Kallen, Stuart A. Possessions and Exorcisms. The Mysterious & Unknown Series. 2012. 96p. ISBN 1601524749. 133.42 WOO on the library shelves.
Can people be possessed by spirits and demons? The concept of possession exists throughout the globe, in every culture, and is ever present in the popular imagination thanks to movies and horror stories. How can such a universal concept dating thousands of years back not exist?
Scientifically, possession has been explained away by mental illnesses or by physical contamination of one kind or another. Yet, it remains that there have been documented instances where science could not explain what was happening.
This book walks the reader through what possessions look like, and presents several case studies of victims of possessions that science examined but discovered nothing that afflicted them. The author also explores exorcism, the process of removing a spirit or demon out of one’s body, and discusses how these rituals are very similar from one corner of the planet to the next.
Anyone interested in the paranormal will be fascinated with the information Kallen compiled in this book and will be left asking themselves whether there really are spirits out there, and if so, can they really possess humans?
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