The inhabiting of a person’s mind and body by a non-physical spirit. This may be willingly encouraged, especially with benign spirits (as in channeling, invocations, and some Voodoo practices), or unexpected and possibly terrifying, especially with a negative and/or unwanted spirit. In some cases, a special rite called an exorcism is required to remove an unwanted or negative spirit from a possessed person.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...
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