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:C. S. Lewis (''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'') said that our race can make two serious and fundamentally opposite serious errors regarding the Devil and evil spirits::*to have an excessive and unhealthy interest in them

:*those cases of desperate attention-getters who subconsciously seek to be the intense focus of a dramatic public exorcism who are not in fact possessed, and

:Careful research of case after case of proven demonic possession has demonstrated that evil spirits cannot actually touch the personal will of their victims. The victim is like a city under siege. Possession can take the form of unrelenting depression or obsession without evidence of any physical [[Genetics|genetic]] or [[pathogen]]ic origin, and never feature episodes of bizarre or suddenly unexpected speech and behavior which superficially resemble [[Tourette's syndrome]] or [[Epilepsy|epileptic siezures]]. Many victims of oppression by evil spirits are afflicted with unrelieved anxiety, dread, inexplicable feelings of intense guilt, sensations of impending catastrophe, fears of contamination, all of which are unfocused, generalized, without discernable cause or reason, and which are persistently and mysteriously unresponsive to aggressive medical treatment and probing in-depth counselling, but are undramatic cases of suffering which do not in any way present episodes of inexplicable speech and bizarre behaviors of the kind made infamous by sensation-seeking novels and films about evil demonic entities and demonic possession as forms of "entertainment" (for example, William Peter Blatty's, ''[[The Exorcist]]'').  :In those episodes in which the oppressive evil spirit intensifies the attack and does seize complete control of the victim's body, the victim's human mind and will become inert and inoperative, and, after the oppressive and dominating evil spirit concludes the attack, without truly releasing the victim by lifting the siege and actually departing, the victim is afterward utterly unaware of the bizarre physical and verbal (if any) behavior of those moments, and these episodes of attack can happen repeatedly and will continue, and the sense of oppression continues, until the evil spirit is forced to depart.  :In those cases which appear limited solely to unrelenting oppression and depression without actually being proven to be demonstrable clinical forms of illness and without apparent clinical episodes of central nervous system seizure, experiences of peaceful relief are either short-lived or totally non-existent, and finally cannot be cured without a genuine complete exorcism of the oppressing evil spirit. :Unfortunately there are independent predatory "quack" practitioners claiming to be expert in "methods of spiritual warfare" who notoriously take advantage of the condition of mentally and emotionally afflicted individuals who are not in fact truly possessed, and mislead them in order to perform dramatic imitations of exorcisms and physical healings of diseases and afflictions which they attribute to evil spirits as the cause, to gain followers and fame and wealth; who wealth—who publish books and conduct seminars promoting dangerously presumptive attitudes of spiritual invincibility which appeal to pride and prompt their disciples with ill-advised counsel to unwittingly place themselves in situations where they are actually woefully unprepared and at terrible risk of being themselves unexpectedly dominated by genuine evil spirits who do not recognize them as having any kind of spiritual authority to act in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ (see Acts 19:13-16); clever —clever [[charlatan]]s who take every opportunity to promote themselves as prophets with a revolutionary new mission from God to denounce authentic medicine and religion along with their harsh blanket denunciations of whole churches and denominations and legitimate church leaders , attacking those who have shown good faith in genuinely promoting the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and who have honestly manifested over and over again obviously evident signs of their own authentically anointed ministry as being overall and generally on the whole truly led and taught by the guiding hand of the Holy Spirit of God.