Doug Tales 162: Balance, Part One

Doug Mendenhall shares ten traits of mental balance and eight traits of mental imbalance in I See…Awake! (2015), pp. 74-75, and every single one of them is based in things he himself and those close to him went through. The more one reads Doug’s writings and experiments on what he says, the more one perceives, understands, and sees how much his viewpoints are grounded in actual experience. Or to quote Doug’s friend, Denver Snuffer, “It is the doing that leads to the understanding.”(“2 Nephi 33:15” blog post, Sept. 9, 2010.) Even when Doug is just listing principles, he is encouraging us to look deeper to how these concepts work in our own lives, and by experience come to better comprehend them ourselves.

When we are balanced in our mind, we will display the following characteristics of the true self:

• Understands and respects the self-ownership and sovereignty of all beings.

• Understands natural law and strives to live in harmony with it at all times.

• Understands true non-dualism and strives to live in non-contradiction in thought, emotion, and action.

• Understands, espouses, and works toward true freedom.

• World view reflects the understanding that there is no real separation between self and others. The answer to this question, “How do you know if you are truly suffering?” is: If someone else is suffering. We are connected.

• Does not exist in mental schism.

• Seeks to break down institutionalized belief systems that hold back the progress of consciousness. (Think of Jesus Christ here.)

• Concerned with the alleviation of suffering for all beings. A negative example of this would be the world goes nuts over the killing of a lion (which was wrong) but doesn’t care about aborted babies and having their body parts sold off. There is a definite mental schism there.

• Knows that Jesus Christ is the great prototype, and we should become like Him—perfect.

• Understands that this should be only through our Lord Jesus Christ and by doing His will. “I am Jesus Christ; I came by the will of the Father, and I do his will.” (D&C 19:24)

Those who are only concerned about themselves, their false self, here are some of the characteristics they may display:

• Do not understand or respect the self-ownership and sovereignty of all beings. “We will force vaccinations on you and your children.” “You will obey me!”

• Does not understand natural law and lives in opposition with it in ignorance.

• Lives in dualism—perpetual contradiction between thought, emotion, and action.

• Cannot even envision true freedom, seeks only to control.

• Exists in a mental schism.

• Accepts and reinforces institutionalized belief systems that hold back the progress of consciousness. (Think of Satan here.)

• Completely unconcerned about the suffering of others, thinks only about the self. “Hey, anybody have a camera on their phone or iPad? I’m lookin’ good today!” “I’d better get home so I can blog about myself today.”

• Hears the adversary and does his will. He becomes their prototype.

Doug Tales 161: Enlightenment, Part Two

What prevents us from being enlightened? Fear, and not being able to see in the dark. That is, we can see in the dark of this world and its chaos when we have Light within ourselves and not fear. Doug Mendenhall continues his exploration of enlightenment and fear in I See…Awake! (2015), pp. 72-74:

Some religions use the tactic of fear to elicit compliance from their members. From radical Islam telling its adherents that they need to go out and kill a few Christians in order to get to heaven to Christians telling their members that they will reside in hell if they don’t come forward, confess Christ, and “get saved.”

The Lord God uses this technique of fear at times. He speaks of “eternal damnation” and “endless torment.” Why? To get the attention of our conscious mind, which for the most part is in a mental schism.

“Nevertheless, it is not written that there shall be no end to this torment, but it is written endless torment. Again, it is written eternal damnation; wherefore it is more express than other scriptures, that it might work upon the hearts of the children of men, altogether for my name’s glory. Wherefore, I will explain unto you this mystery, for it is meet unto you to know even as mine apostles. I speak unto you that are chosen in this thing, even as one, that you may enter into my rest. For, behold, the mystery of godliness, how great is it! For, behold, I am endless, and the punishment which is given from my hand is endless punishment, for Endless is my name. Wherefore—Eternal punishment is God’s punishment. Endless punishment is God’s punishment.” (D&C 19:6-12)

His name is “Endless” and “Eternal” so that is what He calls his punishment, but that doesn’t mean it lasts forever. But for those in a mental schism that is what they will “see” in their mind because they operate in a mode of fear—His punishment will go on forever and ever because it is endless and eternal.

In this section of scripture the Lord then goes on to call us to repentance and tells us how exquisite our punishment will be if we don’t repent. All of this is truth. It is said so as to work on the mindset and the hearts of His children so they will change—so they will wake up. Then in verse 21 He says:

“And I command you that you preach naught but repentance, and show not these things unto the world until it is wisdom in me. For they cannot bear meat now, but milk they must receive; wherefore, they must not know these things, lest they perish.” (vs. 21-22)

It is now time for meat, it is time to wake up from our mental schisms and become whole, complete, and “perfect.” We start this by becoming balanced in the Lord in our mind.

Doug Tales 160: Enlightenment, Part One

Arrogance is one of those things we easily perceive in others but usually have a blind eye to it within ourselves. However, if we really want to conquer spiritual evil, we must humbly look inside with Christ’s guidance and get rid of any darkness there while bringing into us light and truth. Doug Mendenhall explores being enlightened in I See…Awake! (2015), pp. 71-72:

Joseph Smith’s inspired translation of Hebrews chapter 6 sheds some interesting light on what God calls enlightenment:

“…for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come” (vs. 4–5)

The Lord declared those that are enlightened will have received the “heavenly gift” which means they received the Lord Jesus Christ, or the Second Comforter. He also states they have tasted the “powers of the world to come” meaning in this life they are quite gifted and use those gifts while here.

It reminds me of my friend Ron Poulton who wrote a paper called, “Experiencing Spiritual Evil in the Context of Psychotherapy.” He sat with a group of LDS therapists at a dinner and asked them how they dealt with possession in their practice. They informed him that it wasn’t part of their practice. When he said that Christ cast demons out in the New Testament times, they said that back in those days they didn’t understand how the mind works like we do now. This shows the arrogance of some intellectuals, believing they understand the mind better than the one person that came here and achieved perfection. I don’t have to tell you who I choose to believe.

Denver Snuffer made a comment about the wise and learned in his book Come, Let Us Adore Him:

“Rather it is the humility of the person which attracts notice from heaven. The reason the ‘wise and learned’ are confounded is because they are neither wise nor learned, but are arrogant. They trust their wisdom, they trust their learning, and they deny the Spirit which gives utterance. This has always been toxic.” (p. 74)

People have been bombarded with mind control programming their entire lives. The adversary uses all kinds of mind control techniques to cause mental schisms in people and to create a mind/brain imbalance. If this is accomplished, they are easily controlled. In previous chapters we have discussed some of the techniques that are used. Some techniques used to create this imbalance range from music to frequencies, radionics, electro-magnetic fields, GMO food, drugs, fluoride, government propaganda, schools, television, etc. One of the best ways is to keep people imbalanced and controlled is a constant state of fear, which many times is caused by government propaganda.

The Adversary works hard to keep us is a state of fear because it causes our upper brain or neocortex to cease functioning properly, and then our Reptile brain, or lower brain, kicks in. This will put us into a permanent state of “fight or flight.” Have you noticed how you’re constantly fed a diet of fear by the news media and government? Ebola, AIDS, measles, IRS, terrorists, extremists, police, economy, martial law, climate, global warming, oil crisis, war, and the list goes on forever of the things that you are told you must “fear.” When we operate from a place of fear, there is no possible way for our mind to be in balance. Instead we have a mental imbalance.

Doug Tales 159: Spiritual Shielding, Part Seven

Doug Mendenhall often used the emotion of gratitude for our Savior when he did spiritual work, like creating shields. Jesus Christ is the fount of all such good things, and as Doug showed with his life, our remembering and thanking Him makes our spiritual shielding stronger. These Christ-centered experiences of Doug’s are from his Conquering Spiritual Evil, Volume One (2012), pp. 83-85:

I ask my Father in the name of Jesus Christ for a shield of protection to be around me. If I’m meeting someone, and I know they don’t have much light or are extremely dark spiritually, I will ask for the shield to be a reflective shield that will send back to the sender whatever he might throw at me, only it will go back with love instead of darkness. We can put a shield around whatever we have stewardship over that we feel might need protection. I have no right to put a shield around you if I have no stewardship over you. If I do so, that is going against your agency, and we should never do that. Some people shield others without their permission. The Lord never did that, so what makes us think we have the right to do so?

You can put up thick shields or layers of them. Remember, we are creators and whatever we can conceive, we can create.

One time there was a group of us traveling in a fifteen passenger van to Idaho. I had arranged the trip and was in charge of the group. I was driving and in the seat next to me was a friend that has been without a veil her entire life. One of her gifts is that she has the ability to see energies.

As we entered the mountains above Boise, the sun was going down. I decided that I might want to put up some extra shields around the van since the deer would be coming out and crossing the roads. Silently in my mind I asked for shields three layers thick to be placed around the van. I asked that each layer of energy (shield) go a different direction; one forward, one backward and one sideways. I visualized this in my mind. I thanked the Savior for this blessing and then forgot about it.

About five minutes later, my friend asked me if I had put shields around the van.

“Yes,” I responded. “How did you know?”

“Well,” she said, “I saw them go up. Did you do three layers or levels of shields and is each layer going in a different direction?”

I was so excited to tell her yes. She had actually seen what I had asked the Lord to protect us with! It was a wonderful witness to what the Lord can do for us.

One of the seminars we did was in downtown Salt Lake City. There is a lot of evil in Salt Lake, and I knew one of the speakers would be talking about devils or demons. So I knew it was important to clear out the building of past darkness and place shields of protection there and angels around the building.

The night before the seminar I went to check out the meeting room. I knelt in prayer, raised my arm to the square and commanded all darkness in the building, floors, ceiling, walls and all areas above and below it to be cleansed of any demons, devils, earth bound spirits, or any kind of darkness. I asked the angels to come and sweep it clean. Then I asked for a shield of protection to be placed around the building and meeting room. Also I petitioned the Lord for large warrior angels to surround the building, shoulder to shoulder. I offered other words as directed by the Spirit.

The next day as the man was talking about darkness and what it does, he paused after twenty minutes and said that he had the ability to see dark entities and he needed to check the room. He said he needed to “sweep” the area as he has the ability to see spiritually things of darkness.

He looked and said that we were okay because there were large warrior angels standing shoulder to shoulder outside protecting us from any darkness. Then he went on with his talk.

There are several ways the adversary can penetrate or remove our spiritual shield. One is if we become angry about something. Others are judging, condemning, or becoming fearful. It is important to stay out of anger and judgment or any negative emotion for that matter. These things destroy the spirit and will destroy or cause cracks in any spiritual shield we may have which will darkness to come in and cause us problems. Disobeying God’s commandments will cause our shields to weaken or go away all together.

One of the best ways to increase the power of our spiritual shields is to repent, read our scriptures and pray often.

Doug Tales 158: Spiritual Shielding, Part Six

Another dictionary definition of a shield is “a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.” Notice the last part about being protected from: “swords, lances, arrows, etc.” This physical definition of a shield has a spiritual counterpart in protecting us from “the fiery darts of the adversary” mentioned in 1 Nephi 15:24. Doug Mendenhall tells of his friends using shields against dark arrows in Conquering Spiritual Evil, Volume One (2012), pp. 82-83:

We had a call one time from some people that wanted to come and visit. We knew that these people were workers of darkness or of negative energy. Denise also knew about them and said she would spend thirty seconds saying hello and then leave. I had invited three more friends to come over for the visit. Three of us knew about shields and independently had put them up. The fourth, Dave, was new to all of this and did not know about shields.

The people showed up, and we had an interesting visit of several hours. After they left, we all noticed that Dave wasn’t doing very well.

“Dave,” we asked, “didn’t you put up shields?”

“What’s that?” he responded.

We realized that we had never talked to him about them. The three of us were shielded and were fine, but Dave had at least eighteen “dark spiritual arrows” in him. They were sapping the life and energy out of him. We quickly taught him how to ask the Father in the name of Jesus Christ to have them removed. He did so and felt better almost immediately.

The three of us had all put up “reflective shields” that send whatever was sent us back to the sender as love rather than the darkness it came with.

One of the two women has the gift of spiritual sight. I asked her if the people had anything attached to them. She said that two of them had huge demons on their backs, and she described them to me. She went on to say that was what had been casting the arrows and other weapons of darkness at us. I thought it was interesting that it had been the demons attached to the people that had thrown the arrows, not the people themselves.

Doug Tales 157: Spiritual Shielding, Part Five

We can—and should—ask Jesus Christ for shielding of ourselves and where we live and have stewardship over. Doug Mendenhall shares experiences where spiritual shielding was effective and when it needed help in Conquering Spiritual Evil, Volume One (2012), pp. 81-82:

It seems that spiritual shields must be asked for, at least this type. That is why in our morning and evening prayers we ask for them to be around us, our home, our property, our cars, our animals, and whatever else we want shielded that we have stewardship over.

We have a good friend that sees spiritual things; she can “see” angels and demons. She and her husband were visiting quite late one night. They had parked their car outside our property. As I was walking to their car, she looked at her husband and asked that he put his arm around her as they left our property line.

“Why,” he asked.

“Well, Doug has a shield around his property so the demons can’t get in. But they are all camped outside on the road by our car.” They were actually camped all around our property.

We used to run a restaurant and asked in prayer for shields to be around it each day. A friend with spiritual sight came and ate at the restaurant one night. I was chatting with him afterwards, and he mentioned the shields.

“Do you know,” he said, “that you have shields around your restaurant?”

“Yes,” I answered, “we pray for them all the time.”

“Well, they go clear across the street. The demons and dark earthbound spirits are all over there, across the street, looking in. They aren’t happy they can’t get in the restaurant.”

I told him there are times when they do get in. Any kind of anger or negative expressions can bring down our shields. The shield around your home can be “broken” by devils who have been brought in by a person feeling angry or hateful at that moment. That can affect your complete household. The emotion of a parent can change the entire spirit of a house for good or bad, which is something many of us have experienced.

One time I went into the restaurant to work, and there seemed to be a bad feeling there. I wondered about that and asked if they had prayed that morning. The kids said they had. So I shrugged it off and went to work. When I opened up a container of tomatoes, it flew out of my hands and fell on the floor. A server in the back room had a similar experience. She sat down and started to cry. My daughter had something similar happen to her earlier.

Even though we were quite busy, I motioned to Peter who was washing dishes and to Stephanie who happened to be visiting a customer. We went upstairs and said a prayer of repentance, asking forgiveness for anything we had done wrong and then we cast out the demons asking the Lord to put the shield back up over the restaurant. When I went back downstairs, the atmosphere had switched. The rest of the night ran as smooth as glass.

Doug Tales 156: Spiritual Shielding, Part Four

One standard definition of a shield is “a broad piece of defensive armor.” When we are involved in conquering spiritual evil, we need defensive tools for protection, such as shields. Doug Mendenhall shares some experiences shielding cars in Conquering Spiritual Evil, Volume One (2012), pp. 79-81:

There have been many times that I and my family and many friends have seen the spiritual shielding around our cars while out driving at night. It was gratifying to me to have my family see it. Our youngest daughter, Denise is spiritually sighted and sees it all the time, but the rest of us are not as gifted as she is at this time.

The first time I saw it and realized what it was, I went home and asked Denise if she had seen them also. She informed me that she always sees the shields around us and had thought that I saw them, too.

Are these shields real? Absolutely they are. Do they work? Yes they do. One day she and I were driving, and she was talking about them.

“Dad,” she said, “I love driving and having a shield around the car. When we hit the demons that are walking on the road, it flattens them out.”

“Do you mean,” I asked, “that if we don’t have shields, they aren’t bothered or harmed or flattened?”

“No,” she said, “they just go through the car. It’s pretty cool to see them get knocked flat.”

My oldest daughter had bought a used car up in Orem, and I had gone with her to pick it up. I had asked to drive it home, so I could see how it performed.

We had just gone down a hill and across some railroad tracks on Highway 89 when a herd of deer jumped out in front of me. This daughter was in our car following me and watched this entire event unfold.

I had just got my speed up to 55 mph and realized that deer were on both sides of the car. I saw a doe about three feet in front of the car, just right of center. There was no way I could miss hitting her.

Suddenly the doe leaned away from the front of the car, slid along the road going away from me, “popped” off the road, and ran away.

There was no way I could have missed that deer and no way it could have done what it just did. Nevertheless it did happen. I knew instantly that I had watched the shield around our car protecting me and the doe.

When we got home my daughter asked me what happened. I told her and she said she had watched as that doe slid off the road in front of the car and ran away. She knew I was going to hit it, that it was impossible for me not to hit it. Then I missed it completely.

“It was the coolest thing I have ever seen, Dad,” she said.

I thought it was pretty “cool” too. What the Lord can do for us is truly amazing.

Doug Tales 155: Holes in Auras, Part Three

If a person has a hole in their energy field or aura around them, negativity and darkness know that is an invitation for them to siphon off energy and life force from that person. Doug Mendenhall went through the experience of having dark spirits cause him physical grief, and tells about the resulting understanding in Possibilities: Lessons From the Spirit (2002): pp. 151-154.

The next morning we took off from St. George for home. On the way we stopped off at a friend of Bob’s and talked for a while. Bob’s friend showed us around his shop and later Denise came up and told me she was hungry. I hadn’t realized it was so late, and being a diabetic she should eat on schedule. Bob’s friend said that they would feed us. His mother was there and she said that she would get right on it. I ate one sandwich and my daughter took a little nibble of hers and pushed it away. We then took off for Cedar City to meet some more friends and look at more petroglyphs.

About two hours later my stomach was hit with an incredible pain. I went to a mini-mart and got something to relieve it. My daughter said that she was very hungry and we bought her something to eat. I told Bob that I felt we needed to head back to Salt Lake; I was feeling really sick. It felt like I had food poisoning.

The pain and diarrhea were horrendous. It lasted for three weeks. I knew it wasn’t food poisoning because I had experienced that before and it is systemic. This was a horrible pain in my stomach along with bowel problems. After three weeks, I told my wife that maybe I should go to a doctor to see what the problem was. She told me that maybe I ought to ask Christ to come and heal me first. I agreed.

Friday night I knelt in prayer and asked Christ to come. I then asked Him to heal me of whatever was plaguing me. It went away, so much so that Saturday I ate the entire day. LDS conference was on TV, and I sat and watched it and ate. Later, I went to a church meeting, came home and ate some more. I had not been able to eat much for three weeks and seemed determined to make up for it in one day. Sunday I watched the conference again on TV and ate.

It hit me again Sunday afternoon. The pain had come back with a vengeance. We went to a book review meeting that evening, even though I was really sick. By ten that night I was in the kitchen deciding if I was going to live or not when my youngest daughter popped in.

“Hey, Denise,” I said, “I don’t bother you much anymore about using your gifts, but could you do me a huge favor and look at my stomach area?”

“Sure,” came the reply I had hoped for.

“Do I have a bleeding ulcer here?” I asked pointing to my stomach.

“No,” she said.

“Do I have cancer growing there?” I asked again.

“No, Dad, you don’t have cancer,” came the reply.

Wow, it wasn’t either of the two things I thought it would be. I pondered for a minute and the idea came to ask her if I had a devil there.

“Do I have a devil there?” I asked.

“Yes Dad, you have a real bad one there, a number nine,” she said.

Wait a minute, how did I get a devil in me? The first thought that came to my mind was at Bob’s friend’s house in Southern Utah. The food must have had devils on it. That must have been why my daughter took a little nibble and pushed it away.

“Hey, Sweetie, did that food in Southern Utah have devils on it?” I groaned.

“Just yours and mine did. Maybe you ought to be more aware of what is around you Dad,” came the “wisdom of the ages” reply.

“But I got rid of it the other night,” I said, “when I had asked Christ to come and take it. I didn’t know what “it” was, but He took it. So why did it come back?”

“Dad,” she said, “you have a big hole like thing in your aura right there. Maybe you ought to say a prayer of gratitude and seal it up.” I had my answer that I had sought for from the Lord. I just didn’t know that I would be living the answer. Yet I still didn’t know why Denise had allowed me, her father, to suffer like I had for those three weeks.

“Denise,” I asked, “you knew I was sick, that I really hurt, yet you didn’t say a thing about it. You just let me suffer. Why?” (Boy, could I play the martyr when I wanted).

“Dad,” came the reply I knew was coming, “I wasn’t supposed to tell you. It was your experience that Christ wanted you to go through, so you could understand.”

Later that night I knelt in prayer and asked Christ to come again and to take away the devil. He did. Then I said a prayer of gratitude for the experience I had gone though, for the pain, the horrible bowel problems, not being able to eat, the “damage” in my aura, and the understanding that He had given me. I haven’t had a problem since, but I am more aware of what is around me, what I eat, where I eat, and what if I do. It makes me wonder how many of our problems or illness come about as a result of us “letting them in?”

I know it is true, that we let darkness in as a result of our “sins” or misunderstandings. We let them in when we get angry or have any negative emotions or when we judge. Yet I still struggle with not judging, that is, condemning others and the things they are doing. A friend told me that because judging seems so “delicious to the taste and is very desirable, to make us ‘think’ we are wise,” we all do it continually. I believe that was what was mentioned in the scriptures about the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It is desirable and delicious to make us think we are wise. But aren’t we commanded not to partake of that fruit? Isn’t it called the forbidden fruit? Aren’t we told that in the day we partake of that fruit we would surely die? Is that a spiritual death? Could the fruit of that tree be the using of our knowledge, of how we believe things ought to be, to accuse, blame or compare (judge) what is going on around us with how we “think” things should or should not be?

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)

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.