Fr. Amorth published a couple of books about his experiences as an exorcist. One of the physicians he brought in to assist, an avowed agnostic, was completely blown away. He ended up penning a couple of books himself on his clinical research on demonic possession.
Amorth’s books are not hard to read, but they are terrifying, and as such, hard to read.
I can’t recall the physician’s name, and I’m not near my library (it’s on my shelf).
The term Amorth uses for some cases of possession is ‘Perfect Possession’. It is a degree that is beyond the ability of the ordained to help at this point, even through the invocation of Christ.
The entire topic is fascinating.
Fascinating and terrifying. Dr. Greg Boyd was still teaching at Bethel College when I went there and I visited the church he pastored. Happened to attend a service in which he preached on spiritual warfare and a teen age girl he was helping before he realized possession was still real. He was applying all the counseling techniques he had learned in school and said it was almost at the point where he could have said, “Quit levitating at the ceiling so we can work this out”. Right there at the DQ in Mankato, MN.
When they got her back to her parents’ home she took barbed wire and started strangling herself with it. Pure evil at work.
Follow Jesus, do not keep the Holy Spirit out of you and humbly submit to Christ every single day. He is our only hope.
I have no desire to place stories of evil at work in my heart and mind, but am grateful for the followers of Christ who work in this area to help turn the possessed away from Satan and towards the true Savior and Lord. Books like that probably help those who are lost realize spiritual truths.