Shining A Light In The Darkness: Understanding Dark Spirits as Spirit Attachments

Here we are once more chatting, this time we are covering a subject deeply steeped in fear and sensationalism. I will try to peel back the veil of lies and fear created by Movies and Popular culture. Helping you understand the reality of  Spirit Attachments.  Be aware yes we are talking about possession. However I will do my best to not use that word in order to not introduce the baggage of fear and confrontation that it carries.

My own journey in helping people release and cross over spirit attachments began a few years ago. During a Shamanic Healing Session I had an encounter with a group of spirits that at the time I believed to be souls that needed to be crossed over into the afterlife. What I was not prepared for was the fact that I was dealing with a case of multiple Spirit Attachments. It was the moment when I could not help my client that launched me into a journey to educate myself in the subject of Depossession. Soon enough I found a teacher who teaches classes on Depossession through an approach that matched my own energy.

The modality that I practice now is called Compassionate Depossession. In this work we call attachments Suffering Spirits, because we understand that the reason they are causing problems for the living is because they are out of place. Everyone  likely has their own ideas of dark spirits interacting with the living in a bad way. However, suffering spirits come in all forms, including pleasant ones! In order to illustrate that point I tell people that just because a butterfly is pretty, it doesn’t mean that it belongs where your liver should be! In reality everything has its rightful place in the universe, Depossession is all about getting the spirits to where they belong.

I will not deny that true Demonic Possession is real. However outside of the framework of Christianity and Catholicism it is actually quite rare. Yet there are spirits outside of the realm of Demons and Fallen Angels that can be quite troublesome and most of them are not what we expect. My aim in writing this is to expand your awareness beyond the fear of Demons and Fallen Angels. My hope is to help you understand that from the perspective of a Shamanic Healer, these Suffering Spirits too are not only out of place but also suffering a great deal. It is why I tend to approach them with compassion.

Please be aware that trying to depossess yourself is a very bad idea! That trying to Depossess someone else without the proper training and experience is also a bad idea. Depossession as I practice is what I like to call PhD Level Shamanism. It has taken me over 20 yrs of training and experience to get to the point where I can handle the work I am now doing. If you or a loved one are having issues with a spirit attachment, please seek the help of a qualified healer or member of the clergy of your own faith.

With all of that said. Not every spirit I encounter is a Demon. Most of the Dark Spirits I encounter are actually Human. Allow me to explain! In life there are living human beings who are very much loving and caring. In life there are also living human beings that are very toxic in their behavior. Most of us have heard the saying  “hurt people, hurt people”. That saying is key to understanding how earthbound spirits become Attachments, and why they function the way they do.

When a human soul, after death does not enter the Afterlife. It does not get the help they need dealing with their suffering. As long as we are alive we have plenty of resources to deal with life's challenges. When we die those resources only exist in the afterlife. So if a human being was toxic in life and they do not cross over, they will be toxic as earthbound spirits. So when they for their own reasons want to interact with the world of the living, they become Attachments.

Most Attachments of a Human nature do so out of a need to enjoy experiences only available to the living, ranging from food and alcohol, to sex and everything in between. Yes there are spirits who attach out of a drive to be as toxic in death as they were in life. However those are slightly more rare. There are also spirits who attach to the living in order to have a parasitic relationship with our energy system. They feed from our own life energy.

In most of my healing sessessions when I encounter a Suffering Spirit who is human. In most cases at the beginning of the session they have been earthbound and simmering in their own suffering for so long that they have forgotten and drifted away from their own humanity. That is why they feel dark and scary! The more I, along with my Helper Spirits ( Helper spirits are diving beings I work with to do my work ) the more I do healing both for the living and for the spirit. The Suffering Spirits begin to remember who they are, and reconnect with their own humanity. They then rediscover the goodness that is buried deep in their soul after more than a lifetime of suffering. With compassion I then cross them over.

There are other kinds of spirits I deal with as well. I work a lot with beings that belong in nature. Yes, a beautiful forest and mountain peak are beautiful to look at and visit. But if you share a body with them both you and the spirit will have a very unpleasant experience! The most confusing part for the living is that even some beings of nature will seem dark at first glance. The true reason for that normally is the fact that we are dealing with a being that is not human. A good example would be the spirit of a wolf. Encountering a hungry wolf in any way has the potential to be very scary. That doesn’t mean they are evil, it means that they are not human. Beings of nature do not behave in human ways. Because of that a lot of people tend to feel fear in their presence.

There are also beings in my practice that are not human, yet they are not from this world. These beings are complex, yes they behave in ways that are foreign to humans. Some of them are benign, like Angels. Some of them are destructive like the spirits connected to fire. A fire has a place cooking your meal, a fire spirit sharing a body with you will cause you a lot of issues. Most of these spirits are not evil. They are only so highly different from us Humans that we are far from compatible energetically. It is why our emotions and energies hurt each other so much.

Finally we have actual Demons and Fallen Angels. In over 20 years of Shamanic Training and Practice I have only encountered them a handful of times. Yes they try their best to be scary, when we are afraid we produce a type of spiritual energy that makes these kinds of spirits stronger. Yet there is a purpose for these spirits doing what they do. In traditional Christianity and Catholicism having a Demon or a Fallen Angel has a dual purpose. First they test your faith and commitment to your belief system. Second once you are released from their grasp you tend to be placed in a deeper relationship to your faith.

Out of the few cases of  Demonic Spirit Attachments I have professionally seen, only a couple have been with people who were neither Christian or Catholic. In most cases as such there has always been an agreement or contract made with the spirit. Sometimes by a family member, in which case the Demon or Fallen Angel attaches itself either to the whole bloodline or passes its energy from individual to individual as the generations pass. In the other case, it happens in a past life. I have worked a lot cases with Non Human Spirits of many kinds where in a past life an agreement or contract was made, that the spirit was not released before the death of the human who created the agreement, in such cases the spirit is attached to the Human Soul in every lifetime  until they are released from said contract or agreement.

So you see? Everything has a place, even Dark or Non Human Spirits!

 Last I will add for those of you who may feel you have a Non Human or Dark Spirit attached to you. It is of foremost and critical importance that your Mental Health is in an optimal state of wellness. The type of suffering created by untreated mental health issues tends to look like a buffet to Dark Spirits, and tends to leave you wide open for attachments. Even if I depossess you from one, more will come. Until you are taking proper care of yourself. The Biochemistry of untreated mental health suffering, creates damage to our natural spiritual defenses. It leaves us more vulnerable to Spirit Attachments, a condition mirrored and exacerbated by recreational drugs and alcohol. As such if in your work to release Spirit Attachments it is important that you are sober and take care of your mental health with a qualified professional.

It is important that you understand this type of work without fear as much as possible. Fear tends to make these situations worse, it is my intent that explaining these things here the way I did, help you understand better what is actually going on in these instances. The greatest fear tends to be a fear of the unknown. When we shine the light of understanding in the darkness of the unknown, many times that fear banishes!

Travel safely my friends!

Mictlan MoonShadow