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November 2009 
Is Homosexuality a Result of Overshadowing?
Posted on Nov 7th, 2008
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In her 2006 book, Possessed by Ghosts, Wanda Pratnicka, a Polish psychotherapist, healer, and exorcist, states that one of the primary causes of homosexuality is possession of a child by a ghost of the opposite sex. “When a woman-ghost has dominated the mind of a boy, he will seek out contacts with men,” Pratnicka writes. “…The same thing happens by analogy to a girl who has been possessed by a man.”
As Pratnicka defines it, a ghost is a spirit who has not passed through to the other side of death’s curtain and has to “hook up” to a living person in order to survive. It then steals the person’s energy. “For many ghosts this is, however, not enough so then they steal the person's body as well,” Pratnicka claims. “If such a ghost also succeeds in usurping a person's mind then we're dealing with total possession. Such a person is a puppet which is completely governed by a ghost.”
According to Pratnicka,, a ghost whose life revolved around satisfying sexual desires will likely continue the pursuit on the other side. “After death, their sexual urges pull them down and prevent them going further toward the Light,” she explains. “They are tied to the question which filled their whole lives, that is the pursuit of a suitable partner. Now this becomes their motive force, an obsession in the seeking out of anyone who happens to be at hand and who would satisfy their needs and unrealized dreams best of all.”
Children are most often chosen, Pratnicka says, because the possession is usually by a deceased relative and the child, knowing him or her, doesn’t shut himself off from the ghost. The possession is usually not perceptible to family members, but eventually family members may begin to comment that their child looks like and acts like Uncle Ivan or Aunt Ida, while assuming it is a genetic matter rather than one of possession.
“The ghost of any person who has died and not passed through to the other side of death's curtain may be the one which has just possessed us; so it may be our mother, father, brother, sister, grandfather, granny, uncle, aunt, friend, work-mate, neighbor, school friend or some random ghost which just happened to be nearby,” Pratnicka offers, adding that sometimes it is a strong bond between people of which they may be unaware.
Pratnicka says she has encountered homosexuality as a result of possession hundreds of times out of the several thousand patients of hers world-wide. (Although living in Poland, she has U.S. and Great Britain phones numbers; see her website at www.TheExorcisms.com) She adds that she has been successful in exorcising such possessing spirits, but they often come back.
In a LifeSiteNews.com story on August 15, 2008, Father Jeremy Davies, a Catholic priest with the Westminster diocese in the United Kingdom, is quoted as saying that “among the causes of homosexuality is a contagious demonic factor.” An Oxford graduate who is also a physician, Davies is the author of Exorcism: Understanding Exorcism in Scripture and Practice, published earlier this year. The article goes on to quote Davies as saying that even heterosexual promiscuity can open up the individual to “evil spirits” and that young people are especially vulnerable.
Davies has served as exorcist for the Westminster Archdiocese s since 1986 and co-founded the International Association of Exorcists, which has hundreds of members worldwide. In a 2000 interview, Davies told an independent newspaper that incidents of demonic possession are rising dramatically. "At the centre of this is man's ever-growing pride and attempted self-reliance. Man trying to build a better world without God - another Tower of Babel," he was quoted. said.
In his 2003 book, Healing Lost Souls, William J. Baldwin, Ph.D., an Orlando, Florida therapist, states that “an attached entity of the opposite gender can cause confusion over gender orientation and sexual behavior. This confusion can lead to homosexuality, transvestism, or transsexualism, and gender reassignment surgery.” He goes on to say that many people who are unhappy with their sexual orientation have been freed after releasing the entity that caused the problem.
Baldwin tells the story of a 55-year-old man who had been a transvestite for 50 years. He first became fascinated with his mother’s underwear when five years old and during his teen years stole articles of women’s clothing from clotheslines to use in his own wardrobe. Regressing the man, Baldwin determined that a woman who had been his babysitter when he was a young child and who had died in a trolley accident had attached herself to the man. Through releasement therapy, the invading spirit was released, but it came back after four months. It was again released and had not returned after six months.
A 62-year-old male architect suffering from “gender dysphoria” was found to have been controlled by his mother’s girlfriend who had died in a boating accident before he was born. She had entered the mother’s womb and attached herself to him about the sixth or seventh week in utero. Through releasement therapy, he was also freed but the entity returned. The man concluded that the entity was also responsible for his artistic ability and decided to keep her attached to him.
Louise Ireland-Frey, M.D., a Tulane University medical school graduate, discovered hypnotherapy late in her medical career and came to realize that many medical issues are caused by spirit possession. Her 1999 book Freeing Captives: The Emerging Therapy of Treating Attachment discusses how “attached” entities can be responsible for any number of physical, mental, and emotional disorders. She defines several degrees of attachment. First is temptation of the living person by a wandering spirit. This does not involve an overwhelming compulsion but a thought of doing something out of character for the person. Second is influencing or shadowing, where the disembodied entity is affecting the host person with mood swings, irrational moments, sudden inexplicable fears or depression. Oppression is a word used for a harassing entity. Obsession is where the entity may invade not only the psyche but also the physical body and meld its own personality traits and former bodily feelings with those of the host. Possession is the condition in which the invading entity completely takes over the body of the host, pushing out the host’s own personality (soul).
“A soul that is still very heavy with negative emotions and undesirable habits such as rage, cruelty, greed, etc., may be too negative to be attracted to the Light, and will turn away, not perceiving it, and go to a ‘place’ (a vibrational frequency or dimension) that is likewise dark and heavy, appropriate for its own present nature,” Ireland-Frey explains, going on to say that such souls become wanderers and attach themselves to living people. They are usually drawn to people with the same addictions, vices, or desires so that they can satisfy their still earthly desires through the bodies and senses of the living. The best defense against such attachment, Ireland-Frey states, is a clear, clean, and strong aura – one developed by healthy habits of all kinds.
Dr. Carl A. Wickland, a psychiatrist, dealt extensively with such spirits through the mediumship of his wife, Anna Wickland, during the early part of the 1900s. A member of the Chicago Medical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and director of the National Psychological Institute of Los Angeles, Wickland specialized in cases of schizophrenia, paranoia, depression, addiction, manic-depression, criminal behavior and phobias of all kind. In his 1924 book, Thirty Years Among the Dead, Wickland stated that much of such mental illness was caused by intruding, or obsessing, spirits. “Spirit obsession is a fact – a perversion of a natural law – and is amply demonstrable,” Wickland wrote. “This has been proven hundreds of times by causing the supposed insanity or aberration to be temporarily transferred from the victim to a psychic sensitive who is trained for the purpose, and by this method ascertain the cause of the psychosis to be an ignorant or mischievous spirit, whose identity may frequently be verified.”
I do have a problem understanding why innocent children – those who have not yet reached the age of reason – should be left defenseless and so susceptible to attack by earthbound spirits. I put this concern to Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., author of The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln and a book not yet released in which she attempts to debunk reincarnation by showing that every one of the stories seemingly lending itself to demonstrating reincarnation can be explained by overshadowing, another word for possession.
Martinez referred me to her recent article titled “The Invented God,” in which she discusses how we wrongly blame God when thing go wrong. “… far too much credit has been given to the Supreme for the play of events and forces that we ourselves have unleashed in the world – which in fact God had nothing to do with. How ready we have been to blame our own come-uppance (or even dumb luck) on a higher power!” she writes. “responsibility is key – with both eyes open. Let us leave God out of the equation for a minute and see how far we can get on our own hook – confessing our weaknesses and pledging to set things aright with all our wisdom, love and power.”
The same lack of divine justice relative to possession or overshadowing may be applied to the death of young children. What kind of God allows an innocent child to die before attaining the age of reason? This is a question that Mary Lincoln asked in her bereavement at the loss of her young son Willie in 1862 before realizing the folly of her “rebelliousness”: "How often I feel rebellious, and almost believe that our Heavenly Father has forsaken us, in removing so lovely a child from us! Yet I know, a great sin is committed when we feel thus”
“If Heaven owes us any explanations, it comes not in distracted moments of bereavement or rage, but from a lifetime of thought and study,” Martinez offers. “I have just come across a Jewish parable that ends with this moral (I will end with it too): “Mortals see only the beginning of any of God’s work. Therefore they cannot understand the nature and the end of creation.”
Addendum: Since postng the above 14 hours ago, I have received several e-mail from friends who feel that the whole subject matter is inappropriate. It was not my intent to in any way disparage gays or lesbians. I am not prejudiced against either. To each his own. I had not heard of the overshadowing explanation of homosexuality before I read Pratnicka's book and it struck me as something to explore in an objective manner. It is not something I am emotional about one way or the other, but apparently many people are.
After reading Pratnicka's comments, I searched for other references on the subject and added those. I wasn't prepared to examine other explanations in this blog as it is already long enough. One writer stated that there is evidence we choose our sexual orientation before coming into the world. Another suggested that it is related to past-life karma. Another said that there is a study indicating that animals can be homosexuals and wondered if animals can be overshadowed. (Actually, there is, but that's something for a different blog).
"Possession" is a very emotional word and perhaps I should have used "overshadow" to begin with. I do believe there is strong evidence for other types of overshadowing, including small children being overshadowed by musicians and artists, etc. thereby becoming "child prodigies." Whether they can be overshadoweed in the manner described by Pratnicka, I don't pretend to know. As I stated above, I have a hard time with the idea that defenseless children can be overshadowed, but I wanted to set forth the views of those who believe they can as food for thought.
As Pratnicka defines it, a ghost is a spirit who has not passed through to the other side of death’s curtain and has to “hook up” to a living person in order to survive. It then steals the person’s energy. “For many ghosts this is, however, not enough so then they steal the person's body as well,” Pratnicka claims. “If such a ghost also succeeds in usurping a person's mind then we're dealing with total possession. Such a person is a puppet which is completely governed by a ghost.”
According to Pratnicka,, a ghost whose life revolved around satisfying sexual desires will likely continue the pursuit on the other side. “After death, their sexual urges pull them down and prevent them going further toward the Light,” she explains. “They are tied to the question which filled their whole lives, that is the pursuit of a suitable partner. Now this becomes their motive force, an obsession in the seeking out of anyone who happens to be at hand and who would satisfy their needs and unrealized dreams best of all.”
Children are most often chosen, Pratnicka says, because the possession is usually by a deceased relative and the child, knowing him or her, doesn’t shut himself off from the ghost. The possession is usually not perceptible to family members, but eventually family members may begin to comment that their child looks like and acts like Uncle Ivan or Aunt Ida, while assuming it is a genetic matter rather than one of possession.
“The ghost of any person who has died and not passed through to the other side of death's curtain may be the one which has just possessed us; so it may be our mother, father, brother, sister, grandfather, granny, uncle, aunt, friend, work-mate, neighbor, school friend or some random ghost which just happened to be nearby,” Pratnicka offers, adding that sometimes it is a strong bond between people of which they may be unaware.
Pratnicka says she has encountered homosexuality as a result of possession hundreds of times out of the several thousand patients of hers world-wide. (Although living in Poland, she has U.S. and Great Britain phones numbers; see her website at www.TheExorcisms.com) She adds that she has been successful in exorcising such possessing spirits, but they often come back.
In a LifeSiteNews.com story on August 15, 2008, Father Jeremy Davies, a Catholic priest with the Westminster diocese in the United Kingdom, is quoted as saying that “among the causes of homosexuality is a contagious demonic factor.” An Oxford graduate who is also a physician, Davies is the author of Exorcism: Understanding Exorcism in Scripture and Practice, published earlier this year. The article goes on to quote Davies as saying that even heterosexual promiscuity can open up the individual to “evil spirits” and that young people are especially vulnerable.
Davies has served as exorcist for the Westminster Archdiocese s since 1986 and co-founded the International Association of Exorcists, which has hundreds of members worldwide. In a 2000 interview, Davies told an independent newspaper that incidents of demonic possession are rising dramatically. "At the centre of this is man's ever-growing pride and attempted self-reliance. Man trying to build a better world without God - another Tower of Babel," he was quoted. said.
In his 2003 book, Healing Lost Souls, William J. Baldwin, Ph.D., an Orlando, Florida therapist, states that “an attached entity of the opposite gender can cause confusion over gender orientation and sexual behavior. This confusion can lead to homosexuality, transvestism, or transsexualism, and gender reassignment surgery.” He goes on to say that many people who are unhappy with their sexual orientation have been freed after releasing the entity that caused the problem.
Baldwin tells the story of a 55-year-old man who had been a transvestite for 50 years. He first became fascinated with his mother’s underwear when five years old and during his teen years stole articles of women’s clothing from clotheslines to use in his own wardrobe. Regressing the man, Baldwin determined that a woman who had been his babysitter when he was a young child and who had died in a trolley accident had attached herself to the man. Through releasement therapy, the invading spirit was released, but it came back after four months. It was again released and had not returned after six months.
A 62-year-old male architect suffering from “gender dysphoria” was found to have been controlled by his mother’s girlfriend who had died in a boating accident before he was born. She had entered the mother’s womb and attached herself to him about the sixth or seventh week in utero. Through releasement therapy, he was also freed but the entity returned. The man concluded that the entity was also responsible for his artistic ability and decided to keep her attached to him.
Louise Ireland-Frey, M.D., a Tulane University medical school graduate, discovered hypnotherapy late in her medical career and came to realize that many medical issues are caused by spirit possession. Her 1999 book Freeing Captives: The Emerging Therapy of Treating Attachment discusses how “attached” entities can be responsible for any number of physical, mental, and emotional disorders. She defines several degrees of attachment. First is temptation of the living person by a wandering spirit. This does not involve an overwhelming compulsion but a thought of doing something out of character for the person. Second is influencing or shadowing, where the disembodied entity is affecting the host person with mood swings, irrational moments, sudden inexplicable fears or depression. Oppression is a word used for a harassing entity. Obsession is where the entity may invade not only the psyche but also the physical body and meld its own personality traits and former bodily feelings with those of the host. Possession is the condition in which the invading entity completely takes over the body of the host, pushing out the host’s own personality (soul).
“A soul that is still very heavy with negative emotions and undesirable habits such as rage, cruelty, greed, etc., may be too negative to be attracted to the Light, and will turn away, not perceiving it, and go to a ‘place’ (a vibrational frequency or dimension) that is likewise dark and heavy, appropriate for its own present nature,” Ireland-Frey explains, going on to say that such souls become wanderers and attach themselves to living people. They are usually drawn to people with the same addictions, vices, or desires so that they can satisfy their still earthly desires through the bodies and senses of the living. The best defense against such attachment, Ireland-Frey states, is a clear, clean, and strong aura – one developed by healthy habits of all kinds.
Dr. Carl A. Wickland, a psychiatrist, dealt extensively with such spirits through the mediumship of his wife, Anna Wickland, during the early part of the 1900s. A member of the Chicago Medical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and director of the National Psychological Institute of Los Angeles, Wickland specialized in cases of schizophrenia, paranoia, depression, addiction, manic-depression, criminal behavior and phobias of all kind. In his 1924 book, Thirty Years Among the Dead, Wickland stated that much of such mental illness was caused by intruding, or obsessing, spirits. “Spirit obsession is a fact – a perversion of a natural law – and is amply demonstrable,” Wickland wrote. “This has been proven hundreds of times by causing the supposed insanity or aberration to be temporarily transferred from the victim to a psychic sensitive who is trained for the purpose, and by this method ascertain the cause of the psychosis to be an ignorant or mischievous spirit, whose identity may frequently be verified.”
I do have a problem understanding why innocent children – those who have not yet reached the age of reason – should be left defenseless and so susceptible to attack by earthbound spirits. I put this concern to Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., author of The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln and a book not yet released in which she attempts to debunk reincarnation by showing that every one of the stories seemingly lending itself to demonstrating reincarnation can be explained by overshadowing, another word for possession.
Martinez referred me to her recent article titled “The Invented God,” in which she discusses how we wrongly blame God when thing go wrong. “… far too much credit has been given to the Supreme for the play of events and forces that we ourselves have unleashed in the world – which in fact God had nothing to do with. How ready we have been to blame our own come-uppance (or even dumb luck) on a higher power!” she writes. “responsibility is key – with both eyes open. Let us leave God out of the equation for a minute and see how far we can get on our own hook – confessing our weaknesses and pledging to set things aright with all our wisdom, love and power.”
The same lack of divine justice relative to possession or overshadowing may be applied to the death of young children. What kind of God allows an innocent child to die before attaining the age of reason? This is a question that Mary Lincoln asked in her bereavement at the loss of her young son Willie in 1862 before realizing the folly of her “rebelliousness”: "How often I feel rebellious, and almost believe that our Heavenly Father has forsaken us, in removing so lovely a child from us! Yet I know, a great sin is committed when we feel thus”
“If Heaven owes us any explanations, it comes not in distracted moments of bereavement or rage, but from a lifetime of thought and study,” Martinez offers. “I have just come across a Jewish parable that ends with this moral (I will end with it too): “Mortals see only the beginning of any of God’s work. Therefore they cannot understand the nature and the end of creation.”
Addendum: Since postng the above 14 hours ago, I have received several e-mail from friends who feel that the whole subject matter is inappropriate. It was not my intent to in any way disparage gays or lesbians. I am not prejudiced against either. To each his own. I had not heard of the overshadowing explanation of homosexuality before I read Pratnicka's book and it struck me as something to explore in an objective manner. It is not something I am emotional about one way or the other, but apparently many people are.
After reading Pratnicka's comments, I searched for other references on the subject and added those. I wasn't prepared to examine other explanations in this blog as it is already long enough. One writer stated that there is evidence we choose our sexual orientation before coming into the world. Another suggested that it is related to past-life karma. Another said that there is a study indicating that animals can be homosexuals and wondered if animals can be overshadowed. (Actually, there is, but that's something for a different blog).
"Possession" is a very emotional word and perhaps I should have used "overshadow" to begin with. I do believe there is strong evidence for other types of overshadowing, including small children being overshadowed by musicians and artists, etc. thereby becoming "child prodigies." Whether they can be overshadoweed in the manner described by Pratnicka, I don't pretend to know. As I stated above, I have a hard time with the idea that defenseless children can be overshadowed, but I wanted to set forth the views of those who believe they can as food for thought.
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Wow. This is really disturbing. I believe in spirits, but to say homosexuality is just a matter of possession is very dangerous thinking, the kind that leads to discrimination, witch-burning and torture, no joke.
I believe in God too, but I am deeply, deeply, ridiculously grateful that modern medicine doesn't try to attribute spiritual cause to disease. That is dangerous and leads to subjective treatments that can always be justified because the “illness” is not tangible. I thank modern medicine for saving many lives through reason, investigation, and tangible science. As I said, I do believe in spirits, but I don't believe some quack, or in fact almost anyone can cure spiritual sicknesses with exorcism or anything like that, and it is often a horrific mess when they try, just ask the victims of the Spanish Inquisition. We've made some progress since then, but still have more to go.
I also think God, on the highest level is reasonable and logical. I'm not Christian, but after all, the Bible says “in the beginning there was the word and the word was God” and in older Greek versions, in the beginning there was the “logos”. Logos means word, but it also means logic or idea or reason, in the deepest sense. We, as people may not always be reasonable or understand reason, like the folks in the above article, but there is a deep and pervading logic to the structure of the universe, I call it Tao, but you can call it whatever you like and it'll still show up.
Jessica,
Thank you for your comment. Four or five people e-mailed me with similar views or concerns. First of all, I didn't say I agreed with the theory, although I do tend to believe in possession generally. Since “possession” is a loaded word, perhaps it would have been better to use “overshadowing” it is not so emotional. Some people are overshadowed with music ability, some with articstic ability, some with alcoholism, so I am not sure it is too far fetched a theory to apply it to homosexuality. at least as a theory. It was put out as something to ponder, not as fact.
I tend to look at such things without the emotion that others do and I fully appreciate modern medicine, but I do believe that many mental problems are caused by overshadowing and that modern medicine is missing the boat there.
Michael,
The article for me is extremely illuminating but the title a little restrictive and does not do the article justice.
The term, “overshadowing” suggests to me a 'greater enhancement of what already exists'. Whether we are preformed or genetically predisposed to be the way we are, there are energies that can distort our subtleties and manipulate our preferences, whether asexual,heterosexual or homosexual. All forms and expressions of humankind are not exempt from the manipulation of earth-conditioned spirits seeking material appeasement.
Appreciated,
rob
Rob,
Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad to know that there are readers who don't react emotionally. I receive more e-mail comments than I do comments here and so far all the e-mail writers are upset that I would post such “disparaging trash.” As I mentioned above, I don't know if the theory is true or not, but it certainly seems that it should be considered if we are to get at the truth. .
Keep on writing!! I like it , I love your writing. This is really good, I think these doctors have done their homework, and the readers that don't understand, either they have not done their homework or they allowed someone to do it for them!
Your friends, Don & Tina
Hi Michael,
You have a great blog and you usually do a great service by writing on the topics you do.
However I have to agree with those who wrote you to say this particular topic is inappropriate.
While your thesis might be true in a small minority of cases I don't think we can say it is true in every case or even in the majority of cases.
My main reason for this is that the frequency of homosexuality in humans is somewhere between 1 and 10 % of the population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual#Demographics
It is hard to believe that even 1% of the several billion of people who live today are overshadowed. We know that sometimes spirits do not cross over completely but what percent are earthbound? Surely not every every earthbound spirit ends up overshadowing a living person. Surely not every overshadowing spirit is of the opposite sex. It whould require an impossibly large number of earthbound spirits to provide enough to be the cause of so many homosexual individuals.
Other reasons for my opinion include:
Over the years I have been a member of verious spiritualist churches. In each case there were a a few gay men in the congregation and also serving as mediums. As a spiritualist church goer I have witnesses many, many readings by competent mediums and in mediumship classes and workshops and this subject of overshadowing is extremely rare and has not come up as an issue for homosexuals in particular or with the frequency required to explain the frequency of homosexuality in the general population.
What we think we know about overshadowing and other subjects about the afterlife is not really 100% reliable. You, better than many others, know that mediumship is not 100% accurate. You have to be very careful when you make statements about the afterlife and especially when on the subject of the causes of homosexuality because it is controversial at many levels including religious, medical, societal, and personal levels. You also have to be very careful when you make medical or psycological diagnoses. These should be left to licenced professionals, doctors and psychologists. Basing such diagnoses on uncertain means is wrong and can do great psychological harm to people who may recieve misdiagnoses.
Citing Carl Wickland's work is inappropriate. His patients were deeply disturbed. This would imply homosexuals are also, and they are not. In fact since they do not have the same types of symptoms as Wickland's patients, that can be construed as strong evidence that they are not suffering from overshadowing.
You base your thesis to a large extent on the findings of practicing psychologists. It may be that psychologists who are open to spiritual causes see a higher number of cases of overshadowing because the population they see are having severe problems which led them to a psychologist. So what is true for the poulation of psychologists' patients may not be true for the population in general and psychologists may have a distorted view resulting from their own practice.
Henry,
Thank you for your comments. You may be right concerning homosexuals, but I'd wager that you are way off concerning the number of earthbound spirits and the amount of overshadowing going on. I get the impression that perhaps as many as half or more of all souls transitioning these days are earthbound for some time and that they are a big reason for all the chaos we see in the world today. As I think I mentioned – maybe I didn't – indications are that overshadowing can take place in degrees and one person can be overshadowed by numerous earthbound spirits. I've seen quite a few reports by clairvoyants who say that they see them hanging around bars and among drug addicts, etc. so that they can feed off of them and continue their old vices. Dr. Edith Fiore has written a couple of very intriguing books on the subject.
For the same reason that I understand overshadowing can be in degrees, I don't see that it follows that all overshadowed people are “deeply disturbed.” While some people see child prodigies in music, art, etc. as being the result of a past-life connection, there are others who see child prodigies as the result of overshadowing by deceased musicians, artists, etc. That certainly seems to have been the case with Rosemary Brown, although I don't recall that she possessed (note that last word) her musical gift as a child. . We don't call these child prodigies deeply disturbed and for the same reason we should not infer that gays and lesbians.are deeply disturbed. It just “is.”
Those are just my thoughts. What do I know? Probably nothing.
Again, thanks for your input on the subject. I do plan to talke more about Dr. Wickland in my next post.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply. I am sorry that I tend to write more often when I disagree but I have to say I enjoy reading what you write because there are few people who have opinions on such topics and are also so well read.
You might be interested to know I went back to wikipedia and noticed this bit regarding native american culture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Spirit
“The term [two-spirit] usually implies a masculine spirit and a feminine spirit living in the same body and was coined by contemporary gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Native Americans to describe themselves and the traditional roles they are reclaiming.”
I hate to provide evidence that seems to support an idea I think is incorrect and harmful, but it is interesting. I'm not sure that this belief is the same as overshadowing, they may have believed the two spirits were naturally and correctly intended to share the one body. And my point was that overshadowing is not in most cases the cause of homosexuality.
I did find this bit also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality#Sexual_behavior
“Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships vary over time and place, from expecting all males to engage in same-sex relationships, to casual integration, through acceptance, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death.”
Can societies where all males engage is homosexuality be explained by overshadowing? I don't believe so.
But, can you say more about why you think so many souls are earth bound?
If it is only because of chaos in the world I would have to suggest that there is actually much less chaos in the world today. Watching the TV news is misleading because they focus on bad news since drama attracts viewers. Politicians, charities, religious “leaders”, and demogogues of all sorts play on peoples fears and play up the problems. However, if you look up the statistics you will find that poverty, wars, famine, etc etc are much less severe today than in the past. Do you think overshadowing was even worse in the past? The frequency of homosexuality should change in proportion to chaos in the world but i'm not sure if there is sufficient statistical information to say if this is true. My own expectation is that chaos is less but homosexually is constant.
What do you think causes so many spirits to be earth bound?
Most writers on the subject say that earth bound spirits occur because of sudden death due to unexpected and rapid illnes, or to accidents, or violence. Spirits that die more naturally are preapared for the transition and helped across by spirits. Yet even people suffering nde's unexpectedly seem to be met so not even sudden death always results in being earth bound. Maybe it is the strong attachment to the earth due to addiction or place associations that result in victims of sudden death becoming earth bound. Do you think this could cause enough earthbound spirits or do you think there is some other mechanism for causing earthbound spirits?
I agree overshadowing can be in degrees. In some cases the person who is overshadwed senses that the effects of the spirit are not his own. My understanding is that homosexuals generally feel their condition is natural, normal and right for them. Might not an otherwise straight person who was experienced homoseuxal urges of an overshadowing spirit feel serious conflicts? This is part of why I wonder if only if the population of psychologists' patients has more overshadowed people than you find in the general population.
Do homosexuals experience adult sexual urges and behavior before puberty? I don't believe they do. There may be behavioral differences in children but that is also consistent with a biological explanation. If homosexuality was due to an overshadowing spirit why would biology prevent sexual behavior in children yet be suceptible to spirit influence after puberty? If sexual behavior is only begins after puberty but the spirit is there all along it seems like a contradiction. If the spirit sexual urges can overcome adult's urges why do they not overcome a child's lack of libido?
Henry,
I don't think “earthbound” is a black and white situation, either. Like overshadowing, it is a matter of degree. As I understand it, we each have what might be called a “moral specific gravity” (MSG) that manifests in our energy field, or aura. That MSG is based on the way we balance the spiritual and the material in life. Chaos was really the wrong word for me to use. I should have just referred to the amount of materialism in the world. You don't have to watch TV to observe this. I can see it all around me, people driving luxury cars when all they need is transportation, people spending money for tattoos when they could be helping others with it, people getting face lifts, etc. It is an egocentric, materialistic, hedonistic world out there and as every man and woman strives to better him/herself materially, the MSG goes down and such people are likely to find themselves earthbound to some degree, i.e., still attached to earthly things and unwilling to give them up. Saying that you believe in God and attending church on Sundays doesn't really do all that much for the MSG.
As I further understand it, some earthbound spirits don't realize they are dead, while other earthbound spirits do realize it to some extent. Here again it is a matter of degree, a matter of how much they are “awakened.” Both classes of earthbound spirits can overshadow a living person because they are still pulled to earthly things and inclined to attach themselves to someone to fill that need.
Yesterday's USA Today had an article about mental illness in the U.S., commenting that 2.4 million Americans are schizophrenic and one in 17 suffers from serious mental disorder. There are no doubt many millions more who suffer from mental disorders who don't quite make the threshold of “serious.” My guess is that all those millions of people are the more seriously overshadowed, while the rest of us may or may not be overshadowed in some lesser degree.
Thanks for the info on the Indians. I vaguely reading that someplace, but I forgot about it.
I thought this was a good article and I certainly agree with the possibility of obsession, etc. I understand that some may be emotional about it but that might be because people tend to see things that are not 100% positive and fully endorsed to the max, as being “biased”. In other words, it may be a real possibility (and it could be–we don’t know) and just because it’s not a post that cheers on 100% gay lifestyle, it certianly doesn’t degrad anyone. It is simply another possibility. And I do agree it is a possibility, I don’t find it offensive and I’m not even sure why anyone would, except for the reason I stated above, which if they thought about it, they would see there really is no reason to feel threatened. Goodness gracious, if a doctor wrote a book about cancer sufferers linked with obsession, should cancer sufferers band together and boycott it? Or go on the web and paint the author or a person who reviewed that book, black? If not why not? Wouldn’t they be interested in all of the possibilities and information?
Danny,
Thank you for your comment. That’s exactly how I felt when I wrote it and still feel.