Sireal,
Excellent post.
To me it seems the root of the problem is the popular tendency to expand our identity boundaries toward our posts and a forming online persona. It's an extension of real-time identity formation. Online and offline if we learn to adopt a mental shift that recognizes the core identity (the real "me") as not equivilant to our actions, occupations, social roles, thoughts, physical body, "energy," or RF posts, these issues have a better handle. With this viewpoint we don't surrender ownership or control of these elements of experience, yet ceasing to envision oneself as an element of experience trying to influence other elements of experience tends to provide a wider context of control. I can only think of the best example for those who have tried their hand at more intense lucid dreaming. It isn't a disassemblage of the ego but a more gentle "waking up" from identification with it while still retaining it as useful.
The ego is more of a lens on consciousness that provides the textures and flavors of the universe unique to it's make-up, not a source of personal identity. In fact it's a stretch to find identity localized in any single experience (I suspect our innermost Self is outside any possible experience to begin with - the relationship between the Observer and Observed is a little too esoteric for this discussion and up for debate). With the example above our "real" identity lies safetly in our bed outside the dream environment. I find this provides an easier framework for change without inhibition (though it takes quite a bit of work to anchor this process perceptually) and those personally penetrating fangs of psychic vampires shrivel up. If anything atleast it takes care of those pesky
musturbations.
I find much of the talk of the colorful bands of negative to positive energies, plus the perception of it as a quantitative substance, are rooted in the individual's mental overlap. If we identify with the negativity of a psychic vampire we're forced to find ways to take back "our" energy or turn it into positive energy. If we see energy as social momentum being exchanged daily and cease to empower it with a personal identity signature it becomes easier to leverage the net gain in any interaction and minimize losses. We're no longer hording our limited supply of energy and protecting it from someone else but recognize our essential interconnection with the whole of reality including other selves, thus providing a richer and exhaustive energy source, and happen to direct social interactions in our favor. It's still very much self/ego centered. We're just not sticking our identity in a limited experience (our energy that stops at our skin).
Thank you for opening this discussion.