Personal Spiritual BodyGuard

Ever thinking of hiring a spiritual bodyguard?

Protectors are in most traditions of religions. Some are called Guardian Angels, some are call Protectors 护法神, Dharma Protectors 金刚护法. In Taoism they are the Heaven and Earth Marshalls 天地兵将。

Dharma Protectors function is to guard the practitioners in their cultivation path from distractions, obstacles and possible sway from their cultivation.

Whereas if you are a Taoist Cultivator, specific Deities will be assigned as your Protectors. They will be guarding the cultivators on all life threatening situations and also warn you when you sway off the path in using Tao Fa beyond its means and moral ethical lines.

Then what are Spiritual Bodyguards? It is more specific made to guard a person from calamity, spirit attack, spirit harm, accidents and also others chipping into your personal body energy (aura) through gossip and bad mouthing you at your back. There are others that are made with 'extra' functions.

It seems like there are different versions of the almost the same reference across cultures. In European witch craft it is called Poppet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppet . 

Poppet usually stiched up by person and add strands of hair and other material.

While for Chinese culture we call them 替身 Ti Shen or a substitute. In Taoist process, it can also be use for a variety of reasons. As a form of body substitute to prevent spiritual attack, sometimes there are practitioners that use it to store the consciousness of others.

These are made by me personally. The materials needed are more difficult to acquire.

In Tibetan culture also there are practice in which use dough and butter to create an effigy of human form and use the dough and butter to roll on your skin, this is to appease the spirits and demons whom are after you or have caused difficulty in your life.

Image from ravencypresswood.com (These are called Lu)

In Thai/Khmer@Cambodia wicha (magic/witchcraft) it is called Hoon Pa Yon. For Thai Hoon Pa Yon, it is also use for a variety of purposes, from using as body double to prevent harm to the owner to using it as a relationship enhancement for 2 person. It is also sometime use for wealth fetching and a absolute spiritual double of the owner.

Types of Hoon Pa Yon

For Wicha mainly it is divided into 2 types. Either spirit infuse or total non spirit. If it is spirit infuse, then the maker would seek permission from a spirit to include its 魄 Po which does not have consciousness into the Hoon Pa Yon. Then the maker would chant and imbued it with magic until it has the 32 Aspects of a Living Human, it will then take on the spiritual form of its owner.

Hoon Pa Yon made with straws and strings using the traditional method.

Spirit infuse Hoon Pa Yon using a very traditional method.

Non Spirit Base Hoon Pa Yon.

While non spirit Hoon Pa Yon are similiar to elementals. The maker would use wicha to chant until it is has the 32 aspects of human quality. There is no spirit inside the effigy.

Rare Item

As in all things in the material world, as it get more and more commercialize, then it is harder and harder to find magical items that really does its function according to traditional legendary stories that have been going around. Hoon Pa Yon in the Thai tradition is not in the exception. 

Good and capable masters that can make good Hoon Pa Yon are rarer than finding dry straws on a monsoon season. Either by reputation of the maker or through spiritual sense can a person really know the Hoon Pa Yon is the real thing. It is not making cookie or tying up straws to resemble effigy, real wicha/magic needs to make it work in order for it to be effective.

Hoon Pa Yon that can be use to enhance relationship (Soul Lock)

One of my own spirit base bodyguard.

Most of the pictures shown above are my own collection, some of it have already been sold to friends that need it. An extra body double is always welcome in world of back stabbing, finger pointings, petty people and not forgetting curse and black magics .

A Matter of the Heart

On 14 June received a whatsapp message from V a temple member. Asking me whether I will be going to the temple in the evening. 

V told me that she went to clean up her old apartment, that she has not stayed in for the past 10 years. During the cleaning as she hired 2 temporary cleaner, 1 of the cleaner fainted after she clean a room inside the apartment. That afternoon itself she also feel unwell and decided to go for check up.

As it was someone other than herself that fainted, I did not think she was experiencing anything serious. She told me she felt dizzy and we suspect it might be high blood pressure. Durian season is in and also glutinous dumpling festival period.

Later that evening she told me she will be staying the night in hospital for further check up due to irregular ECG reading found by the doctor. I thought she was already in good hands as she was in the hospital due to medical reason. That evening itself, I was also preparing talismans for various different reasons. Due to some feeling was not right, I decided to enquire with the Deities on whether should issue her some talisman. The answer I received was to issue her 2 different talisman.

As I became more curious about what actually happened, I decided to go into meditative stabilisation. It became evident to me that her old apartment for 10 years have 2 spiritual inhabitants inside. An old uncle and also a small child about 6 to 7 years old from the way they appeared. They were most likely attached to the room her cleaner was cleaning that afternoon.

After she has ingested the talisman in the hospital for consecutively 2 days (3days in total), she informed me she dreamt of someone chasing her and woke up with high bp of 180. I have also asked her to wear the Lighting Strike wood talisman that her sister have requested some years back.

About 5 days later in the hospital, she was scheduled for her angiogram and if needed would be installing a stent as doctor suspect she might be having heart blockage. I have also advised her to buy some paper made items to be burn a the entrance of her old apartment. Her angiogram test showed she only have 20% blockage and do not require stent installation and was allowed to go home.

Sometimes those whom luck is down, when they are admitted in the hospital, one complication might lead to another and some very few will have even more spiritual disturbance that render them unable to be discharge.

When she arrived home, she burnt another talisman that I have given her, that was for separating any spirits that might have followed her from either the old apartment or from the hospital. She took a photo of her apartment floor where she burned the talisman. If you have Yin Yang Eyes then you would be able to see the image of the old man and also the face of the child in this photo.

The following day she snap another photo on her floor after the rain. As I have adviced her to to notice anything different after she was back home.

After noticing the above watermark, only she realized that she had accidentally put the talisman I have given sometime after Chinese New Year into the washing machine that morning.

How she got this talisman was also another arrangement by the Kam Dong San Deities. Every year those who are members of the temple, their name, date of birth and address would be presented to the Main Deities of our temple to check for whether anyone need to come back personally to the temple to ask for special blessings or procedure.

She and few others' name were shortlisted after receiving 3 consecutive oracle 圣杯 confirming that they need to come back for special advice. Deities advice was to issue her a Hua Sha 化煞 talisman to carry for the year. I have then issue her a 保命符 Talisman for Life Protection  (pic above). When she forward me the photo, only then I remembered issuing her such a talisman.

Our temple Deities have already foreseen that she might be in danger, hence she was call back to temple and being issued such talisman. Coincidence? Not likely.

When I saw her last week during our Fish Liberation, her facial color was back to normal and hopefully she recovers soon.