Substance Abuse Invites Evil Influences

Someone close to me has been fighting their demons for years. In my opinion such demons would relate to negative energy, or entities influencing a person who has opened themselves up, and become vulnerable to them because of substance abuse and addiction. This person’s crazy behavior has been progressive, part of which was aggression, anger and hate thoughts towards just about anybody.

Their background was dysfunctional, but not to the extent that it should change them from a relatively contented individual into a pressure cooker waiting to explode. I am now of the opinion this person was vulnerable to these lower energies because of alcohol abuse over several years.

Recovery will never open the gates of heaven to let you in, but it does open the gates of hell to let you out ~ Unknown

I don’t know if the word “possessed” would be appropriate, as this conjures up imagery of spinning heads seen in movies like The Exorcist, but I feel being influenced by lower entities would be more the case of what I have witnessed with this person. I witnessed the same with both of my parents, not to mention, my own years of alcohol abuse.

Often I was told about the shocking things I’d done and said when drinking heavily! There were even worse times when I was told that what I’d done was unthinkable, but nobody would tell me what it was. I do recall, however, going to what felt like some very dark places, almost like a horror movie, during my sleep state. Thank goodness those experiences are in the past.

Although my father appeared to be a confident businessman and musician to his customers and fans, he fought his own deep seated fears and restlessness, and the restlessness only got worse after many years of heavy drinking. He explained how the booze was the only thing that helped get him fired up enough to feel like entertaining night after night during his heyday. In later years, he escaped boredom and loneliness in the bottle.

My mother, on the other hand, was addicted to prescription drugs. I then often wondered why she frequented so many doctors. Today I know. Sadly, her personality changed profoundly, and not for the better. She used to get very nasty at times, and left us in my late teens. My father blamed the doctors for prescribing the drugs, including uppers, downers, sleepers and many other boxes with funny labels. My dad always insisted she wasn’t always like that and that the medical profession was to blame for her addiction, but I always insisted that they didn’t force her to take many times the prescribed dosage. I do believe her many suicide attempts may well have been darker influences at play.

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope ~ Russell Brand

All those years ago, in a search for answers as to why my mother had altered from a shy, ‘see no evil’ type of woman into a nasty and bitter one, my father consulted an old neighbor of ours who was a spiritualist medium. She was adamant that my mother was possessed. Wow. This was heavy stuff to me and it would be years later before I came across more information on this distasteful subject.

I don’t feel dark entities take over each and every time people use substances, but I believe that their bodies are more spiritually open to unwanted spiritual entities from the dark side. It makes me wonder what really happens when a person blacks out whilst drinking and they do things out of character.

My advice? Don’t allow yourself to be vulnerable through substance abuse. And when around people who struggle with addiction, always wear your psychic protection every day – morning, noon and night before lights out!