I've had this thought for a while. What if Satan purposefully tests us to make us stronger individuals? Very much like Slugworth on Willy Wonka. I know this theory has been shared before, but people still continue to believe Satan is the cause of evil and out to get us.
I believe Satan is there to make sure that we are worthy of the fruits of knowledge. For example, if you want to get fit and buff and healthy, you'll need to experience pain through working out, discipline, and forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. If you want to get a driver's liscense, you have to pass the tests. It's all about breaking barriers and carving your own path. It will take sacrifice, courage, and discipline, but your reward will be great. I believe the same can be said about Satan. He is there to test us. To make sure we are worthy of the reward. Just like Slugworth on Willy Wonka handed the kids the gobstoppers to test whether they would sell the secret candy to the rival company. In the end, Charlie passed the test and was rewarded greatly. I believe Satan is a force that should be embraced, not shunned. What say you?
Maybe he got a bad rap, who knows. What I do know is for a short time I asked Satan for help. I was confused in my life and needed help. Im not talking superficial stuff. Stuff that mattered. Anyway... nothing really happened until I let go and accepted if nothing gets better I have no one to blame but my self and accept that I deserve it. I accepted that even whenever I die I belong in hell. That my problems should come last and what matters is how treat others. It just hit me and I asked Jesus to help. It worked. I'm not kidding when I say John 15:7 is very real.
Lucifer is basically the same story as Prometheus. Prometheus gave us fire and knowledge. And so did lucifer.
Satan is some jew demon.
many of the old gods are here to teach us things
satan makes you stronger if you drop the fear and programming and just realize that he is here to uplift humanity.
What religion do you /x/philes follow, or is the closest to your personal beliefs? How does your religious faith influence your belief or disbelief in the paranormal?
The best one.
Trika Saivism
We run dat shit!
I know a little bit about it but I'm curious as to people's experiences. I wanna do it but unsure what I can honestly except from it. I've heard it's euphoric and awakening and then others it's just miserable and don't wanna do it again. Ops?
I think everyone has an astral projection experience at least once during their lifetimes but I'm unsure if the phenomenon could also be considered lucid dreaming. It happens to me at least twice a month and it's always completely bizarre yet the events are always the same:
I "dream" I put my hands in a meditative position and then cross one leg in the air, then lift my other leg into it. I am now levitating. Then I seemingly have free will to move around my room but I never had a courage to leave it. I always get afraid I might float away into nothingness or something.
The last time this happened I noticed objects in my room were missing or mixed with other furniture from a past timeline. Objects started rattling and my blinders on my window went crazy but at the same time it wasn't that scary. I guess I'm just rambling at this point but I don't really know what to make of these experiences. They just seem strange to me.
It's fake.
Most of that is what I've heard. I've become decently good at lucid dreaming, I can almost do it every sleep, but I've had my skepticism about AP. Still thinking of trying. Thanks for your input.
Can his seal be broken and captives set free?
>>17827819
Why not?
>>17827801
u know what to believe
Guys I need help. This happened a few years ago.
>Decided to stay up late
>1 a.m downstairs talking with my brother
>Suddenly start feeling this creepy feeling. There is this building anxiety in the mood of the room out of nowhere
>Ask my brother if he notices this
>He says yes he feels this uneasy feeling too
>Seconds later
>Our fax/printer machine that wasn't even on explodes a few feet from us
>Later after we calm down we check the fax machine
>The inside and outside of it are completely ruined and twisted up
Nothing has happened since then. I think its also important to note that while this happened me and my brother were not yet being medicated for being bi polar. I'm also schizotypal.
Am I just reading too much into a freak accident explosion or did something happen here?
You're fine. Fax machines are supposed to explode after 672 usages.
>>17827696
Nope. Focus on protecting yourself. The best weapon you have is possitivity. Remember anon, happy thoughts
OP here. I was expecting a true story of a paranormal entity blowing up something in my house to get more replies than this
I guess that goes to show how bad my writing skills are
Oh well
Is Transcendental Meditation paranormal?
>>17827605
Yes. Pick any definition of paranormal and it will qualify.
23 M here. Been having a shit time lately. Can't sleep tons of aches and pains everywhere, feel like old man. I read once that joint pain was a spiritual problem...Idk help a bro out, im desperately sick of waking up every day with aches all over
Try Kratom
go see a doctor you cunt
>whiny begging thread detected
The NYT published an article on gang stalking.
>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/health/gang-stalking-targeted-individuals.html
>The group was organized around the conviction that its members are victims of a sprawling conspiracy to harass thousands of everyday Americans with mind-control weapons and armies of so-called gang stalkers.
>Mental health professionals say the narrative has taken hold among a group of people experiencing psychotic symptoms that have troubled the human mind since time immemorial. Except now victims are connecting on the internet, organizing and defying medical explanations for what’s happening to them.
>“What’s scary for me is that there are no counter sites that try and convince targeted individuals that they are delusional,” Dr. Sheridan said. “They end up in a closed ideology echo chamber”
>The big hope is that society will wake up to what’s happening and put a stop to it, those who feel targeted say. In some cases, they do seek psychiatric help. In others, the delusions subside. For the rest, the prognosis isn’t good, psychiatrists say. Many contemplate suicide.
Is this a serious problem?
>>17827359
>is this a serious problem
For the mentally ill, yes, yes it is. Encouraging delusional people ends badly.
>>17827389
But what about the people who are being targeted by the government? There is historical precedent for this. Look at the Stazi in East Germany.
>>17827359
Well what can I say?
Stupid is what stupid does.
We, the people, set up an environment. Our actions is what makes this environment what it is.
Fact is, many people fall ill in this environment, and what we do to cure them is exactly what makes them fall ill in the first place.
Nothing more to say. The weak and the sick will fall off by themselfes.
How about stop preventing nature from doings its god damn job, which is the reason we are here in the first place.
what do you guys think would be a scary monster/entity for a movie or possibly ARG?
For me it depends on many things. The setting of the movie/game. For a shitty example here, if you have a movie that takes place inside a series of caves then the monster should be related to that kind of environment. I personally like monsters to be kind of obscure or unusual but still contain some human resemblance, like this asshole here kinda
zombies,
but instead of zombies, skeletons.
no longer slow, shambling, rotting corpses.
instead fresh, strong bonemen, popping right out their meatsacks to curse the living to join them in their eternal unrest.
copyright the elf king 2011, akashic records [patent pending]
The Forest is spoopy as fuck, and those spider niggers are hard to kill.
Is it real?
Probably not, but to be sure we're talking about the same thing, do you mean torturing someone to the point of mind control?
>>17827089
Carly wants the D
>>17827089
No it doesn't work. However there has been ineradicable success using TMS.
Guys what do you think about power of subconscious mind?
I know that "The Secret" is lame crap, but does it really represend the way our life goes on.
Are our thoughts and the way we see things and the way we think that much powerfull so we are creating our own future with infinite potential?
I know that it doesnt work the way:
>Sit at home, do nothing, puffff Ferrari is yours right ahead cuz you imagined it
BUT
Does it really work? It seems to me that it does in much more way, when you just think about someone or you are speking about someone and dont think about it, he calls or shows up out of nowhere, it happend many times to all of us.
You had "whats the best movie" with some friend conversation? And after like 10days you turn on TV and there it is, first thing you saw.
Whats your expirience with it?
Do you have something good for reading?
Some nice explonation, evidence, practice /x/?
>>17826971
>do you think about power of subconscious mind?
That is the power of the mind itself. Its true power.
>>17827028
Can you provide something that proves that?
Some book or video.... I guess that you researched abour that a little bit more.
I've had experiences like this, If you want to hone your connection with your subconscious mind you need to interact with it more. You can meditate, lucid dream, listen to it and all that shit. If you learn to follow your guts, You life will get 20x more awesome.
Greetings, and welcome to The /x/ Files, the weekly news digest for 4chan's Paranormal board. Every Sunday, we take a quick snapshot of the mysterious world around us and bring it, in an easily readable magazine format, to the board. I am The Editor, the anonymous creator of this idea and collector of the news that will be following below. In the interests of legitimacy, I will be using a secure tripcode to post the thread; once the posts are completed, I will take the tripcode off and return to my anonymity.
First Petra, and now Angkor: Scientists have discovered multiple gigantic cities beneath the dense jungles of Cambodia surrounding the temple complex of Angkor Wat.
Table of Contents:
1: Paranormal News of the Week
2: Radio Show Roundup
3: Paranormal Podcasts
4: Editor's Note
Paranormal News of the Week
Multiple Hidden Cities Found Near Angkor Wat
After scanning more than 734 square miles using lasers in what is being hailed as the most extensive airborne archaeological study ever undertaken, researchers have announced the discovery of several large, long-forgotten cities hidden beneath the forest floor. According to Australian archaeologist Dr Damian Evans, the cities date back up to 1,400 years and some of them were so large that they would have even rivalled the country's capital, Phnom Penh. The data suggests that these remarkable, densely populated cities would have made this the single largest empire on the planet at its peak during the 12th century.
"We have entire cities discovered beneath the forest that no one knew were there," said Evans.
The find not only cements the archaeological significance of Angkor Wat but also demonstrates how effective laser scanning technology has become at opening up the secrets of the past. "I have been to all the sites described and at a stroke, they spring into life … it is as if a bright light has been switched on to illuminate the previous dark veil that covered these great sites," said Charles Higham, a leading archaeologist of mainland south-east Asia. "Personally, it is wonderful to be alive as these new discoveries are being made. Emotionally, I am stunned. Intellectually, I am stimulated."
Full Story: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/295556/multiple-hidden-cities-found-near-angkor-wat
The Lost City of Cambodia
(Editor's Note: In honor of the discoveries around Angkor, I'm republishing an article that originally appeared in Issue 21. The full article is an amazing read, and I strongly suggest going and giving it a look.)
Phnom Kulen is only some 25 miles north of a metropolis that reached its zenith three centuries later—the greatest city of the Khmer Empire, and possibly the most glorious religious center in the history of mankind: Angkor, derived from the Sanskrit word nagara, or holy city, site of the famed temple Angkor Wat. But first there arose Phnom Kulen, the birthplace of the great Khmer civilization that dominated most of Southeast Asia from the 9th to the 15th centuries.
Nothing ignites an archaeologist’s imagination like the prospect of a lost city. In the late 19th century, French explorers and scholars, pursuing fragmentary clues about the existence of Phnom Kulen, hacked their way through the jungles of Southeast Asia. Inscriptions found on temple doors and walls made mention of a splendid hilltop capital called Mahendraparvata. A French archaeologist, Philippe Stern, trekked to the top of the Phnom Kulen plateau in 1936, and in five weeks of excavations he and his co-workers uncovered the ruins of 17 Hindu temples, fallen carved lintels, statues of the Hindu god Vishnu, and remnants of a great stone pyramid. Stern believed that he had located Mahendraparvata. But the temples of Angkor, built on a more accessible flat plain and visible on a larger scale, were more compelling to archaeologists, and the excavations at Phnom Kulen never advanced much beyond Stern’s initial dig. Then came decades of neglect and horror.
Full Article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lost-city-cambodia-180958508/
Coast to Coast AM with George Noory
Monday: Natural Healing/Science of War
In the first half, Dr. Joel Wallach discussed the human body and its ability to use natural healing without the risky drugs prescribed by modern medicine. In the latter half, author Mary Roach addressed her latest work exploring the science of keeping human beings intact and sane in the extreme, adversarial circumstances of war.
Tuesday: World in Disarray
Steve Quayle thinks that the world situation is accelerating faster than most of us can conceive. He started the show by telling George that things "are fascinating, and not in a good way." Open Lines followed.
Wednesday: Bilderberg Group & ETs/Internal GPS
In the first half, pioneer in the development of exopolitics, Michael Salla discussed his latest article, "Resolving The Bilderberg Group Mystery: Global Banking, Nazis, and Alien Alliances." In the latter half, entrepreneur and teacher Zen Cryar DeBrucke talked about how our bodies and souls have a GPS system similar to cars that helps us get where we want to go.
Thursday: Dearly Departed Special III
For over 23 years, Coast to Coast AM has been host to some of the bravest, and most innovative and informed experts. Starting in the second hour, George Noory played and commented on six different interviews from former guests in the C2C family that are no longer with us, yet whose legacies and ideas live on.
Friday: Time Travel Cases
Filling in for George, Jimmy Church was joined by author Larry Flaxman for a conversation on the topic of time travel. Open Lines followed.
The sticky seems to be lacking pretty heavily in spooky novels. I enjoy ghost/demon novels the most.
So far this year I have read
>The Amityville Horror
Pretty good, would recommend it
>The Woman in Black
Pretty good as well, different from the movie though
>The Exorcist
Really enjoyed this one. Definitely a classic
>Hell House
This one was also really good. Kept me interested the entire time and was generally a very well told story
Any recommendations /x/? Looking for books that are really well-written too. Most of the horror I have read spooks me but isn't written very well. Is this just an unavoidable symptom of horror? Or does good writing exist that will also spook me?
Anything by T.E.D. Klien.
>>17826877
Neil Gaiman's work. Especially Neverwhere, and American Gods. Sandman comics too if you like comics.
Speaking of comics, Garth Ennis' Preacher. Fuck, anything he's done really. He's someone who I always say can never top, or match what he's currently doing, and yet he always seems to manage to anyway.
I'm reading Dissolution of Fleeting Improvised Men
It's a fake Lovecraft letter that the author writes footnotes for with his own creepy story.
My friend pissed of some natives in Arizona the other day and thinks hes cursed now, how does he fix this?
does that kitty died
>>17826358
Nah just rolling around dont worry
> >Not going balls deep on MGT
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Previously on /div/: >>17821028
HOI
>>17826096
Free soup and readings. I'm sure you know how this question bullshit rolls. LETS GO
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