Post No. 543: More on Phagic Attack

I’ve realised that I didn’t, as I thought, start down the path that would lead me to identifying phagic attack with the Jim Butcher book “Proven Guilty”, from the Dresden Files: I started down that path quite a few years before, when someone I know mentioned entities that feed off the energies of transition at death.

Not a pleasant thought, that one, is it? And I’m not so sure that that person had it right.

There is, however, something to consider on all this from the world of Nature: bacteria and moulds etc.

Now, there are all types of bacteria and other small and microscopic critters – most doing useful things like … helping our body live (e.g., helping our food break down so it can absorbed), cleaning up dead skin cells so we don’t look a walking parody of a dandruff ad, and helping to recycle dead creatures – plant and animal.

Some of the earliest of these small and microscopic critters started doing to job of building up the oxygen in our atmosphere, a few billions years ago, so that we could actually come into existence in this form. (If they hadn’t, I wonder if we’d all have been methane breathers? I can think of all sorts of jokes about that … and I won’t go anywhere near any of them!)

The point is, these small and microscopic critters play an invaluable part of life, and are a healthy part of life … until they become prevalent, or present in excessive numbers. (A bit like humans, really.) The people who sell those concoction of beneficial bacteria for us to drink so that different colours rush around our digestive systems (after all, those ads are all so accurate and literal, aren’t they … * ) are using that principle. If someone is looking at the health of a soil, they might do things like … count the number of species of ants –the more types (i.e., species) of ants, the healthier that soil is.

Our compost heaps work, not because things just fall apart at death, as if the leaving of the spirit causes the undoing of physical laws, but because small and microscopic critters actively chew through and break down the material in the compost heap.

Now, isn’t it just possible, that a Universe which could create something like that in the physical, could also create something like that in the non-physical?

Hmm?

That would suggest that a certain amount of stray negativity gets ‘mopped up’ by natural cleaners, just as stray rubbish in the physical gets ‘mopped up’ by Nature’s cleaners, the small and microscopic critters. However, just as physical cleaners in an office may find cleaning up after an end of year office party overwhelming, and bacteria in a municipal landfill may be so overwhelmed that it takes a long time to do their job of breaking things down, so too can the astral equivalent of the small and microscopic critters (I must come up with an acronym for them … SMCs … SMaCS … maybe not) become overwhelmed by the amount of astral garbage being put out by negative human emotion arising from the soulless life of suburbia, and a few little things ** like a few billion people living in desperate poverty …

So, these astral … cleaners, I’ll call them (sounds nicer than scavengers, but that also fits – particularly if one looks at the example of the physical world) basically do a good job. (And I’ve decided to extend my set of roles for Ranger work to include someone to do some cleaning up afterwards.)

Are they what cause phagic attack?

No.

Phagic attack is where some one or some thing deliberately provoke these negative reactions, or provokes positive emotions to a point that becomes addictive. A vacuum cleaner is not guilty of creating the mess it cleans up … but the humans who live there could be responsible for creating an excessive amount of mess after a party – and if that is not maliciously (e.g., throwing rubbish over a neighbours fence, which happened to me once … until I calmly pointed out that I would call the police if it continued), that is the equivalent of phagic attack.

I’ve identified phagic attack based on fear, outrage and pain (the latter including stress and exhaustion), and have found that I have to focus on managing the effects rather than go after the sources (yet!), but am also considering the possibility of addictions to positive emotions. If I find any, I might post about that … but I might not as well.

And now … ‘tis time to go and shower off the dead skin cells that the small and microscopic critters on my skin have missed or been overwhelmed by :)

 * joke, Joyce

 ** sarcasm, Joyce

[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this. 
 
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(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux? Morinehtar? Would-be drýicgan ... ) 

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• One size does NOT fit all. 
• Don't be mediocre - seek to excel.  
• Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if  the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
• Our entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people, places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability about Life.
• May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
• Ban the dream interpretation industry! 
• A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
• Housework is for ensuring a home is comfortable to live in, not competing to outdo or belittle others.
• Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal. 
• Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master. 
• Expertise at intimacy and emotional happiness is generally not the same thing as spiritual growth. 
• Any person, male or female, who has neither a serious health issue nor dependents and expects their partner to work to support them, is, spiritually speaking, little more than a parasite. 
• "Following the crowd" is not "going with the flow". 
• Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and/or "Everyone knows ... " and/or "they can ..." and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other. Indolence vs. perspicacity, and expediency vs. honour.
• The means shape the end.  
• BPLF restraint of uncooperatives is NOT an opportunity for revenge or getting even - even unconsciously. 
• As words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
• My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films. 
• All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ... 

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Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, and the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY (US Attorney General 1966 Speech) 

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that -- counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. ... Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile." ROBERT F. KENNEDY 1968

Tags: about me, astral, control, energy, negative energy, phagic attack,

First published: Manadagr, 21st April, 2014
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Monday, 21st April, 2014