I already talked about Paranormal Activity, in previous article I mentioned that although it’s a nice watchable movie, it’s still based on fictional story, promoted as “based on real story”, even so things we’ve seen in Paranormal Activity are a great example of demonic haunting and I will use the movie as the very first case study on A State of Mind.

The beginning…

(WARNING: movie spoilers ahead, harsh language will apply) At first we’re learning that Katie and Micah are hearing voices during the night, like scratches and footsteps – very first weird phenomena we can mistake with simple intelligent haunting by earthbound spirit. The phenomena could be ignored by the couple but… Katie was afraid of it, and Micah was fascinated, both of them begun to generate energies the yet-unknown entity used to gain some strength – to a moment when it was able to move the door.

The following events are based on this simple model:

model of demonic haunting

Luring the couple to a photo, or pulling out Katie out of bed was meant to scare her, and generate more and more energies of fear, while burned ouija board was targeted to Micah and his sick fascination by the phenomena.

… of an end

All of this (and more) lead to moment when the entity, now surely some kind of a demon, took control over Katie’s body for the first time. It was a signal for Micah that he should stay away - but he couldn’t, he was so fascinated by the weird things going on he couldn’t resist again playing with ouija, not mentioning he kept shooting his little movie. For the demon, it was having fun at a cost of life of the couple. What was the agenda of the demon is hard to say, maybe he was taking revenge, or just a sick pleasure? I do not know the answer, nor I can speculate it, what I know is all events after taking control over Katie for the first time were leading Micah to his dead – Katie was a medium, Micah was a target, because he refused to fuck off… So he got kill.

What does this little (quite possible, yet still fictional) case study teach us? Let’s point it out:

1. Demons and Negs feeds on energies, whether these generated by fear or by sick fascination, it’s still the same. When the phenomena is first appearing, do not be afraid, and more than that, do not be afraid if the phenomena will go stronger – as it might, if the entity will find a way to feed itself from different source than your fears.
2. Never try to piss a demon up – it’s pure stupidity, like telling a religious fanatic with gun in his hand that his religion is stupid – he’ll pull the trigger as soon as he’ll be able to.
3. When the activity appears – call up an expert. In the movie, we got a psychic, which refused to help when he realised the demon was angry at him too, and he was getting more powerful each hour. Not all psychics are experts in demons, when troubles are getting more scary, contact a demonologist as soon as possible.
4. Micah triad to fix the problem on his own, but this was impossible, the man just didn’t have proper knowledge to deal with the haunting. Reading a book about types of ghosts and demons is not enough, studying the methods of dealing with such entities is a life commitment, you can’t learn things in few nights. Micah should not pretend to be an expert, nor should you – you aren’t, and if you want to be, it will take years* to become one.

Summary

Do not be afraid, do not play with fire, do not pretend to be an expert, and call an expert when you’ll need one – those are the primary things you can learn from the case study above. When dealing with Negs, it’s OK to use methods given (for example) in Bruce’s book Practical Psychic Self-Defense, but when dealing with demons – book won’t be enough, experience is needed. I just hope you will learn something from the case study above.

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* Am I an expert? I’ve seen things, I’ve been pushed and attacked by things, I’ve been learning how to deal with things for a couple of years and trust me – when I’ll encounter something more than just a Neg, I’ll call an expert :).

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