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PSYCHIC ATTACK Professor Ulo K. Enyenihi, FRC, IRC, PhD Outline Harmony of the Physical and Psychic bodies The Process of Mental Poisoning The Law of Contact or Contagion
Every student of mysticism knows that a man is a dual being consisting of the psychic body which permeates its physical counterpart. This psychic or astral body is that consciousness and intelligence which accounts for the involuntary actions of our physical bodies working through the autonomic nervous system. It is an embodiment of the Universal Soul Force and Cosmic Mind manifesting and giving life and vitality to the physical material body.
If the physical body of man is attacked with a physical weapon such as a matchet or spear, vital organs such as the heart, brain, lungs and liver may be dismembered. However, such a physical wound inflicted on the physical body does not injure the non-physical psychic body within the physical finite body. It is the positive creative vitalizing power of the psychic body that will initiate, promote and sustain the healing processes in the wounds of the physical body. This healing power is received constantly through the living breath or the life force.
However, if the physical injury inflicted on the body, very adversely affects such vital organs as the brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and intestines, the physiological functioning of these organs may be impaired and the body becomes weak and non-functional. At this point, the weak and mangled physical body cannot cope and harmonize with the high vibrations of the psychic counterpart. It then fails to serve as a suitable living "Temple" for the continued "residence" of the soul force and psychic body, which then separate and disengage from the dismembered body thus hastening to the dust of the Earth. This type of transition for the physical body is similar to those occurring during fatal motor accidents, plane crashes and war situations in battlefields.
Just as the physical body can suffer from a physical attack, the psychic or non-physical body can be a victim of psychic assault. In this case, the injury to the psychic body manifests in injury to its physical counterpart which aches and shows malfunction. This processes by which the psychic immunity of an individual can be destroyed and the being made susceptible to psychic attack we shall deal with under the section on "mental poisoning". The mechanism by which the psychic and the physical bodies of an individual are made to accept psychic attacks without any resistance will be discussed under the section on "subconscious surrender". The mechanics and processes of psychic attack, we shall discuss under "psychic assault".
The originators of psychic attacks are believed to be perverse beings who are vested in the Black Arts, namely witches, wizards, sorcerers, and black magicians, conjurers of evil demoniac spirits, and elementals or salamanders. The potency of the Black Arts hinges on fear and superstition which engulf the minds of human victims. Once thoroughly understood, the Black Arts hold no threat whatsoever to the individuals who would otherwise be victims. It is this ignorance on the part of the common man and woman, which constitutes the bedrock on which thrives psychic attacks and the attendant unnecessary suffering experienced by millions of human beings the world over. The human mind, the most important divine endowment in man, is never content with a mystery and whenever the cause of some event or circumstances cannot be perceived, if it cannot find the solution in the circumstances themselves, it resorts to superstition in an effort to provide a solution. The so-called "supernatural" events, according to our illustrious Dr. H. Spencer Lewis, are those events for which we have not yet discovered the natural law or principle backing them. Superstition is the direct result of substituting imaginary causes for actual ones. In our African cultures, it is very normal to hold devil or ghost and witches responsible for the sudden death of a person who may die because of hypertension. In this respect, a person who on physical appearance is considered healthy, suddenly complains of acute bodily pains and weakness and extremely painful headache which is similar to those experienced by the body after physical combat with opponents. The sudden collapse of such an individual into a comatose state followed by death is explained as the result of psychic combat with invisible ghosts manipulated by witches, wizards, black magicians, sorcerers or conjurers of demonic devilish beings.
Harmony of the Physical and Psychic Bodies Throughout nature, there is continually manifest a constructive creative force of life with which human beings are in contact. This force referred to as God, Almighty, Allah, etc manifesting through the human subconscious which is always susceptible to suggestion. It is this Soul Force which guards and directs our thinking, reasoning and responses to psychic and mundane experiences. It is the "Guardian of the Threshold" which when obeyed by us will always prompt us to be on our guard. It is the "Master Within" who takes over completely from our physical selves while we are unconscious allowing us to have pure and uninterrupted experiences, knowledge and insight. A proper balance maintained between the objective conscious plane and the subjective subconscious plane, builds up a strong link between the physical and psychic body and creates strong armour within and around the physical body which constitutes complete immunity. This immunity is greatly enhanced by having confidence in the supremacy of the "Master Within" who directs us in pure thoughts, manifesting in pure words that commands our physical bodies to perform pure deeds of service in the Master's vineyard.
The knowledge and insight or gnosis available to such an individual, dispels ignorance and superstition and frees such a person, form fear, the poisoned arrow of ignorance and superstition. The individual is truly a master of situations and circumstances in his or her life. Constant and regular conscious contacts with the Divine, keeps such an individual outside the sphere of influence of psychic attackers, as the light and radiations of his armour remain frightening and awesome to the elementals, perverse beings and demons, who dare not come near such person and who tremble in the depth of the abyss which the psychic self sends forth the array of vibrations (voice) in rhythm with the vibrations of the Cosmic spheres. Such a person is armed with an invisible talisman which enables him to maintain perfect harmony within and without.
However, the person who through ignorance of his or her divine birthright, harbours impure superstitious thoughts, lives in constant fear of the assumed supernatural powers of the dark forces, is constantly suggesting mentally to himself or herself that demons, witchcraft and the like, have power over him or her. By this process, he weakens the strong natural armour he should wear. His or her aura of electromagnetic field around him or her, which should serve as that psychic armour or protective shield, is perforated by the fear syndrome which has origin in the belief system of his or her environment and community. It is little wonder then, that such a psychically weak individual is very receptive to suggestions or subtle commands from witches and wizards in his environment. Although they may utter empty threats, these are made potent by the receptive condition of such a victim. Such a person is in a state of subconscious surrender, and is an easy prey to the projections of witches, wizards, and black magicians, who gain easy access to him through the numerous holes in his perforated psychic shield. Such an individual can neither maintain harmony within nor without. This is the group of millions of suffering humans who must be helped to seek and find their lost heritage
The Process of Mental Poisoning Two predisposing factors are responsible for promoting psychic attacks among victims of this heinous act. The first is mental poisoning while the other is the promotion of negative state of mind. Mental poisoning is inflicted either externally by the community (exogenous) or internally (endogenous) by the individual. The majority of Africans and many other millions in other parts of the world are born into superstitious communities who believe in the existence of pseudo-deity or traditional subgod or juju. Some are believed to take on the form of fishes, crocodiles, whales, mermaids and reside in water. In other communities, the deity is a special tree, a huge rock, or a special bird. The object of group worship is held in great awe and is endowed with many extra-ordinary powers including the ability to identify and punish persons who commit crimes and are made to swear by the deity.
The swearing ritual is normally conducted at the open village square in the presence of members of the community. The punishment which such deities can inflict, range from serious prolonged illness to death. With incantations conducted in the presence of adults and children, the pseudo-deity can be called upon to do almost everything which includes protection of families, their homes, their farmland, and also protection of the members of the village or clan from injuries in battlefields and the effect of elements at sea while on fishing trips. To the deity is arrogated the ability and power to increase the fertility of their women as well as the fertility of their farmland thus ensuring increase in population and increase in crop yield.
Parents in such communities perpetrate superstition in their children by telling them aweful stories about the forces of darkness which reign supreme at night. When an owl sings at night, it is explained as the song of witches and wizards in session; if a bat flies into a house at night, it is bad omen as it foretells misfortune and death. To obviate this, the nocturnal animal must be killed and every frantic effort is made to do just that. However, since the effort is made in an atmosphere of fear, the animals in many cases escape unhurt, leaving the people completely steeped in deeper and more frightful fear of the wrath of the perverse beings whose messenger they had attempted to kill. In many homes in such communities, even the appearance of such harmless nocturnal animals like the wall gecko is greeted with disgust and fear. A glow worm (an insect with scintillating luminous light at the tip of the abdomen) which strays into a house is feared as the messenger of the black forces and children are frightened out of their wits if such an innocent creature flies towards them. Cats, particularly black cats, are dreaded at night when they go about their legitimate business of rat hunting.
All members of the community are made aware of those witches and wizards who send those nocturnal messengers in their homes at night. Fear-stricken children and adults are scared stiff if they have to pass by the homes of the identified witches and wizards and may not stand the sight of these persons on the street, because everybody believes that they have the power of bewitching any ordinary person at distance.
Individuals who have been conditioned by the mental poison continuously doled out to them by the group acceptance that everyone is at the mercy of black magicians and the witchcraft society; continue to increase the dosage level of this poison through individual auto-suggestion. They imagine and accept that even minor ailments are caused by the "supernatural" powers of demons and suggest to themselves that death is the ultimate end of their illness. Every worried member of the family contributes money for consulting the soothsayer who is presumably granted the power of clairvoyance over and above that of witches and wizards. The subconscious of the sick person accepts this autosuggestion as a reality and this aids the sick person to worsen his condition which according to his decree, ends in death, despite the sacrifices the family may have made to the witches as advised by the soothsayer. Such a helpless person and his family are credulous, nervous, hysterical, foolish, irrational in their actions and although they can put up a resistance if anyone should attack them physically, in the psychic they show no such resistance as their destruction of their psychic immunity leaves them in a helpless state of subconscious surrender. The way in which evil influences seem to bring intended results is through the fear of it within the mind of the victim. The victim must first be aware that someone intends that harm befall him. This is done not by magic or supernatural means, but purely on a physical level such as a spoken command, a written note, an object placed where it can be seen or a negative thought of any kind with the intention of creating fear. This invitation to an extremely negative state can be handled in many ways by the practitioner of Black Arts. The environment may be one in which trouble and quarrels are frequent and the individual being prepared for psychic attack is deliberately provoked and annoyed so that he becomes negatively charged with annoyance, unhappiness, hatred, and dislike with outbursts of harmful destructive words all of which becloud his aura which oozes with extremely negative vibrations.
The practitioner recognizing his weak negative state strikes fear unto him with threats of killing him for daring to quarrel or challenge him. He promises bodily harm through supernatural means. The fear activates the imagination causing every naturally-produced event and sensation following the threat to become highly exaggerated in the mind of the victim. After a long enough period of holding these fearful thoughts and believing in them, the body accepts the command of the individual's own thoughts and actually creates within itself the condition feared, starting with extreme nervousness and terror. The witches power lies in the victim's superstitious belief. There is no logical, scientific or supernatural connection between the acts performed in black magic ceremonies and the hoped-for results. However, two basic laws govern the practice of black magic. Psychologically, the primitive mind is unable to satisfactorily distinguish between its own notions and realities. It makes its notions as real as the things of the world which it experiences. This is made apparent by the many examples of the law of similarity in magic which states that all things which bear a resemblance to each other continue to act on each other even though separated at a distance.
Eliphas Levi in his book, Transcendental Magic describes the operation of this law by black magicians in Medieval Europe, a practice which is similar to what many aborigines in our land carry out until this day. They procure hair or garments of the person whom they seek to destroy; they select an animal which seems to them symbolic of the person, and by means the hair or garments they place it in magnetic connection with him or her. They give it the same name and slay it with one blow of the magic knife. They cut open the breast, tear out the heart, wrap it, while still palpitating in the magnetized objects and hourly, for the space of three days, they drive nails, red-hot pins, or long thorns therein promote malediction, upon the name of the bewitched. They are persuaded, and often rightly that the victim of their infamous operations experiences as many tortures as if his own heart had been pierced at all points. He begins to waste away and dies after a time of an unknown disease. Such an act is an example of imitative concept. The similarity between the enemy and the animal constitutes to the primitive mind a sympathetic bond between them, so that whatever is done to the animal is transmitted, by means of sympathetic bond, to the person it represents. The Law of Contact or Contagion The psychological principle underlying contagious magic, the second law of magic, is the actualization of the abstract physical elements that compose a person - his hair, teeth, limbs, even his clothing and jewellery, are all integrated and united to make up that person. The law of contact or contagion states that all things once in contact, continue to act on each other even though separated at distance.
The idea of coherence or unity is a strong suggestion to all minds, and particularly to the primitive mind. This abstract notion of unity is then conceived as being an ethereal substance, having reality itself. It is thought to be equal in reality to the parts of which it consists. Consequently, what is done to any part is transmitted by the means of the abstract element - the unity to the distant person. By putting together articles of the individuals clothing, some of the hairs of his body and finger nail paintings, and affecting these in some manner (e.g. by mixing them with beeswax or some substance), from which is formed an effigy of the victim; one supposedly transmits this effect by the ethereal unity to the person or victim himself.
In our African society, the secret of witchcraft is in the application of "witches salve" to the body and this allows or facilitates conscious separation of the psychic body form the physical body. Laboratory analysis of "witches salve" has shown that among a number of ingredients, there are two which are of particular interest. One of these ingredients induces a state of temporary paralysis of the body. The other is a stimulant to the nervous system with the result that mental acuity is greatly enhanced. Being in this state of temporary paralysis, knowingly, with heightened mental activity and a desire to visit some person or place, psychic projection is readily induced through this chemical means. However, psychic contacts under such conditions are only prevented if the person indulging in them does not feel what he or she is doing is right. This is never the case with witches who do not see anything wrong with projecting psychically to harm their victims.
Through similar chemicals contained in certain herbs, which are given to person in food or drinks, witches cause the psychic centres of their initiates to awaken suddenly and such initiates acquire psychic sight, psychic hearing and find themselves in possession of great psychic power beyond them to control. In this clairvoyant state, they can perceive events at great distances and by use of salves can project readily to places at will. Unfortunately, the lower instincts in them receive gratification in the use of their psychic power for harming others.
The practitioners of voodoo cults of Haiti and similar cults in Africa use this phenomenon to bring back to life those who are supposedly "dead". The result of such practices acts as potent suggestions to the minds of those ordinary persons who are unfamiliar with the secrets of the cult. As soon as such beliefs, such auto-suggestions take root in the subconscious phase of mind they become law and one inadvertently leaves oneself open to various and sundry suggestions designed to intimidate and to reinforce the sense of fear. Practitioners of these crafts are versed in the use of herbal and other extracts which act as specific poisons to the nervous system. Some of these extracts when properly administered induce a state of suspended animation. Certain extracts from a type of toad do act upon the nervous system of humans to give the appearance of being dead. The person promptly returns to normal consciousness when the effect of the poison wears off or when the antidote is administered. The same effects of inducing apparent death can be obtained through the use of similar extracts from specific herbs or from a type of puffer fish. What the experienced practitioner of these rites does is to administer the poison to the victim either through food or other means. Pronounce the victim dead, and have him or her interred. At night, the practitioner exhumes the body and administers enough of the antidote to enliven the activities of the brain but only to a certain level. In this way, full consciousness does not return to the victim. As a consequence, the victim cannot reason and is therefore, kept in a state of slavery by the judicious daily administration of small amounts of the poison in the food or drink. Without the ability to reason, the victim remains open to the suggestions of the practitioners.
In Nigeria, similar practices are rampant. A good example is one in which members of the cult after living in isolation in the forest for seven days in preparation with herbal extracts, incantations and ritual dramas, return to the village square to perform such magical feats as dancing in and out of a big open fire to the surprise of the onlookers who regard them with awe are intimidated by fearful thoughts and negative suggestions.
Other similar cults use the same herbal means to have access to psychic power which enables them to drive knives and arrows through arms and legs of their members who show no signs of pain or bleeding. These persons are paraded through the streets to strike fear into the minds of the members of the public who accept their feat as the fruit of supernatural power. Such people who have no knowledge of the effects of herbal extracts on those used for this demonstration of "wonders" are stunned with fear and intimidation which makes them accept the subtle suggestions of the practitioners as a law unto themselves to be obeyed by their subconscious. Thereafter, they live in absolute surrender psychically to the attacks of such practitioners, having inadvertently accepted their command.
Practitioners of the black arts sometimes leave objects which had been retained in their auric field and have acquired the imprint of their thought forms or psychic vibrations in the homes or cars or offices of persons they wish to attack psychically. The thought forms associated with such malefic objects can be picked up through psychometry by those who are versed in the use of this mystical principle. Such a so-called malefic object is impotent and can have no adverse effect on anyone who touches or comes in contact with it unless he conditions himself to believe otherwise, in which case he establishes a law in his subconscious through fear.
Another method by which black Artists reach and harm their victims is through curses made by way of written notes which evoke a sense of fear in the victim who unconsciously accepts the suggestion indicated in the curse as law and suffers its inevitable consequence. An example of such curses is the form letter sent in the mail which demands that the receiver should circulate 20 or more copies to other persons and receive good fortune or failing which, be ready for as imminent misfortune. Normally, examples of those who have had the negative and positive experiences from the curses are quoted and the receiver is ordered to obey or face the inevitable consequences. The curse is as impotent as the malefic object without the willing submission of the victim's mind to the subtle suggestion or command contained in it.
It is to be noted that the basic principle used by Black Artists to attack their victims who have been conditioned for such attacks, is through the law of similarity and the law of contagion. Both laws working together are potent when the victim who is poisoned mentally through fear, surrenders himself or herself psychically to the practitioner. In all the methods used, the success is attained only when the Guardian of the threshold of both the practitioner and the would-be victim accept the act and the desired result as morally right. If either of the two persons rejects, the whole plan fails and such an attack is doomed to fail. A psychic attack cannot succeed if the would-be victim is one who maintains a complete balance between his psychic and physical self by maintaining a strong, upright, honest and just character. He reverses the process of a fearful thought, as well as all negative suggestions; by ignoring them and immediately gives attention to harmonious constructive thoughts of health and well-being of himself, his family and all mankind. A personal inward search to determine when one holds thoughts of guilt, hatred, jealousy, envy, resentment or any of the other negative thoughts within oneself for nurturing of an implanted fear on a regular daily basis is very desirable. Our beloved Grand Councillor will in the second part of this workshop [See Psychic Defence Mechanisms] take you carefully through all the psychic methods at our disposal as Rosicrucian students for use as potent antidotes and reinforcement of our psychic immunity which you MUST use to neutralize the nefarious but continual efforts of black magicians, witches and wizards who according to the law of polarity must exist side by side with those the Cosmic has decreed should be in possession of rare and divine knowledge and wisdom of the Ancients.
Let us, at this time, sit relaxed and reinforce our divine armour through the process of meditation using one of our time-honoured principles. We shall be guided by music and background intonations of sacred powerful words, the language of our divine brotherhood, during this session. May we ever dwell in the Eternal Light of Cosmic Wisdom. SO MOTE IT BE! This article appeared originally in Personal Survival which is a collection of seminars and workshops presented in Memphis Lodge, AMORC Lagos, Nigeria back in 1987. copyright © Memphis Lodge, AMORC 1987 - Send in your comments/questions
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