Demons, Deception, and Why Your Spiritual Practices Might Be Dangerous
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Demons, Deception, and Why Your Spiritual Practices Might Be Dangerous

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 20261 hr 17 min
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Find this episode on YouTube: "Justine Alter" — a pseudonym — returns to chat with John Heers in a raw Heavy Things Lightly conversation you have to hear to believe.Justine worked for years as a professional psychic, deep in channeling, ceremonial magic, and occult community life. Baptized in 2018 and converted in 2019, she is now Orthodox and lives under obedience to her spiritual father. To stay clear of that past, she appears with no face on camera and a disguised voice.This episode was wrought with demonic activity from the start — dropped calls, wild volume swings, leaf-blowers outside the window...

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Hello guys, you can hear outside. I don't know if you hear it, but the entire podcast I'm going to show you was wrought with demonic activity. I'm not playing that on Justine Alter, who is a writer and was

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formerly an occultist and now is in the Orthodox Church. She's got great stories. It's amazing. You may not hear them.

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Andrew's going to edit this up, but if you do, it's because he saved the gems. because we were that lying guy dropped and the freaking guy starts blowing water outside of my window which he was still doing and then she got dropped and

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