Posted on 06/16/2013 5:47:16 PM PDT by workerbee
I am currently reading The Day Satan Called by Bill Scott.... somewhat interesting, but at this point (about a quarter into it) not very well-written or even believable. I'm interested in your opinions or suggestions for non-fictional accounts of demonic possession, Satanism, and the like -- I'm considering Malachi Martin's Hostages of the Devil. I'd also be interested in your thoughts on these topics as they relate to ouija boards, Enneagram charts, or even yoga, as well as any personal experiences you may have with said topics. I'm especially concerned with a Roman Catholic or Orthodox point of view but any Christian viewpoint will be appreciated. Thank you!
i just knew there had to be a python involved in this story somewhere
I understand being frightening or disturbed by reading about certain things, but do you believe that demonic power can actually be "caught" or "brought forth" by reading a book about the topic? I don't ask this in a sarcastic sense; I really want your opinion of the concept. Because if so, I can only wonder as to the purpose of the authors who write such books.
Check your own personality beforehand."
Wise advice.
There are many cool videos of chicks in leotards doing exorcism.
I do hope that’s a joke.
go you chicken fat go
As others have said, tread lightly here. Some of the books I’ve read and found helpful are:
The Adversary by Mark Bubeck - Bubeck has a couple of books on the subject, I just can’t find all of them right now.
What Demons can do to Saints by Merrill F. Unger - I thought this book was very well done.
War on the Saints by Jessie Penn-Lewis - I remember this book being more from an intellectual rather than practical perspective but perhaps I’m wrong.
The Handbook for Spiritual Warfare by Ed Murphy - I don’t know if Ed Murphy is still around but he was a solid guy. I knew him from Los Gatos Christian Church in the 80s. This is my favorite book on the subject but I don’t know if that’s because I knew Ed Murphy or if the content was superior.
Victory Over the Darkness, The Bondage Breaker, Released from Bondage, all three by Neil Anderson. Some people don’t like Anderson but I found his books helpful in the early 90s.
Remember to fill your mind with the good things of God. This will give you power to resist the devil.
If you are looking for the reading material for entertainment purposes turn from it. It leads to a place which is at least either a waste of your time or at most devoid of Christ, the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Learning about something is never bad. Dwelling on it, especially this particular subject, is a bad idea. I know enough about it (having been rather unwise in my youth) to know I don’ want to know any more. I can’t think of any other subject I would say that about.
The devil made me do it.
Tread carefully, make no invitations
The best advice possible.
Written by a Kramer. Enough said.
Hostage to the Devil is one of the best books I have ever read. It is thoroughly engrossing, and his prose are impeccable. I must have read it four times in all.
I would also recommend ‘The Demonologist: The Extraordinary career of Ed and Lorraine Warren.’
You’re sick. And that’s not even funny.
a couple of coworkers asked if i believed in ouija boards and i said oh yaw but you dont know if what you are talking to is what you think you are talking to so maybe you should not talk at all
Yes, Neil Anderson and Leanne Payne.
I myself experienced major demonic activity (or at least my brain neurons were misfiring for a good couple of months) maybe something like 9 or 10 years ago.
It started off as minor little things that I barely even thought of. They would interest me when they happened, but I would always ascribe them to my imagination or maybe to noises from the neighbors, even when they increased in frequency and severity.
For example, I would be going to sleep and, suddenly, I would hear a shout in my left or right ear. Not a big deal, and there are natural explanations for it. Other times I would hear someone calling my name from downstairs, or from upstairs, so I would look and be totally alone. I assumed someone else in the neighborhood was named Ricardo, since it happened so frequently.
I was also getting “touched” a lot. I would be asleep in the morning and would wake up feeling the blanket being pulled off of me. I assumed that maybe I had knocked the blanket off myself and simply imagined it. Other times I would wake up feeling someone running their fingers through my hair, and I would stay silent with my eyes closed for awhile before opening my eyes to catch them. But, I would be alone, of course. Other times I would feel a hand stroking my leg, or resting on my stomach, and other things of that nature.
All of this “activity,” whether mental or demonic (who knows?), became worse and worse, but I honestly did not think of it at all. It would happen, but I always had an explanation for it, even as it began to happen every night, every morning, and every day.
Finally there was a climax. I found myself in a strange nightmare where I was laying on a stone slab, very hard. Around me was this greenish haze, and in the haze was a silhouette of a man dancing and singing around me. At his feet, which was clearly visible, was a large and dangerous looking snake that he was kicking, and grabbing, and tossing, and slapping, over and over again as they circled me. Eventually the snake broke free and came towards me, but towards my blind spot, and that was when I felt it plunge into my arm.
So I woke up with a fright, only to realize that the dream, or the demon, was still with me. Above me, a little to the right, I heard a loud and horrible combination of a growl and hiss. It is not something that can really be described, only heard for yourself. No movie monster or animal I’ve ever heard on TV could come anywhere close to it. On my left arm, on the point where I had been bitten in the dream, I felt a powerful and numbing grip. My entire arm was not itself numb, just the part where I was being squeezed (just incase you think I was having a heart attack, lol!). It gripped me and pinned me from that one point into the bed as if to keep me from moving, but I was so terrified that I wouldn’t have tried to escape anyway. I did not see anything, only heard and felt it.
I tried to tell myself that I was just dreaming, hoping that once my mind realized it wasn’t real, that the waking-nightmare would disappear. I started trying to speak to myself, “I must not fear,” but because of my terror I found it difficult to speak. It came out something like this: “I...I...I... m..mm..mu..mus..must... nnn... nnoot.... f..ffff.” As soon as I got to the word fear, however, something broke in me and I blurted out smoothly and powerfully ‘The Lord is my shield!”
As soon as I spoke those words, the grip released me and the noise ceased. And after that, I had no further problems for many years.
On one final occasion, years later, I felt someone hovering over me as I slept, which I assumed was my niece. My brother would let himself in back in those days with his kids, and since I was usually sleeping, the kids would come into my room and usually beat me up. And since I didn’t want to be bothered, my custom was to pretend to still be asleep, even as they were jumping on me and punching me. Since if I revealed I was actually not in a coma, I’d be roped into playing with them.
This time was different, though. I felt a warm breath on my face and their hand on my chest (a small hand), and I felt them come in closer and closer, until a warm wet tongue licked my cheek. I decided it was some new horrible tactic on their part, so I did not stir. When they came in for a second lick, I couldn’t take how ticklish it was any more (plus I felt it was a bit inappropriate) and flung my arms out, touching nothing. I opened my eyes and I was totally alone. After prayer, however, this also ceased, and nothing new has happened since then.
For a better understanding of Satan then read all books written by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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