October Holy Ghost Stories: Burning Man 2011

It's October and everyone loves a good "Holy" Ghost story. This one comes from our adevntures at Burning Man 2011. Lisa and I went with a team, put together by Cindy McGill of Hope for the Harvest, to go to Burning Man and help people have encounters with the Holy Ghost.

This story occurs mid-week in our Burning Man adventure. It's Wednesday, around dinner time, and one of our team members, Marilyn was working with a woman who was having a spirit manifestation in the encounters tent. Sometimes during Holy Ghost encounters, people with spirits will manifest in the presence of the creator. This woman, whom we'll call Alice, was doubled over and her stomach was in pain. We usually work in groups, and Marilyn was alone. One of our team members came out and got me and told me of the spirit that was manifesting. I entered our encounters tent and asked Marilyn what was going on. Marilyn told me she was working with Alice, a returning person who had a similar experience of manifestation, when she first came to us on the previous day. Alice was a Reiki healer from a camp across the street. Alice knew it was an unclean spirit and she wanted it out of her.

Now Marilyn and I had to explain to her what was happening and I wanted to know about her spiritual back ground. It was a spiritual line we had to cross that could have damaging repercussions spiritually if Alice wasn't prepared. I asked Alice about her spiritual background and she told me her family was Jewish. Our friend was a woman of Jewish heritage.

I asked her what name she called God, "Yahweh?"

She said,"No, Elohim!"

Alice said her stomach felt sick, she was doubled over from the pain, and felt like she was going to throw up. Marilyn and I worked together in binding the spirit in the stomach and ordered it to release the stomach. In the name of Elohim we commanded the spirit to leave her. After a couple of minutes of battle the spirit was driven out of the woman and she was free from it.

So Marilyn and I sealed the woman in prayer with Elohim. The woman commented that this moment shocked her and turned everything she thought she believed in spirituality -was now upside down. I told her she pretty much had it right the first time with Elohim. She knew what demons were and found out first hand they were real. She smiled and felt lighter as she parted with us in her new freedom.

The Holy Ghost will meet you where you're at, even if you're in the middle of the desert at a festival where ANYHTING GOES!!!