Spirit Releasement Therapy: A Technique Manual

by William J. Baldwin, Edith Fiore (Foreword)

Spirit Releasement Therapy is a special form of healing which "calls forth" and identifies positive energies that enhance personal growth, and clears negative energies (whether internally generated or externally attached) that restrict personal growth—on levels ranging from cellular consciousness to archangelic realms.

Genres: Psychology, Self Help

456 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Yanko Yankov · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading it and can't wait to start using it in my practice. That was a great addition to similar books on the topic. I highly recommend it

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

A comprehensive manual for psychotherapists who wish to practice the emerging therapy of "spirit releasement" or what was formerly known as exorcism.

If you're a materialist, then this book is not for you. Based on a long career of actual practice with this technique, the author sets out to educate the reader in how to help clients become free of "attached" spirits--nonphysical entities that can and often do become enmeshed residents of people's souls or auras. According to the author, this phenomenon is far from rare: indeed there is a good chance, dear reader, that you yourself have one or more (there can be multiple attachments in one person) spirit attachments right now. This is all the more likely if you have ever experienced severe trauma leading to unconsciousness, undergone general anaesthetic, had a severe illness or lost a limb, have been a victim (or perpetrator) of sexual abuse, or have been addicted to or abused alcohol or drugs--especially hallucinogenics. All of these things create wounding or damage to the aura, and effectively impair one's psychic immune system, thus allowing the entry of spirits, who often are searching eagerly for just such an opening.

We think of possession as something done by demons--and, according to the author, demons or "dark entities" do indeed constitute a significant number, although a minority, of spirit attachments. But the great majority of attachments are by so-called earthbound spirits, which are simply the souls of deceased people that, for one reason or another, have not moved on to the astral plane after death and are therefore stuck on the physical plane. Many of these are not even aware that they are dead. Perhaps having held materialistic views during life, they have no way of understanding their condition, and they wander, looking for how to exist in a world they no longer seem to belong to. Attaching to a living human allows them to share in the experience of being physically alive, and the "possessed" person now starts feeling and thinking many of the thoughts of the attached spirit as though they were his or her own. (One sign of attachment is when people suddenly adopt new behaviors or hobbies that they never showed interest in before.)

The long-term "cure" for spirit attachment is to induce the attached spirit or spirits to move on to the astral plane--to the place called the Light. Normally, when we die, we each have an opportunity to move to the Light, and helpers appear to guide us. But events can interfere with this, apparently, and then the Light must be, in effect, summoned to open up for us. This is not hard to do, but it must be something that is willed by the spirit. Even demons are cleared in this way. Failure to send spirits on to the Light means that they remain earthbound and can re-attach, whether the current host or some other.

This book is large and in many ways is a kind of crash course in how the spiritual world is structured and interacts with us. Of course we are all already part of that world, but mostly without knowing it. In 1991, when this book was first published, hardly any practitioners were looking into this mode of therapy, and I reckon it is still viewed as quite fringe and far out. And yet it has a long record of creating fast and striking "cures" for seemingly intractable "mental illnesses."

I venture to say that no matter how open your mind is, this book will stretch it quite a bit wider. But if this is a real thing--and I have no doubt that it is--then we should all be aware of it. This knowledge and these techniques are the path to the relief of a great deal of suffering in the world.

[Tina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book on psychopomp and spirit releasement. Recommended reading for psychics, mediums and shamans.

[Zeynep Kalemsever · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bu alanda çalışan herkesin en az bir kaç defa okuması gereken bir kitap.

[Maria Velazco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Provides insight into why some people experience dis-ease at a spiritual level

[Henk · Rating 5 out of 5]

The go-to text in the field with the widest scope.
The author deserves credit for compiling this information and for presenting it in a manual form.
If nothing else it opens the eyes to what else is out there and how it can and does impact people daily. We too often assume evil lives elsewhere.
Technically, one could learn from this book.

This work overlaps with shamanic depossession and would be a good book for those who study shamanism only in the original/traditional/earth-based mode - there is a lot more out there to consider.
The case studies helps to 'get' how this plays out in real life.

Fascinating read with an entire section on regression therapy.

[Spider Goddess · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book has a great deal of valuable information in it. However, I found the author's attachment to dogma to be really distracting. There are also a number of areas where the author makes interpretations of symbols and information, but did not do his homework well, and so completely botches it. I cannot really recommend this book, as it is very misleading for someone learning about the subject, and rather irritating for one that already has an understanding.

[S. Harrell · Rating 4 out of 5]

While not my personal brand of extraction or depossession, I was particularly interested in Baldwin's exploration of nonhuman entities. I enjoyed reading his perspectives and look with interest to his future works.

[Kemila Zsange · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's an enriching book for practice, though I was expecting to read some self-diagnosed techniques for spiritual attachment, but to the last page, I didn't see it. This is a little disappointing.