![]() Psychotherapist Elsa First warns that cultivating ASCs may result in a “permanent alienation from ordinary human attachments.” Medium Wanda Sue Parrott also notes the ease with which psychics may lose a grip on reality: Ludwig points out, “As a person enters or is in an ASC, he often experiences fear of losing his grip on reality and losing his self-control.” Of course, psychic and occult practices characteristically induce altered state of consciousness and this in itself poses risks. ![]() And a lot of them have become paranoid psychotics.”Īlice McDowell Pempel of Cornell University delivered another paper on the consequences of drug-induced altered state of consciousness (ASC), and noted the “possibility for madness is ever present” if those who meet up with monsters and demons in these states view them as real. He warned that “participation in the occult is dangerous for persons who are the most interested in it because they are the least able to turn it on and off…. Moore, a psychologist of religion at Chicago Theological Seminary, observed that there are “haunting parallels” between the paranoid schizophrenic and the deeply involved occultist. In a paper delivered before the symposium, Roger L. Scott Rogo warned, “The types of negative reactions people initially have to their psychic experiences may lead to permanent psychological damage if not immediately treated.” Rogo further observes that three of the most typical negative reactions to having a psychic encounter are 1) alienation from social relationships, 2) fear of impending insanity, and 3) a morbid preoccupation with psychic experiences.Ī four-day symposium of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the American School of Oriental Research also noted the dangers of the occult in relation to mental health. In “Mental Health Needs and the Psychic Community,” the late psychic researcher D. Koch refers to a New Zealand psychiatrist who “claims that 50% of the neurotics being treated in the clinics in Hamilton are the fruit of Maori sorcery.” He also says he knows of Christian psychiatrists who believe that sometimes over half of the inmates at their psychiatric clinics are sufferings from occult oppression rather than mental illness, but that this occurs only in areas where occultism is extensively practices. There’s no doubt about that.” Occultists and their victims frequently end up in mental institutions when the experiences they have encountered push them over the edge. Some people have been psychologically damaged by it. Jeffrey Russell of the University of California at Santa Barbara observes, “Satanism… has had a great effect on people of unsound mind. Mediums and other channelers, for example, are often known to have psychological disturbances so are psychics, witches, and Satanists. I will provide more evidence to support the idea demons can be behind mental illness from the book The Coming Darkness (emphasis in bold mine): ![]() Meanwhile, satan’s kingdom laughs as the enemy operates undetected. There are many people plagued with mental illness but never cured because the world of science, at least in large part, doesn’t believe in the spiritual realm. ![]() The demons need to be cast out! And that can only be done by the name and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. What is the benefit to know demons can be behind mental illness? If it is fundamentally a spiritual issue then no doctor or medication can cure such a person with mental illness. In fact, some whom I have prayed for were once hospitalized because of mental health issues, but when prayed for found relief as demons were expelled. Some people were so heavily attacked they feared they would end up in a psychiatric hospital. The demons inside the person confessed by duress, when prayed against by the name and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, that their name or function was to cause mental illness. Some were on the verge of completely losing their mind or having a mental breakdown because of the demons. They likely would have been diagnosed with mental illness. However, in my experience with praying for deliverance for people, I have come across cases where people were vexed by demons that targeted and attacked the mind, some who unwittingly opened the doors to them by the use of drugs, various New Age/Occult practices, or something else. It must be emphasized that I am not saying every person deemed to have a mental illness is attributed to demons.
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