In western tradition many are reluctant to apply techniques and approaches as if the

were embarrassed of passions, something that was in the medieval times. Micheal Harner

emphasized on the existence of spirits, and science has not disproven him, says that this

finding should not be dismissed. Winick defines possession as "an external force that

enters a worshiper of a deity so that he temporally is the deity, the ultimate religious

experience." They are 2 categories in traditional societies, instutionalized and

semiinstutionalized where possession is seen as a desirable and necessary adjunct to the

worship of a deity. Wallace explains it as an " any native theory, which explains any event of

human behavior as being the result of the physical presence in the human body of an alien

spirit which takes control of the hosts' executive functions, most frequently speech and

control of the skeletal musculature." Walker explains trance as " the scientific descript

the conscious mind represses or disowns. Possession and possession cults also contribute

such attacks as being partially due to dissociated or split off parts of the personality that

controlling the spirit(s), that will occupy their bodies on occasion. Bourguignon attributes

touch with their culture, a presence of a 2nd personality. There are 3 psychological

glossololalia (speaking in tongues), The Holy Spirit enter a body and endows that person

world. Anthropological ruminations on possession found the earliest written records,

humans to types of illness. In Egypt, Rome, and Greek city-states records deal with

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Micheal Harner, Catholic Church, According Rafferty, Holy Spirit, Hallucinations Traditional, BC Mesopotamia, KEVIN RAFFERTY, Satan EBTylor, Rome Greek, altered consciousness, enter body, possession cults, traditional societies, world anthropological,
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