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Though I am a writer and a novelist, (I have written around 80 novels …
Congratulations … Please bear in mind, while this forum respects Unverified Personal Gnosis (UPG), this is not a fiction or role play forum. Keeping UPG and invention clearly separated is always a tricky thing, the subconscious is usually correct but can be very symbolic analogous and ambiguous, while the conscious mind can’t stand ambiguity and tries to put nouns and identity on everything whether it’s real or not, and it’s usually wrong.
Your story reminds me of a couple of things, people’s relationships with spirits, mainly succubi, and this rather imaginative thread, The Demon of Nadharkis - Axa Oddra / Ax Tenebrae Ornagga where the OP eventually decided he had been fooled and used by a parasite. It’s a cautionary tale to use discernment ad caution when dealing with pushy spirits that don’t always have your interests at heart and are not honest about it (parasites never are).
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I would say that there’s clear overlaps between the shamanistic technique of journeying and vision work, astral/soul travel, scrying, site contact in remote viewing, lucid dreaming, Michael Raduga’s the Phase, Theta Gamma State (TGS), trancework and others. Different traditions call the work different things but we end up with the same results
Maybe see if any of this resonates: