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Darkmoon<\/a> — June 24, 2018<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A Debate on Demonic Possession by Darkmoon Commenters
\nedited by Lasha Darkmoon<\/strong><\/h2>\n

These selected comments on exorcism and demonic possession are directed at the sceptics. At least two of our commenters claim to have had personal experiences of the Devil.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"the-exorcist\"<\/a><\/p>\n

ETHAN HUFF\u00a0<\/strong>(by way of introduction)<\/strong><\/em> :\u00a0 An Ivy League-educated psychiatrist is convinced that there\u2019s\u00a0a growing epidemic of demonic possession<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the world today, and that most everyday people now recognize the dark reality of this scary situation.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Dr. Richard Gallagher, who boasts degrees from both\u00a0Princeton University\u00a0and\u00a0Yale University, says that, despite conflicting opinions within mainstream medical science, demonic possession is both real and rampant.<\/h5>\n
With 25 years of experience under his belt\u00a0as\u00a0a private psychiatrist that complements his two teaching positions at both\u00a0New York Medical College\u00a0and\u00a0Columbia University, Dr. Gallagher believes he holds a unique vantage point in discerning between human and non-human, or satanic, behavior.<\/h5>\n
HP (<\/strong>aka \u201cHomer\u201d<\/strong><\/em>)<\/strong> :\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re very, very smart,\u201d Dr. Gallagher is quoted as saying about the beings that occupy the demonic realm. \u201cThe intelligence level of a fallen angel, which is what I call them, is far superior to human beings.\u201d<\/h5>\n
There are many classes of demons in the Hindu pantheon. Indian sages have been discussing these esoteric matters for millennia. Thus it is written:<\/h5>\n
\u201cMother Yasoda was firmly convinced that she should protect her child from different kinds of evil spirits and ghosts: namely Dakinis, Yatudhanis, Kusmandas, Yaksas, Raksasas, Vinayakas, Kotaras, Revatis, Jyesthas, Putanas, Matrkas, Unmadas and similar other evil spirits, who cause persons to forget their own existence and give trouble to the life airs and the senses.<\/h5>\n
Sometimes they appear in dreams and cause much perturbation; sometimes they appear as old women and suck the blood of small children. But all such ghosts and evil spirits cannot remain where there is chanting of the holy name of God.\u201d<\/h5>\n
(Krsna Book, Chapter 6, Classes of Demons<\/a><\/strong><\/span>)<\/h5>\n
LD : Homer is an American expert on Vedanta and Hindu metaphysics who has been studying this subject for decades. I have known him for many years and regard him as my mentor. While firmly rooted in the great Oriental religions, Homer is deeply sympathetic to Christianity and its fundamental moral precepts. He firmly believes that after his crucifixion, the risen Christ, still bearing his physical wounds, made his way to the Himalayas and settled in Kashmir where he spent the rest of his life teaching and dispensing wisdom.<\/h5>\n
MADAME BUTTERFLY<\/strong> : Thanks, Homer. Most enlightening! I had no idea there were so many different types of demon. Sitting on the bus and train every day, all I see is the demon-haunted eyes of my fellow passengers.<\/h5>\n
I wish I had the Magic Sunglasses to see if\u00a0THEY LIVE<\/strong>!<\/em>\u00a0The demon faces behind the human ones.<\/h5>\n
Sometimes when I look at myself in the mirror, a demon looks back at me and snarls, \u201cWhy are you staring at me, bitch?\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n
It\u2019s scary. I am afraid of looking in mirrors. I haven\u2019t looked at one for six months now. At this rate, I won\u2019t know what I look like soon.<\/h5>\n
I can\u2019t even remember if I\u2019m beautiful or ugly any more. Guess I\u2019ll have to ask someone. I dread the answer.<\/h5>\n
HP<\/strong> :\u00a0 Madame B, by the sound of things you see well enough without the glasses. But we knew that\u2026<\/h5>\n
MADAME BUTTERFLY<\/strong> : Flattery will get you somewhere!<\/h5>\n
SARDONICUS<\/strong> :\u00a0 Demons are much more than metaphors for evil people. They inhabit an unseen realm of their own, undetectable by 99.9% of the population. There are high frequency sounds, beyond the reach of the human ear, which can be heard quite distinctly by cats and dogs.<\/h5>\n
So it is with demons.<\/h5>\n
They can detected by others, either directly by sight and sound (called \u201challucinations\u201d by most psychiatrists and skeptics) or, as in LD\u2019s case, by the sense of smell.<\/h5>\n
JOHN KIRBY <\/strong>:\u00a0 Mumbo Jumbo!<\/h5>\n
PAT :<\/strong>\u00a0 A belief in demons would require a belief in witch doctors. I dismiss all of that nonsense!<\/h5>\n
GILBERT HUNTLY :<\/strong>\u00a0 Pat \u2013 like Thomas Beckett said: \u201cWe really cannot argue that which will only become known after we expire. Physicals law tells us that for every action, there is a reaction. Likewise, I believe that for there to be Good, there must be Evil.\u201d<\/h5>\n
How good and evil are manifested is a matter of perception. No one has the same perception of these phenomena. Some people are more \u201cin tune\u201d than others, seeing things that others cannot see.<\/h5>\n
KENDRA BLEWITT<\/strong> :\u00a0 Lately I have been reading the martyred Nazi philosopher, Rosenberg, who was martyred in that his only crime was his writing, yet he was hanged. According to Rosenberg, belief in demons has come to us from the inferior race and culture of the people of the ancient Near East. I personally find Rosenberg refreshing in many ways.<\/h5>\n
ARCH STANTON<\/strong> :\u00a0 \u201cAll truth can be tested\u201d \u2013 Sufi saying<\/h5>\n
SARDONICUS<\/strong> :\u00a0 LD [Lasha Darkmoon] has had personal experience of demons for many years. Though she prefers not to talk about it, and never has in public, as far as I know.<\/h5>\n
Demonic possession, she once told me in an email, is exceptionally rare. But there are degrees<\/em> of demonic possession, ranging from full possession (as in \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d), to medium and low possession at the other end of the spectrum. Full possession requires an exorcist for a cure; medium possession, prayer and fasting \u2014 \u201cThis kind (of demon) cometh not out but by prayer and fasting\u201d, Christ notes in the Gospels; and light possession, cured by regular meditation and constant vigilance.<\/h5>\n
(See this excellent article on demonic possession, originally published on Truthseeker<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong> and later featured on the Darkmoon site<\/strong><\/a><\/span> with comments.)<\/em><\/h5>\n
LD has the \u201cgift of smell\u201d, a rare faculty analogous to the \u201cNose\u201d in wine testing, whereby those who are possessed by demons can be detected by being literally \u201csniffed out\u201d. They emanate an unmistakeable odour, a sickly sweet smell like the smell of burning tyres. Or sometimes like rotten eggs laced with honey or molasses. It\u2019s always a \u201ccloying\u201d smell, she tells me. Sweet but sickly.<\/h5>\n
GILBERT HUNTLY<\/strong> :\u00a0 John Henry Newman preached the most beautiful piece of prose I have ever read, and William Peter Blatty featured it in his book The Exorcist<\/em>. I had the good fortune to meet Blatty at a Georgetown party one evening, and he told me he incorporated part of Newman\u2019s sermon into his novel for that very reason. I had committed it to memory when I was in high school. For any of you who have read it, you will understand. I will not recite it here, but the gist of it is the never-ending renewal of life, a perpetual struggle between Good and Evil.<\/h5>\n
SARDONICUS: <\/strong>I wish Gilbert had given a link to this \u201cmost beautiful piece of prose\u201d or Newman sermon he is referring to. Never mind! Perhaps he is referring to the most beautiful Christian hymn ever written, a hymn so outstanding that even Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu, would keep quoting it all the time \u2014 particularly the line: \u201cOne step enough for me.\u201d<\/em> In other words: \u201cLet\u2019s take each day as it comes, one step at a time. I\u2019m referring to Newman\u2019s hymn, originally a poem written in 1833.<\/h5>\n
The classic poem came to Newman in a burst of inspiration while he was travelling in Italy as a young priest and fell so desperately ill that he was unable to continue his journey for three weeks. In his own words:<\/h5>\n
Before starting from my inn, I sat down on my bed and began to sob bitterly. My servant, who had acted as my nurse, asked what ailed me. I could only answer, \u201cI have a work to do in\u00a0England.\u201d I was aching to get home, yet for want of a vessel I was kept at\u00a0Palermo\u00a0for three weeks. I began to visit the churches, and they calmed my impatience, though I did not attend any services. At last I got off in an orange boat, bound for\u00a0Marseilles. We were becalmed for a whole week in the\u00a0Straits of Bonifacio, and it was there that I wrote the lines,\u00a0Lead, Kindly Light<\/em>, which have since become so well known.<\/h5>\n
This poem, Lead Kindly Light<\/em>, later to become a world-famous hymn, is highly relevant to any discussion of demonic possession because it was written by a demon-haunted man at a highly sensitive moment of his life:<\/h5>\n
Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
\nLead thou me on!
\nThe night is dark, and I am far from home,\u2014
\nLead thou me on!
\nKeep thou my feet; I do not ask to see
\nThe distant scene,\u2014one step enough for me.<\/h5>\n
I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou
\nShouldst lead me on:
\nI loved to choose and see my path, but now
\nLead thou me on!
\nI loved the garish days, and, spite of fears,
\nPride ruled my will: remember not past years.<\/h5>\n
So long thy power hath blessed me, sure it still
\nWill lead me on;
\nO\u2019er moor and fen, o\u2019er crag and torrent, till
\nThe night is gone;
\nAnd with the morn those angel faces smile
\nWhich I have loved long since, and lost awhile.<\/h5>\n
Suffice to say that Newman would have had no problem believing in demons and demonic possession. He had his own demons, as Dostoevsky was to have later. Indeed, one of Dostoevsky\u2019s greatest novels was called \u201cThe Demons\u201d, otherwise translated as \u201cThe Possessed.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Ed: And now the star comment of this series, written by a man who has actually had personal encounters with the demonically possessed and moved in exorcist circles:<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
UNGENIUS<\/strong> :\u00a0 I happened to remember that I had commented on casting out devils four years ago on the Darkmoon site, so I am reposting it again with appropriate date changes. During 2012, I investigated casting out devils. Being a follower of the teachings of Jesus, my investigation was in the Gospels. From that investigation, I learned the following:<\/h5>\n
    \n
  1. \n
    Jesus only spoke of casting out devils in general, not of casting out the<\/em> devil, Satan.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n
    Jesus cast out devils in person and without the person being exorcised necessarily present.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n
    Jesus did not pray<\/em> to cast out a devil, he commanded<\/em> it to leave.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n
    Jesus told us to cast out devils in our fellowman.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n
    It must not be difficult or requiring elaborate instructions to do this, since a man not associated with Jesus and his disciples was casting out devils using the name of Jesus.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  6. \n
    If a devil is not cast out with a command, the person attempting to cast out a devil needed to pray and fast. Obviously, this was to increase the faith of the person commanding the exorcism ceremony.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  7. \n
    The person possessed by a devil or devils displays symptoms of wanting to do bodily harm to themselves like cutting themselves or falling into a fire.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  8. \n
    Permission of the possessed person is not needed before casting out a devil(s).<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    During June of 2016, I encountered a woman that witnessed a devil being cast out of her mother. She said she saw it leave. I wanted more informational detail from the person that did it. The woman refused to give me contact info on the woman that did the casting out until I read the woman\u2019s book about how to do it. Jesus\u2019 words of \u201cgive freely that which is freely given\u201d came to mind.<\/h5>\n
    Shortly afterward, I did bring up the topic of casting out devils on my weekly conference call with fellow Christian truth seekers (one being a biblical scholar), but did not learn anything that I did not know from my investigation four years earlier. The biblical scholar said that he believed that everyone has a devil. A point I rejected, given that Jesus did not cast any devils out of his Apostles.<\/h5>\n
    During October of 2016, a friend and I were discussing possessions by a devil. This friend is the same one that raised a man from the dead in the middle of a church sermon in the presence of medical witnesses in 2012. I asked him why he was asking and he said he thought that a friend of his might be possessed. He said that she was scratching herself to the point of bleeding in reaction to bugs that did not exist. He also said that his friend had lead a life of sex, drugs, and alcohol abuse all of her adult life, that he had known her since she was a child, and that they had kept in touch throughout their life.<\/h5>\n
    He said that she has spent three months living in his house after becoming homeless, but that she had relocated two hours away. They continued to stay in frequent contact after she relocated. He said that she was suffering from constant headaches, back pain, and digestive problems to the point of being miserable. His attempt to perform a healing on her did not work.<\/h5>\n
    We discussed him casting out a devil from his female friend. I told him everything I knew about it from my investigation and assured him that he could do it with a verbal command using Jesus\u2019 name<\/em><\/strong>. That same evening, he prayed to the Heavenly Father for increased faith, and then commanded:<\/h5>\n
    \u201cJesus, remove all devils from (her name) and cast them into Hell!\u201d<\/h5>\n
    The next day, his friend called him and said that something totally unexpected had happened. She awoke from sleep and all her pain was gone. She also said that all she wanted to do after waking was to pray, which she did.<\/h5>\n
    Apparently, a person possessed by a devil also has health problems.<\/h5>\n
    Since my first post on this topic in 2016, I have not discovered anything that would alter my perception.<\/h5>\n
    LD<\/strong> : An outstanding comment in every way. This deserves the widest possible circulation. I have never personally seen a demon in my life, but my mother has: a demonic entity haunting our house in East Dulwich, London, when I was in my teens. He used to show up at odd times, lurking on the stairwell or on the landing, grinning horribly through the yellow stumps of his teeth and with a distinct harelip, often dribbling at the mouth and cackling inanely. My mother even had a name for this disgusting creature: \u201cHarelip\u201d.<\/h5>\n
    \u201cHarelip\u201d suddenly left the house when an eccentric lodger living on the top floor was removed to a mental institution. I\u2019m sure \u201cHarelip\u201d was this weirdo\u2019s personal demon. What became of the man? I have no idea. I know only this, from many experiences over the years: if a demonic realm does not exist, the world makes no sense whatever. We sometimes need Satan to pitchfork us into God\u2019s arms. Many reach Mons Mysticus<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, the Mystical Mountain bathed in eternal sunlight, only after passing through the Valley of Darkness.<\/h5>\n
    The great French poet Charles Baudelaire said it best:\u00a0\u00a0La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu\u2019il n\u2019existe pas.\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0<\/em>\u201cThe devil\u2019s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.\u201d<\/h5>\n

    VIDEO\u00a0 :\u00a0 7.20 mins<\/h4>\n