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Freeing the Captives: The Emerging Therapy of Treating Spirit Attachment
Hypnotherapist Louise Ireland-Frey packs this volume with hundreds of case histories to illustrate how and why the living may become "possessed," "obsessed," or "influenced" by entities. Making the case that most invading spirits do not have evil intent but rather are frightened, confused, or just plain lost, she describes how she and her colleagues have learned to release the living from the dead and the dead from the living. The doctor's down-to-earth delivery may make a believer out of the most devout skeptic, thereby providing an alternative therapeutic approach for a host of possibly misdiagnosed physical, mental, and emotional disorders previously deemed impervious to treatment.
333 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1999
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September 14, 2011
It explains what psychology consists of in terms of dealing with certain conditions. It was well written and has me questioning why certain people drink,smoke,and come down with other mental problems. I believe that this book can help people have a better understanding of themselves and the spirit world.
November 8, 2024
A firsthand account by a hypnotherapist of the phenomenon of spirit possession--the occupation of the human psyche or soul by foreign immaterial entities, human and otherwise.
This book, published in 1999, adds to a growing literature on this phenomenon. The author, a medical doctor, became introduced to spirit possession in the course of using hypnosis, and at age 67 took up the practice of using this technique to help liberate the "lost souls" who come to inhabit human beings and earthly locations due to their ignorance, confusion, and fear about moving on to the next stage of their spiritual journey after death: the shift to the astral plane. The author provides a number of short case histories with edited transcripts of the interactions she's had with discarnate entities who speak through hypnotized subjects.
This reader's mind was already pretty open to all this stuff, but even so he found it stretched further by reading this book. One important takeaway is that this phenomenon is much more common than we might think; it appears that the great majority of cases of what we call mental illness are actually instances of spirit possession, and indeed many of us who are more or less normal psychologically may be harboring one or more discarnate spirits. It's not easy to know, for their feelings and thoughts become our own, as ours become theirs; but if we find ourselves prey to obsessions, phobias, cravings, listlessness, or depression, then we need to consider the possibility carefully--especially if any of these things comes over us relatively suddenly. Oh: and if you're a person who likes to get drunk or use recreational drugs, then the chances that you are possessed in this way approach 100%. Think about it.
As the book's title implies, the author does not regard these possessing spirits as evil or as enemies; indeed, she sees them as the true "patients" in her interventions, for it is ignorance and suffering that drive them to behave as they do. They need to be freed from their human hosts even more than their hosts need to be freed of them. And the means is surprisingly simple: let them know about their true condition, and have them "turn toward the Light"--voluntarily move toward the astral plane, which is always ready and waiting for them when they are prepared to do so. Again and again the author has been able to induce spirits to do this.
This is a vast topic with huge implications for us all. Many of us in the West are still materialists, who regard all such talk as bunk. Such people are naturally among the most confused when they die and discover that the lamp of consciousness has not been snuffed out after all. Many of these people do not even realize that they are dead, and they wander the Earth in a confused state trying to figure out what's happened to them.
These few notes of mine are the merest taste of what's to be learned here. This subject is of pressing importance to all human beings, and is of more special urgency if you have recently had a relative or friend die, especially by suicide, or if anyone in your life is an addict. And I will just leave it at that.
This book, published in 1999, adds to a growing literature on this phenomenon. The author, a medical doctor, became introduced to spirit possession in the course of using hypnosis, and at age 67 took up the practice of using this technique to help liberate the "lost souls" who come to inhabit human beings and earthly locations due to their ignorance, confusion, and fear about moving on to the next stage of their spiritual journey after death: the shift to the astral plane. The author provides a number of short case histories with edited transcripts of the interactions she's had with discarnate entities who speak through hypnotized subjects.
This reader's mind was already pretty open to all this stuff, but even so he found it stretched further by reading this book. One important takeaway is that this phenomenon is much more common than we might think; it appears that the great majority of cases of what we call mental illness are actually instances of spirit possession, and indeed many of us who are more or less normal psychologically may be harboring one or more discarnate spirits. It's not easy to know, for their feelings and thoughts become our own, as ours become theirs; but if we find ourselves prey to obsessions, phobias, cravings, listlessness, or depression, then we need to consider the possibility carefully--especially if any of these things comes over us relatively suddenly. Oh: and if you're a person who likes to get drunk or use recreational drugs, then the chances that you are possessed in this way approach 100%. Think about it.
As the book's title implies, the author does not regard these possessing spirits as evil or as enemies; indeed, she sees them as the true "patients" in her interventions, for it is ignorance and suffering that drive them to behave as they do. They need to be freed from their human hosts even more than their hosts need to be freed of them. And the means is surprisingly simple: let them know about their true condition, and have them "turn toward the Light"--voluntarily move toward the astral plane, which is always ready and waiting for them when they are prepared to do so. Again and again the author has been able to induce spirits to do this.
This is a vast topic with huge implications for us all. Many of us in the West are still materialists, who regard all such talk as bunk. Such people are naturally among the most confused when they die and discover that the lamp of consciousness has not been snuffed out after all. Many of these people do not even realize that they are dead, and they wander the Earth in a confused state trying to figure out what's happened to them.
These few notes of mine are the merest taste of what's to be learned here. This subject is of pressing importance to all human beings, and is of more special urgency if you have recently had a relative or friend die, especially by suicide, or if anyone in your life is an addict. And I will just leave it at that.
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