occult

From the Wikipedia article on Santería :

Based on my studies over the past decade or so, I believe that a pressing need exists for Christians to be discipled toward biblical demonology more accurately. In this thread, I plan to treat many passages to show how they teach us truths toward that end.

Foundational to such discipleship is a careful examination of the first instance of demonic activity in affecting humans to sin against God:

The idea for this survey came to me after seeing a “Filings” article about the Catholic church seeing a rise in requests for exorcisms.

I have been involved in a handful of situations involving ghosts or voices, although I have never felt a need to perform an out-and-out exorcism. I have seen, on one occasion, occult phenomenon.