I understand why if you've never had a paranormal experience as intense as the ones I've experienced that your ability to believe they are real would have to be based on faith alone.
The simple answer is that if something demonic is attacking you, you don't really have time to question whether it is possible, you have to react to it. You figure out afterwards what the heck it was.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by my beliefs. I would say it's my experience that determines what I believe, not the other way around.
Like I mentioned in my
Chakras blog entry, until I was well into my 30's I thought the whole chakra thing was a bunch of new age nothing. But I was willing to check it out for myself, and lo and behold, there really was something to them.
My main philosophy in life is that anything is possible. When we decide what is we close our mind to the possibilities of what may be.
And when you're staring down the business end of a demon, you don't really have time to phone a theology professor.