This page provides an introduction to the
Unseen Influences blog.
History and background
For much of my life I struggled under a huge
load of unfinished business, both family and personal, and was very handicapped
because I was being eaten alive by the energy vampires in my family; I did not
realise this for many years as I had never known that there was any other way
to be.
Things improved when I found help in the form
of books. There was a publishing explosion of books on metaphysical subjects
towards the end of the last century, and when I eventually encountered them I
found information that was relevant and useful; it helped me to understand what
had been going on in my family.
I had many light bulb moments and started
seeing patterns and making connections.
After reading many biographies, I realised that similar unseen
influences had been operating in families other than my own. These families
often produced creative artists: female writers in particular.
I made a lot of notes, and sent some of the
material with my conclusions to a family member in the form of letters. This
was after a last straw moment. Apart from saying, “You have given me a lot to
think about” she made no use of the information.
I mentioned some coincidences and discoveries
to a few colleagues, who with one or two exceptions were not very interested.
In any case, I was mainly gathering information for my own benefit.
My life improved enormously for a few years:
I used my new knowledge and understanding to turn everything around. I
experienced a lot of good luck rather than bad, and beneficial rather than
harmful coincidences and synchronicity. I naively thought that the worst was
behind me, but actually it was still to come. Perhaps escape is not that easy.
I was hit very hard by some years of unemployment,
an unwise involvement with an organisation that I was horrified to discover was
very different from what it professed to be and a devastating personal disaster
that completely derailed me.
I was right back in square one: it was as if
the good years had never happened. Life became one long fight for survival
again: I could not live on coincidences and interesting information.
In paranoid moments I wondered whether all
these problems had been set up to distract me from my investigations, or even
as a punishment for speaking out for the first time ever about such things as
energy vampires and for saying that enough was enough where my family was
concerned. That is certainly what some conspiracy theorists would believe.
Another possibility is that the handful of
good years was the reward for or result of my investigations and inner work to
date, and I would not get any more until I had earned it. Perhaps the good
years were arranged to give me a taste of what was to come if I could only
survive the impending disasters.
I eventually resumed my investigations after
finding work in a different field. I analysed the events of the interim years
and looked for the usual patterns, connections and unseen influences. My life
improved to a certain extent, and I attribute much of the credit for that to
the approach that I took in trying to come to terms with what had been
happening.
I was also very fortunate in that some of my
new colleagues behaved as if they had been given orders to look after my
work-related interests at a time when I could not do this for myself; they
helped to get me going again.
This time around, I was able to make use of
the Internet for research. After some years of this, I found Anna Valerious’s
blog Narcissists Suck - just after she had decided to concentrate on other things. It inspired me: I
suddenly had the idea of doing something similar. I still had copies of the
original letters, and in the intervening years I had made extensive notes from
books while sucking the juice out of them before passing them on to charity
shops.
I decided to go ahead; I would create a blog,
overhaul my material and put it out there.
Dick Sutphen’s book Unseen Influences (1982)
was the inspiration for the title of this blog. I decided to do it under the
name of Unseen Influencer. I am not trying to promote myself or be a front for
a business, and being anonymous makes it easier for me to speak freely.
Purpose of this blog
I have created this blog in the hope that
some people will find the material interesting, informative and useful and my
speculations illuminating. It might add an extra dimension to the
interpretation of the events of their lives. I want to be part of the ripple
effect. I want to help more people whose lives have been blighted by unseen
influences to realise that they are not alone, and that something can be done
to improve their lives.
Sources of the material
The raw material comes from my memories, my
research and my notes; I have mediated it through my own opinions, deductions
and ideas. I have first-hand experience of how unseen influences can operate,
and I have augmented this with material gleaned from a large number of books. I
have tried to give credit where it is due: I have mentioned the books’ and
authors’ names where I remember them. I sometimes need to rely on vague
memories of books that I read and gave away decades ago: as this is a blog and
not an academic document, complete accuracy is not essential.
I am sure that some people from previous
centuries would be horrified by the way in which they and their lives have been
written and speculated about, but this can’t hurt them now and their stories
may help other people to put their lives into context.
I have given some examples of unseen
influences operating in the lives of people around me: this is usually in
connection with events that occurred many years ago, and it is extremely
unlikely that any of them would ever read this blog. I have withheld many of
the best examples as unfortunately personal information is an essential part of
the stories.
Comments policy
After looking at other blogs and reading
about other bloggers’ experiences, I decided not to accept comments. I am not
intending to host a forum or a discussion group, nor do I hope to build a
community. I want this blog to consist of just my own material, and I would
rather spend my time on producing more articles than on
moderating comments. I can be reached at unseeninfluences'atsign'gmail.com,
and will consider posting and discussing suitable comments received via this
route.
