spirits. This practice is vital to many people who had died, sometimes tragically or in great fear of death, or with no belief in an afterlife. This is where I began to understand earthbound spirits and the conditions in which they remained after death – their world, their emotions and their psychological problems.
The Spiritualist rescue groups which I attended attracted well-meaning psychics who believed in a greater order of souls, angels and gods. Denomination was unimportant, but being psychic was necessary, as was possessing good counselling skills and the ability to use them on an unseen human being!
But after two years of learning psychic, healing and communication skills I began to find the work with the church limiting, particularly as I was in my early twenties while many who ran the organization at that time were in their sixties.
MY FIRST TEACHER
One Wednesday evening I attended a demonstration by a clairvoyant called Joan Bajzert. After the demonstration, Joan came over to me for a chat. As we talked we discovered how many beliefs we had in common.
Joan was not a natural psychic; in fact she had had no intention of working with spirits until she had been involved in a car accident. After a near death experience, during many months of recovery in hospital she started to see spirits, people who were invisible to everyone else. This shocked her, especially when her ability did not leave her even after she left hospital.
Shortly afterwards, whilst at home recuperating, she saw a Native American who introduced himself as ‘Blue Feather’. Initially she thought he was dressed for a fancy dress party, only to realize he was a true Native American. She wasn’t hallucinating. Her NDE had opened the door to an altered dimension; she was ‘seeing’ another reality. After this visit Joan and Blue Feather agreed that she would work under his tutelage and assist in the work of rescuing disembodied spirits.
It was the guiding wisdom of Blue Feather which encouraged my own natural and raw power to develop into the skills of a soul rescuer. Joan and I would sit together and Blue Feather would channel through her body to the point where Joan’s personality would totally disappear and Blue Feather would transform her features and voice into his own. In these times, he would talk about his life in the spirit world, about his family and wife; he would explain how he had incarnated as a shaman not only in the Americas but also in Africa, and as a result of a friendship made in that life his minder was a powerful African called Chumba.
Slowly I was realizing the various levels within the spirit realms and how they could penetrate the physical. I understood the guidance and spiritual protection needed when rescuing spirits. These soul rescuers from the other side of life are usually referred to as ‘guides’, as they can guide the earthbound spirits to a suitable place to heal, convalesce and forget who they were and remember who they really are within the spirit realms. Later in my life, I discovered how the support and guidance from the spirit world help considerably in offsetting the physical reaction to soul rescue, and gained the ability to cleanse a home or place of an entity without the need to be so physically attacked.
My first experience as an assistant soul rescuer came one day when I was invited to visit a house with a poltergeist. When we arrived it was a dull and rainy day. Thunder was coming from the direction of Heathrow airport, close by. The owner of the house did not believe in ghosts, but she was at her wit’s end. She had had the house blessed by the local priest but the phenomena had not gone away. In fact the presence of the vicar had stirred up the spirit and the phenomena were getting worse.
When we arrived Joan began to recite the Lord’s Prayer. This was her method of calling in the spirit and cleansing the space of negative energy. When the poltergeist began its assault, first a glass flew across the room and smashed against the wall. Then it turned its attack on Joan. As she was being protected by her guides, the effect on her was minimal. I was the unprotected sitting duck. Suddenly I felt a wind rush around my feet as if it were trying to knock me over. I stood my ground and then, with no other knowledge to call on, said some prayers. The next moment, I was rocking from side to side, assaulted by an invisible force which began to ride my back. This attack seemed to go on for some time. I attempted to throw the attacker off, but I couldn’t do it. Then it slowly dawned on me that the spirit attacking me was stuck in or holding on to my electromagnetic field. He couldn’t get out, so, like a fly trapped by a spider, he wriggled and jiggled until eventually all went quiet and I felt him slither to the floor.
Joan stopped praying and peace was restored. The poltergeist, which turned out to be an angry earthbound spirit, was taken away by the guides to a place of correction within the spirit worlds.
I was shocked and battered by my experience. Unable to talk, I collapsed onto the sofa, but after a few minutes, and a glass of cold water, I felt myself again. I had survived my first attack by a spirit and had discovered that I had the power to control the impulse of an entity, however angry.
I had been initiated into soul rescue.
The soul who has passed from a physical state and human consciousness into a parallel world soon leaves behind its relationship with the physical world. The earthbound spirit is one which has not been able to move beyond its habitat, attitudes, environment or status, and so it remains, often disenchanted, angry and even pompous. In many cases this is the reason why the spirit is earthbound in the first place.
There are disembodied spirits who wish only evil to befall the living, who wish to cause them harm or who just become a nuisance. They enjoy cruelty and play psychological games with the minds of the living through haunting and ‘riding’ the backs of their living descendants. I realized I needed to have more experience and knowledge of how to deal with the more malevolent spirits, including unruly ancestral family entities. My work as a soul rescuer began moving away from the Spiritualists and their concept of life after death to the more universal understanding of shamanism and esoteric teachings.
In the past I have been called a ‘ghost therapist’, which I have taken as a compliment, as I can see how appropriate this term actually is. The skill of the soul rescuer lies in trying to convince the disembodied visitor of three things: first, that they are physically dead; secondly, that they can choose where to go; thirdly, that safe passage can be arranged to their chosen destiny, either to their ancestors or to other realms within the spirit kingdoms. Once you have helped the spirit to adjust to a spiritual dimension, its dependence on physical attachments soon diminishes.
The soul rescuer is also often referred to as a ‘walker between worlds’, a person who has one foot in this world and the other in an altered dimension. The soul rescuer’s path is to travel beyond time and space into a dimension understood only by those initiated to reach into encounters with their own death. They must be able to meet the demons and horrors which haunt them and learn through these experiences that once the darkness is behind us, all there is is light, God and freedom.
THE INNOCENT PSYCHIC
NATALIA’S STORY
As a child I never believed that the dead were really dead. Even when my father expressed his own reluctance to believe in life after death I knew instinctively that there was an afterlife for the soul.
When I was 13 my belief was strengthened when a schoolfriend of mine was killed by a car. In the weeks before she died we had become especially close, travelling home on the bus together and visiting each other’s homes. The night before she died she came to me in a dream to say that she was going and we would not see her again. I did not understand what she meant until it was announced at the school assembly the next day that she had been killed in an accident. For three or four days after her death I felt slightly strange. It was as though I was in a tunnel. Everything was dark around me and I
