Comments on: Do Evil Spirits Exist?

By: Varsha lalwani

Varsha lalwani — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:53:37 +0000

I m facing some experince since 4m childhood about evil spirits .
This one was horrible ,In may 2010 i saw girl might be of mid age nt old one she was covered wid black curly hair .she hold my ankles when i jst fallen asleep and she graped me fully .
Before i have faced experiences lyk grabing nd sudeen movements shrug either by my hands or legs but only at the night time . I ignorer it before as i thought i might be only my thinking .

This time it was not a mere thing which i can ignore easily . Then recently in oct i again been grabed and there was band not the ordinary bt of different kind
NOW ANY PERSON I DONT THINK WILL HIT A DRUM AT 1.30AM…..

My family knows these experiences of mine , my grandma helps me in this, bt those who are literates in my family they think i m having some mental problem.

But i dont think so as my friend and her parents also have seen some spirits.

By: Jeff Lilly

Jeff Lilly — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:43:59 +0000

Thanks, Thalia. I completely agree with you about ‘New Age’. I was exposed to a lot of New Age ideas growing up, balanced with a heavy dose of Buddhism, and there’s definitely a lot of background assumptions in it. I think some of them come from Christianity, others from Theosophy, and others from famous psychics like Edgar Cayce and the Seth Speaks woman (I forget her name).

Personally a lot of my more recent thinking on evil spirits is informed by the research I did into the ‘mythology’ of the homeless children in Miami. I still think these spirits have no power without our own fear, but if we *are* fearful, they can get a LOT of power. And controlling our fear is not always easy.

By: Thalia

Thalia — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:26:42 +0000

I only just found, or re-found this post; it’s what, going on five years old now? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about spirits and guides. Well, not like I haven’t been thinking of spirits and guides since just about forever, but lately I’m really starting to wonder about religious differences. I’m Pagan, (you probably remember that) and have much the same experience you detail in this post (though you say you have since changed your mind on it a bit) in that I just don’t believe evil spirits exist, and in looking at other peoples’ views I’m coming to realize just how much the sort of New Age taken-as-given information about spirits really does represent a very specific worldview, even a religion of its own, one that I’m finding pretty much incompatible with my own. So it’s interesting to read this.

Also, I never encountered any of those fear-spirits you mention in another post, those illusory scary things that aren’t really anything at all, until a New Ager came to my blog about my spirit guide and started going on about how he absolutely must be manipulating me. But now I do, because she managed to aggravatingly enough plant some seeds of doubt. But it’s good to hear about them from someone else, and to have confirmed that they aren’t much at all, just fears.

Anyway, this old post is helping me clarify things, so thank you. Even though I’m all for finding the commonalities between religions, I’m really finding that New Age stuff is not after all some kind of background truth about spirituality and is its own thing.