Showing posts with label EVPs. Show all posts
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There was a time when I was fascinated with cemeteries. When I was involved in the new age and occult, in fact, they were my favorite place for recording EVPs and taking spirit photos.
So it's not surprising really that while other people's Memorial Day trips to the cemetery were all about remembering their loved ones, my focus was on talking to spirits.
And sometimes, of course, they talked back.
New Age Memorial Day
There was one Memorial Day in particular when I visited the cemetery where my family was buried. I had the best of intentions. I'd even brought begonias to plant.
But before those begonias were even in the ground, I'd began to think about spirits.
I didn't have the recorder I liked to use for paranormal investigation so I decided to take a picture and look for orbs. But when I pulled out my fully charged phone, it abruptly shut down.
I'd had the same experience exactly when I was taking pictures during an investigation several months earlier. Except in that case my phone, which had been fine prior to the investigation, was ruined. This current phone was the replacement. So I was a little mad at myself for taking it out of the car. Mad but not afraid. Because it was my belief then that nothing on "the other side" could possibly hurt me.
I tried to restart my phone with no luck at all. So I decided to leave and check my phone again a few miles down the road.
Driving away, I felt the a presence with me in the car. It wasn't a peaceful presence. Instead it felt jangly and hyper. I had the sense that there were multiple spirits present. There was a giddy kind of energy that didn't seem entirely benign.
But in line with my new age beliefs, I pushed my sense of unease aside, and decided to ask whatever was there for guidance. Thinking the spirits I sensed might be deceased family members, I told them about whatever new age or occult idea was currently percolating and waited for a response.
A few moments later, my phone finally turned back on. I plugged in the auxiliary cable and started to listen to the audio book I'd played on my way to the cemetery but all I heard was static. In between the bursts of interference I heard the word 'path.' Thinking of my question, I decided to take that word as a go.
Because everything, when it came to the new age, was always a go.
Back to the Cemetery
The first rule: in persons who are going from mortal sin to mortal sin, the enemy is ordinarily accustomed to propose apparent pleasures to them, leading them to imagine sensual delights and pleasures in order to hold them more and make them grow in their vices and sins. - The Rules of St. Ignatius
Since my phone was now working, I turned the car around and went back to the graveyard to try to capture some orbs. A part of me was hoping to receive more information from the demons I believed to be the human spirits.
By the time I got back to the cemetery the spirits were no longer talking. So I took a few photos and left. On the way home, my audio book played clearly through the stereo speakers. My phone continued to function.
I don't even remember now, what new occult plan I had run past the demons I met that day. But whatever it was I'm quite sure I went ahead with it.
It never occurred to me then that the spirits who spoke to me might be working against me. Even though the so-called guidance I received over and over during my years in the new age only served to lead me from sin to sin.
Just as St. Ignatius said.
May God protect us all!
The movie White Noise was one of several gateways on my path new age and occult deception. But it wasn't really the movie so much as it was the EVPs that were played at the beginning of the film.
I was already deep into various Eastern practices like yoga and meditation at this point and very interested in what lay on the "other side." So the idea of "scientifically proving" the existence of spirits captivated me. And there was something about the EVPs themselves that spoke to me. Which shows, I think, that I was already very far from God.
So, not long after the movie came out, I began recording EVPs on my own and in the company of friends. My favorite spot for EVP recording was cemeteries, though I did visit other locations as well. In the beginning, I got nothing but static. But finally in the summer of 2005 I could my first clear EVP.
I was very excited. Not noticing or caring that the voice I had recorded was low pitched and ominous.
The EVP itself was only a single word and while most people (including myself) thought the word spoken was 'good' others heard it differently. What was clear was that it was a word and it that it seemed to be spoken in answer to my question.
It had a quality I would soon recognize in other preternatural communications of slightly overlapping the question posed.
At the time, I believed I'd recorded a human spirit, just as claimed in the movie "White Noise." And another twelve years would pass before I would fully understand that the spirits I was communicating with were far from benign.
This is not to say that departed humans cannot contact the living. Only that it is a rare occurrence which happens within very narrow perimeters. According to Church-decreed expert on religious demonology and auxiliary member of the International Association of Exorcists, Adam Blai:
There are Church approved books describing many instances of souls manifesting to the living to signal their need for prayer... Though souls in purgatory have been allowed to speak to the saints, that is usually not the situation for the average person.... In the cases of the saints they did not call up the spirits or seek guidance, information, or comfort from them. Once the request for prayer was made communication stopped on both sides... Any communication beyond “help me,” or some other request for prayer, is almost certainly demonic deception. - Possessions, Exorcisms and Hauntings
As Blai points out, often the first word paranormal investigators hear in their investigations is 'help me' but sadly they do not help (through prayer). Instead they continue to request communication with any available spirits.
What they get are demonic spirits masquerading as deceased human beings - just like the one I recorded. And the influence of such spirits is eventually and inevitably dark.
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