Doug Tales 153: Holes in Auras, Part One

When one of the ten lepers Jesus encountered on his way to Jerusalem “saw that he was healed, [he] turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, And he fell down on his face at [Jesus’s] feet, giving him thanks.” (Luke 17:15-16) In a similar manner, Doug Mendenhall learned that healing spiritually or casting out of evil spirits should be followed by gratitude. Doug explains how he learned of this concept in Possibilities: Lessons From the Spirit (2002), pp. 147-150.

We had meetings where people would come up and tell us their problems with devils:

One woman told me her four year old grandson was plagued by them. She would see spiders appear on his cheek and then disappear.

Another woman told us her LDS bishop believed her three year old son was possessed.

A doctor told us she had a patient that was plagued with devils. The patient could hear them, and they would talk through her to the doctor. I had no answers for any of them.

Denise, my friend and I were scheduled to do a book review at the doctor’s home. We arrived about one hour early. A woman had come early in order to talk to us. We entered the living room where she was sitting with a friend of hers. The doctor stayed with her. She told us her story of “mental’ problems, being able to hear the devils and dealing with them for years. How a lot of her family has the same problem. I asked my daughter if she had any devils in her.

“No, she doesn’t have any in her,” was her reply.

“Does she have any on her,” I asked.

“Yes,” she answered, “five of them.”

Now my daughter and I have this little “scale” from one to ten for devils. One on the scale is the little guy that would stab me in the leg when I judged. Ten would be Satan. “Denise,” I asked, “on our scale, where are these guys that are on her?”

“They are nines, they are really bad guys,” she said. I asked the woman if she had received any “blessings” and she said that she had but they didn’t seem to work.

“Can my friend and I give her a blessing to get rid of them?” I asked. “If not, what can we do?”

“Dad,” my daughter replied, “She has to ask Christ to come, and she has to ask Him to take them. We can’t do it for her.”…

The woman bowed her head and offered a silent prayer, asking that Christ come and take the devils away. She prayed for several minutes. Finally she lifted her head up and my daughter made the comment that the devils were gone. The woman confirmed that they were; she had felt them leave.

I talked to her doctor several weeks later and was told that the devils had left her for two days and then came back. We talked for a while about this and could not understand why they would come back if Christ had taken them away from her. This was something that we had no understanding about. I asked Denise and she told me, “Go ask Christ and He would tell me.” I should have known that answer was coming.

About one week later I was chatting with a man and woman from Kearns, Utah about some of our experiences. I related this story to them, wondering if they had any ideas about why the devils had come back. All at once it hit us at the same time. She had holes (for lack of a better term) in her aura from the devils. She needed to say a prayer of gratitude to seal them up.

I remembered her doctor had told me in an e-mail, “It seems that most of her spirits (devils) were spirits that had died, but were still earth-bound. They all said through her, that they came to her because she could hear them, they liked having a body even if they didn’t have much control over it, and one said he could enter in because of a hole in her energy field or aura. She has been working to close those holes on a daily basis.”

I called her doctor and told her the feelings that my friend from Kearns and I had about holes in the aura and possibly closing them with a prayer of gratitude, it was just theory. We weren’t really sure. I asked her to let us know what happened.

I have found that in the “Lord’s University” the lessons seem to come all the time.