How can I protect myself and stop the spirit’s unwanted influence in the moment?

[Mulberry]

Ok so first of all, keeping what around here we call “good spiritual hygiene”, meaning, a combination of keeping ourself an your spaces clean of negative energy and unwanted beings is a basic part of learning how to be a functional mage and avoid astral parasites and freeloading time wasters:

Unofficial Tutorials: Spiritual Hygiene & Defense Basics Collection

Assumed to be so basic no one talks about it until beginners get a problem and wonder why, and six people say “cleanse and banish, set up wards, take care of your spiritual hygiene”. This megathread collects our favourite cleaning, banishing and self protection preventative techniques. Some are fix and forget/maintain occasionally, like wards, some are for on the spot emergency use. My top book recommendation for this work has to be Robert Bruce’s The Practical Psychic Self-Defense Handbook: A Survival Guide. (This one is a basic that is worth knowing for all mages, really)… click the image for it’s Amazon listing: [image] Please feel free to link other forum posts that helped you!

If you already have an attachment that’s not wanted, which sound like the case, then the first thing ou do is communicate and tell them they must stop and leave. After t hat they’ve had their warning and you have many ways to make them leave. You are stronger and there’s no contest really.

Forum Tutorials: Parasite Collection

This thread collects together the various discussions, opinions and tutorials for recognizing and addressing entities that are acting parasitically, whether by accident or by design. I do hope this is useful. If you think of any other Parasite threads, videos, books or other resources (please, no adverts or commercial links) that you liked or helped you, please feel free to add to this collection! Xag Darklight’s Parasite thread, symptoms of parasite attack, and many linked posts on how to remove and heal from parasitic energy drain. Parasite’s 101 Thread: how to attack and remove parasites. Excellent discussion re recognizing parasites while astral traveling. Thread includes varying opinions on whether Succubi and Incubi are parasitic or not. By extension, discussion on whether Lilith, as the entity petitioned for attainment of a Succubus/Incubus is a parasite, or an egregoric entity created by occultists mimicking her is the parasitic version. Working example of how someone dealt with a sexually oriented parasite with more links and useful youtube videos:

Always remember that like attracts like. Given your username, I’ll run with the example of a lot of lustful energy attracting astral entities that feed on that, and will try to make you feel even more to get more food.
The Gnostics called it feeding on “loosh” it’s a very old idea but everyone’s problem. Hence it being a mage 101 type activity to protect yourself from such things.