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(OK, fallinfrom0feet, that has to be one of the most different usernames I've yet seen on this board!
haha, If you'd like, feel free to share how you arrived at it, here:
http://everythingunderthemoon.net/forum ... 25111.html. But anyways...)
"Power of Positive Thinking" Folks
There are a lot of very mixed feelings about curses in the pagan population, not one general point of view, really. These are some of my observations, and conclusions I've drawn...
I've noticed that, on the one hand, some have a sort of Law of Attraction perspective, that there really is no such thing as a real curse, that one could "will" his or her way out of what may appear to be a cursed situation by applying lots of positive thinking, "not letting it get to you," "not drawing negative energy to yourself," and so on. It follows that with these folks curses and the like are negative experiences you somehow brought upon yourself due to your shortcoming of lacking the skill of "staying positive." You must work on that.
These folks might tend to lean quite a bit on the Love & Light side of things, and cultivate a very useful "spiritual blind spot" when it comes to acknowledging any part of the darker realities of life. Something surprising I've noticed, though, is these folk often have some kind of heavy duty shadows pestering their own psyches, which they've never addressed. When you start talking curses or any other such "negative" things they will kind of tune you out because (it's my belief) they'd really rather not deal with negative things in their own lives. That's just my theory, at least, having dealt with Love & Lighters who I later found to be extremely calculating and coldly passive aggressive, lol.
Paranoid Folks
Then on the other hand, I think there are other instances where people rely a little too much on the explanation of curses/jinxes when life isn't going their way, especially the very superstitious types, and rather than just handle their stuff, they look for a convenient scapegoat of some kind, a bad guy they could blame for their woes. Maybe in their culture that's what they were taught, or maybe it's just their personality quirk. Either way, these folks tend to be marked by a rather histrionic, "Omigod, the sky is falling!" kind of behavior. The subject of curses being done on them immediately gets them the empathy they crave, instant gratification. In the drama they have generated, they seem to enjoy what they might view as camaraderie, and happily feed vampirically on the resultant attention they receive.
Legitimate Jinxes/Curses
Personally, I
do think there are genuine instances where people throw negative energy at other people, what some might call psychic attacks, or black magic, hexes, etc., and if not remedied properly, such could do legitimate damage to a certain extent. In some instances, a practitioner might resort to using negative entities to do their bidding, but this is rare and more for the movies. And in some instances, too, there are curses that are inter-generational, brought upon an ancestor and still affecting family-line descendants.
Ameliorating Curses/Jinxes
In my opinion, before anything else, best thing to do is first get a divination done by someone who's keen on this kind of thing. This is helpful because usually one who suspects a curse was done is too much in a fear-mode, and not objective enough to assess their own situation rationally. And if the reading says, "dude, you're trippin,' let it go," then let it go. But, if the reading says a legitimate response is called for, just think of it as doing some spiritual hygiene that's all, nothing more, nothing less. It's kind of like being told by the dentist you have a cavity, and you need to have it filled before it gets worse. Don't trip out over it, just get it done.
What might also be helpful is,
if possible, use the same type of magic for the solution, as was used to create the problem. If you're not conversant in that type of magic, it may be a good idea to hire someone who is. Of course, that gets tricky, because there are many out there who will play on your fear factor, and without conscience charge you several house payments worth of money. Just depends on where you want to go with this. And here is where getting a good reading up front could potentially have saved you a lot of money, wasted time and unnecessary fear. Divination was used, after all, by leaders of countries and militias before going to war. There's a good reason for that: they, understandably, didn't want to waste their time and resources.
Though I am not minimizing the reality of curses/jinxes themselves, all in all I think Hollywood has made too big of a deal of this stuff. None of this is anything new to humanity (in fact, it's all quite ancient), and in all the instances I described above, there
are ways to ameliorate these situations. Know that most practitioners, especially haters who want to ruin your day, are not even connected enough with the spirit realm to even know how utilize negative entities in the first place, so that's one thing you rarely have to worry about. Honestly, they usually make complete idiots of themselves, and do more harm to
themselves than they do to their actual targets, lol.
And as far as inter-generational stuff goes, these curses could even be undone once for all. They're not permanent, it's usually just that no one in the family was smart or vigilant enough to take care of it. It's like no one bothering to clean the living room, or remove plastic bag trash that blew into the front yard; everybody just walks by it and says, "Gee, somebody ought to do something about that [smh]," and then keeps going. But once you take it upon yourself to take care of it, that's that. Your descendants may thank you for it, haha.
In all these situations, one just gets the wiser next time, that's all. It's not pleasant dealing with pesky haters, but it's not the end of the world, either. Just learn from it.
Thanks for reading.
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We have to remember to give ourselves credit for the progress we make.