clairvoyance - The Safe Alternative for more about this.

Making sense of all this

If angels and God aren't real, who or what can we turn to for protection?

Actually you can take heart, because what I'm pointing to is a great simplification of approach, for, despite what you'd have been told from other quarters, it's essential NOT to concern yourself about different types of troublesome entity, because for healing and self-actualization purposes it's necessary NOT to engage with any apparently external entities (i.e., illusory manifestations) at all, and so we actually have no need to know anything about them (not even whether they're supposedly good or bad guys!), except for having overall knowledge of the garbage's seriously troublesome agenda and the sort of tricks and deceptions it puts on, so that we can progressively get ourselves free from its interference and influence.

Indeed, as I found out myself the hard way, the more you get into 'story' about different types of these supposed entities, the more you're making them subjectively 'real' for yourself, and able to cause you trouble, and the more 'story' the garbage (posing as those 'entities') will give you to lead you astray.

Although it may initially look horrifically scary suddenly to realize that there are really no Archangel Michael or other higher beings to protect or assist you in dealing with 'entity' problems, actually this is really part of some truly great news and the beginning of the solution of those problems, for the point is that people have almost universally - again thanks to being led astray by the garbage - been looking in the wrong direction for their protection and truly supportive strength, which is immensely greater and closer at hand than any postulated archangel.

Actually another important and very fundamental, tremendously reassuring point for people always to keep in mind is that when something less than ideal in their situation has been revealed to them, that itself is great news, NOT bad news!

Just think. Learning that there is no Archangel Michael or similar out there protecting you after all means that for the first time you know your true state of affairs and can then start taking properly informed genuine measures that could be massively more effective than a nonexistent 'archangel'! As long as you continue to believe you have a supreme protector you're hardly motivated to get working out any genuine means to reduce or prevent interferences and attacks from the garbage . It's like when you discover that your supposed new lover is one of those callous and ruthless romance con-men, after your money. That discovery isn't bad news but great news! You'd already got the troublesome situation, and the revelation means that now you can put a stop to that before the rascal can get away with anything more! You just need to be adept at letting go of your previous misperception of your situation and quickly readjust to the real situation, for it's attachment to your previous misperception that would give you grief.

That's where we unequivocally turn to our own deepest aspect - fundamental consciousness or 'the Ultimate' itself - to start doing the real clearance work and get functioning as our own real 'protection'*. What better starting point for that process than Crisis Emergency Self-Help - Life Upturn the SMART Way, Healing and Self-Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way, or Affirmations & Declarations of Intent for Healing & Self-Actualization (i.e., choosing according to your personal situation)?

* Actually we need to let go completely of the 'protection' mindset (which is defensive and disempowering), because what we need to think of and point ourselves towards instead is our own intrinsic immunity to the garbage and all other problematical non-physical influences / interferences (which is strengthening and empowering). That's what you start cultivating and opening up when you embark on a genuine self-actualization process.

So, now that I've reduced the supposed whole unwholesome menagerie of astral or 'dark' entities that interfere with us, and indeed all the supposed benign and indeed supposedly 'higher' beings, to simply 'illusory manifestations of the garbage ', we can deal with them all as a single issue and can focus much better on the real task at hand, which is to clear ourselves of the garbage's interferences - which, as I explain further below, do include some attached real entities in the form of non-incarnated human consciousnesses or fragments thereof ('soul fragments').

The garbage (supposedly 'dark force') agenda

Forewarned is forearmed! What you're about to read here isn't pleasant, and may indeed initially frighten you. I don't at all enjoy writing such things, and don't want to frighten anyone, except in that here I'm actually giving out important information that assists us in becoming truly effective in clearing ourselves of garbage interference and influence. You NEVER resolve an issue or problem by running away from it or by whistling in the dark, hoping it's not really like that.

Gaining a proper understanding of a situation rapidly takes any fear out of countenancing it, and this is no exception. So, the process here is not one of making one's life more scary, but instead is one of progressively defusing and taking the fear factor out of it all.

Let me say now that I'm NOT putting forward the following scenario as 'fact' or 'truth' or indeed even as a theory of 'how things are', because NOBODY on Planet Earth can know anything as objective 'fact' or 'truth' in any postulated non-physical reality - whether or not they're supposedly enlightened.

The scenario that I'm putting forward is nothing more than the working model or set of working assumptions that best explains my own observations of the ways in which the garbage is interfering with people (I have masses of first-hand experience of this), and which points us to the most effective means of healing ourselves and clearing from ourselves all garbage interference and influence.

The following scenario is similar in some respects to that given by Steve Gamble in his Shopping for Spirit, Chapter 9, but there are very significant differences too, and I'm seeking to keep it to essentials and am avoiding as far as possible being sensationalist or evangelist about it as he seems to be in his writings.

Gamble appears to have some problems himself with garbage -sourced interference in the information that he presents - which 'information' actually comes down to just an 'alternative spirituality' scenario rather than anything to do with comprehensive genuine self-actualization, so it's important not to get involved with or attached to it as he seems to have done.

He presents it all as though it is reality, and by doing that he's helping to create yet another harmful illusory reality that would be bound cause him and many others great trouble, long term.

As I say, the healthy way forward is to see this here as just a working model to use for healing and self-actualization purposes, and which is best let go of as any categorical description of reality (but not actually disbelieved, for that would be a belief in its own right and cause its own serious problems). As I've said before, a fully open, belief- (and disbelief-) free mind is the basis of any truly helpful way forward.

The bits we'd rather not know about...

In various places on this site I've mentioned the garbage's blind fixation on power / control agendas, and that it unremittingly seeks control and domination over humans and to divert them from true 'enlightenment' (what I prefer to call the gaining of fundamental clarity) and self-actualization / self-realization. Just why the garbage is like this, nobody knows.

Many traditions and individuals have their beliefs, generally based on channelled information (often via esoteric teachings), which, as I repeatedly point out, has actually come at least in part from the garbage itself and so needs to be steered well clear of. Some say that the formation of the whole 'dark side' was an essential part of the differentiation of the Cosmos at the supposed event of Creation - while others claim that this apparent 'dark side' was not intended by the alleged Creator Consciousness but formed as a result of a small 'accident' at the very beginning of differentiation at the time of the supposed Creation.

But, as I say, whatever any ultimate truth, all such stories need to be discarded as not only unverifiable but also because they've been given to us with an agenda to seriously mislead, and so it's best for us to keep a completely open mind on such matters - even though much further below I outline what appears to be a much more helpful, belief-free and very different understanding of the origin and true nature of the garbage (i.e., as a speculative but at least extremely helpful working model).

To understand what the garbage is up to, as far as I can establish it at the moment, we need to understand a few very basic principles / issues.

The true nature of the soul, and how it relates to reincarnation

Contrary to almost universally held belief among 'healers', mystics, psychics and 'New Age' movements, the people with the most deep awareness, 'inner' knowledge and inner freedom, who are theoretically all strong 'healers' and have potential to quickly reach enlightenment , are NOT old souls who've evolved over very many soul incarnations, but are direct incarnations of fundamental consciousness itself, WITHOUT souls! It is they who are the pure ones, who've not (yet) got tampered with, distorted and loaded by obfuscational programming by the garbage to reduce the depth of their awareness and increase their level of confusion and misunderstanding of themselves and all other people around them.

I've now come to understand that, contrary to almost universal belief on the subject, the soul is nothing more than a dysfunctional or pathological manifestation.

A truly well-functioning person has, instead of a soul, a pure continuum of consciousness extending between the non-duality of fundamental consciousness and the thoroughly dualistic, conceptual, conscious 'mind' - the soul being defined actually by an obstructive 'level' of programming and fixed or rigid preconceptions lying somewhere between the person's 'mind' and the non-duality of fundamental consciousness, and thus distorting and indeed disrupting the continuum of consciousness.

Note therefore that in this scenario the very widespread notion that a person is fundamentally a soul is seriously and harmfully incorrect.

Furthermore, if pure, 'no-soul' people manage to keep sufficiently clear of garbage interferences, at death they'd NOT go to any supposed 'Light', nor go anywhere, but would undergo a transition that's almost universally but highly misleadingly called 'recombination with Source'. This term is misleading, because it implies that they'd become separate from a supposed source in the first place - a garbage -sourced distortion of the real state of affairs.

What really happens for such a person upon death is that their Earthly and physical experiences would simply cease. However, the fundamental identity - in other words the core essence or fundamental 'I'- of the person would remain intact as a micro-aspect of fundamental consciousness, in a state of peaceful harmony and clarity as naked awareness. Nothing in this transition is about light nor Light. It's about fundamental clarity.

Reincarnation the healthy way - 'as Nature intended'! When a person has reverted to fundamental consciousness, that micro-aspect of fundamental consciousness that the person represented can then at some point incarnate again - but with no soul. Yes, when we incarnate and die 'as Nature intended', there's no such thing as a soul. And, what's more, each of these incarnations is non-karmic*. That is, it carries absolutely no burden of repercussions from whatever went on in any of its other such incarnations. * This is because it's in the soul that karmas accumulate. Your 'core essence' - your true nature and identity - never gains any sort of trauma or karma. It is liable to accumulate karmas during the present lifetime, but carries nothing from previous lifetimes. The person arrives, then, 'with a clean slate', initially with no emotional issues, no karmas, and is potentially a radiantly powerful and positive being. Even with a certain accumulation of emotional issues caused by unaware parents and other adults and peers, such people could quickly become enlightened and indeed optimally self-actualized - yet in the 'real world' this isn't happening, at least as far as I can tell.

So, what, then, is preventing these no-soul people from manifesting in this way?

The primary answer is that at birth the garbage sends to each no-soul human a number of degraded, 'lost' human souls*, which had become stuck with part of their awareness trapped in the astral non-reality and are no longer incarnating. These 'lost' souls attach to the new human and are programmed and controlled by the garbage .

* Although I'm using the term 'soul' here, in line with normal usage, this is, strictly speaking, bad use of the term, and can perpetuate very troublesome confusions. However, if I spoke of those as 'lost' human consciousnesses, although that would be sort-of correct, it wouldn't sufficiently identify the particular consciousnesses that I'm actually referring to here, and also it's simply too much of a mouthful in practical terms.

The point is, people generally regard a 'soul' as equivalent to that aspect of a person that continues to exist after the death of the person's body. But that in itself is a greatly flawed understanding of the real situation, because it's not recognising that each of us is, first and foremost, consciousness or awareness. From that perspective, the concept of the soul, as almost invariably meant, is meaningless. So, when I refer to specific consciousnesses as 'souls', I don't mean just any human consciousness, but specifically consciousnesses that contain the programming and distortions that cause them to function somewhat in the manner of the popular notion of the soul. They're thus consciousnesses that have gained certain very specific types of distortion, which cause them to be chronically dysfunctional and limited in their awareness.

Without such attached lost souls, a no-soul person or indeed to a fair extent a first or second-time soul-incarnated human would be almost invulnerable to overt, gross interferences from the garbage . This is because the latter controls people by the use of a sort of psychic attack, skilfully manipulating emotional stress / trauma material that the person is carrying, and such no-soul or little soul-reincarnated people have little or no such material that the garbage can use.

The latter can still interfere by putting little messages (pseudo-thoughts) into their minds, but as long as they keep really well grounded they'd most often recognise such 'thoughts' as 'not mine' or indeed as just mental 'noise', and filter them out.

Such people, then, would be almost or fully invulnerable to garbage or 'entity' attacks (unless they were carrying some major trauma from earlier in their life - but that would still be relatively limited 'ammunition' for the purposes of the garbage ), but wouldn't be fully invulnerable to interference through having pseudo-thoughts intruded into their minds. However, if they become enlightened and continue their self-actualization well beyond that, then, to the best of my current understanding, they could become virtually immune even to that sort of interference.

The parasitic 'lost souls' and their bleak existence

It's necessary to explain here that nowadays I'm wanting to find a different term for 'parasitic lost souls', because the latter term is really not correct, and I got using it because Steve Gamble was using that or a very similar term for the same thing - but so far I haven't come up with a suitable term that would give the right impression to people who don't already know what I'm on about. The point is, (a) the problematical use of the term 'soul', which I've already commented on further above, and (b) 'parasitic' can be only a figurative description, because, strictly speaking, these 'lost souls' aren't being parasitic, because they aren't gaining anything from their 'hosts'. I guess, though, that the term 'lost souls' isn't going to be bettered, but these still need to be distinguished from other categories of lost soul, such as those that give rise to 'spirit attachments' and again those that become partial walk-ins.

What enables the garbage to break through the relative invulnerability of no-soul people, and others who haven't yet had more than one or two previous soul incarnations, is the presence of the already mentioned parasitic 'lost' souls attached to the person at 'soul level'. For no-soul incarnations, 'soul level' would be the aspect or 'level' of consciousness where the soul-defining distortions and programming would be inserted if those individuals got ensnared by the garbage .

These lost souls are ones that an extremely long time ago had incarnated as no-soul people themselves but had been ensnared or lured into the garbage's agenda for them - often, though not necessarily, through religions and so-called spiritual paths, which all lead to one's creating illusory realities, which the garbage had presented as supposed higher realities or indeed bogus versions of 'enlightenment'.

These illusory realities manifested as astral realms to the people when they died, diverting them from the peaceful reversion into fundamental consciousness, and causing the consciousness thus to be trapped with part of its awareness stuck in an astral realm in the astral non-reality, while the garbage then by various means creates distortions and inserts programming into a particular aspect or 'level' of the consciousness to create or strengthen the 'soul'.

At that stage the consciousness might subjectively experience the bogus 'higher reality' in which the once-alive person believed, such as 'ascension' into a non-physical 'heaven' (exactly what's most likely to happen for all the people currently believing in 'ascension' into the so-called - and indeed fictional - 5th dimension), or undergo hellish experiences, because within the astral non-reality the delusion of a severe, punitive externally administered karma is alive and kicking (so to speak!).

Even if they're apparently in some sort of beautiful 'heaven', they will become gradually conditioned to accept power / control hierarchies - seeing power hierarchies of, say, angelic beings, as being the Highest Order (i.e., instead of fundamental consciousness).

This achieves two main things: the beginning of the programming of these trapped no-soul consciousnesses to accept control within and from the astral non-reality, and to progressively close down their awareness of their true nature as manifestations of fundamental consciousness - 'the Ultimate' - so that increasingly they perceive themselves as separate from 'source', and they perceive the astral non-reality of illusion as the highest reality, together with all its control agendas, and its replacement of love with fear.

This process - the creation and then cultivation and strengthening of the soul - is, generally speaking, slow and progressive, occurring over many reincarnations of the unfortunate hijacked consciousness. Each incarnation of its soul will contain a further increment in its accumulation of emotional stresses / traumas and other karmas, and these together with new increments of programming from the garbage result in each successive incarnation being less aware and more shut-down than the previous one.

So, as noted, all this programming and accumulation of karmas (including traumas) is what goes into that aspect of consciousness that defines the soul. Thus, over the sequence of reincarnations, the soul becomes progressively stronger and more constraining to the person's awareness, so that the person is increasingly defined by the soul and decreasingly defined by his/her true qualities as a manifestation of fundamental consciousness.

It's helpful to understand that soul incarnations are still incarnations of fundamental consciousness, but, you could say, indirectly so. Indeed, they'd best be regarded as pathological sub-incarnations of the original no-soul incarnation, because, from the viewpoint of fundamental consciousness, that's exactly what they are.

So, contrary to widespread belief, the most unaware individuals are generally NOT incarnations of new, unevolved souls, but are of OLD souls who are actually advanced on a downward 'spiral' of degradation and being changed progressively into automatons who will be at the beck and call of the garbage .

At a certain advanced point in that process the trapped soul ceases to incarnate and remains trapped by its attachment to its illusions within the astral non-reality. It's then further degraded and programmed to transform it into a sort of parasitic 'husk' of a consciousness, which is ruthlessly controlled by the garbage in order to get it to attach to an incarnated human soul and be used as a weapon and instrument of control upon that person.

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* For the vast majority of no-soul people that potential is relatively little realized, because the garbage , via various means including the parasitic lost souls, screws these people up like no-one's business, so that the majority of them are, in their different ways, quite a mess.

For example, my observations point to the ranks of rough sleepers, alcoholics and 'druggies' out on the streets in cities containing a remarkably high proportion of no-soul people. Similarly, there's a relatively high proportion of them in the ranks of psychiatric patients being progressively destroyed by the medication and ECT that the psychiatric and 'mental health' services and practitioners dish out to them (in lieu of getting them sorting themselves out!).

The parasitic 'lost' souls as weapons and instruments of control

Once a no-soul person has such parasitic 'lost' souls attached to him, he experiences any emotional issues / traumas and karmas of those 'lost' souls as if they were his own. These cause health issues, various misfortunes, all manner of obstacles towards enlightenment and self-actualization, and restimulated painful emotions (triggered by particular situations or people) that are actually not his own, and so lives a life that's very much as though he's accumulated all these issues over reincarnations of his own.

He will have all manner of impressions, 'resonances' and even actual memories from earlier lifetimes (which may be experienced directly or revealed in so-called past-life regression), which belong to particular attached parasitic human 'lost souls' and not genuinely to him at all.

My understanding nowadays is that there's a complicating factor, in that only part of such effects would be coming directly from the parasitic lost souls, and the rest (and indeed very likely often the major part) would be coming from primary archetypes, of which I say more further below. However, as far as I've been able to ascertain so far, one's 'active' connections to the primary archetypes have been established through the parasitic lost souls anyway, so the latter are still indirectly implicated with regard to that troublesome source of interference.

For no-soul people in particular all this commonly causes a great deal of confusion and bewilderment, because as they haven't yet had their awareness shut down, they're very open to their feelings and inner impressions, and may be plagued with exaggerated emotional feelings in response to everyday life situations.

This can readily lead to their being diagnosed as mentally ill - all the more so because no-soul people tend to be the most poorly grounded, and many feel acutely the sense of isolation and separation from 'source' that's embedded within the attached 'lost' souls' trauma feelings. This inner confusion and even torment tends to be greatly accentuated by the responses to them from the majority of people, who've had many soul reincarnations and whose awareness is well shut down. These latter people regard no-soul or little reincarnated people as a bit weird, flaky, 'not quite all there', and so on, because these many-times-incarnated people have no awareness of their deeper aspects and can't understand anyone who has such awareness and has much more vivid life experience (including suffering) than they do. There's a remarkable literary parallel to this situation in H. G. Wells' classic short story The Country of the Blind. This all puts pressure upon especially the no-soul people, as they're so much more 'open' and vulnerable, to feel that there's something wrong with them and to try by various means to shut their awareness down. Alcohol, smoking, use of so-called recreational drugs such as cannabis (or indeed any of the other drugs available out there on the street), and getting put onto psychiatric medication, are among the means that such people commonly try to shut off their awareness in order to dull their sense of confusion and suffering. They're also strongly 'nudged' or manipulated by the garbage into following such routes.

...Used as instruments of control

However, the attachment of the parasitic 'lost' souls isn't just a matter of a passive 'parasitism', for the garbage actually manipulates the stored emotional traumas of the parasitic souls, usually in covert ways, in order to indirectly manipulate and control the affected person. Normally this is done together with putting into the person's mind certain pseudo-thoughts, and this is indeed often part of a process of building up illusory realities, typically in more or less hidden parts of the person's mindspace.

For example, while I was originally writing this section, I broke off to register the new domain name clarity-of-being.org to use for this website. The garbage had been interfering with me and attacking me a lot while I was putting information on this site such as is on this page - for clearly it's just the sort of thing that it would be trying to stop me doing. On this occasion, when I checked the domain name for availability and was about to order it from my hosting company, I suddenly had an urge to do an Internet search for "clarity of being" to see if there might be confusions caused by my using that name.

When I got the listing and saw various references to "clarity of being", I was assaulted with nightmarishly strong feelings of self doubt, and strong messages were coming supposedly from within my mind that I was doing the wrong thing and going to make a complete mess of everything, and that I'd got to get this right but couldn't, and it was all falling apart, and that the garbage had now 'got' me - a nightmarish sort of feeling.

I did actually defer ordering the domain name (by about an hour) just so that I could re-check within my deeper aspects when the attack had subsided sufficiently for me to be sure that I was acting out of clarity and was not being led into that particular choice by the garbage .

But as far as I can see, few other people would so clearly recognise, or indeed recognise at all, the garbage interference - nearly everybody just assuming that their thoughts and feelings are their own and 'are me', and thus being a puppet of the garbage .

It's in this way that people - even no-soul ones - can be driven to rape and all manner of depraved, violent or otherwise antisocial behaviour. I myself had the garbage in 2003 try to get me to rape a particular man. That was not a typical situation because I actually had a voice (of a supposed ascended master) instructing me to do it (whereas for most people I think such messages would occur at a more or less subliminal level), but what I assume was typical was that these instructions were accompanied by immensely strong feelings of a mixture of sexual arousal, sexual ecstasy and craving.

Fortunately I had the clarity to realize that those feelings were 'not mine' and were being used to try to manipulate me, even though I didn't know about the parasitic 'lost' souls phenomenon then. Those sexual feelings were actually resultant upon the garbage attacking one or more of the attached parasitic souls with particular emotional trauma feelings which tend to get interpreted as sexual feelings or lust, and then I'd felt those feelings as though they were my own, although, as I say, I had the clarity to know that attempts were being made to manipulate me and so I resisted the alarmingly strong sexual and lustful feelings.

...Used as weapons

I've already mentioned attacks being used for control purposes. Those are usually the 'gentle' ones. For most people these remain covert and just serve various discreet control and manipulation purposes (such as ensuring that the person gets into a religion or 'spiritual path' or materialism rather than going for true self-actualization / self-realization). However, for others the attacks are often used with brutal force, to 'bring the person down' in some way.

This happened to me massively, as I recount in The 'Forces of Darkness' ('Astral Beings') - My Own Tough Experiences, but, exceptionally, in my case, despite a period of disruption to my life, I managed to use all that happened to me then as 'handles' to enable me to progressively gain an understanding of what was going on and thus progressively to weaken and eventually clear out the garbage's interferences and indeed the parasitic lost souls attached to me.

Normally such attacks are regarded as mental illness, and get diagnosed medically as 'attacks' (sic) of anxiety, panic, depression etc. - the doctors having absolutely no idea of the non-physical cause of these and that they're indeed the result of attacks, in the sense of harmful / disruptive actions from an 'external' agent with hostile intent.

Some of the parasitic 'lost' souls are extremely heavily traumatized, having died horrendous deaths in their final incarnation, quite apart from having accumulated massive trauma loads from nasty deaths in previous lifetimes. These are used for the really strong attacks. As far as I can establish at the moment, I was 'kindly given' at birth an exceptional load of these parasitic 'lost' souls, carrying in total a really delectable amount of emotional trauma material.

It looks as though the garbage most likely could 'sense' that I had a type of energy that potentially posed an unusually strong threat to its agenda and indeed theoretically even to its very existence, so it reacted in self defence by trying to stop me by setting me up in such a way that it could deliver particularly severe attacks upon me - hence the large number of these parasitic 'lost' souls that were attached to me (i.e., according to my own inner inquiry; I have no means to verify that).

However, just clearing out the parasitic 'lost' souls doesn't immediately mean freedom from severe attacks, because, so it appears, when they're cleared out, quite apart from any 'energy debris' left behind upon their departure, any 'active' connections that had been established to primary archetypes via the parasitic lost souls would generally remain more or less intact and require a different method to progressively dissolve them.

A clarification - what these parasitic lost souls can't do

Some people, upon reading through all the above, have assumed that parasitic lost souls were what was causing them all sorts of untoward experiences that seemed to be of some sort of invisible quasi-physical being(s) interfering with them, often physically. Actually, whatever is the real cause of manifestations of that sort, parasitic lost souls are not doing it. They can't get your attention in any way, nor actively interfere with you.

They're attached to a particular already distorted part of your awareness, and it's simply their presence in your system that causes you problems through your experiencing feelings and memories that aren't genuinely yours even though they seem convincingly to be so, and through being one of the sources of emotional stress / trauma 'energy' that the garbage uses in attacks on you.

So, if you get impressions that point to some sort of tangible 'being' moving around against or within your body or moving parts of it, or speaking to you, most likely it would be some sort of elemental or possibly a 'spirit attachment', though quite often, in its less extreme manifestations, it may be nothing more than direct garbage interference seeking to convince you that actual malevolent beings are messing around with you.

I myself have had plenty of little bits of the latter, so I'm all too familiar with it!

'Night terrors', nightmares and the issue of grounding

The hell (including 'night terrors') phenomenon is operated directly by the garbage , but also incorporates the parasitic 'lost' souls being used as weapons. It's much more common than generally supposed. In fact, although the term 'night terrors' is generally used just for childhood night terrors, the phenomenon occurs in various forms for many adults too, not necessarily at night, and also the phenomenon embraces more than what people would generally call 'terrors'.

The key to this is having a particular part of the person's awareness sufficiently ungrounded for this to work. Typically, young children's awareness isn't well grounded, for they're still in the late stages of the incarnation process, and so they're particularly susceptible - but anyone of any age can be affected if something happens, or they live in a particular way or with a particular outlook, that sufficiently undermines the grounding of their awareness; that is, their balance of awareness between physical and non-physical reality.

I explain at some length about hells in Night Terrors and Hell Experiences - Understanding and Clearing Them, but the main point here is that if a particular part of a person's awareness is sufficiently ungrounded, the garbage can temporarily insinuate it into an astral realm in which (s)he is presented with a maelstrom of distorted and grotesque visual images and is simultaneously severely attacked (via the attached 'lost' souls and the person's connections to various primary archetypes) with fear and related emotions such as anxiety, panic and apprehension, or indeed revulsion, often in combinations that have a particular unbearableness about them.

As I understand it, it's these experiences that form the basis of ALL the stories and beliefs in hells (or Hell), and there's no such thing as Hell or a hell otherwise. So, I and everyone else who's experienced true hells (which include 'night terrors'), or the same phenomenon by day (probably labelled as schizophrenic or psychotic hallucinations) really has experienced a genuine hell, as far as hell can be said to exist at all.

N.B. When people see demons and other entities or beings in night hell visuals, they're NOT seeing actual entities or beings at all, however realistic they may look. The garbage and indeed any attached lost souls have no physical form and aren't visible. The night hell displays are just that - displays or 'horror movies' that the garbage has ever-so-kindly laid on for their 'lucky' audience to get them well and truly screwed up.

Childhood night hells are characteristically a 'softening up' tactic of the garbage for people who are no-soul incarnations or who've soul reincarnated only once or twice, for the purpose of traumatizing them and making them easier for the garbage to interfere with and manipulate / control later in life, in particular to ensure that they don't get into a genuine and comprehensive self-actualization process and thus potentially become immune to the garbage's interferences and indeed control.

Nightmares - a different type of garbage ('dark force') interference

Nightmares are a particular distorted type of dream in which attack from the garbage occurs - night hells / 'night terrors' not being dreams at all. In dreaming, your own system is going through a sort of sifting and re-evaluation process below the conscious level, comparing recent experiences with previous ones and relating them also to any thoughts or ideas or insights that may come up. This is for the purpose of fully learning from one's life experiences.

You can't deeply learn from any life experience without that deep, 'subconscious' sifting and re-evaluation process, so an unhindered dreaming process is crucially important. When you've learnt from those experiences you're in a better position to respond in a rational and flexible way to any similar situations that may arise in the future.

Certain superficial aspects of this process periodically impinge on the conscious level of awareness and are then experienced as dreaming. These experiences tend to go unnoticed or get quickly forgotten except when they form into some sort of 'story' sequence, and it's these sequences that are generally thought of as actual dreams.

The garbage would presumably interfere with dreams and make them into more true hell experiences if it could - but it simply can't do that, for it doesn't have direct access to the aspects of our consciousness in which the dreaming process occurs. However, what it does in order to try to work round that is covertly to put various distorted ideas and images into the aspect of the person's awareness where memories are held, awaiting review and evaluation and 'sifting'. The effect of this is that the dreaming process can pick up these intruded 'foreign' elements and incorporate them into dreams, making them into disturbing dreams or full-blown nightmares.

The garbage does this to just about everyone, all the time, so clearly there has to be another factor required to precipitate disturbing dreams and actual nightmares. What happens is that during the dreaming process anyone with reasonably well grounded awareness automatically recognises thoughts, images or apparent memories that are 'not mine' and simply discards them.

With an important exception noted further below, at that point they're not just ignored but actually dissolved because they aren't useful data worth retaining. That means that the garbage , in order to maintain a cache of such material in your 'unprocessed memories' store, has to add new material on a daily basis. It also means that your dreaming process can't be transformed into a virulent maelstrom of disturbing images like true hells.

The problems come for a person when a particular part of their awareness is poorly grounded. Then their dreaming process doesn't always immediately succeed in distinguishing between 'mine' and 'not mine', and so the 'foreign' material gets incorporated into the dreaming process up to an eventual point at which it's recognised as 'not mine' and discarded. It's in such situations that nightmares and also dreams incorporating particularly weird, distorted images, can occur. The garbage is able to detect when such dreams are occurring and usually attack then with fear or related emotions to make the dream a harrowing experience - hence the 'nightmare'.

Physical illness - particularly infections - can also make it more difficult to immediately recognise and discard 'not mine' during the dreaming process. Hence the tendency for weird and often disturbing dreams with distorted images when one is going down with a cold, 'flu or other infections.

Overall, thus, people who are having a rough time from the garbage (their awareness being sufficiently weakly grounded for this to be occurring) are particularly prone to disturbing dreams and nightmares. However, that's not invariably the case, and indeed I myself am a very clear exception.

Despite my early severe night hells of two very different types, and my more recent tremendous ordeals and attacks from the garbage with intense trauma feelings of fear, terror, panic, anxiety et al, and indeed further attempts to assault me with hell displays, I'm aware of only one true nightmare that I've had in my whole life (and that was when I was about three), and indeed dreams of any degree of disturbing character have always been a rarity for me, usually linked to the onset of an infection such as a cold, 'flu or various gut infections.

The reason for there being such exceptions appears to be that it's a specific part of a person's awareness that needs to be poorly grounded if nightmares are to occur, and in my case that particular part of my awareness has remained consistently relatively well grounded, even when, as in my 2003 to 2007 major troubles with the garbage , other parts of my awareness became very poorly grounded, really opening me to large-scale trickery and attacks from the garbage . That good groundedness of the particular part of my awareness has also been my great protection against the garbage's apparent attempts to impose upon me a partial walk-in or other disastrous problem.

Recurrent disturbing dreams or nightmares

When, during the dreaming process, you discard useless and 'not mine' material, as I've already remarked, at that point that material is generally dissolved, so that it doesn't present itself again and so can't turn up in more than one dream. However, there's one big exception to th