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Hey everyone! I’m curious—what's it really like to experience demonic possession? I’ve heard that some occult practitioners actually find it intriguing to be possessed by demons, but for most folks, it sounds pretty scary and leads to wild exorcisms. I mean, it’s easy to joke about it, like saying, "The devil made me do it!" But I’d love to hear your stories. Has anyone here had an experience with possession? And how about being possessed by a deity you pray to—is that something positive or negative? I'd love to hear your thoughts!
I've experienced some weird cases like this. I mentioned it some other post over here.
How it felt like and what triggered these events.
Excessive energy work led to extraordinary open state. Open state gave me a very strong connection to everything. Lack of experience and a strange approach to grimoires. There were several mistakes I did which gave me some valuable lessons.
The effects. I felt like the whole world was through a filter, imagine you are watching everything through some lenses, it feels distorted. A lot of negativity, strange thoughts, strange state. You feel a certain level of mind control, something that attempts to control you. Symptoms of schizophrenia appear. I could recognize that things were not like before and I knew I had to get rid of the issue.
Removal, religious methods can help. There are options like the exorcisms of the Catholic and Orthodox systems, work with hesychasm. Arab methods with the dhikr. Blasts the other energy off. Those things have to be literally burnt out, fried and cooked until they get blasted off.
During the removal the sensations felt how something in head got burnt by the energy. It was trying to fight back. The spirits had a certain different energy which I had to force out, full flush, wipeout. The moment it's forced out you immediately feel normal, the state changes.
Other people told me similar stories. Some messed around with grimoires, others got the issue from cemeteries. Open state and something attached. All of them did a self exorcism and forced the invaders out. These cases were all self inflicted.
The worst case scenarios, if you don't realize what's going on or know what to do, you might end up losing your mind. Through some friend connections I heard several cases where one story ended with the guy ending his life. The other sought help and ended up finding somebody who could get rid of it. Both of them had messed with grimoires on their own. They found some amazing random information online, experimented, things went wrong.
There are positive scenarios too. You said the ones you pray to. When you do that the effects are great, perfect. It can be a great state of power.
To be honest, I've never seen a demon come out of a person in person, you know, like in films, that evil laugh, and all that)))))) But it seems to me that people who drink a lot of alcohol, alcoholics in simple terms, they are possessed by demons. The demon that sits inside, he suppresses the will of the person, and forces him to drink, because in the first place alcohol is a powerful source of charge for dark forces. And under the influence of alcohol, many become aggressive, begin to do and say bad things, and the demon sitting inside is very well fed by this negativity, more and more swaying a person to bad emotions, and arranges a feast of negative energy. If you take the concept of ‘the devil made me do it’, it's all over. You are not facing a sorcerer, you are facing a puppet of the devil. The practitioner must respect the force, but not submit to it. Successful magic is your freedom of choice. If the voices in your head or in any other way orders, either treat or exorcise))))) Suddenly it's just schizophrenia here).
DISCLAIMER: I tried four or five times to shorten this and just can't manage at 3 a.m. and delirious. My bad; dump it if need be.
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Fascinating and broad topic, going I believe well beyond what most people consider in terms of the classic "possession" trope. Co-habitation, as my brother calls it, can take the form of a menacing presence influencing the host and causing all manner of trouble or be a less dramatic experience altogether. From an animist point of view, i.e. spirits everywhere in all things, the idea of an unseen creature entering the space of one's body or energy matrix or whatever and messing with the controls or hacking the software is not extraordinary. I think spirits can influence people on a scale of range, from emotional manipulation to full-blown mastery.
I grew up in a protestant family and was also a so-called “paranormal experiencer” from an early age. I have seen what was labelled possession and subsequent exorcisms and have participated in both as it turns out.
As an observer I saw a small woman overpower, more accurately beat the shit out of, three grown men with her bare hands. No kung-fu involved, just raw strength and a presence of dark, heavy power. Her removal was peaceful once they finally got the spirit under control but I have seen what I can only call spiritual beings and forces hurled quite violently from people and locations.
I once evicted a menacing presence that moved objects and manifested as some kind of grey, translucent cloud thing and both felt the floor creak and watched a rocking chair be hurled into the door frame as the thing made its exit.
I no longer walk that particular path, at least not to the liking of any churches I once frequented. I don’t knock it, I just became dissatisfied with the practice, so to speak.
I like to stay busy, have shit to work on ya know? They don’t really give you any operations or even many techniques in protestant groups.
Baranova Alya is absolutely right about the potential of alcohol to stimulate these negative engagements and I would add that all drugs pose risks when used continuously or used by a person whose chemistry et al are a poor match for the substance.
Moving on, my personal experience with spirits influencing me, and perhaps being unwelcome guests in my mind, body, or energy matrix ranges from being influenced emotively and relentlessly to fits of rage but has been mostly a nuisance. Don’t get me wrong I’ve spoken in a Hollywood grade voice that scared the piss out of me and a few others and at times the constant harassment and bullshit has pushed me to the brink but I never fully lost control.
I found it a continual battle on the daily to avoid the nonsense of losing everything I touched (keys, tools, etc) and the obvious influence of just instant rage at certain things like discussions about god in any positive form. I think the very worst thing was how it influenced me to avoid loved ones and always feel grumpy and not “in the mood” for them.
This is nothing short, IMO, than the robbery of the only thing that truly matters in this life, i.e. time spent and love given to family and friends. This will likely be the only thing that matters on the deathbed, the ones who mattered and our shared experiences.
Everything else is trivial by comparison. No shock then, I suppose, that such would be the key target of some spiritual assholery.
I’m an animist to some degree, and believe there is truth to the idea of “spirits everywhere in all things”. I think the universe is intelligent, and we can experience events, places, etc. as both impersonal spiritual forces and personalized intelligences, i.e. creatures with identities, probably names, and very human-like attributes like desires, ideas, motivations, etc.
I also glean from experience that spiritual creatures tend towards hierarchies or structures involving superiors and inferiors, at least from a certain perspective. We can, to a degree, understand motivations and actions of these individuals or groups but I think we experience only the tip of the proverbial iceberg and it is most likely their inclinations and directives, if we can even call I that, are beyond our conception, much less comprehension.
I find it interesting because the majority of those people claiming that "the devil made me do it!" usually stem from a place where their understanding of possession is extremely limited by Hollywood-esque movies and fear-mongering stories from religion.
I come from a spiritual tradition which perceives mediumship and invocation as sub-types of possession.
Whether that's a deitiy, angel, demon, or something else, it's all under the possession umbrella.
The only universal experience I've observed with possession (demonic or not) is a tendency for altered or lost memories during the time of possession. During posession our consciousness takes a back seat when there's someone else driving the vehicle (so to speak).
But there's something of a technicality involving demonic possesson. The thing is: most people equate possession with demons because they don't know the difference between other spiritual possessions. Therefore, unknown is scary and therefore bad equals possession being bad because unknown is scary.
Any sort of altered state makes it easier for spirits to possess. Addictive substances that weaken one's mental and/or emotional willpower therefore making it easier to happen. But addiction by itself isn't necessarily criteria for demonic possession. There's a mind/body/spirit component that is considered (perhaps not by enough people).
Hey everyone! I’m curious—what's it really like to experience demonic possession? I’ve heard that some occult practitioners actually find it intriguing to be possessed by demons, but for most folks, it sounds pretty scary and leads to wild exorcisms. I mean, it’s easy to joke about it, like saying, "The devil made me do it!" But I’d love to hear your stories. Has anyone here had an experience with possession? And how about being possessed by a deity you pray to—is that something positive or negative? I'd love to hear your thoughts!
“Man is by nature diverse, multiform and inconstant" ~ Pico della Mirandola
Human minds are fragmented and contradictory. They want one thing one moment and the opposite thing the next and none of these "I"s are conscious of each other. They're simply blind to anything other than themselves and their wants in the moment. These "I"s form in response to external events. Yet humans attribute unity and agency to themselves, a permanent sense of "I" and the idea that they are acting of their own volition, rather than simply dancing to tunes externally installed. In most people, this fragmented state isn't overly enerigsed and so it doesn't spill out into socially inappropriate forms, which is exactly how those installations are designed to work. In some sensitive people, however, this fragmented state can become exceptionally energised, with various "I"s becoming dominant, obsessing their host: "We are Legion, for we are many". In some cases, if the energising is potent and if the socialisation has been malignant, such "possessed" people can behave in extremely socially inappropriate ways. That is the secret of demonic possession, it is the energisation of the state of the uninitiated human.
Initiation is the process of achieving true unity of consciousness, dissolving the installed "I"s so that the true Self can emerge. From that comes true agency, the power to really act in the world. This begins in what Jung called "individuation" and leads ultimately to being entirely one's true nature.
In that state, or on the way to that state, one can be in communication with various disincarnate powers: gods and so on. This guidance has sometimes been framed by fundamentalist followers of the Abrahamic religions as being in communication with "demons". What the Abrahamic followers do not see is that such contact is a powerful means of moving beyond fragmentation, binding thiusands of little "I"s to greater forces. This work is the opposite of "demonic possession". It's actually about getting well.
It's a tough one to answer for me. More like it's been a case of what is it like after being de-possed, making mistakes, correcting them and them making comparisons?
Most of a lifetime spent with gross spiritual problems and conditions that doctors dont know why they are there, tracking it down to complex possession and abuse.
I would say no peace, no clarity, noisy voices internal/external, odd occurrences, people being freaked out and my being perceived as creepy.
Constantly moving goal posts in life so you never score.
Grossly negatively charged, no energy as somethings snacking on you at night when your unawares. I must have been an all you can eat energy buffet, I was shining very bright psychically like a beacon.
I did not feel anywhere near grounded and centered until recently, even boring sometimes, but I'm ok with that in comparison. It's an exercise in stabilizing and normalizing for one own sense of self.
A spirit will quite happily go unnoticed for years feeding off you, it's at crisis points it becomes apparent, or something much more powerful than it begins to over power it and it starts to complain.
I have found that through Spiritual growth it will make itself known pretty quickly, it's an obstacle to be moved.
Can also add to that numerous obvious curse effects, like a twister nearly sucking me up as the air pressure dropped and sucked up a picnic table instead. Had to hold on to the door frame. Same wind destroying stuff I had made when small. Guy 10 seconds behind me got hit on the head with a window and had glass stuck in his head, exactly where I was standing. A 'wind' blew through the upstairs of a structure all along the top floor as though testing the windows strength, until one gave way. Blew it out of its frame.
I would have called it at the time, 'the wind of the Devil'. A literal wind of evil.
I have said it before and I will say it again, if it comes in threes and looks beautiful, it probably isn't. It's setting you up and sees you as prey. It doesn't care if your innocent or inexperienced.
Be very clear with your intention, and if in doubt, don't.
It was bad. Everything about my functioning was worse and I had to claw it back. Thought I was heading for Arkham asylum territory. A lot worse than I want to say right now.
I am glad I had some religious background with active god forms, got me out of trouble after months of wondering what the hell was going on, waking up from night-terrors. Holy Spirit is an ally even if you are not a Christian and you have experience.
