QUOTE(Ashnook @ May 25 2007, 05:24 AM)
When conjuring a spirit, one expends a great amount of spiritual, mental, and physical energy.
To be honest I do not think that is the whole story. When I do my initiations I get the high drunk feeling afterwards which some people refer to as being astrally drunk, a term that is a pretty close approximation of the experience. Complete with the later come down tired exhausted feeling. This feeling probably results from the interaction of the energies called forth and as you said the expenditure of energy.
But I do not get the next day hang overs from initiations, only from evocations. By hang overs I mean almost exactly that, the tired out of it feeling that lasts for about a day or two at the most. The hang over seems to only come with evocations. Also to be honest the hang overs have gotten less and less over the years. I am not sure if that means I am building a tolerance to it like one would with alcohol or if my aura has just gotten stronger or if it is just a result of better techniques on my part. I just don't know.