This Phenomenon is DARKER than Satan

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Mark Gagnon 0:00
What if performing a ritual doesn't summon an entity, but actually allows the entity to summon you? In this conversation with a researcher of the demonic, Nathaniel Gillis, he reveals why Ouija board seances, sigil magic, and even alleged extraterrestrial contact protocols may actually be opening doors that can't be closed. We examine a coffee mug that just vanished, returned, and reportedly possessed a completely different atomic signature. Claims of occult symbolism hidden inside government space programs and encounters in which glowing orbs appeared to construct physical beings from nothing. We go through Aleister Crowley's mysterious entity, Lam, to a paranormal investigation that Nathaniel says ultimately became connected to a real murder.
Mark Gagnon 0:44
This episode asks a terrifying question. Are human beings contacting the unknown, or is there something on the other side teaching us how to let it in? If you're interested in forbidden rituals and Ouija boards and government occultism and demonology and what may be waiting on the other side, well, you're in the right place. So sit back, relax, and welcome to camp.
Mark Gagnon 1:14
Nathaniel Gillis. Mark Agnon.
Nathaniel Gillis 1:16
Thank you for joining me. Thank you for having me back, man. It's great to be
Mark Gagnon 1:19
here. Absolutely. I'm very excited to chit chat today because we're going to be going deep, specifically into ritual. I'm fascinated by your work. As the good people watching may be familiar, you are a phenomenologist. Some on the internet have even called you a demonologist. which perhaps is not the most accurate label because as you've said to me, the term demon can sometimes be limiting in the scope of what we're talking about. Just to refresh the people, can you explain what a demon is?
Nathaniel Gillis 1:48
Well, I can give you various traditions. The earliest one we have at least within the Jewish mindset or the Hebrew concept would be the disembodied spirit of a Nephilim hybrid being whose father was a fallen angel. The fallen angel mates with his mother and they bear children. And now you have this Rephaim or Rephaite, which is a giant that is possessed with consciousness. That consciousness is mutated.

What is the origin of demons and the Nephilim according to the episode?

Nathaniel Gillis 2:19
It's either evolved or devolved. And when that body dies, that entity becomes an unclean spirit. And so that is, at least within my worldview, especially my religious tradition, I grew up in that would be the definition of a demon. Now, if you get into Professor Esther Omori's work, she has a book called God's Monsters. I parade her book everywhere. I reference it often. Her first literary offering was Women's Divination in Biblical Literature, and then her second one was God's Monsters. But I like her work because what she does as a secular Jew is she goes into the Hebrew language, zooms in, shows us the actual syntax of the words being employed, and And when I first got a hold of her work, I was like, oh, no, because she gets into the Witch of Endor in the Old Testament and kind of gets into different terminologies of Elohim.
Nathaniel Gillis 3:13
What is that? And then the idea that she proposes is that when the Witch of Endor went to see Samuel or the ghost of Samuel. that it was not at all a quote-unquote familiar spirit. It was not a demon. It was not, you know, the disembodied spirit of a hybrid. It was post-mortem, post-biological consciousness that had reorganized its matter and was manifesting to this individual. That was the first time I ever heard that kind of scholarship. I'm not, you know, I'm not new to scholarship. I've never heard that level of depth in terms of that text. And so, when you get into her approach to demons, it actually gets deeper than just horns and hooves and even discarnate consciousness. What she proposes is that through the ancient worldview is that there were actually cryptids or beings that would fall underneath that umbrella that were also enveloped into demonology.
Mark Gagnon 4:20
Right. And you have a wonderful sort of framework for looking at this. I hope. I think the people that are familiar with your work will know that you have this term that I've said before, this idea of mythologizing the mask, that there is this sort of undergirding

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