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Practical Psychic Self-Defense: Understanding and Surviving Unseen Influences

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PRACTICAL PSYCHIC SELF-DEFENSE sets itself apart from every other book on the subject of psychic self defense by looking at the world from the viewpoint of negative energies (or "Negs" for short). Discarnate negative energies cause a wide variety of problems in people, ranging from minor physical ailments, to obsessive thoughts and compulsively destructive behavior, to insanity, to suicide. Mystical author Robert Bruce describes these otherwise unseen things, and describes how and why Negs attack, and ways that these attacks can often be stopped even as they are occurring (by crossing over boundaries of running water, for example).

Negs who are attached to a human host can (and will) strike out against the target of any negative feelings their host may have. All the unsuspecting host knows is that they were watching television and every now and then grumbling internally about how upset they were with someone else -- but in that trancelike state, those grumblings direct negative energy towards the target! Negs feed on such energy, and are delighted to wreak havoc and mayhem at every opportunity. Those who dabble in black magic are often surrounded by negative energies, and any time they so much as feel angry or hurt by another, terrible things happen to the people they were upset with.

What I love most about Bruce's book is it's no-nonsense style. It does not attempt to prove to disbelieving readers that negative energies exist, but rather dives into the matter at hand of what to do when demons cause mayhem in one's life. Bruce describes his favorite techniques for dealing with Negs, and describes times these methods have proven themselves effective.

I also love the way Robert Bruce describes failured rescue attempts -- such as a time when a priest was called in to do an exorcism for a tormented family, but was unable to prevent the parents from dying suddenly. Bruce does not attempt to sugar-coat things, or say that all cases of possession can easily be overcome! Those of us who have encountered some especially difficult cases of negative energies know this is not the case. Negs are not necessarily easy to dismiss, and definitely don't just leave when someone asks them nicely to go.

Bruce says it like it is, and helps us all find new ways of dealing with "The Dark Side", which I find most refreshing and wonderful! Whether you are are skeptical about the existence of negative energies or deal with them on a daily basis, you'll find much of value in PRACTICAL PSYCHIC SELF-DEFENSE. I give this book my highest recommendation!

Your average modern-day person does not believe in the spirit world. If they do, the spirits are usually thought of as benevolent beings of light or as angels etc... The truth of the matter is, people of ancient times knew better. They knew that the spirit world was real and consisted of beings both malevolent and benevolent. This knowledge was widespread and cross-cultural. This knowledge led them to take specific measures to protect themselves from negative spirit beings. The lack of such knowledge in the modern person in no way protects against the onslaughts of negative beings and in fact makes the person of today easy prey. The views held by modern people with respect to the spirit world are anomalous when viewed in the context of Man's history. It is only arrogance that has caused us to view the knowledge of the ancients as superstitions and the product of 'magical thinking'.

Robert Bruce brings a modern slant to ancient knowledge. He convincingly describes how negative influences from the spirit world wreak havoc with our lives causing obsessive complusive disorders, violent behavior, depression and even death to name just a few problems. He outlines praactical nuts and bolts techniques to protect one's home, one's children and oneself from these influences just as our forefathers would have done.I highly recommend this book.

FYI- other books addressing this topic are- 1) 'The Path'- by Esmeralda Arana and 2) 'The Active Side of Infinity'- by Carlos Castaneda. Both of these books say that once negative influences are removed from one's life, one begins to develop 'paranormal' abilities such as clairvoyance and telepathy.

Robert Bruce does it again! After Astral Dynamics, I find this book also as good as the previous.
This book is one of the best in Psychic self-defense. As a clairisentience, I found this book perfectly written. The methods in the book really works!
I went out to a place known to have some lost earthbound spirits, which gave some employees a feeling that somepeople are walking behind them. I describe that they will just walk along this path back and forth. Which was correct..but the reason is that above the basements one could see water pipes and water mains which gives (emits) life giving energy. This energy restricts these entities to be trapped in a certain area. I also would like to add something to the book which I had also found out, Reiki helps. For those who has Reiki, there is nothing to be afraid of. The frequency of Reiki is much higher than what the entity can bare. I had some of my friends close gateways with Reiki, and it really does close the gateways.
The methods of the book really work. I've read Dion Fortune's book on Psychic Self defense, but I found that rather dry and not much help. This book is well written and well researched.
The back part of the book have some banishment ritual used by Magicians. As a practioner of Magick, I found the details a bit lacking in the sense of the essence of banishment. But it still works. Overall this is a book which can provide great help to anyone. This book might also make you become paranoid of things around you. But don't be, since you will understand the nature of things and how to deal with them on the 3rd part of the book.
For skeptics, they might think this is nonsense. But still, having this book would be a good guideline, since you'd never know what will come up next. Besides the book itself is fun to read.

Practical Psychic Self-Defence...perhaps the Confessions of a Regularly Possessed Exorcist would be a more accurate title. More than half of the book is an autobiography of the author's extraordinary, at times life-threatening, experiences with 'negs'. There is a lot of unusual information casually given. The author's world view seems to be monotheistic, patriarchal, and karmic - a sort of unspecified Christianity with some Buddhism thrown in. Church and a 'wholesome' lifestyle are repeatedly given as the best means to avoid possession. While he believes that 'negs' are constantly harassing humanity, angels, apparently have better things to do than step in and help for fear of interfering with, it seems, karmic issues. He places occultism, witches, voodoo, in the unwholesome 'neg' pile of things in life in opposition to his unspecified Church lifestyle. In the latter part of the book when the information comes to the 'what you can do' part, when referring to blemishes on the body as physical connections between the 'negs' and humans, he cites witchhunter techniques: "The discovery of blemishes... [through a barbaric means of sticking what can only be described as skewers into the flesh of people]...was considered definitive proof, at the time, of being a witch, and justified torture and sentence of death, regardless of other evidence." It's not clear that he considers this procedure evil, which of course, it was, and makes no further comment except to say he tried to consult with Vatican demonologists to, it seems, discern if any such techniques are still in use [it is unclear why - does he want to learn?]. These remarks are made so casually that, coupled with the negative comments about witches and occultists etc. throughout the entire book, it is not unreasonable for a reader to reach the opinion that the author might find a great deal admirable in the Malleus Maleficarum.

If you have a tendency to paranoia or are easily frightened, perhaps avoid this book. It is a sincere text but utterly humourless - it is my understanding that good natured humour and laughter is a very effective means of dissolving unwelcome and sometimes frightening astral influences. Also if you have a liberal view of sexuality and sexual orientation the author's seeming Catholic Catechism type opinion's of sex might offend. If your world view is a bible based Christian (possibly charismatic) one that holds a dim view on other cultural approaches to the unseen world, then this 'defence' book may suit you, if you can handle his karmic and reincarnational beliefs. While there probably is much within the pages of this book that bears further investigation with regards to how one can prevent damaging astral entities from undermining an individual's wellbeing, the tight cultural bias of the author weakens, for this reader, the validity of what he presents. Houn'gans, occultists, witches, Hindus, shamans and a plethora of other non-Christian spiritual explorers must have a wealth of valuable information and insight into how one can keep one's body, soul and mind integrity when confronted with unseen influences. The author tells of his discovery of the efficacy of running water as a means to cuts ties with 'negs'. In an ancient Manichean text (the Book of Elchasai cited in Hippolytus, Refutation IX) amongst others seeking healing, 'those possessed by demons' are advised to go down to the river and baptise themselves five times a day in the cold water, seven days in a row, whilst calling "to witness the heaven and water and the holy spirits, and the angels of prayer and the oil and the salt and the earth." Manicheans were also tortured and executed by the Church as well as by Pagan religious authorities. Perhaps if there are future printings of this book, the author, who is clearly a willing investigator, will have explored some of the riches to be found outside of a monotheistic Judeo-Christian approach to include a wider readership.

It is only because of our Western societies lack of willingness to accept the realities underlying the materialistic manifestation we create, that most people are blind to the true causes behind many problems.

My third eye opened unaware to me as a side effect of a spiritual awakening. Suddenly I was made aware of discarnate entities within my environment. I gradually realised, through direct observation over the following few months, that they were feeding off energies within me. It took months of researching and many anguished moments before I began discovering pertinent information relating to my manifestations. During this time I was spending between 10 -18 hours per day in direct contact with these 'invisible creatures' and as a result learnt more as time progressed.

I am currently at the point where I have read practically everything relating to Entity Manifestations and Psychic Self Defence, additionally researching these subjects from different religious perspectives. Personally I have discovered much to add to the current expanse of knowledge already gleaned. But I must say that Robert Bruce's book would have to the most concise, useful and pertinent information on the subject available. And not just from my own encounters but also in relation to my ex girlfriends possession.

Robert's common sense approaches can be adapted to individual circumstances and methods and symbology's modified or amended to fit more appropriately with religious beliefs or domestic situations.

Highly recommended for many different levels of entity incursions: anything from light negative influences through to full blown "virtual puppetry" possession.

While I loved part three of this book, which I felt provided the reader with many valuable tools and techniques to combat psychic and negative entity attack, I could have done without part one and two.
In my opinion, if a person suffering from some form of attack or possession read the first chunk of this book, they would become so terrified/depressed that they would be much EASIER targets. I understand and agree with much of the writing in his work; however, it is difficult to fight something off if you are shaking in your boots from having been filled with horror stories.

The solution, skip directly to the last section. Use the techniques provided in part three. Robert Bruce gives excellent defense measures that range from material, to energetic, to esoteric and everything in between.
The content of Part 3 is so good that it far out balances any weaknesses. I cannot, not give it a score of 5.

This book is incredible. There is so much information to absorb, I loved it. As I was reading it, I noticed I experienced a lot of the same exact phenomenon that the author describes. I have never heard anyone describe exactly what I have seen or felt before. That was really shocking. It was very comforting & reassuring to know I am not alone or crazy. I now completely understand why I need to protect myself & how important that is. This book will open your eyes & everyone HAS to read this immediately! Everything he says is the TRUTH. This book is very out there so if you are a believer you will love this & cherish it. It will scare you, then amaze you, then protect you. The most important book that I have come across in the occult/new age world. If you have nightmares, insomnia, sensitivity, childhood terrors, addictions, hauntings, obsessions, compulsions, unexplained behavior--GET THIS BOOK. It will help you overcome a lot of negativity in your life, surprisingly easy. I now sleep great at night. Thank you!

Although this book was a bit dry at times, and although Mr Bruce does tend to get carried away with the "sweetness & light" philosophy, there are actually a number of workable techniques here, many of which could successfully be implemented even by an amateur. Better even than the books by Dion Fortune and Denning & Phillips. The only book which surpasses it is "Arcane Lore."

I call this psychic protection 101! Robert Bruce is very thorough and describes everything in layman's terms, this book is really very user-friendly. The dead sea salt baths he recommends are very theraputic and the grounding techniques are concise and easy to understand. Everyone, especially empaths will truly benefit from mr. bruce's wisdom. i suffered what seems all my life from "neg attachments" and i will gladly say i don't feel alone going through this anymore. I now understand the causes and effects of negative entity attachments. This book is the a-z coverage of what,why and how negative entity attachments are and more importantly, how to get rid of these nasty and sometimes dangerous attachments. This book is the best bar none!! May you find peace and light.

Anybody interested in OOBE might have read Bruce's "Astral Dynamics" which reads like the manual for OOBE. His new book paints a fairly dark picture of the psychic realm with cratures like Astral Spiders and Astral Snakes. Sounds like, as humans, we are constantly being attacked from this dimension. Something as simple as a mole might be a sign of an energy attachment (drain) from the psychic realm.

I bought the book because he has an interesting method for removing skin blemishes with a ball point pen. I was in for quite a surprise when I looked over the book. Bruce paints a similar picture as do Carlos Castaneda's books of this realm. Bruce himself also seems to be a target of this dimension from what I've read. Perhaps he has opened himself to this through his Astral Travels. It would be difficult to think of wanting to explore this realm through an OOBE after reading this book.