An Omen of the ‘Mystifying Oracle’?

Posted on | July 12, 2014 | 142 Comments

“One time I was with Cara, Chloe, Anne, and Ellie,
and we were messing around with a Ouija board.”

The blogger at “Please Excuse My Vagina: My life as a teenage feminist” will probably notice the trackback, and to her this should be a warning — as it should be to anyone tempted to try “messing around” with the occult. WARNING: EVIL IS REAL.

Maybe you’re not religious. Maybe you think the Bible is just a lot of superstitious nonsense. Nevertheless, evil is real, and even if you think you’re just “messing around” with it, you are in danger.

Those weird coincidences you keep noticing? They’re not coincidences.

Life has a meaning and purpose. We are not random collections of atoms. Human beings have spirits — souls — and our lives are part of something larger than ourselves. Most people do not notice the evidence of this larger meaning and purpose. They lack a spiritual awareness and do not contemplate the relationship between their own mundane existence and the eternal truth of the cosmos. And so they do not notice that seemingly random events aren’t actually random.

So you were “messing around with a Ouija board” — random.

And your first boyfriend was a manipulative jerk — random.

Then you were riding home from your dance recital and, for no apparent reason, your dad got angry and started shouting at you.

Is all this random? Just a coincidence?

“I’m a self-righteous bitch. I don’t have any religion. . . .
I was raised in a liberal household, being taught
that everyone’s opinion is equal and valid, and
also being taught to value my own opinions.”

OK, I guess, except that if “everyone’s opinion is equal and valid,” you can’t really have any core foundational beliefs, which might be a problem when you start to fear that you’re going insane:

I started out the day so tired I was physically unable to move. My mom had to come in and tell me to get out of bed about five times.
I cried twice in about twenty minutes . . .
When people ask me to do things I find myself saying no more and more often. My friends are getting pissed off at me for being so apathetic. . . .
Thinking of all the things I might do wrong and all the people I might lose. And that was when I realized.
It’s happening again.
In sixth grade, I was depressed or anxious or some combination of both. I was never officially diagnosed, so maybe it was nothing and I was just being crazy. . . .
I imagine funerals. Eulogies I would give. Eulogies people would give me. I imagine people who aren’t even my friends dragging blades over their skin or killing themselves because of careless bitchy little comments I’ve made. I imagine the people I love pushed too far by something I said and sent careening over the edge. Vivid images of me or my family dying in a huge car crash flash behind my eyelids.
It’s happening again and I don’t know how to stop it. . . .
I’ve also somehow developed an intense pathological fear of bugs. . . . I constantly feel things crawling on my skin or fluttering near me but when I look there is, without fail, no creature in sight.

The good news: If you think you’re going crazy, you’re probably not. As long as you have enough self-awareness to recognize these ideas and behaviors as abnormal, you’re not insane . . . yet.

The bad news: If it doesn’t get better, that means it’s getting worse, because the persistence of the symptoms is itself symptomatic.

Anybody can have crazy feelings or spells of depression once in a while. If these things persist, however, the word “chronic” applies, and your morbid obsessions — your irrational death-related ideations — are not encouraging in that regard.

So, let’s get back to the reality of evil and that Ouija board incident. Lots of kids try “messing around” with the occult in this manner, without thinking that they thereby make themselves vulnerable to evil. It’s like the concept of marijuana as a “gateway drug”; you start “messing around” with weed, next thing you try LSD or Ecstasy, then prescription pain-killers or meth, and one day a dopehead friend tells you she’s tried heroin and you think, “Hmmm.”

Same deal with “messing around” with the occult. Sure, a Ouija board is a silly child’s game. But will it stop there? Maybe next you’ll be “messing around” with astrology or tarot cards. You’ll find a friend who shares these interests, and that friend will start telling you about paganism and Wicca and if you keep going in that direction, who knows where you’ll end up? People who say they “don’t have any religion” are often the most vulnerable to the occult, without evidently recognizing that such beliefs are also a religion.

Does it seem to you, however, that there could be a connection between your “messing around” with the occult and your recent emotional disturbances? Because I don’t believe in coincidences, and because evil is real, it strikes me that you may be under the influence of evil — and I mean Evil with a capital “E” — without realizing it.

Well, I ain’t superstitious.
Black cat just crossed my trail . . .
Don’t sweep me with no broom.
I might get put in jail.
— “I Ain’t Superstitious,” Willie Dixon (1961)

Rather than being superstitious, let’s exclude the possibility that the “Mystifying Oracle” of the Ouija board summoned forth the spirits to provide the answer to your inquiry. There were five girls involved in that game — yourself, Cara, Chloe, Anne, and Ellie — and let us suppose that at least one of them deliberately manipulated the result.

Who suggested this game and why? What was their motive? Evil has human agents, after all, and if the Powers of Darkness wished to influence you, wouldn’t your “friends” be an obvious means of exercising such an influence? You see that, even if you don’t attribute any magical power to the Ouija board, it can still be an instrument of evil through which your “friends” act to cause you harm.

“Ellie told me later that they were surprised . . .
that I seemed so casual about it.”

Were they really surprised?

“Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. . . . He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that — do not listen.”
— The Exorcist (1973)

If you’ve never read the book The Exorcist, you might want to do that, because it is actually quite a profound meditation on the nature of evil, and our vulnerability to evil. What we call “mental illness” was understood by the ancients as demonic possession, and I’m not sure that modern science is more accurate than the ancient understanding. Psychiatrists keep telling us it’s all neurochemistry — serotonin and synapses, blah, blah, blah — but is insanity always organic? Do crazy people just have bad brains? Isn’t our belief in the omnipotence of science a sort of religion?

Is it not possible that there are things beyond human explanation? Are we who believe in cosmic truth just stupid and ignorant? And what about your own search for answers?

I’ve been feeling this weird sense of powerlessness lately, like I have no control over anything in my life. . . .
Recently, I’ve been having a lot of mini-existential crises, mostly of the if-we-suffer-so-much-why-do-we-exist variety. I mostly just question myself in circles and end up exhausted by the end of it. . . .
I’m a control freak with no control over anything. . . .
I used to think I had some semblance of control over some of the things that happened to me in my tiny, insignificant life. But apparently that’s not true. Things happen to and around me and I have no control or power over them and that scares me, it really does.
Sometimes when I feel like this I find myself wanting to turn to a higher power, but there’s no higher power that I have the strength to believe in. I find it impossible to believe in a supreme being that allows terrible things to happen to people on a daily basis, that allows human beings to destroy themselves all the time, without so much as a whispered word of assistance.
Sometimes I’ll pray. I don’t know who or what I’m praying to, or if my prayers are heard.

WARNING: Evil is real. If you “don’t know who or what [you’re] praying to,” don’t you think Satan may be listening? Yes, “terrible things happen to people on a daily basis,” but why do think that is? Don’t you think that Evil and Death are partners? And if you surrender to the influence of Evil, what do you think happens next?

Hadn’t you better see if Good and Life are within reach?

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
— John 1: 1-5 (KJV)

Darkness still does not comprehend the light.

By the way, Miss Teenage Feminist, isn’t it kind of weird that I found your blog this morning? I’ve been researching radical feminism — a mental illness in its own right — and it is admittedly weird to discover a high school kid writing about “heteronormativity.”

Probably just another random coincidence, eh?

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Category: Feminism, Religion

Comments

142 Responses to “An Omen of the ‘Mystifying Oracle’?”

PJ
July 12th, 2014 @ 5:37 pm

being outside definitely helps, thank you. 🙂
Mm
July 12th, 2014 @ 5:37 pm

How is he “forcing” anything? You don’t have to read this blog. Speaking about what you believe is not “forcing” anything.
PJ
July 12th, 2014 @ 5:38 pm

when he writes a blog post bashing one of my best friends, you can’t expect her not to read it.
Mm
July 12th, 2014 @ 5:42 pm

Ad hom. You mean like coming here and calling people you don’t even know, hypocrites?
Mm
July 12th, 2014 @ 5:45 pm

So? She is posting publicly. That invites commentary. And he did not bash her, he warned her. How would you feel if I went to her blog and called her names, never having met her, for talking about her vagina and “fucking” all the time? It’s ok for her to “force” her beliefs on others?
Mm
July 12th, 2014 @ 5:49 pm

I did. I chose Truth.
PJ
July 12th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm

Of course not, but the people who read her blog agree with what she’s saying…that’s why they read it. And then, someone comes along trying to warn her about the devil…it’s not like she asked for that. I don’t recall calling the author names, though I find what he said to be rude. Basically, we’re not gonna look out for the devil and stop “playing around with evil,” which is definitely not the cause for my metal illness or any of her issues. I don’t pray to anyone or anything, I think the Bible is just a part of history. It means nothing more to me. So I’m gonna do my thing, and you can do yours.
Mm
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:09 pm

O.K. But when you let other people do their thing, if you really believe that, that includes letting them say what they want to say, especially when it’s in their own space, even if you don’t agree. Also, I have to say, when you blog on the Internet, you are asking for people to write about what you say. Look what happened here – your friend wrote about something, McCain commented on it, and now you’re commenting on what he and others are saying. I am ok with that, even if I don’t agree with some of what you say.
David R. Graham
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:13 pm

Conjuring the devil.
Federale
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:19 pm

Satanist, Democrats, Communists; they are all the same. Only a Satanist could come up with the term “heteronormativity. Heterosexuality is normal because of sexual reproduction. Science tell us this, it is an expression of the natural law, and it is reveal to us as well through His law, which is expressed through His will and in the order of His creation. Heteronormativity is an expression of nature and Nature’s God.

I am thinking this vagina will be a suicide statistic soon, or a Democrat Party activist. One is brain dead, the other just dead.
Federale
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:20 pm

Begone Demon. Burn in hell fire.
Federale
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:21 pm

That’s racist to criticize Obama like that.
Jeanette Victoria
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:40 pm

Look up Poke Runyon and tell me I don’t know about this stuff and how evil evil really is and how easily it fools people
Jeanette Victoria
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:41 pm

That is exactly what it does gives folks delusions of knowing things the mindless minons don’t know
Jeanette Victoria
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:44 pm

There is nothing wrong with disrespecting dangerous and stupid beliefs
Jeanette Victoria
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:49 pm

LOL you sure told me And if had actually read what I have written I care for the immoral souls of everyone. It is a terrible tragedy to die before one is right with the savior and that includes homosexuals, lying and saying what they do is not sinful is a horrific lie of the worst kind.
McGehee
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:49 pm

What Evi said. Also, you’re assuming I’m Catholic because of my surname? That’s raaaaacist. Plus I have twice as many college degrees as you do, and I know exactly what mine are worth.
NeoWayland
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:52 pm

No, they aren’t.
Mr. B
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:54 pm

Your depression isn’t caused by your atheism, but just because you’re an atheist doesn’t mean that you’re immune from spiritual attacks.
Wombat_socho
July 12th, 2014 @ 6:55 pm

You don’t even know us, and yet you presume to pass judgment. 0/10, weak troll is weak.
Wombat_socho
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:01 pm

Clearly not everyone who reads blogs agrees with everything they read. That doesn’t even happen on LiveJournal, which is supposed to be an online diary of sorts. The fact that one is putting stuff out on the Internet means you’re okay with anybody and everybody dropping by to comment on it, and if you’re not okay with that, maybe you want to reconsider posting and just write stuff down in an old-fashioned dead-tree journal and show it to nobody – because as the old saying goes, three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Wombat_socho
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:01 pm

Gnosticism is a hell of a drug.
Jeanette Victoria
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:21 pm

Yep I’m the real deal I really knew students of Crowley I was ininiated into the OTO and The Golden Dawn. Not to mention various wiccian “traditions”. Been there have the T .
Jeanette Victoria
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:30 pm

You don’t even know me and you don’t like me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5P6zdlPJ34
Mm
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:30 pm

And it manipulates our egos and stokes self pride and narcissism. The occult in its various forms is attractive because it makes people believe that they’re so special that they were given special insight and powers.
JackB.
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:36 pm

shut up, you loathsome, hateful piece of dung.
Mm
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:38 pm

My reply disappeared, so I’ll try again.
Wow, Jeanette, it really is God’s work that you got out of that. Literally, thank God.

Along these lines, tons of people in positions of authority and wealth belong to these groups. The allure of power is a powerful narcotic.
Jeanette Victoria
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:41 pm

To be honest I was never that interest I was along for the ride and being used by my ex because I was a good medium. But I’ve paid the price Satan hates to lose one of his own I think.
JackB
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:43 pm

I just did. looks like an interesting guy. it also says he was a Freemason. So what? So was George Washington. was he evil? see, this is really hitting I n something about the Christian Right and it goes together with a lot of what’s been said about them: you want to change the us from a democracy(or constitutional republic)into a theocracy, and the reason is you see the founders as Satanic due to their Masonic beliefs, and therefore their system is invalid, and wrong. You guys hide behind the flag though and have done a wonderful job of onfiltrating the government to turn to your desired outcome. You’re the real fifth column, and not the left.
Mm
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:46 pm

Have we ever been a theocracy? No. From the beginning, there was prayer in schools, at government meetings, etc. Now, all of that has been eliminated. Wanting some of those things returned to their place in our culture is not wanting a theocracy. That is the way the founding fathers understood our society to be, and they wrote the Constitution. If allowing kids to pray in school 200 years ago was ok and this country was not a theocracy, it shouldn’t be today, either.
Jeanette Victoria
July 12th, 2014 @ 7:46 pm

Funny how you just focus on the Masonic stuff and leave the rest out. And BTW I like the man that doesn’t mean I don’t think he is fooling himself and playing with fire
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July 12th, 2014 @ 7:51 pm

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JackB
July 12th, 2014 @ 8:16 pm

And what kind of loser refers to a 14 year old girl as a “vagina”, and claims she’ll be a suicide statistic?

Nice job!
DaTechGuy on DaRadio
July 12th, 2014 @ 8:23 pm

My prescription is holy water then confession
JeffS
July 12th, 2014 @ 8:49 pm

George Washington was indeed a Freemason.

He was also a devout Christian.

Cherry picking is not your friend.

It’s also obvious that you know nothing of Freemasonry, save that which one reads in conspiracy books.
Jeanette Victoria
July 12th, 2014 @ 9:47 pm

Let’s get real what she is really saying is How Dare You Post About Christianity And Offend Me!
DeadMessenger
July 12th, 2014 @ 10:21 pm

Interesting and spot on, Stacy. There are no coincidences: Proverbs 16:33.

As I mentioned in a previous comment, I’m a Christian counselor, and have been for several years. The vast majority of my contacts are via email from all over the world.

At first, these were questions and problems that Christians had: marriage problems, questions about doctrine and prophecy, medical problems, deliverance from habitual sin, teenagers having trouble resolving the requirements of Christianity with their desire to be part of the world, etc.

A couple of years ago now, I started getting questions about demons, fallen angels and spiritual warfare, again, mostly from Christians. Slowly these built up into Christians experiencing demonic affliction and even possession. I myself had trouble reconciling what I was seeing and hearing with the western hemisphere Protestant teaching that I had been exposed to. I prayed, asking for wisdom and discernment in these areas, and God began teaching me, and not only that, allowing me to experience things that brought me understanding. Possession and affliction can be horrific and difficult, and I asked myself whether this was what I signed up for as a counselor, but yet, I knew that God would not give me work to do if he did not intend to enable me to do it. I few years ago, I would not have believed it if someone had told me the things that I now know to be true.

At present, 99% of my counseling efforts involve demonology. In addition, I’m seeing that over half of them now involve unbelievers – or, shall I say, former unbelievers – who have realized that no one in the secular world can treat them, as no one even believes them. These are individuals who are frightened nearly out of their wits (with good reason) and have no one else to turn to. A small percentage do turn out to be mentally ill, but those are pretty easy to differentiate after just a couple of sessions, and I refer them to mental health professionals. Some who I have counseled for a longer period of time have come to trust me and have even sent me some mind-blowing pictures of physical manifestations. And before anybody starts making “photoshop” noises, note that I have decades of graphic arts experience and didn’t just fall off a turnip truck in any event. Plus, the Holy Spirit tells me what’s true and not. If somebody is zooming me, I know it.

Of late, it’s obvious that demonic activity has become bolder and more widespread, which I suppose is to be expected as the time grows shorter.

Anyone committing habitual sin or dabbling in the occult, even, as Stacy points out, in a seemingly “minor” way, like the girl in the blog post, is opening themselves up to spiritual warfare, and for some, the spiritual warfare is intense and physical and frightening. Without help, some are driven to suicide.

We in the Western world, being children of “rationalism” and “humanism” have a hard time believing these things. Even Christians, who know good and full well that there is spiritual warfare, have a difficult time reconciling that concept with their perception of “reality.” As I said, I myself had a hard time with this.

I could write a book about the things I now know. Maybe I will someday, but my point is that what Stacy has said here is 100% true and real, and, and he suggests, the only antidote is saving Grace.
DeadMessenger
July 12th, 2014 @ 10:27 pm

Absolutely 100% true, and I’ve seen a lot of younger people with some pretty severe demonic affliction stemming from the use of Ouija boards.

Hearing this from someone with your background only confirms what I have observed.

Thank you for sharing that.
DeadMessenger
July 12th, 2014 @ 10:32 pm

I agree with you there. People I have counseled who are demonically afflicted, but most often possessed, initially see mental health professionals and/or medical doctors. These people typically don’t even believe in the supernatural/spiritual, let alone trained to handle spiritual evil.
Jeanette Victoria
July 12th, 2014 @ 10:33 pm

One only need to read Anne Rice to see what happens one becomes demonically obsessed. I’m not the only person to make such an observation. Her Facebook fan page is a study in demonic perversity cheering section.
RS
July 12th, 2014 @ 10:37 pm

No additional comment as none is necessary. I write only to say, “spot-on.”
JackB.
July 12th, 2014 @ 10:56 pm

Freemasonry is an occult practice. Whether or not I know the details of the practice of Freemasonry, is irrelevant. Jeanette claimed Poke was involved with evil. I read his Wikipedia page, and it said he was mostly involved with Freemasonry, so Freemasonry must be bad in her mind. so if Freemasonry is bad, and George Washington was a mason then Washington must be bad, too. got it schmuck? I really hate you people.
JackB.
July 12th, 2014 @ 10:59 pm

Nowhere in thst article does it say he was “devout”. that’s you saying that.
JackB.
July 12th, 2014 @ 11:03 pm

The Catholic Church, along with other Christian sects have been openly opposed to Masonry for centuries, too.
NeoWayland
July 12th, 2014 @ 11:09 pm

Almost everything I can say on this thread will most likely be misunderstood.

I will say this. If you’ve really done what you’ve said, you need to check your bearings before you do anything else. Talk to another counselor or one of those mental health professionals you mentioned. Find a priest or minister, preferably one you don’t know but with a good reputation, and talk to them.

Don’t trust your judgement alone.
DeadMessenger
July 12th, 2014 @ 11:51 pm

Of course. I’ve checked these things out thoroughly, and continue to do so. Which is why I say that I now have easily enough material to write a book if I wanted (had time) to.
NeoWayland
July 13th, 2014 @ 12:10 am

Pardon, but it doesn’t seem like you are considering anyone else’s judgment. There was a lot of “I” in your post above.

And of course you know that writing a book is the wrong reason to do what you’ve described.
Luke
July 13th, 2014 @ 12:23 am

Freemasonry is “occult” in the context of “hidden”.
But there is nothing of the paranormal in Freemasonry.
Not to mention that even the slightest familiarity with the organization will inform you that there is no stronger influence on the organization than English Enlightenment Christianity.

Also note that the Enlightenment was largely inspired by Christian doctrine. I challenge you to find a better example of intellectual freedom.

Power exists, and has always existed. Christianity is powerful.
The various New Age occult movements traffic in the illusion of power, not power. (Unless you’re considering the power of the sect leader over his followers. THAT is real. And often abused.)
JeffS
July 13th, 2014 @ 12:38 am

You do not understand Freemasonry.

You also suck at logic. A typical mistake of people who are consumed with hate.