This is a very interesting article.

https://www.sott.net/article/506649-Are-World-Leaders-Possessed-The-Ancient-Technology-of-Demonic-Transfer

For us Jews, the takeaway points are that we need to maintain as much as possible our standards of kedusha, and attachment to holy stuff, because if we don’t – we are weakening the spiritual protection that keeps all this stuff out of our headspace.

Good examples of our how spiritual protection gets weakened includes:

Immorality

Drug use (including, ‘recreational drugs’ like cannabis that most people think are no big deal.)

Indulging and excusing bad middot like anger, fear, worry, harsh judgement, jealousy, hatred – instead of trying to work on them.

Letting ‘bad stuff’ into our headspace – lashon hara, yucky images, songs or ideas that are coming from tumah-dik places (i.e. 99.999999999% of modern culture and what you find online).

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When I read this article, here is what jumped out at me:

Ripperger also describes how demons besiege the imagination and emotions to such a degree that the person cannot think outside the perceptual box that has colonized them. He calls this obsession in the clinical, theological sense.

The person is not fully possessed. They function. They hold jobs. They make decisions. They simply cannot perceive anything outside the boundaries the besieging force has constructed around them. He has observed, publicly, that this pattern is identical to the psychology of ideological movements. He has said that when you strip the veneer away, communism and diabolic psychology operate on the same structural logic.

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And this:

[D]emons, he says, put a perspective on your imagination. They alter how you perceive a person, a situation, a reality. The thing itself has not changed. Your perception of it has been replaced. He says this is how demons destroy marriages, careers, and institutions.

They do not change the facts. They change how the possessed person sees the facts.

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How many examples of this type of ‘sorcery’ are we seeing all around us, these days?

The media starts chanting the spell that ‘all chareidim are draft-dodging criminals who deserve to be abused, mistreated and stripped of even basic human rights’ – and the people who have little to no ‘spiritual protection’ are instantly swept up in this incantation, and start spewing hatred towards their fellow Jews.

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How many people do you know, who are ‘stuck’ in a warped view of the world that just keeps them so stuck and suffering?

About so many different things?

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The antidote is this:

1. Daily hitbodedut
2. Tikkun Haklalis
3. Real teshuva, where we take responsibility for our bad middot and the amount of suffering they cause others – but ESPECIALLY, ourselves.
4. Attachment to True Tzaddikim.

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That last one is especially important, these days, because the ‘demonic forces’ are currently intensifying in the world.

In Rabbenu’s story of The Cripple, he explains how the people who flee to the desert with the true Sage are protected from the the King of the Demons, and his people.

Even the King of the Demons is scared of the True Tzaddik.

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In OIAG I, one of Jerusalem’s kabbalists explained that the demons flee miles away from Rav Berland.

Perhaps, that’s another good reason for living in Jerusalem.

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In the meantime, I am feeling quite overwhelmed by what’s going on at the mo, in a few different ways.

I will try to post up more from the Rav, but we are definitely living through some interesting times.