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New Plymouth man gives up retail management to be a ghost-buster
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Herman Petrick's first experience with banishing what he calls demonic energy came out of the blue in a home in Wellington in May, 2012.He says he was staying the night at a friend's house when she sat up in bed at 2am and started screaming."The next day she told me all of these things that happened in her house and she's had family and friends stay over and they'd had issues with this house too," Petrick says.
"She was being terrified every night. Just like demonic type stuff. She was going to church and the church came and blessed the house to get rid of these things and they couldn't do anything."I remember just the next day walking through her house with my arms spread and I was speaking out loud and I said 'Whatever this thing is in the house you need to F-off. This is my space, you need to leave'."Then about a week later I called her and I asked how her house was and she said it was the weirdest thing, because whatever it was, it was gone."
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Herman Petrick from Global Energy Clearing helps to remove negative energies and spirits from people and homes.
Petrick, who has worked in retail for most of his life and is the manager of New Plymouth's Farmers store, didn't really understand what had happened.To this day he describes the event as bizarre and yet claims he has gone on to research, study and, in his words, clear negative, dark or demonic energy from houses, humans and even household pets.Now he runs a business called Global Energy Clearing that has become so successful that he and his wife Rebecca have quit their high paying jobs and are leaving New Zealand in early 2016 to travel the world as energy clearers."People contact me when they feel like they have ghosts or something in their house, or if they feel like there is something attached to them," Petrick says.
"What I do is I connect to the person and I find out what energies they are carrying around and remove that energy and in most cases that really changes the person."Sometimes people say they feel lighter, in most cases everyone sleeps a lot better and sleeps a couple of hours longer."The other side of his claims come from the countless people who are skeptics of his work, the fact Petrick has no scientifically tested evidence to back up his claims of healing, and the open admission that he is not a medical doctor.Despite this the 45-year-old, who is originally from Portland, Oregon, claims that about 85 per cent of the population carries what he calls "negative energies". He says he can clear that energy from people or from their home remotely, while he is sitting in his house in New Plymouth. Exactly how he does that is quite boring, he says. It happens in his mind. There's no chanting, no sage burning and definitely no crucifix waving."What I do is I connect with the person, in my mind. It could be your brother's girlfriend's sister, you can tell me that and I can connect with that person just through the intent and find out what they have and do the clearing with them."It's not like I have this super duper ability where I can see negative energies on people. It's more of just like a feeling I suppose."He describes people's auras as an invisible force field and says they protect the person from outside energies. However, the invisible force fields can get damaged. Traumatic events can lead to gaps, holes or creases, meaning the "the little energies that float around" can get in and attach themselves to people.Petrick, who grew up in a highly religious Christian family, claims these negatives energies show their presence in various different ways, including mental illnesses, chronic headaches, sleeping issues and bad dreams.Petrick, who charges between $50 and $250 for each individual job he does, says not everyone believes him, not even his family in Portland, Oregon.When asked about how his religious family reacted to his new found calling, Petrick shifts in his seat for the first time during his interview.There's a pause."They are really concerned about me, ya know, from a religious standpoint. So I talk to them a little bit about it, but they just don't want to know."They think I've gone off the rails, basically. And that's alright, they are just living what their truth is."But it's more than just his family who refute his claims. The chairman of the
Mark Honeychurch says there is no evidence that the type of negative spiritual energy Petrick talks about exists, and no scientific basis for the concept of these energies."Although it can never be positively proven that this kind of energy doesn't exist, every attempt so far to prove that it does exist has failed and this lack of evidence suggests that it's unlikely there is any such thing as spiritual energy," Honeychurch says.He goes on to say that there are many potential risks when dealing with people who claim to have a connection to, or understanding of, other-worldly powers or energies."The most immediate concern is that people are often asked to pay money to the practitioner, and it's generally not a good idea to pay for any service that doesn't have a good evidence base," he says."Beyond monetary issues, belief in pseudo-scientific ideas such as those of spirit energies, ghosts and other supernatural entities and powers can cause people to make bad life decisions. People have been known to refuse proper medical care, make harmful financial choices and act on bad work or relationship advice."Petrick doesn't see it that way. He believes he is helping people and he has a collection of stories and testimonies that seem to back up his claims. Among them is the story of a 5-year-old Taranaki boy."Since he was two years old he was too afraid to even walk down the hall by himself and he couldn't sleep in his own room," Petrick said."So I did the energy clearing for this boy, and he'd been dealing with this for three years and then the next night he sleeps by himself, he finds himself walking down the hall by himself. He just completely changes who he was."That was over a year ago so it's really cool to see things. One of the really exciting things is working with kids who have issues, like sleeping issues or being afraid."Honeychurch says recounts and testimonies should not be sufficient evidence to convince a potential client."If you're considering employing the services of someone who claims to have supernatural abilities, ask for evidence that the claims they make about their abilities are true. "The level of evidence should be proportional to the strength of the claims being made. If someone is claiming something that sounds unlikely to be true or doesn't line up with what science has taught us about the world we live in, make sure you set a very high bar for the quality of evidence you are willing to accept from them as proof of their claims."Honeychurch also recommends taking a trusted friend along to any meeting with someone who claims to have special powers."Especially if the issue you are seeking help with is a very emotional one for you, it's a good idea to have someone there who will help to ensure you don't make any rash decisions," he says.Petrick says he is hoping to help as many people as he can while travels the world for a decade. "That's a big step for me. I've been doing most of it for free because I really like to help people, but I've got to start charging money so I can pay to eat."The whole point of our trip is to work with local people, talk to people and help people around the world."And hopefully earn enough money to pay for our food and shelter."Petrick also claims to do removal of curses or hexes, soul retrieval, the cutting of soul ties, chakra balancing and the closure of dark portals.Honeychurch said if Petrick was serious about his claims, the NZ Skeptics would be keen to help him to test his abilities under controlled conditions."It is important that he takes the time to back up the claims that he is making."
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I've installed ubuntu-desktop on Ubuntu 16.04 Gnome and I picked lightdm and now once I restart, I get this error message when I press CTRL + ALT + F2:
A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up (Xmin Xs/no limit)
This goes on for 20 minutes+. What do I do to fix this problem or even troubleshoot?
You can fix this in following way, it worked for me.
FYI : I had upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04.
Go in your safe mode by hitting SHIFT key or ESC.
select networking , then drop to root prompt. Then run following commands.
sudo apt-get remove plymouth
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel
Now, reboot,
When you reboot, still you may get black or purple screen,
Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login with your username and password.
Then run following commands.
GDM ie Gnome display manager was also causing problems for me, so following step was essential for me
I switched to lightdm from gdm3
as display manager.
sudo apt-get install lightdm
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
When you are prompted, select default display manager as lightdm
Now I was back with desktop , without dash or unity but only icons and wallpaper.
now run this.
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Now, reboot after this.
The desktop is back!
now, you can install intel graphic drivers again,
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
Reboot now.
Had the same problem earlier today.
Found out here () that could be a plymouth related problem, and after removing it (I'm really not into looping logins animations anyway...), I got into trouble with nvidia drivers.
I just removed all nvidia related software and, voilà, I'm here typing this answer.
sudo apt-get remove plymouth
sudo apt-get purge nvidia
sudo reboot
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For those who messed up with Linux booting after the update (Which
happened to most of the users including me) Here's the complete
solution (Which I did and was able to get back everything) .
1. **Don't panic!**
2. If your computer is hanged over login screen, press Crtl+Alt+f2
3. It will ask for your login username and password.
4. Connect ethernet cable (LAN cable) from your wifi router or modem to your computer
4. Type "dhclient eth0" and press enter
5. For testing networking, try "ping www.google.com" if there's any failure then please check your lan connection,router or modem (
Connecting to WiFi is a tedious process so prefer LAN connection)
6. Type "reboot" (without quotes) and press enter.
7. Now keep pressing "Esc" or "Shift" key.
8. Enter into latest kernel recovery mode.
9. Use keyboard arrow keys to navigate.
10. Press Enter on "Networking"
11. Now it will display you the previous screen.
12. Click on root ( You need root access to modify system).
13. Fire " sudo apt-get install -f --reinstall lightdm" (It will download 200mb of data)
14. Fire " sudo apt-get install unity"
15. Fire " sudo apt-get install ubuntu-session"
16. Fire " sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm"
17. It will ask you to select one out of two options : gdm & lightdm, select "lightdm"
18. Fire " sudo apt-get install gnome" ( It will download 700mb of data)
19. Fire "reboot" and you should be able to get your work back( Although your desktop will look ugly because of conflicting themes,
don't worry, step no: 23 & 24 will fix this issue).
20. Open terminal (Crtl+Alt+T) and fire " sudo apt-get autoremove" ( to purge all unnecessary dependencies which can cause
problems while installing new packages)
21. Fire "sudo apt install unity-tweak-tool"
22. Fire "sudo apt-get autoremove --purge light-themes"
23. Fire "sudo apt-get install light-themes"
24. Finally download ubuntu-tweak from " http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/ubuntu-tweak "
(version that works with Xenial Xerus and isn't available anywhere
25. Reboot your system and done!
Ran into the same problem after installing the Nvidia driver (361).
I removed it and its all working okay now. I have a GeForce 920 (Optimus). Nouveau works fine with it, so I shall stick with it for a few more months and try installing the Nvidia driver again (hoping the bug will have beebln fixed by then).
You can skip the wait and go to your log-in screen directly by using 'Ctrl+c' and then work on the solution. Sometimes this will go on forever if not.
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Another solution is to download the mini.iso vers it bypasses the problem. Be sure to have a good internet access when you install it, it will download a lot of files.
During the setup, you will be asked which kind of Ubuntu to install.
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