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Everything You Need to Know About Dark Spirits (And Some Things You Don’t)
Let me just say, this isn’t going to be a feel-good article.
We often don’t want to go to these dark spaces and instead, assert that these things don’t exist. However, ignorance isn’t the answer, and pretending that the darker elements of duality don’t exist will only get us into trouble.
That’s why I want to share my perspective, from working in the shamanic healing space for about a year now and encountering all sorts of things during my travels into other realms of consciousness.
We’ve seen them in movies, heard about them in stories, and understand them in different cultural and religious frameworks. Dark spirits, at least the idea of them have pervaded the collective psyche, and the image that pops to mind is certainly not one that makes you feel good.
Dark spirits are, and always have been nothing more than folklore. The monster hiding under your bed, haunted houses, demonic possessions… This stuff isn’t real.
But what if, on some level of reality, they are as real as you and I?
I will spare you all the spiritual jargon and jump straight into it. Dark spirits are real, and I’ve had a few encounters and witnessed a couple of exorcisms too. So what exactly are they, and what do we need to know about them?
Let’s get into it.
