I like this. Except it isn’t protection for you. It’s protection from you.
Not everyone has taken this incarnation for the sake of realizing enlightenment. Nor have they incarnated to heal their traumas and grow beyond their comfort zones.
There are few things more traumatic to a person than forcing them to heal from their traumas before they are ready to do so. Coming into contact with the vibration of genuinely spiritual Awake people can sometimes do that, shake loose unconscious traumas into the light of consciousness.
So they protect themselves by judging you, seeing you as weird, dismissing your presence. And that’s okay so long as you know not to take it personally.
For my entire life, I have been the weird one. It would make me sad that many whom I loved would just dismiss me and tease me.
I continued my path and they continued theirs. May they one day be free from suffering.