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9217 ago

I wrote about Abramovic's trip to Brazil and her interaction with "John of God" while there.

Quote from almost exactly a year ago:

"A central point about John of God is that he is reputed to be possessed by various spirits/entities when he heals. After the ritual is over, he claims to have no memory of the event. Spectators describe him as seeming like 'someone else' during these alleged possessions."

"This is important because there is a strong connection between possession and multiple personality disorder, with the former often described as an ancient term used to describe the latter. If John of God actually does go through an identity change during his surgeries/rituals, then it is possible that he is dissociative himself. Again, this is important because it gives insight into the operation of actual ritual abuse by people who are themselves dissociative and split into multiple personalities (like Podesta's Skippy.) Ritual personalities are often described by survivors of SRA. This is extremely similar to possession by entities - whether it is John of God, or some shamanic/trance tradition. He may also be simply using the claim of possession as another element of his scam."

think- ago

This is important because there is a strong connection between possession and multiple personality disorder, with the former often described as an ancient term used to describe the latter.

This is very interesting.

Vindicator ago

It is. However, I think they are two distinct things.

think- ago

I think it's interesting, because DID could have been mistakenly been interpreted as demon possession in the past.

Or maybe even nowadays, when you think about the ongoing exorcism practised in the Catholic Church f.e.

Also, I remember a case of a Muslim cleric sexually abusing a girl in India I read about recently. He was also a 'black magic practioner'. Imo the girl had DID. Her parents sent her to him so that he could 'cure' her with black magic.

Many Muslims believe that people with PTSD (or DID for that matter) are possessed by Jinns (evil entities). And there are ancient texts from the Sumerian region (or was in Mesopotamia? lol), a couple of thousand years old, that describe people who we would nowadays diagnose with PTSD being possessed by ghosts. (I'm not saying that everybody who has a PTSD has a DID too, of course.)

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