The reliability of psychic transmissions and the testing of the spirits

- 3 - indiscriminately allowing unacquainted people to enter their home. The situation is not all that different with recklessly making contact with the world of the hereafter. A psychically gifted terrestrial person has opened an inner door through which an otherworldly being “entered”. This being might find that the offered opportunity is very much diversified, because it can now influence the thoughts of a terrestrial human being and settle down with this person. The victim will then often hear an uninterrupted inner voice, receive nonsensical orders, is scurrilously abused and prevented from sleeping. A situation then develops that one calls “foreign influences” (Umsessenheit)” or also called “possession” if the personal consciousness of a person is largely switched off . The behaviourism of these unfortunate victims is often so conspicuous and their personal state so unbearable that they have to seek psychiatric care. The calamity about this is that these people are classified as mentally ill, schizophrenic or neurotic by doctors and are then treated with psychotropic drugs. These drugs do temporarily “sedate” them, but do generally not heal them, because they are medically speaking not mentally ill. These patients then suffer from the powerful side-effects of these psychotropic drugs but are most of the time not returned to good health. Their condition can under certain circumstances remain unchanged until the end of their life. In conjunction with this one has to consider that a state of foreign influence or possession is not only produced through careless spiritistic practices, but also through attempts at magic, the utilisation of “The sixth and seventh book of Moses”, the lecturing in esoteric books, the participation in witches rituals and all meditation practices. The last mentioned makes the meditating person mentally empty the mind and unlock the inner door. Uninvited entities can enter the “house” and settle in if an analogical psychic ability is present. Dangers can lurk even there, where proceedings happen very piously on an external level, namely with so-called “Charismatic Churches” of both Christian denominations. The “speaking in tongues” and the “spirit baptism” practised there must not necessarily be emanating from God’s positive world of spirit. The evangelic Pastor Dr. Erich Lubahn , having been involved for decades in the deliverance of people afflicted by otherworldly forces, published impressive examples of fateful consequences arising from the participation at charismatic events in his book “Auf der Suche nach der Unsichtbaren Wirklichkeit, die Notwendigkeit der Geisterunterscheidung” Christliches Verlaghaus Stuttgart 1993 (6). Most of them are focused on genuinely turning to God, but not always, particularly not when God is supposed to be forced or coerced through lots of shouts of hallelujah to effect a specific healing for instance. I have personally experienced these things. The described damages do not necessarily have to eventuate and things usually turn out fine, but it can happen. It will then be too late for good advice. Numerous people, having gotten themselves into trouble in one way or another in this field, turn to me every year looking for help. They cannot find understanding or help from their doctors or their psychiatrists most of the time either. Their indication that they could possibly be dealing with possession is usually seen as a symptom of their mental illness. 2. Deceptions and falsifications in the field of religion and spiritualism The German linguistic usage distinguishes between two concepts that sound relatively similar, namely ”spiritism” and ”spiritualism”. 1. “Spiritism” is the doctrine of the survival of human beings after their terrestrial demise without initially taking a religious reference into consideration. When an attempt is made for instance to