The Unseen World: Demon Possession and Exorcism

Saint Paisios said something similar to the "holy shrug", roughly: "thoughts are like airplanes - they are only yours if you invite them to land, so just wave as they go by".

This is more helpful than anything any therapist told me😂

I like praying when I walk. I take one step and say :"Lord".. Next step :"Jesus"... Next step :"Christ"... Next step:"have"... Next step:"mercy"... Next step :"on me"... Next step:"a sinner"... Next step, I start over again... Sometimes, while walking, whatever neighbourhood I pass by I say :"God, bless, protect, forgive, save the people - alive or dead-who live, lived or will live in this area"...... Thank you father for everything! God bless you and yours!

"if they´re putting demonic symbols on things in hidden ways, we have to ask what the creators purpose was." That right there is basic wisdom, yet majority of humans cannot fathom it.

Social media is full of demonic stuff. After praying for a while after a long time I started to notice things. There are always posts that are meant to trigger an emotional response. "Buy this! Get outraged by that! , Look at this woman!, That person has something that you don't, you want that too! etc." Sometimes after I stop scrolling I realize how tired I feel from being assaulted with so many suggestions and distractions. But prayer always soothes the heart and mind.

I was brought into the Orthodox Church this past Lazarus Saturday. I attest that Father’s words are true. I have been in a running spiritual battle for weeks.

I've always wondered why the demons attack so viciously after baptism, and this video explains it perfectly. They were on the inside, and God's grace was knocking. Now they're on the outside, and they're pounding on the door to be let back in.

Amen Father. The animals coming back to the area is amazing! I always feel peaceful when I see deer in our neighborhood.

God brought me to Orthodoxy a couple years ago, and what He’s been doing in my life is so beautiful and undeniably divine. It’s like a flower that keeps on opening, more and more lovely, and never wilts. That is how His work feels to me. But especially since my chrismation, I’ve experienced a greater degree of demonic interference. Everything going wrong before church or an event where God is moving, weird maladies, attacks on mood and motivation, disharmony with someone at the worst times. All this can and does happen without any help from the dark side. But there is just a different flavor when they are messing with you. All my life, I have occasionally seen, heard, and felt both holy and unholy spirits. But I think it is scarier when demons are subtle, when they make you believe lies because they align so well with your own pain and insecurities. The other day, I realized I had been deceived for years into forgoing a path God is pointing me to. The lie had become my truth, part of me. But God is breaking strongholds. Praise God, He always protects me and always brings good from bad. I am seeing more miracles than ever. May He bless you all ❤

Thank you Father for your information. After being saved I threw away my tarot cards and anything related to the occult. Christ has softened my heart of stone to one of flesh. Thank you Jesus Christ for your grace that I do not deserve. Spiritual warfare is not a joke. Your statement on looking at Christ and fighting forward rather than having the back to Christ to fight the demonic is life changing. Lord please bless this page and all those who look to you for guidance, may those who pursue evil return to you and be reborn to the truth, Amen

As someone that struggles with OCD, this video is helpful.

The "Holy Shrug". I love it. Thank you, Father!

I’ve had a couple of incidents like this when I lived in the Republic of Georgia. This was before I converted to Orthodoxy from Lutheranism, but when I saw these things, I immediately closed my eyes and started saying the Lord’s Prayer and the Apostles Creed. I was also given a prayer bracelet from a church there and then slept with that on almost every night for a few weeks. Prayer and wearing the bracelet truly helped!

There are “unseen Angels” as well. So, where we stand not only as individual but as a family, a community or even as a nation is what determines. Prayers from Ethiopia

"Too much too soon" very real! I know so many people that went from not believing/practicing to being very stringent and failed. It's important to take your time with embracing religion to truly understand and accept it✨

“We have to learn to fall in love. And it doesn’t take effort. It takes a real learning about what the heart is really yearning for.” Wow, this was a beautiful and perfect way of describing that! I also began to learn this when I realized the pain from my childhood trauma was keeping me from being able to love the way I desired to. I had to learn how to give these things to Jesus which is a part of the process of falling in love, at least I believe so. The Lord Jesus showed me what my heart was really yearning for and He was what my heart was really yearning for. Thank you for this very beneficial and informative video. Eastern Orthodoxy is my home on earth 🥹❤️☦️

My Romanian wife was such a fan of the idea of being a demon. She performed witchcraft. She hand drew tremendous drawings however they were mostly pornographic in nature. She loved horror and listening to serial killer documentaries etc and it showed. She was very violent and said some unholy things. Lust made me a bit blind for she was very beautiful but I always had this hope that one day she will wake up and be a good natured person instead of hating all of humanity. To me she still has a good soul. I know that she is better now and that gives me a little peace. I don't blame her for turning to that way of thinking because she was forced at 15 to go to a private Christian high school here in the states fresh off the boat. The ridicule and hate she experienced from a particular group of Christian kids calling her devil or black sheep became her whole identity. Even her family from a very early age said she was the spawn of Satan because of her mother's actions which is not fair. All of that negative energy and karma directed at her manifested and grew ugly until she beat my head in full force with her fist to my right side temple and we ended our marriage. I could tell she felt awful about what she did giving me permanent brain damage and no amount of apologizing would fix the tension between us. I still loved her even after we almost died cause it happened in the car over an argument. I confess this and ask forgiveness for not being able to control my words and anger while we struggled to start a life together. I ask God that she will be happy and safe for many years. I pray to find peace in my mind some day. It is much better now that I found Christ. I thank the love of my life for all the good times. I do not see myself to ever love another as much as I did her. If she did not do the demonic things she did I would not have turned to God for answers and help. Mulțumesc Doamne că m-ai salvat. Amin.

catholics we have a rosary against evil. but I found Jesus prayer even more powerful

I love how practical Fr. Paul's advice is about living for God. I gained insight about how exposing ourselves to horror movies, Hollywood movies about murder can acclimate us toward evil. We are a conduit of senses and these things leave their mark.

Thank you father, may the Lord continue to bless the church and your teachings