Via Susy Smith’s channeling, William James is represented as making another statement that stands in stark contrast to what we at Get Wisdom have learned and consider to be a well-documented, widespread, and fully established paradigm. James supposedly asserted that, “There is really no such supernatural entity as a demon or a devil.” He went on to say that there are evil men who act like the devil and think of themselves as demons. If so, James would not be alone in this outlook. Dr. Michael Newton wrote a series of books on his hypnotic findings on life between lives. He said this in his book, Destiny of Souls: “The possibility that people can be possessed by a satanic being comes right out of medieval belief systems. It is fear-based and the result of theological superstition that has ruined countless lives over the last thousand years. Much of this nonsense has dissipated in the last two hundred years, but it lingers with the fundamentalists.” When opinions or beliefs are presented as INDISPUTABLE FACTS, facts that run contrary to evidence from multiple diverse sources, is that a signal that a spiritual blind spot might be operating? What is Creator’s perspective?

Disbelief in evil entities in spirit form is, in fact, a deeply held belief like any other, not an absence of belief implying an open mind and therefore, a higher state of being. It is simply human nature that one is reinforced by their own ego looking out for them and their interests, to view who and what they are as meaningful, and something that matters. Anything that challenges the inner framework of beliefs is a kind of questioning and ultimately will be disturbing because it constitutes a sort of attack on the personal makeup of the individual. A challenge to inner beliefs is truly that. In many ways, it will be a test of strength in holding one's own when there is a threat, even about an idea that conflicts with the worldview, because to get it wrong will result in being discredited and that is a threat to one's well-being, stability, and place in society, ultimately. Everyone knows those who differ too greatly in what they believe can end up institutionalized. The need to get along and to be accepted by one's peers is essential to have a place in things, even to exist, because one must find employment, make a living, and engage with other humans to arrange needed goods and services, and so on. Your channel's focus on the problem of spirit possession is no accident. His prior lifetime as Allan Kardec was a signal achievement in getting on record very detailed descriptions of this paradigm, that what is described in the Scriptures as a falling out among the angels and a fall from grace in being expelled from heaven were real events, and led to a flooding of your galaxy with increasingly disturbed and misaligned fallen angels we call spirit meddlers. Their expulsion, and then being cut off from a supply of life force energy as a karmic consequence, has created quite a dilemma. They must prey on living soul-based beings to tap energy to exist, and in the process they perturb their host because it is their nature, and that is the kind of vibration they hold—highly negative, vicious, and self-serving. They seek to punish all they encounter. They are not content to have a safe harbor within the energy of a person they are possessing. They will perturb their host savagely, to increase the need for energy on the host's part, and it serves the possessing spirit in turn, by having a greater supply available they can also tap into. In the process, they can undermine the thoughts and feelings, alter the personality, and even undermine the life of a human host to make things end in tragedy. It is the contribution of your channel in revealing that 90% of people have one or more spirit attachments, whether spirit meddlers or even human spirits of those who died but failed to transition in a return to heaven, but remained in limbo, and seek out something they can cling to. Because their mind is distorted from suffering while in the living, it will continue to be distorted and that is what prevents a return to heaven. That distortion will stir up trouble for a human host, depending on the nature of that spirit and its karmic history. Many human spirits are demonic in their nature, having been psychopaths while among the living, and will continue to be dangerous, self-serving, and a source of evil, even as spirits who haunt the living.