Translations and culture-relative readings of the Bible are the source from which modern culture gets ideas about exorcism. If you are talking about exorcisms without reference the Bible, then just use modern terms like ideas, diseases, viruses, multiple personalities, hallucinations, political opinions etc.
I'm not sure what you mean. Lots of other cultures have the concept too. I can't find them googling right now, but I once read a lengthy detailed article about a culture in the Caribbean that does rites to cause someone to be possessed so that ancestors can partake in food with them, as one example.
I'd say there are two types of possession: Intentional and not intentional.
If intentional, then it's basically an indefinite invocation. In other words, keeping up a connection to a spiritual entity outside of a ritual context and allowing them to further influence oneself.
Yes! This! Praise the darkness! Hail Satan! I knew a sibling in Satan would get it
If not intentional, then it's a spiritual entity, or a part of one's subconscious, or a combination thereof, influencing one's conscious mind and forcing one to specific behavious different from what one wants (or believes oneself to want). Seems to happen most commonly to people of religions that forbid even intentional invocations of those entities.
That is kind of ironic. I think maybe they see parts of themselves or even archetypes in them they don't like and freak out, and by loosing their cool let it take over and then play out all their fears.
Not really any personal experiences here either, so only theoretical.
I'd argue that pretty much every devotee of a deity does a very subtle form of the intentional version subconsciously. But I wouldn't really call it possession if one doesn't actually perceive that deity as a personified entity within oneself.
Right.
It's super-maddening when you're a Christian and other Christians do that to you.
I can't speak on it, not Christian lol But ya I can get how frustrating that would be.
A mental illness is not caused my demons. A jesus follower who says that is just saying a bunch of nonsense.
Some even think someone being on heavy drugs is possessed by demon.
Well, ya. I'm in agreement.
What do you personally think of former Atheist Howard Storm's assertion that there is a Legion of former humans out there in a relatively low energetic dimension of space - time......who can attempt to deceive somebody newly deceased...... away from the light into darkness?
Personally... I do believe this is real..... and this sure fits with the book "Hungry Ghosts" by Joe Fischer.
Reverend Howard Storm's Near-Death Experience
I hadn't heard of him but I do believe in a legion of former life forms who manifest to various other life forms in the Universe for... varying purposes. The process of this is a little complicated but I've been possessed/controlled by them before for either my benefit or others'. Our alliances were the same however
We wouldn't dare deceive people, but leading them into darkness... yes. But to us, light, dark, it's all the same in the absolute