Psychic Attack
Following on from my post on the link between Paranormal Phenomena and Schizophrenia I have had numerous email asking for more information on mental illness and psychic attacks.
As a consequence, Ive been scouring the academic journals looking for some scholarly studies to cite. This has proved very difficult.
Yes, the paranormal is researched, a bit. Yes, mental illness is well covered, very well covered in fact. But put the two together and I kept drawing blanks. That is until I contacted the parapsychologist, Michael Thalbourne. He reminded me of a well respected author who bravely did some research in this area.
The book is now out of print, but it is still available online through Amazon. You might like to check out the Hardcover version on Amazon.
The ESP Experience: A Psychiatric Validation by Jan Ehrenwald (1978).
Jan was a psychiatrist, born in Czechoslovakia, studied psychiatry in Prague, practiced in London and New York and died in 1988.
It is such a shame that we have to go back so far – over 30 years – to find a readable reference on this topic.
Anyway, there are 19 copies available through Amazon, starting at 99 cents. That seems cheap, given how rare the research is!
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Dear Ms. Breen. There is another book called ‘Multipal Man’ by ‘Adam Crabtree’.
Valerie
Thanks for leaving this reference. Ive checked it out on Amazon and I think the full title is:
Multiple Man
Hope this is the right reference
I see there is also one review of the book on the site, if others are interested. I’m certainly going to follow this one up.
Cheers
Rosemary
Hi Rosemary,
There is an old book, Thirty Years Among the Dead written by a medical doctor, Dr. Carl Wickland. He wrote another book too, but this one is the best.
All best wishes,
Carolyn.
Good one Carolyn. Love the title too! Cheers Rosemary
You might well find Dion Fortune’s ‘Sane Occultism’ of interest. DG
Thanks David.
Here is the link to the book.
Sane Occultism
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and ADHD as a child.
I also had several abilities.
After going to several doctors and lots of drugs and tests a large portion of my abilities left me as well as the schizophrenia diagnosis. I can see lesser auras sometimes now but seem to have lost a majority of other abilities I had (dealing mostly with seeing and hearing entities that others couldn’t), but I’ve recently been seeing things out of the corner of my eye and having odd hyper real dreams that I remember only garbled details of.
I feel like many others are trying to contact me and I am trying to regain what I lost. I think I blocked myself in a way I thought I could undo, but the Ritalin I was on at the time changed the block somehow and affected my memories of that time.
Hello and Welcome to Psychic Revolution Lars!
You’ve come in on a pretty hot topic – and one that needs to be explored more – the link between mental illness and paranormal experiences.
I think because the paranormal is still marginalised by many, including the medical profession, the idea of exploring its link with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is too difficult. But, one day it will have to investigated thoroughly.
Putting on my volunteer counselling hat for a moment, have you taken yourself of Ritalin and are you still on medication to treat schizophrenia? Just need to check that you are OK! There is the possibility that some of your old abilities are ‘bleeding through’ and in part it could be because either you have changed your level of medication or its effectiveness is beginning to wear off.
On the other hand, it may be that something is changing at a higher level, beyond the physical world.
Many people I think will attest to the fact that their paranormal experiences come and go through life and while it possible to block them science has yet to discover how we do this and which mechanisms are involved. Dean Radin (psychologist and physicist) believes this is the key to understanding the paranormal. When we know how we shut it out, then we can learn how to control it coming into our lives!
Cheers
Rosemary
All the Dr’s and drugs ended by the time I was 16. I haven’t been on Ritalin since I was about 10 (by a different Dr’s suggestion) and tend to stay away from any “magic bullet cure” like pills for all but the most sever and then with reason other than just my comfort. I don’t trust Dr’s and take their statements as a well educated opinion that I use to make a decision after doing as much of my own research (based on their opinion) as I can. So I guess you could say I’m ok though the experience of Dr’s early on has kept me a little paranoid, but at least I recognize it.
As for blocking it I’ve had dreams where I’m either in a maze, doing a puzzle, or disabling a trap where the dream always has a similar feel to it. In these dreams I recognize the problem and go about solving it and even succeed but don’t get the effect I expect and feel like I failed.
This is what lead me to the idea of trying to access and manipulate my subconscious through my dreams at about 18. I’m now 33 and had only marginal success towards figuring out how to break through this block. I figure that this is because I haven’t met anyone that believes in this stuff AND that I trust enough to let guide me in the way I suspect I’ll need to be.
One last note is that it seems to me like there is steadily increasing activity in the realm of spirit.
Thank you for explaining all this Lars. I wasn’t intending to pry but wanted to make sure you are OK – well as OK as any of us are!
Im not aware of anyone in particular here who works with dreams in particular but there are certainly a few paranormal practitioners who get involved in conversations on the blog. Hopefully, one or more of them will pick up this lead.
I would caution you against ‘opening up’ without a mentor. You will put your mental health at risk in doing so.
Is it possible that ‘when the student is ready, the teacher will appear’ is relevant in your case?
What is it that drives you to want to open up to the other realms? Is there a gap in your life you are looking to fill perhaps?
Again, LArs just ignore any of my questions that feel too personal.
Cheers
Rosemary
Honestly I feel (and suspect) as though I’ve been working on a project over several life-times. Each life-time has, by necessity, been focused on one aspect that I was driven to explore, experience, and understand as fully and completely as possible. Some of these may have taken more than one life to comprehend. I think this life is the one that I’m supposed to use to bring all that together and finally learn the (or a) bigger picture. But for years its felt like I’ve been stopped by something else.
This something else is familiar to me, the same way a silhouette of a single individual might be familiar even if you don’t know the individual. I’m not a religious person, I am however quite spiritual, and suppose this thing (as a neutral term not good or evil but also without care or inhibitions) could be the classical adversary or Devil (etc.) that is mentioned so often. I’m not frightened by this… whatever it is, but I am troubled and frustrated by the implications.
I continue VERY cautiously keeping in mind that the greatest form of power that this has is the feelings and thoughts within a person or in short illusion/delusion.
Hence the possible reasoning for a risk to mental health.
I do continue on towards my goal to open up, but as there are lines I’ve drawn (so to speak) for my own safety that I will not cross without help, I’m uncertain that I will succeed on my own. Problem right now is that this drive that I’ve followed my entire life/lives is becoming more urgent as if there is a time restraint I’m not aware of.
I’m cautious of this feeling as this could also be a “trick of the adversary” but am also as perceptive as I can be to see if there is anything to validate this feeling.
One thing I’ve noted is what seems to be a pressing increase of spirit activity, but as my gifts have been compromised… and so there’s the conundrum I’m currently working on. Now if I could find my guide… and the frustration.
I think this covers all your last questions. Feel free to ask if I missed something or you need something clarified.
Lars
WHy the drive, the push? Im mindful that this could be the “trick of the adversary” as you call it. So, what else if happening in your life? Are you busy and fulfilled in other ways? We are put on this earth, I believe, to work primarily with the physical form and while it is tempting for many of us (me included) to resist working with the coarser energy, I think this is our challenge. Many of us, I suspect, would rather skip this whole mortal coil thing and step out of it in as many ways as we can find.
Is it possible your challenge this lifetime is actually to stay grounded and in the here and now. Of course, I know nothing about you Lars, and indeed, I may be playing the devil’s advocate.
Which country do you live in Lars?
Cheers
Rosemary
Quite frankly I just got out of a stint at homelessness. I had the opportunity to prevent it but it would have meant in essence being a bum the rest of my life. I chose to take this road so I did have choice and the possibility of finding out about myself. I believe that it is this “other” that wants me to not be able to figure this out.
As for the push I’m experiencing I only know what I said before and that at this point is just conjecture. To reiterate though “Honestly I feel (and suspect) as though I’ve been working on a project over several life-times. Each life-time has, by necessity, been focused on one aspect that I was driven to explore, experience, and understand as fully and completely as possible. Some of these may have taken more than one life to comprehend. I think this life is the one that I’m supposed to use to bring all that together and finally learn the (or a) bigger picture.”
and
“Problem right now is that this drive that I’ve followed my entire life/lives is becoming more urgent as if there is a time restraint I’m not aware of.”
I would agree that I need to stay grounded (even if what I’m talking about sounds pretty heady) but I would also add “and bring all this together”. Now that’s a challenge.
I currently live in Ohio and have never had the opportunity to leave the US.
Blessed Be
Hi Lars
I hope that you now have a roof over your head and, if your situation is vulnerable, that you will first secure your physical safety and comfort. As we discussed previously, we live in the physical plane and to move safely from here into the other realms takes a lot of personal resources and where withall.
Quite frankly, I am concerned that you may not in a strong enough position physically to withstand the strain of what you seek to do. In fact, it may even be that the drive you feel is in someway linked to a need to self destruct. Please excuse me for speaking so bluntly. I have no other desire than to help you and I am writing from my heart and my head.
The drive may be becoming more urgent but I would advise you to put you physical circumstances in order first. Otherwise, you risk sabotaging your efforts and even your life.
Please don’t run off from here.
Others may chime in and offer support – I just dont know when
Cheers
Rosemary
Lars,
Blessings Be to you and may all your needs be met.
Let me start with quoting your last entry…
“Honestly I feel (and suspect) as though I’ve been working on a project over several life-times. Each life-time has, by necessity, been focused on one aspect that I was driven to explore, experience, and understand as fully and completely as possible. Some of these may have taken more than one life to comprehend. I think this life is the one that I’m supposed to use to bring all that together and finally learn the (or a) bigger picture. But for years its felt like I’ve been stopped by something else.” – Lars
I firmly believe this is true for nearly all of us, whether we recognize it in the same manner or not. This “drive” and “urgency” you feel to wrap things up, to ‘complete the project’ so to speak, is something I can relate to quite well and what I went through some 15 years ago. In my personal situation, it was not until I let go of the pursuit, that I found clarity. Well at least a bit of it anyway! I found that by completing one area, I opened myself up to new explorations.
For those of us that believe in “past lives”, I’ve been graciously given the best explanation of this by my wife Kay, that I have ever read or been told. Think of it as a “Continuum”. Our very physical essence comes from the passing on of DNA, RNA, genes, chromosomes etc etc from our paternal and maternal sequence. The very act of creating life is a union containing the most minute pieces of those that come before us in our familial lines.
Therefore, it may not necessarily be, that what we experience here in this physical form called “you” or “me”, is something from a life we previously “lived”, but are GENETIC “memories” of those who did live in and through our ancestors. Many of us have vivid recollections of times prior to our birth that are so visceral and “real” we find it difficult to believe they could be anything but a “past life regression”…unless of course we take “continuum” into the equation.
Now if we take into consideration what many academics have studied, genetics, for instance; finding a long line of “psychic abilities” (regardless of what those gifts may be) that came before an individual, this continuum and our personal experiences makes even more sense. This passing down, or passing along, of certain abilities, we also get a sense of “urgency” in concluding the very theories or psychic equations our ancestors may have been working on. If we can accept the continuum theory, then it would follow we might also inherit the feelings of incompletion by our ancestors on things they did not complete in their lifetimes.
I finally found a great deal of peace in my life about this “urgent need to conclude”, when I realized my “part” or “piece of the puzzle” wasn’t to ‘finish’ anything, rather to find the comparable nature of things between my pagan and religious ancestral encoding. When I was able to articulate the common ground between my Beliefs in the Nordic Pantheon and my Faith in “The Creator” (God) I overwhelmingly was flushed with Peace in my Soul, thus Life. The anxiousness and consuming ‘need to complete’ lifted like a feather on the wind for me.
I discovered that my pagan ancestry and beliefs were all about “Living in the Now” and celebrating the wonders of Creation, regardless of views about the actual events; i.e. 6 day “creation” or 14.5B year “evolution”. My religious ancestral lineage was all about denying ourself now for a supposed reward in the “afterlife”, two very opposing views. But, what if….”The Creator” (Collective Conscious, The Source, The All – whatever label one chooses) did nothing more than CAUSE the “Big Bang” and everything that evolved thereafter is where we are today…would things in the physical world be any less of a “creation”??
Now of course, what I have related expresses is my own “Continuum” and views, but perhaps it will give you a little bit of insight to your own quest. I find when I break things down into “chew-able bits” rather than the “choking”, huge “bite of Life” I am extremely satisfied. Perhaps, for you as well, you need only fulfill your “piece” rather than complete the puzzle of things in your Continuum/Life.
Hope this helps a bit.
Blessings of Peace,
“Fel”
Ok, two concerns you’ve had and both times they are concerns that I am trying to take into consideration. Can I ask we take a different rout?
First to calm some fears I just got out of this problem of being homeless. I’m currently looking for steady employment through a temp service and have worked some with the decent possibility of being hired on at a job that would pay better than any job I’ve ever had. I feel an urgency to find this one piece to a very complex puzzle that is my life today, but it is only one piece and with this particular puzzle I need to have and hold many other pieces in place before adding the final piece that would hold it all in place. I get all that.
This is why its taken me so long to get to a point where I have the small luxury of sitting here and asking someone online a very bizarre question on the side of keeping my life in order enough to keep asking. If these words come off wrong I apologize, I feel a little frustrated with this new attempt at getting an answer I’ve been trying to put together for as long as I remember and I don’t truly mean to be rude.
It seems to me though that your sidetracking or misdirecting the conversation. Lets simply assume for a moment that I’m addressing the most basic and obvious of problems for now. I know I have my own problems and am dealing with and addressing them as best as I can and (I would say [with a slight bit of admitted narcissism] better than most though obviously not everyone) don’t need to be reminded about what I (and everyone else) am dealing with. This just makes everything all the more complicated and confusing.
This is also the hopeless snarl I run into with any person I’ve ever tried to deal with on this subject, but it also seems I need to find a person to help. Quite a problem in and of its self.
So if you have advice about the question I brought up “How do I SAFELY find a way (or person) to SAFELY open up my mind to the abilities I had as a child that were ripped from me by prescribed drugs and societal programming combined with my early need to fit in and be a part of?” Put simply “How do I open my mind back up?” If you do not have a suggestion dealing with THIS answer than please just admit it so I may continue my search instead of spinning my wheels answering questions and problems I’ve already addressed and continue to address as the upkeep of life.
I can see your trying to cover all the bases so to speak, but this line of questioning inevitably turns into its own tail eating snake and never ends. Everyone else I’ve ever talked to about this through out my life (a few dozen in 33 years) has either done what we have just done, been to screwed up to figure out the size of the puzzle, or deliberately misled me. Where’s Achem’s Razor when you need it, its the only thing I can think of that can cut through this gorgon knot.
Hi Lars
Im pleased to see that Dave has joined the discussion. In my dealings with him I have found him to be very honorable and I hope you find his contribution of benefit. Im not sure how long youve been looking around the site but will direct you to the discussion thread on this article on the freedom of religion to give you more of a perspective on where Felbain is coming from.
Im pleased you can understand and have tolerated my genuine concern (over concern?) for your welfare.
Using your call for Occams Razor to be employed, in my opinion the simplest answer is for you to use your mind, in all its clarity to attract that which you need. If you are anything like me, I actually find it quite difficult to send clear, ongoing signals to the Universe, but that is something I accept.
Cheers
Rosemary
PS I hope Im not the Gorgon – terrifying female creature – to which you are referring Lars? Im not that clued up on ancient history and so did a bit of Googling. Lars, perhaps you are referring to another part of history – the Gordian Knot – which Wikipedia tells me refers to an intractable problem solved by a bold stroke. Now, wouldnt that be something!
Lars – sorry for the added frustration…I had no idea of “where” you were in your own Works within and of Self. It seems like I frequently get it wrong with folks.
Okay, you say you “keep yourself well grounded”. Great, I hope that means in the sense of spiritual and energy Workings. I’m fairly sure then that you have your own methods of doing so.
As Rosemary said, naturally using your mind to focus clearly on your given situation will help you as you try to regain your gifts. I think all and any of us who celebrate the use of gifts get “blocked” from time to time. Since these are your gifts and the means by which they were taken from you is potent, it will take a lot of work for you to get in touch with them again, as I’m sure you’re aware.
As for any particular person, without knowing so many aspects of your current situation it would difficult to direct you, but there are many who do this sort of thing. However, it requires time and considerable money.
The Spiritualist Society in upstate New York may be of some help in directing you. I hope Rosemary does not mind if I post the link:
http://www.lilydaleassembly.com/
They offer numerous types of “opening” and grounding techniques, seminars and one on one counseling to better your abilities.
I sincerely hope that is more of a direct answer to your inquiry. Sorry for the muddle earlier.
Blessings of Peace,
“Fel”
I must admit to using spell-check ALLOT! So it was not Gorgon’s knot but the Gordian Knot. Further all my education past High School is self taught for various reasons my “smarts” not being one of them.
I will give more of a reply later but felt I needed to clarify that I meant no slight to you Rosemary and apologize if it was taken that way.
Blessed Be and thank you
No slight given by you or taken by me Lars!
Cant afford to be too thin skinned on the internet – but thats another story
Ciao
Rosemary
Thanks Dave. Of course I don’t mind the link. How else would I, Downunder,even know about this organisation!
Im not sure that there was a muddle earlier Felbain but Ill leave that for Lars to decide.
Cheers
Rosemary
Wow, I got a bit of catching up to do! In my opinion you are right but not complete.
Information travels in many forms and the way it does has effects that are only slightly different. To simplify the idea lets say were dealing with our own communications system; phone, mail, radio, TV, internet, etc. In each case the information gets received and it would be exceedingly difficult to tell how it was transmitted without someone telling you.
I won’t go into detail but I’m certain you are right and that there is more than just DNA/RNA transfer as well.
What flub up were you referring to? I didn’t have a chance to reply to you directly yesterday. Had the eternal curse/blessing of life to deal with. I like what you’ve said so far.
Blessed Be
It seems my replies aren’t going where I think they are. I’ll try to keep things a little better organised.
Excellent Lars. Glad you and Dave are getting on the same page.
And, re your comment about where to post, you should see it from my end
Im grateful, thus far that I have been able to keep up with the many threads that can go at any one time.
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Ciao
Rosemary