Walk with the Devil

I had an inherent natural ability to see and interact with spirits and ghosts between ages five and nine. That was long enough to remember later in life but short enough to forget by the time I was a teenager. It started when I made eye contact with little men and women in the bush who chased me above and below ground from the wild to the village. They disappeared when I entered the perimeters of the village. Between six and nine I lived with ghosts on dark moonless nights at Bogoso and began doubting my eyes by age seven. I thought they were my imagination but one across my doorway showed that it was real. The eye became dormant after nine but for occasional glimpses of evil ghosts and periods of intense prayers. The encounter with the ghost at seven that proved it was not my imagination was pivotal in seeking the kingdom of God at age thirty-one. While a new student in Australia, a bible verse popped into my head; "seek first the kingdom of God and all other things shall be added unto you." And I instantaneously remembered the encounter with the ghost in second grade and said to myself, if a ghost could show that it was not my imagination, why not God. So, if God is a spirit, then I can categorically say that I saw and interacted with gods during childhood, and Jesus Christ in dreams and visions during adulthood. I have struggled against evil throughout my life probably because of the inherent eye for spirits until I found God then it became a fight between God and Satan for my life. This revised memoir is about how I found God, encounters with the devil or Satan in various guises from infancy to old age. Thus, my perception of God and Satan is based more on the reality of personal experience than on faith and scriptures.

-- Zakariah Ali