In the event that a person's spiritual heredity is not burdened with serious hereditary sins, and even more so, if he is protected from the intrusion of demons by the grace of Baptism, fallen spirits use the 1st method to destroy the grace-filled protection and subsequently enter the human body. It is in this case that they absolutely need the help of the person himself. It is justified by the false idea of the independent development of supernatural abilities in oneself with the help of occult training (this method is used in relation to adults). It is this task that all occult practices serve, such as, for example, transcendental meditation (TM), kundalini awakening methods, mantra yoga, occult breathing gymnastics – pranayama and other various yogic and energy practices, as well as methods for developing hypnotic abilities and, of course, initiation by the "initiate". Thus:

Various methods of "developing" psychic and hypnotic abilities are, in essence, techniques for destroying one's own spiritual and energy protection (including the rejection of the grace-filled Divine energies) and opening oneself up to enter the body of demons.

Having "developed" paranormal abilities in himself by the above methods, the psychic is completely sure that he has "earned" them thanks to his own efforts. Having destroyed his spiritual defense, that is, having deprived himself of the grace of God, the psychic or hypnotist, influencing the patient who has come to him for healing, does the same with him, that is, he destroys the patient's grace-filled protection, revealing his spiritual structure for the entry of demons. Archpriest L. Lebedev also wrote about this, analyzing, in particular, the consequences of hypnosis: "Hypnotic influence breaks off the protective seal that protected a person's consciousness from outside suggestions, preserved his proper inner freedom."35

However, magical abilities, including the ability to clairvoyance and healing, can be obtained without wasting any effort or time on occult training, immediately and without delay, without making any effort and without developing anything. This is what initiation serves, which does not require any effort at all on the part of the "initiate", whose body, thanks to initiation (initiation), becomes the home of one or more demons specializing in extrasensory perception. But still, in this case, a person helps demons, since he voluntarily turns to a servant of Satan for initiation, although in this version he does not guess whom the "Master" serves.

One of my spiritual children, a woman who went through the hell of being fascinated by the occult, told me how a similar, though not explicit, initiation into a "master of biolocation" took place. Its teacher, with the help of frames or a vine (a forked branch of a tree), found, as he believed, numerous underground passages on the territory of ancient buildings. But not only. With the help of an L-shaped metal frame, as well as a pendulum, he determined the "compatibility of drugs" with his biofield, and also received answers to almost all the questions that he asked the unknown "teacher": "yes" - if the frame in his hand went to the left, and "no" - if it deviated to the right.

The student turned out to be "stupid" - the antennae in her hands did not want to react in any way to the "aura of the tree". Then the "guru" used a well-tested technique, as he explained, "unification of biofields". He and the student held hands, tightly clasped their fingers, and took the frame: he in his right hand, she in her left hand. It's a go! The frames began to rotate intensively. After that, the woman instantly mastered the "science", which, according to the descriptions in the relevant literature, takes years of study to master: she was able to "brilliantly cope" with biolocation work of any complexity. And although formally there was no initiation here, there is no doubt that under the guise of reasoning about "biofields" there was a practical implantation of the demon-tenant in the body of an enthusiastic student. After all, she voluntarily agreed to learn a method, the essence of which she had no idea about, as well as to "feed on someone else's aura." So I "fed"!

THE SECOND WAY DEMONS ENTER

It is necessary to mention two groups of people whose supernatural (extrasensory) abilities manifest themselves without conscious human effort, spontaneously, as if "by themselves" and often at a very early age. The first group includes people with "innate" abilities, and the second group includes people with acquired abilities. As a rule, there are also two main reasons for the appearance of such "gifts". They, by the way, correspond to two main reasons for the origin of possession in humans, since the presence of psychic abilities is only one of the particular forms of human possession by demons. Let me remind you of these reasons:

1. Demons of the corresponding specialization can (according to my observations) pass from the mother into the bodies of babies during their fetal development (observed in the families of hereditary sorcerers, for example, in Maria-Stefania, Dzhuna Davitashvili, Yuri Tarasov) – these are, relatively speaking, "innate" abilities. Most of those who have received demons "by inheritance" from close relatives become conscious sorcerers (we talked about this above), but there are nevertheless some people from this contingent who remain unconscious sorcerers. As a rule, these are those who have not had direct contact with a sorcerer relative, for example, who has already died.

2. In other cases, acquired abilities can be observed, which appear due to numerous personal sins. Sins, as we know, deprive a person of the protection of Divine grace, which is the reason for the independent colonization of his body by demons, and these latter provide some (the most promising) with certain "gifts". The reader can learn who demons consider promising and who is not, and how they deal with unpromising "patients", from the book "What UFOs, Psychics, Occultists, Magicians Want to "Save" Us From" (Moscow, "Danilovsky Blagovestnik". 2001. p. 71).

Unfortunately, many people, including those who are quite educated, confuse extrasensory, that is, demonic, abilities with the grace-filled capabilities of Orthodox saints, who attained the highest degree of moral perfection and purity in Christ. Already during their lifetime it was said of them: "in the flesh is an angel," because their life was truly similar in its purity to the life of an angel. Only such people received from God the power to perform numerous miracles, first of all, for the sake of healing moral ailments, and only then – bodily ones. But this power – the grace of God – they slowly, for decades, acquired in a stubborn, painful struggle for the eradication of all the vices of their souls; they accumulated it in the most difficult struggle with demons, with the lust of the body, with the passions of vanity, self-love, anger, pride, envy, condemnation, lust for power, and so on and so forth.

For all this (I especially draw the reader's attention to this), none of the Orthodox saints ever consciously strove to obtain supernatural abilities, understanding that this is not at all the essence of the spiritual feat of a Christian. Moreover, some of them, having received the gift of miracles from God, refused it, realizing that it could contribute to the development of a sense of exclusivity in them, and consequently satanic pride, which is the most serious and difficult to heal of all sins.

None of the psychics and "healers" in the slightest degree did the spiritual work of purifying their souls, like the Orthodox saints did. And without this painstaking, most painful and long-term work to purify one's own soul, it is useless and even foolish to dream of any grace-filled divine gift. And indeed, none of the "folk healers", psychics, and even more so magicians and sorcerers who have ever lived has been attested by the opinion of the people of God as a holy ascetic and righteous man. On the contrary, most of them have lived and are living a life of wickedness and sinfulness, sinking deeper and deeper into adultery, intolerance of the shortcomings of their neighbors, love of money, irritability, and proud vanity, which elevates them in their own eyes to the rank of "supermen" or "saints."