Hello Bill,You wrote,
Among these folks it is common knowledge that most spirits presenting themselves as previously human, with proper testing, are revealed to be demonic spirits.
I’m going to tell you what we know from the data. We can’t rely on someone who says he’s channeling Jesus or who takes trips to the afterlife in his sleep. We have to use the data we have from sources that have been verified to have been speaking with those on the other side. The verification comes from the people on this side of life consistently saying they’ve been communicating with their deceased loved ones, and those coming through revealing things the people on this side of life couldn’t have known. For the medium to be genuine, there has to be no hint of fraud and the evidence has to be present repeatedly, dozens or hundreds of times. Then we need to have the same testimony about life on the other side repeated between mediums who have been found to be valid. We expect that commonality to be among both mental and physical mediums.
Reports from those reputable mediums that are consistent among them is the only data I can accept as valid. I can’t accept data from a single person who says he’s channeling someone or says he has personal insights or says he travels to the afterlife.
That having been said, this is what we know that comes from validated mediums and is corroborated among all of the reputable mediums.
1. Demons. The concept of inherently evil entities that have never been human that God couldn’t control that wreak havoc on humanity is mythology. There is no devil and there is no horde of evil entities that have never been human that are demons.
However, there are lower-level spirits who have been human and were destructive and cruel on this side of life who continue to stay on the Earth plane and influence people who are weak or themselves destructive on this side of life. They can come through to people who are on a spiritually lower level on this side of life and can say they’re someone whom they’re not. The difference is that they aren’t omniscient and can’t imitate a loved one or bring forth knowledge the people on this side of life would think came from their loved one. In other words, I haven’t read of any reports of someone successfully fooling someone on this side of life through reputable, tested, verified mediums, but we do have records of thousands of people from the next plane of life coming through who were genuinely the loved one.
2. Common knowledge. I’m afraid that there is a mythology that originated in Judeo-Christian traditions that is still widely held by some people. Among them is the notion that contacting spirits on the other side is evil, that people masquerading as the loved one will come through and deceive the person on the earth plane, and that we shouldn’t have communication with those on the other side. But it’s just mythology.
The admonitions from the Old Testament about mediums came because there were religions that consulted the dead for advice, not God. The problem was that the people were sometimes joining these religions and consulting the dead, not God. However, even among these people, there was never the suggestion that it was demons on the other side of life that were speaking through the mediums. They knew it was real people, but the problem was they were consulting the dead, not God, for their lives. Even the writers of the Old Testament knew it wasn’t demons speaking.
In the New Testament, except for one mention that a demon helped someone tell the future, there’s no suggestion that people shouldn’t talk to their deceased loved ones, and no suggestion that it’s demons who come through mediums.
You asked,
How are you working to ensure accurate identity of your manifestations?
Those who come through are known to the people they speak with. It would be as difficult for a lower level entity to pretend to be someone the person on this side of life knew as it would be for you to call someone on the phone out of the blue and try to pretend to be their grandfather, not knowing them at all.
Those on the next plane of life are eager to give verification. Every consultation with a medium should include verification. That means the person on the other side of life is giving data the person on the Earth plane knows came from their loved one. If there’s no verification, then I wouldn’t trust the reading. It always has to be there.
So, we know the people on the other side of life are speaking because the mediums they come through are verified, the evidence they bring through is verified, and they carry on extended conversations just as though they were speaking over the breakfast table. That couldn’t be faked.
Love and peace, Craig