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En dash not Hyphen. Let's Connect x. Subscribe to our Newsletter. Daily Devotionals x. Daily Bible Reading Plans x. Recently Popular Pages x. Recently Popular Media x. Those who were possessed by demons in Scripture showed certain symptoms. They include the following: 1. Cannot Control Themselves A person who is under the control of a demon cannot control themselves. The evil spirit is able to speak through their lips or can make them mute as it so desires.
Scripture gives examples of demon-possessed people who were mute. And when the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke: and the multitudes marveled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel Matthew Then was brought unto Him one possessed with a demon, blind and mute: and He healed him, insomuch that the mute man spoke and saw Matthew We also find demons speaking through people. Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, "What have You to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have You come to destroy us? New Personality Demon-possession means that a new personality is introduced to that person - the victim becomes a different person. The Gadarene demoniac acted and spoke as one who was controlled by another personality Suddenly they shouted, "What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?
Different Voice Sometimes those who are demon-possessed speak with a different voice. Honest investigation of a problem by any discipline means the discipline also risks discovering that it is not applicable.
But even an unethical medical experiment may give useful information leaving us in a quandary about whether to use it. Very irrational!!! In the past centuries hysteria was considered as demoniac possession and patients were burned!!! Religion should stay far away from science. And who even proved the existence of demons or god???
You know nothing about the subkject, yet you do your best to discard it. Actually, it is about djinns, not demons, but the ones causing all these are most likely bad djinns. There are many such cases where when a member of a family is affected, others are also affected by time. If you are just so prejudiced. People with such symptoms were never held accountable for anything in the Ottoman Empire. We were using music, water, colors, etc. If you are going to criticize a point of view, do it after you made an effort to learn one or two things about the subject.
You are so prejudiced, as much as your ancestors torturing and burning people. Musa , if you choose to believe something that is without evidence thats fair enough , a democratic and free society should protect that , but if you wish to influence national and local policy to extend your beliefs and force them on other people then your beliefs should be backed up by evidence.
And there is no evidence for the supernatural. It is not supernatural. It is what you call it in the West. You cannot tell me the reason or cause of gravitation. The preferred level of evidence for the effectiveness of any intervention would be from one or more RCTs, it is true. So it is really not so simple as you paint it my dear Anders: a multitude of study methods of medical phenomena exist for good reason. With any research on humans or indeed animals first we do ethics, then we do science.
Kemal Irmak is not a psychiatrist. He is a retired professor of histology and embryology. It appears he had written such article with his convictions rather than a scientific basis. Clearly the author imagines that demons are real, but perhaps the ontology is back-to-front — why did ancient people believe demons exist? People hear their voices. Now we have an alternative explanation — people hallucinate voices because brains are complex and chaotic — and the enshrined religious explanation has been discarded.
What your talking about are paradoxical interventions. In fact the polar opposite , Reality Testing , etc offers a better outcome imo. In handling my own mental illness, actually the Reality Testing approach has worked much better than the assumption of demonization probably would. If so, then the method might have merit — the fact that it took effect over a protracted period rather than being instantaneous made it seem more like a psychological intervention rather than a mere ritual.
However the context makes me doubtful of the efficacy claimed. Seems merely anecdotal in the abstract. Maria T. Govinatzki, Luciana S. Velleda, Vera M. Trindade, Fabiano M. Nagel, Denise Bueno, Marcos L. Perry January Neurochemical Research, 22 1 , Practical Ethics Ethics in the News.
Public Sinners: Forgive or Forget? What if schizophrenics really are possessed by demons, after all? By Rebecca Roache Follow Rebecca on Twitter here Is there anything wrong with seriously entertaining this possibility? The lessons for schizophrenia that Irmak draws from these observations are worth quoting in full: As seen above, there exist similarities between the clinical symptoms of schizophrenia and demonic possession.
References 1 Irmak, M. June 3, at pm. June 4, at am. June 4, at pm. June 5, at am. June 5, at pm. June 6, at am. I wonder if traditional religious people would actually like the paper to be taken seriously. Can you be a little more specific? June 6, at pm. June 7, at am. June 7, at pm. June 16, at pm. June 17, at am.
June 17, at pm. July 12, at am. Who Cares? Paying for the Flu Vaccine. Select Author All Rights Reserved. Although visits by the spirits of the recently departed can be chilling, they are also comforting, say those who've seen these "crisis apparitions.
As the priests began to pray, the woman slipped into a trance -- and then snapped to life. She spoke in multiple voices: One was deep, guttural and masculine; another was high-pitched; a third spouted only Latin. When someone secretly sprinkled ordinary water on her, she didn't react. But when holy water was used, she screamed in pain. You'll be sorry. You've probably seen this before: a soul corrupted by Satan, a priest waving a crucifix at a snarling woman.
The film "The Exorcist" shaped how many see demonic possession. But this was an actual exorcism -- and included a character not normally seen in the traditional drive-out-the-devil script. Read More. He was part of the team that tried to help the woman. Fighting Satan's minions wasn't part of Gallagher's career plan while he was studying medicine at Yale.
He knew about biblical accounts of demonic possession but thought they were an ancient culture's attempt to grapple with mental disorders like epilepsy. He proudly calls himself a "man of science.
Yet today, Gallagher has become something else: the go-to guy for a sprawling network of exorcists in the United States. He says demonic possession is real. He's seen the evidence: victims suddenly speaking perfect Latin; sacred objects flying off shelves; people displaying "hidden knowledge" or secrets about people that they could not have possibly have known. She threw a Lutheran deacon who was about pounds across the room," he says.
That's beyond psychiatry. Gallagher calls himself a "consultant" on demonic possessions. For the past 25 years, he has helped clergy distinguish between mental illness and what he calls "the real thing.
Gary Thomas, one of the most famous exorcists in the United States. The movie "The Rite" was based on Thomas' work. Gallagher is a big man -- 6-foot-5 -- who once played semipro basketball in Europe. He has a gruff, no-nonsense demeanor. When he talks about possession, it sounds as if he's describing the growth of algae; his tone is dry, clinical, matter-of-fact.
Possession, he says, is rare -- but real. Some critics, though, say Gallagher has become possessed by his own delusions. They say all he's witnessed are cheap parlor tricks by people who might need therapy but certainly not exorcism. And, they argue, there's no empirical evidence that proves possession is real. Still, one of the biggest mysteries about Gallagher's work isn't what he's seen. It's how he's evolved. How does a "man of science" get pulled into the world of demonic possession?
His short answer: He met a queen of Satan. A 'creepy' encounter with evil. She was a middle-age woman who wore flowing dark clothes and black eye shadow. She could be charming and engaging. She was also part of a satanic cult. She called herself the queen of the cult, but Gallagher would refer to her as "Julia," the pseudonym he gave her. The woman had approached her local priest, convinced she was being attacked by a demon.
The priest referred her to an exorcist, who reached out to Gallagher for a mental health evaluation. Why, though, would a devil worshipper want to be free of the devil? She ended up relieving Gallagher of his doubts. It was one of the first cases he took, and it changed him. Gallagher helped assemble an exorcism team that met Julia in the chapel of a house. Objects would fly off shelves around her.
She somehow knew personal details about Gallagher's life: how his mother had died of ovarian cancer; the fact that two cats in his house went berserk fighting each other the night before one of her sessions. Julia found a way to reach him even when she wasn't with him, he says.
He was talking on the phone with Julia's priest one night, he says, when both men heard one of the demonic voices that came from Julia during her trances -- even though she was nowhere near a phone and thousands of miles away. He says he was never afraid. How a scientist believes in demons. He also insists that he's on the side of science. He says he's a stickler for the scientific method, that it teaches people to follow the facts wherever they may lead. Growing up in a large Irish Catholic family in Long Island, he didn't think much about stories of possession.
But when he kept seeing cases like Julia's as a professional, he says, his views had to evolve. Some priests say those who dabble in the occult are opening doorways to the demonic. Being Catholic, though, may help. Gallagher grew up in a home where faith was taken seriously.
His younger brother, Mark, says Gallagher was an academic prodigy with a photographic memory who wanted to use his faith to help people. He taught us to give back.
Gallagher's two ways of giving back -- helping the mentally ill as well as the possessed -- may seem at odds. But not necessarily for those in the Catholic Church.
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