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On this episode of For A Living, we sit down with exorcist, Rachel Stavis. She lives her life with the ability to see demons and works to rid people of these attachments. Watch this video to understand what life is like in her world!

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Transcript
00:00Gods and Goddesses. Archangel Michael, I ask you please to stand at the head of the body.
00:09My clients come to me because they feel what they call a dark cloud over them.
00:15My office is what I call a spirit room.
00:18I see entities everywhere I go.
00:21Jaguar spirit, I ask you please.
00:23One of the things that I have to do every day is keep my vibration high.
00:27It's time to release this karma connection.
00:31I'm Rachel and I'm an exorcist.
00:41When I was a kid, I saw what I call entity.
00:44I don't actually call it demons very much, but what I call entity.
00:47I just assumed everybody could do that because I was very young.
00:51So I started talking about it. I just started saying that I was seeing it.
00:54And found out very quickly that other people don't and that you don't talk about it.
00:59And if you do, you're crazy.
01:00So I hid that aspect of myself for a long, long time.
01:05I've been doing this for almost a decade now.
01:09I don't charge. Let's get that off the table.
01:13It's my business, but it's not my business.
01:15I could charge people and I could charge people a lot of money, but I don't.
01:20And the reason I don't is because I want everyone who walks into this room to be equal.
01:25I work in all religions. I work with all people.
01:29This is a very accepting and tolerant space.
01:32What I'm doing for people is what I call a psychic surgery in a way.
01:37This man is coming through as like middle-aged, fairly tall man.
01:42So tonight I invited a bunch of friends over for a seance, which I host sometimes.
01:47What that means is they've come over to try and contact some deceased loved ones.
01:52The first time I came, I didn't mean to bring anything, but I wore a shawl that was my grandmother's.
01:55And she did come through and she did tell me to break up with my boyfriend and I did.
02:02I've never done anything like this before.
02:05So when the opportunity presented itself, I was like, this sounds very interesting.
02:09And I also would love to talk to my grandparents who passed away.
02:13Entities are very different from deceased people.
02:16Another real common misconception is that deceased people can possess you when in fact that's not really how they work.
02:22Now they can attach and be annoying. That is true. And deceased people love to chat.
02:27The pushy as hell goes, they come through first.
02:30Those who were kind of a pain in the ass in life are going to be a pain in the
02:33ass in death. It's not changed.
02:36When I hit 30, I had a very minor traumatic experience.
02:41You know, the homeless guy who was screaming on the corner, I was seeing who he was screaming at.
02:46And it was just nonstop. And so at that point I had to make a decision.
02:50I was either, you know, going to check myself in or sit down, open myself up and ask whoever gave
02:57me this ability to see this, what I was supposed to do with it.
03:01I sat down with a scotch and was like, OK, you know, let me know.
03:05There was really only one thing to do with it and it was to help people.
03:10OK, the first person that I see is coming in is a female. Female. This is not a white woman.
03:16This could be me. This is a woman who's like, I am not white.
03:22That might be you. She was like, listen, let me tell you something.
03:28My grandmother came through. Rachel said that the person was telling her, like, I am not a white lady.
03:32And that's literally my grandmother. She's very much like I'm black.
03:36She is saying to you that you have everything you need to do the thing that's on your brain, that
03:40thing that you want to do.
03:41You got to stop doubting that. That thing that you are like, I got to get there. I got to
03:45go there. You got it.
03:47My grandmother, she died of cancer and she was like a badass. She wasn't afraid of death.
03:52You always wonder what happens to people after they pass. It felt really good to like hear that she's doing
03:57good and that she's so proud of me, which really means a lot.
04:01Pain is the universal equalizer. That is the truth. We all experience it. We all suffer. You can't pay your
04:08way out of it.
04:09You can't be famous enough to get out of it. You can't be a nobody enough to get out of
04:12it. You get it.
04:19An exorcist takes what people call demons out of other people.
04:23Around 85% of the population is walking around with attachment and possession and they don't know.
04:28There are many different types of entities from small and more leech-like attachments to what you see in movies.
04:36And the smallest one, what I call Clives, I call them that because they look like Clive Barker drawings to
04:42me.
04:43And they amplify feelings. So, you know, if you're sad, you're depressed. If you're depressed, you're suicidal. If you have
04:49anger, you have rage.
04:50Then we go all the way up to rates that are what usually cause night terrors. They usually cause sleep
04:57paralysis.
04:58Tricksters, who are exactly what they sound like. You know, they form symbiotic relationships with their hosts.
05:03All the way up to what I call a realm walker, which is, from what I've seen, what most people
05:08think is the devil or something like this.
05:11I say it that way because I've never seen the devil, but I have seen multiple realm walkers.
05:17All right. Come on in.
05:20Hey.
05:21How's it going?
05:22So, have a see. Get comfy a bit.
05:25Does the smoke bother you?
05:27No, not at all.
05:28Okay, good. Usually it only bothers people with real, like, major demons. Just so you know.
05:33Fun fact.
05:34Oh, that's good news.
05:35Herbs are a big part of my practice. Some that are about taking entity out, like wolfsbane, blue lotus.
05:45And then I have others that I use that are good at putting high frequency back in.
05:49Myrrh, like the church uses, they use both. It's because of high frequency.
05:53I'd like to have a conversation with you about why you're here.
05:56I am here because there's some trauma that I have that I'm holding on to.
06:02I see a wraith with you.
06:04Okay.
06:05We're going to take that wraith out, so that's nothing. He's going to go.
06:07But we also are going to take out the trauma that you've held in the body.
06:12Okay?
06:13Yeah.
06:16Through the forehead, through the third eye, I ask the gods and goddesses to take care of any leftover residual
06:22smoke.
06:23Anything left that is hiding in the body, sitting in the body.
06:27So when we talk about attachment and possession, we're actually talking about energy.
06:31We all have what I call a baseline frequency as we walk about the earth.
06:35Everything emits an energy, you know, all things, and we're not different.
06:39And so when we have trauma, that baseline frequency takes a hit.
06:42Because in our culture, we're not really taught that we have to move through trauma.
06:46We instead are told to stuff trauma down.
06:49And when we do that, we keep it.
06:51And here are these negative entities that wish to attach.
06:57Noise agitates entity, so we want to agitate it out of the body.
07:01We're using high frequency.
07:02We're using everything we can to take it out, so that it can be removed totally.
07:05Pushing that energy up and out.
07:10Allowing that energy to flow up and out.
07:13Not keeping it in, not protecting it.
07:15And at this time, I ask the entity, this is your last opportunity to leave on your own.
07:21You may be so.
07:25I did feel an energy or something within me that was escaping from me.
07:32I felt her energy.
07:35I felt genuine concern for whatever is going on negative in my body.
07:44And when you feel ready and it's on a rush, you can open your eyes.
07:50After performing an exorcism, I don't feel great.
07:53I'll be honest.
07:55It's very exhausting.
07:57It gives you a lot of body pain.
07:59It feels like I've done a ton of exercise.
08:02You know, all I want is like a giant pizza to myself.
08:07I work on my energy a lot.
08:08Just finding, you know, really good friends to keep around that are okay with me being this kind of weird
08:15person.
08:18I work in darkness.
08:19That's true.
08:20But that doesn't mean I'm queen of the damned.
08:23What it really is, it's about healing people out of darkness.
08:25It's actually working in light, bringing people out of that darkness into the light.
08:29And in order to do that, you do have to work in those dark places.
08:33It's scary.
08:34It's scary to do this work.
08:35This is about helping people.
08:37I do believe that what I do is good for the planet.
08:39The more negative energy we remove here, the better off we are.
08:42It doesn't look that way at the moment, but I promise that they'll get there.
08:46No matter how little sleep I still get, if I keep that mindset, it keeps me going.
08:50It's amazing.
08:51It's amazing.
08:59It's amazing.
09:02It's amazing.
09:02I love you.
09:02Oh...
09:03Oh...
09:04Love you.
09:04Who they do?
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