Spirit Worship
The Tibetan Oracle Possessed by The Spirit
This paper is based upon five years of ethnographic research among the Tibetan exile community in Dharamsala, India, and extensive interviews with the medium of the State Oracle of Tibet and other spirit mediums. It investigates the nature of the oracular phenomenon and its place in the Tibetan Buddhist cosmology as well as the sociopolitical role of the Tibetan State Oracle, or Nêchung. The topics explored include spirit possession, shamanism, and spirit mediums. The central theoretical question addressed is whether or not magico-religious practitioners such as the medium of Nêchung and other Tibetan spirit mediums can legitimately be categorized as shamans.
‘Democratic’ Tibetan leaders want to downplay consulting dangerous spirit Nechung for everything.
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‘Democratic’ Tibetan leaders want to downplay consulting dangerous spirit Nechung for everything.
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Clintons' Haitian Black Magic Secret
Details of the black magic ceremony in 1996.
"First, I want to explain the difference between Haitian voodoo and black magic. Animals are sometimes sacrificed in Haitian voodoo. A variety of animals are sacrificed, such as pigs, goats, chickens, and bulls. “The intent and emphasis of sacrifice is not upon the death of the animal, it is upon the transfusion of its life to the loa; for the understanding is that flesh and blood are of the essence of life and vigor, and these will restore the divine energy of the god.
-- Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
"Sexual acts are a big part of both voodoo and black magic. My source describes black magic ceremonies to be of a very different nature that involves darker aspects of sexual acts prior to rituals and oftentimes babies are sacrificed, their bodies are devoured and blood drank. I asked what happens to their bones, and my source told me they grind them up so nothing is left behind. Yes, I said babies."
South Korean President's Spiritual 'Puppetmaster'
The daughter of a cult leader, Choi Soon-sil, dubbed "Korea's Rasputin" and the president's "shaman adviser" has allegedly been calling the shots for President Park Geun-hye behind the scenes on matters ranging from her wardrobe to North Korea policy to the national budget. Choi's family, linked to a shamanistic cult, befriended Park in the 1970s with claims it could channel voices from the president's dead mother.
• "This is basically a kind of witch who has bewitched our president and has managed to run the state affairs"
• Ms Park held rituals at the presidential compound under Choi's influence.•
• "This is basically a kind of witch who has bewitched our president and has managed to run the state affairs"
• Ms Park held rituals at the presidential compound under Choi's influence.•
South Korean Cult Leader Filmed Beating Her Followers
South KOREAN Shamanism
South Korea has around 300,000 registered shamans, Shamanic rituals can be grisly; "...plunging a pointed trident into the head of a dead pig, or biting the heads of live chickens while dancing in a trancelike state."
