christopher-m:
I’ve heard it said that the best trick the devil can play on human beings is to convince them that he doesn’t exist. That way, he can work his insidious trickery unhindered. I personally believe that the devil is very real indeed, especially as taught by the Catholic Church! However, what can one say to someone who doesn’t believe in the devil’s existence? I don’t overemphasize or dwell on the matter too much, because that’s spiritually unhelathy, but I think to deny the evil one’s existence is even worse.
Wishing the Peace of Christ to all!
Hi, friend.
I’m an attorney, and I used to do criminal cases – about 2,000 altogether, the PDs Office, told me.
Most criminals have drug abuse somewhere in their rap sheet, these days. And most of the drug abusers were a lot worse than the rap sheet lets on.
And many of those abusers mixed drug abuse with sex. Drugs are an enabler. They let the unregulated “id” loose, in the sex department. The abusers, in other words, get pretty “perverted,” sexually – the worst stuff you can imagine.
So, many, many people today, by mixing drug addiction and perverted sex, achieve profound personal corruption.
In interviewing hundreds of criminal clients, I discovered years ago that regardless of the drug of choice, many of these “drug/sex mixers” have essentially the same experiences of demonic activity: Almost always at night in the dark, they hear knocking in the walls, clicking in the air near them, they hear their first name called by a voice from an invisible source sounding like it belongs to the opposite sex, and chirping in the air above their heads when they go outside and go for a walk in the dark.
Many also have their limbs grabbed, they are hit on the hip as they lay in bed, and they hear growling in the air near their beds.
They also experience telekinetic phenomena – mostly, electrical appliances turning on and off spontaneously.
I got so good at predicting which clients experienced such things, just by viewing their rap sheets, that I was able to astonish them by appearing to know something about their “best kept secret” – few told even their closest acquaintances about the phenomena, for fear of appearing insane.
I advised them to experiment with prayer. Experiencers who did uniformly reported positive results – for example, the knocking in the wall would abate, even if the praqyer was only mental.
After much reading, I noticed that the experiencers, when they mixed drugs and sex, were actually unwittingly following “the dark way” of the occult – regarded by evil occultists as the short cut to contact with spiritual realms. I suspect that the short cut always leads to contact with demonic spirits – it is completely self-indulgent and faithless.
In any event, yes, there are demons – I saw way, WAY too much evidence, during years of criminal work, for the opposite to be true.
Tell you skeptical friend to ask one or more drug-using acquaintances if they have experienced any of the phenomena I have listed above. If he runs across an experiencer, that experienced will think he’s a mind-reader.
Have no doubt, at all, that the phenomena I describe is demonic.
My theory is that just as personal holiness confers holiness on relics, profound personal sinfulness “dirties” one’s environment and makes it “visible” and non-repugnant to evil spirits.