The Saga Continues: The Further Adventures of Rebecca Brown

MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS

Brown's generalizations further damage her credibility. Brown cautions others in similar ministries to avoid eating out: "the craft [witches and satanists by her definition] will place their people as employees in all the restaurants in your area. We have been severely poisoned more than once through fast-food restaurants. NEVER develop a routine! The safest

restaurants to eat in are smorgasbords or buffets. It is impossible for craft employees to poison all the food on a buffet or salad bar" (pg. 103, emphasis added).

In her condemnation of intrauterine birth-control devices, she says:

"Remember, all abortions are human sacrifices to Satan" (pg.106, emphasis in original).

While addressing the subject of illness, she says:

"Demons can very easily create kidney stones" and "Demons are expert [sic] at causing cancer" (pp. 109, 113).

Concerning man's sin nature, she says:

"The root of ALL mental illness is the sin of self-centeredness." "Mentally ill people choose to be mentally ill, for the most part" (pg. 138).

In describing how both Christians and non-Christians become demon-possessed she writes:

"Demons are ALWAYS placed into a person through hypnotism. Anyone using this technique also has demons" (pg. 176).

However Christian authors Martin and Deidre Bobgan, on page 53 of their booklet Hypnosis and the Christian, offer a much more balanced understanding:

"Hypnotism is demonic at its worst and potentially dangerous at its best."

While the Bobgans would agree that hypnotism does afford the possibility of demon-possession, they do not make the generalization Brown does.

Brown tells of other avenues for demonic possession: "Every time someone allows his mind to go blank, he has directly opened a doorway for demons to come back inside himself" (pg. 198).

She also says:

"Inserts are just about anything that gets inserted under the skin or into the body that has a demon and sometimes physical poisons" (pg. 103).

She says that anything from a household accident to an insect bite to a splinter is an opening for demon possession (pp. 94, 97, 109). Her "oil ritual" appears to be used to prevent such affliction.

On pages 101-103, Brown tells how to squeeze and draw demons out of certain parts of the body. An "oil tourniquet" (ring of oil) is placed just below the victim's elbow. The "deliverer" then applies an makeshift "tourniquet" with his hands and slowly squeezes downwardly over the victim's wrist toward the hand. Brown says this "drives the demons down and out of the extremity (Figure 6-1)."

One could question whether Brown sincerely believes what she writes or if she is knowingly deceiving her readers. Given her history, including loss of medical license and abuse of hallucinatory drugs, it is easy to conclude that she is deluded. Brown's latest book further suggests she is still using drugs.

On page 110 she writes:

"It is rather a joke amongst my friends (some of them are physicians also) that anyone involved in spiritual warfare is usually on Tagamet or Zantac."

Both Tagamet and Zantac are prescription medications used to treat symptoms of ulcers. Overdoses of Tagamet can produce confused states, double vision, abnormal bleeding or bruising.

Idiosyncratic reactions are nervous agitation, confusion and hallucinations. (See The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs, 1988, James Long, M.D.)

The previously cited statement on page 103 of Vessel further suggests a fearful, driven, and increasingly paranoid mind: "Also, be careful. If you are involved in a ministry similar to our own the craft will place their people as employees in all restaurants in your area. We have been severely poisoned more than once through fast food restaurants. NEVER develop a routine!... We rarely eat out except when we travel. I tend to cook everything at home. It's much safer that way."

There is demonic activity in the world today. But it is nothing like that described by Brown. Several years ago, Spiritual Counterfeits Project researchers made this observation:

"Demonic influence is usually low-key, not calling direct attention to itself as in The Exorcist. Rather, it appears that the ultimate end of such activity is deception on an ideological or spiritual level, and the ingenuity of these diabolic bunko schemes is almost limitless. Paul warns us that Satan's emissaries regularly disguise themselves, and that Satan himself appears as an 'angel of light' (II Cor. 11:14)" (Journal of Spiritual Counterfeits Project, April 1977, pg. 10).

Though written over a decade ago, its truth is just a relevant today, even more so with the unscriptural claims by Rebecca Brown and others of demonic activity. .......

PFO also highly recommends The War Within by Dr. Jay Adams to assist the Christian with a proper and biblical understanding of spiritual warfare.

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