KevinPONeill wrote:

The practice of exocisim is not only impractical, it can be emotionally damaging. It also leads to false ideas, and suggests to mentally embalanced people that others (babies, animals) can be possessed.  There are too many examples of children and animals being vicimized by mentally embalanced people who believed this quackery!

Your priest friend may mean well, but he needs to be updated on modern scientific approaches that correctly diagnose these type of illnesses.

Dear Kevin,

Before making these black and white judgments, you should read two books.  I am certainly not saying every case of psychotic behaviour is caused by attached entities, but I am sure it happens, and happens sufficiently often that one should know about it. The first book is easy to get  "30 years among the dead"  Ironically this first book suggests the old electro-therapy may indeed have removed attached spirits, but they would have been free to attach to someone else, and almost certainly would have done so. Not that I am suggesting electro-therapy is useful, and Dr Carl Wickland only used an electrostatic technique, which is a very different level of electric shock.

The second is very difficult to obtain, and although not out of copyright, I have made a pdf for folks who can't get a copy. This is "Remote Depossession" by Dr Irene Hickman. The point about Irene Hickmans technique, which completely negates your arguments about damaging procedures, is that the therapist is not in the physical presence of the "victim" and the "victim" generally never knows about the procedure, except possibly as a subconscious level. So reports of "cures" cannot be faked, since the victim does not know that anything has happened. You can read one chapter out of her book here: Removing dark spirit attachment