Over the past week I have had four different people ask me questions about Opportunistic Entities.  I thought an explanation would make a good blog post, since so many times Empaths have to deal with extracting an Opportunistic Entity and the question seems to be up for so many Empaths I know right now.

If you’ve read my stories on my website about Extractions, you probably already know that sometimes when a loved one dies, that person’s consciousness can become confused and then attach to a person still living instead of moving on to the Upper World(The Bardo, Heaven, etc.)  That person can then take on the traits of the loved one, sometimes even becoming ill with the same symptoms if the person who died was sick.  As a shaman I can “extract” the loved one and cross the person over to the other side, escorting him or her through the Bardo and all the way up to the Fourth Realm of individuated souls (Heaven).

In other cases we can take on a thought form of a loved one that gains so much energy it acts like an entity.  An example of this would be a critical parent constantly chattering at us in the background.  Such thought forms can be extracted in the same way as a person that has lost his way after death but aren’t really entities.  Other thought forms, like the supportive, cheering parent, we definitely do not want to extract!

However, there are other Entities that are not so benign.  These Opportunistic Entities are looking to take advantage of people in bodies to get an energetic feeding.  They usually don’t want to go through the hassle of making a body of their own, so they attach to someone in a body instead and cause trouble.  The easiest target for these Opportunistic Entities is an emotionally distressed Empath child.

The Empathic or highly sensitive child in an extended moment of fear or stress psychically cries out for comfort or help.  If no caregiver answers or responds in a way that makes the child feel safe and cared for, the Entity has an opportunity to answer instead.  The child and the Entity make a deal or an agreement—a sense of safety and a feeling of at least not being completely abandoned in exchange for feeding the Entity.  Usually a soul loss takes place for the child as well, making the child more vulnerable.  In any case the child and the Entity exist in a sort of symbiotic relationship.

How do you know if your child has unintentionally made this deal with an Entity?  Sometimes children develop unusual behaviors or become unreasonably clinging or afraid.  Some children develop behaviors that look like OCD or they become extremely anxious.  Some become people pleasers.  Some become violent and mean for no apparent cause.  In fact, it can be hard to tell just from behavior if your child has an entity.  But if they suddenly begin acting out of character and they have also been put in a situation where they were anxious, afraid, or believed themselves to be in danger or abandoned, it is reasonable to have a shaman check them for an Entity and most definitely for Soul Loss.

While I’ve worked with several children with Entities attached to them or near by them, more commonly I pull Opportunistic Entities out of adult Empaths.  All these Empaths made the agreement with the Entity when they were children and when they were extremely afraid or under extreme stress.  In one case, a client was extremely afraid of the dark when sleeping in a strange house and accidentally called one in.  In another case an Entity deliberately frightened the child and then the child called out for help and the Entity “rescued” him.  This child lost his zest for life and became painfully self-conscious.  In yet another case a client who had grown up in a chaotic household filled with arguments and physical violence had more than one Entity attached as an adult.   Years later, when this client was in a funk, these Entities tried to taunt him into committing suicide.

As you can see, Opportunistic Entities are troublemakers.  They feed off fear, anxiety, and anger.  The more they stir up these emotions in the Empath the bigger feeding they get.  They co-opt the Empath’s power for their own, and they sabotage the Empath when she tries to step back into power.  They love causing trouble not just to the Empath but also to the people around the Empath.  Many times the Empath doesn’t suspect she has an attachment to an Opportunistic Entity until she starts doing healing work or deep personal work.  As she changes, the presence of the Entity becomes more obvious and less hidden. So, what does the adult Empath do next?

The most essential step for the Empath is to break the deal with the Entity.  The Empath must look at what benefit she gets from the Entity now that she is an adult.  Instead of safety and comfort that she might have missed from her parents as a child, as an adult the contract may have shifted into something different.  Many Empaths live from a Victim Stance.  The Victim Stance has the benefit of never having to take responsibility for ourselves.  The Victim wants others to take care of her.  The Victim wants life to be easy without putting in the work on the physical plane.  In a way, living from a Victim Stance has considerable benefits.  However, having a Victim Stance means that the Empath cannot get out of the contract with the Entity.

If we give up our Victim Stance, which means taking responsibility for our life as it is right now, reframing how we look at our life with the phrase, “I created this mess, what am I going to do to clean it up,” no matter that we inadvertently created it as children, and we take small actions to clean up our lives, we step into power and into choice.  Opportunistic Entities don’t like that.  They like us in our Victim Stance because we are helpless, hopeless, powerless,blaming others and circumstances for our lives.  All that beautiful creative power is up for grabs, and they will grab it.

Opportunistic Entities sabotage the healing work.  I’ve had Empaths realize that they have an Opportunistic Entity, schedule a session to do the work to remove it, and fall asleep before the call.  I’ve had Empaths completely forget conversations and directions that would lead to ejecting the Entity.  I had a client who had worked with me for years forget how to build altars and make sandpaintings.  I’ve had Empaths attack me personally for suggesting that their attachment to a Victim Stance was leaving the door open to the Opportunistic Entity while sounding nothing like their true selves.  The Entity doesn’t want to give up the attachment, and sometimes the Empath doesn’t want to give it up, either.  That is a valid choice.

If you suspect you have a deal with an Opportunistic Entity, and you want to be released from the contract, you will have to not just have the extraction done, but you will have to change your life dramatically.  First, the original contract with its benefit to you personally has to be looked at.  Then you’ll have to ask yourself whether you want to give up the mindset that keeps the contract in place.  Because if you don’t change your life, the Entity or one just like it will return to take its place.  The shaman can extract again and again, but it is the Empath and the Entity who make the deal between them.  The shaman doesn’t break the deal, the Empath does.

However, if you are willing to change your life, step out of the Victim Stance, and be vigilant about falling back into any Victim Role behavior or mindset, extracting an Entity is straightforward.  The Entity might retaliate briefly in an attempt to scare you into powerlessness, such as one Entity who shook a client’s bedside table after an extraction in an attempt to scare her back into vulnerability, but the Entity can’t reattach without some sort of agreement in place.  So in that way, we need not fear more attachments if we do our work and step back into personal power and personal responsibility. 

If you suspect you have one of these attachments and are willing to do the work, now is the time.  Given how fast human consciousness is shifting right now, it’s a great time to change your life and release yourself from these old ways of being.  Once you have finished your work, if you have children of your own, it’s probably a good idea to have them checked for Opportunistic Entities as well.  Parents who have an Entity attached unconsciously set up an environment that makes it likely that the young children in the home will also be vulnerable.  Empath parents, when they don’t have Opportunistic Entities attached, tend have good energetic radar and provide good psychic protection.  If you have an Entity, assume your radar is not working properly until you have completely your own personal work.

Let me know if you have further questions!

much love,

Elaine