Mental Illness or Demonic Possession?

Clinical Psychologist

• Richard Gallagher is a board-certified psychiatrist and a professor of clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College. He is at work on a book about demonic possession in the United States. As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. Also, I help spot demonic possession.

UK Telegraph - Rise of the exorcists in Catholic Church• The Roman Catholic Church is training up a new generation of priests to meet a

growing demand for exorcisms• Brietbart - ROME, Italy– The tenth annual course on exorcism has

gotten off to a bang in Rome, with a full house of 170 students eager to learn how to recognize and fight demonic possession.• One priest trained in exorcism put it this way: “If one is addicted to

something, it allows the evil spirit to hook into that and make it more potent.” The warning, then, is to avoid that which potentially COULD lead to demonic possession including all obsessions. Participating in any of the objectionable activities is not necessarily guaranteed to lead to demonic possession, but it is the weakness that the demon latches onto.

Diagnosis of Last Resort• Medical doctor• Psychological services

Where do spirits come from?

Genesis 61 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

The Book of Enoch

Par illustrators of the 1728 Figures de la Bible, Gerard Hoet (1648–1733) and others, published by P. de Hondt in The Hague in 1728

Enoch• Enoch son of Jared• Enoch great-great grandfather of Noah• Genesis 521 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

The Book of Enoch

• Jude 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,• Details the fallen angels coming down from heaven and mating with

earth woman to produce monstrosities• These are the names of their chiefs: Samyaza, who was their leader,

Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel, Ramuel, Danel, Azkeel, Saraknyal, Asael, Armers, Batraal, Anane, Zavebe, Samsaveel, Ertael, Turel, Yomyael, Arazyal. These were the prefects of the two hundred angels, and the remainder were all with them.

Caution – Not Part of the Bible

• Not Divinely Inspired• It has been officially ruled out of the canonical books to 364 at the

Council of Laodicea (canon 60), and is regarded since as apocryphal by other Churches Christian. • Might be history, at most

Enoch 15

8 Now the giants, who have been born of spirit and of flesh, shall be called upon earth evil spirits, and on earth shall be their habitation. Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh, because they were created from above; from the holy Watchers was their beginning and primary foundation. Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits of heaven shall be in heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born on earth9 The spirits of the giants shall be like clouds, which shall oppress, corrupt, fall, content, and bruise upon earth.10 They shall cause lamentation. No food shall they eat; and they shall be thirsty; they shall be concealed, and shall not rise up against the sons of men, and against women; for they come forth during the days of slaughter and destruction.

The Pattern• Look for several of these indications• Not singular symptom

Voices

• Holy Spirit• John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the

Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.• Unholy spirits• Counterfeit• Communicate telepathically • Possible to manifest

Hallucinations• God gave the old testament prophets holy visions/prophesy• Counterfeit• Hallucinations – Religious statues opening their eyes.

Characteristics of Demonic Possession• Nakedness• Luke 8:27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man,

which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

• Acts 19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Case Study• Mark 5

1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.Eastern side of Sea of Galilee

Matthew 17: 14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

Warm Wet Places

• Lake of FireRevelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Dead things, people, places

• 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs• An excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.• A monument for housing or commemorating a dead person.

a man with an unclean spirit,

• Holy Spirit• Unclean spirit

Containment

• 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him,• Noun – the act of fastening, securing• Seattle – April – Man accused of torture killing escapes psychiatric hospital• Darwin, Australia Timor Sea port- Kwementyaye, 23, was mentally ill and

escaped from the Cowdy Ward on January 13 last year. He escaped after scaling a four-metre fence and later walked to the Bagot Aboriginal community in Darwin. Kwementyaye had begun hearing voices inside his head the day after he smoked some cannabis in late 2014 and his family thought someone had put witchcraft on him.

Supernatural Strength

• no, not with chains:• 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and

the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces:

Ursula and Sabina Eriksson• Ursula and Sabina Eriksson (born 1967) are Swedish twin sisters who came to national attention in

the United Kingdom in May 2008 after an apparent episode of folie à deux (or "shared psychosis"), a rare psychiatric disorder in which delusional beliefs are transmitted from one individual to another

• Resulted in a series of bizarre incidents on the M6 motorway and the subsequent killing of Glenn Hollinshead of Fenton, Staffordshire. There was no evidence that drugs or alcohol were involved in the incidents on the M6 or the death of Hollinshead.

• Shortly after police arrived, the women again ran onto the motorway and were struck by oncoming vehicles, a Volkswagen Polo hitting Sabina and a Mercedes-Benz Actros lorry crushing Ursula's legs. Sabina suffered a serious head injury that left her unconscious for several minutes. When Sabina regained consciousness, she refused medical aid and attacked a police officer, at which point she was arrested.

• Shortly afterward (released) she was taken in by Hollinshead, whom she later stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack. She was pursued running from the scene and arrested in hospital after jumping from a bridge onto a busy trunk road

Tame – Changed from the wild or savage state

• neither could any man tame him.• London, English Channel – April - Dangerous' mental health patient escapes from Hackney

secure unit. Cornell Destouche, 25, requires daily medication to control his paranoid schizophrenia.

• Austin Harrouff 19 of Miami was found biting the male victim's face “and removing pieces of it with his teeth.” It allegedly took multiple officers, a police dog, and a taser to subdue the teen. So far, officials haven't figured out a motive for the attack, but new evidence has come to light that makes the situation even more bizarre. The initial belief was that Harrouff was on some kind of drug—most likely flakka—that may have led to a psychotic break. Initial testing, however, has come back negative for cocaine, methamphetomines, marijuana, and other common drugs. Mother told Officer Luis Rocha her son had no history of mental illness nor heavy drug use. Sheriff William Snyder told reporters that Harrouff was also “grunting and growling,” and “making animal noises.”

Other Account

• Matthew 8:28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.• Fierce - anger

High Places• 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, • Numbers 22:41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high

places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.

• 2 Kings 18:18 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

• Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

• Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Miami Cannibal

In 2012, witnesses reported seeing naked male assailant 31-year-old Rudy Eugene dangling from one of the light poles of a Miami causeway “acting like Tarzan,” and then pummeling 65-year-old Ronald Poppo, who was sitting in the shade on the sidewalk. Eugene began stripping away the man’s clothing and tore at his face with his teeth. The attack lasted approximately 18 minutes before he was shot dead by police. Officers on the scene state that when they ordered Eugene to back away from Poppo, he turned at them and growled. Other eye witnesses say that he was acting “like a rabid dog.” Toxicologists only found marijuana in Eugene’s system. Haitian descent.

Excessive Crying

• and in the tombs, crying,• Psalm 30:2 O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed

me. 3 O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Cutting

• and cutting himself with stones.• Cutter - One who cuts themselves to relieve themselves from an

emotional pain. Cutting is not something one advertises, and when someone does cut they are generally ashamed and hide it as well as they can. Can be done with any sharp object, such as, but not limited to, knives, razors, broken glass, broken cd's, scissors, and safety pins.

• Leviticus 19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

Sasha Fierce/Beyonce• The infamous 'wardrobe malfunction' that saw Beyonce's earring apparently ripped

out and her ear bleeding appears to have caused a wave of imitators online.• Within minutes of the accident, after which the singer performed her show with a

bleeding left earlobe, #cutforbeyonce was trending on Twitter.• Since then several fans have claimed to mutilate themselves to show respect to their

'Queen Bey' - and they've posted the pictures to prove it.• But while Beyonce merely suffered a small cut on her ear that left a trickle of blood

down her neck, some of her fans have performed more severe forms of self-mutilation.

• 'If the queen bleeds the hive must unify and leak our blood to restore her spirits. Beyhive we must #CutForBeyonce,' wrote @charmonille, posting a picture of a wrist with a single cut down it.

Entities Know the Lord

• 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.• Mark 1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a

loud voice, he came out of him.• Luke 4:33 And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit

of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,

Sometimes, the entities name is their purpose

• 8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.• 9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My

name is Legion: for we are many.• Names – Lust, Perversion, Jezebel, Mammon, Witchcraft

Consignment to the Pit

• 10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.• Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from

heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.• Revelation 9:2• And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of

the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

Consignment to the Pit

• Exorcist Bob Larson• But at the conclusion of the process, I usually stick closely to the

protocol already detailed earlier, commanding the demonic intruder to announce its own doom and to declare that it acknowledges that judgment of tormenting consignment to the Abyss, the Pit. By having the demon declare its own explusion, it is legally bound by the words it has spoken, “With all my kind, I go now to the Pit.”

Big Foot Explanation?

• 11 Now there was there night unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.• 12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine,

that we may enter into them.• 13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went

out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.

The Cure• Mark 5• 15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the

devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.