Paranormal War Part 2

Spiritual warfare was a popular pastime in my church growing up, but it never really addressed it in reality. Is humanity stuck in the middle of paranormal war? It appears so. 

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In a moment when Catherine could only watch and hear, but couldn't move or even think clearly, she witnessed this apparition go inside of Sam. Welcome back to One Mean Ratio. And so far this season, I have been building an argument for what I call the full spectrum reality, normal, paranormal existence, where the physical reality and the non-physical reality are not two separate worlds, but one connected uh reality. We see the visible world, we observe the physical, but we live in all reality, and this non-physical world also affects us. We are affected also by intelligent forces that do not function in our uh ordinary physical way. Up to this point, I have focused mainly on my own experience or uh events I personally witnessed for a reason. I can't deny anything I've experienced. So therefore, um I must make sense of it. And these micro level events in my life, uh my story and Betty's story, um, they began to expose uh a pattern to me very you know early in life, let's see, and which in keeping with my timeline would be about senior in high school now, uh, where I came in contact with Catherine and Sam. And their story had repeated these patterns, um, which exposed for me a more formal mackerel picture of strategy. The paranormal is not merely strange activity. Uh in these accounts, it behaves. Uh the paranormal is not just you know random non-physical entities bumping into things on their way to somewhere. No, these in intelligence interacts and they adapt and uh they escalate, meaning they react. But most of all, they seek influence. Ultimately, it suggests a kingdom structure, a uh a governing structure, uh uh a system existing, uh working together to influence. So seeking what? Well, in our what I've seen, they're seeking access to human lives through consent, uh obsession, fear, deception, and submission. What are they after? They're mining authority. So far, in my storyline, I have found that they need permission for us to control us. We therefore have authority over ourselves, and that is what they seem to be mining for. The long short story that brought me to Catherine was this. I had a reputation school for being a serious Christian, and I also had very bad learning habits. I would like to submit the poltergeist home life as a reason for that, but either way, I spent a lot of time in study classes, you know, on the special program, sure stuff, along with uh, you know, the regular meetings and and appointments of the school psychologist. And her name was Laura. Over time, Laura and I became friends. She was a um, she was very good. Uh of all the ones I had to know, she was she was the best school psychologist and therapist, and the only one for this school population of close to about 3,000 students is huge. For me, she did a lot with identifying my learning blocks and exposed to me my actually my own learning methods that I inadvertently developed but never capitalized on. In fact, I do do this today with my students. I I kind of stole that from her as a as an academic coach and teacher. Um so thanks Laura for that. And oddly enough, for this story, I never told her about the haunted house. I I didn't actually tell anyone, and not even my girlfriend next to time. Uh Laura was small, uh, she was about four foot nothing, tiny, and she was Irish and fully embraced both. So her office theme was, of course, leprechauns everywhere. And and over the door was a big bold sign that said, power to the little people. And well, obviously, someone else had to help or put it up there. Well, okay, so one day, this was near the end of the first period, my teacher got a slip uh calling me to Laura's office. That was not really unusual, except for me, I thought I'm not scheduled for anything with her. When I arrived, she immediately excused her work study student to do some tasks out of the office and began to talk to me as though we had some pre-scheduled session, which I must have forgotten and just kind of okay. But she was watching her work student leave, and as soon as as the extra ears left the room, she didn't change tone and then told me the real reason she had called me. She told me she just met with a student and was pretty shaken up about it, but she could not legally reveal what that student said, and she herself could not help her legally. So she simply told the girl that she knew a student who could help her, and then asked me, Could you talk to her? And then I then she added a little more detail. When I talk to the student, Laura will have to leave the office. She was setting up a clandestine meeting. So obviously this was kind of cryptic. It's like, okay. And she gave me no real explanation or even any useful clues, but I said, Alright. So later that day, right after the second bell for English class, Laura walked in, uh, handed my teacher a slip and immediately signaled for me to follow her. She didn't even wait for the teacher to respond or even to read it. She just wanted me to let's go. I grabbed my things and followed her out. Kind of the kind of the whole class was watched a little bit, confused. What's going on? On my way, Laura finally gave me something. This was spiritual. Um that was why she could not address it directly. And knowing that I was a Christian, this might be something I can I can help with. So when we reached the office, she squeezed my arm and just kept walking. Like, good luck. And I entered the office. Her work study student was gone. And so I entered the counseling room. Um behind the table sat Catherine. She's a sophomore. At first glance, she clearly wore the I love satin attire, you know, the black, you know, the death stuff and hate, the makeup accentuating the rough edges. Um I introduced myself and I sat down, and she gave me her name and told me that Laura wanted her to tell me her situation, her story. Catherine and her friend Samantha, Sam, had been involved with a small satanic coven, basically a high-level version of one. For a while, they would camp out at Sam's backyard with a little television, snacks, and a Ouija board. They were dabbling in witchcraft outside their parents' view. After a while, they got bored. The game was not enough anymore. They wanted something real. They wanted to see a demon. So they asked the board. The board responded with a name. Immediately, the little television turned on by itself, full of static noise. Then, through the static, a male voice came through saying the same name. The tent filled with this heavy presence and dread. Not ordinary fear, a thick, electrified fear. Catherine shut off the TV quick, but the night was not silent. They heard someone walking around the tent. Then it stopped. It just stood there. Catherine and Sam clung to each other and did not make a sound. They could hear it breathing, as if it was waiting for them to speak. But they would not move, they would not answer. Then, as suddenly as it came, it was gone. The night sounds returned. The oppressive dread they had felt this heaviness was gone. The night was ordinary again. Crawling up to the tent, Sam peeked out, and seeing nothing, she and Catherine ran to the house and into Sam's room. This first event should have ended everything, but it didn't. After a few days, fear turned into fascination. They talked about it until it became exciting, even funny. Then they made a terrible decision to do it again. This time, when they used the board, the presence came immediately, as if it had never left. They continued this over several nights, and the more they engaged, the more the activity intensified, came closer. Eventually, they did not need the board at all. The presence began appearing in their dreams. It presented itself as an attractive humanoid form and drew them into this obsession to be polite. Sam, especially, became attracted to it. I want to name the pattern plainly. This obviously was some sort of grooming. It began as curiosity shifted into fear, softened, you know, into fascination, and then kind of escalated into attachment and control. Catherine described a terrifying episode in the tent where the apparition manifested now inside the tent. And I'm not going to repeat the explicit details she gave me. But they stopped relations with it and then stuck attacked. Catherine said she felt herself go through shock of sorts. She can see and hear, but she went completely numb. Like she was no longer in control or even in her body. All she could do was sit, listen, and watch Sam get attacked. In a moment when Catherine could only watch and hear, but couldn't move or even think clearly, she witnessed this apparition go inside of Sam. Catherine said, Sam said something, and it went into her. Sam immediately screamed, uh, trying to get away, but couldn't. So she grabbed Catherine's arm, but Catherine felt like she was in a haze. She could see, she was present in here, but her brain wasn't activating what was going on. And so Sam just kept shaking Catherine, who she just stared at Sam, telling her that she felt it inside of her. And so slowly, Catherine was coming to and with that strength, the little she had, she started to move with Sam to get out of the tent. And when they're finally out of the tent, she regained all her senses and leaving their clothes behind, just ran inside and back inside Sam's room. Yet it did not stay outside. It came with them. Objects began to move in Sam's room and more. The terror continued for hours. And then it just ended. And Catherine was adamant that the demon went into Sam and that Sam was in immediate danger. Have you ever agreed to do something like a job and then realized too late that you had no idea what you were doing? Yeah. That was me in the office. I kept my composure. I did not panic. I I did not roll my eyes. Uh I I doubted nothing she said out loud. Um and honestly, I I used all my drama class skills to bear. The last thing Catherine needed was uh uh somebody else, uh, freaking out in front of her. Um she believed Sam was in danger, and she was desperate for for somebody to tell her what to do to help. So I told her the only thing I knew to tell her, um stop what you're doing, turn to Jesus Christ, and and get into scripture. And I prayed for Catherine and I prayed for Sam and I asked her if she'd like to have a Bible, and then I said uh um you should bring Sam to Laura's office so I could talk to her directly. So uh uh Catherine um was nervous about the Bible um because of her friends. She was well, actually her friends turn out to be her occult group. Um they were always around her, and she kind of feared that they would hurt her or that her demon would find out and hurt her. So she she was in some sort of trepidation. But later I I did buy her that Bible and I printed her little name on it. And uh but I secretly passed it to her during uh between classes where we would actually interact. We can we pass each other in classes, so I kind of slipped it to her as a contraband so her friends never caught on. Since I was already known as a Christian kid, so they hated me by default, so that would have been suspicious. So uh but after the meeting, after Catherine left, Laura came back in. She had returned and she had been up front area pretending to work while listening and waiting. Uh she talked briefly to Catherine and asked her to bring Sam. Then Catherine left. Then Laura looked at me and basically said, see what I mean? And I'm sure I looked like I aged like several years in one afternoon. Um I had already been through kind of a really intense situation before, um uh and intervening with a friend from church who was suicidal, uh uh who had a very um dramatic story. Um not just simple, not just simple suicide. She had a um she was a child prostitute, we'll go that way, and she wanted out any way she could. I I thought that was the biggest challenge of my youth life at the time. Now I was standing in Laura's office wondering if she actually chose the wrong person. And yeah, little doubt. But I also knew we had to meet Sam. It took time. Catherine came back more than once without Sam. So I'd come in and and I'd see Catherine, not Sam. And she said she that the demon demon knew what was happening, and she said it was after them, and she was frightened, um, clearly unstable, and beginning to talk as if like death was the only way that is gonna stop this torment. At one point, honestly, I began to wonder if Sam even existed, if there was any truth to the story, or it's just Catherine just making it all up, and so I just kept pressing. Um, I mean, honestly, the story was out there, and I won't lie. I mean, it's like really though. So um, I don't know how to take it. Neither did neither did Laura. Is this a psychological crisis? Was I being pulled into something I didn't understand? So I just kept pressing. Finally, I didn't say force, but I made her agree to bring her. A day after my last meeting with Captain, I got another slip. And when I arrived, Laura left the room as usual as I entered, and Sam was finally there, sitting on the other side of the table. She was real. She was not what I expected, though. Um, Catherine looked uh, you know, with her. I love satin attire. Catherine looked rough. She was, you know, at this time she's cutting herself, and so she just she looked rough. But uh Sam looked normal or ordinary. You know, she was acute, uh short, quiet, nervous. Uh obviously she was embarrassed here. She did not fit the profile, um, not at all what I expected. So I started I started right off telling her I knew what was going on, um, and Catherine cared about her and and she was friends with my me and and that uh we needed to talk about this demon. I mean, put it right out there. And as uncomfortable as it was, I also repeated everything Catherine told me. I think I just needed to distinguish fact from fabrication. I needed to get this this story, like, is it really happening? Did it did you really did this thing really do this to you? I mean, I just need to know. And she confirmed it all. All of it. And so, okay. Well, um, toward the end of this conversation, the room changed. I felt something I knew too well for my haunted home life. Uh, a charge seemed to build in the air, coming from behind me, and as though someone had just walked in. And this cold presence slowly kind of made its way around the table, and the hairs of my arms stood up, and and fear entered the space like a presence, if you know, and and Sam felt it too. So there's no denying it. This thing was making itself known. So I told Sam we need to pray right now, and she agreed. So she bowed her head, and I began to pray against this spirit. And I did close my eyes though. I had because I really had no idea what was about to happen. But as I as I prayed, Sam's posture changed. Not like uh jolted or anything, but just kind of like the smooth transition from one state to another. Then came this growl. And it sounded like it was coming from her, but um I'm not sure. Her mouth was closed, and then her eyes slowly opened with a fixed stare on mine. And but as Sam, or just dang, was lifting up her head to speak, I got the ferocious courage I'd been having with this with these dings, and and before it could get one word out, I commanded it to shut up in Jesus' name. I was pissed, furious. Then it stopped. It's gone. Everything gone. It left. And Sam kind of startled in her chair. I kind of shook at my own, um, kind of shocked at what just happened. The room was normal again. Um, one second had been cold, the next it was normal. Um, so I prayed with her again and kept my voice steady. Outwardly, I was able to kind of maintain my stoic position. You know, I was uh I was in control, kinda, you know, but inside I was uh curled up in a fetal position, screaming like a pre-pudescent boy, you know? So but the key here, the key issue here was authority. I am nothing, honestly. I mean, I'm a student with no experience and and half a brain of nothing, just mush. The entity was not reacting to my ferocious courage, and um and obviously it was it by confidence or my maturity or education or experience or my good looks or whatever. Whatever charm. It responded to the authority of Jesus. Just as had happened with my mom from the episode Normal Paranormal. It happened here. By then, um, once when we ended, lunch had already begun, and Sam and Laura had a quick chat as I grabbed my things and then I headed out uh to the front lawn to actually go hunt down where my Christian group was gathering. And uh so as I walked up, uh Cindy saw me first and asked if I was okay. And she's like concerned. And then Chad and Ron saw me and asked me the same thing. I said, Dude, are you all right? I just tried playing it off. I'm like, yeah, man, I'm fine. What's up? But yeah, there was no hiding it. It was like white, and then I was gonna throw up. I'd be like, I think I'm going to vomit, I guess. I had not felt scared at all in the room. In fact, I was fine until I got outside, and that shock just hit me just all at once. I was like, could do anything to do to walk. So I actually sat down. I was like, wow. So I told him what had happened. I told him about Catherine and Sam, the prayer, the growl, and this the that sudden release. So Cindy and Chad Ron, uh, without a second thought, just started praying over me and then and then prayed for the two girls. And oh my gosh. Um, yeah, up to this point in my life, I had never had friends like that. So I can't do justice explaining how important that was for me. This I still want friends like that, but you know, who could who would who would literally say, hey, dude, let's let's sit down. You know, brothers in arms here. Uh it's oh I'm not I'm not gonna be able to explain it well, but um it was nice. It was nice. Later, uh Catherine found me and and and thanked me, and then she invited me to go visit her coven, their little coven hideout. I think she wanted out, but she didn't know how to get out. And so she thought, oh, I know. Oh, have him come with me. Look what he did for Sham. Do this for me now. Uh I did. I said, okay, sure, I'll come, whatever. So I told dad to Chad and Ron, and they refused to let me go alone. And of course, that story is on the uh is in the last episode when he heard that. But what surprised all three of us was that the on the counter is the man leading the group. He was a he was not a student. He obviously was older. He might have been in his 20s. Um but he was connected to another coven in San Jose and functioning almost kind of like a youth group leader for devil worshippers. So that changed how I saw the situation. There, the these were not merely curious teens kind of doing dark role play. There appeared to be coordination, uh, recruitment, uh, structure, instruction, all that stuff. And at the time, Chad, Ron, and I wanted to do more after that happened. So, and we wanted to find others caught in the same thing, you know, to help them out. And I was also talking to a police friend of mine who investigated occult crimes about that event. Um, but even then I was I was still not thinking in terms of a macro strategy, um, so to speak. I mean, I saw that, well, there's some connection, that's weird. I was still kind of seeing this as like pest control, you know, uh, and we wanted to be exterminators, you know, Ghostbusters. That did not turn out well. One thing in particular the high priest wants to make you aware of. No one has ever gotten out of our secret society alive. You and I were brought into it by special workings of the spirits, and we are to be in subjection to them, not they, to us. This is a short segment from the book Charmed by Darkness by Roger Monot, who wrote this book later in his life after writing several books on his prayer ministry. He was not a pastor, he was just a simple phone book salesman from Montreal, Canada, who found his way out of the jaws of the devil. And this book was written um as his way to give the full spectrum story. Up until then, his own children had no idea about his past. It was 1945, and he was being initiated into this devil-worshipping secret society. That's their words, not Roger's. After only three days, he and his friends had finally been given the opportunity to tour the worship room of the gods. Ironically enough, that uh what their high priest told Roger and his friend during this tour provides more insight into my point about the macro level, about the full spectrum paranormal story. They met locally at a very expensive house uh that they were using as their kind of lodge, so to speak. It was very much the 1930s gentlemen's club full of uh, you know, the best and your finest furniture and decor. The members surprised Roger. He, like I, would have assumed these people to be kind of tough looking characters, uh, but they were not. They were some of the greatest and most successful people of Montreal. Doctors, politicians, business owners, uh jazz musicians, uh pillars of the community, uh philanthropists even. They talked of Satan, the devil, in much the same way a Christian would talk about Jesus. They viewed the devil as being more like Prometheus, the Greek god of fire, and his story was that he brought the knowledge of fire to man and was condemned by Zeus for it, bound to suffer for his rebellion against the gods to help mankind. So they viewed Yehovah and Jesus as those tyrants of heaven and devil as their savior, calling him God with us. That's what it's quoted. Unlike God, though, the powers of these spirits are not gifted to the individual, but the individual must rely entirely on the support of the spirit. In other words, they gain nothing personally for it. In one conversation, Roger was being told about how a member's power of hypnotism would be used for such good as he viewed it. He quotes The spirits have benefited the lives of multitude of people through that means, and in doing so have made them dependent on the continual support of spirit power, which will at the same time establish them as permanent members of the Master's kingdom. It is wonderful that spirits can operate so effectively in the lives of millions without being detected. End quote. And in the same uh well-known doctor was also a member, um and he had a had a reputation of healing his patients, having the power of healing his patients, which he did through the powers of his spirit, of which he had um was giving worship in exchange. Those patients also now relied on the powers of that spirit for their continued health, unknowingly. He quotes the priest. Nothing is as intriguing to the spirits as to devise ways of causing humans to walk in a direction that will make them members of Satan's coming kingdom. So Roger and his friend walked were walking slowly through the um worship room of the gods as the priest described the various altars and the paintings, explaining that demon spirits are in reality specialists in various fields of activity, that they are engaged in a fierce conflict for the control of the minds of the people against the forces from above. And Roland, Roger's friend, was uh curious about this and then asked about uh why so much effort was being put uh by demon spirits in deceiving humans. The high priest stated that everyone who can be made to disqualify oneself from being a member of Christ's kingdom automatically becomes a member of Satan's great kingdom. Which I don't think is true. He then talked about how Satan's kingdom would be established on earth and how those who serve the devil would be resurrected from the death to back to life to serve him. This in fact is what scripture says about Jesus, not the devil, which he's using for his own kingdom building. In fact, Roger quotes him saying, After it became known that the great rebel Christ would come to his pl to this planet, taking the nature of man to draw all men to himself, our master and his chief counselors decided to follow a strategy similar to the one that had enabled them to acquire their new dominion. This course of action would demand great diligence on the part of all demon spirits in the counseling of humans to rule their lives in a way to disqualify them from becoming members of Christ's kingdom. The spirit's work would be to cause people to rule their lives by listening to their feelings instead of the word of Christ and his prophets. In no sure way could demon spirits obtain control of people's lives without individuals realizing that it is so. In this way, all kinds of erroneous doctrines and ideas could be suggested by spirits, and humans would readily accept them because they felt strongly about them, regardless of what others would say about it. This strategy feelings best explains what happens next in Chad, Ron, and I's life. Right after we dissolved this high school coven, we fell hard into that trap. I call that the demon's counterattack. And that'll be next time on one mean ratio. Thanks for listening. We've got to protect you.