Still... why would they invade your space? And why now? There's always something in us that attracts things to us. It is we who have a focus of some sort that acts like an invitation to these kinds of energies, imo.
Without full conscious awareness it's tough to figure out just what we're emitting via our sub or unconscious energies that acts as a beacon, but we
are the center of our universe, and determining just why it is that we "call to us" what we do is important.
To use the Law of One principle... you are everything, all of it. So... why is this one particular aspect of your "Everything-ness" standing out above the rest of you, getting the spotlight, the loudest voice, etc., even causing you to doubt who you are or if you "really, secretly feel this way" somewhere deep within?
The culprit, the homing beacon for these energies glomming onto us is usually self-doubt, insecurity, self-worth/esteem stuff. And humanity has a ton of that to deal with, seeing as just entering this realm constitutes a desire to be raped of one's power, when you get right down to it (or at least it feels like a raping of power to the human who knows it has a spirit, but can't live from it completely yet because of a choice made that the human aspect doesn't fully understand yet. Once our higher awareness finally enters and we see the wisdom of our choice, we literally realize our sovereignty around this issue). Most humans aren't there, yet, and many of us working on stuff here are starting to face this archetypal energy. Awareness of these energetic concepts are starting to percolate up into the mass consciousness right now, btw.
Much of our intolerance for "the old" stems from this awareness beginning to dawn. "The old" is essentially repetitive abuse (which is essentially judging and wanting to control others/self, which your thought patterns are revealing), which is the result of giving away our power to a dominant energy that lives off us (our own overblown mind and ego - the dominant masculine here - that wants control and perfection, basically - which is the mind we were given, so to speak, by entering this realm), sucks the life out of us, uses us... you know, the whole "slaves" scenario, mind-programming, et al.
Well, and that's "part I" of the whole deal, really, the surface awareness. Underlying this "giving over one's power" is a source fuel for doing it (over and over and over again, as we do here). A reason, on the hidden side of life. Something living in the feminine womb.
So far, I've determined it's "ignorance", plain and simple. Blind trust, ignorance, naivete... which gets slammed early on, forming fear. So that each time we face "the new" here, we first have to suffer our fears. That fear of the unknown is a kicker for the human being, I tell ya!
And we just entered a major "new" energies phase, Ed. Perhaps as you rise to this new plateau of energies in your Self energy field, you first must encounter "the hounds at the gate", so to speak. Borne of your own self-doubts and insecurities. So perhaps the task at hand is to clear your self-doubt around being worthy of the new energies, the new level of power being offered.
It basically constitutes a new level of Power in Self, complete with more powerful creation/manifestation abilities, and each of us human beings has been plugging away at eradicating our powerlessness/victimization all along, so this is a new onion peel layer of that process, perhaps. Once through it, perhaps you'll open to new psychic abilities or better ability to use the ones you already have.
The first sense I had about your post was that your empathic skills are zeroing in on other people's self-esteem/self-bashing energies, and that there is a reason why you're "honed" to that type of energy in others. A reason in your own self, that you can actually access and change, opening your empathic skills to a much wider range of frequencies. Does that make sense?
Just some ideas to ponder/play off, perhaps, as you work to disentangle yourself from this energetic experience, Ed. ((((Hugs))))
Love you!
Sowelu