I agree strongly with your description. I've spent the past 36 years in recovery in AA, and only about a dozen years before that on the sick side.
I've been in the trenches, seen and helped a lot of people, and been around a lot of people that are truly possessed. In recent years, it has become pervasive in the general public, no longer hiding, unleashed.
I believe other things can be a factor in the tearing of the energy field also. Physical and/or Sexual abuse at a very young age (before the concept of “self” has been determined and a strong auric field established); exposure to porn or sadistic images (movies, video games)...although it may just be that injured people gravitate to that sort of imagery. I can look at pictures of Hunter Biden and see a severely wounded soul in his eyes. It’s very sad and his first injury was probably very young, which led him to self-medication, which just furthered the damage.
A few years back when I was doing research on veterans and PTSD, I came across a naturopathic doctor’s thesis online that described how PTSD was caused by a stripping of the nerve sheaths in the frontal lobe due to exposure to loud concussions. The brain had to rewire itself around the injured nerve endings and many survivors had trouble integrating the rewiring. Some of the vets he studied had flashbacks during which they experienced the exact same emotions they had at the time of original incident and many had succumbed to self-medication or suicide. (You know that phrase, “His nerves are frayed.”) Totally outside-the-box thinking because his solution was the opposite of medication (which just introduces more chemicals)...it was exposure to silence, prayerful meditation, animals and nature in addition to homeopathic remedies. I know from my own experience with PTSD that I couldn’t even tolerate music that I had previously enjoyed, so I really think there is something to the theory.
Re In recent years, it has become pervasive in the general public, no longer hiding, unleashed. :
Your perspective is helpful — and comforting, because I sometimes wonder how it can be that we see so many people these days who seem possessed.