Before anything else - A Familiar Spirit

          

           Before I can explain or share something else, I have to say that I have a Familiar Spirit. Not many have them by their side; I was fortunate.

    For a more general and common description of the subject, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiar_spirit

           Still, I'll tell you my own experience with such an amazing entity and the description of what it is; on my own terms.

      A Familiar Spirit is like a spirit guide; a guardian in the terms of the occult. Normally, they appear in animal shape. To some they appear for the first time in the physical realm; to me, however, my Familiar appeared to me in the dream realm.

        According to what my Familiar explained to me, they normally appear to someone who has a higher level of spiritual energy or Ki than normal and that are emerged in the supernatural world.

       There are different times of Familiar Spirits; some are kind and others are devious.

       Mine is a very kind one, fortunately. They are androgynous, so I gave him/her a name that served both: "Night". Night is a beautiful black panther who teaches me many things about the other realm and of how I should use my Ki better and more efficiently. My Familiar also teaches me several ways to contact the other realm and how to protect me.

         I have several ways to contact Night, but the easiest one is through my wonderful black cat, Luna. Many times, Night takes over my cat's body to contact me. Luna is the way for Night to be present in the physical realm when other people are present. When I'm alone, Night appears in its real form.

        To have the guidance of Familiar Spirit, one has to make a contract with it in the first time they met. Don't go thinking that it's like selling your soul to the devil or something! It's nothing like that! In exchange to the privilege of having the guidance of a Familiar, they simply ask something that they know that it's on the person's reach. They never ask something that it's impossible for the person to accomplish. 

       With Night, I insisted in doing my part of the deal first and almost immediately after our encounter; in a way to show her/him how honored I felt and that I keep my word.

        There is another thing that someone should know about Familiars; they have morals, and expect the human to understand and respect them. When this doesn't happen and the person is too greedy and sometimes too wicked to care for the Familiar's morals, the Familiar is most likely to turn against that person. Another reason for a Familiar harm the one that made the contract with them, is when they accomplish their part of the deal and do that person's bidding, and still, the person refuses to make their own part. They consider it disrespectful and will harm the person in every way they can.

      According to Night, it's very hard to detach a revolted Familiar from someone, and most of the people that this happens to, is a doomed one. They are not to be messed with! A contract with a Familiar Spirit is something serious and not some child's play.

        With that in mind, conjuring a Familiar to do your bidding, is a terrible idea! The Familiar should appear on their own will. When conjured, they are uncontrollable and can easy turn against the conjurer.

       Another thing to have in mind is the bond and control over your Familiar. The stronger the bond you have with it, the more in sync you are and it's more easy to communicate with it. Also, the stronger the bond, more control you have over it.

    Don't ever forget this: Although you have control over it to do your biding, do not abuse of your control! They are not slaves at your will! They are powerful supernatural beings that should be respected and treated like their power demands!

Kindly, The Raven

P.S: This piece of art is a wonderful illustration of Familiars: 

And it's made by this wonderful artist: Spikie

Spirit categories

       Please note that these are my own categories! Not the general ones! They are the categories I gave as I did my best to understand what I saw.

         Normal - The ones I call "normal" are spirits that I see everyday on the streets. I sometimes even confuse them with living people; that is, until I feel their energy. They appear as a normal person or animal (yes, even animals).

         

       Shadows - These ones are those that I hope not to encounter many times. I don't like them. They are a mass of negative energy. Every time they appear either something bad happened or is going to. They are also extremely overwhelming. When in contact with them, I feel extreme despair and sadness.

          Blurred - Although at the beginning they disturbed me, I know realize that these ones are the most troubled of the spirits; they are troubled and unable to remain in one single plane (aka, They are between the two worlds). To give you an example of how they look, it's like when you take a picture of someone but their face becomes too blurred to recognize. Another example, for horror film enthusiasts, it's like in the movie "The Ring".

          Travelers - These are the ones who are not attached to no one or to any place/object. They wander as they please. Normally, these ones are the nicer ones.

           Timers - These ones are special. They are able to show me the flow of time and some scenes that happened somewhere or with someone. It's like rewinding a tape.

        

         Dreamers - Other special ones. They only appear in me dreams, normally to show me parts of their lives or how they died. It's pretty intense. They do so I can help them in some way.

             Mutes - These ones don't speak through words; instead, they use images and feelings. Normally a cold and depressive atmosphere surrounds them.

     These are the ones that have appeared to me so far. 

Kindly, The Raven

           

Nowadays

          

              During my pre-teenager years, I practically ignored what I saw and felt. Honestly, I almost couldn't differentiate the living from the spirits in most of the cases. I hated the fact that I could see them. I never told anyone what I saw; I was a kid and didn't want to be the "weird one". 

          However, during my teenager years I began realizing that I couldn't hide from my reality and slowly embraced what surrounded me. That made me stronger spiritually. 

         Let's make it clear, I don't believe in God. I'm an atheist, who, however respects other ideologies and actually is willing to learn the religious beliefs of others.

        To me, I believe only in what I can see; and believe me that I've seen a lot.

        Anyway, slowly I could sense that my energy was growing as I began to be more aware of differences both in the world that surrounded me and in the spirits. I became more sensitive to everything that surrounded me; the people's energies, the place's energies.

        Suddenly, the spirits' presences began to affect me more. I couldn't enter a cemetery; it was too overwhelming. It still is. To give you an example of what I experience, is like when you're in a crowd of people and they're all speaking at the same time. You can't understand what they are saying and you become overwhelmed; a headache begins to form.

         As I begin to notice that my Ki (aka Chi; aka Life Energy) began to grow more powerful, I began to be able to control more of the energy that affected me; and began to protect myself better.

      Control over the Ki is essential and allows you to control your environment better; If you use your Chakras, even better. The more control you have over your spiritual energy, the better it is to control the energies around you.

        My own Ki isn't completely controlled, I'm still "in training". And my use of Chakras is still in the beginning.

        Still, the strength of my Ki allowed me to differentiate the spirits in to categories and even to experiment some new stuff from the other side.

Kindly, The Raven

          

The begining

     I began experiencing supernatural encounters since I was very young, about 3 years old. At first, they were very light stuff: some voices I didn't know, whispering behind me; some kid drawings scribbled over mine.

       With time it became more intense. Children hand prints all over the wall; too tall for me to reach and that no one could fake it; toys working without any batteries and with no one around them; A toy clown, without its mechanism, approaching me and laughing like a maniac.

       As a young child, that marked me deeply. I hate clowns nowadays.

       It was when I was about 10 years old that I saw my first spirit. It was a little girl, two years older than me; she said that she had died before she was even born. Later, thanks to the help of a serious and professional medium, I was told that she was my older sister that was never born. Because, you see, my mother had been pregnant before, but unfortunately she suffered a spontaneous abortion, and then, only two years later she became pregnant with me.

       I believed that medium. The connection I had with her was very deep. You ask, how can I be sure? Well, do you know the feeling of when you met a member of your family for the first time and connect? That's what I felt.

    I still have a good connection with her. She's with me every day. Affectionately, I call her "Rose", because she is normally as fragile as a flower, but, if enraged, she reveals her thorns.

        You can call her my guardian spirit. She helps me connect with the other realm when I'm having difficulties doing so. She also protects me from the dark ones that sometimes appear.

         I'm privileged to have her with me. Not many can have such a dedicated protector. I can't dispense of her company. We are one now; two faces of the same coin.

Kindly, Raven

Introduction

   Have you ever wondered if there is life after death? Are you interested in the Supernatural? Then, this blog is for you.
   In here I will share my knowledge about this subjects alongside my own experiences.
   I'm a 19 year old girl from Oporto, Portugal and most people don't know what I can do or see. My mother say that I was born with a gift... sometimes I think that it's more like a curse.
   In this blog I'll be explaining the things I see and can do on my own terms.
   I'm not a fake or do I want or receive any money from this.
   I just want to share my experiences and perhaps to help other people to understand some things they don't.


Kindly, The Raven