From an entertainment standpoint, that movie annoyed me, mainly since it was like “Panic Room” where the setting and plot is fairly closed in.  I guess it was a horror movie, which I’d just say it was more a thriller of sorts.  My entertainment value was watching the audience’s reaction.  Btw, last time I saw a theater so back was when I saw Star Wars III on Imax at midnight.

This isn’t a movie review, yet I’ll end my comments on the movie with my thoughts that there are some significant inconsistencies with “Paranormal Activity”.  Lots of ghost like phenomenon, then some alien like stuff, then some psychological stuff, then some demonic stuff.  I’m just not buying that demons are acting ghost-like.  Then all the sudden there is demonic like behavior, then the demonic like behavior goes a bit off the wall, which isn’t too far off but not in that context.  What I take from this is a demon plays ghost, then plays ghost-alien, then plays demon, then plays demon-alien, or some bizarre combination.

Of course supernatural skeptics…

Like the one in this MSNBC article are quick to disprove the real validity of any of this stuff in real life.  I’d have to agree in part with the author of that article that there is much we label “paranormal” and “supernature” which just is not the case.

Reminds me of the local ghost hunter group from a couple years ago that hit up all the area paranormal hot spots, doing much the same stuff on SyFy’s Ghost Hunter show.  A friend of a friend was part of that group and I got a change to see some of their insider photos and video.  I even got a chance to debunk a couple things.

So yes, I’ll be one to be first to discern what is what, analyze what’s what and look for the logical explanation.  I say 90-99% of the time there is a natural cause, along with possibilities of psychological, physiological, physical, even sociological explanations.  Thing is I’m not out to disprove stuff, just out to discern, analyze, and sort things out.

That 1-10% that is paranormal & supernatural…

My roots are both in science and in faith.  Yes, opposites in general.  I’ll be the first to debunk such mis-classifications, yet not with a filter lens  for science or for faith.  Though much of this stuff can come with a logical explanation that has nothing to do with supernatural, that doesn’t mean that supernatural stuff doesn’t happen.  Actually there is a great deal of supernatural things that often occur that we mostly just don’t sense, thus have little to no awareness of.  I think when some of us do have some sort of awareness our sense of it is equivalent to my sense of eye sight, which is extremely nearsighted.

Modern science has pointed out a lot of stuff that would make mystic uncomfortable.  Over the countless years of human history how many people have been diagnosed with demon possession when it just was a psychological/biochemical disorder.

Yet does science disproved demon possession?  Hmmm…

I’d challenge that with recent technical advances in human-computer interfaces.  There are working interface devices that allow us to tap into our brain to allow us to control the user interface of a computer, where you think what actions you want to do on a computer, as we would mostly do with our hands via keyboard and mouse.  If you tap into parts of your nervous system, you can create artifical arms/legs that you can tap into the nervous system to use like it was your own flesh and blood.  You can even tap into your brain to snatch up memory relays, even kinda sort of do stuff like you see in the move “Matrix”.

Of course it all is extremely complex and this tiny paragraph is a gross summary of all of this recent technology to point one thing out, which is the ever growing fact that technology can be used as a tool of human possession.  Society even in it primitive forms has been possessed by rulers, by culture, by ideas, by religion, by psychology, as in people have and still do possess and control other people.  Of course it isn’t like plugging into our nervous system and controlling our body and tapping into our minds directly, but some possession methods are pretty darn close.

So there can be supernatural/spiritual beings that have a variety of capacities.  If a human can eventually tap into another human and possess another human, why not a spiritual being?  Why can’t a demon, an angel, even God possess a person.  (Not saying God is going to over take your body and control it, but God being God, that capacity is there, just that’s not how God works).  Ok, so all these words to say that no matter how deep you analyze all of this, demon possession is a possibility, one I will say can and has happen(ed)(s).

As far as theology goes in the realm of angelogy and other such things, there is so much out there we just don’t have any sort of concert handle on since our spiritual senses for the most part are blind.  There are many spiritual beings, which I won’t go into a tangent explaining what they all are.  My belief in ghosts is mix and I don’t believe in ghosts in a classical sense.  But as for different types of demons (fallen angels) and angels, they exists.  I can’t prove it, which negates science, which is where faith comes in.

I’ll end this rant by saying…

Yes I believe in the supernatural, paranormal, and such things, which if you really know me, you know I do.  Even though I have such belief in the supernatural, I still hold to a balance in faith and science.  I do think this world we live in is very real, yet in this realness we co-existing in this “Alice in Wonderland” kind of Matrix delusion that we entrap ourselves in our own little world, whatever that might be for you, me, and everyone else.  So I guess we all live our own little virtual life in the matrix of this very real world that we all live in.

I’m saying once we discern and filter out what is what, the things that remain, that 1-10%, we’ll find stuff… like that no matter what we believe, God does exist…  or that there are angels and demons in the mix of this supernatural war with humanity that some Christians would call “spiritual warfare”…  or that there are ghost, demons, hauntings, possessions, oppression, etc, etc…   that there is good and evil, love and hate…  that when all things are said and done, God sorts out cosmos and that the love of God ultimate stands unshaken,

Lastly on demon possession…

If anyone is worried that a demon will possess you, I say sleep with some peace of mind that even though I’d argue it is fully possible, it is very unlikely.  If demons are out to get you, they won’t resort to possession unless for some twisted reason and set of circumstance there is that bridge for such an extreme thing.  I think for demons it is more effective and efficient for demons to oppress people and to control people through a complex system of control.  Heck, people have been doing this forever.

If you have never heard of or read “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis, I highly recommend that easy read.  My believes in the supernatural closely match those of Lewis.

And finally, when all things are said and done, demons can possess, oppress, influence, and flat out be out to get you down in all sort of ways.  But so we hunt for an blame demons when it is you and I who possess the very life God has given us?  I know life is well life, but we still can make choices.  And when the world comes down on us in any way it can, whether it be our own fault, other people, nature, spiritual, etc, we still have that one choice on who we are and who we turn to.  As the Bible says, by the name of Jesus demons will have to flee, as Christ himself cast the demons out of a man into pigs.  So God created all things and sure does have the power to live up to that Biblical promise.  Even more so, demons are less a worry, where I’ll ultimate argue our personal choice of accepting God or pushing God away.  I see nothing but bad and horrible stuff when we push God away.

Anyhow, that’s peace of mind for me in a world of supernatural paranormal activity.