“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.
In my studies into the Gnosis of Jesus, I came across a peculiar text in the Sacred Writings of the Apocrypha of the New Testament as translated by The Ante-Nicene Fathers which details the early childhood of Jesus. It tells of a seldom-heard story of how Jesus was considered a child prodigy for his incredible superhuman abilities when it came to “knowledge of all things ie: True Gnosis” and also his magical abilities to heal and kill at will.
In fact, he was considered to be so smart that he regularly outwitted and admonished the more learned elders, priests and schoolmasters in public to the point that they became his disciples and believers. Below is an example of the Lord’s Gnosis that begins with a conversation between a schoolmaster named Zacchaeus with Joseph and the young magician, Jesus. The story details the Lord’s secret knowledge of letters and also how Jesus told the master about a certain Gnosis which he had never either heard or read in any book.
The Master then proclaims that Jesus is “more learned than all the masters” and “This son of thine has no need of instruction” – ie: DNA Gnosis.
Here is the story…
“There was, moreover, at Jerusalem, a certain man named Zacchaeus, who taught boys. He said to Joseph: Why, O Joseph, dost thou not bring Jesus to me to learn his letters? Joseph agreed to do so, and reported the matter to the Lady Mary.
They, therefore, took Him to the master; and he, as soon as he saw Him, wrote out the alphabet for Him, and told Him to say Aleph. And when He had said Aleph, the master ordered Him to pronounce Beth. And the Lord Jesus said to him: Tell me first the meaning of the letter Aleph, and then I shall pronounce Beth.
And when the master threatened to flog Him, the Lord Jesus explained to him the meanings of the letters Aleph and Beth; also which figures of the letter were straight, which crooked, which drawn round into a spiral, which marked with points, which without them, why one letter went before another; and many other things He began to recount and to elucidate which the master himself had never either heard or read in any book.
The Lord Jesus, moreover, said to the master: Listen, and I shall say them to thee. And He began clearly and distinctly to repeat Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, on to Tau. And the master was astonished and said:
“I think that this boy was born before Noah.”
And turning to Joseph, he said: Thou hast brought to me to be taught a boy more learned than all the masters. To the Lady Mary also he said:
“This son of thine has no need of instruction.”
In the next scene, Bad Boy Jesus comes out again and his mother Mary again put him on house arrest because everyone who opposes him, he kills.
“Thereafter they took Him to another and a more learned master, who, when he saw Him, said: Say Aleph. And when He had said Aleph, the master ordered him to pronounce Beth. And the Lord Jesus answered him, and said: First tell me the meaning of the letter Aleph, and then I shall pronounce Beth. And when the master hereupon raised his hand and flogged Him, immediately his hand dried up, and he died. Then said Joseph, to the Lady Mary:
From this time we shall not let him go out of the house, since every one who opposes him is struck dead.
And when He was twelve years old, they took Him to Jerusalem to the feast. And when the feast was finished, they indeed returned ; but the Lord Jesus remained in the temple among the teachers and elders and learned men of the sons of Israel, to whom He put various questions upon the sciences, and gave answers in His turn.” For He said to them : Whose son is the Messias P They answered Him: The son of David. Wherefore then, said He, does he in the Spirit call him his lord, when he says, The Lord said to my lord, Sit at my right hand, that I may put thine enemies under thy footsteps?’
Again the chief of the teachers said to Him : Hast thou read the books? Both the books, said the Lord Jesus, and the things contained in the books. And He explained the books, and the law, and the precepts, and the statutes, and the mysteries, which are contained in the books of the prophets — things which the understanding of no creature attains to. That teacher therefore said: I hitherto have neither attained to nor heard of such knowledge: Who, pray, do you think that boy will be?
And a philosopher who was there present, a skillful astronomer, asked the Lord Jesus whether He had studied astronomy. And the Lord Jesus answered him, and explained the number of the spheres, and of the heavenly bodies, their natures and operations; their opposition; their aspect, triangular, square, and sextile; their course, direct and retrograde; the twenty-fourths,” and sixtieths of twenty-fourths; and other things beyond the reach of reason.
There was also among those philosophers one very skilled in treating of natural science, and he asked the Lord Jesus whether He had studied medicine. And He, in reply, explained to him physics and metaphysics, hyperphysics and hypophysics, the powers likewise and humours of the body, and the effects of the same ; also the number of members and bones, of veins, arteries, and nerves; also the effect of heat and dryness, of cold and moisture, and what these give rise to ; what was the operation of the soul upon the body, and its perceptions and powers; what was the operation of the faculty of speech, of anger, of desire ; lastly, their conjunction and disjunction, and other things beyond the reach of any created intellect. Then that philosopher rose up, and adored the Lord Jesus, and said:
Lord, from this time I will be thy disciple and slave.
While they were speaking to each other of these and other things, the Lady Mary came, after having gone about seeking Him for three days along with Joseph. She therefore, seeing Him sitting among the teachers asking them questions, and answering in His turn, said to Him: My son, why hast thou treated us thus? Behold, thy father and I have sought thee with great trouble. But He said: Why do you seek me? Do you not know that I ought to occupy myself in my Father’s house? But they did not understand the words that He spoke to them. Then those teachers asked Mary whether He were her son; and when she signified that He was, they said:
Blessed art thou, O Mary, who hast brought forth such a son. And returning with them to Nazareth, He obeyed them in all things. And His mother kept all these words of His in her heart. And the Lord Jesus advanced in stature, and in wisdom, and in favour with God and man.5 54. And from this day He began to hide His miracles and mysteries and secrets, and to give attention to the law, until He completed His thirtieth year, when His Father publicly declared Him at the Jordan by this voice sent down from heaven:
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased ; the Holy Spirit being present in the form of a white dove.”
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.
