TimT wrote:
OrderAndChaos30 wrote:
I have also had personal experience with capabilities of my OWN MIND that would get me declared "demon possessed" if I was to discuss them openly. But I have never dabbled in any sort of so called "occult", if I have ever been devoutly anything I have been devoutly rational!
There can be generational curses passing demons down the family line. I have cleaned up family lines of demons for people.
If you adopted an invisible playmate as a child, that was a demon. If that is your case, you could renounce it and tell it to go away.
There are neurological problems that can cause tics. If that is your case, you could pray to Jesus for Him to neutralize the poisons in your body and escort them out of your body.
If these phenomena started after getting into playing Dungeons & Dragons, you need to renounce the role playing and command any unclean spirits to leave.
If you have done mind-blanking meditation through Hinduism, Buddhism, shamanism or spiritism, you would need to renounce that and command anything to leave.
You are part Christian, so you have the authority.
Thank you for your concern TimT. But no, I have never indulged in any of the things that you discuss. I belong(ed?) to a VERY strict religion on those sort of things. I had an extremely controlled childhood. But I have had a very consistent history of precognition when ever a family member or friend has fallen sick or died starting when I was a small child. I had wrote this off as just some sort of trick of the mind looking back over the years, thinking I may have had edited my own memories in odd ways.
Several years ago I was seeing a mental health professional and stated my belief that these seeming events where somehow edits of my own memory for some strange reason. So in depth investigation for any sign of a cognitive disorder where done. The professional opinion was that I have a very detailed memory and unusually logical mind with no sign of any sort of cognitive disorder.
About 3 years ago I took the opportunity to conduct an impromptu experimental test of one of these incidents, many have been very trivial. I had a very vivid dream, one of those so real you awake in confusion about what is the dream and what is not, and it was about my car breaking down on my way back from work. And that day the car did break down. I found a shop in the city I work in that was able to work on it but I needed to get home. A good friend of mine came and got me and drove me back. I asked him if the cause of the breakdown could have been a certain thing - the cause as in my dream, but I said nothing about the dream. He took me back to get the car the next morning and the cause of the problem was exactly the same as the dream. I confirmed with my friend that I had asked about that cause the day before.
I don't claim anything supernatural about the experiences, no voices or anything odd. Just picking up on something like watching a few short videos on YouTube. Just that the dreams that seem predictive are of unusual intensity. I don't do anything consciously to invoke this to happen and the evidence is there the same if I choose to believe it or not. But the emotional intensity of the event predicted seems to be a factor, the more sudden, unexpected or tragic the event to someone I have a personal connection to the more likely I get a precognition.
This is a personal question I have been contemplating for many years. I know what sorts of accusations would be made if I say anything to other church members so I have kept quiet about this. Could this be evidence that the mind is part of something that plays by the rules of the Quantum Mechanical scale and hence can operate in some way outside of time-space? I do not know. I am acceptant that there is no real answer to these questions at this point. Is there some real science that touches on this area? There seems to be some evidence for that.
Am I about to go off and join or start another New-Age pseudoscience cult? NO. I still trust in the Creator and that he sent his Son as the Great Instructor to the human race. I am going through the process of reconciling the discovery of some facts about my religion that raise very serous questions about an organization of humans on earth, questions about faith in a religious institution, not about God. This is something I will not go into any greater details about.
Finely, in regard to my stance on certainty: I hold that I am a limited and incomplete being and that any thought I may have is also limited and incomplete. So I hold that this logic must be applied to every concept I may hold. I was created with the ability to think rationally and how could God hold it against me that I must apply the same standards to all my thoughts, including those about Him?
24 Jul 2008, 5:46 pm
