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SUPERSTITION?It is hard to prove something ‘occult’ (hidden or secret), and there are a lot of fakes who con sincere people. Pre-scientific societies and the Dark Ages church blamed spirits for any physical and mental illnesses, and hunted supposed witches. But despite the superstition, there’s solid evidence that contact with spirits is real. Sir William Barrett’s psychological experiments on blindfolded ouija operators concluded that the information they had ‘was absolutely beyond the range of normal human faculty.’ |
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In one story of thousands, Andy (name changed) lost contact with his father, thinking he was dead or maybe overseas. Andy went to a ouija session and thought it was a fake, but he asked the spirit where his father was and was told a town in Britain. He checked - and found his father, despite the fact that no-one in the seance knew him. The Bible mentions spirits - intelligences that influence humans for good (‘angels’) or evil (‘demons’). It warns: |
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‘None of you should sacrifice son or daughter, or practise witchcraft or clairvoyance, or cast spells. Don’t be a spirit medium or channeller, or try to consult the dead. Anyone who does these is detestable to God…’ (Deuteronomy 18:10-12) |
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That’s an accurate list of today’s occult practises- written 3,500 years ago! Clairvoyants hate how the Bible lists them alongside more bloody rituals, yet police say dabblers may start with ‘the soft end of the occult’ but can often move on - to satanism, anti-social behaviour, sacrificing animals, ‘and the next step is murder’, said police officer Bill Keahon in the New York Times1. If the ‘soft end’ is as safe as some think, then why does it often move people deeper into darkness? 1 Quoted in Police, Feb 87 |
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