The Demon of Grief with Ann Hoff

I have been watching a show called “Evil” on Paramount plus. The show is a tongue in cheek look at exorcisms- it is about a team of three, a priest, a techie and a psychiatrist who are sent out to see if exorcisms are needed. It focuses exclusively on demons, in a campy way. I like it because it has metaphysical aspects.

I am mentioning the show because they had an episode about a “Demon of Grief.” In the show, one of the priests is grieving the loss of his best friend, another priest. A nun that sees demons notices the priest has a big hole in the side of his robe while she is doing his laundry. In fact, he has a hole in all his robes. The nun tries to help him, and figure out what is going on, but the priest keeps brushing her off. Then one day he is talking to her, and he lifts his left arm to answer the phone. Underneath his elbow is a gigantic hole, and there is a demon inside his chest! While the priest talks to her, you can see the demon throwing out little sinewy pieces of the priest.

The nun tries everything she can to get the demon of grief to leave, to quit feeding on this innocent man, to leave. Every time she tries, she is thwarted, and the demon grows bigger. She talks to the Demon of Grief when it is outside the priest, and the Demon scoffs at the fact the nun thinks she can get rid of him. He is getting fat and sassy feeding on the energy of grief the priest is marinating in. The Demon says that the Priest himself must ask him to leave, or at the very least, quit feeding him this despairing energy of grief. To the Demon, it is pure crack cocaine.

Almost giving up, the nun tries one more tactic. She goes into the Priest’s chamber, and she asks him what he really liked about his friend. She sits down and looks him directly in the face, earnestly interested. What were his best memories? The father lights up with the opportunity to be able to talk about his deceased loved one. He starts rattling off all the magnificent adventures he had with his friend, how his friend told the best jokes, how he was always seeing the best in people and believing in them. As the Priest talks, the hole in his side starts healing up. The Grief Demon jumps down from the hole, noticeably smaller and walks away muttering to himself.

This story represents many amazing points: the first one being that if we are thinking about someone, talking about them, they aren’t dead. That it is IMPORTANT to talk about them, the things they taught us, the joy we shared, the experiences that were unique. When we love an animal or a person, they become woven into the fabric of who WE ARE. In that way, we really do never lose them. But to realize that we are connected, we must talk about the deceased, we need to speak of them. We can even talk to them in real time! (That is what I do for people).

Another fact that is visible in this story is when someone is in heaven, they can be with their loved at the speed of thought. Their physical body is gone, but they still exist as spirit in heaven, and they can respond to us instantly because there is no time in heaven. I know it is difficult to even imagine. What I do when the angels give me a fact that I currently don’t believe in, either because it is contrary to what I have been taught my whole life, I just haven’t thought about it or seen the fact in that specific light. I now know when they tell me something it probably IS true because they have been right before and have no reason to try to con me.

If I can’t get my mind around the fact, what I do now is tell myself to just sit with it. I don’t have to believe it or not believe it; I can be neutral on it and see what happens. That is really the best way to approach new facts you uncover in the spiritual world. If you BELIEVE that something absolutely won’t happen, then you block yourself from being able to see how it does happen, or you even block it completely. That is how powerful our minds are. It is also beneficial to not add a ton of expectation or emotion to the outcome of talking to/seeing someone on the other side.

It is important to get someone who is grieving to talk. Even if they don’t talk about the deceased or their grief, getting them to speak for a few minutes can release them from the prison of their mind. It will be a reprieve from the heaviness of the situation. If you can get them to truly remember the deceased, or make a connection with them in spirit, it will change how they are feeling. Sometimes that change is even prolonged. When I channel a soul on the other side, I get to feel how they feel because I am an empath. I get to feel how HEAVEN feels. It seems so ironic that the being on the other side is in Christ Consciousness, complete happiness, while the person I am working with on this side of the veil so crumbled with grief. I have asked myself when I grieve, why am I crying, because I KNOW they are in a better place. The answer isn’t one I am totally proud of- I am grieving because I MISS them being next to me and being in my life. In other words, I am missing them, I am selfishly grieving because they are no longer in the form that shared my life with me.

With the story of the priest, he must believe that his friend went to heaven, otherwise he wouldn’t be a priest who comforts others in the congregation when they are in grief. Yet, that thought doesn’t comfort him. What kicks the demon of grief to the curb is that we no longer feed the desire to isolate and mourn for our lost loved one. When the Priest takes his power back by sharing his precious memories, the morbid drowning in fatality leaves him. When he expresses his grief, he expands his heart, creating a future with his loved one present in thought.

Ann Hoff is a well-known Animal Communicator, Intuitive Medium, and a regular contributor to our FB Group “I Am not Crazy Because I Talk to Animals” and leads a monthly Zoom call with members wishing to chat with a pet, or simply ask Ann a question. This month's content addresses the earthly lessons we learn through loss.

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