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Shattering the Illusion: Exorcism and the Truth About Possessions

2023/4/14
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主持著名true crime播客《Crime Junkie》的播音员和创始人。
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播音员:本节目探讨了驱魔的现象,通过Anneliese Michel和Ronald Hunkler的案例,展现了人们在面对无法解释的症状时,求助于驱魔的场景。驱魔仪式过程的痛苦和最终结果的多样性,引发了人们对驱魔真实性和有效性的思考。节目中还提到了LaToya Ammons一家所经历的事件,以及驱魔师Father Amort的经历,进一步丰富了对驱魔这一现象的理解。驱魔与现代医学的冲突,以及人们对超自然现象的不同信仰,构成了本节目的核心内容。驱魔是否真实存在,以及其背后的原因,是本节目试图解答的问题。驱魔在不同文化和历史时期的演变,也为我们理解这一现象提供了更广阔的视角。驱魔的案例中,既有因信仰而产生的心理暗示,也有可能存在着现代医学无法解释的现象。节目试图在超自然解释和科学解释之间寻找平衡,并鼓励观众理性思考。

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The episode begins with a detailed description of the symptoms and escalating behaviors exhibited by a person experiencing a possession, leading to the involvement of an exorcist when medical explanations fail.

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Here's how it starts. Maybe it's your mother or maybe your sister. She starts complaining of headaches and strange tingling sensations in different parts of her body.

Her discomfort escalates. She complains of hallucinations; she starts hearing voices.

Then the seizures begin. She has trouble walking and eating. And maintaining control of her bladder.

The seizures become violent. She thrashes around her bed for hours. You try to restrain her, but she suddenly has impossible strength.

Her moods become erratic. She swings between fear and anger and sadness. Her speech becomes ragged and deep. She has sudden outbursts where she barks out phrases in Latin and Aramaic; languages she doesn't speak.

Then, for no reason at all, the symptoms suddenly stop. And she's back to her normal self. Frightened and exhausted, but it's still her.

Her doctor can't find anything wrong with her. Psychiatrists and neurologists can't explain what's happening.

This scenario happens to hundreds of families every year from all over the world; of every different culture and religion.

And when this does happen to someone you love, and there's nobody else to call; you call an exorcist.


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