Strange Times…

A PRIMER ON MALEFIC ENTITIES

- Julian Palmer

There are beings in the spiritual realms for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food. When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve. People not yet sufficiently convinced of this statement could understand it to be meant comparatively only. But for those who are familiar with this phenomenon, it is a reality.

If fear and anxiety radiate from people and they break out in panic, then these creatures find welcome nutrition and they become more and more powerful. These beings are hostile towards humanity. Everything that feeds on negative feelings, on anxiety, fear and superstition, despair or doubt, are in reality hostile forces in supersensible worlds, launching cruel attacks on human beings, while they are being fed.

Therefore, it is above all necessary to begin with that the person who enters the spiritual world overcome fear, feelings of helplessness, despair and anxiety. But these are exactly the feelings that belong to contemporary culture and materialism; because it estranges people from the spiritual world, it is especially suited to evoke hopelessness and fear of the unknown in people, thereby calling up the above mentioned hostile forces against them.

Source: Rudolf Steiner, Die Erkenntnis der Seele und des Geistes, Berlin, 1907, p.145; Translated by Nesta Carsten-Krüger

There is much debate in psychedelic circles whether autonomous beings exist—the kind of beings that people quite commonly encounter when they smoke DMT, drink ayahuasca or take high doses of mushrooms. For myself, only at the very beginning of my deep immersion into these states, was there ever a question of whether these beings autonomously existed or not.