A Short Spirit Possession Rant
Escape from the Spirit Guides
Seduction of the Spirits
I’ve just heard this particular story way too many times not to comment on it. It usually goes something like this:
- Person talks to spirits and is happy for years.
- Person then gets freaked out over something.
- Person has beliefs involving the absolute division of spirits into inherently good and inherently evil; decides that since the spirits in question aren’t absolutely good, they must be evil.
- Person turns on the spirits and tells them to leave.
- The spirits, quite understandably, get angry at all this. A spiritual battle ensues.
- After some amount of trouble, the spirits eventually leave. Person retrospectively thinks of the happy years as the intentional deceptions of evil’s honeyed tongue, just like those people who talk about ‘that bitch’ after a nasty breakup even though the relationship was very happy for most of its length.
The fact is, as harmonious as the relationship is between the two of us, we would react the same way to attempts to get rid of us. And then you’d have the classic possession situation. Another casualty of absolutes.
6 comments December 21st, 2005