Mormons seeing the dead

[mikesw]

A Book titled
I have not gotten this book but may try to access it only.
The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah by Erin E. Stiles
Here is the publisher's description of the book

In the mountains of beautiful, bucolic northern Utah, many Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are visited by spirits. Local folklore is filled with stories of uncanny encounters of all kinds, and Latter-day Saint scripture and prophetic teachings emphasize the reality and the importance of the spirit world. Spirit encounters are common in this community. People report visits from the benevolent spirits of kin offering aid and also from evil spirits who tempt and harass. Combining folklore research with ethnography, the book examines many types of spirit encounters and shows that such experiences must be understood as particularly Latter-day Saint phenomena.
Spirit encounters take place within a larger cultural and religious framework that emphasizes the important relationships between living and non-living beings. For Mormons in northern Utah, spirit lore and experiences are interpreted and understood with reference to Latter-day Saint cosmology and particularly Mormon conceptions of the nature of the person, the spirit, and the family, and the nature of righteousness, evil, and spiritual power. The book also explores how people in Utah differentiate between "Mormon culture," the institutional church, and how they understand the "true" meaning of the religion, which has relevance far beyond understanding of people's relationship to the spirit realm and spirit power, and speaks to key issues of concern--and polarization--among Latter-day Saints today.

The Devil Sat on My Bed

In the mountains of beautiful, bucolic northern Utah, many Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are visited by spirits. Local folklore is filled with stories of uncanny encounters of all kinds, and Latter-day Saint scripture and prophetic teachings emphasize the reality and the importance of the spirit...

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This book was suggested to me concerning a friend, who left the LDS, who has seen people from the dead. Of course from a Christian perspective derived from the OT scriptures, this phenomena is to be rejected since it is of the form seeking familiar spirits (necromancers).

Leviticus 19:31 (NKJV)
31‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

I gave a brief suggestion to a remote friend to call on Jesus to ask when seeing such apparitions whether a sighting is of truth -- of God. I'm hoping that such a call to Jesus will help reveal the truth of Jesus to my friend and that God would help that friend know the true Jesus. My hope was to introduce the idea without losing contact with this person, who might have felt that my point was judgmental or wrong.

 

[mikesw]

It is interesting how the LDS people are susceptible to these encounters. It could be hard to know if this is common across more of the LDS adherents, but the initiation into deeper levels of the LDS had involved processes like the Freemason rituals.