A Few Notes On Psychic Self-Defense

It’s a longstanding custom on this blog that whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, the commentariat gets to nominate and vote on the subject I’ll discuss in the fifth Wednesday post. This month, by a large plurality, readers asked for an essay on psychic self-defense: the art of protecting yourself against hostile or harmful influences in the realms of thought and emotions.

It came as no surprise, at least to me, that this topic won as handily as it did. You don’t have to believe in mag...