Spiritual concepts
Demons
A demon is a rogue process, in computer software terms a virus, a program of the universe that has gone wrong, and the vast majority of demons that are encountered in spiritual experiences [if not all, although I cannot prove this] are created by human beings. There are three types of demon that may be encountered in a spiritual experience:
- Demons we ourselves have created
- Demons other people have created and inflicted on us
- Demons we have invoked by our way of life
They exist in our Memory as Learnt function and very very occasionally in our Perceptions.
The difference between a demon and any Spirit Entity can be summed up as follows:
How to tell whether a figure is a spirit entity and not a composer constructed character
- The entity employs logic and reasoning
- It provides information unknown to the person having the experience but verifiable
- The entity can demonstrate behaviour in a manner equal to the person or superior to them
- The entity questions the person
- The entity returns again, suggesting their ongoing existence
- It attempts to teach or point out things to the person, guide or accompany the person
- The entity can converse or communicate with the person
- Has its own sense of purpose
There are two additional cross references that may be of help here
- I have provided a method of How to Expunge demons in the common steps section
- I have expanded the description of the types of demon you may encounter during spiritual experience in the section Types of Demon
Observations
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- 'Lord Peregrino calls me’
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Yaralde initiation
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Yualai (Euahlayi) initiation
- A presence (I always thought of as a witch) trying to enter the kitchen
- A thick black cloud hovering over the foot of my bed
- Aliens of Ambien
- All laughing at me because I'm wearing no makeup
- Am I possessed?
- Appreciation of MDMA as Therapeutic MDMA by Legion Bob
- Arnold-Forster, Mary - Lucid dreaming used to vanquish fear
- Ashton R - Enormous worm like creature
- Atharvaveda - IV 10 The Pearl and its Shell bestowing long life and prosperity
- Atharvaveda - V 30 from Prayer for exemption from disease
- Atharvaveda - VII 13 Charm to deprive enemies of their strength
- Atharvaveda - VIII 7 from Hymn to all magic and medicinal plants
- Attempted suicide
- Attempted suicide at the age of 18
- Baudelaire, Charles - My Beatrice
- Beers, Clifford - The hallucinations of depression
- Beowulf - Fighting the Monster
- Beowulf - Fighting the reptile fish
- Beowulf - Grendel
- Beowulf - The Fight with the Sea Monster
- Beowulf - The Fight with the Underground Monster
- Beowulf - The Haunting of the Moor
- Bhagavad Gita - Asceticism is dark in kind
- Bingen, Hildegard of - The valley of scorpions
- Black Sabbath – I had used what they call the Devil’s interval, a chord progression so dark that in the Middle Ages playing it was forbidden
- Black Sabbath – The poltergeists, ghosts and apports of Kilworth house
- Blake, William - Each man is in his spectre’s power
- Blake, William - I was in a Printing house in Hell and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted
- Blake, William - I went to the Garden of Love
- Blake, William - Nebuchadnezzar
- Blake, William - The body of Abel found by Adam and Eve
- Blake, William - The caverns of the grave I’ve seen
- Blake, William - The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea
- Blake, William - The horrid shapes and sights of torment in burning dungeons
- Blake, William - The Wood of the Self-Murderers
- Blithe spirit - Strawberries and blackberries
- Blithe spirit - University demons
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - Demons and adversity
- Boehme, Jacob - Dialogues between Disciple and Master - Whither go the souls when they leave these mortal bodies
- Boethius - De Institutione Musica - The dangers of music
- Bouissou, Madame Michael - I suddenly saw outlined there an abominable creature, a kind of octopus with writhing tentacles
- Braveheart - Bridge to the tunnel
- Braveheart - Islands, bridges and pencil cases
- Braveheart - Meets a dreadful demon
- Braveheart - Meets demons
- Braveheart - Rivers, locks and nymphs with demons
- Brian Keenan – Four Quarters of Light - Debra heals the hurt of Brian 3
- Brian Keenan – Four Quarters of Light - Debra heals the hurt of Brian 4
- Brother Klaus - The terrifying vision
- Bruno, Giordano – On Magic - Healing with the thumb
- Bruno, Giordano – On Magic - On aggregates and functions
- Brunton, Dr Paul - A Search in Secret Egypt - A night inside the Great Pyramid 1
- Brunton, Dr Paul - A Search in Secret Egypt - A night inside the Great Pyramid 2
- Buddha - The Dhammapada - Danda-vago
- Buddhist temple example
- Buhlman, William - Affirmations
- Burne-Jones, Edward - Perseus and Andromeda
- Burne-Jones, Edward - The Depths of the Sea
- Burton, Sir Richard - THE KASÎDAH 08 1
- C P Cavafy - Ithaca
- Cameron, Norman - Lying in fever, while tornado weather
- Cameron, Norman - When you confess your sins before a parson
- Carlyle, Thomas - On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic - Smoke and fire
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - For a Teufelsdrockh will not love a second time
- Cicero Newell - Indian Stories – The Dakota belief concerning insanity
- Cirlot on the Furies
- Cohen, Dr Sidney - A woman patient's experience
- Crichton, Michael - from Travels - Michael’s demons get exorcised
- Crowley - 15 The Devil
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - In the Caves of the Unconscious
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - On the depressive phase
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - On the depressive phase
- Dadd, Richard - Murder
- Dadd, Richard - The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke [detail]
- Dadd, Richard - The Fairy feller’s master-stroke
- Dadd, Richard - The Passions - Agony
- Dante - Inferno [avarice]
- Dante - Inferno [bribery, extortion and swindling]
- Dante - Inferno [envy and discontent]
- Dante - Inferno [false flattery]
- Dante - Inferno [fraud]
- Dante - Inferno [gluttony]
- Dante - Inferno [hypocrisy]
- Dante - Inferno [overview]
- Dante - Inferno [procuring]
- Dante - Inferno [sandy wastelands of hell]
- Dante - Inferno [seduction]
- Dante - Inferno [theft and robbery]
- Dante - Inferno [violence]
- Dante and Mary Coleridge [words that hurt]
- Demonic creatures rapidly running over me in an overwhelming stampede
- Demonic creatures running over him
- Demons and bedroom apparitions
- Disembodied heads
- Divorcing parents cause child's hallucinations
- Dobkin de Rios, Dr Marlene - Ayahuasca experience 2
- Doris Green & Tracy Snipe - N’Deup
- DPT & Cannabis - Cave of fears
- Dr William Sargant – Casting out demons in church
- Drs Caslant and Desoille - Guided imagery in healing and the importance of symbols
- Dying man meets mistreated boys
- Eddie Mooney digs up fairy ring
- Eliphas Levi and Mudvayne
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The Poet - New witness
- Engel, C - Finnish lugut
- Entities twitching at the bedclothes
- Epic of Gilgamesh, the
- Ernst, Max - Dark Gods and For Alice's Friends
- Ernst, Max - L’Ange du Foyeur and The Dressing of the bride
- Eusevgny Faygdish - Mystic Cosmos - Native American Indians - Hopi healing
- Eusevgny Faygdish – Mystic Cosmos - Black and white as a metaphor
- Eva Vidal - Tidal waves, heavy gravity and false awakenings
- Evagrius Ponticus - A study into his asceticism
- Evans-Wentz, W Y - Alchemical and Mystical Theory [1911]
- Expunging demons using MORA therapy
- Fasting
- Flying in the clouds
- Four year old sees creepy man, with shark teeth and slanted red eyes
- Fox, Oliver - Demons
- Fox, Oliver - Visits Mrs X in Lumsden Avenue
- Frost, Robert - It was far in the sameness of the wood
- Gambier Bolton, Robert – The Conditions needed to obtain a materialisation – 07 Do not use hypnosis, it results in materialisations that are conjured entirely from the perceptions of the sitters or sensitive
- Gardner, Ingrid - On hell
- George Harrison - Devil's radio
- Getting at demons
- Giant dragonflies flapping around the room and friendly little girls
- Girls asking him questions
- Gnostic Gospels - 'Peter'
- Gnostic Gospels - The Gospel of Truth
- Goethe - Faust Part 1
- Gomchen of Lachen
- Gowdy, Barbara - Meets an incubus
- Goya, Francisco - The sleep of reason produces monsters
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing arrhythmia and other heart problems using biofeedback – case study
- Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Psychosomatic disease
- Hallucinating on over the counter cough medicines
- Hallucinations are telling you that you are not well
- Harner, Michael - The ayahuasca experience
- Hesiod - Works and Days - Justice and Conscience
- Hodler, Ferdinand - The Night
- Howard Storm - And his terrifying rebirth experience
- Hundreds of demonic faces flying at me from the dark and shrill, spine-tingling laughter
- Hyangga of Korea - Song of Ch'oyong
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Egg and the Labyrinth
- Hypnotism cures madness
- I dreamed of house bricks falling on me, squishing me, not being able to breathe and I'd wake up crying
- I would awake to a pressure on my chest
- Ibn El-Arabi - Henry Corbin - Sura Yasin
- In a giant cubed room
- In the nick of time
- Is your body trying to send you a message?
- Isa Upanishad
- Isaac Luria – Hymn for the Friday evening meal
- Islavin - The Samoyed
- Isolation caused by religious expulsion
- Jackson, Michael - Thriller
- Jane Dunlap - Attacked by a Cobra
- Jean Noblet - 15 [and Hebreo and Payen] The Devil
- Jesus - Luke 13 - A Crippled Woman Healed on the Sabbath
- Jesus - Luke 4 - And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost
- Jesus - Luke 4 - In Simon's house
- Jesus - Wikipedia - Examples of expunging demons
- Joan of Arc - W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The trial of Joan of Arc
- John Henry Fusilli
- John Milton - Il Penseroso
- Kant, Immanuel - Quotes - Demons
- Keightley, Thomas - Follets
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - Misc. Quotes - On Muwakkals
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 857 [extract]
- Klee, Paul - The Seafarer 1923
- Lady goes out of body on LSD
- Lalla - Knowledge is a garden
- Lamb, Charles - Mille Viae Mortis
- Lethbridge, T C – ESP Beyond Time and Distance – The Murrain
- Lhermitte, Professor Jean - Diabolical Possession, True and False – Out of body from terror and torture
- Lhermitte, Professor Jean - Diabolical Possession, True and False – Sorcerors and magicians
- Lhermitte, Professor Jean - Diabolical Possession, True and False – Ten year old girl sees hell
- Lhermitte, Professor Jean - Diabolical Possession, True and False – The devil caused him to see scenes of perverse immorality
- Lilly, John - Confronting the Demons of Catholic imposed sexual hang-up
- Lilly, John - LSD and self destructive programs
- Lilly, John - Terror on ketamine
- Lovecraft, H P - Letter to Bernard Austin Dwyer, January 1928
- Lovecraft, H P - The Beast in the Cave
- Lovecraft, H P - The Howler
- Lowell, Robert - And now the requiem hour has come
- Lucid dream of insects
- Ludlow, Fitz Hugh - The demon
- Lull, Raymond - Compendium in Bibliotheca chemica curiosa
- M Huc - Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China during the years
- Madame Guyon
- Mary of Oignes - Hallucinates tormenting fiends
- Masters and Houston - Experiences of hell
- Masters and Houston - Monsters and Demons
- Masters and Houston - On forests
- Masters and Houston - The dive
- Matsya
- Metamorphosis San Pedro by Anopseudonym
- Michael Crichton meets an alcoholic
- Michaux, Henri - The Company of Monsters
- Mind machine
- Mircea Eliade - Kahuna symbolic Boat
- Mircea Eliade - On Soul Retrieval
- Mircea Eliade – The Na-khi – The Psychopomp role
- Moreau - St Sebastian and the angel 1876
- Morning glory seeds - I almost died
- Mudang spiritual experiences – Healing the sick in body and mind
- Mudras - Cleansing mudra
- Mudras - Savasana - the 'Offering mudra'
- Mudras - Sokuchi-in - Earth witness
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Fear of ‘possession’
- Munch, Edvard - Dance of Life and Vampire
- Munch, Edvard - The Sick Child
- Munch, Edvard – The scream
- Musset, Alfred de - George Sand - Sees his Demons
- Musty smell of decay
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - And the jackal story
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - And the underworld
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - Expunges demons
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - Possessed by an Ancestor spirit
- My ears would fill with a loud painful screech, like a flashbang had gone off next to me
- Nash, Ogden - The Adventures of Isabel
- Near death from valium suicide attempt
- Nightmares and fear
- Nightmares and their causes
- Nightmares and trauma
- Nightmares and war
- Nightmares from memory of terrible experience
- Oliver Sacks - Christina sees a wild eyed man
- Oliver Sacks - Little Devils on a bicycle
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - ‘I myself am Heaven and Hell’
- Onigashima
- Origen - On hell and reincarnation
- Orme Johnson, Professor David
- Out of body demon
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Transformation of Ino and Melicerta to Sea-Gods 2
- Paracelsus - And Nature spirits
- Peake, Mervyn - Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland
- Philipine lad just wants the voices to stop
- Pinchbeck, Daniel - DPT - the jaded emptiness and sublime beauty of the evanescent empire
- Pinchbeck, Daniel - DPT experience
- Plotinus - The Enneads - All the virtues without exception are purifications
- Plutarch – The Vision of Aridæus 04
- Plutarch – The Vision of Aridæus 07
- Plutarch – The Vision of Aridæus 08
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Alone
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Dream-Land
- Polynesian Researches – Ellis – Death prayers and possession in the Sandwich Islands
- Potatoes cause hallucinations
- Practising atheist physics student nearly has out of body
- Professor Pierre Janet's patient Achille
- Psychokinesis
- Psychokinesis [PubMed]
- Qu’ran - Judgement Day; The fate of those who conspire with evil spirits - Surah Al An’am
- Rassenfosse, Armand - RÉVERSIBILITÉ
- Rats and medication
- Religion and demons
- Religious Beliefs, Possession States, and Spirits: Three Case Studies from Sri Lanka
- Religious trauma
- Rev J H Bernau - from Missionary Labours in British Guiana
- Revelations 09
- Richet, Charles Robert - Popular Science Monthly Volume 17 June 1880 – Demoniac Epilepsy, Possession and Visions
- Rider-Waite - 15 The Devil
- Rig veda - Bull and Cow
- Robert W Nicholls - Masebe
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Portraits of Jane Morris 2
- Rudolphi Glabri – Sees a demon
- Ruskin, John - Thy kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven
- Saint Brendan - 15 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Denys, Marquis d’Hervey de - I thought I was being pursued by frightful monsters
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Sees a number of devils lay hold of a body in a shroud
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Sees two most hideous devils
- Samavedas – 01 Book 02 Chapter 01, DECADE I Agni [extract verses 4-10]
- Samavedas – 01 Book 06 Chapter 01, DECADE III Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 03 Chapter 01, VIII Indra
- Samavedas – Book 03 Chapter 02, XX Soma Pavamana
- Scary lucid dreams
- Schumann, Robert - A melody which the angels had sung to him
- Schumann, Robert - Hearing one note played constantly
- Sees her cat knocking over a lamp when he is actually fast asleep at the foot of her bed
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Landscapes of the mind
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe - I pant for the music which is divine
- Sibylle - demonic possession and sexual abuse
- Silesius - The Cherubinic Wanderer – 05 Inwardness 121
- Simone, Nina - Sees her deceased father
- Sleeping pills cause hallucinations
- Snow thoughts
- Spider dreams 'so frequent that I'm not really even afraid anymore'
- Spiders
- St Anthony - The temptation of St Anthony
- Stapledon, Olaf - Odd John - On hate
- Starfish and blue people
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - The misuse of power
- Steiner, Rudolf - Phantoms Spectres and Demons
- Stress stress stress
- Suhrawardi - Book of Oriental Theosophy - The types of spirit entity
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 56
- Sweat lodge - the wrong way
- Tales of the Trickster
- Taoism - Embryonic breathing
- Tarot - 03 Minor Arcana - 07s Redemption [Rebirth]
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - In Memoriam A H H - Who loves not Knowledge?
- Terrifying vision
- The Book of Taliesin - The Battle Of the Trees - 02
- The little imbecile woman who died raving mad from ill-treatment by her cruel husband and haunted the house where they once lived
- The Lotus Sutra - 03 Simile and Parable - 3 The Parable of the Burning House
- The Lotus Sutra - 13 Peaceful practises - 5 The Thus Come One acts as king of the doctrines
- The Lotus Sutra - 22 Wonderful sound - 2 Healing ills
- The other night, I dreamed of a weasel with one eye biting my arms
- The Possession of a Nun by Asmodeus
- The Possession of Father Surin
- The Possession of Sister Jeanne des Anges
- The Short path
- The Syrian in Palestine who specialised in exorcising ghosts and curing victims of demonic possession
- Thelmar, E – 05 Possessed by a fiend
- Tholey, Paul - Dealing with demons
- Tibetan Buddhism - Chod and the wolf
- Tibetan Buddhism - Disciples and hermitages
- Tibetan Buddhism - Kushog Wanchen
- Tibetan Buddhism - The Pawo of Tibet
- Tito Vignoli - Carmen
- Toluene hallucinations
- Traherne, Thomas - Centuries of Meditations - To have blessings and to prize them is to be in heaven
- Trine, R W - In tune with the Infinite - Healing energy
- Turner, Edith - Witnesses an exorcism and healing
- Two demons now spoke in her, who barked like dogs and mewed like cats
- Tyaga the Road of Fire - 02
- Up into purgatory
- Villoldo, Dr Alberto - Soul Retrieval
- Visions from abuse
- Vitebsky, Piers - healing from a shaman
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Exorcism
- Watson, Lyall - On exorcism
- Watson, Lyall - On exorcism
- Watson, Sir William - The Prince’s Quest - Then said the greybeard captain, hardly heard
- Wei Boyang - The Canton of qi
- Wesley, John - Journal 23rd October, 1739 - Dealing with a case of possession
- William Burroughs
- William Law - Your own self is your own Cain that murders your own Abel
- William Lopez
- Yeats, W B - Selected poems - Vacillation
- Yerka, Jacek and André Maurois - On suffering
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book IV - 08. Karma and Past Lives
- Yram - Dissolving negative thought forms