Comments on: What can we Learn from “The Exorcist”?

By: Iain Brassington

Iain Brassington — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:33:00 +0000

I’m not a scientist; but science is generally trustworthy because of the methodology it uses. The “scientific method” is, I think, misnamed: it’s what makes science work, but it doesn’t have to be put to use in science.
I do believe in the unseen. I’ve never seen a gene, or a neutrino, or a dinosaur; but I believe that all these things exist or did exist.
I have read the Bible. Every last word of it. And the Apocrypha, and a significant chunk of the pseudepigrapha. It told me nothing useful.
Religious people aren’t necessarily hallucinating: but they have misinterpreted phenomena that require no supernatural explanation.
And as for the idea that we might be at risk of falling off the world… um… Oh, dearie me.

By: Seize The Day!

Seize The Day! — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:38:00 +0000

You are so absolutely wrong, sadly. There is such a thing as possession but perhaps you are a ‘scientist’ who does not believe in the unseen or have ever read a bible which speaks of this. So all of the World’s religions and even the Pagans are just hallucinating or supersticious? Do you truly believe that this World ball spins in the Universe every 24hours where we do not fall off of it and it is all due to Science? Waken up please! Think!

By: Iain Brassington

Iain Brassington — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:51:46 +0000

I'm really not sure I follow you. Your point seems to be that there's a range of questions to which you don't know the answer, therefore spiritual treatment should be provided. But that's nonsense, so you can't mean that. Yet this just means that it's not clear what you do mean.

I'm also struggling to see the significance of the name morphine. It's a drug that puts people to sleep, and so was named after a deity associated with sleep. So what?

By: Mkhal

Mkhal — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:44:03 +0000

Well elaborated and explain, however, the NHS or Scientists or Physicians or any other healthcare professional must seek a bit more knowledge on spiritual/psychology subject but by looking at object unscientificall.
Well, I dont put my belief in exorcism or whatsoever, yet to my knowledge there are two kind diseases; physical and spiritual. Therefore psychology wouldnt be existed without spirituality. Because if psychiatric patient can be defined and treated only with medicine, how come scizophrenia is associated with someone hearing voices, where do phantom pain come from, “MORPHINE” the drug names taken from the Greek God: Morpheus, the God of Dream. Therefore it is obvious that some kind of spiritual treatment should be provided too. Still it doesnt need to be exorcism but alternative or similar and as there are already some kinds of counselling provided by the NHS, it is an interesting idea to look into sham treatment.
Well done Iain. Great subject but complex…..