Jesus People Podcast Episode 51: Ella Ringrose – From New Age Psychic to Jesus

Release Date: December 22, 2025
Host: Ryan Miller
Guest: Ella Ringrose

Overview

In this deeply personal and vivid episode, host Ryan Miller sits down with Ella Ringrose, a former New Age psychic and influencer who experienced a radical encounter with Jesus Christ after a decade of immersion in psychic practices, mediumship, shamanism, and other New Age modalities. Ella shares her childhood struggles, the allure and eventual dangers of the New Age movement, the reality behind spirit guides, and her profound deliverance and salvation through Jesus. The conversation offers both a compassionate inside look at New Age spiritualism and a bold testimony to the transformative power of Christ.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Ella’s Irish Upbringing and Disconnection from Christianity

• Background: Raised in deeply Catholic Ireland; frequent church attendance in school and with family.
• Disconnection:
  • “For whatever reason, I never understood the knowledge… I never even knew what the Holy Spirit was or the meaning of the cross with Jesus. So at that time, it was like it was completely separate from me.” (01:24)
  • The presence of scandals in the church and constant messaging of guilt further hardened her heart.
• Early Struggles:
  • Felt misunderstood, depressed, and isolated, struggling with learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyspraxia).
• Turning to Self-Development:
  • Discovered self-help after dropping out of school at God’s prompting—first peace after years of despair.

2. Into the New Age: A Search for Power, Purpose, and Healing

• Initial Exposure:
  • Introduction via a friend in Canada, followed by a supernatural experience with a psychic book (“the author’s face became my face”—07:54).
• Rapid Immersion:
  • Overnight, began “seeing and hearing angels and spirit guides,” meditating for hours, and quickly becoming obsessed.
  • “You can’t stop stuffing yourself with things… it’s like a buffet.” (08:08)
• Pursuit of Purpose:
  • Found false empowerment: “It does give you power, a full sense of power, but it’s very real…”
• Validation and Growth:
  • “I became a qualified medium… trained in shamanism, reiki of all levels, practiced witching rituals, everything.” (19:53)
  • Achieved significant online influence and clientele.

3. What’s Really Behind Spirit Guides and Psychic “Gifts”

• The Masquerade:
  • Initially appeared as beings of light and “angels.”
  • When she invoked Jesus’ name to reveal their true nature, “They were literally all demons… blood was pouring out of their mouth and their eyes. Every single orifice… just bleeding and dark and black…” (15:29, repeated at 00:00)
• Information and ‘Truths’:
  • “There’s a lot of truth in those readings… like nine truths and a lie… They need to hook you in.” (15:29)
• Cycle of Seeking:
  • “The solution is the problem in New Age.”
  • “You’re at a buffet of poison… every food you’re eating is like a projector. So it’s not actually real, it’s an illusion.” (16:30)

4. The Dark Side of New Age Practices

• Escalation:
  • Activities expanded from innocent-seeming practices to blood magic, astral projection, and shamanic exorcisms.
  • Community validation: “You immediately magnify all these friends who are in this world, too, and we all just kind of validated each other in the journey…” (30:17)
• Demonic Attacks:
  • Increasing feelings of torment, intrusive thoughts, and even physical marks; thoughts of suicide and pressure to “[ascend], aka die.”
• Warning for Listeners:
  • “It’s packaged so beautifully and prettily, but it is—it's extremely dangerous… it’s taken a lot from people and tormented them.” (31:39)

5. The Radical Encounter with Jesus

• The Turning Point:
  • After a month of severe torment, Ella called out, “Jesus, save me” and received a clear instruction to “get rid of your crystals.” (32:59)
• Deliverance Experience:
  • “Jesus walks into my room… and says, ‘Lay in your bed. I’m gonna put the Holy Spirit in you.’ I saw hundreds of demons fly out of my body, screaming…” (33:50)
• Immediate Confirmation and Community:
  • Simultaneously, her roommate has a spiritual experience (“God of Creation” song blaring at random), and both undergo deliverance.
  • The same day, a stranger approaches Ella on the beach, led by the Holy Spirit, sharing a similar testimony and offering guidance.

6. Seven Days of Deep Deliverance

• Active Repentance:
  • For a week, Jesus reveals 70–90 demonic agreements per day that Ella systematically repents for and casts out.
  • “I would see these demons, I would see them fly out of my body…” (36:32)
• Retaliation & True Power:
  • Former “guides” turn malevolent, threatening her life—a stark reversal confirming the reality of her deliverance.
• Renewed Vision and Clarity:
  • She describes a newfound sobriety, peace, and freedom she’d never felt before: “I was the most sober I'd ever felt in my entire life. And I realized after that I had been drunk for years.” (44:13)
• Understanding Counterfeits:
  • Jesus “pulled up a whiteboard” and showed her the demonic counterfeits for every spiritual practice (manifestation vs. prayer, light language vs. tongues, etc.).

7. The Heart & Simplicity of the Gospel

• Summary of New Life:
  • “The depression, the anxiety, the peace that I feel is otherworldly. And it is all down to Jesus and Jesus Christ only… saying from somebody who did every modality under the sun…” (45:58)
• Radical Heart Change:
  • “I started to feel another heart growing in my heart, and it was Jesus’s heart. He loves us so unconditionally.” (58:07)
• No More Hamster Wheel:
  • “With Jesus and understanding the authority of Jesus’s name… it will free you and give you a lot more time to spend on things you actually want to be doing in this world.” (57:37)

8. Reflections, Final Encouragements, and Moving Forward

• Host’s Theological Context:
  • Ryan discusses “double imputation,” spiritual authority, and the humble way of Christ’s love.
• Ella’s New Mission:
  • “I have a purpose for the rest of my life, and it’s to protect people from that world that I was in… it’s just getting bigger, unfortunately, it’s getting more and more mainstream and it’s so deceptive.” (67:02)
  • Determined to use her platform of “hundreds of thousands of followers” to share the Gospel.
• Where to Find Ella:
  • YouTube: Ella Ringrose

Memorable Quotes by Timestamp

• On the masquerade of spirit guides:
  • Ella: “They were literally all demons… blood was pouring out of their mouth and their eyes. Every single orifice of them was just bleeding and dark…” (15:29, 00:00)
• On the hamster wheel of New Age:
  • Ella: “You’re spiritually starved. Because it’s a false light… You’re stuffing yourself because it’s a counterfeit, it’s a mockery, and you’re questioning why it’s still not giving you peace…” (48:34)
• On the worship of power and “specialness”:
  • Ella: “Every being will come to you and say, ‘You’re so special, you’re a chosen one, you have this secret knowledge’... but it’s isolation. Their end goal is to essentially sacrifice you.” (22:18)
• On Jesus’ deliverance:
  • Ella: “He said one thing to me… ‘You were on a New Age hamster wheel and everyone watching you was on one too.’” (34:40)
• On real freedom and peace:
  • Ella: “When Jesus delivered me… I was the most sober I’d ever felt in my entire life. And I realized after that I had been drunk for years…” (44:13)
• On the continuous seeking for healing in New Age:
  • Ella: “It’s so exhausting trying to pretend to be God. Like, not having an actual Saviour is beyond exhausting… it ultimately leads to burnout.” (54:47)
• On the power of Jesus’s name:
  • Ella: “With Jesus and understanding the authority of Jesus’s name and casting anything out that is not truly of the light, it will free you…” (57:37)
• On her new mission:
  • Ella: “If I can anyway be a voice for that, to protect people and say there is another way through—and it’s so peaceful. This is the way.” (67:02)

Notable Moments with Timestamps

• [07:54] – Ella’s supernatural bookstore experience: her face appears on the book about psychics.
• [15:29/00:00] – First asks spirit guides to reveal their true nature in Jesus’ name—“all demons.”
• [19:53] – Skyrocketing as a New Age influencer and open endorsement of popular New Age leaders.
• [32:59] – Breaking point: cries “Jesus, save me”; immediately hears “get rid of your crystals.”
• [33:50] – Vivid deliverance experience: Jesus appears, fills her with the Holy Spirit, and expels hundreds of demons.
• [36:32] – Seven-day intensive deliverance and repentance process.
• [44:13] – “Veil lifted from my eyes”—perceived the difference between true peace and New Age chasing.
• [54:47] – Advice to those still in New Age: “It’s so exhausting trying to pretend to be God…”
• [67:02] – Ella’s vow: to devote her life to warning others and pointing to Christ.

Final Reflections

This episode is not merely a story of ‘leaving’ New Age spirituality; it is a thorough and honest account of its appeal, its hidden dangers, and the unique spiritual hunger it exploits. Both host and guest engage in compassionate, nuanced commentary—never sensationalizing, but deeply warning and vividly illustrating both spiritual deception and deliverance. The tone is earnest, vulnerable, and hope-filled, culminating in prayer and a missional call to share Jesus with those still seeking.

For more, follow Ella Ringrose on YouTube and stay tuned for the follow-up episode delving deeper into the counterfeits of New Age practices and the original beauty of the Christian faith.