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THE GHOST IN THE BELL JAR
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by Loyd Auerbach

Excerpted from "A Paranormal Casebook:
Ghost Hunting in the New Millennium"
Atriad Press, 2005
Previous page... Given that she saw herself as a psychic, and that she had gone into some of the visualization of "energy" techniques used by certain psychics, we came upon a nice way of removing a ghost. At first, I spoke with her about simply protecting herself, using a visualization of "walls" of psychic "force" to block the apparition out of the house. Such psi-blocking visualizations are suggested for a bit of "psychic self-defense" by many psychics, but she had problems with visualizing such a big job.

"Can you imagine yourself surrounded by a bright light, like a big jar?" I asked.

She thought for a moment. "Yes, I have that."

"Can you visualize a big bell shaped jar of colored light standing on its own in the room?" I asked her.

"Yes, I can do that."

"Okay, here's what I want you to do. The next time the harassing apparition appeared, slap that bell jar around him. Make it bright and strong."

"Got it," she said.

"Then slide the bell jar outside the house, and let him go with a warning never to return." She agreed to try this.

Three days later, I received a call from her. She told me she had trapped him in the imaginary bell jar, but then went on to ask me what to do next.

"What do you mean, what should you do next? I told you to slide it outside the house and tell him to stay away or you'd put him inside the jar again."

"Uh, you said that?" she replied.

She had apparently not heard my other instruction, and was keeping the apparition trapped, giving him a taste of his own obnoxious medicine.

After a short time with him in the psychic bell jar, she began insulting him back, and had continued to do so. Now he was practically begging to be let go.

I told her to get his promise never to return and turn him loose. She did, and he took off, never to be "seen" again.

Now, you might be thinking that this all sounds a bit strange, that there was no evidence of the apparition to begin with, and certainly there was nothing pointing to her actually trapping a ghost. You are correct.

The point is, whether there actually was an entity there or not doesn't matter so much as the person taking control of the situation and resolving it herself. If there actually was an objective entity or apparition there, obviously her own psychic abilities were more than enough to get rid of it, because she took control and believed the technique would work.

If there was no entity there, even if this were some figment of her imagination, the belief in the technique was more than enough to resolve the situation. I've used this same resolution advice with other people since then, and haven't really had a dissatisfied customer yet.
THE GHOST IN THE BELL JAR
by
Loyd Auerbach
Excerpted from
"A Paranormal Casebook:
Ghost Hunting in the New Millennium"
Published with permission from Atriad Press


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