In a different genre he`s up there with the likes of elvis and jimi hendrix….

Dynamic entertainer,will not see the likes of him again…..

As far back as what`s recorded in the bible,and over the centurys has been written about even taped on video.Or is possesion some sort of intellectual disability,not fully explored.

As for myself,i do believe in ghosts spirits,an after life even in a different plane of existance.

Back to possesions,i do belive it exists it`s happening today in our times.

I found this little clip on youtube,see what you think i believe it`s real…..

Possesion is believed to exist in all religions…..

here is an article on possesion according to wikipedia.

Spirit possession is a concept of paranormal, supernatural and/or superstitious belief in which spirits, gods, daemons, demons, animas, or other disincarnate entities may take control of a human body, resulting in noticeable changes in behaviour. The concept of spiritual possession exists in Christianity ^[1] and other contemporary religions and can also be seen in the mythology and folklore of many cultures.^{[citation needed]}

According to Anthroposophy, spiritual possession is when ghosts (demons, devils, negative energies etc.) control the mind (emotions, thoughts) and intellect (decision making ability) of a person. As a result, they also control the person’s actions. Anthroposophy holds that spiritual possession is a contemporary phenomenon, and that people with a physical illnesses or a weak minds are more likely to be attacked and possessed by ghosts. They state that up to 30% of the world’s population may be possessed by ghosts.^[2]

Spiritual possession, especially malign, has been a favorite theme of fictional works, especially in horror novels and films. The novel and film The Exorcist may be the best-known examples of the latter. A version of benign possession is Deadman, a ghostly superhero who uses his possession ability in the cause of justice. Jericho, a member of the Teen Titans, could also take possession of someone else’s body through eye contact (and was able to control their motor skills, and sometimes speech). Powerful fictional telepaths of the Marvel Universe particularly X-Men characters such as Jean Grey and Professor X can possess other bodies.^{[citation needed]}

Similarly, the animated hero Danny Phantom (half-ghost) and other ghosts in the series can ‘overshadow’ human beings, so-called presumably to avoid sounding occultic. Ino Yamanaka from Naruto uses Mind Body Switch Technique which transfers her own spirit to someone else’s. ^{[citation needed]}Frank E. Peretti‘s books This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness deal heavily in demonic possession and spiritual warfare from an Abrahamic religious standpoint.^{[citation needed]}

Spiritual possession, though not necessarily malign, also appears as a secondary theme in The Dune Chronicles, a series of novels written by Frank Herbert. The video game Geist‘s primary game mechanic revolves around possessing people, animals and objects in order to progress.^{[citation needed]}

In fantasy literature, the term channelling is sometimes used in other ways, particularly to describe a person’s ability to draw on some form of magical power. For example, the Wheel of Time series uses the term extensively (although it is by no means the only work to do so).^{[citation needed]}

In the animated series South Park, Kenny was killed off for a year in Kenny Dies. Eric Cartman then drunk his ashes thinking it was chocolate milk and became possessed by Kenny. Chef and Cartman’s mom took him to Chef’s Parents who exorcised Kenny.^{[citation needed]}

In the manga and anime series Shaman King, shamans team up with ghosts and spirits to achieve their goals. The greatest dreams of a shaman is to become the Shaman King, who is able to contact the Great Spirit (the spirit that every soul will eventually go back to) in order to be the savior of the world. Various magical and religious terms are spread through out the story but they merge into something explainable by the time the main plot arrives.^{[citation needed]}

Often in the manga and anime Card Captor Sakura, characters are possessed by spirits, some examples include Rita by The Sword Clow Card, and Sakura herself in the movie by its main antagonist.^{[citation needed]}

In Lois Duncan’s Stranger With My Face, Laurie is taught to project her soul from her body. Her sister Lea ends up taking over Laurie’s body by projecting her soul.^{[citation needed]}

In the video game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Princess Peach is possessed by the final boss, Shadow Queen. However, Mario and his friends defeat her and bring the princess to normal.^{[citation needed]}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_possession

Demonic possession, in supernatural belief systems, is a form of spiritual possession whereby certain malevolent extra-dimensional entities, demons, gain control over a mortal person’s body, which is then used for an evil or destructive purpose. Unlike in channelling or other benign forms of possession, the subject has no control over the possessing entity and so it will persist until forced to leave the victim, usually through a form of exorcism. Many cultures and religions contain some concept of demonic possession, but the details vary considerably. Some cultures, in particular the Roma people also believe that demons can also possess animals, plants, deceased persons or inanimate objects.

The oldest references to demonic possession are from the Sumerians, who believed that all diseases of the body and mind were caused by “sickness demons” called gid-dim [1]. The priests who practiced exorcisms in these nations were called ashipu (sorcerer) as opposed to an asu (physician) who applied bandages and salves [2]. Many cuneiform tablets contain prayers to certain gods asking for protection from demons, while others ask the gods to expel the demons that have invaded their bodies.

Nevertheless there are no descriptions of specific punishments against possessed persons as it happened later many times in Christian societies. Shamanic cultures also believe in demon possession and shamans (witch doctors) perform exorcisms too; in these cultures often diseases are attributed to the presence of an evil spirit or demon in the body of the patient.

Demon possession became a plague among Christians; exorcisms and executions were performed on persons allegedly possessed; many mentally ill people were accused of being demon-possessed and were killed. The Malleus Maleficarum speaks about some exorcisms that can be done in different cases. In Christianity, animals were also believed to be able of being possessed; during the Middle Ages, hundreds of cats, goats, and other animals were slain because of the idea that they were either an incarnation of a demon or possessed by one

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia: Demonical Possession:

“In the Old Testament we have only one instance, and even that is not very certain. We are told that “an evil spirit from the Lord troubled” Saul (1 Samuel 16:14). The Hebrew rûah need not imply a personal influence, though, if we may judge from Josephus (Ant. Jud., VI, viii, 2; ii, 2), the Jews were inclined to give the word that meaning in this very case. In New-Testament times, however, the phenomenon had become very common.”

The New Testament mentions several opportunities in which Jesus drove out demons from diseased persons, believed to be these entities responsible for those illnesses.

• Matthew 4:23-25: Demon-possessed persons are healed by Jesus (also Luke 6:17-19).
• Matthew 7:21-23: Many will drive out demons in Jesus’ name (also Mark 16:17; Luke 10:17; Acts 5:16; 8:7).
• Matthew 8:14-17: Jesus healed many demon-possessed (also Mark 1:29-39; Luke 4:33-41).
• Matthew 8:28-34: Jesus sent a herd of demons from two men into a herd of about two thousand pigs (also Mark 5:1-20; Luke 8:26-39, both referring to only one man).
• Matthew 9:32-34: Jesus made a demon-possessed and mute man speak, the Pharisees said it was by the power of Beelzebub (also Mark 3:20-22).
• Matthew 10:1-8: The Twelve Apostles given the authority to drive out evil spirits (also Mark 3:15; 6:7; 6:13; Luke 9:1; 10:17).
• Matthew 11:16-19: “this generation” said that John the Baptist was possessed by a demon (also Luke 7:31-35).
• Matthew 12:22-32: Jesus healed a demon-possessed blind and dumb man (also Luke 11:14-23; 12:10; Mark 3:20-30).
• Matthew 12:43-45: Jesus told an allegory of nasty spirits coming back home, that is to the human body where they have lived before (also Luke 11:24-26).
• Matthew 15:21-28: Jesus expelled a demon from the body of the daughter of a Canaanite woman (also Mark 7:24-30).
• Matthew 17:14-21: Jesus healed a lunatic by driving out a demon from him (also Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-49).
• Mark 1:21-28: Jesus expelled a nasty spirit from a man (also Luke 4:31-37).
• Mark 9:38-40: A non-Christian is seen driving out demons in Jesus’ name (also Luke 9:49-50).
• Mark 16:9: Jesus had driven seven demons out of Mary Magdalene (also Luke 8:2).
• Luke 7:21: Many people are cleansed from evil spirits by Jesus.
• Luke 13:10-17: Jesus expelled a spirit of disease from the body of a woman on the Sabbath.
• Luke 13:31-32: Jesus continued to cast out demons even though Herod Antipas wanted to kill him.
• Luke 22:3: Satan entered into Judas Iscariot (also John 13:27).
• John 7:20: A “crowd of Jews” that wanted to kill Jesus said he was demon-possessed.
• John 8:48-52: “The Jews” said Jesus was a Samaritan and demon-possessed.
• John 10:20-21: Many Jews said Jesus was raving mad and demon-possessed, others said he was not.
• Acts 5:3: Satan filled the heart of Ananias.
• Acts 5:16: The Apostles healed those tormented by evil spirits.
• Acts 8:6-8: At the teaching of Philip the Evangelist in Samaria, evil spirits came out of many.
• Acts 8:18-19: Simon Magus offered to buy the power of Laying on of hands.
• Acts 10:38: St. Peter said Jesus healed all who were under the power of the devil.
• Acts 16:16-24: Paul and Silas were imprisoned for driving a future-telling spirit out of a slave girl.
• Acts 19:11-12: Handkerchiefs and aprons touched by Paul cured illness and drove out evil spirits.
• Acts 19:13-20: Seven sons of Sceva attempted to drive out evil spirits by saying: “In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.” But because they did not have faith in Jesus, they were unsuccessful and were actually driven from that house by the possessed.
• Revelation 18:2: The Whore of Babylon is a home for demons, evil spirits and unclean birds.

Acts of the Apostles contains also a number of references to people coming under the influence of the Holy Spirit (1:8, 2:4, 2:17-18, 2:38, 4:8, 4:31, 6:3-5, 7:55, 8:15-19, 8:39, 9:17, 10:19, 11:12-16, 11:28, 13:9, 16:6-7, 19:2-6, 20:23, 21:11, 23:8-9) which is believed to be a good thing in contrast to demonic influence.

[edit] Demonic possession in Christianity

Despite its widespread currency, including traditional use among Christian writers, the expressions “demonic possession” or “possessed by demons” are problematic and controversial from a Biblical perspective. Despite English language translation tradition, the Bible never refers to people as being possessed by demons. The main New Testament expressions referred to demonic influence are:

1. ‘to be demonized’ (daimonizomai) – this is the most frequent expression.
2. ‘having a demon’ (echon daimonion) – note it is the person who possesses the demon, not the demon who possesses the person.^[1]

Certainly the language of “possession”, like other mistranslations, has gained a life of its own, as is reflected in the title of this article. Murphy comments on the traditional language of “possession”: “Fortunately, the practice of using these terms is now in the process of correction because of renewed historical-contextual studies of Scripture and renewed experience with the demonized.”^[2] Some allow the term “possession” but restrict its use only for the most extreme cases, which are thought to be extremely rare. ^[3]

Many mainstream Christianity churches, particularly in western society, reject the concept of demons entirely, instead supporting the mainstream scientific position that supposed demon possessions are in fact a symptom of mental illness.^{[citation needed]} Churches that accept demonization still may agree that many apparent cases may actually stem from natural causes. The literal view of demonization is still held by a number of Christian denominations. Official Catholic doctrine affirms that demonic oppression can occur as distinguished from mental illness, but stresses that cases of mental illness should not be misdiagnosed as demonic influence. Catholic exorcisms can occur only under the authority of a bishop and in accordance with strict rules; a simple exorcism also occurs during Baptism (s1673 Catechism of the Catholic Church,).

A great deal of controversy surrounds the book War on the Saints originally published in 1912. The original edition is long out of print. Over the years various publishing houses have produced abridged and pseudo-unabridged editions which have largely eliminated the original thrust of the book as a resource to the Christian faced with combating demon influences.

The concept of demon influence in Christianity was similar to that of Jewish belief. In the New Testament Jesus is reported to have encountered people who were demonized and to have driven the “evil spirits” out of these demoniacs. In the 4th century, St. Hillary asserted that demons entered the bodies of humans to use them as if they were theirs, and also proposed that the same could happen with animals, expelling a demon from his camel to prove his theory. ^{[citation needed]} In the 5th century, Gregory the Great (later Pope Gregory I) wrote about a nun that was oppressed by a demon that penetrated her body via a lettuce she had eaten.

Later, in the Middle Ages, a list of symptoms required to confirm demonic oppression was carefully prepared:

1. The ability to curse/blaspheme in languages unknown to the person.
2. The ability to find secret things, read the mind, and divine future happenings.
3. The ability to make physical efforts abnormal for that person.
4. The act of spitting or vomiting every object the demons would have made the person swallow.

Other symptoms occasionally listed include:

1. Fear and/or hatred of holy objects.
2. The inability to say the word “Christ”.

Normally, only one of these symptoms was enough to determine demonization. It was said by people of that time that oppressed persons had an ugly and terrible aspect, wrathful eyes, bluish lips, foam coming off their mouth; their body was almost permanently shaking, when they spoke their tongue came abnormally out, their speech consisted mainly in curses and blasphemies, and they were able to imitate animal sounds as well as to speak with human-like voices with a strange sound and a different pitch of theirs. According to Catholic theologians demonization is involuntary and allowed by God to test a person (for more details about God’s tests on persons see Job). Involuntary demonization according to these theologians, cannot be negated because this would imply the negation of the cases mentioned in the New Testament (12, some of them repeated in more than one Gospel) and, by extension, the veracity of it. Voluntary demonization can be also mentioned, favored by drugs, alcohol and/or frantic dances, like those of certain ancient cults (i.e. the Bacchanals), still practiced in some Shamanic societies, and alleged to be also practiced by witches during their Sabbaths. Another form of voluntary oppression is that in which a person offers his/her body to be influenced by a demon to serve as a medium among him/her and the other attendants to the reunion.

[edit] New Age view of demonic possession

Demonic possession is mentioned at length in Carlos Castaneda’s The Active Side of Infinity, in which it is claimed that human civilization is demonic in origin. Demons taught primordial humans how to think. Thinking leads to self-reflection: a constant rumination on a self-important “me” which is at war with other people and its environment. This self-reflection enabled humans to become a thinking species, but it also reduced them to slavery to the demons, termed “fliers”, who suck humans’ energy: “By playing on our self-reflection … the predators create flares of awareness that they proceed to consume in a ruthless, predatory fashion. They give us inane problems that force those flares of awareness to rise, and in this manner they keep us alive in order for them to be fed with the energetic flare or our pseudoconcerns.” (p221) According to this view many (if not most) civilized humans are demon-possessed; and that the invention of agriculture was not so much a matter of humans farming plants and animals for food as it was demons farming humans for food.

[edit] Demonic possession in medicine

Demonic possession is not a valid psychiatric or medical diagnosis recognized by either the DSM-IV or the ICD-10. Those who profess a belief in demonic possession have sometimes ascribed the symptoms associated with mental illnesses such as hysteria, mania, psychosis, or dissociative identity disorder to possession. In cases of dissociative identity disorder in which the alter personality is questioned as to it’s identity, 29% are reported to identify themselves as demons.^[4] There is, however, a mental disease called demonomania or demonopathy. This is a monomania in which the patient believes that he or she is possessed by one or more demons.

From another point of view, those who accuse others of being demon-possessed have to be mentioned too. In cases like those of the witches of Salem, Massachusetts, or the nuns who accused father Urbain Grandier, a collective hysteria takes place, involving more than one person “contagiously” convinced of that “truth”. In particular cases (sometimes a small number of persons, e.g., some members of a family or a small group of friends, but generally one person) the accusation of demon possession is caused because of the diseases above-mentioned or the phenomenon of collective hysteria. Another case that is necessary to mention is that of simulation; simulation is generally considered a psychological alteration of the human behaviour rather than a psychiatric disease, but there are in Medicine cases of simulators mentally ill that act by compulsion. It was common the case of children and teenagers accusing people of having bewitched them and feigning to be demon-possessed, and later apologising for that; unfortunately, due to the processes carried out by the religious tribunals, generally those innocents had already lost their lives, and that was the cause of many of those apologies: the feeling of being guilty, or remorse. There were several cases of simulation in England, most of them between 1533 and 1697, until accusations made by children were prohibited in 1718; there were cases of simulation in France and America too; it is thought that the collective hysteria that generated the accusation against Urbain Grandier was started by a case of simulation. It rests to say that a person easy to influence can be convinced by third parties of being demon-possessed.

Medicine can explain some aspects of the “symptoms” shown by those persons allegedly possessed; it is known that “supernatural strength” is common in some cases of insanity (mania, energumens, etc.).

[edit] Demonic possession in fiction

The theme of demon possession has been by far better exploited by cinema than literature. Maybe the most known work on the subject is the 1973 film The Exorcist, based on the book of the same name, which portrays a typical mediaeval case of demonic possession in which the victim shows all required characteristics to confirm the status of possessed. This was later satirised in 1990 by Repossessed. End of Days (1999) shows another form of demonic possession suggested by Hilarius. Possession (taken seriously) is central to the recent TV series Hex (TV series). The TV series Supernatural has also explored themes of demonic possession, most recently in the second season episode Born Under a Bad Sign.

[edit] Notes and references

1. ^ Murphy, Ed. 1996.The Handbook for Spiritual Warfare. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Rev. Ed., p.51
2. ^ Murphy, Ed. 1996. The Handbook for Spiritual Warfare. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Rev. Ed., p.50
3. ^ MacNutt, Francis. 1995. Deliverance from evil Spirits: a practical manual. Grand Rapids: Chosen Books. p.71
4. ^ http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/erlendsson_01_jun_03.pdf

^ Castaneda, Carlos. 1998. The Active side of Infinity. NYC HarperCollins.

[edit] See also

• Exorcism
• List of Exorcists
• Demonology
• Spiritual possession
• (Alien) Abduction phenomenon
• Post-abduction syndrome
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose
• An American Haunting
• Anneliese Michel
• Audrey Rose

[edit] External links

• Demonic possession of Elizabeth Knapp: Cotton Mather’s widely-cited report on the demonic possession of Elizabeth Knapp of Massachusetts (1701)
• The Awakening When Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880), a 19th-century pastor from the Black Forest area of southwestern Germany, agreed to counsel a tormented woman in his parish (Gottliebin Dittus), all hell broke loose – literally.
• Catholic Encyclopedia “Demonical Possession”
• Encyclopedia Britannica: Possession
• Andrew Lang, Demoniacal Possession, The Making of Religion, (Chapter VII), Longmans, Green, and C°, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 128-146.
• War on the Saints Jessie Penn-Lewis & Evan Roberts (The Original and Completely Unabridged Edition less graphics)
• [ http://www.whatismagic.com/consciousness/spirit-possession-%e2%80%93-i.html Spirit Possession (New Age view)]

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Lynda Carter (born July 24, 1951) is an American actress. She is best known for the Amazonian title role in the fantasy-adventure TV series Wonder Woman which aired from 1975 to 1979.

Carter was born Linda Jean Córdova Carter in Phoenix, Arizona.[2] Her father, Colby Carter is an Irish American,[1] and her mother, Juana Córdova, is of Mexican and Spanish ancestry.[1] Carter grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She went to Globe High School in Globe, Arizona and Arcadia High School in Phoenix. She attended Arizona State University, but after being voted the “most talented” student, she dropped out in order to pursue a career in music. She toured as a singer with several rock groups before returning to Arizona in 1972.

Her acting career did not take off until she landed her starring role in the Wonder Woman television series. Her earnest performance endeared her to fans and critics and the series lasted for three seasons. Thirty years after first taking on the role, Carter continues to be closely identified with Wonder Woman, so much so that it has proved difficult for producers to find a suitable candidate to play the character in subsequent aborted productions (work on the most recent attempt was announced in 2005).

Carter’s other credits include the title role in a 1983 biopic of Rita Hayworth and a variety of television specials. She also starred in a few of short-lived TV series, including Partners in Crime with Loni Anderson and Hawkeye with Lee Horsley. During the late 1970s, she recorded the album Portrait and made numerous guest appearances on variety television programs in a musical capacity. She also sang two of her songs in the Wonder Woman episode “Amazon Hot Wax.”

In 2001, Carter was cast in the independent comedy feature Super Troopers as Vermont Governor Jessman. The writer-stars of the film, the comedy troupe Broken Lizard with member Jay Chandrasekhar directing, had specifically sought Carter for the role, with plans to approach other television actresses of the 1970s had Carter declined. Carter had her first appearance in a major feature film in a number of years in the 2005 big-screen remake of The Dukes of Hazzard, also directed by Chandrasekhar. She also played in the 2005 movie Sky High as Principal Powers, the head of a school for superheroes. The script allowed for Carter to poke fun at her most famous character when she states: “What a waste. I can’t do anything more to help you. I’m not Wonder Woman, y’know.” Lynda returned to the DC Comics’ television world on the 2007 episode of Smallville titled “Progeny” playing Chloe Sullivan’s Kryptonite-empowered mother.

Carter has also done voiceover work for video games, performing voices for the Nord and Orsimer (Orc) females in two computer games from The Elder Scrolls series. These are The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. These games were developed by Bethesda Softworks, of which her husband Robert Altman (not to be confused with the late Hollywood director) is Chairman and CEO.

From September 26, 2005 until November of that year, Carter played the role of Mama Morton in the West End London production of Chicago.[3] Her rendition of “When You’re Good to Mama” was officially released on the Chicago: 10th Anniversary Edition cd box set in October of 2006. Receiving positive response to the song’s release, Lynda booked her own cabaret tour act. It was first scheduled in San Francisco at the York Hotel’s Empire Plush Room from May 1 – 6, 2007 and proceeded to tour around the U.S. Lynda also marked July 17, 2007 as the date to record her second solo musical release. [4]

Carter has been married twice. Her first marriage was to her former agent Ron Samuels on May 28, 1977. They were divorced in 1982. Samuels was also agent to Charlie’s Angel Jaclyn Smith (who attended the wedding) and Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner. Carter later married attorney Robert Altman on January 29, 1984. Robert and Lynda have two children, James and Jessica Altman.

When, after a lengthy and highly publicized trial, her husband Robert Altman was found not guilty by the jury of banking and securities fraud, Lynda Carter was shown on the nightly TV news standing in front of the courthouse with her arm around her husband shouting “Not Guilty. Not Guilty.” to the TV news reporters.

It was said that being married to “Wonder Woman” was a major contributing factor to the not guilty verdict.

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That wonder woman show was the most ridiculous show i have ever seen,but i religiously watched it every week to see linda carter in her sapndex wonder woman costume and those big huge blue eyes sexy fantastic smile that lit up the whole screen.she just looked so sexy in that suit!!!

mind you i was only a young boy of nine or ten and i had a big hor,oops i mean crush on that woman.

starred patrick duffy who also starred in dallas alongside larry hagman.

patrick duffy played a merman who could breathe underwater along with webbed hands and webbed feet and returned every week in his trademark speedos, to thrill young girls and women and maybe gay men too…

returned every week to solve crimes along with scientists who were trying to establish this merman (ie partrick duffy) came from,and how he had the ability to breathe underwater,swim at extreme high speeds and could dive to depths that would normally crush a human being.

man i miss that show…p.s bring it back if they ever made a remake of the show i think the actor matthew fox would make a beliveable performance as the man from atlantis….