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My Spiritual Encounter with The Man in the Room

  When Dementia Becomes a Spiritual Encounter From Journal Entry 8/2025 ​ I was sitting in my client's home, a space I’ve grown so familiar with through the quiet rhythms of caregiving. If you’ve ever cared for someone with dementia and aphasia, you know the specific kind of heartbreak that comes with it…the way words become "scrambled," or how a person’s thoughts seem to swim just out of their reach before they can find the surface. ​ But on this day, the experience shifted from the physical to the metaphysical. ​ Suddenly, I felt the unmistakable presence of a man in the room. He wasn't just a "feeling"…it was a weight, a personhood. He began to mumble, his speech broken and fragmented, echoing the exact same aphasia that my client struggles with every day. The entity seemed lost, caught in the same fog of confusion that has settled over my client’s life. ​ Then, he reached out and touched my arm. ​ In that moment, I didn't feel fear; I felt ...