Doug Tales 154: Holes in Auras, Part Two

Doug Mendenhall shares in Possibilities: Lessons From the Spirit (2002), pp. 150-151 one of his many experiences with dark spirits and things learned from the experience, along with some of Brigham Young’s teachings about earthbound and evil spirits in the valleys of Utah:

I have found that in the “Lord’s University” the lessons seem to come all the time. I was still wondering about holes in auras and about how they allowed devils or spirits to come in when a friend from Boise called and asked if I wanted to take a short three day vacation to St. George to play around. We don’t get to play much anymore, so I agreed and asked if Denise could go.

“The more the merrier,” he said.

We had a great time in St. George looking at petroglyphs and hiking. We stayed in a townhouse that a friend was trying to sell. I was telling Bob, my friend, that on a previous visit to the house my daughter had come into my room and announced she was going to sleep on the floor in my room. I asked, “Why?”

She just said, “Because.”

We have stayed there several times since and she always wanted to sleep on the floor in my room. Finally I asked if there was a dark spirit in the home.

“Yes, Dad,” came the reply.

That night I was sitting talking to Bob. Denise had gone off to bed. The living room, dining room and kitchen were combined into one large room. Out of the corner of my eye I kept seeing something “dark” pacing back and forth in the dining area of the room. This went on for quite a while.

“Bob,” I asked, “do you see a dark spirit over there by the kitchen?”

He looked and said, “No, but it is dark over there, and I don’t mean the lights aren’t on.”

The next morning I asked my daughter if the spirit was a “devil” or the spirit of someone that was “earth bound.”

“He is earthbound,” she answered.

“Is he an evil or a mean spirit?” I asked.

“Yes, he is,” she replied.

I thought about the teaching of Brigham Young: “There are myriads of disembodied evil spirits – those who have long ago laid down their bodies here and in the regions round about, among and around us; and they are trying to make us and our children sick, and are trying to destroy us and to tempt us to evil. They will try every possible means they are masters of to draw us aside from the path of righteousness.” (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 6:73-74)

“There are millions and millions of spirits in these valleys, both good and evil. We are surrounded with more evil spirits than good ones, because more wicked than good men have died here. . .The spirits of the just and unjust are here. The spirits that were cast down out of heaven, which you know are recorded to have been one-third part, were thrust down to this earth, and have been here all the time, with Lucifer, the Son of the Morning, at their head. (Brigham Young, Dec. 4, 1856, Journal of Discourses 4:133-134)