by Nada-Yolanda
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LIGHT WORKERS EVERYWHERE, our subject this week is astral attack. Other schools of thought might call it possession, dark forces, negative thought forms, or the negative ideas within yourself or from outside sources. Regardless of what you call it, there is a light-worker way of handling this difficult condition, and that is what we shall do as workers of the light, for the light and in the light.
The reason we bring it to your attention now is that here at headquarters, many workers of the highest intentions and devotion, and of great spiritual evolvement themselves, during this spring and summer cycle have experienced, for the first time in some cases, astral attack. We shall explain why this is occurring during this rending of the seventh and final veil that separates man from knowing and expressing his Christ consciousness and powers.
Symptoms of Astral Attacks
What does a person feel when he or she has an astral attack? Physically, one may have a difficulty or a problem in the physical body that has no physical cause. One worker, for instance, expressed it this way: “I felt as though I was beaten up or I had been through a prize-fighting ring, even though there had been no physical exercise experience at all.”
Another may have a stiff neck; no reason, no cause, no draft, no misuse of the area. One might have pains in any part of the body, where there was no conscious reason for the occurrence, no past history in that area. Emotionally, you may experience a sudden depression, an inexcusable irritability; again, with no cause, no reason, no outside influence, such as a friend or a world condition that would bring this about in your own thoughts. Mentally, you may have thoughts that you do not usually attribute to yourself, that you have long overcome, that are not natural to your way of thinking. All these things can be symptoms of astral attack.
Those who have the psychic senses open are the most vulnerable and are to be protected and watched over, and to be zealous over themselves, more than any other. For through the psychic senses, such as clairaudience, clairvoyance, and impressions and thought projections, these are the individuals who sometimes can be driven to extremes and have serious problems. That’s how one would feel.
Reasons for Astral Attacks
Why do we have astral attacks, particularly at this time? First of all, these are the forces, powers on the astral that are being dislodged from their complacent place due to the rending of the seventh veil. For we remind all of you that the astral is being affected as greatly as the Earth plane by this rending process. They are feeling the higher influences and vibratory rates as much as we are on the Earth plane.
Secondly, there are levels on the astral which correspond to the levels of development or work on the Earth that you personally represent or with which you are involved. For example, there are astral individuals who either have been in your profession or circumstance or have expressed your level of consciousness and spiritual development in their own ongoing. So, as you pass through changes in consciousness, they too are experiencing similar changes on their world.
Thirdly, astrals that may become attached to you or try to contact you could very well be individuals with whom you have been associated in past lives. That past could be in this lifetime — in other words, relatives and friends that you knew before — or it could be in lives of which you are not even aware. But they are aware of the relationship and come to you because they see what you’re going through, or you may have been close, or you may have owed them some form of debt. So, as they are going through their changes, or you are going through your changes or realizations or upliftments, they are attracted to you.
Don’t you have friends or associates who call you up long distance or write you letters and say, “What’s going on; have you any idea?” Well, the same applies on the astral. You have so many associates and relationships that you haven’t any idea of consciously. Not even those of us who are awakened to some of our past lives can possibly know or understand the intricacies of past karmic attachments on the astral and other planes.
Another subtle means by which the astral becomes attached or attracted to you is because he or she is related to or associated with your immediate friends, family or associates. This is why, in spiritual teaching and direction, we have asked you always to select those of the highest vibration, those with whom you wish to have the best associations and experiences. For if you continue to associate on the physical with those of a lesser development or consciousness, the astrals attracted to them or surrounding them are going to become attached to you. So, if you are a “light” — if you have a high level of consciousness and understanding — and associate with those of a lesser kind, you not only invite them but also invite all their friends and families from other levels of development!
The same applies to the places where you visit. This is the most subtle form of astral attachment or attraction. Some of us cannot avoid going into schools, businesses, restaurants, movie houses, buses, trains, hospitals, and so forth. Every place that you visit has people, and those people have associates on the astral who are connected with them in one way or another — consciously, unconsciously, willingly and unwillingly.
If you are a light worker, you are open and vulnerable, whether you are psychic or not. Therefore, those astrals visiting or attracted to those places, or wishing to find some sort of answer to their problems, are going to find you the most interesting, the most attractive, the most vulnerable, the most fascinating one to answer their problems or from whom they can get energies. You will have to be that much more zealous.
Indeed, we speak of cleansing all the time. Even the angels, as they descend into the lower vibratory rates, go through a form of “bath” upon their return to the celestial planes. They cleanse from their auric field anything less than the highest celestial forces that may have become attached to their auric energies.
How to Handle Astral Attacks
How do we handle this problem of astral attachment? The first and most important thing to remember is: you must protect yourself at all times with the white light of your own Christ Self. As in dealing with negative thought forms, negativity within yourself or others, the same applies to any astral attachment. Surround yourself with a cocoon of light. Put the same white light around all others, including the astrals or any negative force that you are aware of or that you think might be near you. [See “Protection Technique: Cocoon of Light.”]
Second, it is important for us as light workers, as representatives of the spiritual government of our solar system, to teach, discuss, project the hierarchal program to all of those on the astral just as we would to our closest friend and associate right here on the physical plane. Do 
you feel ashamed or afraid to address those astrals as a teacher, as a disciplinarian, as a leader? For it is very important. That is why they have come to you, have been attracted to you.
Third, do not allow anyone to have any power over your life, except as is given by your own higher Self. If you are not aware of your higher Self, just believe so strongly that your higher Self guides you, that you insist on completing and giving that message from your higher Self to all others.
Fourth, you must really desire for the astrals to be raised as much as you desire it for yourself and for everyone who is most beloved to you. Desire their upliftment and transmutation, their understanding and higher consciousness, as you desire it for yourself and your beloved family.
Fifth, and lastly, it is very important that the teachers, the guides and, above all, the higher Self of those who are attracted to you from the astral come and take over their lives. There are teachers and guides on the other side — and every person, every entity, no matter how low in consciousness, also has his own higher or Christ Self within him — to guide, to lead, to teach, and to give the best for that person’s development.
So, don’t look at these astrals as something totally undesirable. They may have come to you for a very good reason: for you to turn them over to their teachers and guides, and their own higher Self, on their plane of action, not on your plane of action. You certainly have more people on this physical plane that you can work with, or who should be coming to you for help and guidance, than you possibly can handle in a single lifetime.
So, don’t take on the responsibility that you are a teacher, a guide or a leader of astrals. For that must be done on their plane of action, whereas your work is on this Earth plane. But rending the veil between the two planes gives you an opportunity to work as one. For we are one creation. The Father-Mother God has created the sons of the Christ. We are that Christ, to share with them this desire for upliftment, truth and love.
Revised from Mark-Age Meditations audio broadcast #60A, released in September 1974.
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Photos: (1) Nada-Yolanda, 1997, Mark-Age Archives. (2) Mystic Memories © by Hartmut Jager. (3) Nada Overshadowing, original charcoal drawing (colorized) by Sira/Gerry Libonati; Mark-Age Archives.