Confession time: I had dabbled in the occult as a teen, including Ouija boards, horoscopes, Tarot cards and seeking psychic phenomena. I thought I had the second sight.
But, the Lord rescued me. The first step was, I read a book by Harry Houdini called “A Magician Among the Spirits,” debunking so many so-called psychic phenomena of the Spiritualist movement. I also read some CS Lewis books. My older brother became born again at college and invited me to go to his church, where I was saved.
However, I would still sometimes have those kind of dreams, and also ones where I was pulled out of my body and something would not let me go back.
I specifically repented and renounced anything I ever did or had to do wiht the occult and the dreams ended.
Years later we saw the movie “Passion of the Christ” and where Jesus trades glances with Barabbas, while I read something in the subtitles about the murderer, Barabbas, I mentally heard “the socceress, Clover.” I had not thought of the occult in years.
I am still a Houdini fan. I hope somehow someone witnessed to him or that he had a vision of the Lord before he died. I would love to see him in Heaven and say, “Hey, you remember that book ...? The Lord used in a wonderful way.”
“socceress” should be “sorceress.” Or something like that.
“But, the Lord rescued me.”
I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong or evil with natural human abilities like precognition, clairvoyance, or psychokinesis. And it is quite common for people to have out of body experiences. I see no conflict between developing these skills and living the way Jesus encouraged in the bible. In fact, I bet He was pretty good at them...