I'm not going to lie to you, a combination of disinterest, procrastination and rising interest elsewhere is what accounted for my disappearance from this club. Aside from that I have been fine. I haven't been actively seeking out spirits like you brave people, but rather searching the corners of the television and internet expanding my knowledge of the spiritual realms. Let this be my re-introductory post back into the crew. It is a rather long piece on my favorite paranormal activity. That's actually a bit misleading, the word favorite, because I really am not very fond of any spirits whatsoever. But these types of spirits are the ones that frighten me the worst, and are without a doubt the most dangerous spirits you can run across. They are the demonic.
Demonic spirits, or just demons if you will, are very very real. Presumably they are from Satan's hell, the one that is all fire and brimstone, a place for the inherently evil, a place separate from true hell, a limbo in which human ghosts wander aimlessly, lost from God. At least that is what I believe, and it is respectively mine. Should you believe something different, I haven't a problem with it, as honestly these are just beliefs and not facts. We don't know. What is a fact is that there are things not of this world, paranormal creatures that seem to have one purpose, torture and destroy humanity. They have strange abilities and seem to be devoid of substance, a dark being of no physical form, manipulating the material world to cause suffering to all who cross their paths. they draw their power from both a place of unreality and, of course, from you.
Demons are negative beings, and as such they can draw strength from any negative energy. This is created by certain emotions, depression, anger, frustration, fear, they all create the energy that demons feed off of. You can feel it, I'm sure we all have at some point. The heaviness in the air, the apprehension, that sense of being out of place, that uncomfortable wind in the air. When do you experience this purely negative vibe from the environment? When somebody is fighting, when somebody is crying, when somebody is hating and someone is being hated. This, quite literally, fuels the fires of the demonic, the more energy they can get the more powerful they're manifestations are likely to be. They gain from negativity and cause negativity. That is why they are so tricky to deal with.
Do you ever see an angry priest? Perhaps, but when is that priest a good priest? He isn't, because an angry priest, a priest of hatred is a priest of negativity. Do you ever see a happy bully? A person who enjoys life and still seeks to cause harm to others? Perhaps, but then again there are always exceptions. What I'm getting at is that fighting fire with fire just makes a bigger fire, and in no case is this more true than when it is with spirits that wish to cause harm, especially demons. To be angry at them, to seek them out and to try and force them out of your home with hatred is futile. An exorcism isn't God raining down his rage on Satan, it is filling a person or place filled with demonic spirits with positive energy. You know that feeling you get in an environment? That feeling of relaxation, peace and warmth? That is positive energy, and it is given off by happiness and love, the feelings Jesus Christ himself tried to spread to all men. They are the most powerful emotions a person can feel, and only through positive energy can a demon be combated.
Some time ago someone posted a link to a video on youtube about a man who was possessed by demons, I watched it and only now do I understand how he was saved. A women, a single person who wasn't officially affiliated with the church, drove multiple evil spirits from this poor man's body with the simple words "In Jesus's name leave". Was it because she was hateful and angry at the spirits? No, it was because of her love for the man, and that positive energy forced them from his body. Homes that are generally positive in nature, with no drama in their families and no hateful people living there, are in general a lot safer from evil spirits. Being faithful is not just parading around with a bible and yelling heathen at anyone who thinks differently, it is being a good person, a person of positive energy. That is why an angry priest is a bad one. He may know the bible like the back of his hand, but it is his anger and hatred that ruins him.
But there are ways that they can find there way in. Demons are complicated, and can find many ways into a home of even positive energy, a home where the people are even faithful to Christ, or are perhaps Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or are followers of Native American beliefs. Love is not picky, but it can be hindered when those who seek it are lead astray. What I mean by this is that in the home of the faithful certain objects can, in fact, offset their own positive energy. Say I had a home and covered it with objects of Christianity, but I go on a trip to New Orleans and bring back a voodoo doll. That object would actually bring a negative aura into my home, not because I am no longer faithful, but because it is a symbol of a strange deity. Even a religion of positive energy such as Buddhism can do this to my home. A Buddha statue would do the same, as would a satanic pentagram (Yes, there's a difference between the satanic pentagram, used in curses and summonings, and the good pentagram, which represents the wounds of Christ.)
Though voodoo is a negative religion, often known to be entangled in the workings of the devil, so proven by the case of the voodoo queen Marie Laveaxe, whom adopted the devil baby of bourbon street in the French Quarter, it is not the fact that it is voodoo that brings the interruption of the home's positive energy, it is the violation of the commandments. Strange idols of odd gods brought before Christ, a sin, and sins are obviously negative. This alone may provide a foothold for demons to enter the home, but if one is knowledgeable and careful about what one brings into their home, they can present a hard point for darkness to pierce, and this is where we come into the next subject. Demonic infestation.
A demon is intelligent, a cunning and devious creature, and is known to disguise itself as something it isn't to enter the home. They are given a fair bit of power when invited into a home, and need permission to do some of their most powerful manifestations. I am reminded of the story of a boy who met a young ghost child in his backyard, the boy named man. He invited man into the home, and then man showed his true colors. If you read the story on my link earlier you will have a prime example of demonic infestation. It will play on your positive energies, your sympathy and pity, and attempt to garner acknowledgment and a permission to enter your home. Once it is well entrenched, it will then proceed to attempt to possess someone. Beyond this, a demon is very troublesome. They can teleport objects, physically harm people, wreck up rooms and break objects. Haunted dolls are seldom haunted, but rather just used as tools of some spirit, though an exception may be that of Robert the doll. That is for another story.
My point is, never trust a spirit because you simply don't know. They are known to target people with psychic abilities, or those who use Ouija boards. For your own sake, it is suggested you use neither and never try and contact a spirit, but if you must be wary of what you've been told. The demon's powers are deadly, possessed people are known to kill themselves. Cars of those targeted by a demon are known to stall out. The worst part is demons aren't' tied to a particular property, there is no running from a demon. My only suggestion is to nip it in the butt before it becomes a major threat, hit it with positive energy or whatever ritual your particular religion uses to dispel such spirits on your own while it's still small, otherwise professional help maybe required. They are real, they are dangerous. The fact that almost all religions have some way of dealing with them is testament to that. Good to be back guys.