:*those carefully documented cases which have repeatedly and conclusively demonstrated the fact that many persons who actually do harbor evil spirits are usually unaware of it before conclusive evidence of their presence is discovered, and some cases demonstrate the reality that the evil spirit inhabiting the victim does not always manifest symptoms of illness, or other cases in which the unclean spirit does not seize complete control of the victim's body causing a complete loss of conscious awareness, but can take involuntary control of parts of the victim's body against their will—for example, partial paralysis of limbs, intermittent episodes of partial blindness or complete and permanent blindness, deafness, speech impairment, rashes, peculiar skin eruptions, boils, fevers, chills, involuntary spasmodic movements, unexplainable disabilities resulting in unemployment or inability to care for oneself, "blackouts", amnesia, all without any apparent physiological origin or ordinarily diagnosable observable pathology according to nature. Job 2:7; Exodus 12:23; Luke 13:11 and 16; 1 Timothy 1:20 and 1 Corinthians 5:5; 10:10; Mark 1:26; 3:10-11; 5:2-5 and 8; Mark 9:20-27; Matthew 12:43; Acts 16:16; Acts 19:16; Luke 6:18; 7:21—compare the experience of Saul king of Israel, 1 Samuel 16:14-16 and 23; 18:10-11; 28:3-13; also Saul's behavior 1 Samuel 18:6-29; 19:9-15; 22:11-19; 24:16-17.
:Careful research of case after case of proven demonic possession has demonstrated that evil spirits cannot actually touch the personal will of their victims. The invisible oppressing spirit has made itself a constant companion, attaching itself to its target like a loathsomely vile parasite, often without the victim's knowledge ([http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/15-33.htm 1 Corinthians 15:33]). The victim is like a city under siege. Possession can take the undramatic obscure form of unrelenting depression or obsession without evidence of any physical [[Genetics|genetic]] or [[pathogen]]ic origin, and may never feature public episodes of bizarre or suddenly unexpected speech and behavior which superficially resemble [[Schizoid personality disorder]], [[Tourette's syndrome]] or [[Epilepsy|epileptic siezures]]. Many victims of oppression by evil spirits are afflicted with unrelieved anxiety, dread, inexplicable feelings of intense guilt, sensations of impending catastrophe, fears of contamination, or with a stupefying malaise or inertia characterized by a profound lack of energy or a total lack of any interest in ordinary daily human activities or personal hygiene or by a constant need to sleep, or a constant state of restless activity, or a condition falsely resembling [[obsessive compulsive disorder]], [[Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder|PTSD]], [[Alzheimer's disease]], the effects of [https://www.emedicinehealth.com/head_injury/article_em.htm [Chronic traumatic encephalopathy|traumatic brain injury]], or continuous obsessive agitation over endless projects which deprive the victim of adequate sleep and healthy social interaction (a defilement Jesus called "folly"), all of which are strangely unfocused, oddly generalized, unexpectedly '''without any discernable cause or reason''', defying clear diagnosis, and which are persistently and mysteriously unresponsive to aggressive medical treatment and probing in-depth counselling, but are undramatic cases of genuine suffering. There are many documented cases of oppression by unclean spirits '''''which do not in any way''''' present episodes of inexplicable speech and bizarre behaviors of the kind made infamous by sensation-seeking novels and films about evil demonic entities and demonic possession as forms of "entertainment" (for example, William Peter Blatty's, ''[[The Exorcist]]'', and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_%282011_film%29 ''The Rite'' (2011)], starring Anthony Hopkins, based on Matt Baglio's factual book ''The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist'').
:In those episodes in which the oppressive evil spirit intensifies the attack and does seize complete control of the victim's body, the victim's human mind and will are rendered inert and inoperative, and, after the oppressive and dominating evil spirit concludes the attack, without truly releasing the victim by lifting the siege and actually departing, the victim is afterward utterly unaware of the bizarre physical and verbal (if any) behavior of those moments, and these episodes of attack can happen repeatedly and will continue, and the sense of oppression continues, until the evil spirit is forced to depart by the holy power of God the Father through Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit of the Lord poured down from heaven in compassionate answer to humble prayer invoking divine mercy on the victim. It is Christ who compels the unclean spirit to depart, not the self-assumed authority of the exorcist who claims to be acting in his name, saying, "I bind thee" and "I take authority over thee" and "I cast thee out", a potentially disastrous situation in which claiming spiritual dominance by telling demons where to go degenerates into a personal power play and turns what is supposed to be a sacred ministry into an egotist’s playground.