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Originally Posted by Kendra why do they happen and how is it that people get an exorcisim? wether you were to get an exorcism from god or satan..... because i'm just curious about it is all. does it all have to do with one having the lack of not beleving in a certian god or what? i know they don't happen to a person without there being a reason for it.... a person would get an exorcisim because they've must have done something in order to get it some how. i know that people can perform an exorcism on a person by a priest in order to have it and the such and the other reason would be is to mess around with an quija board......
then if they are having an exorcisim by a certian god... does that mean they are marked by them? |
wow, it depends on who you ask...and funny enough i just read a slightly interesting, great for history, but way too fluffy good versus evil book on exorcisms by the world renowned "trad witch" Sybil Leek, it did have some wonderful stories however.
most of the skeptics that have witnessed cases of "exorcism" have theorized that the person themself develop the symptoms, sort of like stigmata...the person believes they are deserving of being possessed, so they get possed...the usual mind over matter arguement.
usually priests do perforom exorcisms, but then again there are so many denominations, it would seem the roman catholics however are the most...dramatic in their pracitce(the exorcisms portrayed in television and movies)...there are only three official documented roman catholic exorcisms that the church will claim as legitimate in this century, there are numerous other christ based religions that do exorcisms, some number in the thousands, and some congregations seem to exorcise everyone for anything, from bad habits to foul language?
all because of the evil spirits, naturally.
this is one place i will give the roman catholic church credit for their approach, only after all scientific, mental and any and all other avenues of the less than supernatural and extremely expensive they may be explorations have been done, they then go through an extensive process of interviewing, document and observing the...subject, before finally giving approval for an exorcism...
but exorcisms aren't necessarily restricted to the christian clergy, there are numerous witches, wiccans and i'm sure other sorts of magickal people who've had their fair share of exorcisms, but often times they refer to it as a banishing.
i don't know why people get possessed, i do know numerous people who do practice medium type of spiritualism where they actually bring the spirit into their being and let the entity work through their body...i guess it could be kind of a willing possession?
but they exorcise themselves.
however i do love a good possession story.
