A woman writes: “My boyfriend is a high-level psychic. He felt the Protocol was beneficial at first, but he keeps getting re-infested by spirits on a daily basis. I have done many Protocol sessions on him, as well as he has done many sessions on himself. To me, it feels like something is missing from the Protection Prayer for high-level psychics. I am around the same people as he is on a regular basis, and I feel because my psychic abilities are not as developed, I am not feeling the infestation of spirits. It makes me nervous to develop my abilities as to me it seems there is not proper protection offered in the Protocol for people with high-level psychic abilities.” What is he experiencing and what can be done to help?

His dilemma is primarily due to his empathic state of being. The empath works differently than other people in how they go about sensing things. In working with energy, they project sensors to become aware of the energies beyond themselves rather than wait for the energies to impinge on them and then detect these within the energy field itself. In this fashion, the empath has a powerful intuitive reach because they have developed, in a sense, a very large antenna that extends out from them and will be exquisitely sensitive to many energies in the environment. This is almost unavoidable because it is simply how they do things—before they know it, they are sending out their awareness to see what is out there and are so used to doing this, have trouble confining their exploration to the local arena within the bodily energy field itself. What he is doing is not sensing things attacking within him, but extending his senses in such a way he sees things surrounding him and perceives it as onboard already when, in fact, it is not. There are many attempted incursions at all times of the living humans by dark spirits, so there are many times when a spirit present may be attempting to merge with the auric field and penetrate it to reach the chakras more directly within the person and projecting out from the body. A very sensitive psychic can detect this close proximity and will commonly interpret it as an ongoing attack because they are, in fact, brushing up against danger. So it is not that their sensing is wrong or inaccurate, it is that the interpretation they assign to the signal is worse than is actually the case. So he is not being infested. He is simply being examined and attempts made on a regular basis to make an incursion through his auric field. This is no different than people eating food that may have some bacterial contamination, and breathing air and drinking water that has contaminating organisms floating within in the particulate material, and so forth, and the surface of the skin and orifices of the body being exposed to the environment and having to have a way to prevent them from getting too strong a foothold. This is why the body is actually harboring a wide microflora of organisms that are simply growing on the moist surfaces of the body cavities and the bulk of the alimentary canal is heavily infested with microbial life. This is not a bad thing, it is a part of existence, but the immune system responds on a chronic basis at a modest level just to be sure things are being kept in check. So that is analogous to what he is experiencing—he is sensing there is a frequent incursion, but like the germs in the environment to which the body is exposed inevitably, this does not necessarily represent a great danger and may well be handled by the normal defenses without needing any extra or outside help. So he is doing fine in using the Protocol. It is just that his sensing is overreacting to the environmental hazards which are truly everywhere and cannot be avoided. The key is to keep them on the surface and that can be done quite nicely through conscientious use of the Protocol and its protections. If there is too great a fear, this can weaken his defense and invite a penetration, so it would be a good idea to do regular Protocol work on his behalf. So this is not a flaw of the Protocol itself. It is a personal characteristic of his that he is simply much more sensitive to things in general. This is the blessing and the curse of the empath—that they see and feel so much, and this sometimes gets them into trouble through being bombarded with so many sensations. There is a danger of becoming overwhelmed just from the sensory overload that does not lead to a physical attack and vulnerability, but it can if there is too much fear generated as a consequence. There are many empaths who must give up doing psychic work because it becomes too draining and they literally can burn out from having an overload, particularly if they are working on others who have serious difficulties. They cannot avoid going out and sensing what is going on in their clients, much of which will be quite nasty, and the risk is they will take in those energies because this is, again, how they function. They must taste everything, in a sense, and this can get them into trouble. So some are better off simply not getting involved in dealing with negativity when the sensing is at such a high level. This is a state of being the individuals are born with and will not occur as a result of simply wanting to open up the third eye capability. When this is done through the assistance of the divine realm, there will be a limit, in fact, in the extent to which such capabilities become augmented, specifically for the reason of preserving safety and the ability to navigate without becoming overburdened and experiencing a burnout phenomenon from undue stress.