Spiritual Possession: Looking at the Spooky Subject Without the Spook

There is no fear in the house of love, all love, no fear

This is a very important topic, understanding which helps understand a lot of what is going on in the world. My take is different from many anxiety-based takes, and I am sharing it as food for thought (not as dogma or something that you have to take on faith but as food for thought). At the end of the day, it is your soul that decides what makes sense to you, and how the world works.

The institutional take is that if a spiritual experience comes in a flavor that can be described in terms of an officially “approved” faith (i.e., “a vision of Christ,” “an encounter with an angel,” etc.) then it’s good. Otherwise, it is not so great. I believe that the things are a bit more complicated. For example, what if one has a “visitation from God,” the official “God,” and that “God” tells the person to go kill strangers in a foreign land, was it really God that they had a visitation from?

I believe that the litmus test of godliness of any spiritual encounter is not the branding but whether it el…