After 25 years of experience in private practice and as a professor at New York Medical College and Columbia University, and evaluating hundreds of possession cases, Dr. Richard Gallagher believes possession is real. He is also the author of Demonic Foes, A Psychiatrist Investigates Demonic Possession in the Modern United States.

Atheists laugh at the suggestion of demons being real (see the comments under the above linked article). Others think evidence of demons is nonexistent and the movie The Exorcist is merely entertainment.

The overall lack of awareness of this phenomenon might be in part because many who have done enough research to understand the concept aren’t willing to go public with it out of a fear of ridicule. It’s not surprising to us; a mention of our Spiritual Detox work, which helps to remove dark energy and lost souls, sometimes provokes savage skepticism and rudeness, usually by people who know little about the subject.

Another reason the evidence for demons or lost souls isn’t obvious at first is because such entities are good at hiding and tricking people. To make matters worse, it’s difficult to discern your thoughts from those of an attached entity. This is especially so when you aren’t even aware that entities can attach to humans, or believe the myth that it’s cosmic foo-foo.

Fortunately, the number of mental health professionals who understand that possession is real, how it can interfere with someone’s life, and even create or add to mental and emotional problems is increasing.

Dr. Gallagher is against charging for exorcisms because he claims it goes against what the Bible teaches. We disagree with this. Since depossession can be dangerous, time consuming, and mentally draining, we believe practitioners should be compensated for their time just as in any other profession.

However, we also disagree with, and view as a scam, how some “psychics” charge thousands of dollars to ”clear evil spirits” they claim are the root of a client’s problems and keeping them from gaining everything they want in life. Unfortunately, these charlatans usually don’t know how to do an effective spiritual healing even if their client was possessed.

The Vatican claims possession is increasing due to a decline in Christian faith and the increase in popularity of Satanism, black magic, and “the occult.”

While we agree that Satanism and black magic do indeed open the door to nasty entities and possession, we don’t believe all occult subjects are dangerous.

Occult means hidden knowledge, and the paranormal, and includes subjects such as astrology, numerology, tarot, and others.

These practices don’t involve spells, reciting ancient verses, or calling on questionable entities to do your bidding, all of which we strongly recommend against because they can cause possession. The only spiritual assistance we ever encourage seeking is from guides and angels of the Light and, or God, through prayer, meditation, and Spiritual Detox.

Dr. Gallagher says that possession is rare and that not all people who suspect they are possessed really are. Sometimes the problem might be schizophrenia, or from being bipolar or drug-related side effects.

We accept this, but also acknowledge some people may have those problems in addition to being possessed. Also, the problems are sometimes what opened the door to possession or attachment in the first place.

Furthermore, lost souls (whose bodies died but they didn’t go to the other side or the Light) could be causing the symptoms, and we’re not sure Dr. Gallagher looks for these potential troublemakers in addition to demons. Lost souls usually aren’t as dangerous as demons, but still can cause problems, such as addictions and depression. While demonic possession is more rare, hidden spiritual hitchhikers can be affecting up to 80% of the population.

We are grateful for the fearless work of Dr. Gallagher and others, despite the skepticism of conventional medical opinion, who are bringing this problem to light and battling the hidden dark energies that cause many problems in this world.

If you’re feeling depressed, angry, fearful, or having a tough time quitting bad habits and addictions, our Spiritual Detox™ MP3 can help. https://spiritualgrowthnow.com/spiritual-detox/

Copyright © 2018 Stephen Petullo, Scott Petullo

Neuroscientists study male and female brains to determine distinct differences but thus far arrive at no concrete conclusions.

We’re not surprised, since our findings show that, aside from biological gender, there are two distinct factors that affect how a person feels about his or her gender.

Soul Experiences Influence How One Views His or Her Gender

The soul has a lot to do with how a person views his or her gender. Putting aside the skepticism of the soul being eternal and having multiple lifetimes, consider that the theory of reincarnation has yet to be invalidated.

Our findings show that souls traverse through scores of lifetimes as male and female, and it’s common for a soul to have had far more lifetimes as one biological gender than the other.

Jackie, a 35 year-old woman whose assertiveness and drive reflect a distinct masculinity, within a potent femininity, has always found her expected female gender role a challenge. She recently experienced past life regression therapy and perceived her last dozen or more lifetimes in male bodies. We’ve seen this pattern often with gays, lesbians, and people who don’t feel comfortable with their expected gender.

Consequently, she genuinely feels like she’s a male in a female’s body, considering the body is only a temporary vehicle for the soul. It should be noted that Jackie is perfectly sane, completely lacks any psychological issues, avoids making unreasonable demands related to her situation, is exceedingly intelligent, and is an upstanding and honorable citizen. Sadly, this won’t stop some people, who don’t understand the issue, from criticizing her for being true to herself.

Although specific memory recall of past lives isn’t common, everyone carries forward feelings, fears, defenses, and energetic patterns from past lives, including sexual identity.

Jackie isn’t crazy, she’s just more aware of her spiritual heritage than most, tapping into her many past lives as a male, and simply hasn’t yet become comfortable with her female biological identity.

Additionally, on the other side, gender roles aren’t as defined because all souls there understand they can incarnate as male or female. In heaven, you’re a soul in between physical lifetimes in which you play out your dramas and lessons, and sometimes your biological gender plays an important part. So for some people who are extremely spiritually sensitive and other-dimensional (i.e., half on the other side much of the time), gender can be confusing because on the other side, they are both genders and neither.

There’s a lot of conflict generated by gender issues, and perhaps viewing the issue through a different lens may help circumstances.

Disembodied Souls Influencing Gender Sentiment

Another factor related to how a person views his or her gender, besides the often-touted “psychological issues” (and in some cases, it may be psychological) is disembodied souls influencing a person’s perception.

You’re never alone. There are always energetic forces, some positive, some dark and negative, around you. Stress, excessive alcohol or drug use, severe illness, or traumatic experiences like abuse can pry open your energetic field and make you susceptible to hitchhikers jumping on board. This means you may become host to hidden spiritual parasites, though protection prayers and Spiritual Detox sessions can help with their removal. If those energetic parasites remain on board, they can influence your thinking, especially if you’re more susceptible than average. This problem is tricky because most people don’t believe in or know about such a concept, and the harmful energies can be deeply hidden.

For example, Shirley, as a young girl, suffered an illness that required hospitalization and during that time, unknowingly took on a male disembodied soul. Shirley grew up with this entity firmly embedded in her energetic field and mistook its impressions and thoughts as her own, including the male disembodied soul’s sexual desires. The heterosexual male disembodied soul undermined Shirley’s sexual orientation because she’s highly sensitive and easily influenced. Shirley tells her family she wants to be called “James,” and identifies as the male gender.

It may be that Shirley was destined to be homosexual, this was part of the reason it was attracted to her (like attracts like), and the disembodied soul’s influence on her was part of her path. We believe such momentous life experiences, if she did in fact have a disembodied soul on board, aren’t chance.

A person identifying as a different gender makes more sense when you consider past life influences and the impact of disembodied souls on spiritually sensitive individuals. Not all people who identify as the opposite gender of their birth do so for one or both of these reasons, but we estimate that a large portion of them do.

Get in touch with your spiritual side, gain awareness of your past, present, and future, and much more with the tools and tips in the Direct Your Destiny e-package. https://spiritualgrowthnow.com/directyourdestiny/

Copyright © 2018 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

The idea associating schizophrenia with demonic possession is very controversial; modern scientific thought rejects the spiritual.

One researcher is swimming upstream against the conventional current and believes there’s a viable connection between evil spirits and mental disorders.

Turkish researcher M. Kemal Irmak contends in his research paper “Schizophrenia or Possession?” that demons, “have the power to possess humans and control their body” and that mental disorders, including hallucinations can be caused by demons.

Imagine the uproar of the established scientific community in learning about this research paper, published in an actual scientific journal. Anything supernatural, that which you can’t see or touch is ignored or ridiculed in the science world.

We concede that schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder may very well be a problem with the brain, as medical professionals assert. Kids who suffer abuse are vulnerable to the identity splitting into different personalities; nobody intends to make light of the disorder.

However, our findings show it’s very possible such disorders may also be due to, or made worse by spirit possession.

Sensitive and otherwise vulnerable individuals are targeted in the unseen dimensions by dark energies and even demons. Abused kids, and those who abuse alcohol and use drugs are magnets for sinister forces, just as unhealthy physical bodies are more susceptible to parasites.

Time and time again, spiritual depossession work illustrates this phenomenon: an individual under attack finds relief after regular, long-term, or sometimes one session of, Light work. Some cases involve mere lost souls who are hitchhiking on the host, some involve dark spirits, and rare cases include demonic forces that cause dramatic behavioral changes.

Have you ever known someone who acts completely different under the influence of alcohol, well beyond the normal effects of excess drinking? A normally peaceful person who becomes violent when drunk, for example, is a hallmark sign of demonic possession.

In addition to psychological and brain-related personality disorders, why not consider the spiritual side of the equation too? History is replete with cultures that embraced the idea that the body, mind, and spirit are all connected.

Belief in the soul, afterlife, other dimensions, and dark forces isn’t only for the gullible, as the modern science community would have you believe. A lot of brilliant people repudiate the “if you can’t see it or touch it, it’s a myth” mentality, and you don’t have to be religious to do so. In fact the majority of the world’s population believes there is more to life than just a body and brain.

The orthodox explanation of schizophrenia dictates the young person suffering tremendous abuse results in her psychological self splitting into multiple personalities. Yet this is precisely the circumstance that allows disembodied souls or even dark energy to be attracted to and join the energy field of an individual. A telltale sign of possession in this case is the person suddenly, at times, speaking with a foreign accent, or exhibiting the persona of a completely different person. It’s amusing the medical community has no reasonable explanation for this occurrence.

Another sign of possession is the subject reacting to the suggestion of a depossession with anxiety, contempt, or even anger (perhaps this is why some in the medical field react so strongly to the idea?). The lost soul, or even demonic energy “on board” doesn’t like the idea of being forced out. What the lost soul doesn’t recognize is that if they leave the host and go to the Light, they will get everything they need. Unfortunately, many lost souls, like incarnated humans, don’t believe in the afterworld and higher planes and stay stuck in the lower dimensions.

Either philosophy—the conventional or spiritual—is difficult to prove, but those suffering from personality disorders have nothing to lose by trying a depossession, though the stronger the dark forces with the person, the more likely they will find an excuse to avoid it.

If you’re feeling depressed, angry, fearful, or having a tough time quitting bad habits and addictions, our Spiritual Detox™ MP3 and our free Spiritual Detox Script can help. https://spiritualgrowthnow.com/spiritual-detox/

Copyright © 2018 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Many of the world’s religious and spiritually inclined adhere to the belief that evil forces exist. Then there are those who reject the idea.

In our experience, many individuals who doubt the existence of dark energies also reject the concepts of organized religion, God, and archangels.

The argument against the existence of evil goes something like this: Evil is an adjective, not a noun. People can be evil, but evil energy doesn’t exist outside of humans who perform evil acts.

It reads like something from a “how to strictly adhere to modern scientific thought” manual that discounts everything you can’t touch or see.

Certainly, people are capable of evil acts, and it’s next to impossible to provide physical evidence that evil forces exist. Your favorite broadcaster can’t interview evil forces, you won’t find them hanging out at your local park, and popular culture dictates evil as an individual force is mythology.

According to several on-line dictionaries, evil is both an adjective and noun. Based on our long-term metaphysical and everyday findings, we agree that demonic powers certainly do seem to exist.

We first became aware of negative forces during our college years through excess drinking. It doesn’t take the extremes portrayed in movies like the Exorcist to start acknowledging the possibility of demonic forces.

Our work with spiritual detox and depossession strongly suggests to us there is an abundance of dark energies on the other side, on the lower planes, including the following: negative essences; high and low level demonic entities; highly evolved diabolical masters; sinister energy alliances and colonies, and others.

Of course, we can’t prove any of this; it’s not possible to physically send you over to the other side temporarily to gather evidence. At the same time, when we use methods like Spiritual Detox to clear such negative energy, the incredible peaceful and uplifting feeling we experience afterwards tells us it’s much more than just imagination.

We’ve dedicated our lives to metaphysical practices that allow us to pierce the veil, and we believe it’s our duty to share our findings and to help people protect themselves from evil (and people who do evil).

Below we list ways to protect yourself from evil powers on the unseen dimensions.

1. Occasional excesses are part of the human experience, but overdoing it with drink or anything else (including sugar) on a regular basis opens your energy field up to sinister energies. All mind-altering and, or mood-enhancing drugs (both legal and illegal), favorite tools of dark energy, should be avoided at all costs.

2. Aligning yourself with demons (through black magic or other forms not of the Light), no matter how innocuous they are portrayed by spell-casters, and whether you intended to or not, puts you in danger of being corrupted by the dark side. Worse, doing so puts you at risk of endless enslavement once you leave this life.

3. A sure way to put yourself at risk is to maintain a hateful disposition. Anger, hate, envy and other negative emotions are a magnet for menacing forces. Generate as much forgiveness and compassion as possible to keep yourself safe. Of course, it’s natural to be disappointed, even angry sometimes, so make sure to express it constructively and avoid holding on to it.

4. Use your sexual energy wisely. Avoid having sex with those who maintain seriously bad habits or addictions. They are likely to be hosting disembodied souls or even demonic entities that may join you during your coupling and then stay with you. Use a Spiritual Detox script after sex if you suddenly feel off-center, depressed, or otherwise not yourself.

5. Take advantage of the help of archangels and other other-dimensional benevolent energies because they are happy to help. We understand the skepticism, because we were too, many years ago.

The feeling we get after doing a Spiritual Detox and, or protection prayer is amazing, especially after not having done one in a while. It’s a peaceful yet energized, live and let live feeling, like a huge undercurrent of relief, as if you really do get rid of menacing, invisible energy. We strongly recommend it.

Follow our advice above and you can protect yourself from heinous forces and entities in the spiritual realms.

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms…” Ephesians 6:12-16

Our FREE Spiritual Detox Script can help you get rid of dark energy.

If you’re feeling depressed, angry, fearful, or having a tough time quitting bad habits and addictions, our Spiritual Detox™ MP3 can help. https://spiritualgrowthnow.com/spiritual-detox/

Copyright © 2017 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

The first thing that comes to mind for most people after hearing the words demonic possession is the Exorcist movie, Halloween, or perhaps your in-laws.

We understand the reluctance to embrace the concept of ghosts and dark energy.

Many years ago we were unsure about the notion of demonic energy, and particularly about it influencing human behavior.

Today, we believe it’s a real epidemic that makes life’s difficulties worse, and creates additional problems for countless unsuspecting people.

Our long-term investigations into the phenomenon along with direct experience show us that it’s real, even though you can’t physically see it or touch it.

First, people deny it, just like we did. Then they’re surprised to find out that realty doesn’t end with the mundane world; there exist other, unseen dimensions that are just as important. They discover that a whole range of entities exist on the unseen planes, from benevolent guides and angels to malevolent, evil demons (even worse than that horrible neighbor of yours). Eventually, they learn to protect themselves from dark entities.

One way dark energy terrorizes people is through a significant other. Although demonic possession isn’t as common as harboring lost souls, both are serious problems and the symptoms are similar, though much worse for demonic possession.

Below we list seven signs your mate may be possessed by demons.

1. Your mate ridicules and, or denies the concept. Embedded, hidden disembodied souls, or demonic entities easily sway a host’s thinking to that of cynic.

2. Drug use and, or excessive alcohol consumption is a strong sign your mate being influenced by sinister energies. Which comes first, the drug use and, or excessive alcohol consumption, or the possession? It depends on each individual case, but you can be sure that someone who is overdoing it on a regular basis is accumulating dark energy. Addicts can have hundreds of demons and lost souls, literal colonies, within their energy field, feeding off of them and not even know it. Some appear to be under the control of their unseen masters.

3. A person who hadn’t previously used drugs or alcohol suddenly imbibing heavily like there’s no tomorrow is a hint he or she has someone onboard.

Of course, we recognize that demonic possession may not be the root cause of bad habits and addiction, but our findings show it’s much more difficult to stay sober while hosting a non-stop party of dark energy in your energy field.

4. Demonic energy can be extremely persuasive, such as through voices in one’s head, simulated sensory impressions (e.g. tasting booze and sensing the high from it, even though you’ve never imbibed), or mistaking feelings for one’s own that encourage specific behavior. Subtle coercion by sinister entities is common and shouldn’t be mistaken for a guardian angel, for example. Guides of the Light only impart encouraging, uplifting, positive messages.

5. Volatile emotions and particularly intense anger is a strong sign your mate is struggling with demons. While we recognize that vitamin and mineral deficiencies, along with hormonal imbalances, for example, can also be the physical root cause of such symptoms, extreme emotions open the door to dark energy possession.

6. A sudden shift in sexual appetites can indicate that your significant other is hosting an invisible demon party. Dramatic decreased or increased sexual desire (apart from the result of boosting one’s health through natural means) is a strong clue.

7. Depression is common with people who are hosting demons and lost souls. Regular sunshine, avoiding sugar, drugs, and processed foods, and limiting alcohol, along with getting enough sleep, can help improve moods. Regular Spiritual Detox (which you can do yourself, at no cost) helps tremendously.

You can’t control what another person does, but at least you can protect yourself. If you’re feeling irritated or angry, beyond normal circumstances or for no good reason, reading a protection script (Spiritual Detox) can do wonders.

Our FREE Spiritual Detox Script can help you get rid of dark energy.

If you’re feeling depressed, angry, fearful, or having a tough time quitting bad habits and addictions, our Spiritual Detox™ MP3 can help. https://spiritualgrowthnow.com/spiritual-detox/

Copyright © 2017 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Whenever we address the topic of demonic energy with others, we encounter one of four reactions: Disbelief, fear, contempt, or understanding.

Although you can’t see dark energy, our long-term empirical research shows us that it is as real as day turning into night every twenty-four hours.

We can understand why people don’t believe in evil energy. In our early years we, too, thought of it as the stuff in Hollywood horror movies and didn’t give it much credence.

Contempt about the topic is entirely different, and fear is commonly behind it. We can appreciate the desire to avoid mythical notions, but what you can’t see can hurt you in this case.

Below we list some things we believe everyone should know about demonic energy.

1. It’s non-discriminatory. No matter what your belief or religion, dark energy can interfere with your life and cause problems. You’re just as likely to encounter it whether you’re an atheist, Catholic, New Ager or of other spirituality.

2. The conditions that make you susceptible to evil energy include some of the following: extreme stress; depression; abusing alcohol and, or taking any sort of mind-altering drugs; sex while being in a negative frame of mind; sex while intoxicated; sex with someone who is possessed by dark energy; avoiding sunlight; lack of sleep on a regular basis; and poor nutrition.

3. We believe it’s common for demonic energy and lost souls (a different, but related matter) to be passed on from parent to child. Unfortunately, the child has little choice but to attempt to deal with the influence of the dark energy and carry it throughout life until he or she becomes aware of it and clears it away.

4. Select individuals are more susceptible to wicked energy than average if they possess a unique spiritual make-up (symbolized by their comprehensive astrology and numerology charts), including a tremendous amount of other-dimensional energy. Those with a lot of natural psychic talent, along with extreme empaths and others are part of this group. Until they regularly practice spiritual protection techniques, they struggle with psychic attacks from outside energy and even individuals who don’t realize they are conduits for harmful energy.

5. Without even realizing it, you’re capable of directing dark energy at another human being, at least to some extent, even if that person is thousands of miles away. Intense and, or regular ire directed at another person is enough to affect their energy field, and should be avoided at all costs for two reasons: It’s potentially harmful to the other person, and you get the exact amount of sinister spirit forced upon you in return, in time, due to the law of karma.

We’ve been tempted to reflect such nastiness (like we sometimes receive when we send out a controversial column) back to the source with vengeance, but this, too, invites karmic blowback. Thus, we tend to deflect it into the Light and send back peace and awareness.

6. Regular meditation will allow you to recognize your own energy compared to outside energy, thus when you’re under attack. Sometimes it’s from another human being, and other times it’s by dark forces that target you for whatever reason, such as seeing you as a threat to their overall agenda. Regularly asking Archangel Michael for protection and envisioning yourself surrounded by bright white Light is helpful to diffuse and deflect dark energy, as is exuding compassion to those who oppose you, and gratitude that you are protected.

7. What seems like negative forces sometimes isn’t. Not reaching a particular cherished goal at the time you desire may be part of your personal fate; the forces of predestination can be easily confused with demonic energy.

Our FREE Spiritual Detox Script can help you get rid of dark energy.

If you’re feeling depressed, angry, fearful, or having a tough time quitting bad habits and addictions, our Spiritual Detox™ MP3 can help. https://spiritualgrowthnow.com/spiritual-detox/

Copyright © 2017 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

After removing discarnate entities from people and places for over twenty years, it’s as natural for us to perceive them as it is for you to spot a bird in the sky. What follows is a recent example when we visited our sister.

Our sister and her family have lived in their current home, built decades ago, for eight years. During one of Stephen’s first visits, he was standing alone in the kitchen and saw someone across the room, out of the corner of his eye, at the top of the open stairway that leads to the basement level. He turned and instead of seeing one of his family members, he noticed a dark cloud of energy descending the stairs.

Our sister said she was once in her walk-in closet and heard a subtle voice laughing behind her. She turned around and no one was there, but she could feel the presence of negative energy.

Her oldest son, who is eight, was scared to sleep in his room because he said something was in there at night. That bedroom was also where the “troubled” daughter of the previous owner of the house slept. Whatever the entity was it seemed to roam the house and we sensed it had been there before my sister and her family moved in.

This past October, when we visited our sister and other family members, we slept in the finished basement. Scott had the bedroom, and Stephen slept in the open area on the couch. The morning after the first night, Scott asked Stephen if he sensed anything.

Stephen said, “Yes! And it wouldn’t leave me alone!” As soon as he turned off the light and started to go to sleep, he felt a presence standing next to him. He tried to ignore it because he was tired (he’s used to such occurrences, which are now annoying instead of scary). But he kept getting major chills up and down his body from the entity and the thing wouldn’t go away.

He tuned into it and sensed an angry, rebellious young man who died young. He also suspected drugs, and a car accident because Stephen could see impressions of blood on the man. The previous owner had four kids who grew up in the house, and the entity may have been a friend of theirs, or followed them home after partying. Stephen was finally able to fall asleep after drawing down intense white Light for protection, which kept the entity away from him.

Scott also sensed a troubled entity approach him as he was drifting off to sleep. He offered his name that started with a J–John or Joe. Scott also shooed him away with white Light.

In terms of numerology, this sort of event isn’t surprising at such an address. The home is a 22 (total) house address, which symbolizes a portal to the other side.

In addition, the neighbor’s house across the street is also a 22 address, and the house next to that one is an 11 address (plus 6 addresses on either side–6 is also a dual number), which also symbolizes a gateway to other dimensions. In effect, there’s a massive triad of other-dimensional energy among the five properties. Perhaps 2000 years ago a migrating tribe spent time on that exact spot doing tribal magic.

We did a Spiritual Detox clearing which removed a lot of spiritual clutter (which all homes have, just like dirt), but the second night we both sensed the entity still hanging around. This time Stephen sensed it hiding across the room instead of right next to him.

The next day, we knew we needed to do a more powerful clearing to get rid of the stubborn entity. This time we used our intent to bring down a larger, more powerful tornado of white Light. We sensed the entity trying to hide and stay outside of the Light, but eventually he was escorted safely to the Light by spiritual helpers of the Light.

Since then our sister hasn’t sensed anything in her home, and our nephew isn’t scared to be alone in his bedroom anymore. She told us she mentioned the clearing to her neighbor and was surprised to learn that some entities have been tormenting her, too. We told our sister to suggest to her neighbor to try our free Spiritual Detox script to clear the spiritual clutter.

Our experience and confidence from years of clearing people and homes of lost souls and negative energy makes our free Spiritual Detox script more powerful for us. But even a novice can use the script to clear spiritual clutter since It calls upon omnipotent spiritual helpers that are happy to assist when you ask. Try it here: https://spiritualgrowthnow.com/script/

Copyright © 2017 Stephen Petullo, Scott Petullo

How can you tell if someone is possessed? Does possession really happen, or is it a myth?

When we mention possession most people express skepticism or fear. Thanks to scary movies and novels, demonic and spirit possession seem like either science fiction, or something one has no control over.

We’ve found in over 20 years of empirical research that demonic and spirit possession is neither of these things once you understand the concepts, and it’s far more common than most people realize.

Father Cipriano de Meo, who runs an exorcism school in Italy, says that there is one major indication someone is possessed rather than being mentally ill.

Father de Meo says it’s important to differentiate between the two, and that prayer can help shine a light on the problem. He uses a “prolonged prayer to the point where if the adversary (demon) is present, there’s a reaction.”

“A possessed person has various general attitudes towards an exorcist, who is seen by the Adversary as an enemy ready to fight him,” he said. Reactions include ”facial expressions, threatening words or gestures and other things – but especially blasphemies against God and Our Lady.”

We’ve noticed the same thing; a violent reaction to the idea of God, prayer or religion in general is a sign that demons might be present. A disinterest or dislike of organized religion, however, usually isn’t.

Freedom of religion or to be atheist or agnostic is a right in the USA. However, we believe some atheists go too far.

We understand many people have had bad experiences with religion, but when they use it as an excuse to be rude or even violent, they might have demons onboard fueling their hatred. At the same time, we’ve found that religious extremists can also be possessed.

We believe that someone can be mentally ill without being possessed, but that possession can cause mental illness, and mental illness, or what caused it in the first place, can open the door to possession.

Other indications someone is possessed include a negative reaction to the idea of a Spiritual Detox (which might be the reaction of a lost soul or dark energy; it’s easy to confuse their thoughts with your own), feeling blocked, drug use or alcohol abuse, sex addiction, depression, thoughts of suicide, reckless behavior (especially while under the influence), feeling drained, and nightmares (especially of being chased or watched).

Father de Meo says that one must be trained by the Catholic Church in order to conduct depossessions, but their procedure is only one way. Those not trained by the Church clear lost souls and demons from people and places just as successfully with different methods, but most of them usually involve calling in powerful helpers of the Light to assist in the process. You don’t need to be religious to ask for and receive the help of God, Archangels, spirit guides, or other helpers of the Light, which all existed long before organized religion.

He also blames the increase of possession cases on the rise in popularity of the occult. We agree that using black magic and negative spells, or any agreements with dark energy are to be avoided at all costs. However, we strongly believe that astrology, numerology, palmistry, energy healing, Spiritual Detox, meditation, tarot cards, mediumship (as long as you stay in the Light and protect yourself during the process), and other metaphysical tools are harmless and can be very valuable.

Possession is a serious and often overlooked problem, but once you accept that it’s real, it’s much easier to identify and remove the spiritual troublemakers.

Our FREE Spiritual Detox Script can help you get rid of dark energy.

If you’re feeling depressed, angry, fearful, or having a tough time quitting bad habits and addictions, our Spiritual Detox™ MP3 can help. https://spiritualgrowthnow.com/spiritual-detox/

Copyright © 2016 Stephen Petullo, Scott Petullo