: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 are rendered 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 by the holy power of God the Father through Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit of the Lord poured down from heaven in compassionate answer to humble prayer invoking divine mercy on the victim. It is Christ who compels the unclean spirit to depart, not the self-assumed authority of the exorcist who claims to be acting in his name, saying, "I bind thee" and "I take authority over thee" and "I cast thee out", when claiming spiritual dominance by telling demons where to go degenerates into a personal power play and turns what is supposed to be a sacred ministry into an egotist’s playground.
:Aggressive, violent and extreme physical force intentionally inflicted on the body of the victim, including cruel forms of restraining the victim by methods that identically resemble the [[Sadomasochism|sado-masochistic]] perversion called "bondage", is never in fact necessary to drive it out, and cannot drive it out, since a spirit is not a material beingthat can be affected or injured by physical assault. Such extreme physical measures only result in degrading, humiliating, painful injury to the victim, causing severe mental, emotional trauma and shock, even death—such viciously cruel and lethal "exorcisms" done by individuals claiming for themselves authority to act "in the name of the Lord" are outstanding examples of Satanic [[blasphemy]], and may actually be signs that the "exorcist" is the one possessed by an unclean spirit (if he or she is not instead actually mentally ill), and '''''not''''' the innocent victim of the "exorcism". (2 Corinthians 11:12-15).
:According to the Bible, unclean spirits were driven out with a word, and by prayer and [[fasting]], joined to confident faith in the power and goodness of God, and by gently with reverence laying holy hands on the victim. (See Matthew 8:16; 17:19-21; Mark 16:17; Luke 4:36; Acts 5:12; 9:17; 14:3; 16:18; 19:11-12; 28:8; 1 Timothy 2:8; 1 Peter 2:9. Compare Mark 11:22-25; 1 John 5:14-18; ''especially'' John 14:23; Ephesians 2:10; 1 Peter 5:6-11.)