attracting "things"

[mara]

I think that when I became pagan and began seeking answers from the spiritual world through diving rods, tarot cards, goddess worship etc...that I opened a door that I am not sure I am prepared for..spiritually or mentally.
At the risk of not being believed, or making myself seem even loonier than I probably already have, I am bothered by an entity or entities in my home that I don't know what to do about...I'm afraid to sleep in my bedroom at night and I dread even going in there at all. I have a constant feeling of being watched and last night I felt something sit next to me on the bed..a few months ago I heard a deep man's voice say something that I couldn't understand. There's a lot more to it, but it's a long story and I'm not gifted at explaining things easily and I would probably lose you.
I actually paid a psychic to help me. He gave me his impressions of the situation which jives with my own, but he said he wasn't qualified and that I need to find a local person with experience to help me...ugh.
I don't even know where to begin..I'm very private in real life, and hate the idea of a stranger coming in..I am frightened by the "thing"..ghost, demon..whatever it is. I think that makes it harder for me to deal with it by myself. Any thoughts???

[~Elise~]

If you have a local paranormal group that does 'ghost hunting' you may want to contact them.

Best bet, in my book, contact a local witch, shaman, HP/HPS and have them help you banish it. Unless, of course, you have the skills to banish the entity yourself

JMO however,

Elise

PS--you are right in that your fear is making it much harder for you do to it by yourself.

[Evendusk]

True, you need to stop being afraid and get angry enough to take charge of the situation. After all, it's your home and you need to feel safe and comfortable there. I had a slightly similar situation in an apartment I lived in.

I began having very bizarre dreams which culminated in a few night-terror-type dreams in which I definitely felt a male presence get into bed with me. It got to the point where I became very afraid to go to sleep. I knew noone who could help me or who I could tell what was happening without being laughed at. Finally I got so fed up that I decided to try to block whatever it was out of my apartment. I only used visualization but it worked.

When I went to bed I would visualize two layers of energy surrounding me, the first was a golden energy that was protective and positive, the second was a powerful swirling white force that would block out all negative energies and only allow in positive energy. I would do the visualization until I could actually feel the energy cocooning me. Then I would visualize a cleansing powerful golden energy moving through every room of my apartment like a river neutralizing any negative energy it came across and scouring out all dark energies or thoughts.

I did these visualizations nightly for several weeks and had no more problems with the weird dreams. Hope this helped.

Good luck. You just need to stand up to whatever's happening and remember that you are more powerful than it.

[kardell]

a couple of years ago i had a go so to call it at practicing magic. the lady that was teaching me was very experienced and warned me that magic atracts magic and we had to properly protect me and the house, we did protection spells and bags to hang on the door which we changed every six months.

even after this my alter became a kind of becon to a few spirits and i had to get rid of it, the reason i dont practice magic anymore. i belive the protection spells didnt work because i was negative about the protection it afforded (my teacher never suffered unwanted attention) and became a vicitim due to this.

only after numerous cleansings does my house now feel comfortable again, but the one thing i had to do for these to work was to be positive and not to worry, to remember that this is my house and they are not wanted here.

Try to remian possitive and if you get these negative thoughts to imediatly replace them with possitive thoughts, i would recomend you contacting and experienced preistess or shaman as said, and putting the proctection sheild around you as said but please remember this is your house, try and do a cleansing with someone experienced it will help you take back controll of the situation, and you can follow on from that.

[Azhria Lilu]

I've come across this many many times over the years. Not knowing the full information it is almost impossible to give a accurate means of dealing with it. Fear will feed the energy or entity that is connecting to you if the entity is a negative one.

You say that you think you opened a door you were not ready for by becoming pagan - was that just due to opening your mind to other possibilities or did you actually do something that may have opened a door, eg through ritual, meditation, etc? If you did not ground yourself properly, or close the ritual you may well have allowed something to come through.

Another question - the fear you feel - have you examined it? Is the emotion due to a natural fear of the unknown or is the entity/energy making you fearful. You need to think very carefully on this one as there can be a very fine line between the two and you have to examine your inner emotions carefully to know which it is.

One more thing - have you spoken to it? Sometimes simply asking why it is there will bring more light to it.

[iucey]

you have to face them, don't be afraid of them.
whenever i saw them in my house i just ignore them.
sometimes they appear beside my bed staring at me or walk into my room and stare at me, i just continue my stuff and ignore them.

you can try what Evendusk did, i use that before and i find it very useful.
What i did was i visualize pale glowing light cover all over me and wash though my house and later i did it again with a golden one.

good luck.

[Night_Goddess]

My daughter (age 20) told us last night that she has been experiencing things coming into her room, or standing on the threshold of her room and staring at her...it gets really difficult 'to just look away, and pretend like it's not there', she says.
I am concerned because apparently this has been going on for some time. She was reluctant to mention it thinking it was her imagination.
Tonight one of her friends said it is very difficult to sleep in the guest bedroom (across from my daughter's room) because of the entities or things looking in.
A friend said if I put epsom salts in a bowl and then cover the salts with alcohol and light it, then 'burn' the house (carry the bowl into the rooms and make sure the bowl travels into the corners of the rooms as well -- that this will cleanse the house of unwanted entities.
I tried this last night and due to the flaming up of the alcohol (and subsequent noise from the smoke alarms), had to douse the light after covering my daughter's room and the hallway to it.
Now the house feels more unsettled than ever, darn it.
It's making me uneasy too.
I feel like I haven't finished the job, so will do so tomorrow with help.
Sorry to make this so long, but does anyone have any additional suggestions?
I understand there are some who are comfortable sharing space with things, but that's just not me or my daughter.
Thank you for any help anyone can offer.

[noxtwice]

I think that when I became pagan and began seeking answers from the spiritual world through diving rods, tarot cards, goddess worship etc...that I opened a door that I am not sure I am prepared for..spiritually or mentally.
At the risk of not being believed, or making myself seem even loonier than I probably already have, I am bothered by an entity or entities in my home that I don't know what to do about...I'm afraid to sleep in my bedroom at night and I dread even going in there at all. I have a constant feeling of being watched and last night I felt something sit next to me on the bed..a few months ago I heard a deep man's voice say something that I couldn't understand. There's a lot more to it, but it's a long story and I'm not gifted at explaining things easily and I would probably lose you.
I actually paid a psychic to help me. He gave me his impressions of the situation which jives with my own, but he said he wasn't qualified and that I need to find a local person with experience to help me...ugh.
I don't even know where to begin..I'm very private in real life, and hate the idea of a stranger coming in..I am frightened by the "thing"..ghost, demon..whatever it is. I think that makes it harder for me to deal with it by myself. Any thoughts???

be firm with it. tell it you do not want it anywhere near you or your loved ones... don't let it feed off your fear, i know that can be hard, but treat it like a salesman knocking on your door at dinner time.