Toward Ecosophy

Please bear with me; I am trying to keep this concise without leaving too much out.

My husband and I have both been sensing a malicious, incorporeal entity periodically around our home for the last several years. We have had a couple of more or less direct encounters, during which one of us have driven it away (mostly just through rejecting it/telling it to leave/pushing it away energetically, and/or praying). However, it seems to return periodically. Neither of us get a sense that it wants anything in particular from us that we can discern. It feels to my husband less like a powerful danger and more like a nuisance he wants to swat away; he described its energy as unpleasant and discordant. Provided that we are in fact encountering the same entity, it feels more dangerous to me, and seems to be a demon if my dream encounter can be trusted. Visually, it appeared to my husband once as something like a vividly colored butterfly whose wings were eyes, but usually we encounter it in dream or as a sensed (but not seen) presence while waking late at night.

We have only felt it at night, after bedtime, until (maybe) yesterday. Yesterday evening after supper we were discussing the entity and what to do about it. We suspect that it might be involved in a persistent state of pessimism, negative emotion, and volatile mood that my husband has been experiencing. We both then felt a weird sort of subtle fog fill our kitchen. It didn’t feel particularly malicious or horrible, but it did feel as if it were muffling and depressing our subtle energies and senses. We did not distinctly sense the entity itself, only the fog. I then started gathering some condition oils and spiritual supplies to try to deal with the entity (unfortunately I’ve been pregnant or nursing the whole time it’s been around, and my husband doesn’t practice magic, so ritual magic has been out). At that point, my daughter, who just turned two, ran into the other room, suffered a bad fall, and gashed her head open on something we can’t identify and ended up in the emergency room. My intuition is that the accident had something to do with the entity and/or the fog, perhaps as a reaction to my preparing to try to drive it away, but she is a toddler and does fall all the time, so it may be coincidence.

I also suspect that this might have something to do with my cousin (who is also our neighbor) with whom we have been embroiled in a conflict over land and now a lawsuit for the last few years (hopefully the lawsuit is about to wrap up). My cousin is full of resentment and rage and having weird mental episodes (he accused me of sneaking into his house and breaking his dishes, for instance, and of hacking his video doorbell, and he occasionally sends vicious screeds that reveal obsessive resentment over old and nonsensical grievances, and he occasionally destroys some of our property in a rage). I suspect that my cousin is in the grip of demonic obsession, and I wonder if the maybe-demon keeps coming around us because of this unfortunate link between us and my cousin.

To very broadly summarize, we’ve tried prayer, positive visualization/affirmation, natural magic for healing/blessing/cleansing, and energy healing. Happy to give more deatails. This seemed to be keeping it at bay, but if the fog and accident are related, this seems like an escalation. Other than renewing and doubling down on these efforts, I would very much welcome any insights or suggestions that might help clarify or resolve this situation.