This page is about demoniac possession, what it is and what to do about it.

Sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile.                                   The jean genie lives on his back.There are cases of true and false possession. Maybe one in a hundred is a case of genuine possession. An exorcist has to make sure that he is dealing with an actual case of possession before he starts an exorcism, because it will be harmful to the patient if it's not. Calling in the help of a psychiatrist to determine that it is not schizophrenia or insanity that he is dealing with is always advised, though it must be stated, that demonic possession is not recognized as a valid psychiatric or medical diagnosis by either the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV, the handbook for mental health professionals or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems -10. Schizophrenia (Split mind) is very similar (though not necessarily so) to Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or DID (Dissociative identity disorder) which is often caused by traumatising events like sexual abuse. Having been sexually abused will raise strongly conflicting questions in a child's mind, causing the child's own mind to split up into separate sub-personalities, that would function as stand-ins in dealing with negative emotions like guilt, anger, hate, depression, self-hate, grief, remorse, violence, that can lead to self-imposed autism, pica (abnormal appetite for earth, excrements and other non-foods), self-mutilation, etc.. The current opinion is, that those who profess a belief in demonic possession have ascribed symptoms associated with mental illnesses such as hysteria, mania, psychosis, Tourette's syndrome, epilepsy, schizophrenia or dissociative identity disorder to possession. Even some catholic priests describe demons as a collective noun for mental conditions like anger, grief, jealousy, hate and despair. The fact that exorcism works on people experiencing symptoms of possession is attributed to placebo effect and the power of suggestion. Medicine can explain some aspects of the "symptoms" shown by those persons allegedly possessed. Severe mood changes and Manic depression may explain others. Plus a distinction must be made between people who can switch between the different personalities, the "alters" and those who cannot. People who are able to switch between alters mostly aren't able to change brain activity, hartbeat and blood pressure. As soon however as brainscans show different patterns for different alters in a DID patient something else is going on. An energumen (from Greek energoumenos, possessed) is a frantic and hysterical person, who commonly shows a strength superior to what he/she should have. Also, it is known that "supernatural strength" is common in some cases of insanity (mania, energumens, etc.) but it doesn't explain the strength being "supernatural". The same can be said about other inexplainable phenomena. In 1791 the German MD Eberhardt Gmelin reported the case of  a twenty year old German girl who would change before his eyes into a French aristocrat lady with all mannerisms at hand. The French alter would have no knowledge of the german girl and vice versa. He attributed this behavior to the arrival in Germany of French elite escaping the guillotines of the French revolution two years before that and that the French nobility in their aristocratic ways must have made a deep impression on the girl. It didn't explain the fact however that during these episodes she would speak in perfect fluent French. Some supposedly possessed persons indeed may be narcissists or, suffering from low self-esteem and act a "demon possessed person" in order to gain attention, but it does appear that as soon as Psychiatry has planted their flag on it, it can not be anything else than a psychiatric disorder. The fact that in about one third of the cases of dissociative identity disorder, or forms of monomania called demonomania or demonopathy, the alter personality actually identifies itself as a demon, seems to be comfortably ignored.
 

Exorcists should be accompanied by strong silent assistants, no more than needed, to prevent the possessed to hurt him- or herself or the exorcist for that matter. In the case of a female person it is best to choose female assistants from her close family. The best time for an exorcism would be after sunset because that is when they are most active. The purpose is to let the possessed one resist the evil spirit that is dominating him and to let him come forward in order to deal with him. It may however very well be an entire Legion of demons hiding behind the weaker familiars. The first task of the priest is to break the Pretense, to remove the camouflage, replying with Bible texts in the same tone and loudness, to force the spirit to reveal itself openly as separate from the possessed-and to name itself, for all possessing spirits are called by a name that generally (though not always) has to do with the way that spirit works on its victim. It is by this name that the presence can be commanded. A name is very important in these matters; Evil demons can be forced in Jesus’ name to supply information as to why they dominate someone and can also be expelled by his Name. One should be careful not to be too curious to their reasoning because this may be a trap by which they themselves will be possessed or experience in real live who they are dealing with.

Getting possessed by an evil spirit usually follows the structure of daily life; a certain idea takes hold of someone’s thoughts to the point of obsession and is being amplified by extern forces leading him further and further away from the truth. Opening up to the spirit world, for example with an Ouija Board, or a Spiritual Séance are great ways to become possessed. You don't have to be a holy cleric to figure out that allowing complete strangers to control your body is NOT a smart thing to do. Especially when they're dead and buried, or when there is even the slightest chance that there are demons involved. You should realize, that most demons in fact are dead people gone evil. They will take hold of you and indulge in your emotional energy. Demons tend to lie ... a lot. It's what they do. One strategy is to show their victim images from his life giving him the impression of being ridiculous, stupid, despicable or helpless, cultivating negative emotions like self-hatred, false guilt and feelings of inferiority. Demons exercise their powers through the brain and the nerve system of their victim. This may be noticeable by a tinseling sensation or a creeping pain working itself from the waste up through the spinal cord wavering out in two directions to the brain and to the longs. People who are possessed may have a loveless frozen archaic smile on their faces or a very cold and unemotional expression. They will often (though not always) react strongly to a crucifix, the sound of church bells, the scent of incense, the proximity of a nun or a priest, holy water and the name of Jesus, even when used as a curse. Sometimes their fists will convulsively open and close repeatedly. Sometimes during an exorcism, at the top speed of a kaleidoscope, a long succession of come and go, one flickering after the other. All with "Cain's thumbprint on the chin," Japanese, Chinese, Burmese, Korean, British, Slavic. Old, young, bearded, clean-shaven. Black, white, yellow. Male, female. All grinning the same grin. Often eyes roll upwards showing nothing but the eye white, or change color from for instance deep blue to a greenish taint. Grayish foam bubbling around the mouth, the body will turn stone cold and appear bluish in color. All sorts of paranormal activities like unbearable sounds, extending or shortening of the body, changes in weight, levitation and telekinesis may occur as well as an enormous stench or cold in the room. Victims may speak with the “Voice”, that appears to come from a great distance as from a deep abyss preceded by its own echo. Possessed ones seem to know exactly when there is trouble ahead as if something or someone was warning them; call it a hunch.

According to Malachi Martin, writer of the Book, Hostage to the Devil, possession takes place in stages; there are people who are only partially possessed and people who are perfectly, or fully possessed. If a partially possessed victim does not withdraw consent and succeed in freeing himself, with help or by dint of his own strength of will and resistance, he will arrive at one sure, critical moment. He will be presented with an increasing and finally unremitting pressure to allow an "inner control" by an alien force. This control will affect thoughts, emotions, acts of will, intentions, likes and dislikes. Many exorcists think that the majority of the partially possessed who rebel in this way never get priestly help. They are taken to doctors and psychiatrists, who'll never succeed in helping them. Through treatment with drugs, a temporary "remission"-a calming of the violence-may be achieved for a while, usually at the cost of some mental acuteness and physical energy. As often the symptoms are repressed but the cause remains. The subjects, exorcists feel, may often spend time in mental institutions, and there they will become progressively worse as their awful battle goes on.

Partially possessed are often accompanied by a “familiar spirit”; an animal shaped Imp, comparable to the Roman "Genius" or the Greek "Daemon". It was told that the noble members of a race that once lived in the Golden Age. now are acting as our Guardian angels. The Romans, however, as well as the Greek, made distinction between good and bad Daemons or Genii, that are also known as the Nephilim in Jewish rabbinic literature. These fallen ones, dating from the time of Cronos (Cernunnos, Enlil or Satan), who are cut of from the Holy Spirit, which was their life-force, still try to inhabit humans, which literally would provide them with a warm place to stay. In return they might provide their human symbiotic companion with advise or perform small favors. In the beginning, these ancestry genii, or "familiar spirits" may even have the best of intentions, but when fought, they usually get possessive about it and call in help from stronger and more persistent Demons, and the only way to get rid of them would be an exorcism. "Familiarization" is a type of possession in which the possessed is not normally subject to the conditions of physical violence, repugnant smells and behavior, social aberrations, and personal degeneracy that characterize other forms of possession. The possessing spirit in "familiarization" is seeking to "come and live with" the subject. If accepted, the spirit becomes the constant and continuously present companion of the possessed. The two "persons," the familiar and the possessed, remain separate and distinct. The possessed is aware of this presence. In fact, no movement of body, no pain or pleasure, and no thought or memory occur that is not shared with the familiar. All privacy of the subject is gone; his very thoughts are known; and he knows continually that they are known by his familiar. The subject himself can even benefit from whatever prescience and insight his familiar enjoys. The degree of intelligence and knowledge that generally seems to characterize "familiars" is very low, sometimes approaching the level of half-witted children. "Familiars" seem to have only a small quantum of factual knowledge and very little power of foresight or anticipation. They appear to be bound by cast-iron rules and to be in strict dependence on a "higher" intelligence about which they talk frequently and have to have recourse at every crisis. The "familiar" gives the impression of a weak mirror reflection, so to speak, of a greater one. So great seems this dependence of the "familiar" that it never directly engages the exorcist.

Revolters are victims of possession who, partly with their own connivance, surely, had become hostage and were now trying, on the one hand, to give some sign, to summon help, but who in that struggle also became victims of a violent protest against such help-a protest made by the evil thing that possessed them. The possessed become revolters; and insofar as they do revolt, they are attacked with increasing ferocity by the invading spirit, who, in its turn, protests any attempt to dislodge it from its "home."

Perfectly possessed at one time wholeheartedly accepted the domination, often out of fear to lose their new abilities or wealth. This complete domination may start with a riot of sounds, colors, odors, tastes, skin feelings washed over the possessed one, while having no control whatsoever, but feeling a certain privileged awe and a secret pride. Then the storm in his senses will gather up inside him somewhere, absorbing utterly his imagination and memory. He feels as if serpentine thoughts are touching the furthest reaches of his mind, and that fine tendrils are closing around each fiber of his will. If it is the will of the possessed to be dominated in this way, there is scarce hope for liberation and merci. The possessed from then on experiences an invisible but tangibly felt shadow, a “Dark Twin” of himself but yet distinct from him, and that from that point onward self-control and direction in him were exercised by that twin. He will see himself reduced to a tiny pinpoint of identity, to be imprisoned in the most solitary of solitudes, while every fiber and sinew of his life is permeated with an alien tyranny, a brute authority; a Demon. Neither praying nor cursing, neither praise nor blasphemy was possible there, nor any other uttering using the name of God or Jesus. It is an undivided and infinitely sad present, an awareness of oneself surrounded by utter blackness and nothingness, reducing all pleasantness, pleasure, beauty, joy, ecstasy, to animal or sexual terms as if being an animal which by a freak accident had been provided with a self-conscious mind and memory, but which would shortly lose those faculties and revert to being just animal.

As the term implies, a victim of perfect Possession is absolutely controlled by evil and gives no outward indication, no hint whatsoever, of the demonic residing within. He or she will not cringe, as others who are Possessed will, at the sight of such religious symbols as a crucifix or a Rosary. The perfectly possessed will not bridle at the touch of Holy Water, nor hesitate to discuss religious topics with equanimity. If convicted of crimes against the law, such a victim will frequently acknowledge "guilt," and even the moral "badness" of the acts committed. More often than not, such a person will petition that his physical life be forfeited; that he be executed for his crimes. (Adding one more soul to the dark kingdom.)

Oddly, while this spirit or power or force knows some of the most secret and intimate details of the lives of everyone in the room, at the same time it also displays gaps in knowledge of things that may be happening at any given moment of the present. But the priest must not be lulled by small victories or take chances on hoped-for stupidities. He must be ready to have his own sins and blunders and weaknesses put into his mind or shouted in ugliness for all to hear. He must not make excuses for his past, or wither as even his loveliest memories are fingered by ultimate filth and contempt; he must not be sidetracked in any way from his primary intention of freeing the possessed person before him. And he must at all costs avoid trading abuse or getting into any logical arguments with the possessed.

A new hallmark of the proceedings enters as the Breakpoint nears, and ushers in one of the more subtle sufferings the exorcist must undergo: confusion. Complete and dreadful confusion. Rare is the exorcist who does not falter here for at least a moment, enmeshed in the peculiar pain of apparent contradiction of all sense. His ears seem to smell foul words. His eyes seem to hear offensive sounds and obscene screams. His nose seems to taste a high-decibel cacophony. Each sense seems to be recording what another sense should be recording. Each nerve and sinew of onlookers and participants becomes rigid as they strive for control. Panic-the fear of being dissolved into insanity-runs in quick jabs through everyone there. All present experience this increasingly violent and confusing assault. But the exorcist is the one who rides the storm. He is the direct target of it all. The Breakpoint is reached at that moment when the Pretense has finally collapsed altogether. The voice of the possessed is no longer used by the spirit, though the new, strange voice may or may not issue from the mouth of the victim. In Thomas Wu's case, the alien voice did come from the possessed's mouth; and that was why the police captain was so startled. The sound produced is often not even remotely like any human sound. At the Breakpoint, for the first time, the spirit speaks of the possessed in the third person, as a separate being. For the first time, the possessing spirit acts personally and speaks of "I" or "we," usually interchangeably, and of "my" and "our" or "mine" and "ours. "The breakpoint will be reached when the victim is showing a face like a frozen mask grained with stark lines, all expression should be absent; and there should be queer and unnaturally crooked lines. Exorcists should never engage in discussions with the possessed or possessor or for instance connect telepathically with the victim, which will open a gate for the demon to enter. Even if in some exorcists the Clash starts in the mind, the imagination, or in a powerful intuitive sense of theirs, it finally comes home in full force to the will. The possessed often has a circular sphere of influence around him within which the demon will exercise his powers. The exorcist however has his own circle around him to protect him from these attacks. His assistants do not or in far lesser degree have such a circle, which makes them vulnerable to such attacks.

As in all things to do with Exorcism of Evil Spirit, the priest makes this challenge with his own will, but always in the name and by the authority of Jesus and his Church. To do so in his own name or by some fancied authority of his own would be to invite personal disaster. Merely human power unadorned and without aid cannot cope with the preternatural. (It is to be remembered that when we speak of the preternatural, we are not speaking about what are known as poltergeists.) Usually, at this point and as the Voice dies out, a tremendous pressure of an obscure kind affects the exorcist. This is the first and outermost edge of a direct and personal collision with the "will of the Kingdom," the Clash. We all know from our personal experience that there can be no struggle of single personal wills without that felt and intuitive contact between two persons. There is a two-way communication that is as real as a conversation using words. The Clash is the heart of a special and dreadful communication, the nucleus of this singular battle of wills between exorcist and Evil Spirit. Painful as it will be for him, the priest must look for the Clash. He must provoke it. If he cannot lock wills with the evil thing and force that thing to lock its will in opposition to his own, then again the exorcist is defeated. The issue between the two, the exorcist and the possessing spirit, is simple. Will the totally antihuman invade and take over? Will it, noisome and merciless, seep over that narrow rim where the exorcist would hold his ground alone, and engulf him? Or will it, unwillingly, protesting, under a duress greater than its single-track will, stop, identify itself, cede, retire, disappear, and be volatilized back into an unknown pit of being where no man wants to go ever? Even with all the pressure on him, and in fullest human agony, if the exorcist has got this far, he must press home. He has gained an advantage. He has already forced the evil spirit to come out on its own. If he has not been able to until now, he must finally force it to give its name.

Time and again, in exorcism after exorcism, there occurs that curious thing to do with spirit and place, the strange puzzle mentioned previously in connection with the room chosen for the exorcism. When Jesus expelled the unclean spirits, those spirits showed concern for where they might go. In record after record, as well as in several exorcisms recounted in his book, the possessing spirits wail in lament and questioning pain:

"Where shall we go?" "We too have to possess our habitation." "Even the Anointed One gave us a place with the swine." "Here . . . we can't stay here any longer."

An Evil Spirit, having found a home with a consenting host, does not appear to give up its place easily. It claws and fights and deceives and even risks killing its host before it will be expelled. How violent the struggle probably depends on many things; the intelligence of the spirit being dealt with and the degree of possession achieved over the victim are perhaps two one could speculate about. Whatever determines the actual pitch of violence, once the exorcist has forced the invading spirit to identify itself, and sustained the first wordless bout of the Clash, and then invoked its formal condemnation and expulsion by the Exorcism rite, the immediate result is generally a struggle tortuous beyond/imagining, an open violence that leaves all subtlety behind. The person possessed is by now obviously aware in one way or another of what possessed him. Frequently he becomes a true battleground for much of the remainder of the exorcism, enduring unbelievable punishment and strain. It is sometimes possible for the exorcist to appeal directly to the possessed person, urging him to use some part of his own will still free of the spirit's influence and control, and engage directly in the fight, aiding the exorcist. And at such moments no animal pinned helplessly to the ground struggles more pathetically against the drinking of its life's blood by a voracious and superior cruelty. The very nauseous character of the possessed person's appearance and behavior appears to be a sign of his desire for deliverance, a desperate sign of struggle, evidence of a revolt where once he had consented. Increasingly what had possessed him is being forced into the open, all the while protesting its victim's revolt and its own expulsion. The violence of the contortions and the physical disfigurement of the possessed can reach a degree one would think he could not possibly withstand. The exorcist, too, comes in for full attack now. Once cornered, the evil spirit seems able to call on a superior intelligence, and will try to lure the exorcist on to a field boobytrapped and mined with situations from which no human can extricate himself. Any weakness in the religious faith that alone sustains the exorcist or any fatigue will allow the exorcist's mind to be flooded with a terrible light he cannot fend off-a light that can burn the very roots of his reason and turn him emotionally into the most servile of slaves desperate to be liberated from all bodily life. These are only some of the dangers and traps that face every exorcist. His pain is physical, emotional, mental. He has to deal with what is eerie but not enthralling; with something askew, but intelligently so; with a quality that is upside down and inside out, but significantly so. The mordant traits of nightmare are there in full regalia, but this is no dream and permits him no thankful remission. He is attacked by a stench so powerful that many exorcists start vomiting uncontrollably. He is made to bear physical pain, and he feels anguish over his very soul. He is made to know he is touching the completely unclean, the totally unhuman. All sense may suddenly seem nonsense. Hopelessness is confirmed as the only hope. Death and cruelty and contempt are normal. Anything comely or beautiful is an illusion. Nothing, it seems, was ever right in the world of man. He is in an atmosphere more bizarre than Bedlam. If, in spite of his emotions and his imagination and his body-all trapped at once in pain and anguish-if, in spite of all this, the will of the exorcist holds in the Clash, what he does is to approach his final function in this situation as an authorized human witness for Jesus. By no power of his, on account of no privilege of his own, he calls finally on the evil spirit to desist, to be dispossessed, to depart and to leave the possessed person. And, if the exorcism is successful, this is what happens. The possession ends. All present become aware of a change around them. The sense of Presence is totally, suddenly absent. Sometimes there are receding voices or other noises, sometimes only dead silence. Sometimes the recently possessed may be at the end of his strength; sometimes he will wake up as from a dream, a nightmare, or a coma. Sometimes the former victim will remember much of what he has been through; sometimes he will remember nothing at all.

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Not so for the exorcists, during and after their grisly work. They carry nagging doubts and bitter conflicts untellable to family, friend, superior, or therapist. Their personal traumas lie beyond the reach of soothing words and deeper than the sweep of any consoling thoughts. They share their punishment with none but God. Even that has its peculiar sting of difficulty. For it is a sharing by faith and not by face-to-face communication. But only thus do these men, seemingly ordinary and commonplace in their lives, persevere through the days of quiet horror and the nights of sleepless watching they spend for years after as their price of success, and as abiding reminders that, once upon a time, another human being was made whole, because they willingly incurred the direct displeasure of living hatred.

After an exorcism the exorcist hears and sees and thinks and talks as he always did. But now he perceives on two planes. Spirit is everywhere. Flesh and matter is only "our picture" of what's there. And it's not all good. There's evil and good hidden in that "picture." After an exorcism you always know, if you didn't know it before. You are now walking with double vision, a second sight, as the old people used to say. And the exorcist never really sleeps, not as he used to. He dozes off. Some deep part of him is keeping watch, always watching, and doesn't want anything to escape him even momentarily. All sleep is escape. And he knows that escape for him is impossible. He eats, he must in order to stay alive. And he breathes. His heart beats on. But he has a terrible option always: not to breathe, to let his heart stop. Source; Hostage to the Devil" by Malachi Martin, Publisher: HarperOne ISBN-10: 006065337X ISBN-13: 978-0060653378 . Ref. http://www.dmt-nexus.com/doc/Hostage to the Devil.pdf

You believe that God is one. You do well; even the demons believe and shudder.  Jas 2:19   

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Channeling and Shamanism as well as using  items like a OuiJa-board (from the French and Dutch words for Yes) are examples of methods to voluntarily open up your soul to foreign entities. Now, opening up to the Spirit of God, Jesus or to your Guardian Angel who is assigned to you by God can be explained in the same way, but the difference is that other entities may mean well, but aren't perfect or omniscient, all-knowing which allows them to make mistakes, to say the least. A lot of them are mischievous and some are downright evil, so I think it's smarter to open up to God. Apparently, or maybe as expected there is a lot of Satanism and voluntary possession going on in the music industry. There are stories of record companies with secret chambers where spells were cast over record matrices by witches so that familiar spirits would follow each and every record that came from it, influencing everyone that would listen to it, each time they'd listen to it. I don't know about that, but it's a fact that many musicians plainly admit that Satan is controlling their every move on stage. I'd like to point out, however, that there is nothing wrong in my opinion with "getting in the Groove" or "feel as in a trance" or whatever you want to call it, playing in a Band, while improvising on a song and somehow be able to do the same things at the exact same time. (In fact that's how it should be, we're all spiritual beings. We should be able to "feel" each other. The reason that we don't is because we want to hide things from each other.) But it's an other thing when people invite spirits, demons and even Satan to take over their souls so they would become successful in playing music or making money, or whatever it is they want to do.

Taken from a "60 minutes" interview with Bob Dylan;

Bob Dylan; Well try to sit down and write something like that. There's a magic to that and it's not a Siegfried and Roy kinda magic. It's a different kind of a penetrating magic.

Dylan; I made a bargain with the … you know... long time ago and ... I'm holdin' up my end.

Ed Bradley (Interviewer); What was your bargain?

Dylan; To get where ...errr ... I am now.

Bradley; Sh..sh..should I ask you who you made the bargain with?

Dylan; Sha Ha Ha..with..with..with..with..with you know, with the Chief...errr... Chief Commander.

Bradley; Of this earth?

Dylan; Of this earth and errr..and in the world we can't see.

Dylan; That's when I went to the crossroads and made a big deal, you know, like, pshhhhw, yeah, one night and I went back to Minneapolis and then like; Hey where's this guy been. Yeah I went to the crossroads. Bob Dylan on 60 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvSN3dnmBw0&feature=fvsr

Robert Johnson was a Mississippi blues singer and songwriter, who according to legend, sold his soul to Satan "at the crossroads" in exchange for his remarkable talent on the guitar. Born and raised in Mississippi, Robert Johnson started playing blues guitar in the late 1920s. His wife and child died in childbirth around 1930 and he is said to have devoted himself to the guitar. Part of the crossroads story comes from a report that he dropped out of sight for a while in the early 1930s and returned a much-improved guitarist. His songs include "Crossroad Blues," and "Me and the Devil Blues". In 1936-37 he recorded at least 29 songs in Texas (San Antonio and Dallas), then returned to Mississippi to play and sing in clubs and bars. His mysterious death at the age of 27 added to the legend.

"If you want to learn to play anything you want to play and learn how to make songs yourself, you take your guitar and you go to where a crossroads is. A big black man will walk up there at the stroke of midnight and take your guitar, and he'll tune it..." --LeDell (older brother of) Johnson

Though some say Johnson was only waiting at the crossroads for a bus to get home at night, the following songtext of his hand puts it in a different context.

"Early this morning when you knocked upon my door, early this morning, oooo when you knocked upon my door and I said hello Satan I believe it's time to go, me and the Devil was walkin' side by side. Me and the Devil, woooo was walking side by side. And I'm going to beat my woman till I get satisfied. She said you don't see why, that she would dog me 'round; Now baby you know you ain't doin' me right, don'tcha. She say you don't see why, whoooo. That she would dog me 'round. It must-a be that old evil spirit. So deep down in the ground. You may bury my body. Down by the highway side Baby, I don't care where you bury my body when I'm dead and gone. You may bury my body, woooo. Down by the highway side so my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride." Me and the devil blues by Robert Johnson.

Looks like he is waiting for a bus on the highway to hell.

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Some others that the Devil collected his due... All at the age of 27;

Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brad Nowell, Jesse Belvin, Malcolm Hale, Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, Linda Jones, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Dave Alexander, Pete Ham, Gary Thain, Helmut Köllen, Chris Bell, D. Boon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pete de Freitas, Mia Zapata, Kristen Pfaff, Richey Edwards (disappeared and presumed dead), Fat Pat, Freaky Tah, Sean Patrick McCabe, Jeremy Michael Ward, Bryan Ottoson Valentín Elizalde, Levi Kereama, Amy Winehouse.  (Ref)

Some other quotes from famous musicians;

Now I see twelve white horses walking in a line moving east across the metal bridge on highway 49 and standing in the shadows Of a burnt out motel the king of Commerce Mississippi waited with his hound from hell, ... A stranger at the crossroads Believe I've seen his face before Oh, Don't cry for me . text quote of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of English rock band Led Zeppelin.

(I will) get stoned and worship Satan. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. Christopher Sandford, Carroll & Graf Publishing, Inc., 1995. p. 42

“How can the Devil save souls? What are you talkin’ about? I have the Devil in me. If I didn’t, I’d be a Christian” Jerry Lee Lewis (Hungry for Heaven, p. 24). “I’m draggin’ the audience to hell with me” Jerry Lee Lewis (cited by Nick Tosches,Hellfire, p. x).

As a teenager I was very interested in selling my soul..I could use black magic to turn the lowly lot life had given me around, to attain a position of power that other people would envy, and accomplish things that other people couldn't..Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner) (see picture)

Some lyrics sung by famous musicians;

Pleased to meet you. Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah. But what's confusing you, is just the nature of my game (woo woo, who who). Just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints, as heads is tails just call me Lucifer 'cause I'm in need of some restraint.   Rolling Stones, from Sympathy for the devil.

Beélzebub has a devil put aside for me.   Freddie Mercury; Queen

Since I run with the devil, I'm one with the devil. (I sold my soul to the devil and the price was cheap.)   DMX (on stage)

Listen, I'm a corpse, I'm a corpse I'm a corpse without soul. Satan, he's taken, he's taken He's taken his toll And he took it on me I, I'm trapped, I'm trapped I'm trapped in his spell Tonight, I'm going, I'm going I'm going to Hell, inside his spell.... I was born on the cemetery Under the sign of the moon Raised from my grave by the dead And I was made a mercenary In the legions of Hell Now I'm king of pain, I'm insane You know my only pleasure Is to hear you cry I'd love to hear you cry I'd love to see you die And I'll be the first To watch your funeral And I'll be the last to leave I'd love to hear you cry And when you're down beyond the ground I'll dig up your body again And make love to shame.   Metallica (originally by Merciful Fate)

I'm gonna beat my drums, I'm gonna ring my bell, and I don't give a damn if I go to hell.   Madonna sending out the wrong message.

I'm on a highway to Hell. Hey Satan; paid my dues, playing in a rockin' band.   Angus Young of ACDC

Sing along!

(...or better yet; DON'T)

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Related site; Christian Testimonies About Miraculous Intervention