Of all the subjects that arise in shamanic and magickal practice, psychic attack generates more misunderstanding than almost any other. At one extreme, the concept is dismissed entirely, written off as superstition, paranoia, or the projection of unresolved psychological material. At the other extreme, it is over-attributed: every misfortune, every illness, every difficulty in life becomes evidence of malevolent interference.
Neither position serves the practitioner well. Psychic attack is real, it is distinct from ordinary energetic imbalance, and it requires specific intervention to resolve. But it must be correctly identified before it can be effectively addressed. This article provides a precise, tradition-grounded account of what psychic attack actually is, how it operates, what distinguishes its different forms, and what constitutes genuine removal, as opposed to the temporary relief offered by surface-level protection techniques.
What Psychic Attack Actually Is
At its most fundamental level, a psychic attack is any transmission of harmful energy directed (consciously or unconsciously) toward an individual’s energy field. The key word is directed. Random environmental negativity, collective fear fields, or the general density of the astral plane are not psychic attacks, though they can be debilitating in their own right. A psychic attack involves a specific vector of harmful energy that has a point of origin and a target.
This directedness is what makes psychic attacks qualitatively different from ordinary energetic depletion. The effects are more persistent, more resistant to standard energetic hygiene, and often worsen during periods of personal growth or increased spiritual activity, precisely because the practitioner is becoming more visible on the inner planes.
It is also important to understand that psychic attack does not require malicious intent on the part of the sender. Some of the most damaging attacks arise from unconscious envy, unresolved emotional attachment, or the projections of individuals who have no knowledge of magick whatsoever. The energy of intense jealousy or fixated resentment, sustained over time and directed toward a specific person, carries a functional impact on the energy field regardless of whether it was deliberately sent.
The Six Principal Forms of Psychic Attack
Effective protection requires understanding which form of attack is present, as each has different characteristics and calls for different responses.
1. Deliberate Curse or Hex
The most widely recognised form, a deliberate curse involves the conscious direction of harmful intent, typically using ritual, symbolic, or magickal means. These attacks vary enormously in sophistication and power, ranging from a poorly constructed hex with minimal staying power to complex, multi-layered workings drawing on considerable spiritual force. The distinguishing feature is intentionality: someone has made a deliberate choice to harm. Curse removal requires not only clearing the energy from the target’s field but neutralising the working at its source and, where appropriate, returning the energy to its origin.
2. The Evil Eye
Recognised in virtually every culture on earth, the evil eye is the transmission of harmful energy through intense focused gaze or envy, often without the sender’s conscious awareness. It is particularly potent when directed at good fortune, beauty, success, or happiness: the charge of envy or covetousness attaches to whatever quality is being admired or resented. Children, pregnant women, and those experiencing visible good fortune are traditionally understood to be especially vulnerable. The evil eye tends to produce a rapid-onset collapse of energy, mood, or circumstances that is markedly disproportionate to any apparent cause.
3. Psychic Cords and Attachments
Energetic cords form between individuals through emotional entanglement, whether through love, dependency, resentment, or unresolved conflict. When these cords carry a negative charge, they function as a sustained drain on the target’s energy field, transmitting the emotional content of the sender continuously and unconsciously. Unlike a discrete curse, cord attacks are ongoing rather than episodic, and the target often feels a vague but persistent depletion or intrusive awareness of the other person, even when there is no current contact.
4. Entity Attachment and Possession
A distinct and serious category, entity attachment involves a non-human consciousness (ranging from low-level astral parasites to more sophisticated and powerful entities) that has attached to, or partially occupied, a person’s energy field or physical body. This can occur as the result of a deliberate attack, through weakened energetic boundaries, through trauma or intoxication that creates openings in the aura, or as a direct consequence of poorly conducted spiritual practice. The entity feeds from the host’s energy and can progressively influence thoughts, emotions, behaviour, and physical health. This is among the most complex forms of attack to address and requires skilled, experienced intervention.
5. Ancestral Curses and Lineage Attacks
Some attacks are not directed at the individual but at the lineage: a curse placed on a family line that propagates through the ancestral field, affecting successive generations. These often present as recurring patterns of misfortune, illness, or early death within a specific family. The individual may have no personal enemy, no obvious source of hostility in their own life, yet they carry the weight of something placed on their ancestors generations before. Lineage curses require ancestral healing work to remove effectively.
6. Thought-Form Attacks
A sustained, emotionally charged thought directed repeatedly toward an individual can coalesce into a semi-autonomous thought-form (an egregore of negative intent) that operates independently of the sender. These are particularly common where one person has maintained intense, sustained fixation on another, in the context of obsessive jealousy, litigation, or protracted interpersonal conflict. The thought-form attaches to the target’s field and continues to drain and disturb even after the sender has moved on, because it has acquired a degree of independent existence.
Recognising a Psychic Attack: Precise Indicators
The challenge of identification is that many symptoms of psychic attack overlap with ordinary stress, illness, or psychological difficulty. The distinguishing factors are typically the pattern, the onset, and the resistance to normal remedies. The following indicators, particularly when appearing in clusters or following a specific interpersonal event, warrant serious attention:
- A sudden, inexplicable collapse of energy, mood, or circumstances with no obvious cause, particularly when onset can be traced to a specific encounter or event
- Persistent fatigue that does not improve with rest, and which conventional and energetic self-care fails to resolve
- Recurring nightmares, disturbing presences during sleep, or disrupted sleep patterns beginning around the same period as other symptoms
- A sense of being watched, followed, or energetically monitored, particularly when alone
- Intrusive thoughts that feel external in quality, or a persistent internal voice that carries a hostile or undermining tone unlike one’s own
- Unusual or unexplained physical symptoms, particularly in the head, solar plexus, or chest, that appear and disappear without medical explanation
- A progressive withdrawal from social connection, spiritual practice, or activities that previously brought vitality
- The sudden onset of intense, irrational fear, despair, or rage that feels alien to one’s own emotional landscape
- Marked deterioration across multiple life areas simultaneously (health, finances, relationships) within a concentrated period
- The finding of unusual objects, powders, or symbolic items near your home or property
None of these indicators is conclusive in isolation. The practitioner’s assessment should consider the totality of the picture, the timing, and the presence or absence of natural explanations. Where genuine uncertainty exists, competent energetic diagnosis from an experienced practitioner is advisable.
Why Conventional Psychic Protection Methods Often Fail
Experienced practitioners are sometimes surprised to find that techniques that reliably manage low-level energetic interference (visualised shields, space clearing, grounding practices, protective crystals) prove insufficient against a determined or skilled attack. Understanding why is essential.
The fundamental issue is that most widely-taught protection methods operate on the surface of the aura. They create a layer of energetic resistance that is effective against ambient negativity but insufficient when the attack carries a specific vibrational signature designed to penetrate, when it is sustained and continually renewed, or when it is being powered by a significant spiritual force.
There is also the question of entry points. Any unresolved trauma, weakened auric boundary, entity attachment, or energetic opening in the target’s field provides a point of access that a surface-level shield cannot address. A shield placed over an already-compromised aura is like painting over a cracked foundation. Until the underlying vulnerabilities are resolved, no amount of protective work on the surface will provide lasting security.
Finally, a protection method that deflects incoming energy without neutralising the attack at its source leaves the problem unresolved. The energy continues to be sent; it is merely redirected. In some cases, without proper handling, deflected energy returns to the sender, which can escalate rather than resolve the situation. True resolution requires both removing what has already entered the field and, where appropriate, addressing the source.
Genuine Psychic Protection: A Multi-Level Approach
Effective psychic protection addresses the problem simultaneously at several levels. The following components constitute a comprehensive approach as practised across the traditions I work with:
Auric Repair and Boundary Restoration
Before any protective work can be fully effective, the aura itself must be assessed for breaches, holes, and areas of depletion. Trauma, surgery, substance use, and certain forms of spiritual practice can all compromise auric integrity. These vulnerabilities must be repaired through direct energy work, soul retrieval where necessary, and the restoration of healthy energetic boundaries, before a protective structure can hold.
Extraction of Harmful Energies and Entities
Any harmful energies, implants, thought-forms, or entities already present in the field must be extracted and properly disposed of before protective measures are put in place. Attempting to protect a field that already contains active hostile energy is largely ineffective. Extraction requires skill and care: the removed energy must be handled and disposed of in a way that prevents it from returning or attaching elsewhere.
High-Level Spiritual Protection from Empowered Allies
The most durable forms of psychic protection draw on the power of spiritual allies, deities, and guardians rather than the practitioner’s own energy alone. In Javanese magick, Egyptian tradition, and Vodou, specific protective powers are invoked and bound into the target’s field, creating a protective structure that actively repels and neutralises incoming attacks rather than merely resisting them. This is categorically different in power and longevity from self-generated energetic shields.
Neutralising the Source
In cases of deliberate, sustained attack, protection alone is insufficient. The working must be addressed at its source: dissolved, returned, or neutralised, so that the attack ceases rather than simply being deflected. This requires the ability to trace the energetic signature of the attack back to its origin and to work at that level effectively. In many traditions, this is understood as the most demanding aspect of protection work and requires both skill and appropriate spiritual backing.
Long-Term Protective Infrastructure
Ongoing protection benefits from structural supports that maintain their effectiveness over time without constant renewal: talismans and psionic devices carrying protective charges, empowerments that permanently raise the vibrational threshold of the energy field, and the development of one’s own spiritual power to a level at which low-level attacks simply cannot gain purchase. These are investments in long-term sovereignty rather than reactive responses to individual incidents.
The Role of Personal Power in Psychic Protection
There is a dimension of psychic protection that is often underemphasised: one’s own power level. The energy field of a practitioner who has cultivated significant personal and spiritual power is simply less vulnerable. It does not provide an easy surface for attack energies to adhere to; it tends to naturally repel lower-vibration intrusions without requiring conscious defensive effort.
This is why empowerments from powerful magickal traditions are not merely symbolic. An initiation that genuinely transmits spiritual power raises the baseline vibrational frequency of the practitioner’s field in a lasting way.
The Psychic Protection course and the empowerments available through this site are designed to create exactly this kind of structural increase in personal power, providing a level of inherent protection that does not depend on constant maintenance or awareness.
When to Seek Professional Assistance for Psychic Attack
Self-protection methods are valuable and should be part of every practitioner’s toolkit. But there are circumstances in which professional intervention is not merely advisable but necessary:
- When the attack has been sustained over a significant period and has caused measurable deterioration in health, relationships, or material circumstances
- When entity attachment or partial possession is suspected
- When the source of the attack is known to be a practitioner with significant training or power
- When a family-level or ancestral curse is suspected, given the broader lineage work this requires
- When self-protection efforts have been applied consistently but provide only temporary relief
- When the individual’s own energetic state has been sufficiently compromised that they lack the capacity to generate effective self-protection
In these circumstances, attempting to manage the situation alone is like attempting to treat a serious medical condition with over-the-counter remedies. The intervention required is of a different order.
Building Comprehensive Psychic Protection
If you are seeking to build genuine, lasting protection, whether in response to a current psychic attack or as a proactive foundation for safe spiritual practice, the Psychic Protection Course provides a comprehensive, multi-traditional approach to exactly this. Drawing on Egyptian Magick, Vodou, Javanese Magick, and other traditions with deep expertise in protection work, the course moves well beyond surface techniques to address protection at the level of auric integrity, spiritual empowerment, and structural energetic defence.
For those experiencing an active and serious attack, a direct personal healing and protection session offers the most immediate route to intervention, including extraction, auric repair, and the installation of powerful, multi-layered protective measures from high-level spiritual allies.
Explore the Psychic Protection Course or book a personal protection session to address what you are experiencing directly.
Explore further articles in the Magickal Protection section of the Aziz Shamanism articles, including: Demonic Possession, Plants for Psychic Protection, and Solutions for Modern Threats to Sovereignty.
