I just moved into a new apartment in Brooklyn, NY. After about 4 weeks here, I have started to notice some unusual "activity" ... strange bumping sounds (which could be mice ) in the walls and shadowy entities my roommate can see out of the corners of his eyes on the walls.
I have not practiced any forms of magick yet in this apartment. I did, however, start studying up on the Enochian system last night ... about the time this activity started again. My roommate does not believe in anything supernatural, but he did admit to some "unusual" activity in the apartment a few months ago.
What rituals might be in order to clear things up in the apartment?
Burn some sage all through the house (or some sage incence). Sprinkle holy water (water that you have prayed over....I have some alchemicic and "godly" methods if you would like them), coupled with salt and the intent to banish whatever is there. I learned this little trick from IAM.
Im not at my own comp right now and need to look through my notes, if you can wait a couple of days ill either post em or PM them to you. If you cant wait, then "emflaming" yourself in prayer will work also.
[QUOTE=Ashnook]Im not at my own comp right now and need to look through my notes, if you can wait a couple of days ill either post em or PM them to you. If you cant wait, then "emflaming" yourself in prayer will work also.[/QUOTE]
I take a slightly different view. I don't think it's always necessary to banish entities. Hauntings or entity activity can often be minimised by acknowledging the existence of the entity - after all it was it's home first - and offering a truce so that you can both share the space.
You may wish to give it a room, or a chair of it's own, where it can do all the banging about it pleases, so long as it stops waking the children and scaring Aunt Mary. Perhaps construct a small shrine where you place an offering of a few flowers or some food. Make it clear to the entity that you live here now and you're not going anywhere and you wish to make peace.
I would attempt to co-exist in harmony before banishing. If it really wanted you gone or hurt, you wouldn't be here talking to us. Extend the hand of friendship and you might be pleasantly surprised.
If it's a harmless spirit but wanting you gone, you running around saying "be gone thou accursed demon" won't have much effect. It will just think you're talking to someone else and ignore you.
These spirits may have something to 'say' to you. This is precisely what happened with Dr.John Dee. Therefore you may wish to 'hear them out' before you banish them.
Well, that is in interesting thought ... however, I have friends who can't get rid of their new found friends. Wherever they move, the spirit goes with them. I'm not really interested in that potential side-effect. How would I know what it really wanted?
[QUOTE=magickingdl]Well, that is in interesting thought ... however, I have friends who can't get rid of their new found friends. Wherever they move, the spirit goes with them. I'm not really interested in that potential side-effect. How would I know what it really wanted?[/QUOTE]
That could be troublesome, depending on how the spirit activity was manifesting. Sometimes people become emotionally attatched to spirit activity ie they talk about it, think about it and basically feed it with their own energy, sometimes creating a mountain out of a molehill.
I tend to think that genuine spirits who have been 'in residence' for some time are 'feeding' off our energy and that can't be good.
I have seen people become attached to spirits (for want of a better, all encompassing term) because then it becomes a scapegoat for all their problems ie "but how can I succeed in life when this spirit keeps causing trouble for me".
In just the same way as some dysfunctional families focus their attentions on a supposedly 'problem child' in order to NOT focus on the very real problems in the family unit such as untreated alcholism or domestic violence, for example, some people will focus their attentions on the unwanted spirit. Your friends may be in denial about some issues they need to address and are choosing to be distracted from it by the spirit activity.
It's also possible that the spirit is attached to something they own, rather than to a person.
If I was your friend and was bothered by the spirit, if it did not respond to the 'hand of friendship' or attempts to communicate with it, I would STOP talking about, thinking about it or feeding it energy in anyway and have a good hard look at myself and my life. I would thoroughly cleanse my home, my possessions and also myself of any psychic links or cords that may have developed between myself and the entity. If further action seems to be required, then commencing on a daily routine of LBRP's and QC's should do the trick.
If your friend is plagued by illness or drug addiction, I would banish the spirit's a*s from here to the next millenium beause it could be playing a part in that.
With regards to communication, scrying is probabley the initial route to go. Anything from ouija to black mirror. According to your beliefs certain prayers/rituals can be recited/performed before any method of communication is undertaken.
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