How does one stay true to one's own vision in this world?
Hilarion: How to stay true to one's own vision in the world is a very difficult matter, of course, when one of the issues that you came to learn here is perseverance. So, you will throw in front of yourself every opportunity for obstacles, until of course, you realize that those beings that you thought were your enemies are your teachers, your helpers. Not your quote "teachers," but your capital-T Teachers. They are the ones who are there for you truly because when you welcome them, you also welcome a very difficult matter to understand until you shift your own belief pattern about what you think you should know, what you should be learning and how you should be responding in the world.
Ultimately, the way this unfolds is that there is usually a resonance, some deep aspect in yourself in which your personality is now engaged in that resistance. You truly at some level believe what those beings allowing the resistance, welcoming its struggle in you, what they have told you: "Oh, you shouldn't ever sing. You can't even hold a tune," said to you at six years old has tremendous impact for the rest of your life, if you believe it. Yet, this is said commonly to some of the greatest operatic tenors, the great divas and beauties of your planet, told at some point in their lives these lies, and they simply didn't believe them.
Yet, the other factor that must be an important part of this is the energy that strangles you, that draws the energy from your throat when you cough like that, that takes the energy out of your consciousness because it is trying to survive. You see, you have more beings than ever on your planet who are dying without a deeper understanding of God, a deeper aspect of consciousness or awareness. It is one reason why so many are attracted to fundamentalist religions. These are often beings who in a very recent lifetime died in a state of ignorance. They didn't even know they were dead. So, when they get reincarnated, when they choose the physicality, they will gravitate towards ways in which the simplest form of lessons is to understand that there is a higher reality around them to manifest.
The most widespread form of fundamentalist religion on your planet is not Christianity, or any of its derivations, but the Muslim or Islamic religions. These have powerful useful messages, but have also been utilized by those in power to enforce various dogmatic ideas. People resonate to this because there is something they need to know deep in their heart, that there is a larger reality, that God exists, that there is this beautiful energy. Yet when one goes beyond this, one need not be held any longer in the trappings of old ways of thinking and seeing.
Yet, when an individual has passed from this world without this deeper understanding of a higher reality, they tend to be stuck here. They don't know they're dead, and they tend to draw energy from others. They couple with those in which there is a similar personality resonance. They draw energy from that being, and thus when there is a weakness in your body, they will take it from you, right now from your throat, but perhaps from other places as necessary. They do this for their own survival, of course.
Now, the most powerful, broad-sweeping, helpful and consistent method to release the hold of non-physicals of this nature--beings called "intruders"--is just to raise your energy. Do it regularly, by whatever methods you find most effective. We would strongly recommend the methods described in the book Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce, but any method, such as the Vibrational State exercise, which we have described frequently in the past, or other exercises, are wonderful.
Yet, over and over, those things that will influence who you are by the coupling with these non-physicals will be an important factor. Thus, when there is a seemingly different personality that begins to exert itself, in some cases it is welcomed through the resonance, but it is not your personality at all, but that of this other being that simply doesn't know that he or she is dead, living instead through your body, through your energy, through who you are.
Raising your vibration naturally raises the vibration of everyone around you and shifts that resonance. Yes, it is possible to do a de-intrusion, to cause that being to release his or her hold. But, if the resonance is still there, another one will step in shortly, for so many of these beings, more than ever, are dying on your planet without the understanding of the higher consciousness associated with what the higher reality truly is and this is where the knowledge, the learning, the acceptance of the higher vibration is so useful.
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