Silence as Resistance or Part of the Process? Experience with Dantalion
I've been working with Goetic entities for some time now, and I wanted to share a recent experience with Dantalion to get your opinions.
I performed a ritual with Dantalion for a very close person who has been in a deep, self-imposed isolation for months, a situation heavily charged with trauma and distrust. The ritual's goal was clearly to open a channel of communication with me, which had been completely closed.
The day after the ritual, I sent a direct and assertive message (without pleading or reproach), hoping to open a gap. It's been only a couple of days (less than a week), and I haven't received a direct reply.
The interesting detail is that, after the ritual, I noticed this person shared a social media story from a mutual friend, someone they met through me. However, I must be completely honest: I hadn't been monitoring their social media before this, so I have no baseline. I cannot confirm this was truly anomalous behavior. It could simply be their normal activity during this period of silence. Perhaps I only noticed it because my own perception was heightened after the ritual.
This raises several deeper questions that I've been wrestling with:
How do you handle ambiguous or uncertain signals, especially so soon after a ritual? When you can't establish a clear baseline and the event is almost immediate, how do you distinguish a genuine synchronicity from your own desperate mind looking for patterns?
About the target's resistance: When someone is trapped in a shell of pride and fear, have you noticed that magick can "stir" things around them (like their need to express themselves) before achieving a direct change in their behavior towards you?
About step-by-step requests: Do you think it's more effective to ask for a grand goal (like fully restoring a bond) or is it better, in these cases of high resistance, to go step-by-step with more modest requests (like "that they reply to this message")?
I appreciate any experience you can share. The silence is still very fresh, and I'm interested in knowing how you deal with these early stages of "operational silence" and the uncertainty that comes with them.