Posted on 07/13/2016 1:04:14 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Richard Gallagher is a board-certified psychiatrist and a professor of clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College. He is at work on a book about demonic possession in the United States.
In the late 1980s, I was introduced to a self-styled Satanic high priestess. She called herself a witch and dressed the part, with flowing dark clothes and black eye shadow around to her temples. In our many discussions, she acknowledged worshipping Satan as his “queen.”
I’m a man of science and a lover of history; after studying the classics at Princeton, I trained in psychiatry at Yale and in psychoanalysis at Columbia. That background is why a Catholic priest had asked my professional opinion, which I offered pro bono, about whether this woman was suffering from a mental disorder. This was at the height of the national panic about Satanism. (In a case that helped induce the hysteria, Virginia McMartin and others had recently been charged with alleged Satanic ritual abuse at a Los Angeles preschool; the charges were later dropped.) So I was inclined to skepticism. But my subject’s behavior exceeded what I could explain with my training. She could tell some people their secret weaknesses, such as undue pride. She knew how individuals she’d never known had died, including my mother and her fatal case of ovarian cancer. Six people later vouched to me that, during her exorcisms, they heard her speaking multiple languages, including Latin, completely unfamiliar to her outside of her trances. This was not psychosis; it was what I can only describe as paranormal ability. I concluded that she was possessed. Much later, she permitted me to tell her story.
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I did a YouTube search and came across some videos:
Muslims Turn to Coptic Priest for Exorcism 3 (Warning: NOT for Children!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohg5NDRk5bw
Interesting.
Demonic possession is a serious problem in America. VERY few doctors take it seriously, but screening for it should be a routine part of health care. If it was, lots of moral and spiritual illnesses could be avoided.
But our atheistic “science” does not believe moral and spiritual illnesses exist, so they go unaddressed most of the time. Hence, the explosion of homosexuality and other forms of perversion over the past 40 years.
I know a lot of Christians who believe in God. Many of them do not believe in Satan or demons.
They are misguided.
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Catholic ping!
It’s actually easy to spot. They have an illogical, irrational and violent reaction to Scripture. They come unglued when hearing it.
Islam = Demonic Possession.
I figure the foreign ones don't have that much hoaxing going especially if I am seeing a whole village participate (not internet savvy, etc).
Wonder if the good doctor is adept at spotting democratic possession?
Psychologists dismiss this as hypnotism - but we do know t he human mind is sustainable to a trance like state and modern science really has not studied this phenomenon.
How can they “believe” in God, while calling him a liar WRT Satan?
Strange use of the word “believe.”
Demons
[ It’s actually easy to spot. They have an illogical, irrational and violent reaction to Scripture. They come unglued when hearing it. ]
Yup, if an atheist hears scripture and doesn’t recoil, they are a true atheist, but if they recoil and have a violent reaction,t hey are not an atheist they are possessed.
I believe it. I have seen it. BTW, I am and was at the time, more secular than religious.
Some Christians say that we produce our own demons I think. Others like Christianity for the philosophy and ignore the supernatural parts.
bkmk
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