Seduction by Evil

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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. "The idea of being a victim of evil is quite a comfortable one," writes Norberto Keppe in his book, Psychotherapy and Exorcism. "But what's really going on," he continues, "is that the human being actually selects the type of evil he wants in his life." Well, that's sobering. I hope this happens unconsciously because the conscious choice for evil seems rather terrifying. Keppe's view that we summon evil contradicts the common idea that we are victimised by it. Even the exorcists, those most graphic of illustrations of possession by evil, show the possessed as being unwilling recipients of the accursed spiritual invasions. What Keppe is trying to alert us to here is the very real presence of evil spirits in the human experience, and our considerable role in giving them so much freedom to run amok on our planet. But there's another aspect at play in this process ... the subterfuge of the demons. And that's not a once-in-awhile thing. It's constant. Seduction by Evil, today on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Click here to listen to this episode.

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