Simply put, when spirituality is an acceptable idea, why are negative spiritual interactions discounted?
We are ready to believe in and consider the spiritual aspect of Life, but why discount the possibility of spirituality being a cause of urgent complaint?
I dare say for vast numbers of people, spiritual negativity is something they talk about and think about and counteract, but don't actually encounter. I mean, you can believe in the Devil, and avoid the temptations of the world (intoxicants of body and mind), whilst never actually seeing or hearing or sensing a horned and pointy-tailed embodiment of evil.
People are protected. People have natural protection.
If you have or believe you have problems with your spiritual safety, by all means look into informing yourself about ways of being safe through written media or professional spiritual helpers - but generally people are spiritually safe, I believe. People don't experience the spiritual emerging into their daily lives in a negative way - that's why we call it the 'paranormal', which literally describes something 'beyond' normal. It doesn't usually happen that people get spiritually disturbed or harassed.
Spiritually, everyone has protection, a natural thick skin, as well as the protective energies of God surrounding them. I admit some people are naturally sensitive, and others like me develop sensitivity suddenly, and such ones may encounter the spiritual in a variety of ways, both positive and negative.
Cannabis is notorious for disabling the natural spiritual defenses of the human organism, so there you go, that's why you get sensitivity and openness (or nakedness) to the spiritual. Use of psychoactive drugs is not recommended for spiritual safety, as it will cause problems for a portion of users. (However I believe that drugs might perhaps be more safely used by those who are initiated and guided by the wise).
Still, though we are generally safe, there are still mountains of evidence in the form of folk traditions around the world that the spiritual world has a shadow that is to be feared. One of the duties of the Christian faithful, for example, has traditionally been to 'cast out' or exorcise evil spirits. It's all very well getting rid of superstition, as we have done in parts of the world over the last several hundred years, but don't prune away useful parts of our heritage that are always relevant. Those who can handle the spiritual dimensions should be prized, they should be valued for the help they can bring the rest of their community - I'm thinking of those who can perform a range of tasks, from getting rid of a lingering uncomfortable atmosphere in a new home, to moving on lost spirit-people, to helping people like me.
When I was in a mental asylum two years ago, I attended a short Christian ecumenical service there, the priest blessed me with the sign of the cross, and for an instant, the energy around my head 'cleared' and felt light (rather than heavy) - the priest had performed a little miraculous spiritual healing through his faith and the power of God. Imagine what the potential is for liberating people who are spiritually shipwrecked and disturbed by harmful energies. It does not always seem abundantly easy to find the figures in society who will disconnect a person from harmful spiritual energies and realign them with Light - it's a specialist service, rather than being down to a given figure in every community.
I'm not advocating a return to superstition. There's still a kind of superstition in my society, in prejudice towards people who are spiritual - the door has swung the other way. I'm advocating a revivifying of awareness that the paranormal will almost always be an issue for some people in human society, and that those who bear the mantle of spiritual leaders should foster the ability to deal with it in full.
Now we have denial. Orthodox psychiatric denial of the spiritual and the ability of the human being to interact with the spiritual (through the sixth senses). The psychiatrist is for most people in my country the person who wears the biggest hat of authority in the realm of mental health - despite being in direct opposition to the state-sanctioned organisation of Christian religion with its beliefs in the invisible and tenets valuing exorcism. Sorry you docs for putting you down, but we're in opposition. That's a confused society, with duplicity of views, with hardened, conflicting stances within itself.
I'm in a strange position when I put forward my position in the psychiatrist's office, talking about mental ill health and making claims for the reality of the spiritual and complaining of painful spiritual interactions! So the doctor will tell me to my face that I have a psychotic condition. When people think you are insane, in my experience they treat you with a kind of loving pity, tolerance at arm's reach, whilst trying to talk to you in a way so as to demonstrate to you that they don't think you are crazy! That amounts to condescension, at least from my perspective, beating my drum for parapsychology.
Let us all be happy in our spirituality, and have compassion on those few who have troublesome interactions with the spiritual energies - and let's pray for everyone who needs it to find the help and information they need to be safe and have the same chance of happiness as anyone else.
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