A Post About C.S. Lewis

Hre's one of those posts where I mainly want to preserve something I enjoyed and hope anyone reading it also enjoys it. this is a play about the life of C.S. Lewis ("Mere Christianity" and Narnia books among others). I'm not a fan of rht eacting style but I always enjoy Lewis' story and this covers the main events. The last half is about hi brief marriage to Joy Gresham which is very romantic and very touching.

I think I read all of lewis' books during my reading binge about religion which finally led me to Christ, and Lewis was a big part of what turned me to Protestantism. I'm really not a fan of his children's books but Mere Christianity and The Abolition of Man are I think my favorites. How he became a Christian is an interesting part of his life story and this play touches on it:


then I watched an interview with his stepson, Douglas Gresham, about whom I had known nothing until then, and what's particularly interesting to me about it is that When his mother Joy was diagnosed with bone cancer and given a few mweeks to a month to life, Douglas who was ten went and prayed for her to be healed, telling God that he couldn't live with out her. And that day she went into remission which gave them all some happy years. He was ten at the time.


tgeb U found the movie "Shadowlands" about Lewis' life with Joy and I've watching it. But I'm disappointed in it. The character of Joy doesn't come across as the vibrant witty genius Joy Gresham was in reality, which does come across more in other accounts of their life together. By the time they fall in love I don't see that much ground for it has been established. In life she was a tr4ue genius who had written poetry and books herself, someone Lewis later described as his intellectual equal in a way he hadn't found in any of his men friends. In the movie she comes ac5ross as ordinary and a bit forlorn, at least in the first pat of it. I'm hoping for better to come from the point of his marrying her during her hospitalization and the cancer's going into remission. the movie has also left out the boy's praying for her which is no doubt the reason for the remission. I love the actors, Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger, but although Douglas Gresham recommended it I'm not happy with the movie yet. Nevertheless here's the link:


Well, I finished it and it didn't get any better. She spends most of her time in the movie sick. What about those almost four years of remission we'e heard about in which they had a passionate happy marriage. What about the endless wit at the dinner table they exchanged wsith each other according to her son> What about their happy trip to Greece just beffore she died, when she behaved "impishly" in the restaurant, flicking pieces of bread at the members of the very bad Greek band. No no no. This movie is not what their lives as they've been recounted elsewhere would lead us to respect. Not this unrelieved sadness. No no no.

More on Delusions About the Afterlife and Other Things Occultic and Paranormal

If I hadn't become a Christian I suppose I'd be in the same position these people who get deep into the paranormal and the occult. If I'd had similar experiences anyway, otherwise I'd just have remained an atheist assumjing death is just a lights-out and all the other supernatural claims aren't to be b4eleived. But they've had experiences that congince them of life after death and supernatural events and whatnot. All entirely without AGod or any religious implications at all.
At least not the God of the Bible, mayube a sort of generic God. It distresses me to hear people carry on about their experiences that have proved to them there is an afterlife, of course a happy afterlife, or that they are in communication with loved ones who have died and so on. I want to warn them, I want to make them look at the Bible and realize it's not just another metaphysical text but the actual word of the God who made them, but even finding quotes from the Bible has become almost impossible for me these days. and they'd dismiss it anyway, or most of them would.

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There certainly is an afterlife. We' re immortal souls. Once conceived we live forever in one state or another. And there are only two states, 4either in Hell or in Heaven. And the only way we can get to heaven is through the death and resurrection of Jedsus Christ. That's it. That's all. But that had to be revealed, there is no way fallen humanity would ever come to such a view of things. All that is possible to fallen humanity is impressions from our broken spirikt that was broken at the Fall, and the exertions of demons in their neverneding plots to dec4eive us and lead us away from the truth. they can fabricate lovely visions and otherworldl.yl places, all sorts of strange machinery that they make us bvelieve come from other planets or galaxies or maybe other dimensions to "help" us or the like. theyh impersonate people who have diedand show up in seances to reassure their families that they are in a good place, or they haunt houses or whatever.


Gosh what a downer al these realities are though. tHEY'D MUCH RATHER HAVE THEIR PRETTY IDEAS, THEY WANT TO BE ENCOURAGED THAT THEY WIKLL HAVE A HAPPY AFTERLIFE, THAT THEIR LOVED ONES WHO DIED BEOFRE THEM ARE HAPPY WHERE THEY ARE AND SO ON. iT SEEMS ALMOST CRUEL TO TRY TO DISSUADE THEM FROM SUCH IDEAS. lET THEM BE HAPPY, THEY'LL BE UNHAPPY ENOUGH EVRDNTUALLY.

bUT TBut that doesn't give them a cvhance to find the true happiness of eternal life in Christ. They may reject it but shouldn't they begiven the chance? Would they really prefer the primrose path the demons concoct for them if they had any idea that it's all a deception that is only going to lead them to a miserable eternity?

It's all "doctrines of demons,

Well, what the world's general descent into evil of all sorts these days, the insanities and absurdities we're being told are realities, such as that a biological male is really a female if he so wills it and tht sort of thing , it's all piling up around us and a massive increase in occultic and paranormal interest is just another trend toward total breakdown of all the structures of life we depend on. Surely this must mean that Jesus is coming back soon. I hope. But I suppose it's going to have to get worse before that.

Prayers Against a Radical Leftist Getting a Seat on the Supreme Court Are Bearing Fruit So Far

Been praying my heart out that a radical leftist would not be confirmed for the Supreme Court, that the interrogators woujld be focused on her record with determination to expose her lack of qualifications for the job, that they wouldn't be wishy washy but focus like a laser on the issues. Mark Levin on Monday came on strong about the need for the Republicans to fight hard against her and that got me praying. I prayed with the biblical fervor we're told "avails much" and I keep praying in the same vein.

And this morning Dan Bongino is reporting that the hearing isn't going well for her with all kinds of examples. Thank You thank You LORD. He cautiously says it may not change the owhich are expected to be in her favor, but that just means I'm praying harder about that. Let Tthe two Democrats who have been fighting Biden's economic position come through on this one with the same sanity, and let the two or three RINO Senators who to9o often go with the Democrats come through on the sane side this time too. tHAT'S HOW i'M PRAYING.

Don't give in, sane people, and let the frequently insane wake up.

I hope there are thousands, even millions, of us praying along these lines.

Paranormal One Last Time I Hope. ESP and Mental Powers.

OK one more and there isn't a lot to sy agout it. This is the cat4egory of paranormal things that has to do with human mental abilities such as psychic powers, knowing things about somebody or a situation simply through your mind without other evidennce for instanc4e, moving or affecting physical things with yuour mind. There are other powers but those two should get the category across.
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ESP or Extra-Sensory Percep5tion was the topic on last night's cvoast-to-oCoast radio show. Affecting things in the world to suit yourself seemed to be his main interest, or making things happen to suit your desires and wishes by simply thinking about them or wishing for them or something like that.

Of course whatever the mental power he's talking about he isn't thinking of God in relation to it, may not even believe in God, which is the case with most of this p[aranormal and occultic pyhenomena. Near-death experiences tell people there's this happy place they can expect to return to when then die, there's no mention of God involved.

In the case of mental powers the Bible doesn't have anything to say about them that I know of, but the Chinese preacher Watchman Nee wrote a book titled "Soul Power" in which he talked about them as most likely powers the human race had before the Fall, that wree among the first things to die after the Fall. They didn't completely disappear and can sometimes show up in individuals in a distorted form. And although they aren't demonic doings in themsevles there is reason to think the demons who also have such powers can influence them in people, can insinuate their own thoughts into a person's mind for instance. Nee said he himself had a psychic ability that was probably the result of being born again or regenerated or "quickened" as the King James Bible puts it, and at first he thought it was a gift of God, but then realized God didn't want him to hae itso he suppressed it.
These powers are not safe for us to have in a fallen world though they will no doubt be restroed to God'xs own regenerated belivers in the future life.

My perspective is the biblical perspective as well as I can make use of it, or the biblical Worldview. I know the Bible to be the only reliable source of informjation about "the other side" and it doesn't say mucyh about it, just enough to provide evidence of its existence, which is what all these people into the occult and paranormal are so concerned to prove. they won't accept the bible' s testimony, however, they will jusdge the Bible by their own experiences rather than judge their experiences by the Bible which is the rational thing to do. So I present this point of view as far as I understand it and hope it might persuade some away from the p paranormalist's version which is dangerous. There seems to be quite a large interest in these things these days to judge just from this one radio show. It's so big and populare infact it is probabhly best understood as one of the signs that we are very close to the biblical end of days, as so many other phenomena in today's world also indicate.

jesus Christ can save a person from these things. A genuine belief in Him as the Son of God and just calling on His name to deliver a person from some demonic entanglement will deliever you. I was attac ked by a demon twoce in the early days of becoming a Christian and just declaring myself a child of jesus Chrfist ahnd covered with His blood made the demon disappear. S cripture says "those who call upon the LORD will be saved" and that means saved for eterminity but it also means saved from demons. Again, ESP and the like are not always influenced by Demons though they may be, but as Watchman Nee wrote, they are not safe to use in this fallen world. Get saved and look forward to their legitimate restoration in a future life.

Spiritualism. Sure it's Real, But Not the Kind of Real they Think It Is.

Another guest on Coast-to-Coast radio last night got me writing another blog post but I hope I get to the end of this subject soon. I just don't want to inspire anyone to get involved in this stuff, so I don't want to name names and give websites and that sort of thing.

Last night's guest is into spiritualism, mediums, seances. All these people by the way, or most of them, seem to be ery nice ordinary people, not weirdos or anything like that. It's not the people I object to, I just think they are sadly deceived by the subject that has enthralled them. She got involved in her pursuit of this kind of information by an experience of a seance in which the supposedly departed person who was contacted by the medium gave information that only that person could have known. This is a common experience that hooks people into these things. 5their main question is whther it is real or not and the contacted spirit's giving personal information answers that qquestion for them.

These are all people who don't beliee the Bible of cou5rse. Christians know better, or they shoujld. If they are well taught biblically they should. the dead do not communicate with the living, and for the reincarnationists, THERE IS ONE LIFE TO LIVE AND THEN THE Judgment. I'll hae to track down the scripture references later. Mediums are forbidden in the bible, also witches who comunicate with demons. they all communicate with demons. It is not departed people who speak in seances but demonic impersonations of them. And demons can have all sorts of personal information about the people they are impersonating.

People who get involved in occultic and paranormal practices always want to prove that it's real, that there is really life after death and so on. Near0death experiences prove that there is life beyond this life for instance.

The guest gave interesting information about the origin of spiritualism, in the "burned-over" district of upstate New York, where a couple of sisters claimed to be in touch with the spirit of a murdered man who was buried under their house. It spread from there all over the world. It became what the guest called a religion that threatened to displace Christianity. And there were other occultic and spiritistic occurrences in that same district at the same time. Mormonism got its start there, and Seventh Day adventism, and Shakerism and the Onieda Colony and even the Suffragette Movemment.

Why isn't the Bible enough to convince people that there is an afterlife? that we are immortal souls? there are supernatural doings galore in the Bible, and yet people prefer these demonic manifestations and if they contradict the Bible that becomes the truth to them. AThere's a lot of evidence of the suprnatural in the Bible, there's a lot of evidence of demonic activity in the Bible. Jesus cast demons out of many people. Paul was followed around by a girl who was demon possessed until he cast the demon out of her. But people bbelieve the Fox sisters who talked to a dead man buried uner their house rather than Jesus or Paul. Joseph Smith believed the fallen angel Moroni and denounced Christianity.

It's the fallen angels that concoct the UFOs and the stories of ETs, that olead people to talk to dead relatives that they impersonate, thta invent religions and go to great lengths to denigrate Jesus Christ and the Bible. People don't understand that this world is fallen ,t hat we are fallen creatures. tHIS YOU LEARN FROM THE bIBLE AND NOWHERE ELSE. Sorry about the capitals, again I don't know what I hihit. In this fallen world which is the result of Adam and Eve's eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil against God's comman forbidding it, we have lost the faculty that communicated with God. We can communicate with demons but not with god. We have to be regfenerated,m born again, to be able to commmunicate with god. Satan is the Prince of this world as Jesus called him, he and his devil horde are all around us, are the "god's of the idolatrous religions etc. you can only learn this from the bible which is the Word of God.

I would l8ike to think if people on Coast-to-Coast heard this they'd give up their dangerous dabblings with demons and get saved, but that's up to God.

A Fake Jesus From the Paranormal Aficionados

Another guest on George Noory's Coast-to-Coast late night radio show, tells of having had a near-death experience in which he went to a place engulfed in a beautiful golden light and suffused with a feeling of love and peace and so on. As so often happens when people have such experiences he took it as a revelation of what happens to people after death, lost his fear of death and spent the rest of his life pursuing things related to the "other side.
O dodm t jear a;; tje sjpw bit a[[aremt;u je beca,e a sprt pf guru of the paranormal with a sort fo Buddhist flavor, has had many encounters with entities or spiritual beings, some of whom he takes as teachers. He described a hierarchy of such beings with "masters" at the top. He mentioned a Yeshua ben Joseph, or Jesus son of Joseph, obviously an impersonaation of Jesus Christ and of coruse he accepts the impersonation as the truth and dismisses the biblical revelation. "son of Joseph" means of course that this Jesus was not the Son of God as we are told in scripture Hed is. He is. He also mentioned a "Mary" and a "mary Magdalene," whom he described as very powerful. Insinuation she's more powerful than the Jesus entity.

Their personal experience will loo9m larger in their minds than claims for the Bible as the source of all truth.
God gave us the Bible to protect us from the delusions of our own fallen minds and th4e "helpful" ministrations of the deminoic entitles whose objective is always to mislead us in the direction of Hell. Satan did just that to Eve and that was the beginning of what we call the Fall, the Original Sin that changed the created wolrd that had been perfet and in which all life was immortal, so that disease and death reign over us, and the demon hordes who followed SWatan are the "gods" of all the cultures in the world. You learn this from the Bible and nowhere else, but of course if you are listening to the demons themselves you'll get a very different story. And it's a story that plays to our human pride so that it's hard to give up. Those near-death experiences tell us we don't need to be saved from anyuthing, we're good enough as we are so we can expect to go to such a blissful paradise when we die. None of this bloody sacrifice of God Himself who came in human flesh to die in our place, none of this business about how we are all sinners at odds with THE God who made us, fit only for an eternity of Hell. Naa, that's all just scare tactics mae up by a priestly class or some such, to control us or something like that. TAhe story varies but it's always a stroy that discredits the Bible. they don't bother discrediting other religions because they can't save us, only Christ's death on the cross can save us. So they spend a lot of time denigrating the Bible. that's a clue you might want to notice. Mohammed is no threat to them, Hinduism is no threat to them, Catholicism is no threat to them, buit Biblical Christianity IS a threat to them.

But on go these "investigations" into the paranormal, wanting to find out whatit's really all about, while all the time we have the answer in the World of God He gave us. tHERE MAY BE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF SPECIES OF FALLEN ANGELS, BUT THERE'S NO REASON TO THINK ANY OF THESE EDNTITIES THAT SO CAPTIATE THE OCCULTISTS AND PARANORMALISTS WER EANTYH8ING BUT SUCH FEMONIC BEINGS OR FALLEN ANGELS. oR COURSE i GET THIS FROM THE bIBLE. tHOSE ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS SUGESTED THERE. oH AND THE nEPHILIM, i DON'T KNO HOW TO FIT THEM IN BUT THEY HAVE TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AS WELL, THOSE HYBRID HUMAN-ANGELS, REALLY HUMAN-DEMONS DESCRIBED IN GENESIS 6. THERE MAY ALSO BE DEMON-ANIMAL HYBRIDS. THE "EXPERIEMTNS" SOM ufo ABUCTEES TALKS ABOUT COULD DESCRIBE A GENETIC OPERATION TO RECREATE SOME OF THOSE THINGS OR COME UP WITH SOME NEW ONES. i DON'T KNOW BUT i DO KNOW THERE IS NO REASON TO THINK any OF THESE ENTITIES FROM THE "OTHER SIDE" ARE ANYHTHING BUYT FALLEN SPIRITUAL BEINGS WE LEARN ABOUT FROM THE bIBLE.

oNLY THE TRUE jESUS CAN SAVE US. All the dabbling into occultie and paranormal things these poor misled people are doing is only going to destroy them. ,brt>
Sorry about the capitalizing. I don't know how I do that but it's a mistake.

Remembering the Bomb Years Part 2 Video of veterans used as guinea pigs

Just heraing bits and pieces of what happened during the bomb test years, to people and even animals who were downwind from the explosions, and there wree hundreds of them detonated above ground before they realized it might be safter to do it underground, mak4es me wonder what ort of government we have after all. It's one thing to know about our wonderful Consti5tution and so on, but that has no power to stop fallen human nature from doing some pretty dastardly things.

I mentioned before that I grew up in Nevada in those years, was taken with my fourth grade class out to the edge of town where we could watch one of the bomb tests, and I spent a lot of my childhood worried about being surrounded by radioactive particles in the air and that sort of thing. It seemed after all that we all survived it just fine, but in recent years I've been reviwing some rther severe sicknesses I went thought and one of my b5rothers too and thinking maybe we should have atgtribted them to the bomg tests. We didn't, we assumed they were just normal sigknesses. I don't think so any more.


Anyway, here's a video of some veterans who were used as guinea pigs during a test shot, placed in a trench about a mile from Ground Zero. ythey were forgidden to spoeak about their exper4iences for sixty years so this is the breaking of their silence. They seem more struck speechless at the memory than anything else. Fourteen thousand men were put through that experience. Amazing what they did to us. >br? >br?