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-89439612140736652552023-10-24T20:24:00.000-07:002024-02-27T07:54:26.759-08:00<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: "nunito sans", arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">
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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-13247466029167619662022-10-04T11:30:00.153-07:002024-03-26T14:29:25.167-07:00HOLISTIC EVENTS
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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-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-82522175410824000742019-04-07T20:47:00.005-07:002020-12-18T14:36:37.976-08:00Faithful Answers to Criticism<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
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posting this speech will open doors to communication and be a blessing for both
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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
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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
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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;"><b>#1 Understand it’s a Paradigm Shift…</b><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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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Christine Northrup, MD reminds us: “Some
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
Pert, <i>Molecules of Emotion</i></span></blockquote>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">I believe you here today are living the words of
Gregg Braden:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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;"><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;">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;"><b>Answer #5 Find Gratitude</b><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;">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 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;">CLIENT TESTIMONIALS<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;"><br /></span>
<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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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Provide that testimonials do not constitute a guarantee,
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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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><b>FAITHFUL ANSWER TO CRITICISM<o:p></o:p></b></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;"><b><br /></b></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;"><br /></span>
<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: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Additional notes</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>California Senate Bill SB577 </u></b><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
following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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;">SECTION 2.<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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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(1) Conducts surgery or any other procedure on another
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
person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(3) Prescribes or administers legend drugs or controlled
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;">(6) Sets fractures.<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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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">SECTION 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">A person who provides services. . . .
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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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">(2) Obtain a written acknowledgement from the
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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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
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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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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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I finally decided to try DER / RET -
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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I am wondering if I can share any part
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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Perhaps it is more comfortable to
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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Your sister in Christ,<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;">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>
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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
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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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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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />I found Mark Wolynn's book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It Didn't
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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“The apparent injustice of ‘the
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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Whether
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)
<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;">“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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I very highly recommend studying
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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There are several models of how to do this in various energy modalities out
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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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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We can begin reversing
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
Decoded</i>, 346)<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;">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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Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com0tag: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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<span style="font-size: small;">WAS THERE
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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<span style="font-size: small;">My daughter
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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<span style="font-size: small;"> ADHD Autism <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Obsessive-compulsive
disorder Bipolar affective
disorder <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> PTSD Addiction <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Depression early
Alzheimers & Dementia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Tamara's Note: There
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;">Bunyan speaks of a city that was perfectly given up to idolatry, and needed only one devil to watch the whole of it; but one Saint, a poor old man walking through the streets, required a score of devils to watch him. The city was already in possession of the Evil One, and it needed no care or watching. There are scores of evil spirits here—spirits of the old Gadianton robbers, some of whom inhabited these mountains, and used to go into the South and afflict the Nephites. There are millions of those spirits in the mountains, and they are ready to make us covetous, if they can; they are ready to lead astray every man and woman that wishes to be a Latter-day Saint.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times 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 it comes to evil spirits, it does not matter how righteous you may be or your calling in the church. Evil spirits attend 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;"> and surround 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;"> every moment of every day of our lives. There is no avoiding them, especially if you are serious about returning to your Heavenly Father. This is not to say that they will not harass those who are mediocre or indifferent. </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;">Everyone</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has evil spirits assigned to them. They watch us constantly, waiting for an unguarded or careless moment to tempt, influence, and afflict. Talking about them will not bring them suddenly to you because they </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;">already</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> surround you. Those who are without a knowledge of evil spirits, and lack a belief in their existence and power will be unable to discern their presence. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times 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;">To say that you do not have evil spirits around you because you do not talk about them is utter fallacy. The entire purpose of Satan and his minions is to influence and tempt us, to see if we will choose of our own free will to follow the Savior or give in to 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;"> Consequently, these evil spirits are continually watching us and waiting for an opening to see if we will give in to their promptings.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times 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;">“…A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power than many men who are on the earth. Hence it needs revelation to assist us, and give us knowledge of the things 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;">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: 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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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times 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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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times 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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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times 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;">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;">12. Lying in wait to ensnare others (D&C 10:22-27)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13. Rebellion against God (Al 36:13-14)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14. Forgetting God (Ps. 9:17)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15. Being fearful and unbelieving (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;">16. Persecuting God's people (D&C 121:23)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times 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. Pride (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;">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;">(2) That they then have such power over those bodies as to control the physical acts performed, even to the framing of the very words spoken by the mouth of those so 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;">(3) That persons possessed by evil spirits are subjected to the severest mental and physical sufferings and to the basest sort of degradation—all symbolical of the eternal torment to be imposed upon those who fall under Satan's control in the world to come;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times 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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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times 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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<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;"><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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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
went through. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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wounds to make me the person I am today. I aspire to praise the Lord for each
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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<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> <span style="font-family: inherit;">My family and clients are experiencing great differences now that we understand mental clarity, calmness and focus are related not only to what I wrote about in my book (spiritual, emotional and generational aspects) but also to overcoming micronutrient deficiency. <b>What a paradigm shift! </b></span></span><br />
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Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-74973303574502322712013-01-31T03:56:00.000-08:002019-01-16T15:43:44.802-08:00Letter from a Client - Mental Illness a WAR with THOUGHTS<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i>email to author 1/31/13</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
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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>In summary, </b></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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<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>
Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-88272095852864729012013-01-02T11:29:00.009-08:002022-03-26T14:27:32.390-07:00Science and Charts on Energy Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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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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Related Reading:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I share more science in my Disclaimer, a tab at the top of the main page. Or link <a href="https://tamarasbook.blogspot.com/p/dear-website-readers-and-clients-thank.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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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</div>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-32325759670697356562013-01-01T19:42:00.000-08:002019-01-16T15:45:08.478-08:00"Mighty Spirits" includes those with Mental Illness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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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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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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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
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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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<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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<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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<i>Isaiah counseled, “Hide not
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
prayer empowers us to repair anything that has torn the relationship apart.</i></blockquote>
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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 />
<a href="http://tamarasbook.blogspot.com/2009/08/generational-issues-quotes.html">http://tamarasbook.blogspot.com/2009/08/generational-issues-quotes.html</a><br />
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I just read an amazing article on finding help for Asperger's: "Asperger's Syndrome, A Journey Not a Destination." This is another story of a dedicated mom finding help for her ill child in alternative medicine. Several of the articles in this magazine are on Aspergers Syndrome. I was happy to find energy therapies mentioned in another article, also. Sometimes I wish I could say on air, "Wake up America! Help is available for those who will take time to understand PRINCIPLES behind alternative medicine therapies." This mother understood the principles behind homeopathy and it made such a HUGE difference for her son. What she says makes SO MUCH sense once basic principles are understood.<br />
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Constitutional Homeopathy is what made a world of difference for my son with Lyme disease. He <br />
<a name='more'></a>had been sitting in the recliner from February until Fall (without enough energy to even play a video game), but within the first week or two on a couple of constitutional remedies he began to do things he hadn't done in 8 months! He played a little basketball with friends, he went to the lake with us and later boating with friends... We knew something wonderful was happening. Interestingly, the next person with Lyme who might see a constitutional homeopath would be given remedies specifically for <i>their</i> body - not the same ones my son took. (An added blessing was that we paid only $10 a bottle for each remedy and they lasted for months. This is a so-called alternative treatment worth looking into. There are places in Europe where these remedies sit alongside prescription drugs in pharmacies. (America is far behind the times when it comes to some areas of medicine.) <br />
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Constitutional homeopathy has been amazingly helpful for my family. My neighbor believes it is the very best approach for ANY infection after it was the best solution for her son with MRSA as well as her own chronic sinus infections. I rarely every get those, but the last time I did I was in the southern part of Utah at a family reunion. Being desperate, I got a Rx for antibiotics but the infection flared when the medicine was gone. I am SO glad I got an appointment with a constitutional homeopath. I was given the right remedy <i>for me</i> and the infection cleared quickly because it went to the root of the problem. I haven't had any trouble since. I LOVE constitutional homeopathy - which is different from using a homeopathic remedy labeled for a single, acute condition.<br />
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An additional thought I have is the question, "What is 'alternative' medicine anyhow?" Back in its day in the 1800's, homeopathy wasn't an "alternative" choice, it was The choice for many maladies. So what is really 'alternative' today? It's simply a matter of perception. Today's alternative may be tomorrow's norm. </div>
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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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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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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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<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-75491129159345778022010-10-10T13:00:00.000-07:002010-10-16T15:20:27.802-07:00Essential Oils for Emotional Healing- Cherie Burton's Free ClassAre you interested in learning about alternative help for depression, anxiety, and/or emotional healing?Cherie Burton, author of <i>Where Depression Ends and You Begin- 4 Passages to Discovery,</i> will be at my home this Thursday Oct. 14th from 7-9pm<i> </i>if<i> </i>I can gather at least 10 interested people. If you are open to learning about essential oils,and will be in the Roy,Utah area please e-mail me at lightreader@xmission.com or call me at 801-985-7046 and I will give you directions to my home. Please feel free to share this invitation with your friends.<br />
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Many of you know that my family pedigree is riddled with <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1286472203_64" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">Bipolar Disorder</span> and Depression..and that I lost my sister to suicide 5 years ago. As a family, we've made it our mission, since Shawna's death, to find other avenues of healing from depression and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1286472203_65">mental illnesses</span> - as medications and traditional means of treatment found her no relief. It has been quite the interesting journey, to say the least, discovering alternative healing modalities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you know of anyone who is suffering with depression, please have them come. Or, you may wish to come in their stead to get the information and pass it along. I will be sharing a PowerPoint presentation on a "Mood Matrix" and talking about specific, intensive therapies with Essential Oils to combat depression and anxiety.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I am passionate about helping mothers become "physicians" in their homes and will be teaching classes <span style="font-weight: bold;">twice monthly</span> - one in LINDON and one in BOUNTIFUL- along with my sister, Robin. <span style="background-color: yellow;">November's class will focus on children with special needs - Autism/ADD/ADHD</span>. There have been some amazing transformations with these children because of the Oils, my son included...which you can read about in the blog post above.<br />
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I had the awesome opportunity 2 days ago of looking at my live blood projected onto a screen. One of my new friends is a phlebotomist as well as a microscopist. She was looking at a drop of my blood under a high powered microscope. It was fascinating! I was watching what she could see under that microscope onscreen. I saw healthy single red blood cells and also clumps of them grouped together that are not able to get oxygen... as easily. I also saw white blood cells and various other things inside and outside of the various cells. There were things that looked like parasites, fermentation, yeast, toxins, rods, plaque, dark crystals and uric acid crystals.... I learned a lot! Blood can tell what is stressed in your body. (I touch on that in my DVD.) I sprayed just 10 sprays of the product ASEA under my tongue and we repeated the process with a new drop of my blood 10 minutes later. It was fascinating to see all the detoxing that was now going on in this microscopic world of a drop of blood.</div>
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'Did you guess that the mineral supplement that you choose to add to your diet might have noticeable effect on your Chi energy? Chi is the life-force that flows through our bodies. In traditional Chines medicine, Chi is seen as the paramount vital energy. Herbs and dietary supplements, including mineral supplements, are used to boost Chi, and so restore healthful vigor. Here in the West, progressive health practitioners are embracing Chi as a major option in their holistic programs. Chi is an electronic energy that can be measured using sensitive electro-acupuncture machines. <b> It is thought that Chi originates at the level of a single cell, </b>which is the basic unit of life. The trillions of cells in the human body make electronic energy simultaneously with chemical energy in the tiny energy factories they have that are called mitochondria. <b>The Chi energy leaves the single cells</b> <b>and moves out of the tissue, then travels through the organs and the entire body</b>, as measured via the classic acupuncture meridian points. The correlation between Chi and minerals is that Chi is an electron energy, and the more charged atoms there are in the fluids, the better can the electronic energy flow. Much as in a battery, the more charged atoms (ions) there are in the battery solution, the stronger is the battery. Similarly, <b>our cells make the sparks of Ch</b>i, but its flow is held by the minerals.</div>
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`'The better the balance of the minerals in the fluids, the better the Chi should flow. While we do know that there are 23 elements strictly proven essential for the body, we do not know that the others are not essential or not important. These may well contribute to Chi. . . . From my research into this phenomenon of Chi, it has become clear that by supplementing our diet with a well-balanced mineral supplement we can go a far way towards optimizing our energy and overall well being. (Used by permission from a 1996 speech.)' " (Quoted in Farley M. Anderson, <i>Nature's Answer</i>, Bear River, Utah, Replenishing Press, p 37-38)</div>
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I felt this author was a second-witness to what my new friend, Kathleen Erickson, taught. We both presented at a health conference in Provo recently where she showed us videos of live blood <i>glowing with light</i> after taking the product, ASEA. I was taking notes as fast as I could and felt I had found a kindred spirit. She spoke of being able to see both light and darkness in the cells. We both were excited about scriptures that speak of this. Wow! All truth fits together. Gotta love science and technology that agree with scripture!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">A COLLECTION OF QUOTES ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SPIRITUAL RADIATION</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spiritual radiation is a central element for the transmission of knowledge between all organized beings. It is the unspoken but pervasive yet ineffable influence that surrounds all relationships; all interactions between all intelligent entities. If the principle of spiritual radiation is a true phenomenon then what are the implications of this force as it impacts upon the learning environment? What is the effect of the spiritual radiation that I emanate upon those whom I teach?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">The source of this radiation is identified by Parley P. Pratt as the Holy Spirit and its counterpart, found in one’s own body, he refers to as spiritual magnetism. Brother Pratt suggests that one of the component structures contained within the Holy Spirit is that of an invisible but tangible substance. The Holy Spirit is also “the purest, the most refined and subtle of all these [invisible] substances, [such as, electricity, galvanism, magnetism, animal magnetism, spiritual magnetism, essence, spirit etc.] and the one least understood, or even recognized, by the less informed among mankind…”(<u>Keys to Theology</u>, Parley P. Pratt, p. 46)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">The law that governs the flow of these two spiritual “fluids” and the communicative properties they contain bear some resemblance to the laws that govern electricity. Like electricity, the flow is imparted between two or more bodies through the channel of the nerves. (<u>Keys to Theology</u>, Parley P. Pratt, pp 99-100)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">This statement helps us respect the effect that drugs may have on the nerves to retard the flow of spiritual communication between each other, and between us and God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brother Pratt has been frequently quoted over the years about the natural effect that the Holy Ghost has upon one who has been baptized and has developed within himself the gift of the Holy Ghost, or in other words, the presence of the Holy Ghost. He said: “The gift of the Holy Ghost adapts itself to all these organs or attributes. [Man, created in the image of God, possesses every organ, attribute, sense, sympathy, affection that God himself possesses]. It quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands, and purifies all the natural passions and affections; and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine-toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness and charity. It develops beauty of person, form and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation and social feeling. It invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being. In the presence of such persons, one feels to enjoy the light of their countenance, as the genial rays of a sunbeam. Their very atmosphere diffuses a thrill, a warm glow of pure gladness and sympathy, to the heart and nerves of other who have kindred feelings, or sympathy of spirit” [such as little children who are protected by Christ through His atonement and dwell in His spiritual light. See Moroni Chapter 8]. (<u>Keys to Theology</u>, Parley P. Pratt, p. 101).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">President David O. McKay gave a major statement on spiritual radiation to the faculty and student body on the Brigham Young University campus in 1948. The title of the address was “Mission of the Brigham Young University.” He talked about this spiritual radiation flowing not only from each other but from the physical buildings—offices, and classrooms—where we work. In essence he said that all things radiate a spiritual influence.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I have quoted often before, and shall again because I like it, in referring to the influence of an individual. There is one responsibility which no man can evade and that responsibility is personal influence. Man’s unconscious influence, the silent, subtle radiation of his personality. The effects of his words and acts. These are tremendous. Every moment of life he is changing to a degree the life of the whole world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other. So silent and unconsciously is this influence working, that man may forget that it exists. Man cannot escape for one moment from this radiation of his character. This constantly weakening or strengthening of others. He cannot evade the responsibility by saying it is an unconscious influence. He can select the qualities he would permit to be radiated. He can cultivate sweetness, trust, generosity, truth, justice, loyalty, nobility, and make them vitally active in his character. By these qualities he will constantly affect the world. This radiation to which I refer comes from what a person really is, and not from what he pretends to be.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every man by his mere living, is radiating sympathy, sorrow, or morbidness, cynicism, or happiness or hope or any other of a hundred qualities. Life is a state of radiation and absorption. To exist is to radiate. To exist is to be the recipient of radiation.” (Mission of the Brigham Young University”, and address given by President David O. McKay at BYU, April 27, 1948).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brother McKay said he has often referred to the principle in his talks. He continued to do so on several later occasions. In his conference address of April, 1963 he said: “Every man and every person who lives in this world wields an influence, whether for good or for evil. It is not what he says alone, it is not alone what he does. It is what he is. Every man, every person radiates what he or she really is.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><u>Every person is a recipient of radiation</u>. The Savior was conscious of that. Whenever he came into the presence of an individual, he sensed that radiation—whether it was the woman of Samaria with her past life; whether it was the woman who was to be stoned, or the men who were to stone her; whether it was the statesman, Nicodemus, or one of the lepers. He was conscious of the radiation from the individual. And to a degree so are you, and so am I. It is what we are and what we radiate that affects the people around us.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts; if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.</span></span></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">That it is true of the individual. It is true of the home…Our homes radiate what we are, and that radiation comes from what we say and how we act in the home. No member of this Church—husband, father—has the right to utter an oath in his home, or ever express a cross word to his wife or to his children. You cannot do it as a man who holds the priesthood and be true to the spirit within you by your ordination and your responsibility. You should contribute to an ideal home by your character, controlling your passion, your temper, guarding your speech, because those things will make your home what it is and what it will radiate to the neighborhood. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">“…as men of the priesthood, as women of the Church, we have greater responsibilities than ever before to make our homes such as will radiate to our neighbors harmony, love, community duties, loyalty. Let our neighbors see it and hear it. Never must there be expressed in a Latter-day Saint home an oath, a condemnatory term, an expression of anger or jealousy or hatred. Control it! Do not express it! You do what you can to produce peace and harmony, no matter what you may suffer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Savior set us the example. He was always calm, always controlled, radiating something which people could feel as they passed. When the woman touched his garment, he felt something go from him—that radiation which is divine.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Each individual soul has it. That is you! The body is only the house in which you live. God help us to radiate strength, control, love, charity, which is another name for love, consideration, best wishes for all human beings.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">“God help us as members of the priesthood, as members of the Church to radiate faith, love of humility, charity, control, consideration, and service to his people wherever they are, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.” (David O. McKay, <u>Conference Report</u>, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, April, 1963, pp. 129-131)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">At another time he made this comment: “The first thing to do, my brethren, is to look to yourselves, to see whether or not you are prepared to teach. No Man can teach that which he himself does not know. It is the duty to teach that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer of the world, that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God, and that to him in this last dispensation there appeared God the Father and His Son in person. Do you believe it? Does the testimony radiate from your being when you enter into the home? <u>If so, that radiation will give life to the people whom you teach</u>. If not, there will be a dearth, a drought, a lack of that spiritual environment in which the Saints grow. (David O McKay, <u>Conference Report</u>, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, David O. McKay October 1916, pp.58-59). Note the emphasis he gives to the fact that positive spiritual radiation gives life to those to whom we serve. In still another conference address when speaking about free agency he said: “There is another responsibility correlated and even coexistent with free agency, which is too infrequently emphasized, and that is the effect not only of a person’s actions but also of his thoughts upon others. Man radiates what he is, and that radiation affects to a greater or lesser degree every person who comes within that radiation”. (<u>Conference Report</u>, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, David O McKay, April 1950, p.34)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">This radiation is also referred to, in the scriptures, as the manifestation of spiritual light which is sometimes quoted as being analogous to a lighted candle. Mathew 5:15, Mark 4:21, :Luke 8:21, 11:33, 3 Nephi 12:15 are some examples.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">President Heber C. Kimball has warned us that we cannot live on borrowed light (Life <u>of Heber C. Kimball</u>, Orson F. Whitney, pp. 449-450). More recently President Harold B. Lee quoted Brother Kimball in a conference address given in 1956 (<u>Conference Report</u>, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Harold B. Lee Oct. 1956 p. 62). The same warning was cited again in the <u>Relief Society Courses of Study</u>, 1979-1980, pp. 24-25. The Book of Revelation, in the New Testament, also describes the condition that has always prevailed for those members who continually live on borrowed light and who do not seek to become their own source of original light” “And the light of the candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by the sorceries were all nations deceived.” (Revelation 18:23). The light is the Holy Ghost, the bride and the bridegroom symbolize the union that exists between Christ and the members of the church, the merchants (where the source of light could be obtained) were the great men of the earth—the prophets both living and dead, the sorceries denotes an absence of light or the desire to gain power from the assistance of evil spirits or of men. <u>The Melchizedek Priesthood Personal Study Guide</u>, 1979-1980 in Lesson 11 quotes President Joseph F. Smith in a similar statement: “But all this availeth little or nothing, unless the Saints consider themselves of some consequence, and let their light shine, collectively and individually; unless they are model in their behavior, honest, zealous in the spread of truth, tolerant of their neighbors,” then he adds, “One fault to be avoided by the Saints, young and old, is the tendency to live on borrowed light, with their own hidden under a bushel; to permit the savor of their salt of knowledge to be lost; and the light within them to be reflected, rather than original” (<u>Gospel Doctrine</u>, Joseph F. Smith pp. 87-88).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sad to say that what President Joseph F. Smith referred to as lost knowledge is evidently lost to the present generation of the church. There is a body of knowledge that was restored to the earth in the first generation of the restoration that is not commonly known or understood today. A case in point can be taken from the five-year course, 1908-1912, for the Melchizedek Priesthood, titled <u>The Seventy’s Course in Theology</u>, edited by B.H. Roberts, In the manual for 1912, part one of the course (six lessons) deals with the principle, “Divine Immanence.” Sadly, this precept is rarely understood by the present generation of prieshood holder; yet it is the heart and soul of the principle of spiritual radiation and light being discussed in this paper. Divine Immanence, as taught by B.H. Roberts, is the indwelling of God’s light within us plus power—His power. (<u>The Seventy’s Course of Study, </u>Fifth Year, Part 1, edited by B.H. Roberts.) Here is another example of the principle of indwelling as taught by the Lord Jesus Christ. He is speaking to the Twelve Nephite apostles he had called to preside over His church. He said: “And if it so be that the church is built upon my gospel then will the Father show forth his own works in it” (3 Nephi 27:10). What the Lord is saying is that if His Gospel is not actively within us then the works of the Father cannot be made manifest in us. His works cannot flow through us. And what is the gospel? Brother Bruce R. McConkie said: “It embraces all of the laws, principles, doctrines, rites, ordinances, acts, powers, authorities, and keys necessary to save and exalt men in the highest heaven thereafter. Later in the same discussion he said: “The scriptures bear record of the gospel, <u>but the gospel itself consists in the power of the priesthood and the possession of the gift of the Holy Ghost</u>” (Mormon Doctrine, Bruce R. McConkie, see “Gospel”, p. 331-334).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">To better understand this principle let me refer you to a statement made by Elder Hugh B. Brown on the spirit’s ability to speak to the spirit of others. The occasion was a visit to the American Fork Training School—and institutional school for the retarded—where he challenged the seminary teachers to teach the gospel to the mentally handicapped spirit to spirit. He told the teachers that the children were handicapped only in the body and mind, but that their spirits were not handicapped and if they would teach them spirit to spirit there would be no communication problem (<u>Church News</u>, December 10, 1977, p. 10). Spiritual Radiation then , is a flow of communication from the true self. It is a flow of information from one tabernacle to another tabernacle. Note the following statement from the 93:35; “The elements are the tabernacle of God; yea, man is the tabernacle of God, even temples; and whatsoever temple is defiled, God shall destroy that temple.” A temple is where God’s truth can indwell with power. And what is power? John A. Woodstoe in his address on “Temple Worship” defines power as “knowledge made alive and useful—that is intelligence; and intelligence in action—that is power. Our temples gives us power—a power based on enlarged knowledge and intelligence—a power from on high, of a quality with God’s own power” (<u>The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine</u>, “Temple Worship”, John A. Widstoe, April 1921, pp. 49-64). Orson Pratt defines knowledge as our perception of truth. But what is truth? “Truth may exist without knowledge, but knowledge cannot exist without truth” (“Absurdities of Immaterialism”, Orson Pratt p.1).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">Orson Pratt provides further insight to the indwelling nature of God’s power in his discourse on the “Powers of Nature.” He refers to God as being the great source of truth and power contained within the cosmos: “The great Architect of the universe did not construct the magnificent machinery of nature, and endow the materials thereof with certain fixed powers, and then withdraw Himself, or step aside to see the mighty fabric operate. Unintelligent materials are incapable of being endowed with any kind of power, much less with the wise and intelligent powers that characterize the workings of the universe. God is every moment in nature, and every moment acts upon nature, and through nature, the same as the spirit of man acts in, and through, and upon the tabernacle of his body, [2 Nephi 2 enlarges this idea]. If God should withdraw himself from nature, or should cease to act upon it, that portion of it which is without life or intelligence (if there be any such portion) would immediately cease all action: and while thus apart from nature no laws could be given to it which could be obeyed: no gravitative or cohesive tendencies could be exerted upon it; no chemical combinations or organic operations could be performed; or in other words, unintelligent nature would be entirely dead, and no voice or power could awake it, or have the least effect upon it, without entering into it, an operating upon it, and through it. It is only living and intelligent substances that hear, and understand, and obey a law. And if unintelligent nature, appears to act and obey a law, it is not in reality the acts of nature, but the operations of a living, intelligent substance inhabiting nature.. Unintelligent nature could no more act than the body without the spirit could act. Therefore, all the grand and magnificent movements of the universe as a whole, and all the minute and imperceptible operations of it particles, are the continued effects of the living, moving all-powerful substance diffused through the whole. This all pervading, omnipresent substance is the Holy Spirit existing in inexhaustible quantities, and extending though the immensity of space: it is the light, and the life, and the power of all things. To search out the laws of nature is nothing less than searching out the laws by which the Spirit in nature operates. Man is continually beholding these wonderful operation, but because he does not behold the acting agent, he ascribes the effects to blind, unintelligent and unconscious matter: as well might he ascribe the attributes of the divinity to a wooden idol. The light shines all around us, and is manifest in an infinite variety of wise and beneficial results, but so great is the darkness of man, that he perceives not the light; or as our great Redeemer has said, “The light shineth in darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not” <u>(The</u> <u>Seer</u>, Orson Pratt, p. 227).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since life is a continual state of radiation and absorption what must we do to absorb a greater proportion of God’s light? “The Lord is no respecter of persons, and to all who are willing to seek in prayer, with preparation, and work, having a desire in their hearts for spiritual light and understanding, He will grant abundantly without reproach. But no light will come to the unwilling, for they will not ask. The promise that they shall receive is made only to those who ask; and that they shall find, only to those who seek” (Joseph F. Smith, <u>Improvement Era</u>, Vol. 19, p. 173).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">And what should we be doing with this light? “We ought to be full of light and life and the power and spirit of the living God and feel that we are messengers to the nations of the earth; we ought to feel the word of God burning like fire in our bones, feeling desirous to go and snatch men from the powers of darkness and the chains of corruption with which they are bound and lead them in the paths of life. We ought to be prepared to go forth weeping, bearing precious seed that we might come back again rejoicing bringing our sheaves with us.” (John Taylor, December 15, 1878, <u>Journal of Discourses</u>, 20:228).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">How should a missionary use this light? “…missionaries are now going to school [such as the MTC and BYU] to [learn what to teach. The spirit already knows the “how” of teaching.] teach others, and in teaching others they themselves will be instructed, and when they rise to speak in the name of Israel’s God, if they live in purity and holiness before Him, He will give them words and ideas of which they never dreamed before. I have traveled hundreds and thousands of miles to preach this gospel among all grades and conditions of men, and there is one thing that always gave me satisfaction—I never yet found a man in any part of the world who could overturn one principle that has been communicated to us; they will attempt it, but error is a very singular weapon with which to combat truth; it never can vanquish it. When men go forth in the name of Israel’s God there is no power on earth that can overturn the truths they advocate…they have the light of revelation, the fire of the Holy Ghost, and the power of the priesthood within the—a power that they know very little about even themselves, which, like a well-spring of life, is rising, bursting, bubbling, and spreading its exhilarating streams around” (John Taylor, April 14, 1867, <u>Journal of Discourses</u> 12:21-22).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">What is the law that governs this light? “There is not a man born into the world but has a portion of the Spirit of God, and it is that Spirit of God which gives to his spirit understanding. Without this, he would be but an animal like the rest of the brute creation, without understanding, without judgment, without skill, without ability, except to eat and to drink like the brute beast. But inasmuch as the Spirit of God giveth all men understanding, he is enlightened above the brute beast. He is made in the image of God Himself, so that he can reason, reflect, pray, exercise faith; he can use his energies for the accomplishment of the desires of his heart, and inasmuch as the Spirit of God giveth all men understanding, he is enlightened above the brute beast. He is made in the image of God Himself, so that he can reason, reflect, pray, exercise faith; he can use his energies for the accomplishment of the desires of his heart, and inasmuch as he puts forth his efforts in the proper direction, then he is entitled to an increased portion of the Spirit of the Almighty to inspire him to increased intelligence, to increased prosperity and happiness in the world; but in proportion as he prostitutes his energies for evil, the inspiration of the Almighty is withdrawn from him until he becomes so dark and so benighted, that so far as his knowledge of God is concerned, so far as the future or hopes of eternal life are concerned, he is quite as ignorant as a dumb brute” (Joseph F. Smith, February 17, 1884, <u>Journal of Discourses</u>, 25:54).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brigham Young explains the power of the radiated light: “I long for the time that a point of a finger, or motion of the hand, will express every idea without utterance. When a man is full of the light of eternity, then the eye is not the only medium through which he sees, his ear is not the only medium by which he hears, not the brain the only means by which he understands. When the whole body is full of the Holy Ghost, he can see behind him with as much ease, without turning his head, as he can see before him If you have not that experience, you ought to have. It is not the optic nerve alone that gives the knowledge of surrounding objects to the mind, but it is that which God has placed in man—a system of intelligence to intelligence, and truth to truth. It is this which lays in man a proper foundation for all education. I shall yet see the time that I can converse with this people and not speak to them, but the expression of my countenance will tell the congregation what I wish to convey, without opening my mouth” (Brigham Young).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">What is the difference between knowledge and intelligence? “There is a difference between knowledge and pure intelligence. Satan possesses knowledge, far more than we have, but he has not intelligence or he would render obedience to the principles of truth and right. I know men who have knowledge, who understand the principles of the gospel, perhaps as well as you do, who are brilliant, but who lack the essential qualification of pure intelligence. They will not accept and render obedience thereto. <u>Pure intelligence comprises not only knowledge, but also the power to properly apply that knowledge” </u>(Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, p. 58, April 1913).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brother B.H. Roberts understood the problem of imparting knowledge to others. In his discourses, “The Nearness of God” he said: “We have to preach our truth in fragments; it is beyond our power to present it as a whole in any one discourse, or in one hundred, or in a thousand discourses. We may only teach it in fragments—a line here, a word there, precept upon precept, and so build up the truth in the hearts of men (Cited in the <u>Masterpieces of Latter-day Saint Leaders</u>, compiled by N.H. Lundwall, p. 47). Notice that he said “build up truth in the hearts of men” and not build up truth in the minds of men.” Brigham Young clarifies the function of the heart in obtaining truth by asking a question: “Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved” (Brigham Young, June 27, 1858, <u>Journal of Discourses</u> 7:55). President Heber J. Grant, back in 1923, in speaking about <u>the specific purpose of the Church School System, had this to say about educating the heart: “To my mind, and I have repeated time and time again whenever I have spoken in our Church Schools and in private in regard to schools, the specific purpose of the Church School System is to make Latter-day Saints—to educate the heart, so to speak. The heart is the engine and if it is alright, we can generally get along pretty well so far as the head and the other parts of the body are concerned; but unless the heart of a man is right, unless a man is determined to do good, unless he believes in God and in Jesus Christ, and believes in the divine mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith, he cannot accomplish what he might achieve in this Church if he had that knowledge.</u> It is to implant that knowledge in the hearts of the people that we have a school system and if the thing for which it was organized, that which is expected of it, and which we all hope and pray for it to do. <u>I am very sorry indeed that a great many simply study and learn the words, so to speak, the letter of the things, without getting the spirit of them. The spirit, we are told, gives life and animation and power, and it is to develop the spirit of man that we have established this Church School System” (Improvement Era, </u>“Spiritual Development Needed in Education” by Heber J. Grant, Vol. 26, No. 12, October 1923, pp. 1091-93).</span></span></span></div>
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Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239803923933199993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512644569971531147.post-84450496307095777642010-03-13T15:58:00.000-08:002013-09-14T05:51:27.153-07:00Distance Healing Science Experiments<div>
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I John 5:8 totally fascinates me. The verse previous reads, "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." Following that it reads: "And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one." That tells me that Spirit, water and blood all record information and therefore have a ‘voice’ to bear witness. It seems to me that the Lord is teaching us here that water, blood and Spirit record and keep data that can also be sent out as information. </div>
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Remember the blood above the door mantles at Passover? I John 5:8 has astounding ramifications in light of what scientists and physicists have learned about water, blood and subtle Energy or what some call Spirit. Scientists have demonstrated that water, blood and our energy systems (intelligence/spirit) each record information. The information copying function of water is evidenced in homeopathy. It is also evidenced in the findings of Dr. Masaru Emoto whose experiments show that water records information! He is an internationally renowned researcher who claims there is an intrinsic vibrational pattern at the atomic level in all matter and that words influence those vibrations. His experiments of photographing frozen water crystals show that water is affected by words and connected to our consciousness. (see hado.net or <em>The Hidden Messages in Water </em>or<em> The True Power of Water)</em><br />
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It is obvious to us today that DNA records information. Anecdotal evidence regarding blood's capability to do that is found in cases of blood transfusions, during which recipients have seen images of places they’ve never been and memories which are not their own. There are also books about transplant recipients who suddenly find themselves craving different food and activities... only to find upon investigation that their new tastes match the donor's habits and cravings. In the scriptures the Lord asked the murderer Cain, "What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground." (Genesis 4:10 emphasis added; see also Rev 6:10; 2 Nephi 28:10;Alma 14:11; Mormon 8:27;Ether 8:22; D&C 87:7; D&C 109:49, D&C 135:7 ) "They have shed innocent blood which crieth from the ground."(D&C 136:36) I believe these verses are speaking (okay, that pun was intended) more than just figuratively.<br />
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The verse in First John supports experiments by Dr. C. Norman Shealy in addition to the studies Gregg Braden and Larry Dossey write of concerning energetically affecting non-localized events. What that means in everyday language is that distant energy healing is possible. The Bible has examples of this done by the Savior as well as mere <strong>mortals</strong>.<br />
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A post on Dec 15, 2004 by guest "Dr. G" on the Global Healing Center website tells of 3 different astonishing experiments done on DNA. Dr. G's message is titled "DNA Activation for Healing" and says:<br />
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"In his recent program entitled Healing Hearts/Healing Nations: The Science of Peace and the Power of Prayer, Gregg Braden discussed how in the past we lost huge amounts of information from ancient spiritual traditions (when the library at Alexandria burned we lost at least 532,000 documents), and that there may be information in those traditions which could help us understand some of the mysteries of science. To this end he reported on three very interesting experiments. Gregg Braden started off as a scientist and engineer, before he began pursuing these larger questions. "<br />
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"EXPERIMENT #1 The first experiment he reported was done by Dr.Vladimir Poponin, a quantumbiologist. In this experiment, first a container was emptied (ie a vacuum was created within it), and then the only thing left in it were photons (particles of light). They measured the distribution (ie the location) of the photons and found they were completely random inside the container. This was the expected result. Then some DNA was placed inside the container and the distribution (location) of the photons was remeasured. This time the photons were LINED UP in an ORDERED way and aligned with the DNA. In other words, the physical DNA had an effect on the non-physical photons. After that, the DNA was removed from the container, and the distribution of the photons was remeasured again. The photons REMAINED ORDERED and lined up where the DNA had been. What are the light particles connected to? Gregg Braden says we are forced to accept the possibility that some NEW field of energy, a web of energy, is there and the DNA is communicating with the photons through this energy.<br />
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"EXPERIMENT #2 These were experiments done by the military. Leukocytes (white blood cells) were collected for DNA from donors and placed into chambers so they could be measure electrical changes. In this experiment, the donor was placed in one room and subjected to "emotional stimulation" consisting of videoclips, which generated different emotions in the donor. The DNA was placed in a different room in the same building. Both the donor and his DNA were monitored and as the donor exhibited emotional peaks or valleys (measured by electricalresponses), the DNA exhibited the IDENTICAL RESPONSES AT THE EXACT SAME TIME. There was no lag time, no transmission time. The DNA peaks and valleys EXACTLY MATCHED the peaks and valleys of the donor in time. The military wanted to see how far away they could separate the donor from his DNA and still get this effect. They stopped testing after they separated the DNA and the donor by 50 miles and STILL had the SAME result. No lag time; no transmission time. The DNA and the donor had the same identical responses in time. What can this mean? Gregg Braden says it means that living cells communicate through a previously unrecognized form of energy. This energy is not affected by time and distance. This is a non-local form of energy, an energy that already exists everywhere, all the time.<br />
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"EXPERIMENT #3 The third experiment was done by the Institute of Heart Math and the paper that was written about this was titled: Local and Non local Effects of Coherent Heart Frequencies on Conformational Changes of DNA. (Disregard the title! The info is incredible.) This is the experiment that relates directly to the anthrax situation. In this experiment, some human placenta DNA (the most pristine form of DNA) was placed in a container from which they could measure changes in the DNA. Twenty-eight vials of DNA were given (one each) to 28 trained researchers. Each researcher had been trained how to generate and FEEL feelings, and they each had strong emotions. What was discovered was that the DNA CHANGED ITS SHAPE according to the feelings of the researchers: 1. Whenthe researchers FELT gratitude, love and appreciation, the DNA responded by RELAXING and the strands unwound. The length of the DNA became longer. 2. When theresearchers FELT anger, fear, frustration, or stress, the DNA responded by TIGHTENING UP. It became shorter and SWITCHED OFF many of our DNA codes! If you've ever felt "shut down" by negative emotions, now you know why your body was equally shut down, too. The shut down of the DNA codes was reversed and the codes were switched back on again when feelings of love, joy, gratitude and appreciation were felt by the researchers. This experiment was later followed up by testing HIV positive patients. They discovered that feelings of love, gratitude and appreciation created 300,000 TIMES the RESISTANCE theyhad without those feelings.<br />
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"So here's the answer to what can help you stay well, no matter what dreadful virus or bacteria may be floating around. Stay in feelings of joy, love, gratitude and appreciation! These emotional changes went beyond the effects of electro-magnetics. Individuals trained in deep love were able to change the shape of their DNA. Gregg Braden says this illustrates anew recognized form of energy that connects all of creation. This energy appears to be a TIGHTLY WOVEN WEB that connects all matter. Essentially we're able to influence this web of creation through our VIBRATION." (taken from <a href="http://www.ghchealth.com/forum/post-170.html">http://www.ghchealth.com/forum/post-170.html</a> )<br />
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The second experiment spoken about above is also mentioned in a wonderful book by pastor Joel Osteen. He says, "I read of an interesting study done in 1993 by the United States military. They were curious about what traits get passed down from one generation to the next. We know that physical traits do. What about emotional, mental, and spiritual characteristics? What about bad attitudes and additions? Or what about good qualities such as integrity, compassion, and godliness? Can they be passed down as well?<br />
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"The researchers extracted some white blood cells from a volunteer and they carefully placed them in a test tube. They then put a probe from a lie detector machine down in that test tube, to measure the person's emotional response.<br />
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"Next, they instructed this same volunteer to go a couple of doors down and watch some violent scenes from an old war movie on television. When this man watched the scenes, even though the blood that was being tested was in another room, when he got all uptight and tense, that lie detector test shot off the page. It was detecting his emotional response even though the blood was no longer in his body.<br />
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"The experimenters did this with person after person with the same results. They concluded that the blood cells seem to "remember" where they came from. Now, if sicknesses and addictions and wrong mind-sets can be passed down, how much more can God's blessings, favor and good habits be passed down through our blood? As important as it may be to understand the generational curse, it is vital that we understand the generational blessings we can obtain." (Joel Osteen, <em>Become a Better You</em> p 60-61)<br />
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I can't help but think of the verses in D&C 88:11-13 when I read the above experiements. "And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings; Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space- the light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of all things." That is a most amazing scripture! The light from God sharpens our understanding of everything. This same light fills our vast galaxy and universe and all of space. This light is IN all matter and gives life to all creation. This light is the very law by which all matter- visible and invisible- is governed. This light is the answer Gregg Braden and world renowned scientists are still searching for! The answers ARE in the scriptures!<br />
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In light of the understanding that all creation is connected energetically, it should not come as such a shock that energy therapists are able to work with clients over the phone and EFFECT CHANGES. Although there is a distance between the facilitator and the client's physical selves, there is no distance between their energy bodies because it is a unified field. At first, it took awhile to wrap my brain around that concept. We are individual souls, yet we are all connected energetically. </div>
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As I mentioned, there are examples of distant healing in the Bible by the Savior as well as distant healing by mere mortals. Paul is an example in the New Testament and Elisha an example from the Old Testament. Modern day apostle Parley P. Pratt wrote, " As the electric fluid obeys its own laws upon the wire, so also does the spiritual or holy fluid convey itself, through certain channels, from one body to another, in accordance with certain legitimate laws. . . . A person commissioned of Jesus Christ and filled with this spiritual substance, can impart of the same to another, provided there is a preparation of heart and faith on the part of the receiver. Or if, as in cases of healing, casting out devils, etc., it happens that the receiver has no command of his own mind, as in cases of little children, persons swooned, fainted, deranged or dead, then the <em>faith</em> of the administrator alone, or in connection with other friends and agents, in his behalf, is sufficient in many cases to perform the work. However, the touch or laying on of hands, is not the only means of communicating the gift of healing. A word spoken, a mandate issued, or even a handkerchief, apron, or other garment, worn or touched by a person full of this Spirit, and conveyed to another, has, according to sacred history, and also the experience of the present age, proved sufficient to communicate the spiritual fluid between minds of strong and mutual faith. So well acquainted was the Prophet Elisha with this principle, that he sent his servant to lay his staff upon a dead child, in order to raise it from the dead; but in this instance, the undertaking failed. The prophet could only resuscitate the child by placing face on face, eye to eye, mouth to mouth, hand to hand, etc., so as to give the greatest possible effect to the imparting of the spirit of life."(Parley P. Pratt, <em>Key to the Science of Theology</em>, 2000, Archive Publishers Heber City, UT, p 110-111) <br />
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I firmly believe that science and religion can work together in teaching truth, for that describes the last few years of my experience. The science I have come across has strengthened my testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. That’s not so surprising since all truth comes from God and He makes no distinction between scientific truth and religious truth. It is all His truth! It appears that scientists are telling us the very things that prophets have told us all along! The spirit world really is right here. It vibrates at a faster rate than our earthly plane and so most people don't tune in to that frequency. That is why it is said to be invisible to us. But it is here and it IS possible to see it among us with our spiritual eyes. I know that to be true!</div>
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