Research page:Spiritual exercises

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• Spiritual exercises

Sleep paralysis

Sleep paralysis: You become wide awake but can't move a limb.

I know of a few possibilities here.

One is that a spirit tries to control your body. If the spirit is successful, it leads to full possession. If not, you yourself gain back control. When your spirit is pushed out, it becomes an OBE (out-of-body) experience. When the ones in spirit world doing this are benevolent to you, your spirit can come back in the body. If not, another spirit may take your body. Sometimes that spirit lives there together with your own spirit, sometimes your own spirit is pushed out. The latter is often the case when the spirits are malevolent.

Sometimes more heavenly spirits or angels also do such things. Another spirit temporarily dwells with your own spirit in the body in order to teach you something.

Another possibility is that from the spirit world changes are made to the energy systems of your body. Also in that case, the spirit is temporarily hypnotized and cannot control your body. Often this happens in sleep or in an unconscious state. Also this can be done either by good or by bad spirits.

When spirits push themselves into your body in an aggressive way, people often fall unconscious for a while. When it happens in sleep, you may not notice it. When you wake up, you may feel paralyzed.

The best to do in each of these cases is to pray. Your connecting to God makes your spirit stronger and you can sense if you should cooperate or resist the experience.

Training the spiritual senses

In order to train our physical senses, we need to pay attention to what we hear or see. A painter learns to differentiate colors. A musician trains the ears and learns to hear the finest distinctions in tones and harmonies. Likewise we can train our spiritual senses. It's done by observing the changes in your own moods and feelings as these are influenced by the spiritual surroundings. It's done by paying attention to how your eyes may feel pain when seeing something evil. It's done by distinguishing the energy that people carry in their voice and that can have a spiritual effect on others. It's done by realizing that pleasant or unpleasant odors carry a spiritual element. In short: we must make effort to distinguish between what our spiritual surroundings affect in us and what comes from within ourselves. The spirit world is always around us.

I did not mention a word about communication with the spirit world. Before someone can reliably have communication with the spirit world, the spiritual senses must be developed in order to distinguish between what's genuine and what could be fraud. This training of the spiritual senses must always be exercised in combination with prayer. For example, if evil spirits would try to make contact, doing as if they were good spirits, our spiritual senses can learn to detect the bad feelings that evil spirits give. However, this will never be a simple matter. Evil spirits know many tricks. Communication with the spirit world is not necessarily something we should aim for. But development of the spiritual senses, when done in a good way, also means to develop our spirit. To develop your spiritual senses is also not the same as to open your spiritual senses. It means to learn to use the spiritual senses in a good way. We already have spiritual senses and we need to learn to have control over them.

Intuition can be seen as the most important spiritual sense. Intuition is an extension of the heart, and the development of other spiritual senses and all our spiritual experiences should always be guided by our intuition, that is when we center our heart on God and not on misled love. Intuition has little or nothing to do with emotions. It is an inner spiritual sense that guides us, provided that the direction of our life is right.

External links

• Possession: Demon and Earthbound Spirits Silently Inhabit Most Souls Dr. Modi discovered that during hypnotic therapy many patients claimed to have 'entities" attached to them, living in their energy fields and affecting their behavior. I find it remarkable that the patients under hypnosis seem to 'know' about these entities and how they work, for example patients reported that their souls were fragmented due to some trauma. There's quite some technical details there. How could all these patients subconsciously have similar knowledge? Is it because Dr. Modi attributes his own ideas to the patients' testimonies, or is it because a knowledgeable spirit or angel speaks through his patients when they are under hypnosis? JE