What leads you to believe that you:
A.) Met a demon, and
B.) It was in relation to your listening to music
What's your process of reasoning here? How do you know you aren't leaping to conclusions?
I would note the description provided by
@axelthefox broadly aligns with encounters of Christians with demons going back to the very early church. For example, we see it in the Vita Antonis (The Life of St. Anthony the Great, the biography of the great fourth century founder of the Desert Fathers, by St. Athanasius, who also defended the Trinity at Nicaea and defined our scriptural canon), the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, and the counsels to monastics provided in various theological texts, one recent example being The Arena, the 19th century manual for the religious life by St. Ignatius Brianchaninov. Specifically we see this pattern commonly repeated in monastic texts because monastics have a tendency to experience “unseen warfare.”
We also see this same pattern in the accounts of exorcisms performed by Eastern Orthodox, traditional Protestant (Lutheran, Anglican), Oriental Orthodox and Roman Catholic clergy.
So, while I did not experience what
@axelthefox experienced and cannot know for sure, I can say that within the Roman Catholic tradition of which he is a part, the experience of the demonic is highly correlated with what he was describing, which is why I advised he go see his priest, who can in the context of his church provide assistance and detailed guidance. I think my Roman Catholic friends including but not limited to
@concretecamper @Michie and
@pdudgeon will probably agree with me; since
@axelthefox is Catholic I think there is extreme benefit in using the most expedient means available within his church to deal with the issue, which by its nature can be very disturbing.
I myself avoid much of popular music and reject outright the entire genre of Christian Rock because certain styles of it are extremely dark in content and I find they cause in me ugly images. When it comes to secular music my taste is for classical music composed usually by people who were also Christian composers who composed traditional music for the church. And by traditional, I mean very traditional; while I am not myself Roman Catholic, I think Pope St. Pius X’s desire to standardize the liturgical music of the Roman church around its traditional Gregorian chant and the beautiful polyphonic compositions of Renaissance composers like Byrd, Tallis, and Palestrina, as expressed in his motu proprio tra la sollecitudini:
Tra le sollecitudini - Wikipedia
I would note by the way that if one only listened to traditional church music and music composed by pious Christian composers of such music, for example, in the Lutheran tradition, Johann Sebastian Bach and Dietrich Buxtehude come to mind, and in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox tradition, Dmitri Bortniansky or Pavel Chesnokov or Komitas Vardapet or Makar Yekmalian, and among Anglicans there are many fine composers, such as Samuel Sebastian Wesley, George Dyson, T. Tertius Noble, Herbert Howells, Healey Willan, and Sir Francis Jackson, who was the chief organist at York Minster in the late 1970s and whose funeral was a few weeks ago; he recently reposed in the Lord at the age of 103. And these composers composed secular as well as sacred music. So I myself tend mainly to listen to composers including but not limited to those I enumerated above.
