(Side note: a Christian friend emailed to say that Will's take seems too extreme. He no longer is, but is living out a very painful recovery. For one thing, I believe in demons, and for another, I know a lot more about Will than I can say here, and I believe he was genuinely in touch with evil potencies, at a very high level. Will said that this is pretty much what the plans of the demons are to destroy us. The battle to stop NICE, then, is ultimately a spiritual battle. Ultimately, they are in service of demonic intelligences. Lewis's novel, the third in his Space Trilogy, centers on the NICE, an organization of scientists and social planners that endeavors to control humanity through technology and rationality, eliminating all things that are truly human. He said that the prophetic vision that Lewis lays out in that novel tracks very closely to what he learned from the demonic intelligences with whom he was in close contact during the years he worshiped them. I finally got around to reading it at the strong urging of "Will," the ex-occultist I mentioned in my previous post. He came to realize that they had to live in denial about what they were participating in to be able to maintain their careers and their faith.
Their cognitive dissonance was overwhelming. He said he knew a few other believing Christians on staff, and would take them aside and try to engage them in conversation about this stuff. Some years back, when I was writing The Benedict Option, a senior physician who worked at the time in a top medical facility in the US, told me that as a believing Christian, he was horrified by the things he could see coming down the pipeline. Here's a link to the bioethics journal article where the idea is bruited. We are summoning things that cannot easily be unsummoned.
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