Sometimes it happens that I’m in presence of some spirit and I can’t tell what appropriate behavior is precisely because I can’t tell how deep that said spirit can peer into my mental processes and the details of the physical world, past or present.
I might end up acting certain way and looking like a total fool because I can’t tell what facts the given spirit is aware of and therefore I’m usually not sure what’s the right thing to put energy into and what is better off rather not deliberated upon.
For example, say you act a certain way that makes you look bad in absence of a particular fact being known, and you don’t know whether making that fact obvious is something you should even put energy into. This fact can be of any kind: mental, spiritual, physical, etc.
For some spirits, it’s easy, you can usually safely bet that they know everything relevant and you don’t have to worry. But some spirits, especially of lesser power, are really mentally taxing to deal with because you are not sure what to show, what to conceal, and how to act.
The standard answer might be to just divine it, but usually all you have capacity to divine is the general power level of the spirit, not some particular variable involved in some deep context scenario.
If you over explain they’ll interrupt you, ime, That gives you an idea of how much they understand and how fast. It’s pretty fast, but politeness means they only scan your surface images and thoughts, that you think of while forming your words.
Put that out of your mind because that kind of human judgement is not a thing for them… and explain as much as you need to feel like you got it clear. It helps you set your intention as well. Clear intention is more important than being shy.
Err on the side of telling them in as much detail as you like. They’ll tell you if they get it and want you to stop.
You’re having a conversation, you could always just ask them to repeat back what they heard to check. Just like in a regular conversation where you’re tasking someone with something.
With some of these spirits I’m not even in conversational terms, either because we don’t have a compatible channel, they are not interested, or simply because they have to be around for another reason. Even if we have some two-way purposeful communication taking place, some of your suggestions don’t always work for me. Thing about overexplaining is that that’s exactly what I’m trying to avoid, there are too many opportunities to do this to more than one party at any given time so it’s a huge energy cost centre that I want to avoid.
And about human judgement not being a thing for them, in my experience the severity of this mostly depends on the particular spirit you are working with, in some cases it even feels like a first date or something where your every intention and non-intention is judged in the most human way possible.
Thanks for your comment again, I also 100% agree with your comment about intention being the most important thing (but then a lot of these occurrences happen where you are not even the initiator for a direct interaction, so there’s really no clear intention involved by your side ).
If you don’t put enough energy into the ritual, you risk it falling flat. If you put a little bit more energy is, and it’s the difference between wasting all your time or only a bit more, then it’s logical not to be lazy about it and do the little extra.
Trial and error and skill development over time will let you hone this for efficiency, and right now practice is what you need to get these skills down anyway.
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