I have only recently been really trying to astral project regularly, and have had no success. I have in the past projected (on 5 different occasions, to be precise) and decided to make it a normal thing, but I have what I believe is some sort of a haunting that is preventing me from projecting recently. I have communicated with two of three spirits that I know dwell within the walls of my house, and came to the conclusion that they are completely harmless residual spirits (one an old lady, the other a young girl). The third presence had eluded me until the other week when I was playing around in the hypnogogic state and suddenly felt an ENORMOUS amount of dark energy surrounding one particularly eerie corner of my bedroom. I am satanist, so of course have no conscious fear of demons and the sort, but this dark being (for lack of a better term) sent such a cold, piercing chill down my spine I had to immediately stop and sit up. Images of gruesome contorted faces, breaking bones, and great famine started filling my head. The intense feeling of dread continued until I lit some patchouli and meditated deeply. Since then, I have this half conscious half unconscious remnant of that being, as if it took a piece of its self and put it in my head. So whenever I try to astral project now, I feel that dark energy and it prevents me from furthering the exploration of my mind. The scary part is, that feeling is sort of familiar, like sometime in my childhood I had encountered this being before. I just wanted some insight. What could this being be? How could I purge it from me or my room? How should I deal with it if I feel it again? Any insight is very much appreciated, of course.

