The Spirit In Between: Protecting Yourself and Your Home from Stray Spirits

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The Spirit In Between: Protecting Yourself and Your Home from Stray Spirits

The spiritual world has many levels on which different kinds of spirit exist. Most people are only aware of three of these levels. There is Olodumare or God the Creator. Then there is the manifestations or characteristics of Olodumare that manifest in Nature; in the case of the Yoruba these are called Orisa. Lastly there are the Egun (Ancestors). But in between Olodumare and His Orisa and the Egun exist many more spirits that work with and against humans. On concern in this article is not to identify and categorize this infinite number of beings, but to realize and control to some extent the impact they have on our lives and our living space.

Consider that many emotions that you regard as internal parts of your personality are actually entities or beings in and of themselves. Like Olodumare, the Orisa, and the Egun we are born under the influence or invite the presence of this unseen and vast body of spirits through our spiritual destiny and our conduct on Ile Aiye (Earth). Rage, disease, attraction, shyness, charisma, fear, boldness are all spiritual energies that are alive and well. They act independently of you, and you of them. Which is why wise sages tell us to look not as our human fragilities but to your True Self for a glimpse of who and what we truly are. Now each of these spiritual energies needs a host to exist, but there is no shortage of these so their existence is fairly safe as long as there are humans, and in many cases animals, minerals and plants to call home.

This Old House

every sense a "presence"?? Through your birth Odu and astrological signs we can learn which spirits walk with you through birthright for your benefit and also which one are attracted to you when you are living unrighteous. Taurus walk with stubbornness, which is a spirit that can protect a person’s need for stability or encourage one to maintain a view that essential to your survival, even if others fail to understand it. But coupled with self destructive behavior stubbornness can be negative and ruin opportunity and progress. Once this occurs, a whole new slew of completely negative spirits can find a way into your life.

If you are fairly connected with your spiritual senses you can walk into someone’s home and sense what kind of spirits reside here and what effect they are having on the inhabitants. Unless the homeowner is deliberately marking their territory these spirits probably follow them throughout their day, wherever they may go. These spirits react to our character, which is sometimes referred to as our aura or our light. If you are timid, fearful spirits or spirits that enjoying exploiting the fearful may come to live in your home one day. Why not? You are a perfect host. Once they are there, these spirits will influence your behavior further in their favor, to make their surroundings more comfortable and to strengthen themselves. This is what it means to lose control. You know that your actions are odd, wrong or disruptive but to feel helpless to stop or change your behavior. These spirits will continue to control the situation until you, another person or one of your guardian spirits counters with equal or stronger opposing energy.

So that that this article doesn’t just generate fear it self, it’s important to remember that everything stated so far applies to positive spirits as well. The more good you do, the more time you spend with your Orisa and Egun, the more you welcome positive spiritual energy into your life and home, the more additional positive spirits you will attract. We call this: Being on a roll. You build enough momentum that is very hard for negative spirits to block your progress.

If you recap what we know so far, we can now view character traits as what they really are, spirit that you try to cultivate or invoke within ourselves. So invoking or practicing good habits makes it very difficult for bad habits to live your actions or your living space. We know its true when we question a drug addict. The addict will tell us that it takes as much or more effort to replace a drug addiction with a good habit because of the time she spent building and reinforcing and in reality inviting negative spiritual energy and physical behavior into her life.

Clean and Claim Your Space

It’s important to keep your house free of dust, clutter and disorder. It’s true cleanliness is next to Godliness. So we know what filth attracts, whatever is displeasing to God and unhealthy for us.

Spirits enter your space at (1) Your invitation (2) Or the condition of your space, which is an invitation de facto. Let’s look at dogs.

A Dog knows when he is in a backyard that belongs to someone. He is careful and hesitant. He will look for people or other dogs to confirm his suspicion before he gets too comfortable. If you take that same dog to an abandoned home they will look around and when they feel the coast is clear, they will piss on everything. When you don’t clean your home properly, you’re inviting in stray spirits. If they notice that you do very little spiritual work, which means that you are basically defenseless – they will piss everywhere too. If they get in your home and notice a character flaw of yours, they may capitalize on it for their own benefit. Perhaps they will encourage you to fight with your wife or punish your child excessively. Before long they will have you doing things their way and carrying them out of the house and into your life situations.

cleaning is a must Spirits nest and make entry where we least care to clean; the places where walls, floors and ceilings meet – corners and cracks. If you clean the whole house, but leave these areas untouched you have left their nest intact. Even spiritual cleansings work better when these places are addressed, especially the top and bottom of each corner of every room.

Whenever people start talking about Egun or spirits the phrase, “skeletons in your closet” always seems to surface. For good reason, this phrase is not far from reality. Spirits are just like us when we develop poor or ineffective behavior, they like to hide away from the light. Which is why my favorite saying is “character is what you do when no one is watching.” These cultivated spirits hide away from us. To some this may sound ridiculous or far-fetched because we know that spirit of any kind is boundless. We have all seen the movie or experienced the sight of a ghost walking through a wall. But its important to realize that spirits do nest and if they know they won't be accepted openly by you, they will hide and sneak around.

The beauty of universal spiritual principles is that we can support our theory in analogy or example. So lets talk about the Orisa. Orisa can go anywhere. They are not really concerned with walls, steps or locks. But when a person is asked to build or intensify their relationship with an Orisa the person is delivered an Orisa shrine. This is where this person will go regularly to talk and experience that Orisa.

It’s very contemporary to be concerned (read: afraid) that as a devotee you will be looked at as an idolater so most of us say, “but hey this shrine is just a focal point for worship, it’s just a symbol. Its not the Orisa, just a symbol of the Orisa.” This statement is true and satisfies the egocentric and xenophobia westerner, but it’s only a partial truth. The full truth is Shrines traditional olokun water pot/ shrine contain and emanate the power and substance of the Orisa it is built for. A spiritually intoned person can stand beside an Orisa shrine and feel the force it stands for: heat, coolness, warriorship, nobility, etc. Orisa shrines are vortexes or portals or spiritual energy. Even some very old shrine elements stolen during the British invasion of Benin give off energy in museums around the world, and they don’t even have all the “parts” necessary to function inside!

So yes, spirits are boundless but they can nest by request of a human or of their own will in an object – like a tree, plant, shrine or your house. This is very true when the spirit in question intends to have an extended and profound effect on its host. So again, you are admonished – when you fail to clean and claim yourself and your home a temple for good, odd little spirits, some of which are destructive, will wander into your space. A good rule of thumb is “if it attracts cobwebs, it attracts stray spirits.” So while we have only begun to touch on the subject, this is not only a reference to an unkempt home but also to a mind that is not regular stimulated and given over to good and positive Spiritual energy that we find in Olodumare, Orisa and Egun.”

How to Get Started

It’s also very important to consider how and with what you clean yourself and your home. As well you should mind your attitude while performing the task. Many spirits are ancients. But new ones crop up everyday. An obsessive and western perspective on cleanliness can attract equally negative results. New diseases pop up everyday, like HIV and cancer. These diseases are based on collective and contemporary lifestyles. Although we claim to have created a cleaner, thus safer society many us can’t stand significant contact to wetness, cold, heat or dryness. Germs that were commonplace in other ages seem to shut us down when they strike with any real force. Presently, doctors are awaiting a huge cold and flue breakout that promises to kill hundreds, maybe thousands of people. We are weaker in this respect than our Egun, which suggests that our bodies have been denatured or spoiled by some of our medicines and cleaning products. The same goes for food, which is less nutritious and more susceptible to disease than ever before. Scientists now admit that at least 30 alien chemicals have permanently bonded into the human body in the last 70 years. These new chemicals are no doubt a result of processed foods and strong chemicals in our air, water and soil. So use harsh cleaning agents with caution or not at all.

There are lots of all natural cleaning products on the market now. You don’t need to wait for corporate giants to validate these products by putting denatured versions in their newest offerings. I am amazed at how we failed to embrace coconut, and aloe vera as skin aids and lemon and orange as cleaners and degreasers until big companies came along, although our own grandparents have been using these products for generations! Clean your body and your home with ingredients from Ile Aiye, not tech labs manned by engineers! The idea is to clean and claim your body, mind, spirit and space, not strip these things down. You want positive energy and spirits that you have cultivated to remain.

Good Herbs for Smudging: Cedar, Sage, Lavendar, Copal

General Tips for Self smudging: Start at the top of your head and smoke yourself downward. Use whisking motions as if you were dusting yourself off. Say a familiar prayer that asks for protection, peace and spiritual guidance.

Feel free to also try any of the simple recipes below to create your own cleaning agents. (Email us when your results, especially if you change the formulas at all.

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