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HOW I GOT
INVOLVED IN EXORCISMS
by Laurel Steinhice
I
never planned on becoming an exorcist. It just happened, one step at a
time.
When I first began my career as a professional psychic, I had no
idea I would also be drawn into working as a healer. Even after a lifelong
interest in metaphysics and more than 40 years as a spirit channel, I was
still thinking in terms of communication between our world and the
Great Beyond. I began by channeling my late husband, Bill, and the late
medium Arthur Ford, as a simple carrying of messages through the veils of
life/death separation.
Almost immediately, however, Bill and Arthur were joined by
another speaker: the late great seer Edgar Cayce, who became the third voice
to speak through me. I was thrilled! And with Edgar came whole new realms
of exploration, among them those that drew upon the gifts of prophecy and
healing that he brought to our little circle of communicators.
Clients asked Edgar questions about his life and work, as he
spoke through me. As he answered, I listened and learned. They asked
questions about their own healing needs, and I listened and learned. Soon I
was able to answer some of those questions without going into trance -
because I remembered what Edgar had said, last time, and began to quote him.
As I
saw the fruits of Edgar’s healing work unfold (and that of Mother Mary, as
she also began to speak through me), I gradually gained the skills and
understanding that would enable me to participate in healing work in my own
right, without having to channel everything. More Guides signed on to speak
through me on a regular basis, and I began to serve a sort of healing
apprenticeship under the guidance of Edgar, Mary, the ArchAngels Michael,
Raphael, Azrael (Uriel) and a number of others. I can’t say it was a long
apprenticeship - actually, things happened very quickly, and much of it was
learn-by-doing.
Even when I
came to perceive myself as a student of the healing arts, I never expected
to do exorcisms - yet that was the very first healing technique I learned.
A Nashville
friend of mine, a respected local woman who did “house cleansings” by the
old bell-book-and-candle formula, invited me to accompany her on a mission
to clear a haunted house. My psychic skills would help identify and contact
the restless spirits in the place, she reasoned, and pave the way for a
smooth ritual release. It was a classic case of “casting out” unwanted
spiritual intruders, and no attempt was made to solve their perceived
problems or to rehabilitate them.
At about the
same time, a client in Pittsburgh - a psychologist - gave me a copy of the
book “The Unquiet Dead” by Dr. Edith Fiore, and said, “Read this!
You need it.” She was right, of course. Dr. Fiore’s work introduced me to
the concept of restless, disembodied spirits as personalities of the
formerly-living; people who had died without having completed their journeys
all the way to the Light. They were stuck in the middle - “earthbound” - by
their own misperceptions and dysfunctions, and a great many of them had
latched onto incarnate people to live vicariously through them.
More and more
information kept coming to me from various sources. The Guides explained
and instructed; buried memories surfaced from my own experience; I read new
books - or remembered having read old ones. Friends and clients shared
their ideas or expertise with me, and the next thing I knew I was doing
releases of spirit attachments right and left. Casting out unwelcome
spirits became the number one tool of my stock in trade as a healer, yet
that was only a bare beginning. There was so much more to learn!
I was called
to the home of a couple who had seen an apparition manifest in their
bedroom, and as my team of helpers and I began to sweep through the house
driving out invisible intruders, I heard one of the disembodied spirits say,
“I won’t leave without my brothers!”
I
instinctively replied, “They can come, too - everybody’s welcome in the
Light.” That gave me a new starting point. Instead of casting out, I began
inviting the spirits to leave - and then called on Tsali, a native
American Guide of mine, to lead them on their journey to a suitable
destination. It was a beautiful experience that changed my whole attitude
toward exorcism. I began to see myself as a helper for the
disembodied spirits, rather than as their antagonist.
Now, I always
approach an exorcism from that beginning point: I introduce myself to the
spirits as a problem-solver who wants to help, and look for ways to create
win-win solutions for them and the client. Usually, there are spirits
present who are responsive, and welcome my help. I work with these
cooperative ones first, whenever possible, and then move on to those who are
generally fearful and resistant, those who have special needs that require
specific problem-solving, and finally to those who are willfully
uncooperative and may have to be cast out by force.
Through
on-the-job training, I have come to realize that exorcism can be a very
complex process. At its worst, it can be very frustrating … and at its best
it is spiritually exhilarating. What a great joy it is, to see a powerfully
"dark" entity rediscover his own eternal essence as a Being of Light!
Now, after
more than a dozen years of practical experience in using exorcism as a
healing support tool, I want to share what I have learned with others. There
is an overwhelming - and still growing - need for these healing tools in our
society today, and I believe it would be well for any minister or healer to
have a basic understanding of what exorcism is, and how it is conducted.
Almost anyone
can benefit from a deeper understanding of entity intrusion - "possession"
in its many forms and levels, called by many names - and of the exorcistic
techniques that are used to bring a healthy resolution to these problems.
Yet exorcism should not be undertaken lightly. It is not for the fearful or
faint-hearted, or for those whose spiritual grounding is less than firm.
In preparing
the book "A Modern Healer's Guide to Exorcism" (soon to be published), I
have drawn heavily on my own experience, and on the teachings of the Guides
who speak through me. My vision of the Universe - and my faith in an
infinite, all-powerful, ultimate Light - are continually expanding, and I am
often challenged to integrate new details, new concepts. Readers will
probably find some of the concepts expressed in this book challenging - and
may choose to reject them altogether. That's ok. To the reader, I would
say: take what you can use, and leave the rest.
There is one
critical point, though: an exorcist must have absolute confidence in the
power of the Light, and in herself/himself as a Being of Light. I have been
fortunate, in that regard: I have always known, beyond the shadow of a
doubt, that Light is always stronger than darkness. And I have always
known, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that I am of the Light … because that
is my unwavering choice.
©
Laurel Steinhice, 2001
P.O. Box 50145
Nashville, TN 37205
615-356-4280
steinhice@earthlink.net |
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