Test for Demon Activity

[Tony]

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Test for demon activity
(this could drive you nuts! :rolleyes: )


Chinese proverb:

Correct fools and they will hate it.
Correct the wise and they will love it.



We have to see - and admit - that we all have both the dark and the light within us at every moment.
We also have freedom of choice. This is our constant dilemma - and our constant source of wisdom.

Watch your reaction.
Then see that you have a choice.








Tony

[markpierre]

My reactions have been startling me lately. I mean I get so enthralled with my reaction that I forget what I'm reacting to.
That's working isn't it? Or has it driven me nuts?

Great to see you Tony!

[Tony]

Talking and walking with demons

Noticing a “disturbance in the force” we become aware of demons activity.

The force is pure uncontaminated essence.
The disturbances are our emotions of desires, aversion, pride, jealousy and ignorance.
The demons are our own likes and dislikes.
Our is a mistaken identity created in the mind, by forgetting pure uncontaminated essence.

However, the emotions are not the problem; they are an outcome.
It's 'our' likes and dislikes based around the mistaken identity of 'me'
that are the problem.

We are surrounded by 'me' demon activity. Listen to any conversation:
It's all about 'me'! Heck! We are constantly bombarded throughout our lives with 'me' talk...
what I want and what I don't want :rolleyes:

In the very first instant, the emotions are the activity of wisdom - not demons...surprised?

Our direct awareness (or pure essence) notes something - a disturbance.
This disturbance (an emotion) brightens the mind because it sees directly.

This is wisdom activity. It's a sort of enlightened energy.

This energy can either directly remind us of our pure essence and we return to rest there...
or it allows 'me' to react and take over again, igniting aggression
and turning an enlightened emotion negative.

When we return to rest, we are not reacting. This enlightens a situation...gives it pure space.


It's all in the mind!
If we do not comply,
we do not contaminate,
and demonic activity cannot function.

It needs 'me' to consent.
Nothing can contaminate pure essence.
It can only forget itself.



Tony

[Pam]

I have been observing the "demon" of resistance lately. As a youngster I used to pride myself with the mantra of "I don't accept that." Over the years I see the futility and outcome of this mental attitude. When I am in a state of resistance there is a free floating anxiety and tension. I started out by becoming aware of the major, easy things I could observe. Resistance of the actions of the government and things like that.I find it fairly simple to release these now although they may pop up again at any time. Now I am observing the small levels of resistance that occur throughout the day. I was walking on the beach with my dog which I do every day, on the way home I throw sticks for him. I began to note a small weak resistance toward throwing the stick repeatedly on the way home. I noticed that I was starting to feel a bit anxious on the walks in anticipation of having to repeatedly throw a stick. When I consciously released that resistance I was able to fully enjoy the walks again. This resistance is a clever way ego keeps me in my own head..thanks Tony for your wonderful thread..

[bogeyman]

It is the number of demons throughout the world that also needs to be thought about. The constant repetition of evil throughout our species has not only to do with us but a lot to do with the spiritual evil that is here. The connect between these UFOs and this matter is very important for us to understand.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

The bit you said about hating correction seems very true:



Matthew 8:28–34

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

28 oAnd when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes,5 two pdemon-possessed6 men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way. 29 And behold, they qcried out, “What have you to do with us, rO Son of God? Have you come here to torment us sbefore the time?” 30 Now a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them. 31 And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.” 32 And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters. 33 The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, especially what had happened to the tdemon-possessed men. 34 And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, uthey begged him to leave their region.


according to this account, the demons had a chance to carry on a limited existence in the pigs,
but they chose to destroy the vessels out of spite/resistance...

I always wondered why they bothered running the pigs into the water.

Maybe it was Christ's power that drove them in?
The story doesn't mention that part.


Jesus Heals a Man with a Demon

5 uThey came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.1 2 And when Jesus2 had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 vHe lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and wfell down before him. 7 And xcrying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, ySon of zthe Most High God? aI adjure you by God, do not torment me.” 8 For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” 9 And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is bLegion, for we are many.” 10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12 and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” 13 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.

14 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. 15 And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed3 man, the one who had had cthe legion, sitting there, dclothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 16 And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs. 17 And ethey began to beg Jesus4 to depart from their region. 18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. 19 And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and ftell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” 20 And he went away and began to proclaim in gthe Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.


I think it's possible that Legion was a group of Roman soldiers -- what do you think?
Could it be a group of soldiers who died during invasion of the holy lands?


"Legion" are a group of demons referred to in the Christian Bible. The New Testament outlines an encounter where Jesus healed a man from Gadara possessed by demons while traveling, known as "the exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac".


Judea (Hebrew: יהודה, Standard Yehuda Tiberian Yehûḏāh; Arabic: يهودا‎; Greek: Ἰουδαία; Latin: IVDAEA), sometimes spelled in its original Latin forms of Judæa, Judaea or Iudaea to distinguish it from Judea proper, is a term used by historians to refer to the Roman province that incorporated the geographical regions of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea, and which extended over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after Herod Archelaus's Tetrarchy of Judea, of which it was an expansion, the latter name deriving from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE.

Rome's involvement in the area dated from 63 BCE, following the end of the Third Mithridatic War, when Rome made Syria a province. In that year, after the defeat of Mithridates VI of Pontus, the proconsul Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) sacked Jerusalem and entered the Jerusalem Temple. Subsequently, during the 1st century BCE, the Herodian Kingdom was established as a Roman client kingdom and then in 6 CE parts became a province of the Roman Empire.[1]

Judea province was the scene of unrest at its founding during the Census of Quirinius and several wars were fought in its history, known as the Jewish-Roman wars. The Temple was destroyed in 70 as part of the Great Jewish Revolt resulting in the institution of the Fiscus Judaicus, and after Bar Kokhba's revolt (132–135 CE), the Roman Emperor Hadrian changed the name of the province to Syria Palaestina and Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, which certain scholars conclude was done in an attempt to remove the relationship of the Jewish people to the region.[2][3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Jerusalem#Early_Roman_period