Many people around us are not fully possessed or they would be completely dysfunctional at times (nail-spitting, levitating, foaming-at-the-mouth, wall-climbing dysfunctional).
BTW, the opposite end of the possession continuum is NOT demonic oppression. Oppression is an external influence on the mind, body, and soul of a non-possessed person.
Ignore, if you like, the term "demonic infection." There really isn't a technical lexicon for this subject.
What would you call a person who has a demon (or demons) but is still high-functioning? Such people do exist. In fact, you probably even know some.
I have studied this topic for over 40 years and have interviewed people who have assisted in real exorcisms.
As you know, it is a very dangerous subject.
“Ignore, if you like, the term ‘demonic infection.’”
I didn’t “ignore” it; I simply said that I’d never heard of it. In seminary, a component of one of my Theology classes was Demonology, and I didn’t recall that terminology.
“What would you call a person who has a demon (or demons) but is still high-functioning?”
(A Democrat?) Seriously ... still possessed. I don’t recall that one of the properties of a demon is the ability to simply “infect”, or be omnipresent like the Holy Spirit. Demons are, however, able to confuse, and to exude less strength if that will more effectively serve Satan’s goals.
“I have studied this topic for over 40 years and have interviewed people who have assisted in real exorcisms.”
We have many friends on the foreign mission field who have recounted events involving Satanic forces — actual demons, demon possessed, demon influenced, demon controlled. They have been successful in having the demons leave the people (we don’t use the term, “exorcism”).
My friend who was church secretary in a small town in Hawaii told me about an experience she had in the church office one day — and not with a person. It still gives me chills, and makes me glad we moved from HI. It’s so “spiritual” there — and not in a good way.
“As you know, it is a very dangerous subject.”
It is, for sure.