Keeping Clear
What to do when you have been touched by Darkness.
By
Reverend Nancy Zilversmit
Copyright 2010 by Nancy Zilversmit
Smashwords Edition
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This book is dedicated to the Almighty, Everlasting Source who is the Origin of All Being, also known by humanity as God, Goddess, Yahweh, Allah, Father, Mother and countless other names throughout all time. Also, I wish to thank the Archangels, Angels and other Warriors of Light for their help and guidance over the years to bring forth the help and information for those in need of their assistance.
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After having performed many types of exorcism on people, objects, animals, buildings and geographical areas under the direction of Spirit, I began teaching others how to do so as well. As the years went by students became practitioners of the removal of Darkness. They came from all walks of life, religious and spiritual backgrounds and geographical localities. One of the requests they made was that a basic handbook be written for clients to help maintain keeping Darkness at bay and having more control over their spiritual and physical life and environment. So by the necessity of need this book is written. May those who read it be empowered and blessed.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Who is touched by Darkness?
Chapter 2 - The balance between the Darkness and Light
Chapter 3 - What are these Dark things?
Chapter 4 - No feeding the Darkness
Chapter 5 - Is it really Darkness or is it just life?
Chapter 6 - About clearing yourself and your environment
Chapter 7 - Basic house clearing
Chapter 8 - When you think you need to seek help
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Chapter 1 - Who is touched by Darkness?
Source (God) allows anyone and everyone to be touched by Darkness. Age, race, religion, spirituality, culture, or economic status is of no consequence. You do not even have to believe in it, but it is there in one form or another. It’s how you deal with it that matters.
Why not you? Do you think you’re so special? No one is immune and it’s not just you who gets touched. All great spiritual leaders have been touched by Darkness. It happens in everyone’s life. Get over it. Deal with it. This book will help you with that.
The one word people do not wish to hear is that they might be possessed. It brings up images from horror movies and numerous books of priests in black reciting the ritual prayers of exorcism, carrying Bibles, crucifixes and holy water that sears the flesh while the restrained possessed person screams and writhes in extreme pain, howling, cussing and speaking in Latin or an unknown language. All the while, the possessed is claiming to be the Devil or other beings of Damnation. Thus, giving the priest all he needs to go through his ritual and damn the alleged entities to Hell. It is a ritual that can cause undue torment to both the possessed person and the entities, while sometimes causing harm to those who are performing the exorcism when the entities retaliate.
Some of the more modern buzz words for possession are blockages, being stuck, having bad energy, having attachments or cords to worldly or unworldly beings and many other “polite” ways of putting it.
Possessions come in many forms.
It does not require that there be a full possession in order for there to be a possession.
A possession is a possession whether it is minor or major case.
The other word people do not like hearing is that they might need an exorcism. Exorcism is the act of removing Darkness. This is practiced by all cultures and most religions in one manner or another. It usual includes ritual objects, a form of prayer and a person who is in charge of the removal. In some cases there are other people who assist the person who is in charge of the removal. That person is sometimes called the exorcist.
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Chapter 2 - The balance between the Darkness and Light
Darkness and Light coexist and are the natural order of things in the Spiritual realms and can influence the physical world. Sometimes, they are in battle with one another. Sometimes, they collaborate.
There are times when there is too much Light in the world, thus bringing it out of balance. Other times there is too much Darkness in the world, again bringing it out of balance.
We start seeing a greater number of possession cases when Darkness is the heaviest in our world. Also, there is a resulting amount of violence, fanatics, anger, fear, disease and other negativity creating all types of problems.
During these times the Light must work hard to bring the world back into balance by influencing people to step forward and deal with this Darkness. Influence can be through those who deal with the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. These can be scientists, writers, doctors, psychologists, counselors, and those who tend to the spiritual welfare of humanity, to name a few. They may not even realize they are being influenced to do this.
When then there is too much Light in the world, people ignore the spiritual part of themselves and Darkness is allowed to step in and do their work. This is when people need to be drawn back to their Origin, to their Creator. The Light will step aside so that the Darkness can walk through and re-teach humanity that Spirit exists. One of the most common methods is to possess what Darkness has been given access to.
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Chapter 3 - What are these Dark things?
To explain this would mean understanding what type of Darkness we are talking about. These are going to be explained in simple basic categories.
If you want more specifics as to exact individual types, then you can find that information for free on the Internet sites belonging to self-proclaimed demonologists or purchase books thick with descriptions of these beasties and how to get rid of them. Know that many of these points of reference contain creatures that have come out of the authors experience and/or imagination that they may have never met or fought successfully. Their solutions for getting rid of these critters may be elaborate, inaccurate and something you should not be messing with as a layperson. Some old dusty legends of demons came out of Medieval times when Christianity was demonizing all other religions and taking the pagan deities, which may have a very positive figure of that non-Christian religion, and turned them into something very negative. This was one way bigger, newer religions have destroyed older belief systems.
Dark Teachers - this type, no matter what its origin, are allowed by the Light to present a lesson in our life. The test is how we react to it. These are the hard times in our life. It’s when the bad things happen.
Simple example – you lose your car keys and you have a very important appointment. Are you going to ask others to help find them? Back track where you have been to find them? Pray for help to find them? Break down and cry, get mad and blame others? Is your reaction positive or negative? A positive reaction finds a way to resolve the problem or figure another way around the obstacle that has been placed before them. Lesson is over. Dark Teacher leaves. Or is your reaction negative? Dark Teacher stays and lessons continue. It may become harder and harder. It can eventually affect you emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually. You are not learning, but your negative thoughts, words and actions feeds into the energy of Darkness. The Dark Teacher needs to move on to other “students,” so other Dark Ones move in to replace the Dark Teacher.
Chaotic Dark – Chaotic Dark does not teach anything. They will attack anyone or anything. They need to feed. You have fear. They are hungry for the energy your fear provides. Do you have any other type of negative energy? Do you have negative thoughts, actions or emotions? Do you have an illness or another weakness? They will love you. They will invite their friends who will love you too. You are the “buffet” to which they are more than happy to serve themselves to. They will provide you with your own private Hell. These are the most common entities found in possession cases. They move in when you don’t learn and the Dark Teacher leaves. You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble by learning what the Dark Teacher presented to you, cause now you are in trouble and the Chaotic Dark have made you their home. They do not like changing residences or evictions by exorcism either. These are the ones who have so many times proclaimed, “You can’t have him/her. He/she is MINE!!”
Here is just a word of warning. Do not let it get to this point, but if it does, seek help.
Minor Dark – just means lesser energy. This type stays in groups of other minor dark ones. There is strength in numbers. Sometimes, they are used by the Major Dark ones as “padding” and extra energy. If a possession case undergoes an exorcism the exorcist may be fooled by removing all the Minor Dark ones and think they are done with the exorcism.
Major Dark – means greater, stronger energy. This one is usually the leader and tormentor of the Minor Dark ones. It will feed off both the possessed person and the Minor Dark ones. The fact is, the Major Dark sits back and waits for the exorcist to leave and retakes the victim once the Minor Darkness is removed. An experienced exorcist will know better and force the Major Dark to the forefront. The fight is on when this happens. Again, seek help.
Dark energy – It is the energy of negative thoughts, words and actions you have dumped into the environment around you. It’s NOT an entity. It’s your own waste. It’s humanity’s waste. You live in it, sleep in it and are dumping it everywhere you go when you share your negative being.
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Chapter 4 - No feeding of the Darkness!
If you leave food out for a wild animal it quits hunting elsewhere and considers you a food source. You should not try to befriend it or you can end up as lunch. That “Do not feed the wild animals” sign is there for a reason. But, if you approached by a wild animal you can do a few things. Run for your life and get help or stand up to it. Make noise, scare it off, and repel it. Respect it and give it a wide berth. Never show it fear. It smells fear and that means weakness.
So what does this have to do with Darkness? If you feed Darkness, you will attract Darkness. Don’t feed the Darkness.
You may be the only human being in the room, but you have had an uneasy feeling since entering the room. You are not one of the gifted who can see entities, therefore the room appears empty, when in actuality it may be standing room only with Dark Ones and you are the only Light in the room. You discern there is the presence of something else in the room and it gives you a gut feeling that it’s not good.
What do you do?
Breathe and don’t panic.
Discern. Is it Dark or Light?
Is it Dark?
Don’t feed it! No fear. No anger. No judgement.
Be respectful, but forceful and tell it to leave! One of the most respectful things you can do is tell the Dark, “I forgive you for all you may have done to humanity.” This tends to catch them off guard. They have come to expect to be condemned. It has been found that they will leave either on their own or without a fight when the Light shows up.
Call for help. This is called prayer. Make sure it comes from the heart. Have no doubt! The Light will come because you have opened the door with your call for help and will escort the Darkness away from you (unless it’s a Dark Teacher who is supposed to be there). You may request they escort the Dark ones back to Source so they do not return to this earth plane.
Discern again.
Is it Light? Good. Mission accomplished.
Give thanks and blessings to Source and all who helped remove the Darkness. Gratitude and humility at this point is important and appreciated.
If it is Dark and will not leave, seek help. More about what kind of help will be explained later in this manual.
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Chapter 5 - Is it really Darkness or is it just life?
Before you blame everything in your life on Darkness you need to evaluate if it actually is Darkness. I say this because there are some things in your life you need to accept responsibility for.
Simple example – You are on the road and suddenly one of your tires loses its tread. You drive it, limping, to the tire store. They say all your tires are ready to blow and you need to replace all of them. This is a financial hardship, but you buy the new tires and then complain under your breathe that Darkness did this to you, like everything else in your life.
What you just did is not accept the responsibility that you did not check your tires and replace them before there was a problem. They were old and worn and one of them lost its tread. That is not a spiritual problem! That is a physical problem that you can only look at yourself for happening. Do not place the blame where it does not belong.
I have actually have had people call me in hysteria because they were having one of those days where everything was going wrong and blamed it all on the Dark Ones. I would have to calmly talk to them about what happened, tell them to stop and breathe, discern, calm down and take a real good look at the situation. Then, if something spiritual needs to be done, it gets addressed and a prayer of thanks and blessings is given afterwards. If it’s not spiritual, but physical, mental, medical or something else, they are referred to where they can get that help, but they need to take the steps and be responsible to follow through. A prayer and blessing are still offered if they want it.
If you are under a doctor’s care, in therapy for physical, mental or emotional reasons do not call an exorcist because you went off you meds, therapy or other treatment and you self-diagnosed that you have a possession problem. Stay on the meds and the doctor’s care and then, you can go see a spiritual counselor about your possible spiritual problem. If you chose to go through spiritual help and things improve, then the doctors will notice changes and make their own recommendations and take you off meds or therapy.
The spiritual and physical are not in opposition of each other. They can work together. If you have a broken leg, please go to a doctor. A spiritual healer can aid in speedy recovery by prayer and the spiritual laying on of hands or energy healing, but they can’t set the bone or put a cast on you. Neither should they be the one to remove it. That is up to the doctor.
If you stub your toe maybe you should have paid attention, worn shoes or picked up and put away what you just stubbed your toe on. It’s not always a spiritual matter or Darkness! Take responsibility. Sometimes, it’s just you being a klutz.
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Chapter 6 - About clearing yourself and your environment
Any type of removal of any kind of Darkness is an exorcism. Whether it’s an entity or energy dumped into the environment it’s still an exorcism when it is removed. Some people refer to it by using “friendly words.”
A few samples of friendly words/methods:
Deliverance - removal by prayer.
Releasing - by letting go.
Soul retrieval - is a Native American practice involving a shaman doing the work.
Clearing – cleansing by various methods that may involve energy, tools, prayer or combination of these.
Laying on of hands – prayer while discretely placing hands on a person.
Shifting/moving energy – physical or spiritual means by moving the body (such as yoga) or using tools.
Raising the vibration or the frequency – by using various methods. It can involve sound, physical objects that move energy or spiritual energy.
Some practices that are used:
Bach flowers
Hypnosis
Past life regression/healing/therapy
Guided meditation
Acupuncture
Yoga
Qi Gong
Thai chi
Dietary cleanse
Raw food diet
Biofeedback
Chanting
Ritual
Salt baths
Sage or incense
Crystal or Tibetan bowls
Tuning forks
Drumming
Music
Positive attitude or behavior conditioning
Forgiveness
Religious symbols
Holy water
Cardio exercise
Other therapies or methods may be used. They all move energy and in moving your energy they help remove Darkness in one form or another. None of them is bulletproof, but they can definitely make you feel better. There are all forms of tools. If you like using tools and they work for you, go for it, but I had a case where the tools were but a temporary fix, as they all are.
Sample case: When tools are not enough
A gentleman contacted me about the fact he was being attacked by Darkness in both his dreams and his waking life. He could not sleep without nightmares. He could not focus and he could feel the heaviness of Darkness. His bed would shake. He could feel the mattress shift as if someone had just sat on the edge of the bed, but no one was there. The voices he heard would belittle him. Black cloaked figures would stand at the foot of the bed. He would have “lost time” where he would notice it was one time of day, then suddenly, it was many hours later and he had no clue what he did in between those times.
He took salt baths and got temporary relief. He would sometimes sleep in the tub of salt water. He would demand the entities leave. Because he showed no fear, they would retreat, but when he would start drifting off to sleep they would return. He beat on the mattress, the chair where he sat, the couch, his own body and the Darkness would vacate, but quickly return. He used sage and incense and salt. Nothing worked.
When
he finally contacted me this had been going on for years. It started
in his teens after using Ouija board. This is a form of séance in
which one calls upon spirits for information using a board with
letters and numbers on it. These come in many types. Ouija boards,
spirit boards, even angel boards. They open a doorway to the spirit
realm and they leave it open. It’s touted as just a game. If you
have one of these, get rid of it.
Break it, burn it, trash it. I once broke one of these boards in front of a tormented client and they could hear the entities scream in agony. I then removed it from the home, cleared it, burned it, blessed the ashes and buried it in salted ground.
Back to the Gentleman who had used the Ouija board. He no longer had the board but, it does not matter. The door had been opened and was still open. He came to visit me for an exorcism, which was successful, but his house needed clearing as there was a lot of spirit activity there. I warned him the house needed exorcising or he would be tormented by what was there. He refused and left.
He called me a couple days later to say he was being attacked again, as I had warned him, but now not only was he not sleeping, he had been bitten all over the legs. This was a new form of attack by different entities. These were the ones who had possessed the house, but previously not the body, which had been occupied by other entities. The entities who I had already removed had been sent back to Source, thus leaving the body with a “vacancy sign,” and the house entities eagerly took over the body as the new residents. He asked for another exorcism and this time wanted the house included.
Before performing the exorcism this time I asked more questions about the techniques he had been using to try and get rid of his tormentors. I wrote them all down and reviewed the list. At this point I noticed a pattern. He always fought off the invaders, but never asked for outside help on the spiritual level.
I never work without Source, the Angels or other Warriors of Light that Source sends to assist me during exorcisms. I keep a constant connection with Source and send the Darkness back to Source.
I asked him if he had ever tried prayer when he was attacked or when he felt the presence of Darkness. His answer was a resounding NO. There was no belief that this was needed or that there was a God. He had negative experiences with the religion he was raised in and he had decided it was not necessary because “physical tools” would take care of it. He had left the religion he was born into being angry with God. Even I was no more than a tool.
Well, no wonder nothing else was working for him. He knew the Dark Ones were real by his own experience, but he denied their Creator’s existence or the need to ask that Creator’s help. I sighed. This is not the first time I have run into this. It is actually getting to be a more common scenario.
After a long talk about Source, the Light and the Dark he agreed to give it a try. I exorcised both him and the house. I warned him that he would be tested to see if he would ask for help from Source. He came to a Possessions Anonymous meeting a couple days later to report that he had been attacked and tested. He gave a heartfelt call out to Source, the Angels and the Warriors of Light. He got response and immediate relief. Lesson learned.
If you insist that the God of Religion does not exist, know that God is not in the business of religion. Man is in the business of religion.
If you only believe there is energy in the universe and there is both negative and positive energy, which has been scientifically proven, and believe in a Universal Energy, know that Source has no problem with that. Source is that Universal Energy. It’s just another name, but science can show that these energies exist. If you need that to hang on to, go with it.
Call upon the Universal Energy, the positive energy, and draw it to you, even if you have to use a tool (sound and vibrational tools are a good ways to move and draw energy). The overload of positive energy will move out the negative energy. By the way, it is still a form of exorcism.
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Chapter 7 - Basic House Clearing
Ammonia
Spray bottle
Water in a bottle or bowl
Olive oil or other type of oil (may use fragranced oil)
Salt (any kind will do)
Other things you can add are a white candle, sage or incense. This would be by your personal preference, but is not a requirement.
Non-physical Supplies
Faith
Courage
Calmness
Determination
No doubt
Attitude
A belief system (even Atheism is a belief system)
Remember, this is a BASIC house clearing. It is for maintenance. It will move Dark Energy and some Minor Darkness out of the house. Anything more requires a more experienced person to come in and clear and bless the house.
Set your intention that you are going to clear the house. Get that intention out to whoever you believe in under your belief system by saying it out loud or mentally saying it. Thought is energy. Words are energy. They will be heard by both the Light and the Dark, but above all it will be heard by The One who you are sending that intention out to.
Ask for help, guidance, strength and protection.
Ask for blessing for those who are helping you, both on the spiritual plane and on the physical (if more than one person is participating in the clearing).
Bless the One who you are asking for help.
Ask that your physical tools be blessed and infused with the energy of the Light.
Now prepare your tools.
Pour the ammonia into the spray bottle. Do not dilute it. Ask that this tool be blessed. It will not harm your clothes or other items when misting the house. Put the setting on “mist,” not stream for general use. The “stream” setting can be used to reach high and hard to reach areas.
Think of ammonia as acid to the Darkness. It will dissolve the Dark Energy and cause Minor Dark Entities to move out of an area.
Hold the bottle or bowl of water in your hands and ask that it be blessed by the Highest Power or Energy. Give thanks for that blessing. Now you have Holy Water.
Do the same to the oil and salt and any other tools you use.
Open the windows of your house and at least one door for ventilation. Remove small children and pets from the area. Open all closets, cabinets and drawers. When you go through and mist the house with ammonia make sure you mist these areas that you opened.
Start with the rooms on the opposite side of the house from the open door and work your way from room to room across the house with the ammonia. Do not forget basements, attics and garages. Lightly spray each room. Pay attention to beds and other places where people sleep. Spray sinks, toilets, showers and tubs. Water conducts energy, so these areas are important. Work your way out of the door. Stay outside until the ammonia dissipates. This will be about 15-30 minutes depending on how much ventilation there is.
Minor Darkness will have fled the house via the open windows or door. Once the ammonia dissipates you may reenter the house and close all the windows and the door.
You can now go through the house with the holy water and bless all the rooms. Use the blessed oil to bless the windows and doorways and any other entrances to the house. When you bless the house with either the water or the oil you can give the prayer of blessing used by your belief system or just say, “I bless this room with this water/oil in the name of (whoever you believe in).” The blessing of the house and its entrances helps to block the Darkness from entering.
Salting of the doors and windows with the blessed salt also acts as a barrier that some Dark Ones will not cross.
Note: This does not block out the Darkness that enters with other people or the Dark Energy dumped there by people. It’s like cleaning up after litterbugs.
It is a good practice to repeat the clearing and blessing at least once a week to keep the place clear. Also, clearing and blessing after there have been any negative emotions, arguing, sickness, depression or violence in the house is a good practice. Anytime the place makes you uncomfortable, clear it and bless it.
Remember CLEAR FIRST, then bless. A lot of religions consider a house blessing to clean up the whole Darkness mess, when in fact if you bless the house without clearing it first, then you only anger the Dark Entities that are there and since you have tormented them with a blessing of Light, they may retaliate in kind with Darkness.
I have added other items to the basic house clearing supply list. The white candle may be lighted before you start clearing the house as a symbol of a constant sending of prayers to the Light. Some people actually write their prayer and intention of clearing on a piece of paper and place it under the candle. Be sure you take safety measures when using fire. Since it is symbolic, you might consider a battery powered flickering, “lighted flame” candle for safety.
Others may also use sage or incense. If you use these, then the best time using it in the house would be AFTER using the ammonia. If your tradition includes running sage smoke over a person before starting or afterwards, then it is best to do this outside, especially if doing this beforehand.
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Chapter 8 - When you think you need to seek help
Don’t be embarrassed or ashamed because you feel you need to ask for help. Do not think you are crazy because things are happening that you cannot explain to just anyone. Crazy is to know you have a problem and you do nothing about it.
Several years ago I was having a meeting with a couple of my exorcism students in the middle of the day. We were sitting at a table in a healing center discussing spiritual matters when a man came in off the streets and said he felt he needed to talk to me. He had been referred from a Neo Pagan store down the road. We invited him to sit down and I asked why he had been referred to me.
He was embarrassed to speak in front of the ladies present and stated so. He said, “I think I am a possession case, but I don’t want to freak out your visitors.”
I looked at the ladies and said, “Anyone here ever been a possession case?”
All hands were raised.
“Nothing you can say to us will freak us out or make us think you are crazy,” I said.
He looked at all of us and you could see him physically relax. This was his first step towards freedom from the Darkness. He had taken the responsibility to seek out help. He was homeless when he came to us, but after the exorcism, followed up with spiritual counseling and referrals for his physical needs, he was able to find a job, a place to live and moved on with his life.
In seeking help, be careful of religious fanatics that try and convert you to their religion. This kind will deny you help unless you convert and conform to their beliefs. This is like trading one kind of enslavement for another. Remember, man is the one who is in the business of religion. Some can be very helpful and form a positive state of community, while others would want to control every facet of your life and beyond.
If you already belong to a religion and are comfortable asking for help, then do so. Know that each religion treats exorcism differently. Some are very calm and private, while others make a stage show out of it airing your dirty laundry on a stage in front of the congregation.
If you are not comfortable within your own religious belief system or do not have one, you can search for a non-denominational prayer group that will work with you. They will pray over a person and/or lay hands on a person.
Some religions do not believe in possession or exorcism and will excommunicate its members if they are caught trying to get help.
There are also energy healers and spiritual healers who are not affiliated with any mainstream religion. Some of these are very effective, but beware of the scam artists and those who charge outrageous amounts for their service. Steer clear if they try and sell you an outrageously expensive package deal and objects such candles stuffed with herbs, amulets or promise to do all the work to relief you of some family curse they have convinced you of being under.
Look for an experienced exorcist and check their references. Most of my clientele come by word of mouth. Sometimes, they just feel drawn to walk up to me and start talking about their “problem” not knowing who I am or why they should be talking to me in the first place. I do not try and convert them to anything. I don’t care what religion they practice, except to be respectful of who they believe in. I do not care if they are an atheist. It does not matter. What matters is that there is a possession by Darkness that needs to be removed so that people can have their life and their soul back. The balance between the Darkness and the Light needs to be realigned.
If none of the above is available to you than the one place you can always look for help is to Source/God, the Angels, the Archangels and the Warriors of Light of all the various astral realms.
Warriors of Light/Possessions Anonymous is a group of exorcists and post possession cases who get together to stay clear and help others. This group is based in Phoenix, AZ and is accessible for participation via Internet voice conferencing using Skype.
For further information or questions you can email me at mailto:nancy@sanctuaryofsacredspace.com or write me: Nancy Zilversmit P.O. box 46205 Phoenix, AZ 85063
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