Then when we beat back that version of the apparition, the being would manifest in the single bare light-bulb on the ceiling.
Having many entheogenic experiences together but never one like this, we were radiating quite a bit of fear that seemed to encourage or feed this entity.
We put an album on the stereo - George Harrison's
Living In The Material World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living...Material_World
Living in the Material World is notable for the uncompromising lyrical content of its songs, reflecting Harrison's struggle for spiritual enlightenment against his status as a superstar,
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Both "The Lord Loves the One" and the album's title track were directly inspired by Prabhupada's teachings.[44][45] Greene writes of Harrison adapting a passage from the Bhagavad Gita into his lyrics for "Living in the Material World" and adds: "Some of the songs distilled spiritual concepts into phrases so elegant they resembled Vedic sutras: short codes that contain volumes of meaning."[46] On "Give Me Love", Harrison blended the Hindu bhajan style (or devotional song) with Western gospel music, repeating the formula of his 1970–71 international hit "My Sweet Lord".[47] In his 1980 autobiography, I Me Mine, he describes the song as "a prayer and personal statement between me, the Lord, and whoever likes it".[48]
Communing with the spirit in this music strengthened our position in this little battle of (seeming) good vs evil (or fear vs spiritual faith/love), with us now radiating love not fear.
The now beat-back entity left us, and the rest of our long evening was a spiritually healing experience for us both.
Afterwards, I came to suspect that this (astral or archonic?) entity somehow occupied the vibration in that house, and my friend moved out soon after.