Negative attachments

In my current reading I repeatedly come across sources that talk about the ways in which immoral behaviours and 'low' vibrations open us to negative influences. Valerie Mason John, for instance, in her semi-autobiographical book Borrowed Body, republished by BAAF as The Banana Kid spoke of people with depression and a destructive life style, including herself, as having a creature like a furry cat sitting on their shoulders. The cat could urge someone to yet more destructive behaviours such as suicide. Galen Stoller was motivated to write his posthumous memoir, My Life After Life, partly to warn others about the realm of 'misanthropes', creatures parasitic on humans who allow them to feed off their energies. Bruce Moen in his Exploring the Afterlife series speaks of ghosts of those who were attracted to a certain life style, who had failed to move away from the earth vibrations, being drawn to a house where people were taking drugs. When one lot were exorcised, another lot moved in - echoing the Gospel narrative of sweeping a room of spirits, only to leave room for more to arrive (Matt. 12, 43-5). Moen also visits the "hells" for people who are attracted to such places by their vibrational frequency when they die. There is a thiefs' hell, an emotional sadists' hell, a liars' hell, and so on. An individual isn't condemned to such places after death but is attracted there, and can leave as soon as they learn or desire to change their dominant vibration. These were the thoughts running through my mind in response to the scenes of violence on the streets of some of England's cities in the last week. The opposite of all these vibrations, or their cure, is pure unconditional love. Those of us fortunate enough to have experienced unconditional love have a responsibility to extend it to those we meet. Who knows how many 'hells' it can help dispel.