To paraphrase A Wanderer’s Handbook: a situation where a person attracts the attention of a negatively oriented discarnate entity by the strength and purity of their seeking for truth. To stand close to light requires the seeker to reflect that light purely. Any choice away from the seeker’s integrity will provide an opening through which the negative entity can enhance or intensify that disharmonious choice. Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual distress may be experienced as a result.
The goal of the negative entity is to disrupt the light, distract the focus, and, in the most extreme cases, enslave or extinguish the light. However, in this dynamic, it is to be noted that the negative greeting can only enhance and intensify the pre-existing distortions within the self. If the person does not respond with fear but exercises love and forgiveness for self and others, and sees the negative greeting as doing a service for the self by highlighting the “chinks in the armor,” then the negative greeting can, like all catalyst, become an accelerant for spiritual evolution, in other words, a gift.
It is also to be noted that the seeker’s difficult experience may indeed be a result of or enhanced by psychic greeting originating from external sources, but it could very well be exclusively the workings of one’s own misunderstood subconscious.