they were repelled some but not entirely by Christian stuff like churches, he never reported seeing someone be possessed by a demon. they usually weren't inside the houses of Christians. they'd hang out outside sorta like birds.
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we'd walk down the street and he'd casually point them out. Iirc they were repulsed by true prayer, and some locations had swarms of them. it seemed to be more a location based thing than a person based thing. like they had places that were uncomfortable/comfortable to go
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does it matter for your thread what I think? he coulda come on this thread and reported his experiences himself and definitely not thinking they're delusional.
fwiw at the time I experienced feelings that matched up with what he reported seeing
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hm well from my perspective, when i was in or near an area where he saw demons, I felt am overwhelming sense of darkness and heaviness. I felt like the walls had spikes aimed at me, like i wasnt supposed to be there, like everything was breathing evil
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it was typically because he pointed out the demons and I believed him, but I occasionally felt it on my own in places I assumed must have high demon concentration (like a store with lots of occultic imagery). I would be surprised if any other environmental factors were responsib/
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I haven't felt anything like this since since stopping believing in demons, except maybe a few times on high doses of psychedelics while listening to dark music.
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I make sense of this via beliefs are extraordinarily powerful, they can have insanely huge impacts on your experience. I believed myself into experiencing the presence of Jesus when I was 16 at one point, it was really profound. I saw people get miracle healed.
I don't literally believe in demons but I believe that believing in them can make them feel extremely real, convincingly so, where it feels like irrefutable evidence for them. I can see how psychedelics start this cycle for some ppl
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being around people talking about trying to believe in demons can start the cycle, or being religious, or having a mental instability experience might kickstart it; once it starts its it can be its own engine
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I never saw anything too dramatic like ppl in wheelchairs walking (you can see videos of extreme miracle healing on YouTube) but we had a ritual for healing people which was, the person in question would sit in a chair, and a ring of people would lay hands on them
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