Belief is a good tool, but don't let it become self-delusion.
Belief is a tool of changing the way you interact with the universe, not the way the universe interacts with you. Example? You can believe you can fly, but that isn't going to stop you becomming pavement pizza after jumping off a tall building. (IMG:
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Like any tool in magick you should not become reliant on it, nor should you be unwilling to set it aside. The best banishing is laughter, stepping outside your magickal paradigm and becomming a rationalist who KNOWS that the demons that are attacking/tormenting you are just a fiction, a figment of your imagination.
Roleplaying is hard to define, but for me it is best described as the act of trying to fool others with false stories of great magickal experiences, demons hunts, trips to hell etc. Paradigm shifting is the act of stepping from one belief to another for the purposes of magickal progression. The first is delusion, the second a powerful tool.
This really deserves a thread of its own, so I may split this off into a new thread if it gathers enough interest.