09/14/2026
WHY NOT EVERYBODY QUALIFIES FOR AN EXORCISM WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Catholic Church has a strict screening process when it comes to exorcism. In my Italian-Sicilian tradition, however, not everything that behaves like an entity is actually an external entity.
Sometimes we are dealing with a SHADOW SELF: an ancient, primordial energy of the soul that has split. It can behave exactly like an entity, acquire a personality, use language differently, appear male or female, and present extraordinary phenomena.
The other possibility is an external entity possessing the person. In my tradition, true demonic possession represents only about 1% of these cases.
In the story I share in this video, one of my clients went to the Catholic Church and was essentially told that she was not yet completely possessed.
From the perspective of my tradition, this approach can give more power to the shadow self to play the demonic part. The person believes the story, gives it more energy, and the shadow self can acquire an even stronger personality.
This is why in the Italian-Sicilian tradition we work with BOTH exorcism and the shadow self.
Sometimes a shadow self can even be reintegrated through what appears to be an exorcism, when that separated energy decides to be reincorporated.
So what people call an exorcism may sometimes not be the casting away of an entity at all. The beliefs, energy and meaning encoded through the ritual can instead facilitate the INTEGRATION of the shadow self.
How do you know which one you’re dealing with?
Sometimes it is extremely difficult because they can behave in remarkably similar ways. But in many cases, the shadow self will show patterns of behavior corresponding to a MESSAGE that needs to be understood and integrated by the person experiencing it.
Sometimes the work isn’t about casting something away.
Sometimes it is about understanding what has split—and what is asking to come back.
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