My SO pointed me to this article about exorcism and entity release being used as part of psychiatric treatments: Thought Exorcism was Dead? Think Again.

I laughed as I was reading through some of the parts of the article because they’re very similar to things that I’ve experienced myself, and it just further serves as a reminder to me as to why my therapist might have been less shocked than I expected when I mentioned entity attachment being part of the treatment I’d gone through in the past.

Peter Johnson’s demonic possession was no less bizarre. Askinra’s presence only became apparent when Peter was hypnotised by Dr Sanderson. Under hypnosis, Askinra would temporarily gain control of Peter’s body and use his voice to communicate.

Askinra apparently attached itself to Peter during his former life as a child in 1950s Tibet. He was bayonetted to death at the age of twelve by a Chinese soldier. The soldier’s sheer bitter hatred for the boy sucked in a nearby spirit which became attached to Peter’s soul. When Peter was re-incarnated, Askinra was dragged back into our world too.

When I was in the hypnosis class. There was another person also who experienced entity attachment, whereas the spirit attached to me was from this life time, one of the ones that she released had attached to her in a previous life because she reminded him of his dead wife.

There are all sorts of reasons why entities can attach to a person, my ex fragmented a piece of herself too me because she couldn’t let go, my grandfather when he died attached to me to try and protect me from her not realizing that I was becoming symptomatic with some of the illnesses that he had experienced in his life.

After my ex went back to herself, he went to the light for a time, he still hangs around to check in on us, and watches over my child while he sleeps but won’t attach to me so forcibly because he knows what happens now. While I still have some fibromyalgia symptoms, other than when a flare was caused by an adverse reaction to a medicine I was prescribed, since I did the entity release work the highest issue I’ve had has probably been around a 4 or 5 with ordinarily being around a 1 or 2, compared to 6-7 most of the time previously. I was diagnosed with fibro in August of 2002 after having symptoms for over a year, but not going to treatment because my step-father had convinced me that if I started a job with a pre-existing health condition diagnosed I wouldn’t be able to get insurance. My grandfather had died in January of 2001.

I remember my hypnotherapy instructor explaining that sometimes the fragmenting is intentional and sometimes not. He said that often times there will be interesting reactions from the person who was fragmented once the attachment is released. Three days after my session my ex tried to get in touch via the internet when we hadn’t spoken in any way shape or form for several years. I thought that was interesting. Once I wrote back that I was married and starting a family contact ceased again.

I find it interesting also to see that therapists are incorporating spirit release into their sessions. I’m going to have to ask my counselor about this when I go next time.

Some comments on a forum that I’m on reminded me I’d spoken, again, in the previous incarnation of this journal about children who had second sight, or spirit sight and could see, speak with and interact otherwise with spiritual entities.

I’d remarked at that time about my child who would occasionally beg “nothing” to pick them up and the fact that I would involve them in groundings that I did and in some minor rituals, since that time we’ve had further proof of them having the ability to see spirits, in some cases the situations were even more unnerving than things which had already gone on, but I’ve come to be able to handle them more calmly and with less internal o.O which is good. I don’t want my child to have the same sort of upbringing I had, which in essence involved family members trying to force my senses shut and padlock them, not deliberately but just through thoughtless remarks probably rooted in their own upbringings.

There’s a city within driving distance of us called “St. Augustine”. It’s the oldest city in the United States, and has 400 years of history, a lot of which involves violence and death, through plagues, prisoners, warfare and battles. One of the most haunted areas there is the Castillo de San Marco. When I was at the college in the city I had many problems with ghosts and spirits some intentional some not, but that’s not the point of the story.

The point of the story is that myself and my friend went up there for a day trip in October of last year and we took the munchkin with us. I’d only been to the Castillo once and most of it was closed for repairs and she’d only ever been around the grounds outside on previous visits so we elected to go in. We were about halfway around when the munchkin started complaining about being in the stroller so we put them on a harness and let them out to walk. They took great delight in hauling my friend all around the grounds but when we tried to lead them into one particular side room freaked out and started crying and pulling away in the opposite direction. I picked them up and calmed them down and we went into the room next door. The munchkin then started saying, “Hi! Hi!” but there was no one else in the room and they weren’t saying it to my friend of myself. Then they proclaimed, “War-wah. He dead. Ow!” and pointed to their head and then started babbling a bit. We managed to clarify with them that this was a soldier of some sort, and explained to them that sometimes people do get hurt that way and that it was okay. I explained to the spirit that they might want to try and manifest in a less freaky manner if they didn’t want to leave for the afterlife and we went on.

My SO was quite intrigued by this when we related the story and suggested that we take the munchkin on a more local ghost hunt to see, and because he wanted to see himself what his child could do.

So a few weeks later we went on a ghost hunt at my husband’s place of employment, which is in a converted building, and where they’ve been having some ghostly activity previously. Hubbie made sure not to tell me of any thing that had been going on so that my impressions weren’t colored and I didn’t inadvertantly color the munchkin’s impressions either.

The munchkin got fascinated by a ramp which went up to a corridor to the back office, and  I saw and felt someone walking backwards and forwards up the corridor that the ramp led to. There seemed to also be something in one of the short alcoves which led off the corridor but I couldn’t pin that down very well.

As we were leaving we went through the garage where several vehicles and lost items are stored and the munchkin started pointing up into the small rafter/attic area and waving and calling out like they were trying to catch something or reach out to someone, while following with their eyes as though watching something moving up there.

My SO told me that there’d  been reports of people seeing a little boy in the attic area who had died on the bicycle that was up there, when it was involved in a traffic collision. He said that the munchkin’s interaction with the bicycle had phased him a bit because he’d been holding the child at the time.

At the moment the munchkin isn’t really old enough to properly verbalize what’s going on. They only know certain choice phrases like, “Yes,” “No,” “I dropped X” “Please” “Thankoo” “Hi” “Dog” “Kitty” “Keys” and “Ball” but hopefully once they get more conversational we’ll be able to find out exactly what’s going on. For right now it’s certainly seeming that they can indeed see spirits, and so we take extra precautions when going into areas, and make sure to cleanse and ask for guardians to watch over them, as we would even if they couldn’t, but we also ask that the guardians keep out anyone who might interrupt them from sleeping properly, and otherwise disturb them because they’re manifesting death wounds or other gruesome things like that.