READER | Is it demonic possession or mental illness?

About this post
This post is my reply to a comment regarding my answer to a question posted to Quora (whew!), specifically, How can I cast a demon out of a room? It's a partial reply, in that not all of her questions and concerns were addressed. I intend to supplement this post with more as time permits.

What's not working...
Her issues are not small, and they warrant much more than the "Dear Abby" format afforded by Quora and this blog. It's not that I can't answer her questions; it's just that they are loaded with major world concerns. What's at stake are the souls of two people, both of whom clearly can't make sense for themselves, let alone each other.

What's working...
And, yet, love conquers all, even still and even though. The person making the comment is definitely in love with the subject of her comment. So, there's a way, so long as there is a will. If that same will is demonstrated by the subject, then the benefits of the effort to rectify his mistakes will be mutual. We're dealing with two different kinds of lost: we have the man who abandoned God in word and deed and by explicit and outward effort; we have a woman whose lifelong lukewarm reception of God has left her powerless over her (and his) problem, although she does at least acknowledge the solution (unlike the guy).

If she is to help him, she is going to have to shore up the deficits in her faith; if he's open to receive her love, then he becomes her motivation for seeking God. That's how she would be saved by saving him (since both need saving, as I implied).


Anyway, here's the comment and my reply so far:

My reply to a question that, essentially, asks, "What's the difference between a crazy person and a demon-possessed one?"

The (verbatim) comment
My friend is possessed. I haven't fully ruled out mental illness bc I'm not a psychologist. However, I dont think he's crazy or skitzo or whatever. Bc he tells me things that later apply heavily to my own life when he's not around. Like confirmation.

He hasn't tried to hurt me. But he has expressed that he doesnt like for me to say Jesus's name. He has clearly been dabbling in some kinds of satanic rituals. There are clear signs: an alter with skulls and talismans; a sword I have seen blood on; mention of blood sacrifices of animals; crystals and colored candles and incense throughout the house; a 666 tattoo he doesn't remember getting. Idk if that's how he became possessed or if that is a symptom of the possession.

Anyhow, the other night at his home, I was briefly possessed. I remember very little of what I said or exactly what happened. But I remember feeling powerful & electric. Then I started speaking to him about where I stand- with Jesus Christ. After that blurry talk, I went outside for fresh air & he came out with me. He got me in my car. Once I came to, he kind of fled from me back into his house. I left, but I came back bc I was so confused. That's how I found out what happened exactly. He TOLD ME I WAS POSSESSED.

But, in hindsight, I believe the purpose of this possession was to make me reveal that I still stood in Christ. Bc, while he knew this from the beginning, he has been trying to convince me that Jesus doesnt exist. He also tries to convince me that the devil doesn't exist. My answer to his arguments is that I know that these powers exist bc I have seen them at work. I do know that the name of Jesus has power on Earth. That is why it upsets him.

I will be honest & say that I'm totally fascinated by the things he tells me. He has been sharing with me what he calls “forbidden knowledge" in which I have to attain an understanding of. The two equal wisdom. But some things just dont click. I believe those are lies. So, I do believe there is some truth to his words.

He doesnt spend time around many other people. With the exception of short visits. It's like strangers are drawn to him. But he keeps me around and talks to me about the changes he's experiencing & this “knowledge.”

Am I in this position to cast the demon out of him? I feel this is a powerful spirit. It almost made me question my own beliefs.

Hence the revealing possession mentioned before. I dont believe he has the power to hurt me, as I am of God. And he is very careful with me. He tells me to be careful with him as well & to “play nice.” By “play nice," I believe he speaks of not calling on Jesus or using His power.

Since I am here & nobody else would be able to get this close or this deep, is it my purpose to cast out the demon? Is it part of the plan? Maybe I need this practice for later. God works in mysterious ways. However, I have no full understanding of the powers at play.

Only that it is demonic energy & it is draining to be around for too long. Being in his home is like a whole different time zone. Time moves faster. A day can feel like only a few hours. I get trapped there, listening and watching. I am free to leave, of course. However, I get entranced. Like time isnt real & I absorb all of this information. Not only is this draining, but it gives me extreme headaches.

Some things have been revelational, changing the way I now see the world. I now feel I recognize evil more often in more forms. But the problem is still that whatever is controlling him is not himself. He told me that he killed himself & burned all of that self's possessions and pictures. So, I believe he made a conscious choice to go through this change. However, he only mentioned it briefly as to what's in it for him.

He said that God made this his fate & he will receive spiritual blessings of great magnitude. He didnt say exactly what they are. But he did say that he was taking his time to finish what he must do and that most people would be rushing toward the end to receive their gifts.

I just need some spiritual advice. I know there will be people that say I'm just as crazy as him & we should be locked in the nuthouse. But they are in denial about the true nature of life on Earth. This is something all of our ancestors knew to exist. Denying it doesnt make it disappear. And I feel that I, specifically, have been placed in this unique situation for a big reason.

I'm the only one he spends so much time with. He calls me “the last of the Mohicans.” So, if someone with deep Godly wisdom can confirm anything for me and/or give me some tips on how to beat this spirit without anyone getting hurt, it will be greatly appreciated.

My (partial) reply
A couple of thoughts:

Your difficulty in assessing the situation stems from a serious flaw in logic. Mental illness and demon possession are not mutually exclusive; they can co-exist, but neither rules out the other. Moreover, is it possible that a highly stressful scenario such as demon possession could be the root cause of mental illness? If you knew as much as I did, you’d assume that mental illness is a sign of demonic possession (either in the past and/or ongoing in the present)—not a precursor to it.

Make sure you also understand that most of the brain damage inflicted by demons on people (for the purposes of control, etc.) are either disguised as or mistaken as mental illness. I can tell the difference because I’ve been looking at the problem HARD for over eight years; but, generally, most people would not know the difference. Even still, here are some general guidelines:

• Does he provide for himself all six basic life needs (housing, medical care, transportation, employment, food and clothing)? If so, you can rule out mental illness.
• Can he carry a conversation from start to finish with strangers in a pleasant and comfortable manner? If so, you can rule out mental illness.
• Does he have steady hygiene habits that he practices on a daily basis (weighs himself; bathes frequently; takes vitamins daily; cleans teeth after every meal)? Again, all signs of a perfectly healthy mind, especially if all three are actually in place.

Regardless, the starting point of your help begins with the “reality” of the person in distress—and that reality, as it were, is too big for you (or your friend) to handle alone. You need people; but, people are definitely not what you have at your disposal.

I know demons, in-and-out. They cut people off from each other, either wittingly, unwittingly, willingly and unwillingly because, to be a significant influence in someone’s life in a short period of time (particularly, when high stakes are involved), you have to limit their interaction with other, contrary or obfuscating influences. Help is not on the way.

So, you’re probably asking, Do I give up on the name of Jesus thing or what? I’d say that, unless you’re ready to make some big changes that you never intend to stop making, absolutely. The maker of the ear and mouth has no problem hearing the words formed by your lips; but, the maker of the brain and the knower of the heart cannot be fooled. Neither Jesus nor God are genies; calling on His name is tantamount to the biggest waste of time for non-believers and those not actively engaged in the work of the Lord. You may know of Jesus, but you do not have a comprehensive, documented and witnessed practice of faith; accordingly, calling on His name is of none effect unless doing so is necessary to facilitate your role in His plan.

In sum, you're being toyed with on two levels:

1. Your friend is beginning a series of “drama maneuvers” on you, which are designed to establish control over your behavior and thinking when he’s around. Telling you what to say and what not to say is absolutely never acceptable in any relationship. The name of Jesus never hurt anyone, ever. It’s not like you’re calling him a traitor to his own people or something. Rule of thumb for interactions from now on: your tongue is bridled by no man but your man (Jesus).
2. Your friend seeks to diminish your confidence in Jesus, and establish a confidence in him instead. Calling to Jesus didn’t work, as you can see, he wants you to note; calling on my demons to see your future (or whatever you said he was doing) does work.

The purpose of this toying is to lead you away from the voice of the Saviour and towards the voice of his inner demon. The demon inside him saw easy prey in a woman who has little or nothing to do with Jesus but a passing, relatively uninterested and not-at-all motivating affection now and again.

Look to prove me right in all your future dealings with him. I bet no matter what he says or does, nothing will exactly disprove or counter what I’ve told you here.

BIBLE | Three things I learned from my encounter with the Holy Spirit

"So, how do you know it was the Holy Spirit?"

Certainly not by being told by anyone. It's obvious by the conversation. Even if it weren't, it doesn't matter. The words spoken were truth; and, truth can be spoken by anyone—even the Devil—and never be any less truth. All I need to know about someone can be determined by their conversation with you. If you know what is good, holy, righteous, prudent, wise, you will know value when you see it.

What's included...
This post lists three vital facts about your salvation as imparted by my direct encounter with the Holy Spirit in April 2014. They all have a basis in Scripture; so, don't think I am trying to change or add to what you should already know. By informing you of these, I am merely supporting with experience and not just biblical knowledge the same assertions heard in many a sermon.

What's not included...
There is one thing that most might expect to find in this post, but which is absent—that, of course, an accounting of events and circumstances that precipitated the encounter. That's a real barn-burner of a tale (to use the demonic idiom), believe it. Maybe I'll tell it someday; but, it would be an affront to the Spirit to do anything at this point but to pass on what I learned. An encounter with any member of the Trinity has something to offer everyone. The experience is never for just those so encountered. That means I am obligated to pass on only what I learned to others unless the circumstances of the experience relate to what I learned. They do to an extent; but, they can be omitted without detracting from the knowledge born of them.

Even still, I would not be inclined to do it without the 20 or so people who can witness to it. I absolutely do not mind sharing the details of my encounter; but, there are witnesses to it that do not like to speak on it (namely, the Voices Demons and various medical personnel employed by Santa Clara County Health and Hospital Systems). To this day, they find the event unnerving and counterproductive to their agenda. Unless and until they are ready and willing to disclose their recollection as well, I would say that a single man's voice does a great injustice to all concerned.

Besides, without corroborating testimony, what merit would my story have? If my audience does not have any stories of their own, how could they rightly evaluate the merit of mine? My story does not entail any facts that could not be corroborated by the Scripture; but, how does that tell anyone anything they should not already know? That I had an encounter should be sufficient to advise anyone who could be made to believe that such a thing happens can readily believe my story based on my key takeaways from it.

NOTE | It also violates the long-standing policy of this blog to publish any information that cannot be substantiated by reproducibility, published testimony from a trusted source, or by evidence in the form of digital media.

There has to be a highly credible body of testimony—many people from all walks of life, some with things in common, some with nothing in common, and all with the same story to credibly tell it to those who have had no such experience. There is not a man alive who would believe it otherwise. I have such a body of witnesses, as I said; but, the only thing I am missing is willingness (the event worked out for nobody present but me, if you're wondering about the source of their unwillingness).

What I learned
Even still, I'll offer some of the key facts about sin that I learned from my encounter with the Holy Spirit; if you choose to believe them, you will do exceedingly well in the Judgment:

• The Holy Spirit—not God, not Jesus—is the only member of the Trinity that you are likely to have a direct encounter with—and, that only by calling out to Jesus, and by having a true, dire need for intervention. To be answered in the affirmative, it has been made abundantly clear that you have to have profit-sharing status with Heaven (the Scripture teaches that, of course, but in different words—mine are better). Not only does your past faith have to be evidenced by at least some of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, but your future faith has to evidence a clear understanding of why these are vital in the form of a plan for building on them. You'll note from Revelation 2-3 that past good works cannot be repeated in the future and still be called good works. They are stepping stones to greater works. Without a clear plan of increase and a foundation on which to increase, you have no pull with Jesus. Believe it. Regardless of the nature of your call, there will be a discussion about your sin. You will be given the soundest of minds and all the incentive that can be given for engaging a truthful question-and-answer argument to defend (or deride) your wrongful actions. The point is to ascertain your recollection of the wrong, exhaust your excuses, and then determine your attitude afterwards. At the end of up, if you can say, "I guess I was wrong; I'm sorry," because that's honestly how you feel, you're good; otherwise, I shudder to think. This conversation happens while literally dangling over the pit of destruction—and, you know it the whole time. It's how such encounters begin.

• There is no big sin or small sin that is determined by the particulars of the sin. Guilty of one, guilty of all holds true in that vein. There is a difference, however, in the magnamity of sin. The small ones are any you acknowledge, contemplate and regret; the big ones are the ones you overlook and later forget. Were you rude back to someone who was rude to you first? If you fail to recognize the error or fail to apologize are not as bad as failing to remember even doing it until you were reminded. That kind of error—not the size of the sin or the justification you had for it—is damnable in the literal sense. It is hard for people to see how small stuff like that can be worthy of Hell; but, it is every bit the error that any other sin is when you judge a wrong as right and then dismiss it from your mind altogether.

• Judgment by the Holy Spirit never addresses the sin you commit that you acknowledge and grieve, but only the sin you don't. Let's say you're a raging homosexual that you didn't mean to be; if you're sincere in your lament of your condition, the Holy Spirit will find no occasion to berate you for it. It's not whether you sinned (that's a given for everyone), it's your attitude towards it. You will never stop being tempted until the day of salvation anyway; you will not be fixed of your propensity for sin anytime prior to then. But, God is not expecting you to be fixed; but, rather, to desire a respite and to add something better than sin into your roll. You can take comfort in the fact that, while you still may be tempted to sin or are still be burdened by a history of same, a policy of never encouraging that same sin in anyone else is an act sufficient to achieve and maintain a firm confidence that you can be saved—even when others are adamant that you cannot. In the six years since, I have tested beyond testing that a Spirit-reinforced confidence is as unshakable and unmovable as any of its gifts or fruits. Call it like you see it, if you must; see how that avails you in the end or in the present. The opposite of a refusal to promote sin is to demote because of it. Bring no one down because of their sin; simply keep your own in check.

The true gift imparted by an encounter with the Holy Spirit is the repurposing of your God-given knowledge accumulated by a life of true faith. It all makes sense, is what you'll say by the end; and, you won't stop saying it anytime soon afterwards. From this, those who are serious about life and what they read in the Scripture can take heart that all the intellectualizing and emotion poured into the Word holds value for a later time. You may find knowledge rewarding at anytime; but, nothing compares to the fire lit inside you by the Holy Spirit using that knowledge. A lifetime of soul-searching combined with a single encounter with the Holy Spirit, and you will never be moved, and no weapon formed against you will prosper. Amen. This fact should bring a lot of comfort and confidence to those who struggle with sin. Conversion from sinner to saint has a negative and positive element: repentance (taking away of sin) and faith (adding knowledge and practice). You can struggle to take away the sin while adding to your knowledge and good works. One does not supplant the other; but, one is not dependent on the other for the same benefit. My strategy prior to my encounter and my strategy ever since for justifying myself before God has been to do all the good I can while chipping away at my sinful nature. It is indeed hard to be tempted and to succumb to it after having gone a long time without and on top of a monumental effort to increase your faith by knowledge and works; however, what will lift your spirits every time is a comprehensive course of study and an ever-increasing involvement in the charity of Christ. God still wants you as long as there is something about you to want. Appealing to the pragmatic needs of the earth, which remain regardless of your righteousness, will get you through a rough patch every time.

By the end of it, I had a balanced and accurate perspective on the gravity of sin. I was not led to believe that sin was less serious than I thought; rather, I was informed as to how to productively and resolutely handle it. Ignorance and lack of outside perspective are the only strengths sin has to work with; remove these obstacles, and then you can move ahead.

Moreoever, I came out of this knowing that, regardless of whether I use that knowledge, the fact that the Holy Spirit imparted it to begin with meant that, at least at that time, I was capable of achieving salvation, and that salvation was still being offered to me. As rare as these things seem to be, and as precious as God's time likely is, that statement cannot be overvalued. The life of a demoniac can always use that kind of affirmation. It didn't hurt that my opposition witnessed it, either. It nailed to the Cross shame and guilt as a tool for dissuading a sound mind from reasoning correctly, and from being brave enough to appropriate the free gift of salvation being offered to him.

I could say more; but, suffice it to say, anyone who would not have already expected this as an outcome, and, I'd say anyone who could not add a couple of things to it on their own, would not find my story anything but one of magical fantasy, and that would make the Spirit mad. Believe that.

TECH | Pulse monitoring feature planned for on-demand tone barrier protection from demon night terrors

This post is the first in a series of posts that document progress in the continuing development of my tone barrier app.

Night terrors and drama dreams are not just demon-made products of the mind; there are physical elements to their handiwork, too—big ones, in fact. So big (I think), that your heart rate and variability not only change during periods of high ambient demonic activity, but change in specific (i.e., detectable) ways that they during other times would not. It's something about the process and experience that creates a unique, physical response that distinguishes itself in subtle yet discernible ways (in theory).

If that's true, I have no doubt the physical response that uniquely distinguishes the process and experience can be detected while monitoring the heart during sleep; and, if that's true, then the tone barrier, which stops night terrors, would only have to play during an attempt to induce a nightmare—not all night, as it does now.

NOTE | I don't want people bitching about how annoying it is to listen to beeps while trying to fall asleep. So, this is something I intend to be very serious about. Also, it will serve as a  proof of concept that cloaked demonic entities can be detected with common, household electronics—just as my first app on the App Store claims it does by measuring the EMF interference to the iPhone camera sensor, which is caused by UV and gamma emissions from the demon cloak. The response to demon incursion into human lives has been muted; it is my hope that an easy, accessible and affordable way of defeating the primary means by which demons skulk about undetected and untouchable—their cloaked state—would encourage a policy of defensive parity, at a minimum (versus of one characterized by acquiescence or defeat).

To find whether there is a unique, physical response to demon incursion into the subconscious, I will collect and analyze my own heart rate data as a victim who suffers from this type of activity. This I can readily do, which you can imagine by my recent success in porting a sample app from Apple that monitors your pulse via Apple Watch from Swift to my language of choice, Objective-C. The following video shows my heart rate on my watch, right after I finished the port:



This looks like an insignificant achievement, I know; but, learn about what kind of data I now have access to and what I can do with it on Apple Developer Connection and, then, take a look at the source posted to Github, and you will see no small amount of complication to it. That's not just my opinion, either. It was every bit as big of a job as it looks. If you can find another project posted to Github that actually does just the little bit shown in the video, I would be surprised. I didn't port the app from a language I don't know to one I couldn't get to work on my own for the fun of it. That is what it took to get what I needed—resources and working implementations are non-existent.

The rest of the job should be less arduous(!), though. Remaining on the list of things to do:

• transfer the heart rate data acquired by the watch to the Tone Barrier app on iPhone
• analyze the data for unique trends and patterns during occurrences of ambient demonic activity
• characterize the attributes of any such patterns
• determine a way to detect the pattern
• implement a pattern detection algorithm

Communication between iPhone and Apple Watch is my forte; I used the WatchKitConnectivity Framework to write an app for my watch, which allows me to control the tone barrier app on my iPhone [download the source from Github]. So, the first item is a no-brainer.

Data collection means being a victim again, on purpose
I called myself a victim earlier in this post; but, really, I'm not anymore. Since creating my tone barrier app, I have yet to suffer a single incident of night terrors. Not one.

Demons still try, though, every single time I fall asleep. That is, at a bare minimum, about 182 attempts to make me actually believe, for example, that a killer tornado was about to demolish the ramshackle house I holed up in when I saw it coming. At a minimum. I take naps (so, add another 182 attempts, at least). It only takes about three minutes for demons to stage the scene, create the actors and then coordinate the two to produce the terror scene.

In spite of a litany of defeats, demons have not given up, trying at various times this and that to work around it. They fail every time, as I advised them they would. They seem to think that there is a weakness to the app that can be exploited; however, even though the tone barrier score can and will be improved (it could stand to be easier to listen to while you're trying to fall asleep), the "weakness" is in the human mind. The app is sufficient for the purposes of distraction; there are no added benefits once you reach a certain threshold. Their bottleneck is the human mind; it cannot give priority listening attention to the "song" demons sing to create the mental connection and the night terror itself and to a series of tones designed to trigger instinctual listening during sleep at the same time.

The stage and the actors can be set up even with the tone barrier playing, but not one bit more than those two things; that's because the connection between your mind and the demon mind must be completely undistracted and very intense and focused to create the night terror. Even the slightest distraction rolls the three-minute timer back to 00:00:00.

NOTE |  Higher frequency tones can actually be heard while dreaming. When I hear it, I immediately realize that my body is not in the environment of my dream, but in bed, next to my screeching iPhone. That's been fun when I have had face-to-face confrontations with demons who are not made up characters in the dreams, but as real as I am in it. I haven't seen that tornado again ever since I laughed in its 80-story face, which I had the presence of mind to do thanks to frequenters approaching 2000 Hz.

Like everything demons do, their attempts were quite novel. They have altered their song, giving it a catchy rhythmic cadence that makes it preferred listening over the rather disjointed and disharmonic tone barrier score. They even employed live actors—that's right, real people, who have joined in on the dream. They are given direction (presumably, by spoken word, and not mind-melding song) on how to interact with me. Most of the time, the tone barrier will break the connection between the demons singing to me and the demons speaking to the actors. This has resulted in a night of passion with one of the actions, which demons could do nothing to stop, being unable to know what I was doing (because the tone barrier was preventing them from a connection with me—apparently, the dream space is created by one demon, while another observes and directs. So, if the one that observes and directs gets disconnected, he can't tell the one creating the space to stop creating it nor can he tell a certain actor I have come to know to stop doing that thing that makes me feel so alive every time it's done like it was my first time or something.).

Unfortunately for demons, the tone barrier not only prevents night terrors, but also makes you lucid to their attempt to create them. I was able to observe some of their attempts to workaround the barrier by modifying their song and its delivery. Yes, I actually heard them trying to direct my emotions, focus and thinking via their trademark melodic chant right in my ear. I am convinced that is a human first.

NOTE | What I learned from hearing their song with my conscious mind established as fact that demons have to prepare a victim for susceptibility to their song decades in advance before they can direct their mind with it. That means that, even if night terrors have only been a problem for you one, single time, you have for sure been a victim of clandestine demonic activity since the day you became a proficient speaker of your native language. That's age 5, at the latest.

You can't improve on a 100% perfect solution; but, you can add value on top of it. When coupled with what I have learned from the tone barrier scores and deployment configurations that actually prevented all types of ambient demonic activity (drama dreams, etc.) before demons worked around them, I believe my observations will enable me to create a tone barrier score that will prevent all forms of ambient demonic activity as successfully as it prevents night terrors. That means keeping them out of your head altogether—not just when they intend to induce trauma, as it now only does for certain.

Future plans
Because the tone barrier works the very first time you try it, it would only take a night to make a lifetime believer out of a victim of night terrors. Convincing those without the problem (that is, those who do not perceive they have it yet) in order to potentially reveal it would be harder. A demon's nightly work is usually capped by incognation.

The idea has a gimmick-factor of about 101, so even the desperate would find it quite a stretch to believe that turning their iPhone into an obnoxious bed partner would be helpful to a problem as big as the one they have. In fact, it would come across as downright stupid to even suggest it.

Imagine having a solution to a world-wide problem that is sure-fire, but sounds about as ridiculous
as anyone can imagine. That on top of a demon problem. Ugh.

Why don't you start from the beginning...?

Reading this blog absent the requisite historical context for understanding its over 1,000 posts will fail to reveal its significance and relevance in the present, which, by the way, is greater than anything else on Earth right now. It describes an eight-year journey from helpless to helpful—and, both of these, in no small way. That statement will make more sense after reading a synopsis of that journey, which I recently provided as part of my answer to a question posed on Quora that asked, essentially, Why do bad things happen to good people? (or some such...) To-wit:

How can cases of alleged demonic possession be easily dismissed: when there are those who display super human strength, speak in Latin and tongues, and have knowledge not previously obtained?

James Alan Bush's answer on Quora

This question, at its core, asks: Why are people asked to accept a complete breakdown in deductive reasoning to the derivation of their (and your) own personal safety? And, Why are they ostracized if they won’t? Or, Why do they ostracize those who won’t?

These questions invariably arise when someone encounters overt, problematic demonic activity for the first time. On first mention, family and friends will bail at once, and replace their formerly supportive ways with lies and betrayal, accusation and suspicion—qualities more often ascribed to the very same monsters endlessly haunting their lives.

When this happened to me in 2006, I thought I was the unluckiest man on Earth (because I was); as a sane, responsible, productive and otherwise valued member of society, I in no way deserved the apathetic and derisive response I received for describing my tragedy as I saw it and as it was: Demons were afoot, and they were in cahoots with career criminals to dissemble my life from every angle.

What I didn’t understand or know at the time was that the same naysayers I thought I could trust not only knew what I was saying was true, but knew about the problem before I did. What’s more is, I didn’t yet know that they would have a hand in depriving me of recovery from my losses later. So, I found no reason not to prove my situation as comprehensively and indisputably as I did, even as the actions I took to do so literally put my life in constant mortal danger.

You can see the fruit of my labor in this regard on my blog, The Life of a Demoniac [see The web site that launched the demonic war]. It links to a series of secretly recorded phone calls and conversations between the criminals and between me and the criminals that were originally posted to my blog at the time, The Sunnyvale Knock, and evidence every claim I made about the crimes committed against me during those harrowing two months that I defended my home against their constant onslaught, alone, friendless and without the support of family.

Attack of the Gangstalkers from James Bush on Vimeo

I was not trying to embarrass anyone by my blog—certainly not the people who would use it for a claim for/to shame later. I was trying to make a scene that couldn’t be ignored (or, if it was, ignored to their derivation, such as police, as the end of the video implies). Regardless of my intent or success, I refused to allow my situation to be explained away by the lies that were being told by my family: that the criminals were friends giving me drugs, which were enabling them to take advantage of me, and—sometimes worse—that I had been double-crossed as their former business partners, which gave me a convenient way to cover my criminal tracks.

Imagine my rage. Honest, forthright, worthwhile? Yes. Lying, deceptive, worthless? Not then, and not since. Yet, these accusations were my family’s first response to my accounts of robbery, assault, battery, criminal confinement, auto theft, vandalism, fraud, burglary and more. Not in my wildest dreams would I have suspected that recordings of criminals discussing their crimes against me with each other and me would become my true family; but, as my only connection to the irrefutable truth, they did, particularly, as my family continued to insist even in the face of their obvious and clear error.
Imagine my hurt. Within three months, I was destitute. No home, no money, no car, no job, no healthcare and, clearly, no future. I saw it coming, and I proved it, too—timely enough to prevent it with help. The only consolation I could find at the time was that my world-wide dissemination of those recordings stopped a wave of organized crime from continuing beyond my former home. Millions of people around the world watched my blog like O.J.’s getaway, and caught on to a similar problem lurking around them, waiting for its chance to swallow them up, too. In 2006, my blog stopped gang-stalking for good. Because of it, it now only exists in the minds of lunatics and the unreasoning.

Having nothing much to live for except my poverty, waning health and souring relationships, I branched off into a more aggressive, but long-term approach to the problem. Once I was stripped of resources and support, the face of the problem evolved from a primarily human one to a demonic one. Even still, the goal seemed to be to prove it in a manner similar to gangstalking—that is, with recordings and photographs. In fact, I was explicitly told it would be (in part, in derision, and in other part, as a means of retribution for having so deftly proved myself before). Daunting as that sounds, I reasoned that whatever my eyes could see and my ears could hear was established in the physical, and that whatever is physical leaves an indelible imprint that can be qualified and quantified as such, regardless of whether the sights and sounds of demons were deemed as hallucinations or “spiritual“ by others.

Unfortunately, The Life of a Demoniac takes some getting used to, as the next five years proved. By 2011, I had nothing to show for my extensive efforts to catch demons in the act. When I got close in 2008, I spent every day of the next three-and-a-half years fighting a baseless criminal case that was eventually dismissed in a county jail.

When I got close again in 2013—as chronicled by two years of blogging—I spent every day for a year fighting another frivolous case in a county jail, which was also later dismissed.

I pressed on, even still—thanks in full to the help (finally!) of someone who long ago took on the same problem, lost to it, but by and through the injustice of that loss, was awarded a victory of sorts over it, which ever since afforded help to others in like circumstances, no less me.

The following image is representative of my results by 2014:



A couple of years later:




These are invisible demons made visible using the same very same image-processing techniques and imaging sensor hardware used by astronomers for creating images of remote astronomical phenomena. As it turns out, the hardware used in their telescopes is the same used by iPhone in its camera. With a few adjustments to the ISO and duration exposure settings (I had to learn how to write iOS apps for that), a weird camera-panning maneuver that can only be explained by the principles of light physics (which I also had to learn), and even weirder post-processing techniques bordering on the advanced scientific, I made these possible.

Proving my Objective-C competency and proficiency 

Nobody asked, nobody cared to begin with; even still... 

As of 2019, I can produce images as good or better than these at a rate of three per second. The process is so refined, I can teach it in under five minutes to anyone. I can demonstrate it in less than three minutes.

And, that fact, as demonstrated across a table at IHOP for the benefit of my mother, who was chief among the doubters and accusers when all of this began, brings me to my answer to your question: I cannot tell you why people are like as your question intimates.

After showing her the face of demons hiding in the salt-and-pepper shakers with my iPhone, all she could say to my explanation of the problem, which cost me everything and robbed me of any future I could look forward to, was, “I just ignore things like that. There’s no point in paying them any mind.” This, after over a decade of derision and rejection, and mocking and rumor-mongering; and, this, after pitting her eye-to-eye with the problem itself.

I don’t know the basis for your question (are you facing a similar issue?); but, assuming the worst, here’s more of what I think: if you seek an answer for yourself, you’re going to hear the same thing. So, when you deserve to be believed but aren’t, my advice is this: walk away, and never look back. You can’t convince someone of something they already know, and you can’t change a heart too callous to be honest with you when your life is at stake. These are facts of life.

Sharpening improves already-proven technique for revealing hidden demons with iPhone

This post updates the technique I developed several years ago for revealing hidden demons in digital media by recommending the use of an unsharp mask as a part of the. post image acquisition processing procedure. Applying a sharpening filter to images processed per this technique is considered a crucial and necessary step, in that 1) it may reveal demons that otherwise remain hidden after the existing technique was applied; and, 2) it may expose details of demons made visible by the existing technique that cannot be seen without this added step.

The existing procedure requires an iPhone and a homemade video camera app [see Source code from GitHub]. With few exceptions, the app is basic: simply touch the Record button to start a video, and then touch it again to save it to Photos; the app automatically configures camera properties to settings known to increase the likelihood of capturing images of cloaked demons. It also provides manual configuration of two settings and access to one hardware feature to compensate for issues related to lighting and focus. Collectively, they determine how much light is allowed into the aperture and for how long it is exposed to the digital imaging sensor.

The controls enable manual adjustment to camera settings related to lighting and focus

The video itself is made by panning the camera across any object or person suspected to be possessed by demons or any scene occupied by them, albeit while cloaked (hidden). Panning and proximity are key, the speed and distance of either varying based on the size and material of the object (or the detail and scope of a scene) and lighting. With relatively little experience, a reasonable estimation of the optimal angle and motion for a multiplicity of subjects can be made prior to recording video; further refinements can be made by examining the video made.

Regardless of how fast and close the camera is panned, the end result should be a motion-blurred image every time. The aim is to move the camera at a speed and proximity that blurs only the slower moving light from visible objects, but not the faster moving "light" from invisible demons. The camera sensor sees both kinds of light and renders images that enable image-processing filters that sharpen to make and expose the distinction.

Once made, a video is processed at a minimum with a mirror (kaleidoscope) filter or any filter or feature that joins a mirrored duplicate of the original video at all four edges, both right-side up and upside-down (for a total of eight permutations). This step was derived from the theory of light physics that suggests that light is altered as it passes over to the edge of a surface, which both slows the speed of such light and concentrates it at the same time. In this case, the edges of the aperture opening combined with a digital imaging sensor's ability to detect a wider range of the spectrum of light than the naked eye make it possible to find hidden demons along the edges of the image.

Although joining a mirror duplicate to the edges of the original is an inextricable and immutable first step, using the advantages provided by the aperture's edges is not; the sensor alone is sufficient to capture light from cloaked demons. By overlapping the edges by any amount at any angle will reveal even more demons.

NOTE | It is amazing enough to capture images that show a dozen demon faces down the center of the join; it's even more amazing to turn those same images upside down and see a dozen different demons that were right on top of the others all along, but could not be seen from their angle. What's even better, is moving the original and duplicate by varying degrees towards the center created by their joined edges (the reflection point). As you do, you will see one demon face evolve into another, and then another and then yet another until you've merged the two frames to a narrow slit. To beat that, you can rotate them by the same angle but in opposite directions to see even more faces evolve—and, this at any center point. It's like counting bees in a swarm.

The added, second step adds detail and clarity, as shown by the following screenshots:

A frame from a video made of a painting in my bedroom using my camera app

The same frame reflected at its center point, which overlaps it by half to its width, reveals several demon heads, four of which are highly prominent 

The same, mirrored frame shown above, sharpened, adds remarkable detail to the demons revealed by mirroring while revealing even more demon heads

From fiction to fact: the "myth" of demon song

Demon song and its effect on the human psyche is neither a myth nor a story device conjured to advance the plot by engaging reader interest. It is, in fact, a reality—and, it is just as deadly, dangerous and malign in its use and intent as the stories recounting it describe.

It is on this fact that a solution of 100% efficacy was developed to end the demonic nightmare, namely, a tone barrier (or heckler), which inhibits the ability of demons to hit their notes on key—critical for effective song—and/or the ability of the target to hear the notes as they are required to be heard to be effective. Since ambient (nighttime) demonic activity of the nightmarish variety occurs during sleep, the tone barrier has to be erected at the onset of the sleep cycle and maintained throughout the entire duration.

NOTE | Demons who cause nightmares can restore connections broken by a tone barrier in three minutes after it ceases.

The tone barrier, however, while unique in both its addressing of a common and unaddressed (and huge) problem, is not by any stretch a marvel of creativity or intelligence—and, that goes double for the knowledge that demons song is dangerous. As to the latter, human literature is replete with both ancient and contemporary references to demons and their nefarious singing voices.

The most notable stories include:

• The Sirens and Ulysses

The Sirens and Ulysses, 1837, 442.5 cm by 297 cm (14 ft 6 in by 9 ft 9 in) by William Etty

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which describes Mr. Tumnus' lulling of Lucy to sleep with his song and lyre; another book in the The Chronicles of Narnia series describes the Queen Jadis' attempt to seduce another otherwise noble character by her song

In just these two literary volumes, you have accounts from both Jew (the root of Christianity) and Gentile (the Greeks), as it were. No one comes from a culture that hasn't made effectively made it widely known that demon song is real—and that it is not good.

A tool for second-guessing their intentions (DRAFT)

This post—a draft introduces the first proven means for shielding you against ambient demonic activity. It stops night terrors completely and enables lucidity in demon-induced dreaming. It drives demons out of your head while you sleep (which is where they are at night), and keeps them out. What your mind thinks about it, what it doesn't think about, and how much or little time it does either should be up to you; but, as demons would have it, it isn't. Your life should also be torture-free; demons would not have that, either.

NOTE | Following is demonic idiom for the above paragraph (I threw it in to be interesting): "I have adamantly stated my disagreement with putting pictures in peoples' minds to think about while they sleep by developing a tool that second-guesses their intentions. Now, everyone can be over-ratingly superior in their mind's eye. Anyone want to take a guess as to what that means in normal speech?

Abductive reasoning ahead...

Demons do a lot of work on people in their so-called sleep, generally, making a fearful and cowardly person by a torture so advanced it rivals any discovery of science you could name. That's the end result of any torture; mankind knows  to have its effect, torture must be conducted while the victim is consciously aware it. What man doesn't know (but demons do know) is that the victim does not have to remember it afterwards for that end result to be the same (or, maybe they know, but they don't know how to incognate a victim afterwards). Man also knows that the torture must cross the threshold of intensity that produces the desired result, and that it must occur with a specific degree of frequency; what man can't do (but demons can do) is cause fatal injuries, repair them immediately, and then cause them again. And, again. And, again.

This tool, I promise, stops that completely and totally, regardless of the level of demonic activity at any given period, right out of the box; it also promises the possibility to create more tools to stop other problems, too, although, for now, it only stops this one. Even so, sweet dreams are made of this—believe it.

Means for data acquisition and defense are the natural "next thing" after the blog, which started eight years ago as a means to inform as many as possible, as convincingly as possible, of a big problem I heard no one else talking about; but, rather, sounding off about it instead (demonic idiom). As soon as I started it, it was clear that my blog couldn't be the same tattle-tell and complaint forum and selfish plea of "help" like others publish. It had to have a point. Apparently, my enemy agreed, giving me one by setting out to mock everything I published, essentially saying no matter how good your proof is, you better be able to beat us in a fight over it. And, by beat, they meant so that no one who wants to believe a lie could in the face of my evidence.

We agreed that being able to make a visible image of an otherwise invisible demon using any smartphone with a built-in camera as easily taking a regular photo constitutes good, and making that available to anyone who owned a smartphone constitutes a fight, and getting people to make such images constitutes beat.

This blog starts off with a story that typifies The Life of a Demoniac as a beater-in-progress in a fight started eight years ago. It's the blog's pinnacle. I took eight years of notes on a lot of things; but, no matter the topic, every post had a crappy image or video that nonetheless contributed to art at its finest we have now.

NOTE | This doesn't mean the blog is over; it just means it has two clearly defined edges that mark a beginning and a definitive end. It couldn't continue without getting muddied. The fruit of its labor was meant to be distributed in other venues; it was meant to push down the walls that were erected to keep people ignorant, and to do so by stifling those who would seek to make people informed. That's anywhere but this blog. If the blog continued in this form, and adjacent to it, then what it is now would be "Chapter One." Most likely, though, just like the images that are the final outcome documented by these notes, Chapter Two will be published in whatever forum or by whatever means tools like the one that is the subject of this post are published and used. That's a more appropriate way to disseminate my notes, etc., than this blog would be.

A few weeks ago, I taught a blog reader how to use a digital video camera to create images of cloaked (invisible) demons. For the first time, he knew—not believed or suspected—but, knew they were real because he could see them with his own eyes by his own hand.

Even though my goal from the very beginning of the blog was to prove demons were real irrefutably, definitively, and globally to such an effect that anybody who denied them would be immediately branded a liar or ignorant or crazy (in other words, any of the same labels applied to me by people who knew demons were real, but wanted to frustrate my handling of the problems demons were causing in my life), being now able to do so isn't so much a blessing for people I had hoped it would be during these past eight years; rather, more like a burden to them. There's an avalanche of hard-to-cope realizations following their new knowledge, the two biggest being after creating one image and after having created thousands.

It only takes one image of a demon in your house captured by your camera by you for God and Jesus to actually become real to such persons about a minute after demons do. That's when it dawns on them that sin and salvation never got the serious priority it clearly should have had their entire lives—just as they were warned—now that Hell and Judgment both are knocking on their door.

NOTE | This gets even to people who are not religious, per se, and those who did not believe in God or what the Bible says of God. That's because it's not a belief that drives the rightful fear of judgment against the sinful, it's the fact that any creature having knowledge of the difference between good and evil can feel naturally, as part of their being of and presence in nature. Right and wrong are not laws made by hands; they are facts proven by the product of wisdom, which is nothing more than pragmatic logic. 2+2=4—you didn't invent that; it's what it is. God made the universe to support these facts; it becomes clear to atheists that there was a plan and design by a higher power when the demon-aspect of the Bible can no longer be dismissed is combined with the lifetime of a natural nagging of inner knowledge that God exists. They are staring a God they mocked in the eyes everywhere they look after my five-minute lesson on "seeing the unseen world" around them. If Airbnb approves my application to host an "Airbnb Experience" that teaches this same lesson for $10 a head, I'll get to see this happen to people weekly.

After making about a thousand of demon images—which, using my technique, is doable by merit of its output of three images every second, with up to a dozen in each—they realize they are surrounded by a citizenry with more power and influence in the world they thought they once knew (but didn't) and that they were both fools and victims of deception their entire lives; they realize that everything they know is not enough and may never be, and they realize that everyone they know is either a liar or a fool or a victim (except me).

The following is but one example of a lie flaunting itself in front of any and every ignorant face that looks at it:

This image showing art produced by the illustration software it advertises is a hand-rendered drawing of a demon totem (a demon totem serves the same purpose as a Jacob's Ladder, and requires that demons to blend like Matryoshka Dolls), which are characterized by the overlapping heads of demons; each whole head forms an individual part of another a part of the a different demon. The passenger pigeon demon—the V-shaped head and pointy chinned demon at the bottom-center—serves an evil agenda; they are the war horse of the Army of Darkness. Their name is derived by their defining role as carriers between realms for other species of demon, and because they are as common and proliferate as any variety of common pigeon. A Core ML model was developed to instantly recognize this particular demon in images [see TECH | Machine learning: Image classifier model automatically, instantly recognizes demons in images]

This image showing art produced by the illustration software it advertises is a hand-rendered drawing of a demon totem (a demon totem serves the same purpose as a Jacob's Ladder, and requires that demons to blend like Matryoshka Dolls), which are characterized by the overlapping heads of demons; each whole head forms an individual part of another a part of the a different demon. The passenger pigeon demon—the V-shaped head and pointy chinned demon at the bottom-center—serves an evil agenda; they are the war horse of the Army of Darkness. Their name is derived by their defining role as carriers between realms for other species of demon, and because they are as common and proliferate as any variety of common pigeon. The

Once all of that hit my blog reader, all he could do is stare at his bevy of images of new worlds, life and civilizations and ask the same question over and over: "They are everywhere, aren't they?"

The answer, by the way, is: "Literally."

There are everywhere and in everything all the time. I had an ultrasound once during a period of unusually high demonic activity once, and you could clearly make out the faces of demons in every major organ in my body cavity. 

There are lots of them wherever they are and whatever they are in. Demons don't walk alone; they can't. The transition [decloaking] from their native realm to ours is a group affair. I don't know how many it takes to make it; it looks like that depends on the number of demons joined in a totem, the ability and strength and size of the demons in the totem with the species of demon being the leading factor with respect to ability. So, when someone says they are possessed by a demon, that may be true; but, if they think that's the only one involved in the possession, they think wrong. I can excuse the error from a demoniac—even the really arrogant ones who call themselves experts because of what they think they know, who also call anyone who actually might be experts anything but an expert; but, when a so-called exorcist talks of a one-demon possession, I have no mercy to give. It's not advanced knowledge that there are always an entire legion anywhere there is one. It's the second thing you realize after your first contact with demons. If you don't know this fact, it means you've never, ever been involved with demons—and, some exorcists call themselves capable of fighting them, even still.

---- DRAFT COPY BELOW ----

This app creates a figurative barrier against specific kinds of demonic activity that only occur during sleep (such as demon-induced nightmares) by interfering with two requisite mental aspects: focus and concentration. In order to affect a tangible presence of consequence in any non-native realm, a demon must first narrow his thoughts to a single intention and then maintain perfect concentration until it manifests. The effort is the same as focusing on the part of a single musical instrument while an entire orchestra plays, and then singing to and listening to it to the exclusion of all other instruments until the symphony ends.

Regardless of whether a given instrument is the same as or different from other instruments, it is distinguishable by the differences between the notes played and/or their relative sound characteristics.

The random tones generated by this app obfuscate these distinctions in the mind of the demon, in a way analogous to an instrument that produced an identical sound and played the same notes, albeit in random order and to an unpredictable beat. Two sine waves with different random frequencies between 300 and 4000 Hz are played consecutively between 0.25 and 1.25 seconds for a total 2 seconds combined are known to be completely effective for ambient demonic activity.


Although any activity by demons outside their native realm requires the same focus and concentration to some degree, this app could conceivably protect against all of it. The determining factor of the effectiveness and feasibility of a tone barrier is proper deployment (i.e., location, specifically, proximity and positioning), which based on a complete knowledge of the fundamental aspects and dynamics of the type of activity it targets and the limitations inherited by all demons occupying a non-native realm.

The cacophony of the tone barrier’s cadence created by this app was determined to be completely effective against its targeted activity using a single iPhone at full volume throughout an entire sleep cycle within range of a demon’s hearing, and positioned along their path.


Locating a demon at any given site is the only challenging factor, but the possibilities can be narrowed and otherwise readily ascertained by these three keys facts:

(1) close proximity to the target-sleeper is necessary to perform the target activity (usually within the same room or adjacent);

(2) the presence of demons in a non-native realm is only made possible by occupying space from their native realm, which pockets or pools or is otherwise contained in small, enclosed or ensconced structures (e.g., a closet, small bathroom, chimney fireplace, cabinets, drawers, dishwashers, garbage disposals, drains, sewers, washers and dryers, ovens, range hoods, bathtubs/showers, etc.); and,

(3) the species of demon involved in the targeted activity is comparable in size and shape to h. Sapiens (human).









In sum, the position of the iPhone can be logically strategized by the placing the iPhone in any structure known to contain native demon space sufficient for occupation of a humanoid-sized demon nearest occupied sleeping quarters.


Additional reading
In addition to this post, read my answers to these questions on Quora for more information about the problem a tone barrier solves:

• How do sleep terrors occur?
• Is sleep paralysis demonic?
• Do we get dreams from the Devil, too?
• How do I stop night terrors?
• Can sleep paralysis be related to a paranormal phenomenon?
• I’m 16 currently. And last night I think I first experienced my first sleep paralysis. But I definitely heard something screaming in my right ear, and it felt like forever. Is this sleep paralysis?

These aren't really the questions I would pose myself or usually expect to have, nor are they questions that necessarily promote what I say about ambient demonic activity; rather, they are simply questions posed by the general domain, which by sharing them I am offering an insight into people's concerns and understanding of the problem at this point in time. In part, it demonstrates a due diligence in connecting with the people I purport to help, which is essential for making a determination of sanity in someone who makes the claims this post makes; it also helps me keep track of all the important points of knowledge that I've acquired, and makes it so I can't cut corners by leaving anything I know out. I'm not lazy, really, it's just that without a little encouragement...actually, I can't think of a way to end that sentence.