Chapter One: Psychic Attack within Modern Culture

Chapter Ten: The Initial Exam 145 Chapter Eleven: The Egg Cleansing 157 Chapter Twelve: Flying Solo 171

Part Five: Healing After Psychic Attack

Chapter Thirteen: After the Healing 187 Chapter Fourteen: Protection and Retribution 197 Chapter Fifteen: Staying Clean 213

Disclaimer

The purpose of the information in this book is to supplement— not replace—professional medical and psychological care. If you have physical or mental health issues compromising your quality of life, please contact a health care professional immediately.

Introduction

There is a game that people play on the internet where you describe what you do for a living in the most literal yet absurd terms possible. In my case, I rub eggs on people to pull demons and curses out of them and I set things on fire to help others manifest their deepest desires. In short, I am a professional Witch for Hire.

My day job is casting spells on behalf of others, usually through candle magic, and cleaning out their energetic systems after they are exposed to psychic attack or other contamination. This is also my night job and my side hustle, because true Witchcraft lived as a profession takes nearly all of a person’s time and energy. There are plenty of charlatans out there who will happily relieve a person of their money, light a candle, and walk away calling it good service, but real magic takes time. You sit with the client’s energy, pray over their candles, brainstorm with them, counsel, reframe, and guide them to the best approach for a positive outcome. In addition to time and energy, it is an investment of emotion, education, experience, sweat, tears, and, above all, patience.

One of the most satisfying parts of my job is when I perform a spiritual cleansing on someone and free them from a negative influence that has troubled them for years. Seeing the visible results as the color returns to their cheeks and the light comes back into their

eyes is truly rewarding. I am excited to share with you the techniques I have used over many years to assist others in releasing the negative energies that influence their vitality, their prosperity, their relationships, and their potential.

The best part of all of this is that anyone can do it. Sure, it is helpful if the person doing the cleansing has experience working with energy and a natural proclivity to any kind of psychic awareness. That is a bonus. I have, however, handed an egg to a novice wife and said, “Rub the egg on your husband like this.” With no prior knowledge of energetic cleansing, she did a fine job and, to this day, she emails me photographs of the excellent work she does on her husband and children. Spiritual cleansing does not require expert or even experienced hands to produce the desired effect.

Considering that things like hexes, curses, and hitchhiking entities are a huge part of my everyday life, it is strange to consider that a few decades ago, I never imagined such things even existed. I spent a third of my magical life calling in quarters, honoring the Wheel of the Year, and casting an occasional spell to get my electric bill paid or to free up a parking place at the grocery store. I was a Witch and I loved magic, but I was completely oblivious to the fact that I was only skating the surface of the metaphysical world.

At the time of this writing, I have worked in the Pagan community for almost forty years, engaging various magical people on many levels. Back in the first decade or so of my practice when I was a baby Witch, I believed that people rarely cursed or hexed one

another.1 If anything, I thought they might inadvertently throw negativity in someone’s direction by wishing them ill with the energy of normal human thoughts and emotions. I even taught my magical students that as responsible practitioners, they must be mindful of their thoughts and intentions because they could work magic with the blink of an eye. And yet, I had no clue.

Most of my mindset at that time came from my mistaken idea that all Witches embraced the Wiccan concepts of “As it harms none, do what you will,” threefold law, and karmic return. My magical practice began in the United Kingdom and when I returned to the United States, I followed the Wiccan path, which originated in England. Therefore, my perspective on the issue of cursing or crossing at that time derived from the European approach, which represents a geographically and culturally isolated view of Witchcraft. As my study of Witchcraft deepened beyond the Neopagan and Wiccan presentation of the Craft, the depths of my naivety became clear, as did the cultural singularity of my experience with magic.

The active persecution of any activities related to Witchcraft, including astrology and divination, drove the practice underground throughout Europe until it was revived in the 1940s in the sanitized form of Wicca. Aggressive marketing of Wiccan books and classes

1. I take the approach in this writing that when someone suffers a deliberate attack, the primary aggressors will likely be Witches and other magical practitioners. I use the terms Pagan and Witch loosely to identify magical practitioners. This is for convenience’s sake, and no inappropriate labeling is intended to those who identify otherwise. I also use the words hex and curse interchangeably throughout the book although, as you will see in chapter 3, there are subtle differences between the two. Again, this is for the sake of word flow, and any distinguishing differences are inconsequential to the individual word usage.

throughout the 1970s and 1980s solidified the public impression of Witchcraft as a benevolent, even passive, nature-based practice where Witches lived in harmony with all, governed by the dictate that we may do whatever we wish so long as we harm none.

At its heart, the Wiccan concept of harming none extends beyond physical harm and includes harm on all levels of existence, including mental, emotional, spiritual, sexual, and social. It is an ambitious undertaking to live one’s life in such a way that we never cause harm to anyone on any of those levels, and some feel it sets unrealistic and unreachable goals for those who follow the Wiccan path. To always hold in your mind the idea that you must never harm anyone is admirable and if everyone followed those premises, our world would be a more peaceful place. The dark side of this idealism is that when others in our world do not embrace those same philosophies, it is easy to fall victim to the slings and arrows of their responses to normal human conflict.

As Wiccan premises began to overtake the historical impression of Witchcraft in the minds and hearts of the public, the fear of and belief in psychic attack—although prevalent throughout many centuries of prior history—began to diminish. If Witches truly had no intention or willingness to harm, why should anyone imagine they would be attacked? Many, like myself, lived in complacency and relative unawareness, presuming Wiccan theologies and practices onto all Witches without considering that there are Witches out there who do not embrace Wiccan beliefs. I certainly never considered concepts such as incidental psychic attacks or disincarnate entities that can compromise the energetic system.

The average Pagan person talks about curses and hexes in hushed tones, wondering if this person is “casting” against them or if that person “sent something” to them. They will often brush off the notion of a deliberate attack and leave it as the last possible

thought for why their life has gone sideways. Ideas of cursing or hexing have the same levity in most conversations as stories told around a campfire with a flashlight shoved under the narrator’s chin. When a client comes to me with the idea that someone may have attacked them, they suggest it almost shamefully and offer qualifiers before they even suggest the idea, saying things like “I know this sounds silly, but…” and “It isn’t likely, but what if …?”

The reality that I now work in every day is that people attack one another on a spiritual and energetic level all the time. People pick up entities walking through a store the same way one picks up a cold or flu virus all the time. Generational curses exist and incidental crossings happen all the time. If the victim does not seek professional help or take measures to remove these contaminations from their energetic field, their life can be affected in minor to profound ways. Attacks such as these can destroy your prosperity and good fortune, sap away your vitality and energy, and create tension and turmoil in your interpersonal relationships.

Often, these maladies intensify so gradually that the victim does not realize anything is wrong with them energetically. For most people, the effects of a curse, hex, or crossing—whether deliberate or incidental—do not slam into them like a freight train. That occasionally happens, but more often, it is a gradual deterioration of their quality of life that accumulates over time. The victim becomes like the frog in a pot of cold water on the stove: as the burner heats, the water warms in such tiny increments that the frog is boiled before he knows it. A curse or entity lives inside the victim like an energetic parasite, draining away life’s joy with the host never suspecting or acknowledging that it is there.

In addition to intentional psychic attacks and incidental entity infiltrations, people also suffer from past and current traumas,

hooks to unhealthy relationships, and destructive habits that contaminate their spirits and create obstacles to their success. In these cases, it is even possible to curse yourself!

As society shifts, a rapidly growing number of people seek to control the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of others. I know because my email inbox is full of requests for services like “Make him think about me all the time,” “Get her to let me explain why we should get back together,” “Make my boss give me a raise,” and “Force my partner to stop cheating on me.”

When a person’s desired outcome hinges on the behavior and choices of someone else, the human impulse is to pressure that person to do what you want them to do. When you fail to elicit the responses you want from those people through mundane means, you might turn to energy work to force your will onto the one that you feel controls your destiny. Most who attempt this do not consider what they are doing to be a deliberate psychic attack, and yet it is.

I consider deliberate psychic attack to be a willful energetic assault upon another person, or an attempt to forcefully influence the thoughts, emotions, or actions of someone through the manipulation of energetic forces.

To expound on that definition, if someone…

Works magic with the intention of harming or inconveniencing another person Works magic to attempt to force another person to do what they do not want to do Works magic to attempt to force another person to not do what they want to do

Works magic to attempt to force someone to feel something they do not organically feel Works magic to attempt to prevent someone from feeling what they organically feel

…then it constitutes a deliberate psychic attack, no matter how passionately the person believes in the justification of their actions.

It is quite telling that when my husband and I offered a class called “A Witch Scorned: Hexing, Cursing, and Crossing,” the room was filled. A month later, we offered a class on “Uncrossing: Removing Psychic Attack” and the room was again filled—with entirely different people! People are fascinated by the idea of magically controlling or influencing others, and their ears perk up if you mention that someone else might be the cause of their misfortunes and maladies. A potential dodge of accountability for the problems in one’s life can be quite seductive.

While it may seem daunting to know how vulnerable we are to potential psychic attack, the good news is that there are curative and preventative steps that can be taken to resolve the effects of both deliberate and incidental attacks and to help get the victim back on track to leading their best life.

The even better news is that those situations are managed using the same techniques. Each experience with psychic attack is unique, but there are some trends that can be anticipated and tracked, which helps with the management of these types of cases. Following the techniques described in this book will resolve almost any energetic crisis.

Better than that, if you use the information and techniques contained in this book with the intention of healing someone from a psychic attack and, by chance, they were not attacked, only good

can come of it. You cannot harm a person with a spiritual cleansing or protective work, even if the work is done by a novice or amateur. This allows you the freedom to err on the side of caution and incur no penalty.

If you, in fact, move forward with an open mind, a willing spirit, and a positive outlook, you can assist your friends and loved ones with their challenges and make the world a better place, one cleansing at a time.

Part One

About Psychic Attacks

chapter One

Psychic Attack within Modern Culture

Most of written human history contains ongoing mention of Witches, and I would hazard a guess that there have been Witches for as long as there have been people. I feel comfortable in furthering that guess by saying that for as long as there have been Witches, there have been Witches who have no compunction about cursing and will do so without hesitation. To pretend or believe that they are not there in no way reduces the efficacy of their work.

Throughout history, various cultures treated their Witches in different ways, ranging from respect to fear. Most places where Catholic churches hold dominion have a strange dissonance in their opinion of Witches. On one hand, their power is minimized and ridiculed, yet they are feared and denigrated as minions of Satan who can enact great harm. Even now, when people come to see me to address their problems, they do so as if on a covert mission, making certain that I practice the utmost of confidentiality (I do) and that no one will ever know they were there (they won’t).

Sometimes I feel like I am my clients’ best-kept secret. I own and work out of a busy metaphysical store and find it interesting that the people who come in to purchase the products we make are usually a whole different crew than the people who come to me for healing or spell work. This might be because Witches do their own work for the most part; they purchase products to support their magical intentions. Typically, those who come to me for spell work and spiritual cleansings are not people who would ever identify as a Witch. In fact, they usually identify as Christians or lightworkers.

The anonymity that people want when they seek my assistance is as much about who I am as it is about what they intend to do. They do not want anyone to know they sought out the services of a Witch, but they also do not want anyone to know about the sorts of things they would like done. In my experience, they either want to use magic to harm or influence other people or to have a suspected attack managed. In either of those cases, they likely do not wish to alert the presses, so confidentiality is key.

The inherent desire of people to harm and control one another for their own gain is an unfortunate but easily observable human trait. Since people avail themselves of every resource accessible to them, especially those in which no tangible evidence of their personal culpability can be shown, psychic attack is a handy way to harm someone with no provable weapon in sight. This makes it a popular tactic, whether a person launches the attack themselves or has someone do it on their behalf.

The Impact of Wicca on Witchcraft

What we know about Witches throughout history comes as much through literature as it does through historical documentation. If you believe historical accounts and the tracking of human behavior

expressed through literature, it is safe to say that for most of history, Witches were feared for their ability to interact with energetic forces (divine or profane, depending on who you were talking to) to achieve a desired outcome. This is a reasonable fear if you consider the notion that if a Witch could harm, a Witch could heal. If they had the power to kill, they had the power to also cure. These abilities and the societal interpretation of them formed the overall perspective about Witches.

Within the past century, the image of Witchcraft in the public eye shifted dramatically due to the aggressive, widespread arrival of Wicca. Wicca single-handedly transformed a feared and eccentric practice into a socially accepted, sanitized, and viable spiritual path. Suddenly, housewives, lawyers, doctors, and revered professionals identified as Pagans or Witches under the far-reaching umbrella of the Wiccan Rede: “An’ it harm none, do what ye will.”

My impression after years of working with Wicca is that it is a vibrant spiritual path that celebrates the forces of nature and honors the God and Goddess as divine male and female balancing forces. Its practice is rewarding and lovely. There is no denying, however, that Wicca effectively co-opted Witchcraft through its marketing practices and, in the public eye, tied an ancient and heavily nuanced practice to the relatively new tenets of Wicca. The reality was and is that while most Wiccans correctly identify as Witches, far more Witches do not identify as Wiccans or follow Wiccan theologies and philosophies. This means that we have a growing number of people out there who are dedicated to the study of energy movement and manipulation who do not acknowledge or adhere to the “harm none” dictate.

Throughout most of the 1970s and 1980s, books that were specifically Wiccan in nature bore titles identifying them not as Wicca, but as Witchcraft. The Complete Book of Witchcraft by Raymond