Maryannaville™

Those with whom we assemble we will soon resemble, so the simple old saying goes. It also tells of a deep Truth. It says that who we are – the stuff of our soul at this moment – is being transformed continuously by the nature of the company we keep; so that, in (our) essence or breath, we are always moving and evolving towards a kind of psychic unity or oneness with whatever relationships we have revolving around us so it is that we are “within. This “company” we keep refers both to the kinds of people “outside” of us and the presence of accompanying thoughts and feelings circulating within us.

To see the nature of this type of  practice and how it works within us, shaping our soul’s possibilities – just imagine how a cold piece of iron or damp wood soon assumes the nature of the fire as it is brought into its proximity. Radiant energy is transferred from one to the other, and soon what has no luminous properties of its own soon is transformed and begins to glow. Moreover, with all this in mind, now consider there are four distinct types of people that can be identified by the four dark spirits inhabiting them. By recognizing these dark forces at work in others, we can learn to catch their dark works within ourselves. Also, once we have the Light to see what is so (in us), we are on our way to being set free from the enslavement inherent in living in the dark of ourselves. Those who aspire to the Light need to recognize these sick spirits and reject their poisonous expressions. The following is a list of four ways to stop sick spirits or thoughts from infecting you. Your detection and rejection of them depends upon your awareness of their presence and your refusal to take part in the spiritual sickness they live to spread. These spiritually dark thoughts must use human beings as their physical instruments, without which they have neither sound nor voice on earth.

The muckrakers: These negative spirits live to drag up old painful events and then revel in the anger, resentment, or bitterness that such unhappy memories must hold in the fabric of their cloth. Stay away from any spirit, in others or in yourself, that wants you to dive into some suffering over what happened in any yesterday. Never consent by stooping to past resentments.

The dirt throwers: Certain low and malicious spirits pull themselves up by pulling others down. They love to gossip, criticize, judge, or denigrate anyone who ever had the misfortune of spending time with them. The only loyalty these denizens of the unconscious worlds have is to their own pain that they feed by involving everyone they can with their dirt throwing. Caveat…don’t bite into one bit of it!

The mud dwellers: There is a group of mired spirits that thrive on low vibrations but that require a human instrument to play out their endless dark hungering. Easily recognizable, these mis-fortunate forces serve up dreadful mental pictures, or tell unsuitable sex jokes, for the sake of the unnatural reactions they produce. Ignore these messed-up spirits and they must take their mud-making elsewhere.

The life-haters: This group of sick spirits perpetuates their hold on the human soul by resisting almost every gift that life offers. They want us to listen to their complaints, agree with their envy, and accept as right their rejection of life when it doesn’t please them. These chronically conflicted spirits need us to join in their party or they can’t spread their poison. This circle of sick spirits needs our lives in order to live. Without us they have no home. Our real inner work is to sweep clean the places in ourselves where such creatures reside.

Remember: These absurd entities have no entrance into our lives apart from where we have left an open doorway. Additionally, whatever has been left open in our unconsciousness can be closed consciously, if we so choose. So, begin today, this very moment, to withdraw any permission inadvertently granted to these dark spirits to exist in your life. Do not judge yourself, nor those around you in whom any of these misdirected forces are active, take heed and become awakened to the overt and covert signs refuse to spend one more moment of your life lending your life force to dark, self-serving purposes.

Originally posted 2006-06-06 21:57:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter