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A Warning to Steer Clear of People Whose Energy Is Aligned with the Demon Realm . by Alice B. Clagett

Written and published on 13 July 2021

Image: “The Bad and the Ugly,” by Monica Georgescu, 5 September 2015, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Bad_And_The_Ugly_(139161761).jpeg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Image: “The Bad and the Ugly,” by Monica Georgescu, 5 September 2015, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Bad_And_The_Ugly_(139161761).jpeg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Dear Ones,

There are some people in Los Angeles … both men and women, but often men … whose energy is aligned with that of the Demonic Realm. I have spoken with LAPD about it, and they say these people are very different from me; that the thing to do is just steer clear of them.

I agree with LAPD completely, and I hope my readers can steer clear as well. I also read up on demons and found out this: Demons are invisible, but a person can tell from a feeling of dread if they are nearby.

The demon Kau’T in this image by Vashta …

Link: “Kau’T” … https://www.vashta.com/my-product/kaut/ ..

… reminds me most of ‘Heart Vampire’ whom I describe here …

Link: “Compendium: Catastrophic Childhood Case Study: ‘Black Magicker’,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 8 April 2021; revised … https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com/compendium-catastrophic-childhood-case-study-black-magicker/ ..

Secondly it reminds me of ‘Black Magicker’ whom I describe here …

Link: “Compendium: Catastrophic Childhood Case Study: ‘Heart Vampire’,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 14 February 2021; revised … https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com/compendium-catastrophic-childhood-case-study-heart-vampire-by-alice-b-clagett/ ..

When I read Frank Peretti’s Christian book “This Present Darkness” I found out quite a lot about how to protect myself from the Demon Realm. I heartily recommend this book to all my readers …

Link: “This Present Darkness,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Present_Darkness?fbclid=IwAR2AmTOmuQ50tWua3yrioOg17ylk1Sokf_ce5M6dbQ-u_6T8HiRv2W7MD1Q ..

In my heart I feel the energies of the Demonic Realm to be aligned with distortions of the Light found in some sectors of the entertainment industry and in some products of the recreational drug industry today. Often people feel the ‘glam’ of the entertainment industry, and the ‘allure’ of using hard drugs, and that attracts them to people whose energy fields resonate with the Demonic Realm.

I have found when I ask friends and acquaintances to steer clear of this person and that, instead there is a chance they will go and make their acquaintance, so as to determine the truth of the matter for themselves. I feel it might be the attraction of being around power and status, around good looks, and around fame and fortune … that motivates my acquaintances to this catastrophic choice.

The trouble is that demons such as the evil, red being depicted as Kau’T are capable of completely mind controlling us puny human beings, unless we can call upon the Angelic Realm to protect us against them. Without even knowing what is going on, we can get sucked into a downward spiraling vortex of Soul degradation.

I hope my reader will exercise right discrimination, and know that everything depends on keeping good company, and avoiding bad companions who set a poor example for us in this lifetime. They say that one rotten apple spoils a whole barrel of apples. That is really true. If a group of good people have amongst them one person with a demon for a companion, the group is pretty much sunk. Setting aside compassion for that one lost person, we must feel compassion for ourselves and for our un-rotten friends, and keep them safe from demonic mildew. We have to ask that demon-oriented person to keep away from us.

What I have found in past, when I publish a blog or a facebook message such as this one, is that these men and women in Los Angeles whose energy resonates with that of Kau’T attack me mercilessly on the psychic plane for days, until I must unpublish the blog or message in order to find a moment’s respite from their psychic attacks.

I have thought this through. I think the reason they attack me is that they think they are at war with good people. They must feel that the Dark is fighting the Light, and that they are just doing their job, fighting Christians.

That is a misconception borne of hubris. By that I mean that they feel, arrogantly, that they can fight against the goodness of God, who created them, and win against Him. How could that possibly be?

From God they come; through Him their physical bodies are created. To God they shall inevitably return, when their bodies die. It is God who creates and destroys; God who sustains the Universe. What possible use is a demon? Surely they are not our friends. They cannot lift us up from the dead, can they? It is they who kill, not they who heal our bodies. It is they who cast us into the pit of despair; not they who lift us up to hope for a good tomorrow.

I feel there is a great deception going on with these people in Los Angeles who are aligned with the Demonic Realm. I feel very clearly that they are being mind controlled by appallingly cruel beings such as Kau’T into the misconception that they themselves are these demons. They feel: I am Kau’T.

How can that be? This demon is far stronger than they. The more they serve him, the more repulsive they become to other human beings. How can they hope to find a willing woman to have sex with them, when all they want to do is cage a woman up and torture her to death? Go figure!

That is why it is clear to me that a very cruel demon has caught them and will not let them go. If their heads were clear, they would surely know they are headed straight for disaster. They are not the all-controlling demon. The demon completely controls them.

I ask these men (and sometimes also women) in Los Angeles to understand this blog is not a challenge. This is not a war cry. I do not want to fight you. I do not find you glamorous or sexually attractive.

I just want to warn good Christians to steer clear of you. I want them to understand the danger of bad company, and to know the fake ‘glam’ of being around power and fame and good looks.

We Christians and Lightworkers, and good people of all the major religions need to steer clear of men and women who are deeply infected with the Dark. That is my message for today.

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

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Mystery RIFF: Backyard Spy Cameras Boost Income for Telecommunications Companies? . by Alice B. Clagett

Written and published on 26 June 2021

Dear Ones,

Quite some while ago I did a Mystery RIFF on the American telecommunications company Sprint. As I recall, at that time, before its merger with T-Mobile US, Sprint had been blitzkrieging me with enticing mail offer upon mail offer of very low priced internet and phone service.

The people from Sprint were at the telephone pole just outside my backyard time after time, always with a good reason why they were there.

This did not make sense to me from an economic standpoint. I could not figure it out; how could they be going to such effort and expense paying for advertising and putting in utility lines when their price for service was so low? We already had a telecommunications service in the area, which worked quite well.

I mulled it over, and as is often the case came up with a Mystery RIFF along the lines of conspiracy theory and disclosure. The RIFF went like this …

  1. Sprint cannot hope to recoup its expenditures given its price for service.
  2. Something else must be in the wind.
  3. Is the advertised price for service just a ‘loss leader’? Do they plan to raise the price of their telecommunications service in the near future?
  4. Are they planning to sell the company at a big loss to balance a taxable gain in another leg of their operations?
  5. Are they planning to sell the company at a big gain to the competitor?
  6. What if they are planning to keep the company, keep the low price for service, and benefit from a second income stream? If so, what would that second income stream be? Here, I figure, are potential customers for backyard spy cameras attached to telecommunications lines. I placed them in alphabetical order …
    • Drug Industry – to spy on competitors
    • Satellite mapping companies such as Google Maps – as a buyer from Sprint for resale to the other folks on this list
    • Home Improvement Industry – find out of their services are needed
    • Home Invasion Industry – to look for ways to gain access to the property from the backyard
    • Insurance Industry – to evaluate condition of property and see if insurance rate needs to be boosted
    • Landscape Industry – to find out if homeowners need their services
    • Law Enforcement – to catch crooks on camera
    • Porn Industry – to get salable footage of sunbathing and partying
    • Private Detective Industry – to get the lowdown on spousal fooling around; to get ‘revenge porn’ footage to sell to angry ex-spouses; to get footage for blackmailers; or for the paraphilic sexual practice of candaulism (candauleism), to allow husbands to share footage of spousal intercourse with their male friends, with or without consent of the wife.
    • Real Estate Industry – for customer sales intel and to evaluate condition of a home

I am the first to admit that my Mystery RIFFS are ‘out there’. I really do not know what the operational strategy of Sprint was. Yet I see a value in this Mystery RIFF. For instance, might another utility company come up with this sort of hanky panky?

Here in America, the law still provides us privacy in our backyards. I feel it for the best to uphold and preserve our right to privacy in and behind our homes insofar as we may in the years to come. I feel it is good to keep an eye out, just in case.

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In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

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Gas Station Sticker Art . photos by Alice B. Clagett

Imaged on 8 December 2020; published on 11 January 2021

Dear Ones,

Here are some fun photos of a gas station sticker. I thought they might represent the eighth chakra, astral thuggees, gas pump sticker shock, the fossil fuel debate, and a ghost. Maybe you will interpret them differently from me.

Composite Image: “Astral Thuggees Attacking the Eighth Chakra,” compiled by Alice B. Clagett, 8 December 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDITS: Images of devils: “Devil 2” in wpclipart … https://www.wpclipart.com/holiday/halloween/devil/devil_2.png.html … Public domain … DESCRIPTION: Sticker from a Los Angeles gas pump adapted by Alice B. Clagett, and compiled with Devil 2 images. The sticker is a white rectangle with what seem to be black eyes and a mouth gouged into the sticker. Above the white rectangle is a blue and white circular object with the writing blurred out. . Inside the white circle are tiny devils prancing about … COMMENTS: The white rectangle with the black eyes and mouth looks a little like a surprised person. The blue and white circular object above the white rectangle I take to represent the eighth chakra We can visualize that we are send away these tiny devils when we do a meditation or visualization to clear the energy of our eighth chakra.

Composite Image: “Astral Thuggees Attacking the Eighth Chakra,” compiled by Alice B. Clagett, 8 December 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com

CREDITS: Images of devils: “Devil 2” in wpclipart … https://www.wpclipart.com/holiday/halloween/devil/devil_2.png.html … Public domain …

DESCRIPTION: Sticker from a Los Angeles gas pump adapted by Alice B. Clagett, and compiled with Devil 2 images. The sticker is a white rectangle with what seem to be black eyes and a mouth gouged into the sticker. Above the white rectangle is a blue and white circular object with the writing blurred out. . Inside the white circle are tiny devils prancing about …

COMMENTS: The white rectangle with the black eyes and mouth looks a little like a surprised person. The blue and white circular object above the white rectangle I take to represent the eighth chakra We can visualize that we are send away these tiny devils when we do a meditation or visualization to clear the energy of our eighth chakra.

Symbolic Image: “Gas Pump Sticker Shock,” by Alice B. Clagett, 8 December 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Portion of a sticker from a Los Angeles gas pump. In the center of the image is a white rectangle with what seem to be black eyes and a mouth gouged into the sticker. On either side of the white rectangle are yellow rectangles indicating minimum octane ratings of 87 (left) and 91 (right). A big black hole is gouged into each of the yellow rectangles … COMMENTS: I take this to represent the high price of gasoline, and the high toll that use of fossil fuel takes on our global environment. I myself am for sustainable fuels, which seem to me to make a good deal more sense in terms of ecology than do fossil fuels.

Symbolic Image: “Gas Pump Sticker Shock,” by Alice B. Clagett, 8 December 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com

DESCRIPTION: Portion of a sticker from a Los Angeles gas pump. In the center of the image is a white rectangle with what seem to be black eyes and a mouth gouged into the sticker. On either side of the white rectangle are yellow rectangles indicating minimum octane ratings of 87 (left) and 91 (right). A big black hole is gouged into each of the yellow rectangles …

COMMENTS: I take this to represent the high price of gasoline, and the high toll that use of fossil fuel takes on our global environment. I myself am for sustainable fuels, which seem to me to make a good deal more sense in terms of ecology than do fossil fuels.

Symbolic Image: “Ghost,” by Alice B. Clagett, 8 December 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Portion of a sticker from a Los Angeles gas pump. In the center of the image is a white rectangle with what seem to be black eyes and a mouth gouged into the sticker … COMMENTS: I take this to represent a startled ghost. Could this mean that fossil fuels are on their way out, and that the tide of public opinion will turn in favor of sustainable fuels?

Symbolic Image: “Ghost,” by Alice B. Clagett, 8 December 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com

DESCRIPTION: Portion of a sticker from a Los Angeles gas pump. In the center of the image is a white rectangle with what seem to be black eyes and a mouth gouged into the sticker …

COMMENTS: I take this to represent a startled ghost. Could this mean that fossil fuels are on their way out, and that the tide of public opinion will turn in favor of sustainable fuels?

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In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

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On the Dimensional Experiences of Venus, Ra, and the Venusian Wanderers . by Alice B. Clagett

On the Dimensional Experiences of Venus, Ra, and the Venusian Wanderers

Image: “An approximation to the electromagnetic spectrum of visible light [reversed],” in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spectrum.svg .. public domain … COMMENTS: These colors red through purple represent dimensions 1 through 7. –Alice B. Clagett

Image: “An approximation to the electromagnetic spectrum of visible light [reversed],” in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spectrum.svg .. public domain … COMMENTS: These colors red through purple represent dimensions 1 through 7. –Alice B. Clagett

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  • DIMENSIONS OF VENUS
    • Earth Ascension, as Compared to That of Venus
  • DIMENSIONS OF RA
    • Sidebar: Balancing the Heart Chakra May Help Ascending Humankind Avoid Death in Afghanistan and in Other Places Where Holy Wars Are Being Waged
    • ‘Ra’ and ‘Ha’ (as in ‘Ha’-thor)
  • DIMENSIONS OF THE VENUSIAN WANDERERS
    • Number of Wanderers on Earth During Earth’s Ascension

Dear Ones,

Here is some research I did in “The Law of One (The Ra Material)” regarding the dimensions through which Venus, Ra, and the Venusian Wanderers have passed, and the dimensions in which they now are. I have added my own comments to do with my understanding of Earth’s Ascension, and with regard to the statements from “The Law of One” …

DIMENSIONS OF VENUS

At the time of the Venusian ‘harvest’ [at the time of that planet’s Ascension], Venus was 3D-4D … 89.28https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=89#28 … and 89.10https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=89#10 ..

At the time of the Venusian ‘harvest’, about 32 million Venusian mind/body/spirit complexes chose to repeat 3D, but not on Venus. About 6.5 million Venusian mind/body/spirit complexes chose to participate in the Ascension of Venus … 89.28https://www.lawofone.info/s/89#28 ..

After the Venusian harvest, the planet Venus was 4D-5D … 89.11https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=89#11 ..

Then Venus became 5D, and has been so for much of the time span of humankind thus far … … 89.11https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=89#11 ..

Earth Ascension, as Compared to That of Venus

I gather the dimensional shift of Venus through 4D-5D to pure 5D, as described above, may be the process in which our planet Earth is now engaged: We have become 4D-5D, and are passing into a purely 5D planet, on which 5D mind/body/spirit complexes dwell. I gather those Earth mind/body/spirit complexes that choose not to participate in Earth’s Ascension will continue in their chosen dimensional experiences, but not on Earth.

How I feel this is taking place here on Earth contrasts with what is said in “The Law of One.” The contrast has to do with Earth Lightworkers’ understanding that Earth is ascending to 5D. In “The Law of One,” which was written in 1982 – 1998, it states that Earth was then 3D … 63.9https://www.lawofone.info/s/63 ..

I am guessing that would mean to the channelers of “The Law of One” that Earth would be ascending to 4D, which would be one dimension lower than that which is thought to be the case by Earth’s Lightworkers as of the year 2021.

In addition, I see in “The Law of One” the expectation that, when Earth ascended, the mind/body/spirit complexes there would choose one of three paths:

  • They might chose to ascend to 4D positive.
  • They might choose to ascend to 4D negative, but not on planet Earth
  • And the unharvestable 3D mind/body/spirit complexes might go to a 3D planet.

As all the Universe is ascending, I guess the 3D planet to which the unharvestable Earth beings go would be one just now ascending from 2D to 3D.

I found elsewhere in “The Law of One” the likelihood, throughout the Universe, of various types of planetary ‘harvests’ …

  • about 10% of planetary harvests are negative
  • about 60% of planetary harvests are positive
  • and about 30% of planetary harvests are mixed, with most of the harvest positive in aspect.

I gather from this that, from the Venusian ‘harvest’, Lightworkers in the 1980s might have gathered that Earth would have a similarly ‘mixed harvest’, but that when Ascension occurred in 2012, they found the harvest would be positive.

I have a question in my mind how it could be that fungi and other microorganisms, which seem to me to be firmly rooted in 3D-4D, might have ascended in recent years to 5D, but it could quite possibly be that my understanding in this regard has not yet reached fruition.

In regard to that, “The Law of One” states that entities such as these might remain somehow within the influence of Earth, but maybe in a lower dimension. If that is so, then what we may have at the present moment is multidimensionality for Earth, with various dimensions expressing 1D to, say, 12D and higher, but the bulk of the entities on Earth expressing themselves, along with her, as 5D positive.

It could be that, with time, more and more of these dimensions that contrast with the main energies of ascended Earth will merge with the predominant fifth dimension, For Earth humans who enjoy the experience of dimensions higher than 5D, it could be, for the nonce, in Earth’s experience of temporal and dimensional stuckness, many might experience dimensions higher than 5D during solar events such as Winter and Summer Solstice, the Equinoxes, the Lion’s Gate, the Perseid and Leonid meteor showers, and at other astrologically favorable times.

Then as more and more humans experience timeline and dimensional merges and changeups … as the Incoming Light purifies their energy fields … more and more humans will begin to experience multitemporality and multidimensionality, with the ability to rise to awareness of 12D and higher, even at times when favorable solar events are not occurring. That is my thought on it.

See also “The Law of One” … 63.9 … https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=63#9 … and … 65.13  … https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=65#13 ..

DIMENSIONS OF RA

Ra is 6D seeking 7D … 14.19  … https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=14#19 ..

Ra experienced 1D through 4D on Venus … 41.26https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=41#26 ..

Ra does not say here whether it experienced 5D on Venus …  41.26https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=41#26 ..

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Sidebar: Balancing the Heart Chakra May Help Ascending Humankind Avoid Death in Afghanistan and in Other Places Where Holy Wars Are Being Waged

I note Ra states that in graduating from 4D to 5D, its 5D experience was to balance the “intense compassion” of 4D. I relate to this through my intense experience, in Solar Cycle 24, of the need to balance the heart chakra’s frontal and back vortices so as to protect myself from the many sociopaths among humankind, and so as to prevent my being murdered by the quasi-spiritual ‘cults that kill’, which I had run-ins with after the Shift. As Ra states, when the energy of the heart is balanced through 5th chakra (throat chakra) work, there still remains the ability to do much helpful work here on Earth.

I suggest it might be helpful, for instance, for those risen to 5D to speak their truth (5D) while following their heart (4D). In that way we may help others just now encountering and attempting to survive sociopathic behavior of others on Earth to remain in physical form and rise to 5D. See “The Law of One” … 41.26 … https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=41#26 ..

It could be, for instance, that those whose heart chakras are well balanced, and whose throat chakras are purified, will be more able to avoid murder by religious zealots, should they be in a part of Earth (such as Afghanistan) where a holy war is being waged. For “The Law of One” on the Venusian experience in this regard, see “Dimensions of the Venusian Wanderers” below.

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Ra is spending 6D as a member of the confederation, seeking to be of service … as, for example, in its service to Earth …  41.26https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=41#26 ..

‘Ra’ and ‘Ha’ (as in ‘Ha-thor)

I feel the words Ra … as in Ra-En … and Ha … as in Ha-thor … are the same word. –Alice

DIMENSIONS OF THE VENUSIAN WANDERERS

The Venusian Wanderers were 5D positive [blue, maybe close to peacock blue] … 89.33https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=89#33 … It could be this means that the Venusian Wanderers were Blue Avian Star Beings prior to the Venusian ‘harvest’.

After their work on Venus as Wanderers, these two beings harvested themselves as 3D negative (service-to-self). [yellow, but negative in aspect] … 89.34https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=89#34 .. into 4D negative [green, but negative in aspect]

I see that the manner in which the Venusian Wanderers fell from 5D positive to 3D negative was that they exercised power over other entities in such a way as to devise these entities’ physical death. They were like ‘ruthless despots’ waging a holy war … 89.31https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=89#31 ..

Then eventually they moved to 4D positive [green, and positively aspected] … 89.41https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=89#41 ..

Number of Wanderers on Earth During Earth’s Ascension

I note “The Law of One” states there were about 60 million Wanderers on Earth during the 1980s … 63.10  … https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=63#10 ..

I am guessing this may mean that most of the Wanderers on Earth prior to the Ascension were not from Venus, but rather from elsewhere in the Universe.

In love, light and joy,
Alice B. Clagett
I Am of the Stars

Written on 7 November 2020; published on 21 August 2021; revised on 13 September 2023

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Pragmatic Prophet: Google Apocalypse?

Written and published on 25 September 2020 by Alice B. Clagett

Dear Ones,

THE PRAGMATIC PROPHET SAYS: Could be the East Coast internet will become separate from that of the West Coast, if United States federal government decentralization continues as I predict. It might be good to get financial records offline and onto a flash drive or onto CDs, in case the national versions of Google and HR Block online should begin to fail.

As well, I figure if I plan my day around non-internet activities, then Google outages may not be too important to me.

Link: “Google Services Go Down in Some Parts of the U.S.,” by Daisuke Wakabayashi and Michael Levenson, 24 September 2020 … in the New York Times … https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/technology/google-service ..

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

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