What if recurring nightmares aren’t just a random function of an anxious mind, but a sign of a deeper spiritual issue in your home?
Dr. Laura Sanger, author and deliverance minister, says that’s exactly what she encountered on a ministry trip to Turin, Italy—an experience that opened her eyes to the reality of spiritual portals.
“The Lord has given me opportunity at times to cleanse those portals because they can be cleansed and and reversed,” Sanger explained during an interview on The Deep End podcast with host Taylor Welch. “And both times I’ve done it, the Lord has given us the strategy, just simply ‘worship Me in spirit and in truth’ and it closes off that portal to the demonic entities.”
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She recounted one such incident during her 2005 trip to Turin, just ahead of the Winter Olympics. While staying in a friend’s guest room, she and her team began to suspect something was spiritually wrong. “Their guests would have recurring nightmares. Different guests would have the same nightmare,” she said. “And when they told our friends, they realized, OK, this is a portal.”
Sanger brought two young girls with her on the trip, unaware of the spiritual activity in the room. But once the host mentioned the portal, she said, “We could discern it. Walked right to it.” Following the Holy Spirit’s instruction, they worshiped in the room until they “felt the shift and could feel the presence of the Lord.”
According to Sanger, the occult understands portals far better than most believers. “You know the occult, the Luciferians, they understand the importance of opening up portals and territories and altars for their activity,” she said. “That’s what the false worship is all about.”
Host Taylor Welch echoed her insights: “Portals are transport. Altars are exchange… I think portals can be closed. It’s more legalistic. You can close them. Worship—an altar—that will close a portal. When Yahweh shows up, anything else that had legal access is moving on.”
Their discussion touches on spiritual warfare at a geographical level, including “ley lines” and “spiritual grids.” Sanger explains: “A spiritual grid is a bunch of lay lines connected over a region and people might have no idea there’s a spiritual grid over their territory but they still experience the effects of it.”
Turin, she revealed, is no ordinary city. “It’s the witchcraft capital of the world. It’s the intersection of two magic triangles… the black magic triangle which is London, San Francisco and Turin. And then you have the white magic triangle which is Leon, Prague and Turin.”
The team’s experiences in Turin were intense—from visually sensing demonic movement to encountering “a distinctive foul odor, much like the smell of sulfur and manure combined.” After a prophetic act to sever the ley line, Sanger said the Holy Spirit gave further instruction: “You didn’t invite My presence into the void you just created.” When they did, “the smell changed immediately to this fresh pine scent.”
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As Welch put it, “The best altar ever is the altar of salvation… it will not always close the portals though.” It takes active worship, discernment and obedience to the Holy Spirit to shift spiritual atmospheres.
For those experiencing unexplainable spiritual disturbances, nightmares or repeated destructive patterns, Sanger and Welch offer this serious wake-up call. There may be more going on than meets the eye, and more power in worship than most dare to imagine.
James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
