What Makes You A Target Options

Why would anyone come under spiritual attack? Your average person obviously isn't being attacked by unseen forces so what reasons would anyone have to be psychically attacked?

Many "attacks" are in fact just hypochondria or psychosomatic in nature. So to those who have said "its all in your head" in so many words, I do agree that this is pretty common.

However, in my experience, many "attacks" are not internally originated. They involve actual outside separate entities. This should not be hard for anyone who practices magick to imagine as being possible.

Myself, I was plagued with some very unpleasant spiritual attacks on a routine basis all through my childhood, and less frequently for much of my adult life. I have found 3 things which do seem to "ring the dinner bell" for unfriendly entity attacks.
1) Fear. it's like Channel No. 5 to a predatory entity. It's like blood in the water in shark infested waters. The more fear energy you generate & release, the more you're begging for trouble.
2) High Energy. If you have a lot of energy, you tend to radiate it and shed it in large amounts here & there. This acts like a sort of trail of breadcrumbs for predatory entities. Also if you radiate very brightly, you'll make yourself stand out, and both negative and just curious entities will zero in on you to check you out.
3) Astral Projection. if you go out of body, you'll garner some attention, both positive and negative.

Someone else mentioned that you'll tent to attract things which you resonate with. This fits a principal called "like attracts like", so if you for example channel 'rage' it wouldn't be surprising to find yourself in the company of a rage filled entity. However, I would add to this "like attracts like" an alternative principal that complementary states, states which are almost a sort of mirror image of each other, attract each other as well. For example fear & predation, prudishness & arousal, sadness & mirth, etc. where the complimentary but opposite resonance has a sort of 'allure' to it.

edit: I just read the original post more carefully, and to answer the question of "why"... why does anything attack anything? particularly if you step outside of our artificially 'civil' society and look at nature in the wild, how does it work? why does it work? I think it would only be puzzling if you're trying very hard to see reality only through the lens of a civilized society.

This post has been edited by Kath: Oct 14 2009, 10:08 AM