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ClifNotes 4
September 2000
Move over astrology! Feng Shui beats it hands down! If you want your crops to grow well, if you are looking for a special relationship, if your career has taken a dip or you simply would like to know what to invest in, what else to do but turn to Feng Shui.
Four thousand years of study gives it a fine patina of reality. But, who can say how it really works and even IF it does? After practicing it for around 20 years I cannot say for sure that by arranging the external environment we can make a formidable change to the internal environment. There are far too many forces affecting us to declare anything at all absolutely. Feng Shui is fascinating of itself. That said here is a true story that happened for my friends in Germany.
For more than five years they had been plagued by an ugly ‘dead’ building directly opposite their electrical goods store. It completely ruined the feel of the street with its broken windows and rubbish swirling round the doorway. The elderly owner had died and for all those years there was constant talk of demolishing it.
Finally Rudi got around to putting up a ba gua – it is a symbolic representation of separation from disharmony. This simple 8inch octagon is attached high up pointing directly at the offending building.
Imagine our surprise when we heard the very next day that the building would be demolished. In fact within two working days it had completely disappeared. Feng Shui or Intention? Parapsychology or chance?
Was it good luck or intention that allowed my mother to regularly find four-leaf clovers? As a child I would watch where she found them and spend hours unsuccessfully trying to do the same. I was reminded of this when I spied a clump of clover in a field a few weeks ago in Germany.
In London, a few days later, with time on our hands, I decided to follow up the family story that my grandfather was a friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – famous author of ‘Sherlock Holmes’.
They were almost certainly both members of the English Psychic Research Society and the Spiritualist church.
We found we were staying within easy walking distance of the Baker Street store “Sherlock Holmes Memorabilia”. The people there were very helpful and offered for us to look through some of the original copies of the “Strand” which is where most of the Sherlock Holmes stories were originally printed.
Looking for any sign of grandfather’s name I opened one of the rare books and out fell a four-leaf clover. “Hmm,” I thought. I carefully placed it back inside the book but one of the shop assistants (who dresses in Sherlock’s deer-hunter cap and cloak) said, “But I have never ever seen a four-leaf clover” so we tried to find it again. The lady who owns the shop was also very curious and also wanted to see this rare find. We all stood looking at it as though seeing an apparition. She insisted it was some sort of omen! At this time something came over me because I agreed to buy this extraordinarily expensive original edition of the ‘Strand’. This was Saturday.
The next day, Sunday, we had lunch with Myra - a lady we hadn’t met before – she is a sister of our friends who live in Portugal.
Early on Monday, Myra rang to say she had just been asked by a close friend to recommend a healer as his father had been diagnosed with cancer. Myra started to describe Galina and I but she had hardly begun when she was interrupted.
“Oh! We met them! They were in our shop buying the Sherlock Holmes book!”
Out of all the millions in London we had met the day before! THAT’S spooky!
In the next day or so, we went to the Spiritualist Society rooms at 33 Belgrave Square, and found there is a room totally dedicated to Conan Doyle. He had often made it clear that the Sherlock Holmes stories were only of importance to him to support his study of matters of the spirit. We had a chance to sit in the carved chair he used when leading spiritual groups.
Still on the trail of curiosities and accumulations we bought a bunch of second-hand books on Spirit Release, and also visited the Psychic Research Society.
Synchronicity loomed when we were given the name and phone number of the President of the British Association for Spirit Release.
His name appears above mine in the list of members of the Scientific and Medical Network although we had never met. His name is Dr Sanderson! Dr Alan Sanderson.
Historically cultures from all over the world have believed that we can be afflicted by unsettled spirits. For example, fully one quarter of Jesus’ miracles were to do with releasing ‘demons’ or, more accurately, ‘releasing unclean spirits.’
Modern psychiatry has no space to allow for such events – even though individual psychiatrist may agree.
After doing this work for nigh on twenty years I can only agree with all the serious researchers – we cannot exactly explain the causes but we can deliver results which often allow afflicted people to have complete recovery often within one session.
From time to time I have kept records of the number of people who come to me for healing. I estimate about 60% of those clients show symptoms of entities nearby or within their physical bodies.
Many times the client will express the feeling of being overshadowed by spirits without any prompting from me.
In Brazil, for example, I was invited to the Valley of the Dawn – several miles from Brasilia – where up to 10,000 people each week experience the clearing of intrusive spirits. Tibetans follow similar ideas. In Vietnam there are specially trained doctors who perform this work.
In a western context, the Spiritualist church has groups who offer this help. And, indeed this is how I was trained.
Is it spooky? Is it dangerous? Can anyone be possessed? These questions need to be addressed.
If we accept this hypothesis, it is possible for a person who dies ‘accidentally’ to remain ‘stuck’ in this physical realm. Many reasons may cause the difficulty. Perhaps a car accident, a gun tragedy, sudden illness or someone overdoses without meaning to suicide. It seems to happen a lot with people who are alcoholic or overly attached to their house or money.
It especially appears to afflict those who were sexually abused as children. As though whilst suffering through the trauma the rightful owner of the body vacates the premises leaving space for vacant possession. Knowing that over 80% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia were victims of sexual abuse, we might be led to believe that could be a primary cause.
Strangely enough, very few people are upset when they meet a real ghost. When my kids were small we lived in a house on a lemon orchard with beautiful trees and gardens. It had belonged to Captain Nancarrow – an old-time sailor. Although he had passed over some years before we could see him each evening as he wandered through the lounge going to bed. Visitors would gasp a little as the family wished “ ‘The Captain’ Good Night”. But no one ever felt upset or ‘spooked’ by it. It was just what happened. That was in the mid-sixties.
I must say that he did get upset when I painted the entire lounge room in gloss red enamel!
Later, in 1982, I was invited to join a meditation group which developed into what was then called a “Rescue Group.”
Every Monday evening for more than 18 months, 12 of us would gather to offer help to inmates brought from an asylum. A psychologist would select one or two each week to come to our trained group where, in calm and peaceful surroundings they would be offered loving kindness to help lingering spirits journey on into the higher realms.
Eight years later I caught up with that doctor and asked, “Were we really helping these people suffering from schizophrenia or multiple personality syndrome?” The answer I got was, “Many of those 120 or so people had been incarcerated for years yet ALL of those people were declared sane and were able to be released the next day from the institution. One or two needed a little more counseling, that’s all.”
None of us could have said precisely what we were doing. It certainly doesn’t fit into classical psychiatry yet there were measurable positive outcomes. If it works as we suggest, then either there are spirits who leave as we work with them or not. It was never in doubt that they did for us. It usually took a few days for the physical person to adjust to the change. Much as if their best friend had suddenly left. Sometimes there would be a period as though mourning. Mostly within three days they would be on the phone with a message of gratefulness and relief.
For me this was the only time in my life when I could honestly say I had discovered why I was alive. There are far too many stories to cover here but there each one held a similar experience for us. After sharing what were very upsetting emotions, we would, with our eyes closed, see a powerful light shining right into our eyes. At that moment we could say that we were inside the centre of Love. The skilful action of allowing Love to take our intentions and make effective and appropriate ripples in the lake of experience. A true experience of Love and Light.
Later, after the group had disbanded, I discovered that I could offer similar chances to lost and dispirited spirits through the work of Intentional Healing.
There are hundreds of cases but this is one which encapsulates the hypothesis and the clarity of outcome:
In March, 1990, I was invited to lecture at the Moscow Psychiatric Hospital to a gathering of doctors and professors. They presented me with a number of cases and then they helped a 26-year-old man into the room. He was in a canvas straightjacket and he needed 24-hour supervision. After unsuccessfully trying hospitals in many parts of the world, his family had brought him to Moscow. For the entire six months he had not uttered one word.
Through an interpreter I began explaining to the psychiatrists that he had other souls with him and I believed this was his problem. I turned my focus on him, mindful of the interpreter at my elbow. In English I asked if he really still needed these others with him because it seemed as though it was their time to find love and travel on. I suggested that maybe it was time for these troubled souls to find harmonic resonance in the higher realms.
I had only love to offer him as I had no other way to explain what I thought was his problem.
Can you imagine the confusion in that crowded doctor’s office when Alex looked me right in the eye and clearly said in English, “How the hell do you know what’s wrong with me?” He and I both started laughing! Through his clear relief he told me that he had been sunbathing on one of the Greek islands, fell asleep and woke with a terrible case of sunburn. He described it as though he wasn’t there at all. There was a struggle with powerful emotions within his body. He had no idea who he was and he had no control of his speech or bodily functions.
The outcome of the story is that he was immediately declared ‘sane’ (tricky concept) and as far as I heard, he went home to Greece a happy, but wiser, young man.
Some practitioners use hypnosis, others include past life therapy but I have always felt that it is not really my business why the person is stuck. If I can bring just even a glimmer of love then that is sufficient to break the lock and release that person into the company of loved ones who are awaiting their arrival. Of course there is a definite need for training and the concept of ‘protection’ from ego involvement and other levels of intrusion.
As more and more evidence of spirit attachment arises so it is becoming more a part of clinical therapy. Edith Fiore’s book “The Unquiet Dead” (1987) created ripples still being felt among academics. My own curiosity was aroused years ago by reading “The Three Faces Of Eve” describing the trials of a woman who supposedly suffered from three identifiable personalities who interchanged randomly. The question which I was left with was this: “If these personalities are so easily identified as separate entities, where do they reside at the times when they are not the dominant one?” It has been reported that skin allergies vary and even the color of the eye may change depending on ‘who’ is present.
Those of us who have seen the benefits of this therapy are convinced we cannot ever prove how it works. But I have no doubt that it works.
Far too many people spontaneously describe symptoms which they attribute to ‘possession’ by entities to be ignored and the outcome of this procedure is so frequently accompanied by dramatic change that it invites investigation and clinical use well outside of religious or secret cliques.
I am in the process of doing the research for a book on this subject and would appreciate it if you have similar stories you would like to share. If you wish, your name would not be mentioned.
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