What Are Metaphysical & Spiritual Effects of Getting Certain Tattoos? Featuring an interview with Celebrity Psychic Clairvoyant Counselor, Oracle Card & Past Life Reader, Animal Communicator, and longtime Outer Limits of Inner Truth Virtue Lisa Caza (). From a spiritual perspective, tattoos can have a harmful effect on us. The following are the reasons for the harmful spiritual effect of tattoos: Most people tattoo their body out of fashion and this causes enticing energy  to be attracted to it. As a result, emotionalism and attachment to the external world or the Great Illusion (Maya) increases. Tattoos increase the proportion of distressing energy in the environment and make the individual physically and spiritually restless. Also, the covering of distressing energy around the individual’s body increases by 1.5%.