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30 | WheelsOfGrace.com | #56 Simone Peer never saw anything wrong with being a white witch. In her mind, it was the 'good side' of the occult. "I was a 'white witch', and this was 'white witchcra ' that was divine and heavenly," Simone says. Simone grew up learning about the occult from her mom, who consulted psychics, and spirits. She recalls, "Horoscopes, numerology, the Ouija Board, seeing ghosts, psychic phenomenon, was normal." However, what would drive her deep into that world, was the physical and verbal abuse she suffered by a close family member and being molested by a neighbor when she was five years old. She never told anyone. Simone shares, "I think I also took it on as 'I just must be completely unlovable and worthless.'" Those feelings would lead a teenage girl into a life of promiscuity, and drug and alcohol use. Even thoughts of suicide would torment Simone throughout high school and into college. While on college break, she met a woman who taught her how to read tarot cards. For Simone, it was the beginning of finding answers and truth. "My a en on would be drawn into different details of the card that would sort of open a door on that invisible side that would tell me those secrets," she says. Simone immersed herself in new age philosophy and prac ces. At age 20, she became a self- proclaimed white witch. She was convinced the things she prac ced were "good" for people, and especially, herself. Simone remembers, "I kept believing that if I pursued more and more and more light that I would find the answer to what was wrong with ME and somehow I would get fixed, and it would all just feel be er." "There were so many things about the spiritual path that I loved and that made me feel happy, however, my life was a contradic on. I also was in just the deepest, darkest pit. This is the beau ful decep on." She would spend the next 30 years seeking enlightenment and a aining the highest level of 'white witchcra ' – the high priestess. Through Santeria and other forms of false spirituality and the occult Simone par cipated in animal sacrifices. Simone says, "It was the shedding of blood in which we were able to be cleansed, healed and gain power and rise through levels of ini a on." Adding to the delusion, some taught that one could become like Jesus – but they only considered him to be a teacher who had a ained the ul mate enlightenment -- becoming a god through reincarna on and obtaining more 'light.' Simone shares, "Eventually when I keep coming back I would have that much light. And then when you became completely light, you became the light that came back and fed the other souls working their way up the reincarna on ge ng reborn ladder." S ll, no ma er how high she climbed or 'enlightened' she became, there was an emp ness she couldn't shake. Simone remembers, "There were so many things about the spiritual path that I loved and that made me feel happy, however, my life was a contradic on. I also was in just the deepest, darkest pit. This is the beau ful decep on." In 2017, desperately seeking truth and peace, Simone stumbled across a video of famed, heavy metal musician Alice Cooper. He was talking about how the one, true, Jesus Christ freed him from alcoholism and gave him a new life. Simone shares, "I realized that I was an ambassador for Satan. I didn't even know what it meant to have Jesus. I didn't understand it at all, I just knew that my heart cracked open, I knew that He was there, and I knew I was a 'Yes.' When I went through that salva on prayer and there were points of repentance, what really stood out to me was the thinking that I was God, the thinking that my spells were not manipula ons of other people and other things. And I just said it out loud and raised my hand to God and I pleaded and repented and prayed over myself." Within weeks, Simone had thrown away everything she had associated with the occult. She also started a ending church, where she went through the process of being delivered from demonic strongholds. Simone recalls, "I have no idea how many demons I was delivered from. I no ced in my heart and spirit I felt free." Today, Simone is a cer fied life coach who lets everyone know that Jesus is the true light of the world and everything you are seeking can be found in him. Simone says, "For those who walked the same path that I did, Jesus is the answer that you are looking for. He truly is." By Michelle Wilson 'I Was an Ambassador for Satan' How God Used Rock Star Alice Cooper to Deliver This High Priestess of White Witchcraft 30 | WheelsOfGrace.com | #56