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	Spiritual possession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spiritual possession is a concept of many religions and tales, where it is believed that a demon, or disincarnate being, may take temporary control of a human body, resulting in noticeable changes in behaviour.
		The term demonic possession is used when the spirit is malignant (a demon), whereas incorporation or channelling may be used in the case of supposed benign spirits.
		Many other creeds, including Shamanism and many African and Afro-American religions, teach that spiritual possession may be benign as well as malign, and their rituals often include incorporation: either of spiritual deities, such as the Orisha of the Yoruba, or of the ghosts of deceased people, as in Kardecism.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spiritual_possession (1107 words)

	Spiritual possession: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Spiritual possession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Spiritual possession refers to the supposed ability of some spirits to take control of a human body.
		Some would say that science states that possession is a form of altered mental state[?] and that spirits are a superstition, whereas many religions and cultures believe in various forms of spirits and their possession powers.
		Possession may be malignant or beneficial, much depending on the cultural context and the religion of the person possessed.
	www.encyclopedian.com /sp/Spiritual-possession.html (161 words)

	Station Information - Spiritual possession
		Spiritual possession or demonic possession refers to the supposed ability of some spirits or demons to take control of a human body, resulting in noticeable changes in behaviour.
		Possession may be deemed malignant or beneficial, much depending on the cultural context and the religion of the person possessed.
		In western society, possession is often believed to be the work of the Devil or his demons.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spiritual_possession.html (164 words)

	Read about Spiritual possession at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Spiritual possession and learn about Spiritual ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Afro-American religions, teach that spiritual possession may be benign as well as malign, and their rituals often include incorporation: either of spiritual deities, such as the Orisha of the
		spiritual visions, it may be that many cases of spiritual possession were in fact
		Spiritual possession, though not neccessarily malign, also appears as a secondary theme in The Dune Chronicles, a series of novels written by
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Spiritual_possession (467 words)

	Encyclopedia: Spiritual possession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Spiritual possession is a concept of many religion s and tale s, where it is believed that a spiritual being s may take temporary control of a human body, resulting in noticeable changes in behaviour.
		Many other creeds, including Shamanism and many African and Afro-American religions, teach that spiritual possession may be benign as well as malign, and their rituals often include incorporation: either of spiritual deities, such as the Orisha of the Yoruba, or of the ghost s of deceased people, as in Kardecism.
		Spiritual possession, especially malign, has been a favorite theme of ficional works, especially in horror novel s and film s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Spiritual_possession (277 words)

	Spiritual possession - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Some religions — in particular, most Abrahamic religions — do not admit the existence of beneficial spiritual possessions; so, if they admit the concept at all, they automatically consider any spiritual possession as malign.
		In the past, demonic possession may also have been alleged (by the subject or by others) for the purpose of excusing behavior which would otherwise be severely punished — not unlike a defendant falsely claiming temporary insanity in today's court of law.
		Spiritual possession, Religious views, Scientific view, Historical cases, Books, In fiction, See also, Reference, External links, New Age, Hoaxes, New religious movements, Forteana and Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Spiritual_possession (1128 words)

	Demonic possession - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Demonic possession is the belief in a form of spiritual possession; specifically, one or more demons are said to enter a living or dead human or animal body or an object with the intention of using it for a purpose, normally evil but sometimes instead as a punishment or test.
		Involuntary possession, according to these theologians, cannot be negated because this would imply the negation of the cases mentioned in the New Testament (12, some of them repeated in more than one Gospel) and, by extension, the veracity of it.
		Another form of voluntary possession is that in which a person offers his/her body to be possessed by a demon to serve as a medium among him/her and the other attendants to the reunion.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Demonic_possession (1429 words)

	Questions
		SPIRITUAL possession is at once one of the most perplexing and apparently paradoxical spiritual problems which can be offered to human philosophy to solve.
		Carefully investigate the subjects of possession, and you will find it inevitable that no such condition can occur until a decided lack of balance might be noticed in the organism, in some instances almost amounting to a tendency to insanity.
		In your lunatic asylums are unbalanced minds, as you tern them, who are absolutely possessed by restless, illconditioned, unhappy, and depraved human spirits, and these exhibit themselves through the disturbed mind or weak body in what the physician calls insanity, but the psychologist determines to be the action of spiritual possession.
	www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /ebook/02/017/33.htm (742 words)

	LESSON 3.10 Possession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Possession also appears in early Christianity in a positive light, particularly in the form of "speaking in tongues." Many contemporary forms of evangelical Christianity consider it desirable to be possessed by the Holy Spirit, with physical manifestations that include shaking and speaking in tongues.
		Spirit possession cults have continued to proliferate, even in the secular West, and many spirits and their mediums are part of local as well as global cultures (Behrend and Luig, 2000).
		Possession trance, a single or episodic alteration in the state of consciousness characterized by the replacement of customary sense of personal identity by a new identity.
	www.virtualcs.com /dsm4/lesson3_10.html (1276 words)

	Possession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Possession is a relatively widespread phenomenon found in religions ranging from Shinto to Santeria, but the experience of or belief in possession occurs only under specific conditions.
		Possession trance cannot occur unless the religious community acknowledges both the independent existence of spirits and the reality of possession.
		The spiritual leaders in the Voodoo community are the male hungans and female mambos; in their religious roles, they perform divination and healing rituals for individual members, as well as oversee all training and calendrical ceremonies.
	www.experiencefestival.com /possession (1357 words)

	Only One Truth
		Often these spiritual leaders have sexually abused their disciples by convincing them that this was necessary for their own salvation.
		Spiritual Possessors are potential killers just as sexual abusers are, if not worse, because spiritual molestation is not recognized in our courts.
		Spiritual and sexual abuse under the guise of religion is a taboo subject.
	onlyonetruth.com /pema/possession.htm (2065 words)

	Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She felt that her body was occupied by the soul of a schoolmate of hers who died in an accident.
		Under the influence of the dybbuk, Moria's behavior was bizarre and her language became profane and abusive.
		Alexander interviewed Moria shortly after an exorcism was conducted that apparently freed her from the possession.
	www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/00-11-07-02.all.html (291 words)

	Spiritual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term "spiritual" can be used in the sense of referring to matters religious as distinct from secular matter.
		Thus in the British House of Lords the Lords Spiritual are the bishops and archbishops.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spiritual (115 words)

	Dybbuk - Spiritual Possession and Jewish Folklore
		A human being that is possessed by a spirit or some otherworldly creature is a phenomenon found in a myriad of cultures and religions.
		My own understanding of possession is from a very Roman Catholic perspective: a person can succumb to a demon or devil that will take over their body, and the only cure is an exorcism to drive the demon out.
		It seeks a particular person who in their current lifetime is going through what the possessing spirit went through, and so the possessing spirit is drawn to compatibility -- to someone who is struggling with the same thing it did.
	www.ghostvillage.com /legends/2003/legends32_11292003.shtml (1371 words)

	Add A Power - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards
		Mental possession is essentially like a brain transplant; the target is essentially a shell for the new mental presence, and the new mental presence has none of the knowledge/mental skills of the target given they are displacing those abilities.
		Body possession means that the body itself has been altered or changed somehow, and the new being may possess the mental and spiritual components of the original person, but those have been fused and over-ridden with a controlling presence that is physically manifest in the person.
		A very important difference with body possession is that whereas both spiritual and mental possession do allow the possessor to be targeted mentally (instead of the possessed, in the case of spiritual possession), this does not apply with body possession.
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=26301 (4179 words)

	Spiritual Curiosity Pages
		Spiritual Curiosity Pages is a bold and controversial discussion of the spirits and spiritual beliefs.
		I attempt to be neutral in my description of spiritual belief systems; however, I will not deny that my personal spiritual experiences influence my comments in these pages.
		Jesus Christ is not a "religion" but the spiritual compliment to our humanity--the ultimate, never-ending spiritual experience of power for daily life.
	www.spiritualcuriosity.com (205 words)

	EDN: Paranormal: Exorcism - Discerning Psychological Problems and Spiritual Possession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In The Patient is the Exorcist Peck supports the importance of discerning between mental illness and spiritual possession:
		This reaching out may be an attempt to assimilate the spiritual experience of possession into the scientific perspective of psychiatry leading us to imagine exorcism as a cognitive therapy and a mass-produced pharmaceutical drug designed to overcome spiritual possession.
		Spiritual Release Therapists invite us to consider the idea of exorcism from a clinical perspective.
	www.experiencedesignernetwork.com /archives/000644.html (1593 words)

	Spirit Possession & Spiritual Psychic Protection
		The most important way of all and is wise for most spiritually aware individuals to learn, is how to control their own spiritual chakra energy centres which also act a psychic reception centres and learn how to both open and close the chakra properly to spiritual communications and sensing.
		This ability that spirit have is a form of ESP or simply a spiritual clairvoyant psychic ability to pass some thoughts and feelings including emotions and physical impressions onto and into our minds and bodies.
		For those that have never had a spiritual attack it is easy to turn and dismiss those who are genuinely troubled by spirit as suffering from delusions.
	www.angelfire.com /or2/spiritspeaks/spiritualprotection.html (2014 words)

	Spiritual Warfare
		Spiritual beings (not having physical bodies) designed to be servants of God.
		Spiritual beings (not having physical bodies) designed to be servants of God's servants but now give allegiance to Satan.
		The result of such oppression or possession by a demon will always have a destructive effect on the victim (spiritually, emotionally and physically).
	www.digistat.com /gcf/spiritualwarfare.htm (1350 words)

	The Illuminati Formula 10:. Spiritual Control Techniques, Possession, Trances, Etc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All this is clear as a bell to the spiritually enlightened, but the demonic forces are able to dull the senses of their victims to the point they no longer have the slightest realization that they have sold their souls.
		The spiritual power of the Communion meal--which is a form of the Passover meal (deliverance) and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (wholeness in heaven) is reversed by Black Mass’s symbolism/bondage.
		Possession behaviour in the various fl occult groups, such as Umbanda (brazilian satanism), Haitian Vaudou, and the St. Vincent Shakers (also called Zeckeeboom people) is a learned behavior.
	66.70.140.217 /b/sp/f10.html (20099 words)

	Valdas Adamkus: a Man of Two Worlds - Van Reenan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nationality is a spiritual possession; statehood is an enforceable obligation.
		The organic and spiritual dimensions of "always a Lithuanian" are clearly discernible in the life pattern of Adamkus, whose Lithuanian self fired his political action in America.
		Residence and naturalization become geographic and legal concepts that measure objective reality without taking into account the spiritual dimension of "I am one of you." In other words, one may physically leave Lithuania yet, on an emotional and a psychological level, never really leave since the identity of the self is a condition of mind.
	www.lituanus.org /1998/98_4_01.htm (1450 words)

	Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Being possessed is not always like it is potrayed in the movies, it is very subtle, and very real.
		I wonder how many serial killers are possessed by spiritual forces, I believe the number is very high if not all of them.
		Being possessed is not a very popular subject, because there are a great number of people who do not believe in it at all.
	www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=11717&discussionID=168133 (208 words)

	SPIRITUAL POSESSION & PROTECTION
		Demonic possession to all intents and purposes is the ability for a bad spirit to have effects and control over the individuals mind or both mind and body.
		Even the more orthodox religions of which some do recognize demonic possession find it very difficult to diagnose a true possession as the symptoms that are exhibited by someone with schizophrenia and certain other mental health conditions are identical to the conditions exhibited by someone who truly is being spiritually attacked or controlled.
		The most important way of all and is wise for most spiritually aware individuals to learn, is how to control their own spiritual chakra energy centers which also act a psychic reception centers and learn how to both open and close the chakra properly to spiritual communications and sensing.
	www.angelicinspirations.com /page125.htm (3605 words)

	Willpower Depletion
		On each of the three spirit combat rounds that occur within the standard combat round, the character must match his or her spiritual attack against the demon's (or spirit's) spiritual defense score.
		For example, a Gunslinger with Willpower 15 would have a spiritual defense of 15 and a spiritual attack of 17 (they get +2 to spiritual attack as part of their character class).
		Full spiritual possession lasts until the demon voluntarily leaves or is cast out.
	www.gaianar.com /RFP/Combat/willpower_depletion.htm (960 words)

	Exorcism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I thought that if someone was possessed, they had nothing less than Satan himself within them I believed all the Hollywood hoopla - mostly because something touched deeply within that there was truth underneath.
		In order to consider the possibility that we might be possessed, we must first examine the avenues by which an entity can enter.
		Possession by a dark energy can be extremely harmful and alarming.
	www.rachelrains.com /articles/exorcism.html (728 words)

	Possession: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Possession
		Possession The state of being possessed or controlled by evil spirits, as demoniacal possession; theosophy explains it as that degree of obsession in which some besieging astral entity has obtained actual possession and use of a living body.
		One or another of such harmful invaders compels their human victims to conduct themselves in all kinds of ways that are unnatural, mischievous, foolish, shocking, purposeless, and degrading.
		Definition of Possession is extracted from the home page of The Theosophical Society, International Headquarters, Pasadena, California.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Possession/id/135660 (737 words)

	Spiritual Possession Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ CreatedByGod.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	Some Opinions
		My case is very particular and unusual since it is based on spiritual possession, which is almost completely ignored but unfortunately is quite a reality.
		In the second, the abuse is spiritual, taking over the whole existence of the unprotected victim, resulting in a more sophisticated and cruel possession that kills the entire being.
		The spiritual kidnapper represents a spiritual symbol which allows him to abuse the victims by their tacit consent.
	www.onlyonetruth.com /pema/abuse.html (311 words)

	Exorcism
		Exorcism is mainly performed in incidences of demonic possession that is generally distinguished from spiritual possession.
		The greatest danger to the exorcist is becoming possessed by the Devil or demon himself.
		Surin was reared in a cloister, practiced severe self-denial during his early years as a priest, experienced severe muscle pains, and had virtually cut himself off from all social contact which led him to come to the Sisters' Convent in poor health and a confused state of mind.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/e/exorcism.html (1753 words)

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