Posted on 06/24/2014 5:04:49 AM PDT by tired&retired
Three American friends have been taken to hospital after reportedly becoming 'possessed' by evil spirits while playing with a Ouija board. Alexandra Huerta, 22, was playing the game with her brother Sergio, 23, and 18-year-old cousin Fernando Cuevas at a house in the village of San Juan Tlacotenco in south-west Mexico. But minutes into it, she apparently started 'growling' and thrashing around in a 'trance-like' state.
They restrained Alexandra to prevent her from hurting herself, before treating the three with painkillers, anti-stress medication and eye drops, which seemingly worked.
Victor Demesa, 46, the director of public safety in the nearby town of Tepoztlan, said: 'The medical rescue of these three young people was very complicated.
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“Demons are speaking to you and trying to kill you?”
They take over the voice of their host when they get riled up. Somewhere I have a bunch of tape recordings of sessions. They also scream, hiss, growl, bark, spit, swing at me.... They are just trying to get me to lower myself with fear or anger. If you Love them they can’t harm you.
This is not stage hypnosis the way many ministers do it in front of their congregations. That’s just show...
I must be careful even sharing like this as it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that I am doing it and forget that it is being done through me and not by me. When I get full of myself I get stung and must go back, get on my knees, and refocus on God. Thus it is far better to always stay focused on God...
“Bath salts?”
I went to a psychiatric pharmacology update presented by the Dr’s who were doing the research on this in the emergency rooms. It is one of the worst. They explained the pharmacology of the synthetic THC. It is seven times stronger than the real stuff and the cost is so cheap. (about 5 cents per joint).. They can spray it on almost anything.
First time users are very much at risk for lifetime damage.
Now get ahold of the Catholic Church closest to them and ask for the exorcist team in the diocese.
While I hear your words and respect your opinion. Jesus said that He did not come to judge but to save. Who are we to judge? Are be better than Jesus?
Remember, as you judge others, you too shall also be judged.
Remember the parable of the debtor who was forgiven his debt but would not forgive those who owed money to him?
It all sounds so plausible.
“Now get hold of the Catholic Church closest to them and ask for the exorcist team in the diocese.”
The local Priest has a hard time with me. We are friends and I can feel the Love radiating from his heart. Thus, I know he is full of compassion and a good man. But whenever we talk he asks me if it is OK to consult his spiritual adviser about our conversations.
My hat is off to these men who do exorcisms within the Catholic Church. This is not work I choose to do. If I had my choice I would not do it. Most of the people I know who have done this work got stung and are now dead. I would be dead too if it were not for the Grace of God.
I really wish people really knew what the Catholic Church teaches instead of what they think it teaches, that includes "Catholics" that don't always know either. It's like the old game telephone.
Also the old blame the Church for your own faults. No one is separated from the Church but by their own actions that can always be repented of. If there are no rules, and everyone just does as they feel, then why belong? It lessens it. I know it's hard, but Catholic Priest's really do not remember every little thing anyone does.
I hope your friend finds peace.
The girl my husband dated before he met me developed an interest in the occult. That in itself produced a personality change in her; she became dark and moody, withdrawn. Then she started messing around with a Ouija board, and she went crazy. She leaped onto my husband like a wild animal while he was napping on the sofa with an intent to try and kill him. He restrained her, then got into his car to drive away from his own apartment, but she ran out and jumped onto the hood, screaming. Shortly thereafter she tried to kill herself.
I had a friend who dabbled with a Ouija board. One night something happened that scared him so badly he decided to burn it. I won’t say what happened next, but let’s just say that board didn’t want to get gone.
“Don’t let your heart be troubled by this anymore.”
It is the sinner who is most in need of God’s Love.
If someone invites the Holy Spirit into themselves through Communion and has not repented, the inner turmoil they have created is beyond description. Even a prayerful blessing to an evil person is like placing hot coals upon their head. If you add the purity of the Holy Spirit, sin cannot exist in the same place as the perfect Love of the Holy Spirit casts out sin.
“No one was judging him.”
I so wish that were true. In theory, you are 100% correct. In actual application, there are strict consequences for breaking the rules. I attend Mass at many different churches, including Protestant. Each one is different in the degree in which they are serving the church establishment or serving God. Hopefully the two are the same, but often they are not. There are many interpretations to Galatians 5.
Very dangerous.
Why don’t you believe that?
"Usually it is not a dark nasty but merely someone who died and got stuck in this realm."
What? None of that is Biblical.
Job 7:9-10, “As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave does not come up. He shall never return to his house, Nor shall his place know him anymore."
People don't "get stuck" anywhere after they die, nor linger on earth. Anything you might have encountered is a demon masquerading as a dead human to try and cast doubt on what God says about the subject.
Sure. Evil is real.
"The thing has been around a long time. The Ouija board was in China around 1100 AD."
The devil's been around a lot longer than that.
"Consumer Reports published a survey in 1994 showing the Ouija board was the second most popular game among kids from 10-14 (Monopoly was first)."
And look at the shape kids are in today. I was a kid in the '70s; back then there were no children gunning down classrooms nor killing themselves with regularity. It's all over the place today. Many kids seem gripped with utter hopelessness.
They really would have most likely given him Communion unless he really made a show of not being with the Church. You know it's not the Priest who makes the judgment, unless I whisper in his ear at the altar that I just killed someone. Otherwise he would not know the state of my heart.
In the Catholic Church, little children are taught about the inner voice. Conscience if you will. When the little ones are preparing for their first Communion, they go to Confession. Now are little children guilty of grave sins? Highly unlikely, but it is a way for them to learn to trust Jesus and his servant the priest. So when something lays heavy on their heart they know there is a place to relieve that.
Now I know Non-Catholics believe this is not a necessary step. Well if you don't need it, then that is OK. I have no problem with that. But we do need it or want it. It's really hard to describe to someone who has never been through this kind of Sacrament. It really is a remarkable and joyous thing when your heart and soul are freed from this burden, when through prayer and thought fullness you talk to the priest in Persona Christi, just an awesome experience.
It is not like the movies, if it is! The person needs to find another confessor, pronto!
They must have been smoking, snorting or dropping something.
Ping to self for later.
Thank you for that confirmation. Hard not to notice, but just not sure I trust what I think I sense and see sometimes.
Thank you very much for elaborating your thoughts. I 100% agree with you.
A good Priest will know know the state of your heart. Just as I know the state of the Priest’s heart. Sadly, often they are hard and closed and not open and radiating Love.
What you have stated about educating the children in the Catholic church is one of the reasons I have so much respect for the Catholic Church. I’ve done a lot of work at the Catholic elementary school and observe what you are speaking of. However I also have Italian friends who are not so pure.
One Italian friend’s wife harassed him for years to go to confession. He finally went to confession and the Priest was very nervous. The first thing the Priest asked him was “You didn’t kill anyone did you?” My friend said “NO” and it was fine after that!
I do deal with many people who have killed other people. They are the one’s that really need forgiveness and repentance.
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