THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

passage into my bedroom.
light coming into the room for me to see him.
There was enough Iroom one night.
39. I spoke to him asfather, I addressed him as 139. B perceived Satan to be a father figure
"Father ", he was Father.
and addressed him as "Father".
40. I felt cold, very cold, like standing inside of 40. The impact of Satan's supernatural
a fridge, chill-bumps all over your body - you manifestation to B was to make him feel
just freeze. I couldn't move, I couldn't move, paralysed, physically cold, and intensely
man. Just his presence was unreal. Its like a fearful.
deep fear.
41. I understood that what I felt in his 41. B attributes the intense fear he felt in
presence, even though the chill-bumps was on Satan's presence to Satan's own essentially
my arm, and my hair was standing up, and my fearful nature.
flesh was just petrified ... spiritually I
understood that what I was feeling from him,
that what was being generated from him was
what he was actually feeling himself That was
him, it was his nature. He has a phenomenal
amount offear within himself... he's a spirit of
fear ... he's afraid
42. You can actually feel a lot of rejection 42. B experienced a deep sense of rejection
coming from Satan ... I felt a lot comingfrom radiating from Satan, which he attributes to
him. Its because he was rejected ... he was Satan's having been rejected by God.
rejected, he was kicked out ofheaven.
What did it mean for you to be a Satanist, to be part ofthat?
Natural meanin2 units
Central themes
43. It gave me security, it gave me confidence. 43. Satanism gave B the confidence and
You know, if somebody does somebody wrong security to actively avenge the wrong he
you hear them say, "I'd really like to get that perceived was done to him, without fear of
person, I'd really like to ...one of these days retribution.
he's going to meet the wrong person". I said,
"Well why don't you do somethin~ about it ...
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