Hi, this is Against Everyone with Connor Habib, a weekly podcast featuring my conversations with

countercultural figures and presenting complex, philosophical, spiritual, and political ideas

in an engaging and accessible way. Friends, this is a special episode, unlike any other

that I've had before. And it starts off with this question, which is,

how does evil created by culture and our own deeds affect us? You've heard me discuss

spiritual topics on the show before if you listen to the show. And if this is your first episode

of the show, well, we're going to be throwing you

right in because I don't think I've ever pulled listeners into the deep end with me like this,

nor steered the conversation towards the topic of, well, demons. And not the metaphorical

kind. Demons as actual entities, as well as why we need to talk about them as

entities and not just figurative metaphorical complexes and how they affect our health and our lives.

My guest, Arenda Torsen, is a Christian occultist, an author, a veterinarian, and an acupuncturist who lives in Norway.

His writing details, sometimes in the same text, his decades-long career in healing, as well as his own spiritual experiences, encounters, and events.

And he's written a ton of books, including the two which we focus on the most, the content of which,

spiritual translocation, the behavior of pathological entities and illness and healing, and the relationship between human beings and animals.

That's a long title, and also demons and healing, the reality of the demonic threat and the doppelganger in the light of

anthroposophy. Both those are available from Temple Lodge Publishing, and I link to them in the show

notes at patreon.com forward slash Connor Abeeb. Unlike other episodes of the show, I let myself

get lost a bit in this one.

Usually I'm always sort of breaking things down to make sure it's completely understandable to you all.

But in this case, because Ari and I have some overlapping spiritual experiences,

I didn't want to halt the conversational pathwork to explain everything. So to that end, I knew I would

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