This paper recounts the autobiography of an evangelical South Sudanese pastor who has been under water to the land of demons, telling of cosmic flows of persons, power, and wealth between times, places, and dimensions. Although it builds on stories circulating across Africa since colonial times and emphasises paradigms found throughout the occult economies literature, what is significant about this autobiography is that it relates the narrator’s own experience. This is important because although these occult elements reference global processes, the narrative given is as much about the local as it is the global. Likewise, it as much spiritual as it is material or economic. My analysis thus goes beyond the occult economy or its material effects and instead demonstrates the ontological alterity and spiritual meaningfulness of such incursions and attempts to push the envelope of academic analyses and interpretations relating to the diverse complexity of religious experience, African or otherwise.

这篇论文讲述了一位潜入水下恶魔之地的南苏丹福音派牧师的自传，讲述了人、权力和财富在时间、地点和维度之间的宇宙流动。尽管它建立在自殖民时代以来在非洲流传的故事并强调在神秘经济文献中发现的范式，但这本自传的重要意义在于它讲述了叙述者自己的经历。这很重要，因为虽然这些神秘元素参考了全球过程，但所给出的叙述既是关于本地的，也是关于全球的。同样，它与物质或经济一样多精神。