Perhaps Lighting A Candle
“One way you can help your own ‘unclean spirit’ might be to write a dialogue with it, having first invoked your own awareness of God’s healing presence by perhaps lighting a candle. Ask your unclean spirit to name itself. Ask what help it needs from you. Offer it your love. Demand its blessing.”
Walter Wink, Unmasking The Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence
Clarification: did Wink think these entities were merely metaphors and such? (Ya know, so one can keep one's tenure and not be canceled?) Because the other traditions basically advise "don't engage in conversation" Mark 1:25; Luke 4:35. tangential - https://www.upra.org/en/corsi/programma/course-on-the-ministry-of-exorcism-and-deliverance/
- “hello friend, how do you do?”
- “not well, why do you ask?”
- “oh, i just was thinking you looked sorta down.”
- “well of course i’m down, don’t you see what’s going on?”
- “um, maybe a little? i’m not certain.”
- “not certain? haven’t you been paying attention?”
- “while i can’t say i’ve been paying attention to everything, i have been to some.”
- “well, no one’s paying attention to me, and everyone’s so busy looking at themselves.”
- “what if we could look at each other?”
- “i don’t want you to look at me, there’s nothing here to look at. everyone looks and then leaves. i’m a commodity!”
- “how can we do things differently?”
- “i don’t believe that’s possible.”
- “what’s not possible?”
- “i know you. and i know what you speak of. i gave up on that a long time ago. it’s too heavy a burden. there’s no sense in being something you’re not.”
- “what if i told you you already are?”
- “well then i would tell you you’re a joke!”
- “i don’t believe you’re a joke.”
- “you…you’re wrong.”