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Thanks for asking. I wrote about this before it was over and I knew what it had been about. I posted my narrative on the web and that pushed my understanding along. I know that I should write about the spiritual aspect that eventually overrode everything else, but I have not known how. Maybe you are the catalyst. Here's the demonic part:

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My neighbor approached me after she retired. She was reading the Bible for the first time and was full of stories of UFO experiences, visions, and conversations with God. I thought this do-it-yourself introduction was fraught with error and peril, and I made very sure to keep my own armor on. I took her to mass but she didn't like it and wanted to substitute TV.

One day she came over to visit and was complaining mightily about how the tuning on her radio was mysteriously changed and what a terrible time she had getting it back to the way she wanted it. I ignored this thinking she might be trying to discuss a numerology topic.

We looked at the NASA site on the voyage to Mars and then got into a conversation about baptism. I got my copy of the Catechism to answer her questions. As she got up to leave, she said, "I still want to know about those numbers on my radio dial", and she repeated them. "Wait a minute, " I replied, " I think those are the numbers I have been looking at in the catechism." Sure enough, she was saying the chapter numbers that begin and end the section in the catechism." She took that as an awesome sign, got herself over to the Baptist church she had been favoring, and she was baptised two weeks later.

Thank you for the post and sharing that story!

She was reading the Bible for the first time and was full of stories of UFO experiences, visions, and conversations with God.

Oftentimes during the night, one or both of my dogs will wake me up for a nightime 'visit' to the greater outdoors. Occasionally, I will stay up awhile and turn on talk radio. Anyone familiar with 'Coasttocoastam' will immediately recognize this woman's symptoms of delusion. Art Bell has been followed by George Noory, both of whom have offered guests that discuss the arcane, especially numerology, bible code, ufo's, bigfoot ... anything fringe is okay. Before his death, Fr. Malachi Martin was often a guest on Art Bell's program, discussing vatican conspiracies, demonic possession, etc. On programs such as this, anytime a catholic priest speaks, he becomes the representative of the entire faith. You can image the impression Art Bell's listeners had of the Catholic Church.

She took that as an awesome sign, got herself over to the Baptist church she had been favoring, and she was baptised two weeks later.

Well that's a great consolation. How long ago was this and is she still attending the Baptist Church?