The "More" has come.

AS you can see I've deleted the other filler posts, Sorry if you folks missed the latest which I put up Friday evening. I deleted it before any of you nay sayers could comment. meh heh ha hahahhhha!!!!! COUGH"! (My wife can beat me in bowling, and blogging)

ANYWAY......So sleep paraylsis. There were a few significant things that were taking place in my life, that helped me become aware of what was really going on during these episodes. The First: I had finally gotten fed up with being a Christian living in sin. If you are unsaved or a Christian, Spirit filled or not, and you are actively participating or pursuing sinful things whether it be Rebellion (a good definition for rebellion is: overiding natural Sovereign order, and manipulating people or your enviroment to obtain a desired result. i.e. Witchcraft. It's exactly what spell casting is intended to do, and it's been the Modus Operandi of Satan since his...Hmmm, Rebellion), Fornication or Pornography, disobedience, and anything else that is not found in the nature of God or obtained by faith. Then you are giving the enemy of your soul legal access to put your life in bondage, and to destroy your sanity and your soul.

II Corinthians 10:3-6 This is a verse you hear alot in faith doctrine circles. There is a lot in there, and it's great. However most people only teach or proclaim it up to the 5th verse. If you do this, you miss the power of the verse completely.

2Cor10:3-6 NKJV,

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.4) For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5) casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6) (Here is the key to this warfare) and being ready to punish all disobedience when YOUR obedience is fulfilled.

You have no authority until you are under God's authority. As you start submitting and Subjecting yourself to God's Word, and His Spirit, you become empowered for spiritual warfare. It would do us all a lot of good to continue reading the rest of chapter ten in the same context. These verses if you let them will radically change the way you look at spiritual warfare, and the strongholds that exist first and formost in our minds.

Formalities and the Afterglow

Alright so there you have it. Now I'll continue with my own experience. There are a few things that I think are key. Unlike some others who suffer this phenomenon, My experiences were not violent or filled with visual entities in a manner of speaking. For me it would always start as a dream whether I had just drifted off to sleep or had been sleeping for sometime. Some where in the dream things would go south, fast. Something, a new Character or object would enter my dream, and I imediately knew this thing was inherently evil. I understood it was a demon or demons. So I would attempt to fight it or get it to leave. My first instinct was to rebuke it in the name of Jesus. The only problem was it seemed no matter how hard I tried I couldn't muster the name of Jesus and when I did after much effort of which by now I had tried to wake my lifeless body. I could only mumble the name Jesus. As if I had no authority to use the name.....only after an exhoustive effort of continously speaking the Lord's name did the oppression lift. In which case I would open my eyes look around and try to catch my breath like I had just swam across a lake non stop.

I would immediately fall back asleep and forget the entire incident until the next time it was about to happen which was usually too late. I would just think "oh no not again" The events would only last 10 minutes or less as far as I can estimate. It seemed as though they would never end though.

more to come.

Part 6?

The Scientific Explaination....kinda.
The medical establishment is quite aware of this phenomenon, but has a less sensational name than "old hag syndrome" for it. They call it "sleep paralysis" or SP (sometimes ISP for "isolated sleep paralysis").

So what causes it? Dr. Max Hirshkowitz, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Houston, says that sleep paralysis occurs when the brain is in the transition state between deep, dreaming sleep (known as REM sleep for its rapid eye movement) and waking up. During REM dreaming sleep, the brain has turned off most of the body's muscle function so we cannot act out our dreams - we are temporarily paralyzed. Sheryl Crow Battles
The Old Hag

Rock singer Sheryl Crow is a victim of sleep paralysis, as she revealed in a 1996 interview with Rolling Stone magazine. "It's a bizarre and twisted feeling where you feel completely paralyzed. You are sure you are going to die."


"Sometimes your brain doesn't fully switch off those dreams - or the paralysis - when you wake up," Hirshkowitz told ABC News. "That would explain the 'frozen' feeling and hallucinations associated with sleep paralysis." According to his research, the effect only really lasts from a few seconds to as long as a minute, but in this half-dream half-awake state, to the victim it can seem much longer.

In her article, "Help! I Can't Move!," Florence Cardinal, About.com's Guide Sleep Disorders, writes: "Sleep paralysis is often accompanied by vivid hallucinations. There may be a sense someone is in the room, or even hovering over you. At other times, there seems to be pressure on the chest, as though someone or something perched there. There may even be sexual attacks associated with the hallucinations. The sound of footsteps, doors opening and closing, voices, all can be a very frightening part of sleep paralysis. These are known as Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Experiences and they are what make people dread an episode of sleep paralysis."

For all their explanations, however, the sleep experts still do not know what causes the brain to screw up like this, or why some people experience it more than others.

The Revisionist.

Ok, So that last post upon review is going in a good direction, but it's not the direction I want to go right now. The whole reason for this series if one could be so brave as to call it that. Is to raise awareness of these things and bring to light the truth of the situation, for the most part stated in the first of these posts. I also want to provide an explaination and an answer to help those who suffer from such things as Sleep Paralysis, Alien Abductions, and Hauntings.

I first want to establish a historical, factual, and scientific as well as Biblical foundation for such phenomenon. I want to focus more now on the Sleep Paralysis and what happens to our bodies in our sleep state.

I had suffered with sleep paraylsis and night terrors since I was a young teen. It did not stop until I was 28. Make no mistake my symptoms were not as reoccuring as some peoples. I would say that maybe it would happen to me once every month or two. However, I would say that as I became more aware of the events, when and after they had occured, The number of attacks increased to almost weekly.

Let me explain to you what I'm talking about ( Old Hag Syndrome or Sleep Paraylsis taken from an "About . Com" article )
The victims awake to find that they cannot move, even though they can see, hear, feel and smell. There is sometimes the feeling of a great weight on the chest and the sense that there is a sinister or evil presence in the room. And like the above reader, they are often quite frightened about what is happening to them.

The name of the phenomenon comes from the superstitious belief that a witch - or an old hag - sits or "rides" the chest of the victims, rendering them immobile. Although that explanation isn't taken very seriously nowadays, the perplexing and often very frightening nature of the phenomenon leads many people to believe that there are supernatural forces at work - ghosts or demons.

The experience is so frightening because the victims, although paralyzed, seem to have full use of their senses. In fact, it is often accompanied by strange smells, the sound of approaching footsteps, apparitions of weird shadows or glowing eyes, and the oppressive weight on the chest, making breathing difficult if not impossible. All of the body's senses are telling the victims that something real and unusual is happening to them. The spell is broken and the victims recover often on the point of losing consciousness. Fully awake and well, they sit up, completely baffled by what just happened to them since now the room is entirely normal.

Confronted with such a bizarre and irrational experience, it's no wonder that many victims fear that they have been attacked in their beds by some malevolent spirit, demon or, perhaps, an alien visitor.

The phenomenon occurs to both men and women of various ages and seems to happen to about 15 percent of the population at least once in a lifetime. It can occur while the victim is sleeping during the day or night, and it is a worldwide phenomenon that has been documented since ancient times.

The war for our minds.

There are a few world wide phenomenons that transcend Race,culture,religion,and gender, but most of all time. Two of the biggest of these are Alien abductions or E.T. encounters, and supernatural encounters be it from Ghosts/shadow people, spirits, Demons, or Angels. You can find these types of experiences dating back to the oldest civilisations. Legends of when the God's came down to interact with man can also be found transpiring into modern times such as With Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion among many other mainstream religions including Christianity.

Ancient India has volumes of sanskrit writings on such interaction. If these events are allowed to occure long enough there is most always a tranferance or "giving of some hidden knowledge"

It is believed that much of todays technology has come from such encounters with supernatural beings. Now as Christians we might find this a little over the top.

Until you read the Bible. There are many accounts of God empowering man or giving the ability to increase skills, and advance knowledge. Such as in building the Ark for Noah. How else could Noah have the knowledge to produce a working seaworthy vessel that size in what was presumably a non maritime era in human history. Or the Arc of the Covenant, and the building of the Temple.

It's said that the book of Enoch records such interaction dealing with a certain number of fallen Angels. I have yet to review Enoch. Don't get all spiritual on me about Enoch. I do not believe the book is inspired or should be in the bible. I do however think that there are historical accounts written in it, that the bible appears to back up as authentic.

However again as we've seen in the previous posts there is a knowledge that comes from God and there is other knowledge that also has a supernatural source however the end results of that knowledge is something that we were never intended to particapate in.

Pr 14:12 -
There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.

Pr 16:25 -
There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death

The knowledge we attain too must confirm God's Lord ship in our lives. The Holy Spirit only brings us into a clearer perspective of Jesus. This should really be a draft, I'll rivise as I review. I"m trying to stay on point.

The Daniel 10 encounter.

Daniel 10:7 I, Daniel, am the only one who saw this vision. The men with me saw nothing, but they were suddenly terrified and ran away to hide. 8 So I was left there all alone to watch this amazing vision. My strength left me, my face grew deathly pale, and I felt very weak. 9 When I heard him speak, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground. 10 Just then a hand touched me and lifted me, still trembling, to my hands and knees. 11 And the man said to me, "O Daniel, greatly loved of God, listen carefully to what I have to say to you. Stand up, for I have been sent to you." When he said this to me, I stood up, still trembling with fear. 12 Then he said, "Don't be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayers."

OK so this an incident the we see recorded in the book of Daniel. There are some pretty close similarities,however the content of the dialog are very different. There is fear and trembling mention again. As well as a vision. However there is also a physical encounter that fallows the vision. This Spirit also speaks to Daniel just as in Eliphaz's experience. Let's look at what this spirit says to Daniel.

"O Daniel, greatly loved of God," 12 Then he said, "Don't be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayer.

The first Quote is a huge contrast from the vese in Job. God has a Great Love towards this Man Daniel. So that God would even hear this man and answer his prayers. God seems to consider this weak little chunk of mortal flesh in hight regard. Mind you this predates the cleansing blood and righteousness of Christ Jesus. There appears to be 2 seperate agendas here. Both spirits appear to have some knowledge of God, and yet they paint two very different pictures of God towards mankind. More to come.

The spirit's true identity.

Then I heard a voice saying: 17) 'Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker? 18) If He puts no trust in His servants, If He charges His angels with error, 19) How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before a moth? 20) They are broken in pieces from morning till evening; They perish forever, with no one regarding. 21) Does not their own excellence go away? They die, even without wisdom.

'Now here is the portion of the verse where the entity gives its self away. At the same time trying to produce a self image for Eliphaz that he is a lesser creation than the fallen Angel speaking with him. The words this demon chooses are methodical and intentional. With a much desired result. Also painting an intimate picture of an unfaithful God towards His creation. " If he puts no trust in His servants, If he charges His angels with error, How much more those who dwell in houses of clay," Continually reminding Eliphaz of the inferior existence of those living within the constraints of mortality. Keeping Eliphaz's focus and directing it towards a lie based on circumstance. This is a technique we find daily in our spiritual warfare. I am continually reminded by way of suggestion of all my circumstances and inadequacies."

If He puts no trust in His servants, If He charges His angels with error." Right here the spirit gives its self away. The origin and it's intentions become clear. This spirit is a fallen angel no longer in obedience to God its creator. And a bit bitter from the sound of it. It's not a long lost loved one trying to communicate from beyond the grave.