Have you ever felt a Demonic Presence

[po18guy]

I just feel bad for those who are so tormented with the Devil and his minions. Saint Michael is very powerful indeed, though. So that is a fine intercessor right there. In the book I mentoned earlier, there is a certain prayer to do with the renunciation of Satan. Seems simple but pretty straight forward. ~ Pius :knight1:

From personal experience, I can tell you that spiritual warfare prayers work. I keep a copy of them handy.

 

[Sonic]

I don’t know if I have, but if I ever do, I think I’ll be prepared. The Devil will have quite a time battling me . For now, I pray for those who suffer from it. I have also wondered if it would be prudent to offer myself in their stead. In otherwords, volunteering myself so that those tormented people may have a moment of ease. Has anyone ever done that here?

I recently bought “Deliver Us From Evil: A Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Exorcism”. I don’t bother with the exorcism part, but it has plenty of prayers including the long version of the Prayer to Saint Michael and the shorter one (in Latin and English). Its interesting. Plus, I always have Holy Water with me for good measure.

~ Pius :knight1:

I just feel bad for those who are so tormented with the Devil and his minions. Saint Michael is very powerful indeed, though. So that is a fine intercessor right there. In the book I mentoned earlier, there is a certain prayer to do with the renunciation of Satan.

Fr. Rippenger, FSSP has an audio seminar on Spiritual Warfare on this webpage. You might be interested in listening to it.

sensustraditionis.org/multimedia.html

From Father’s advice, I would not recommend offering yourself. There’s a certain danger of Spiritual Attack that can occur.

Also, make sure you say the approved Saint Michael prayer, and not the one that’s delegated for use in the exorcism ritual.

 

[nickybr38]

The experience of manifest evil often occurs when one is growing in faith. This is intended to discourage one from going deeper into their faith. Yet, it can make its presence known at any point in one’s life. It may manifest itself as temptation when one is drifting away from their faith. It hopes to lure you away from God, or prevent you from drawing nearer to the Lord. Doubt, confusion and disappointment are the evil one’s main weapons. If you have ever experienced it, you are more keenly aware of subsequent occurrences or presences.

It was when I was furthest from my faith that I experienced the most intense… ‘encounter’ with ‘demons’. Strangely enough it was an encounter with a down and out biblical demon (as in, he was described in the New Testament) that snapped me out of complacency and near agnosticism. That encounter shook me to my core, and I was a person who thought I’d seen it all!

Haha. These encounters can serve as temptations BUT they can also serve to draw us back to Christ.

 

[Debora123]

Faith casts out fear. God’s power is infinitely superior to that of evil. Our Lord always triumphs.

p.s. what did you expect from the thread title?

It’s very intriguing at the same time, so I can’t help but read it. But then I get really scared!

 

[Bl_Pope_Pius_IX]

Fr. Rippenger, FSSP has an audio seminar on Spiritual Warfare on this webpage. You might be interested in listening to it.

sensustraditionis.org/multimedia.html

From Father’s advice, I would not recommend offering yourself. There’s a certain danger of Spiritual Attack that can occur.

I will look into it. Thank you!

Also, make sure you say the approved Saint Michael prayer, and not the one that’s delegated for use in the exorcism ritual.

Yes I know, I hardly turn to the Exorcism part of the book. I don’t have much use for it.

Thank you again!

~ Pius :knight1:

 

[GoldenLight]

It was when I was furthest from my faith that I experienced the most intense… ‘encounter’ with ‘demons’. Strangely enough it was an encounter with a down and out biblical demon (as in, he was described in the New Testament) that snapped me out of complacency and near agnosticism. That encounter shook me to my core, and I was a person who thought I’d seen it all!
Haha. These encounters can serve as temptations BUT they can also serve to draw us back to Christ.

For myself, the opposite was true…

 

[Swiss_Guy]

Yes. Worst feeling you could ever imagine. Pray the Rosary daily. And stay strong in the Catholic faith. That’s my advice.

 

[TheRealJuliane]

Yes, every time I go to pray in front of Planned Parenthood.

 

[hazcompat]

yes

 

[laircy]

A few months ago I had what could probably be described as sleep paralysis, “coincidentally” when I was growing deeper in faith, and praying made it immediately go away.

 

[SMA_12]

I am beginning to think that a demon might be able to exploit sleep paralysis and other medical conditions to oppress those who suffer from them.

But like others have stated, the rosary is a great weapon against the forces of evil.

God bless!

 

[Loboto-Me]

The experience of manifest evil often occurs when one is growing in faith. This is intended to discourage one from going deeper into their faith. Yet, it can make its presence known at any point in one’s life. It may manifest itself as temptation when one is drifting away from their faith. It hopes to lure you away from God, or prevent you from drawing nearer to the Lord. Doubt, confusion and disappointment are the evil one’s main weapons. If you have ever experienced it, you are more keenly aware of subsequent occurrences or presences.

Amen! This is exactly how it manifested in me. Doubts about eternity, yet not about God… weird! I would be woken up during the night because I was analyzing my doubts about eternity and something within would be telling me that my doubts were right on. I’d wake up and with “all the answers” which made me more fearful. Somehow I was thinking “what if eternity has an end, and then what?” Just the weirdest and strangest inner questions to have. I’d be having thoughts within thoughts inside my dreams and for a few minutes after waking up from the fright of it all. This is so hard to explain. It wasn’t like I was actually doing the thinking, but at the same time it was still part of my own thought process.

Within that month, I fell asleep on the sofa in my living room and had what others would think was a sleep paralysis episode. Something that had never happened to me before nor since that night. I woke to see a black shape about 2 feet above me. Not straddling me or choking me as others describe in many of these types of episodes. This shape was blacker than the blackest black and I never saw its face, but I saw the shape of pointy wings (the type we see in pictures of demons) behind it. I just KNEW this was an evil being and it was reaching out to touch me, and I also knew that if it succeeded, that I would be be dead and I would definitely go to hell.

I was frozen in fear, and the only thing that saved me was to say “I’m not ready”, then it disintegrated. I know it’s a strange thing to say, but this was coming from a person who had not practiced her faith in many years.

My belief is that it was a demon who was making me “crazy” with those thoughts. I was on my way to hell. God saved me in a miraculous way which is here somewhere in the spiritual part of this forum. The wonderful thing is that the devil thought he had me but his tactics only brought me back to a life of faith! HA on him!

So yeah, I’ve felt what a demonic presence is like, and I pray never ever to feel it again!

 

[po18guy]

It’s very intriguing at the same time, so I can’t help but read it. But then I get really scared!

Did you read the interview with Fr. Barrajon, the exorcist Priest? Knowing of God’s power is comforting, rather than frightening. Knowing of the respect that even demons have for Mary is simply amazing. But, we already know that there is “enmity” between her and all evil.

 

[po18guy]

OK, here’s one that perhaps all of us have experienced. This came up in a PM and it just struck me (I’m a little slow on the uptake ) as an attack: You begin prayer and the yawns suddenly take over. Why then? Why so suddenly? Yawning is normal, right? But, the serpent is the most subtle of creatures in the garden. “Just take a nap. You don’t need to pray right now…”

 

[Samson01]

Yes, during the second night in the hospital during my first chemo rounds. Could actually see things out of the corner of my eyes. I wasn’t religous at the time.

 

[Bob_Crowley]

Yes, many times I have been pulled out of sound asleep at around 3AM to feel or see a demonic presence. The last time, the thing was actually pulling my arm away from my body and upward. I was laying on my right side. I tried to speak the word of Jesus but I could not get His name out of my mouth, prevented from doing this. I could only think to say Jesus, please help me. The thing left.

Yes, I’ve had something like this, and I know others on this site have as well, as mention of it has cropped up on other sites.

From time to time I’ll see a vaporous entity, usually hovering near the ceiling. I’m sure a secular psychiatrist would say I was “dreaming” (despite the fact I’ve woken up), imagining things, or in post nightmare mode or whatever. But I don’t think so.

When they grip you, it’s like a having 3 ton truck pushing down on you. They’re pretty strong, but I think their grip is then forcibly removed by an angel or the Holy Spirit.

I’ve had this for a long time, starting not long after I became a Christian. It was probably more prevalent in the early days than now. I suppose I’ve gotten to the stage where I simply accept the spiritual world is as real as the ordinary secular world, except that I can’t see it.

Occasionally I’ll get a sense of the devil giving a threat. One of his favourite pictures seems to be that of the panther. For example, if there’s a picture or poster of a panther in a shop window, somehow the glittering green eyes seem to take on a life of their own. One might say it’s my imagination, but I think the devil is also using the picture to issue a statement - “You’re in my sights”.

However I’ve also had one nasty experiences from the “good guys” as well. Probably a year or so after I became a Christian, I was driving down to the gym we had under the church. I was getting pretty pally with God in my mind, and when I had one rather condescending thought towards Him, this sense of divine anger settled down on me. I literally felt like I was going to disintegrate, or become “unmade” if you’ll excuse the term. That’s how I felt, and it was most unpleasant.

I had to turn into a side street, and pull over, and wait until it subsided. I was so shaken I didn’t go to the gym, but turned around and went home again. I still remember the street I was driving down was called Kedron Brook Road, and the street I turned into was either Angliss Street, or Main Avenue, just for the record. The church itself was located on Macgregor Street, which also ran off Kedron Brook Road. This won’t mean anything to anybody here, but I remember the incident clearly, and I can still place the location clearly.

It reminds me of one of the characters in one of CS Lewis’ novels, who comes into contact with the “Oyarsa”, the word Lewis used in the book for the chief angel of Mars. He found he didn’t like contact with the “good” as much as he thought he might. He accepted he would not like “evil” as a matter of fact, but it was disconcerting to be faced with the “good” and to find it was a discouraging experience as well.

I suspect CS Lewis had considerable spiritual experiences of his own, but rather than write about them in an autobiographical way, he used them in his fiction eg. “The Screwtape Letters”.

 

[LiseTravis]

Did you end up getting out of your car again to call someone to pick you up??

I sat in my car with the doors locked, praying somewhat in coherently, until a trooper stopped to help me. I think I waited about an hour & no one bothered me during that time. I felt safer in my car, since people were driving by. When I was walking, there were woods on my left, so I could have been grabbed more easily than from my car. (i guess- keep in mind I don't know if this was real or not.)

 

[Miriam1947]

I have had sleep paralysis twice in my life. Conveniently, they were both as I was converting.

I used to get it all the time when I was a kid. I even would fall in bed. Weird, weird feeling.

Absolutely helpless.

 

[Justicia_et_Pax]

I have heard and felt demonic presences on separate occasions. (I have never seen a demon.) In February 2010, I was in my college chapel rehearsing Satan’s scene from a medieval mystery play cycle when I heard (with my ears. Sometimes I just sense or hear presences but within my head. Arguably psychosis) very loud, overwhelming demonic whisperings booming around the chapel ceiling. Due to the context, I was certain it was Satanic and that it was trying to drive me out of the chapel and terrify me into not doing the plays (a God-given mission, so I feel). The whisperings were in a sinister-sounding language that I could not understand… rather like Harry Potter Parseltongue.

On Maundy Thursday 2011, I felt an invisible force grab my head from behind and force it down as I was preparing to kneel. It was quite frightening

These could, of course, be part of my illness but I don’t personally think they were. My psychiatrist does believe that there is a spiritual element to what I have experienced over the last few years and my confessor believes I am sensitive to the supernatural

 

[po18guy]

Yes, during the second night in the hospital during my first chemo rounds. Could actually see things out of the corner of my eyes. I wasn’t religous at the time.

Yes. The dark shapes that run along the floor or the walls and “melt” into corners. Always just faster than your eye can catch. Even though they are intended to discourage you, they often have the opposite effect - evidence of God’s grace working in your life.