Question to Erin or whoever knows the truth about Horror movies

[Amandaroseblue]

Can horror/gore movies like "The Orphan" or "halloween" open someone up to negative spirits or ghosts? Can the fear bring on negitive influences? WIll it be inviting them?

I never watch them because I don't like feeling afraid.

I have experianced wonderful things lately. Dreams that have protected me and loved ones. Wanting simple things that come my way. Knowing things I should know at times and now being prepared to meet my angel guides.

I have not been around negative or scarely things and lately my mind has been focused on education and good things. Then, tonight, I got curious and almost watched "The Orphan". I stopped short and thought maybe the fear I feel watching this will bring on negative influences.

Will it?

[sheffy4]

I think it will only bring on negative influences if you let it. Remember, horror movies are just stories. They aren't real. When I find myself getting scared watching a movie, I always remind myself that it's just a movie, and I let the fear transform into a fun thrill. However, I still stay far away from torture type movies like Saw, and the ones that are super gory and sadistic. I don't watch them because they put me in a bad state of mind.
If you find you don't like how horror movies make you feel, then don't watch them. But if you're curious, it won't harm you to indulge in The Orphan. Just watch it with friends! And if you get too scared it helps to make jokes about the movie and how silly the characters are.

[Anna Conlan]

Hi Amanda,

Like attracts like. So if you are in a state of fear, you're much more likely to attract or perceive negative spirits. And those spirits feed on fear and you get more scared.

So, horror movies are OK to watch but only if you're in that place of not feeling any fear.

I'd avoid them for now if you are working on raising your vibration, psychic development and staying out of fear.

[blossom]

I don't think they can 'bring on'these things you fear, only fear can do that, since it is like food for them. Watching films with lots of violence and disturbing images though does affect the mind I think, regardless if it is "önly a movie", and this can cause disturbance in your outer world if your mind is disturbed.

[MiBeloved]

Horror movies can and do cause the astral body to go to lower levels of astral existence and to meet demoniac influences there.

It may be argued that this is invalid because the films are only films and are not the truth, but unfortunately the mind does not discriminate like that. The intellect has to make a deliberate effort to sort truth from fantasy in films. For instance many men get sexual arousal looking at pornographic films even though in fact that is just a film and the plot of it might be a fiction idea of someone else.
This means that the mind is not able to sort between truth and fantasy on every level, and it is affected even if it realizes that something is fantasy.
But there is something else to consider and that is that the persons who created these films might be under devilish influence, therefore that influence might victimize the viewers in the astral world as the astral body might be attracted to those influences after being subjected to viewing the films.

The other day someone who was addicted to pornography and who became an impulsive chronic masturbator as a result, asked me about the solution to the problem. I said to him, " If you stimulate yourself by viewing those videos, then you are feeding the chronic habit. Starve the habit by not feeding it with the videos.

So the same goes. If you look at a scary video and then dream about it afterward and become spooked out of your mind, that itself informs you that you should stay away from that sort of media.

Someone else might view it and not be affected but if your mind is not that unresponsive to it, you should protect yourself by not viewing it.

[blossom]

hmmm, I will have to let my lover know about the consequences of too much porn...though I think he has already found that one out by himself

I used to LLLLOVE Horror flicks as a teen, but when I started investigating metaphysical stuff and getting into being sensitive, I found it was detrimental to my progress, so I cut it out all together, and I didn't watch ANYTHING violent for years and years, and had many wonderful experiences. I have sort of slipped back into watching Buffy as she rocks...and will sometimes watch KillBill or other violence but it isn't regular. For a spiritual path it's probably best just not to.

[themaster]

According to abraham and I quote.. when you go to a horror movie and come out the things in that movie don't happen to you.. cause you go "that's just a movie" "that's not real" and that's exactly why movies are a safe way to view things..

I like horror movies.. as a genre it goes science fiction then horror for me.. you ought to be asking me a person who believes anything is possible.. why I don't sit under the bed and wait to die?

The answer is simple.. because no matter how you spin it out there.. there are negative creatures there are negative entities this is TRUE.. but the truth is there not SEPERATE from you.. they are you.. they are all part of the one.. so you can't be afraid of something that is you.. if you recognize the truth to the illusion..

But let's say you're still under the illusion.. I would still not tell you to not go see horror movies as suggested in this thread.. that is avoiding the problem and is actually bringing those movies closer to you.. I would embrace my fear and the thrill of it and recognize that I just need to work on the idea there is nothing to be afraid off.. get in touch with definition/belief system activated in that fear and you have control of your reality.. unlike others who almost suggest in this thread.. that there is no control.. that you cannot change your environment.

If you choose not to like horror movies or watch them do not do it out of FEAR.. simply say that is a valid choice.. but I choose to do this now.. otherwise by law of attraction and that which you think about/REPEL against you will bring that to your experience..

The second spin on things is a fear of death.. death is anything but awful.. it's the most uplifting experience you'll ever have in your life..

Originally Posted by blossom

For a spiritual path it's probably best just not to.

Statement of limitation.

[Jon Tore]

I've seen some movies that have made me hide more under my blanket at nights, but never gone completely out of my mind
I tell myself not to have any bad dreams about the bad things I have in mind, and I end up with these weird dreams where we're for instance beating the girl from the Ring (she didn't even look scary) with baseball bats, wearing underwear around our hands because it was her weakness, and we totally kicked her ass I'm also quite a good orc slayer! And the guys from Funny Games aren't really that hard to beat in a pillow fight.

Just saying some fear doesn't always give bad twists, but of course it might.

[blossom]

I'm just wondering...themaster, do you go around constantly analyzing everyone who speaks to you and dissecting every little thing they say in LOA terms of "limitation" "judgement", or "lack", and any other buzzword that's going around these days in these circles? That can get pretty annoying after a while.

I ask because I'm remembering when I read the celestine prophecy many years ago and got right into the exercises and recognizing the dramas that people play out in their lives, and what I realized was that I was NOT seeing other, very significant aspects of them as whole people, because I was so caught up in thinking of them in terms of being "poor me's" or "intimidators". That's kinda how you strike me, as this person who is so into LOA that you don't really read other stuff the way it is meant, you only seem to read my comments in terms of YOUR own interpretation based on your LOA belief system.

My statement about watching horror flicks was not a limitation!

If I had said to the OP "You shouldn't watch horror flicks or you will not progress spiritually" then THAT would have been a limited suggestion based on fear.
The way I DID word my statement was to point out (if you had read the previous paragraph) that watching disturbing images too much can actually have an effect on your mind regardless of whether you know consciously that it's "only a movie".
Graphic images DO have a disturbing influence on the mind, which doesn't differentiate between what is fantasy and what is real, so, it can affect a person if they are developing their sensitivity for spritual experimentation or pursuits!

Now, I didn't actually say Don't watch horror flicks, did I?
I said it is probably better for the OP's sensitivity, if they are interested in developing it, to avoid it...but that's not to say that they HAVE to not watch it. That's just my finding in my own spiritual pursuits...of course, the OP does not have to take what I say onboard. Perhaps you are not as sensitive as other people here, or have not yet come to realise the disturbing effect that violent images can have on the mind?

I used to personally LOVE gore flicks...like, REALLY love them. Horror flicks were a total favourite of mine also, until I was about 18 and I started to really understand the effect it was having on my mind and how I felt AFTER I'd watched a horror flick, which led me to decide to give them up for good. I'm not saying this person should do what I did, but I am offering my input TO HER, not you, so that she can come to her own conclusions.

[themaster]

If it doesn't help, I won't say it..

Maybe you didn't mean it that way.. but really how is avoiding a problem a solution? If you remove the problem label then that is a solution

I like horror movies I seem perfectly balanced

[blossom]

Firstly, YOU are the one who is calling it a problem, I never said anything about it being a problem, I simply stated that graphic images can and do affect the mind in a disturbing way, especially if a person is more sensitive than other people.

Horror flicks aren't a problem, and to some less sensitive people, the disturbing effect of violent images goes unnoticed.
Everyone is at different stages and levels of development and spiritual evolution, are they not?

So, my suggestion of avoiding them alltogether, at least for a period of time so she can tell the difference in how she feels in her mind and feeling body, is not a solution to anything, since there is no problem!

[themaster]

Do you ever feel like you're being scolded?

Well, let's go this way.. I agree with you from the right perspective.. it was not a statement of limitation.. so if you had that perspective.. then I apologize k? better?

[Amandaroseblue]

Thank you all of you . I added up everything and read here and it really helped. I have concluded that for me right now I will refrain. As i grow stronger ( which I am daily) I will venture out into some movies and things I avoid. If I still feel uncomfortable then I will not watch or read horror. I see it as my sister who can not drink alcohol at all in order to live her life best. She has been sober over 20 years now I believe. But I can drink alcohol.

thanks!

[blossom]

no problem themaster. I just hate having to waste time trying to explain myself when if the person had read my words carefully enough, there wouldn't have been a need to! It happens all the time on these forums, so forgive me if it seems like I am being scolding...it's more frustration at having to repeat myself...which annoys me to no end!

[brendannz]

I think according to Rob Zombie; taking a girl to a horror movie is more likely of getting you laid.
and Chick Flick = NO sex..

[blossom]

That's probably true Brendannz, since the girl will most likely want to jump on you every time a scary scene happens, which in horror flicks, is nearly every 5 minutes...kudos to you

[brendannz]

Originally Posted by blossom

That's probably true Brendannz, since the girl will most likely want to jump on you every time a scary scene happens, which in horror flicks, is nearly every 5 minutes...kudos to you

and taking her to a porno will make you seem like a sleaze :P

[blossom]

Not if she likes Porn