- Exorcism and religious intolerance, Talk To Action, February 1, 2011
- Catholic exorcism and NYPD “experts on occult crimes”???, LiveJournal, February 6, 2011
- The Catholic exorcism trend and Italy’s Satanic panic, Wordpress, February 9, 2011.
- Bill Donohue boasts: exorcism now mainstream, LiveJournal, February 11, 2011
- Preliminary response to Michael Cuneo on exorcism, Wordpress, February 12, 2011
Showing posts with label demons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demons. Show all posts
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Exorcism, Satanic panic, and a sex scandal involving a Catholic exorcist and anti-abortion activist
Given the popularity of the latest exorcism movie The Rite, and given all the talk about how the exorcism trend is scaring people back into the Catholic Church, I've written several posts about exorcism and related topics on various blogs:
Friday, February 4, 2011
Self deception
In a comment in in the General Feedback Thread, louis syfer asked, in reply to my page "About the Joy of Satan system of respectful demon evocation": "HOW CAN YOU DECEIVE YOURSELF, OR HARM YOURSELF IF IT IS YOU THAT YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY WORKING WITH?"
First off, the Joy of Satan people do not believe that "it is you that you are essentailly working with." They believe that they are having 2-way conversations with the Demons/Gods -- who are seen as advanced anthropomorphic space aliens who are believed to have a genetic relationship to humans and who are believed to spend a lot of their time astrally projecting themselves to Earth and talking to humans.
Second, people deceive themselves all the time -- even in the mundane world. See the list of cognitive biases in Wikipedia. And much of magick is essentially self-hypnosis, which can be a valuable mental discipline but can certainly also be used in ways that deceive oneself.
First off, the Joy of Satan people do not believe that "it is you that you are essentailly working with." They believe that they are having 2-way conversations with the Demons/Gods -- who are seen as advanced anthropomorphic space aliens who are believed to have a genetic relationship to humans and who are believed to spend a lot of their time astrally projecting themselves to Earth and talking to humans.
Second, people deceive themselves all the time -- even in the mundane world. See the list of cognitive biases in Wikipedia. And much of magick is essentially self-hypnosis, which can be a valuable mental discipline but can certainly also be used in ways that deceive oneself.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
"About Demons" -- publication date?
I've been asked about the publication date and the last-modified date of my page About Demons.
Unfortunately, I did not keep track of the date that I first uploaded it. So the publication date will just have to be 2003. The earliest version in the Internet Archives is dated Febrary 10, 2004.
The last-modified date is much easier for me to ascertain -- April 22, 2009.
Unfortunately, I did not keep track of the date that I first uploaded it. So the publication date will just have to be 2003. The earliest version in the Internet Archives is dated Febrary 10, 2004.
The last-modified date is much easier for me to ascertain -- April 22, 2009.
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