The Jezebel Spirit and Demonic Influence in Narcissists and Psychopaths
By: Prajinta Sthapitanonda Pesqueda
Tags: Mental Illness, Narcissism, Religion And Spirituality, Narcissistic Abuse, Relationships

Not all people with personality disorders have “dark passengers,” but many of them do.

It is common knowledge that the brain of a person with anti-social personality disorders like narcissism, sociopathy, and psychopathy is different from the neuro-typical healthy individual. Researchers have used MRIs to scan the brains of individuals who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder and concluded that narcissists have less gray matter in a part of the cerebral cortex called the left anterior insula. They also have structural abnormalities in a region of the brain that has been linked to empathy. It is clear that other parts of the brain do not function correctly either.

Now we move to something less scientific and dive into the concept of good and evil.

Evil, as esteemed philosopher St. Augustine posited centuries ago, is not a positive quality or a substance, but a privation or poverty of the soul much akin to a corruption of being. Aristotle wrote that the good is that which all things desire. This, despite appearances, is congruent with the notion that good is fullness of being. It is also safe to say that all things desire “to be” and “to be” most fully. With this being said, good and being are the same thing. Evil is thus a lack of being. It is a corruption, a privation, a lack of something that should be there. Evil is thus a lack or absence of being. It is a deficiency, a corruption, a deficit of something that should be there but isn’t.

If we accept this definition, we must apply it to the mentally disordered individual who is missing the most basic of human emotions: empathy, compassion, regret, remorse, guilt, accountability, fear, respect, intimacy, and yes, even love. There is a deficit of emotion in the disordered individual that renders them incapable of functioning as regular people do. They spend their lives reflecting what others show them, consuming the energy and light from vulnerable humans who do possess the ability to experience the full swath of emotion and cycle through supplies of fuel to fill their empty souls.

There exists a moral deficiency in dysregulated individuals who possess no grasp of good and evil or right and wrong. Moral evil is primarily about a disordered will; for only a being with intellect and will is a moral agent capable and responsible for choosing. A person who commits moral evil is evil, and only moral agents can be evil. It is also parasitic, and its host is predominately good.

We are what we choose. And these choices define our character.

Nothing belongs to us more than our character, which is determined by our free and self-determined choices. Since evil is a deficit, deficiency, poverty, a kind of non-being or nothingness, the more one makes morally evil choices, the less one becomes. This is how the personality disordered individual navigates through life — a series of morally deficient choices that benefit themselves only and are not tempered with mercy, compassion, or care for the harm they may cause to others.

Now that we have established that it is through the free will and choices made along side moral bankruptcy and penury, it is easy to conclude that people with cluster B personality disorder have willfully chosen things that would make them evil by definition.

The next question that comes into play is whether the disordered person is truly responsible for the condition of their soul or their lack of morality if they have a disordered brain that prevents them from acting otherwise. If a murderer pleads insanity, they receive mercy from the courts. Perhaps the narcissist, sociopath, and psychopath fall into that group — the categorically mentally impaired.

Vladimir Solovyov writes: “The basic falsehood and evil of egoism lie … in the fact that, ascribing to himself in all justice an absolute significance, he unjustly refuses to others this same significance.” Egotism leads to petty choices and thus paves the way to moral atrophy. Grandiosity, entitlement, magical thinking, and other characteristics of the narcissist and psychopath show that their privilege and perceived power as Übermensch supersedes any moral obligation to others.

The deeply depraved mentally impaired narcissist has created a void, a nothingness in the heart of their character, and he desperately needs to be convinced of his own existence. He needs to feel that he is. Since he will not achieve this through the pursuit of virtue, he will do so through the affirmation, praise, and adoration from others. Hence, the narcissist creates the false self, the shadow self and mirrors the human qualities of others as if they are his own.

Essentially, his behavior is not principled. As a consequence, he has contempt and hatred for any individual or institution (the church) that possesses consistent ethics because it exposes his own inconsistent and arbitrary lack of ethics or morals and reminds him of his own self-deception and false self. Oddly enough, most narcissists and psychopaths actually believe their own lies and false constructs to a large degree.

How does all of this play into the idea that people with personality disorders are magnets for demonic shenanigans?

Some will say that evil, character disorder, profound moral depravity, psychopathy, sociopathy, and pathological narcissism are open doors to dark entities. They believe that personality disorders are not a physical or mental problem, but rather a spiritual one. The word demon could be metaphorical in many circles, but here, we are speaking of the supernatural being, typically associated with evil, prevalent historically in religion, occultism, and literature.

Jezebel, the wicked queen and wife to the evil King Ahab, is known for murder, iniquity, and sexual promiscuity. The spiritual components of personality disordered individuals are the spirits of Jezebel (1 and 2 Kings and Revelation 2:18–23) and the spirit of Leviathan (Job 41 — as verse 34 states “He beholds every high thing; He is king over all the children of pride.” The Jezebel spirit can best be defined: A disposition, or demonic influence that causes rifts in the church and in marriages through cunning, deception, and seduction.

There is some disagreement regarding the exact hierarchy of evil spirits, but just as there are angelic ranks, Hell appears to borrow the heavenly model. Remember Dante’s Inferno? Different demons appear to have different functions. Some can make people mute or blind (Mark 3:20–30), and others can cause those they possess to harm themselves (Mark 5:1–20).

There has also been a common theory that demonic Luciferian influences target those with weaknesses such as mental illness and are attracted to emotions such as fear, anger, envy, and vanity. Since the narcissist and psychopath often denounce God as their light and savior and have issues with these emotions, it makes them easy prey for dark things to move in and set up and spread like a viral contagion.

The process to expunge the entity that dwells within is to first forgive those that wronged you in your life who created a trauma so severe that the dissociation and false self became a necessity for survival. The next step is to invite God and the Holy Spirit to intercede on your behalf to remove any demonic squatters who may have set up camp. If the disordered person is unwilling or unable to do these things with earnest conviction, their chances for intervention are slim to none. And therein lies the Catch 22 situation. They are too damaged to get the help they need, but if they don’t get the help, they will remain damaged.

I believe in God. And believing in Lucifer and demonic agents come with the territory. You can’t have one without the other. I don’t pretend to know the logistics of it all and am far from a Biblical scholar, but I do know this. The forces of good and evil are alive and well, now more than ever, and they are engaged with battle for our souls.

There are many who believe they can intercede on behalf of their disordered partner and cast out the Jezebel spirit and Leviathan influences. It is widely believed that people possess the power of Christ and can heal, anoint, cast off evil spirits, and more. I have seen ghosts and demons, and I have prayed them away using the power of the Holy Spirit. I even laid hands on my husband and drew out an evil entity one New Year's Eve at his grandma’s house in San Antonio many years ago. I was not the one who actually did it. I called upon the Holy Spirit to help me take it out of him. The ability to do that work and pull the black, gritty energy from him came from a higher power. I was only a vessel, channeling it.

I have always known my husband had energetic abilities that transcended what most people could possess. In the first months that I knew him, we experienced a supernatural phenomenon that can best be described as a connected vibration that felt like an electrical current or giant electric toothbrush that shook us when we touched one another. I could never explain it and felt silly trying to describe it. Now, after discovering that he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder (and I suspect even more things that the mental health professional did not have time or opportunity to diagnose), I have come to believe that his energetic powers may have originated in a dark place. His narcissism opens him up to ideas of being a wizard, doing magic, and being an ascended master. He has blatantly rejected God in the past few years and seems to have taken a dark turn to something worse than I want to know.

I have desperately wanted to help him. Cast out his demons. Remove the Luciferian influences. But I think it requires his participation and cooperation, and I have neither. He has made his choice. And while I feel that it may not be fair that he must choose to live and die by his dark impulses because of his profound mental impairment, it remains out of my reach.

This summer of 2020, the summer of death and destruction, transformation and change, I have turned away from wading into the rising waters of hopelessness and despair. I have binged watched all of the seasons of Dexter on Netflix and felt that I had a predictable understanding of his character (a psychopathic killer traumatized by his mother’s brutal murder yet bound to a moral code to kill only bad guys). It’s not that he has a conscience. The code his adoptive father taught him was not a moral code. It was a survival code. And his “dark passenger” that compels him to kill must be satiated one way or another. Sure, he may be possessed by an evil entity. Isn’t that what a lack of ‘being’ and nihilistic surrender are all about?

My former husband has been gone now for over a year. I pray for him to be healed and released from his dark passenger. I do not know how God works, I just know I have to trust Him. He will deal with things His way in His time, and I should just let it be. Recovering from a relationship with a disordered person who is possibly possessed with Luciferian influences can be dangerous. The demons will use the narcissist as a conduit to get to you. Your sadness and grief and suffering make the person with a broken heart a prime target. You are infected through contact. Guilty by association. Bound to something you must let go of before it drags you to the bottom of the sea.

The best you can do is to learn what you are dealing with. Look it in the face and name it. Pronounce it. And be defiant in the face of evil.

Mother Jones said, “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.” If you love a personality disordered person, you have to do a little bit of both. Then remember to save yourself. We can love them, but we can only rescue ourselves.