excorcism

what do you guys make of it? The people have no viruses or any clear disease, it just happens, and after an excorcist comes through they are clean....do you think its an act of God that they are healed? or perhaps the excorcists have some magic potion? how does it work?

[Dark_Magneto]

On most occassions, it doesn't and the "possessed" individuals are sent to the insane asylum where they belong.

We've advanced alot in technology and medicine since the dark ages where disease and mental conditions were thought to be the works of invisible "spooks" and other malevolent demons that jump in people's bodies and make them do bad shit/get them sick.

People still believe in them to this day, however.

It caused alot of problems because the AMA was actually thinking respected doctors believed that and they banned anyone from practicing medicine that believed in "spook quackery". They thought you believed in spook quackery if you washed your hands before delivering a baby because one guy noticed that all these women that were delivering at home weren't dying off like most of the ones in hospitals were so he said "maybe there's something we can't see so let's scrub our hands". They started to do so and the number of women dying giving birth at hospitals dropped dramastically. The AMA banned the practice of washing hands before delivery because they thought the docs believed in spooks, so doctors had to wash their hands in the closet where they couldn't be seen or they'd have their medical licenses suspended by the AMA.

After the microscope was invented, and people could "see the spooks", religious zealots said they were demons so small that the eye couldn't see them in order to try to shoehorn their belief to fit the facts. It failed ultimately, and the whole issue just faded away.

The man responsible for germ theory was comitted to an insane asylum before the invention of the microscope and, quote: "committed suicide".

When 2 men went to the AMA and said "We have pictures of his spooks", it changed everything, and we eventually figured out what they were.

[This message has been edited by Dark_Magneto (edited 07-14-2003).]

[ArmsMerchant]

I've done it a few times, but call it "entity release." It is not nearly as dramatic as the movie would have you believe--usually, folks that have picked up an entity are just sort of sickly or nasty, none of that 360-degree head-spinning nonsense.

What I di is go into the Underworld and convince the entity to go to the light. In many cases, he or she sticks around because of fear of going to hell (which does not exist, by the way, not as Xians would have you believe.)

I have run into a few really malignant ones which required the help of various and sundry other spirits, but as a rule, discarnate entities listen to reason. Mostly they are just scared and confused.

[novice merc]

Exorcism is pretty much just assistance with stuff you can do yourself.

There's stuff just about everywhere, some positive, some negative. If you put it simply it's got to do with energies of kinds. you've got some inside yourself which make you function. If you're open to stuff outside your own, you can very well get something unpleasant inside you. If it's too much or too strong, you may need help to get rid of it. Put simply, it's just a matter of dragging it out and putting it somewhere where it'll do no harm.

Most stories of exorcism are exaggerated and some ppl actually do have problems. This is just my experience with it.