There were things in Ryan's life which just did not seem to be right, fair, or just. As he repeated the phrase, his stomach began to tighten. He suddenly found himself in a past life, holding a dagger against his abdomen about to commit seppuku. It was the code of bushido, the honorable way to take his own life, and yet something was wrong.
As he plunged the dagger into his gut he sensed a vague and momentary awareness of the wrongness of this code which had led him to this act. In the next moment the attending second slashed downward with the sword in the prescribed and accepted manner of bushido and his head went rolling away.
As a spirit, Ryan surveyed the scene and he once again felt the fierce loyalty of the bushido code of honor. It was everything. It was more than sufficient reason to live and die.
As he moved back to explore the life, the details began to emerge. His father had been Shogun before being assassinated. His wife had been killed by the rival faction and a new Shogun had come to power. As son of the former Shogun he also was required to die and was given the choice to commit seppuku, or ritual suicide, in keeping with the code of bushido.
The second time through the death scene, he had a different sense of the meaning of his life. Suddenly, bushido seemed nonsensical, ridiculously structured, somehow comical, yet enormously tragic. He realized that he had loved his wife and family and that indeed love was, in truth, the only important element of life. A major realization, but just a little late for this samurai.
Again moving back into that lifetime, he discovered that his wife was part of the rival family. He and she had grown to love each other, yet she was still a part of the betrayal. Her family could not trust her any longer and had ordered her death. He died feeling rage at the betrayal-rage and hatred and the desire for revenge. This set the stage for the ensuing events.
He described the scene of his death without much emotion. He sensed two shadowy figures moving about in the distance. They came closer and he saw their forms more distinctly; each the size of a man, yet amorphous and dark, they were spirit, not physical. They addressed his rage and offered him the chance for revenge. They offered him re-embodiment, not in the form of reincarnation, but by possessing the body of the new Shogun's counselor.
The counselor was trusted and had constant access to the Shogun. This would afford the opportunity for revenge, which the young man desired.
In return they requested his soul, of which he had little knowledge or need. He instantly accepted the offer. This was the pact with the devil, his descent into dark bondage by choice and by the power of his own word.
It was two weeks before the conditions were right for the counselor to be open and vulnerable to possession. There seemed to be a moment of fear or confusion.
The spirit of the young man just went in and took over. He adjusted quickly to the situation, and perceived that the counselor and Shogun were walking and talking quietly in a garden setting. At first Ryan thought they were alone and it would be a simple matter of drawing his sword and killing the Shogun. With his hand on the sword he suddenly became aware of the retinue of samurai guards following them. As he drew the sword with the intention of dealing a death blow to the hated Shogun, the samurai reacted swiftly, and the counselor, in Ryan's words, looked like sliced salami.
Here are the classic elements of demonic infiltration. Ryan's hatred, rage, and desire for revenge acted like a magnet for the dark ones. They offered life which is a deception, as it is not theirs to give in any form.
The divine spark of life within all beings is a spark of the God Source, the only Source.
They cannot arrange or offer reincarnation options, as that lies only within the province of the Light. The offer of possessing another is doubly intrusive: it is a violation of the free will of the host, and also a deviation from the spiritual path and a karmic burden for the possessing spirit. Blinded by his rage, the newly deceased spirit of the samurai accepted the offer and mindlessly gave his soul in return. Even then, the revenge was not achieved. His foul desire was not fulfilled.
The contract is never honored. The dark ones never deliver what is promised. Herein lies the key to terminating the contract.
The child of Light, the human being, operates with perfect integrity and will continue to fulfill the promise to the darkness, whatever the nature of the promise. Because the dark ones never fulfill their part of the bargain, the contract becomes null and void and the lost soul, the earthbound spirit who made that bargain with the "devil," is free.
Ryan perceived this concept fully in the altered state, and was willing to reclaim dominion and his freedom. He made the words his own as he repeated the therapist's phrases:
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