Can You become a demon?

From a visitor from OH 11/30/03
I have been reading all of the questions on your site and I have one of my own. If a person dies after doing something very bad or is just in general and very bad and disturbed human. Will he in fact become a demon ? Or would he just become a not so nice ghost ? Also if this person is in fact a demon how do you go about getting them out of your house ?

RESPONSE:

Thanks for writing Eeeek! First of all there is nothing that says that anyone will be a ghost after they cross over. Some people die, cross over and find no need to return to this plane while in the spiritual form. Secondly, I don't happen to believe in demons per si. I believe life is made up of two things: positive and negative. This is how balance is maintained. A positive person will, no doubt, be a positive ghost; whereas a negative person will end up being a negative ghost. Generally speaking a negative entity is difficult. They tend to do things that will cause fear in us living. They also can end up being a poltergeist and add to the fear generated in us humans. But, be it a positive or negative ghost it is dealt with in the same manner...you ask it to leave. You don't scream, you don't get angry, you simply be firm and tell it that it has crossed over and must join its loved ones on the other side and they don't belong here any longer. Keeping in mind that this is your world, the physical and you have control here. Also keeping in mind that it may take a few times of telling the entity to leave.

Just a bit more on demons - I am of the opinion that the concept of demons is something religion introduced to mankind for the purpose of controlling its followers. I do not believe there is a devil nor do I believe there is anything along the lines of demons. I do believe there is negative energy in the world and that negative energy is what many opt to call evil or the devil (lived backwards) or a demon. True enough there are some humans that do things that are so horrific it becomes much easier to believe there is evil in the world and there are demons - but life still remains balanced because for every negative thing that happens there is a positive thing that happens. We tend, which is odd, to focus on the negative - odd because most humans are positive in nature and are not negative.

Hope this answers your questions! Thanks for writing Eeeek!