When you start to attain a certain degree of skill with your spiritual practices you will want to learn how to defend yourself from psychic attack of human and non-human aggressors. In fact, in some traditions it is taught that being attacked is a sign that you are close to a breakthrough where you will be in need of the defence strategies you learn from your ‘test’ or attack. Here I share a summary of defence techniques give to us by Dion Fortune (Christian based occult practitioner) and Damon Brand (sigil magick).
Contents:
- Why would you need protection in a spiritual practice?
- When can you or should you use the described techniques?
- Are these techniques field tested?
- Protection Techniques
- “Low power” techniques or “Spiritual Hygiene”
- Cleanliness and order (spiritual hygiene)
- Various Herbs (spiritual hygiene)
- Miscellaneous but useful tactics (Dion Fortune)
- Things to avoid
- “High Power” techniques (Dion Fortune)
- Banishings (immediate rejection of attack)
- When to use a banishing
- Circle Banishing
- Pentagram Banishing
- Seals (preventing an attack in short term)
- When to use a seal
- Aura Seal
- ‘Closing the circuit’ of your energetic system
- Cutting the cord (preventing the avenue of attack in the future)
- When to cut a cord
- Cord Cutting Technique
- Reiki (as a way to cut a cord)
- Banishings (immediate rejection of attack)
- Long term protection from future attacks
- Damon Brand Sigil Magick
- Reiki
- Vedic Gayatri Mantra
- “Low power” techniques or “Spiritual Hygiene”
Why would you need protection in a spiritual practice?
Once you start to understand spiritual concepts to a significant degrees you will be open to spiritual attack and aggression from human and non-human spiritual entities you meet in your continued practices.
In addition to this, spiritual practitioners who are ‘black hat’ or ‘malicious’ can interact with you psychically and you will have no defences if you are not aware of how to protect yourself. You actually don’t need to understand spiritual concepts in order to be vulnerable.
When can you or should you use the described techniques?
The techniques below are to be used to prevent a future attack or indeed if you are currently being attacked then the techniques within can be used immediately and by anyone to gain protection instantly. Like now. You don’t need to be a spiritual practitioner, you don’t need to be religious, you just need
- Diagnose who you think is attacking you (human or non-human)
- Don’t worry if you don’t know – just use both human and non-human techniques as they are both very simple once practiced a few times.
- and then to follow the instructions below in the ‘High Power Techniques’ section below.
- NB: Being ‘grounded’ in your body (not in nature) will make any of the protection strategies work a lot better however they also work very well without this.
Are these techniques field tested?
The techniques I have described here are some of the ones I use and have field tested as I myself have been attacked on a psychic level before. I have also helped others who have been attacked. Successfully I might add. It’s these experiences which inspired this post.
Protection Techniques
“Low power” techniques or “Spiritual Hygiene”
(If you are currently being attacked go straight to the high power techniques int ehe enxt section and come back to this section afterward)
Cleanliness and order (spiritual hygine)
- Negative entities of a non-human variety and a human variety are more likely to attack you if you live in a ‘dirty environment’. Your bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and any palce you spend a lot of time needs to be clean. it doesn’t have to be luxurious or fancy. It can even be a little cluttered but it should be clean and cleaned regularly. I do a ‘deep clean’ of my place weekly and everyday keep thigns tidy and clean in between. This is enough.
- Make sure your sheets and pillows are cleaned regularly, your shower and bathroom is not full of mould, your mattress’s is not disgusting etc etc. Replace these things if you need to.
- Air out your living spaces if they are musty. Open windows and get fresh air in.
- As above, so below. If your living areas are unclean then in the astral spaces ‘negative entities’ of human and non-human variety are attracted.
Various Herbs (spiritual hygiene)
- Himalayan Salt: Salt has a lot of protection abilities in Astral Plains and hence adding some Pink Himalayan Salt to fresh mineral water (not from the tap unless it’s filtered) and then spinkling it over spaces you inhabit or even over the crown of your head (Crown Chakra) to protect and cleanse yourself.
- Garlic water and whole cloves of garlic or onions kept around the house can ‘soak up’ Etheric Energy and if you are warding off an attack placing cloves of these around the house can soak up etheric energy.
- People also like to use Sage but be careful with these. Dion Fortune (expert on this topic) says you shouldn’t burn low quality incense of any quality if you are trying to avoid an attack or are currently being attacked. this is because low quality incense promote ‘manifestation’ and if you are being attacked a low quality incense can actually help your attacker to access you. Make sure any incense you burn, including Sage, is of a high quality before you use it. I prefer Salt as above for this reason.
Miscellaneous but useful tactics (Dion Fortune)
If you are being attacked during your sleep you can sleep at the other end of the bed to slightly throw off any attack or indeed move the bed to another part of the room to do the same to a larger degree. You can also temporarily sleep in another room from where you have been attacked in order to further throw off the attacker.
Things to avoid
- Avoid burning incense if you aren’t sure of it’s quality as it can promote ‘manifestation’ and make any attack easier for someone. This is discussed in more detail in the section above on herb based protections.
“High Power” techniques (Dion Fortune)
These are the techniques to use if you are CURRENTLY being attacked and need to STOP an ATTACK IMMEDIATELY. I have used the below and can verify their use – in addition they come from Dion Fortune who has a great reputation of almost 100 years in this space!
Banishings (immediate rejection of attack)
When to use a banishing:
When you are being attacked use these techniques but they can also be used as daily preventative techniques either everyday or to bolster protection for some reason.
Circle Banishing:
- Best for humans who may be attacking you via psychic or magickal methods. If you don’t know who is attacking you do both this and the Pentagram (non-human attackers).
- Protects you immediate magnetic field in a given place that you designate. ideal for bed or desk areas.
- Do this ritual twice a day during an active attack over areas you want to like bed or areas you spend a lot of time.
- A ritual done in the morning will last until sunset. A ritual down in the evening will last til sunrise.
- NB: This is Christian based but works for anyone of any faith. If you don’t like the Christian Iconography then instead of ‘God’ imagine ‘The Sun’ instead. Ultimately God is light in both my opinion and the opinion of religious practices for most of recorded human history.
- Stand upright facing East.
- Make a “Qabalistic Cross” (which affirms there is one true God (represented by the sun and imbues this magnetically into your Aura) by:
- Touch your forehead and say … “To thee oh God”
- Touch your Solar Plexus and say … “be the kingdom”
- Touch your right shoulder and say … “and the power”
- Touch your left shoulder and say … “and the glory”
- Clasp your hands together and say … “unto the ages of the ages, amen”.
- Then imagine you are holding a large ‘cross handled’ sword.
- Point the tip of if upwards over your head and say… “In the name of God I take in hand the sword of power for defence against evil and aggression”.
- Imagine yourself, holding the sword growing in stature 3 times your height and wearing solid armour and holding the sword.
- Your body vibrates with the power of God as represented by the sword you carry.
- Imagine drawing a (CLOCKWISE) circle on the floor with the point of the sword where you want to form the protective circle (around the bed is good spot). As you draw the circle with the point imagine pale golden flames are left behind the tip of the sword as you trace the circle.
- The circle should ALWAYS be created in a clockwise direction and NEVER anti-clockwise. The later is anti thetical to God in this tradition.
- Align mentally with the concept of God and imagine that you will rest superbly in the circle knowing that God will defend and and negative entities while you rest.
- At this point you are still facing east standing up as you started the ritual and you have completed the circle. Clasp your hands and raise them above your head facing east as you already are and say…
- “May the mighty archangel RAPHAEL protect me from all evil approaching from the EAST”.
- Keep your hands clasped and turn clockwise to the South and say…
- “May the mighty archangel GABRIEL protect me from all evil approaching from the SOUTH”.
- Keep your hands clasped and turn clockwise to the WEST and say
- “May the mighty archangel MICHAEL protect me from all evil approaching from the WEST”.
- Keep your hands clasped and turn clockwise to the NORTH and say…
- “May the mighty archangel URIEL protect me from all evil approaching from the NORTH”.
- Now turn one last time to the east and repeat the Qabalistic Cross as you did in step 2 of this procedure.
- Once you have done that the ritual is complete.
Pentagram Banishing:
Best for non-humans (including elementals) who may be attacking you. If you don’t know who is attacking you do both this and the Circle Banishing above (human attackers).
- The Pentagram symbol is very potent indeed and this particular method described is used in particular for banishing. There are other ways to use a pentagram but this method is for banishing.
- You could use this when you want to instantly banish the presence of a non-human negative entity or psychic attack.
- We are going to use your arm and hand position to draw a pentagram or 5 sided shape which is a structure of protection and represents humanity and is of very great strength.
- (using RIGHT hand) Touch the thumb to first 2 fingers and fold other 2 onto the palm.
- Make the arm straight so the elbow is fully extended.
- Take your straight right arm in step 2 and move your right hand to the same level as your left hip, palm more or less upwards and fingers pointing to the left.
- Swing the arm and hand in its straightened position upwards as if drawing a straight line up in the air. Stop when the fingers are pointing upwards at arms length.
- Now move your arm and hand down and to the right so that your hand occupies a similar position as step 3 (ie the hip) but on the right hand side this time.
- Now move this hand and arm upwards and to the left (diagonally) so the hand is at same level as the left shoulder and hand points slightly out to the left.
- Now move the arm horizontally so it is in a similar position but at the level of the right shoulder. Fingers are pointing away from the body similar to step 6 slightly to the right.
- Now swing the hand down and to the left (diagonally) so that the hand is at the level of the left hip where it was in step 3.
Seals (preventing an attack in short term)
When to use a seal
Aura Seal
‘Closing the circuit’ of your energetic system
Cutting the cord (preventing the avenue of attack in the future)
What is a ‘cord’:
A ‘cord’ refers to an etheric cord or connection between you and your attacker. It can be used by them to ‘drain you’ of energy (Closed Circuit Ritual should stop or strongly alleviate the effect that as well as a banishing – see above).
When to cut a cord:
If you have ben attacked you might need to ethereally ‘cut this cord’ with a ceremony as described below. If you can’t tell why not do it anyway just to be sure. It doesn’t take long.
NB: This can be an advanced move so if in doubt a qualified Reiki Master could help alleviate the issue.
Cord Cutting Technique:
- If you are not particularly experienced with this method do it over and over again. Make up for lack of experience with ZEAL! (As Dion Fortune notes in her book which heavily influenced this post and my own abilities with defence).
- If the rapport is perceived as a line of light, a cord, or any similar form, attached to the solar plexus, the forehead, or any other part of the body, the best way of severing the rapport is to forge a magical weapon and cut it.
- In fact, if a rapport is felt, the first thing to do is to visualize the cord and try to see where it attaches; the solar plexus is the commonest place. Next formulate the cross-handled sword as described below, and invoke God’s blessing upon it.
- Then visualise a flaming torch, and invoke the power of the Holy Ghost, whose symbol it is.
- Now with the sword hack through the cord or ray until every shred is severed.
- Then sear the stump with the consecrated fire of the torch until it shrivels up and falls off from its point of attachment to your body.
- After such a severing take the ordinary human precautions to prevent the link being re-formed. Refuse to meet the person responsible for its formulation, or to either read or answer letters from him.
- In fact, cut off physical communications as thoroughly and resolutely as one has cut off astral ones for a period of some months at least.
- There are occasions, however, when a person is so completely overshadowed and dominated that he cannot perform this operation for himself. The magical operation of Substitution can then be performed, if he can find a friend ready to undertake the task.
How to formulate the cross handled sword and invoke Gods power before using it to severe a tie:
- Imagine yourself clasping in your right hand a large, cross-handled sword, such as is depicted in pictures of Crusaders.
- Holds it point upright and says, “In the Name of God I take in hand the Sword of Power for defence against evil and aggression” and imagine yourself to be towering up to twice his natural height, a tremendous armed and mailed figure, vibrating with the force of the Power of God with which he has been charged by his formulation of the Sword of Power.
Long term protection from future attacks
Damon Brand Sigil Magick
Damon Brand is a popular and effective teacher of Sigil Magick and his book ‘Magickal Protection’ can help to ward of attacks in the future and offers it’s own banishing techniques as well as long term protection spells.
I find these to be good. I note that a lot of magick is an ’emotional alchemy’ where you start to feel the changes in yourself and take material real world steps to support such magick. As above , so below. Magick rarely works like in the movies – you do actually have to do a lot of work in the real world.
Reiki
Reiki Masters can train you in their own protection practices. They deal in the etheric daily and as such have ‘live’ and very practical experience with these kinds of things. Psychic attacks take place on a magnetic or energetic level and Reiki Masters spend all day in these areas for their work.
It can take some time to find a great Reiki practitioner though – if you are in need reach out and I shall recommend one who can work remotely.
Vedic Gayatri Mantra
While psychic attacks are an emergency situation it is important to note that they come to people who are in need of bolstering their defences and generally eliciting a lot of lifestyle changes in their lives. They can be taken as ‘signs’ that you are meant to improve in order to ‘tackle’ this attack. Think of it as a catalyst more than a coincidence or happenstance.
I find that personally Gayatri Mantra – the oldest mantra in The Veda’s of Ancient India – to be very effective at ‘cleaning up’ our mental state and clearing a lot of psychological things. I chant this often and find it helps me sleep as well as just removes a lot of anxiety from me. Of course great sleep is a fundamental of a healthy lifestyle so even this alone is of great benefit.
You can chant The Gayatri 108 times daily over a period of months to really level up your mental game and lifestyle. I like to implement a 66 day regime as this is the time it takes our neurology to build around new habits. If you chant daily for 66 days you will gain a lot of mental clarity and engrain it into your neurology.
Dion Fortune ‘Psychic Self Defence Book‘ (Download PDF)
A lot of the techniques in this post I took from Dion Fortune’s ‘Psychic Self Defence’ book which is a classic which still holds up almost 100 years after it was written!
Here is a copy if you want to read the whole thing. The techniques in this post were taken from the later chapters labelled ‘self defence methods’.
