Demons will first appear to you in the way in which you have been taught either by Hollywood or by the church. Both basically have the same perspective.

Why do we experience demons as external beings? This has to do with the minds inability to face itself in past trauma. The pain was to much and the mind separated from itself to survive. The separation now projects the trauma as a symbolic form as though separated from us. This allows us to feel like it isn’t us so we can feel safe enough to begin to journey through the repressed emotional beliefs behind the emotional pain.

The mind is wired to have safeguards in place during trauma so that we can heal and get hindsight in the future. The problem is how this was defined while walking through the season of triggers. When we are desperate, we will try anything. And if one’s mind doesn’t want to face itself, it is going to look for solutions that don’t have to face itself.

No one wants to face their pain because it feels like we will never escape. That of course is a lie set up in the wrong interpretation of the traumatic event as well as the conclusion of oneself in the event.

As you begin to graduate from being separated from yourself in the symbolizm of whatever you have been influenced to believe, the demons start looking more like emotions. Demon of fear, rejection, abandonment, etc. Whenever you get a demon cast out of you, there will be a sense of freedom that will last temporarily. And because we feel better, we assume that demons are real. But the fact that this is short lived gives us some clues that our mind received the placebo effect at a surface intellectual level and not the heart conclusion level.

Debunking the next level of self deception will be to challenge the next religious noose we have adopted. The demon came back 7 times worse. If the Bible says it, it must be true. Right? Wrong! The scriptures concerning the demonic are written from the peoples perspective of their lives. These people had so much trauma from being taken prisoner by Rome. Generations of idolatry and captivity can make the mind believe all kinds of paranoia.

So the parts of our mind that has attempted to escape the pain through measuring up/performing, will fall prey to the scripture that says, the demon comes back 7 times worse. The hook here is to draw the person into more performance to get it right next time. And looking at oneself as a sinner that let the demons in is a self loathing self condemned mindset that now justifies being punished by demons.

The cycle goes on and on until we either hear the truth or our deliverance ministry doesn’t set us free anymore like we thought it did. When you know the truth, you are free with no repercussions and no need to maintain that freedom.

Eventually the mind faces itself by being worn down through works and denial. And when we begin to face our own minds, we will take accountability for our thoughts. It is actually kind of narcissistic towards ourselves by blaming demons instead of facing our own minds. Self gaslighting out of denial and labeling ourselves or others as demonic is a sign of some deep trauma and mental illness.

So if you have been oppressed in your mind. And no matter how much deliverance you get, there is still a problem; this is the problem. It is time to upgrade from demon focused denial and begin to embrace yourself for some closure. Demons are nothing more than shadows we have adopted in our definition of ourselves. They are projections of what we hate about ourselves that come in the form of the self denial we have accepted.