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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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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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What is keeping her from finding a new life partner?
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Susy Smith revealed in her book an episode that has all the earmarks of a walk-in transition. Sometime during World War II, when Susy Smith was a young adult in her early thirties, she worked in Baltimore as a hospital secretary with an extremely arrogant boss. Because the war was in full swing, single young men who were husband material were few and far between. She writes: “Toward the end of that year as a hospital secretary, I was so completely miserable that I tried to kill myself. … Over a time, many worries pile up in the mind until there comes such a feeling of helplessness that there is an inability to endure another moment of life. … Now that I was entirely resolved, I eagerly began swallowing the prescription liquid sleep aid I obtained earlier that day. The bottle’s contents could not be drunk straight down, for it would have come straight up, so I took the potion spoonful by spoonful, secure in the belief that if I got down enough of it, oblivion would forever result. But with each sip I became more and more nauseated, and finally it was impossible to lift the spoon to my mouth once more. I barely made it to my bed to rest a few more moments until the malaise might pass and my deadly chore be continued.” She continues, “The birds were chirping merrily when I awoke to a sunny morning, and I never felt better in my life. I joined them in song, actually dancing around the room in happiness to find myself alive and greeted by such a beautiful day.” This mirrors the transition experience of many, many walk-ins. What is Creator’s perspective?
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