Parasite? Possession? Ego? Options

I've been in a funk for about 3 years, physically fine but emotionally drained.
The physicians & physicals I've had say I'm "healthy" and I haven't been able to find a medical condition that correlated with my symptoms, a sort of heaviness around the ventral solar-plexus area. I went to someone who specialized in a healing-hands technique who found "something" in the area they were unfamiliar with. Nothing seemed to change after a few visits so I stopped going to her and went with another healer-type with the same results. I don't have extra $ to burn and haven't seen any other professionals.
Overall the experience hasn't been bad, it started me looking at a more spiritual aspect of things and shown me that the world's not so cut and dry. I've even lost my affective-ego in the process, still, I'd like to move on to other things. Looking at articles on "astral parasites", "possession + entity fragments" and a few about the "Buddhist ego"; lead me to believe it's probably one of them, since they also cover spontaneous mental chatter, which I'd dismissed.


Any advice?

I suggest the book "The Unquiet Dead" by Edith Fiore, Ph.D. In this book, Dr. Fiore explains how to detect spirit possession in yourself and others, how to protect yourself from entities, how to release your home from displaced spirits, and how to perform a depossession.

It's a start and perhaps this will help you.

Thank you for the information, 53rdspirit! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif) I was unable to find the book at my local library, but it did help me look in a new direction. I'm amazed at how I can search & search not finding much, only to have someone else use a particular combination of words that lead directly to what I'm looking for.

A few articles found:

www.rense.com/general15/spiritpossession.htm
www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/d/depossession.html
home.mindspring.com/~spiritscan/depo.html
www.angelfire.com/or2/spiritspeaks/spiritualprotection.html
Thirty Years Among the Dead

I've been in a funk for about 3 years, physically fine but emotionally drained... a sort of heaviness around the ventral solar-plexus area... spontaneous mental chatte.
Any advice?

This is what the middle pillar exercise is useful for. You'll want to look into how to vibrate the words and how to perform the qabalistic cross, which can be found online and on this forum. The middle pillar exercise is one of many ways to maintain the integrity of your aura, a cohesive aura means you won't feel so drained by astral parasites, the environment, or other people. Before you start the middle pillar exercise I recommend you perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram each day for a month, the LBRP very forcibly cleans the area and yourself of un-useful magnetism, the middle pillar exercise will be more effective in this clean environment.

A typical way to sort out astral parasites is to use a piece of quartz tied on a string around your neck, quartz is used in electrical watches and clocks as it vibrates at a very high frequency so has accurate time-keeping, these same subtle vibrations are useful for calibrating the aura. Using the quartz and a simple visualisation exercise is a good way to flush out the aura.

Everyone has blockages in their chakra system, which I'm guessing is what the heaviness in the solar plexus area is. I don't know how these blockages are traditionally opened as I use the same methods as wilhelm reich did to open blocked median channels (the middle pillar exercise will also help with this), other folk on this forum know much more about chakras than I do. You could also try acupuncture and ask them to try to rectify the heaviness you feel in that location, I'm unsure how expensive a session of acupuncture is tho'.

Scanned page of the MPE -

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Heebeejeebees, I appreciate the suggestion, but MPE didn't seem to do anything; the LBRP on the other hand, had a... jolting effect (I have no idea how to describe it) and for a little while it felt like some of the heaviness was gone.

I managed to get a copy of The Unquiet Dead and the number of similarities surprised me. I've tried negotiating with any potential possessors, but I've not noticed anything different. I agree with the author in that it seems like it could be a valid psychological technique, but I don't entirely believe it's possible.