awesome question and I have been struggling with this myself also before I continue I had the thought that the people who get trapped and do not immediately go into the light are probably scared of the light and reject it
anyway this being said- are we just supposed to respect people and demons and malevolent extraterrestrials and ghosts and whatever else is out there freewill to carry on with their bad selves? shamen are allowed the responsibility to act as psychopomps which are people whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from rarth to the afterlife this being said I of course have to experiment with doing stuff my own way first before seeking proper training and I am not sure if just giving him a light portal and convincing him to go in there would be enough so essentially I can act as a psychopomp but I do not have the proper training on how to specifically perform psychopomping with confidence yet
Yeah, opening the veil and shoving somebody through it is a big to-do, usually performed by an entire coven.
A ghost is a very fragile thing, like a lingering fart.
It's annoying af for awhile, but it will dissipate before long.
I'm pretty sure all the ceremony is designed to get the spirit to move on without accidentally destroying it.
I've met what appeared to be ghosts before.
I just move my energy to shield and blast, then shield and blast, taking energy from my surroundings in between. Kinda like Kevin Bacon in X First Class :D Or so I've been told. I see myself more as a bathroom door and a can of air freshener lol
None of those 'ghosts' have bothered me for longer than a year.
I'm not sure if they hung around after I pushed them back, but I stopped noticing their presence after a time.
The poltergeist that haunted my sister's place only went after her and her things lol poor Syn.
She srsly thought I was doing some Carrie shit bc we hate each other so much.
I had to keep telling her I'm not that good. I'm not even practising anymore.
I sort of follow the Odyssean philosophy (read Joseph Campbell, and see the mythical in the every day) and I feel the joy when the splendour of the natural world moves me, but I screwed up and accidentally created a couple of bad spells early on and essentially talked myself out of any need for elaborate spellcasting after that. So like Penelope, I weave a beautiful thing and dismantle it, and then start over again and again, just biding my time until things are set right in my home life and my psyche again. Illness and crappy grouchy moods are not conducive to making magic. So I might pick it up again when I feel better. I might not.
Religion is still a little at odds with my science. If I'm going to indulge in fantasy, I prefer super heroes in pop culture bc they don't pretend to be more than metaphors based on our greatest fears and our fondest wishes. Religion contradicts itself until it comes across as fiction, so why not just go straight for the fiction?
Anyhoo, all I'm saying is that I never felt at all threatened by Jimmy as a living man baby bc he's weak and disgusting, and I could wreck him if I had to defend myself against him. As a ghost? He's nothing but a vile little cloud of gas.
Fucking turd stench. Let him tryta come and get me lol
