february 2015 - June 2019

(Dear Vywamus,)

What can I do to archangel Michael come of my dream. I feel his Devine presents.

Varsha Sharma

Thank you

Hello Varsha Sharma,

You're asking to have more and better connection with Archangel Michael, now that you feel his presence. He is with you, and you can deepen your ability to connect with him consciously as well as in your dreams. What I say here applies to anyone who is interested in having a stronger relationship with a higher guide.

One way to do more is, first, find an image of Archangel Michael that you can relate to. This may be a picture you find on the Internet, or an image in your mind. You may want to draw a representation of him on paper (not to worry if you are an artist or not). Then, keep that image around you and look at it often during the day. 

Also, check the energy in your body and see if you can get a "feel" for what the energy in your body is like at a time when you notice his presence. 

Finally, if you can, set aside some regular time for meditation during which you can call on Michael, picture him, and then listen inwardly for what comes. Then if you find thoughts or words that seem to come from him, or you sense a change in your body, write it down. Don't try to judge right away whether what you hear is truly from him, just take everything at first. As you go on, you'll develop your own way of sensing what's from him and what's from you.

This is a good way to start off, and after that, it's a matter of practice. If you go to the News page of this web site, you'll find a whole section on Meditation and Receiving Guidance. I wrote this as general guidance for practicing receiving the energy of Spirit, but you can focus your practice on Michael in particular.

Good luck with this, it's a wonderful adventure!

Warmly,

Vywamus

 Dear Vywamus,
 

How can I cancel a strong negative influence...directed by somebody against me? I have been advised… that this person's envy, and desire (that I not)…succeed, … is very strong…I don't know...if this person is in my present or from a past time… Regardless, I would like to terminate for good any connection… 

Betina

Dear Betina,                                                                                         

I’ve selected your question because you’re ready to hear what I have to say, and also because there are other readers who struggle with similar issues and will benefit from reading this. What you are experiencing has been distressing and frustrating for you up to now, but there is hope.

So, you have been thinking that this negative energy you describe is coming from a malevolent person from this life or the past, dogging you and persistently interfering with the fulfillment of your dreams, perhaps even wishing you harm. And of course your natural reaction is to want to protect yourself and cut off all contact with this person so that he or she cannot affect you any more. Yet you haven’t been able to do this so far, and there’s a good reason why. This entity is a past self of your own that has stayed with you into this lifetime.

You experience this past self as an “other” person, and some psychics might read it that way. And indeed this past self is very different from the person you are now. Yet it is still a part of you, carried in your energy field. You could say that it’s a part of your “spiritual DNA” in this lifetime. What you’ve been doing so far is like trying to cut off a part of yourself. That never works. This is why you’ve failed to get rid of it.

The trick is that, rather than cutting off this part of you from another lifetime that feels like an intruder, you need to actually improve your connection with it, make peace with it, and even perhaps transform it into an ally. This is quite possible, and indeed it’s one of the things you came into this life to do. I’ll outline the process for you here. You will also find more detail about how to do this in some of the other letters from this ASK VYWAMUS page.

For the benefit of other readers, I add that the advice I give here and the steps I suggest apply just as well whether the problem is with a part of yourself, or whether is seems to be with an outside entity. The steps are the same.

Now, before you can move out of this long and difficult time, and embark on changing this part of yourself into an ally, you must first complete the lessons this struggle has brought you. What have you thought and felt, learned about yourself, about others, and about the world, from the presence of this negative energy in your life, and from your efforts to understand and deal with it?

This difficult experience has been given you for a purpose, and the sooner you notice and accept the lessons you have been learning, the sooner the purpose can be fulfilled and you can go on to other things. Don’t be in a hurry to say “I have learned nothing, gotten nothing from this painful experience.” Dig deeper. There is something there in the process you have been going through that you need to notice and receive.

For example, maybe you have learned through it that, though you hate the experience, you have the strength to survive it. Maybe you have learned that others can help -- or, that they don’t , and you have learned how to be on your own. Maybe your experience of the negative energy coming from outside has led you to try out ways to deal with other forms of oppression or attack in your everyday life, and you’ve learned some things that work and some that don’t. These are three examples that may or may not apply to you. You may find many more.

So I advise you, first take some time just to explore what these lessons are about for you. Do this before you go on to take my next advice, or it will not work as well.

After you’ve discovered at least some of the learnings this difficult time has brought you, you can go on to the next step: learning to communicate with this past self of yours. You must hold some conversations with this past self. In these conversations, the basic idea is that you each have a chance to express how you feel, and what you want or need. And when you do this, each of you has a chance to listen and better understand the other, and to eventually  work together toward an end to this struggle, and something better in the future.

By the way, it’s helpful if you record or write down some of these conversations. Reviewing them later can be useful.

Of course, after all this time of conflict, there’ll probably  be some antagonism on both sides, and some reluctance to talk. That’s natural. And don’t be surprised if your talks in fact get very heated. But you can get through it because, I assure you, under it all, both of you want the same thing. Both of you are sick of all this and are really ready to go on to something better. Even if you have to work together!

It’s easier if you have a trusted counselor to guide you through this conversation process, but there’s no reason you can’t do it yourself. And here’s how you may begin. As you have stated in your letter, it seems clear that at least one of the things you want is to have more success in the things you undertake in this life. What you don’t yet know is why this past self has been holding you back. You must talk to this part of you and ask it why it’s doing so.

When you ask this question, an answer may come clearly into your mind in thoughts or words. Or, feelings of anger or fear or sorrow may come up. These feelings will likely be about something that past self experienced in that past life, and sometimes also about past events in your present life. You may begin to get some images of what happened in the past. Or, it may remain at the feeling level and you don’t remember particular events. That’s all right either way. Simply stay with any feelings that arise, whether you get memories or images or not. And to strengthen your understanding, express any feelings you have through your body. Find a private place and shout, or moan, or say any words that come to you. Stamp your feet or cower, or jump around, or weep – or laugh. Whatever comes to you.

This is very important. Don’t skip this step. It is your main way of bonding with that self of the past, and the beginning of its becoming your ally. So, first you feel with this past self, so that you can really understand it.  And then ask it, “What do you need?” In particular, what does it need from you?

Be open and be patient. You’ll begin to get a sense of what’s needed. It may, in fact, be very simple. This past self may simply need to be seen and heard, and it may resist cooperating with you and even mess up your plans, just because it’s waiting for you to notice it, acknowledge it, understand it, even perhaps help it.

Find out for yourself what is needed. What does this past self want? And, what might you want in return? Start with that. Keep going with the conversation until you have a clear sense of what each of you wants and what each of you is willing to give. This may take a few minutes or a few days. Take as much time as you need to test out how much you can trust each other. Then, give what you’re willing to give. Receive what you get in return. And as you stay with it, the trust and the benefits can grow.

Do take your time on all of this. It’s not a detour, it’s a part of your path. And it’s worth it. The hostile and stubborn part of you that has been your opponent can be transformed into a friend and ally. And this is good. To move forward you need all the parts of you working together. And they can.

As you do this work, you will also notice you’re freeing up a great deal of your own energy which up to now has been bound up in feeling harassed, tense, frustrated in your aims, and oppressed by the part of you that’s been holding you back. Unblocked, this energy can now power you forward more easily, And it will also attract the energy of those other people who can offer opportunities for you to open up new areas of your life.

You have struggled long enough, now it is time for you to be free! Good luck on your next steps, enjoy them. And call on me when you need my energy.

I am with you,

Vywamus 

Dear Vywamus,

I would dearly love to 'Heal' others by just touching them.  I have been a Reiki Master for a number of years…I love the thought of improving things for people. I recently had cancer for the second time… My dearest question is - will I be as good at Healing as I wish to be - as Jesus was?...(and) can my thoughts send Healing to others?
Lucy xx

Dear Lucy,

This response is not only for you but also for other readers who are interested in healing. Some of what I say here you may already know, but I’ll include it for their benefit.

First, thank you for the fine healing work you are already doing. You ask if it is possible to develop the ability to heal with a touch, as Jesus did. Yes, you may be able to develop some of this ability, but the probability is low that you will have the high percentage of healings that Jesus had. This is not through any lack on your part, but because in the last 2000 years conditions have changed. 

As you are already aware, healing partly depends on the receptivity of the person being healed. It used to be that getting through the initial barrier led to successful healing. During the last two centuries, however, humans have developed more complex resistance patterns. Today, most of you, even those who sincerely want to be healed, have many unconscious layers of resistance to healing, layers that were not present in humans 2000 years ago. 

The kind of unconscious resistance I’m speaking of may be as simple as an attachment to the familiar and a fear of change – even the positive change that healing might bring. Or, it may have to do with fear of losing a particular relationship with someone, a relationship that is centered around dealing with a particular problem. And, sometimes there may be resistance to healing because a person has so identified with having a particular physical or emotional problem that their sense of self is totally tied to it. In the ego’s way of thinking, then, it would seem like “suicide” to let go of the problem. In situations like these, counseling or therapy to help a person become more aware of and address these resistance issues might serve to remove some of the obstacles before or during the time when hands on healing is undertaken. 

There is another, very common, reason that someone may unconsciously resist healing. This may be because, at a higher level, that person has chosen a path in which having this particular problem may be crucial to certain learnings in this lifetime. And if the lesson is not yet learned, the “teaching problem” will not go away. Or, even if temporary healing occurs, the problem, or a similar one, will come back. Here, of course, the solution is obvious: make every effort to learn the lesson. And sometimes hands on healing does help shift energies so that this learning can happen more easily.

Now, as you may be aware, overwhelming healing power like that of Jesus can overcome even high resistance, and there are a few modern healers who also have such a dramatic initial effect on certain clients. But later, as I said, the problem will often come back. (There is no “followup” record in the New Testament). Jesus knew this, but he gave people who came to him a chance to let go and be healed instantly. And he wanted others to know that that kind of instant healing was possible. But you, and even Jesus, have to accept that you can offer a choice of healing to someone, but that, for whatever reason, they may not choose that path.

So, no matter how skilled or how evolved you are, you cannot guarantee healing, since it isn’t all up to you. Nevertheless, your role as a healer is an important one. You are, in a sense, a “midwife,” offering to the people who come to you the hope and the possibility of moving through and past the problem they came with, and into a new kind of life. 

As part of your own foundation for doing healing work, I have several suggestions. First, explore the problems in your own life, especially if they are hard to resolve. In your case, one important problem area has been your experience with cancer. For others, it may be some other persistent problem. As you explore, take note of any layers of resistance you encounter. Spend some time observing your resistances and holding them in compassionate understanding. Do not judge them, but do, if you are moved to, have conversations with them and see what you can learn.

Next, when you’re doing healing work – for yourself or for others – don’t try too hard. That’s an ego trap. It’s a myth that you have to try hard, or study for many years, or have resolved all your own issues, in order to heal effectively. You simply have to be open, open to bringing in the healing energy, and humbly open to letting it get past any personal “blocks” you have. Make the healing intention and let go, surrender to whatever comes. 

Better yet, turn the healing over to a higher guide. I always suggest that healers work with a higher guide or guides. That may be your own Higher Self, or another guide. In your case it might be Jesus, if you’ve chosen to work with him, so I’ll use him in the following example. If other readers feel more connected to another guide, they can insert that guide’s name where I say “Jesus.” 

When you are working with Jesus on a client, see Jesus with you. Imagine that you can step into his “body” and blend your energy with his. Breathe, open your body, mind, heart, and soul, and let his energy be throughout your body and come through you in whatever form and direction it wants to go. Your attention and your hands will move where they need to. Jesus perfectly understands each individual’s degree of need to be healed. He respects their path and knows when they’re ready to be completely healed, or when their problem must be there as part of their growth. He adjusts accordingly and gives them the perfect energy for what they need at the moment. So, you can let go and let him do the work. And it will be nice for you also, since some of his energy will “rub off” on you as it comes through.

Can your thoughts send healing, remotely? Yes, if also combined with a connection at the heart and soul level. Just imagine the person is with you, and follow the steps above. And it’s up to the person you send it to, to receive it at both the conscious and unconscious level. You will have done all that you can, and in the end, it’s up to them.

Finally, Lucy, I want to assure you and other healers who read this that I and the other guides at this level appreciate you for the work you do and we bless you for it. We are always ready to work with you. Call on us.

Lovingly,

Vywamus

(Dear Vywamus,)

Why have you come to me?

Cltm

Dear Cltm,

The truth is that I’ve been with you for a long time. I am one of your guides in this life and in others, and it’s only recently that you have reached the ability to be aware of me. The fact that you have perceived my presence means that you are entering the next phase of your spiritual path. This is the case with many others who have had a recent “first contact” with me, and what I say here is also relevant for them.

The first thing I would ask of you is to simply develop your sense of my presence by spending time with me, paying attention to my being there. If you have a visual image of me, or a sense of my energy around you, turn your attention to these manifestations of my presence from time to time during your day. Have conversations with me in your head. Or, every so often, simply take a moment to feel my energy around you. As you practice this, it will be easier and easier to connect with me and with your own higher levels, and to discover what it is that we might do together in this particular life of yours on earth. I and other guides will be with you on this voyage of discovery. 

You have been called on, both for your own soul growth and for the unique potential and unique ability you have, which are needed at this time. Nowadays I am making contact with many of you to aid me in my work in helping humanity evolve. You, and many others, are being asked to bring the higher energies into everyday life, into places, situations, people you encounter, and so on, where an increase of these energies is needed. How you do that may take various forms: being of public service, music or art, healing, teaching via the spoken or written word, even simple acts of courage or kindness in various settings. And so on. 

I’m not giving you a specific “recipe” for what direction to take, because the exploration and discovery of that is part of your spiritual path. I will say that I’ll be guiding you all along, and that the more aware of my presence you allow yourself to be, the easier it will be for you to recognize a moment when your particular knowledge or abilities are being called on for some positive purpose. It will then be up to you to decide when and whether to act. 

Whether you take my energy, or that of other guides from this higher level into your everyday world through action, or whether you simply allow my presence to be more with you wherever you are (without taking any particular action), this connection with me is an opportunity for growth on your spiritual path and a chance for you to have a positive effect on your world. I hope you will take it. You will be most welcome!

Yours,

Vywamus  

Dear Vywamus,

I was around 16 when i started my spiritual journey and it has been over 2 years now. A lot of change has taken place in this short "time". It was all going well until around a few months ago when i started getting all of these negative delusions about the nature of god and i believe that i was being harassed by a demon known as, "Azazel" Ever since this shift in perception I can't seem to shake off this feeling that the "new age" movement is actually satanic and is leading me astray from god. How can I get rid of this negative uncertainty and move towards finding my unconditional love once again?

Thank you, much love and Namaste brother! D

Dear D.,

I have written about an issue similar to this in a letter to “Anonymous” on 6-16-13. You may want to begin by reading that response. Here I intend to give you and others a more expanded perspective on the kind of negative experience you write about, and suggest additional ways of dealing with it.

It is common on the spiritual path to meet challenges of one kind or another, and what you describe is one kind that is particularly difficult. You are not alone. There are many of you today who face the kind of challenge that you describe. When you experience dark forces, or negative entities such as demons, what is happening is that you are dipping in and out of a reality where such things exist, a reality that is different from the usual one in which you live and have felt at home.This can be quite disturbing, especially if you have no context in which to put it. So let me begin with some background, for you and for others who have these experiences.

Most of you think of yourselves as living in one reality, the one where your everyday life is focused. Yet in truth you live in many realities at the same time, each of them associated with a different state of consciousness. Some of these you are familiar and comfortable with and consider normal. Examples of these would be the realities you experience when in the dream state, when in meditation, when under the influence of certain drugs, when in hypnotic trance, or when you accomplish amazing feats in an emergency situation. You all know about these, they are part of the collective human experience. When you enter certain states of consciousness, you are able to perceive and experience these other realities.

Besides these relatively “benign” realities, there are many others, some of which to you can feel strange and disturbing. From what you describe, it’s clear that you have been experiencing one of the realities where satanic forces and dark entities such as demons exist. Now, where I live in the higher spiritual realities, there is no such thing as evil, or demons. Yet there are “pocket” realities where demons exist, and these realities are created -- by humans. Demons and dark entities are thought forms which you yourselves have created to represent and explain primarily the malevolent powers within yourselves. They embody aspects of yourselves that you fear, aspects that you want to distance yourself from, and to think of as “not you.” In that way these thought forms serve a useful purpose, so useful that believing in demons and devils and experiencing them have been part of human culture for thousands of years.

For some people, demons and dark forces are a theory, something traditionally taught about but not experienced. Yet, for those of you who, intentionally or unintentionally, enter a state of consciousness where you actually experience the energy of demon thought forms, it can be very vivid and frightening, even overwhelming. If this occurs for you, there are several possible things you can do. First, it’s important, when you have these experiences, to remember that this is not “THE” reality. Rather, you are in “a” particular reality, which you can enter and leave at will, just as you can enter and leave the dream state, the meditation state, and the other familiar ones I mentioned above. Sometimes just remembering this is enough.

When you have remembered this, it may be possible for you to go into meditation, which is the gateway to that infinite field of unconditional love that you know and want to get back to, a place where there is no fear. Again, that may be enough. If not, there are other things you can do.

You have the traditional options of using protective rituals (surrounding yourself with light, speaking words of power, performing certain acts, and so on), or seeking the help of protective entities (God, angels, guides, and so on). This works well for many people. You can find many writings about processes such as these that you can use, so we will not go over them here.

Often, however, an even more effective way of coping with a demon or a dark force is to accept that it is not “other.” It is not separate. It is not “out there,” but rather, in some way it is connected with a part of you. And I remind you, anything that is part of you, you have control over.

I suggest that you accept this particular thought form, this demon or dark force, and learn how it expresses something within yourself. Maybe it seems to be a very powerful and frightening entity, out to harm you or deceive you. Then accept that there is a side of you with great power, and the capacity to harm or deceive. Rather than fearing or fleeing from this side of you, or judging that it is “bad,” you will do better if you face it and learn more about it. The best way is to actually have an inner conversation with this side of you. If you ask questions of it inwardly, you will usually get answers. If so, write them down.

The goal is to come to truly know this aspect of yourself, what purpose it serves, how it came into being, what its goals are. To use an example from your letter, is it possible that you have a wish, deep down, to be led astray from God? And if so, why? Is it because your idea of God is restrictive? Do you feel, somewhere inside yourself, a wish to rebel and be free of everything, even be free to do “evil”? (Maybe, on looking inward, it will not be an underlying wish to be led astray from God, but some other need of yours, perhaps a wish for more excitement and drama in your life. Or something else. .. Whatever it is, plug it in to this process.)

As you keep up this inner questioning, you will learn more about yourself. And, you will probably note that, even in some of your most “negative” acts and wishes, there is a kernel of something good. In the example above, for instance, freedom and self determination are good things. I think you and this other aspect of you can agree on that. You may not agree on the method for attaining freedom and self determination, or the best ways to use that freedom, but you both have the goal of being free and being able to use your power and determine your own path.

Doing this dialoging, you will be able to find areas of agreement between you, perhaps some goals you have in common, even if you are both working in different ways to achieve them. At that point you can probably agree on ways to work together. Doing all this helps you take back the power that you gave away to the demon thought form. You can then decide how to use that power in the way that to you feels right.

I highly recommend this dialoging process, and it can be done on your own. Yet often, particularly if you have a lot of fear, or if you feel you don’t have enough experience with inner dialog, the process is much easier if you have a therapist or an understanding counselor you trust to help you with it.

Now, one more thing: Some of you have a particular brain activity pattern that makes you especially vulnerable to unusually vivid experiences of demon thought forms. If you think this may be the case with you, you will still find the dialoging work is helpful, but in addition it may also be useful to try modifying the brain patterns as well. This can most easily be done by meditation, or by certain types of medication. Be open to trying both of these out, particularly if your experiences are deeply distressing.

Remember, you are never asked on your path to do more than you can bear, or to go without any help you can get. It is perfectly acceptable in our view as guides that you take advantage of anything that is available. So, don’t hesitate to seek therapy, to get help and instruction in meditation, and if you feel you may be in need of helpful medication, to collaborate with your doctor to find the right one. True, in order to prescribe for you, a Western physician may need to diagnose you as having a mental or emotional disorder; that is the reality they as professionals have to live in. Don’t let that bother you, or keep you from obtaining any medications that may help you regularize your brain patterns or make the negative experiences less intense and more manageable. Let the doctors call it whatever they want – as long as you find something that works for you.

Finally, as you move through dealing with these experiences you have found troubling, we urge you to look at them in the same way as we urge you to look at all your other experiences – as important lessons and challenges to be met on your path. What have you learned so far from having such experiences? What have you learned about yourself, about your reality? What have you gained? Before moving on, it is always important to “take your gains,” to accept and acknowledge the learning and other benefits that going through such challenges has brought you.

I have written this for all of you who have had similar experiences. Some of what I say here may clearly apply to you, and some may rather apply to other readers. Please take what you personally need here. And know that I and the other guides are always at your side and available to help, in whatever reality you find yourself.

Warmly,

Vywamus

(Dear Vywamus)

If my chart is written to do what is written, could my evolution and free will change, Can free will be challenged or changed by higher beings? J.A.

Dear J.A.,

Yes, the form of your evolution and your exercise of your free will often change during your life, because your life is itself a creative work in progress, and your environment here is a set of constantly changing probabilities that you have to deal with and dance with, and improvise with. So what is “written” by you beforehand is often rewritten as you go along.

Can free will be challenged or changed by higher beings? In essence, no. You always have free will at the level of your personal everyday self. That is one of the parameters of the type of consciousness you have in these physical lives you live.

Now, as you know, exercising your free will does not mean you always get what you choose. The choices you make in a physical reality like yours are often limited by external conditions and circumstances, by the activity of others’ free will, or by condition within yourself such as illness, the action of drugs, mental impairment and so on. There are always some limits on the number of choices you have, and limits on your control over whether you get what you choose. But there are always choices for you and you have the freedom to make them.

Higher beings do not and would not take away your free will and force you to make certain choices or make choices for you. Indeed, that would be counterproductive for your learning. Even when we can see that you are making a “bad” choice, we may do our best to guide or strongly influence you in the right direction, but we do not interfere. However, as you get more in touch with Spirit, with your higher self, and with your guides, we can partner with you and aid you in the exercise of your free will so that you make the choices that maximize your growth.

It is true also that in your own natural cycles of growth, you will inevitably come into new circumstances and conditions where your old ways of doing things no longer work and you have to evolve and make new choices. Your ability to exercise your free will remains, but the choices you make no longer work out. Of course, even then you are free to cling to the old ways as long as you want, and keep trying to make them work. Eventually, however, you will probably realize that you are at a dead end, and will, of your own free will, make new choices.

Thank you for this interesting question. And whatever choices you make, all of us here love you.

Warmly,

Vywamus