THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

me. That's where my rejection began.
discovered his adoptive status.
9. But I was also very stubborn when I was 9. E perceived himself to be a stubborn
small ... wouldn't eat, wouldn't do homework... and rebellious child.
very rebellious, you know.
10. I used to also get enjoyment from being 10. E obtained pleasure from being
destructive ... breaking up things and getting destructive and getting into punished.
into trouble.
11. As a young child I was always interested in 11. E's interest in the occult began with
the occult, in supernatural forces. I always compensatory childhood fantasies of
imagined myselfto be a supernatural hero, like being a supernatural hero who too took
you read about in comics ... totally opposite to cruel revenge on those who had harmed
how I felt in real life. I would kill and torture him.
baddies who did me wrong.
12. Anyway, it started when I was in primary 12. E's supernatural involvement began
school, we used to play with a ouija board with occult divination games.
Since then I've been fascinated by anything to
do with the supernatural. We would play it
cifter school, ask questions and get answers,
that type ofstuff.
13. And as a teenager. I was always interested 13. As an adolescent E was fascinated
in the occult movies and horror films. The with gruesome horror films.
more gruesome it was the more I liked it. I was
only interested in horrorfilms.
14. Some years ago I bumped into some friends 14. As an adult E was invited by friends
who were involved in the occult ... involved in to attend seances.
the spiritualist church and so on. They invited
me to come along to seances and things,
everyone sitting around a table and calling up
spirits. Because I was interested in the
supernatural I went along.
15. Things started appearing, on the table and 15. E witnessed supernatural phenomena
on the floor. Things started moving, lights occurring at the seances.
would go on andoff.
16. And I found out that I could do things, I 16. E experienced a sense of control and
could make things move, I could make balls power when he discovered his aptitude
float in the air. I had a sense of control and for telekinesis.
power.
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