Ironically, though Susy Smith set out to write a book that largely promulgates the message, “Let go and let God,” she finished the book with a warning that ALL should take to heart. She wrote, “Although the illustrations I have to offer involve demented people who have undoubtedly become possessed by evil spirits or satanic influences, others who are not at all deranged, may be self-deluded by their religious fervor and do things their intelligence should advise against, because they believe, ‘God told me to do it,’ or ‘Jesus asked me.’ Quite the most appalling thing that I know about personally, occurred to a Lutheran minister friend of mine. … On Thanksgiving morning, this pastor was conducting a religious service in a new chapel he had recently built on his home property. His wife … his two daughters and his mother-in-law, and a psychotic patient he was treating along with other neighbors and friends were in attendance. While the pastor was praying, his eyes closed and his Bible in his hands, the patient pulled out a huge, sharp knife and slashed the pastor’s throat, nearly decapitating him. … The most impossibly horrible thing about this was that all the time he was killing my friend, the man was shouting, ‘Praise the Lord’ and ‘I’m doing this for Jesus.'” What is Creator’s perspective?

This tragic event is a perfect illustration of evil in action when it co-opts belief in the divine by coupling it to evil intent so a person is giving lip service to the divine but acting in a nondivine way and even in direct opposition in the most extreme of fashion. Committing the act of murder, or an attempted murder, certainly falls in that category. The fact this is possible does not negate the existence of God or the possibility of the divine being involved in human affairs, but rather the contrast between the divine and what is nondivine. The struggle between good and evil has been present all through human history and the existence of evil is much more greatly believed than the existence of the divine, in fact, and for good reason because evil is disruptive, intrusive, demanding, and dangerous, and this is exhibited daily all around the world with many acts of selfishness or savagery, as the case might be. The cause of psychotic behavior is typically possession by a demonic spirit, a fallen angelic being intending to corrupt the person and, if possible, encourage wrongdoing and perhaps even acts of violence if that can be arranged. This is further encouraged by extraterrestrial interlopers who commandeer these spirit meddlers to weaponize them by directing them to specific targets and directing their manipulation of their host, once they gain an entrance in their energy, to cause all kinds of distortions of thinking, behavior, and altered outcomes. While this is often intended to simply limit a person through being undermined in their effectiveness, creating a delusional state of mind is a perfect example of the extremes of what mind manipulation can do to destroy the free will and inherent nature of the spiritual human being. Once corrupted, all bets are off in how people can be persuaded bit by bit to put aside their standards and indulge darker appetites. Many times, when fear is used as a motivation, people will reach a breaking point and may turn to savagery as the only way, seemingly, to cope with their feelings when they come to believe committing an act of violence is the only way out and will be the answer to a dilemma making them suffer. Thus, you have the extreme perversion of people willing to kill on behalf of God and may feel compelled to follow the inner impulse of dark beings manipulating their mind. Because this is such a frequent occurrence in today's world, it is ironic that the disbelief in the divine is what is creating the vulnerability, largely, in people persuaded to join groups engaged in false thinking of all kinds and even terrorist agendas. Such groups gather and may engage in public demonstrations leading to violence or other illegality as a result of direct mind control manipulation whether by spirit meddler attachments or extraterrestrial programming done subliminally to corrupt thinking and introduce false beliefs. Those who are nonbelievers are more vulnerable to such manipulations because they will have fewer hurdles when encouraged to embrace negativity. A spiritual person in good divine alignment will not engage in hostility or wrongdoing because their morality provides a barrier to loss of self-control.