Modern Day Practices Through Which Demons Can Enter Your Life
Demons can enter through any type of involvement with the occult.
(Deuteronomy 18:9-12).
Any contact, involvement with, or practice in the occult, by yourself or your parents, is a doorway for demons to enter and influence your life. This includes contact or practice with the following:
FORTUNE TELLING
The act or practice of predicting a person’s future through natural or mystical means, and often for commercial gain.
Watch: Miss Cleo Hawking Psychic Advice
NUMEROLOGY
An occult practice that interprets numbers for fortune telling
Watch: Understanding Personal Numerology
Divination by analysis of lines, shapes, etc., on the human hand.
Watch: Palm Reading Your Life Line
TAROT CARDS
A deck of cards used by mystics and occultists in efforts at divination or as a map of mental and spiritual pathways.
Watch: Tarot Cards and the Golden Age Church
OUIJA BOARD
A board with the letters of the alphabet on it – instrument designed to communicate with spirits of the dead.
Real Demonic Possession from Ouija Board (UNEDITED VERSION)
SPIRITUALISM, SEANCES, OR COMMUNICATING WITH THE DEAD
A belief system or religion that assumes that mediums can contact the dead and provide information about the afterlife.
Watch: I Love Lucy: The Séance
ASTROLOGY
Fortune telling based on a supposed influence of the position of the sun, moon, stars, and planets.
Watch: Aries 2009 Forecast by KT, The Astrologer
MIND CONTROL, MIND DYNAMICS, OR BRAINWASHING
The controlling of people’s thoughts and actions without their permission; new and higher levels of awareness in passivity.
Watch: Dark Phoenix Tragedy: X-Men 3
UNBIBLICAL HEALING
A form of magical healing founded on the belief that certain people and places have the ability to cure and heal.
Watch: Chakra Healing
ASTRAL PROJECTION
Partial or complete separation of soul and soul travel.
Watch: How It Feels to Astral Travel
BELIEF IN REINCARNATION
The belief that the soul, after death of the body, returns to earth in another body.
Watch: Sherrie Lea is Marilyn Monroe Reincarnated
WITCHCRAFT
The use of supernatural or magical powers to achieve good or evil ends.
Watch: Britney Spears on Sabrina the Teenage Witch
SORCERY
Form of magic that attempts to control or direct spirits.
Watch: The Princess and the Frog – Friends on the Other Side
SATANISM AND DEMON WORSHIP
Worship of or religious allegiance to Satan and/or demons.
Watch: Satan: Prince of Darkness (History Channel)
HANDWRITING ANALYSIS (GRAPHOLOGY)
The practice of examining handwriting to determine a person’s character, appearance, personality, and/or future.
Watch: Handwriting Analysis Basics – Famous Signatures
KARATE AND ALL MARTIAL ARTS
Zen Buddhist practices purported to unite mind, body, and spirit; Chinese karate masters consider karate to be an extension of their religion.
Watch: Family Matters – Karate Kids
HAVING OCCULTIC BOOKS/OBJECTS IN YOUR HOME
(e.g. Buddha figures, UFO books, magic, eastern mysticism)
Watch: Buddha Finds a Home
HOROSCOPES
Refers to observer of times; astrology; study of star at birth, by which they claim to tell events of a person’s life.
Watch: Special Karmic (Horoscope) Report: Saturn In Libra for the Sign Libra
TEA LEAF READING
Divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments.
Watch: Tea Leaf Reading
CRYSTAL BALL GAZING
A method of gaining information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses; psychic.
Watch: That’s So Raven – Psychics Wanted Part 2 (start at 3:04)
PLAYING OCCULT GAMES
(Ex: Dungeons and Dragons, Resident Evil, Grand Theft Auto)
Watch: Grand Theft Auto Trailer
HYPNOTISM
An artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by heightened susceptibility to suggestion.
Watch: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Save the Last Trance for Me (start at 1:55)
AUTOMATIC WRITING
Writing material that does not come from the author’s conscious thoughts; often done while in a trance.
Watch: Automatic Handwriting
BLACK OR WHITE MAGIC
Methods of performing incantations, charms, and/or witchcraft.
Watch: Alice in Wonderland (Potion Making)
EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION (E.S.P.)
A sense or senses beyond the normal five (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing) that gives knowledge.
Watch: Extra Sensory Perception
TELEPATHY
Form of ESP: Greek “impressions across a distance.” Mind reading, communication at a distance.
Watch: Telepathy
PSYCHIC HEARING
Obtaining information by hearing sounds or voices that can't be heard by “normal” people.
Watch: Hearing Subtle Energy
CHARMS
Items worn, used, or carried on one's person for its supposed magical effect (e.g. good luck, protection from evil).
Watch: Disney's Recess - Good Luck Charm
YOGA EXERCISES
Exercises that unite a person’s transitory self with the Hindu false god Brahman (the so-called god of your higher self).
Watch: Wii Fit Trailer
BELIEF IN ANY HINDU DOCTRINES OR EASTERN PHILOSOPHIES
Asian religions or philosophies (includes Chinese, Indian, Iranian, Japanese, and Korean philosophies) with many cults and many gods.
Watch: Tina Turner Chant
STAR SIGNS (ZODIAC)
An imaginary belt of the heavens that includes paths of the sun, moon, and planets having 12 constellations.
Watch: Star Signs Astrology The Facts
TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (T.M.)
A technique, based on ancient Hindu writings, by which one seeks to achieve a relaxed state through regular periods of meditation where a mantra is repeated.
Watch: Transcendental Meditation around the world
HARD ROCK, HEAVY METAL, AND GANGSTER RAP MUSIC
Aggressive, heavily amplified rock or rap music; often promotes violence, profanity, drug dealing, illicit sex and other forms of immorality.
Watch: Run This Town w/ Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye West
Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to
destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an
accursed thing. (Deuteronomy 7:26)
Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19:31)
