Recommended Reading: Stephanie McCrummen's 7-7-26 ATLANTIC article entitled "The Demons of Maryville" (hat tip to Stephen R. Bissette for bringing this article to my attention). Here are three brief excerpts:
EXCERPT #1:
[Andrea Brewer] began gathering what she called “spiritual intelligence.” She kept track of what demons had been identified during deliverances at the Well [a charismatic-Christian church in Maryville, Tennessee established by Andrea Brewer and her husband, Mike]. As she drove around the area, she told me, she made note of Masonic lodges, tarot-card readers, and anything else that made her feel uneasy. She paid attention to her dreams. Then came the day that Mike noticed an event posted on Facebook, an upcoming fundraiser for local foster kids that involved death-metal and drag performances. The Murvul Punk Toy Drive was being held at a bookstore right across the street.
The Brewers had not heard much about Southland, but scrolling through the shop’s Facebook page, they saw rainbow flags. They saw postings about local Democratic Party meetings and a drum circle, along with videos of past drag shows, including one in which Icky Stardust performed an elaborate routine to a blasting metal version of “White Wedding” and poured fake blood all over their dress. Mike thought that he saw a teenager in the audience.
“It was obvious,” Andrea said. The high-ranking demon influencing the region was Lilith, a Mesopotamian wind goddess who ruled over forbidden sexual desire, and Southland was the stronghold, which Mike defined as a place where certain thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors contrary to God were flourishing. Mike informed the church elders. “I said, ‘We cannot just let this stuff go,’” he told me. “I said, ‘This is evil’” [...].
EXCERPT #2:
[T]he Brewers turned a conference room at the Well into what they called a “war room.” They put maps of all the surrounding counties on the walls, representing what they considered their spiritual theater of operation. Mike began posting about the fundraiser to his thousands of social-media followers, saying that it was from “the pits of hell.” At some point, he said, someone apparently upset by this sent him an envelope full of excrement; others sent checks and urged him to keep going. A few congregants started “prayer walking” near the bookstore, a tactic of spiritual warfare that had been deployed in the days and weeks before the January 6 insurrection, when people marched around the U.S. Supreme Court and state capitol buildings, calling the Holy Spirit into battle.
Meanwhile, Andrea began doing research into Tennessee laws and found an old statute banning cabaret performances within 1,000 feet of a church. The Brewers sent the information to the local district attorney, the police, the sheriff, and city and county commissioners. Soon, a wider circle of activists and pastors became involved in the cause, including one who had recently held a book burning in the town of Mt. Juliet, about three hours away—a huge bonfire that had drawn a crowd of cheering people who’d tossed copies of Harry Potter and other books deemed demonic into the flames [...].
EXCERPT #3:
Soon after, [Lisa] Misosky [owner of the Southland bookstore] got a call from the Anti-Defamation League. There had been some chatter about a protest at Southland on neo-Nazi forums that the group monitored. At the time, all kinds of LGBTQ events around the country were being targeted by extremist groups. A gunman had just killed five people and injured 19 at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado. Misosky called the police. She called some local pastors she knew and asked that they show up at the fundraiser wearing their collars. She posted on Facebook that “MAGA fascists” were threatening the toy drive.
The next evening, she stood with dozens of supporters in front of the bookstore, watching as a group of nine men, some with their faces covered with bandannas, marched down a side street and up to the sidewalk in front of the entrance, where police stopped them from going any farther. According to local press reports, the men held signs that read GROOMERS ARE PEDOPHILES and IT’S OK TO BE WHITE. At least one of them appeared to have a gun.
The Brewers said that they had no idea who the protesters were, and that they were at home at the time. On Facebook, Mike speculated that Misosky had organized a “false flag” operation to smear Christians. Later, the ADL and another watchdog group would identify the men as members of a neo-Nazi group called the Tennessee Active Club, part of a network of such clubs across the United States.
To read McCrummen's entire article, click HERE.
For those of you who have already read my 2015 book, CHAMELEO: A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY OF INVISIBLE SPIES, HEROIN ADDICTION, AND HOMELAND SECURITY, please note the fact that one could easily replace the words "spiritual intelligence" with "gangstalking" in the above excerpt, and the meaning of McCrummen's article would remain exactly the same. Alas, unconstitutional surveillance and harassment has always had a religious component to it, going back to the good ol' COINTELPRO days, as I intimated in this passage from CHAMELEO:
Let’s not be obtuse: We’re dealing with a rule-crazy, Puritanical, hypocritical, Old-Testament-style perception of reality that desperately needs to wipe out anything or anyone that is Other. Different. Contrary.
If devils don’t exist today, rest assured these insane fuckers will figure out a way to bioengineer them into existence tomorrow. And when an unacceptable, transgressive thought invades the holy sanctity of your mind’s eye, the devils will know.
The devils have always known.
Yes, the old daemons are being summoned from the mists of myth at the courtesy of an unlimited black budget and a military mindset that never forgets—nor forgives.
The tenets of the Old Testament, along with even more ancient grimoires, are now being deployed as strategic military weapons. What was mere religion yesterday will become covert policy tomorrow.
Fear God, demands our Novo Ordo Seclorum. Fear the devils He created in his own image. Fear yourself. Fear the invisible.
That’s the new National Anthem of the Disassociated States of Amurrrica.
