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Is schizophrenia and epilepsy caused by ghosts?

Philosophy · asked by user [] · 2007-08-04 · 41 answers
I heard this.
user [6] · 2007-08-04
I knew a devotee that had epilepsy and he was almost ostracized from the devotee community he was living. Once he asked me that question and being a nice devotee as he was, I was very sad cause his major problem wasnt that one but being scared of being "haunted".
My answer was, of course, no you are not haunted, just ill.
user [38] · 2007-08-04
Careful individual evaluation is needed. One thing is that ghosts take advantage of such ill persons and then its difficult to figure out what was first - a ghost or a disease. Again, jyotish (esp. prashna) is helpful.
user [71] · 2007-08-04
I have heard epilepsy is a reaction of to much sexual violence in previous lives... (cannot give proper reference but it makes some sense to me...)
user [12] · 2007-08-04
There is a devotee in Mumbai who can cure epilepsy with accupuncture. Takes him a year or two though of treatments every other day. He can do amazing things with accupuncture:
http://www.nityanandaclinic.co.in/

All a manifestation of disturbance of energy channels.
user [19] · 2007-08-04
but what to do when it is because of ghosts? pills are not going to cure them.
user [12] · 2007-08-04
One devotee went to that doctor because of ghost attacks as well. A devotee with reasonably good sadhana. The doctor said he would strengthen the bodys health and aura and it would help. After a few sessions the devotee said he felt much better and the ghost attacks were not coming. It depends on the bodys aura as well.

The hypnotherapists I talked to said they could help with ghost attacks to by going deep enough into the subconscious.

(is this too unscientific for anyone?)
user [72] · 2007-08-04
how can you change your aura?
user [19] · 2007-08-04
But are there any good ghostbusters outside of India. All the devotees I know that need help are in the West and dont have money to travel.
user [55] · 2007-08-04
Here'b4s a post following; -

Secret Of Miracles

find file attached below
user [24] · 2007-08-04
heres something relevant in recent news:

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSDEL18883420070712?sp=true
user [19] · 2007-08-04
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Scores of Indian children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site, officials and residents said.

people didnt watch the Polstergeist movie or what?

Watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5-7jdPD2l8
user [55] · 2007-08-04
Example 5: Zee News '96 Kaal Kapal Mahakal

In this episode they showed a person who can tell about anybody'92s past, present and future. He can tell about person'92s name, surname, native place, birth place, career, present salary, family member'92s names and age, addresses etc. without even knowing about him beforehand. He can tell all these in the first sight itself? How is it possible?

The answer is very simple. Our soul is a live recording video. The person who tells you the history has a soul (spirit) who helps them directly and indirectly. The spirit is a slave to a person who tells the history and the spirit has to act and work at a command of his master.
These occultists generally have the spirits under their control which tell the history and the way to solve the problem of the third person.

These spirits have the body made up of three elements i.e. space (aakash), air (vayu) and fire(agni). Whereas we humans have 5 elementary body. So absence of the solid elements (water and earth element) in the spirits (also called ghost) being powerful then us can do anything and can easily tell the history of anyone.

The most important to note that any unnatural act (positive or negative) is beyond the capacity of the normal human being. He/she is supported by some three elementary body souls.

Example 6: Sahara News '96 Live telecast of jyotish ( Patel from Kheda
district Gujarat)

In that programme , people call this person in the studio of the news channel and want to know their future. Patel asks them date of birth, place and present time and location of the person asking question? After the complete inquiry the person, Patel translates all those in Gujarati language and then after he talks with a soul and after hen the soul answers in Gujarati, he translates back into Hindi and then gives the answer.

It is very clear that this jyotish uses some soul who helps him. Jyotish also told that he has Mataji'92s power who answers the questions.

In today'92s world each and every jyotish, occultist and magician has such a spirit or soul to help them.

Example 7:
In Christian religion too, now a days lot of miracles are being shown. The number of Christian souls must not decrease is the motive of the spirits who are loyal to Christian religion so they help to keep the population of Christianity constant by doing miracles. Even in the religion of Islam, small miracles are seen in some Dargah or Mosque quite often. These all miracles are to keep the number of the followers constant or increased.

Some Guru'92s soul comes in the dreams of the disciple and orders him to make a temple for him. After the temple is built, Guru'92s soul resides in that temple and remedies the pains and sorrows of his disciples and fulfills the desires of his disciples. Today after each temples the same story of miracles goes on.

Example 8: Drinking of milk by the idol of Lord Ganesha, Falling of tears from the eyes of idol of Lord Hanuman, Falling of tears from the eyes of idol of Miss Mary, Ocean'92s water getting sweet, emergence of honey from the eyes of idol of Saibaba, we see and listen such type of news on almost daily basis. Then who is responsible for them?

Now it has become clear that ghosts and spirits are ruling the universe today.Science may not agree with this today as this knowledge is beyond science.Our Shashtras (Classical texts) have also reaffirmed the existence of ghosts and
spirits. ( Refer : '93 Punarjanma and Parlok, Gita Press, Gorakhpur). In this book it has been told that a soul is 2000 years old, another is 5000 years old and someone is one kalpa old.

If God had come in only one religion, he would have shown miracle in only one religion.Why He would have shown miracles in all the other religions?

Open Your Eyes:-
So brothers and sisters , open your eyes. Whatever soul thinks at the time of death, so will be his or her Gati ( State)

Terrorists souls help terrorists only. If a terrorist dies, he helps terrorists in intensifying terrorism. They are helping Osama Bin Laden by entering into the terrorists bodies

If you want to save the world from evil spirits, you have to give liberation to these souls. This will be possible only when you will get divine vision and divine knowledge of the Supreme Soul through which you can give salvation (moksh) to the evil spirits.
user [38] · 2007-08-04
Cant say. Catholic Church has a system for evaluation and exorcism.

Exorcism info and resources:

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

Ghost-related prashna:

http://www.bhaktivedantacollege.org/bvc_site/resources_services/articles/pdfs/jyotish/informal/english/black_magic_in_canada.pdf
user [12] · 2007-08-04
Talk to a hypnotherapist in the area. First check out the hypnotherapist and see how open minded they are and how well they do past life regressions. Some of the hypnotherapists are not that skilled and one of them told me I was going into trance (chanting Hare Krishna) just to avoid my problems. Anyway see if you can find a hypnotherapist who has a good mindset and see if they can do a regression. The devotee should be accompanied by someone in the session so that everyone is comfortable.

Listen this is my personal advice for a ghost problem. People may not agree with it and many will tell you to just chant Hare Krishna. But I quite frankly dont think chanting Hare Krishna is enough in such situations. I know temple devotees who chant 16 rounds and have serious obsessive compulsive disorders (many hours in the bathroom) and ghost attacks and they chant more serious than me I think. So see if you can find a good hypnotherapist.

Hypnosis is VERY powerful. Even we devotees have no idea of its power, but finding a good qualified one may take some work. See if they have done a past life regression training course from someone like Brian Weiss. Beware all the new age weirdos though.

They call ghost attacks "foreign entities" or "foreign spirits". For past life regression people it is VERY common. The therapist I learned from said that is the first order of business in a regression, to check for foreign entities, because the memories may be of the foreign spirit who is in the body.
user [38] · 2007-08-04
Past Life Regression Workshop by Bir Krishna Goswami: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5386460925322627743
user [55] · 2007-08-04
what can any of Us tell us about the article, on Miracles thus.

Hari Bol !
user [12] · 2007-08-05
Ghost attacks are not only in India and not only on devotees! Need a serious ghostbuster for this one.
http://www.mcdowellnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MMN%2FMGArticle%2FMMN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352244572
user [112] · 2007-08-08
I know well one devotee, who is really expert in ghostology.
www.svarun.net
user [38] · 2007-08-08
Svarun site is expired.
user [113] · 2007-08-08
I am owner of svarun.net webpage, I am just preparing new webpage. I started to do ghostbusting 10 years ago and in this time I was studying also under Sri Vaishnava expert from Melkote. Chanting certainly helps on the long term and purifies of all karma, but when situation is intense then you need to do specific puja for the person concerned. I cleaned many houses and people from ghosts with success. But my policy is to not try to make too much business out of this as it happened with one devotee. I take normal donation to cover expenses and use for pujas to purify the karma. As of now I did more then hundered pujas. Important is also to keep house clean- means no remnants arround, cleaning after eating, washing hands nicely, not touch things in contaminated state. I live in a house which used to be celthic and illiric graveyard. I got this information first in dream then confirmed with historical museum. As celthic people did also offering of people in the fire and other sacrifices of humans there were certainly so many ghosts. This was one of my big projects.:)))) To clean up this place.
user [113] · 2007-08-08
About regresions one has to be careful no ghosts are there to influence. When I am doing regressions I am very careful not to see any ghost around. Chanting Hanuman and Narasimha mantras is always useful to be protected from ghosts.
user [19] · 2007-08-09
And Prabhu can you do remote cleansing of houses or people?
I have seen others that with just a picture they can help somehow.
user [21] · 2007-08-09
yes, please inform us about that.
user [113] · 2007-08-09
Sure, there is posibility to do remote cleaning. Sometimes pictures is helpful otherwise only information about the place means house number, street and place is also enough. Then I can see what is there and how much is needed to clean.
I have email address Damana.Krishna.JPS@pamho.net, hanuman9@gmail.com.
user [113] · 2007-08-09
For people name, date and hour of birth, if picture is there is o.k otherwise even without picture it is possible.
user [19] · 2007-08-10
and have you seen cases where people were diagnosed as schizophrenics but later you found that it was caused by ghosts?

if you cure them then what do normal doctors think afterwards?
user [113] · 2007-08-22
Yes, for example there is one person coming to our temple. He used to have such problems my Godness. In the lecture the face was laughing, making faces he was not even aware what is happening. The doctors said he has diseases from schizophrenia, paranoia and some more. All of highest grade. At the moment I am in contact with one Mataji from Europe which has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and its cause was voodoo made by her previous boyfriend. Only in start she feels much better. Her doctor only said she should check if she has ghosts or some magic. I doubt some doctor in Slovenia would say such a thing. Here this doctors are too orthodox and puffed up of knowledge.
user [2] · 2007-08-22
Be careful in some cases the chanting accentuates the symptoms and it is not recommended like japa rounds, etc Prasadam is the main course of action there.
user [146] · 2007-08-22
Schizophrenia and epilepsy are serious medical conditions that can be effectively controlled with medication. There is nothing in any spiritual text that precludes the sick from taking advantage of modern medicine.

For questions about your spiritual health, visit a temple; for questions about your physical health, visit a doctor.
user [2] · 2007-08-22
...and for haunting problems, subscribe to this discussion-thread :)
user [19] · 2007-08-23
sorry thomas, I dont believe at all in modern medicine. they will only prescribe medicines that will only make you more sick.

havent you seen the documentary sicko or what?
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/trailer/
user [38] · 2007-08-23
And Michael Moore is acc to Alex Jones (infowars.com) just a controlled opposition (i.e. he doesnt poke into really serious stuff)...
user [2] · 2007-08-23
well, if Michael Moore "did not poke serious stuff", then tell me what is serious. And what you are poking at, please :)
user [38] · 2007-08-23
Anyone can check what Alex Jones has to say. But youve been forewarned.
user [19] · 2007-08-23
i dont trust much michael moore but Alex Jones is a popular cia fake.
http://www.breakfornews.com/TheCIAInternetFakes.htm
user [144] · 2007-08-25
When I worked at the state psych hospital many years ago I heard about an interesting case. There was a lady with schizophrenia who believed she was possessed by a ghost. The caregivers thought it would be fun to pretend that they were "spiritual healers" so they did an "exorcism" on her when she was taking a bath. The told her the ghosts went down the drain because of her "spiritual exorcism bath" . The caregivers were shocked that this lady truly believed she was "cured" and in fact she did leave the hospital shortly after that bath.
user [19] · 2007-08-26
so does this suggest that it was all just imaginary?
user [40] · 2007-08-26
so how do you get to be a ghost

and how can you be helped

when you remove them do they go else where
user [40] · 2007-08-26
are all the answers to my questions there
user [38] · 2007-08-26
Cant remember about the last one. Depends how you remove them - either they go elsewhere or they can get another material body (which is obviously better for them).

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