So to be more specific a non-initiated person who has not “laid the foundation” is someone who will subconsciously feed off other people’s emotional or electrochemical energy since they, themselves, do not know how to cleanse (sublimate) and purify (ionize) the emotional energy into electromagnetic energy. This, btw, is most modern people, so that we turn into hungry ghosts when we die and then in that subconscious dream state return to formless awareness. Once the pineal gland is opened up and the process of transmutation is understood then the tulpa or projection of the pineal gland energy would be an electromagnetic awareness (astral body or a spirit) that in turn takes in electrochemical or emotional energy but also turns it back into electromagnetic energy which will return to the electrochemical source. This could be done consciously or subconsciously, as just an impersonal resonance process. What needs to be understood is that the energy will cycle so that while electrochemical or emotional energy is taken, electromagnetic energy is given back whereas the uninitiated person does not know how to make electromagnetic energy. But the process is really not in control of any individual — it’s an impersonal resonance. Similarly a poltergeist could do this — as a lost spirit — which then feeds, subconsciously (a dreaming ghost) off people who have weak electromagnetic awareness but strong electrochemical energy (usually young females). This is why in Mahayana Buddhism it’s taught that there are “different levels of emptiness” which really means different levels of electromagnetic awareness of pure consciousness — even though pure consciousness or formless awareness has no separation.

Humanism, which really started with Vedic Philosophy using ritual geometry and mass sacrifice, does not create a strong spirit for astral travel — a tulpa. The modern living when dead remain as hungry ghosts (dreaming subconsciously) and the living, with no strong spirits, are controlled by these hungry ghosts, to convert our electrochemical energy into electromagnetic energy for the hungry ghosts (the creation of occult technology). So modern technology, which started originally with Vedic ritual geometry, is a subconscious projection of our repressed electrochemical energy that we do not know how to use for creating a harmonious or self-aware return to the source of the electromagnetic energy, the formless awareness. It is probably more accurate to say the modern dynamic is based on a reverse-tulpa that sometimes manifests itself as pure spirit (as you’ve encountered in your investigations) but normally exists as destructive electromagnetic or iron-based technology.