gnome said:
I was going to ask, did you gain anything by provoking the enemy? I'm not suggesting anybody starts taunting greys, just curious
I also agree with your advice: our energies are best reserved for our own development, or targeted spiritual warfare.
I suppose one of the things I gained was confidence in my spiritual ability, as well as I learned very well how to direct and enforce my will astrally.
However, you can learn this through normal meditative methods as well, so it's not necessary to engage entities with your mind or otherwise in order to learn how to do it.
It did also allow me to become entirely fearless in the face of the enemy, who are beings that thrive on fear and domination.
Just their presence induces extreme fear into a person and it takes significant will to stand up to them. An ordinary person would be completely paralyzed with fear in front of them as their mind is dominated effortlessly, unable to do anything and entirely helpless before them.
Through my encounters with such beings during spiritual warfare and other moments, I understand well how their attacks work and how to defend against psychic attacks, also how curses or thoughtforms harm the mind and soul, which gave me a lot of practical experience in dealing with this.
Spiritually speaking, I know how to throw hands quite well from all this so to say, which is definitely useful experience in my opinion, but this too you can learn just fine without engaging in potentially harmful and definitely draining things like this, so I am not advocating for it, or trying to brag, just relating my experience.
A good SS friend has told me they had dreams where they sparred on the astral with other souls or even demons. They would attack and defend against each other with their astral bodies, using their energy, like training in an astral dojo, if they were being trained in the practical application of spiritual power for attack and defense in case one encounters a hostile entity.
Personally I believe SS are trained in the use of spiritual power even subconsciously by our Gods from time to time, resulting in dreams like that.
I believe our Gods see to it that we are prepared to use our powers to defend against hostile astral entities and influences in case we encounter them, since it is not uncommon to encounter such entities as a Spiritual Satanic meditator.
Hail Satan!