A family member recently sent me a link to an article about a retreat center where people go when they have had a frightening experience due to meditation. I read the article with great interest, having both a bachelor’s degree in psychology, along with my master’s degrees in public health and divinity, and years of Eastern meditation, training, and practice. The article presented a fairly straightforward Western, psychological and somewhat spiritual take on the experiences. People were reported to have heard evil or scary voices, or to have experiences which in Western spirituality has been called “the dark night of the soul.” I don’t remember reading a clear sense of how this retreat center would help these people, except that it seemed to have a psychological approach. Having lived and studied in the mental world of psychology, I know there can be limits to what the Western psychological approach can do to help people. I found myself thinking, “I can help these people, and I would like to help these people.” Currently, I am seeing a potentially suicidal client who has heard voices during meditation. His concerns are spiritual, not psychological. We discuss spiritual teachings, and I have taught him some meditation techniques. The past time he came in, he appeared to be highly anxious when he arrived. As an energy healer, I can often feel people’s energy quite easily, so I could also feel his anxious energy. After we talked and meditated, he calmed down significantly, and left with a very peaceful energy. We have discussed why people sometimes hear voices, from a spiritual perspective, from what I was taught and have come to believe is true. Here’s what may be helpful to know about why people hear voices sometimes, even spiritual people who meditate, from a Universal mystical understanding of the spiritual nature of reality and human beings: First, our bodies are comprised of a system of subtle energy. This energy is composed of spiritual energies, life force energy, mental energies, and emotional energies. These energies center along the mid-line of the body, whirling in vortices called chakras (Sanskrit for wheels of light). As we progress spiritually through many lifetimes, we gradually raise our energy up our spine, energizing each chakra in turn, which facilitates our emotional, mental, and spiritual development. The raising of this subtle, or spiritual energy, is referred to as “kundalini rising.” Raising our kundalini is usually best done slowly, with careful intentions, tied with karmic actions for the highest good. The throat chakra is the seat of clairaudience. This means that we can hear “voices,” or messages, from subtle energy sources, from either higher planes of existence, psychic experiences on this same earth plane, or from lower planes of existence (heavier, darker, less-well-intended energies). With pure intentions and devotion to truth, we ultimately can “hear the voice of God” when our throat chakras are fully open and energized. When the brow chakra is opened, we begin to see visions. Again, depending on both our intentions (helpful and loving vs. selfish or harmful) and on our level of spiritual and emotional development, we may see mundane visions, scary visions, psychic visions, or loving, higher consciousness visions. Now, both in the case of what we hear and what we see in the realm of subtle energy, we can be kind, loving people, and still have nightmarish experiences. Why? Three basic reasons underlie the negative experiences of even spiritually advanced people. First, we might not know that we need to be clear about our intentions. We may generally have good, loving intentions, but we also need to be clear about our intentions for our lives, our consciousness, and our spiritual path. For instance, we need to be clear that we are only open to voices and visions of love and light that will be of service to the greater good. When we are clear with those intentions, we may also ask for protection. Archangel Michael is the main protector of those who seek to serve Divine Will. Second, we may have taken drugs or alcohol in excess, which will open our chakras at the very least. When our chakras are wide-open, we are energetically vulnerable to receiving any subtle energy that is near us. Souls with less than helpful intentions have been known to take advantage of that, and so we may hear their “voices”. If we have truly abused either drugs or alcohol, we may have blown open all our chakras at once, and experienced a sudden “kundalini rising.” This may leave us vulnerably open in our chakras, without the mental, emotional, and spiritual preparation for how to deal with that, nor with the messages we may then “hear”. There are ways to cover over one’s chakras, and I have learned two techniques, but only in England, and I do teach those techniques. In America, I have yet to meet anyone who really practices and teaches the careful and gentle covering over (not closing!) of chakras. (If you do so, I’d love to hear about it!) If one has blown open one’s chakras, without adequate preparation, one is left vulnerable to hearing all kinds of voices and seeing all kinds of visions. At that point, one needs a teacher with whom to work to learn how to manage one’s chakras, one’s meditation, one’s intentions, how to ask for help and protection, and so on. If you need such a teacher, please go to: http://lightworkertraining.com/ . Third, negative voices and visions can happen even to good, loving, kind people because of our own unresolved emotional baggage, such as self-doubt and fear, which are possibly the two biggest challenges to spiritual growth at the levels of the upper chakras. Impure intentions like hiding the truth can also leave us vulnerable to voices or entities who disrespect the truth. This is why we need to raise the kundalini carefully, with gradual emotional and spiritual development along the way. A teacher or healer or guide who can help us identify our own blockages to growth can also be helpful along the way. If you have had any type of negative experience with meditation, including getting lost in long-term depression or chronic anxiety, I invite you to contact me through my website. I would be happy to work with you, long distance by cell phone or Skype, or in person. Again, my website is: http://lightworkertraining.com/ If you would like to learn meditation in a safe, protected way, I invite you to contact me as well. There is no need to stay in the dark spaces where we sometimes find ourselves on the journey of life. Meditation can help us get to a place of love, peace, bliss, and light, but sometimes we need a little guidance along the way. Love and Light to all, Carol/Nonnie

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