(Warning!  To be seeking or even dabbling in any of these things is very, very dangerous, since they are demonic!) Before reading this it is recommended you first review the page on Barriers to Healing. When ministering to others or seeking deliverance for yourself, first bind Satan and the Powers of Darkness and loose the persons/your mind to the Holy Spirit so that he/you can recall things that need to be remembered.   HAVE YOU BEEN INTO: Witchcraft, cabbala (occult lore, magic, (not sleight of hand) blood subscriptions, hex signs, black magic (invoking hidden powers for bad ends), white magic (invoking hidden powers for good ends), hypnosis (whether magical or medical - it’s dangerous), mental suggestion, mesmerism, self hypnosis (self-induced trance states), Gipsie curses put on you (death, injury, or calamity), Pk (parakineses - control of objects by the power of the mind and will), Tk (Telekinesis - objects move around d the room, instruments play, engines start, or black mass. DO YOU CARRY AN ANKH : an ankh (a cross with a ring at the top - used In satanic rites and dangerous). HAVE YOU TAKEN PART WITH: Ouija boards, planchette (glass on the table), seances aces, mediums, floating trumpets, disembodied voices etc., or consulted people who have clairvoyance (the ability to see objects or events spontaneously and supernormally beyond the natural range of vision second sight ), or clairaudience (ability to hear voices and sounds supernormally, spirited voices alleging to be that of the dead people giving advice or warnings)? HAVE YOU ENGAGED IN: Activities involving mind reading, tea leaf readings, phrenology, (reading character or one’s future, by the Conformations of a person’s skull). Crystal ball, cartomacy (using playing cards), tarot cards (22 picture cards for fortune telling), handwriting analysis, numerology, (reducing letters of one’s name to numbers), astrology and horoscopes, psychometry (telling fortunes by lifting or holding object belonging to the inquirer), transcendental meditation. HAVE YOU TRIED OR PRACTICED: Divining, dowsing, or witching for water, minerals, Underground cables, or finding out the sex of an unborn Child using a divining rod, pendulum, twig or planchette. Also, the use of the pendulum, divining rod Or a mechanical pendulum called a motor skopua for diagnosing illness and its treatment by color therapy (using colored threads) and “screening” (using copper coils, etc.)? HAVE YOU SOUGHT: Healings through magic practices using charms and charming off wart removal, death magic, (where the name of the sickness plus a written spell is cast into coffin or grave), acupuncture, acupressure, conjuration (summoning up a spirit by incantation), psychic healing, psychic surgery, concept therapy, or the use of the trance condition, or clairsetience (supernatural sense perception), or iridology (eye diagnosis to diagnose illnesses), sonarpuncture, radionics, astrologic, chromotherapy, sound therapy, orgonomy. HAVE YOU PARTICIPATED IN: Levitation (body lifting by demonic power), tabletipping, spirit knockings, rappings, or automatic (spirit) writing, Halloween parties? HAVE YOU BEEN INVOLVED IN: Yoga (exercises and meditation), karate, kung-fu, Aikido judo (martial arts), out-of-the-body (astral) travel of the soul? HAVE YOU BEEN: Trusting in amulets (tigers claw, sharks tooth, horse shoe over the door, mascots, gold earring (man), talisman (magic picture), letters (occult) of protection, zodiac charms (birth dates) to compensate for lack of faith in God? Pagan fetishes (objects charged with magical powers and carried about as a means of protection or luck) come in the same category, Pagan religious objects, relics and artifacts which have been used in one’s home, and should be burned. Omens, significant days, moon-mancy, chain letters and numerical symbolism and so on, exercise an occult superstitious bondage over many lives and should be dealt with. HAVE YOU BEEN ON: Hallucinogenic drugs (LSD, heroin, marijuana etc) or sniffing thinners, etc? HAVE YOU BEEN INTO: Heavy acid rock (e.g. Santana, Hendricks, Joplin, Deep Purple, Kiss, Black Sabbath, etc.) or in the Jonathan Livingstone Seagull sound track cult. (such records should be destroyed). Some paintings, posters, ettc., done under hallucinogenic stimulus can be oppressive and evil. HAVE YOU VISITED: Pagan rites such as voodoo (West Indies) Sing Sings (New Guinea) Corroborees (Aust. Aboriginals) fire walking (Fiji, India) Umbahada and Macumba (Brazil) etc.’ also visits to shows by Iri Geller or Matthew Manning demonstrating psychic powers could be dangerous. DO YOU POSSESS: Occult literature? In particular such books as “The 6th and 7th Book of Moses,” the “The Book of Venus,” “The other Side,” “The Greater World,” the pseudo-Christian world of Jacob Lorber, and works by other authors like Edgar Cace, Jean Dixon, Ruth Montgomery, Arthur Ford, Anton Le Vay, Dennis Wheatley, Eckhart, and Johann Greber. Such books should be burned, regardless of cost. (acts 19:19) Transference can take place through contact with a formerly occult involved corpse. Occult powers, oppression, illnesses, etc, have inadvertently been “picked up” through contact in this way. Have you had any such experience? 1 Timothy 4:1 says: “now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.” The following is a list of cults and non-Christian Religions which fall into the above category: Jehova’s Witesses (Dawn Bible Students), Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints), Herbert W. Armstrong (Worldwide Church of God), Children of god, The Unification church, (moonies, One World Crusade), Unitarian Church, Christadelphians, Freemasonary, Spiritualism, Scientology, Christian Science, Rangatulism, Religious Science, Anthrosophy, Theosophy, Rosecrucianism, Inner Peace Movement, Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, Eastern Religions such As:- Hare Krishna, Transcendental Meditation, Gurus, Divine Light Mission, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism, Confucianism, Japanese Flower Arranging (sun worship), Bahai. This is a reprint from the book, Demons Defeated, by Bill Subrittzky