Omega – My impressions of the dream are that the dream arose because of feelings you have about some people – but it seems as if the feelings were put in you from a past age, possibly from your ancestors. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-conjuring-trick/The Spirit guide, if you whittle it back to its basics, is a product of your own extended mind in its relationship with everything you are exposed to or in contact with. It has some rather destructive ways of expressing, and you decide not to go along with it. The spirit may have been expressing influences from your past as shown in Conjuring.
Even so you choose to do battle in a fair fight.
The battle takes place in the present, though I feel its intensity is set in you from the past. I see it as a battle between what many people present as their attitude to succeed, and your reaction to it. Again I see your reaction as being given power from long past experiences. I also feel the reactions are not really supporting you and it would be good to understand them and their source.
I suggest you ask yourself the question, “Why do I feel I have to do battle?”
Having asked, take the feeling of listening for an answer, as you would if you had asked a friend you respect. But you are in a noisy room – your mind – so you must not let your reasoning mind but in. You friend will address you by name and then you will listen for their reply. It may be in words that come into your mind or you seem to hear, or it may be feelings or pictures
If successful you will have accessed you wider awareness, and you will know because you will have received greater understanding.
Tony