Posted on 10/04/2020 12:03:57 AM PDT by tired&retired
The world’s leading psychiatric authority on demonic possession delves into the hidden world of exorcisms and his own transformation from cynic to believer over the course of his twenty-five-year career.
Successful New York psychiatrist Richard Gallagher was skeptical yet intrigued when a hard-nosed, no-nonsense Catholic priest asked him to examine a woman for a possible exorcism. Meeting her, Gallagher was astonished. The woman’s behavior defied logic. In an instant, she could pinpoint a person’s secret weaknesses. She knew how individuals she’d never known had died, including Gallagher’s own mother, who passed away after a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer. She spoke fluently in multiple languages, including Latin—but only when she was in a trance.
This was not psychosis, Gallagher concluded. It was, in his scientific estimation, what could only be describe as paranormal ability. The woman wasn’t mentally disturbed—she was possessed. This remarkable case was the first of many that Gallagher would encounter
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“The next morning, about 14 hrs after her death...her body was totally flexible, no rigor mortis.”
This is not meant as a criticism, but rigor mortis is temporary. After approx 12 hours the muscles relax again. It’s called secondary flaccidity.
Bttt
Scott Peck was an odd one in some ways. In his later writings, he seemed to believe that pro-lifers and conservatives were evil-doers.
So you put your hands up towards random screaming assholes in the street and they fall to the ground screaming like kneecapped zombies, pray over dying people to make a “liquid swirling golden light” or whatever, can miraculously prevent rigor mortis, and pray people into seeing heaven before death? You’re trying to make yourself sound like Jesus!
I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that you expect grown adults to believe your obvious (and blasphemous) bullcrap, or that some on this thread actually buy into it!
Do you think him contacting this virus could be the work of Satan?
Thing you for the ping about this article. The book sounds interesting. Cheers.
When I feel a virus, it feels like a separate consciousness from the person it attacks. It feels kind of like a swarm of gnats that fly together.
Had full blown Covid-19 and the dry cough was terrible back in January. Spent January and February in Southeast Asia and caught it in Chinatown, Bangkok Thailand during the packed streets for the Chinese New Years celebration.
I pulled it out of my chest and all the symptoms were gone instantly.
I had an encounter with a spirit in college.
My roommates and I were all experiencing footsteps, objects being moved and that feeling of someone present in the house with us.
Then one day, my girlfriend, roommate and I were talking in the upstairs bedroom when an ashtray flew off a 4’ high shelf and landed on the floor in the middle of the room by our feet about 8’ away.
The activity was increasing. Now there were cold spots and whispers.
I came home one night walked into my room and knew it was there. I demanded that it show itself.
It did later when I was woke by a touch. When I opened my eyes there was a black apparition in the shape of a human standing over me. It stood up straight, moved toward the end of my bed and vanished through the closet door.
In my anthropology class, I learned that the street they were digging up next to our house was over the original cemetery. They had dug up bones and asked the professor to help with the relocation project.
I moved out.
Ghosts, spirits, demons exists. I know first hand.
“You’re trying to make yourself sound like Jesus!”
Amazing how that works. There is a lot of “me, me” in that.
Satan is wise. He works very subtlety. He has television for his work. But he is nor smarter than God. That’s why he got Jesus killed. In his world, that ended it for Jesus.
Not possessed, (without their permission) but OPPRESSED, certainly.
The clearest, non-scholarly books I have read, are by the late Lester Sumrall. Written on a level anyone can understand, his books are short, concise, and clear on the subject, and consist mainly of his experiences. Very interesting, quick reads. He became an acolyte of Smith Wigglesworth, another great man of faith who had a deliverance ministry.
“Haunted” connotes the dead who are restless. New Orleans is not haunted, it is under the power of the demon who is the “Prince of the power of the air”, for that area. See the Book of Daniel for references of such. Every large area that is corrupt has such a demon over it. It can often be “felt”, as you enter such an area. It often manifests itself as a feeling of excitement, or overwhelming. If you have ever visited a place like Chicago or NYC, or Las Vegas, especially for the first time, you have probably experienced it. People who enjoy such places, described it as “a place like no other”, or, “I felt like I was in a magnetic place”, and so on. Think of Broadway, a place of uncommon entertainment, sometimes rather harmless, as in, for example, the musical, “Oklahoma”, but, like tv and movies, increasingly decadent, but exceedingly proud of their decadence.
Yes. While any believer can rebuke the devil in their own life (see multiple Scriptures), it is extremely dangerous for one who is not a fully mature Christian to do battle with a legion of demons attacking someone else. (Note the Biblical example of those men who tried to cast out demons in the “Name of the one whom Paul preached”. They had no authority over them, and were beaten up by the demons.) As Jesus said, after his own disciples had difficulty, “This kind comes out only by prayer and fasting”.
I’m not trying to be sarcastic or start an argument, but do you happen to be a Baptist? For some reason, Baptists and Calvinists seem to have the most problem accepting what the Scriptures have to say about demonic activity. Nowhere does the Bible say that Satan no longer the Prince of the power of the air, or that he no longer oppresses or possesses people.
As I’ve heard it said many times, God’s not deaf, but He isn’t shy, either. Often, Jesus cried out loudly, “Come out of him!”, when dealing with demons.
Amen to that, brother. So far, my only disagreement with you is about the presence of ghosts, especially when you said you led one “to the light”. There are no dead people’s spirits or souls wandering around. What you encountered was demons, masquerading as ghosts. Even if there WERE ghosts, you could not lead them to the light. When a Christian dies, his spirit goes immediately to the LORD. (To be absent from the body, is to be present with the LORD”). At the rapture, the dead bodies are retrieved, because they must be exchanged for a new body. but our spirits are with the LORD. Don’t ask me why he needs our dead bodies, except that Jesus is now flesh and bone, having given all of his blood for us, so perhaps he makes our new bodies out of the old. I do not know.
Now that recourse is quite a line employed in order to negate reproof of your unScriptural doctrine. Sounds akin to Gnosticism or Swedenborgism with their esoteric understanding that contradicts what it actually taught in Scripture using self-evident rules of interpretation (context, grammar, etc.)
I answer with Jesus’ words. Would Satan cast out Satan? A house divided against itself will not stand.
No, but he can imitate both the possessed and the "delivered" and thus mock the lost exorcist he is using. You can read the accounts of with doctor exorcists.
Your recourse to the "red letter hermeneutic is your first error, while indeed Scripture does teach the “Just War” concept.
Wrong thread, unless you got a debbil in you.
I would suppose that anyone in the mission field who is a true Christian, has been witness to demonic forces. When Lester Sumrall came back to the U.S., after many years traveling in different countries, including third world countries, he said to himself, “I’ll be glad to get back home, away from all this demonic activity”. He was shocked to discover that the U.S. had the same problems. He was quickly disabused of the idea that demon possession and oppression would not be fully operating here, too.
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