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# Advice, please

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Advice, please
- From: pax_felix58@...
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 02:06:30 -0000
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    Ave!

    Okay, so, my day job is psychiatrist. Why a person of applied
    science is interested in magic and the occult is another discussion.
    In this post I wish to ask for some advice in dealing with a
    situation that is not only mental/emotional but very possibly
    spiritual as well.

    For some reason, the people I have seen in the past few days with
    Holiday Depression seem to be both more numerous and more severe than
    in recent years. I remember observing this intensity several years
    ago. Maybe it follows some kind of cycle, or maybe it is something
    that is sensitive to world events. Whatever.

    Part of the training of every psychiatrist is maintaining healthy
    emotional boundaries to prevent the disability that would occur if
    one's empathy actually led to contagion of all the pain and chaos one
    encounters every day. Allowing patients' strong emotions to be
    contagious can be absolutely crippling.

    But of course nobody is perfect, and the folks I have seen just this
    week have been exhausting. Yesterday a small degree of that
    contagion did occur, and well into the evening I felt their remnants
    of anguish and grief. I had a well-defined feeling of needing to
    take a "psychic shower." It finally passed when I went to bed.

    My question is this: Would those with more occult experience than I
    recommend simply Qabalistic Cross, Lesser Banishing Ritual of the
    Pentagram, and Middle Pillar Exercise, or is there something more
    specific to cleansing worth trying?

    I am reminded of a brief mention in IIH about "larvae," disincarnate
    thoughtforms created unwittingly by people suffering great pain and
    disorganization, that "stick" to vulnerable passersby. Or something
    like that.

    Comments? Advice?

    Warmest regards,
    Pax Felix

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