Every year I feel that my career has evolved as I have had the opportunity to do more research, meet more people and have more personal experiences. And I think that should be the case for any professional; The more you know, the more you will grow! However, I realize that not all doctors or healthcare professionals are concerned about stepping out of their comfort zone and seeking answers in alternative medicine. As Abraham Maslow said: “When the only tool you have in your tool bag is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
My career began in science education, which I think gave me an excellent basis for research and drawing conclusions based on data. This foundation helped me in my studies in psychology, where I investigated the physiological causes of mental disorders. However, I believe that my “personal breakthroughs” came when I was drawn into the metaphysical and New Age worlds of thought.
My experience drawing conclusions based on research and data is what I relied on when my wife, Mary, heard voices, saw “spirits,” and had unexplained physical symptoms. We first tried to “explain” your physical symptoms of lack of energy, dry skin, canker sores, and sensations of pulsing energy in various parts of your body through modern medicine. However, all the medical tests he underwent were perfectly normal. Doctors could not find any rational or medical cause for her symptoms. No GI abnormalities, no allergies, no detectable pathogens, Mary should have been the picture of health, but she was getting sicker! And as for seeing energy and hearing voices, the solution was to diagnose her as delusional and put her heavily sedated in a psyche room. So after two years of exploring medical answers and getting none, we began to investigate “non-traditional” medicine. This led us on a five-year trip around the country that actually gave us answers.
The answers went far beyond my wife’s physical ailments. The answers we found included some basic questions that I had liked all my life; Is there a spiritual dimension? What happens to us when we die? What is the purpose of life? And why are we here? We were guided to the causes and cures for her physical symptoms. Answers to what she was seeing and hearing, and they took her to worlds we never intended to explore!
My research included searching historical data, cross-cultural reports from around the world, reports from the last hundred years, theories in quantum physics from the last hundred years, and personal interviews with shamans, light workers, and psychics from around the country. .
All this led me to form the following conclusions;
• Consciousness can exist outside the body (evidenced by Out of Body Experiences (OBE), Near Death Experiences (NDE), Reincarnation, Physical Phenomenon, and Quantum Physics).
• Our consciousness (or soul) is eternal.
• There is the spiritual dimension; there is no “heaven” or “hell”.
• Low vibration “trapped” spirits can affect us in life, known as entity attachments, causing mental problems such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse and schizophrenia.
• We incarnate in this life to learn and grow our soul.
• The challenges in life are posed by us to learn (have different experiences) and overcome the obstacles that we place in our life (make our soul grow).
• We travel with the same group of souls to achieve our “earthly goals”.
The above views may seem controversial or revolutionary to people who have not been exposed to metaphysics, the new age, or spirituality. But I was led to these beliefs by research, data, and personal experience. As a psychologist and former science teacher, it has led me to change my point of view about the causes of mental illness. Before Mary’s experiences and my research, I looked for physiological causes such as nutritional deficiencies and the cause of mental disorders. However, I now believe that most mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are caused by negative energy bonds.
These attachments are referred to throughout history (dating back to prehistoric times) as entity possession. This is what Maria experienced. This is what caused his physical and mental illness. And when these negative entities were released from her, she was cured. Shamans and light workers (energy healers) did what “modern medicine” could not. She is a health picture today and does not take any medication. Her experiences led her to study energy healing techniques of Reflexology, Reiki and Reconnective Healing herself.
You may be wondering (which was also my question) “How do you know these shaman healings didn’t just cure her because she believed in them? Like the ‘placebo effect’?” To begin with, neither she nor I “believed” in such cures. Mary was a financial supervisor and I had a background in science. Neither of them had been exposed to or had prior experience with energy healers, shamans, or metaphysics. But with each healing energy, Mary improved. Thus began my research on the New Age and the Metaphysical World.
My main research question was, of course, “What is causing it?” and “Is possession of an entity real?” This led me to investigate my main premise, can consciousness exist outside the body? As I said earlier, my conclusion (based on research and personal experiences) was that YES, consciousness CAN exist outside of the body! In Mary’s case, these disembodied entities attacked her and caused her physical ailments and depression. When they were released from it, it got better! Just as the ties of entity accumulated over several years, it was years before she was fully cleared.
When we prove that consciousness can exist outside the body (as I think we do), we PROVE that:
* OBEs and NDEs are real.
* Our conscious energy (souls) does not die when the physical body does.
* Our conscious energy can return in other earthly incarnations (try reincarnation).
* The spiritual dimension exists (this is where our conscious energy is).
* Disembodied spirits can affect the living (entity possession), causing both physical and mental illness.
Another New Age concept is that “everything happens for a reason,” and the events that were experienced, which we now call “divine events,” we believe happened so that we can help others. My training in science and psychology, my wife’s illness, and “psychotic” experiences led us on this divine journey that not only healed my wife, led her to be a healer, but answered some of our basic questions about causes. of mental illness. And the purpose of life! He also gave us a purpose in this life, to help others understand and heal mental illness and also to understand the purpose of life on Earth!