David Strickland was a talented and popular actor on the series Suddenly Susan.
He shocked his family, friends and the world by committing suicide at the age of
29 on March 22nd 1999, after a night of drinking and drug-taking. David had
experienced ongoing drug and alcohol dependency problems, and his suicide was
presumed to be a result of this. My opinion as a channeler is that, while under
the influence of dugs and alcohol, David was temporarily possessed by
non-physical entities that eventually destroyed him.
Because of his acting talents in “taking on” the energy and form of others,
coupled with his drug addictions, which can open and weaken the chakras and the
auric field, David was susceptible to outside influences that could attach
themselves to him during those times, as they did. When he was in a sober state
he was not possessed, and was able to function more or less normally, till the
next time he drank.
I first heard of David’s suicide from a news report around the time it occurred.
Nearly five years later I happened to catch a Biography special on his life.
Although I’d never seen him act in anything, I was riveted by his story and
perplexed by his suicide, as were many others. Images of his face and tragic
ending haunted me for days afterwards. Still, I was surprised during a daily
meditation a few days later when David’s soul came to me during a brief window
of time in which it had clarity and the ability to communicate, like Hamlet’s
late father’s brief appearances to his son. In those few moments I understood
that David wanted me to help him out of his purgatorial state.
Catholics understand Purgatory to be the place where lost souls wander
unredeemed for eternity. According to official dogma, these sad souls are said
to count unbaptized babies and suicides among their number. While the god of
Catholicism is believed to be harshly judgmental and punishing, Occultists (who
investigate and know these things) understand that Purgatory is the lowest level
of three on the Astral Plane. It’s a kind of holding place for lost souls, and
in no way a pleasant place, though redemption or release in the form of rebirth
always comes, no matter how long it takes.
As I knew David had committed suicide, I felt that I would need to perform an
Exorcism to release him. While I’ve both participated in and conducted house
exorcisms, and have participated in personal exorcisms, these are not rituals I
conduct frequently or lightly. I know that suicide is a grave Karmic crime and
cannot be undone lightly, however I did not at this point sense David had been
possessed, which, technically speaking, converts the action to something more
like murder, or suicide while temporarily out of his mind. Nevertheless, I
agreed to try to help.
While the questions why and how David came to me for help will have to remain
largely unanswered, I can say this: energetically speaking, the laws of
non-physical existence are far different than those experienced on our physical
plane. David’s spirit or soul was able to experience moments of clarity in which
it could seek help. My sympathetic feelings towards him at that time, as well as
my channeling abilities, would have shone like a beacon in the night as his
spirit guided him towards help.
When we have an accident, we call 911 and don’t worry how the message gets
there. In this case it’s analogous, though not really the same. Those of us who
experience true telepathy may not understand how someone else’s thoughts came to
be in our head, but we accept that they are. It would be as senseless to ask why
those thoughts don’t just bounce out into the universe instead of being directed
towards us as it would to ask how David “found” me. He just did.
While this account is not intended to be an anti-drug sermon, I hope it will
shed light on the very serious, misguided and often misunderstood notion of what
it means to commit suicide -- for any reason. I also hope it will educate in
such systems of knowledge called “occult” and “New Age.” With the current state
of the planet, we’re going to need all the experienced help we can get. Here,
then, is the 7-day energetic account of my experience ‘Raising David Strickland,
Suicide.’
DAY ONE
After David’s initial contact I prepared myself for one week by cleansing,
purifying and meditating, while waiting for the first day of spring and the New
Moon in Aries, the most potent time of the solar year for beginning new cycles.
The first day’s session was spent purifying David’s soul through prayer and
meditation. From the start, David expressed relief at my presence, though there
was a great deal of fear surrounding my leaving after the first few sessions,
until he grew confident that I would return and continue to help.
DAYS TWO AND THREE
Over the next two days I assisted in lifting David out of various “depths” that
I visualized as subterranean caverns that closed up again as soon as we had
risen through them. I felt a great deal of claustrophobia during these sessions,
as I have a fear of enclosed spaces. I also experienced extreme difficulty
breathing, as though he/I’d been buried alive. I could tell that wherever his
soul was trapped was a most unpleasant place. All of this time, and for the
hours in between, I was cautioned to keep my aims, desires and emotional state
as pure and unburdened as possible, otherwise their material “heaviness” could
derail the process or bring problems to me.
DAY FOUR
On the fourth day, I was able to transport David meditatively into a pyramid
structure that I associated with the hidden Sephirah Daath (Knowledge) and the
Sephirah Yesod, which is associated with the Astral Plane, both of which are
located on the Tree of Life, noted in the Kabalah. All of our movements or
climbs were more or less vertical in nature, as we were still rising from the
lower level astral.
DAY FIVE
During the fifth session we went further, but horizontally only. David’s soul
was laid out on a bier or platform inside the pyramid. It was elevated at either
end by what looked like chains or winches, and was wrapped in a white shroud
from foot to head. I watched as he was then lifted over to the left and inserted
into a glowing furnace. Once cleansed, David returned back out the other side
and the journey continued horizontally, off to the right.
DAY SIX
On the sixth day, I participated with other energies in helping David be
channeled along a series of wormholes or tube-like conveyers. He was no longer
conscious of my presence, as he had been until recently. We raised him up to
what seemed to me to be the planet Mars, or perhaps simply into the energy of
Mars (planet of war and destruction), which quickly evolved into Saturn (planet
of time and the first planet of physical form, or life). I was surprised to see
that David was being transported in a vessel that looked like an open, lined
coffin. I was told by channeled voices that I was correct in what I was seeing.
Whereas I’d believed until then that we were raising him to a higher vibratory
level of the Astral onto a plane where souls have a more pleasant existence, I
now began to suspect we were returning him to his last moments of consciousness,
literally redirecting him at the precise moment of death so he wouldn’t return
to the lower Astral where the negative forces that possessed him had taken him.
I wondered later if I’d witnessed his cremation in reverse during the previous
day’s session.
DAY SEVEN
Seventh Day, and I believe my intuitions were correct. I saw very little of
David from this point on. What images I received were astral symbols of the
planets and spheres on which I was working. At one point I called David’s name
to summon a vision of him to see what was happening, but was told not to try to
contact him, as it would be detrimental to him at that point.
As I entered into the final day’s meditation, I sensed it would take upwards of
an hour to complete. As I proceeded, I felt that it would take specifically 45
minutes. Nearing the end of the day’s session, I suddenly had a sense that it
was over. I’d been aware of a hum in the room for the entire ceremony. It
suddenly stopped and I felt the bottom drop out of my energetic process. I asked
if it was over and was told, yes, and that I had achieved my goals.
I was afraid to look at the clock, fearing it might have taken less time than
I’d anticipated, in which case I would have to conclude that I’d been imagining
things all along. (It’s just like me to have second thoughts when everything’s
over.) At that point a voice told me never to be afraid to verify my feelings
and intuitions. I checked the clock. It had indeed been just seconds past the 45
minute mark when I stopped.
My hound dog, George, had come into the room during the final moments of the
final session. Just as I finished, George put his chin on my leg and I gave him
a pat. I told him we’d just done a very good thing. I felt very calm and
connected with the positive energy flowing through me.