I found a great video that illustrates Sacred Sexuality – the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine.
I note how different Sacred Sexuality is from the normal Earth notion of human sexuality. See how the bodies of Light of the man and the woman interact as their fingertips touch?
Composite Image: “New Enlightenment: Integration of Our Four Minds: Animated Gif,” by Alice B. Clagett, 16 November 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDITS: Image: “Contemporary Young Man in Meditation” [adapted], by Thomas Nordwest, 11 May 2023, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Contemporary_young_Man_in_Meditation_2023-05-11-3.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International … COMMENTS: This animated gif shows the integration of our four minds in the following order: Subconscious mind, conscious mind, unconscious mind, and superconscious mind. When our Awareness comprises all four of these minds, we have accomplished self-mastery, or Mastery of Mind. This I term the New Enlightenment. Mastery of our four minds is a signal or hallmark of our Ascension process. We are the New Humans, ready for New Life on New Earth. –Alice B. Clagett
INTRODUCTION
FIRST VIDEO ON CARL JUNG’S THEORIES ABOUT INDIVIDUATION
ANOTHER VIDEO ON CARL JUNG’S THEORY OF INDIVIDUATION
USEFULNESS TO LIGHTWORKERS OF CARL JUNG’S CONCEPT OF INDIVIDUATION
CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
Today I took a look at noted psychologist Carl Yung’s work on the theory of individuation with a notion of comparing it to my own work, and to my role as Lightworker, and to its possible helpfulness to those who hope to attain expanded Awareness for enjoyment of New Life on New Earth during this time of Ascension for Earth and all the beings under her care.
To be completely truthful I had not given Yung’s work more than a cursory glance priorly on the theory that deep study of traditional psychology might stifle my hope to channel useful innovations in the world’s understanding of the Mind … and of techniques to Master the Mind.
I had hoped to find a way to transform our Awareness that might easily be accomplished by all Lightworkers and by all those now involved in the process of Ascension. The outcome of this expectation of mine is my course on how to master the mind that begins here …
Link: “Mastering the Mind and the Human EMF: 0. Introduction and Content,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 16 April 2016; revised on 12 February 2019 and on 18 June 2022 through 31 October 2022; revised on 20 August 2023 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-56Y ..
Currently that course is free for all my Readers to read or view and to undertake as a part of their own lives.
Getting back to Carl Jung’s work … As you may know, Yung had a theory called ‘individuation’ that is part of the experience that I as a Lightworker have had. Sometimes people who have not yet started on the journey to individuation sense that individuated people are different and think of them as mentally ill. I feel they may do this because they feel the social norm to be mentally sound, and people outside the norm to be mentally unsound.
Carl Yung himself, along with psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, was, I feel, a person who had been through the process of individuation. Most people feel these two people to be leaders in their field, so Yung’s idea that individuation prepares a person for an exceptional role in the world … despite the fact that the process makes the person different from many other people … can be seen to hold some merit.
FIRST VIDEO ON CARL JUNG’S THEORIES ABOUT INDIVIDUATION
I found a video online a description of Carl Yung’s theories about individuation …
Video: “If You’ve Faced Any of These 8 Signs, You Have an Extremely Rare Personality | Carl Jung,” by Soul and Shadow, 27 July 2025 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7fy3dQlrQ0 ..
It is easy listening and, I feel, a good explanation of individuation. I like that the video is upbeat and inspiring. I note there are quite a few typos in the online text, but I feel this to be a relatively minor issue.
There is a more important issue with regard to Yung, I feel. As a Lightworker, I feel his theories are overly dependent on the left brain … on analytical and logical thinking. As well, there is too much emphasis on negative thoughts and emotions.
Lightworkers emphasize positive emotions such as love, Light, joy, appreciation, and gratitude. We don’t dwell on negative emotions.
Then as to brain function, we are whole brain thinkers, not left or right brain thinkers. What we think often has to do with channeling … bringing into our own minds, energy fields, and bodies information from higher sources … for instance, from beings on our Ascension team, or even from God Himself. We do this through our Awareness, and our willingness to ‘ask up’ … to ask the Unknown within and around us questions for which our personal experience and our own minds have no answers.
Those are some of the differences between Yung’s notions about individuation and the Lightworkers’ experience of expanded Awareness, of Awakening, of Ascending to New Life on New Earth.
In comparing my work with that of Jung, I see from the above-referenced video that he looked into the topics of …
Empathy(per Jung video, ‘psychic permeability’)
Psychic abilities and paranormal events (per Jung video, ‘psychic sensitivity’),
From this video I see that Carl Jung defined individuation as absorption of the unconscious mind into the conscious mind, as do I.
For more on my own take on the topics in this video, see my blog categories …
001 – 006 – UNCONSCIOUS MIND …
Collective Unconscious – unconscious thought cloud of the world …
01 – 02 – 03 – SUBCONSCIOUS MIND – Lower Mental Body – Gut brain …
05 – 06 – 07 – CONSCIOUS MIND – Higher Mental Body …
Stories – myths – visions – legends …
Archetypal images and sounds …
Ego – higher self …
Mind … and … Mastery of mind (per second Jung video, ‘psyche’) …
Social mask (per second Jung video, ‘persona’) …
Soul wounding – Soul clearing – core star energy … and … Savage man – primitive man … and … Transcending the Dark – courage under fire – spiritual warfare – demon wars … and … Dark Attacks … and … Descent of the Dark (per second Jung video, somewhat similar to ‘shadow’)
Sacred Sexuality … and … Divine Feminine – Divine Mother – Mary Magdalene … and … Divine Masculine … and … Sexual repression … and … Crossdressing – transvestite – transgender (per second Jung video, somewhat similar to ‘anima’ and ‘animus’ … his terms ‘toxic masculinity’ and ‘toxic femininity’ also are relevant)
USEFULNESS TO LIGHTWORKERS OF CARL JUNG’S CONCEPT OF INDIVIDUATION
It is good to keep in mind that the esoteric lore is replete with references to individuation … which that lore sometimes terms ‘individualization’. In the esoteric lore, as I recall, individualization is felt to be a state of Awareness attained by human beings, as opposed to other animals. The rationale is, as I recall, that human beings have individual Souls and that other animals have group Souls.
I myself like Yung’s concept of individuation better, as I feel many human beings prior to Earth’s Ascension lived life somewhat unconsciously, rotely even, by adhering to social norms out of fear of appearing to feel different.
I like the above-reference videos for Lightworkers who are taking some heat from folks ‘out there in the world’ who feel they are ‘mentally ill’ or ‘mentally disturbed’. If the truth be told, some folks will verbally barbecue everyone they feel to be different from themselves.
When we experience this untutored and hurtful response to Ascension teaching we can bring up that it is a form of verbal abuse. I say this because the term ‘verbal abuse’ is PC these days, and might help end the roasting thoughts that are cast our way.
On the other hand, slinging back to an unschooled person the PC term ‘verbal abuse’ is, I feel a negative response.
For close friends, one might try: That hurt me. “Please don’t use that term again.”
For antisocials or narcissists, one might try: “Every time you speak like that to me, I will walk away and absent myself from your company for 30 minutes!” … I got this idea here …
For psychologists and psychiatrists … especially those hired by us … one need traipse about Carl Yung’s concept of individuation warily, as it is clear many psychologists and psychiatrists are not yet on the journey toward individuation.
What they have not experienced they may not be able to recognize in us. Consequently they may … through ignorance of the individuated quantum leap of Awareness … find themselves trapped in the notion that we have fallen into mental illness. As their notions about us carry some weight in the world, it is important to exercise due diligence in deciding whether to consult them, whom to consult, and how to interact with them.
For our fellow Lightworkers and for those on the Ascension track, one might use Carl Yung’s concept of the journey toward individuation as a first step in explaining Lightworker and Ascension lore. That is my intent in the current post.
CONCLUSION
In general, I feel we might use Jung’s understanding of the process of individuation to prepare those on the Ascension path for what they will be encountering during their Ascension process.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
For more on individuation, see my blog category: Individual Souls – individualization ..
See also … Link: “Alan Watts on Why Awakened Souls Cannot Find Love,” referral by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 24 September 2025 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-Ezj ..
Written and published on 28 July 2025; revised on 24 September 2025
Insofar as I can tell, there have been only two survivors to live to tell of our flight from the mind control cult of which I speak. One was a man I have never met.
On the telepathic plane, I heard that he married and fled to a remote forest. Even so, I heard on the telepathic plane, his wife saw death through their psychic predations. I, Alice B. Clagett, am the other survivor.
Please support me and that man through your prayers and best wishes. Your good will and good thoughts will make a great deal of difference to him and to me.
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INTRODUCTION
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE CHILDREN IN “THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS” AND A MIND CONTROL CULT I RAN ACROSS SOME YEARS AGO
MORE INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
I read about the plot of the 1957 sci fi book “The Midwich Cuckoos” today. This is a 1957 book by John Wyndham. I was surprised to find some of the plot resembled the structure of a mind control cult I had run across quite some years ago.
I almost think that the book was a deep cover attempt to write an expose on the mind control cult ,,, so deep cover that no one might sue; but perhaps not so deep secret as to prevent ‘psychic terrorist’ retaliation by the cult against author John Wyndham, who died of cardiac failure on 11 March 1969, 12 years after the book was published.
I thought I would explain a little about this in case reading the book or viewing the TV movie series by that name might be of interest to some of my readers.
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE CHILDREN IN “THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS” AND A MIND CONTROL CULT I RAN ACROSS SOME YEARS AGO
I know the book refers to women in the fictional village Midwich in England being impregnated by aliens from outer space. The cult I looked into on the astral plane, on the other hand, had men and women not spawned by aliens in it, as far as I know.
The Midwich alien children are described by Wikipedia …
“When the 31 boys and 30 girls are born, they appear normal, except for their unusual golden eyes, light blonde hair and pale, silvery skin. The children have none of the genetic characteristics of their mothers. As they grow up, it becomes increasingly apparent that they are not completely human. They possess telepathic abilities and can control others’ actions. The Children (they are referred to with a capital C) have two distinct group minds, one for the boys and another for the girls..” —Link: “The Midwich Cuckoos,” in English Wikipedia …https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midwich_Cuckoos ..
Taking this a sentence or two at a time …
. . . . .
“When the 31 boys and 30 girls are born, they appear normal, except for their unusual golden eyes, light blonde hair and pale, silvery skin.”
As to the mind control cult of which I was reminded (I have encountered more than a few such cults), it had at the time both men and women in it. The older men had a certain similarity, as did the women. The younger men had some divergence of looks.
Then today it seems (although I cannot be certain of this because I am so skittish of getting close to their abodes) that the men all have a certain look, a certain color of hair and of skin, a certain height, and a certain weight.
. . . . .
“The children have none of the genetic characteristics of their mothers.”
This likely was not true of the mind control cult members.
. . . . .
“As they grow up, it becomes increasingly apparent that they are not completely human. They possess telepathic abilities and can control others’ actions.”
The mind control cult I am thinking of I feel was founded by an intersex person … a hermaphrodite … and for that reason (if it be so) I have a hunch it attracted intersex members.
Consequently, in prior years, on the telepathic and astral planes I explored the qualities of intersex people in depth. They are not like men, or like women. It is a little of both.
Those I have met on the psychic plane appear to have vast psychic abilities touched by the Dark. It appears they practice black magic without being taught to do so. The Christian churches might say they are obsessed or possessed by evil entities. Psychologists might call them obsessive-compulsive, which definition I would expand to include an ability to obsess and compell ‘normals’ at a distance.
When they aggregate in groups of intersex individuals, it appears to me they have the ability to paint other people Dark (even at a distance); and the ability to cause normals to suicide or to kill (when they act in groups). That may make them attractive to power-oriented people, but it would make them feared and shunned by ‘normals’. Normals might even consider them to be negative space aliens, as was the case with the Children in the plot of “The Midwich Cuckoos.”
Intersex people appear to have qualities of risk taking, of not fitting in with ‘normals’, of sexual preference for children, and of desire to murder so as to orgasm. These are quite different from mainstream qualities, and may cause them to be judged as antisocial personalities. For more on that see my blog categories: Intersex – hermaphroditism – half and half … and … Intersex Antisocial Personality Disorder ..
What I have figured out about this on the astral plane is far and away the opposite of mainstream thought on the topic of intersex. For instance, see the speech of Cardinal Benitez, who was the fictional newly elected pope) in the 2024 movie “Conclave.” It turns out that the Cardinal was an intersex person …
I have to say no speech has ever been more the complete opposite of my understanding of the nature of the intersex personality. I consider it dangerously naive. On the other hand, I appreciate that it supports the politically correct stance of LGBTQ+, and that the movie is springing for more maternal kindness to balance the patriarchal domination traditional to the papal role.
Some of you may stand more with the movie “Conclave” than with me. You might feel, as well, that I must be wrong about intersex characteristics … especially the ‘psychic terrorist’ qualities that I intuit … and that, anyway, there is no such nitersex mind control cult extant today at which a finger may be pointed.
Maybe so. After all, we are just talking about my own psychic hunches. And who am I, anyway?
So let’s take another tack. Many of the same personality qualities outlined above might also apply to any cult (not necessarily an intersex cult) that practices black magic. The idea of a non-intersex black magic mind control cult has this advantage: It does not run counter to the prejudices of this modern age.
Let us presume, then, a black magic mind control cult with qualities ‘not completely human’. Wny so? Because black magic implores entity attachment of Satan or devils or demons to the cult followers.
This makes for a Dark skew, a torque of the person away from human and in the direction of inhuman. The person becomes less like a great ape and more like a reptile, or an insect, or a dragon, or a dinosaur. He or she becomes what sci fi terms a ‘hybrid’.
Because of this they are coming from subconscious and gut brain presumptions quite different from that of ‘normals’. Their subconscious minds are so different from our own that they don’t flow into our own subconscious mind streams at all.
Because of that, the boxes into which our ‘normal’ subconscious minds place the bulk of human kind are oh so pathetically clear to those who worship the Dark or who pattern on non-human entities. That is the basis of what I term the ‘antisocial sense of humor’. For more on that see my blog categories: Antisocial personality disorder – Sociopathy … and … ASP sense of humor ..
Because they are not subject to our ‘normal’ taboos they can back us ‘normals’ into a wall of egoic fear, force us to act out in such a way that we will never again be accepted by our peers as ‘normal’, and ruthlessly exploit us as their ‘donkey men’. For more on that see my blog categories: Voodoo … and … Donkey man – human horse – chwal ..
. . . . .
So here we have two similarities, in a broad sense, between the Midwich Children and the mind control cult members …
They both seem in some way alien from humankind.
And they both “possess telepathic abilities and can control others’ actions.”
. . . . .
“The Children (they are referred to with a capital C) have two distinct group minds, one for the boys and another for the girls.”
As I understand it (telepathically only) the mind control group of which I was reminded was taught by their founder to keep the men and the women separate. It was a celibate group. The women held the purse strings … or so the women thought. But the men used mind control to make the women fall in love with them, and thus they controlled the expenditures of the cult through subterfuge.
Both men and women were highly telepathic, as was the case in the plot of “The Midwich Cuckoos.”
The cult men were taught to meditate on their third eyepoint, and the cult women were taught to meditate on their heart chakras.
The cult men were taught exclusively to use their left brain (seat of logic and reasoning) and the cult were taught exclusively to use their right brain (seat of creativity and intuition).
Thus the founder apparently laid out that the men and women in the cult would have “two distinct group minds, one for the boys and another for the girls” … just as was the case in “The Midwich Cuckoos.”
‘Whole brainer thinkers’ like me who fled the cult had no place there. That is because I could hear, on the telepathic plane … and using my left brain … the thoughts of the men in the cult.
Thus on the telepathic and astral planes … but not through physical means … I could discern the artifice through which the women in the cult were held captive by the cult men.
I could see the sexual preference of the cult men to be MSM (men who have sex with men).
I could also clairly perceive the heartless ruthlessness through which tight-knit groups of cult men pretended to romance the cult women on the astral plane, one by one, till all the women were held captives to their erring hearts. I clairly perceived that the men did this for the sake of greed, and not for the sake of love.
I could clairly see how they caused the cult women to suicide at the age of 60 years or so, or else how they exercised mind control against the cult women to cause them to give their sisters a heart attack at the age of 60. This also was for the sake of the cult’s bottom line.
I could see how the cult men cultivated the acquaintance of ‘normal’ cult members with homes, then through mind control estranged the husbands from the wives, and murdered the wives to grab their homes.
The single woman had no hope in that gathering, as she would immediately be set upon by a group of 6 to 15 mind-control men, who day and night would conspire to rob her of her sanity, then her life, with a view to profit from her worldly goods.
What a spook-out! Who would not seek desperately to flee from such shenanigans the minute the cult men got onto the prospect that their secrets might be laid bare!
And how impossible might it be for me to seek refuge in the law when all my understanding of my dire situation was based on hunches and intuition? How quickly might the ‘normal’ man … whether lawyer, or law enforcement officer, or judge of the courts of this land … or, for that matter, auto mechanic or fast food clerk or hired bodyguard … be subverted through that group’s facile and overpowering psychic powers?
But let us set that long-ago heartache aside for now.
God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Written and published on 10 May 2025; revised on 11 May 2025
MORE INFORMATION
Link: “Cult Deprogramming: On Recovering from Long-Term Mind Control,” by Alice B. Clagett, excerpted and published on 4 February 2020; revised on 30 April 2025 and on 11 May 2025 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-giS ..
Link: “Brainwashing,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 20 December 2022; revised on 11 May 2025 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-sQq ..
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Image: “Self-Portrait,” by Alice B. Clagett, 21 June 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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INTRODUCTION
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
VIDEO CREDITS
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
Here is a critique … from the point of view of women … of the “Ballad of James Harris,” otherwise known as “The Demon Love” and “The House Carpenter.”
There is an edited Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
The Ballad of James Harris – aka The Demon Lover – a Critique from the Point of View of Women
By Alice B. Clagett
Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
I have some comments today on a ballad variously known as “The House Carpenter,” and “The Ballad of James Harris,” and “The Daemon Lover.”
These are comments to do with men rather than with women. In the past “The Daemon Lover” was meant to be a warning for married women not to stray. I feel that is important, especially if they have children.
But more important to me … because I have run into it many times amongst men … is the Soul wounding exhibited by men who were once in love with a woman and then are spurned by her … and then she takes up with another man, and what happens if she goes back to the original lover. Or even this: What happens if she leaves a man and then goes back to him?
This has to do with some very gnarly energies in the noosphere … in the astral realm here on planet Earth.
I am using a public domain version of the Ballad from the Internet Archive. The source is Pepys Ballads.
It starts off with an overview of how the whole thing started, which goes like this …
1 THERE dwelt a fair maid in the West, Of worthy birth and fame, Neer unto Plimouth, stately town, Jane Reynolds was her name.
2 This damsel dearly was belovd By many a proper youth, And what of her is to be said Is known for very truth.
3 Among the rest …
[that is, among the rest of her suitors]
… a seaman brave Unto her a wooing came; A comely proper youth he was, James Harris calld by name.
So this man is a sailor (a ‘seaman’). And amongst all the men that Jane Reynolds knew … all the suitors that loved her fondly … the one that she decided upon … the one that she ‘set her cap upon’ … was named James Harris. And he was a sailor.
Now in those days a man and a woman would become betrothed, and that was a sacred trust. If that resulted in offspring before marriage, then there was a law called “Breach of Promise” that held the man to his former word.
So ‘becoming betrothed’ was an extremely important concept at that time. And even to agree that they would soon marry was equivalent to betrothal. And that pertains to this next stanza …
4 The maid and young man was agreed, As time did them allow, And to each other secretly They made a solemn vow,
5 That they would ever faithfull be Whilst Heaven afforded life ; He was to be her husband kind, And she his faithfull wife.
6 A day appointed was also When they was to be married ; But before these things were brought to pass Matters were strangely carried.
So that is the ‘setup’. They secretly agreed that they would be married, and a day was appointed for the marriage. But then something happened … something really bad.
Now begins the Ballad proper, which is Number 243, called “James Harris (The Daemon Lover).”
7 All you that faithfull lovers be Give ear and hearken well, And what of them became at last I will directly tell.
8 The young man he was prest to sea, …
[That means he was forced to go to sea.]
And forced was to go ; His sweet-heart she must stay behind, Whether she would or no.
9 And after he was from her gone She three years for him staid, Expecting of his comeing home, And kept herself a maid.
[‘Maid’ means ‘maiden’. It means never having experienced romantic love.]
10 At last news came that he was dead Within a forraign land, And how that he was buried She well did understand,
11 For whose sweet sake the maiden she Lamented many a day, And never was she’ known at all The wanton for to play.
So in all that time when she was dealing with the grief that she felt for her lost beloved, she never fooled around; she never had a lover. She was true to his memory.
Ok now …
12 A carpenter that livd hard by, When he heard of the same, Like as the other had done before, To her a wooing came.
[So he went to her house as a suitor.]
13 But when that he had gained her love …
[That is, through courtship]
… They married were with speed, …
[It is not the drug; this means they were quickly married]
And four years space, being man and wife, They loveingly agreed.
[So for four years they agreed to be loving man and wife together.]
14 Three pritty children in this time This loving couple had, Which made their father’s heart rejoyce, And mother wondrous glad.
15 But as occasion servd, one time The good man took his way Some three days journey from his home, Intending not to stay.
[So the husband went away from home for three days and left the mother with their three children there.]
16 But, whilst that he was gone away, A spirit in the night Came to the window of his wife, And did her sorely fright.
[That means a ghost or Spirit or astral being made an apparition, or appeared in her home while the husband was away … which is the time that a woman is most vulnerable. The spirit frightened her; it “did her sorely fright.”]
So now the Spirit speaks …
17 Which spirit spake like to a man, And unto her did say, ‘My dear and onely love,’ quoth he, ‘Prepare and come away.
[He is asking her to go away with him.]
You may recall the name of Jane Reynolds’ first suitor … the one she really loved so greatly was James Harris.
Have you been listening to the Songbirds? Just here they are objecting to the sadness expressed in the poem.
It sounds to me as if the little birds have been ‘taken over’ or ‘obsessed’ by two Shamans who are power-over men trying to force their will upon me. This is weird in the extreme. Who could these Shamans be, I wonder?
The Shamans are causing the Songbirds to speak very rudely. They are talking so loudly I can barely make myself heard.
So now to continue …
18 ‘ James Harris is my name,’ quoth he, ‘Whom thou didst love so dear, And I have traveld for thy sake At least this seven year.
[He is saying he was looking for her for seven years.]
19 ‘And now I am returnd again, To take thee to my wife, And thou with me shalt go to sea, To end all further strife.’
[He is suggesting that she should go to sea with him to prevent the husband from fighting with her or with James Harris.]
20 ‘O tempt me not, sweet James,’ quoth she, ‘ With thee to go …
There is a big fight going on with the Songbirds. The fight was so loud that I misspake the stanza and had to repeat it.
Mr. Raven wonders what in heaven’s name is going on here. Can you hear him?
I say to the birds: Please, please! Please don’t do that!
20 ‘O tempt me not, sweet James,’ quoth she, ‘ With thee away to go ; If I should leave my children small, Alas! what would they do?
21 ‘My husband is a carpenter, A carpenter of great fame ; I would not for five hundred pounds That he should know the same.’
So now, she says no. She says she cannot do it; that her husband is a famous carpenter, and that she loves her children, and that she cannot imagine what would happen to them if she left them.
Now it is the Daemon Lover’s chance to respond. He says …
22 ‘I might have had a king’s daughter, And she would have married me; But I forsook her golden crown, And for the love of thee.
This is spoken very forcefully, is it not?
23 ‘Therefore, if thou ‘It thy husband forsake, And thy children three also, I will forgive the[e] what is past, If thou wilt with me go.’
And she says …
24 ‘If I forsake my husband and My little children three, What means hast thou to bring me to, If I should go with thee?’
She is saying: Where would I find myself? What do you have to offer me if I should agree with this?
Now I am going to move on to Ballad 243G, which is a different version of the same Daemon Lover ballad …
Citation: Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. 93.
The lady is asking the apparition … the ghost: What have you in store for me? What property do you have? What could you offer me if I were to go away with you? And the Daemon Lover says …
1 ‘I HAVE seven ships upon the sea, Laden with the finest gold, And mariners to wait us upon ; All these you may behold.
2 ‘And I have shoes for my love’s feet, Beaten of the purest gold, And lined wi the velvet soft, To keep my love’s feet from the cold.
Then, I am presuming, they get on the ship. And he says to her …
3 ‘O how do you love the ship ?’ he said,
‘Or how do you love the sea ?
And how do you love the bold mariners
That wait upon thee and me ? ‘
And she says …
4: ‘O I do love the ship,’ she said, 1 And I do love the sea ; But woe be to the dim mariners, That nowhere I can see ! ‘
So she is on the ship with the apparition. It may be a ghost ship. He proposes that there are sailors on board the ship, but she cannot see any. So already there is trouble.
5 They had not sailed a mile awa, Never a mile but one, When she began to weep and mourn, And to think on her little wee son [her very small son].
Now it is the Daemon Lover’s turn. He says …
6 ‘O hold your tongue, my dear,’ he said, ‘And let all your weeping abee, For I’ll soon show to you how the lilies grow On the banks of Italy.’
7 They had not sailed a mile awa, Never a mile but two, Until she espied his cloven foot, From his gay robes sticking thro,
Ok, there is something wrong. The man that she used to know is not the same as he used to be. In fact, he has a diabolical aspect to him.
So what is this that happened when she loved a man, and the man went away and deserted her … and then she finally married someone else and had children.
And then he returns, if only in her mind … and begins a campaign that she should love him and not this new person. In other words, the apparition is jealous of her happy married life.
Or even it could be, I feel, that a man who once loved a woman might feel, telepathically, that she might find someone else that loves her, and then becomes, in aspect and demeanor, something like this Daemon Lover. He becomes enraged. He does whatever he can to destroy her.
Ok, there is just a little bit more to this …
8 They had not sailed a mile awa, Never a mile but three, When dark, dark, grew his eerie looks, And raging grew the sea.
He was in a rage. He was an enraged, jealous man. Many men descend to this after leaving a woman, instead of moving on to new love … to perfect their ability to have a loving relationship … they cannot release themselves from that old vow. They cannot move on to someone new.
Consequently they destroy the life of the person they once loved and their own life as well. Do you know what I mean? Very bad things can happen when a man does not allow a woman to move on … when he cannot stop stalking her new husband; when he cannot stop trying to destroy her love for him. You see?
Ok, the last stanza …
9 They had not sailed a mile awa, Never a mile but four, When the little wee ship ran round about, And never was seen more.
It could have been one of those upside-down tornadoes that sink the ships into the sea, you know?
Jealousy is the dark opposite of love. It can happen in a woman too. But in this case what you have is a woman who adjusted to the loss of a man and the man who comes back and haunts her telepathically, and brings her to ruin because he himself has turned Dark and sour.
You know, many men think this is just how it is, when a man is spurned or when a man deserts a woman, that the man will feel cruel to the end of his days and injure the woman before all with whom he speaks.
But I do not feel that way.
I think many men adopt a very useful attitude towards women they once loved, and pick out all the good things that happened at that time, and look forward to those things in a new relationship. That is what I think.
There is always trouble amongst women about men stalking them, and men trying to rape them, and men trying to kill them … and all this awful stuff … simply because we have a lot of heart energy, and the men think that they can take advantage of us for that reason.
It is a terrible situation, here in the third dimension, that all of us women have to face. Men can be protectors, but when they become jealous … when they become enraged … they can take the strength with which God endowed them and use it against us too.
Well, I wish the best for the women of Earth because without us … without our children and without our nurturing and educating abilities … there would be no human life on Earth.
I hope the men will understand that we have great value, we women on Earth. Men are not the only valuable people on Earth.
I am asking you men not to be arrogant, simply because you are strong. Strength is only half of the ingredient. The other half is the grace and love that women bring into a man’s life.
Well. That is the sober last of it, regarding this Ballad of the Daemon Lover, otherwise known as the Ballad of James Harris or The House Carpenter.
The interesting thing is that, in years past … in the ancient days … this Ballad was purported to be a warning to women not to leave their husbands. And so you have that side of the issue … the male side of the issue … and now you have the women’s side of the issue. Maybe those two will make a copacetic whole.
The Source
These versions of the Ballad came from …
Link: Pepys Ballads, IV, 101; from a copy in Percy’s papers. And I got them from the Internet Archive … https://archive.org ..
Why Have I Not Just Moved On?
Someone asked me on the psychic plane why I did not just move on and find someone else. Sometimes after a relationship ends is that a man … while not himself stalking and so forth … has a negative attitude that he conveys to his friends.
And his friends take it upon themselves to give a woman ‘her just deserts’. So a man who is well liked, and has lots of male friends, can enlist a hundred strong, self-willed, arrogant … I have to say … men on his side to take up for him in terms of …
[sound of a weedwhacker] … You know, there is a lot of Dark Interference today …
… to take up for him in terms of stalking and harassing and raping. And if it does not happen on the physical plane, it can happen on the astral plane. You know? This is something that women have to deal with all the time.
I heard of a case where a man was so unforgiving that every time his ex-wife would marry, he would go and harass the new husband that she had, until that man would leave because he was afraid to stay with the woman. And that this happened many times.
I would not want that to happen to me, or to any man that I liked.
A person has to consider the greatest good for the greatest number of people. If two people … I and my new friend … would be suffering because of my action of becoming romantically involved again … instead of just me suffering because I do not have that romance in my life, what should I do? I try to pick the thing that is the least damaging to the most number of people.
That is why I am steering clear of men: I don’t want that crap to happen to them … that crap that may have happened to someone else. It is really gruesome, when you come right down to it. That is the story.
The Downside of the Shamanic Practice of Entering the Bodies of Animals
I would like to interject right here why it is that I spoke sternly to the Songbird. It seems to me that the behavior of that particular Songbird was not typical of a Songbird.
It is possible that, if a Songbird were very upset over the tenor and the emotions of a person talking, it might speak like that. But I do not feel it would go on and on like that.
There have been numerous incidents of Shamans … I do not know who … walking into animals with whom I have talked in the last few weeks. I think that is what may have happened with the Songbird.
I am really against Shamans taking control of Songbirds and of Ravens and of Hawks. I think it is a very stupid idea to do that.
For one thing, every time that you enter a being that is not a human being, your Soul matter becomes more similar to theirs, and less similar to that of other humans. If you continue with that, at the end of your lifetime you are likely to be reincarnated as that animal, rather than in human form.
Many people long for human form because of the degree of Free Will they enjoy when in that form. So most people … if they stop to think … would not try that walking into the form and skin of beings that are not human for that reason: Because it degrades our human Soul matter.
In recent days I have found that many, many animals do have free will, and that it is only human hubris or pride that prevents us from realizing this. So it might not be that bad, if you do not mind being incorporated as a Songbird in your next incarnation.
It is bad for the birds, though, because you are trying to rule over their free spirits by doing that. It is as bad as if you did that to a human being. Trying to mind control and leap into the skin of a Songbird is a bad thing to do, from that perspective: from the perspective of wanting to retain your own Free Will, you see?
In this lifetime you have a chance to develop your Free Will, and to allow other people to develop their Free Will too. If there is nothing but Power Over in the world, there is no such thing as Free Will. You have none, and other people have none either.
Help us to create a world that is good for everyone. Don’t be a Shaman who jumps into animals and controls them; or into human beings.
. . . . .
This is just a little excursion into what happened at that very moment when the Songbirds were fiercely and uncustomarily arguing with each other.
God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Filmed and published on 21 June 2024; youtube transcription edited on 21 January 2026
VIDEO CREDITS
“The Ballad of James Harris – aka The Demon Lover – a Critique from the Point of View of Women”
by Alice B. Clagett
Filmed and produced on 21 June 2024
Location: San Fernando Valley, CA
