Spirit Possession as Self Transformative Experience in Late Medieval Catholic Europe
Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions April 18, 2002 Moshe Sluhovsky
Abstract Possession by either divine or demonic spirits is a familiar form of self-transformation. Together with devotional ecstasy, shamanism, trance, and voodoo and Zar ceremonies, possession is included by ethnopsychologists and anthropologists in the large variety of altered states of consciousness, numerous mental states that are “indigenously understood in terms of the influence of an...