Shayne Smith

Feels more than a coincidence?

Yeah.

Or even more than that?

Yeah, more than a coincidence.

And then as I began to discern Christianity and my grandfather passed away, and this is like a deeper level to the story that isn't usually told just because it's so intense and kind of derails from the fact that Christ saved me.

Mm-hmm.

People get really fixated if you're like, I did sex magic.

I did black magic for a little bit.

People are like, enough about Jesus.

Tell me about the occult.

Because it's just so fascinating to us, right?

But anyway, I was doing that.

And when I began to discern like, oh, going to church and all this other stuff, I did have really wild experiences with fear and sort of negative spirits.

One example is I distinctly remember I was in my apartment and I was in the bathroom and it was kind of like the evening and I was by myself in my apartment and I had just used the bathroom and I stood up and I just got this overwhelming dread feeling that there was someone or something on the other side of the door waiting for me to open it.

And have you ever had that spooky turn off the light and run to your bed feeling?

But that real adult...

spiritual warfare version where you're like, where you actually stop and you like say a prayer, you say Jesus's name out loud.

Like I know that something evil is near me right now that I didn't know it at the time, but that's how I felt.

It was just so terrifying.

Just small experiences like that kind of made me go, huh?