Even though there are all kinds of writings encouraging the public to embark upon psychic experiences..

"Even though there are all kinds of writings encouraging the

public to embark upon psychic experiences, do not do so. Do not

try to make contact with the beyond until you have acquired

mastery over your thoughts and desires. That is the only kind of

mastery that can make you strong and protect you from danger. For

you should know this: the risks you run in the psychic world are

as numerous and formidable as those of the physical world, if not

more so. If you are neither informed nor practised, you will be

vulnerable, and your only recourse will be to search around for

someone to free you from your anxieties and your obsessions.

So many people who claim to be on a spiritual path end up being

the victims of entities and forces they have unwisely provoked!

They feel they are being pursued by monsters, they experience all

the torments of hell, and of course they don't know how this

could have happened to them. And yet it's simple: through seeking

to enter the astral world out of curiosity, an attraction for the

fantastic or a desire to acquire powers, they have attracted

entities that really make their life hell. For that is what hell

is - the lower astral world. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov