Those things you mention were clear to me. At least I thought so!
The reason we see the demon stabbing her in one scene, followed by her stabbing herself, is because she is realizing and remembering what really happened. Her mental illness was that she had episodes where an evil alternate personality would overtake her, and she would not be aware of it; she thought she had blackouts. So in this scene, she is experiencing the stabbing episode as she remembered it...like there really was a demon...because she did not remember that there was no other person there. Then it shows the scene where she's stabbing herself while the demon is in the background (no longer a demon) because she remembers, now. She remembers that SHE is her own demon, her illness, and she stabbed herself. (Which is what Sylvia had told her.)
Something DID happen at the conclusion. The walls started getting dark, the dark overtaking the walls. Then the light in the room started to dim, and the room gets very dark. A medium's voice keeps repeating "Go toward the light so yu can move on!" Emily says, "There is no light! It's dark!" She then curls up and keeps repeating to herself,"I Am A Ghost."
I interpret that to mean that she's going to hell. If she were going to stay in the house, the room wouldn't get dark, I think. If she went to heaven, there would've been a light to go to.
What had happened was what Sylvia had told her would happen: She had to remember how she died, and then all her different selves/memories in the house as a ghost would come together, and she could move on.
One thng I'm confused about at the end was that it wasn't Sylvia's voice telling her to move on; it sounded like some man's voice.
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