Dark Figure
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karmicdragonflyI have never posted about having an issue with bad luck and seeing a dark figure in my house, but here are some notes I made during a period back in 2019 and 2020:
My sleep patterns have also deteriorated. And I have lately had a nagging feeling that something was hanging out around me at night. So I started to worry that I brought an unwelcome visitor back with me from Teo. I remember one time startling awake a few months ago, hearing a deep voice saying the words “Hello again, Bart”. This reminded me of a dream I had while actually at the inn near Teo.
These nagging feelings had been on my mind, and the other night as my head hit the pillow, I projected a white circle around me. This was not planned — it was just a gut instinct as I was about to fall asleep. And I slept very well that night!
So ever since then, I have purposefully cast a white circle around my bed, around my house, and a sort of egg shaped cocoon around me throughout the day whenever I think of it. My sleep has been better, and I feel a bit lighter.
I have been watching some re-runs of that old vampire soap opera, Dark Shadows. A couple nights ago, I startled awake from a dream where Barnabas Collins (the vampire in that soap opera) was on my porch, facing me through the glass door. I said he could not come in, but he still reached for the knob, jiggling it and in the dream, I had to grab the knob, raise my voice, and say “No! You are not welcome here!” At that point, I startled awake, but I woke up thinking about the nagging negative feelings I have been having, and thinking that the dream was about the current situation.
When I was fully out of bed on my feet, I no longer saw anything. I did make note that the figure had been seated OUTSIDE of the white circle I had mentally placed around my bed when I went to sleep.
In response, I got up and started the Great Compassion mantra on repeat, playing to all the speakers in the house. The Great Compassion mantra is a Buddhist chant that is supposed to be a nice blessing of protection and healing. It actually did lighten my mood! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-gWBj21lpM
While playing the mantra, I carried burning incense and repeated deep "ohms" in the way I might when I want to calm down for meditation. And I proceeded to cleanse the house. But one thing of note — I skipped the basement because the basement has always been creepy at 3AM!
First, I opened a couple of windows & the back door, then I walked each room in the house with incense (with the accompanying ohms). Remembering that I had not been to the basement a couple days before, I smoked down there also. There was a spot under the stairs in the basement that I “noticed”, so I purposely spent a minute or so blowing smoke into that area.
When I got back to the second floor, I did the finally circle with the incense and in my mind’s eye, I saw a dark figure running out of my back yard into the alley. It was interesting to see that in my head because I hadn’t really been concentrating on anything -- I only had been using the incense smoke to project peace and safety into every corner of every room I went into.
Also of interest (to me) was that during the last pass on the upstairs stair landing, without thinking (and in between ohms), I requested my ancestors' help in this situation. The image of the figure running out the yard came unbidden to mind — just popped into my head as I was completing the final circle with the incense on the upstairs stair landing.
When I first lay down last night, I thought about something that had happened earlier. A couple years ago, I had ordered a spirit board — a ouija board so to speak — that I had planned to use as Halloween decoration. During that Halloween, I had tried setting it out in various places, but it never looked right, so I had put it away. Never used it because I had no real interest in it -- it had been just a lark to order it as a Halloween decoration.
Fast forward to about 6 months ago (after this past Halloween), I’m watching TV one afternoon when suddenly I had the idea to bring out the spirit board. I don’t know why I had that idea, or *where* the idea came from. I mean it was sort of "apropos from nowhere", but I pulled the board out of the closet and out of its box. And I set it down in front of me. I looked at it a while, then I touched the planchette to position it but did NOT actually use the board.
This was partly because I had been uncomfortable from the start with the idea of using the board and partly because I didn’t really have any real interest in using it. (Which begs the question of why exactly did I have the urge out of the blue to get it out of the closet?). Anyways, after a half hour or so, I put it back in the closet.
But when I lay down for bed last night, that scene of me having the urge to get the spirit board out came into my mind. So today, I threw the board away. I wasn’t using it, had no desire to use it, didn’t have a place for it for Halloween, so I had no problem trashing it.
23 April 2020 Projecting Self Protection
Since coming back from Teotihuacan 8 months ago, I have had on and off again occurrences of bad luck — some small, like breaking a favorite mug and some a little larger like having a tire blowout on the car or having a job lined up, only to have the company institute a hiring freeze. And let’s not forget the stomach hernia (which I fixed by myself after several months), but not before I spent the money on an endoscopy and colonoscopy.My sleep patterns have also deteriorated. And I have lately had a nagging feeling that something was hanging out around me at night. So I started to worry that I brought an unwelcome visitor back with me from Teo. I remember one time startling awake a few months ago, hearing a deep voice saying the words “Hello again, Bart”. This reminded me of a dream I had while actually at the inn near Teo.
These nagging feelings had been on my mind, and the other night as my head hit the pillow, I projected a white circle around me. This was not planned — it was just a gut instinct as I was about to fall asleep. And I slept very well that night!
So ever since then, I have purposefully cast a white circle around my bed, around my house, and a sort of egg shaped cocoon around me throughout the day whenever I think of it. My sleep has been better, and I feel a bit lighter.
I have been watching some re-runs of that old vampire soap opera, Dark Shadows. A couple nights ago, I startled awake from a dream where Barnabas Collins (the vampire in that soap opera) was on my porch, facing me through the glass door. I said he could not come in, but he still reached for the knob, jiggling it and in the dream, I had to grab the knob, raise my voice, and say “No! You are not welcome here!” At that point, I startled awake, but I woke up thinking about the nagging negative feelings I have been having, and thinking that the dream was about the current situation.
28 April 2020 Partial Cleansing
I woke up in the middle of the night last night…tossed a bit, then suddenly got up. And in the corner of my eye as I was kicking off the covers, I saw a dark figure inside my bedroom, sitting on a table next to the bedroom door.When I was fully out of bed on my feet, I no longer saw anything. I did make note that the figure had been seated OUTSIDE of the white circle I had mentally placed around my bed when I went to sleep.
In response, I got up and started the Great Compassion mantra on repeat, playing to all the speakers in the house. The Great Compassion mantra is a Buddhist chant that is supposed to be a nice blessing of protection and healing. It actually did lighten my mood! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-gWBj21lpM
While playing the mantra, I carried burning incense and repeated deep "ohms" in the way I might when I want to calm down for meditation. And I proceeded to cleanse the house. But one thing of note — I skipped the basement because the basement has always been creepy at 3AM!
25 April 2020 Another “corner of the eye” dark figure
I had a second experience of a dark figure out of the corner of my eye. This time, the figure was next to my bed.30 April 2020 - Cleansing
I again felt a little uneasy , like I was not alone. The feeling was not intense, but I decided to repeat my incense walk accompanied by the mantra playing again.First, I opened a couple of windows & the back door, then I walked each room in the house with incense (with the accompanying ohms). Remembering that I had not been to the basement a couple days before, I smoked down there also. There was a spot under the stairs in the basement that I “noticed”, so I purposely spent a minute or so blowing smoke into that area.
When I got back to the second floor, I did the finally circle with the incense and in my mind’s eye, I saw a dark figure running out of my back yard into the alley. It was interesting to see that in my head because I hadn’t really been concentrating on anything -- I only had been using the incense smoke to project peace and safety into every corner of every room I went into.
Also of interest (to me) was that during the last pass on the upstairs stair landing, without thinking (and in between ohms), I requested my ancestors' help in this situation. The image of the figure running out the yard came unbidden to mind — just popped into my head as I was completing the final circle with the incense on the upstairs stair landing.
"Thoughts"
During this entire period one thing I noticed was that as I lay down to sleep each night, "thoughts" would suddenly occur to me out of the blue. One night, the "thought" was to project a circle of white light around myself. Another night, the "thought" was to get up and cleanse the house. And in the next section, you'll see another "thought" that came to me just as I was nodding off to sleep. The "thoughts" seemed like whispers.4 May 2020 -- Memory
The house has felt quiet lately, and my sleeping habits have been more normal, meaning, I’m up sometimes in the middle of the night, but not in a bad way. No startling awake hearing voices or seeing shadow figures. No spooky “I’m not alone” feelings. No deep voices or vampires dreams.When I first lay down last night, I thought about something that had happened earlier. A couple years ago, I had ordered a spirit board — a ouija board so to speak — that I had planned to use as Halloween decoration. During that Halloween, I had tried setting it out in various places, but it never looked right, so I had put it away. Never used it because I had no real interest in it -- it had been just a lark to order it as a Halloween decoration.
Fast forward to about 6 months ago (after this past Halloween), I’m watching TV one afternoon when suddenly I had the idea to bring out the spirit board. I don’t know why I had that idea, or *where* the idea came from. I mean it was sort of "apropos from nowhere", but I pulled the board out of the closet and out of its box. And I set it down in front of me. I looked at it a while, then I touched the planchette to position it but did NOT actually use the board.
This was partly because I had been uncomfortable from the start with the idea of using the board and partly because I didn’t really have any real interest in using it. (Which begs the question of why exactly did I have the urge out of the blue to get it out of the closet?). Anyways, after a half hour or so, I put it back in the closet.
But when I lay down for bed last night, that scene of me having the urge to get the spirit board out came into my mind. So today, I threw the board away. I wasn’t using it, had no desire to use it, didn’t have a place for it for Halloween, so I had no problem trashing it.