kimberlysteele | The Demonic Infestation of the Left Part I: Nobody Gets In Without An Invitation (Reply)

I believe that the Left as we know it is plagued by demons. I realize that most people don't have an opinion on demons as they probably don't believe in them. I also fully acknowledge, as always, that I could be wrong. I believe the average leftist is beset by ancient, non-embodied creatures of exceptional power and cunning. These creatures are called demons and their key characteristics are:

They dwell on a plane that is best described as "lower" or more dense than the planes upon which we can perceive the world around us. They have been with us since time began; in fact, they seem to be a much older race of beings than humans. Qabbalists say are outcasts or shells leftover from a previous Universe.
They hate humankind and are simultaneously jealous of us. They will do whatever they can to trick us and hurt us, whether this is individually or in large groups. Because of their intense hatred of mankind, when they do choose to interact with us, it tends to be with us acting as the host and them acting as the parasite.
They absolutely cannot be defeated by sinking to their dense and scummy level; in fact, the only thing they are afraid of is when we align ourselves with higher and more complex forces who can and will squelch their activities.

In the upcoming series of essays, I plan on explaining my theory that individual leftists are suffering from severe demonic obsession, which is a symptom of a greater disease of demonic possession that afflicts the Left as a group. The Left is not the first group of people to be possessed by demons and it certainly won't be the last.

Demonic Obsession Vs. Demonic Possession

Demonic obsession is different than classic demonic possession, where the victim is able to contort their body in strange ways, can speak languages they've never heard before, and barks obscenities day and night. Demonic obsession can be just as deadly as demonic possession, but in general it is far more subtle, contagious, and therefore more insidious than possession. The demonically obsessed are best described as herd narcissists who refuse to engage in any form of self-reflection or self-analysis. They are consumed by hatred, but because of their willful ignorance of their own motivations, will project the shadow onto the hated Other and in turn be eaten alive by repressed anger at their own hypocrisy and dissonance. Their external dialogue becomes one of censorship, because internally they are censoring their own dissonance. This is where demons can enjoy an energy buffet of anger and spiraling despair as the obsessed person walls herself off from redemption and seeks ever new lows of depravity in which to devolve. For instance, leftists who could not censor their own projected shadow in the form of racism (theirs happens to be anti-white racism) have sunk to a new lowest common denominator of endorsing Black Lives Matter rioters and looters. Five years ago, they would not have been debased enough to say "theft and vandalism is OK", but given enough time to immerse themselves in the demonic, they're boldly and publicly signing on to demonic behavior.

In the 1980s, it was ironically the Christian Right that became demon-possessed as a group. Herd narcissism in the name of Jesus manifested itself in conservative rhetoric and leadership. The entity being appeased wasn't Jesus. Jesus said "By their fruits ye shall know them." Mentally ill people were dumped into the streets en masse by an arms dealing, junta-funding Reagan as the Christian right hoarded wealth for itself and covered up the priestly class's child molestation habits. Just like the Left projects its own shadow now and then proceeds to melt down in paranoid hysteria, the Right was once known for doing the same thing. The Left has its pet boogeymen of the Patriarchy, racism, fascism, and COVID to panic over where the Right once had illegal drugs, abortion, and the Satanic Panic to splatter upon headlines and newscasts. The Right was once the go-to source for Luciferian arrogance and complete intolerance of dissenting views. Factions among the Right still cling to the old bon mots of anti-drug and anti-abortion paranoia, but for the present time, these cause celebres are considered somewhat vestigial and out of date.

"But Kimberly," you say, "These actions by groups are just par for the course human failings, not the grandiose actions of a supernatural demonic force." There is a fine line where normal human foibles end and demonic influences begin, and that line isn't easy to detect. Demonic obsession isn't in-your-face like demonic possession, but that does not make it illegitimate. The path of herd narcissism and its accompanying arrogance is what Dion Fortune described as the Left-Hand Path. The Left-Hand Path leads towards devolution, simplification, and decay. It is the path of dismantling, breaking down, and going backwards. When a person or a group of people make the decision (whether consciously or subconsciously) to blindly pursue power and the rush it provides at all costs, they have entered the Left-Hand Path. The Left-Hand Path also happens to attract demons, who are more than happy to assist with the devolutionary process and feed upon its cast off energy.

The Invitation

Nevertheless, as I said in the title of this essay, nobody gets in without an invitation. Demonic possession does not happen by itself. The perverse truth about demonic possession is that it is always initially allowed by the possessed person, no matter how badly they regret their decision later. Folklore points in this direction: the vampire who cannot cross the threshold of the house without being invited, the fairies who cannot keep the mortal within their realm unless he chooses to eat fairy food. Tragic, horrific, and deadly possessions like that of Anneliese Michel (the true story that became the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and of "Roland Doe" (the true story that became the film The Exorcist) could not happen without the acquiescence of the victim in the beginning stages. In the Michel case, the door was probably opened by Anneliese's disproportionate, dysmorphic sense of Catholic guilt -- she often slept on a cold, hard floor in an attempt to atone for the sins of others. It is easy to imagine her inviting a demon into her psyche if it promised to grant her the power of truly paying for the sins of others. Some victims of possession invite the demon in because they believe the demon will give them goodies and toys God would not grant. I think for many of the possessed, I think their initial welcome of demons is simply a matter of wanting desperately to be the center of attention.

In the case of the religious Right, their invitation was spurred by their naked lust for power. Their domineering, one size fits all approach to worship and cantankerous declamations of judgement for anyone who dared stray outside their warped interpretation of Bible theory laid out a welcome mat for entities promising millions of converts and undue influence on economic policy. The price tag -- completely turning their backs on the authentic teachings of Jesus Christ -- never occurred to them until it was too late. By the 1990s, the hypocrisy of the religious Right was a caricature: Dana Carvey as The Church Lady, morbidly concerned about what other people did in the privacy of their own bedrooms and utterly convinced the average person was destined to fry in eternal hell.

Belief in the Unseen Hand

In the case of the largely atheist and secular Left, the promise of infinite Progress was the demonic lure. Just as Christians believe God will deliver them, atheists believe in the power of the free market or Progress will grant their wishes, and if not the wishes, the wishes of their descendants. The bottom line is both the hyper-religious and the anti-religious don't believe they have to act in the concrete, material world for the result of their will to appear. If they want a thing fervently and it fails to appear, the religious person turns to more fervent prayer and the thought-stopper "God works in mysterious ways". The atheist cements his resolve in the thought-stopper that God does not exist. Belief in any power higher than oneself and one's will becomes an insult to humanism. Both the atheist and the Christian believe in the Unseen Hand. There is zero discernment or refinement of one's own intentions. There is no aim or construction of concrete actions to move toward the desired goal. God and/or Progress is a cosmic Santa Claus and it's all supposed to happen by magic like it does in Harry Potter.

Muddled intentions draw the atheist and the Christian into a place of deep and embittered narcissism. Lonely and arrogant, the believer thinks he is at the top of an elite pile of intellectual superiority when he is actually blind and in the corner of a maze. Like the avant garde musician with his "music" of electronic fart noises and random clinking of keys, there is the delusion of achievement. From this vantage point, animism is impossible, because it involves the acknowledgement and respect of powers who are either indifferent or possibly superior to one's own self. The Evangelical Christian doesn't allow for the world to be imbued with a spiritual, non-corporeal ecosystem, because all instances of ghosts, fairies, or gods other than the Christian one are manifestations of the Devil. The atheist similarly dismisses the non-corporeal ecosystem because non-physical phenomena are not allowed according to materialist science. Without the basic "magical Kindergarten" of recognizing non-corporeal entities and the spirit of place, the believer in atheism and the Christian are spiritually stunted and ripe for demonic obsession. To make matters worse, they may be trapped in an egotistical imbalance of trying to write the spiritual equivalent of a symphony before they have written a three-chord song.

Thought-stoppers as Preparation for Demonic Infestation

Using binary thought-stoppers in the Christian sense (there is God and everything else is the Devil) or in the atheist sense (God doesn't conform to my expectations, therefore God does not exist) naturally open those using the thought-stoppers to demonic obsession. For those enveloped in the Progress narrative, their struggles are not learning opportunities for improvement because God in the guise of Progress owes them an easy life, however, God does not exist. In their minds, they are always bargaining for a better deal, whether it is the Evangelical using the cosmic vending machine approach to prayer or the atheist, who is compelled to amass all the goodies because "you only live once". They are reaching out to someone, but it's not the someone they were expecting.

Enter demons. Demons can feed upon entire groups, in fact, I believe this is the way they prefer to feed. Why settle for a single, troubled pre-teen in a country backwater when you can have entire football stadiums of crazed lunatics to suck energy from? The religious Right used to provide the juicy hysteria and vile behavior preferred by demons, whether it was via the energetic Prosperity Gospel sermons of Joel Osteen to fill Mammon's tanks or the picketing of fallen soldiers funerals by the Westboro Baptist Church to satisfy the appetites of Galamiel.

The Left, having thrown away all but the pretenses of helping the working class, has signed a deal in blood with what it thinks is the promise of infinite Progress. Leftists put their faith in career politicians for the span of more than 40 years, only to find their cluelessness blowing up in their face in an unexpected age of populism. Thought-stoppers opened it to demonic possession as a group and demonic obsession as individuals. There is no mystery in the race towards the bottom of current leftist behavior: the parasites feeding on their addled minds and spirits yank the strings and tell them to riot, to shout obscenities, to scream in to the air, and by all means necessary to avoid self-reflection.

Invitation is only the first foray of demons into the Left. I see demonic infestation as a five part process, which is why you can expect this post to turn into a series. The five phases of demonic infestation are:

1. The Invitation. Consent is the sine qua non of any demonic infestation. It may happen by trickery and guile but there is always consent.

2. The Honeymoon Phase. Demons are great liars and they promise glory. This is the glow phase of the relationship before the parasite/host relationship takes its inevitable turn.

3. Numbness and Fracture. The personality splits and infighting begins. The host is beginning to diminish.

4. Acute Possession and Derangement. The war is in full throttle and only one side will win. The demon is fighting for its place and the host is fighting for their life.

5. Aftermath. What can be expected both in terms of blowback and thoughts on strategies for protecting oneself from the demonically obsessed.

Thanks for reading my essays. I look forward to your comments. If you do choose to comment, please refrain from the use of obscenities.