Building your Psychic Shield

Building Your Psychic Shield

By Gita Saraydarian

The study and practice of psychism is fascinating to people all over the world. I was especially moved to write this blog after seeing a show on Oprah about three psychics speaking of their experiences and admitting that they had no idea how this works nor had any control over their abilities! The show also had two people who doubted the phenomenon even existed. I have seen such TV shows before, but this one moved me to write something. I felt that each person on the show was seeing the higher worlds through a little window and they were not able to see a bigger picture. I listened to all of them and thought to myself, I wish I could explain how psychism works so that people would not be prone to information that was partially accurate and in some instances, totally misleading. The psychics who were interviewed certainly had harmless intentions, but had no idea how psychism works. There is more to psychism than what we see on TV or read in popular books and magazines. Here is a brief essay on my thoughts on this subject.

In the Ancient Wisdom Teachings, great teachers always emphasized the wisdom of staying far away from dangerous psychic practices, and encouraged the development of our protective psychic shield. They taught that there are two kinds of psychism. One is called lower psychism and one is called higher psychism.

What is called lower psychism involves mediumistic activities, channeling, psychic readings and fortune telling, and other such practices that are even more sinister and very dangerous. These are practices in which the person is contacting shells of dead persons, or thoughtforms, or mass emotional forms in the subtle levels of the world called etheric, astral, and lower mental planes. Such persons have no control over what and whom they contact and are bothered by beings and phenomenon out of their control. Eventually, such practitioners become mentally ill, full of illusions and glamors, and cause dangerous conditions to themselves and to others. Although many such practitioners think they have special gifts and talents, they are simply dabbling in psychic phenomenon and will eventually develop serious mental, emotional, and physical ailments. The focus of these practitioners is mundane, such as marriage, death, money, jobs, and such. It also involves methods and ways to materially control others and situations by the use of magic. These practices incur heavy karma for the practitioner and are completely against all truly spiritual Teachings. They increase illusions, glamors, vanity, and mislead people into thinking that this is all there is in the higher worlds. We have warnings against such practices by saints, teachers, prophets and other great spiritual teachers.

Higher psychism involves the ability to have complete and conscious control over one’s spiritual experiences. It involves the abilities of your soul, the human psyche, to contact ideas, truths, and teachings that bring healing and upliftment to all of humanity. They are not involved with marriage dates, fortunes, mundane prophecies and the like. Such highly evolved individuals never talk about their psychic abilities and are sane, normal, balanced, and are in total control and have a deep protective shield for their life. Whereas in those who practice lower psychism you will always hear boastings, readings, fortune telling, a heavy sense of illusions and deceptions, inability to control what comes into their mind and who does the talking. Such people will often end up mentally imbalanced and in the worst-case scenario, completely obsessed and possessed.

In the study of Psychism and protection, there are two ideas that I want to mention in this blog. They are as follows:

Psychic Shield
Vulnerability during attacks

Psychic Shield: This is made up of our aura, which is the radiation of our physical-etheric, emotional, mental body radiations, plus the radiation of our Solar Angel, and the radiation of our ever growing and expanding human soul. This shield is built and strengthened by building healthy physical bodies through right diet and exercise such as sports and hard physical activities; a healthy emotional body by practicing virtues, creative works, loving and forgiving, creating a beautiful and serene surroundings, cleanliness and purity; a healthy mental body by reading beautiful literature, meditating, praying, studying the sciences and mathematics and music, undergoing high-level academic training, learning how to think clearly, creatively, critically, and overall, engaging the mind in healthy activities. All of these translate into connecting ourselves through our striving to higher vibrational qualities, such as virtues, love, and disciplined and discerning lifestyle.

A psychic shield is something you can build for yourself. It is made up of your bodies and the healthy connection that you make to your spiritual being. Whatever you have inside of you, however you live your life, you will attract the same to you. Your vibration will attract similar vibrations. Hatred will bring hatred; gossip will bring gossip; jealousy will result in jealousy toward you. Whatever we give, we will receive. On the other hand, a life lived in purity, goodness, joy and beauty will bring the same to you. Living a life of circulating the energies of love, prosperity, kindness, will keep the psychic energy circulating inside your life as well.

Some people have a strong psychic shield and some are much more sensitive to incoming energies. In my observations, those who are especially sensitive can build a stronger shield around them by doing creative works, teaching others in creative endeavors, prayer and meditative reading, as well as solid grounding in physical activities such as gardening, building, and outdoor activities. Particularly sensitive individuals need to learn to forgive and let go of past hurts. As the bodies get stronger, the shield does also.

Vulnerability during attacks: This means anything in our nature that acts as our Achilles’ heel. This can be any addictions, hunger for power, hatred, greed, fears, desire for position and money and power, or simply blind spots. It can also result when a person is involved in lower psychic practices and keeps himself or herself open to thoughts, ideas, activities that he or she cannot control nor can discern the truth from. When a person has these, he or she will attract elements that will want to exploit this weakness. The weakest part of our life are those areas where we are blind about or have the least control. When our weaknesses attract these elements to us, we can be hurt by them. On the other hand, when our beauty and strength and striving attracts people to us who may want to hurt us, our psychic shield will protect us.

For anyone who has experienced psychic problems, first stop all and every kind of psychic practice so that you stop the leakage of energy and stop attracting bad energies to yourself. Remember that lower psychic practices carry a lot of glamors of being special and have special talents that create a huge ego. This is a huge trap that a person can fall into. Ancient Teachers even went so far as to say that whenever a person fell into such traps of illusion and glamor, it was most difficult to extricate themselves out of it, nor was it easy for a teacher to come along and extricate them! In fact, teachers of initiation would say better not to fall into such a pit in the first place.

Engage yourself instead in making yourself healthy and balanced. Work and strive to make your life and the life of others around you better. Study the best of the spiritual and religious traditions. Don’t “dabble” in anything that seems suspect and where you cannot keep total control over your life and use of your bodies. This refers to books and classes as well as so-called teachers or gurus. Build a strong and healthy physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. Engage in sane and safe spiritual studies. Most importantly, remember that anything worth having and developing takes time. Don’t believe in “flavor of the month” approaches to spirituality. Don’t believe in teachings that promise instant abilities and instant initiations and such. Nothing is “instant” in spirituality, but striving and doing the hard work will result in a beautiful life for all your lifetimes.

Become real and honest. If you feel something went wrong in your life, have the courage to look at it and resolve it. Make amends and take the steps necessary to heal the wounds you have caused or were caused to you. This way, your karmic debts will decrease and your spiritual savings account will increase.


If we strive to build a psychic shield around us and slowly eliminate elements in us that can be exploited by others, we can see a great growth in our spiritual nature. This growth process is called initiation in the Ancient Wisdom Teachings. A Psychic Shield helps us break barriers in our life and go beyond our present circumstances.


For information about psychism and protection, see the following books by Torkom Saraydarian:

Aura, Shield of Protection and Glory
The Psyche and Psychism
Battling Dark Forces, A guide to Psychic Self Defense
Breakthrough to Higher Psychism