I had the opportunity to see Paranormal Activity on the night of October 31st, and this opportunity gave me few ideas for articles, this is the first of these articles. I don’t want to talk about the movie itself, but about one of the characters – Micah, the “teaser”. Because this is what he did in the movie, he teased the demon. Or should I say “he fucked with the demon“?

Well, yes – “fucked” is a good word here. The movie itself is a paranormal fiction, but the story told by creators is happening all over the time in different places of the world, I want to discuss the attitude of Micah, as he and his attitude is representing countless people on the globe.

What Micah did? With simple words, he played with fire. He didn’t know what he’s dealing with and he tried to be a hero. Be trying to “fix the problem” on his own he teased the demon and it didn’t end very well (I won’t get into details if you haven’t see the movie yet). He gave the demon orders, he cursed it, and in some ways he invited the entity for more and more activity. I came up with cool phrase because of this:

There is a reason why I’m a demonologist, and you’re just an idiot…

Yep :). People do not become demonologists without good reasons, and more than that, they’re called demonologists for a reason. I’m not a demonologist myself yet, but I see the demonologist’ perspective: what Micah did in the movie is like playing doctor – he read few books and he think he’s an expert who can treat his illness by himself. Well, he couldn’t :P. Reading books is not enough – gaining knowledge by reading books and experience by for example visiting haunted places and working with spirits and negs is something that is required to become an expert. It’s cool to know A and B, but it won’t be any helpful if you won’t learn the interaction between A and B.

Guide-to for users

Whenever you encounter any form of paranormal activity, don’t try to study it on your own – call the experts as trying to become an expert on your own in a couple of hours isn’t very smart (not mentioning it’s not possible). Don’t tease the beings that might hide inside your home, don’t curse them, don’t order them and finally, don’t invite them for more activity i.e. by using ouija board or asking for more activity – it might not end well especially if you have a demon.

The evil is feeding on fear – fear generates tons of psychic energies, negs and demons feeds on these energies, by this they get more energy to do even more scary things. Demons aren’t here just to scare you, making you afraid is they’re way of gaining strength in order to achieve their goal – and God one knows what this goal is. If you have paranormal activity in your house, call up paranormal investigators, a psychic or a demonologist, or even an occultist, a witch or a shaman – they can help, you can’t help yourself, and know that – trying to help yourself or someone else without knowing how-to will be just stupid. So please, don’t do this…

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