CAIYROS wrote:I have experienced a LWA becoming me or me becoming them...But possession as in pop novels, non fiction, and film - no.
Would you mind elaborating?
CAIYROS wrote:I have experienced a LWA becoming me or me becoming them...But possession as in pop novels, non fiction, and film - no.
In vodu (voodoo) the Lwa (Loi or Loa - spirits) can become you and you them..(for a very detailed description of this process read Maya Deren's The Divine Horseman. TO me it was like being 2 people at once, but it was not frightening or confusing. The feeling power and energy was well over what I would normally feel, but I felt that just dancing was enough and as Erzulie Dantor Je Rouge and She as me in extension gave me new and different feelings of insight and raw energy...but it wasn't nervous or raw....With the Lwa Baron Samedi it was like be a celebrity getting out of a limo and dancing on a red carpet - on one side of the carpet was death and on the other side of the carpet was life...and then smack...suddenly being back to just "me".darksidemoon wrote:CAIYROS wrote:I have experienced a LWA becoming me or me becoming them...But possession as in pop novels, non fiction, and film - no.
Would you mind elaborating?
I've often wondered why the Christian faith has the most stories on demon possession. My experience with hard-core Christians is that they bother me more so than the regular arm-chair Christian who take everything with a grain of salt. The hard-core ones have a tendency to stir animosity with their condemnation and my way or the hell highway attitude. I supposed that would make them targets to other emotional irrational foes who may seek to regain their power from oppression through the dark arts, war, etc.B. They are inducing hatred for anything non-Christian, which opens the doors for all those mental, psychic, and hard core demons who possessed enough priests, cardinals, and pope to create the Inquisition and the "Burning Times" which according to reasonable estimates killed or tortured to death somewhere around 100,000,000 people from the period 600 AD to Texas 1952 when a "woman" with people and a RC priest in attendance was burned to death as a "witch". The people who did this were never punished.
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