{"id":726,"date":"2024-06-11T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/reading-now-demonic-forces\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T18:56:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:56:36","slug":"reading-now-demonic-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/reading-now-demonic-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Now: <i>Demonic Foes<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">By Richard Gallagher, M. D. Available via Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">It arrived yesterday and I&#39;m already 60 pages into its 247 pages.&#0160; A page-turner for sure.&#0160; I did, however, refrain from reading any of it in bed last night before drifting off &#8212; for obvious reasons.&#0160; Experiences of my own incline me to take very seriously &quot;Unseen Warfare.&quot;<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr. Gallagher comes across as a very credible witness.&#0160; Rooted as he is in Western canons of rationality and scientific method, he nonetheless appreciates that there are points at which methodological naturalism must give way in the teeth of massive evidence of super- and preter-natural phenomena.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/books\/a34226478\/dr-richard-gallagher-demonic-possession-expert-isnt-trying-to-convince-you\/\">This article<\/a> features an interview with Dr. Gallagher.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">UPDATE (6\/14).&#0160; I am now up to p. 82.&#0160; It gets better and better. Packed with distinctions essential for clear thinking about this topic.&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Gallagher, M. D. Available via Amazon. It arrived yesterday and I&#39;m already 60 pages into its 247 pages.&#0160; A page-turner for sure.&#0160; I did, however, refrain from reading any of it in bed last night before drifting off &#8212; for obvious reasons.&#0160; Experiences of my own incline me to take very seriously &quot;Unseen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/reading-now-demonic-forces\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading Now: <i>Demonic Foes<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,94,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-and-evil","category-paranormal","category-preternatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}