He describes his first case involving a priest who asked for his psychiatric opinion about a devout Catholic couple who believed they were being attacked by evil spirits. The wife was especially troubled and when Gallagher examined the woman, he found multiple bruises that would spontaneously appear.
Dr. Gallagher told Yahoo News, “It didn’t seem to be explainable on the basis of any medical or psychiatric pathology. She appeared to me to be completely sane. I had never seen a case like that before.”
Dr. Gallagher later determined that there was no medical cause for her injuries. She was being attacked by demons!
He also wrote in an article for the Washington Post where he shares one of his most memorable cases involving a woman who was a Satanist and self-professed High Priestess. Dr. Gallagher had written, “She called herself a witch and dressed the part, with flowing dark clothes and black eyeshadow around to her temples. In our many discussions, she acknowledged worshiping Satan as his ‘queen.’
“I’m a man of science and a lover of history; after studying the classics at Princeton, I trained in psychiatry at Yale and in psychoanalysis at Columbia. That background is why a Catholic priest had asked my professional opinion, which I offered pro bono, about whether this woman was suffering from a mental disorder. This was at the height of the national panic about Satanism.
(In a case that helped induce the hysteria, Virginia McMartin and others had recently been charged with alleged Satanic ritual abuse at a Los Angeles preschool; the charges were later dropped.) So I was inclined to skepticism. But my subject’s behavior exceeded what I could explain with my training,” Dr. Gallagher said.
“She could tell some people their secret weaknesses, such as undue pride. She knew how individuals she’d never known had died, including my mother and her fatal case of ovarian cancer. Six people later vouched to me that, during her exorcisms, they heard her speaking multiple languages, including Latin, completely unfamiliar to her outside of her trances.”
He stated, “This was not psychosis; it was what I can only describe as paranormal ability.
I concluded that she was possessed.”
In the video below, Dr. Gallagher explains the story how the night before he was scheduled to meet with the Satanist woman that at about 3 am in his bedroom his two cats just went just completely berzerk.
When he spoke with the woman the next day, the first words out of her mouth were, “So Doc, how did you like those cats last night?”
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
“They’re very, very smart. The intelligence level of a fallen angel, which is what I call them, is far superior to human beings.” – Dr. Gallagher on demons
Joining the Catholic Church in the fight against demon possession is a Princeton-and-Yale-educated psychiatrist, Dr. Richard Gallagher, whose medical assessment of whether a person is mentally ill or possessed by demons will determine whether the Church will perform an exorcism or not.
In other words, we may as well call him the first “Demon Inquisitor.”
As of this moment, Dr. Gallagher is a board-certified psychiatrist in New York, a professor at the New York Medical College in psychiatry, and is on Columbia University’s faculty. He is also a practicing Catholic and the first physician officially ordained by the Vatican to help the Church battle demons on U.S. soil because they are Legion for there are many.
Dr. Gallagher is a member of the International Association of Exorcists, which is the only official organization formed specifically to combat demon possession who the Vatican formally recognized in July 2014.
The International Association of Exorcists is headquartered in Rome and was founded in the 1980’s by world renown exorcist founded by Pauline Father Gabriele Amorth, an Italian priest renowned known globally for his Great Work in dispelling demons who he co-founded the organization with the French exorcist, Father Rene Chenessau.
The organization claims that it was formed in response “to an upsurge in interest in Satanism and occult practices.” The aim was to have exorcists gather regularly to exchange their experiences and best practices, the Vatican newspaper said.
The Devil and Father Amarth
According to the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, the Congregation for Clergy signed the formal decree June 13 approving the group’s statutes and granting it “private juridical personality,” which recognizes the group’s autonomy as an organization of Catholics not operating in the name of the Catholic Church, but as having some accountability to the Vatican.
Although Dr. Gallagher will have some accountability to the Vatican, he will still have to abide by U.S. laws that govern the medical profession. In my opinion, this fact actually helps him in being a key advisor during the diagnosis process because he is not basing his judgments solely from a religious perspective, but a medical one so people who truly need medical assistance will get the help they need and those who are diagnosed as possessed will get the exorcism they need.
The Vatican seems to think so as well.
Dr. Gallagher’s journey into this profession seems to be a reluctant one. When he was first asked by the leading U.S. Catholic priest of exorcisms if he would help them diagnose these people, Dr. Gallagher had told him that, even as a practicing Catholic, I wasn’t likely to go in for a lot of hocus-pocus. “Well,” he replied, “unless we thought you were not easily fooled, we would hardly have wanted you to assist us.”
Dr. Gallagher says that out of the thousands of cases he had examined, only a couple hundred were legitimate demon possession. He has 25 years experience in a private psychiatric practice and as a professor at New York Medical College and Columbia University, which has given him a rare vantage point to observe what he calls “human behavior and there is the inhuman.”
The inhuman behavior is where the demons seem to dwell and this is where Dr. Gallagher may give the controversial diagnosis of demonic possession. In other words, these people who are possessed act inhumane and it is this inhumanity in the world where he locates the demons whose name is Legion, for there are many.
The Roman Curia of the Catholic Church and Dr. Gallagher are not the only people who believe in demon possession. According to a 2016 Gallup poll, approximately 60% of Americans believe there are a devil and hell, and 57% believe in demonic possession.
Dr. Gallagher is the author of a book called Demonic Foes, A Psychiatrist Investigates Demonic Possession in the Modern United States,” and he has opened up to the media over the last decade about his role as a psychiatrist and the diagnosis of demon possession.
“There are many other psychiatrists and mental health care professionals who do what I do – perhaps not to the scope that I do – who seem hesitant to speak out,” he explained. “That’s what gives my work some singularity. That I have had so much experience and that I am willing to speak out. I feel an obligation to speak out. I think that I should.”
Speaking to the Telegraph from his office in Westchester County New York, Dr. Gallagher had said that there are people who “suffer tremendously” from demon possession.
“There is very strict criteria for determining the person’s problem. I am not just intuiting. I’m dealing with it from a very scientific point of view,” he said.
“There are cases of spirit possession in pretty much every culture,” he said. He has evaluated cases referred to him by priests, rabbis, Christian ministers and representatives of other spiritual traditions.
In an article Dr. Gallagher had written for the Washington Post titled, “As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. Also, I help spot demonic possession,” he explains his role and also how one victim was able to see other people, even total strangers—where they were and what they were doing—when those people were hundreds of miles away.
“They’re very, very smart,” Gallagher remarked, “The intelligence level of a fallen angel, which is what I call them, is far superior to human beings. Which is why they denigrate human beings. They sometimes call us ‘monkeys.’”
He said that to determine whether or not a person is possessed, he looks at whether he or she exhibits “certain strict criteria.” He explains, “The essence of a possession is a person going into a trance and a demonic sounding voice coming out of them, attacking the people, attacking religion, usually using very crude and violent language, like, ‘Leave her alone. She’s ours’ — this type of thing.”
Other behaviors include superhuman strength, speaking ancient languages, and knowing secrets of people that a person would never know otherwise. He has been on the record saying, “I’ve heard them speak Chinese; I’ve heard them speak ancient Greek, which I studied and he has said, “I’ve certainly heard them speak and understand Latin.”
Dr. Gallagher believes many spirits choose to “speak in tongues” just to show off and terrify the living.
He writes in the Washington Post, “My vantage is unusual: As a consulting doctor, I think I have seen more cases of possession than any other physician in the world.”
Dr. Gallagher concludes the article explaining how his views are not dogmatic but based on the simple fact that whether a person is of science or faith, it should be impossible to turn one’s back on a tormented soul.
He writes, “In the end, however, it was not an academic or dogmatic view that propelled me into this line of work. I was asked to consult about people in pain. I have always thought that, if requested to help a tortured person, a physician should not arbitrarily refuse to get involved.
Those who dismiss these cases unwittingly prevent patients from receiving the help they desperately require, either by failing to recommend them for psychiatric treatment (which most clearly need) or by not informing their spiritual ministers that something beyond a mental or other illness seems to be the issue.
For any person of science or faith, it should be impossible to turn one’s back on a tormented soul.”
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
“the fakes will be exposed and disposed of Behold I am The True Saten.” – Quote By Convicted Murderer, Christopher Gulzow (The Denver Demon)
Earlier this month, a Denver man who regularly drove around town in a demon outfit was convicted of murder after he slashed the neck of an innocent homeless man leaving him to bleed to death in front of shocked onlookers.
The CON-vic-ted DEMON, CHRISTOPHER GULZOW, 37, fatally stabbed Brian Lucero in the parking lot of Torchy’s Tacos at 11th Avenue and Broadway, following a confrontation between the two in the early morning of May 23, 2017. GULZOW was wearing what police call white clown makeup with dark streaks, gloves with blades on the fingers, and spiked wristbands at the time of the attack.
Friends and family of Gulzow, who identified as Christöf Gülzowprüzenstein, said that he was a loner and a troubled man who constantly shared his dark imagination in social media posts and was often seen around downtown Denver on his scooter wearing elaborate demon, vampire and ghoul role-playing costumes.
It is obvious that the murderer had serious mental or what we can just call demonic parasite issues given the fact that at 37 years old, he still lived with Mother, worked at a pizza restaurant, and was the lead vocalist of a heavy metal band.
He also lived in the dark world of parasitical half-human activities such as posting on social media all day and magnifying his inner being to the world with his dark selfies or demies role-playing and dressing up as demons which I believe is a huge sign on who we are dealing with here, not a “human being!”
A demon masquerading as a human with bright red flashing lights for everyone who is with a human eye to see, “LOOK AT ME – I’M NOT HUMAN, I AM DEMON. WE ARE LEGION!”
For example, he murdered a homeless man in May 2017 and just two months earlier, he can be seen on Facebook saying he feels good because he gave a homeless youngster a free ticket to one of his friend’s band’s shows.
Gulzow claimed to be the owner, founder, producer and promoter of @ΨWorldMusicStudiosΨ and the goth-metal band, The Paranormals, which in October released the album, “The Dark Saints Kings,” with original songs that included “Rulers of Darkness,” “Sinful Flesh,” and “Tortered (sic) Souls.”
According to his father, Jack Gulzow, he said after the murder that his son had been attending anger-management classes and might not have been taking his medications. He also told the Denver Post that the 2009 death of his younger son – Christian’s brother – may have impacted Christian’s mental health.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
You can’t make this magickal demonic stuff up folks. This story of magic, sexual assault and demons seems like it comes straight out of a Harry Potter script, but with a sick-pornographic twist.
Hull News is reporting that a self-proclaimed “psychic medium clairvoyant”, Ryan Halsey, 27, had operated a Harry Potter magic school has as gone on trial accused of sexually assaulting a young woman during a magic ritual in which he was trying to free from a “demonic attachment”.
The defendant, Halsey is accused of assaulting a young woman who was his student in her bedroom after trying to exercise her demons by asking her to take her T-shirt and bra off.
Perhaps the wannabe magician falsely assumed the demon may have been hiding in the woman’s bra.
The story is interesting given the fact that it details the facts presented in the case dealing with angry spirits who Halsey has an altercation with and poke him in the eye.
The prosecuting attorney asked the defendant to describe the spirit and he said; “It’s hard to describe, really. Like, erm, that particular spirit, it can do both; it can either become like a mist, or shall we say its energy form mostly, but then can shift very quickly into a human form as well. It was a particularly nasty one.”
He said he managed to “clear it out of the room” and said: “It’s not outside – cross it over completely.”
Halsey denies the crime and is now on trial at Hull Crown Court.
The court heard Mr Halsey had first been asked to go to the house after the family complained of “strange occurrences”, including “hearing footsteps” and “seeing a male figure”. The complainant also said she had seen an “old lady sitting in a chair”.
Giving evidence in his defence, Mr Halsey, who also works at B&Q, said during the first visit – which he attended with a woman he described as his “student” – he was involved in an “altercation” with a spirit and was “poked in the eye”.
“Were you really poked in the eye by a spirit?” asked Claire Holmes, prosecuting.
“Yes,” said Mr Halsey.
“Can you describe for us what happened during that altercation?” Miss Holmes asked.
‘Spirit got angry and attacked me’
Mr Halsey said: “It was just one of those things where they can try and – they get a bit angry shall we say – and like, try and attack me unfortunately, but I’m well protected anyway so it won’t harm me, but there was a few bangs, or whatever.”
“What would have caused the bangs?” Miss Holmes asked.
“Possibly the room itself,” Mr Halsey said.
“How can the room itself make a bang?” Miss Holmes asked.
Mr Halsey said: “When you get energy to a room, any collision can possibly create a sound.”
Asked to describe the spirit that attacked him, Mr Halsey said: “It’s hard to describe, really. Like, erm, that particular spirit, it can do both; it can either become like a mist, or shall we say its energy form mostly, but then can shift very quickly into a human form as well. It was a particularly nasty one.”
He said he managed to “clear it out of the room” and said: “It’s not outside – cross it over completely.”
Mr Halsey said the family were happy with what he had done but asked him to come back after further problems.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
A Pennsylvania grand jury recently released a report on the systematic ways Catholic priests aided and abetted one another to sexually abuse children for 70 years.
It reveals once again how the strict patriarchal hierarchy of the Catholic Church gives rise to conspiracies of silence and allows for routine cover-up of crimes. Cover-ups are also encouraged by clericalism – the belief that ordained priests are inherently superior and closer to God than the laity. This much has been demonstrated by countless observers.
But there is another, lesser-known factor contributing to the abuse, that I want to point out as a scholar of spiritual warfare in some forms of Christianity. This factor lies in the realm of belief: In some strands of Catholic thought, when priests abuse children, it is because they have been tempted by demons, and succumbed.
History of demon beliefs
The Catholic Church invites priests to view sexuality as a battle in the war between good and evil. Spiritual warfare is one name for this view of the world and it has a long history in Catholic teachings.
The idea of demons has been around since antiquity – in the Mediterranean world, the Middle East and elsewhere. In Christianity, preoccupation with demons reached its peak in the Middle Ages. Demons were explicitly defined by the church in 1215 under Pope Innocent III.
Theologians worked to identify classes and ranks of demons who operated under the authority of the devil himself. Demons were seen as fallen angels who disobeyed God and worked to subvert God and goodness.
Demons are malevolent beings who lord over specific domains of sin. Christians are called to battle evil, including evil that comes by way of the demonic. The more pious one is, the more intense will be the attacks from the demons.
After the Second Vatican Council of 1964, demons faded out of focus and exorcisms were rare. But my research shows that the spiritual warfare world view is on the rise in the Catholic Church. This is despite the fact that demons and exorcisms are largely viewed by most American Catholics as remnants of a medieval past.
In 1999, Pope John Paul II brought back a focus on the formal rites of exorcism – the official ritual that priests use to rid a person from demonic affliction or possession. The pope later recommended that every diocese in the Catholic world appoint and train an exorcist.
The Catholic Church in the United States took up the call and in 2012 founded the Pope Leo XII Institute in Illinois to support “the spiritual formation of priests to bring the light of Christ to dispel evil.” To this day it serves as a “school for exorcism and deliverance” of the laity from demons.
Under this belief system, in the battle for souls, demons can establish relationships with people who open the door to them through sin and disobedience to God. If someone masturbates, for example, which is a mortal sin, they are opening the door wider to demons of more serious sexual perversion.
Such demons include figures mentioned in the Bible such as Baal, the ancient Phoenician sun God, and his consort Ashtoreth, now viewed as a force of sexual immorality and perversion. Jezebel, the ninth-century B.C. Phoenician princess, lives into the modern era as a demonic personality who encourages illicit sexual acts, violence and rape.
Devil and role-play in one church
Writing for Commonweal, an American Catholic journal, one ex-seminarian described a formation, or training, workshop sponsored by his seminary. He described how participants were given nametags with the names of demons on them and asked to play the role of demons to tempt one another. He explained how they would choose one person and “hiss and curse” to entice him to “watch pornography” and “masturbate.”
The point, of course, was to train the participants how to choose chastity and to stand strong against sexual desire.
To be clear, this is only one documented instance. However, I would argue that it points to the Church’s current preoccupation with evil spirits and the need for priests to ritually remove that evil.
It is sobering that one seminary should choose to offer those training for a life of service and celibacy, a role-play of hissing demon impersonators, as a way to govern their conduct.
Medieval practices in today’s church?
Ascribing sexual desire to demonic temptation takes away the blame from the perpetrators. It puts the cause, the consequences, and questions of accountability into an invisible world populated by angels and demons, sin and repentance.
Suggesting that the offending priests were afflicted by demons is a version of “the devil made me do it.”
There is a second heartbreak. Many of the abused report feeling guilty, as if they had sinned themselves. I have heard from my own research participants that because sinning opens the door to more demons and more sin, then some abuse survivors think of themselves as being in relationships with personal demons and more vulnerable to demonic attack.
As investigations continue into the institutional factors allowing for this horrific abuse, it may also be pertinent to look into some of the intellectual and theological elements at the heart of the Catholic tradition.
For some branches of the Church, this includes the medieval world of demons.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
