Just gonna add: write everything pertinent to your practice down. Everyone practices differently in their own way, especially if you are solitary. For instance, take eggshells. Mir uses eggshells a lot for natural protection. However, I have never once used eggshells in my craft. Does that mean one of us is wrong? Absolutely not. It just shows that there are many ways to practice the craft; no one way is "correct".
For me, I've found that tarot cards were a much easier divination tool to funnel my energy through than something like a pendulum. I've found that I can pinpoint my meditation to certain areas instead of just my whole body, so long as I'm holding the right stones to focus on. It's things like this you'll learn in time through some trial and error.
More importantly: get a sense for what feels right. If it doesn't feel right for you, then don't do it. Listen to your intuition–it'll be your natural guide through this journey.
I am super proud of myself although I am still a bit of a fledgling I am getting better at actually interacting with spirits and I think my top favorites are Kyle (which he is new but so is most of the human spirits i know) and Tanaka. I named Tanaka this because well he shares a soul with my oldest teddy bear named Freddy (not like FNAF) and the fact that he is usually 5' 6" but can turn to this chibi-like state where he acts like a backpack and I love him. Kyle is a big mood and Tanaka likes to take my depression when i'm sad.
Pardon?
I'm sorry, I've just never heard of anything like that in all of my research.
After consulting my grimoire:
What
Well Tanaka is over 1400 years old (at least his soul is anyway anyway not the bear and as for the ears I think he does that for fun) and Kyle is just a mood that likes to sleep in dark corners. If you want this verified I will refer you to my friend that sees them too. She has been helping me with my sight (of the spirits) for a while now. If you want to think I am crazy that is fine I mean I wouldn't believe me either if I hadn't have seen them.
… Did this friend give you anything to eat or drink?
Dude she didn't drug me if that is what you are asking (i'm not mad just shocked you would ask that)
That's exactly what I'm asking
Glad that's not what happened
I just see things and I guess that other have different views which I will respect that
My friend had a sleep paralysis demon that she has started seeing while not asleep or even at night. It's often doing things with no real purpose and sometimes she says it talks to her. Any ideas what might be happening as I'm worried about how it's affecting her?
It's not that I have different views, it's the fact that I can't find anything regarding something similar. I don't just want testimony from your friend, I also want testimony from the masses, but it's starting to appear that your situation is that of a singularity.
I don't mean to sound harsh in asking this but… is it possible these entities are lying and manipulating you to see what you want to see instead of what's actually there? I'm concerned for you, Loki.
My friend had a sleep paralysis demon that she has started seeing while not asleep or even at night. It's often doing things with no real purpose and sometimes she says it talks to her. Any ideas what might be happening as I'm worried about how it's affecting her?
@The-Fool
@Mendokuse
I'm not sure how to deal with demons of any sort, so maybe they can help you instead.
If they wanted me dead I would be Red and I understand the concern. But all I do is go with the flow so how could there be a certain thing that I want them to be and not only one but three other people have seen them so how can that be? if i may ask without being hostile
That's a part of the craft I don't really fuck with, I don't want any shit like that coming after me so you'd have to ask someone else like Red suggested.
If they wanted me dead I would be Red and I understand the concern. But all I do is go with the flow so how could there be a certain thing that I want them to be and not only one but three other people have seen them so how can that be? if i may ask without being hostile
Oh, I wasn't talking about consciously, I was talking about the subconscious mind. It's is a huge guide and tool in the craft–it is what provides us with basic intuition after all. But because we can't really use it in aware thought-processes, it can be easily manipulated if the being knows what they are doing. It's the main reason why I triple check if I'm speaking to the correct deities, because it could be a different entity in the guise of the one I subconsciously wanted to talk to.
So it would be like Loki acting as Odin
Right hold on, lemme go back and read
I suppose, I'm not sure if gods disguise themselves as other gods though (time to add that to the list of things I need to research).
An example of this happened to me a couple of months ago, a ?trickster? (still not sure what it was) showed up to me while I was in the middle of some chaotic and destructive behavior, and claimed that it was the Greek God Pan. A quick tarot reading revealed that it indeed wasn't Pan, and probably stopped it and me from doing some serious damage. After being found out, it just hung around, looking over my shoulder as I counted up the spoils of my theatrics. It left by the time dinner rolled around.
Had I not done that simple check of identity and simply accepted what the being told me, I don't know what would have happened, but definitely not something good.
….In all my years..
Oh boy right here we go.
So my partner is a medium. He sees the spirits of deceased humans, and after consulting him about this he is rather skeptical.
Something he told me, was that the spirits do not change their form.
- For example: This was when we were 15, he interacted with the spirit of a deceased 17 year old boy, and from what I remember he looked fairly healthy. His form never once changed.
Now something that I learned myself as well as from my partner, was that it is very rare that a spirit will actually interact with you——unless you reveal that you can see them. It’s not impossible, as I know someone who has seen a spirit without even being involved with this kind of thing, but it is still rare nonetheless.
Another point I should make is that barely any of the spirits that are still on this plane, especially human ones, are older than 100. This is because, from what I remember, the older the deceased, the easier it is for the soul to Passover. Of course, you do get some extremely rare cases where the soul is trapped on this plane for a while, and that’s usually because they have unfinished business. I don’t mean to sound rude saying this but I highly doubt that ‘Tanaka’ (love the Black Butler reference by the way) is 1400 years old. Unless he has clearly stated to you that he has unfinished business that he requires your particular help for, then I think you need to re-evaluate what you’re saying. No spirit, who is 1400, would still have unfinished business that they would need the help of a young child to complete.
You are claiming that 3 other people have seen these spirits, do you think, perhaps, you’re lying to yourselves?
From the description you gave of ‘Tanaka‘, it sounds like something that people will just tell themselves is real just to make someone feel better. Again, I don’t mean to sound harsh.
the sleep paralysis one straight up sounds like the lore in the movie mara, and I really hope it ain't gonna end like that
My friend had a sleep paralysis demon that she has started seeing while not asleep or even at night. It's often doing things with no real purpose and sometimes she says it talks to her. Any ideas what might be happening as I'm worried about how it's affecting her?
What do you mean. By how it is affecting her, has something happened?
My friend had a sleep paralysis demon that she has started seeing while not asleep or even at night. It's often doing things with no real purpose and sometimes she says it talks to her. Any ideas what might be happening as I'm worried about how it's affecting her?
What do you mean. By how it is affecting her, has something happened?
She's scared of it and she hasn't been doing very well sleeping-wise and she's been very low in terms of emotions and mental state and it started around when it showed up
I'm not very good at explaining it
I get what you’re talking about.
Okay, so the demon she is witnessing is actually a hallucination linked to sleep paralysis, which occurs when a person is jolted awake in the middle of the rapid eye movement phase of sleep associated with dreaming. She has woken up but her brain is still dreaming — and it's projecting her nightmares into the real world.
You need to help remind her, and tell her to remind herself, that what she is seeing isn’t real. Help her to see that it can not harm her, that it isn’t real.
