tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35126445699715311472024-03-26T23:35:26.719-07:00What Else Is There?Finally! Energy medicine principles from a Christian/LDS view. Who knew that prophets have spoken about energy healing principles: life force energy, chakras, distance work and generational work? TO SEE POSTS SCROLL DOWN "Tamara Laing has introduced major groundbreaking insights into the whole field of energy medicine." Stan Gardner, MD, CNS Please read my Disclaimer first.Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-13247466029167619662022-10-04T11:30:00.153-07:002024-03-26T14:29:25.167-07:00HOLISTIC EVENTS
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Get tickets before they're gone. 30 speakers to choose from.</b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b style="color: #343434; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Sandy, UT April 27, 2024 VIP event the night before</b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b style="color: #343434; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b style="color: #343434; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.vibrantlivingwellnessconference.com" target="_blank">www.vibrantlivingwellnessconference.com</a><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><div><span><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;">Looking ahead!</span></b><b style="color: #343434; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> + Be Healthy Utah at St. George, UT </b></span></div><div><span><b style="color: #343434; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">on June 14-15 </b></span><b style="color: #343434; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">@ Dixie Convention Center</b></div><div><b style="color: #343434; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="color: #343434; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">+ My cousin Tonya Cox, MRET co-presents at the </b></div><div><b style="color: #343434; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">North Star Conference June 20-22 </b></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br /></div></div></span></span></div></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>
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My 2nd book made it to the Top 4 Best Consciousness Books For Beginners!</h3>
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<a href="https://bookauthority.org/books/beginner-consciousness-books?t=8j09hw&s=award&book=1794127836" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: right; color: #0069af; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.1s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" target="_blank"><img alt="The best Consciousness books for beginners" height="182" src="https://award.bookauthority.org/beginner-consciousness-books.png?b=1794127836&c=1&v=6&w=300" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block;" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span face=""nunito sans", arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">I'm happy to announce that my book, <i>An LDS Approach to Energy Healing: Deep Emotion Release & Generational Clearing,</i> made it to </span><a href="https://bookauthority.org/books/beginner-consciousness-books?t=8j09hw&s=award&book=1794127836" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0069af; font-family: "nunito sans", arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.1s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" target="_blank">BookAuthority's Best Consciousness Books For Beginners</a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">!</span></span></span><br />
<span face=""nunito sans", arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">BookAuthority collects and ranks the best books in the world, and it is a great honor to get this kind of recognition. Thank you for all your support! </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span face=""nunito sans", arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">The book is available for purchase here on my blog or </span><a href="http://www.LaingBooks.com" style="font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">www.LaingBooks.com</a> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">or</span> <a data-amzn-asin="1794127836" href="https://www.amazon.com/LDS-Approach-Energy-Healing-Generational/dp/1794127836?tag=uuid10-20" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0069af; font-family: "nunito sans", arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.1s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" target="_blank">on Amazon</a>.</span><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Updated 10/24/23 from top 10 to top 6 to top 4.</span></div>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-16818400601101482872020-10-01T08:26:00.008-07:002024-02-27T07:50:50.017-08:00DER CLASS<p><br /></p><div><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; clear: left; font-family: arial; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlrMBA-FPr4rNMsg2isnKL_Pl39PCubJRNhZ6ruzFXL2We-FAlM-SpIyduEyrWpmWR9KheSPO0yRJdZhr7mco3aJtFVKToONcvAXLSx63VCfusHrzP1owDDqBiP4qDtt-3hMtKqi7h1LR/s1600/An+LDS+Approach.jpg" style="clear: left; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1236" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlrMBA-FPr4rNMsg2isnKL_Pl39PCubJRNhZ6ruzFXL2We-FAlM-SpIyduEyrWpmWR9KheSPO0yRJdZhr7mco3aJtFVKToONcvAXLSx63VCfusHrzP1owDDqBiP4qDtt-3hMtKqi7h1LR/s200/An+LDS+Approach.jpg" width="154" /></a></i></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjalRadBAewGS2KWxqPPODuRZIkOqW1CZTmuO5QT5N1Ea_cvyQ-wTPEaLiF0hYxVRFDmphlKS_IpADF-4kkA20tqE5_Zjjf2mYoHv15htDUfV3CgrzIdhey1AmEb7T2hoql8nyJckPlk8Ys/s1600/bryce+and+courntey%2527s+wedding+175.jpg" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="572" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjalRadBAewGS2KWxqPPODuRZIkOqW1CZTmuO5QT5N1Ea_cvyQ-wTPEaLiF0hYxVRFDmphlKS_IpADF-4kkA20tqE5_Zjjf2mYoHv15htDUfV3CgrzIdhey1AmEb7T2hoql8nyJckPlk8Ys/s200/bryce+and+courntey%2527s+wedding+175.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Deep Emotion Release (DER) </b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hands-on Class </b> $40</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Learn how to clear generational issues, trapped emotions/trauma and 'darkness' through the EYES. THIS CLASS was professionally recorded in 2023. It is now posted on Tamara's newer website www.LaingBooks.com Find it in the upper left corner tab titled "VIDEO." <a href="https://www.laingbooks.com/new-page" target="_blank">https://www.laingbooks.com/new-page</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Practice clearing through the EYES to actually see darkness leaving, generational issues shifting and trapped emotions and distress lifting. Hear validating quotes from authorities in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and from scriptures on principles used in the processes taught. Understand curses to the 3rd and 4th generation and what <i>you</i> can do about it. Learn to clear layers of dysfunctional family patterns. Practice DER processes on yourself and learn to work at a distance. </div><div><br /></div><div>Tamara's class begins with a power point introduction to give a solid understanding and foundation for generational clearing. Spiritual gifts are touched on. A demonstration of Deep Emotion Release is given on a volunteer. Attendees learn neurological integration and how to practically apply various gospel principles used in Deep Emotion Release. Then class members practice these steps on themselves. Stories are shared, questions are taken throughout and class members may share what they experience doing DER. Inevitably, some class members discover they, too, can see energy shifting while gazing with love in the eyes using specific intent. </div><div><br /></div><div>These classes have been held in UT, AZ, WY and ID. </div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>To be notified by email about classes, join Tamara's newsletter email list on LaingBooks.com, or use the contact form on the right sidebar of this site. </div><div><br /></div><div><u>Class Attendees Say:</u></div><div><u><br /></u></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237;">"Loved, loved, loved your class. I honor the time you have spent in tying the scriptures</span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;">and gospel doctrine to healing energy and energy/spiritual healing." </span></span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: xx-small;">"</span></span></span></span></span></i><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;">Very enlightening." </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;">"Fabulous. Can't get enough!"</span></i></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;">"I feel a bigger difference after DER than other modalities."</span></i></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;">"The class really helped me gain more confidence in using DER!"</span></i></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i>"An excellent, professional presentation"</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i>"I have studied 21 different modalities and this one goes</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i> deep into the layers of generational issues." </i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i>"What a beautiful woman you are. DER is so much different from any </i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i>modality I have ever studied. So much to ponder and pray about."</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i>"Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful gifts. I appreciate all your study and prayer. You have given so freely. You are amazing."</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i>"I am loving the openness of your class. The spirit was strong. You are a sweet</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"> teacher. Thanks for all you do. I am grateful for your trials and </span></i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">what you</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">have </span></span></i></span></span></span></span><i style="color: #1a2237;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">learned. I feel well nourished."</span></i></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i>"I love the scriptural references and the stories. It gives faith </i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i>and power to what we are learning. So many great techniques."</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #1a2237; font-size: small;"><i>"This has truly been a spiritually healing experience. I cannot thank you enough."</i></span></span></span></span></div>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-33065670762245127332019-03-09T20:35:00.003-08:002024-02-27T07:42:16.461-08:00ADDENDUM to my Book on Generational Clearing <div style="min-height: 100%; position: relative;">
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permission. It is an incredible story from a man somewhat new to
Generational Healing. I point out in my second book, An LDS Approach to Energy Healing, that the principles for
this kind of help are found in the Bible, so I will comment at the very end to
help clear up questions that readers may have. God is so good! All praise and
glory go to Him that this man found REAL help - the kind that gets to the root
of addictive behavior. (<o:p></o:p></span></i><i style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">Public domain image above)</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In January of 2019 I received this remarkable
email that has to do with overcoming Abuse, Same Sex Attraction and Pornography:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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at your booth at the conference in _____. I bought your book An LDS
Approach to Energy Healing. I’ve had some limited experience with energy
healing/work (from reading and using Dr. Brad Nelson’s material) and the
subject of generational healing was especially intriguing to me - that’s why I
bought your book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I finally felt I had learned enough,
and had enough courage and faith, to try using the information you
shared. I had the most wonderful, interesting, enlightening, empowering,
personal experience I’ve ever had with this kind of thing. I wanted to
share it with you - mostly because I don’t have anyone else around me who
would<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a> understand or appreciate it like you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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try to keep this appropriate): I am 60 years old. When I was in 5th grade
my family started having Indian Placement Program kids live with us (remember
that program?) The boy who lived with us at the time sexually abused
me, for most of 5th and 6th grade. At the time I didn’t think that much of it -
I actually enjoyed it, being too young to really understand the ramifications -
but it planted a seed in me. For the last 50 years I have struggled,
off and on, with same sex attraction, masturbation, and pornography. I’ve
led a good, LDS life, trying to be as clean and worthy as I can be. I’ve been
married for 34 years and have 4 grown children. I served an honorable mission
and I’m currently a temple worker. But, these personal struggles have
always been simmering on the back burner of my life. Occasionally, they’ve
shown their ugly head and I have a period of intense struggle and anguish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A couple of years ago I became aware
of Dr. Brad Nelson’s work, ...podcasts, Scott Gillespie’s work, and other
sources that helped me find other approaches and possibilities to my problem
besides just praying about it. I’ve had some blessings. I’ve cast
out spirits from my home and from around me personally. I’ve prayed for angels
to literally come and help me. But, those problems always resurface after a
period of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Then, I learned about generational
healing, and energy being passed down in our DNA, and how most often those
unclean spirits that afflict us are our own ancestors/family. That was
eye-opening! And very intriguing. I felt strongly that I had been dealing with
ancestral spirits/energy my whole life. Enter your book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’m not sure which one, I know practically nothing about either. But
I was at a desperate place and really needed some results. I sat down in front
of my closet door mirror, said a sincere, heartfelt prayer, pleading for help
and guidance because I really didn’t know what I was doing. I stated my
intention that I just wanted to know who “they” were and why “they” were doing
this to me. After a few minutes of looking in the reflection of my left
eye, I began to see a face superimposed on my own! I don’t know who he was, but
he was definitely there. I looked in my right eye, and another face
appeared. I went back and forth a few times, slowly, and several different
faces appeared, all superimposed over my own face. I asked them why they were
doing this - they answered that they had all been abused themselves. I
got the impression that they weren’t trying to be malicious with me, but they
just couldn’t help themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I was overcome with love and
compassion for these men, who have been struggling even longer than me. I
told them I loved them, and forgave them, then asked them to please repent. Then,
I did the most unexpected thing (for me), I asked them to give me their sins
and I would repent for them here in this plane, I would take care of the sins
for them! Then I told each one of them to “please go to the Savior!”
As I was practically crying, I pleaded with them to “go to the Savior!”
Slowly, I felt them depart, one by one, until my face was completely clear
again. In all my prayers since that experience I have asked Heavenly
Father to please forgive those men and help them find the Savior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Since that incredible experience, the
best way I can describe how I feel is “clear.” I have felt “free” from
their presence many times in the past, but there was always something
lingering, like a toe in the door, or something like that - all I had to do was
think the right thought, or initiate the right trigger, and the door would
fling open and they would all rush in again. But now, I feel “clear.”
There is nothing there now. The triggers don’t affect me. The urges, impulses,
desires are gone. Just gone. It’s still too early, I know, to assume that the
battle is completely won and over. But at least I feel like I can fight
now with more power and confidence. So, thank you!<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(We corresponded twice in January 2019)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Laing; tamaralaing247@gmail.com; wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I hope things are going well for you
and yours. I looked up and reread your story today and was surprised at the
details you gave me about past struggles. I had forgotten them all. I am
headed to the Northstar Conference in SLC next week which is for firm in the
faith people who struggle with or care about someone experiencing SSA. I
think the timing today of feeling I should look up your story is
interesting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of your story anonymously with others who struggle? Would you be
open to consider letting me share any of what you wrote on my
blog? I actually have posted on my website two other men's stories about
casting out for addictive behavior. I just call the one man
"K," I believe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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share just verbally? It could be helpful at the NorthStar conference to mention
one on one to others about you adding in your Generational Clearing experience
- which I wanted to tell you is exemplified in Nehemiah 9:2 and
elsewhere. There is a whole book about [generational healing] by a
[medical doctor] titled <i>Healing the Family Tree</i> by Dr. Kenneth
Mc Call. I use some of his fascinating stories when I teach my classes on
Deep Emotion Release (that you did in the mirror). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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briefly is that I'm going to be speaking at the Firm Foundation Expo in Layton,
UT in April of 2019. I'd love to share your story, if you let me. Of
course, I will understand if you feel differently about any of these
ideas. Please be prayerful and consider how it could help someone else
new to this kind of work who thinks they don't know enough to try. You
have an amazing example of exercising faith!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tamaralaing247@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DER<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hi Tamara,<br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Yes, I absolutely give you permission to use my story! Anywhere you need
to. (Anonymously, though, please.) If my story can help anybody, I would be
honored to be a part of their healing process. I firmly believe that more
people (not just men) would find healing, freedom, strength, comfort, clarity,
and peace if they were open to the fact that we are all definitely dealing with
negative energies and spirits. And there are tools and people to
help! Yes, yes, yes!<br />
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<u>Update:</u> Since my DER experience, which was so profound, my life has
been Wow! I've had experiences with the Lord that I've only dreamed
of. He has tested me in new ways, and I've had the spiritual strength,
clarity, and confidence to meet those challenges. I no longer feel like I'm
carrying around that secret ball-and-chain, but I can commune with Him like I
never have before. Yes, some of the old patterns and habits still show up
occasionally (but much less frequently!), and I'm able to immediately face them,
deal with them, and eliminate them with confidence and speed, without letting
them drag me down with discouragement and shame. I feel like I can finally be
the man I'm supposed to be - the man God wants me to become. (And
you can share that, too!) Thank you, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tamara!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
above emails necessitate some comments about responsibility. First, a few
words of introduction.</i></b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Deep Emotion Release appears to employ
powerful tools in removing inherited dysfunctional family patterns. However,
each tool’s power is in Christ! He is our Savior and Redeemer from
so much more than just sin. He is willing to take the mortal bitterness
and agony we go through as we seek Him.</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: 16px; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">OWNERSHIP OF FAMILY PATTERNS</b><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When we desire to help others clear such "baggage," the aftereffects of sin, it is wise to give these burdens (that have actual energy patterns) directly to the Savior Jesus Christ.. He is the only one meant to carry them! <b>I believe the man in the above story was actually offering to take ownership of the family pattern, <i>the effects of sin,</i> rather than offering to carry their sins.</b> </span></span>An apostle taught:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The
afflictions of devils - the confusion of tongues - deadly poisons - and
sicknesses are all curses which have been introduced into the world by the
wickedness of man. The blessings of the gospel are bestowed to counteract these
curses. Therefore, as long as these curses exist, the promised signs are needed
to counteract their evil consequences. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Masterful
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processes I teach in my second book to counteract "sins of the
fathers" or the dysfunctional family patterns passed down in the DNA. Promptings from the
spirit have directed me to specifically use the gospel blessings of:
forgiveness, gratitude and praise in all things.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"When the governor, the person who was
placed to reign over this fair creation, had transgressed, all his dominions
had to feel the effects of it, the same as a father or a mother who
transgresses certain laws, frequently transmits the effects thereof to the
latest generations. How often do we see certain diseases becoming hereditary,
being handed down from father to son for generations. Why? Because in the first
instance there was a transgression, and the children partook of the effects of
it." (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Masterful Discourses of Orson
Pratt, </i>356)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In my first book, I tell the story of how God led me to Rapid Eye Technology to
help my daughter who had severe anxiety and depression. We
learned that part of what she was experiencing was due to generational
issues. It was as if she was carrying around "secondary" PTSD
from others. (What patterns might we be carrying in our DNA from our
ancestors?) Hidden trauma needs to be released so that we and our children can be
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"[The book] <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It Didn’t Start With You</i> shows how the traumas of our parents,
grandparents, and even great grandparents can live in our unexplained
depression, anxiety, fears, phobias, obsessive thoughts and physical
symptoms—what scientists are now calling “secondary PTSD.”
(markwolynn.com)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Start with You</i>, after I
wrote my own book on this subject. His book has some incredible stories on healing generational
issues! Wolynn and 30 other generational healing authors I quote from in my second book add firm witnesses to the truth of the effectiveness of
generational healing experiences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Forgiveness and gratitude are powerful
tools from Jesus Christ to clear generational issues in our families. A
generational healing model that focuses on ownership and responsibility is
Ho'oponopono - an ancient Hawaiian reconciliation and forgiveness process.
Dr. Stanley Hew Len, a clinical psychologist in Hawaii had outstanding success
with it. His teacher and associate, Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, is the
person who actually made the shortened version of this ancient spiritual
tradition. Morrnah taught that when using the process, we are taking
responsibility for what the Western world would term to be the other person's
issue(s). However, to say, "It's your responsibility doesn’t
mean it’s your fault, it means that you are responsible for healing yourself in
order to heal whatever or whoever it is that appears to you as a problem." (Rosario Montenegro, "How Dr. Hew Len Healed a Ward of Mentally Ill
Criminals with Ho'oponopono," pdf) A second source online on
this method said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Stanley Hew Len spent several years as a consulting clinical psychologist at
the Hawaii State Hospital. He has had profound results by using this process
with the most dangerous, violently "mentally ill" criminals in
Hawaii. Yet he never talks to them, in fact, he never even sees them. He
writes down their name and then just works on himself. He
cleanses his judgments, beliefs, attitudes and asks Divinity
what he can do for the person. As those attachments and memories are cleansed,
the patient improves. "The Divinity," comments Stan, "says
it is time to bring all the children home." (Deborah King, An
Interview with Morrnah Simeona and Dr. Stan Hew
Len, https://learnhooponopono.com/about) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on this in her class which mentioned various methods to do emotional clearing
including Ho'oponopono. She explained:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Ho’oponopono
is not about taking the blame. It’s the responsibility we’re talking
about. Responsibility is different. If I drop this marker on the
floor, who can pick it up? Anybody. Who is blessed if we do
so? All of us. We are not "being Jesus."
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of Ho’oponopono in the book of Samuel chapter 25. It's the
story told in the book <i>The Peace Giver</i> by James L. Ferrell about
Abigail. We help people with Ho’oponopono by helping them get
energetically in a space of forgiveness.” (Kisi Watkins, Christ Centered Energy
Healing Tools Class) I quote Dr. Hew Len and share this and other forgiveness processes in my books. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When I first heard the concept of
clearing for my family tree, it seemed really unusual. I've experienced that
finding examples in the scriptures about new ideas I may question gives me
confidence that I'm on the right track. Here are two scriptures I
found recently on confessing for one's ancestors which I
found after I wrote my book on generational healing. First, is the
verse I referenced in the above email. “And the seed of Israel
separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their
sins, and the iniquities of their fathers." (Nehemiah 9:2) And the
Lord said, “If they will confess their sins and the sins of
their fathers… then I will remember my covenant.”(Lev. 26:40, 42)<br />
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A modern summary I've found for this whole idea lies in these great words
of explanation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sins of the fathers’ being punished until the third and fourth
generation is reconciled when it is understood that God is, in fact,
encouraging the living to help their sinful fathers, through prayer, by asking
him for forgiveness on their behalf.” (Dr. Kenneth McAll, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Healing the Family Tree</i>,
101) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A world renowned scholar on the book of Isaiah, Avraham Gileadi, has
unlocked messages in that book which teach us about layers of meaning behind
lower case "s" proxy "saviors" spoken of in the last days.
He shows how Hezekiah, Abraham and Helaman were examples of this and explains:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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a curse that afflicts you is a consequence of your own or another’s
transgressions, the only way to get rid of it is to take
ownership of it and see it through to the
end. Proxy saviors, who, on behalf of others, seek God’s
intervention or deliverance from mortal danger, follow God’s pattern of
making amends for the misdeeds of those for
whom they intercede." (Avraham Gileadi, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Isaiah Decoded</i>, 344)
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Nothing
is so calculated as to generate charity as taking others’ burdens upon oneself
as if they were one’s own. . . . Proxy saviors such as King
Hezekiah, for example, bear the transgressions of their peoples when they
intercede with God on their behalf (Isaiah 37:14-36; 38:1-6). But they do so in
order to obtain their people’s temporal salvation. Or in the case of
God’s servant and others who minister in the priesthood after the holy order of
God, they intercede for others to qualify them in part for temporal salvation
and in part for spiritual salvation. However, they themselves don’t
save their people—Jehovah does. They merely create the conditions for such
salvation to occur.” Avraham Gileadi, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Endtime
Prophecy</i>, 219, 250-251 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Isaiah - the only book of scripture the Savior commanded us to study. I
have found help in understanding Generational Healing by what Isaiah says.
It has been immensely helpful to begin to understand Isaiah by reading the
words of - or listening to - Avraham Gileadi on the $4.99 Isaiah Explained app. (See also <a href="http://isaiahexplained.com./" target="_blank">Isaiahexplained</a>.com) That author gives excellent audio "Analytical Commentary" at the bottom of
each chapter of Isaiah which has been translated true to the
original Hebrew.<br />
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In his book, <i>Isaiah Decoded,</i> Avraham helps a person uncover the various
levels of Jacob's Ladder that are hidden in Isaiah. Most
interesting, to move up from the Zion/Jerusalem level to the level of Sons and
Servants on the proxy savior level a person must overcome not only
their sins but also their iniquities. Iniquities are largely
characterized as "the evil aftereffects of wrongdoing" by Gildeadi. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Isaiah Decoded</i>, 174) Hmm.
Does that sound familiar? It echoes Orson Pratt's words near the beginning of
my comments! We can overcome the dysfunctional patterns passed down to us! </span></div>
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there, but my two favorites are Rapid Eye Technology and Deep Emotion Release.
I know that we can help ourselves and our families by cleaning up our own
thoughts and perceptions using forgiveness and gratitude. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"In a real sense we ascend the ladder
to heaven as we experience spiritual renewal or healing. . . . Becoming
like God, then doesn’t consist so much of adopting new ideas but of discarding
old ones that impair our view, that render us prisoners of prejudice. Each
time we pass through the refiner’s fire and complete a new cycle of descent
before ascent we peel off another layer…Healing thus consists largely of
unlayering, unbinding the “bands of iniquity,” giving the inner
child of God a new lease on life. . . . (Avraham Gileadi, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Isaiah Decoded</i>, 129, 131-32)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While we often lump ‘sins and
iniquities’ together as though they are the same thing, there exists a
significant difference between the two. Persons on the Zion/Jerusalem level,
for example, receive God’s forgiveness of their sins but must still
overcome their iniquities. . . .Covenant keeping with God is the sole guarantee
we have of overcoming curses. (Avraham Gileadi, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Isaiah
Decoded</i>, 173, 356)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I've studied at least three books by Christian psychiatrists on healing
generations. I deeply appreciate Dr. Kenneth McCall's tiny book <i>Healing
the Family Tree</i> that sold over 100,000 copies. He was an M.D.
turned psychiatrist. Included in his book are stories on healing labels of same
sex attraction (p 11, 22, 88) and schizophrenia, epilepsy, heart
conditions and more, all through prayer and the Eucharist (Sacrament).
Those prayers included steps of what many call Generational Healing. The author
wrote: “First, it is necessary to cut the known bond to the
controlling person, alive or dead, then to forgive wholeheartedly, finally,
to transfer control to Jesus Christ, making any essential environmental changes
to support these steps.”<br />
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Bert Hellinger began as a Catholic priest who then became a renowned author on
"family consciousness" and family members unconsciously repeating the
suffering of the past. I have followed Deitrich Klinghardt,MD's wisdom and summary of Hellinger's work. Dr. Klinghardt realized a single person can do Bert Hellinger's Family Systems
method <i>one on one</i> with a medical patient instead of organizing a
group of people to stand in as proxies for each family member! I've been guided
to take that philosophy even further and teach that generational healing is
something we can do for each other OR as an elegant <i>self-help
process.</i> Spiritual promptings taught me this can occur when we connect to who
we really are. I am a witness that even when we're alone we can
clear generational issues in ourselves because of the grace and mercy of Jesus
Christ!<br /><br />
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generational healing is not only plausible - it is happening! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Seeing faces of ancestors 'superimposed' on one's own is explained in my
book </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">An LDS Approach to Energy
Healing</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. It is something I have experienced several hundred times. I share
stories about my children and clients also being
witnesses of this happening during Deep Emotion Release. Additionally, they witness that the DER process can be learned. I have had first time clients
who see ancestor's faces similar to the man in the email. (I had to clear
out layers of my own issues before I learned to see ancestor faces.)</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Illustration #99 (of 492) in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Healing Arts - A Gift from God</i> by Tamara Laing)</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: 12pt;">Please don't be alarmed about seeing
spiritually</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> because quotes from the brethren are included throughout my
book that add clarity to every step of the Deep Emotion Release (DER) process.
Several of the Odes of Solomon in <i>Lost Books of the Bible</i> seem to
describe the DER process, such as Ode 13: "Behold, the Lord is our
mirror: Open the eyes and see them in him: and learn the manner of your face,
And tell forth praise to His spirit and wipe the filth from your face: and love
his holiness."</span><br />
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<br />Besides forgiveness - gratitude and praise are also part of the recipe
that the Holy Spirit led me to include in the Deep Emotion Release process. I
have been tutored since 2006 as I've met with clients
coming to me for Rapid Eye Technology. The author of the email story above set
an intention and was following the spirit (as suggested in my book) more so than he was using the suggested step by step process I outline.
Condensing an entire process that is chapters long to a short sentence or two is a
challenge. I'll summarize here that DER always begins with prayer and then specific
verbal intents voiced during "Neurological Integration" (from Dr. Kenneth
Fabian of New Mexico). That beginning is followed by working one's way up the Map of Consciousness. There are several options to choose from: fill-in-the-blank
forgiveness, gratitude and praise processes; bonding;
imagery; rebuking; the Silent DER process, etc. People have told me over and
over again that Deep Emotion Release is a powerful process - however, its real power is in Christ!<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SECOND WITNESS STORY</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I have been sharing a similar story to
the above man's experience in my Deep Emotion Release classes. It is a story
from a man's journal about his wife, who after head trauma, struggled
at length with chronic migraines. The husband, a member of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was led by the spirit on what to do and was
taught about casting out familial spirits and generational healing
principles such as forgiveness. As the husband prayed for and
assisted his wife's great-great-great... grandmother (who had been through
horrific abuse herself) to repent and look to the Savior, his wife began to
improve. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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witness" story aided his wife by having "healing conversations"
with her deceased ancestor. Although she had passed on, we know that her spirit
lives still - and therefore this communication is entirely possible by
faith. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interceding with God on behalf of others—enabling both fathers and sons to be
made perfect ”—applies not only to the living but also to the dead. Because
the priesthood according to the holy order of God is without beginning of
days or end of years” (Heb. 7:3; Alma 13:7, 9; D&C 84:17) its
ministry reaches backwards as well as forward in time.” Avraham
Gileadi, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Endtime Prophecy</i>, 214-215<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Deitrich Klinghardt, MD teaches to
do this very kind of work: having healing conversations with people (alive
or dead) in the generational healing processes he teaches connected to his
world renowned "5 Levels of Healing" model. Many others teach the
same, such as Wolynn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“…Often unknown to us, our ancestors’
unresolved suffering disables us and binds us painfully to
them. [Author Mark Wolynn] gives us the tools and
skills — an approach that combines understanding, imaginative
dialogues, and compassionate reconnection—to free and heal
ourselves. —James S. Gordon, MD</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Yet another witness is an M.D. in
South Africa, MK Strydom. She wrote <i>Healing Begins with
Sanctification of the Heart.</i> It is a very thick book with information
listed by dis-ease along with a wealth of scriptures and much on generational
clearing. You can have her book today since she offers it freely as a PDF
online! I enjoy the 4th edition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the world’s curses by turning our own ‘ruin’ into
‘rebirth,’ ‘punishment’ into ‘deliverance,’ ‘suffering’ into
‘salvation,’ etc., by living God’s law. . . . Our destiny is to assist in
the earth’s ongoing creation by raising its vibration to the level from which
it came. To do so we must live a higher
law. (Avraham Gileadi, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Isaiah
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Finding gratitude and praise in
all things is certainly a higher law. Discovering this challenge and using
it amidst the crisis situations of my life has changed me! The experiences
I have had over the years with clients and the feedback they share has given me
a firm witness that the emotional work of moving up to gratitude in the thick
of trials is from God.<br />
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Working in this field has helped me to understand the scriptures better. Before
I studied our subject, Isaiah 52:1-2 was confusing to me. It reads:
"Awake, awake; put on thy strength O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth there shall no more come into thee
the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit
down, O Jerusalem, loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
daughter of Zion." </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I found a key to interpreting this verse in
the </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Old Testament Student Manual
Kings-Malachi</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> on page 196:</span></div>
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the meaning of Isaiah 52:1-2. He showed that the beautiful garments symbolized
the priesthood power restored to the house of Israel in the last
days and that the loosing of the bands from her neck signified
the removal of the curses of God. </span></blockquote>
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our view of what is possible when we purposely use the gospel principle of forgiveness
with those above us on our family tree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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blame on your ancestors, if you forgive that and choose to stand close to
the Lord in the process of purifying your life, that will affect your
whole family in both directions. You are not alone. There is no way you
can gain solitary and neutral ground...This, I believe, is one of the profound
meanings of the tame and wild olive trees.... </span></blockquote>
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in to a wild tree, in due time, if that branch is strong enough, it will heal
and regenerate to the very roots. You will have then been an instrument in the
sanctification even of your forebears...To be that kind of branch and achieve
that kind of transformation backward and forward is perhaps the greatest
achievement of this world. But to do it one must be great, one must be linked,
bound to the Lord Jesus Christ. One must be mighty. One must be something of a
savior. And that is exactly what the Prophet Joseph Smith said we are: 'saviors
on Mount Zion.' (Truman G. Madsen, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Temple: Where Heaven Meets Earth, </i>84)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">That phrase comes from the Old
Testament: "And saviors shall come up on Mount Zion..." (Obadiah
1:21) I've collected pages and pages of other scriptures and quotes by
leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the principles
used in generational clearing. These are in my second, (gold) book.<br />
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So, let's create better conditions for our family lines! I am certainly
not the only person sharing about this kind of help. God has given us all kinds
of clues in the scriptures if we will seek them out. And He has blessed us with
the testimonies of many Christian authors and thousands of anecdotal
experiences. Let us have courage and be a blessing to members of our
family tree! We are called upon to forgive ourselves and our
ancestors in order to remove the curses of God. We can even seek to
find a silver lining for our trials and watch God's miracles unfold. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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clearing generational patterns of Same Sex Attraction. That experience is in my
book, An LDS Approach to Energy Healing. Read about that book <a href="https://tamarasbook.blogspot.com/p/new-book.html">HERE</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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on my website under the post, "Brother Poulton's Fascinating
Paper." Read that post <a href="https://tamarasbook.blogspot.com/2008/12/fascinating-paper-on-evil-spirits.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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website: "A faith affirming resource for Latter-day Saints addressing
sexual orientation and gender identity and who desire to live in harmony with
the teachings of Jesus Christ and the doctrines and values of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." <a href="https://northstarlds.org/" target="_blank">https://northstarlds.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A post about Brother Scott Gillespie overcoming a 4
decades long pornography addiction is <a href="https://tamarasbook.blogspot.com/2017/09/scott-gillespies-second-paper-on-evil.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;">"No, I have absolutely no idea what water is," </span></h2>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Quantum Touch </i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: left;">by Richard Gordon)</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: left;">This cartoon makes me laugh </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">because I used to be like that fish. I</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"> had no idea that we live in an "ocean" of universal life force energy. </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">That fish represents an over-whelming number of people. </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"> If we asked the average Christian if they believed in "Chi life force energy" they would likely answer "no." </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">That is sad and ironic because Christians use <i>several</i> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">different terms for "life force energy" -- they just haven't realized it yet! </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">S</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">cripture uses a completely different set of vocabulary to describe the same </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">'foreign' terms</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"> that </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">holistic health practitioners use!</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">I share a story in my book of being prompted by the spirit to call a past bishop's wife. I told her of our daughter's trials with severe depression and cutting and suicidal tendencies. She asked if I had only looked for help in the medical field. Startled, I answered, "Yes, of course. <b>What else is there?" </b>"Oh, she said, "there is a whole other field of medicine." "Really?" I asked incredulously. "Yes, it is called <span><a name='more'></a></span>Energy Medicine," she replied in a matter-of-fact way. She said it was an alternative but complementary method. (see </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Healing Arts</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">, 2) Today, those descriptive terms no longer fit as well. I believe she would use the term 'Integrative,' instead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">My bishop's wife explained that there were techniques that re-patterned <b>the light</b> around a person, which I later found out was related to <b>life-force </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>energy.</b> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">I read dozens of books about this novel idea as fast as I could. One medical doctor wrote that, "healing involved a strengthening of the underlying integrity of an individual's human energies and their re-patterning in a healthier way" (Susan Wagner, M.D., <i>A Doctor's Guide to Therapeutic Touch</i>, 29). </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">We found by experience that techniques which cleared and balanced the subtle energy/<b>unseen light</b> enveloping the body were <i>incredibly</i> helpful for my daughter who experienced </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">depression, severe anxiety and mood swings. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">The insistence of the spirit led me to this seemingly unusual help. Initially, I wasn't sure of its compatibility with Christianity. Later on, I found prophets comparing life-force energy to </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>intelligence in the light of Christ. </b>That was incredibly validating! New vocabulary words I had learned such as "Chi"and "Prana" suddenly became <b>Christian</b> terms - no longer cloaked in foreign sounding names. Additionally, the <b>Light of Christ</b> was also compared by prophets to <b>consciousness. </b>That added another health-benefiting-avenue of study. Scholars and doctors said <b>higher consciousness,</b> such as </span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">forgiveness,</b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> could be used purposefully for improved health. My family was blessed to learn by experience that forgiveness</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> is indeed beneficial to the body! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">This site offers several answers to the question, </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>"What else is there?" </b>when </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">seeking health and wellness.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">It is possible that there are variables involved in healing that one has <i>never</i> considered before. Traditional medicine generally doesn't practice from the perspective of </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Whole Person Health. <i>However, scripture talks about these</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><i> overlooked areas! </i>One example is the scriptural term <b>"chase darkness"</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b> </b>(from <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i> section 50). Gaining an understanding of that subject alone was incredibly helpful for my daughter!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Some of the best things I have learned <b>since writing my first book</b> involve the physical side of mental issues and the gut as the "second brain." I am grateful there are <b>Functional Medicine</b> doctors such as Naturopaths and Osteopathic Doctors that seek out the root cause of issues instead of just offering symptom relief. My family has been greatly blessed by other energy medicine modalities as well as frequency devices in these doctor's offices. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">It has been a <b>huge blessing</b> to have learned about<b> EMP Lightning and how it has been studied for the brain</b>. Formulated specifically for brain and nervous system health, this inspired product has IMMENSELY made a difference for family members and clients with a broad array of brain related issues. I do not sell this product but continue sharing about it. Read about the Stephan family's incredible story behind this formula on a post <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3512644569971531147#editor/target=post;postID=568704760001625918;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=28;src=postname">HERE.</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The field of Energy Medicine <i>that the spirit led me to</i> is not understood by the masses. However, I KNOW it can help people draw nearer to Christ.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-style: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-style: normal;">Scripture says the Savior took upon Himself not only our sins, but also our illnesses and heartaches... all mortal bitterness. That includes our unresolved emotions which </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-style: normal;">are heavily tied to health. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-style: normal;">I am a witness that the Savior can swallow up our burdens in His love.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-style: normal;"> This work is very Christ-centered when credit is given where credit is due, to the Savior. He is the light and the life of the world - HE is the reason for our every breath and the source of the life force energy.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">My learning journey has taught me how to better apply Jesus Christ's atonement. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Jesus Christ is the source of all healing. "For I am the Lord that healeth thee." </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">It has been my experience that helping people in the healing arts is to help them <b>forgive </b>the past and <b>bring light to dark places. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">In my learning curve I have also been blessed to learn about women and priesthood power. I have learned how generational clearing relates to that and is spoken of over and over in Isaiah.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> There is scriptural backing for every foundational principle used in this work as my books attests! </span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">I am so excited that MK Strydom, a <b>medical doctor</b> in South Africa <b>teaches the same basic principles</b> that I have learned. She teaches how powerfully connected our <b>thoughts</b> are to health. She teaches to forgive in order to heal. She teaches to cast out dark spirits by their names and to clear generational issues for our ancestors (just like D&C 98:45-48 teaches!). Her very thick book, <i><b>Healing Begins with Sanctification of the Heart</b>, </i> is available free online as a PDF! See pages 325-327</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <a href="https://beyondthemountain.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sanctification-of-the-heart-4th-edition-small1.pdf" target="_blank">HERE</a> or <a href="https://bit.ly/3mDppQG" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">She never once uses the term "energy" because she uses Biblical terms instead. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">I'm so grateful that </span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">MK Styrdom M.D.'s</b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> book and work is a second witness to the health principles I have learned in Energy Medicine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">Studying the field of Energy Medicine has helped me to understand deeper meaning of scripture verses. Some verses which I previously thought were merely symbolic I now understand as reality. MK Strydom, MD</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> teaches about the power of clearing generational issues and casting out darkness to bring light and vitality to our families.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">The more I learn about</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> energy medicine,</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">the more I learn that </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>faith</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> is a principle of power. In my opinion, this work would be better referred to as "spiritual re-patterning." </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">I have observed since 2004 as a facilitator of </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><b>Healing Arts </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">that doing </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">emotional release </b>work</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> can be a very spiritual process which can foster the development of spiritual gifts. (There are also areas that I avoid altogether. Run away from any facilitators who would 'predict' your future or cross any other lines God warns about. Such is NOT a part of energy healing for those who are 'vigilant for God's word' (Isaiah 66). All my books contain warnings and safeguards for facilitators.</span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">It has been my experience that Christ centered </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b>integrative health modalities</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> teach a person they can ask in faith for</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">much</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">more than they previously thought. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">I continue to learn that our body's ability to heal is greater than we've been led to believe. Truly, cutting edge science has discovered that "we now know that the body heals through frequency, vibration and resonance and </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;"><b>it's communicated through light."</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> (William Tiller, PhD) </span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">In late 2022 we were very blessed to find the i</span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">TeraCare scalar and terahertz frequency device</b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> for home use. HOW THRILLING not to have to drive to a doctor's office to benefit from this scalar energy device! We have seen amazing differences and it is </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">so easy</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> to use: structure water with it in 15 seconds, drink the terahertz water and then point the wand/blower toward our own areas of concern on our body for a few minutes. More on that <a href="https://tamarasbook.blogspot.com/2022/10/quantum-tech-not-to-miss.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> (in a new window).</span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">This light the world calls 'Chi' is intelligence in the light of Christ! It is Jesus Christ's light that is the life force energy keeping us alive, "lending us breath" (Mosiah 2:21) being the universal recording mechanism scholars speak of. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">Open your heart to new possibilities. There are new and exciting options to achieve better health. My family is extremely blessed because we explored these integrative methods!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Explore my website to learn more. <i>The search box is a most helpful tool on here.</i> I highly recommend reading my first book whether you are a beginner or a long time facilitator. It will really open your eyes as to how much <b>consciousness</b> is involved in health and how <b>life force energy</b> is talked about by so many prophets and scriptures. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">To Your Health!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">Tamara</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Beginners may also enjoy the post "Energy Healing Basics in Religious Language" </i></span></div><div style="color: black;"><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;">or the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) TAB at the top of the main page. </i></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">For a scientific view, read the "Six Pillars of Energy Medicine- Clinical Strengths of a Complementary Paradigm" by David Feinstein and Donna Eden on one of my posts. </span></i></div>
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</div>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-28726034567465068832022-10-04T06:00:00.111-07:002024-02-26T16:55:04.532-08:00ITERACARE: QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY NOT-TO-MISS!<p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">SCALAR WAVES & TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES! AMAZING! </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidtBvejg9lzGNtj2YtuYxVTmpk4xZ2C1lCWtg_4THJRHD9xBNkVQmPuGugS2vCpRVFY6P7llE3OEp6NBhyHIEbb-KfdceMDDxyS8ie1WvJA_K_0DBL1D2_kC6dXjG6UhEW6e-DLNFGXedSVZEqPIVvqD1p8cQrs9SBKJdh1bsutXaoML6ZME1iulAyQ/s500/iteracare%203%20with%20text.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="500" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidtBvejg9lzGNtj2YtuYxVTmpk4xZ2C1lCWtg_4THJRHD9xBNkVQmPuGugS2vCpRVFY6P7llE3OEp6NBhyHIEbb-KfdceMDDxyS8ie1WvJA_K_0DBL1D2_kC6dXjG6UhEW6e-DLNFGXedSVZEqPIVvqD1p8cQrs9SBKJdh1bsutXaoML6ZME1iulAyQ/s320/iteracare%203%20with%20text.png" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I've been telling all my friends about a fascinating <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>"<span>scalar fountain</span>"</b></span> found in wellness centers. </span>The results being reported are phenomenal! Watch the interview of Dr. Sandra Rose Michael that really got the word out here<span>:</span><span style="color: #45818e;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bcYsBM1gnM&t=10s " style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?</a> One friend watched it and was speechless! With its high tech precisely aligned computer screens in sets of four, the <b>Energy Enhancement System, </b>(EES) is pricey to own ($27,000! Sessions start at $50 an hour.)</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>THEN I HEARD</b></span> on a webinar by "the quantum guy" John Scevola that someone <b>miniaturized the ability to make a quantum scalar generator</b> - <i><span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">and it's </span></b></span></i><i><span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AFFORDABLE! </span></b></span></i><i><span><b>It's a terahertz device that's EASY to operate.</b></span></i></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJgpeX4qmmdyK8CjzOb2cYQfrLv-T4yC-PNAimyrk7HOFglZ9pevgPQhl0Jj7JOz2t_6UgDNxvr9YXxv0Gna6xxQSum8Eo_YPbVnnmyzi5UWTFRG7nBRsGJEM6ypFSkrklYbt-YulTcWhAu8sFjbG1wqCzNcajRI7XEgM_gxqulNcBNlUZZX1QbqLzjA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="1000" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJgpeX4qmmdyK8CjzOb2cYQfrLv-T4yC-PNAimyrk7HOFglZ9pevgPQhl0Jj7JOz2t_6UgDNxvr9YXxv0Gna6xxQSum8Eo_YPbVnnmyzi5UWTFRG7nBRsGJEM6ypFSkrklYbt-YulTcWhAu8sFjbG1wqCzNcajRI7XEgM_gxqulNcBNlUZZX1QbqLzjA=w658-h148" width="658" /></a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> China, Japan and the US have proclaimed Terahertz as <span style="color: #cc0000;">"one of the top 10 technologies that will change the world."</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0vNBOpu9KGQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="0vNBOpu9KGQ"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcoxW-DPolZYhYJQhiLKpotNV46_D9XpH21jLscb3Ewx2SQNzQcUPZtWfp7GsG8ZfhOESUqm2dGFKGOU05B1WlHb3IZm4F2tSeWeecPN2HS8dmV1Jz46SSyyv4QTUlD96z7GG_emyZh-XEVGAXkerSFMvcpD_Q8a6yfIFCykwIWgL17p-1heUQelaDwg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcoxW-DPolZYhYJQhiLKpotNV46_D9XpH21jLscb3Ewx2SQNzQcUPZtWfp7GsG8ZfhOESUqm2dGFKGOU05B1WlHb3IZm4F2tSeWeecPN2HS8dmV1Jz46SSyyv4QTUlD96z7GG_emyZh-XEVGAXkerSFMvcpD_Q8a6yfIFCykwIWgL17p-1heUQelaDwg" width="320" /></a></div></span></b></span><div><br /></div><div>Terahertz is the same wavelength absorbed by healthy cells so it passes right through healthy cells. It can penetrate the skin 11", thus reaching the bone marrow, micro blood vessels and capillaries. The literature on THz says it can <b>activate stem cells </b>and <b>remove impurities from the blood!</b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivUblPG1o5mSfJn-ewutHDHB2CxDmAusq_zEK1OONXzZ5L9ji1aYA8cOsDkEdP-qw2-cQUXb1A4SnfxfTIdH6xMhnLHyEJRu9_ypULsPsZk8CssVb2G0ZMuHCq3E-nsyFLtgIbpggOWezRqIGqFdwA3OTNohfhI8N2IycMXqGJ3eJWoi7yd0X1xR9AGw" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="621" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivUblPG1o5mSfJn-ewutHDHB2CxDmAusq_zEK1OONXzZ5L9ji1aYA8cOsDkEdP-qw2-cQUXb1A4SnfxfTIdH6xMhnLHyEJRu9_ypULsPsZk8CssVb2G0ZMuHCq3E-nsyFLtgIbpggOWezRqIGqFdwA3OTNohfhI8N2IycMXqGJ3eJWoi7yd0X1xR9AGw=w239-h239" width="239" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTl56m7tBqDOAmgeSk58DnE1bEEj1bWuxZgP6cqhOI_FjuoCeVykChxCgK4tkBQJQAu8nu5KK0SBVjDT3T5HAgbG1ShZLNT6TcC8tH2XLHU3aKSGe9KlrMa4-E8g54QHbDeAZVmBHHP1FRL5beV7BkIXb26j-ZnT2yk-8pGvrKQNAR7n3BuJiQBh7Q8Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1259" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTl56m7tBqDOAmgeSk58DnE1bEEj1bWuxZgP6cqhOI_FjuoCeVykChxCgK4tkBQJQAu8nu5KK0SBVjDT3T5HAgbG1ShZLNT6TcC8tH2XLHU3aKSGe9KlrMa4-E8g54QHbDeAZVmBHHP1FRL5beV7BkIXb26j-ZnT2yk-8pGvrKQNAR7n3BuJiQBh7Q8Q" width="287" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I bought an iTeraCare device and I'm so glad I did! The science is amazing, and so are people's results. My daughter tried the IteraCare device and was surprised to <i>immediately </i>feel changes. She felt swelling going down in her neck <i>while</i> I wanded her there. Later, she went to her thyroid specialist who did some testing and told her that a nodule on her thyroid had reduced in size. We have used this device for all levels of discomfort, detoxing, sinus problems, headaches, anxiousness, on scars, lymph and more. I learned from watching recordings online that IteraCare is used by doctors and hospitals in Malaysia. It excels at <b>inflammation, skin disorders and clogging</b>.</div><div><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-small;"><span><b><span>A <span face="adelle-sans" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. </span></span><span face="adelle-sans" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Cochran</span></b><span face="adelle-sans" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> said, </b>“</span></span><strong style="font-family: adelle-sans; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>I’ve been practicing [medicine] 43 years… and I have never seen people change so fast until I started using the wand.”</span> </strong></span><span face="adelle-sans" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-small;">(host William Boles, audio, freeconferencecall.com) <b>Thomas Lucky, M.D.</b> said: <b>that [iTeraCare] device has really changed my practice. That one is more powerful than any of them. It's a device that will change the world. It has the capability of changing the hydrogen molecular structure.</b> (Energy medicine with Dr. Lucky, Craig Walker and Dr. Sharnael" on the Dr. Sharnael True TV" 1/26/23)</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span face="adelle-sans" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="adelle-sans" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are outside of the USA, everything in this video is for you. If you are in the USA, a regulatory administration doesn't want you hearing the health claims the rest of the world can hear about the iTeraCare device. </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="369" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FAuUnegr_w0" width="443" youtube-src-id="FAuUnegr_w0"></iframe></div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">There are stunning reports on physical and mental benefits with iTeraCare - stories about coming back from stroke, vision improvement, even "vaks" damage. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span>The testimonials are </span></b><i><b><span>fascinating. </span></b><span> </span></i></span>Check out<b> "Frequency Wand Testimonial Group" on Facebook and see yourself! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1334745277027235" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/1334745277027235</a> </b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Not on facebook? </b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The company website is at <a href="http://www.PrifeIntl.com" target="_blank">www.PrifeIntl.com</a> or <a href="http://www.i-elite.org" target="_blank">www.i-elite.org</a></span></b></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Or go to <a href="https://thzforlife.info/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">https://thzforlife.info/</span></a></b></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img data-original-height="507" data-original-width="1352" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXkR-G6VO0AzVnhyGmXc97fQyHn9BA_LEXG5gh9XlqmQF7wUXHC_6hpYXvaH6NWA-3irY2VtcmijXhqbZbrlOupJNnoAoqprS4CDqGoRqjjqv_JtzgxYBYB1lHUzorj-FxiF-ezXcihbFwKy2NIjFJ59ewTQ_Wu9YbwC-KE-mi_hfrapZcqrq0EKb6eg=w320-h120" width="320" /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8xLhfCVRwDeTP03o6wKXUwcDG_FWkwGvVACaGiOOJ0dJ5LlEQtwRXpLH6VDlFSAFzSzf6qB5Tj6QWmvmcxVbnuMcKJqfFOAC6OMrDY5b5HT0kUFcRsK5MX21nEip8Exrlz-4fi-z6a8Dvp7vyvhLh5PI5dBzuAUqRT2KM7wgQJ3L0bS3sp50iKRzZkQ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="612" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8xLhfCVRwDeTP03o6wKXUwcDG_FWkwGvVACaGiOOJ0dJ5LlEQtwRXpLH6VDlFSAFzSzf6qB5Tj6QWmvmcxVbnuMcKJqfFOAC6OMrDY5b5HT0kUFcRsK5MX21nEip8Exrlz-4fi-z6a8Dvp7vyvhLh5PI5dBzuAUqRT2KM7wgQJ3L0bS3sp50iKRzZkQ" width="234" /></a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;">We drink THz <i>charged</i> water now. Dr. Soma, the iTeraCare Product Advisor, said you can</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;"> charge and structure water in a <b>glass</b> container with IteraCare in a minute.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;">The warm air blowing out terahertz</span><span style="text-align: left;"> feels comforting. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;">I also use it as a blow dryer so <i>healthy</i> frequencies are sent to my head instead of damaging ones.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><i>I've researched iTeraCare and am "blown away" by what I've found!</i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">People are noticing great changes <i>just from drinking</i> terahertz water. <b>Plants and animals</b> too! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">Then add even more benefits by wanding/ blowing..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><div><div><b>The 3 core technologies IteraCare integrates are:</b></div><div>1. Terahertz Frequency 2. Quantum / Scalar Technology 3. Quartz crystals <p>The Terahertz device I have, the Classic, is the 4th generation model from 2021. (It started out at $400,000 in 2014!) The <b>Classic 2.0 is $400 and includes tax and shipping. </b> Point, blow and drink. </p><p>There are also other models of IteraCare described at the end of this post: 2024 <b>Premium Plus </b>($760 at the time of this writing)<b> </b>the 2022 <b>Premium</b> ($1200) or and for all-day use in spas, wellness centers and doctors offices and the top of the line the third generation model from 2019 the <b>Pro</b> ($4000).</p><p></p><p><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><u>Here are some benefits:</u></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Eliminate unhealthy cells.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Terahertz activates weak and inactive cells.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Increase self repair by resonating w/ our cells to strengthen DNA</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Clear meridian and lymph points.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Activate dormant stem cells in the bone marrow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Improve Microcirculation: dilate blood vessels, reduce blood flow resistance and viscosity.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Regulate glands.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Remove unhealthy body moisture and fats. Balance body's immunity systems.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Best for various types of inflammation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Help mitigate and remove discomfort in the body.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Removes blockages in the meridians, lymph...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Great for skin and beautification.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #cc0000;">Do not use the iTeraCare device if you have </b><b>a pacemaker, metal in the body (go around it), congenital heart disease, open wounds or fractures, or pregnancy or menstruation. If you have high blood pressure do not wand your head. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Beware of cheap knock-offs. The real device that produces terahertz frequencies is made by<b> Prife. Amazing testimonials and info are at <a href="https://thzforlife.info/" target="_blank">thzforlife.info/</a> </b>The Classic<span> home model comes in two pieces that screw together with a swivel cord and a box with a handle.</span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">WHERE CAN I BUY IT?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Purchase </span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">on this</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> link. </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You will be asked for m</span></span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">y username which is: TLAINGE </span><a href="https://wellnesssolutions4all.com/tamaralaing" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://wellnesssolutions4all.com/tamaralaing</span></a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span><b>After you order, I will email you helpful links and doctor suggestions.</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span><b>Anyone who buys a Prife Ion Shield or iTeraCare can sell Prife products without any additional cost and earn commission and a pairing bonus. </b></span>There is a helpful business group on Facebook titled <b>"Frequency Wand Support"</b> with files on the comp plan, etc. Or learn the business info online at</span> <a href="https://Thzforlife.com" target="_blank">https://Thzforlife.com</a> </div></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><i>The future of medicine is here! </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><i>Tamara Laing</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Independent Business Owner</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Prife</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span>Disclaimer: I'm sharing testimonials here, not medical advice. IteraCare is not a treatment for any medical or mental health problem nor a substitute for medical care. If you have a medical or psychological condition, consult your doctor. Prife does not make any claims or guarantees. Testimonials are individual and do not reflect results others may get from using this device.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*Webinar by John Scevola and Ricky Brandino "IteraCare Quantum Scalar Q&A #1 "What Are the Amazing Bioenergetic Benefits of Quantum Scalar?" 8/9/22 YouTube </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For more information and a few Zooms I have recorded about this device see my private Facebook group <b>Hope For a Better World.</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/486057488795320" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/486057488795320</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpSOj5zJWlzttCv9DXyCynysrxmfeAdrwGfwksqI6j6plv9gVM1FG7xKSTQo-VCWkOTHI8ARk5-gDwiRZFvYNgkvFzNZFUriPuejCfR45shIx9vLro1YnJgquW88_FU5rH88SBoH3-4e7FowuRAqkvZrCIkfJqq8IUKx-GqoggjCqej7XzxcjW6XZOcw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="714" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpSOj5zJWlzttCv9DXyCynysrxmfeAdrwGfwksqI6j6plv9gVM1FG7xKSTQo-VCWkOTHI8ARk5-gDwiRZFvYNgkvFzNZFUriPuejCfR45shIx9vLro1YnJgquW88_FU5rH88SBoH3-4e7FowuRAqkvZrCIkfJqq8IUKx-GqoggjCqej7XzxcjW6XZOcw" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"<span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">iTeraCare Devices Available </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>PRO 3rd gen[eration] model</b> (released <b>2019</b>) - <b>1200 watts</b>, built very sturdy, built for more continuous use (like in clinical settings or large families or outreach) for multiple applications, requires less time for treatments due to higher power, results much faster, <b>quieter</b> than Classic, <b>6 settings</b> (more options), comes in hard protective case well-padded with locks on outside </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Classic [1.0] 4th gen model</b> (released <b>2021</b>) - 800 watts, built more affordable to allow for getting into more households at lower price point, still just as effective just not built as sturdy, takes a little longer for treatments, will shut off after an hour of use to cool down, <b>3 settings</b> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Premium 5th gen model </b>(released June <b>2022</b>) - 650 watts, built sturdier than Classic, reported quieter than both other models, <b>2 settings</b>, comes in hard protective case well-padded with locks on outside..." (Steven Keller, FB post on July 19, '22, "Frequency Wand Support" group)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"The Premium is 180 degrees on Low and 250 degrees on High. The Classic is 170 degrees on High." (Ricky Brandino comment on above post) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-18370007371368068072009-08-03T23:08:00.000-07:002024-01-23T15:20:59.073-08:00Start Here: IntroductionMy daughter found great help in the field of Energy Medicine. What if your child suffered from panic attacks and severe, suicidal depression, yet medical treatment wasn't helping enough? Would you consider using alternative therapies? Does their premise of subtle energy enveloping our physical body have any truth in it? I had lots of questions when I first heard about Energy Therapies. I am extremely grateful that I kept an open mind about techniques not usually available in a doctor's office because I believe they saved my daughter's life.<br />
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Initially, I wondered if it was proper for Latter-day Saints and other Christians to be involved in unconventional healing techniques. Being uninformed, I wondered if Energy healing techniques would involve questionable practices or beliefs. There seems to be a lot of confusion by LDS members on this subject and I believe it often stems from fear and misconceptions. Having never heard of this field before, my concerns fueled a thirst for answers so much that I read dozens and dozens of energy medicine books as fast as I could. </div>
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More importantly, I went to the source of all truth and studied ancient and modern scriptures about our bodies and healing. I was guided to noteworthy, yet obscure quotes from prophets on subtle energy, mind/body medicine, and <em>what else</em> was involved in depression and illness. Words of prophets on all of these subjects give credibility to principles used in Energy Medicine. I have been prompted repeatedly to write down the things I have learned. I share my views as what I have learned to be true, not<em> </em>as<em> the</em> truth. I certainly do not claim to express the views of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</div>
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It is my desire that a knowledge of "unconventional" methods of healing will increase hope in people afflicted with mental/physical illness or stressful situations. I desire that it will lessen suffering in the world. I hope that sharing my daughter's remarkable recovery will dispel myths about mental illness as well as so-called "alternative" medicine that many of us prefer to call "Whole Person Health." Sharing my journey will likely change the way the reader views illness and even the world around them. It is my intention that my voice makes a difference for good in the world.</div>
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Owing to my daughter’s miraculous recovery, I am an Energy practitioner myself with several years experience. I became certified as a Master Rapid Eye Technician and have also trained in other Energy modalities. I have taught complementary health classes for Latter-day Saints at health clinics, health food stores and community groups.</div>
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In the past, bipolar illness was ripping my family apart. I am grateful now for all the learning those chaotic and terrifying experiences gave me. I am a much better person, more compassionate and far less likely to judge others. I am grateful that my trials enabled me to have firsthand knowledge that faith is a principle of <em>power</em>, just as <em>The Lectures on Faith</em> by Joseph Smith clearly indicate. I emerged from feeling I was a victim of despairing circumstances to being empowered.<br />
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I share my daughter's story because I believe it is possible for others to find helpful results as well. Bernie S. Siegel, M.D. sums up my feelings: "If one patient can do it, there's no reason others can't. I realized that medicine has been studying its failures when it should have been learning from its successes. We should be paying more attention to the exceptional patients, those who get well unexpectedly..." (Bernie Siegel, <em>Love, Medicine & Miracles</em>, p 20) You or your loved one can also be well! Keep your optimism alive.<br />
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I desire that this site is most helpful. I look forward to reading your comments. I invite you to become an educated, and therefore, wiser health consumer.<br />
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Sincerely, Tamara<br />
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<strong>Summary of the story behind "What Else Is There?"</strong><br />My youngest daughter was diagnosed with severe depression while in junior high school. Then in high school she was diagnosed with an unheard of bipolar-type illness. The only answers medical doctors had were drugs and counseling. However, these conventional methods still left her ill and sometimes even suicidal. At times, we wondered if side-effects of the medications were worse than what she was dealing with in the first place.<br />
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I feel extremely blessed that a friend said something that stands out in memory as being profoundly important. She asked concerning my daughter, "So you’ve only looked for help in the medical field?" Startled, I answered "Yes, of course. <em>What else is there</em>?" She said there was a whole other field of medicine. "Really?" I asked incredulously. "Yes, it is called Energy Medicine, she replied in a matter-of-fact way." My friend said it was an alternative but complementary treatment. We continued to follow doctors’ orders while investigating if it would be helpful. It wasn't only helpful- it was life changing.<br />
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I took my daughter to appointments with Rapid Eye Technicians who were also trained in other Energy Medicine techniques including Reiki and Theta Healing. I was never disappointed. In fact, I was repeatedly astounded at the changes my daughter made at these appointments. She felt more like herself.</div>
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My daughter had to be hospitalized three different times while under the traditional care of medical doctors. Yet, once we were consistent about having Energy therapies and applying universal health principles they taught, she was never hospitalized again. My daughter eventually was able to successfully hold down steady jobs. Her whole life improved! My only regret is that we didn't try the alternative route sooner! Much to my amazement, Energy therapies helped not only my daughter and others with depression or mental illlness, but people with <strong>a</strong> <strong>whole array of physical illnesses and stressful life situations.</strong><br />
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Energy Medicine therapies produced so much hope and help for our family that I continued to search for truth about healing in complementary health books and scriptures. I hoped to begin to understand these unconventional methods. I wanted to know how unusual therapies could fit with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Was their message in accordance with His teachings? I never <em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">tended for Energy Medicine to become a passion in my life. I simply followed inspiration and took many steps on a learning path that has led me to what I am doing now. What a learning curve it has been!</span></em></div>
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So many unique things happened with incredible timing that I feel they ought to be shared. More importantly, many promptings from the spirit have told me to write our story down. I want the reader to know that I share my daughter's experiences with her permission and enthusiasm. If more people realized their emotional patterns, dysfunctional beliefs and even <strong>physical</strong> <b>pain and disease</b> were related to subtle energetic imbalances, the less suffering there would be. I also feel compelled to relate our journey because I have found truths about health and healing from prophets and apostles that are quite revealing. I marvel at what has been written about our bodies and healing. I am excited to share verses of scripture that have truly helpful answers. Modern scripture reveals a new perception of depression, mental illness and sickness in general.<br />
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<strong>WHAT ENERGY MEDICINE IS & ISN'T</strong><br />
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The Energy Medicine my friend spoke of was not in pill form. It is not medicine you swallow. It is a field of medicine which takes into account that our bodies include complex systems of subtle energies. We are more than just the physical bodies we see. While the medical field focuses on the effects of one's disease, Energy Medicine deals with the emotional, spiritual, and mental bioenergetic parts of the disease. Almost every culture but ours has a name for this energy. John White lists 97 different cultures with 97 different names for it in his book, <em>Future Science</em>. That is astounding to me! Some call it "life force energy" or "chi." I often just call it "Energy." Richard Gerber, M.D. wrote,<br />
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Energy Medicine involves techniques that are able to affect the body’s communication channels. These techniques are able to go to the root of problems instead of just dealing with symptom relief. They balance the whole person: body, mind & spirit. My friend explained how energy medicine had helped people close to her recover from not only illnesses- but stress, negative emotions (like fear, anger, anxiety, depression...), a car accident, and even abuse. What a <strong>huge</strong> blessing being open-minded about this news would prove to be!<br />
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I know that some alternative therapies work whether or not one believes they can. I have seen skeptics (who actually hoped a method would NOT work) receive benefits that truly surprised them. On the other hand, I also know from experience that some alternative methods work even better when one believes they will make a difference. I believe the alternative techniques I have found are spiritually based, which definitely appeals to me.<br />
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Energy Medicine works by affecting the bio-energetic field and energy system that penetrates and surrounds one's body. Restoring balance to the energetic pathways that run through one's organs, glands and tissues promotes health. The body's electro-magnetic field is measurable by scientists, so that level's existence is beyond debate.<br />
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If you have never heard of this field or aura, consider how Kirlian photography captures it on film. It is fascinating to me. Using Kirlian photography to take a picture of half a leaf after the other half has been destroyed will still reveal a picture of the <em>entire</em> leaf! Like the leaf, all living things have an electro-magnetic field around them- including humans. This gave me greater insight into many scriptures that I previously believed were strictly speaking figuratively such as "Let your light so shine before men" (Matt. 5:16) and "Let us put on the armor of light." (Romans 13:12) Our bodies really are surrounded by an aura of light! "For by him were all things created,...<em>visible and invisible</em>, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him...." (Col. 1:16-17 emphasis added)<br />
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<strong>STORING EMOTIONS IN OUR PHYSICAL BODY</strong><br />
I have learned from dozens of authors, experts and even medical doctors that our thoughts affect our health. Thoughts are vibrations of energy that can help or hurt us. Increasing numbers of medical doctors are coming to agree that we store unresolved negative emotions in our physical body that over time lead to pain and disease. Here is what one author writes that is typical of what I found in many alternative health books:<br />
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I have found dozens and dozens of authors and doctors who say basically the same thing. The remarkable thing is that Energy Medicine therapies help release these unresolved emotions from the body. I was told that storing toxic emotions was worse than most physical toxins. Toxic emotions cause ‘subtle energy blocks’ that contribute to both physical and emotional illness. Louise Hay writes, "The mental thought patterns that cause the most disease in the body are criticism, anger, resentment, and guilt." (Louise Hay, <em>Heal Your Body</em>, p 7)<br />
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The news that your own thought patterns and emotions affect your health may initially be hard to accept, particularly if you are currently suffering. When I offer this mind/body view to friends or family who are complaining of ills, they are often quick to point out that their troubles are caused by chemical imbalances, physical misalignment, a past accident, or other more socially acceptable evidence. They would be very wise to consider that there may be more precursors than what we have been led to believe. There are probable <strong>emotional</strong> roots adding in to their 'dis-ease' equation, no matter how vehemently they feel their problems are strictly <strong>physically based</strong>. Even the American Medical Association admits that up to 85% of illnesses are due to stress. Understanding illness from this perspective offers great hope to people because the patient can actually <em>do something themselves</em> about the stressful mental patterns that played into developing pain or illness.<br />
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Energy Medicine therapies drastically reduced my stress from dealing with a child’s chronic illness and they helped my daughter immensely! The different techniques are called "modalities." My daughter, myself, family members, friends & clients have benefitted greatly from an eye work process called Deep Emotion Release and modalities such as Rapid Eye Technology, Emotional Freedom Technique, Reiki, Christ-Centered Theta Healing, Quantum Touch and Vibrational Medicine. These have been tremendously helpful! </div>
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We have also been truly blessed by the healing options God provides in nature. These options have included such things as Flower Essences, pure Essential Oils, and the frequency holding capability of crystals. (For more information on frequencies and the medical implications of energy see Stan M. Gardner M.D.'s articles starting in March 2008 at <a href="http://www.drstangardner.com/">http://www.drstangardner.com/</a> or online at Meridian Magazine.) </div>
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We have also seen improvement from using various machines made with the latest technology to benefit our Energy systems. The first one I bought was a Light and Sound Machine (LSM) that utilizes full spectrum light. I bought a Grounding CD and 10th Chakra CD for my daughter to listen to in conjuction with the LSM (all can be purchased from <a href="http://www.rapideyetechnology.com/">http://www.rapideyetechnology.com/</a>)<br />
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In the past, sometimes my daughter said she either needed an RET session (Rapid Eye Technology) or to go straight to the hospital emergency room. In a single session my daughter could make a night and day difference. At some of these appointments, the RET technician described my daughter's energy as a human "pressure cooker" about to explode! Her transformations during these appointments were graceful. She easily let go of most of that "steam"(trapped and unresolved emotions and subtle energy) and walked away feeling more like her old self. My daughter's quick turnarounds after Rapid Eye Technology were astonishing to her NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) support group members. I attribute our daughter being able to stay out of the hospital ever since (it has been several years) to Energy Medicine.<br />
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Ranae Johnson, Ph.D. writes, "We believe Rapid Eye Technology (RET) is the safest, fastest, least painful and most natural way to clear negative energy from all levels of our being... many professionals have found that after only one session, RET will unlock blocks in a client that conventional methods were ineffective with over a period of months or even years!" (<em>Reclaim Your Light Through the Miracle of Rapid EyeTechnology,</em> p29)<br />
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One can learn more on the website <a href="http://www.rapideyetechnology.com/">http://www.rapideyetechnology.com/</a> . Best of all, past trauma does not have to be relived or discussed to be released with RET. What a <em>huge</em> blessing that has been! Every time my daughter went to a new counselor for traditional talk therapy we had to repeat <em>all</em> of the heart wrenching history. That is unnecessary and counter-productive! That does not EVER have to happen using RET.<br />
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The energy modalities we found are cutting- edge clearing technologies that the average citizen has never even heard of. I count our family extremely blessed to have found such hidden treasures of wisdom before they become mainstream. World class neuro-scientist Candace Pert, Ph.D. , calls psychiatric "talk and dose therapies" a band-aid. She writes, "I believe the alternative or complementary therapies are a form of professional help much less likely to do harm and more likely to do good than conventional approaches." (<em>Molecules of Emotion</em>- Why You Feel the Way You Feel, pg 323) I know this is true from my own year of situational depression as well as watching my daughter try both routes- traditional and alternative. The field of Energy Medicine has changed my stress level dramatically. I know it can help others with all sorts of issues. I have seen great results in a single session on clients with issues from a toothache and migraines to muscle tetany, cyclic vomiting, emotional despair and phobias. Sometimes, a difference was felt within minutes. All that is needed is a willingness to try something new.<br />
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In 2005 our family was very blessed to find out about a (now late) Stress Management consultant in St. George, Utah named Jan Graf (435-673-6708.) That single two-hour visit was life-changing for our daughter. At the end of the appointment Dr. Graf said, "I think you have your daughter back!" She was stable and able to reduce medications. This saved hundreds of dollars each month for prescriptions and avoided the terrible side-effects the drugs caused.<br />
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I believe our daughter needed only one appointment with Dr. Graf because she came very well prepared. Jan Graf’s philosophy on stress management and illness centers on a principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ: forgiveness. We have learned firsthand that harboring feelings and thereby not forgiving others, or yourself, can actually make you PHYSICALLY ILL! The good news is that <strong>forgiveness is healing</strong>! Dr. Graf's website is www.grafstressmanagement.com . </div>
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A similar philosophy is taught by numerous other authors and medical doctors. <em>Feelings Buried Alive Never Die</em> by Karol Truman; <em>I Make Me Sick,</em> a manuscript by Dr. Bradley Wilde; and <em>Remembering Wholeness</em> by Carol Tuttle are all such books. Those happen to be written by LDS authors although there are many more from all kinds of authors. I especially like <i>Healing Begins with Sanctification of the Heart </i>by MK Strydom, MD which is a free PDF online.<br />
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Our family found another gem in a gifted CranioSacral Therapist at the Advanced Health Clinic in Farmington, Utah. My husband lost his hearing overnight in one ear over a decade ago. He spent a whole week in the hospital where doctors could not find any physical reason for his hearing loss. They were barking up the wrong tree! Human beings are clearly not only bodies. I praise God that there are professional energy work practitioners who practice from the viewpoint of "Person = Body + Mind + Spirit" instead of the absurdly reductionist "Person = Body." After my husband visited just a few minutes with this gifted health practitioner, she sensed an energy block over his ear. She found there were layers of emotional issues blocking his hearing. She assisted him in forgiving things in the past and helped him clear that energy block over his ear. During the 1 hour session with her, he began to be able to hear again in that ear! What a great blessing! It is another example of a world-class scientist's findings that strong emotions not processed thoroughly are stored at the cellular level (Candace Pert, <em>Molecules of Emotion</em>, p 290.)<br />
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Similar findings are reported by a plethora of other authors who say strong emotions affect our bodies creating energy imbalances that can lead to pain or illness if unaddressed. I continue to hear of amazing stories that occur in Energy therapist's offices involving a whole array of illnesses. Many times they are able to help patients that the medical community have no answers for. I believe this is because they address their ENTIRE person, which is much more than just a physical body.<br />
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Some Rapid Eye Technicians that have also been immensely helpful (and who do phone sessions) are Sylvia Laing (307- 272-9634), and Tonya Cox (307-250-3510). I recommend the Whole Person Health modalities these professionals use and personally know they are extremely worthwhile. I only recommend going to energy therapists who are full of integrity. So many amazing things have happened as I have studied, investigated, and become certified in Energy modalities. I feel compelled to share what I have learned from my experience with those who may be suffering. Perhaps your ills could be alleviated by clearing underlying emotional blocks. It is absolutely worth trying! The inside front cover of Bill Moyer’s book <em>Healing and The Mind </em>says,<br />
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I believe that combining allopathic medicine with Energy Medicine's clearing technologies offers enormous potential. It’s exciting that the number one health website by Dr. Mercola, www.mercola.com , endorses Emotional Freedom Technique(EFT) and the work of Carol Tuttle, an author and fellow Master Rapid Eye Technician. I am extremely grateful to have found this 'new medicine' when our family needed it, much sooner than when it finally becomes common knowledge in the coming years. I thank a loving God for leading me to Energy therapies- the ‘medicine of the future.’ Learning about it has blessed my family tremendously. Researching the science behind it has strengthened my religious beliefs. Sincerely, Tamara<br /><br />
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What I have written will make A LOT more sense if you read the oldest blog entries first. I strongly encourage you to scroll back up to the Blog Archive and click on the oldest entries.</div>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-64988758997016670062014-04-02T14:39:00.000-07:002023-12-03T17:16:58.755-08:00Turn a ‘Mess’ into a Message with the "Praise Principle”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed
feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon for help,
but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little
hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few
possessions. One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his
little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had
happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and
anger. He cried out [toward heaven],’ How could you do this to me?'</span> </blockquote>
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next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had
come to rescue him! 'How did you know I was here?' asked the weary man of his
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easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose heart,
because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and
suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to
the ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.” </span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 115%;">(I wish I knew the author to credit them.)</span></blockquote>
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‘islander’ had a paradigm shift about his little hut on fire. My feelings have also changed concerning two children’s chronic illnesses and
other trials in my life. At first, I felt like my ill daughter was a victim of poor genetics. I
even wondered at times if we were somehow forgotten by God. When one of
my children was a victim of a violent crime, I really went down into despair. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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realize fully that the Atonement of Jesus Christ could reach out and bless my tender heart at
that moment and the next day, and the next. Studying </span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">spiritual re-patterning, </span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">or energy healing has shown me that the atonement of Christ can help </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">“Some church
members feel weighed down with discouragement about the circumstances of their
personal lives, even when they are making sustained and admirable efforts,”
said Elder Hafen. “Frequently, these feelings of self-disappointment come
not from wrongdoing, but from stresses for which they may not be fully to
blame. The atonement of Jesus Christ applies to all of life. The
Savior’s atonement is thus portrayed as the healing power not only for sin, but
also for carelessness, inadequacy, and all mortal bitterness. The
Atonement is not just for sinners.” </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Beauty for Ashes, <i>Ensign</i>, Apr 1997,
39</span><span style="font-size: small;">) Since depression filled days
of despair years ago, I have learned a variety of ways to access healing power from the Atonement of Jesus Christ. One method called the “Praise Principle” involves perspective, gratitude,
prayer and praise. </span></span></span></div>
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Maxwell encourages us to see our challenges and to pray with an eternal
perspective. “If God chooses to teach us the things we most need to learn
because he loves us, and if he seeks to tame our souls and gentle us in the way
we most need to be tamed and most need to be gentled, it follows that he will
customize the challenges he gives us and individualize them so that we will be
prepared for life in a better world… <b>We must pray, therefore, not that things
be taken from us, but that God's will be accomplished through us. </b> What,
therefore, may seem now to be mere unconnected pieces of tile will someday,
when we look back, take form and pattern, and we will realize that God was
making a mosaic. For there is in each of our lives this kind of divine design,
this pattern, this purpose that is in the process of becoming, which is
continually before the Lord but which for us, looking forward, is sometimes
perplexing…. “(But For a Small Moment”, Sep 1 1974, BYU Fireside, emphasis
added) <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Having the right perspective can calm our hearts. M. Catherine Thomas, a BYU professor and one of my favorite authors explains, "It is how we interpret what is happening to us that either liberates us or imprisons us. If we interpret what is happening as something that should not be happening, and we can’t change it, then we will suffer. If we can accept that which-cannot-be-changed as a reflection of what God would have unfold, then we can have peace.” </span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (<i>Light in the Wilderness</i>, 23)</span></span></span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">In addition to perspective, gratitude can help bring us peace. Focusing on what is going right, instead of dwelling on struggles is health advice according to mind-body medicine and scripture. “President Kimball told of giving a woman a priesthood blessing and telling her that she would be healed of a malady. A few weeks later, the woman came back, angry that she hadn’t yet been healed. President Kimball responded: ‘Now I understand why you have not been blessed. You must be patient, do your part, and express gratitude for the smallest improvement noted.’ She repented, did as he counseled and was eventually healed. We should express constant gratitude for even the smallest increment of blessing.” <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Mary Jane Woolger, “What I Have Learned about Mighty Prayer,” <i>Ensign</i>, Dec. 2006, 54) </span></span></div>
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affected by Elder Dallin H. Oak’s talk “Give Thanks in All Things” where he
said,</span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> “The revelations, for which we are grateful, show that we should even
give thanks for our afflictions because they turn our hearts to God and give us
opportunities to prepare for what God would have us become.”</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>Ensign,</i> May 2003)</span>
Paul says, ”For my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly,
therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest
upon me. Therefore, I take pleasures in infirmities, in reproaches, in
necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am
weak, then am I strong.” (2 Cor. 12: 9-10). It was difficult at
first to even mouth words of thanks for heavy burdens, but I started thanking
anyhow. In the beginning, I said the words but only half-heartedly believed
them. It felt like “chewing on concrete.” I was missing part of the praise principle process that I use now. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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learning the Savior’s thought patterns and he explains the previous scripture in 2 Corinthians well. “As one expands his capacity to feel sorrow, he is also expanding his
capacity to feel joy, and his capacity to feel God’s perfect love. As one
takes this sorrow unto the spiritual word and is willing to go through it out
of the love he feels for the Savior and Heavenly Father, the healing begins. .
. . </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">By thanking Heavenly Father for the adversity [it] changes our focus from
the temporal [world.]… With a spiritual focus the Lord will ask if we are
willing to go through this for Him. As we think of what the Savior went
through for our sins, it helps us to be willing to go through [adversity] for
Him. </b><span style="font-size: small;"> As we endure the pain and suffering for Him, we are transferring the
pain to the spiritual world where the powers of heaven will help us to endure
and overcome.” </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(James Cox, <i>Becoming Spiritually Centered</i> 76,79)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Elder
Maxwell said it may be true (in some way we don’t understand) that the cavity
which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be our receptacle for
joy. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(see “But For a Small Moment”, Sep 1 1974, BYU Fireside) </span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Romney points out that <b>God told the pioneers to praise Him when they were
suffering the greatest! </b> This is advice to us, too, though hard
doctrine, until one has experienced its blessings. I am amazed by what heroes
in the scriptures do when it seems ‘huts’ have gone up in flames or under in
floods. They do things that would NOT come naturally without focusing on
the Savior. James 1:2 admonishes, “Count it all joy when ye fall into
many afflictions.” As Enoch saw the flood victims of Noah’s day he had
bitterness of soul and said “I will refuse to be comforted.” The Lord’s
advice to him at that point in time is revealing. It applies today. The
Lord said to Enoch: “Lift up your heart, and be glad: and look.” Then He showed
Enoch Christ’s atonement. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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other examples in the scriptures. Paul and Silas were thrown into prison and
locked up in chains. At midnight they weren’t looking for pity, they were
singing praises to God - and the prison doors opened. Nephi was tied up
on a ship by his own brothers for days until his wrists and ankles were very
swollen. The account says, “I did look unto my God and I did praise him all the
day long; and I did not murmur against the Lord because of mine afflictions.”
(1 Nephi 18:16) The converted Lamanites praised God in the very act of
perishing under the sword. (Alma 24:23) I ask, is there a pattern here?! I
aspire to live more often in the attitude of forgiveness, gratitude and praise.
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Brigham Young taught, “Some hold grudges for a lifetime, unaware that
courageously forgiving those who have wronged us is wholesome and therapeutic….
The Savior has offered to all of us a precious peace through his atonement, but
this can come only as we are willing to cast out negative feelings of anger,
spite, or revenge.” </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>Discourses of Brigham Young</i>, ed John A. Widtsoe, (1954),
345. quoted in<i> Ensign</i>, April 2007,
68,69) </span>I teach my clients that it is one thing to forgive past trials, but
quite another to express gratitude for going through the most difficult times
we have ever had. I believe that whenever God gives us a challenge, He also has a
gift for us in its hands. It is up to us to find the silver lining, the precious lessons, in the
storms of our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ghost prompted me to take a class about praise from Judy Dunston of Saratoga
Springs, UT. Judy’s personal example of
applying the Praise principle in various challenging times with her children
were inspiring. </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">She teaches 4 practical
steps that enable a person to praise in all things.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> Judy gave me permission
to share these in my book <i>Healing Arts-A Gift from God</i>.
The principles she teaches are “1. Release judgment of what is going on
currently. 2. See it as perfect for your learning. 3. Praise God
for the event just as it is. 4. Turn this burden over to the Savior with
gratitude for the learning.” I feel this
is similar to a modern day apostle telling us,
“The most profound relief waits to be claimed: our afflictions can be ‘swallowed
up in the joy of Christ.’ Alma 31:38.” </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Neal A. Maxwell, "If Thou Endure It Well," 3)</span></span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I could finally see the wisdom in even our
worst trials by praising God <i>for them</i>. Beyond forgiving the past, and
being grateful for lessons we learned, I
believe it is exhibiting even higher consciousness to praise God for those heart wrenching
experiences. Praising God in all things is a very high level of consciousness. (see David Hawkins, <i>Power Vs. Force</i> which has a chart titled "The Map of Consciousness.")</span></div>
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and more quickly live the Praise Principle over the last few years has given me
hope when I felt hope was gone. It has saved me in very scary moments –
the ones that take your breath (and life force/light of Christ/breath of life)
away. At those times we can pray
in faith, giving gratitude for the hard lesson upon us, and give our burden to
the Savior. I have asked the Lord to take my burdens with gratitude and
praise for the priceless learning I trust that I will gain with time. I
learned that in those moments that challenge us most, we can rely on this principle to give us hope
again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Kathy Truman, took Cliff and Judy Dunston’s “Praise Principles” class at the
2013 LDS Holistic Living Conference. Kathy wrote down her difficult life
experiences and then turned them around, giving praise to the Lord for them. I
was deeply touched by reading the harsh life experiences she had turned into
expressions of gratitude. I felt
inspired by her example. Being a type 2 (4) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(from Carol Tuttle’s <i>It’s Just My
Nature)</i></span><span style="font-size: small;">, I made a template of how my friend Kathy did that. Before I share that,
let me introduce you to someone else I know. First, the ‘bad’ news, and then
the good news.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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had a daughter who was riddled with excessive anxiety, chronic depression and a
diagnosis of mental illness. Her daughter was cutting and repeatedly
suicidal. For years there were 911 phone calls, police in her home, and trips
to the emergency room. The mother tried to protect her other children
from the worst chaos. However, the turmoil threatened to tear her family
apart. Another teenage daughter moved
out of the home for a time in order to bear threats to safety and the roller coaster
of emotional outbreaks. Adding stress, particularly to the father, was the
family’s health insurance which refused to pay a dime toward any of the ill daughter’s
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illness wasn’t enough, the ill teen was also the victim of a violent crime and
suffered post traumatic stress from the abuse afterward.</span></span></div>
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one of her sons suddenly became ill and doctors couldn’t figure out what was
wrong. An Energy Medicine machine found Lyme frequencies in his body, but
doctors scoffed and said chronic Lyme </span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">didn’t exist and that such infections were not
obtained in the state of Utah.</span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
family had trouble finding a doctor willing to test for Lyme disease. A
clinical diagnosis was made and blood tests showed the co-infection
Mycoplasma. For all the effort, the son still suffered in a recliner for
over half a year without enough energy to even play a video game.</span></div>
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adult son finally admitted he had been exposed to something traumatic in grade
school. The mother faced this sudden news and admitted addiction along
with pained wonder at how the depth of emotional abuse he endured had escaped her observation.
This son moved out and sought relief by experimenting with substance abuse
which led to hospitalization. </span></span></div>
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of the woman’s 3 sons served a mission which was a heavy burden on her mother
heart. </span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">One of her
adult children was surrounded by an anti-Mormon environment from co-workers and
left the religion that was so dear to her behind.</span></div>
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years of being off psychiatric meds, her daughter’s bipolar pattern resurfaced
as post partum psychosis after childbirth. The adversary worked hard to
convince this woman that such a setback was reason enough not to publish her
stories sharing the integrative help they had found so beneficial for
bipolar and other issues all those years previous.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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wondered if this woman was into something 'evil' because of her work in
integrative health. Her mentor in energy healing was falsely accused of
the same type of things and called into her ecclesiastical leaders offices for
investigation. Other like mi</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">nded friends who also experienced these kinds
of complaints had experiences that did not always end as nicely as her mentor’s experience had with
profuse apologies and heartfelt expressions of gratitude for dedicated,
Christlike service.</span></span></div>
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is me.</i> The reason I shared the bad news is to testify of the miracle of
God’s hand in my little family’s life and of “THE good news” of the Savior,
Jesus Christ. I am a witness of His love. I believe God is endeavoring to
teach me that I can choose to experience and feel gratitude and even praise in
all things.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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God that I had a daughter with bipolar because it brought me to my knees,
seeking answers and fasting often to learn truth. I found out that God
truly does know and love His children individually for answers came one line at
a time to help that daughter.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I praise God for this illness for it taught
me that forgiveness is a healing principle that affects bodies <i>physically </i>and
that we could use forgiveness purposefully for that intent.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I praise God for experiencing bipolar in our
home because it led us to energy healing which later taught me how to
assist in relieving the emotional pain of my family and others. Unconventional
answers in this field of medicine that surfaced to help one daughter,
eventually blessed hundreds of other people’s lives! Praise God I learned
to have gratitude <i>in all things</i> because of this illness. Praise God for bipolar
because it opened my eyes to the reality of opposition in all things:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">God’s light was real and so was darkness from
the adversary.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Praise God I learned how
powerful men and women can be against this darkness. I praise God for very
difficult times that taught me by experience that faith is a mighty power! I am grateful this illness taught me I could help my daughter and others with
spiritual re-patterning at a distance. Today this</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> brings days of extreme joy helping others
that I would have otherwise missed. </span></span></div>
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abuse because it taught us deeply of the ability of Jesus Christ’s
atonement to remove personal suffering and trapped trauma. Praise the
Lord that we learned the power of having an eye of faith because of these
trials. I learned that what I initially thought would be a useless process -- that of ‘mere’ imagery –- was actually very powerful. The imagery used was of being in a garden
with the Savior and giving Him all of my deep grief, heartache and pain. That imagery work, in reality, brought waves of pulsing color and peaceful, forgiving feelings
that have stayed with me ever since. Praise God that now I can testify
that Christ truly does swallow up our sorrows in His love. Praise God for
abuse because through it we learned the atonement is for far more than just sins
alone! The atonement offers us ongoing rescue and respite from unwanted emotions, memories, feelings and
thoughts. Because of trials, </span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px;">I have some beginning understandings of how my Savior’s light – the Light of Christ – is allowed more brightly in our lives. I've been so blessed by studying the integrative field of energy healing! It has educated me on the need to release trapped trauma and unresolved emotions from our bodies and differing methods on how to go about doing that. I am grateful that this complementary medicine also teaches a person to prevent the need for future "emotional release" by living at a high level of consciousness, so as to avoid creating similar patterns again.</span></div>
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God my son dealt with Lyme disease because it taught us about even deeper
levels of healing. It taught us to be
grateful for energy medicine machines such as ASYRA which immediately found the frequency
of Lyme in my son’s body when traditional medicine continued to be mystified. Praise God for Lyme because it taught us of
the power of Constitutional Homeopathy and Radionics to rid his body of toxins
and pathogens. We are grateful for another platform to share the marvelous blessings of
energy medicine with others. Lyme taught us to express praise </span><i>in the midst</i><span style="font-size: small;"> of hard
things and shorten the time it took to see the Lord’s hand in our lives. This afforded us “aha” moments earlier on in
trials. We praise the Lord for illnesses
that better prepare us to meet Him again. Elder Hales said, “Sometimes we don’t
understand death, illness, mental and physical disabilities, personal
tragedies, war and other conflict. Some of them are a necessary part of
our mortal probation. Others, as Enoch foresaw, are part of the
preparation for the Savior’s Second Coming.” </span><span>(<i>Ensign,</i> May 2003 p 18)</span> I
feel there is so much truth in that apostolic statement that I can trust it fully
concerning mystifying illnesses like Lyme Disease and brain disorders labeled mental illness that afflict ever younger ages. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Praise God for issues with addiction for it taught my son to turn to the Savior
in all things. I am grateful I had the learning experience of praying to experience mighty faith like Alma the Elder who prayed in faith for his son to be "brought to a knowledge of the truth." Having this experience taught me love versus judgment
and increased empathy and humility. Praise
God for the struggles of my children that taught me there is no disgrace in
having suffered, in having been labeled, in having been addicted or heartbroken
or sorrowful or misjudged. We are not our ‘stories.’ We are beloved children of
the most High who are learning important lessons along our way. Praise God for
addiction issues because I learned on a deeper level the power of spiritual
gifts and a deeper level of trust in spiritual promptings and the wisdom of
heeding them immediately. I am grateful
this trial taught me about Maurice Harker’s book and work teaching Christ
centered addiction prevention and recovery.
Like my book, he teaches of the adversary’s involvement in modern day issues. Praise
God I have learned that I allow the Savior’s love and light in a greater or
lesser degree inside and around me by the words I speak and allow to repeat in my mind. What a blessing to have learned that when mindful and expressing
higher consciousness, I feel a real difference in my body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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God we lost our sole source of income repeatedly and had to live off of our
food storage and savings more than once because it reinforced the importance of
following the living prophet’s counsel to stay out of debt and store food and
supplies to be prepared for the future. We are grateful to be able to
live peacefully in troubled times and aspire to be the calm in the eye of the
storm, even while chaos swirls all around. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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God my sons didn’t or couldn’t go on missions because it taught me to desire a
new heart. It taught me not to judge others or their challenges. Praise be
to God for allowing me these priceless learning lessons – for I understand now that we are more than our experiences. I praise the Lord for this opportunity to learn sensitivity and that there are all kinds of
missions being served by valiant young people who might not wear outward name tags. Other servants of the Lord are tagged on the 'inside' by
hearts written on by the spirit. Their missions are as diverse as their faces. Some have known the
darkness and yet choose to stand and be warriors for Jesus Christ. Praise God that difficult parenting moments have</span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px;"> helped me to develop a deep, abiding faith in God and trust in His plans and His timing, and a knowledge that my children have a powerful Savior who is more powerful than their problems and weaknesses.</span><br />
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God one of my sons left the church because it affords me opportunities for
spiritual growth. I've come to understand that my children’s choices do
not reflect my ability as a parent, but agency. Praise God I am allowing
my children their agency and putting my trust in the Savior for I have a covenant relationship with Him. God IS LOVE – and He loves in all things!
He ALLOWS for agency and I can too while continuing to love a wayward son.
Praise God for this opportunity to learn to extend invitations in love and to
learn of love’s greater power than emotions tied more closely to force. Praise God for another chance to use the
Praise Principle, to rely on the Savior to take this burden, and to envision
the power of God working in my family. Praise
God for trials which bring practice in assurance and confidence to trust in God
– now, and during future prophesied calamities that will precede our Savior
Jesus Christ’s return to this earth as King of Kings!</span></div>
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God my daughter experienced a bipolar pattern again with postpartum
psychosis after giving birth for it
provided </span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px;">opportunities to be taught </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px;">other paradigm shifting solutions for mental illness. </i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px;">We learned of another LDS family’s amazing, God-given insight into the brain, mental illness and also addictions! Praise God my daughter thought she could go without this other family's supplement (Empowerplus) for a time - for her choice taught all of us how powerful that inspired micronutrient for brain health really is. I praise God for </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">a driving need to understand more about </span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px;">the physical body level, Gut and Psychology Syndrome</span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, pro-biotics, and minerals connection to Chi. I'm grateful we learned how having confidence in both God and ourselves can affect the
physical level through Vibrational Medicine and Radionics for I had
marginalized energy work’s power to affect people physically and had mostly concentrated
on its mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits. </span></div>
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Praise God that my mentor was hauled in to her Stake Presidents office for it
stirred in me a great desire to seek and search in depth for truths regarding
forms of healing arts. Without my mentor undergoing this extremely hard time,
I may not have had the motivation to learn that there are examples of all sorts
of alternative healing methods in the Bible and validation for them in modern
scripture and the words of prophets. Praise God that I know today because
of trials, of the healing arts – of energy healing and emotional release,
hands-on-healing, long-distance healing, vibrational healing and generational
healing… I think of all the families who lives would not have been
blessed by energy work and phone sessions without my mentor’s sacrifice.
Praise God her example has blessed a multitude of people’s lives today! In
the end her trial brought more clarity! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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bitterness of life can be perceived this way for each of us through the
marvelous Atonement of our Savior! Praising God <i>in all things</i> opens effectual
doors to miracles in our lives. I have experienced them. Through the Atonement
we can be made whole. <o:p></o:p></span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px;">With the Savior’s help, we can learn to be thankful even for our trials.</span></div>
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understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future
experience. Often we can’t see the Lord’s hand in our lives until long after
trials have passed. Often the most difficult times of our lives are essential
building blocks that form the foundation of our character and pave the way to
future opportunity, understanding, and happiness.” (Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf,
“Continue in Patience," Ensign , May, 2010, 58) I have lived
that and have also experienced understanding the blessings of trials in their midst by living the Praise Principle. Past unhappiness can reap future joys. I experience joy now <i>because</i> of the trials I
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one of them. Jesus Christ’s atonement offers incredible hope in our day to day
lives. The Lord has already felt our
pain and is willing to carry our burdens. I am blessed by using the praise
principle’s practical steps to access the Savior’s rescue of me. I am grateful to have learned that my little
hut “catching fire” really can be a signal that summons the grace of God. I
testify of the miracles of God! </span></span></div>
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Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-76664942637874820652019-03-08T05:56:00.002-08:002022-10-29T10:10:18.130-07:00The Amazing Stephan Family Story Continues <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">My name is Tony
Stephan, and this is the story of how my family overcame mental
illness, after devastating loss.</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span> </span><span style="font-size: small;">In 1994 I had been married to my beloved wife
Debbie for 23 years. During that time, we lost her father to suicide. He had struggled with severe depression, and
in 1978, fatally overdosed on medications to escape his suffering. Then,
sixteen years later, my beloved wife Debbie succumbed to the same fate . .
. suicide.</span></div>
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Debbie had been diagnosed with Bipolar Affective Disorder 1 with Rapid Cycling.
One day she simply ended it. The pain was unbearable. It was
like somebody took a chalkboard eraser and wiped out the most precious part of
my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It got worse. My son Joseph, fifteen years old, and his older sister,
Autumn, were diagnosed </span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;">with the same illness. Joseph was getting more
violent and dangerous. He was on 750 to 900 milligrams of Lithium or
Carbolith per day, and he was just a lost soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There was
one bright spot in this period, as I was blessed with a wonderful and
supportive new wife, Barbara. Barbara sought assistance for Joseph from a
noted psychiatrist. We went and met, praying for answers and hope.
Instead the Doctor became upset with me and asked Barbara to take Joseph
out in the waiting room. When the door closed it was like a shotgun going
off in my face. This noted psychiatrist said, "Mr. Stephan you need
a reality check. Don't you see it? What you see is what you've got.
He's not going to get better."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My daughter, Autumn, was in and out of the psychiatric ward constantly.
Drugs didn't work. Autumn was on five psychiatric med: Haldol,
Rivotril, Epival, Ativan and Cogentin; and she was out of control: suicidal one
minute, explosive the next - unable to care for herself... or her family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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REALLY AN ANSWER OUT THERE?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I started to pray. I started to fast</b>.
I started to search. I started to ask everyone, "Do you know
anything about bipolar?" <b>There
just had to be an answer... somewhere!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>One day it came.</b> I was talking to
a friend I was working with, and telling him about how bad it was in our family
with Joseph's and Autumn's illnesses. He said that he didn't understand
mental conditions, but he explained to me that he had spent twenty years in the
agricultural industry. He said, "You know, I looked after hundreds
of thousands of animals, and we used to see this in the hog pens... these
animals would have this disorder, sometimes, called Ear-and Tail-Biting
Syndrome. These animals would often become aggressive and
hyper-irritable." My thoughts turned to Joseph and his violent
rages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As my friend
told me how the animals become extremely irritable and enraged, and about the
explosive behavior, he said, "You know, we learned very quickly from the
agricultural literature, the scientific literature, that you could <b>nutrate</b> away the disorder with good
nutrition." In that instant I had an epiphany. A burden was
lifted and a sense of peace and light enveloped by mind. I knew that God
has just given me the answer: Nutrition!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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On January 17, 1996, almost two years to the day that my wife had committed
suicide, we moved forward and starting loading micronutrients into Joseph.
<b>Within thirty days, my son no longer exhibited any symptoms whatsoever
of bipolar disorder.</b> It was gone! I remember sitting on the couch
with him after six weeks and him saying to me, "Dad! Dad! ... Where was I?
What happened to me? Why was I so angry? Why was I so
violent?" And I said, "Joe, it doesn't matter. That was another
day. It wasn't you. It was the disorder." There wasn't
anything that we could do alone to correct the disorder; but the
answer came, and I've never looked back -- and neither has Joseph.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Autumn was next. Her husband had to work a graveyard shift so he dropped
Autumn off at our home for a week as she could not be left alone. It was
then that I placed her on the same nutrient program as Joseph<b>. Within
a few days she became calm... with dramatically fewer mood swings.</b>
She was able to care for herself and her young son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Within 45
days she was clear of all of her five medications</b>. Both Autumn and Joseph
have been well (as of 2013) for over eighteen years. Autumn has written a <b>best
seller</b> titled, <i>A Promise of Hope</i>, published
in 2007 by Harper Collins and available on Amazon.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When Autumn
and Joseph were made well, many people in the community started to come for
help with their loved ones. After they tried the program and experienced
the same results as my children, we started working with university researchers
like <b>world-renowned behavioral research scientist</b> from the University of
Calgary, Dr. Bonnie J. Kaplan. Dr. Kaplan's research was published in the
<b>Journal of Clinical Psychiatry</b> in 2001, which is the largest psychiatric
journal in the world. Soon there were other research studies and
publications. The University of Calgary, Harvard University, Ohio State
University - Department of Psychiatry, The University of Canterbury, New
Zealand, and many others. There are now researchers [from 4 countries], 16
Universities and <b>34 medical Journal publications</b> who have studied its
effects on disorders like:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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disorder Bipolar affective
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Alzheimers & Dementia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>DR. WEST'S CHART</b></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I listened to Dr. Kenneth West from South Africa lecture in the fall of 2012 in North Ogden, Utah. He gave me permission to share this power point slide of his publicly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Working with scientists from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it became clear there is a hierarchy of function – the longer the wavelength, the more powerful it is. The longest wavelength measurable is called the Boson and, … it controls the hierarchy. Zero Point is at the top of the pyramid and the Boson creates the descending order of power all the way down to the structural level. </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>This illustrates why therapies using the waves higher up the pyramid (like energy work, prayer, sound healing) so often produce results superior to those at the bottom of the pyramid, where surgery and biochemical therapies reside.</b> It is also interesting that the further down the pyramid you go, the greater the risk to the patient, the higher the cost and the more irreversible the changes.” (</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Kenneth West, “Stress Addiction,” Odyssey, Issue 2 2012, p 44)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I believe Dr. West explained that the<b> </b>techniques listed above the bottom level are examples of using the wavelengths in bold. The </span>"Hierarchy of Function," portrayed in the pyramid above, summarizes some points in my book, <i>Healing Arts - A Gift from God</i>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>VIDEO - SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ENERGY HEALING</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. William Tiller, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University is the author
of eight books and 250 scientific papers. He explains, “We now know that the
body heals through frequency, vibration and resonance and it’s communicated
through light.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Here is a very short video of Dr. William Tiller, talking about the scientific research he has done 5 times on the healing modality Reconnective Healing by Dr Eric Pearl. Dr. Tiller mentions developing a device to measure the energy of the space where a workshop was held and how the energy measurably changed - quite drastically, in fact.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tFNYp91xuT8" width="320" youtube-src-id="tFNYp91xuT8"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="style-scope"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cfe2f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(207, 226, 243); border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;">Dr. Tiller said, "It isn't an energy
effect. It is an entropy effect. Information is being exchanged. Information is
being created. When information is being created, entropy decreases...In the
process of the Eric Pearl Reconnection (Reconnective) Healing, people are
building infrastructure into themselves. Therefore information is growing in
the universe. Which means the thermodynamic entropy is decreasing. Which means
that nature is restoring itself...It heals the space. It heals our world." </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="style-scope"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cfe2f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(207, 226, 243); border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="style-scope"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cfe2f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(207, 226, 243); border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"> (You can read about this research. "</span></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span>An
Experimental Investigation of Some Reconnective-Healing Workshops via a Unique
Subtle Energy Detector"</span><span> is on </span><span>White Paper XI by William A. Tiller, Ph.D. and Walter E. Dibble, Jr., Ph.D.)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="style-scope"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cfe2f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(207, 226, 243); border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="style-scope"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cfe2f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(207, 226, 243); border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="style-scope"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cfe2f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(207, 226, 243); border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"><b>A SIMILAR CHART</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #030303; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><br /></span></span>
A similar chart to the one above that I've titled 5 Levels of Healing by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt is found below (and simplified in my first book on slide # 467. Both charts are in my second book).<br />
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Quoting Dr. Klinghardt, one author says:<br />
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"Health and illness are a reflection of the state of these 5 levels. ... <b>Any health problem can originate on any of the 5 levels</b>.... An imbalance on one level, if left untreated, spreads upward or downward to the other levels.... <b>Unless upper level imbalances are addressed, </b>restoring balance at the lower levels will not produce long-lasting effects.... Therapeutic intervention at the lower levels has a very slow, and little penetrating effect upwards.... But if you do an intervention on the 3rd or 4th level, it can correct the [block] on the 2nd level <b>immediately</b>, within seconds or minutes, [Dr. Klinghardt] notes." (Stephanie Marohn, <i>The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder, </i>59-60, 72, emphasis added)</blockquote>
Simply put, that sums up what a number of energy work modalities are doing! I believe these processes involve a sacred light, sound, and breath. The field of energy work often involves breathing techniques, unseen light in and around the body and various forms of sound waves. These underlying principles are spoken of in terms the world uses as well as by religious terms. <i>My book Healing Arts - A Gift from God </i>points out that <b>Zero Point Energy,</b> listed at the top of the pyramid above, is related to <b>intelligence in the light of Christ </b>which<b> </b>mentions other scriptural terms for sacred light, sound and breath. Interestingly, cutting edge scientists have found that healing involves vibration, frequency and resonance -- <i>all communicated through light!</i><br />
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What a blessing that Dr. Klinghardt is world renowned for helping autistic patients as well as Lyme patients in his medical practice. I am deeply grateful for this pioneer who teaches other medical doctors his form of applied kinesiology muscle testing as well as how to release unresolved trauma from generations past and other energy healing techniques.<i> </i><br />
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"Dr. Klinghardt estimates that about 70% of mental disorders across the board go back to systemic family issues that need to be treated. People try to treat them psychologically, on the 3rd level and it cannot work. This is not the right level. Similarly, focusing on the biochemistry is not going to fix the problem when the source is at the 4th level." (Stephanie Marohn, <i>The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder</i>, 70) </blockquote>
The 4th level is where systemic family issues or generational problems reside. Clearing generational issues is an area that energy work addresses. What a difference this makes for people!<br />
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"Unresolved trauma does not appear to go away with death, but plays out in a variety of ways in later generations. Often, unresolved trauma from previous generations becomes the source, and the causative event of illness is later generations.... Most people overlook this and can never help their patients. I use this work for all autistic children that come to my practice.... When we resolve issues in the family history there is often magical improvement in these children. By healing the trauma of the past these children are healed in the present."<i> </i>(Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., "The 5 Levels of Healing" video, www.mercola.com, Tamara Laing's transcribed notes) </blockquote>
These and other quotes and scriptures on the subject of generational healing as well as religious validation for many underlying principles of energy healing are mentioned in my first book but delved into in my second book. Like Dr. Klinghardt, and a host of facilitators of energy work, we attest that changes in health and behavior can happen quickly today -- just like they did when facilitated by mortals in Bible times. Believing in these techniques is not a requirement for them to work, only a willingness to try is. Belief, however, adds even more to one's results. Faith is a literal power as "Thought" near the top of Dr. West's pyramid attests!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Quantum Physicist, Marcus Schmieke, the inventor of Timewaver and Healy has a diagram like this on the website named in blue below.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4pOPKwj7J9LWcT2NfhnlA-7hV5_46eNnleRDx8ydGnVV1n0l2g3pP3su86_durkjMimMpvZQX3qdhBlrtiCarIZB2scLYxVi3LQ9vz176W_Df-mx4aop-DyY1S8KXYYybyUKq5L_ZLLmLBiWkb_qZIZHMv9qsmgNsz9Jy6LG65Wit-oqyVxg-IgkKXg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="804" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4pOPKwj7J9LWcT2NfhnlA-7hV5_46eNnleRDx8ydGnVV1n0l2g3pP3su86_durkjMimMpvZQX3qdhBlrtiCarIZB2scLYxVi3LQ9vz176W_Df-mx4aop-DyY1S8KXYYybyUKq5L_ZLLmLBiWkb_qZIZHMv9qsmgNsz9Jy6LG65Wit-oqyVxg-IgkKXg=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>These include the ways </span><span>energy medicine </span></span></span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>1) can address biological processes at their energetic foundations </span><span>(reach),</span></span></span></span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span>2) </span><span>regulates biological processes with precision, speed, and flexibility </span><span>(efficiency), </span></span></span></span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>3) </span><span>fosters healing and prevents illness with interventions that can be readily, economically, and non-invasively applied </span><span>(practicality), </span></span></span></span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>4) </span><span>includes methods that can be utilized on an at-home, self-help basis, </span><span>fostering a stronger patient and practitioner partnership in the healing process (patient empowerment), </span></span></span></span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>5) </span><span>adopts non-linear concepts consistent with distant healing, the healing impact of prayer, and the role of intention in healing</span><span> (quantum compatibility), and </span></span></span></span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>6) </span><span>strengthens the integration of body, mind, and spirit, </span><span>leading not only to a focus on healing, but to </span><span>achieving greater well-being, peace, and passion for life</span><span> (holistic orientation).” </span></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span>David Feinstein, PhD and Donna Eden; “Six Pillars of Energy Medicine - Clinical Strengths of a Complementary Paradigm”</span></span></span></blockquote>
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My friend, Courtney Beardall, shared an interesting article on her website (courtneybeardall.com) that may prove interesting on the power of words... The article is at http://themindunleashed.org/2013/07/scientist-prove-dna-can-be-reprogrammed.html<br />
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David Feinstein wrote a <i>very </i>interesting paper titled "Energy Psychology Treatments Over a Distance: The Curious Phenomenon of "Surrogate Tapping." (If he had spoken with the Rapid Eye Institute he would have had many more testimonials to consider in his study.) Click on this link to read David Feinstein's paper <a href="https://www.innersource.net/ep/images/stories/downloads/Surrogate_Tapping_Paper.pdf">HERE</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal">"David is a clinical psychologist who has served on the faculty of John Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Antioch College. He is the author of eight books and more than 80 professional articles. He has been a pioneer in the areas of Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine. His books have been translated into15 languages and have won nine national awards, including the U.S. Book News Best Psychology/Mental Health Book of 2007 for Personal Mythology and an Indie Best Book Award for The Promise of Energy Psychology. You can learn more about him, and his great work at energypsyched.com." (bio shared by Jessica Ortner on the11th Annual Tapping World Summit about the Science of EFT <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLtGmlnfmFxjVvZMmXbRNxPGSD" target="_blank">HERE</a>)</div>
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<b> My daughter made astounding shifts </b>at appointments with facilitators of energy healing who helped clear out and balance the electro-magnetic energy field enveloping her body. Alternative health teaches that we store unresolved emotions in our bodies. "Emotions that we have not faced, accepted nor dealt with are stored as repressed emotional energy, waiting for a future time when we can learn from them... Since they are filed in our bodies in places of which our conscious mind is not aware, they keep us reminded of their existence in a variety of negative ways. They can cause pain, illness, disease, and malfunction on any and all levels- physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual." (David Stewart, PhD, <i>Healing Oils of the Bible</i>, 116-117.)</div>
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Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-78422103875735404932007-12-07T19:16:00.005-08:002021-03-19T21:37:24.776-07:00Why Haven't I Heard of Energy Medicine before?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJqJMusIUZv7Ktqml-wyS_T26Qz7JukzP7KAn2NR4FZXueoftB-vuWIaJqem7O14ntD5WAMj4ftX0MD5v3g4mWDm6f8_SeHj1cbRhuzgJW1ixwCx1PbPPF79A1rmXwvzPbp8Ul3IuTgdG/s1650/Tiller+slide+Publication2.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1275" data-original-width="1650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJqJMusIUZv7Ktqml-wyS_T26Qz7JukzP7KAn2NR4FZXueoftB-vuWIaJqem7O14ntD5WAMj4ftX0MD5v3g4mWDm6f8_SeHj1cbRhuzgJW1ixwCx1PbPPF79A1rmXwvzPbp8Ul3IuTgdG/s320/Tiller+slide+Publication2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Since most doctors haven’t heard of the field of Energy Medicine, it’s no wonder that the public often hasn’t either. Here are quotes from doctors themselves on why the public often might not know about integrative forms of healing.<div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Burton Goldberg </b>wrote an extensive book titled <em>Alternative Medicine</em> that shares his view. <br />
<blockquote>"Naturally, you are thinking, if these methods were really any good, doctors would be using them. But it takes time for new ideas to be accepted. Back in Vienna in the 1800s, one doctor had the audacity to suggest to his colleagues that they wash their hands after they finish working on cadavers, rather than using their unwashed hands to deliver babies. He knew this would keep the women and their babies alive, by sparing them infections. But his colleagues ridiculed him. It took them thirty years to catch on and wash their hands. Imagine how many babies died because of such doctors who thought they knew it all?"(Burton Goldberg, <i>Alternative Medicine</i> p7)</blockquote><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>John R. Lee, M.D. </b>expounds on 4 specific reasons for this state of affairs. He asks,"When people first hear about alternative medical treatments they often ask the obvious question. ‘If this treatment is so effective, why doesn’t my doctor know about it?’ "<div>
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#1 Medical students get high grades when they simply repeat in their tests exactly what the teacher wants them to say as opposed to students who question what they are being taught. Thus medical schools become filled with students who are good at adopting given wisdom, but not necessarily good at thinking and questioning, because they have learned to follow precepts handed to them by presumed authorities.<br />
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Candace Pert, Ph.D</b>. adds her witness as to why we may not have heard of this field of help from a scientist’s perspective.<br />
<blockquote>"As a culture we are all in denial about the importance of psychosomatic causes of illness. ... Truly original, boundary breaking ideas are rarely welcomed at first, no matter who proposes them. Protecting the prevailing paradigm, science moves slowly, because it doesn’t want to make mistakes. Consequently, genuinely new and important ideas are often subjected to nitpickingly intense scrutiny, if not outright rejection and revulsion, and getting them published becomes a Sisyphean labor. But if the ideas are correct, eventually they will prevail. It may take, as in the case of the new discipline of psychoneuroimmunology, a good decade, or it may take much longer. But eventually, the new view becomes the status quo and ideas that were rejected as madness will appear in the popular press, often touted by the very critics who did so much to impede their acceptance. Which is happening today as a new paradigm comes into being." (<i>Molecules of Emotion</i> p19-20)</blockquote><p>I think that same reasoning may explain what happens with church leaders. They don't want to make mistakes either! Again, caution unwittingly ends up protecting prevailing paradigms. As a group, religious leaders move as slowly as science. They are to share truth with a capital "T"! Not all awaken to available new science at the same time. </p><p><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b>Peta </b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><b>Stapleton, PHD </b>is a psychologist who explains my point:</span></span></p>
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is called a “translational gap”, where any new therapies take some time before
they are considered standard care. The American Institute of Medicine says this
takes about 17 years and only 20 percent of new therapies are accepted in
mainstream. It is also suggested that it takes a decade for practitioners to
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interactions with local church leaders who are not aware
of the limitations of their current world view.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">I agree wholeheartedly with Burton Goldberg that we need individualized care.</span></p>
<blockquote>"I’m not against mainstream, conventional medicine. The Chinese have a saying about the wisdom of "walking on both feet," which means using the best of Eastern and Western procedures. That’s what I want to see us do. There is no single approach that works for all people, or with all conditions. This goes for alternative medicine as well. Experience shows, that you’re likely to get the best results with a practitioner who has trained in a number of different modalities. There may be many underlying factors influencing your health- nutritional deficiency, poor digestion, toxicity from environmental pollutants, or mental and emotional stress. You want a practitioner who is capable of determining exactly what needs to be done to help you regain health and vitality. You also want an open-minded practitioner who treats you as an individual. What’s good for Harry is not necessarily good for Mary. You are biochemically unique. Here is a most important, optimistic, and totally realistic thought to carry with you. Most everything is reversible. You need only to find the right therapies. Be well!" (<i>Alternative Medicine</i>, p xxxviii)</blockquote><p><b>William Campbell Douglass, M.D</b>. wrote in his book <em>Into The Light </em>"Conventional medicine will not use nontoxic, bioenergetic methods, such as photo-oxidation, because conventional medicine has no concept of altering biological energy flow." (p 4-5) Pioneers in light therapy cured an incredible variety of afflictions. The future of light therapy seemed assured. "At about the same time, however, antibiotic treatment made its debut... since they had the additional advantage (to the medical community) of requiring the production of prescription drugs, they soon became the treatment of choice." (p 9)</p><p>Dr. Douglass also quotes from <b>Dr. Ott </b>who touches on skepticism: "The positive results obtained from the various pilot experiments ... produced, in each instance, a reaction of doubt and a suspicion of something not much short of witchcraft... To suggest that light entering the eyes could have any biological function other than producing vision was like seriously talking - [several decades] ago- of man's footprints some day being on the moon." (<i>Into the Light </i>p 194)</p>Likewise, <b>David Feinstein, PhD </b>says of Energy Psychology that even though it has amazing speed and effectiveness even with difficult cases "The acceptance, as might be expected, of any radically atypical approach has been slow within the broader psychotherapeutic community." </div><div><br /></div><div>It took me a while to gather courage to share my family's story of finding new clearing technology in public. I wish now that I had frankly told my daughter's psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors (including High School counselors) about the benefits of the Energy healing treatments we were trying. That might have helped someone else by possibly opening some professional minds sooner. Ghandi said to <em>be</em> the change you want to see in the world. That is my intention now. My advice is to let your doctor know about the help you find in integrative treatments. </div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><i>You may also be interested in reading "Tamara's Remarks about the Handbook Change." (coming soon) Insert link here:______</i></div>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-62987208801241402842010-11-29T17:07:00.002-08:002021-03-19T13:31:19.189-07:00How do chakras and life force energy fit with LDS beliefs?<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;">
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Laboratory experiments by quantum phycistists in the last few decades have scientifically shown the existence of a universal field of energy. This has been important as I have studied whether the premises of Energy Medicine fit with the gospel of Jesus Christ and LDS beliefs. It has been amazing to discover how much prophets have written about healing and the invisible, subtle energy of light around us. They have <b>compared the universal, subtle energy that physicists discovered with the light of Christ</b> and paired other principles found in both science and religion. Parley P. Pratt taught, "There are several of these subtle, invisible substances but little understood as yet by man, and their existence is only demonstrated by their effects." (<i>Key to the Science of Theology</i>, 39) Elder Pratt, who was an apostle, follows by teaching that the purest and most refined and subtle of all substances performs <b>the healing of the sick</b> and that those with spiritual gifts can feel and see it. What validating statements for facilitators of energy healing!</div>
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LDS leaders have also used terms like "spiritual radiation," "intelligence" and "divine immanence" instead of the world's vocabulary that includes such terms as "Chi", "life-force energy" and "auras." Scientists use yet other terms for these electromagnetic fields and their subtle energies such as "Bio-energetic field," "Zero-point energy," and "corona discharge." Whether called Zero Point Energy by science or intelligence or the light of Christ by religion, they must be the <i>same</i> life-giving, governing power that fills the universe. John A. Widtsoe wrote, "The intelligence spoken of by the prophet [Joseph Smith] corresponds fully with the [universal] energy of science." (<i>Joseph Smith as Scientist</i>, 141) It seems that science and religion are using different terminology to describe the very same essence! "The parallelism is complete. The holy spirit, in "Mormon" theology, corresponds with the ether of science." (Widtsoe, J<i>oseph Smith As Scientist,</i> 142)</div>
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I have learned over and over that all truth fits together. God doesn't distinguish between scientific truth and religious truth because it is all His truth.People are usually surprised to learn that chakras are spoken of in the Bible. A chakra is a swirling vortex of unseen subtle energy. Scientists speak of them as step-down transformers for higher frequency subtle energies in the human bioenergy field.</div>
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Biblical prophets such as Ezekiel and Daniel use the Sanskrit word for "chakras" which is "wheels" when they speak of them. Ancient traditions teach about these main energy centers being vertically aligned in the body.The book of Ezekiel says the prophet saw wheels going "up and down" the body "as a rainbow." (See Ezekiel chapter 1) Every color and location that Ezekiel mentions for the vertical colored "lamps" he saw match the location and/or color of the ancient tradition's chakras. Furthermore, that prophet taught that the <i>spirit</i> of the living creature was <i>in the wheels! </i><br />
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<i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Energy Medicine's healing techniques, commonly called 'energy work,' help create an organized environment for the chakras/spirit so that the body's innate intelligence can then heal on the physical level as well. God creates all things first spiritually before they manifest physically on the earth. (Moses 3:5) It is no surprise then, that one can first cleanse the chakras, the inner vessel that 'houses' the spirit, to effect change on a physical condition or illness. No wonder energy healing modalities are considered spiritual healing processes. John A Widtsoe wrote, "The explanation of the mysteries of nature will be greatly simplified when the Mormon doctrine of the position of intelligence in universal phenomenon is clearly understood by scientific workers." (</span>Joseph Smith as Scientist,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> 130) </span></i></i></div>
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<i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"></span></i></i>I am extremely grateful for Rapid Eye Technology <a href="http://rapideyetechnology.com/directory/tamara-laing-mret-p-870.html">http://rapideyetechnology.com/directory/tamara-laing-mret-p-870.html</a><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">. This was the modality that made amazing differences for our daughter time and time again. Her NAMI support group was amazed at the quick turnarounds she made at appointments of R.E.T.. I am also very grateful for other tools in the field of Energy Medicine that God has blessed us with. My daughter has certainly been blessed by appointments with a gifted cranio-sacral therapist, and by Rapid Eye Technicians who combined their sessions with Reiki, Quantum Touch, therapeutic grade Essential Oils and Christ-centered Theta Healing. The premises behind these fit with Christian and LDS beliefs (although I have altered details on how</span></span> I practice them to fit precisely with those beliefs.)</div>
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<i><i><i><i><i><i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">The Bible shows a plethora of support for principles of Energy Medicine, which I discuss in the book I am writing. In addition, new fields and discoveries in science offer much validating evidence. For example, science has discovered that forgiving others and ourselves actually affects our DNA. The discovery that DNA can change is of immense importance. The new scientific field of Epigenetics supports teachings that we can consciously use our emotions to affect our DNA and our immune response.Our thoughts, emotions and feelings affect us physically! We are no longer victims of our heredity. Bruce Lipton teaches that with this knowledge we become masters of our health rather than victims of genetic circumstance. Understanding this can give ill people great hope.</span></i></i></i></i></i></i></i></div>
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<i style="font-style: normal;">Additionally, exuding feelings of forgiveness is paramount to health. I learned firsthand that forgiveness spoken out loud affects my physical health. It also worked a miracle for my daughter. Her entire countenance and life changed in one 2-hour appointment based on forgiveness work spoken out loud in present tense. That miraculous appointment for stress management with Jan Graf in St. George, Utah included another Energy Medicine technique that is also found in scripture. It is instructive about the reality of light and darkness around us, and is taught by ancient and modern prophets. This second technique was used by every one of the most helpful energy facilitators my daughter met with. Explore this website to learn more about that type of immense help. </i></div>
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<i style="font-style: normal;">All of the above topics and more are addressed in my book. </i><i style="font-style: normal;">I firmly believe that energy work fits with the gospel of Christ!</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><i><i style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: arial;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Click here to view a video of Tamara on chakras<span style="color: #3d74a5; font-style: normal;"> </span><a href="https://Vimeo.com/ondemand/TamaraLaing " style="color: #3d74a5; font-style: normal;" target="_blank">https://Vimeo.com/ondemand/TamaraLaing </a></span></i></i></div>
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</span> <span style="color: blue;">Brother Poulton gave me permission to share the paper he wrote below. If you enjoy it, you may also appreciate the writings of several authors listed below this article in blue, such as 2 similar papers by Brother Scott Gillespie and a book by W. Dennis Parker CHT.</span></div>
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<b>Understanding Spiritual Evil in the Context of Psychotherapy</b><br />
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<b>Ronald L. Poulton</b><br />
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Some time ago, my wife and I attended a dinner that was hosted by the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists (AMCAP) in connection with its semi-annual conference. We were seated with a psychiatrist, three clinical psychologists and a social worker. We shared several minutes of conversation getting to know one another. It was evident that they all loved their profession. They practiced it in a manner that was informed by their belief in God and energized by their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Several expressed gratitude for AMCAP and the values espoused by the Association. As the spouse of an AMCAP member I was glad to be with so many professionals and to have the opportunity to ask them a question that had been on my mind for some time, knowing that I would not have to worry whether they were listed as preferred providers with my health insurance company.</div>
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At what I thought was an appropriate time I asked my question, “How do you deal with the problem of unclean spirits in your practices?” Quiet came to the table almost immediately. One of the psychologists looked puzzled and asked me to say more. When it became clear to them that they had not misunderstood my question, their responses came quickly. The overarching conclusion common to all the responses was that this was a subject outside the domain of their common discourse and professional worldview. It held no prominent place within their practices. I was surprised by their resolute opinions that there was no such problem. </div>
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My understanding of LDS doctrine has led me to believe that this problem is near the core of many issues addressed by counselors and therapists. I believe all counselors and therapists are familiar with the effects wrought by evil spirits, but they have failed to attribute those effects to their actual sources, which are the activities of such spirits in the lives of their clients.This failure may be caused either by an incomplete understanding of doctrine or by a failure to notice and respond in a manner that would confirm the doctrine to them. In the first section I will set out their responses to my question and put them in the context of the scriptures and the teachings of Brigham Young, a prophet who was raised near the roots of Mormonism, and grounded upon those roots, vigorously taught the saints on this subject in the isolated, but religiously open environment of nineteenth century Utah Territory. Then in the second section I will address what I believe are some of the implications of this material for LDS therapists and counselors. </div>
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The first response was: “At the time the scriptures were written, the people mistook mental diseases and biologically based defects for possession by evil spirits.” This view reflects the predominant view of many modern religionists and mental health professionals. There have been significant advances made in psychopharmacology that have produced remarkable symptom relief for depression, anxiety and schizophrenia. These developments do seem to strengthen the contention that it was a lack of sophistication or an inadequate understanding of physiology and biochemistry that led to a mistaken diagnosis that evil spirits caused physical or mental illnesses. However, that conclusion without additional explanation is unwarranted; it makes the logical error of affirming the consequence. “The situation is similar to that of a person who takes aspirin for a headache. Generally, the medicine will relieve the pain and ‘cure’ the ailment. Still, the fact that taking aspirin eliminated the pain hardly means that the pain was caused by a lack of aspirin in the first place” (Liebert & Spiegler, 1987, p. 517). </div>
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A further problem with this response is that it fails to explain the distinction gospel writers made between the heavenly power over devils and the power to heal the sick. Although these powers are often enumerated together and appear to be exercised jointly in many instances, there is a consistent and pervasive distinction maintained between freeing the afflicted from evil spirits and healing sickness through divine power: “And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him” (Mark 1:34). And again, “When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick” (Matthew 8:16). </div>
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When Nephi was allowed to see in vision the ministry of the Lord at Jerusalem he reported seeing the Lord both heal the sick and cast out devils: And he spake unto me again, saying: Look! And I looked, and I beheld the Lamb of God going forth among the children of men. And I beheld multitudes of people who were sick, and who were afflicted with all manner of diseases, and with devils and unclean spirits; and the angel spake and showed all these things unto me. And they were healed by the power of the Lamb of God; and the devils and the unclean spirits were cast out (1 Nephi 11:31). </div>
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When the Lord first bestowed power upon his apostles it was a twofold power:“AND when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease” (Matthew 10:1). And this was the Lord’s charge to them: “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:8). They were obedient to the charge given: “And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them" (Mark 6:13). </div>
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Book of Mormon prophets noted that the power over devils and the power to heal were had among them and would continue always among believers in Christ: And as many as had devils cast out from them, and were healed of their sicknesses and their infirmities, did truly manifest unto the people that they had been wrought upon by the Spirit of God, and had been healed; and they did show forth signs also and did do some miracles among the people (3 Nephi 7:22). </div>
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And these signs shall follow them that believe– in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover . . . (Mormon 9:24). These promises were reaffirmed to the latter-day saints: And whoso shall ask it in my name in faith, they shall cast out devils; they shall heal the sick; they shall cause the blind to receive their sight, and the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak, and the lame to walk (D&C 35:9; see also D&C 84:67- 70; D&C 124:98). </div>
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Those that observed the work of the Lord demonstrate repeatedly the ability to discriminate between instances of healing physical illness and instances of restoring persons whose suffering was caused by unclean spirits. They relate that on one occasion the Lord healed a man of palsy (Luke 5:17-26); on another he gave a man his sight (John 9:1-7); on another he healed ten men of leprosy (Luke 17:11-19); and from one person he cast out a devil (Mark 1:23- 27); from another he cast out seven devils (Mark 16:9) and from another he cast out a legion of unclean spirits (Mark 5:1-15). Among the spiritually discerning, there has always been an understanding that in this life people are exposed to the influence and affliction of unclean spirits. Additionally, there is a suspicion that any explanation of the world that attempts to remove the adversary far from view is little more than a subterfuge of the adversary (2 Nephi 28:22).</div>
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The fact that gospel writers have made a distinction between healing the sick and casting out evil spirits does not, however, mean that the two troubles are unrelated. On the contrary, there does seem to be a close connection between illness of mind and body and the affliction that comes from unclean spirits. Mark records that in one instance the Lord encountered a dumb man possessed of a devil and when that devil was cast out the man spake (Matthew 9:32-33). Many of the above-cited scriptures disclose a pattern of divine healing having been preceded by casting out of unclean spirits. </div>
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Brigham Young taught that there was a direct connection between evil and illness: You never felt a pain and ache, or felt disagreeable, or uncomfortable in yourbodies and minds, but what an evil spirit was present causing it. Do you realize that the ague,the fever, the chills, the severe pain in the head, the plurisy, or any pain in the system, from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet, is put there by the devil? You do not realize this, do you? I say but little about this matter, because I do not want you to realize it. When you have the rheumatism, do you realize that the devil put that upon you? No, but you say, “I got wet, caught cold, and thereby got the rheumatism.” The spirits that afflict us and plant disease in our bodies, pain in the system, and finally death, have control over us so far as the flesh is concerned. But when the spirit is unlocked from the body it is free from the power of death and Satan; and when that body comes up again, it also, with the spirit, will gain the victory over death, hell, and the grave. (JD, 4:133)1 </div>
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While most modern mental health and medical professionals would deny any causal linkbetween the illnesses they treat and evil spirits, Brigham Young viewed all illness of body and mind connected directly to the activities of evil spirits. Further, the foregoing scriptures support the view that the understanding of gospel writers was ahead of modernity not behind it. The modern reliance on naturalistic explanations, biological models and psychological theory, have rendered us incapable of making valuable distinctions and connections that were obvious to those personally taught and empowered by the Lord.<br />
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The second response was: “Possession by unclean spirits is rare because God placed enmity between his children and evil spirits.” This response, to be rightly considered, ought to be examined against the broader background of LDS doctrine concerning premortal and mortal life. In the Church we are taught that all people born on this earth lived a premortal life with their heavenly parents (Jeremiah 1:5; First Presidency 1995). God, seeing the need for his children to have tabernacles to escape oppression and to grow in righteousness, proposed a plan whereby his children would enter mortality, obtain physical bodies and be proven in their faithfulness in all things (Abraham 3:24- 26; Ehat & Cook, 1980, p. 62, 68, 207). To enable his children to demonstrate their righteousness, he proposed that all of his children retain their premortal agency while on the earth (D&C 29:35-36). Knowing all things from the beginning, including the fall and the subsequent entry of sin among his children, God chose his First Born, Jesus Christ, to be the savior and redeemer of mankind (Abraham 3:27; Helaman 5:9). An additional consequence of this plan, understood by God and all his children in the premortal realm, was the fact that there would be some children who would fail in this probationary state and thereby lose the right to return to their premortal glory (D&C 29:27-28, 43-44; Moses 4:1). </div>
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In vision, Joseph Smith saw that in the premortal life Lucifer was an angel who stood in authority in the presence of God (D&C 76:25-26; D&C 129:1-3). Lucifer opposed the plan to allow man to retain his agency while on the earth (Moses 4:3). He also opposed the Father’s choice of his First Born as the redeemer and savior of the world (Abraham 3:28). Lucifer rebelled against the Only Begotten of the Father (D&C 76:25). Satan desired the kingdom and glory of God and his Christ (D&C 76:28). </div>
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In his rebellion, whereby he sought evil, he became the devil (2 Nephi 2:17; Moses 4:4). The word devil means false accuser. He became the father of lies (2 Nephi 2:18). He slanders the Father and his Only Begotten Son and all of God’s children. He is the father of contention (3 Nephi 11:29). He is the author of all sin (Helaman 6:30). He brought war to heaven and those who followed him were cast out from heaven to this earth (Revelation 12:9). And having fallen from heaven he became miserable forever (2 Nephi 2:18). In further consequence of seeking, that which was evil, Lucifer and those who followed after him were denied tabernacles made from the element of this earth (Ehat & Cook, 1980, p. 68, 207). The number of God’s spirit children that followed Lucifer in rebellion was great, described as “the third part of the stars of heaven” (Revelation 12:4). Although this phrase is assumed by some to be a literal translation of what might have been a metaphor for a large group but not an exact number or percentage, similar wording, “a third part of the host of heaven,” appears in a revelation given in English (D&C 29:36). One might consider what number this could mean if intended literally. The current world population is estimated to be approximately six billion people and the total world population has been estimated to be approximately 105 billion people.2 That would indicate that the one-third following Lucifer numbered in excess of 50 billion spirits. Without counting those who have suffered their spirits to become captive while in mortal probation, there would be almost ten evil spirits to each person living on the earth. </div>
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In opposition to the Father’s plan of happiness, Lucifer formulated a plan to destroy the work of God (D&C 10:23); to destroy the world (Moses 4:6); to make all men miserable like unto himself (2 Nephi 2:18, 27); to captivate the souls of men while in probation on the earth and keep them captive after their death until the day of judgment (Moses 4:4; 1 Nephi 14:7; Mosiah 16:3,5; Alma 40:14); and ultimately to have men brought forth in the resurrection filthy and unable to return to the kingdom of God (2 Nephi 9:16). An element of this plan of misery was to possess the earthly bodies of God’s children on the earth (Alma 40:13). </div>
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The central objective of the devil is always the heart: the heart, not as poetic metaphor, but as bodily location and spiritual faculty. He carries forth his evil from generation to generation according to his success at taking hold of the hearts of men (Helaman 6:30; 4 Nephi 1:28). If the hold is secured, then evil spirits will “dwell in the hearts of the children of men” (Mosiah 3:6). Then he will “rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them to anger against that which is good” (2 Nephi 28:20) until, they are “given up unto the hardness of their hearts” and the Spirit of the Lord ceases to strive with them (Ether 15:19). But when people are cleansed and dwell in righteousness, he has no power over their hearts (1 Nephi 22:26). </div>
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Lucifer did not understand the mind of God, for God had anticipated the premortal rebellion (Moses 4:6). In fact, the plan of the Father made use of the rebellion. Its consequences on this earth became a refining fire to the faithful, that which was in some sense necessary to activate the agency granted to men while on the earth (D&C 29:39). And through his agency man became free to choose liberty and eternal life through the gift of his Son (2 Nephi 2:27). Thus, mortality became a period of spiritual death, a time of continuous temptation, wherein all are exposed to and taste the bitter that they might know to choose the sweet. With this background we can consider the record of Moses that states that following Lucifer’s successful temptation of Eve, God placed enmity, a strong dislike or deep-rooted hatred, as a barrier between Lucifer and his followers and the woman and her seed: And I, the Lord God, said unto the serpent: Because thou hast done this thou shalt be cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life; And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed; and he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel (Moses 4:20-21). </div>
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Some have inferred from this scripture that people, as the children of Eve, are protected from evil possession because a protective barrier of enmity surrounds them. Of course, the cogency of this conclusion rests on the assumption that this scripture is referring to all the posterity of Adam and Eve as being the “seed” of the woman referred to by God. Although Eve is the woman present when God makes this pronouncement, and the inhabitants of the earth may all claim to be her seed, this scripture is cited as the first prophecy referring to the Messiah.3<br />
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Jesus Christ is the “seed” of the woman. Jesus Christ is the singular “he” who shall bruise the head of the serpent; it is he toward whom Lucifer and the spirits that follow him suffer the pains of enmity. The scriptures do not indicate that God forbid evil spirits from possessing the bodies of the children of Eve, if those children use their agency on the earth to yield to the enticements of the adversary. On the contrary, captivity by such was forewarned repeatedly. And a license to use a power of enticement upon the children of Eve was given to Lucifer by God: “Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed by the one or the other” (2 Nephi 2:16). It is the “will of the flesh and the evil which is therein, which giveth the spirit of the devil power to captivate” (2 Nephi 2:29). When temptation is yielded to the “people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed;” (Matthew 13:15) and in consequence, the scriptures warn that evil spirits enter into the tabernacles of man (Mosiah 3:6; Alma 40:13). </div>
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What God revealed to Moses, in Moses 4:20-21, was the means of escape from Lucifer’s plan of captivity. For the children of Eve, it is by coming unto Christ and by receiving a greater portion of His Spirit, that they gain discernment, to choose liberty and freedom in Christ. Only thereby will they become the beneficiaries of the protective enmity spoken of in the scripture (Helaman 5:12; Ether 8:26; 1 Nephi 22:24-28). Until their bodies become full of light and wholly without spot, until that perfect day, the children of Eve will continue to be vulnerable to temptation and entrapment by evil. There is no free and easy insulating enmity. The eternal risk inherent in the exposure to evil is an essential part of the Father’s plan; so is his promise that he is mighty to save and to heal all who come unto his Son (3 Nephi 9:13-15, 21-22). </div>
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This truth, that only by accepting and cleaving unto Christ can one secure protection against the design of the adversary, is taught powerfully in the following incident during the Lord’s Galilean ministry: And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. . . . But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done. . . . And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts (Mark 5:1-17).<br />
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This encounter with evil lends support to the claim that an evil spirit would prefer the mortal tabernacle of a swine to none at all (Ehat & Cook, 1980, p. 60). However, the actual plan of the devil was more subtle. William P. McIntire recorded the following comment by the Prophet Joseph Smith on the foregoing verses of scripture: Jesus commanded him to come out of the man and the Devil besought him that he might enter in a herd of swine near by (for the Devil knew they were a covetous people & if he could kill their hogs that would drive Jesus out of their coasts & he then would have tabernacle enough) (Ehat & Cook, 1980, p. 68).<br />
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Brigham Young urged the saints to be alert to the presence and objectives of unclean spirits when he said: I want you to understand these things; and if you should say or think that I know nothing about them, be pleased to find out and inform me. You can see the acts of these evil spirits in every place, the whole country is full of them, the whole earth is alive with them, and they are continually trying to get into the tabernacles of the human family, and are always on hand to prompt us to depart from the strict line of our duty (JD, 3: 369). </div>
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Related to the idea of general enmity protecting mankind, as raised in the second response, is the notion that at least children under the age of accountability are immune from both the influence and the affliction of evil spirits. The Lord said that little children can not sin because they can not be tempted (D&C 29:47). But he said, “…when they begin to grow up, sin conceiv-eth in their hearts, and they taste the bitter, that they may know to prize the good” (Moses 6:55). Since many children require the assistance of counselors and therapists for many of the same types of problems for which adults seek counseling, this fact would appear to be confirming evidence that the problems for which counseling is sought are not the result of evil spirits afflict-ing people, at least not among young children. It is settled doctrine of the Church that children cannot sin and Satan has no power to tempt them until they begin to become accountable. Whatever it turns out that temptation is– it isn’t a problem suffered by children. However, the fact that they can neither be tempted nor sin does not, on its own, uphold the conclusion that children, under the age of accountability, are never afflicted by unclean spirits. Consider the following incident that occurred shortly after the transfiguration when the Lord rejoined his disciples: And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not. He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me. . . . And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us. . . When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. . . . And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting (Mark 9:17-29). </div>
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It was before this incident, earlier in the ministry of the Lord, that he had given power to his apostles to heal the sick and to cast out devils. As noted above, they had experienced much success and had returned from their early missions firm in their testimony of the power conferred upon them. This was the first instance of their failure to command an unclean spirit. This incident has been cited by Dummelow (1936) as one in which the child, being described as a “lunatic” in another gospel, was actually suffering from a form of epilepsy, a physical ailment, of which he was healed by the Lord, and not a case of demonic possession. However, such explanation ignores the plain text of the scripture and thereby dismisses from consideration several profound questions. First, the Lord asked the father: “How long is it ago since this came unto him?” What was the point of this question? Would it really have made a difference whether it had been a month or a year? It is the father’s answer that may hold the key; his answer to the Lord was: “of a child.” The Gospel of Mark does not tell us the age of the boy when presented to the Lord or the age of the boy when the affliction first began. However, the Greek adverb, “paidiothen ” here translated as “of a child” is related to the noun “paidion ” which is a child, one as young as a new born infant.4 Second, in answering the disciples’ question as to why they had been unsuccessful in their exercise of priesthood authority, the Lord explained: “This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” It would appear that the Lord is acknowledging gradation in the power of some evil spirits. But what was “this kind” of evil spirit? The only textual indicators given about the kind of spirit come from the Lord’s description of the spirit as a dumb spirit or the answer to the Lord’s question given by the child’s father that the spirit had taken possession of the boy as a child. Interestingly, when the Lord earlier had cast out a devil from a dumb man, who then spoke, no instruction was given to the disciples regarding fasting and prayer. Finally, and perhaps relevant to the age of the child at both the onset and cleansing, it is important to note that this is the only incident recorded in scripture where the Lord, in addition to casting out the evil spirit, further enjoined this devil “and enter no more into him.”</div>
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If the person freed from evil does not pursue a righteous course faithfully, then there does not appear to be a prohibition against the evil spirit reentering a body. The Lord taught: Then came some of the scribes and said unto him, Master, it is written that, Every sin shall be forgiven; but ye say, Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven. And they asked him, saying, How can these things be? And he said unto them, When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest and findeth none; but when a man speaketh<br />
against the Holy Ghost, then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth him empty, swept and garnished; for the good spirit leaveth him unto himself. Then goeth the evil spirit, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation (JST Matthew 12:37-39). 13 The third response was: “Possession by unclean spirits is very rare, if we are sincerely trying to live the gospel.” There are several reasons why encounters with evil spirits may seem to be rare. First, most memorable instances of evil encounters seem to be singular historical events such as the devil entering the Garden of Eden to tempt Adam and Eve (Moses 4:6-11), the devil appearing before Jesus to tempt him following his forty day fast in the wilderness where he communed with the Father (JST Matthew 4:1-11; cf. Ehat & Cook, 1980, p. 12) or the adversary’s attack upon Joseph Smith as he knelt in prayer in the sacred grove (Joseph Smith History 1:15-16). Rather than disrupt the routine course of individual lives, one might believe that encounters with evil occur only in instances where the adversary attempts to thwart the larger work of God’s kingdom, as was the temptation of Joseph Smith as he walked to meet Moroni at the hill Cumorah to view the plates (Joseph Smith History 1:46) or the vicious attacks upon the first missionaries sent to begin preaching the restored gospel in England (Stuy, 1987-1992, 5: 198-99, 236). Second, we do not see many people acting as if they were possessed by an evil spirit, as did some encountered by the Lord, that is, foaming at the mouth, gnashing teeth, and dwelling in a tomb, or as Joseph Smith found Newell Knight, his visage distorted, his limbs twisted as he was elevated above the floor and tossed about a room (J. F. Smith, 1971, p. 82). If it is assumed that a person possessed of an unclean evil spirit looks and acts in a ghoulish or frightening manner, then observation would indeed support the conclusion that possession is rare. But the image of a terrifying and bizarre person is not the only one described in the scriptures. Korihor, the anti-christ, was articulate and convincing to many, yet after a brief exchange the discerning Alma stated to him, “thou art possessed with a lying spirit” (Alma 30:42). The first recorded instance of the Lord rebuking an unclean spirit and commanding it to leave a man occurred in a synagogue, a house of worship and study (Mark 1:23-27). This was not an isolated instance, Mark records that the Lord preached in synagogues throughout all Galilee and cast out devils (Mark 1:39). The presence of unclean spirits at places of worship was also noted in a session of General Conference by Brigham Young: You know that we sometimes need a prompter; if any one of you was called by the government of the United States to go to Germany, Italy, or any foreign nation, as an Ambassador, if you did not understand the language somebody would have to interpret for you. Well, these evil spirits are ready to prompt you. Do they prompt us? Yes, and I could put my hands on a dozen of them while I have been on this stand; they are here on the stand. Could we do without the devils? No, we could not get along without them. They are here, and they suggest this, that, and the other (JD, 3: 369).</div>
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Third, possession may be rare because not many people are wholly taken captive by evil spirits. This is a valuable observation. In fact, each of the responses given to my original question focused on evil spirit possession, when my question asked more broadly about the problem of unclean spirits. The problem of evil spirits confronted by therapists is not restricted to persons fully possessed and bound by unclean spirits, but includes those in the process of being ensnared, who are temporarily overcome and possessed by an evil spirit in sin and those who are otherwise influenced, distressed or afflicted by such spirits. Again, Brigham Young observed this range of affliction: You may now see people with legions of evil spirits in and around them; there are men who walk our streets that have more than a hundred devils in them and round about them, prompting them to all manner of evil, and some too that profess to be Latter Day Saints, and if you were to take the devils out of them and from about them, you would leave them dead corpses; for I believe there would be nothing left of them (JD, 3: 369). </div>
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Brigham Young warned the saints that their sojourn on the earth is a continuation of the war commenced in heaven and constant vigilance is demanded. He said: I know very well that, whether we are active or not, the invisible spirits are active. And every person who desires and strives to be a Saint is closely watched by fallen spirits that came here when Lucifer fell, and by the spirits of wicked persons who have been here in tabernacles and departed from them, but who are still under the control of the prince of the power of the air. Those spirits are never idle; they are watching every person who wishes to do right, and are continually prompting them to do wrong. This makes it necessary for us to be continually on our guard--makes this probation a continual warfare (JD, 7: 239).<br />
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The scriptures give several descriptions of the strategies used by the devil to implement his cunning plan. He executes his plan carefully (2 Nephi 28:21). He urges all to abuse their agency that he may come and take “away light and truth, through disobedience” (D&C 93:39).<br />
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He will fulfill, at least in some measure and for some period of time, his promise of easy happi-ness in sin (3 Nephi 27:11; Alma 30:60). He leads at a pace calculated to pacify and lull into carnal security by whispering, “all is well” (2 Nephi 28:21). He emboldens with false and vain and foolish doctrines (2 Nephi 28:9). He urges all to contend with one another over truth, accor-ding to their own learning (2 Nephi 28:4). He denies there is a God and claims that all power is given to man (2 Nephi 28:5). He denies the justice of God and teaches that mercy will overcome justice (2 Nephi 28:8). He “flattereth away and telleth them” that there is no devil or hell (2 Nephi 28:22). He “whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains” (2 Nephi 28:22). </div>
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Brigham Young emphasized:“Here are the two powers on the earth--the evil and the good, not to speak of the ten thousand paths they make through the earth, and the various spirits that go to-and-fro. It is the good and the evil.” (JD, 8: 326) The ten thousand paths refers to the many and varied sins and miseries brought on by such spirits in the adversary’s plan to prompt, to tempt, to ensnare and to capture the souls of men. The scriptures name some of those spirits by the assignments they perform and the suffering they bring: spirit of fear (2 Timothy 1:7); spirit of contention (3 Nephi 11:29); spirit of jealousy (Numbers 5:14); spirit of whoredoms (Hosea 4:12); spirit of divination (Acts 16:16); spirit of error (1 John 4:6); spirit of deep sleep (2 Nephi 27:5); spirit of persecution (Joseph Smith History 1:74); and spirit of infirmity (Luke 13:11). The Lord warned: “suffer none of these things to enter into your heart” (3 Nephi 12:29). </div>
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If LDS therapists were to take time to reflect on their experience, I believe they would be able to enumerate more of the assignments and effects of evil spirits upon mankind: anxiety, depres-sion, obsession, narcissism, addiction, thought disorders, etc. In fact, because it is the design of the devil “to make all men miserable like unto himself,” one need not look any farther than the various ways mankind may be made miserable to find the adversary and his spirits at work. The assault of the adversary is always a two-pronged attack against both truth and agency. When therapy works it is because it successfully enlarges the client’s understanding of and ability to hold to truth and assists to restore a person to a greater awareness and expression of agency. </div>
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The principal tool of the adversary is a “prompting,” a thought that passes through a person’s mind. It is within the dominion allotted the adversary that he has power to suggest things to our minds, invitations to entertain that which is contrary to the will of God. The most subtle temp-tations come in an individual way, as personal promptings to do wrong. And certainly, as is evident from his assault on our senses, the adversary understands that one picture can be worth ten thousand words when teaching how to sin. Brigham Young confirmed that our thoughts can be caused, in some sense, by our interactions with external forces.</div>
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He said: The origin of thought was planted in our organization at the beginning of our being. This is not telling you how it came there, or who put it there. Thought originated with our individual being, which is organized to be as independent as any being in eternity. . . . The origin of thought and reflection is in ourselves. We think, because we are, and are made susceptible of external influences, and to feel our relationship to external objects. Thus thoughts of revenge, and thoughts of blessing will arise in the same mind, as it is influenced by external circumstances (JD, 2: 135). It is also true that there may be nothing that a person identifies as more central to personal identity than his individual thought. Thought seems to be something proprietary and private to an individual. Yet, that which instigates our thought may be of internal or external origin. It is only those thoughts that originate within us that are proprietary. While such thoughts may be known to God and his angels (Smith, 1938, p. 325), they can only be known to the adversary if one speaks them (D&C 6:16; Faust, 1987, p. 35). But the devil has perfect understanding of the thoughts, which he has prompted, and thereby may attempt to create a false impression that he knows our thoughts. </div>
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A challenge we all face is to discern the sources from which our thoughts arise. Brigham Young understood when he spoke of the profound influence of good and evil in the lives of persons that one might conclude all thoughts and actions arose from the influences outside the person. This conclusion would be an error and thwart comprehension of the fact that the divine gift of agency was given in to enable everyone to develop an independent love for goodness. He said: We are very apt through our traditions, former associations, and notion of things and ideas, to attribute every act of man and every manifestation of mankind to an invisible source--the good or the evil. God is the author of all good; and yet, if you rightly understood yourselves, you would not directly attribute every good act you perform to our Father in heaven, nor to his Son Jesus Christ, nor to the Holy Ghost; neither would you attribute every evil act of a man or woman to the Devil or his spirits or influences; for man is organized by his Creator to act perfectly independently of all influences there are above or beneath. Those influences are always attending him, and are ready to dictate and direct--to lead him into truth or to lead him to destruction. But is he always guided by those influences in every act? He is not. It is ordained of God that we should act independently in and of ourselves, and the good is present when we need it. If we will ask for it, it is with us. If we yield to temptation, the evil is present, and nigh enough to lead every son and daughter of Adam to destruction, if they give way to it. But it is the design of the Almighty that we should act independently (JD, 9: 122). </div>
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If sinning begins with promptings to our minds and expands to our hearts, our words and finally the actions of our lives, we must be watchful in everything we do. King Benjamin warned: And finally, I cannot tell you all the things whereby ye may commit sin; for there are divers ways and means, even so many that I cannot number them. But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not watch yourselves, and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds, and observe the commandments of God, and continue in the faith of what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your lives, ye must perish. And now, O man, remember, and perish not (Mosiah 4:29-30).<br />
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The path of turning away from evil is often backtracking the path that first led to sin. Again, Brigham Young promised, “If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections (JD, 6:98). Brigham Young solemnly advised: “You hearken to that still small voice that whispers eternal truth, that opens the visions of eternity to you that you can discern, understand and follow, and the foul spirits that throng the air, and that fill our houses if we let them in, will not have power over you” (JD, 15:7).<br />
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The attack of the adversary and the nearness of evil is also discerned in a bodily way. On the evening of the last supper, the Lord gave profound blessings to his faithful apostles, he washed their feet, he blessed them with the desires of their hearts and he prayed for them. Yet, as the disciples retired with the Lord to the Garden of Gethsemane the scriptures describe the affliction that came over them: “And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane, which was a garden; and the disciples began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy, and to complain in their hearts, wondering if this be the Messiah” (JST Mark 14:36). Then they were overcome by deep sleep. This is an apt description of afflictions from unclean spirits, that may be recognizable to anyone: the fear, the heaviness, the complaining, and the doubt that sickens the heart.<br />
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Spiritual reality permeates the whole of life– the good and the evil. The more truth compre-hended by a psychological model, the greater will be its power to bring happiness. Therapies that deny any spirituality seem barren next to those that acknowledge spiritual reality. Those that incorporate spiritual reality but limit it to vague and valueless notions of self indulgent love or higher power are not as potent at bringing lasting goodness as those which teach the truth about God, who he is, and the relationship of the human family to him. And, if “spiritual” means, as it has come to mean to so many therapists, only that which is nurturing, affirming or pleasurable, then therapist and client are consigned to live with only half a map. While not intended to provide an exhaustive outline of the subject, the scriptures and prophetic commentary set forth above present a substantial body of doctrine that can only be overlooked or under-studied with peril. Prophets have been inspired to warn, to educate and to prepare the children of God for the trials of the adversary encountered by all during mortality. Therapists, as counselors, educators and healers are in the thick of this probationary warfare. </div>
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<strong>II.</strong>Most of our encounters with evil spirits go unnoticed, not because they are rare, but because they are so commonplace. We are, in some ways, desensitized to the direct intrusions of the adversary in our lives. We often accept such intrusions because of our willingness to accept rival explanations for our encounters with evil and our spiritual discomforts. A child’s scream from a sound sleep is not understood as being caused by the passing of an unclean presence, but by a bad dream, an upset stomach, thirst, etc. A pathogenic belief that limits the growth or freedom of a client may be the result of a childhood trauma, a lack of proper idealization in the parental transference, but it is not considered to be a lie communicated by an unclean spirit standing next to the person. </div>
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Modern psychotherapy has been marked by a move away from concepts grounded in religion and morality toward the embrace of concepts borrowed from medicine and science (Szasz 1978). Thus, behavior that was once described as sin is now frequently viewed in terms of symptom or illness (Menninger 1973). The secularized idea of the devil is reduced to nothing more than “an ancient moral construct” and evil diluted to “simply the absence of good” (Gallagher, 1999, p. 121). And it is assumed that evil can be studied and understood merely as a matter of human interaction, without reference to spiritual reality (Baumeister 1997). The very idea of evil spirits strikes many persons overseeing accreditation at universities, state licensing authorities and insurance carriers as being primitive, unprofessional and unscientific. A speaker at an AMCAP conference said recently that he had proposed to conference organizers to speak on the subject of possession by evil spirits, but he was informed that the topic was rejected by AMCAP because it would not qualify for continuing education credit (Watts 2000).</div>
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In some respect, the efforts to gain mainstream professional credibility may have left LDS therapists well regarded, but no more effective than any other segment of the profession. Unfortunately, it appears that some are satisfied to express belief in God and Christ, but shrink in embarrassment at the doctrine they revealed of an equally real and immanent adversary. This is a mistake. Psychologists have surveyed the current state of psychotherapy and asked, “Why doesn’t therapy succeed more often?” and “Why does it so often fail to make a real difference in people’s lives?” (Gendlin, 1981, p.3). The answers to such queries may be found in the failure of psychotherapists to consider the domain of the adversary encountered in the world. While most, if not all LDS therapists, would acknowledge Satan as a real spirit being, fewer seem to comprehend that he and the spirits that followed him are also immanent. Thus, one might acknowledge the presence of evil– in groups to which one does not belong, in enterprises in which one does not participate and in the lives of others. But we have more difficulty facing the possibility that we are in the presence of evil right now, that it may be focused on us, and perhaps, that we find its offer appealing. Many are prejudiced to believe that evil spirits afflict only those caught in sin. While sin and immorality certainly subject a person to evil influence, there is no valid inference that would permit one to conclude that a person struggling against evil spirits is thereby guilty of sin. Unfortunately, this bias persists even though there have been notable instances of very good people being afflicted by unclean spirits, especially when such people are on the threshold of making great contributions to their own growth and service to others. </div>
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Consider the experience of Hugh B. Brown the night before he was called as a General Authority to the Church: That night I drove from the camp up at Rocky Mountain House down to Edmonton still spiritually disturbed and depressed. Without having dinner that night, I went into the bedroom by myself, told my wife that she should stay in the other room as I felt I would have a restless night and did not wish to disturb her. All night I wrestled with the evil spirit. I was possessed with the spirit of wishing that I could be rubbed out of existence. I had no thought of suicide, but wished the Lord would provide a way for me to cease to be. The room was full of darkness and an evil spirit prevailed, so real that I was almost consumed by it. About three o’clock in the morning my wife came in, having heard me moving about the room and asked what was the matter. Upon closing the door, she said, “Oh Hugh, what is in this room?” and I replied, “It is Satan.” We spent the balance of the night together, much of it on our knees. The next morning upon going to the office (there was no one there, it being Saturday), I knelt in prayer again and asked for deliverance from this evil spirit. I felt a peaceful spirit come over me and phoned my wife to that effect (Firmage, 1976, p.90-91).</div>
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It should be remembered that the encounters with evil are universal; they span the continuum from the testing and affliction of righteous persons at one end to those few who have knowingly and willingly chosen evil to be their constant companion at the other. While the encounters with evil spirits endured by most people are not constant, they are regular. What LDS counselors and therapists may need to add to their testimonies of a personal and loving Savior is a testimony of the truth that the adversary is a personal and present danger. </div>
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A father related this experience. As he entered his home one evening after work he found his children bickering and angry. He said there was an ugly edge to the quarreling. Instead of getting involved immediately, he went upstairs to his bedroom. There he knelt in prayer and asked for the Spirit of the Lord to attend him as a father and to grant him power in the priest-hood. He arose and in his room commanded the unclean spirits to leave his family and his home. He then felt better prepared to go downstairs to visit with his children and hopefully restore peace to the home. As he entered the room where the children were, he saw all of them sitting together on the floor laughing and playing a game. The evening passed without further incident. The children did not need their father to exercise his parenting skills; they needed his discernment and intervention to protect their home from unwanted influence. What makes this experience significant is that the circumstance is so ordinary. Occasional fighting among children occurs in every family. Certainly, the father’s predisposition to get involved directly to stop the fighting was a normal reaction. He did have a responsibility to teach his children to be kind, to cooperate and meet their own needs in acceptable ways. But he noticed there was more, an “ugly edge” to the bickering. He was discerning. </div>
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The discerning of spirits is a gift of the Holy Ghost (D& C 46:23). George A. Smith, reflecting on his association with Joseph Smith, said, “…there was no point upon which the Prophet Joseph dwelt more than the discerning of spirits” (Ehat & Cook, 1980, p.21). On one occasion the Prophet wrote to the Church: Recent occurrences that have transpired amongst us render it an imperative duty devolving upon me to say something in relation to the spirits by which men are actuated. . . One great evil is, that men are ignorant of the nature of spirits; their power, laws, government, intelligence, etc. . . . . . . [W]ho can drag into daylight and develop the hidden mysteries of the false spirits that so frequently are made manifest among the Latter-day Saints? We answer that no man can do this without the Priesthood, and having a knowledge of the laws by which spirits are governed; for as “no man knows the things of God, but by the Spirit of God,” so no man knows the spirit of the devil, and his power and influence, but by possessing intelligence which is more than human, and having unfolded through the medium of the Priesthood the mysterious operations of his devices . . . . . . . A man must have the discerning of spirits before he can drag into daylight this hellish influence and unfold it unto the world in all its soul-destroying, diabolical, and horrid colors; for nothing is a greater injury to the children of men than to be under the influence of a false spirit when they think they have the Spirit of God. . . .<br />
As we have noticed before, the great difficulty lies in the ignorance of the nature of spirits, of the laws by which they are governed, and the signs by which they may be known; if it requires the Spirit of God to know the things of God; and the spirit of the devil can only be unmasked through that medium, then it follows as a natural consequence that unless some person or persons have a communication, or revelation from God, unfolding to them the operation of the spirit, they must eternally remain ignorant of these principles; for I contend that if one man cannot understand these things but by the Spirit of God, ten thousand men cannot; it is alike out of the reach of the wisdom of the learned, the tongue of the eloquent, the power of the mighty (Smith, 1938, p. 202-05).<br />
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Of the gift of discernment George Q. Cannon wrote: One of the gifts of the Gospel which the Lord has promised to those who enter into covenant with Him is the gift of discerning of spirits - a gift which is not much thought of by many and probably seldom prayed for; yet it is a gift that is of exceeding value and one that should be enjoyed by every Latter-day Saint. . . No Latter-day Saint should be without this gift, because there is such a variety of spirits in the world which seek to deceive and lead astray. . . . Now, the gift of discerning of spirits not only gives men and women who have it the power to discern the spirit with which others may be possessed or influenced, but it gives them the power to discern the spirit which influences themselves. They are able to detect a false spirit and also to know when the Spirit of God reigns within them. In private life this gift is of great importance to the Latter-day Saints. Possessing and exercising this gift they will not allow any evil influence to enter into their hearts or to prompt them in their thoughts, their words or their acts. They will repel it; and if perchance such a spirit should get possession of them, as soon as they witness its effects they will expel it or, in other words, refuse to be led or prompted by it (Cannon, 1974, p.198-99). </div>
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The personal and immanent nature of the struggle with the adversary and the power which discernment brings is demonstrated in the following case. Stephen, 49, was raised in the mid-west, the eldest of four boys. His father was a wealthy and successful attorney. While growing up, the family had only a loose affiliation to the Catholic Church. Through his father, Stephen was raised with the worldly belief that success as a man was determined in part by his sexual activities with women. Although this belief contributed to the eventual divorce of his father and mother, Stephen viewed sexual activity between consenting adults as natural. As a young man Stephen followed in the steps of his father. By his mid-twenties he had been with a number of women and had a strong attraction to pornography. At the end of a romantic relationship when he was 28, Stephen began to examine his life. It was during this time that he accepted an invitation from a friend to read the Book of Mormon. Stephen gained a strong testimony of the gospel, was baptized and moved to Utah. He has remained active in the Church since his baptism. Eventually he met an LDS woman and they were married in the Salt Lake Temple. Although faithful to his wife, he continued to give in periodically to the desire to view pornography.<br />
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One day when he was 47 he had lunch with some of his friends. The conversation turned to the subject of unclean spirits. One of his friends remarked that almost as a matter of course when traveling and staying in hotels he would cast out the unclean spirits from the room. The friend stated that he could physically discern their departure and this exercise of the priesthood had enabled him to rest while away from home. The friend also said that until he had learned to use his priesthood to obtain this blessing, he rarely if ever slept well in a hotel. He had thought that his restless nights were because the bed or pillow was unfamiliar or traveling had disrupted his normal routine. Now he simply viewed hotels as places where unclean spirits congregate to tempt and to afflict people. </div>
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Stephen was very interested in what was said because he, too, did a lot of business traveling. Stephen said that when he traveled he had strong urges to view adult movies in his hotel room. He said that even though some adult movie channels required the sequential pushing of three buttons on the channel changer, somehow he always “accidentally” seemed to hit those buttons in the proper order. He admitted that while traveling he would watch programs that he would never even consider having in his home. The battles in his long fought war against pornography, while won at home consistently were lost repeatedly on the road. Stephen began following the practice of his friend while traveling. He continued to travel with his scriptures and to pray as he had always done, but he also began to view his stay in a hotel as place of potential ambush by the adversary. He began to prayerfully seek priesthood power and rebuke the spirits from his room upon his arrival. He reported that he could feel something move from around him. He said that the thoughts and the urges to watch improper programs simply ceased, without any effort on his part, other than his faith in God’s willingness to honor the priesthood and the name of his Son. He said that sometimes a single rebuke was sufficient for an entire business trip. On other occasions he was required to rebuke more often, not to control his thoughts, but to maintain what he came to understand as a clear space. He had experimented on the witness and promise of Paul: There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it (I Corinthians 10:13). His battle against pornography had irreversibly changed. It was no longer a battle of one part of him against another part; it was simply a matter of his discerning and rebuking the influence of unwanted evil around him.<br />
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Had Stephen sought counseling for his weakness regarding pornography, it is unlikely that the counselor, without a developed gift of discernment, would have framed the issue faced by Stephen as it was framed by Stephen’s friend. If the therapist were a practitioner of cognitive therapy, Stephen might have been taught useful tools about thought detection and thought selection or perhaps of the irrationality or inconsistency of his attraction to pornography with his desire to have a happy home life. All this would have been helpful to arm Stephen with greater truth, which he could then use to combat the temptations before him. </div>
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Stephen’s response is insightful to those who do cognitive work. Since the troubling thoughts did not originate with him, it would have been a waste of time and resources for him to attempt to assume responsibility or to attempt to stop having the prompting, the first thought. Stephen’s agency may not have begun until after the first thought passed through his mind. After receiving the prompting, then it was his choice to entertain the thought, to enlarge upon it or to reject it. Without this understanding, a person may be motivated to defend or hold on to what are believed to be “his” thoughts, or alternatively, to become discouraged by what he believes has come from him. There can be significant empowerment when a person realizes he is not talking back to a bad part of himself, or that he is not required to look for the good intention inside the evil desire. </div>
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If the therapist practiced behavior modification therapy, Stephen would be taught to identify the triggers to his unwanted behavior and he would have developed strategies to interrupt unwanted behavior patterns. He would have been taught to reinforce instances of successfully overcoming his urge to view inappropriate materials and given skills to cope with instances of relapse. All of the interventions of therapists would require that Stephen in some sense legitimize the problem as being something about himself that he must confront and combat. Although the actions Stephen did take could be seen as incorporating elements of cognitive or behavior modification therapy, what Stephen did was something quite different. He was not overcoming or conquering anything; he was not learning and applying new insight to change his thoughts or behavior; he simply vanquished a present enemy. He could have struggled, and perhaps eventually overcome this problem, many persons have done so. What Stephen did was to recognize the true nature of the trouble he faced and the personal enemy that brought it to him. He discerned that his enemy was immanent. He won, not by fighting the good fight, but by exercising his faith and priesthood to refuse the contest. He followed the admonition and course of Brigham Young, who said: Have this people been blessed? They have. Why can they not understand, that they are organized and formed for the express purpose of becoming independent in and of themselves, that they may begin to guard against any evil principle, or the suggestions of evil? But you will readily say, “That is in all men, it is natural to them.” So Paul thought. He was surrounded with spirits of evil, and was wonderfully troubled with them, so much so, that when he would do good, evil was present with him. I would have kicked them out of doors. . . . “Now,” says Paul, “I would do good to that man, but evil is present with me.” Why did he not kick that evil out of the way of his doing good? Was he bound to be troubled with it? No, no more than you and I are (JD, 2: 133). </div>
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There may be resistance to the idea that therapists ought to seek the gift of discernment of spirits in connection with the practice of psychotherapy. LDS therapists are careful not to infringe directly upon the domain of religion and ecclesiastical jurisdiction. There is an under-standing of the spiritual nature of therapy among LDS therapists. One way it is evidenced is in the recurring concern that professional practice not becomes a form of priestcraft. Some find their concerns are quieted by the fact that therapists are paid for their time, just as any other laborer. By contrast, others note that very often what the client hopes most to purchase is, not the hour, but the unconditional love of the therapist. And exchanging love for a fee feels misguided. </div>
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By the very nature of therapy, LDS therapists often find themselves working with clients in the transference, and thus, at least for a time, they may be the reluctant recipients of the very kind of praise and power sought by those who have engaged actively in priestcraft. Further, among LDS therapists there is considerable discussion of the ethical challenges they face because of the natural connection clients make between their therapy and their spiritual life, such as requesting therapists to have prayer in sessions or to give priesthood blessings. These concerns have led many LDS therapists to demarcate the area of professional practice from the overtly religious and spiritual activities of clients to avoid even the appearance of priestcraft. The line between psychotherapy and religious ministering is often fuzzy precisely because they share the same objective, the health and well being of the person. It is further obfuscated by the fact that many of the presenting problems and underlying issues addressed by therapeutic interventions are rooted in the activities of unclean spirits. Focusing attention on the influences of unclean spirits in the context of issues arising in therapy may only further blur the line and increase the concerns of LDS therapists already sensitive to boundary issues between psychotherapy and religion, and between therapists and their clients.<br />
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Robert, 35, is married and the father of three children. He has been married for 10 years. He was raised in the LDS Church. As a boy, a man in the neighborhood sexually molested him on more than one occasion. There were no more incidents of homosexuality throughout his teenage years although he acknowledges that from time to time he did have some thoughts about homosexuality. He was called on a mission and served two years honorably and without any thought of homosexuality. Following his return from the mission, he was again periodically troubled by the thoughts and feelings of homosexuality. Upon meeting the woman he would marry, he shared with her his experiences and the questions that had arisen in his mind about his sexual orientation. Since he had not engaged in any homosexual activities during his adult life and was an active member of the Church she did not feel his past was a barrier to their future together.<br />
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When Robert was 32 he obtained an Internet connection to his home. He began spending long hours secluded in his office at home on the Internet. He began visiting adult web pages. He viewed and copied materials from homosexually oriented pages. He began frequenting on-line chat rooms catering to homosexuals. He began corresponding with individuals about his personal circumstances. As he continued on this course, he became convinced that he was a homosexual; in fact, he began to believe that he had always been a homosexual. He was convinced that he had been living a lie during his married life because he was suppressing his desires and true nature. He shared his feelings with his wife. He said he had made plans to meet a man out of state whom he had met over the Internet. Although he was unhappy about the situation and its effects on his wife and children, he could see no alternative but to leave the home and begin a new life. It seemed that this course of action was the only one open to him if he were to live with any integrity.</div>
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Robert was employed in the area of financial services. He had control over the investment funds of several members of his family. At the same time that he was questioning his sexual identity, Robert began to misuse funds and the authority entrusted to him. After only a few months the amounts he had “borrowed” without permission far exceeded his ability to repay, even if given several years to do so. Although open about his sexual orientation, he was very closed about his financial misconduct. When he met with ecclesiastical leaders, he resented their involvement and attitude toward him and the decision he had made. He claimed they simply could not understand his situation. </div>
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On a Sunday evening his wife asked a friend to come to the home to visit with Robert and her. As they sat and visited, Robert explained his situation. He averred his life long homosexuality and his powerlessness to do anything about his situation. The friend bore his testimony to Robert, but even more important the friend viewed Robert as having a spiritual problem, one brought on by Robert’s poor choices, which were continuously supported by unclean spirits. As they sat together, the wife and friend offered many silent prayers. They sought for the Spirit of the Lord to descend upon Robert. There were periods of long discerning silence. The prayers were answered when the Spirit of the Lord did arrive in power. The silence was broken when something let go in Robert and he took hold of his chest, began to cry and plead for help. A priesthood blessing was given; it commenced with a rebuke of the unclean spirits of homosexuality and immorality. Robert was promised peace and freedom through that night from the influence of unclean spirits that he might consider his situation, but in the morning he would be required to take steps to set his life in order to maintain heavenly protection.<br />
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Following the blessing Robert sat and cried. Repeatedly, he shook his head and said, What was I thinking, I almost lost everything.” He said it was as if he had been asleep. He rested that night and early in the morning he and his wife visited their families. Robert bore witness of the change that had taken place within him. It was as if his heterosexual identity had been restored immediately to him. However, he was not clear of trouble; it would be a few weeks before he could bring himself to be honest about his misuse of funds. In some ways confronting his dishonesty with money was more difficult, perhaps, because it involved a more active use of his agency. </div>
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Several years have passed since Robert underwent his trial. He has remained faithful to his wife and family. He has been restored to full activity in the Church. He has never experienced any further uncertainty about his sexual orientation. He knows he cannot afford an unclean thought and he has an unshakeable testimony of his Savior and an adversary that nearly ruined his life.<br />
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The experience of Robert has direct bearing on the current thinking about the issue of sexual orientation. The doctrine of the Church ought to bring LDS therapists to ask in cases dealing with gender identification confusion: “In addition to the possible genetic predisposition and environmental influences contributing to gender confusion, what might be the role of unclean spirits in this problem?” In 1995, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve issued, “The Family, A Proclamation to the World,” which asserts: “Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose” (p. 102). The attribute of premortal gender describes equally the children that rebelled against the Father as it does his more faithful children that proceeded into mortality. Would it not extend our understanding to know that confusion of sexual orientation could be brought about and sustained by the influence or possession of an unclean spirit which itself has gender, perhaps the opposite gender from the person afflicted? </div>
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A latent trigger in Robert’s life appears to have been the molestation that occurred as a child. It is as if evil inflicted upon a child, does indeed “teareth” the child and exposes him to greater affliction as he grows older. This can be seen in the victim/perpetrator cycle so common in cases of abuse. It also explains why the Lord was so vehement in his rebuke of anyone that would cause a child to stumble: “And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea” (Mark 9:42). </div>
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Although casting out evil spirits brought immediate and lasting change in the case of Robert, I am not urging that all client problems are fully resolved by casting out evil spirits. Certainly all of the tasks of psychotherapy remain to be completed after evil has been dispelled. The spiritual and emotional wounds will remain to be healed. The roots which first gave evil its hold may remain to be dealt with in counseling. The understanding, acceptance and forgiveness that come from the skillful and empathetic guidance of a therapist must be pursued. The nurturing and education that restore a soul to health, power and freedom will be needed. Of course each client, being independent, also can be the source of much self-inflicted suffering. The devil is often required to give close instruction on how to sin only once; from then on one knows the way and may need little assistance. However, therapists must be keenly aware that the opposition of the adversary is renewed whenever a captive sets a course to freedom. Walking the path of change and healing can be forever frustrated if therapists are ignorant of the enemy or allow its presence to remain near their work. A physician always cleans a wound first, and thereafter as often as necessary to allow healing to come. The practice is equally applicable in the context of psychotherapy. In addition to seeking the gift of discernment of spirits, there may be a duty upon LDS therapists to speak intelligently and openly, at least among themselves, not only about our Father in Heaven and his Son, but also about the adversary encountered on a daily basis. Brigham Young urged, “We should not only study good, and its effects upon our race, but also evil, and its consequences” (JD, 2: 94). Peck (1983) concluded that psychotherapists are confronted by evil, both human and demonic, and that, proceeding with great caution, evil itself could be studied. The objective of such study was stated by Paul: “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices” (2 Corinthians 2:11). Such discussion must be made without fascination or undue attention on the devil, but always bounded by and centered on the majesty and preeminence of Jesus Christ. No good has ever come from dwelling on evil; it is rife with danger. Virtually everyone who has immersed himself in the problem and its practices, even if done so in the name of righteousness and purity, has been afflicted and harmed by it. Its consequences can be awful. But encounters with evil come uninvited and they must be faced with peaceful assurance: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7); “for perfect love casteth out all fear” (Moroni 8:16).<br />
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Discerning an evil presence is in some ways similar to discerning a prompting of the Spirit of God. Sometimes its presence is felt strongly, while at other times it is hardly noticeable. Its intent is not always apparent. Sometimes its purposes toward a particular sin are made very clear; while at other times it simply lingers near to drain a person’s vitality. Individual sensitivity to the presence of unclean spirits seems to vary as widely among persons as does individual sensitivity to the spiritual things of God. It requires just as much diligent effort to gain spiritual literacy to discern evil as it does to discern any other prompting of the Spirit of the Lord. As with so many things of a spiritual nature, to some degree, believing must precede confirmation. Some things have their origin in heaven, others in hell and still others with the person. Some things tend to good; others to evil and some things are neutral. It is only through discernment and inspired teaching that truth in any instance can be obtained with certainty. Understanding will be enhanced greatly by clear contrast. If one believes it is only important to understand Christ, that is, to the exclusion of understanding the “common enemy” then he will be limited in his understanding of both. For the Lord is manifest in part by what he opposes. The sharper and clearer the understanding of the evil one, the clearer and greater will be the revelation of the Lord, the wisdom of his commandments and the natural desire for righteousness in people. The one reveals the other. Failure to understand this opens the door to<br />
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LDS therapists ought to teach each other to recognize the footprints of the adversary in clients’ lives. One such footprint is the way evil co-opts the language of truth and virtue for wicked purposes. Remember Robert’s belief that “integrity” required him to break his covenant to his wife and children in order to pursue a sinful relationship. Truth had been gutted from the word “integrity” and replaced by a course of action rooted in a lie. Another common footprint seen in therapy is the client that leaves a session enlightened and inspired only to return the next week darkened and befuddled; stripped of all the understanding and progress that came the week before. At least for the present, such person has faced and been defeated by evil. Beyond the duty to obtain the gift of discernment and to teach one another, there is also a duty upon LDS therapists to positively combat evil in their practices. James gave this injunction and promise, “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). But how are we to resist?We must be cautious not to hate evil; for it will use such hatred as yet another means to seize the soul. The Lord instructed: Wherefore, it shall come to pass, that if you behold a spirit manifested that you cannot understand, and you receive not that spirit, ye shall ask of the Father in the name of Jesus; and if he give not unto you that spirit, then you may know that it is not of God. And it shall be given unto you, power over that spirit; and you shall proclaim against that spirit with a loud voice that it is not of God-- Not with railing accusation, that ye be not overcome, neither with boasting nor rejoicing, lest you be seized therewith (D&C 50:31-33). </div>
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Next to the rightful exercise of the priesthood authority, talking of Christ and preaching of Christ is the single strongest repellant of evil. When an evil presence is discerned, faith in the name of Jesus Christ brings heavenly power to rebuke it. Brigham Young said, “A little more faith in the name of Jesus Christ, and I can say to my enemies, Be thou rebuked and stay thou there. I then can say to the power of the Devil, Be thou rebuked; and to evil spirits, Come not within these walls, and they could not enter” (JD, 7: 174). </div>
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Although LDS therapists are not likely to openly rebuke the adversary while in the presence of a client, there are some things that ought to be done. First, therapists ought to protect themselves. At times the influences, which afflict a client, may linger to afflict a therapist. Be attentive to the thoughts and feelings that come while engaging a client in therapy. Keep one’s office spiritually clean and do not allow the darkness that may attend one client to remain to bother another. </div>
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One of the clear contrasts between the Spirit of God and an evil spirit is the manner of their arrival and departure. The Holy Spirit will often arrive announced with power, pouring out pure intelligence, bringing calmness and serenity to the body and soul (Smith, 1938, p.149-50). It may linger for a time and then, the gift having been given, without disruption it slowly ebbs. Unclean spirits come in subtlety, cautiously, as one stalking prey, attentive not to alarm. Stealth is evil’s principal ploy, thus causing its victims to doubt their instincts of warning. However, upon detection and rebuke, the departure of evil is distinct; one feels released from confinement and restored to clarity. </div>
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At times, nothing can be said about evil to clients either because their belief systems do not allow it, or because it may be contraindicated by the current condition of the client (Richards & Bergin 1997). There are those who have abused their agency and become willing companions with evil spirits. While the adversary abhors the agency of man, the powers of heaven are absolute in their respect for it. Thus, if one chooses to have the companionship of evil, the powers of heaven will not compel evil to leave, but the aid of divine powers may be invoked to impose limits to protect the innocent. In such cases LDS therapists will be left to do what they can to protect and to provide for the needs of those who are unable to actively aid themselves.<br />
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Ecclesiastical leaders and worthy priesthood holders can provide much support, provided they are well grounded in true doctrine. The power of the priesthood is the power to bless. It is important to remember that the priesthood is effective not only when hands are laid upon a person, but also when exercised at great distance to rebuke evil from those in sore need (Mark 7:25-29). This ought to increase the resources of all LDS therapists.5 I am unaware of the Lord ever chastising anyone for the too frequent exercise of the priesthood power when the prayerful and honest intent of the priesthood holder was to bless. Since priesthood authority can only be used in righteousness, Hugh Nibley (1990) asked and answered, “What good is it then? Over whom does it exercise dominion? Over the spirits and over the elements . . . ” (p.11). There may be times that ecclesiastical leaders do not clearly comprehend the problem. Some may hold a bias against persons who claim evil spirits have had a direct influence on their behavior on the assumption that such claims are nothing more than manipulative attempts to gain attention or to avoid personal responsibility. While this may be the case, it is not necessarily so. </div>
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Unfortunately, there are times when church leaders refer persons to counseling without considering and confronting the spiritual condition of the person trapped in sin. When this is the case, the outcome sought in counseling will be delayed or never achieved. One of the persons at the AMCAP dinner remarked that earlier in his career he believed that he had encountered a person possessed of an evil spirit. The person was referred to his ecclesiastical leader who rebuked the spirit. However, the person’s symptoms did not abate and on that basis the therapist and the church leader concluded that the person’s problems were psychologically based. This conclusion may have been drawn too hastily. It assumes much about their faith, understanding and spiritual preparation, about the nature of the spirit rebuked, and about the person afflicted. While the priesthood brought miraculous and immediate relief to Robert and Stephen it was in part because the enemy was clearly discerned and they were prepared to be obedient. In some instances the spirit must be named to be rebuked. Thus, the Lord’s teaching query, “What is thy name?” Further, if the period that follows the rebuke of evil is not spent fortifying the heart and mind, in truth, understanding and conviction, no lasting progress will result. </div>
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At the conclusion of the AMCAP dinner, one of the psychologists remarked, that despite the group not comprehending all that I had shared, she understood that what I said was in the nature of a personal testimony to them. She was discerning. It has always been my belief that LDS therapists ought to be unparalleled, not because they are more skilled or know how to love more deeply, but because the doctrinal foundation of the Church is true, because they have the gift of the Holy Ghost and they are upheld by the priesthood. </div>
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There is growing emphasis on the importance of employing spiritual interventions in the course of psychotherapy. Effective spiritual interventions are derived from spiritual truths. This paper has attempted to highlight one of those spiritual truths, the interactions of men with evil, as revealed by scriptures and prophetic teaching. Based upon these materials one could properly claim that the discernment and rebuke of evil is the first spiritual intervention. Until it is accomplished all else is in danger of contamination and error. </div>
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1. It may strike some odd that in the middle of stating that the devil is the cause the aches and<br />
pains to body and mind, Brigham Young interjected, “I don’t want you to realize it.” This<br />
curiosity may be explained by an event which occurred in Kirtland, Ohio. In a meeting of the<br />
High Council of Zion in August, 1834 a complaint was made against Lyman Wight for teaching<br />
“that all disease in this Church is of the devil, and that medicine administered to the sick is of the devil . . . .” Joseph Smith decided, “that it was not lawful to teach the Church that all disease is<br />
of the Devil, but if there is anyone who has this faith, let him have it to himself . . . .” As to the<br />
claim against medicines Joseph said, “such teaching is not of God” (Smith, J., 1932-1952, p.<br />
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2. In the March 1997 issue of the Ensign, Kahlile B. Mehr stated: “The estimated population of<br />
the world in A.D. 1 was 200 million; by 1850 it had reached one billion (see The World Almanac<br />
and Book of Facts 1995 [1994], 510). By mid-1995, the world’s population was estimated at<br />
5.76 billion. Over time, as many as 105 billion people may have lived on the earth. (Estimates<br />
courtesy of Population Reference Bureau, Washington, D.C.; see Carl Haub, ‘How Many People<br />
Have Ever Lived on the Earth?’ Population Today, 23 [Feb. 1995]: 4–5).” (p. 73) </div>
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3. There is some difference of opinion as to the identity of the “woman.” Some writers have<br />
believed Eve was the woman spoken of in the scripture (McConkie, Millet & Top, 1987-1992, 4:<br />
224); McConkie, 1978, p. 472; Roberts, 1903, p. 171). Others have thought that the woman<br />
referred to was Mary the mother of Jesus (Matthews, 1994, p.77; Talmage, 1967, p. 43). Both<br />
women can rightfully claim Jesus Christ as her seed. However, each of the above cited writers<br />
agree that the seed of the woman, with power to bruise (crush) the serpent’s head is Jesus Christ and not mankind in general. Lord seems to confirm this when he said: “Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of darkness, who is of this world, cometh, but hath no power over me, but he hath power over you” (JST John 14:30). </div>
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4. This recalls a later instance in the ministry of the Savior. As Jesus and his disciples were<br />
walking they saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked, “Master, who did sin, this<br />
man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor<br />
his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him” (John 9:2-3). This report is cited by LDS commentators as evidence of the disciples understanding of a premortal<br />
existence (Talmage, 1967, p. 413). They note that the Lord did not correct the disciple’s<br />
assumption that the man, to be born blind as a consequence of sin, must have existed prior to his birth. And further the Lord did not correct their assumption that blindness in this life could<br />
result, though not in this case, as a consequence of the premortal existence (See Alma 34:34).<br />
Brigham Young stated: “The spirits of the human family are pure and holy at the time they enter tabernacles; but the Lord has so ordered that the enemy has great power over our tabernacles, whose organization pertains to the earth (JD, 8: 118). Being pure and holy at birth does not mean there cannot be consequences of premortal experience continued in this life. A similar teaching exists about post-mortal life, which is, that at some time all sins but one will be forgiven by the Lord and all inheriting a kingdom of glory will be purified to receive that kingdom, but as consequence of individual conduct in mortality the inheritances and capacities of each will vary (See 1 Nephi 10:19-21). </div>
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5. The Prophet Joseph Smith, commenting to the Relief Society on the signs that follow all that<br />
believe, as found in Mark 16:15-18, said: “No matter who believeth, these signs, such as healing<br />
the sick, casting out devils, etc., should follow all that believe, whether male or female” (Smith,<br />
1938, p. 224). Those without priesthood authority according to the principle of faith may<br />
perform the rebuke of evil. Obviously, women draw upon the gift of faith equally with men, and<br />
therefore, by this principle of power, they too can cast out evils spirits. However, it may be wise<br />
in the direct confrontation with powerful influences of evil to support by faith the actions of<br />
discerning priesthood holders.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">TAMARA'S COMMENTS</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue;">The subject of Brother Poulton's paper is plainly taught of in the Bible and latter-day scripture. </span><span style="color: blue;"><b>Joseph Smith</b> spoke quite a bit on this subject</span><b style="color: blue;">.</b><span style="color: blue;"> Here is just one of many references to our subject by him</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 2em;">: </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Perhaps there are principles here that few men have thought of. No person can have this salvation except through a tabernacle.Now, in this world, mankind are naturally selfish, ambitious and striving to excel one above another; yet some are willing to build up others as well as themselves. So in the other world there are a variety of spirits. Some seek to excel.And this was the case with Lucifer when he fell. He sought for things which were unlawful. Hence he was sent down, and it is said he drew many away with him; and the greatness of his punishment is that he shall not have a tabernacle. This is his punishment. So the devil, thinking to thwart the decree of God, by going up and down in the earth, seeking whom he may destroy—any person that he can find that will yield to him, he will bind him, and take possession of the body and reign there, glorying in it mightily, not caring that he had got merely a stolen body; and by and by some one having authority will come along and cast him out and restore the tabernacle to its rightful owner. The devil steals a tabernacle because he has not one of his own: but if he steals one, he is always liable to be turned out of doors." <i>(Scriptural Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith</i>, 297-98.) </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><u><b>Other LDS Authors</b></u></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: blue;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: blue;"><b>W. Dennis Parker, CHT </b>wrote a book titled <i>Protocols of Adversarial Resistance! (Free Yourself From Evil Spirit Influences in Pornography and Other Behaviors!) </i>The back cover says, "I will teach you that what is generally described as pronographic addiction comes from being captivated, snared, vexed, seduced, enticed, bound - all scriptural terms for adversarial influences that are being mislabeled as the addiction. . . . You will learn here that we are far better equipped as sons and daughters of God to cope with the tempations and trials of life, than previously known or understood. You will learn Truths that will Set You FREE!" </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: blue;"> I found Dennis' clinical examples (actual hypnotherapy session transcripts) enlightening. There were multiple examples of "people freeing themselves from devils through sufficiently resisting to set themselves free." Of note was a session with a returned missionary who had experienced a fearful adversarial experience that generated stomach problems. Dennis points ow much our own agency is involved and the HOW-TO steps one can employ to follow the scriptural advice of "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." <br /></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><u><b><br />
</b></u></span> <span style="color: blue;"><b>Scott J. Gillespie </b>wrote 2 similar papers to Brother Poulton's. One even lengthier paper shares his own story of finding healing for a decades-long pornography addiction. It is packed with quotes from LDS leaders. He relates an experience shared in General Conference about a woman in an asylum who was healed from a mental condition by a priesthood blessing that included casting out. You can read Brother Gillespie's paper 'Pornography, Sickness, Evil Spirits and the Priesthood" here: <a href="http://www.nofearpreps.com/uploads/1/4/4/2/14427784/2porn_sickness_evil_spirits_and_the_priesthood_-_copy.pdf">http://www.nofearpreps.com/uploads/1/4/4/2/14427784/2porn_sickness_evil_spirits_and_the_priesthood_-_copy.pdf</a> His second paper is found on the main page of posts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>Matthew B. Brown</b> devotes an entire chapter to the subject of "Casting out Evil Spirits" that is very educational in his book <i>Receiving Gifts of the Spirit. </i>He<i> </i>covers 4 MYTHS on pages 177-185. MYTH 1. "Using the Name of Jesus Christ is all That is Required in Expelling Evil Spirits." MYTH 2. "Evil Spirits Cannot Have an Effect upon Physical Objects." MYTH 3. "Evil Spirits Only Afflict Sinful People.’ MYTH 4. "Evil Spirits Will Permanently Leave Once They are Cast Out." He teaches from D&C 35:9, "The person who desires to perform this type of miracle is directed to first ask God the Father, in faith, and in the name of Jesus Christ, for the power necessary to perform it."</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>Blaine and Brenton Yorgason</b> wrote <i>Spiritual Survival in the Last Days</i> which has a chapter<i> </i>that includes the sub-headings of: "Flaxen Cords," "Satan is as Real as Christ," "How Evil Spirits Act upon Mortals," "Avoiding Satanic Afflictions," "The Law Governing Satan and His Host," and "By the Priesthood."</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Parley P. Pratt</b> addresses the subject of evil spirits in<em> Key to the Science of Theology </em></span><em style="color: blue;"> </em><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Steven A. Cramer's </b>whole book is on</span><em style="color: blue;"> Putting on the Armor of God </em><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Duane S. Crowther has a collection of quotes </b>in</span><em style="color: blue;"> Gifts of the Spirit</em><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #c00000;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Dr. Christopher E. Palmer</b> has a very detailed release script to clear people as well as a home and property in his book <em>Spirits and Spiritual Interactions.</em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>John Pontius</b> shares 'Spencer's' story of</span><em style="color: blue;"> </em><span style="color: blue;">seeing evil and unclean spirits involvement while a man is viewing pornography in the book </span><em style="color: blue;">Visions of Glory (chapters 2 and 6...)</em><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>Haley Hatch Fre</b></span><span style="color: blue;"><b>eman</b> shares her own life story of a battlle againts evil spirits almost daily while struggling to overcome anorexia in </span><em style="color: blue;">A Future for Tomorrow. </em><span style="color: blue;">Her family was very supportive of what needed to be done to win that battle.</span><br />
<em style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue; font-style: normal;"><b>Oscar W. McConkie</b>, Jr., has a chapter titled "Fallen Angels" in his book </span><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Angels</span></i></em><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Orson Pratt shares important</b> words on binding Satan for the millenium, as does <b>Daniel H. Wells</b> and <b>George Q. Cannon</b>. I quote these three brethren in my first book, <i>Healing Arts</i>.</span><span style="color: blue;">Many modern day apostles and prophets are quoted speaking about this subject in the books I wrote.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Tamara Laing </b><em><b>Healing Arts - A Gift from God </b></em></span></span><i style="color: blue;">(</i><span style="color: blue;"><i>LDS Insight on the Light of Christ & Energy Medicine).</i></span><span style="color: blue;"><em> </em> My personal stories are in chapter 14 </span><span style="color: blue;">"Into the Unknown" and numerous illustrated quotations from scripture and modern prophets are found in chapter 6 "Chase Darkness with Light." </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"> T</span><span style="color: blue;">wo chapters on this subject are also in my new book <i>An LDS Approach to Energy Healing.</i>where I</span><span style="color: blue;"> have compiled quite a list of types of evil spirits found in the scriptures </span><i style="color: blue;">beyond</i><span style="color: blue;"> those mentioned by Bro. Poulton. Also i</span><span style="color: blue;">ncluded is a scripture list of "devices" the adversary uses against us.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> "Say to the brothers Hulet and to all others, that the Lord never authorized them to say that the devil, his angels, or the sons of perdition, should ever be restored; for their state of destiny was not revealed to man, is not revealed, nor ever shall be revealed, save to those who are made partakers thereof: consequently those who teach this doctrine have not received it of the Spirit of the Lord. Truly Brother Oliver declared it to be the doctrine of devils. We, therefore, command that this doctrine be taught no more in Zion. We sanction the decision of the Bishop and his council, in relation to this doctrine being a bar to communion." </span><span style="color: blue;">(</span><i style="color: blue;">Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith</i><span style="color: blue;">, 24)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">There are undoubtedly other LDS authors I'd like to be made aware of.</span><br />
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<em style="color: blue;"><span style="font-style: normal;">My appreciation for an author's early books does not imply an endorsement of their later teachings.</span></em><br />
<b style="color: blue;">Melvin C. Fish</b><span style="color: blue;">'s books address the topic of evil and unclean spirits. </span><b style="color: blue;">Doug Mendenhall</b><span style="color: blue;"> has also written 3 books on this subject. I enjoyed the first two. I only read a few pages of his book entirely devoted to this subject, however. I discovered early on that I did not appreciate the tone with which that book was written. His daughter, </span><span style="color: blue;"><b>Denise Mendenhall wrote a book titled</b> </span><i style="color: blue;">In His Arms.</i><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"></span><span style="color: blue;"> I was made aware by a client of mine of 2 more books by Wesley Craig. One is titled <i>Evil Spirits in Psychotherapy: Accounts by Therapists </i>and the other is <i>Hidden Origins of Homosexuality You Wouldn't Remember. </i></span><span style="color: blue;">Here is a link to a PDF by Wesley Craig </span><a href="https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php/IssuesInReligionAndPsychotherapy/article/viewFile/199/198">https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php/IssuesInReligionAndPsychotherapy/article/viewFile/199/198</a><i style="color: blue;"> </i><br />
<span style="color: blue;">His paper is also available as a free ebook</span><span style="color: blue;"> on </span><a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/512845">http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/512845</a><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">One LDS man, "K,"gave me permission to share his story of <b>overcoming</b> same sex attraction <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7gKDMqTWD-hUG41SGdQQzRId2FPZGZOb1M2NF8tOUtVWDdB/view?usp=sharing">HERE</a>.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue;">A retired Institute teacher, Brother Mike Stroud, has recorded several podcasts that are very enlightening on our subject as well. See podcasts by him on Michelle McDermott's website. More recently, Brother Mike Simpson has shared his views on recordings at PreparingAPeople.com </span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="color: blue;">Edith Fiore in <em>The Unquiet Dead, </em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Shakuntala Modi in<em> Remarkable Healings, </em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">David Stewart in<em> Healing Oils of the Bible</em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Eckhart Tolle in</span><em style="color: blue;"> A New Earth,</em><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Henry W. Wright in <i>A More Excellent Way</i><em>.</em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">M. Scott Peck in <i>Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession </i>( I haven't read this one.)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Aspen L. Morrow briefly mentions this topic in her book, <i>Med Free Bipolar. </i>She gives an example of sudden, overwhelming symptoms of bipolar appearing at the same time as ALL of her children began experiencing night terrors as well as her husband having nightmares. All of this trouble quit just as suddenly, with a prayer for protection over them and their home. The author, Aspen Morrow, is confused by this and asks for input from those who have had similar experiences.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Dr. Kenneth McAll, <i>Healing the Family Tree,</i> 80 This MD and psychiatrist wrote: "Psychiatric researchers are documenting cures, such as a change in sexual orientation, brought about through exorcism prayer and bringing freedom and escape from that world. In an article in the British Medical Journal The Practitioner (March 1974) Dr. Richard Mackarness (Assistant Psychiatrist at Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke in Hampshire) recorded how exorcism helped a patient suffering from a schizoid illness.)"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Most of these books were pictured and reviewed on my Shelfari shelves at the bottom of my website for many years until Goodreads took over Shelfari. I hope to figure out how to display them again. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The war that began in heaven is still going on and the enemy IS STILL HERE! How grateful I am to understand this. It has been a huge blessing to my family and a key to my daughter winning over bipolar tendencies. The quote by Elder Boyd K. Packer in my book (slide # 317) is very validating today. Here is a portion of it, "... learn how to hold the powers of the adversary in abeyance simply because you command it (see James 4:7), and that he has no place with you." </span><br />
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</span><span style="color: blue;">May TRUTH be a blessing to you and yours!</span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">How many of you are facilitators of energy work? Did you
know that 95% of facilitators offering Energy work services on their websites
have serious ethical problems? Today I will introduce you to 3 keys
to act on and feel more secure! I have some stories to
share about facilitators and faithful responses to criticism. People in
this field are often naturally ethical with good hearts but we also need
educated hearts. </span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Months ago, I felt prompted to get a family member an
appointment with Sheena Curtis who is a graduate of Investigating Health. On
Sheena’s website, I found out there were some pages for her clients to read and sign before their phone session. I looked them over and thought "this
is a little over the top, isn’t it??" I’ve had clients just sign a
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">So I read on, and it said Sheena could work with clients in CA
without any legal issues because she was following legislation CA put in place
specifically to protect complementary healing methods! (Senate bill SB577.) Surprisingly, she said: I believe that every client should be afforded the
same rights and privileges that California residents are provided, even if they
do not reside there. Accordingly, I have personalized the attached “Client
Informed Consent and Disclosure Statement” for your review and signature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">It wasn’t until I got a more educated heart about how
vulnerable we are as facilitators “putting ourselves out there” that I realized
what a genius move Sheena shows us. When I read the CA senate Bill I got
educated and caught the vision that there have been regulations passed
that protect unlicensed practitioners!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“A legally sound informed consent and disclosure document
drafted specifically for you is an essential risk management tool for your
practice.” ACEP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“Energy psychology for mental health issues is an
alternative clinical approach that is controversial and is not yet widely
accepted within the conventional mental health community. It is not
considered evidence-based or the “standard of care” at this time for any DSM IV
disorder. By no means, however is it unethical to use an experimental approach,
provided you have obtained <b>proper informed consent.</b> The public expects and has
a right to a range of treatment options. It is certainly appropriate for you to
describe your experiences and reasons for offering energy psychology methods
and to present the theoretical basis and the growing body of evidence for the
efficacy of the approach. The issue is full disclosure so your client can make
an informed choice between a conventional approach and a less widely accepted
approach.” ACEP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(Pass out HANDOUT with ETHICS LINKS available on
www.TamarasBook.blogspot.com Suggest they <a href="http://www.californiahealthfreedom.com/californiah/htdocs/documents/our_bill.asp">read whole California Senate bill</a> SB577 for more information on Disclaimers…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Disclaimers, here is a tongue in cheek one from me today:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">"The information provided in this class is for educational
purposes only, to give a general understanding, not to provide legal or medical
advice. Listening to this class, does not guarantee you’ll avoid
criticism, raised eyebrows, labels of being hippy-ish, woo woo or
worse. This class should not be used as a substitute for competent legal
advice and ought not cause professional headaches, dizziness, malnutrition,
vomiting, …or death!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">As a whole new paradigm of health moves toward mainstream
acceptance, it helps to understand where we are at. William
Harvey was ridiculed in 1615 when he discovered that the blood circulated
round the body. Today, we might be ridiculed for sharing discoveries that life
force -light and energy- circulate “round the body.” (When I didn’t
understand this, I studied the subject and found tremendous relief to read
apostle’s books mentioning a spiritual light or essence that circulates in
the human body. I quote these in my book <i>Healing Arts - A Gift from God</i>.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Dr. Lister saved lives in hospitals w/1 word:
“Antiseptic,” but it took more than 20 yearrs to catch on. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">James Lind saved lives from Scurvy with 2 words: “eat
citrus!” But it took more than 50 years for the Royal Navy to act on
his discovery. Dr. Samuelweiss saved newborns and mothers lives
with 3 words: “wash your hands.” It took 30 years to catch on. Where
energy healing is concerned, let’s hope society won’t be as stubborn!</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Masses of people’s perceptions about our world of energy-
and health - are changing while others still believe a world made of energy is <i>flat</i>—flat
wrong! Not everyone is aware of revolutionary science. They don’t
know that William Tiller measures many kinds of light, energy and
information flowing through a facilitator and into a client during energy work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">That’s where <i>you </i>come in. You can share truths
like that on your STATEMENT because you are TOLD to share the theoretical
approach. Your neighbor might be thinking: if these methods were
really any good, doctors would be using them. So let your neighbors know that some doctors are using them! If
you want to use the quotes I found and put in my Statement, go right ahead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hospitals routinely give patients an opportunity to have their energy fields
balanced prior to and following surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or other
invasive procedures." (Foreword in Donna Eden, Energy Medicine for
Women) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Realizing these truths and grasping the enormity of the
paradigm shift before the rest of the world, means there might be
some criticism.World renowned researcher Candace Pert states,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“Truly original, boundary breaking ideas are rarely welcomed
at first, no matter who proposes them. Protecting the prevailing
paradigm science moves slowly, because it doesn’t want to make mistakes.
Consequently, genuinely new and important ideas are often subjected to
nitpickingly intense scrutiny, if not outright rejection and
revulsion,... But if the ideas are correct, eventually they
will prevail. Eventually the new view becomes the status quo, and
ideas that were rejected as madness will appear in the popular press, often
touted by the very critics who did so much to impede their acceptance. Which is
what we see today as a new paradigm comes into being.” Candace
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“Someone must live a new truth first. Someone must have
wisdom to recognize the possibility, the courage to become that possibility and
the strength to live that possibility as a reality. The reality must be lived
among us, in a world that may not always support that truth. That someone
becomes the living bridge.” Gregg Braden, <i>Walking Between the Worlds</i>, 80</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">You’ve probably heard that "All truth passes
through 3 stages: 1st, it is ridiculed, 2nd, it is violently opposed, and
third, it is accepted as self-evident." These stages have been
studied by 2 authors who say truth moves from being on the fringe, to on the
edge, to the realm of the cool (where you move from ‘freak to chic'), to the
next big thing, then to mainstream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">I like what someone said online, responding to criticism
about energy work. Robyn W. Iverson gave me permission to share her words:
“Opposition is not always an indication that something is wrong or bad, as it
is sometimes believed. Sometimes, only through opposition do issues come to the
surface to be dealt with and resolved. So, our current[church] friends who [ seem to be] in opposition to us, no matter where they are..., might
actually be helping energy work come to the surface to be dealt with.” (FB post
on "Investigating Health" by Robyn W. Iverson) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">What a great perception to point out! At times I have
taken comfort in what a religious leader, Glenn Pace said at a
University, “Sometimes we cry out, ‘What have I done
to deserve this?’ Often trials and tribulations are allowed to come into our
lives because of what we are doing right…. A certain amount of sacrifice makes
our spirits pliable in the hands of the Lord.” (“Crying with the Saints” BYU
Devotional, Dec. 13, 1987, 2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">We’ve been called all kinds of things for being on the
cutting edge. Historically, the ‘name calling’ has transitioned from unconventional
and nonconventional, to alternative, to complementary, to CAM (Complementary
and Alternative Medicine) and now we have the term INTEGRATIVE HEALTH
because Congress determined the word alternative doesn’t fit anymore. Congress
even changed the name of the NIH’s department!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Clear back in 1982, Prince Charles told a meeting
of the British Medical Association (BMA) that ‘today’s unorthodoxy is probably
tomorrow’s convention.’ The next year, the British Medical Association set up a
scientific committee to assess the value of alternative therapies, whether used
alone or as a complement to other treatments’. “The report identified the
reasons for their popularity: alternative practitioners are able to offer
patients more time, practitioners are more compassionate and concerned, caring
for whole person, [there was the] use of touch, and the sense of
benefiting from a powerful healing force.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">It is important to distinguish 2 kinds of
licenses. Every year I pay for a business license from my city, but I am not
licensed by the State of Utah because licensing for complementary methods does
not exist here. People in two different states could be doing the
<i>same</i> work, one being licensed and the other, not. I posted on the handout
online what I could find about modalities and Utah law. STATE licenses
are reviewed and approved by your state. (For example, In Utah you need a
massage therapist license to touch someone while doing hands-on Reiki.)
Being CERTIFIED through a particular training program does not mean you
are licensed, which brings us to a true story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><b># 2. DO NOT JUDGE W/OUT MORE INFO.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">STORY OF BEING ACCUSED, FEAR OF PRIESTCRAFT, SO NOT CHARGING,
…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">The author of this experience has given me permission to
share her story but asked me not to use her name. (So if you know it, please
keep that to yourself.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“Over the 17 or 18 years I have been involved in these
complimentary healing methods (at the insistence of the Spirit, I might add), I
have bumped –up against the fears and misinformation of members of [my] church
many times – including church leaders. Each time, with some time and
communication, those fears have eventually been laid to rest. . . .</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">[Once] I
went through some very difficult months while [my] Stake Presidency launched a
full investigation of what I was doing (at the request of the Area Presidency)
because of some outrageous and slanderous accusations . . .. [Someone]
went to my Bishop and Stake President saying I was involved with satanic
things. [The Savior himself was judged wrongfully by some people for
casting out evil spirits and was accused of working through the devil.]</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Both my Bishop and the Stake President know and love me –
I’ve been a faithful ward and stake leader all these years and they have great
faith in me, but the seriousness of the accusations brought the Area Presidency
into the picture and THEY are the ones who instructed them to proceed with a
full investigation.</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Every man and woman I have ever served as a facilitator (and
their companion) was called in and interviewed by our Stake President: every
friend, walking partner, neighbor, etc. This went on for a few months and you
can only imagine how horribly painful it was for me. There were days when
I could not get out of bed. It was as if everyone who has ever trusted me was
ALSO in the hot seat. Satan was reigning with … horror for
those months. I ceased working with people, of course, awaiting the
decision of my church leaders. When I attended my church meetings, I hardly
dared sit by anyone in case they would be contaminated and called in
next. It was a nightmare. </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">The interesting part is, I had never charged anyone a penny
for my services. I worked many days, 8-13 hours a day, but never considered
charging because I felt I was using spiritual gifts and it would be priestcraft
[evil] to charge for using sacred gifts – especially since the most
effective processes I used had been taught to me by Heavenly Father, the Holy
Ghost and angels.</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">In the end the Stake President called me in. It was a
Sunday. He was so humble, he was so tender and gentle. He told me on Saturday
night he was watching the Women’s [Worldwide] Broadcast – listening to Sister
Bonnie Parkin [THE GENERAL WOMEN’S OFFICER of her church] and the Spirit spoke
clearly to him and said, “THAT could be [this sister’s name]. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
Then he sobbed and begged me to forgive him for what he had put me and my
family through. He said after talking to all those people he had come to
know that “[I] had helped so many people in such wonderful ways.” </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">He said, “How can I make it right for you?” I asked if he
had plans to call each of those people back into his office and let them know
his finding. He promised to do so, to clear my name and my reputation of
any blight that may have come about because of the investigation. </span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“My Stake President also instructed me that I was to get a
license and start charging people for my services. This was very difficult for
me, at first. I told him I didn’t feel it was right to charge people for help
when I was using spiritual gifts of healing. He looked at me and said, “You are
not charging for your spiritual gifts! You are being compensated for your
time!” When he said the words ‘compensated for your time,’ it resonated
with me.” (TL phone conversation, 4/25/18)</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Then he said, “What else can I do – I want to make this up
to you somehow.” I asked if he would give me a blessing which he promptly
did. He sobbed through the blessing and hugged me goodbye.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The following Fast Sunday I felt prompted to bear my
testimony in Sacrament meeting. I was terrified to do it, but the Spirit
would not let me rest, so I did. My testimony was all about the
Savior. Following my testimony, our Bishop stepped to the pulpit and said
(with tears running down his face), “Brothers and Sisters, I love [so and so- saying her name]. I felt the power of her goodness and her spirit as she
approached the pulpit today and I want to thank her for her example and her
service to all of us in this ward.” It was a spellbinding moment, and I
felt vindicated before my [church] members and have never felt sheepish since
about what I do.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Shortly after these events, I took the [rest of the] Rapid
Eye [Technology] Course. I already had certifications to use other
modalities. I became certified and licensed – my business license hangs
on the wall of my office. I openly have clients coming and going [not anymore since she is retired],
and I accept payment for my services. I can never again be
accused of practicing without a license (that was one of the concerns mentioned
during the investigation, so I decided to remedy it. I guess doing things
out of the goodness of one’s heart has its drawbacks – at least in this
…telestial sphere.) Since those painful events, I’ve added some other
modalities to my “tool box.”</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I've paid a dear price (in terms of money, sacrifice and
obedience) to do the [energy] work I do. I feel the blessings of heaven every
day as I serve my brothers and sisters in need… That's why I love the words to
the song, "I would be my brother's keeper, I would learn the healer's art.
To the wounded and the weary, I would show a gentle heart."</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Now that I've shared all that, perhaps you can understand
why I get a bit defensive when I hear people toss out accusations against
people who do this type of work. I'll admit that perhaps the individual
involved is out of line, but my first impression will always be to give them a
chance -- NOT JUDGE WITHOUT MORE
INFORMATION. </span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">I'm the first to acknowledge my weaknesses, but I also know
that my motives are pure. So if we find that a person is misled or misinformed
-- can we kindly deal with them, constructively showing them another way rather
than lashing out -- especially if it is without "just cause". The
Golden Rule applies here nicely. We all need kindness and patience as we
learn…. define and carry out our life's missions.</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><b># 3 Stay Spiritually Centered</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">When there was a firestorm of criticism attacking the
founder of this [Energy Healing] conference - and others - years ago, I was driving with my
husband up the coast of CA through the Redwoods to see our only granddaughter
in WA state. I chose to enjoy my family (that I only see twice a year) as
much as possible and pretty much leave social media alone. I had already
worked through all my questions about energy healing - and written a book about
it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Now it’s much later, and only 1 or 2 Facebook posts stand out in
memory. 1 is Amy Walker’s. TALK ABOUT HAVING FAITHFUL ANSWERS TO CRITICISM! SHE GAVE SEVERAL! Amy gave me permission to share what she posted to
Faith Centered Messengers September 26, 2016) · Listen for the 4
things she does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Just want to send you all some love and encouragement
tonight. You are doing good things. When opposition and storms wage against me,
here's what I do. 1. I get on my knees and ask [God] what he wants me to learn.
2. I actively forgive those that have offended. 3. I actively ask for forgiveness
for my human weaknesses. 4. I move forward and continue to follow what I've
been inspired to do.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The statement issued by the church [spokesman] said,
"“We urge Church members to be cautious about participating in any group
that promises-in exchange for money-miraculous healings or that claims to have
special methods for accessing healing power outside of properly ordained
priesthood holders,” end quote</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I've been to many energy healers and none of you have
promised me miraculous healings in exchange for money. And you know what? I'm
always careful to consider who to work with when it comes to energy healing.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I've had times when others casted doubt on what I was doing
and it made me question myself. There is also a statement from the Church that
cautions church members about attending seminars. I simply went and talked with
my Bishop with a humble heart that was willing to learn and make changes if I
needed it.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">I know not everyone in this group is a member of my church.
But for those of you that are, remember that the church is not against you.
Don't feel like you have to hide. If you have concerns, just ask. The Lord will
guide and direct you. And honestly, this firestorm will pass. Stay
strong!</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><u><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk5006300"></a>FAITHFUL
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: black;">#4
Take concerns to God/ local leaders</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">My Story: I have done this. One of my best friends
was accused by a client’s spouse of doing wrong in her
work. After some nudges from the spirit, I made an appointment with my
bishop to ask him some questions about this. I told him that a peer
of mine was accused of doing priestcraft and I wondered if he felt I was
doing anything like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">My bishop said asking him this question was the best sign,
showing I WAS concerned about doing things properly. He asked if people
considered my work as being strictly spiritual in nature. I said no, people feel physical differences during RET and that it also addressed Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual levels of the body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">He asked if I felt what I had learned fit with the gospel!
Ha! I told him I had files and files on that! We read what priestcraft was
in the scriptures and discussed what it meant. My bishop explained that
priestcraft would look like: setting oneself up as a light,
wanting paid for healing, and telling people you could heal them.
I said that did not sound like myself or my friend whose new
client’s husband had accused her. I told my bishop that my
intention was that any healing that occurs is freely given, but that I do
charge clients for my time, tools and technology to facilitate that. I
asked if that was okay. My bishop didn’t feel that was priestcraft! We
had a good discussion and both felt I was working in harmony with gospel
principles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">If you don’t understand something in energy work, ask!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">SHARE MOSES’ STORY about NOT having faith to do distance
work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“When the children of Israel needed water in the wilderness,
God told Moses to speak to a rock, and it would give its water to him. It
was recorded: “And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take the rod…. And speak
ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water.”
(Numbers 20:7-8). However, Moses smote the rock with his rod twice
instead of speaking to the rock as God had instructed him. He also said
that he and Aaron would get the water and not God, so Moses was punished by not
being able to go into the promised land. (Numbers 20: 9-12)” Vicki Alder, <i>Mysteries
in the Scripture</i>, 149</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye
believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel,
therefore ye shall not bring the congregation into the land which I have given
them.” (Numbers 20:12) To me, this story is saying because Moses did not
believe God’s instruction to use faith to speak to the rock (or in other words,
move up to doing hands off distance work – what I call vibrational medicine) but rather continued the ‘kindergarten’ method of commanding the elements as he
had done before (with a rod), “he rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.” </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">One Incident- I took my son to Constitutional Homeopathy
appointments and the gentleman doing them was concerned that I was such an open-
minded member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “Aren’t
you going to get called in to talk to your church leaders?” he asked,
wonderingly. I smiled and told him I wasn’t concerned at all because
I had researched our beliefs and felt all the evidence I needed was
in the book I wrote. It taught <i>so many </i>principles of energy work through
scriptures and authoritative quotes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Others have told me my book, <i>Healing Arts - A Gift from God,</i> mends
relationships wounded by family members who don’t see eye to eye. Carol Nash,
another presenter here at this conference told me my book solidified her decision to join my
faith! She didn’t know if she could join my faith until she read the LDS church
quotes inside my book. I’m aware of another baptism back East, and of other people who have chosen to no longer believe they are atheists after introductions to this
work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">One obstacle I have seen in my faith community is when
someone jumps to conclusions about this field of work without first
getting information to understand its principles AND also to realize there are
distinctions between HOW those practicing the same modality are actually
applying it! All of this could be placed in your Informed Consent
statement! THIS IS WHERE YOU can delineate yourself from others!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">PENDULUM USE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps misunderstandings could be prevented if we put
forth a bit of effort. For example, I’ve heard some people say that the
use of a pendulum is evil. With a little bit of effort one could
find out about Glenda Christiaens - an advanced holistic nurse – who
taught about the use of energy testing tools and hands on methods of holistic
healing pendulums as a Professor at BYU’s school of nursing! The fact that
Glenda Christiaens told me pendulums were being used at BYU holistic nursing
classes spoke volumes to me. This was so validating for me,
personally. A person could also read/study about casting lots in the Bible
or the use of dowsing rods. Whatever one’s question, it may prevent
trouble by writing your Disclosure and Informed Consent Statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(Glenda Christiaens, was a nursing professor
at BYU and past president of the American Holistic Nursing
Association <a href="https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/college/byu-nursing-professor-elected-president-of-holistic-association/article_48ffe445-c27b-50d2-8aab-7b6d39338b05.html">https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/college/byu-nursing-professor-elected-president-of-holistic-association/article_48ffe445-c27b-50d2-8aab-7b6d39338b05.html</a> She
had a group of nursing students focus on various complementary and
alternative healing methods with clinical experiences in chiropractic offices,
integrative medical clinics, …and will visit alternative health practitioners.
…students will also attend labs where they will learn “hands on” healing
modalities from experts in alternative medicine. “March/Apr. 2005 Stethascoop. p 4</span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://nursing.byu.edu/Documents/students/newsletter/newsletter_apr05.pdf">https://nursing.byu.edu/Documents/students/newsletter/newsletter_apr05.pdf</a>
BYU Student Nurses Assoc.Sarah Jackson summed-up the learning experience well
by saying, “I learned that evidence-based practice is so useful and will be a
big part of the future of nursing.” ~Holly Willardson p 1 I also read how she
led students in a guided imagery. <a href="https://nursing.byu.edu/Documents/students/newsletter/Dec2006.pdf">https://nursing.byu.edu/Documents/students/newsletter/Dec2006.pdf</a>
Stethoscope p 2 of Vol 26 issue 2)<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk5006412"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><i>STORY I would like to continue the story of the
woman that was slandered. </i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">“Regarding the experience I shared -- may I just say that
when it was all said and done, I was driving down the freeway one day and
suddenly some truth distilled upon my mind. My reaction was so severe, I
almost swerved off the road.”* (She had SHOCK at this realization.) She
explains:</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">For over 17 years I have done energy work and for all those
years I felt a little sheepish about it – knowing it was out of the ordinary
and [wondering if it would] meet the approval of my [religious] leaders,
but also knowing I was directed by Heavenly Father. Throughout those
years I had yearned for the sanction and validation of my [church]
leaders. </span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Whenever I expressed that heartfelt desire to [my husband] , he
shook his head and said, “What do you mean… you HAVE their validation – they
keep calling you to positions of leadership, … they invite you to speak at
their meetings and give you rave reviews; they place their hands on your head
and pronounce beautiful encouraging blessings; they approve all the… calls they
get from out of town invit[ing] you to speak in [various] congregations; in interviews
and across the pulpit they constantly express their love and confidence in you;
…what do you want?”</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Well, in my heart of hearts, the reasons those “logical”
reasons did not fill me with ‘validation and sanction’ from my leaders is
because they didn’t fully know what I was doing. Some of them have had some
idea of what I do, and others have been totally oblivious that I had a ‘side
job’ and had people coming to my door year in and year out for help with
difficult and complex problems.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Meanwhile, after that full-fledged investigation by ALL my
local priesthood leaders [including the Area Presidency who now know my name],
they DO know what I do. They also know why I do it and how it
is affecting the people I serve. So, you see, what the Spirit
distilled upon my mind was this: “NOW your prayer has been fully answered
– you have the complete validation of your priesthood leaders.” What a shock!!
* It was true. That which I had longed for had come to pass.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Even though it required ‘walking through a fire’ to bring it
about, it was worth it!! No more [was what I do a] secret, no more hedging, no
more worries that I’m going to be ‘found out’ and thrown out…. Those thoughts and
feelings had plagued me all those years, and now they are gone.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Do you see why I am much more confident to speak up, (as I
did in class)… I did it for the sake of [those] who may be walking a
similar path of contradiction of fear: having been beckoned by the spirit to
look into these healing arts, but yet wrestling feelings of fear that they may
be ‘on the edge’ and get criticized or punished by their church leaders. I
don’t have fear any more – because I’ve already walked that path and survived.
…That’s the ‘rest’ of the story.” (Email to Tamara Laing, Feb. 27, 2004 “RE:
Notes to Diane forwarded to me”)</span></blockquote>
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answer to criticism. We can actually learn to be thankful for
the experience of being criticized! This person said, “it was worth it!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Several times in my life when I thought the worst thing
had happened, I found new ways to look at a trial. Rather than get angry, we
are encouraged in the Bible to thank the Lord in ALL things. I challenge you to
aim to find a silver lining to be grateful for if you ever feel opposed.
If you’d like help, read the chapters on forgiving, gratitude and praise in my 2nd book, <i>An LDS Approach to Energy Healing.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">I have a trivial example to share here. Just a few weeks ago
I got my first accusation at my vendor booth at a large Expo. Someone
left me a note on a sign-up list for my new hands-on class which read:
“Chakras are Hindu and we are warned to stay away. ‘Thou shalt have no other
gods before me!” I knew that it was not true about being warned to
stay away since I had diligently studied the topic of Truth. The very
first thought I had was not gratitude, but after I breathed through the bit of
shock, I asked myself: what can I be grateful for in this? It only took a minute
or two to realize I was grateful this person taught me how to improve the
wording on my booth’s business banner. I didn’t fret for hours! "I’m
improving," I thought to myself. Romans 5:3 says, “... we glory in
tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience,
experience; and experience, hope…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">A world religious leader reminds us “To retaliate and fight
back is human, but to accept indignities as did the Lord is divine. . . .
(Matt. 5:43-44) “But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse
you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use
you and persecute you. (Spencer W. Kimball, <i>The Miracle of Forgiveness,</i>
113) How many of us think of fasting <i>for those</i> who
criticize <i>us?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk5006449"></a>There
is a scripture story of a father rejoicing when his son was brought
lifeless to him. That’s an example of staying spiritually centered! Such a
perception comes from faith in Christ and not from ‘everything going right’
with everything in life right now! Additionally, the prophet ISAIAH teaches
that ‘descent’ is <i>necessary</i> before ascent - ascending to the next
level on Jacob’s Ladder. We can find reasons to be grateful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">I’ve learned that I can thank and even PRAISE God for
the trials I’ve had. I’m working on being able to praise God
for what appears to be the worst things happening right as they unfold.
This has been such a blessing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> #6 Learn and</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> Live Ethics</span></span></b></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Eden and David Feinstein’s book on ETHICS opens with a
great quote: “To truly serve our clients we need not have just good hearts but
educated hearts.” (David Feinstein with Donna Eden, <i>Ethics Handbook for
Energy Healing Practitioners)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">There are LINKS TO ETHICS CODES. Donna Eden and David
Feinstein offer their Ethics Code online at Innersource.net under
practitioners and then under ethics</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.innersource.net/em/practitioners/ethics-code.html">http://www.innersource.net/em/practitioners/ethics-code.html</a>
has free Ethics Codes 2 pages long or the longer 15 pages version
below. This can be downloaded and edited for your organization! </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.innersource.net/em/images/stories/downloads/EEM_Ethics_Code.pdf">http://www.innersource.net/em/images/stories/downloads/EEM_Ethics_Code.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Donna Eden wrote that we can use their Disclosure
Statement and Agreement on p 160 of their book, <i>Ethics Handbook for
Energy Healing Practitioners.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Jack Angelo’s book <i>Your Healing Power</i> was an early
book given to me which encourages readers to join an organization which is
a safeguard for the public because it ensures clients that you abide by a
professional code of conduct. Registered healers in some countries such
as Britain must abide a strict Code of Conduct drawn up by both medical
and healing organizations. My point today is that facilitators <i>anywhere</i> can
choose in to this. Angelo wrote,</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“Spirit helpers work at all levels and will help the
patient at these levels if required to do so. But this will depend on the
quality of your energy field. At the highest levels, they will appear as
angelic forms… It should be appreciated by [facilitators], who are
aware of what their spirit helpers are saying and doing, that to convey any of
this to the [client] may not be either helpful or
appropriate. Further, it is against the Code of Conduct (mentioned
earlier) to give this kind of information to a [client] in the form of a
‘reading’ during the actual session. This is to prevent what may be false
information being given to a trusting patient under the guise of ‘higher
teachings.’ Use your common sense with all inner guidance and use your
discretion as to how you convey this to others, if at all.” (Jack
Angelo, <i>Your Healing Power</i>, 199)</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(If this is a spiritual gift that you have, you will have to
find out what God wants you to do with that gift.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">STORY - Another facilitator of energy work told me she was
called in to her bishop’s office because of criticism from a 3rd party.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">In a session she had shared with her client that she sensed
the presence of a deceased loved one. The client also felt their
presence, knew who it was and counted it a sacred moment. Problems
surfaced when the client mentioned how wonderful this was to a few women
in her congregation and one of them became very upset at the
news. She did not receive it with the understanding and feelings
that were present when it happened. Unfortunately, she chose to run
around in fear spreading gossip instead of running to the scriptures for
understanding or to prayer to ask questions first. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">I told this facilitator what Jack Angelo said was in the
Code of Ethics overseas about this and she said, “oh dear. I guess I’m just not
very ethical. Good thing I’m not British!” I chuckled at this initial
reaction but felt she would find blessings by following established guidelines
set up to keep peers in other countries working within ethical boundaries.
These regulations are meant to keep <i>all</i> of us safe – both clients and facilitators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">I learned a lot from joining ACEP, the Association for
Comprehensive Energy Psychology. Their stated function is to raise the
field’s professional standards! I learned from one expert, Midge Murphy,
that </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“Many energy healing practitioners think they are safe because their
websites are similar to all the others. This is unwise because over 95% of
websites, featuring the services of energy healing practitioners, carry
significant legal risks. Remember licensing boards, regulatory agencies, and the
courts have a negative perception of energy healing methods and consider them
to be unsubstantiated and suspect.” MidgeMurphy.com </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Check out
Midge’s articles which are very educational.
http://www.midgemurphy.com/_blog/blog/post/what-you-need-to-know-about-using-client-testimonials-on-your-website/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">ACEP’s Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Practice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">ACEP taught me there is a CODE OF ETHICS <i>for presenters!</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">• Whenever trainers and presenters do live or media
demonstrations, they must remind the audience to maintain confidentiality
concerning the identity of the volunteer and any personal information that may
arise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">• Obtain from demonstration volunteers a signed waiver and
consent prior to work begun and which describes the potential risk of
volunteering as a demonstration-volunteer, including loss of confidentiality
and the possibility of issues and emotions arising unexpectedly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> Provide care for any volunteers who may not have completed
processing initiated by a live demonstration unless a waiver was signed indicating
the release of this responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“Energy [work] is becoming better known which also means the
authorities are beginning to take notice. Along with this success comes the
responsibility to make sure we are conducting ourselves in an ethical manner….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">From a legal standpoint what you say about you and your
services on your website is like a binding contract with each visitor to your
website. Many practitioners do not understand the legal vulnerabilities they
face because of the language they use to describe their credentials, their
services or the effectiveness of the therapies they offer to clients.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">There are certain words that can get you into trouble with
the law. 3 things you need to check: Your job Title, how you describe
your services, and the words used in Testimonials. Reframe in legally
appropriate words. Energy Health Practitioner is the best term for unlicensed
CAM facilitators. (EHP) ACEP offers a certificate to become a CEHP or
certified energy health practitioner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">MidgeMurphy.com teaches that non-licensed practitioners
CANNOT use words like “treatment” or “pain” on their websites. PAIN is
considered a medical condition. If you are unlicensed it’s better
to use the words “physical discomfort” instead. Do not use
the word “cure,” or any diagnosis, either. Non-licensed health care
professionals must avoid all mention of diagnostic labels. Jane Doe
cannot advertise treating DSMIV diagnostic categories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“In addition, practitioners mistakenly believe client
testimonials published on their websites are protected by the First Amendment.
This is not necessarily the case. For example, if a client claims in a
testimonial that an energy healing method cured his/her diabetes, Federal Trade
Commision laws and regulation governing advertising would supersede the
client’s First Amendment free speech rights and your right, as an energy
healing practitioner, to publish it on your website.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“To give you a practical idea about what I am talking about,
here is an example of a legally problematic client testimonial if it were to be
published on a non-licensed energy healing practitioner’s website.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><i>SEE IF YOU CAN FIND THE 2 PROBLEMS:</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">I have been obese for many years but after getting energy
healing treatments from Suzie I’m no longer [dealing with] obesity. "Jane
Doe </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">This testimonial has 2 major problems. First, because obesity is
considered a medical condition, the testimonial would be considered to be a
claim that the practitioner has cured a medical condition. The FTC would
require scientific evidence that Suzie’s energy healing method successfully
treats obesity. Second, because obesity is considered a medical condition and
the testimonial uses the word “treatment”, the practitioner faces of the risk
of being charged with practicing medicine without a</span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> license.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Here is a better way to phrase the above testimonial
in order to reduce the potential legal risks:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">"I’ve dealt with weight issues for many years, but
after working with Suzie, my eating habits have improved and I’m better able to
choose foods that support my goals. I feel great and people compliment me on my
appearance." Jane Doe The Use of the Words “Psychology” and
“Energy Psychology” May Be Misleading and can lead to potential claims of
misrepresentation, practicing without a license, and fraud. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">DISCLAIMER<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“Many of the potential legal issues that can arise from the
misuse of language on a practitioner’s website can be ameliorated [changed for
the better] by a legal disclaimer. To be effective a legal disclaimer must be
drafted specifically for that practitioner and must be placed appropriately on
the website. A disclaimer is useless if it is borrowed from another website, is
a generic form, or is not placed properly.” __________<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">State that all information is of a general nature only and
must not be taken as advice; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Instruct visitors to make their own independent inquiries
before acting on any information; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">State there is no existence of a professional relationship;
and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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warranty, or prediction; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Provide assumption of risk and release of claims language;
and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Provide protection of intellectual property (i.e. copyright)
and trademarks, if applicable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">This agreement should include that the visitor assumes any
and all risks associated with viewing and/or using any of the information
contained on your website. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">ACEP’s Code of Ethics states what should be obvious: that
Energy Psychology Trainees are expected to thoroughly learn and practice
a particular intervention before using it with clients/ patients. </span><a href="https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/energypsych.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/ethics/acep_code_of_ethics_and_stan.pdf" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/energypsych.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/ethics/acep_code_of_ethics_and_stan.pdf</a></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><u>“LEGAL REFRAMES for RET Technicians"</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">The following examples of languaging changes (reframe)
… is intended to support clients and avoid legal problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Rather than having disorders, clients have challenges,
problems or issues. [We] help clients promote wellness in their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Rather than treating a disorder or problem, [we] hold
sessions in which they help clients discharge hurtful emotional energy so they
can easily accept positive change into their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Rather than being depressed or anxious, clients seek to
regain a positive mental attitude or to manage situational stress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Rather than seeking to change their mood, clients eek to
become more optimistic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Rather than having PTSD, clients seek to feel at peace
within.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Rather than having addictions, clients seek to regain
self-control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Rather than having eating disorders, clients seek weight
management or to improve appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Rather than having insomnia or sleep disorders, clients seek
sleep improvement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Rather than having phobias, clients have apprehensions or
fears and seek self-confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Rather than curing a condition, a technician helps clients
regain their spiritual light or regain their self-control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> (Joseph Bennette, “LEGAL REFRAMES for RET Technicians”
Published in the RET Newsletter, June 2006) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> #7- Know and</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> Keep the Law</span></span></b></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">The bad news is [facilitators] potentially face being
charged with the crime of practicing medicine without a license. However, the
good news is that a few states have passed legislation that creates exemptions
and exceptions for non-licensed practitioners of the healing arts. The National
Health Freedom Action organization has been instrumental in getting laws passed
in New Mexico, Arizona, Louisiana, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Idaho, and
California that protects energy healers from being charged with practicing
medicine without a license provided healers comply with the requirements set
forth in the law. <a href="http://www.nationalhealthfreedom.org/">www.nationalhealthfreedom.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">From a legal standpoint what you say about you and your
services on your website is like a binding contract with each visitor to your
website. Many practitioners do not understand the legal vulnerabilities they
face because of the language they use of their websites to describe their
credentials, their services or the effectiveness of the therapies they offer to
clients.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Know the laws in your state! For example, in Minnesota you
must post in your office as well as give to clients before any service is
rendered a copy of the “Client Bill of Rights.” <a href="https://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/rpt/2013-R-0337.htm">https://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/rpt/2013-R-0337.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">I went online to the Dept. of Professional Licensing
for Utah: it mentioned Massage Therapy, Reiki, Foot Zoning.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk512251936"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> This website, </a><a href="https://dopl.utah.gov/licensing/forms/massage_Reiki.pdf">https://dopl.utah.gov/licensing/forms/massage_Reiki.pdf</a> ,
has the UT law on Reiki. The use of “hands” is prohibited unless you
are a massage therapist it says here:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">“Reiki is defined as a “spiritual healing art” that is
performed on an individual by a Reiki Practitioner by “transmitting healing
life force energy” through the hands. It is the position of the Division that
to the extent that Reiki is used as a “spiritual healing art” and does not
involve the methods outlined in the scope of practice of Massage Therapy, then
Reiki is not a modality of massage. However, should a Reiki Practitioner while
performing the “spiritual healing art” involve the use of any of the methods
outlined in the scope of practice of Massage Therapy, then the Reiki
Practitioner must be licensed as a Massage Therapist.”</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Michael Cohen points out, “In Utah, maintaining an office or
place of business for the purpose of attempting to "diagnose, treat,
correct, advise . . . for any human . . . condition . . . real or
imaginary" constitutes practicing medicine.[151]” Michael Cohen “Laws
Governing Holistic Healing – Some Basics” <a href="http://www.camlawblog.com/articles/faqs/laws-governing-holistic-healing-some-basics/">http://www.camlawblog.com/articles/faqs/laws-governing-holistic-healing-some-basics/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">In 2017, Donna Eden spoke at this conference and mentioned
that UT has some of the strictest rules in the nation. You cannot touch
people unless you have the appropriate license in your state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><b>IN CONCLUSION: I taught you 3 keys to safety</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">1. Review the language on your website, ads and testimonials
to make sure they are not at risk for a legal claim. (I am still working to
clean up my website, so please forgive me or not being 100% done there. I am
continuing to work on it.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">2. Write a legal disclaimer specifically for your situation
on your website.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">3. Personalize an Informed Consent Statement for clients-
which we are TOLD must include our beliefs and theory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Aligning ourselves with new regulations protects unlicensed
facilitators and at the same time, clarifies perceptions about the
paradigm shift and why we do what we do! Informed consent opens doors to
sharing individual messages and being a bridge. If criticized, we can aspire to
be better instead of bitter by staying spiritually centered and finding
gratitude. Through the grace of Jesus Christ, we have the power to
transform criticism into a source of spiritual growth! Be the
Bridge!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(a) . . . .It is evident that millions of
Californians, perhaps more than five million, are presently receiving a
substantial volume of health care services from complementary and alternative
health care practitioners. . . . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(b) Notwithstanding the widespread utilization of
complementary and alternative medical services by Californians, the provision
of many of these services may be in technical violation of the Medical Practice
Act. Complementary and alternative health care practitioners could
therefore be subject to fines, penalties, and the restriction of their
practice... even though there is no demonstration that their
practices are harmful to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(c) The Legislature intends... to allow access...
to complementary and alternative health care practitioners who are not
providing services that require medical training and credentials. The
Legislature further finds that these nonmedical complementary and alternative
services do not pose a known risk to the health and safety of
California residents, and that restricting access to those services due to
technical violations of the Medical Practice Act is not warranted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">. . . . A person who complies with the
requirements of Section 2053.6 shall not be in violation ... unless that
person does any of the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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person that punctures the skin or harmfully invades the body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(2) Administers or prescribes x-ray radiation to another
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substances to another person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(4) Recommends the discontinuance of legend drugs or
controlled substances prescribed by an appropriately licensed practitioner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(5) Willfully diagnoses and treats a physical or mental
condition of any person under circumstances or conditions that cause or
create risk of great bodily harm, serious physical or mental illness,
or death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(7) Treats lacerations or abrasions through electrotherapy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(8) Holds out, states, indicates, advertises, or implies to
a client or prospective client that he or she is a physician, a surgeon, or a
physician and surgeon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(b) A person who advertises any services that are not
unlawful. . . . shall disclose in the advertisement that he or she is not
licensed by the state as a healing arts practitioner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shall, prior to providing those services, do the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(1) Disclose to the client in a written statement using
plain language the following information:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(A) That he or she is not a licensed physician.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(B) That the treatment is alternative or complementary to
healing arts services licensed by the state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(C) That the services to be provided are not licensed by the
state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(D) The nature of the services to be provided.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(E) The theory of treatment upon which the services are
based.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(F) His or her educational, training, experience, and other
qualifications regarding the services to be provided.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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client stating that he or she has been provided with the information described
in paragraph (1). The client shall be provided with a copy of the
written acknowledgement, which shall be maintained by the person providing
the service for 3 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Becky Rocque shared a story of looking in the medical field for a cause to an illness. She said, sometimes the cause will NOT be found by traditional medicine, because it is a generational issue (passed down energetically.) As we have personal experiences everything gets programmed into the body. This is evident because a reflexologist or a practitioner of foot zoning can find where your body is out of balance by examining your feet, an iridologist can see the same thing by looking in your eyes, and there are those who can “read” your condition from other parts of your body. In the medical field this is true with hair. You can have a few strands examined and those strands alone will tell you what’s going on in your body, what you’ve ingested in the past.... Becky Rocquue also taught how to do a Generational Release through prayer.<br />
(Class taught by Becky Rocque, Alpine, UT, April 2009)<br />
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Becky's website is <a href="http://www.healingheartsandhomes.com/">http://www.healingheartsandhomes.com/</a><br />
Her e-mail is <a href="mailto:rebecca_rocque@byu.edu">rebecca_rocque@byu.edu</a><br />
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<strong>Tamara’s Notes from an Introductory Class taught by Rebecca Rocque in Layton,UT May 2007</strong>:<br />
Issues come from 4 areas (although most every problem we have is a combination of them): Generational, Personal, Environmental, Spiritual.Generational issues means we inherit emotional characteristics and mental characteristics in addition to the physical characteristics we inherit from our parents and ancestors. It is like having a microchip from mother and father automatically’ running you.’ You have that program inside you. It has been renovated and upgraded by those before you. It contains both strengths and weaknesses.<br />
People say "but it’s not fair that a little baby inherited Grandpa’s temper... " This is in the scriptures somewhere that if the children repent for their ancestors it does clear for them. ( I commented to check D&C 98:46-48.)<br />
Becky also said that generational clearing actually clears from the DNA in the cells of your body for those who came before you as well as those after you. So when you do generational clearing you are clearing for your ancestors as well as your children, grandchildren and posterity. (This makes me wonder about D&C 110:12 "After this, Elias appeared, and committed the dispensation of the gospel of Abraham, saying that in us and in our seed all generations after us should be blessed." and D&C 88:74-75 " And I give unto you, who are the first laborers in this last kingdom, a commandment that you assemble yourselves together, and organize yourselves and prepare yourselves, and sanctify yourselves; yea purify your hearts, and cleanse your hands and your feet before me, that I may make you clean; That I may testify unto your Father, and your God, and my God, that you are clean from the blood of this wicked generation; that I may fulfil this promise, this great and last promise, which I have made unto you, when I will. ")<br />
Becky said by clearing for ancestors with generational clearing it does not take away their moral agency. It is just like opening a door for them. They can’t continue their repentance process of restitution or making it right. Whatever tendencies... they created in the flesh is still affecting their posterity. They can begin repenting and feel better, but they cannot make it right unless someBODY does. Bonni Burrows writes the clearest near death experience relating to this. In the 70's she wrote of seeing ancestors teaching children what issues they would have to be dealing with in their life on earth. Journey to Life is the name of her book. Bonni also has a small $3.95 pamphlet that she sells and Bonni lectures also.<br />
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Becky took a class from a man who taught her how to do a fear release on someone. It was a short script you had to work through. (Karin Cummins and I assume this was Kent Scott’s class from Orem.) She said it was good, but that she felt it could be done in a simpler, quicker way. She took another class and the teacher said you had to face East and every hour on the hour say certain things. She shook her head and said, I think we make this too complicated. It can be done easily. The simpler, the better. So when I’m home and it’s quiet and I have time, I go in the bathroom and walk the floor doing a simple little clearing routine. I pray and ask for this to be cleared and that to be cleared. And sometimes I wondered if it was really doing anything. Then this happened.<br />
She told a story of her sister coming to her and asking, "Becky, what are you doing?" Becky told her about school... "No, what are you doing?" Becky told her about home activities. "No, what are you up to??" What do you mean? Her half sister answered, "Every night for the last 5 nights Grandma Homadoo has been coming to me saying "Becky’s family is being cleared and moving forward. Will you please find out what she is doing? I can’t move forward until you do. She’s not in my blood line, so I can’t move forward."<br />
Generational Clearing for your Children. Becky’s son was in a band. He dyed his hair black and was told by someone at church that he could not bless the sacrament with dyed hair. He was wounded by this treatment and said fine, I’ll never go back to church then. Becky began doing generational energy clearings for him over being offended, not being true to what he knows is true, having his feelings hurt... every emotion she thought he was having trouble with. Her son had moved out of the home and toured all over with his band. About the time she started doing clearings, he surprised her and moved back home. One day she noticed an open copy of The Book of Mormon on his bed. She commented to him about it and he said, "I’ve decided it is time to turn my life around." !! Doing clearings does NOT absolve them of responsibility. But isn’t it easier to clean your house if someone else has cleaned it for you first? I did the Spring cleaning and he stepped into it. (Comments from the audience were given that this gives hope to grandparents or parents who have rebellious children or grandchildren and really don’t know what they can do to help the situation.)<br />
Okay, so if you don’t want all the stuff that is in your "programming" handed down from your ancestors( patterns of negativity, patterns of ....) you can CLEAR it with your words. The book Feelings Buried Alive Never Die has a few paragraphs long script you can use, for instance. However, I think it can be done even simpler. Sometimes you’ll have to say it more than once, however, if it is more entrained or later more ancestors show up wanting to clear that same thing. During the day I carry post it notes or you could use index cards. I write down any negative feelings that I come across. I keep track of this list until I have time to do a clearing. Then you can clear them all at once.<br />
For example, I went to a family reunion. First everyone was very nice, how are you and all that. Later, the pettiness came out and people were talking about others and complaining. I got out my list. I thought this is much better than sitting around judging these people for how they are acting. Instead of that, I will focus on helping them. Instead of judging and criticizing them myself, I will offer help to the situation.<br />
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Before a clearing I always pray and ask for the spirit of discernment so I can know what words to use. Begin your clearing like prayer, whatever fits your belief system. Ask that any ancestors who have those issues be allowed to be present or that the information be given to them. Say whatever comes to your mind. Words will come to you.<br />
For instance, I had already cleared a lot of self esteem issues for my family. But one day the phrase "I’m a little petunia in an onion patch." popped into my head. I hadn’t heard that phrase for decades. My great aunt? used to sing that all the time. I had forgotten all about that, but it came to mind. So I did a clearing using that exact phrase. (This is true because different words have different frequencies.) This process can be done out loud or quietly. Say, "I clear the generational patterns and traditions of _______.(Read your post it note or say "all things on the note" or all the things you can think of whether physical, spiritual, emotional or environmental. For example: I clear blockages to the kidney, kidney failure for 16 year old niece...) And I give it to Jesus Christ (or if they are not Christian they can say" I cast it to the Sun.") to be repolarized into positive energy."<br />
What is repolarized? Assume everything physical is a generational issue. Think about it. What if your kids are stubborn? When you pick up a stick, can you pick up only one end of that stick? No, you pick up both ends when you pick up one. You get both sides. If someone is willing to take a stand on something, we say they are committed, immoveable... Therefore, you are asking the Savior to turn weaknesses into strengths.<br />
Finish the script with "And I ask that it be replaced with __________." You fill in the blank. When Becky first did this, she filled in with the opposite every time. Now she listens to the spirit. Or you can just ask that it be" replaced with light, love and truth" or "whatever I need at this time in my life. End in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. (Karin Cummins commented that it helps to also say I clear ...with grace and ease having that intention also, because intention is everything. Becky agreed.)<br />
Sometimes she specifically says "I clear the generations and especially for my son Bryce." We are all related way back. You can clear for others not in your bloodline, but it isn’t as strong. You can clear for adopted children, just know that the words will come to you, even if you don’t know their birth parent’s history at all.<br />
When enough people are doing generational clearing that will raise the vibration of the planet. For 85 years scientists have been tracking the ripples in ponds. They have found that it never ends. It goes out to the edge and then bounces back in and out and in and out and in again. You can clear a space for the person to step into. But it doesn’t change their responsibility or agency.<br />
For Indigos, most of their issues are generational! At least 75% of their issues are. Most Indigo’s issues are more in the 90 percentiles for being generational. Kids with allergies just need to test how much of their allergies are generational? If 100%, then they don’t need drugs- they need generational clearing!<br />
She shared an experience of her son running into the house and banging the door. She wondered what was up so went to find him. He said, "Mom, can I have a pet snake?" She said, well... you can either have a Mother or a pet snake. Which one do you want?" He ran out. She was prompted to look in his bedroom. There was a 5 gallon bucket in his room with a dinner plate on top of it. She was terrified of snakes. Opening it a crack she found it almost clear full of 50 or 75 water snakes! She said just know that with clearings, it can get worse at first before it gets better. To heal, keep going through the process. All the other stuff won’t come up once you’re through. KNOW that when you’re finished that it IS DONE. Trust. Know it has worked. Avoid doubt because if you go into that you will have to clear "doubt."<br />
All of a sudden grandparents and parents have a way to help their family. Know that all of a sudden a teen will come and ask you about the issue that concerned you! It will be out of the blue. I have seen this happen so many hundreds of times that I know it works. And another warning: don’t get scared if ancestors start showing up to you, especially if you are the first in your family to do this kind of work.<br />
(A man- one of 3 in the entire room of at least 30 people asked something like "So, contemporary LDS sister, are you inferring that we have the responsibility to save every one?" Becky said no, It is not your responsibility, it is a choice you have to offer this gift to someone else. It is an option that is available. You decide if you will offer it.)<br />
She said you can do this work for other things. She had a student who always sat in the corner of her classroom, and although every step was outlined in the computer tutorial she constantly had her arm in the air asking questions. It was totally annoying Becky. So she finally decided to clear "annoying." right there at school walking between the desks. After that day the girl never again raised her hand.<br />
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I'm a Christian mother, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was prompted by the Holy Spirit to find answers in Energy Medicine to help my daughter with a bipolar illness. She made amazing turnarounds at appointments of Rapid Eye Technology. I believe that applying the same health principles we learned can help anyone<i> </i>with health challenges. In the beginning I had absolutely no understanding of this field and was wary of using it. Its methods involved concepts I had never heard of or even imagined before. I wanted to be careful and use wisdom in deciphering whether each new principle I learned fit with Christian beliefs.<br />
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I spent a few years reading every book I could about 'energy work'- a more common term for a broad spectrum of energy healing methods. I was surprised to find premises in energy work that were vaguely familiar. I learned that a plethora of cultures outside of mine believed in an invisible life-giving energy that filled the universe. This subtle energy was known by various foreign names such as "Chi" or "Prana." In English it was described as life force energy.<br />
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After a couple of years of voracious reading, I heard a distinct impression from spirit to focus my reading on sources from prophets and religious leaders. Imagine my surprise to learn from John A. Widtsoe that<b> the light of Christ was the universal life-giving energy that other teachers called life force</b>. That's when my research really became interesting! I wanted to learn everything I could about the light of Christ. I discovered that Latter-day Saints use many different terms for this subtle essence. I also learned that prophets and apostles have commented on principles underlying Energy Medicine. LDS religious leaders wrote more about universal subtle essences and healing than I ever expected and sometimes with surprisingly detailed comments. I was overwhelmingly relieved to learn from Apostle Parley P. Pratt about this subtle invisible essence and how it could be shared with others in<i> </i>his book<i>, Key to the Science of Theology.</i><br />
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The health principles in energy work that enabled my daughter to make huge turnarounds, and similar or equivalent LDS quotes for those principles, were on a DVD I produced in 2010 titled, "Scientists, Scholars and Spiritual Leaders Introduce Energy Work- A Gift From God." It sold out and is <b>no longer available</b>. The DVD answered questions such as: Are LDS beliefs compatible with Energy Work? What do prophets teach about healing? Are chakras in the Bible? Does an invisible energy heal? What about crystals and long distance healing? All of this and more is answered in my new book. In fact, <b>the book contains nearly 300 slides not found in the DVD. The book includes everything the DVD had and much more.</b><br />
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I came to the conclusion that premises underlying the energy work I was led to fit with the gospel of Christ while there were other methods that did not follow scriptural principles. I desire to share information related to appropriate integrative healing methods, and scriptures and religious quotes that teach a person how to discern the difference. Answers to our health questions and concerns really are in the scriptures! This site does not claim, however, to represent the doctrinal beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. <br />
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Perhaps it is time to educate <b>-</b> not just medicate. We need an education on <i>whole</i> person health, for we are more than just the physical bodies the medical field focuses on. Traditional medicine still practices from the viewpoint of "Person = Body." Conventional medicine has no concept of altering energy flows. Understanding that the previous equation is incomplete, one would be wise to enlist the help of a health practitioner who understands that "Person = Body + Mind + Spirit." I want a health practitioner addressing my <i>entire</i> being, not just a portion of myself. We need more medical doctors in the western world who practice from the entire paradigm.<br />
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Mehmet Oz, M.D. said "Energy Medicine is the next big frontier in medicine." Why is that? Dawson Church,PhD gives a great answer: "Techniques from energy medicine and Energy Psychology can alleviate chronic diseases, shift auto-immune conditions, and eliminate psychological traumas with an efficiency and speed that conventional treatments can scarcely touch." (<i>The Genie in Your Genes- Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention</i>, 29.) That is because our energy body is the grid work underlying the physical nature of us.<br />
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Bruce Lipton, a renowned cell biologist and former medical school professor, offers an educational analogy: "Conventional medicine works with the iron filings, whereas a deeper form of healing would attempt to influence the magnetic field. Most doctors don't see the field, so they're trying to figure out the relationship between the filings without even trying to incorporate the energy field in which they exist." (quoted in <i>The Genie in Your Genes</i>, 152.) In simple terms, human beings are more than just the physical bodies that medical doctors consider. We are also complex systems of energy fields. When our energy fields are cleared and balanced it makes an impact on our physical level, also.<br />
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The field of Energy Medicine takes into account the whole person's being: physical body as well as mind and spirit. This includes the invisible subtle light energy that surrounds people, known to scientists as the biofield. Fields of energy penetrate and surround our bodies. Scriptures teach this, such as "Let us put on the armour of light."(Romans 13:12) Everyone has generally unseen energy fields around their physical body. Progressive doctors and hospitals are embracing this view.* Shouldn't you? (*See cover story U.S. News &World Report, Jan. 21, 2008.)<br />
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Understanding this new perspective enables whole person health. Caroline Myss writes, "According to energy medicine, the human spirit is a manifestation of energy. . . . The intention behind using Energy Medicine is to treat the body and the spirit equally." (<i>Why People Don't Heal and How They Can</i>, x,xi)" John A. Widtsoe states that another way, "Joseph Smith taught also that spirit is only a pure form of matter. . . .<i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">'The spirit and the body are the soul of man.' (D&C 88:15) The spirit here referred to may be compared to the ether of science, vibrating with the force of intelligence, which is the first and highest of the many forces of nature... Man, according to this is composed of matter; the spirit which may be likened to ether, and energy." ( John A.Widtsoe, </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Joseph Smith as Scientist</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">, 34, 63-64)</span></i></i></span></i></i><br />
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New York Times<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> best-selling author Gregg Braden calls such spiritually-based techniques that I mention "internal technology" that a person can apply on their own to improve health. Larry Dossey, MD calls some of these techniques "Eternity Medicine." (see </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Reinventing Medicine</i></span>, chapter 6) I love the term he chose.<br />
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Of course, one should use caution when exploring cutting-edge methods of healing. On the other hand, we also need to realize that false traditions of our fathers may have been passed down to us concerning health. World renowned scientists are teaching that we are <b>NOT</b> limited by the laws of physics and biology as taught to generations before. Physics has changed to an energetic view of all creation. Will you? I did and it has made all the difference!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Let me tell you about what I learned after I wrote my book, <i>Healing Arts- A Gift from God</i>. I read a remarkable book about another daughter who had bipolar. It reminded me at times of our own experiences. That book is a great gift to the world! In it Autumn tells about her dedicated father in Canada who found a radically different approach to bipolar THAT WORKED! Autumn didn't believe it could work at first . . . but it did because the Lord was behind its inception. God's fingerprints are all over this family's incredible story that includes fasting and prayer. </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[Then Autumn recounts] <span style="text-indent: 2.25pt;">I can hear him pounding his steering wheel the way he used to thump the pulpit, before Mom died, before his life was changed forever. And it brings tears to my eyes. “<b>We won a battle that we never even wanted to fight, and there has been a power behind this that goes way beyond our abilities...</b> We won before the fight even started because this victory isn’t mine and it isn’t David’s. It’s an answer to prayer, Autumn. It’s a miracle. It’s a miracle. <b>We have won the right for you to choose to be well, to help as many people as you want to, to help them find their way out of the darkness of mental illness.</b> Autumn, Bonnie Kaplan said it years ago, and I believe it. <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">This may be the most significant breakthrough in mental health since the beginning of time.”</span></b> </span>(Autumn Stringam, A Promise of Hope, 270)</span></span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Those words bring tears to my eyes, too. This is a breakthrough of epic proportion!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The above words give me hope that someday, with the research getting to a mainstream audience, the stigma associated with so-called mental issues can vanish. This feeling is marked by Dr. Popper's words, <span style="color: #cc0000;">"</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">Make no mistake, this is an historically significant piece of work that is being done."</span></span></span><br />
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Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-89686240203736408382013-01-01T18:19:00.000-08:002019-04-08T06:17:43.869-07:00More on Healing Generations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>I have come across some valuable information since I wrote my book. Here are a few wonderful paragraphs relating to healing generations by Truman Madsen. Thank you Tresa for sharing this.</b><br />
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<i>And, therefore, as you look back at your seventy or so forebears... you might recognize that you have inherited the blood of many generations. And blood may not be a correct word scientifically, but in the scriptures it stands for seed, which means heredity, the inheritance of tendencies, and all of us have them. You have the blood of this generation, from which we must become clean - 'clean from the blood of this generation' (D&C 88:85). If you do, you will be clean from the blood of every generation, because it is compounded and accumulated into now- and that includes the blood of some degeneration. </i></blockquote>
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<i>So perhaps you do have problems that you can blame on your ancestors, and if you </i><br />
<a name='more'></a><i>forgive that and choose to stand close to the Lord in the process of purifying your life, that will affect your whole family in both directions. You are not alone. There is no way you can gain solitary and neutral ground. You are in it - you are involved. And this, I believe, is one of the profound meanings of the tame and wild olive trees. If you take a wild branch and graft it in to a tame one, if the branch is strong enough it will eventually corrupt and spoil the tree all the way to the roots. But if you take a tame branch and graft it in to a wild tree, in due time, if that branch is strong enough, it will heal and regenerate to the very roots. You will have then been an instrument in the sanctification even of your forebears.</i><br />
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<i>...To be that kind of branch and achieve that kind of transformation backward and forward is perhaps the greatest achievement of this world. But to do it one must be great, one must be linked, bound to the Lord Jesus Christ. One must be mighty. One must be something of a savior. And that is exactly what the Prophet Joseph Smith said we are: 'saviors on Mount Zion.' (Truman G. Madsen, "The Temple: Where Heaven Meets Earth," p 84)</i></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The following is the ending excerpt from an excellent article by L</span>arry Barkdull on Meridian Magazine.</b><span style="text-align: start;"> <b> Who knew that Elder Hafen and Isaiah touch on healing generations?! </b></span><b style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Thank you Sylvia for sharing this. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"> Brother Barkdull wrote:</b></div>
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thyself from thine own flesh [your own family].”(14) That is, love them, pray
for them, and fast for them. We expect the Lord to stand by our children
despite their waywardness. Would He not, therefore, expect the same of us? Our
willingness to sanctify ourselves through fasting and prayer in behalf of our
children, and our continuing to love and reach out to them, serves to repair
relationships. Through fasting and prayer we sanctify ourselves to become,
according to Isaiah, “the repairer of the breach.”(15) That is, fasting and
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repairers of the breach, Elder Bruce C. Hafen taught that we, through fasting
and prayer and applying the Atonement of Jesus Christ, gain power to repair
even generational family problems and to stop the “intergenerational flow of
affliction,” which plagues one generation of our family after another. These
generational problems are often the reasons our children are presently
suffering. Some damaging family traits reduce agency and continue to afflict
several generations of a family. But by means of the sanctifying principles of
faith, fasting, prayer, and diligence, these negative traits can be halted and
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<i>Repairers of the breach can
seek heavenly power to ensure that those harmful traits will never again
distress subsequent generations. Elder Hafen said we can “fill the void left by
a former generation and raise a new foundation for the next, thus repairing the
breach in the intergenerational linkage: ‘They that shall be of thee shall
build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach; the restorer
of paths to dwell in.’ (Isa. 58:12) (Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen, The Belonging Heart: The Atonement and Relationships with God and Family Heart, 119.)</i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span>"Isaiah’s doctrine concerning
the fast is astonishing. Generational healing becomes possible. Evidently
fasting yields a power that extends to our deceased loved ones, allowing them
to be healed and set free. Through focused fasting, we become repairers of the
breach to our present families and our ancestors. Moreover, our children--
“they that shall be of thee”--will “build the old waste places.” In other
words, because of our fasting, our children will also be empowered to repair
the generational injuries and help to save their forefathers. What will be the result? </i></blockquote>
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<i>“Thou shalt raise up the
foundations of many generations [to follow]”; that is, you will help your
children lay a new foundation for their lives upon which salvation will come to
them and to those your grandchildren. Therefore, you will be given the
honorable name, “repairer of the breach”—the one who helped them overcome their
weakness, repair their broken lives, and brought them back to the correct
path. (See also John H. Vandenberg, Conference Report, April 1963)</i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span>Does the fast still sound
too simple, too easy? Perhaps we should reconsider the fast as an incredible
principle of power and do as Moses encouraged his people to do: simply look up
and live." (Larry Barkdull, "Rescuing Wayward Children through Fasting and Prayer," <span style="text-align: center;">Meridian Magazine, Thursday July 10, 2010, </span>www.ldsmag.com/article/5880)</i></blockquote>
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IF YOU LIKED THIS POST YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY READING "GENERATIONAL QUOTES"<br />
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Our trials have purpose in the eyes of God and can bring us closer in love with Him and others. This post is meant to help you understand who you <i>really are. </i>I hope it changes your perception of yourself and any labels you may have been given.<br />
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It was helpful for my daughter and I to change our perceptions about mental illness. In the beginning we asked the question 'why?' or 'why me?' Over time, we learned to change the questions we were asking of God to, "What would you have me learn?"<br />
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I learned that I may have even chosen to have a daughter labeled wtih a mental illness before I ever came to earth. The idea that we may have <i>chosen</i> our own life learning lessons -- or what we call trials -- is actually a cross cultural pattern found in NDE's around the world. Understanding this can bring hope when facing life's challenges. Remembering who we are, where we've come from and our purpose in coming to earth helps us through happy as well as tough times. Author Roy Mills saw that before being born on earth, <b>“I selected certain life experiences and was taught about them.” </b><br />
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An apostle said something akin to that. Elder Richard G. Scott said, <br />
<a name='more'></a>"We lived in the presence of God our Holy Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ in a premortal existence. There we gained an understanding of the Father's plan of salvation and the promise of help when we would be born as mortals on earth. ...So that the period of mortal testing and growth would yield its greatest benefits, you were taught and prepared for the circumstances you would personally encounter in mortality." (Ensign, Nov. 2005) (See also illustration #293 in my book <i>Healing Arts</i>.)<br />
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Interestingly, Roy Mills was told <b>not </b>t<b>o share the memories from his NDE </b><b>with anyone<i> - for 45
years! </i></b>He upheld that; then, in 1995 he was told by an angel that <b><i>it was time to share</i>. </b> She
said the message of his pre-birth experience would change the lives of
everyone <b>who would listen.</b> It would help
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My friend, Kathy Truman, introduced me to Roy Mill's book <i>The Soul's Experience</i> and sent the excerpt below. It is from a chapter titled "The Mighty Spirits." I share this with all of my clients lately and have highlighted portions of it. Enjoy, and get your own copy of this amazing book!<br />
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Excerpt from: <i>The
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An account of one man’s remembrance of the
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We come to live in the physical world so that we can grow spiritually
by gaining experience and exercising our free will. Many of those experiences involve hardships
which can only happen on earth, because Heaven is a place of perfect love,
forgiveness, peace, and tranquility. And
these hardships are necessary to help us build faith and exercise the gifts God
has given us. <span style="color: red;"><b>Each of us is given a
mission to accomplish while we are here, but we are also allowed to select some
of the challenges that will bring us growth. </b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>The angels help us choose our experiences, because what
we choose must fit with our mission and with God’s overall plan for our lives... <span style="color: red;">They explained that</span></b> <b style="color: red;">the more difficult a challenge was, the more knowledge
and wisdom and love it could bring.</b><span style="color: red;"> </span></span> I
knew that it would be pleasing to God if I dealt with many experiences in a
positive way, so I began selecting all kinds of challenges.</blockquote>
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While I was in Heaven, I never saw anyone who was
depressed, maimed by an accident, or suffering from disease. <b><span style="color: red;">Our spiritual bodies are always healthy and
whole; they are perfect, and our spirits shine with a radiant beauty.</span> </b>Our
physical bodies are only a temporary home for our spirits, and nothing can
truly harm who we really are. <b>So</b> <b>when I
selected my earthly experiences, I had no concern for what they would do to my
physical body. </b> <b>I knew that the more I
suffered for others, or because of others, the more I would grow in
spirit. </b> <b>And with that knowledge, I had a
completely different perspective on adversity and the experiences I chose for
my own life.</b></blockquote>
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<b>The angels explained to me that an illness or accident
triggers a chain of events that can lead to spiritual growth. <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Some spirits choose a life of extreme
sacrifice or nearly unbearable suffering.
The light of God shines brightly around these people, and in Heaven they
are thought of as mighty spirits, because they come to earth to suffer so that
others can grow in understanding and love. </span></b></blockquote>
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<b>Some mighty spirits choose to be born with severe disabilities such as
blindness, deafness,<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">mental illness,</span> Down’s Syndrome, and others. Some choose to be paralyzed or disfigured or
disabled later in life by an accident.
Others suffer a life-threatening illness such as cancer, or Alzheimer’s. And many brave spirits choose to be born into
alcoholic or drug addicted families, or into abusive homes where they suffer
and sometimes even die from abuse.</b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Many of these people who suffer from such challenges live
their lives thinking they are inferior or unworthy of love because they look
different or don’t have the same abilities as most people, or because they were
the victims of abuse. But the truth is
that they are mighty spirits who denied themselves and have come to earth to
help others grow.</span> </span></b></blockquote>
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<b>When we see a child
who is confined to a wheelchair because of a problem with his or her muscles or
nerves or brain, we feel compassion for the child. But the deeper truth is that this individual
had compassion for us first, having chosen their condition to help us
grow. When we think we are helping the
disabled, we are really helping ourselves by learning selflessness, charity,
and how to demonstrate our love.</b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: red;">These courageous souls chose their conditions in order to
inspire love, compassion, caring, patience, or forgiveness in others. They also suffer to gain experience and
knowledge that will help others who face similar challenges, or to help improve
conditions by raising public awareness.
Like Jesus, the mightiest Spirit of all, these souls suffer in our place
so that we can learn, experience, and grow without bearing the same cross they
carry.</span></b></blockquote>
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In Heaven, everyone who chooses to be born on earth is
thought of as a courageous spirit. It’s
not easy to leave the peace and love of Heaven for the hardships and strife of
earth. ..It often takes adversity to shake us up and help us grow, but God wanted
His children to be happy in their earthly lives, too. After choosing my life experiences, I was
told to also have fun while I was here.
<b>This life may be a ‘vale of tears,’ but it is also supposed to be a time
of joy. And how much joy we experience
is up to us. </b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: red;">When we realize that we, ourselves, chose many of the
difficulties in our lives, and that all things happen for a reason, we begin to
let go of earthbound thinking. We can
give up the crutches we use to fill the emptiness in our live-alcohol, drugs,
money, meaningless sex, prestige, and power. </span>
<span style="color: red;">When our eyes are opened, we begin to see things as they really are. </span></b></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>We begin to understand that life isn’t cruel or unfair,
but is a spiritual journey that leads us to meaning and joy and real happiness. Knowing the truth about ourselves sets us
free to be the happy, loving people God wants us to be.</b></span></blockquote>
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<i>If you enjoyed reading this, you might also like the post on praise in all things.</i></div>
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"Hi Tamara,</div>
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I have been passing through lots of interesting experiences
and I learned some things that I thought might be of help to your
daughter. You mentioned awhile back that her bipolar was bothering
her again.</div>
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This last week I passed through more pain and
insanity than I did when I was in the mental hospital...but I learned some
very helpful things.</div>
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I finally understand that this whole "bipolar"
thing is about the WAR within my thoughts!!!!!!!!</div>
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The "negative energy" has used a very
effective strategy to destroy my peace. As far as I have understood this
is it...</div>
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1. They begin with the CONSTANT bombardment of negative
thoughts in my own thought/voice. Like wood peckers trying to drill
into my brain, these thoughts are constantly inviting me away from Gods Spirits thoughts.</div>
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Brother Fletcher call's these "thought
viruses". The most effective ones seems to be "I am a
victim",<br />
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virus is always involved with a candida overgrowth in the body (which I am FULL
of and have been all my life); blaming others,criticisms, etc. are other damning
viruses.</div>
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Once one little thought chain is listened too, step 2
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2. Open the hole into the brain
wider by quickly pouring in more negatively inspired evidence of
whatever it was I chose to believe. Over time, depending on how long
it takes them to convince me of the truth of their lies, like a chain
getting thicker and thick with every accepted lie, and my mind getting darker
and my feelings get more contentious and soon the Spirit is gone from
my heart. Then they begin step #3.</div>
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3. Once I am at the point of angry irrational blindness, I
quickly sink into despair (feeling their feelings perhaps + my own at loosing
the Spirits companionship?) I have recognized by now that I don't have peace
and am praying desperately to get it back but am in a very bad place and I
can't see much light or have much hope...it sneaks up. If they can extinguish
my hope I am defeated.</div>
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This last experience, as I had sunk into despair and could
seen no light it felt like an eternity of the pains of hell. The
words that seemed to keep me afloat were from the temple...repeating them over
and over and pleading with the Lord to save me. I saw the
shadowy outlines of 5 negative energy beings working frantically
over me (I was lying on my bed, trying to sleep...it was late into the
night). I saw them waist up, so they must have been kneeling or sitting
through me somehow. They were feverishly working...the motion
looked/felt something like whipping an egg. (I believe this must
be some kind of energy work...like the motions of Reiki used for
negative). Finally I felt the angels of God come and push off the
negative energies but their damage hung on for a long time. I fell
asleep but I know at least one guardian angel was there still in the
morning. Some how they clean and repair during the night. I am so
thankful.</div>
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Etsuko did distance energy work on me, taught me more about
keeping myself more in constant light. </div>
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(So this is what I thought might help your daughter...</div>
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I've been <b>flooding myself with light</b>...especially my
thoughts...</div>
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- Daily scriptures and prayer (and as needed...In the
"crazy" when I would read the Book of </div>
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-M[ormon], Mormon Tab[ernacle] choir hymns CONSTANTLY floating in one ear.
When I am monitoring how I am feeling, I can choose to tune in to the music of
faith and short circuit the thought viruses.)</div>
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-Essential oils (the vitamins by DoTerra are great)
especially frankincense on the top of my head, my 3rd eye chakra, my heart
chakra, and navel.</div>
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-I use Wild Orange or OnGuard (by DoTerra) on the back of my
neck, head, and shoulders when I feel the negative energies attack (do you know
how they do this? How do they get through my aura? Oil immediately
usually stops the pain.</div>
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-Healthy diet full of green veggies...word of wisdom...</div>
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- Learning to love myself (the EFT has been helpful in this
and learning to love my body).</div>
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I think my sickness began because of my
very damaged heart and the pain of negative emotional "slivers"
coming out. I am trying to completely connect every chakra with
Father, especially my heart. If He holds my heart, I hope it will feel
safe enough to enable me to be a healthy mom and wife. </div>
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I know the physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of our
being are all connected and that I need to be strong in all of these to keep
balanced to maintain peace. It seems like if I am weak in any of these
areas, I am much more vulnerable to attack.</div>
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I stopped eating sugar and processed foods and am working to
be free of candida. </div>
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I think because I have been so low, the "road
way" in my brain is already established. I am quicker to fall, if I
start down that path, but IF I DON'T START down the path, they have no power
over me.</div>
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<b>1. I believe my bipolar learning opportunity is caused
by negative energies.</b></div>
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<b>2. I have lots of power to choose to stay in
"light" places, especially when I know what I am dealing with. </b></div>
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<b>3. This opportunity is being turned into a blessing
... to make me stronger, to give me experience, to motivate me to give my whole
soul to my God.</b></div>
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This really is warfare! I hope something of this might
be helpful for your daughter. </div>
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Do you have any thoughts about how to get my heart chakra
healthy? Can someone with a broken/ unattached heart have the gift
of Charity...which I think means I would always have the love to give my
family?</div>
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How to do more cleansing of negative emotional
triggers? What do you call what you did with me at Etsuko's house?</div>
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I have been free of my meds for 3 years but I think drug
residues in my systems are still making me vulnerable. I hate
presciption drugs! Do you have any drug cleansing ideas? </div>
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Hope you are well. Thank you for all you have taught.</div>
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Christy"</div>
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<i>(Note: What I did with Christy "at Etsuko's house" was Deep Emotion Release. Brother Fletcher's work can be found at<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://thoughtpatternmanagement.com/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://thoughtpatternmanagement.com/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> )</span></i></div>
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Amazing 'harmony and rhythm' happened to me this week. I was not looking for another energy device to help people. (In fact, I have passed a few up over the last year.) However, this one fell into my lap with such synchronicity I couldn't ignore it.</div>
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A friend e-mailed me on Monday about listening to a phone call that would bless many people's lives. When I read her e-mail I looked up at the clock above my computer and realized the call would begin in 3 minutes, so I dialed in. It was interesting to hear someone say the wand could revolutionize self care. What caught my attention was their recognition of the body's own innate intelligence doing the healing. That sounded just like what President Spencer W. Kimball taught:</div>
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"Our ills are usually of our own begetting. They must be corrected by ourselves. Man is the master of his destiny, be it good or bad. Man has the inherent capacity to heal himself physically. A doctor may cleanse a wound, sew it up, bandage it well, but the natural power of the body must do the healing. Likewise, a healing process in the spirit and mind must come from within the self will. Others may help to cauterize the wound, suture it, and provide a clean proper environment for the healing, but the body, with the aid of the Spirit, must heal itself."</div>
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I was glad to hear testimonials for all kinds of issues: pain was relieved for several people, someone with TMJ found they could open their jaw wider, another person looked like they had experienced a face lift on half their face (that was wanded), a woman's vision improved (and that really got my attention), headaches went away, a rotator cuff pain was gone, and more flexibility was back after broken bones.</div>
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I also heard about a chili plant watered with energized water-- it was nearly 12 feet tall and 4 feet around. There was even a medical doctor who used the wand in her practice with a patient when a child came in with a very bruised ear that was black in color. The doctor was astonished when the black part of the ear turned pink right in front of her eyes after only a few minutes of turning the Amega wand clockwise near the ear. They explained that the cells are triggered into remembering where they have come from: Source, where there is no pain and no inflammation, etc. They said the wand is just a 'remember switch' for the body to remember that state of wellness.</div>
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I didn't really want to get involved in a new business. I am making progress writing my book and this company was perceived at the time as an interruption. However, I was very impressed with the people who brought this company to Utah. They suggested that interested people stay in a state of gratitude (which is emphasized in my book) even when trouble arises. I liked these people! They suggested to go out and concentrate on blessing people's lives, because the money would follow. They were speaking my language. I didn't feel compelled to do anything at that point, however.</div>
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Several hours later I was again drawn to my computer to get some work done and noticed that my friend's e-mail was still there. I sat down and reread the few sentences of her e-mail inviting me to call a number, looked up at my clock and started laughing. It was one minute before the second and last phone call of the day about the new company. Smiling, I dialed the number again. I felt it was obviously the right thing for me to do.</div>
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I heard a testimonial about getting help for Bell's palsy. It was intriguing to me because my father- in- law had experienced that ailment. The medical field really didn't know what to do to help him those many years ago. ENERGY had made the difference for the woman on the call, though! The testimonials were repeat lessons of what I had already learned in my life: most doctor's aren't aware yet of your entire being. They treat your physical body but not your <i>whole </i>body- not the bio-energetic part of you that can't be seen by these well- meaning physicians.</div>
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I signed up and my website is <a href="https://tamaralaing.amwell.biz/" target="_blank">https://tamaralaing.amwell.biz</a> Amega has been in business 4 years in Asia, and just came to the US a couple of weeks ago. I feel good about this company and jumped right in the next day. Finding out about it was orchestrated by God. </div>
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One man energized his drinking water with the wand and said he had lots of energy after a 30 hour flight to Singapore to check out this company. I don't really enjoy selling, but I feel I can make a difference <em>helping</em> people with all sorts of issues with this company's products. John Pratt's article on my website about zero point energy will be fascinating reading for LDS people interested in the Amega Amwand.</div>
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The last few weeks I have been putting together a power point presentation comparing what this subtle energy is termed in science and religion. Talk about timing! There's another example of harmony and rhythm. I praise God and give Him the glory. Prophets and apostles have compared the energy of science to the Light of Christ and Intelligence. I will write about that next and also tell what I experienced at my first demo seeing the Amwand in action right before my eyes.</div>
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You will likely be as amazed as I was. With your health in mind, Tamara</div>
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<b><u>Vetiver </u></b></div>
"Vetiveria Zizanoides<br />
Nourishing, Restoring, Reconnecting (A little goes a very long way)<br />
Vetiver grass has long, narrow aromatic leaves and straight stems. Grows in tufts<br />
and is very tall; approximately 6 feet high. Its roots are spindly, but intensely aromatic. The<br />
Vetiver is steam distilled from the roots and is a very challenging process to gather and process the<br />
plant roots for the oil. <b>Its scent is heavy, bitter and very earthy (kids ask for the oil that smells like </b><b>dirt).</b><br />
"Antibacterial, <b>antidepressant,</b> anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiparasitic, antiseptic, relieves<br />
muscle spasms and can assist in relief of liver congestion, wound healing and relief of dry skin and<br />
oily scalps, <b>mood lifter,</b> pain relief for stiff joints of arthritis, rheumatism, sprains and strains. <br />
<b>Helpful with insomnia</b>, regulating appetite, and <b>has proven effective with anorexia nervosa when</b><br />
<b>used consistently. </b><br />
"Vetiver has a high level of sesquiterpene as part of its chemical make up.<br />
Sesquiterpene (BBB-Brain oxygenating) molecules deliver oxygen molecules to cells, like<br />
hemoglobin does in the blood. <b>Sesquiterpenes can also erase or deprogram miswritten codes in</b><br />
<b>cellular memory</b>. Sesquiterpenes are thought to be especially effective in fighting cancer. *<br />
Used with other essential oils in blends to hold the fragrances for a long time,<br />
really helps the citrus oil scents “pop” in blends.<br />
"Vetiver Oil balances the activity of the sebaceous glands, or oil glands, and helps to<br />
normalize oily skin and clear acne. It replenishes moisture in dry and dehydrated skin. Because it<br />
strengthens connective tissue of the skin, Vetiver has a rejuvenating effect on the complexion,<br />
particularly mature skin. <br />
"White Blood Cell Stimulant: Enhances immunity by increasing the production of<br />
white blood cells that fight infection. These are the cells that patrol your body, cleaning and<br />
literally gobbling up foreign invaders. **<br />
"Stimulates the Production of Red Blood Cells, which transport oxygen throughout<br />
the body. This again improves immunity and circulation. ***<br />
<b>"Vetiver Oil normalizes either extreme sensitivity or insensitivity. It integrates spirituality with</b><br />
<b>materialism, restores balance and harmony, brings thoughts and actions into focus, and helps to </b><b>stabilize mental and physical energy.</b><br />
*Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit, Mojay, 1999, Healing Arts Press<br />
Healing Oils of the Bible, Stewart, 2005, Care Publications<br />
** Aromatherapy for Dummies, 1999, Wiley<br />
*** Modern Essentials, 2009 Abundant Health, LLC. Aromatherapy, Roberta Wilson, 2002.<br />
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<b>"ADHD and anxiety relief have been reported by consistent users. Diffusing Vetiver is relaxing and a great anti-depressant.</b><br />
<b>Anxiety can be relieved by mixing Vetiver with Myrrh 1:1 and applying behind</b><br />
<b>the knees right after shower in the morning. The Vetiver and Myrrh are both</b><br />
<b>rather thick in nature and will process gradually and lend a calming influence</b><br />
<b>throughout the day.</b> If you need to reapply after 3 or 4 hours use same ratio.<br />
"TMJ Massage Blend for jaw muscles: 1 ounce Fractionated Coconut Oil, Helichrysum 4 drops,<br />
White Fir 3 drops, Vetiver 2 drops, and Balance 2 drops <br />
Tension-Buster: Vetiver 3 drops, Patchouli 1 drop, Wild Orange 2 drops, and Ylang Ylang 2 drops<br />
Stress Reducing Bath: ½ cup Epsom salts, Lavender 2 drops, Cypress 2 drops, Geranium 1 drop,<br />
White Fir 1 drop, and Vetiver 1 drop<br />
Stretch Mark Reducing Oil Blend: 1 ounce cocoa butter, melted, ½ ounce Fractionated Coconut<br />
Oil, 1/2 ounce rose hip seed oil, Lavender 8 drops, Grapefruit 3 drops, and Vetiver 3 drops<br />
<b>"To Relieve Obsessive Over thinking: </b> Vetiver 2 drops, Sandalwood 4 drops and apply to the back of the neck or on the bones behind the ears<br />
<b>To Relieve Preoccupation with Detail: </b> Frankincense 3 drops, Vetiver 2 drops, and Lemon 1 drop<br />
<b>To cope with sudden fear, especially at night</b>: Geranium 2 drops, Vetiver 2 drops, and Rose 1 drop<br />
Sweet Sleep: 2 Tablespoons Fractionated Coconut Oil, Sandalwood 6 drops, Wild Orange 2 drops,<br />
Ylang Ylang 2 drops, Coriander 1 drops, and Vetiver 1 drop<br />
Joint or muscle pain after injury: Vetiver 4 drops, Lavender 3 drops, and Bergamot 2 drops, all in a<br />
capsule and take internally<br />
Post surgery blend for pain after joint replacement every 2 to 4 hours can help stretch other<br />
means: Vetiver 4 drops, Lavender 3 drops, Helichrysm 2 drops, and White Fir 2 drops in a capsule<br />
and take internally<br />
<b>"Relieve absentmindedness and helps with clarity</b> – rub on the back of the neck 2 to 5 times a day:<br />
Vetiver 4 drops, Peppermint 3 drops, and Frankincense 3 drops (can mix together and put in a<br />
roller bottle for easy application)" <b>Dr. Susan Lawton</b><br />
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NOTE: The advice shared in this document has not been evaluated by the FDA. The products and methods recommended are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any illness or disease, nor is it intended to replace proper medical help. Kindly understand that essential oils work to help to bring the body into balance - thus helping the body's natural defenses to restore homeostasis. Essential oils are not used to "treat" medical problems. Thank you for your sharing with others.<br />
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<br />Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-73556724759422741902017-09-07T19:50:00.000-07:002018-03-07T20:08:05.456-08:00Sample my first book Healing Arts here. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="//e.issuu.com/embed.html#7293455/1399572" width="880"></iframe>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-3631390973653664502017-09-08T10:30:00.000-07:002017-11-07T11:54:05.706-08:00Scott Gillespie's Second Paper on Power Over Evil Spirits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Here is another
wonderful collection of quotes and scriptures about the war that began in
heaven continuing here on earth. Brother Gillespie and his wife, Kylie, have
spent much time gathering so much information on evil spirits into one place
again. I appreciate their willingness to freely share their work. It is a
blessing! <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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is one paragraph on the last page of this new paper that I do
not agree with. Evidently, the Gillespie's are not aware of several quotes by
the brethren about females being able to cast out evil spirits by faith.
Perhaps these quotes by the brethren were not discovered by Scott and Kylie and
not considered in forming their opinions. </i></span><br />
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I believe that when we consider every word the
Lord has given us on the subject of casting out evil spirits, an even broader
picture comes to view. Joseph Smith stated, "No matter who
believeth, these signs such as healing the sick, casting out devils, etc.,
should follow all that believe, whether male or female.... If the sisters
should have faith to heal the sick,</i></span><br />
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tongues, and let everything roll on." (<u>Teachings of the Prophet Joseph
Smith, </u>224). Other quotes by the brethren teach the same thing. My further comments follow their paper</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the reader has not read the previous paper, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pornography, Sickness, Evil Spirits and the Priesthood,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it is recommended that he download and read it first. This paper contains a very extensive collection of quotes from previous and current Church leaders, LDS scholars, and missionaries regarding evil spirits It can be downloaded at: </span><a href="http://www.thesis.dislib.info/as-other/216488-3-pornography-sickness-evil-spirits-and-the-priesthood-scott-gilles.php" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.thesis.dislib.info/as-other/216488-3-pornography-sickness-evil-spirits-and-the-priesthood-scott-gilles.php</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><a href="http://www.nofearpreps.com/uploads/1/4/4/2/14427784/2porn_sickness_evil_spirits_and_the_priesthood_-_copy.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.nofearpreps.com/uploads/1/4/4/2/14427784/2porn_sickness_evil_spirits_and_the_priesthood_-_copy.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being tempted, influenced, afflicted, and tormented by evil spirits is the main, necessary component of opposition</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the plan of salvation. Without the role that evil spirits play in the plan of salvation, we could not prove ourselves worthy to return to our Heavenly Father.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Satan and evil spirits are absolutely essential to His plan. “He needed the devil and a great many of those who do his bidding just to keep men straight, that we may learn to place our dependence upon God and trust in Him, and to observe His laws and keep His commandments.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brigham Young told the Saints to “not flatter yourselves for a moment that the Devil has left us. You will find that he marshals his forces more particularly against this people....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> President Joseph F. Smith said, “I would fear very much for our safety if we had fallen into a condition where the devil ceased to be concerned about us.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second myth is, “If you talk about evil spirits you give them power.” The primary thing that gives them power over a person is sin.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that “the moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Another way we give Satan power is when his “lies succeed in deceiving us, we become vulnerable to his power.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Then there is fear. Fear is the opposite of faith</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and when we lack faith, we open ourselves up to Satan's power. Finally, there is ignorance or lack of correct knowledge. Our </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lack</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of correct knowledge gives evil spirits a great deal of power. Talking about evil spirits does not give them power; instead, it gives </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">us</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> power over them because that knowledge will allow us to understand how they work and thus enable us to thwart their designs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead, the Prophet Joseph taught a number of things about knowledge. “Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He also taught, “In knowledge there is power. God has more power than all other beings, because he has greater knowledge....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what He will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> With evil spirits, Joseph further taught that “one great evil is, that men are ignorant of the nature of [evil] spirits; their power,…government, [and] intelligence…, the laws by which they are governed, and the signs by which they may be known…,”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and “that they possess a power that none but those who have the Priesthood can control….”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “To his (Joseph’s) declaration that ‘a man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge,’ he adds that if men do not get knowledge, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">including the knowledge of how to control evil spirits</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the latter will have more power than the former, and thus be able to dominate them” (emphasis added).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Orson F. Whitney continued along this line, saying that with evil spirits, “foreknowledge is power.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> During a talk in 2015 given at the LDS Business College, Elder Larry R. Lawrence stated, “President Young...taught that we need to study the enemy’s (Satan's) tactics in order to defeat him.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brigham Young told the Saints to “learn not only what is in heaven, but what is in hell….”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He went on to say, “We are obliged to know and understand”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the Devil. He also told the Saints that they have a “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">duty”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to “study…evil, and its consequences.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In the October 1987, general conference, Elder James E. Faust repeated Brigham Young’s statement to “study…evil, and its consequences.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In light of these numerous quotes, it is very obvious that rather than avoiding the subject of evil spirits, we should be openly discussing and learning about them. However, this is not happening within the membership of the Church. On the contrary, any talk about evil spirits is actively suppressed by ignorant members. There is even outright rejection of these truths by many Saints because of fear or because they are taken in by the wisdom of the world. With some members, even when given a direct quote from the scriptures or from one of the general authorities regarding evil spirits, they will </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">still</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> willfully reject it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This life is an extension of the war in heaven.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> How can we combat the enemy when we refuse to acknowledge that he even exists? The acceptance and teaching of these myths indicate a great deal of deception of the Saints on the part of Satan. Deception is his “main tool of destruction.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder H. Verlan Andersen said:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">…Deception constitutes one of the gravest risks faced in this life. However, very few seem to give the problem much thought even though the scriptures are filled with warnings against it. Of course, many never read those warnings, but those who do tend to apply them to others. Consequently, indifference to the problem is quite general. Being unaware of the danger, people take no measures to defend themselves against it, and thus fall easy victims to one of Satan’s most formidable weapons.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why is it that Satan is so successful in his deception? One major reason is because one of his most effective deceptive tools “is to have us believe that the wisdom and the learning of the world is the only source of knowledge we should follow.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Worldly secular education and knowledge can be very dangerous because: (1) belief in false knowledge and traditions take away “light and truth;”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and (2) when these are passed down through generations they become inherited lies, which are “the very mainspring of all corruption.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> These traditions and lies are handed down from generation to generation without parents confirming their truthfulness or their falsehood.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Orson Pratt also explained why this deception is so effective:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The devil has invented various names for his manifestations in order to get the people to swallow them down; the same as the doctors. When they wish to administer some nauseous kind of medicine, they sweeten it up a little. So the devil has sweetened up these things in such a way that he has got almost all these manifestations under the name of science. If you want to see a species of devilism made manifest, it comes out under a scientific phraseology, under the specious name of electrobiology, animal magnetism, or some such popular name—names that have been given to real sciences, which have their laws, founded in nature, are now given to these supernatural manifestations. Why does Satan use these artifices? Because the people at the present day have become naturally scientific, or a great many of them have; and the devil thinks if he can only invent a real, nice, beautiful name, with some resemblance to a scientific name, a great many of these persons will swallow it down, and think it all right.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Pratt’s comment that people are “naturally scientific” is even more so today. The leaders of the Church have encouraged the Saints to get an education and many have complied with this. However, what is ignored is the counsel to filter secular knowledge through the Holy Spirit so that one can identify the falsehoods that are so prevalent in the secular education system. President Joseph F. Smith warned of the dangers of a tax payer funded school system when he said, “God is not in it. Religion is excluded from it. The Bible is excluded from it.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Because many Latter-day Saints do not follow the counsel to filter secular education, they accept with very little question what they are taught as the “truth” not realizing that they have accepted Satan's falsehoods. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is easier and more comforting for the carnal or worldly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> mind to believe in the wisdom of the world and secular education, because these things teach you to believe in what you can see and feel. These are the “Korihor conclusions;” these conclusions say that “man cannot know of that which he cannot see.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Korihor was so successful and persuasive because of these arguments that many of the Nephites followed him. The things of God, i.e., faith, spirits, Heaven, etc., are not discernable to the natural senses, and therefore much harder to believe in. “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, except he has the Spirit of God.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Ezra Taft Benson said, “Today the world is full of alluring and attractive ideas that can lead even the best of our members into error and deception. Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He also said, “We cannot believe all we read, and what we can believe is not all of the same value. We must sift. We must learn by study and prayer.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He went on to say, “The best yardstick to use in discerning the worth of true knowledge and learning is to go first and foremost to the words of the Lord's prophets.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Joseph Fielding Smith taught that the wisdom of the world means nothing unless it conforms to God’s wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So far as the philosophy and wisdom of the world are concerned, they mean nothing unless they conform to the revealed word of God. Any doctrine, whether it comes in the name of religion, science, philosophy, or whatever it may be, if it is in conflict with the revealed word of the Lord, will fail. It may appear plausible. It may be put before you in language that appeals and which you may not be able to answer. It may appear to be established by evidence that you cannot controvert, but all you need to do is to abide your time. Time will level all things. You will find that every doctrine, every principle, no matter how universally believed, if it is not in accord with the divine word of the Lord to his servants, will perish. Nor is it necessary for us to try to stretch the word of the Lord in a vain attempt to make it conform to these theories and teachings. The word of the Lord shall not pass away unfulfilled, but these false doctrines and theories will all fail. Truth, and only truth, will remain when all else has perished.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The core of the problem is that the Saints do not question their secular education and, worse, they lack correct spiritual knowledge. Instead, many Saints believe implicitly in modern sciences that deny the existence of God, the Savior, and Satan. Like Elder Pratt said, if you make up a scientific or medical name for an illness, the majority of Saints will accept it regardless of the teachings of the prophets and apostles. Secular educators and their adherents in and out of the Church have ridiculed, mocked, and shamed Saints who divert from the mainstream of what is claimed to be “scientific knowledge.” Those who question these educators and “scientists” regarding the reality of evil spirits and Satan, especially in regard to mental illness is made to feel uneducated and superstitious. Consequently, those who do not have the necessary spiritual knowledge and are not resistant to this pressure will give in and accept, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">teach</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the falsehoods of the secular world. Consider the following incident in a class a psychology class taught by a Brigham Young University professor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A young psychologist was attending an Abnormal Psychology class at BYU. The class was being taught by a High Priests' group leader, a fine man. While turning the pages and following along in the textbook, looking carefully at what was being discussed (it was Coleman's book on Abnormal Psychology) he remembers hearing these words: "Now we know, of course, that there are no such things as evil spirits. We recognize that these are simply mental disorders." That remark had the effect of a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cold </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">slap in the face. The student's reaction: "Now wait a minute. Wait a minute. How can you say that? What's the message of the New Testament?" The professor insisted that demonic possession was a symbolic or unsophisticated way of saying that people were troubled mentally and emotionally. This caused great concern. It seemed as if an awful price was being paid needlessly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone who has had experience with demonic possession will testify of the reality of evil powers. We are foolish to ignore or deny their existence. The issue of demonic possession is one example of many in which Mormon professionals have been forced, as they suppose, into an unnecessary compromise, which compromise may follow such a dichotomy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another major reason for Satan's success in deceiving the Saints is that he has convinced many of them that he is merely a symbol or representation of evil rather than an actual personage of spirit. In 2001, a survey</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of Latter-day Saints was published in the Deseret News in which they were asked if they believed that “Satan is a real being who can influence people's lives....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It is the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">doctrine</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that Satan is a real personage of spirit who was thrust down to earth for rebellion and became the Devil. One would think that since it is doctrine, those Latter-day Saints surveyed would answer one hundred percent in the affirmative. That, however, was not the case. An amazing 41% of those surveyed </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">did not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> believe this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What this shows is that many Saints are fulfilling the prophecy of the prophet Nephi.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well—and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And behold, others he flattereth away, and telleth them there is no hell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none—and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no deliverance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yea, they are grasped with death, and hell; and death, and hell, and the devil, and all that have been seized therewith must stand before the throne of God, and be judged according to their works, from whence they must go into the place prepared for them, even a lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Single Most Common Affliction of Mankind</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possession by evil spirits is the single most common affliction of mankind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are steeped in the wisdom of the world, the above statement will cause you dissonance. Your first reaction may be to think, “No. That cannot be true.” The dissonance is caused by the conflicting wisdom of mankind vs. the teachings of the scriptures and the apostles and prophets. Elder Bruce R. McConkie said, “However much it may run counter to the carnal mind to read of men possessed of devils, and of other men who cast them out, such is one of the realities of mortal life.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “The Joseph Smith Translation particularly emphasizes that evil spirits are real and afflict mankind, and may be cast out by the power of God.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The wisdom of the world denies the existence of Satan and evil spirits, so the idea of possession also is denied. Admittedly, no apostle or prophet, or the scriptures come right out and say that possession is the single most common affliction. However, an analysis of several statements made by several church scholars, general authorities and prophets of the Church, and in official Church publications will demonstrate otherwise.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Almost everything revealed in this dispensation about the doctrine and principles of the Gospel came from the Prophet Joseph Smith. From the very beginning, Joseph was attacked by Satan, who did everything he could to destroy Joseph. His experience and instruction on the realities of possession began soon after organizing the Church. In April 1830, Joseph performed the very first miracle in this dispensation when he cast out the devil from Newel Knight. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Newel] began to feel uneasy, and continued to feel worse both in mind and body, until, upon reaching his own house, his appearance was such as to alarm his wife very much. He requested her to go and bring me (Joseph) to him. I went and found him suffering very much in his mind, and his body acted upon in a very strange manner; his visage and limbs distorted and twisted in every shape and appearance possible to imagine; and finally he was caught up off the floor of the apartment, and tossed about most fearfully.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His situation was soon made known to his neighbors and relatives, and in a short time as many as eight or nine grown persons had got together to witness the scene. After he had thus suffered for a time, I succeeded in getting hold of him by the hand, when almost immediately he spoke to me, and with great earnestness requested me to cast the devil out of him, saying that he knew he was in him, and that he also knew that I could cast him out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I replied, "If you know that I can, it shall be done;" and then almost unconsciously I rebuked the devil, and commanded him in the name of Jesus Christ to depart from him; when immediately Newel spoke out and said that he saw the devil leave him and vanish from his sight. This was the first miracle which was done in the Church, or by any member of it; and it was done not by man, nor by the power of man, but it was done by God, and by the power of godliness; therefore, let the honor and the praise, the dominion and the glory, be ascribed to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for ever and ever. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Joseph received and taught many revelations, including those regarding Satan and evil spirits to the Brethren of his time, who, in turn, continued those teachings. Brigham Young taught extensively from the teachings of Joseph Smith, including the reality of evil spirits. He attributed all of his Gospel instruction to Joseph Smith. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What I have received from the Lord, I have received by Joseph Smith: he was the instrument made use of. If I drop him, I must drop these principles: they have not been revealed, declared, or explained by any other man since the days of the Apostles.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the very beginning of his instructions to the Saints, Joseph taught about the realities of possession by evil spirits.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...This was the case with Lucifer when he fell. He sought for things which were unlawful. Hence he was sent down, and it is said he drew many away with him; and the greatness of his punishment is that he shall not have a tabernacle. This is his punishment. So the devil, thinking to thwart the decree of God, by going up and down in the earth, seeking whom he may destroy any person that he can find that will yield to him, he will bind him, and take possession of the body and reign there, glorying in it mightily, not caring that he had got merely a stolen body; and by-and-by some one (sic) having authority will come along and cast him out and restore the tabernacle to its rightful owner. The devil steals a tabernacle because he has not one of his own: but if he steals one, he is always liable to be turned out of doors.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The spirits in the eternal world are like the spirits in this world. When those have come into this world and received tabernacles, then died and again have risen and received glorified bodies, they will have an ascendancy over the spirits who have received no bodies, or kept not their first estate, like the devil. The punishment of the devil was that he should not have a habitation like men. The devil's retaliation is, he comes into this world, binds up men's bodies, and occupies them himself. When the authorities come along, they eject him from a stolen habitation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that we see that possession by evil spirits is a reality, how does this prove that it is the most common affliction of mankind? It does not, but let us examine scripture and the quotes of several general authorities, church scholars, and official Church publications. In this way, it can be demonstrated that possession is a common affliction.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Alma chapter 40, Alma is teaching his son, Corianton, about the resurrection and what happens to the wicked if they die in their sins. </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of the wicked, yea, who are evil—for behold, they have no part nor portion of the Spirit of the Lord; for behold, they chose evil works rather than good; therefore </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the spirit of the devil did enter into them, and take possession of their house</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—and these shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, and this because of their own iniquity, being led captive by the will of the devil.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Emphasis added)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notice in the above scripture that the wicked had the “spirit of the devil enter into them, and take possession of their house.” While one might think that the term “house” to be a metaphor for something other than a physical body, Elder Heber C. Kimball asked, “Are not your spirits in the house? Are not your bodies your houses, your tabernacles or temples, and places for your spirits?”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Jedidiah M. Grant continued on this line when he used this same term to describe those who become possessed. “The grand difficulty we have to encounter is from devils that enter into you; they take possession of your houses, and then we have to fight devils in tabernacles.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why do people become possessed? Because they chose “wicked works.” What are these wicked works? If you read on to the end of the chapter in verse 26, the explanation will become clearer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But behold, an awful death cometh upon the wicked; for they die as to things pertaining to things of righteousness; for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they are unclean, and no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of God</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; but they are cast out, and consigned to partake of the fruits of their labors or their works, which have been evil; and they drink the dregs of a bitter cup (emphasis added).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next, we cross reference this verse to see what is considered “unclean.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every one of the sins listed above are of the type that would get one consigned to hell or the telestial kingdom. What other sins would get one consigned to this kingdom? In his book, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life Everlasting</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Duane Crowther compiled a list of these sins.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A number of sins are specifically listed in the scriptures, the knowing commission of which would doom the individual to suffer in hell if he did not repent. These sins include</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Refusal to accept the gospel and the testimony of Jesus (D&C 76:82, 103-106; Al. 12:10-11)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Whoring and harlotry (D&C 76:103-106; 2 Ne. 9:36; 28:15; Rev. 21:8; Prov. 7:6-27; 5:3-5)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Being filthy and abominable (Rev. 21:8; 2 Ne. 9:16; 1 Ne. 15:34-35)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. Idolatry (Rev. 21:8).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. Sorcery (D&C 76:103-106; Rev. 21:8)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Hypocrisy (Mt. 23:27-28, 33)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. Loving lies and telling them (D&C 76:103-106; Rev. 21:8;2 Ne. 9:34)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10. Preaching false doctrine (2 Ne. 28:9-15)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11. Leading others into sin (Al. 36:13-14; Al. 14:6; 1 Ne. 14:3-4; Lk. 12:5)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">22. Being an unprofitable servant (Mt. 25:30).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An additional list was compiled by President Spencer W. Kimball in his book, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Miracle of Forgiveness</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we read the scriptures quoted or referred to above, we observe that they list virtually all the modern transgressions, though sometimes under ancient names. Let us review the lengthy list: Murder, adultery, theft, cursing, unholiness in masters, disobedience in servants, unfaithfulness, improvidence, hatred of God, disobedience to husbands, lack of natural affection, high-mindedness, flattery, lustfulness, infidelity, indiscretion, backbiting, whispering, lack of truth, striking, brawling, quarrelsomeness, unthankfulness, inhospitality, deceitfulness, irreverence, boasting, arrogance, pride, double-tongued talk, profanity, slander, corruptness, thievery, embezzlement, despoiling, covenant-breaking, incontinence, filthiness, ignobleness, filthy communications, impurity, foolishness, slothfulness, impatience, lack of understanding, unmercifulness, idolatry, blasphemy, denial of the Holy Ghost, Sabbath breaking, envy, jealousy, malice, maligning, vengefulness, implacability, bitterness, clamor, spite, defiling, reviling, evil speaking, provoking, greediness for filthy lucre, disobedience to parents, anger, hate, covetousness, bearing false witness, inventing evil things, fleshliness, heresy, presumptuousness, abomination, insatiable appetite, instability, ignorance, self-will, speaking evil of dignitaries, becoming a stumbling block; and in our modern language, masturbation, petting, fornication, adultery, homosexuality; and every sex perversion, every hidden and secret sin and all unholy and impure practices. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Considering that the wicked referred to in Alma are those who commit acts worthy of the telestial kingdom, then, by extension, they become possessed by the spirit of the devil. Additionally, the inhabitants of this kingdom will be as “innumerable as the stars in the firmament of heaven, or as the sand upon the seashore....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Since the telestial kingdom will have an innumerable number of inhabitants, all of whom were possessed in this life, that would indicate that literally billions of people are currently possessed either transiently or permanently. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Devil was cursed and sent down from heaven. He has no body of his own; therefore he is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">constantly endeavoring</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to obtain possession of the tabernacles belonging to others (emphasis added).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brigham Young</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesus found foul spirits and devils so thick, in his days, that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he had occasion frequently to cast them out</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of persons, and also to empower others to cast out devils. Some instances are recorded where many of these fallen spirits took possession of a single person at one and the same time. No less than seven occupied one female. Now modern Christianity must be highly favored, if they are so much better than primitive Saints, that they can escape the annoyance of these multiplied and troublesome spirits (emphasis added).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Orson Spencer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of the many gifts of the Spirit which were manifest through my administration, next to my acquirement of the language, the most prominent was perhaps the gift of healing, and by the power of God the casting out of evil spirits </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which frequently occurred</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (emphasis added)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Joseph F. Smith</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The devil with one-third part of the spirits of our Father's Kingdom got here before us, and we tarried there with our friends, until the time came for us to come to the earth and take tabernacles; but those spirits that revolted were forbidden ever to have tabernacles of their own. You can now comprehend how it is that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they are always trying to get possession</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the bodies of human beings; we read of a man's being possessed of a legion, and Mary Magdalene had seven.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You may now see people with legions of evil spirits in and around them; there are men who walk our streets that have more than a hundred devils in them and round about them, prompting them to all manner of evil, and some too that profess to be Latter-day Saints, and if you were to take the devils out of them and from about them, you would leave them dead corpses; for I believe there would be nothing left of them (emphasis added).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brigham Young</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You think it was an exceptional miracle when, after crossing the sea, the Savior with his disciples came upon one who was a maniac, and cast the devils out of him, but it was not; </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it is something that is occurring (sic) all the times (sic)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (emphasis added).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Nicholas G. Smith</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hence he exerts an invisible agency over the spirits of men, darkens their minds, and uses his infernal power to confound, corrupt, destroy and envelope the world in confusion, misery, and distress; and, although deprived personally of operating with a body, he uses his influence over the spirits of those who have bodies, to resist goodness, virtue, purity, intelligence, and the fear of God; and consequently, the happiness of man; and poor erring humanity is made the dupe of his wiles. The Apostle says, "The God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God, should shine unto them." 2 Cor. iv. 4. But not content with the ravages he has made, the spoliation, misery, and distress, not having a tabernacle of his own, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he has frequently sought to occupy that of man</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, in order that he might yet possess greater power, and more fully accomplish the devastation (emphasis added).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> John Taylor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Satan and his evil angels are bodiless. That is their heavy punishment. Their power, now and hereafter, is greatly limited by this lack. Therefore, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they often seek entrance into human bodies</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, even bodies of lower animals. Whenever this occurs, the individual thus made to share his body is caused much agonized suffering (emphasis added).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder John A. Widtsoe</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manifestly, as in all things, there are laws and conditions under which devils have power to force entry into human bodies. And of course in the power and majesty of their priesthood, both Jesus and the legal administrators sent from him have cast these usurping and unclean spirits out of their stolen habitations. On </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the numerous occasions</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that our Lord exercised his power over devils, he was fulfilling the Messianic promise: "And he shall cast out devils, or the evil spirits which dwell in the hearts of the children of men." (Mosiah 3:6.) (emphasis added)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Bruce R. McConkie</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why did the demons desire to enter the bodies of the swine? or, for that matter, how came they to take up tenancy in the body of the man? We cannot tell and do not know how it is that evil spirits-few or many-gain entrance into the bodies of mortal men. We do know that all things are governed by law, and that Satan is precluded from taking possession of the bodies of the prophets and other righteous people. Were it not so, the work of God would be thwarted-always and in all instances-for Lucifer leads the armies of hell against all men, and more especially against those who are instrumental in furthering the Lord's work.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There must be circumstances of depression and sin and physical weakness that within the restrictions of divine control, permit evil spirits to enter human bodies. We do know their curse is to be denied tabernacles, and we surmise that the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">desire for such tenancy is so great</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that they, when permitted, even enter the bodies of beasts. (emphasis added)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Bruce R. McConkie</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This particular instance of ejecting spirit beings from a stolen tenement is set forth in detail by the gospel authors to show:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(5) That </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the desire to gain bodies is so great</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> among Lucifer's minions as to cause them, not only to steal the mortal tabernacles of men, but to enter the bodies of animals;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(7) That rebellious and worldly people are not converted to the truth by observing miracles; and</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(8) That those cleansed from evil spirits can then be used on the Lord's errand to testify of his grace and goodness so that receptive persons may be led to believe in him. (emphasis added)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Bruce R. McConkie</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">False spirits are more subtle, and more contagious than the small pox; their number and diversity of operations cannot be counted by man; and the first moment the saints leave the path of duty, that moment they are subject to the influence of evil, false spirits, which once having taken possession of the soul, are difficult if not impossible to be removed by the person so receiving them, without assistance from those who have more wisdom. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The great object of evils spirits is to get bodies</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and the only chance they have is to dispossess a soul of the spirit of the Lord, the light of eternal truth, and take possession of that body thus dispossessed; and when thus once in possession, it may truly be said there is a body possessed of the devil. (emphasis added)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Deseret News editorial)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So long as evil spirits can obtain possession of living, human beings and influence them according to their wishes, so long has evil a tangible existence upon the earth. If there were no tabernacles for them to operate through—no men and women who would allow them to use their bodies</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (the great object of their desire, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">because of their own great lack of earthly attributes)—evil and sin would have no existence upon the earth....</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Emphasis added) George Q. Cannon</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The following quotations come from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">official</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> publications of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first two are from The Young Woman's Journal, which was a “publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association (YLMIA), then the LDS Church's organization for adolescent females.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The following two quotes were part of a Church approved Sunday school lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not only did the Savior perform miracles of healing the body, but diseases of the mind were </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">frequently</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> overcome by His divine power. The devil and his angels are bodiless, which is a part of their punishment for their rebellion in Heaven. In their great desire to possess mortal bodies, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they frequently enter into the bodies of men and women</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to the serious injury of the person. At times they will enter even the bodies of lower animals. Many cases of individuals possessed by evil spirits, came under the notice of the Savior, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He frequently had occasion to cast out evil spirits</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. (emphasis added)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are in existence numerous spirits. Many are good, and some are evil. At the great council in heaven, when the plan of salvation was formulated, the devil turned away one-third of the hosts of heaven, who became the angels of the devil. These spirits are not permitted to come on earth in mortal bodies. This is their great punishment. No spirit can attain full happiness unless it is clothed upon with a body obtained in a probationary earth existence. The angels of the devil know this, and attempt to circumvent the will of God in various ways. They will enter the bodies of men and women, to the serious injury of the person; and at times will enter bodies of the lower animals. Moreover, since the mission of these unclean spirits is to do evil, by their influence and suggestion they may torment the minds and bodies of men. The miracles of the Savior therefore, which dealt with the diseases of the mind, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">frequently</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> concerned themselves with the spirits that as emissaries of the evil one seek power over the children of men.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Very soon after the beginning of Christ's ministry he was recognized by an evil spirit (read Mark 1:23-26). The man who was possessed declared that Jesus was the “Holy One of God.” When in obedience to Christ's command, the spirit left the man, the people marveled, for such a thing had never been seen before. This miracle must have taught to those present that Christ was indeed a divine teacher for even the spirits of evil admitted it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This power over spirits that afflicted humanity the Savior manifested on many occasions. One of the most remarkable spirit miracles is recorded in Mark 5:1-20 (which read). Across the lake of Galilee was a man who was terribly possessed of spirits. When Jesus appeared these spirits were afraid, and pleaded with Jesus, that if cast out, they might be allowed to enter the bodies of some swine that were feeding near by. This petition was granted with the result that the frightened swine were drowned in the lake. In this case, also, the unclean spirits acknowledged the place of the Savior as the Son of God. The most striking lesson taught by this miracle is perhaps</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the almost uncontrollable desire of the spirits for bodies</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which harmonizes with the doctrine regarding the purpose of man’s coming upon earth. (emphasis added)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This last quote is from the Bible Dictionary contained in the official scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The “dictionary provides a concise collection of definitions and explanations of Bible topics. It is based primarily on the biblical text, supplemented by information from the other standard works.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “The LDS </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bible Dictionary</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was created in the 1970s by the Scriptures Publications Committee of the LDS Church. This committee was chaired by [Elder] Thomas S. Monson, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The following quote is under the heading, “Devil.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since the devil and his premortal angels have no physical body of flesh and bones, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they often seek to possess the bodies of mortal beings</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. There are many such instances recorded in scripture (Matt. 9:32; 12:22; Mark 1:24; 5:7; Luke 8:30; Acts 19:15; see also Mosiah 3:6). Such can be evicted by the power of faith in Jesus Christ and the exercise of the holy priesthood. Jesus gave this power to His disciples (Matt. 10:1; Mark 16:17; Luke 10:17; Acts 5:16; D&C 84:67).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Emphasis added)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The terms, “so great,” “often,” “frequently,” “numerous,” “occurring all the time,” “always trying,” “almost uncontrollable,” “great object,” and “constantly” are used throughout the above quotes. President Harold B. Lee taught that Satan has three main purposes in this life. Of these three purposes, “Satan's second purpose is to possess the bodies of Adam and his posterity.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This clearly indicates the importance Satan places on possessing the bodies of the human race. The terms used in the quotes, the frequency of possession being </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">officially</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> taught by the Church, along with Satan's second main purpose – when all are considered together – more than show that possession by evil spirits is, indeed, the most common affliction of mankind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Nature and Classes of Evil Spirits</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the previous section, we learned that possession by evil spirits is a common event. One reason is because devils are denied the right to a body because of their rebellion,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which creates an “almost uncontrollable desire” to possess the bodies of mankind. “...The mission of these unclean spirits is to do evil, by their influence and suggestion they may torment the minds and bodies of men.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> To the large majority of Saints, the most evil spirits can do is tempt and influence; possession is rarely considered, if at all. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the mission of evil spirits is to “do evil” through “influence,” how does that apply to possession? Evil spirits are always around us looking for an opportunity to exert their influence on us. They “are constantly seeking to instill into our minds evil thoughts and wrong desires, to prompt us to commit sin and thereby grieve the Spirit of God….”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Even though evil spirits can project thoughts, desires, and feelings into our mind they do “not know whether these thoughts have taken root unless they are reflected either in words or in actions.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The answer to the previous question is that once a person succumbs to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">external</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> influence to commit sin, he opens himself up to possession. Elder William J. Critchlow, Jr., said that “evil spirits can enter into and thus influence mortal bodies….”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This means that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">after</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a person succumbs to the temptations of evil spirits, they enter into and then exert a greater influence over mankind. This is cause-and-effect: a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">greater, more powerful and more intense influence over people to commit sin is produced when they become possessed by evil spirits</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The preceding statement and the statement by Elder Critchlow is supported by Elder George Q. Cannon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Saints, at least, should understand that there are many spirits which are exerting their power among men and seeking to obtain an influence over them and that if they would escape from their effects, they must be upon their guard. But how many are there who are sufficiently careful upon this point? How many of those who have embraced the Gospel are jealously watching every avenue of their hearts lest a spirit which is not of God should enter therein and obtain power over them?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does the man who finds fault with his brother in the Priesthood and grumbles against and condemns the President understand that when he does so he is giving place to a spirit which is not of God and which, if not expelled, will obtain such power over him that he will be led by it out of the Church and far from the path of righteousness? Or does the woman who scandalizes and talks about her sister know that in so doing she is giving utterance to the thoughts and feelings of a subtle, untruthful and delusive spirit which, if she retains it, will lead her to destruction? When men and women give utterance to such expressions and feelings, the evil influence is at work; they are being operated upon by it, though they themselves may not be aware of it; indeed, the great danger to the individual lies in he or she not being aware of the character of the spirit that is operating upon and leading him or her to commit the evil which it cannot accomplish itself, without the aid of human agency.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So long as evil spirits can obtain possession of living, human beings and influence them according to their wishes, so long has evil a tangible existence upon the earth. If there were no tabernacles for them to operate through—no men and women who would allow them to use their bodies (the great object of their desire, because of their own great lack of earthly attributes)—evil and sin would have no existence upon the earth</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">....</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Emphasis added)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the above quote, Elder Cannon asked if we are “jealously watching every avenue” of our hearts. What does it mean to be “jealously watching?” To answer this, consider the character traits of a jealous lover. What would he be doing to the one he loved? He would be forever suspicious, hyper vigilant, and constantly looking about for any signs of betrayal. He would be apprehensive and fearful of any potential rival. It is the same thing when it comes to being on guard against the potential of evil spirits entering us. We must be constantly hyper vigilant and forever on our guard, suspicious of any evil or intrusive thoughts that prompt us to divert from the path of righteousness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we can see, when Elder Cannon said, “a spirit which is not of God and which, if not expelled, will obtain such power over him,” he was indicating that it is an evil spirit that has taken possession of a person. It can be inferred from the overall context of the quote that this spirit is a literal evil spirit that can be expelled by, “Resist[ing] the devil, [who] will flee from you.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Because everything we do, every act we perform first starts in the mind, we resist the devil first by resisting evil thoughts.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE SHOCKING CHARACTER OF EVIL SPIRITS. If those who allow such spirits to possess and influence and speak and act through them were to behold them, with their eyes enlightened by the Spirit of God, in all their repulsiveness, they would be shocked at the character of the visitors they had entertained. But the first approaches of such influences are so insidious and insinuating that those to whom they introduce themselves are not aware of their character and the hideous train that they will call to their assistance and encourage to follow them, when once they have obtained an entrance into the human heart.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When an Elder or a Saint (through being off his guard and not suspecting the nature of the influence that is operating upon him) suffers himself, by any of the numerous temptations and fascinations which such spirits know so well how to use, to be diverted, from attending to the duties of his ministry and religion with a perfect heart and an eye single to the glory of God, he has but little idea of the wicked troop which will follow the entrance of this unsuspected visitor at the avenue which he has left unguarded unless he instantly expel it and bid it begone....</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Emphasis added)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When Elder Cannon used the phrase, “the visitors they had entertained,” he was telling us that we, through giving in to the external influence of evil spirits, allowed them to take possession of us. Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said, “If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us! Turning these unwanted lodgers away at the doorstep of the mind is one way of giving ‘no heed.’ Besides, these would-be lodgers are actually barbarians who, if admitted, can be evicted only with great trauma.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Plainly, we can infer from this statement that these barbarians are actually evil spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Cannon said that evil spirits “are so insidious….” Let us look at this in another light. Evil spirits are sly, corrupt, deceptive, deceitful, crafty, cunning, slick, treacherous, dangerous, and subtle, just to name a few traits. “…The hideous train” is better described as appalling, awful, disgusting, dreadful, frightening, revolting, ghastly, hateful, and repulsive. When a Saint is “off his guard” he is not jealously guarding every avenue of his heart. It also means he is distracted by any number of different things, such as technology, work, entertainment, hobbies, books, etc. When he is “off his guard,” he can be externally influenced to commit sin and after he succumbs, an evil spirit enters him, and unless the Saint expel it, a number of other evil spirits are waiting to follow the entry of the first spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evil spirits are insidious in their influence. They have one desire and that is to make all men miserable like themselves by keeping us from returning to our Heavenly Father. How does one fight their influence? Prayer, scripture study, partaking of the sacrament, temple attendance, etc., are the things the Brethren recommend. Additionally, there is one other thing that will also help: gaining correct knowledge. Evil spirits thrive on anonymity and ignorance; they do not want mankind to know they exist and how they operate. Not accepting the reality of possession by evil spirits, not gaining an in-depth knowledge about their capabilities and methods gives them power.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Failing to gain knowledge about how to fight evil spirits is like going into battle with a blindfold covering your eyes. You will not know from which direction an attack is being launched and you will be taken into “captivity, because [you] have no knowledge.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All spiritual knowledge is essential, but what types of knowledge should we gain to keep from coming into captivity? The Prophet Joseph Smith said that “if men do not get [a] knowledge...of how to control evil spirits, the latter will have more power than the former, and thus be able to dominate them.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Where would we start in gaining this knowledge? Elder George Q. Cannon said that to be free of the power of evil spirits, we must gain “a correct knowledge of the laws which govern them....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Prophet Joseph taught that evil spirits have a government, laws, power, and “signs by which they may be known.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evil spirits receive their power and laws from and operate only upon the sufferance of our Heavenly Father. This is because they are a necessary part of the plan of salvation. In Satan's “government,” he has specific assignments he gives to the myriad of his evil minions. It is important to know that his minions fall into two categories: devils and unclean/foul spirits. Devils are the one third part of the hosts of heaven that were thrust out for rebellion. Unclean or foul spirits are the disembodied spirits of wicked people who once lived on the earth.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The term, “unclean,” is used because “ye have sought to do wickedly in the days of your probation, then ye are found unclean before the judgment-seat of God; and no unclean thing can dwell with God; wherefore, ye must be cast off forever.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> These spirits then become subjugated by Satan</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> because they failed to repent while yet alive. Satan assigns his angels and unclean spirits various tasks that are all about temptation, influence, affliction, possession, and bringing misery to mankind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When the scriptures and the apostles and prophets refer to spirits of different sins, e.g., spirit of adultery, spirit of lust, spirit of fear, spirit of contention, spirit of sickness, spirit of anger, spirit of lying, spirit of jealousy, etc., it seems that many Saints think that this is a metaphor or a symbol of these sins or afflictions. They think that it might be a person's own evil passions and desires, but not an actual, literal “spirit.” However, this is not the case. There seems to be a disconnect in the minds of Latter-day Saints between the doctrine of evil spirits and their reality. This disconnect comes because of their belief in and acceptance of the teachings and wisdom of the world. The “spirit” of these sins and afflictions are not metaphors or symbols, but actual personages of spirit whose assignment is to be a spirit of anger, or contention, or adultery, or lust, etc. Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote about this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One spirit is from above (good), the other from beneath (evil); and that which is from beneath never allows more light or truth or freedom to exist than it can help. All religion, philosophy, education science, governmental control - indeed, all things - are influence[d] and governed by one or the other (in some cases, part by one and part by the other) of these spirits. (Moro. 7.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It should be understood that these two influences in the world are manifest through the ministrations of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">actual spirit personages</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> [both good and evil] from the unseen world. The power and influence wielded by Satan is exercised through the host of evil spirits who do his bidding and who have power, according to laws that exist, to impress their wills upon the minds of receptive mortals (emphasis added).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One example is from the New Testament. “And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">herself.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This was an actual personage of spirit that possessed the woman. The Savior then healed her by casting out the evil spirit through “whom Satan hath bound....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder George Q. Cannon expanded on this concept in two different sermons.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every properly constituted person can feel the influence of the various [evil] spirits that are in the world, and that seek to bring us in subjection to them. To some it is given to see these influences; but all can feel them. Whence is it that anger comes? You will see a man all at once seized with a spirit of anger: another time you will see a person seized with a spirit of jealousy, or some other evil influence, infuriated sometimes, so much so that he or she is transformed. You have seen people's faces completely changed by the spirit that takes possession of them. They cannot see that power; but it is undoubtedly a spiritual entity. We may not be conscious of it, but it takes possession of us if we yield to it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When a person is “seized with a spirit of anger” or “jealousy” or “some other evil influence,” this results from giving in to the external influence of a spirit personage whose assignment is to be a spirit of anger or jealousy. This is why it is very important that when one feels the initial signs of anger, jealousy, lust, greed, etc., he cannot let it escalate as this is the avenue through which evil spirits can enter and possess. If a person let’s his thought linger or broods on these feelings, evil spirits will then exacerbate the problem, attempting to urge its victim on to commit greater sins.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have often heard it remarked by the brethren, and I have remarked it myself, that in some places there is a greater disposition entertained by the people to commit adultery and indulge in kindred sins of this description than there is in this country. There seem to be influences in the atmosphere in those lands of such a character, that unless a person is on his guard and constantly watching and resisting them, he will be led down to destruction by them. A spirit and disposition will creep over the people unless they are careful, to lead them astray in the direction which I have named. This is undoubtedly the case. There are [evil] spirits in the atmosphere that are filled with that disposition, and who seek to influence those with whom they are brought in contact, impressing those who are in the tabernacle of flesh to indulge in the same sin.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are influences in the atmosphere that are invisible to us that, while we are here upon the earth, we ought to resist with all our might, mind, and strength—influences which, if we would be led by them, would lead us to destruction—influences that are opposed to the Spirit of God—influences that would bring upon us destruction here and hereafter, if we would yield to them. These influences we have to resist. We have to resist the spirit of adultery, the spirit of whoredom, the spirit of drunkenness, the spirit of theft, and every other evil influence and spirit, that we may continually overcome; and, when we have finished our work on the earth, be prepared to govern and control those influences, and exercise power over them, in the presence of our Father and God. I have no doubt that many of my brethren and sisters have sensibly felt in various places and at various times evil influences around them. Brother Joseph Smith gave an explanation of this. There are places in the Mississippi Valley where the influence or the presence of invisible spirits are very perceptibly felt. He said that numbers had been slain there in war, and that there were evil influences or spirits which affect the spirits of those who have tabernacles on the earth. I myself have felt those influences in other places besides the continent of America; I have felt them on the old battle grounds on the Sandwich Islands. I have come to the conclusion that if our eyes were open to see the spirit world around us, we should feel differently on this subject than we do; we would not be so unguarded and careless, and so indifferent whether we had the spirit and power of God with us or not; but we would be continually watchful and prayerful to our Heavenly Father for His Holy Spirit and His holy angels to be around about us to strengthen us overcome every evil influence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The above quote indicates some very important warnings. Two passages are important to remember: “in some places there is a greater disposition entertained by the people to commit adultery and indulge in kindred sins of this description…,” and “many of my brethren and sisters have sensibly felt in various places and at various times evil influences around them.” These places can be bars and clubs; areas frequented by drug dealers, prostitutes, and gang members; casinos, horse races, businesses that sell pornography, and adult entertainment establishments, etc. It can also be a person’s home because of inappropriate television shows and movies, video games, and the internet. For example, a person prone to anger, who watches violent shows and movies, or plays violent video games can open an avenue for evil spirits to possess him. It is the same for a person prone to looking at pornography. He can easily be lured into looking at it after watching TV or movies with inappropriately dressed characters because he gives in to the influence of the spirit of lust. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the three previous quotes, we see that these spirits of various sins and afflictions are actual personages of spirit. Remember that the “great object,” the almost “uncontrollable desire” of evil spirits is to possess a body, even if it is an animal. There are two reasons for this: first, for a devil, they have been denied a body because of their rebellion and for unclean spirits, they had a body and have an overwhelming desire to have one once again; secondly, it is easier for an evil spirit to influence a person thus possessed. If we give in to their external promptings, they will quickly possess us leading us to further commit sin. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because the average Latter-day Saint, let alone a non-member, would never know an evil spirit entered him, he would think the thoughts, feelings, and desires of that evil spirit were his own thoughts, feelings, and desires. He would be unable to distinguish between his thoughts and the thoughts and influence of the evil spirit. That Saint will then have greater difficulty resisting the influence to commit sin because of lack of correct knowledge and unbelief. Because the unwary Saint succumbed to the external influence of the evil spirit and became possessed, and went on to commit greater sin, he cannot say that he was forced to commit sin. Joseph Smith taught, “The devil could not compel mankind to do evil; all was voluntary.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These evil spirits can then transfer their own evil desires onto their victim,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> urging them on to greater and more serious sins. Elder Parley P. Pratt talked about this when he said they “suggest to the mind all manner of lasciviousness, all kinds of evil thoughts and temptations.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> That Saint is still accountable for the sins he commits despite the influence of any possessing evil spirit because he initially let the evil spirit in through his actions. Additionally, although it will be much more difficult, he can still resist the influence and expel the invading spirit. However, his unbelief has allowed him to be deceived and there is no excuse for being deceived. The sin of unbelief</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> can be the sin that opens one up to possession.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Pratt went on further and said, “There are, in fact, most awful instances of the spirit of lust, and of bawdy and abominable words and actions, inspired and uttered by persons possessed of such spirits, even though the persons were virtuous and modest so long as they possessed their own agency.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Although they are not all named specifically, there are spirits that cause plagues,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> pain and sickness,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fever, disease, and death.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Pratt taught extensively on this subject.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[There are unclean] spirits who afflict persons in the flesh, and engender various diseases in the human system. They will sometimes enter human bodies, and will distract them, throw them into fits (epilepsy), cast them into the water, into the fire, etc. They will trouble them with dreams, nightmare (night terrors and disturbing dreams), hysterics (anxiety and panic attacks), fever, etc. They will also deform them in body and in features, by convulsions, cramps, contortions, etc., and will sometimes compel them to utter blasphemies, horrible curses (Tourette’s Syndrome), and even words of other languages. If permitted, they will often cause death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Pratt went on to describe how some possessed people will have a bad smell about them. “Some of these foul spirits, when possessing a person, will cause a disagreeable smell about the person thus possessed, which will be plainly manifest to the senses of those about him, even though the person thus afflicted should be washed and change his clothes every few minutes.” He also said, “Some of these spirits cause deafness, others dumbness, etc.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Savior taught that there are spirits of blindness,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> deafness and dumbness,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> mental illness,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and lunacy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another notable characteristic of evil spirits is their ability for many of them to possess a single person at the same time. We know that Mary Magdalene was possessed by seven devils</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and that another man was possessed with a legion of devils.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Many people have interpreted a legion to be one thousand, however, since Jerusalem was part of the Roman empire, we need to use the number that made up a Roman legion at the time of Christ. A legion consisted of ten cohorts totaling up to five thousand soldiers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another interesting characteristic of evil spirits is that smart spirits seek out smart victims to possess. This was taught by Elder Heber C. Kimball.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If those troops could have come in here, let me tell you, all the finest and smartest devils would have entered into the smartest bodies and come here to overturn us. You will not catch a mean, low, inferior, stupid devil in a smart man. I will tell you the Devil has his smart men. Says he, “You get into a smart body.” Smart spirits do not get into inferior bodies. Would you? No. Well, then, do you suppose they would do what we would not do under the same circumstances?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Was not Lucifer a pretty smart lad? Just look at it—son of the morning—when all heaven wept when he fell. He was a smart man. It takes a smart man—that is, one who thinks he is, to act the devil.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another class of evil spirits are unclean spirits of religion. These spirits deceive members of other faiths and distort the original teachings of Jesus Christ. Elder Parley P. Pratt taught about them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Among the diversified spirits abroad in the world, there are many religious spirits which are not of God, but which deceive those who have not the keys of Apostleship and Priesthood, or, in other words, the keys of the science of Theology to guide them. Some of these spirits are manifested in the camp-meetings of certain sects, and in nearly all the excitements called "revivals."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the strange ecstasies, swoonings, screamings, shoutings, dancings, jumpings, and a thousand other ridiculous and unseemly manifestations, which neither edify nor instruct, are the fruits of these deceptive spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We must, however, pity rather than ridicule or despise the subjects or advocates of these deceptions. Many of them are honest, but they have no Apostles nor other officers nor gifts to detect evil, or to keep them from being led by every delusive spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Real visions, or inspirations, which would edify and instruct, they are taught to deny. Should Peter or Paul, or an angel from heaven, come among them, they would denounce him as an imposter (sic), with the assertion that Apostles and angels were no longer needed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The last class of evil spirits are false or delusive spirits. The Lord warned us about them when he said, “there are many spirits which are false spirits, which have gone forth in the earth, deceiving the world.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> These are the most dangerous and damaging of all the evil spirits.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> These are unclean spirits whose job is to lead the Saints away from the only true, saving gospel of Jesus Christ. The Prophet Joseph Smith said that “nothing is a greater injury to the children of men than to be under the influence of a false spirit when they think they have the Spirit of God.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In addition to these spirits, there are people who assist them, knowingly or unknowingly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, Lucifer's forces of false spirits are further augmented by "false brethren" (D&C 122:5; 2 Cor. 11:26), who are not true and faithful in keeping the commandments and their covenants.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition there are other men in the flesh, such as "false teachers" (2 Ne. 28:12), "false prophets" (Matt. 7:15), and even "false Christs" (Matt. 24:24) who supplement the ranks of false spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even the very elect of God can be deceived by false spirits if they are not careful.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Many good Latter-day Saints have left the church through inactivity or apostasy because they were unable to discern the differences between the urgings and coercions of a false spirit and the Holy Spirit. Church Patriarch Hyrum G. Smith said that “the adversary's agencies, in their promptings, are usually of an urging, crowding, hurrying nature, while the Spirit of the Lord and his agencies are always of a quiet, sweet, peaceful and convincing character....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Like a slimy used car salesman, evil spirits play on emotions persuading through lies and a sense of urgency and excitement, while the Holy Spirit persuades through quiet reason.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How is it that the elect of God can be deceived? Because – (1) they lack </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">correct</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> knowledge of the doctrines and principles of the Gospel and (2) because of ignorance of the principles, laws, and order through which Heavenly Father gives inspiration and revelation.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is very important to understand. Lack of correct knowledge and ignorance of how inspiration and revelation are communicated to mankind is how the Saint contributes to his own deception; he does not do as Joseph Smith said, “try the spirits.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">False spirits are subtle beyond belief, but the Saints are unwittingly helping them. These spirits are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">counting </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on the laziness of the Saints in seeking out correct knowledge. Without a correct knowledge of the doctrines and principles of the Gospel, a person under the influence of a false spirit is susceptible to accepting counterfeit “truths.” These spirits offer the unwary Saint “falsehood and deception in the guise of truth”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and “false spirits are giving revelations as well as the Spirit of the Lord.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The devil can adapt himself to the belief of any person. If you believed in plurality he would make you think it was all right. If he could get you to swallow down one or two great lies that would effect your destruction, and which you would preach and destroy many others, he would not mind how many truths you might believe. He would be willing that you should believe a great many things absolutely true if he could only deceive you and lead you astray and get you to reject some of the fundamental principles of your salvation, and the salvation of the people.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Satan will package his deceptive information in such a way that it will seem logical and will agree with an unwary Saint's preconceptions and prejudices. Satan also will design his deception so that it will be similar enough to the Saint's secular education, his traditions, the teachings of his parents, his experiences, and the ideas and conversations he has with friends and teachers. Satan will include Gospel truths in his deceptions, but those truths may be distorted just enough and in such a way as to seemingly dovetail with his victim's experiences and education. Once he gets his victim to accept the initial distortions of the truth, it will be easier each successive time he doles out false information. This will continue until the Saint begins rejecting the quiet whisperings of the Holy Spirit and genuine truth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For many of the Saints, their main source of spiritual knowledge comes from the three hours they spend in church, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">if</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> they pay attention and do not get caught up in distractions and diversions. They also rely on other people for spiritual knowledge without checking the accuracy of the information. Many church members erroneously believe that the “basics” are all that is necessary to return back to their Heavenly Father. This is where false spirits can use false traditions and inherited lies to deceive. False traditions “taketh away light and truth.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> False traditions within the Church crop up as false doctrine that is often started because the Saints do not check information received from other members. This information is repeated on several different occasions making its way through the membership of the church. Eventually, many members begin claiming the information to be “doctrine” accepting it at face value. These good people unintentionally become tools of false spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then there are those who “pride themselves on their strict observance of the rules and ordinances and ceremonies of the Church [and] are led astray by false spirits, who exercise an influence so imitative of that which proceeds from a Divine source that even these persons, who think they are ‘the very elect,’ find it difficult to discern the essential difference.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Additionally there are Saints who are enamored of their “level headedness” and their secular education, and, consequently, are positive of the “correctness” of their interpretation of the Gospel. These are among those whom Joseph Smith referred to when he said, “There are a great many wise men and women too in our midst who are too wise to be taught; therefore they must die in their ignorance, and in the resurrection they will find their mistake. Many seal up the door of heaven by saying, So far God may reveal and I will believe.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> These Saints do not seek personal revelation and believe that all they have to do is rely on the prophet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The most damaging of information used by false spirits to deceive and among the most difficult to eradicate are inherited lies. “...They are the very handcuffs, and chains, and shackles, and fetters of hell.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Inherited lies are passed on from one generation to another because parents fail to search the scriptures and seek out correct knowledge from the writings of the apostles and prophets. It is so damaging because a child who is steeped in false traditions and inherited lies from birth rarely questions the teachings of his parents. When confronted with correct knowledge and truth, more often than not, he will reject that truth. Joseph Smith lamented about this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But there has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge, and a pumpkin for a beetle. Even the Saints are slow to understand.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have tried for a number of years to get the minds of the Saints prepared to receive the things of God; but we frequently see some of them, after suffering all they have for the work of God, will fly to pieces like glass as soon as anything comes that is contrary to their traditions: they cannot stand the fire at all. How many will be able to abide a celestial law, and go through and receive their exaltation, I am unable to say, as many are called, but few are chosen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From this quote, we learn that belief in false traditions and inherited lies will keep us from returning to our Heavenly Father, which is the ultimate goal of false spirits. “The scriptures assure us that God will do no injustice to any man. We must conclude therefore, that if an honorable person has been deceived, he has failed in some way. Either he has not sought for the truth diligently enough or he has not searched in the right place.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “It appears that no matter how honorable and well intentioned we may be, if we permit ourselves to be deceived, we will fall short of the Celestial Kingdom.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> For many Saints, contrary to past and present revelations, the need to be right or the inability to admit to being deceived is more important to them than their eternal salvation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, Elder Orson Pratt had this to say:</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But, it may be inquired, how are the humble, honest souls to discern between truth and falsehood? Must they be condemned with liars, because they are deceived with lies? We answer, that all will be condemned who suffer themselves to be deceived: for there is a way for every person to come to the light of truth; and it is not in the power of the devil to invent lies so plausible as to prevent the really honest person from discovering the truth that pertains to his salvation. The scriptures have expressly declared, that "cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm." Now any person who will put his confidence and trust in popular lies, invented by the devil to prevent the people from discovering the truth, must rest under that curse, and in the day of judgment be condemned with liars. What excuse can any one have for rejecting the truth, because the devil has made lies, and nearly all mankind believe them? The scriptures inform us that we are to "prove all things and hold fast that which is good." There must be some infallible rule by which to prove things and discern the good from the evil, or else we never should have been exhorted to do so. This infallible test by which to discover the truth, is the light which God has already given us, and which He will give us if we will but properly seek after it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Pratt’s comment about those who “trust in popular lies, invented by the devil” is echoed in the temple when we are taught that Satan will mingle scripture with philosophy. One guaranteed way to keep from being deceived is to seek out correct knowledge no matter how much it may conflict with your traditions and education. If </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">your</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> inspiration conflicts with the scriptures or the teachings of the apostles and prophets, then you need to get down on your knees in prayer and ask for help to overcome the deception.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Satan's Government and Laws</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As was previously stated, Joseph Smith taught that evil spirits have “laws by which they are governed, and the signs by which they may be known…” What is this government? While we do not know much about the government of evil spirits, we do have clues. The following two quotes are from the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Young Woman's Journal</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am about to relate an incident that I have in writing from the brother that experienced the wonderful event, and whom I afterwards met in intimate seclusion, when I received a more minute rehearsal of the event from his own lips. I will copy from the written statement, omitting all real names.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Having been sick a long time, I sent for President Goodman and Elder Dry— (we will call the gentlemen by these names, for the sake of having names) on the 21st of January, 1889. They came in the evening and anointed me with oil, laid hands upon me and prayed for me earnestly. They remained with me until late in the evening. After they had left the house I was for a short time alone.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The reason why he was alone, as he related to me, his wife went to a neighbor's house close by while the brethren were there, so as not to leave him alone with the baby, but as soon as she was gone the brethren went out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“And a personage opened the door and entered the room where I was in bed. He began conversation as follows:”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘Well, that was a heavy lick we gave you.’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I made no reply. Presently he continued, ‘But it was not quite enough to send you over.’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I replied, ‘While you were at it why did you not finish me?’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘We were called on to halt.’”</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I asked, ‘Do you make a practice of minding such calls?’”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘We have to,’ was his reply.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I said, ‘How is that?’”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘You know as well as I do,’ said he.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I inquired, ‘In case you should not?’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“He replied, ‘When called upon by that authority, if we fail to mind, we get so roughly handled that for a time we scarcely know where we are, so we would sooner mind when called on.’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I asked, ‘Are you not sorry you were interfered with?’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘No, not at all,’ he replied.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘How is that?’ I asked.”</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“He replied, ‘We have so much of the kind to do; it has long since ceased to be a pleasure.’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘Well, then, why do you not quit the business?’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘We cannot,’ was his answer.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘How is that?’ I asked.”</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘We live under the most despotic government you can conceive of,’ he replied,” and Brother Burgess (we will call him) said to me that he told more about that government than he was willing to repeat.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, Brother Burgess said to him, “Notwithstanding all you have told me, your room would be more congenial to me than your company.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“‘Yes,’ said he, ‘I suppose so.’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“And he retired by the same way he came in.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was related to me that he opened and shut the door as plainly as his wife did a few moments after the spirit retired.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Grammar and paragraph formatting standardized)</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A person knew himself to be under the tormenting influence of an evil spirit, from whom he could not obtain release. After three weeks of suffering he sent for the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They came, and by the authority of the Priesthood rebuked the spirit of evil and the victim released saw the departing spirit, and said, "How do you like to be cast out?" The angel of torment answered, "I am glad." The man said, "Why, then, have you remained here and tormented me so long?" The answer was, "If you knew the torment I should have been subjected to, had I refused to torment you, you would not ask the question."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From these two quotes, we learn that Satan's government is tyrannical beyond belief. He compels obedience through torture and coercion. Alma taught that if a person dies in their sins they become subject to Satan.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For behold, if ye have procrastinated the day of your repentance even until death, behold, ye have become subjected to the spirit of the devil, and he doth seal you his; therefore, the Spirit of the Lord hath withdrawn from you, and hath no place in you, and the devil hath all power over you; and this is the final state of the wicked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> What are these laws? One clue is, as was stated before, that Joseph Smith taught that if we become rebellious, or if we begin to dabble in sin we put ourselves in Satan's power. Elder George Q. Canon said that “those who disobey God, who keep not His commandments, who yield to the power and spirit of Satan. They are his servants; they are under his influence. He takes possession of them when they pass from this mortal existence, and they experience the torments of hell.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Those subject to Satan and evil spirits “become angels to these infernal fiends, being captivated by them, and compelled to act as they act.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As was previously shown, if a wicked spirit does not cooperate, he will be tormented until he does cooperate. Elder Bruce R. McConkie gave us another clue when he said, “There must be </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">circumstances of depression and sin and physical weakness</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that within the restrictions of divine control, permit evil spirits to enter human bodies” (Emphasis added).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Cannon’s statement regarding disobedience to God’s commandments and Elder McConkie's statement regarding “circumstances of depression and sin and physical weakness” indicate that there are two different categories of possession that fall within the laws that Heavenly Father laid down for the governing of evil spirits: uninvited and invited through sin. This was taught in a Deseret News editorial.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The great object of evil spirits is to get bodies, and the only chance they have is to dispossess a soul of the spirit of the Lord, the light of eternal truth, and take possession of that body thus dispossessed; and when thus once in possession, it may truly be said there is a body possessed of the devil.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesus and his disciples in different ages have commanded the unclean and wicked spirits to depart out of those of whom they had taken possession, and they have departed; but there are those spirits which are not easily dispossessed, and go out only by prayer and fasting. And again, there are those spirits that will hardly go out at any price, except it is by the will of those who harbor them. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And of what class are they? They are invited spirits. Invited spirits?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Yes, many spirits watch their opportunity to thrust themselves into a person when and where they are not wanted, and such are much more easily cast out than those who are invited guests (emphasis added).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the laws then, applies to uninvited possession by evil spirits. There must be a physical weakness within a person's body that allows an evil spirit to force possession. There are many, many instances recorded in the scriptures and in Church history that demonstrate forced possession in which sin was not a factor. The following quotes demonstrate evil spirits power to force possession.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe I realize to a certain extent the feeling experienced by some of the Seventies in the time of Christ when they returned from their missions, and with joy reported that even the evil spirits had been subjected unto them by the name of Christ. I have also had a similar experience, when even the evil spirits have been subject unto us through the name of Christ. We had one in the mission field afflicted with an evil spirit, and his body tormented and tortured by the possession of that evil spirit. I came into the room upon one occasion, and the evil spirit sprang upon me and seized me by the throat with a grip of iron, shutting off even my ability to speak and almost to breathe, while the elders stood round about, also my wife with a feeling of fear in her heart that the evil spirit would overcome me he shouted with a voice that was most terrific he declared himself to be the devil. "My name is Satan," he declared, "and I have more authority than you." And again tightening his grip upon my throat he declared, "I have more authority than you." I could not speak, but I looked the person in the eye, and releasing his grip and falling upon the bed, that same voice declared, "No, I have not more authority," and he hid his face in the pillow and was subject to the power of the Priesthood. Elder Kooyman, who was conference president, anointed him with oil, and with other elders I laid my hands upon him, and I began to confirm the anointing with oil. When I reached the point in prayer, that "in the name of Jesus Christ," I was going to say, "we rebuke the spirit," he sprang from the bed, and pleaded: "Do not use that name, do not use that name." We placed him upon the bed, and in the name of Jesus Christ I rebuked that spirit and commanded it to depart from him, and the person who was afflicted fell limp upon the bed and slept for hours, the first peaceful sleep he had enjoyed for several days. One of the greatest witnesses that have come into my life was upon this occasion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had been taught by my father and mother that there is power in the Priesthood. I had been taught it in the Sunday school and in the elders' quorum. I doubted it not, I felt that there was power in that Priesthood, but this was the first occasion which had come into my life where I had seen evil spirits subject to that power without even a word being spoken. I realize that those who are set apart and ordained to preside have authority to administer in the ordinances of the gospel and have power over unclean spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A young lady came to me last winter and said: "I would like to have you and President Dark and Patriarch Warren P. Smith" (who was formerly the bishop) "go over to Lehi" (a distance of three miles) "and administer to a lady who is very sick."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I said, "Why, they have brethren over there who are just as good as we are, and I don't know why we should go over there." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She said, "Well, I just feel that if you brethren will go over there and administer to that girl, she will get better," "Well, if it is all right with the brethren over there, why it will be all right."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So we went over, and we met at the home where the girl was sick, and when we went into the room the grandfather of the girl came to the door. He said, "Now, brethren, this is a very peculiar sickness that this young lady has: she is out of her mind, she doesn't know what she is doing, and if she knows you brethren are here, we will not be able to hold her; you can come in, she is in the next room." We went in; a cousin of the young lady was present; also one of our brethren, a member of our high council; also President Abel John Evans. We heard the statement of the grandfather and of the mother of the girl. She had been in this condition for nearly two weeks; they had been unable to control her. She refused to talk, and she was able to eat but very little, except what they could induce her to eat, with a great deal of effort, to maintain her existence. When we sat there deliberating upon what we should do, we thought perhaps she was possessed of evil spirits, and we remembered the saying of the Savior that this healing or administration should be done with fasting and prayer. We sat there deliberating upon the subject whether we ought to fast and pray first before we administered, or whether we ought to administer immediately to her. As we did so the thought came to us that if we let brother so and so go in, with whom she is acquainted, perhaps he could pacify her. As soon as we had decided that this brother should go in and talk to her, she sprang out of the arms of those who were trying to hold her and opened the door into the room where we were, then counted just like that (illustrating), and she went back and wrote on a piece of paper, "five evil spirits," and then she wrote underneath these words: "I don't want brother so and so to come in here; I hate him." Now how she knew that we had decided on that brother to go into that room I don't know, but after a great deal of persuasion the little girl who came to get us persuaded her to let a couple of the brethren come in and administer to her, and she said she would, and wrote it down. When the brethren went in she was standing with her face toward the wall; wouldn't look at them; they couldn't get her to sit down, but with the persuasion of this young lady, who seemed to have a great deal of influence with her, they persuaded her to sit down on a chair, and one of the brethren anointed her head with oil and the other brother confirmed the anointing and commanded and demanded that the evil spirit depart from her body and leave the room, when she sank down just like a limp rag. It was necessary to pick her up and place her on the lounge. She lay there just as weak as she could possibly be, without any strength, and before this, my brethren and sisters, the grandfather told me that he had strained his wrist trying to hold her, she was so strong.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the third day after this administration, I received a telephone message to come to the home of this young lady who wanted us to go and administer to this girl, and I went up to the home, and when I arrived there, this young lady who had been administered to was present, just as well and normal as we are here now, talked sensibly and has been well ever since. Now, my brethren and sisters, I tell you this incident that the young people of Zion may know that the gifts of the gospel, promised to the believers, are with the Latter-day Saints, in order that they may be encouraged and feel that there is power in the Priesthood.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second law regarding uninvited possession are those instances in which evil spirits force possession when permitted by Heavenly Father to teach lessons and give experience. At a conference in Kirtland, Ohio, the Prophet Joseph Smith was teaching a group of members and ordaining some to the priesthood. During the meeting, Satan decided to take a hand.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph put his hands on Harvey Whitlock and ordained him to the high priesthood. He turned as black as Lyman was white. His fingers were set like claws. He went around the room and showed his hands and tried to speak; his eyes were in the shape of oval O's. Hyrum Smith said, "Joseph, that is not of God." Joseph said, "Do not speak against this." "I will not believe," said Hyrum, "unless you inquire of God and he owns it." Joseph bowed his head, and in a short time got up and commanded Satan to leave Harvey, laying his hands upon his head at the same time. At that very instant an old man said to weigh two hundred and fourteen pounds sitting in the window turned a complete summersault in the house and came his back across a bench and lay helpless. Joseph told Lyman to cast Satan out. He did. The man's name was Leanon [Leman] Coply [Copley], formally a Quaker [Shaker]. The evil spirit left him and as quick lightning Harvey Green fell bound and screamed like a panther. Satan was cast out of him. But immediately entered someone else. This continued all day and the greater part of the night.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While serving a mission in England, Wilford Woodruff was called upon to cast out an evil spirit from a woman. What happened next would have no other reason except to teach Elder Woodruff.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Had I acted upon my own judgment I should have refrained from administering to her in the company of those present; but as I was a stranger there, and Brother Clayton presided over the branch, I joined with him in administering to the woman. The unbelief of the wicked who were present was so great that we could not cast the devil out of her, and she raged worse than ever; I then ordered the room to be cleared, and when the company, except the few attending her, had left the house, we laid hands upon her head, and in the name of Jesus Christ I commanded the devil to come out of her. The devil left, and she was entirely healed and fell asleep.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next day being the Sabbath, the woman came before a large congregation of people, and bore testimony to what the Lord had done for her. We had a large assembly through the day and evening, to whom I preached the gospel. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Monday morning, the devil, not being satisfied with being cast out of the woman, entered into her little child, which was but a few months old. I was called upon to visit the child, and found it in great distress, writhing in its mother's arms. We laid hands upon it and cast the devil out; the evil spirits thereafter had no power over that household.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This was done by the power of God, and not of man. We laid hands upon twenty in Manchester who were sick, and most of them were healed (emphasis added).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is one other sign that pertains to an uninvited spirit in which a person is sick or in pain. Whenever pain or an illness comes on suddenly for no apparent reason, or if there is no clearly identifiable medical cause, or if the sickness and/or circumstances make no sense, then that is when a deeper look needs to be taken behind the causes of the illness. This is demonstrated an incident from the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will relate one circumstance that took place at Far West, in a house that Joseph had purchased, which had been formerly occupied as a public house by some wicked people. A short time after he got into it, one of his children was taken very sick; he laid his hands upon the child, when it got better; as soon as he went out of doors, the child was taken sick again; he again laid his hands upon it, so that it again recovered. This occurred several times, when Joseph inquired of the Lord what it all meant; then he had an open vision, and saw the devil in person, who contended with Joseph, face to face, for some time. He said it was his house, it belonged to him, and Joseph had no right there. Then Joseph rebuked Satan in the name of the Lord, and he departed and touched the child no more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something else to consider is that while it is not specifically attributed to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">possession</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by evil spirits, they do have the capability of making people sick. Brigham Young said that Satan “has power to cause affliction and sickness, pain and distress, sorrow, anguish, and disappointment….”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He also said that they cause death.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Orson Pratt taught that evil spirits have the power to “smite the earth with plagues.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> There is an interesting account of an evil power afflicting Joseph Smith.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">…The Prophet rose one day from the table, walked to the door and began vomiting frightfully. Blood and poison came up, and so violent was the retching that his jaw was thrown out of place, and the poison acted so powerfully on him that it loosened his hair. With his own hands he replaced his jaw and then hurried to Bishop Whitney's bed. Bishop Whitney laid his hands upon his head and rebuked the evil power that was afflicting him, and instantly he was completely healed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally, there is an account from when the Saints were driven from Missouri to Nauvoo in which many mysteriously came down ill for no apparent reason.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When the Saints moved to Nauvoo or Commerce, as it was then called, it might be called a deserted town, or partly so at least, as there were many empty houses, mostly built of logs and had stood so long that the mud had fallen from the spaces between them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Saints just driven from Missouri were glad to get such shelter as those old houses would afford, and they were all soon filled, sometimes two and three families in one house. Some houses had no floors, some no doors. Soon the inmates became sick— sickness increased until Joseph began to be alarmed and saw something very unusual in the new affliction. He looked into the matter as only a Seer and Prophet could look. He saw the trouble and where it came from. Those houses had been dens of iniquity. He instituted means to empty them again</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those old houses had been owned or occupied by wicked, unprincipled men, gamblers, outlaws, licentious robbers, etc., and those that were of the same stamp had met there for evil practices and criminal purposes and there carried on their orgies. While this was the pastime or work of men and women in bodies, disembodied spirits of the same ilk stood around in highest glee and in various ways manifested to one another their enjoyment of the performance of the vilest of sins.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When the owners or occupants of the houses were dead, they enjoyed each other's society with their new pals in the spirit state, and when the righteous took possession of their old houses, all combined to kill the new inhabitants, and hence so much sickness—for all evil spirits, whether in the body or out of the body, are opposed to this work and this people, and the spirits in the spirit world have means by which they can affect people on earth, and are as diligent there as here to do good or evil.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The last law regarding uninvited possession is reasons of depression. Depression can be caused by sin, but uninvited possession because of depression could stem from situations that arise because of the sins of other people, poor environment, inadequate nutrition, bad personal decisions not amounting to sin, hidden defects of various types from birth, etc. Depression can be continued because of a lack of correct knowledge and the ability to discern when the depression is being exacerbated by an evil spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is only one law that pertains to an invited possession by evil spirits and that is because of sin. Sins can range from mild to serious. Possibly the most dangerous types of sinning are through apathy,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unbelief,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and even ignorance. Without question, this is the most common reason for possession, either transiently or permanently depending on the attitude, character and lifestyle of the person. Transient possession happens when after being possessed, through desiring to no long commit sin and by repenting, a person is able to expel the invading evil spirit. Permanent or prolonged possession happens when a person does not repent and/or the power of the evil spirit. The person’s attitude and lifestyle also contribute to the permanence of the possession. He can be prideful, unbelieving, living in sinful circumstances, etc. Sin takes on a variety of forms ranging from mild to serious. As Joseph Smith stated, the second we turn from the path of righteousness, no matter how slight, we give evil spirits power over us. The following quotes are examples of how sin can lead to possession. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About a week afterwards the same spirit reentered (sic) the sister, and this time fully confessed his character. In answer to our inquiries, he said his name was "Legion." This explained how it was that the woman, after we had cast out an evil spirit, was under an evil influence, for there must have been many spirits. [See case of Mary Magdalene.--Mark xvi, 9. The Lunatic.--Mark v.] He also reviled our priesthood, but he had to submit to it at last, saying to us, "O! you have the priesthood, have you? Well, then cast me out, command me to come out," trying to shake our faith, and thus incapacitate us to rebuke him successfully. Failing in this, he tried another method by entering me. I felt seized by a strange influence, and to every question put to the woman, I knew the answer she was going to give, for I was possessed by a similar spirit. This broke the chain of our union and strength, consequently I requested the elders to rebuke the evil spirit from me, after which, at our united rebuke, he left the woman. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Previous to this, the sister had been a very faithful Saint, and she ever afterwards was, but </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she had given the devil ground by encouraging a spirit contrary to the order of the Church, taking upon herself to rebuke the elders, and he claimed his right by virtue of her transgression</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Emphasis added)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A company of two hundred and forty-nine males, and two hundred and sixty-six females, a total of five hundred and fifteen souls, with twenty-seven tents, ninety-seven horses, twenty-two oxen, sixty-nine cows, camped about a quarter of a mile south of the Lord's House in Kirtland, on the fifth of July, 1838; and the next day started for Missouri. The journey was long and tedious; many difficulties were encountered and numerous obstacles overcome. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A spirit of murmuring was frequently manifested, much sickness was in the camp, and because of their disobedience, evil spirits plagued them by getting possession of their bodies</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (emphasis added)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had ample evidence of the fact that lying spirits had gone out into the world, for three persons whom I had baptized had been visited by Mr. Douglass, who told them that I denied the Bible and could not be depended upon; and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they yielded to his insinuations until the devil took possession of them</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and they were in a disaffected condition, and sent for me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other spirits, not particularly invited or desired, gain an easy access to those who are careless, heedless, and but too indifferent to the statutes, ordinances, and duties of God’s kingdom; who neglect their prayers, their assembling together, and doing as they would be done unto; and from these spirits arise contention, strife, evil thinking, evil speaking, evil surmising, detraction, revenge, law-suits, and a host of such perplexing annoyances, sufficient to disturb a nation; but the man who is obedient to his God </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in all things</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; who knows no will of his own, only to do the will of his father in heaven; is free from these spirits; the Devil has no power over him; for he resists him, and evil spirits are compelled to flee at his rebuke.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is one other noteworthy law regarding evil spirits and righteous people. As taught by Elder Bruce R. McConkie, evil spirits are “precluded from taking possession of the bodies of the prophets and other righteous people.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, what are the signs by which evil spirits may be known? Some signs are very subtle such as spirits that spread false doctrine. The way to know the signs of these spirits is by having correct knowledge. If you receive “inspiration” that doesn't feel right, go and verify that information. If it is incorrect, then you need to seek out the correct information. The Holy Ghost will “bring all things to your remembrance...,”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> however, you must have the knowledge in the first place before the Holy Ghost can bring it back. Otherwise you are an empty vessel that will be tossed about by every wind of doctrine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other signs of the presence of evil spirits are contention, strife, anger, frustration, lust, envy, jealousy, depression, lying, swearing, etc. Elder Parley P. Pratt also described a sign in which he stated, “A person on looking another in the eye, who is possessed of an evil spirit, may feel a shock, a nervous feeling, which will, as it were, make his hair stand on end, in short, a shock resembling that produced in a nervous system by the sight of a serpent.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This shock may be very mild or may be significant depending on the type and power of the evil spirit. Also, depending on the type of evil spirit, when you look into its victim's eyes, it may even recognize you, although the victim will not be aware of it. The Saint who is not deceived by secular wisdom and possesses the gift of the discerning of spirits will be able to perceive this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Probably the biggest problem in discerning signs of evil spirits is unbelief. Modern man is so conditioned into discounting the presence of evil spirits that it is considered an unscientific, quaint notion. All the afflictions of mankind are now explained away with scientific or medical reasons, and the majority of Latter-day Saints accept these explanations with little doubt as to their veracity. This will be discussed in more detail in the next section.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Savior knew about the reality of possession by evil spirits. He taught that to his disciples, and also to the modern Saints. Elder John Taylor said that one of the reasons the priesthood was given to the Church was “to fight the devils....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The very first power the Savior gave to his disciples was power over unclean spirits.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Then the Savior said “these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is repeated three times in the scriptures.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> To the modern Saints, He gave this commandment: “Require not miracles, except I shall command you, except casting out devils....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He also told the Saints, “...whoso shall ask it in my name in faith, they shall cast out devils….”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Note that like the first sign to follow those that believe is the casting out of devils and the power over unclean spirits was given to the apostles, the first exceptions to not requiring miracles and to those asking in faith was the casting out of devils.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Orson F. Whitney explained why power to cast out evil spirits is given to the Saints.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Satan and his legions, those cast out of heaven, are all wicked spirits, and they wander up and down the world, endeavoring to lead mortals astray. Wherever possible, they take possession of the bodies of men and even of the lower animals. Therefore is power given to the Priesthood to "cast out devils." Against these fallen spirits, mortals must be ever on the defensive, lest their souls be ensnared.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Orson Pratt expanded even further on the reason for having power to cast out evil spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is very evident, however, that this was not the principal object of the Signs. "These signs shall follow them that believe. In my name” says Jesus, “they shall cast out devils." Although this power might, in certain cases, convince the unbelieving world, yet it is by no means to be supposed that this was the principal design. Devils and unclean spirits frequently took possession of the human tabernacle, tormenting individuals in various ways. Jesus promised believers that they, in his name, should cast them out. Now one object which Jesus had in view in granting this power, was to benefit the one possessed. Another object was to confirm the believer, that they, by having power over the devil in this life, might be more fully assured that they should obtain a complete victory and final triumph over him in the world to come. That person who cannot obtain power in the name of Jesus to cast out devils in this life, has great reason to fear lest the devil shall have power over him in the next. What assurance has any one that he shall obtain a complete salvation from the power of the devil, when his spirit shall leave the body, if he cannot claim, the promise of Jesus, and cast him out while in this world? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the purposes, then, which Jesus had in view in bestowing this blessing, was that believers might learn to prevail against the devil before they should enter the invisible world of spirits. And another purpose, as we have already named, was to deliver the unhappy demoniac from his miserable and wretched condition, and set him free from the grasp of this awful monster.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17.—Now both of these purposes are just as essential for the good of mankind in this age as in the first age of Christianity. It would be equally as essential for a man who is possessed of devils, in this age, to be liberated, as it was in any former one. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And it would also be equally as essential that a believer should learn to command the devil in the name of Jesus, that he might obtain a complete victory over him in all things, as it was for ancient believers.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Therefore, as there is no Scripture to do away this promise, nor any reason to prove it unnecessary, it must be intended for believers of all ages, until the devil is bound (emphasis added).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the above quote, Elder Pratt said, “That person who cannot obtain power in the name of Jesus to cast out devils in this life, has great reason to fear lest the devil shall have power over him in the next.” If a person is too scared to confront and control evil spirits in this life, how can they expect to control them in the next life. Elder Melvin J. Ballard said that after we die, “every feeling will be greatly intensified.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “President Brigham Young said it is a hundred times easier to repent here on the earth than it is in the spirit world.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> If, after we die, our fear is greatly intensified and it is one hundred times harder to repent, by extension, that would mean our fear would be one hundred times greater. As a result, how can that person expect to be used by Heavenly Father to perform missionary work in spirit prison? Evil spirits have the same access to spirit prison as do the missionaries. They spread their lies and deceptions there as they do here on earth. How could a person, who is fearful of evil spirits control and cast them out as a missionary in spirit prison when they could not control and cast them out in this life? He cannot and, therefore, will be of no use as a missionary to his Heavenly Father.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some of the major obstacles to controlling and casting out evil spirits include the sins of unbelief and blindness of heart,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> lack of faith, lack of correct knowledge, and personal righteousness. Probably the biggest obstacle is the sins of unbelief and blindness of heart, and lack of faith. Unbelief and lack of knowledge were discussed somewhat in previous sections, but their importance cannot be emphasized enough. Unbelief causes people to “not understand the word of God….”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Blindness of heart is a lack of teachability; these are the Saints who are “walking in darkness at noon-day.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> A lack of knowledge allows Satan to deceive the ignorant Saint. This is primarily because many Latter-day Saints believe more in science, secular education, and the wisdom of the world instead of God's wisdom. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unbelief and lack of faith go hand in hand. “Because faith is wanting, the fruits are.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is demonstrated in an incident from the scriptures in which the Apostles were unable to cast an evil spirt out of a young boy. When the Savior cast it out, the Apostles asked, “Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “This New Testament rendering indicates the unusual amount of faith required to cast out devils. It requires greater faith than most healings.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The footnotes to this scripture tells us that a factor in this unbelief is doubt.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The apostles witnessed the Savior heal the sick, cast out evil spirits, and raise the dead, yet they still did not believe; they still suffered from doubt. Why did the apostles suffer from unbelief and lack of faith despite seeing miracles performed with their own eyes? Because they were indoctrinated in the Law of Moses (into which false traditions had been added) and the prevailing wisdom of the day by different people in authority. It would have been their parents and religious leaders who taught the apostles, and these traditions and wisdom would have been implanted from infancy. The problem came when the Savior taught that he had come to fulfill the Law of Moses, which would be supplanted by a higher law. This was contrary to everything the apostles would have been taught.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Latter-day Saints have the same problem today. President Joseph Fielding Smith said, “Our sole objective where the truths of salvation are concerned should be to find out what the Lord has revealed and then to believe and act accordingly.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Unfortunately, this is not happening. The U.S. Department of Education estimates that by 2021, ninety-one percent of children will be educated in public schools.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The public educators of today are not permitted to teach children anything about religion. Additionally, modern science, medicine, and psychology – subjects taught in one form or another to children – generally deny the existence of our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, Satan, and evil spirits. To many of today’s educators and scientists, the idea that evil spirits possess people is a laughable, old fashioned notion that only ignorant, backward, uneducated people believe. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All too many Latter-day Saints accept these secular teachings to one degree or another, especially when it comes to evil spirits. The acceptance of these teachings is passed on to the next generation as false traditions and inherited lies. In speaking to all men, Nephi mourned about the unbelief of the people because “they will not search knowledge, nor understand great knowledge….”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> To break this chain of inherited lies and false traditions, the Saints must gain correct knowledge. “All true faith must be based upon correct knowledge or it cannot produce the desired results.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder John A. Widtsoe taught, “The gifts of faith are two: knowledge and power. These are to each other as the palm and fingers of a hand, or the charge and the gun to the speeding bullet. Where one is there is the other.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How important is faith? Let’s consider that question by asking another question: how often is the subject of faith mentioned or discussed in church? The word, “faith,” is mentioned approximately 641 times in the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. In talks given in the general conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from 1852 to 2017, the word, “faith,” has been used approximately 29,357 times. This does not include the words, “faithful,” or “faithfulness.” Next to Jesus Christ, faith is the most frequently mentioned topic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Without faith, the Lord cannot perform miracles; a fact which He lamented about the Jews when He said to the Nephites, “…I could not show unto them so great miracles, because of their unbelief.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As it states in the Doctrine and Covenants, “And your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief, and because you have treated lightly the things you have received— Which vanity and unbelief have brought the whole church under condemnation.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Treating “lightly” the truths we have received is not taking seriously or even mocking what the Lord has revealed. This leads to further unbelief and a greater lack of faith.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the hindrances to bringing evil spirits under your control is fear. There is fear of the unknown, invisible realm of evil spirits; there is the fear of what other people, in and out of the church, may think of you, and there is the combination of both. Then there is fear as a result of a lack of confidence, or a lack of faith in your own ability to cast out evil spirits. Fear is the antithesis of faith. How do you get rid of fear? “…If ye are prepared ye shall not fear.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Thomas S. Monson said, “Preparation will dispel that hidden and insidious enemy who lurks within and limits our capacity, destroys our initiative and strangles our effectiveness. The enemy of whom I speak is fear.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Preparation includes…having a knowledge of the Gospel….”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Elder who desires to be the instrument through which the Lord performs miracles must prepare himself to be utilized through correct knowledge. If he lacks faith because of fear, unbelief, or if he cannot overcome the handicap of secular education, inherited lies, and false traditions, his ministrations will be in vain. He must disabuse himself of the false secular teachings so prevalent in society that denigrate the very idea of evil spirits and belittle those who believe in and teach these truths. God has faith in himself, independently.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Faith is a higher law, a celestial law. Faith is one of the laws by which the worlds were made. Faith is the higher law by which mankind can access the power of God and miracles are performed. But what is a miracle? What mankind would call a miracle is nothing more than a higher law superseding a lower law. Medical science is a lower law, a telestial law for a telestial world and, subject to the will of God, can be superseded through the higher law of faith. Knowledge of and the use of faith gives power to the believing priesthood holder.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph Smith said, “In knowledge there is power.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As was previously stated, “…Evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power than many men who are on the earth.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is especially true of priesthood holders who lack correct knowledge. Satan is very old and very experienced. He and/or his minions have a complete knowledge of our pre-existent life and the plan of salvation, and of everything taught in this world. He knows us from the pre-existence and knows our weaknesses and strengths, our desires and spiritual aspirations. Due to the number of devils and subjugated unclean spirits who are assigned to each of us, Satan knows everything we have ever done or said or learned, and uses this knowledge against us.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Satan knows the extent and type of your secular knowledge, whether false or true, and your belief in or skepticism of it. He will then influence you to believe that knowledge, but in a skewed way that blends in the false knowledge. If you have fear, doubt, or if you lack faith, he knows this as well. He wants to keep you deceived so he can continue to have more power and knowledge than you, and lead you away from the truth. The best way to combat deception is to gain intelligence. Elder David A. Bednar described intelligence as: (1) seeking out correct knowledge; (2) gaining an understanding of that knowledge through the Holy Spirit; and (3) implementing that knowledge and understanding in your life.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Doing this leads to personal righteousness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we change our lives, Satan will try even more to influence us to let go of the iron rod and stray from the path of righteousness. Joseph Smith said, “…The nearer a person approached to the Lord, the greater power would be manifest by the devil to prevent the accomplishment of the purposes of God.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Elder Heber C. Kimball went on to teach:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About those who have been baptized and have received the priesthood, Brigham Young said: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">…We have power over him which the rest of the world do not possess, and all who possess the power of the Priesthood have the power and right to rebuke those evil spirits. When we rebuke those evil powers, and they obey not, it is because we do not live so as to have the power with God, which it is our privilege to have. If we do not live for this privilege and right we are under condemnation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Prophet Joseph Smith taught the early Saints more about the gift of the discerning of spirits than any other subject.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The beginnings of his instruction on discernment began when he initially attempted to remove the golden plates from their hiding place and was prevented from doing so by Moroni.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> One little known fact regarding discernment is that the terms, “gift of discernment” and “spirit of discernment” are not scripturally correct. These two terms cannot be found in the scriptures and none of the early prophets of the Church ever used them. The correct term is the “gift of the discerning of spirits.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Why is it important to use the correct terminology? That is answered in part by an editorial written by Joseph Smith in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Times and Seasons</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> titled, “Try the Spirits,”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in which he discussed the gift of the discerning of spirits. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He taught that the gift of the discerning of spirits is about discerning which spirit, good or evil, is prompting or influencing you.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is evident from the Apostles’ writings, that many false spirits existed in their day, and had “gone forth into the world,” and that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it needed intelligence which God alone could impart to detect false spirits, and to prove what spirits were of God</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The world in general have been grossly ignorant in regard to this one thing, and why should they be otherwise—for “the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Emphasis added)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The editorial contained more than 5,400 words. Joseph barely mentioned the discerning of good spirits that influence us, devoting only a few sentences to this in the entire editorial. Most likely, this is because, by the laws of God, good spirits cannot deceive us. Joseph taught at </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">great length</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> about the evil spirits that cause so much confusion in this world, because so little was known about them. This demonstrates the importance of having the Holy Spirit as our constant companion. Evil spirits use deception and can appear as an angel of light,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and use the ignorance of the Latter-day Saints against them. “There always did, in every age, seem to be a lack of intelligence pertaining to this subject. Spirits of all kinds have been manifested….”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “One great evil is, that men are ignorant of the nature of spirits….”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Why would this be a great evil? Because of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">needless</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> torment, devastation, deception, and chaos caused by evil spirits through ignorance of their methods, power, and the laws by which they are governed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">…Who can drag into daylight and develop the hidden mysteries of the false spirits that so frequently are made manifest among the Latter-day Saints? We answer that no man can do this without the Priesthood, and having a knowledge of the laws by which spirits are governed; for as no man knows the things of God, but by the Spirit of God, so no man knows the spirit of the devil, and his power and influence, but by possessing intelligence which is more than human, and having unfolded through the medium of the Priesthood the mysterious operations of his devices….</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we have noticed before, the great difficulty lies in the ignorance of the nature of spirits, of the laws by which they are governed, and the signs by which they may be known; if it requires the Spirit of God to know the things of God; and the spirit of the devil can only be unmasked through that medium, then it follows as a natural consequence that unless some person or persons have a communication, or revelation from God, unfolding to them the operation of the spirit, they must eternally remain ignorant of these principles….</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As was previously stated, “the discerning of spirits is about discerning which spirit, good or evil, is prompting or influencing you.” “The problem that most men have is to discern the spirits, so that they may know what is of God and what is not.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> However, this has been changed in the church, today. The gift of the discerning of spirits has morphed into the “gift of discernment” and the “spirit of discernment.” Getting away from the correct term has eliminated the critical aspect of the discerning of evil spirits. Now, it is used in a somewhat generic term for discerning between good and bad choices. “Bad choices” have taken the place of evil spirits and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">how</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> they influence us externally and through being possessed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder George Q. Cannon taught extensively on the subject of the discerning of spirits.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the gifts of the Gospel which the Lord has promised to those who enter into covenant with Him is the gift of discerning of spirits—a gift which is not much thought of by many and probably seldom prayed for, yet it is a gift that is of exceeding value and one that should be enjoyed by every Latter-day Saint.... No Latter-day Saint should be without this gift, because there is such a variety of spirits in the world which seek to deceive and lead astray.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No matter what many members believe, the fact remains that possession by evil spirits is the single most common affliction of mankind. Because of this, being able to discern when a person is hounded, tormented, and/or possessed is a vital gift if we will only strive to obtain it. Elder Cannon taught more on this subject.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A man that has had the light, the truth, the Spirit of God and has grieved that Spirit, when the other spirit takes possession of him, there is a complete transformation. Those who know see it in his face and feel it in his spirit. They cannot associate with him without discerning that there is a spirit of darkness and evil taken possession of him, and so it is with all who take this course.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elder Cannon went on to say that by using the gift of the discerning of spirits we can recognize that evil spirits are trying to possess </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">us</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as well as those people who have become possessed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, the gift of discerning of spirits not only gives men and women who have it the power to discern the spirit with which others may be possessed or influenced, but it gives them the power to discern the spirit which influences themselves. They are able to detect a false spirit and also to know when the Spirit of God reigns within them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why is it a vital gift? In addition to detecting false spirits, when you are able to discern when an illness, mental or physical, is the result of possession by evil spirits or if they are merely afflicting someone, you may be the instrument the Lord uses to bring great relief by casting evil spirits out or away from the afflicted person. You may be able to end needless suffering. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Helping the Afflicted, Cautions, and Warnings</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sins and Physical Weakness: How Do Evil Spirits Enter the Human Body?</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Understanding when evil spirits know when it is possible to force entry into a human body is helpful when it comes to understanding the causes of physical weakness. While there is nothing from official Church sources regarding the method evil spirits use to actually possess someone, we do have accounts from two different near death experiences (NDE) that give specific information. The first is by Dr. George Ritchie who died for nine minutes. While his body lay on a gurney, his spirit was escorted around the world showing him different scenes. One of these scenes was of a bar in which people were drinking alcoholic beverages and getting drunk. Dr. Ritchie describes what happened.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gradually I began to notice something else. All of the living people we were watching were surrounded by a faint luminous glow, almost like an electrical field over the surface of their bodies. This luminosity moved as they moved, like a second skin made out of pale, scarcely visible light. At first I thought it must be reflected brightness from the Person at my side. But the buildings we entered gave off no reflection, neither did inanimate objects. And then I realized that the non-physical beings didn't either. My own unsolid body, I now saw, was without this glowing sheath.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At this point the Light drew me inside a dingy bar and grill near what looked like a large naval base. A crowd of people, many of them sailors, lined the bar three deep, while others jammed wooden booths along the wall. Though a few were drinking beer, most of them seemed to be belting whiskies as fast as the two perspiring bartenders could pour them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then I noticed a striking thing. A number of the men standing at the bar seemed unable to lift their drinks to their lips. Over and over I watched them clutch at their shot glasses, hands passing through the solid tumblers, through the heavy wooden counter top, through the very arms and bodies of the drinkers around them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And these men, every one of them lacked the aureole of light that surrounded the others.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then, the cocoon of light must be a property of physical bodies only. The dead, we who had lost our solidness, had lost this "second skin" as well. And it was obvious that these living people, the light-surrounded ones, the ones actually drinking, talking, jostling each other, could neither see the desperately thirsty disembodied beings among them, nor feel their frantic pushing to get at those glasses. (Though it was also clear to me, watching, that the non-solid people could both see and hear each other. Furious quarrels were constantly breaking out among them over glasses that none could actually get to his lips.) </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I thought I had seen heavy drinking at fraternity parties in Richmond, but the way civilians and servicemen at this bar were going at it beat everything. I watched one young sailor rise unsteadily from a stool, take two or three steps, and sag heavily to the floor. Two of his buddies stooped down and started dragging him away from the crush.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But that was not what I was looking at. I was staring in amazement as the bright cocoon around the unconscious sailor simply opened up. It parted at the very crown of his head and began peeling away from his head, his shoulders. Instantly, quicker than I'd ever seen anyone move, one of the insubstantial beings who had been standing near him at the bar was on top of him. He had been hovering like a thirsty shadow at the sailor's side, greedily following every swallow the young man made. Now he seemed to spring at him like a beast of prey.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the next instant, to my utter mystification, the springing figure had vanished. It all happened even before the two men had dragged their unconscious load from under the feet of those at the bar. One minute I'd distinctly seen two individuals; by the time they propped the sailor against the wall, there was only one.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twice more, as I stared, stupefied, the identical scene was repeated. A man passed out, a crack swiftly opened in the aureole round him, one of the non-solid people vanished as he hurled himself at that opening, almost as if he had scrambled inside the other man.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Was that covering of light some kind of shield, then? Was it a protection against...against disembodied beings like myself? Presumably these substance-less creatures had once had solid bodies, as I myself had had. Suppose that when they had been in these bodies they had developed a dependence on alcohol that went beyond the physical. That became mental. Spiritual, even. Then when they lost that body, except when they could briefly take possession of another one, they would be cut off for all eternity from the thing they could never stop craving.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next NDE occurred when “Spencer’s” spirit left his body for a period of time. He, too, was escorted around the world and shown several different scenes. One scene in particular happened in the home of a normally good Latter-day Saint, who had problems with pornography. </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I realized even more powerfully from seeing this that all addictions are purely selfish; they guarantee the instant gratification of the flesh. Relationships are not guaranteed, and the gratification, the positive payback of the relationship, must be carefully maintained and worked at. This is the reason that people turn to addictions, because they are instant, require little work, and the results are guaranteed. If is also the reason evil uses them and promotes them so carefully, because they push the user away from all meaningful relationships, especially those with the divine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I understood that he had been awakened from his sleep by one of these tempters who had been influencing his dreams, urging him to awaken and need a sexual high. As soon as he made the choice to get out of bed and actually partake, the disembodied spirits had joined in. They were drawn to him like a moth to a searchlight in a dark sky. They came at once. By accepting the temptation, and deciding to do it, he had given them permission to enter him and experience his sexual thrill with him. I saw many disembodied spirits competing to enter the small room with him. The evil spirits remained at just four.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When he made the decisions to partake, all of his good intentions and desires were immediately drowned out by the passions and the control of the evil spirits. The good spirits that had been near him as he slept were forced a distance away until he could not hear them. Eventually they left, driven away by his choices.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When he reached a pinnacle of lust in his body, a black tear or rip appeared at the crown of his head. In that instant the disembodied spirits began to attack. They looked like football players tackling the guy with the ball. They were hoping to share just a moment of his physical feelings and excitement. They acted like hungry dogs going after the same carcass. There was fierce competition among them to be in him longer. They fought to go next, screaming and cursing, throwing each other aside to enter. As soon as one or two spirits entered, no more could enter. The evil spirits screamed and dove at him repeatedly until a weaker one inside was expelled and they took its place. It seemed to me that the ones who were expelled were exhausted, jerking on the floor as if they were in a sexual thrall themselves, mimicking the actions of the young man at the computer. I tried to turn my face away in disgust, but I could not. The image was before me no matter which way I turned. The evil ones quickly recovered and rejoined the fight to reenter over and over.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Dr. Ritchie’s account, he described an “aureole of light” that surrounded living persons, but not disembodied spirits, nor inanimate objects. He speculated that the aureole was a property of living, physical bodies. What is remarkable is that in both accounts, which were widely separated by decades, an opening appeared at the crown of the head giving the unclean spirits access to the persons’ body. Also, in both accounts, the unclean spirits had to wait to possess either person until the opening appeared. Another thing to point out is that the unclean spirits could see the aureole, as well as the moment it opened permitting entry. Lastly, something these men did caused the aureole to split.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The above points are important in explaining how evil spirits enter human bodies. The “aureole” must surely be the result of a synergistic effect between the body and the spirit. “Synergistic” means the interaction or cooperation between two things that produce a combined effect greater than either thing can produce separately. Somehow, the mating of the spirit with the body creates the aureole; the spirit enhancing the body and the body enhancing the spirit. The aureole must be a protective barrier that prevents evil spirits from forcing entry when it is intact.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As was shown, something the men did caused the aureole to split. In the case of these men, while not both of them were Latter-day Saints, both of them did things contrary to God’s laws. So, it would seem that in the case of these two men, breaking God’s laws in the case of someone who does not have the law or sinning, creates some type of disturbance in the synergistic balance of the body and spirit. One man’s sin was of a grievous, sexual nature, while the other man was transgressing by consuming a prohibited, mind altering substance. Remember that a sin is anything that is “malum in se,” meaning that the act is wrong or evil in itself, while a transgression is “malum prohibitum,” meaning that it is wrong because it is formally prohibited.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While the mind’s awareness of the spirit and its premortal existence is suppressed, the spirit still knows the truth and right from wrong. The disturbance probably was caused because of the spirit’s intimate knowledge of God’s laws and the conflict between that knowledge and the body’s indulgence in sin. When that disturbance reached a certain point, the synergistic balance between the body and spirit was disrupted causing the aureole to split, thus inviting evil spirits into the body. The same thing must also apply to things like anger, frustration, jealousy, lying, or any other behavior, transgression, or sin that grieves the Holy Spirit. In the case of physical weaknesses, the synergistic effect creating the aureole must somehow be out of balance because of a defect within the body. There could be any number of reasons for this, which will be mentioned later. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As was previously noted, there are two types of possession: uninvited and invited. With the uninvited, no permission of the afflicted person is necessary to cast out an evil spirit. You are not abridging the agency of that person since the possession was the result of physical weakness or was permitted by Heavenly Father for some other reason. One thing to note was the Savior’s admonition regarding certain types of possession: “…This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Most likely, this is the result of the power of an individual evil spirit and/or multiple spirits possessing a single person at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The power of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">humble, heartfelt, sincere</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> prayer and fasting cannot be emphasized enough. Fasting and sincere prayer tells the Lord that you are not relying on the arm of the flesh. It tells Him that you are acknowledging the supremacy of His power and calling on His tender mercies. You are saying that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is performing the miracle, not you. You also are telling Him that you recognize that you are merely the instrument through which He shows forth His marvelous power. It also tells Him that you recognize your “total dependence on Him.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Humble, heartfelt, sincere prayer will call down the powers of Heaven. It brought the Father and the Son to Joseph Smith, as well as ministering angels. Any member of the Church can receive these same blessings.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Casting out evil spirits from someone who invited in those spirits though sin cannot be done without the permission of that person. To attempt to do so is abridging the agency of that person since he originally invited the spirit(s) in. However, even when a person requests a blessing to have the invited spirits cast out, those evil spirits can easily take up residence once again if that person continues to commit sin. Elder Heber C. Kimball said that “a Saint that turns back to the Devil takes into his tabernacle the worst spirits, which make him many times worse than he was at the first.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The person who wishes to be freed from invited possession must repent and change his life. The Elder(s) who have been called upon to cast out an invited evil spirit should sit down with the afflicted person and explain this to him. He </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">must</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> understand that if he does not repent, if he does not change his life and lifestyle, those same spirits will be free to return and his state will be much worse than before the evil spirits were cast out.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> That is the only way he can be permanently free of this affliction. There also may be times that the Elder will be constrained by the Holy Ghost to not cast out the evil spirit. This may be because the person requesting the blessing has no intention to change his life and lifestyle.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When giving a priesthood blessing to an individual, the Church handbook says that we should anoint with oil, which “has been consecrated for anointing and blessing the sick and afflicted.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Something to consider is that while a possessed person may not be physically sick, they are always afflicted. This is the case with mental illnesses and behavioral addictions, and compulsions. While not all illnesses, diseases, and afflictions, both physical and mental, are caused by evil spirits,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a very large number </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> caused by them. Another thing to consider is that mental or physical illnesses that are not directly caused by evil spirits or possession can, and most likely will, be exacerbated by evil spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nephi, the prophet at the time of the Savior’s appearance in the Americas, cast out devils and unclean spirits.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In his narrative, Mormon goes on to explain that those who “had devils cast out from them, and were healed of their sicknesses and their infirmities, did truly manifest unto the people that they had been wrought upon by the Spirit of God, and had been healed....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Notice the sequence and wording that Mormon used. He did not say those who “had devils cast out from them” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and also those who</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “were healed of their sicknesses and their infirmities....” His wording tells us that these were </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> two separate groups: one group that had evil spirts cast out and another, separate group that was healed from their illnesses and infirmities. No, the wording tells us that these were the same people who were healed of their sicknesses and infirmities as a result of having devils and unclean spirits cast out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consider the teachings of Joseph Fielding Smith.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These evil spirits have great power to tempt, persuade and entice men to deny the correct origin of man. We do not see them, but we do feel their presence, and unconsciously we hearken to their whisperings. Having been denied bodies they, at times, steal them. It is a common error, especially in scientific circles to scoff at such a thing as the temptation by the devil and more especially so to ridicule the idea that these wicked spirits have power to possess living bodies and subdue the spirit within them. But all the scoffing and ridicule does not change the fact. The stories of possession as recorded in the New Testament are true. The scoffer cannot explain away successfully the casting out of devils by Jesus Christ, when they called him by name and he commanded them to hold their peace; the story of the devils asking to enter the bodies of swine; the story of the seven sons of Sceva, and numerous others listed in the scriptures. There are scores of such incidents that have occurred in this dispensation. Our missionaries can give the evidence in such cases. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No, it is not always a diseased mind that disturbs the normal thinking, the possession by devils is a positive fact</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (emphasis added).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Saint who possesses the gift of the discerning of spirits should be able to discern when a sickness or illness is caused by evil spirits. If you suspect an afflicted or sick person to be possessed, you can be guaranteed that not only are they possessed, but that there will be other evil spirits immediately around them. When you give a blessing, it is important to bless the person using consecrated oil. President Jedidiah M. Grant expounded on this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If any are sick among you, let them send for the Elders of the Church to pray for them, and to lay their hands upon them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick. People neglect to anoint with oil when they should and might use it. I have seen the Elders try to cast out devils, and to accomplish it they have fasted, and prayed, and laid on hands, and rebuked the devil, but he would not go out. I have then seen them bring consecrated oil, and anoint the person possessed of the devil, and the devil went out forthwith. That taught me a good lesson—that God Almighty, when He speaks, means what He says; and if a man's works are right, his faith will be right; and if his faith is wrong, his works are wrong. When a man whose faith is right goes forth to administer to the sick, he will anoint with oil, as well as lay on his hands and pray. Unless you anoint with oil, your prayers will not rise higher than the fog, and you know that it seldom rises much higher than the tops of the mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is the purpose of laying your hands on a person’s head while giving a blessing? Brigham Young explained the purpose.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 54pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I lay hands on the sick, I expect the healing power and influence of God to pass through me to the patient, and the disease to give way. I do not say that I heal everybody I lay hands on; but many have been healed under my administration. Jesus said, on one occasion, "Who has touched me?" A woman had crept up behind him in the crowd, and touched the hem of his garment, and he knew it, because Virtue had gone from him. Do you see the reason and propriety of laying hands on each other? When we are prepared, when we are holy vessels before the Lord, a stream of power from the Almighty can pass through the tabernacle of the administrator to the system of the patient and the sick are made whole; the headache, fever or other disease has to give way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the two previous NDE’s, the possessed peoples’ aureoles split at the crown of the head permitting evil spirits to enter. When we anoint with oil, we also place the oil on the crown of the head. Then we place our hands on the head, also, and pronounce a blessing allowing the flow of power from God to pass through us into the head and body of the afflicted person. Then, while our hands are still on the afflicted person’s head, we command the evil spirits to depart. Is this coincidence? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remember that you and the afflicted or sick person are surrounded at all times by evil spirits unless they are cast away. When the Elder arrives at the home of the afflicted person, it is recommended that you rebuke any evil spirits from the area where you are giving the blessing before you enter the home. This is because, as was discussed before, evil spirits can and do project thoughts into your mind. Casting them away from the area will help to keep your mind clear and help you hear the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As was mentioned before, a victim of an invited possession must change his life. Once again, before giving this person a blessing, you must make it clear to him that he will continue to be a lawful victim to the same or other evil spirit(s) that once possessed him if he continues in the path of sin. Additionally, he needs to understand that, like everyone else, he will continue to be afflicted, influenced, and tempted by evil spirits even if he completely repents and never turns back to sin. For the person who invited the possession through sin and has a desire to change, he needs to understand that getting the evil spirits cast out is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">just the beginning</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, not the end. He will have bad habits to overcome, but he will be able to overcome them without the internal influence of the evil spirit. This will give him a fighting chance to repent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remember that Elder McConkie said that possession can come about because of sin, depression, and physical weakness. If a person is sick, it may not be the result of evil spirits. However, quite often this is the case. It bears repeating that one of the signs to look for when it comes to sickness caused by evil spirits is that it comes on suddenly and virulently. The victim will become extremely sick in a very short amount of time. Also, at times, a doctor probably will not be able to provide an explanation for the sickness, although this will not always be the case. At the same time, there are instances in the scriptures where people were healed through the casting out of evil spirits after being afflicted for many years.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something that very few people think about or realize is that Satan has some power over the elements and is capable of causing plagues.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Joseph Fielding Smith talked about this when he said, “It may seem strange to us, but it is the fact that Satan exercises dominion and has some control over the elements....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brigham Young taught that “God gave Lucifer power, influence, mastery, and rule, to a certain extent, to control the life pertaining to the elements composing the body....”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> A classic example of this is when Satan “smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For those with mental illnesses, this can be a complicated matter. Once again, not all illnesses, both mental and physical, are caused by evil spirits. This can only be determined by someone who has the gift of the discerning of spirits. Unfortunately, all too often, Latter-day Saints accept the world’s explanation that the writers of the Four Gospels were mistaken in claiming that the Savior actually cast out evil spirits that caused physical and mental illness. It seems that the reasoning is that the writers were uneducated in the sciences and mistook things like schizophrenia and epilepsy for possession by evil spirits. What this reasoning is actually saying is that the Savior did not know the difference between someone possessed and ill and someone who is ill because of physiological causes. Going further, many people who believe the wisdom of the world often think that those who believe otherwise are uneducated and superstitious. One LDS psychiatrist had a good, worldly explanation for this belief.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many Latter-day Saints, like other sincere people, operate out of a set of superstitions rather than religious belief. This tendency may manifest itself in such simple ways as mistaking wishful thinking for answer to prayer, or such complex ways as dissociative reactions, autohypnosis, or overt psychosis. These are often misinterpreted as possession states, to be treated by casting out demons. Searching for evil spirits to banish from a schizophrenic psychosis is a futile task, demoralizing the giver of the blessing when it doesn't work, and heaping guilt upon the suffering of the victim. Casting out devils has appeal for some, but far less efficacy than a little antipsychotic medication.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one way, the psychiatrist’s explanation is accurate. If a Saint lacks genuine faith, he may be superstitious rather than have an honest belief. If this is the case, his attempts to cast out evil spirits </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> be “wishful thinking.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cautions and Warnings</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When a victim is possessed as a result of physical weakness, that weakness needs to be addressed if possible. Physical weaknesses can come about because a person is born with them. The weakness can also develop later in life because of environmental conditions. We have all the myriad of problems caused by modern society through pollution, environmental toxins, pesticides on food, etc. There also are weaknesses caused because of poor nutrition in processed foods and factory farmed animals.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conditions in the home environment will heavily contribute to the problems of evil spirits in the home. Most of the family members may be living a Christ-like life, doing all that is required to invite in the Holy Spirit, but all it takes is one person who is sinning to invite in the worst of spirits. For example, if just one person is looking at pornography on the home computer, this invites some of the worst possible spirits into the home. When this happens, those invited evil spirits will do their best to cause contention, anger, frustration, depression, anxiety, stress or any possible disturbance to the harmony of the home environment. If contention and anger break out, this will grieve the Holy Spirit and he will withdraw. This will leave the home open to even more contention, arguments, anger, frustration, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Satan has counterfeits to everything from our Heavenly Father. There are those who claim to have alternative methods of healing or to have power from God without being ordained to that power to cast out devils and unclean spirits and heal the sick. There are Latter-day Saints who are taken in by these counterfeit methods and unauthorized people because they lack correct knowledge and/or have frustration with the holders of the priesthood who cannot cast out evil spirits. Sometimes that Saint is looking for a quick and fast way because they are not willing to do what is necessary to develop the necessary faith.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that are signs and key words through which we can recognize when someone is authorized by God to pronounce a blessing. He said, “What is the sign of the healing of the sick? The laying on of hands is the sign or way marked out by James and the custom of the ancient saints as ordered by the Lord, and we should not obtain the blessing by pursuing any other course except the way which God has marked out.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He went further and said, “The Lord says do so and so, and I will bless so and so. There are certain key words and signs belonging to the priesthood which must be observed in order to obtain the blessings.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sign, then, of the healing of the sick and afflicted is when an authorized representative anoints with consecrated oil and lays his hands on the person’s head. The wary Saint should be suspicious of anyone who deviates from the method and order laid down by Heavenly Father.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Satan’s power will continue to increase as more unclean spirits join his ranks. The time will come when the limits on his power and activities are removed just when the tribulations begin prior to the Second Coming of the Savior. Gaining correct knowledge, which in turn will help build our faith, will allow us to successfully combat Satan and his forces, and save our families.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Works Cited</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andersen, H. Verlan. 1967. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Orem, Utah: SunRise Publishing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andersen, H. Verlan, and Hans V Andersen. 1972. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Great and Abominable Church of the Devil.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Orem, Utah: SunRise Publishing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrus, Hyrum L., and Helen M Andrus. 2004. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They Knew the Prophet.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> merican Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, Inc.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ballard, Melvin J. 1922. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three Degrees of glory.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bednar, David A. 2006. "Quick to Observe." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ensign</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, December: 36.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—. 2015. "Therefore They Hushed Their Fears." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ensign</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, May: 46.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—. 2011. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increase In Learning.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Benson, Ezra Taft. 1988. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017. "Bible Dictionary (LDS Church)." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">En.wikipedia.org.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Accessed Jan 27, 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Dictionary_(LDS_Church).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brewster, Hoyt W. 1988. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctrine & Covenants Encyclopedia.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—. 1988. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctrine & Covenants Encyclopedia.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brown, Benjamain. 1878. "Autobiography of Benjamain Brown (1794-1878)." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boap.org.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Accessed June 15, 2014. http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/BBrown.html.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cannon, George Q, and Jerreld L Newquist. 1974. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gospel Truth: Discourses and Writings of President George Q. Cannon.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Vol. 2. 2 vols. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cannon, George Q. 1894. "Discourse." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Deseret Weekly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, September 29: 449.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—. 1912. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Latter-day Prophet: Young People's History of Joseph Smith.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Issued Under the Direction of the General Authorities of the Church.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—. 1914. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Latter-day Prophet: Young People's History of Joseph Smith.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: The Deseret News.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cannon, George Q., and Jerreld L Newquist. 1974. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gospel Truth: Discourses and Writings of President George Q. Cannon.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Vol. 1. 2 vols. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Covenant Eyes. 2015. "Pornography Stastics." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Covenanteyes.org.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Accessed april 5, 2016. http://www.covenanteyes.com/pornography-facts-and-statistics/.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cowley, Matthias F. 1909. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wilford Woodruff: History of His Life and Labors.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: The Deseret News.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Critchlow, William J. Oct. 1966. "A Basic Hard-Core Godhead Concept for Christian Creeds." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conference Report.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 45.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crowther, Duane S. 1967. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life Everlasting.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deseret News.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1853. "To The Saints." Feb 21.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2013. "Devil." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lds.org.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Accessed Jan 24, 2017. https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bd/devil?lang=eng&letter=d.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2006. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Family Guidebook.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fawcett, Stanley E., and Amydee M. Fawcett. 1998. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">God's Prophets Speak.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hancock, Levi. 1836. "Autobiography of Levi Hancock (1803-1822)." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boap.org.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Accessed Aug 12, 2014. http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/LHancock.html .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hartman Rector, Jr. Oct 1972. "Repentance Makes Us Free." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conference Report</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 74.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Huntington, O. B. 1891. "Spiritual Experiences." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Young Woman's Journal</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 189-190.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jennings, Jack. 2013. "Proportion of U.S. Students in Private Schools is 10 Percent and Declining." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Huffington Post.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> May 28, 3.2.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph Smith, Jr. 1842. "Try the Spirits." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Times and Seasons</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, April 1: 743-748.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kimball, Spencer W. 1999. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Miracle of Forgiveness.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lawrence, Larry R. 2015. "Prepared to Face the Adversary - LDSBC." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ldsbc.edu.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> LDS Business College. Jun 23. Accessed Jan 18, 2017. https://www.ldsbc.edu/campus-culture-events/devotionals/1204-prepared-to-face-the-adversary.html.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lee, Harold B., and Clyde J Williams. 1996. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The teachings of Harold B. Lee.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matthews, Robert J. 2003. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Behold the Messiah.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Orem, Utah: Granite Pub. and Distribution, LLC.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maxwell, Neal A. 1992. "The Inexhaustible Gospel - BYU Speeches." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BYU.edu.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> August 18. Accessed May 17, 2017. https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/neal-a-maxwell_inexhaustible-gospel/.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">McConkie, Bruce R. 1966. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mormon Doctrine.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">McConkie, Oscar W. 1997. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Angels.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moench, Louis A. 1985. "Mormon Forms of Psychopathology." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AMCAP Journal</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, March: 66.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pontius, John. 2012. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visions of Glory.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Springville, Utah: Cedar Fort.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pratt, Orson. 1856. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Necessity for Miracles ... Spiritual Gifts.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Liverpool, England: L.D.S. Book and Star Depot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—. 1853. "Celestial Marriage." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Seer</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, October: 156.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pratt, Orson, and Nels B Lundwall. 1946. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Masterful Discourses and Writings of Orson Pratt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: N.B. Lundwall.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pratt, Parley P. 1915. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key to the Science of Theology.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ritchie, George G., and Elizabeth Sherrill. 2007. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Return From Tomorrow.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Grand Rapids, Michigan: Chosen Books.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roberts, B. H. 1902. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 7 vols. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017. "Roman Legion." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">En.wikipedia.org.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Accessed Jan 31, 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_legion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scott, Richard G. 2007. "Using the Supernal Gift of Prayer." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ensign</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, May: 8.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sill, Sterling W. 1974. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That Ye Might Have Life.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smith, Joseph F. 1913. "A Warning Voice." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Improvement Era</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, September: 1148.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smith, Joseph Fielding. 1947. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Church History and Modern Revelation.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—. 1954. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Man, His Origin and Destiny.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—. 1971. "Out of the Darkness." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conference Report.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smith, Joseph, and Joseph Fielding Smith. 2002. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, Inc.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2007. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1956. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teachings of the Latter-day Prophets.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Barna Group. 2001. "Religious Beliefs Vary Widely By Denomination." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barna.org.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> June 25. Accessed April 26, 2016. https://www.barna.org/component/content/article/5-barna-update/45-barna-update-sp-657/53-religious-beliefs-vary-widely-by-denomination.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Church of Jesus christ of Latter-day Saints. 2002. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus christ of Latter-day Saints.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1978. "Faith." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lds.org.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Accessed February 17, 2017. https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bd/faith.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017. "The Definition of Cause and Effect." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dictionary.com.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Accessed Jan 28, 2017. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cause--and--effect.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Young Woman's Journal.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1906. "How the Savior Taught by Miracles." Oct: 468-470.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Widtsoe, John A. 1945. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Man and the Dragon and Other Essays.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft Co.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">William J. Critchlow, Jr. April 1966. "A Basic Hard-Core Godhead Concept for Christian Creeds." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conference Report.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 45.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017. "Young Woman's Journal." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">En.wikipedia.org.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Accessed Jan 27, 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Woman's_Journal .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Young, Brigham, and G D Watt. 1854. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of Discourses.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 26 vols. Liverpool: F.D and S.W. Richards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Besides Joseph Smith, Orson Pratt taught,<i> </i>"In my name shall they cast out devils, ... they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. . . . . It seems that the gifts here named are general gifts intended more or less for the whole Church; not only for those in the Priesthood, but for those out of the Priesthood, for males and for females." (<i>Journal of Discourses 16:289) </i>With just a quick look in my first book, <i>Healing Arts - A Gift from God</i>, I found a dozen related quotes by other authorities such as George Q. Cannon and Brigham Young about women and spiritual gifts. Experiences of casting out were shared that happened by the word of one's testimony, by filling with love, by the spiritual gift of discerning of spirits, by the gift of faith, by rebuking or commanding, as well as by a shareable spiritual essence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Besides having these validating quotes from the early brethren, we are also being taught about <i>power</i> in the priesthood today. President Boyd K. Packer taught that the saints need to increase in this power. A whole chapter is dedicated to this topic in the Relief Society publication of <i>Daughters In My Kingdom</i>. President Russell M. Nelson speaks often of this power in his general conference addresses lately. The first chapter in my second book, <i>An LDS Approach to Energy Healing,</i> quotes various LDS authorities on the topic of power in the priesthood. When we study the scriptures as well as our leader's words today, we better understand various principles God tells us are used in healing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />It has been my experience that all too often, people making claims about alternative forms of healing being 'misguided' have not done much investigating into the principles used in these methods. People naturally fear what they do not understand. The Bible reminds us, "He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him" (Proverbs 18:13). It was my own case of not understanding alternative healing principles -- when the Holy Spirit introduced me to them-- that caused me to study them in depth. After years of research on whether there is religious validation for principles used in alternative medicine, I confidently give my witness that God is revealing healing truths and technologies to man <i>that fit with gospel principles</i>. I share this witness from "learn[ing] by study and also by faith." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Let me share an example involving women and casting out evil. My son and I had a very interesting learning experience together. A client who had experienced the horrors of on-going ritual abuse called me a few days after clearing away some of the 'works of darkness' that had been put upon her by purposeful, evil intent. We did this by using both Rapid Eye Technology and Deep Emotion Release over the phone. Together, we also united our faith as I commanded evil spirits and evil devices of the adversary to leave her, her home and anywhere around her in the name of Jesus Christ. The woman exercised her faith by also commanding out with her words. She was immensely grateful for this help. She texted me a couple of days later saying, "Miracles keep happening for me. This is deliverance." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />A few days later, the same woman phoned again from out of state declaring that she suddenly felt like she was possibly having a heart attack. She wondered if she needed to go to the emergency room. She explained that she didn't want to do that because the medical field had been baffled many times in the past when she felt similar, sudden, strange occurrences in her body. I told her that if she felt she should go to the emergency room, she should do just that. I also told her that a quiet feeling from the Spirit was telling me there was something we could do. After a silent prayer in my heart to fill with the Light of Christ and ask for power over Satan, I audibly commanded evil and unclean spirits and 'darkness' (see <i>Doctrine and Covenants </i>section 50) to come out of her in the name of Jesus Christ. The woman began feeling <i>much</i> better and the urgency in her voice calmed down. We were both relieved and grateful to the Lord for his grace and mercy, knowing that it is only because of Him that any relief comes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />I supposed our conversation would shortly be over when this faithful woman suddenly declared that she felt <i>more</i> coming up in her body <i>to be released.</i> In an urgent, pleading voice she said she hadn't been able to get a phone call through to her husband while at his work. She pleaded, "There is <i>even more</i> coming!" It surprised me how quickly this confident woman had turned to voicing childlike pleas for help. I felt it was another layer of hidden darkness exposed so that she could be released from it. Having studied the words of prophets and apostles on binding Satan, I understood this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />I glanced to my right and saw my son who held the Aaronic Priesthood listening to this exchange as we drove down the interstate. I had parked the vehicle by now and said to him, "Are you willing to use your priesthood and exercise your faith on behalf of this woman?" He said, "Sure, mom!" He raised his right arm to the square and said, "In the name of Jesus Christ and by the power of the priesthood that I hold, I command demons, devils, evil and unclean spirits to come out of you and anywhere around you. I command you to leave her blood, body and energy fields." He was confident, having said these words for himself on many occasions over the years as he dealt with Lyme Disease and co-infections. Then he looked at me with pleading eyes -- </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> as if to ask, "I know I need to ask for more, what might that be?" I reminded him that our Naturopathic Doctor had taught us to cast out "Repetitive, pervasive data. Negative cell memory." He commanded that out as well as dark cords and connections and "hidden darkness" that we had learned about from reading <i>Doctrine and Covenants</i> section 123. He ended with prayerful words to Heavenly Father saying, "Father, this is what we know how to do at this moment," asking the Lord to "please fill in the gaps and make up the difference that all may be blessed."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />What happened next was unexpected. We <i>heard</i> them leaving! There were audible static-like noises as well as garbled sounds. My son was so surprised by the experience that he asked the woman over the phone if <i>she</i> heard the noises, also. "Oh yes!" she said, "That is what 'they' sound like when my husband gives me a priesthood blessing and they leave." The woman felt instantly better and thanked the Lord out loud for his goodness, giving all praise and glory to Him. We were all three full of awe and gratitude to God - which we freely voiced aloud. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />I was so happy that my son had been blessed to have such a powerful learning opportunity. When Christ had similar experiences, the New Testament witnesses that those who did not understand accused Him of working by the devil. Such accusations against humble people doing God's work continue today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />After this faith-building experience, I was in for another surprise the following Sunday. The spirit began prompting me before church to bear testimony about this experience in my ward's fast and testimony meeting. My heart was willing because of numerous experiences where I have seen my powerful Savior intervene similarly for His other abused children. However, my 'flesh' stood in trepidation. Casting out evil spirits is a subject that is hardly ever approached by the membership of the church. I wrote two chapters each on this subject in both of my books but it is <i>not </i>a subject openly discussed at church meetings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> I was visibly nervous to bring this subject up in testimony meeting, but I was obedient to the spirit. I told a simpler version of the story and testified that God's priesthood power is on the earth, that His power works - even at a distance, and that women can indeed exercise faith to cast out evil spirits. I gave my witness that God lives, that we are led by a prophet today and that the <i>Book of Mormon</i> is true. I bore my witness that prayers are answered and that God restored priesthood power to the earth through Joseph Smith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />I hope you enjoy this terrific paper that Brother Gillespie emailed to me and generously gave me permission to share. I pray that you can find your own answers and discern what is true. I believe we can learn to bind Satan by studying and following the words of prophets and apostles. I feel that doing so will help prepare the world for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ as well as the prophesied tribulation that is to precede that blessed event. God bless you in your search for truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Tamara Laing<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">P.S. I was grateful today, 9/29/17, to see a Facebook live video by Becky Edwards from the day previous that shared how her husband, a new bishop, attended an Area Training where President Boyd K. Packer (along with Elder Anderson) said to teach your members to cast out Satan like Moses did. Becky outlines 5 tactics the adversary uses, which she learned from Moses chapter 1, and how to cast him out in her live video. She is a brave warrior for Jesus Christ! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/becky.m.edwards.9?hc_ref=ARQLijYllZXDiV_3TrU6MC5NmecZbzZU4j4K0XCEb-FEZ-Bmjg9U1V19Y81Ha4EBY5A&pnref=story">https://www.facebook.com/becky.m.edwards.9?hc_ref=ARQLijYllZXDiV_3TrU6MC5NmecZbzZU4j4K0XCEb-FEZ-Bmjg9U1V19Y81Ha4EBY5A&pnref=story</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">P.P.S Today, 11/7/17, I came across a great piece again by Donna Eden, world-renown author of the best selling book <i>Energy Medicine</i>. She writes about her surprising encounter with dark forces while doing healing work once and offers terrific advice. Read her words at this link: <a href="http://www.innersource.net/em/1055-bringing-dark-forces-into-the-light.html?utm_source=November+2013+e-Letter&utm_campaign=NOV+2013+e-Letter&utm_medium=email">http://www.innersource.net/em/1055-bringing-dark-forces-into-the-light.html?utm_source=November+2013+e-Letter&utm_campaign=NOV+2013+e-Letter&utm_medium=email</a></span><br />
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It is sad to me that some people judge a person to be 'of the devil' when they are only helping to bring light to dark places. The same thing happened to Jesus Christ when he healed people by casting evil spirits out of them. Those who did not understand accused Him of working by the power of the devil. "He casteth out devils through the power of Beelzebub the chief of the devils." See Matthew 12:22-37, Mark 3:22-27 and Luke 11:15-26 for more examples. Unfortunately, such accusations are still going on today. At least one commentator online is claiming that all so called energy healing is evil and of the devil because a facilitator spoke of casting them out of a person. Such commentators do not understand the scriptures!<br />
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I aim to choose to remain in gratitude and praise, although such things are happening. "But and if ye suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing." (1 Peter 3:15-17)<br />
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