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Wikipedia had this to say about The Rosenhan Experiment, conducted by psychologist David L. Rosenhan in the early 1970s, “(The Rosenhan Experiments) investigated the validity of psychiatric diagnoses by examining how mental health professionals identified mental illness. In this controversial study, eight individuals without any psychiatric history feigned auditory hallucinations to gain admission to twelve different mental hospitals across the United States. Despite providing truthful information about their lives and claiming to no longer hear voices, all participants were diagnosed with severe mental disorders, primarily schizophrenia, and remained hospitalized for an average of nineteen days. The study highlighted significant issues within psychiatric institutions, such as the staff’s limited interaction with patients and their tendency to misinterpret normal behavior as symptomatic of mental illness. All but one were released only after agreeing to a mental illness diagnosis and medication, which they flushed down the toilet.” In 1976, a young German woman named Anneliese Michel died after 67 Catholic Exorcisms. The concluded cause of death by the authorities was starvation. Anneliese didn’t think the doctors knew what they were doing, and she knew if she shared too much with them, she would end up in the insane asylum. Her parents and two priests were later convicted of negligent homicide for not turning her over to the state institution, where she would have been force-fed and medicated. What is Creator’s perspective on the “conflict” between the secular and religious responses to obsession, possession, and its symptoms? Were the parents and priests “wrong” in not enlisting the help of secular doctors? What can Creator tell us?
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Anthropologist Felicitas Goodman wrote The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel and the book How About Demons? Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World. Dr. Goodman was convinced that Anneliese was a victim of demonic possession, most likely brought about by a curse rumored to be placed on Anneliese prior to birth solicited and paid for by a woman jealous of Anneliese’s mother. Goodman said that in her experience, nearly all these kinds of possessions were the result of a powerful curse placed by powerful practitioners of the dark arts. Anneliese was a gentle, kind, intelligent, thoughtful individual who seemed like the last person on Earth to “deserve” what happened to her. So much so, in fact, that she and her family came to believe that her plight and suffering were somehow sacrificial and for the benefit of others. Because otherwise, it didn’t make sense to them. Dr. Goodman noted that in Haiti, it is believed that an exorcism will succeed only if the exorcist is more powerful than the one placing the curse. Was this the case with Anneliese as well? Did the exorcisms fail, and Anneliese died because the priests were not as “powerful” as the one who placed the curse? What can Creator tell us?
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The 67 Catholic Exorcisms said by the two priests involved for Anneliese brought at best temporary relief, but in the end were considered a failure due to her unanticipated and tragic death at just 23 years old. Goodman wrote: “Exorcism is basically designed to help the afflicted person to gain ritual control over the molesting entities … Unruly spirits (also) need to and indeed can be trained. Without ritual intervention, the undoing of such a pattern is extremely difficult, especially so if the alter is evil or, in religious terms, if the possessing entity has demonic powers. … It is the only strategy used cross-culturally against demonic possession, and in all instances where it is allowed to work without interference, it is eminently successful. … The worst situation in the West is the one involving demonic possession. Those afflicted by it need help. Exorcism works, other strategies do not, yet their diagnosis and treatment are determined not by what works but by the prevailing attitudes, the paradigm concerning the nature of reality. The position is so ingrained that arguments that religious experience is accompanied by measurable and recordable physiological changes are totally ignored. Finally, it should be noted that Mary, the mother of Jesus, reportedly told Anneliese in a vision she had months in advance that her ordeal would be over on the day she actually died.” What is the divine perspective on this outcome, and were the exorcisms “successful” according to the divine? What can Creator tell us?
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Spirit obsession and possession are bigger problems than most people realize. It’s a problem that spans both life and death, and affects the living and the dead in profound and nearly equal measure. Can Creator share with us how Empowered Prayer, the Lightworker Healing Protocol, Deep Subconscious Mind Reset, and Divine Life Support are the best and most effective means to resolve this vexing problem from BOTH sides of the physical and post-physical divide?
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There was a recent special broadcast from the television network, CNN, on exorcisms and someone sent a link to a YouTube video excerpt titled “CNN discovers exorcism inquiries are on the rise in the US.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysD0JoDP5P8 This included an interview with a Catholic priest who performs the ritual for casting out demons and said over the past quarter century he started out doing 3-5 exorcisms about every 3 months, but this has grown to require doing 3-5 every week. A survey of exorcists by CNN confirmed demand for exorcisms has grown over the past 20 years. Comments posted by viewers of the video were at least 10:1 highly negative with a mix of political and anti-religious condemnation. What is Creator’s perspective about the Church’s role and effectiveness with respect to helping or hurting?
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Police in Hong Kong arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter, several local news media reported, in connection with a blaze that has killed at least 75 people and left hundreds missing in the city’s deadliest fire in years. Hundreds of residents were evacuated as the fire which started on Wednesday afternoon, spread across seven of the eight high-rise apartment buildings in a housing complex in Tai Po district, a suburb in the New Territories. At least 29 others remained hospitalized. Bright flames and smoke shot out of windows as night fell. Authorities said earlier that investigators would be looking into factors including whether material on the exterior walls of high-rise buildings met fire resistance standards, as the rapid spread of the fire was unusual…Officials said the fire started on the external scaffolding of one of the buildings, a 32-storey tower, and later spread to inside the building and then to nearby buildings, likely aided by windy conditions…The housing complex consisted of eight buildings with almost 2,000 apartments housing about 4,800 residents, including many elderly people. It was built in the 1980s and had recently been undergoing a major renovation. Was this tragedy accidental, caused by human arson, or something more deeply sinister?
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A viewer writes: “The latest livestream about Death, Transition, and the Immediate Afterlife gave what had been family lore a sharper focus. I would like to explore the potential current impacts of a tragedy in my family. In the 1920s my grandmother, then 17, was the sole survivor of a car/train wreck that killed her father, two sisters, a cousin, and two aunts. The driver was her father, who had to choose between trusting the brakes or hitting the gas. (Were spirit meddlers involved?)” What can Creator tell us?
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She continues: “My grandmother saved herself by jumping from the car and suffered two broken arms and other injuries and spent considerable time in the hospital. It seems likely that the circumstances had lasting effects on my grandmother and her own family as well as the spirits of the victims. The condition of bodies was described as horribly mutilated, with the cousin being decapitated. Did the condition of the victims have a harmful effect on their transitions?” What can Creator tell us?
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She continues: “Did the death circumstances of that car/train wreck make them vulnerable to dark spirit meddlers? Were dark spirits drawn to the extreme carnage?” What can Creator tell us?
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She continues: “Did the Catholic faith of the family in that car/train wreck serve any of them in transition or through prayers by their church?” What can Creator tell us?
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She continues: “Have all the victims of that car/train wreck returned to the heavenly realm?” What can Creator tell us?
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She continues: “This accident seems to have colored my grandmother’s life from that point forward. She spent several months recovering and was abandoned by her stepmother. She was in and out of psych wards multiple times in her life. There were nine children and two miscarriages, a raging alcoholic husband who spent his pay and caused her to seek food from the church. One daughter became an alcoholic, with pulmonary fibrosis and a creepy husband; one daughter suffered mental illness, heart disease, alcoholism, and rage (my mom); another daughter had a nervous breakdown and a pedophile husband; one daughter seemed somewhat stable; one daughter was sexually abused, manic, and lost a son; one son seems unremarkable; another son had a nervous breakdown, didn’t work; another daughter had an unhappy marriage; the final daughter had a nervous breakdown, and may be homeless. Many of her children suffered with alcoholism, or mental illness, or had breakdowns. Few were better than adequate parents, some were angry and combative. Her 26 grandchildren have attributed the less than “Leave it to Beaver” homelives to be the natural result of trauma trickling down. I now wonder if failure to transition was involved at all? Or were dark spirits attracted to the scene and stayed on? My grandmother, as the survivor, was the likely focus of any that were drawn.” What can Creator tell us?
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She continues: “There is only one of my grandmother’s children still living, and not in touch with the family. She is very likely under the sway of spirits. But I also have particular concern for one of my cousins. Her life has been particularly tragic, and is currently with an abusive husband.” What can Creator tell us?
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She continues: “Are there any lost souls or dark spirits from the car/train wreck still enjoying stirring the pot for my grandmother’s family?” What can Creator tell us?
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She continues: “Is there anything more that Creator could tell us about the energetic causes of this car/train wreck and its lasting results?” What can Creator tell us?
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