Wyrd hits it bang on for me. After awhile, it can just becomne a part of what you do, once you're aware of it. I used to be a lot more combative when I was younger, but I've learned better ways of dealing with these situations, like not getting into them at all.
Shamanic/trance/dream stuff: I learned early on to manifest a weapon and fight back. I use an Ego sword, I suppose you'd call it. Its a firey sword of light, kind of like a lightsaber. Cuts through anything, and is useful for holding baddies at bay with. Its kind of like a manifestation of pure will. I otherwise have been known to shapeshift as a line of defense, or any number of magic tricks if I'm lucid enough to remember that imagination is the only limit to that sort of thing, so long as you have the will to back it up.
Out in the real world, its all a matter of energy visualization. Get to know your own energy, and how to manifest it. Make a shield, ground, banish, learn where to draw power from. Basic witchy stuff. When it comes to this sort of thing, the imagined interpretation you see is a way of perceiving the reality of the situation. Trust your gut, and your senses, and bolster your defenses with a healthy dose of invulnerability. Its just like in lucid dreams how you can become like a god, only applied to the area immediatly around your body. That's yours, don't let anyone mess with it.
Here's one example, I'll give up for a story of it. There was one youngin at a party who wasn't quite integrating. He was doing the moody vampire thing, sitting in corners, feeding off the energy of the party, but not being a part of it. There are a few magicky types like me who keep an eye on that sort of thing, and we'd been talking about how to handle him. When you've a house full of folks on drugs, you have to keep on top of this sort of thing if you want things to stay safe and comfortable for everyone. People on Acid and E open up magickly in ways they don't necessarily understand yet. Anyway, I ended up dealing with it.
So I'm sitting in a room, and I feel him in the corner as a black presence, lost in some kind of moody loop, probably not even realizing what he's doing, thinking his vampire fantasies just that. I sync up with the ambient flow around me, and start walling him off, creating energy barriers around him, willing his aura back down into him. I was kind of carrying on a coversation with someone at time, but not really. It was just cover. This took most of my attention, and was some pretty serious work. We basicly entered a battle of wills over it, and the effort had me sweating. I finally managed to close all the way in on him, and bound him until he broke. It felt kind of like a door being closed or opened (hard to say). Immediately, he got up and left the room. Only, in the next room he tripped over something, said something witty about humping appliances, was the center of attention for awhile, and managed to make a complete turnaround to being a part of the party. Introversion turned to extroversion, and he snapped out of the funk and has been pretty with it ever since. |
