Throughout our years of researching occult themes we have run into countless stories of people who became caught up in the "search for enlightenment," only to find that their optimistic dreams turned into palpable nightmares. 1 Why? What kind of reality can transform the genuine sincerity of such people into the terrors they frequently experience?
What kind of psychic reality are such individuals tapping into? What manner of powers are they encountering? Is it merely human potential—the "divinity within" of the Eastern philosophy or the "latent psi" of the parapsychologist—somehow gone awry? Or is it something else? Why is it that so many people end up experiencing destructive powers, especially when they had the best of motives and initially encountered powerful and tremendously encouraging and loving experiences? How can something initially so "spiritual" and "blissful" and "beautiful" end up unmasked as something so evil—and so destructive?