For those of you who missed my talk at the Witchfest last Saturday, I'm now putting some of it up online. Basically I tried to cover three main topics.

1. How do you know you’re under psychic attack?
2. Types of psychic attack,
3. And most important : What you can do about it.

How do you know you’re under attack?

The best thing to do first is to make a list of what’s happening that makes you suspect an attack.

There are 2 things you have to look for – one is evidence of psychic activity and the other is some evidence of an attack. If someone heaves a brick through your window that’s an attack, but probably not a psychic one. And although you might see a ghost, if there’s no evidence of malice, that isn’t a psychic attack either.

BUT - sometimes you get a combination of very trivial things that might be warnings that something is amiss. What you’re looking for here is a combination of things…
• Aural disturbances, such as the sound of a bell ringing when you don’t have a bell!
• Odd smells – now use some sense here. First go and check the drains. Then the bins. Then the dog. The most common psychic smells are intended to scare – fire and smoke, for instance. Rotting flesh is another.
• Waking up in the morning with strange scratches or bite marks… but again you should first check for physical causes. Your cat might have fleas.
• Another sign is waking in the middle of the night feeling something pressing down hard on your chest. But first go to see your GP and check you don’t have any medical condition that could cause it.
• And obviously if some object is thrown at you out of nowhere, well, you should consider that a bit dodgy too!

It's really important not to jump to conclusions. Most of the time you can find an ordinary, everyday reason why something happens. Don't let yourself become paranoid!