(Minghui.org) I have two children who have been practicing Dafa with my spouse and me since they were very young. They have participated in studying the Fa, doing the exercises, and various Dafa activities.
As parents, we pay special attention to our children’s education and frequently remind them of the dangers of cell phones and video games, yet they still find it difficult to keep up with the pace and the temptations of the outside world. What follows describes events that occurred over the past six months, when my older son Ethan was 14 and my younger son Evan was 8.
Addiction Transformed My Son
After Ethan started junior high, he became obsessed with cellphone games, and his addiction grew increasingly extreme over time. We tried various methods to regulate his phone usage—with mixed results. But because he never truly kicked the habit, the problem gradually worsened.
When he was overcome by intense emotion, Ethan would smash things, roar at us, hurl verbal abuse, and even damage the furniture, often leaving the room in a mess with items scattered all over the floor. In more extreme moments, he even spoke of jumping from the building.
Before he became addicted to video games, Ethan had always been a kind, respectful, and considerate child who never hesitated to help out with household chores.
But after he became addicted to video games, his attitude toward us, his parents, turned hostile and confrontational. Witnessing such a transformation, we couldn’t help but wonder, “How did such a demonic side of him get so strong?”
Since he couldn’t study properly at school—let alone study the Fa teachings and do the exercises regularly—his overall condition deteriorated significantly. Faced with this situation for a long time, we tried different approaches but nothing seemed to help. We were deeply distressed and didn’t know which way to turn.
Divine Guidance
Evan, my younger son, had his celestial eye open when he was very young, but because he disliked seeing so many scenes from other dimensions, he asked Master to close it. It is unclear why, but his celestial eye was opened again.
One day, Evan said that a divine being told him to help his older brother but also said, “You do not yet have enough power; that task is too big.”
Evan later saw the monster that was controlling Ethan. In another dimension, it stood about four stories tall and resembled a gorilla with red eyes. It controlled Ethan and hung around our home, sometimes even looking in our windows. However, it dared not enter because we are Dafa disciples and our home is protected by Master’s Law Body.
Evan saw that anyone playing video games had a monster beside them responsible for controlling them. Not only that, numerous smaller monsters—offspring of the larger ones—clung to that person. Ethan, for instance, had about 30 of these small monsters attached to him.
Addiction Increased the Monster’s Energy
After a while, the divine being spoke to Evan again, saying, “Help him send forth righteous thoughts.” So the three of us began sending righteous thoughts toward that big monster.
After sending righteous thoughts on the first day, Evan said the monster’s energy had dropped by four bars. It turned out that each monster’s vitality could be quantified by an energy bar, and Ethan had already built up this monster’s energy to 19 bars.
As a person plays video games, he or she is replenishing the energy of these monsters. Evan also said that if the energy accumulated amounted to 50 bars, the person playing would lose control, become unable to distinguish reality, and might even go on a killing spree.
Since Ethan usually lives at school and isn’t home all week, we helped him by sending righteous thoughts to him almost every day. On the fifth day, Evan said the major demon that had primarily controlled Ethan had finally been eliminated. After that, it became much easier to remove the smaller ones attached to him.
How Ethan Changed After the Monsters Were Eliminated
We were astonished when Ethan returned home for the weekend after we had completely cleared away all the large and small monsters that had been plaguing him. He seemed like a completely different person. He had regained his former kind and innocent smile, was willing to communicate with us, no longer flew into rages, and no longer spoke rudely to us. What surprised us even more was that he actually said he was willing to study the Fa with us. It truly felt as if that kindhearted child we once knew had returned.
Although the video game demons had been temporarily vanquished, Ethan hadn’t truly let go of his obsession with video games. As long as he kept playing, new monsters would soon reappear—and the ones that emerged later would be even stronger than the ones before. At first, we kept helping him clear them away by sending righteous thoughts. But we eventually realized that this wasn’t a sustainable solution.
This is because if we rely entirely on external forces to eliminate them for Ethan, and he doesn’t truly let go of his inner attachments, those new demons will grow increasingly powerful. We adjusted our approach, and instead of completely eliminating them each time, we reduced their energy to a very low level. The remaining part can only be resolved by Ethan genuinely letting go of his attachment to video games.
Fortunately, after we sent forth righteous thoughts, Ethan is now much more rational and is now willing to study the Fa. We hope that, as he continues to study the Fa, he will come to recognize this attachment to video games and be able to truly eliminate it on his own.
The Power of Shen Yun Music
On another occasion while we were helping Ethan send forth righteous thoughts, that large demon summoned the greatest demon from a higher realm—the one who controls all video games worldwide—to come to its aid. Evan realized its energy was immense and that the three of us were no match for it.
Evan immediately projected Shen Yun music through his thoughts, and the massive demon was so terrified that it fled instantly. Afterward, we sent righteous thoughts, and it never dared to return.
Attempt at Retaliation
While Evan was eliminating these monsters, he also ran into some trouble in another dimension. That monster, unwilling to accept defeat, went to Evan’s school to cause trouble for him.
On one occasion, the monster entered Evan’s classroom, causing the room to shake and the teacher's electronic device to malfunction.
On another occasion, a large number of demons appeared in his classroom and headed straight for him. In an instant, heavenly soldiers and generals formed a circle around him to protect him and eliminated all the demons.
The Monsters That Control Different Obsessions
Evan later discovered that all the things that cause people to become obsessed or addicted have living entities in other dimensions, and most of these demons are enormous. For example, the demon behind the video game Ethan was addicted to was one-third the size of Taiwan.
It’s not just video games. Social media platforms have their own demons. For example, the Instagram demon is as big as the Pacific Ocean. The Facebook demon lives beneath Antarctica and is as large as the continent itself.
Do Not Let Up in Sending Righteous Thoughts
We witnessed firsthand how a young Dafa practitioner—originally kind and innocent—turned into an irrational individual consumed by a raging demonic nature. It was only after we eliminated these demonic entities by sending righteous thoughts that his inherently kind and innocent nature slowly returned.
Thus, it is not just the monsters of video games; the various monsters spawned by social media and electronic devices also drain people of their vital essence and energy, causing them to gradually undergo a “demonic transformation.”
Therefore, Dafa disciples who have young practitioners at home must ensure that these young practitioners take sending righteous thoughts seriously and remind them to stay focused.
Otherwise, managing your children’s cell phone use will become very difficult. This is because you are not only dealing with the children themselves, but also with a large group of demonic forces behind them.
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