Specters
A specter can be within or without. It is your craving for the first drink of the day, one more fix, another snort. It is your father, silently drunk and malevolent. It is the guilt of sex with someone who is not your spouse.
Specters are energies that act upon us that we can't see, or that we look away from because we because we do not want to deal with the consequences of acknowledging them. If we talk about specters that other people can't see, they say we are crazy. But specters are as real as love or fear or guilt, none of which are real unless you experience them. You may deny that they are there, but they are real if they affect you.