"How about non-believing psychiatrists who assist in exorcisms? These are scientists."
This is how Scott Peck died. He was a psychiatrist and was observing exorcisms. His motive was not pure enough and he got stung.
Posted on 11/17/2020 7:06:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ouija boards are the gateway to hell, along with marijuana and other drugs that open you to demonic possession.
What about a hand carved idol?
I don’t believe there’s any supernatural power in it. Of course there is mundane power in it. It’s just begging to be manipulated. Same with Astrology.
Thanks (but not my words, of course!)
Here is an account of using a Ouija board that was written by a late friend of mine. It occurred when he was in the US Air Force:
http://www.bswett.com/1964-03LimitEffects.html
No it’s not. It’s just a freaking board. It does nothing. There’s been hundreds, probably thousands, of tests of them. They do NOTHING.
Idols are just symbols of what you believe in. The belief that makes a person WANT the idol is the only power it has.
Completely agree.
Interesting account. The guy was lucky it went no further.
It is not the toy that is the problem as much as the intent of the user and the fact that they opened themselves up and invited “guests” to occupy their souls.
I’ve cleaned up many spirit attachments over the years that resulted from board use.
I should add that I know there are both good spirits (remember Elijah showing the spirits to his servant and saying “Those that be for us are greater than those that be against us”) and evil spirits around us constantly and one cannot tell which is which sometimes. Remember that in the Bible, even the demons acknowledge Christ as the Son of God. If it is necessary for a good spirit to contact you directly (and it happens), then it will be under the direction of God doing something for you a mortal can’t do. Best to work on your relationship with God and the Holy Spirit than try to contact good spirits directly.
No you haven’t. You’ve fed gullible people a line of BS that both you believed. The boards do NOTHING.
You do realize that this Christian panic about them is their best advertising. If you’d all just use your heads, acknowledge the science and stop talking nonsense the woovy groovy crowd would lose interest in them. By insisting they are something they aren’t you CAUSE interest in them.
How about non-believing psychiatrists who assist in exorcisms? These are scientists.
But they will tell you that something goes on that cannot be explained by science as currently understood.
If they’re assisting in an exorcism they’re believers. And of course psychiatry is a soft science that deals most heavily with the beliefs of the patient. If the patient believes they are possessed then that is the treatment they will most respond to. Doesn’t mean they actually are possessed. Just means that you need the brain to fix the brain.
The next nasty I encounter I will send to you for your own first hand experience if you so desire. Good Luck.
There is far more to spirituality that the left brain alone can experience. I am a neuroscientist, My wife is an MD, Psychiatrist with over 30 years experience on the faculty of a top medical school. It took me a while to understand it myself, and I’m still learning.
The shock to me was in the early 1990’s when I was thrown across the room into the wall and no one physically touched me. It was a reality lesson I was not expecting and did not believe in at the time.
If they’re assisting in an exorcism they’re believers.
Quite the contrary.
They are there as non-believers who have reached the conclusion that the behavior of the person in question is NOT due to mental illness.
There's been a good bit written on this by psychiatrists recently. Have you not read any of it?
Would you please copy me on that as well. Thx.
"How about non-believing psychiatrists who assist in exorcisms? These are scientists."
This is how Scott Peck died. He was a psychiatrist and was observing exorcisms. His motive was not pure enough and he got stung.
Oh look threats. It would be sad if it weren’t hilarious. Meanwhile back in reality you’re just a gullible person on shared journeys of delusion.
I didn’t hear that. How did Peck die?
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