Possessed by Ghosts: Exorcisms in the 21st Century

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Understanding the mind is arguably the most difficult task facing But nevertheless, there are overwhelming emotions and consequent fear, as this requires very little vital energy and the ghosts themselves generate these thoughts. Irmak concludes that ‘it is time for medical professions to consider the possibility of demonic possession in the etiology of schizophrenia’ and that ‘it would be useful for medical professions to work together with faith healers to define better treatment pathways for schizophrenia’ (p. Nissinen also recorded that music was an essential part to these trance-ceremonies in the Ancient Near-East and so it can be reconstructed it could have been found in Yahwism. If the uncanny similarity between schizophrenia and demonic possession is evidence that demonic possession is real, then the uncanny similarity between financial compensation for childhood tooth loss and visits by the tooth fairy is presumably evidence that the tooth fairy is real.

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In Indo-Caribbean Madrasi Religion, a state of trance-possession known as "Sami Aduthal" in Tamil and as a "manifestation" in English occurs whence a devotee enters a trance state after praying. citation needed] In Sulawesi, the women of the Bonerate people of Sulawesi practice a possession-trance ritual in which they smother glowing embers with their bare feet at the climax. Its tone does become overly dramatic and florid at times and some discussions and arguments sound redundant, but even so, this book presents an interesting point of view about ghosts, possession, exorcisms, death and our very existence. Usually in the writings about this, the healers are the ones being described with detail, not so much the patient.

Whilst this paper is clearly nonsense, I do think that science/ medicine, possibly especially in the area of mental health also has a tendency to “fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals”. She is eventually diagnosed with an auto-immune disease (very rare at the time, which has now had many more diagnoses) and cured with steroids but in the meantime, she is quite confidently, and without investigations or tests other than conversations, diagnosed and treated for bipolar depression, alcoholism and (I think) schizophrenia. So when the symptoms are unexplained or do not go away despite best conventional treatments or come up frequently, at an intellectual level we can think of the possibility of them being due to ghosts.

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The most charitable explanation that I can think of is that the publication of the article was a result of gross editorial oversight.It transpires that ghosts can even lead an intensive sex life, organize orgies, force the living to have sex and often not in the privacy of the bedroom but in public places, exploiting their own invisibility. Some of the spirits allegedly possessing Rajasthanis are seen as good and beneficial, while others are seen as malevolent. Some psychics believe you can be visited by an actual ghost or spirit, particularly if you find the dream experience more vivid and real than usual.