{"id":48629,"date":"2020-05-29T13:57:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=48629"},"modified":"2020-05-29T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:57:45","slug":"island-of-aquarius-could-it-be-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2020\/05\/island-of-aquarius-could-it-be-demons.html","title":{"rendered":"Island of Aquarius: Could It Be Demons?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Escape from the Island of Aquarius, pp. 66-71<\/strong><\/p>\n

This whole section is weird weird weird weird weird.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with a quick reminder of where we are. Dr. Cooper, Jay, and Lila, were imprisoned in the \u201cconfinement hut\u201d and a fly that can deliver a deadly poison was intentionally inserted through the roof. Dr. Cooper killed the fly and knocked out the guard and, because everyone else in the cult town was outside town limits having some sort of meeting that involved chanting, they were able to escape the town. Instead of leaving the island, they decide to investigate.<\/p>\n

Their hearts were pounding as they pushed on through the jungle, following the winding trail, always taking quick little moments to listen and watch. The sounds of wailing and chanting new closer. The Coopers kept moving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This would make more sense if children were not involved.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then Dr. Cooper stopped and pointed at his nose. Jay and Lila sniffed the air. They could smell something burning, like the smell of sparks or hot stones. They pressed on, step by step, picking up that smell more and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do hot stones smell differently from fire? Or sparks\u2014do sparks smell differently from fire? I\u2019ve never tried to tell the difference between the smell of separate types of fire, but my guess would be that it smells differently depending on what is being burned, not sparks v. fire v. hot stones.<\/p>\n

Firewalking. It\u2019s firewalking.<\/p>\n

Now they could see what looked like another clearing coming up, and an orange, fiery glow shining on the trees. The villagers must be having some kind of bonfire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is that last line even trying to do? Either stick with describing what they can see and hear or put the editorializing in someone\u2019s head, this is just weird.<\/p>\n

The \u201cparty\u201d was in full swing when the Coopers finally slinked and prowled up to the clearing\u2019s edge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Slinked and prowled?<\/p>\n

Lila found a good spot in a tree from which to watch, Jay climbed up on a very handy boulder, and Dr. Cooper was tall enough simply to conceal himself and observe what was happening in the clearing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had to read this three times to figure out why Dr. Cooper\u2019s height meant he didn\u2019t need to hide, only to realize that he actually is<\/em> hiding \u2026 somehow.<\/p>\n

The area looked like a large, outdoor amphitheater, with logs rolled into place to serve as benches, all facing a huge fire pit in the center, now red, glowing, and covered over with stones. The benches were full of villagers\u2014mothers, fathers, children, workers\u2014and all of them were wailing and moaning some strange chant as if in a devilish, hypnotic worship service. The participants were entranced, and swayed back and forth like a field of grass, their eyes vacant and staring, their necks craned as if they were hanging by their hair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait, what? WTF is happening with their hair?<\/p>\n

This is weird,<\/em> man, it\u2019s weird<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But it was the glowing, smoldering, fiery mound of stones that grabbed the Coopers\u2019 attention. With great amazement and dread, they watched as former college professors, lawyers, and executives, like puppets possessed, stepped barefoot onto the hot, glowing rocks, walked over them, and then stepped off onto the ground again to the cheers of the crowd, their feet unaffected by the incredible, searing heat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I want you to remember this, because we\u2019ll come back to it\u2014they watch \u201cas former college professors, lawyers, and executives\u201d walk barefoot across the rocks. Those are the three professions Peretti chose to emphasize.<\/p>\n

Having passed through this fiery test, they then knelt before Adam MacKenzie, who stood at the other end of the mound, officiating over the whole ritual, encouraging the new initiates, and basking in the admiration and glory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m genuinely interested in how these people got here. I listened to a whole podcast season about Waco, and I\u2019ve read more about Jonestown than I probably should have. And then there\u2019s that Netflix series on the cult in Oregon. The dynamics of cults are utterly fascinating to me. What did Fake MacKenzie tell these people, exactly? How does he explain his own position, to create such worship? Is he a prophet? A god reincarnated? I want to know more!<\/p>\n

Dr. Cooper doesn\u2019t, though.<\/p>\n

Dr. Cooper was angry and ashamed at what he was seeing.<\/p>\n

\u201cA firewalking party!\u201d he said, shaking his head. \u201cPeople under demonic power, walking on incredibly hot stones without being burned, and they think they\u2019ll find salvation in that!\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait wait wait.<\/p>\n

Peretti needs to make up his mind here. Are these goings on demonic, or not? Recall that when the Coopers were discussing the \u201cMoro Kunda\u201d curse in the confinement hut, one of the kids suggested that it might be demonic, but Dr. Cooper dismissed that suggestion, saying that in his view there was probably a perfectly ordinary explanation for the curse, because the whole curse thing was just too convenient for Fake MacKenzie\u2014and he was right. The curse was induced by a poisonous insect. But now this<\/em> is demonic?<\/p>\n

I feel like there\u2019s a lot going on here.\u00a0First, there\u2019s the\u00a0firewalking<\/a> itself. Second, there\u2019s the relation to the cult and its power structures and beliefs. I\u2019m curious whether this is a thing cults have actually done\u2014this use of firewalking. This webpage suggests that it is<\/a>. Third, there\u2019s the relationship between firewalking and evangelical Christianity\u2014the claim that demons<\/em> are involved.<\/p>\n

This this last part seems most interesting. Peretti is inveighing spiritual authority on firewalking when most people I know think it has a scientific explanation. Evangelicals do this quite frequently: consider the claim that Mohammad really had visions, that the Koran was dictated to him by a demon disguising itself as an angel. It\u2019s an interesting choice, bestowing supernatural power\u2014albeit demonic\u2014to phenomenon others view as natural.<\/p>\n

For evangelicals, even witches<\/em> have supernatural power\u2014through Satan and his demons. God is not the only power in the universe. Maybe that\u2019s why I find this so interesting\u2014bestowing so much power on others would seem to make God\u2019s power less impressive, and certainly less unique. There is not one God; there are many<\/em> gods. In some sense, evangelicals argue that their god is the most powerful god, the best and greatest god\u2014but not that he is the only god. (This depends of course on how one defines \u201cgod\u201d and evangelicals would not like my rephrasing.)<\/p>\n

The trouble is that this doesn\u2019t really feel like it fits with the rest of this story. Peretti already had Dr. Cooper dismiss the idea that there was any spiritual power involved in the curse, including demonic power\u2014is this story about natural shenanigans, of supernatural<\/em> shenanigans? Pick one, please!<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the reasoning taken in this 2016 Christian Post article<\/a> would seem to fit better with the rest of Peretti\u2019s rating:<\/p>\n

A firewalk at a motivational seminar is mere child\u2019s play when compared to this everlasting fire. And the natural power of man is nothing compared to the power of God that resides within everyone who is born again through faith in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

The devil is a vicious giant in the spiritual realm, and he is after your immortal soul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This would make sense\u2014Peretti could see firewalking as natural, as yet another trick Fake MacKenzie is using to control his followers. Why ever not? The red scarf thing isn\u2019t seen as demonic. It\u2019s Fake MacKenzie manipulating people! But here, we get demons<\/em>. It\u2019s weird! Why is this<\/em> demons? Why this?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSome beautiful new world,\u201d said Jay.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nothing but tragic! They\u2019ve obviously turned away from God and form the turret of Jesus Christ, and now, thinking they\u2019ve discovered some great new cosmic power, they\u2019ve done nothing but fall into the darkness and bondage of witchcraft and paganism! Civilized, Western, supposedly Christian intellectuals \u2026 firewalking!\u201d Dr. Cooper shook his head again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I told you, it\u2019s weird! A curse whose affects\u00a0they had seen\u00a0<\/em>definitely had natural explanations, but firewalking is\u00a0clearly\u00a0<\/em>demonic! Witchcraft and paganism!<\/p>\n

Also! Civilized! Western! Intellectuals! Remember earlier where Peretti wrote that these were \u201cformer college professors, lawyers, and executives.\u201d It seems as though these professions are the most \u201ccivilized\u201d and \u201cWestern\u201d Peretti could think of, so they\u2019re the ones he chose to highlight. (How the heck did the Coopers know these people\u2019s professions? The contract between their perspective and the details the narrator randomly throws in for readers feels off to me.)<\/p>\n

Anyway!<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now we know where he and all his followers are.\u201d Dr. Cooper gestured to Jay and Lila, and they came down form their observation perches. \u201cWhile the cat\u2019s away, these mice are going to play. Let\u2019s have a look in his cottage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When they arrive back at the town they find there are a few guards patrolling\u2014how these guards didn\u2019t hear Dr. Cooper\u2019s scream-ruse earlier, or notice the disappearance of the guard he knocked out, I don\u2019t know. Regardless, they manage to avoid detection and enter Fake MacKenzie\u2019s unlocked cottage.<\/p>\n

The living room contained souvenirs from all over the South Seas, from primitive weapons to pagan animal amulets, charms of stone, and trinkets of bone. There were idols everywhere, images of monsters, snakes, and lizards, staring in all directions from the floor, walls, and ceiling with fiery, jeweled, hideous faces, and gruesome, bare-teethed expressions. The place looked like aa demonic hall of fame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Egads, the level of prejudice here, while unsurprising, is almost overwhelming. It points to how very intertwined colonialism and Christianity have been for centuries\u2014and the ongoing impact of this interaction. Native art and iconography is stigmatized not only as \u201cprimitive\u201d but also as literally\u00a0evil.<\/em><\/p>\n

Along one wall was a vast library containing hundreds of books. Jay looked over some of the titles and found that most of them dealt with mysticism, witchrcaft, sorcery, fortunetelling, and on and on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pick one! OMG, pick one!<\/p>\n

This is like a grab bag of all the things evangelicals find most scary! People don\u2019t usually do the whole grab bag! Is MacKenzie a cult leader who uses various manipulative tactics to control his followers, using the language of new age and empowerment? Or is he dabbling with demonic powers?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you why this distinction matters\u2014if he\u2019s only a charlatan, this sort of story ends with him being unmasked. But if he\u2019s dabbling with demonic powers, this sort of story ends with him losing control of these powers and paying some price. I read books! I watch movies! That\u2019s how these stories work!<\/p>\n

So which is<\/em> it? Which story are we in?!<\/p>\n

Other things happen, but I\u2019m not going to bore you with the details\u2014Dr. Cooper finds a picture amongst old blueprints for a church that makes him start, but he doesn\u2019t explain why (Jay and Lila will have to wait to find out why he started, but I won\u2019t make you<\/em> wait\u2014the picture confirms that Fake MacKenzie\u00a0is not\u00a0<\/em>MacKenzie). Dr. Cooper also finds a cage full of deadly tiger flies, thus confirming what they knew\u2014that Fake MacKenzie tried to have them killed.<\/p>\n

At this point, they suddenly realize that they hear voices\u2014the town is full of people, and it\u2019s too late for them to make their escape.<\/p>\n

Next week, what happens next.<\/p>\n

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