Possessed by Ghosts: Exorcisms in the 21st Century

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Join Sadguru Cyriaque Vallee in this chanting meditation session, experience the meditative state, and share with us how you felt. Queiroz, Ruben Caixeta de (December 2012). "Between the sensible and the intelligible: Anthropology and the cinema of Marcel Mauss and Jean Rouch". Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology. 9 (2): 184–211. doi: 10.1590/S1809-43412012000200007. {{ cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year ( link) There are indications that trance-related practices might have played a role in the prophetic experiences of adherents of Yahwism. According to Martti Nissinen, Yahwist prophets may have received messages from the different gods and goddesses in the Yahwist Pantheon through a state of trance possession. This theory can be reconstructed from Sumerian Mythology, a similar theology to that of Yahwism, where the standard prophetic designations in the Akkadian language, muḫḫûm/muḫḫūtum (masc./fem., Old Babylonian) and maḫḫû/maḫḫūtu (masc./fem., Neo-Assyrian), are derived from the Akkadian verb maḫû "to become crazy, to go into a frenzy." [89] According to bible scholar Simon B. Parker, trance rituals may have occurred such as nudity or a less extreme alternative, a trance where the person to enter trance receives the god or spirit into their body. [90]

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Bhavsar, Vishal; Ventriglio, Antonio; Dinesh, Bhugra (2016). "Dissociative trance and spirit possession: Challenges for cultures in transition". Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 70 (12): 551–559. doi: 10.1111/pcn.12425. PMID 27485275. S2CID 24609757.

Taking advantage of personality defects such as anger, fear, emotional nature etc. They aggravate these personality defects thus adding to our vulnerability. The higher our personality defects, the easier it is for the ghost to possess, thus hastening the entire process of possession. The ghosts are easily able to possess Tama predominant people with personality defects such as weak-mindedness, instability, intense desires and fearfulness. Ghosts play up our personality defects with insidious thoughts further destabilising our world. Calmet, Augustine (1751). Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants: of Hungary, Moravia, et al. The Complete Volumes I & II. 2016. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-5331-4568-0. Putting negative thoughts, creating doubts about oneself and others, instigating depression, causing fights in a household. The incorrect thoughts planted in a person by the ghost make the person misbehave. The person can deviate considerably from their normal behaviour thereby disturbing their own mental balance. An example of this would be a single young woman having intense sexual thoughts and acting upon them with anonymous men. This may even lead to her being abused and aggravating the problem. Another example of this would be financial loss to the breadwinner of the family or the family getting caught up in a scandal. Since such jinn are said to have free will, they can have their own reasons to possess humans and are not necessarily harmful. There are various reasons given as to why a jinn might seek to possess an individual, such as falling in love with them, taking revenge for hurting them or their relatives, or other undefined reasons. [33] [34] At an intended possession, the covenant with the jinn must be renewed. [35] Soothsayers ( kāhin pl. kuhhān), would use such possession to gain hidden knowledge. Inspirations from jinn by poets requires neither possession nor obedience to the jinn. Their relationship is rather described as mutual. [36]

Possessed by Ghosts: Exorcisms in the 21st Century

Lewis, I. M. (1966). "Spirit Possession and Deprivation Cults". Man. 1 (3): 307–329. doi: 10.2307/2796794. JSTOR 2796794. Fernandez Olmos; Paravisini-Gebert (1997). Sacred Possessions Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean. Rutgers University Press. pp.19–22. ISBN 9780813523613. Sutherland, Gail Hinich (2013). "Demons and the Demonic in Buddhism". Oxford Bibliographies. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195393521-0171 . Retrieved 12 December 2019. of the population are in category of ‘mild possession’. This category of possession can easily be understood by the intellect itself. This is due to obvious signs or display of behaviour at a physical, psychological, intellectual and spiritual level. In mild possession, the spiritual strength of the possessing entity and its control on the possessed person is minimal as compared to the other levels. King James attested that the symptoms derived from demonic possession could be discernible from natural diseases. He rejected the symptoms and signs prescribed by the Catholic church as vain (e.g. rage begotten from Holy Water, fear of the Cross, etc.) and found the exorcism rites to be troublesome and ineffective to recite. The Rites of the Catholic Church to remedy the torment of demonic spirits were rejected as counterfeit since few possessed could be cured by them. James therefore declared the Protestant view of casting out devils, "It is easy then to understand that the casting out of Devils, is by virtue of fasting and prayer, and in-calling of the name of God, suppose many imperfections be in the person that is the instrument, as CHRIST himself teaches us (Mat. 7) of the power that false Prophets all have cast out devils". [20]Intermittent crying, startle without any reason, anxiety, depression, fear, mental illness, suicidal thoughts, etc. The ghosts have to expend just 5% of their energy to scare a person by showing him skulls, frightening images, etc. Kinnard, Jacob (2006). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practice. Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale. Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Exorcism". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Roman Catholic doctrine states that angels are non-corporeal, spiritual beings [11] with intelligence and will. [12] Fallen angels, or demons, are able to "demonically possess" individuals without the victim's knowledge or consent, leaving them morally blameless. [13]

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a b Singh, Manvir (2018). "The cultural evolution of shamanism". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 41: e66: 1–61. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001893. PMID 28679454. S2CID 206264885. Obsession, the following and outwardly torment of an individual at diverse hours to either weaken or cast diseases upon the body, as in the Book of Job. 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. It is an essential part to Indo-Caribbean Shakti ceremonies, being accompanied by Tappu drumming, the singing of devotional songs, and the drumming of Udukai drums. Ghosts can possess easily when the sheath of the gross body is separated from the mental sheath ( Manodēha), e.g. in dream state, state of despair etc. In some cases, this can happen even in a meditative state. Only a higher level ghost can take advantage of the subtle-body being separated from the gross body during meditation.Hamori, Andras (2015). On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature. USA: Princeton University Press. p.158. and its implicit assumption that the peer reviewed literature, has been, since medieval times (!), some sort of homogenous club to which breaches of the rules of entry are a clear cut matter. Karanci, A. Nuray (2014). "Concerns About Schizophrenia or Possession?". Journal of Religion and Health. 53 (6): 1691–1692. doi: 10.1007/s10943-014-9910-7. PMID 25056667. S2CID 34949947. The anthropologist I.M. Lewis noted that women are more likely to be involved in spirit possession cults than men are, and postulated that such cults act as a means of compensation for their exclusion from other spheres within their respective cultures. [121] Physical anthropology [ edit ]

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So, either through physical problems or mental problems, ghosts destabilise a person’s mental balance and thereby create vulnerability. Step 2: Point of entry (breaching the castle) Malachi, M. (1976). Hostage to the Devil: the possession and exorcism of five living Americans. San Francisco: Harpercollins. p.462. ISBN 0-06-065337-X. If there is no effect of exorcism, then it is bad for religious belief (or at least belief in exorcism). If there is a culture-specific effect of exorcism (contrasted with fake exorcism) then this suggests religious relativism. If exorcism using one belief system works even on non-believers but other belief systems doesn’t work it might at first seem we have some evidence for that belief system. Yet most faiths seem very unwilling to do this kind of comparision: perhaps because if one faith happens to be correct, then the majority of people – no matter how sincere – must be wrong about their faith. The Coast Veddas, a social group within the minority group of Sri Lankan Tamil people in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, enter trances during religious festivals in which they are regarded as being possessed by a spirit. Although they speak a dialect of Tamil, during trances they will sometimes use a mixed language that contains words from the Vedda language. [106] Southeast Asia [ edit ] Spiritually curious people often ask the question ‘How do people get possessed by ghosts’? The act of possession typically goes through four generic steps. These steps can take place in a few moments or sometimes can take many months. This article explains this process in detail. 2. An analogy explaining how people get possessed by ghosts (demon, devil, negative energy, etc.)If schizophrenic symptoms are caused by demons “in the vicinity of the brain”, why don’t people standing next to schizophrenics share their symptoms (since if demons are in the vicinity of A’s brain, and B is standing right next to A, then demons are in the vicinity of B’s brain)? Buswell, Robert Jr.; Lopez, Donald S.Jr., eds. (2013). Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp.530–531, 550, 829. ISBN 9780691157863. In medieval Great Britain, the Christian church had offered suggestions on safeguarding one's home. Suggestions ranged from dousing a household with holy water, placing wax and herbs on thresholds to "ward off witches occult", and avoiding certain areas of townships known to be frequented by witches and Devil worshippers after dark. [21] Afflicted persons were restricted from entering the church, but might share the shelter of the porch with lepers and persons of offensive life. After the prayers, if quiet, they might come in to receive the bishop's blessing and listen to the sermon. They were fed daily and prayed over by the exorcists and, in case of recovery, after a fast of from 20 to 40 days, were admitted to the Eucharist, and their names and cures entered in the church records. [22] In 1603, the Church of England forbade its clergy from performing exorcisms because of numerous fraudulent cases of demonic possession. [18]