Can Satan Influence and even Corrupt a Human Mind? Yes

There is much to meditate on here. It’s interesting to look a the root meaning of words. For instance, disobedience (G543) includes unbelief, which describes many people. Check the basis of wrath; you’ll find it’s orgy. Unfortunately, that covers extensive territory, including pornography, pedophilia, illicit sex, stalking, and gawking.

The Serpent occupies the position of a prince, 1st rank on Earth. Lucifer was a top-ranking archangel until its fall. Satan has the power, competency, authority, privileges, and jurisdiction, among other things, over the air. The air refers to Earth’s atmosphere. Satan uses the power of its toxic spirit carried through the air. Paul is talking spiritually, but technically this is how the Serpent works. It transmits its influence via AIRwaves.

You might think this is ridiculous, but The Explanation spent a lot of time, in the context of the human mind expounding the nature of God’s Holy Spirit, what ruach is and how it functions. The fluttering, moving, shaking fluctuations of waves and frequencies. Now we see the Serpent is Master of the Air. Satan also has its frequencies. It broadcasts directly to the human mind (G1271), where the imagination is. It incites the flesh (G4561), as discussed in Agony regarding UNethical behavior. Through their influenceable human nature (G5449), people everywhere are pulled down by convincing publicity and other harmful influences and end up following their basic instincts, their passions (G3709).

These two verses express the Agony of Humankind. Please don’t get me wrong. We can NOT blame Satan for all of our wrong-doing. Why? Because we possess free will. As such, we can and should make the right decisions to WITHSTAND these temptations. But we are weak flesh, and more often than not, we succumb to these passions.

Influenceable power, spirit airwaves, free will, decisions, disposition, ALL these traits are part of the MIND and nothing else. Did you see Strong’s annotation for wrath (G3709)? reaching forth or excitement of the mind. I realize Strong is not scripture, but he hit the nail on the head. Wrath, from the Greek word orgy, is the excitement of the mind. This provocation is not limited to sexual deviance. We all have our minds stimulated and incited by the wrong purposes for immoral reasons. It is how humans reason: observation, philosophy, science, and, yes, religion.

Do you think The Explanation exaggerates when it says Satan has mind control worldwide? Reread verse 3, “Among whom also we all had our conversation (an old English word for behavior) … and were by nature  the children of wrath, even as others.” Paul includes himself (we)  and says, we ALL, ending the verse with as others. Those others were ALL people not associated with God’s Church, of which Paul was an Apostle. In other words, everyone worldwide. Numerous other verses, including verse 2, according to the course of this world, corroborate this. I invite you to search them out and study them.

The spirit world exists and manifests itself

Whether you believe the Bible or not, Satan and its shenanigans are part and parcel of the package. The spirit world exists. Satan is real, it rebelled against God Who cast it and its cohort to Earth, where they continue their odious work.

You can’t get much more precise than that. The Serpent is the god of this entire world; Satan has blinded the MINDS of those who don’t believe. Today, fewer and fewer believe, and even among those who do believe, what do they believe? The Serpent has got the upper hand through mind control. Here are some of its methods. There’s no space to go into a lot of detail. There are links to further information, but I insist do NOT get involved in these activities. There are some amazing testimonials about what Satan can do; this is real BUT to be avoided.

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You don’t have to be a Bible believer or reader to know such spirit phenomena exist. Elizabeth Gilbert investigated this and gave a TED talk, which has over 19 million views. Ruth Stone also knows there’s something to the spirit world; these are two rational human beings.

Evil spirit beings

In New York, in 1976, there was a spree of murders. Police apprehended a man going by the name son of Sam. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, where he still is today. In prison, over the years, he got his life together. I debated whether to include one of his testimonial videos and decided to do so. Today, David Berkovitch, his real name, is very lucid and open about his horrific experience. Here are a few quotes.

My life and personality were coming apart, disintegrating, being controlled by other entities that I opened myself up for. I had a propensity for that, all my life, because of the experiences I had in childhood. The trauma and everything. It opened up the door to demonic strongholds being set up in my life.

Both these videos are eloquent in the admission of a spirit world. Furthermore, it is evident; they target mind control. People, no matter who they are or where they are, should be aware that such activities should be avoided. Again, the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 14:32, “And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.” Be it prophets or you and me, we are to be in control of our spirit, our mind at all times. Our mental health stands on that foundation. The next chapter will give the foundation for wholesome mental health.

Other malevolent phenomena to avoid

Hypnotism and Medical experiences

• Regressive therapy.
• After-death experiences (Death is reality and part of the Agony of Humankind).
• Former lives, distant, past experiences (before you were born).
• Multiple personalities.

Church and spiritual practices

• Speaking in tongues. It has Biblical overtones, but don’t practice it when you cannot control what happens to you, like falling down backward or being unable to react normally.
• Reincarnation.
• Calling on the defunct, ouija boards.
• Satanic sects.
• Activities in the dark, like groves and forests.
• Casting out demons. Invoking the spirits. Dangerous.
• Shamanism involving trances, potions, spells.
• Unicult: a communal framework for promoting joy. I’ll let you look into this but stay away.
• You will be able to gain a direct experience of your Timeless and Eternal Self rapidly—Read this for an enlightened opinion.

Practices that invoke potent forces from the Earth

• Ley lines.
• Dowsing rods.
• Feng Shui (radio and other wave frequencies can be nauseous, you should avoid them when you can, but certain practices go much further with waves).
• Automatic writing and drawing.
• Ghosts and related paranormal activities.
• Haunted or enchanted places.

We can add two more circles with Satan’s influence on our consciousness and mind. This includes Satan’s “spirit that now works in the children of disobedience” (Eph. 2:2), illustrated by the pink background.

Other areas, too vast to mention, make people susceptible to mind attacks by Satan, like violent music, festivals, weird diets, purges, abstinence, spiritual and Eastern philosophies.  it has multiplied the practices and methods. There’s one for every type of the 7+ billion minds on Earth today. And, unbeknown to most, the ways it uses look like valid remedies and real help. The Apostle John warns us.

Be wise; Satan seeks whom it might devour, and its main line of attack is the mind. God gave us the human mind, so we look outward and upward toward Him. We DO NOT relinquish our minds to any external control under any circumstances. More on preserving the mind in the next chapter.