How can we attract the good spirits without attracting the bad?
September 26th, 2006 by Erin Pavlina
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Question: I know spirits exist, but I put them out of my mind, because I don’t want to attract the attention of angry or malicious spirits. I want to attract the good spirits into our lives, but is that possible without also being open to attracting the bad?
Answer: This is a wise question to ask. When I first started becoming in tune with the spirit world, I saw a lot of negative entities that scared the pants off me. Every time I went out of body or touched a ouija board, I would attract the negative energy beings. It wasn’t until I was in my late teens that I finally figured out how to avoid them. And it wasn’t until I was in my late twenties that I figured out the hows and whys of attracting light versus dark beings.
You attract what you emanate. If you are emanating fear and anxiety, it’s like opening a door for the dark entities. They will see you as easy prey and feed off of your soul’s energy. That’s bad. If you protect yourself with white and golden light first, and if you enter into a state of love and light, you will not be on the same plane as the dark entities, so just as you would expect to be safe walking into a church, for example, you can enter the astral plane or the spirit realm safely if you are vibrating at a high frequency of love and light.
To get yourself into that state, make sure you are in a state of pure love and loving intent. Before you try to contact anything or go anywhere, meditate. Open your chakras, then imagine a golden light enveloping your entire body. On top of that, add a white light. Say a mantra like mine (use your own or mine is fine): “I am surrounded by the white light of Jesus Christ. In his light I am safe and protected from harm.” You may also call upon the archangel Michael for protection.
There is one caveat I need to mention here. There are some dark energies that are attracted to light energies like moths to a flame. But what happens is that they cannot reach you if you are in a state of confidence and love and divine protection. It’s like they bounce off your shield. It’s like when you’re camping and you’re sitting inside your tent with the door zippered shut. The bugs might be attracted to the lantern inside your tent but they can’t get in unless you open the door.
I know that in the beginning it can be hard to enter a spirit realm in a state of love, trust, and confidence because if you’re new at this you may enter with some fear and anxiety. That’s where your guides and angels come in. Ask them to protect you from all beings of negative energy and to keep you safe. Use your intuition to guide you if something appears and you’re not sure what “side” it’s on. In time, you’ll be able to attract and communicate with beings of love and light with total confidence and in total safety.
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September 26th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Erin, what exactly ARE evil entities and where do they come from? I don’t quite understand why there are evil ones out there. Are they people that used to be alive, died, then fear held on to their spirits too long and they just turned mad, terrorizing anybody that let them?
Or am I totally off-base here?
September 27th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Erin, I was about to ask almost the exact same question Shay did. I guess I don’t understand how good and evil really exist. I’ve heard many wise people say that all paths lead to the same destination, and this always struck me as true. I like to assume that negative people I meet in day to day life are not evil, but are just unable to get past the curve balls life has thrown them. But saying that negative beings exist makes good and evil seem much more concrete. Is there also a hell? I never believed in that either..
September 28th, 2006 at 7:14 am
I’ll answer this in a separate blog entry so we can share with the whole class.
Good questions guys!
September 28th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
Erin, Thanks for this blog post -
This has been very timely - I’m just starting to read about Feng Shui, and interested about this more along the lines of consecrating space, etc. - I have been involved in praying over a (Christian) house where the idea (for this new house was basically to just “kick” all the spirits out, (except angels of course) and consecrate the house to God, and his work. (the previous owner was a “new agey” type person, practicing some forms of
native american spirituality, so that was a specific concern for them).
When we were going through the house, both my friend and I felt, and communicated non-verbally with spirits that were there, and told them that they could not stay there, and they had to leave. (both my friend and I felt like they weren’t necessarily completely
good spirits, but that had just gotten comfortable and were feeding somehow off the prevoius owner’s energy.)
I know that the spiritual world is much more than just angels and demons, (and Karen Kingston talks about spirits of fire, earth, dryads, gnomes, etc.) that want to hang out with us, but (for example) there’s so much electromagnetic energy generally around, it’s difficult for them to do so) …
In general, the principles of Feng Shui resonate with me very strongly, but I guess I’m looking for someone who knows about the different (good) spirits, (like those above) but/and can also speak on the above, in light of a Christian worldview… I’m all about attracting /showing respect to good (rather than bad) spirits, but at the same time, I don’t want to be doing a bunch of rituals, (for either good, or bad spirits) out of obligation, or fear.
Of course, I’m not really afraid that that would happen, but I can see the point of (more conservative) Christians who express reservation about doing a bunch of rituals
(to either attract, or repel good or bad spirits) to placate them, (lest those spirits do something bad to you!) … “because one’s focus should just be focused on God.” they might say…
I’d love to hear your perspective.
Thanks for all you do =)
~Jeremy
October 2nd, 2006 at 1:36 pm
My family and I moved to a mansion in Brazil and our lives went from bad to the imaginable ……….. The spirits were all around us and I know they didnt like me for certain. Is it possible to do anything I left the house but they still there as I hear from certain maids about strange incidents.
any comments.
thank you