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"INTRODUCTION ""The horrific has its own beauty, its own ecstasy, and we ought not walk around it as if it were not there, no more than we should become one with it."" - Michael Eigen, The Psychotic Core (2004). Our education makes us into aliens vis-à-vis many a phenomenon that have paradoxically surrounded us from the dawn of a budding consciousness of autonomous movement - as if it is instilled by our movements as toddlers away from the suctions of the maternal pull. Our backs turned towards the ones - the Mothers! But can we, can anyone who has been mothered adequately succeed in this venturing forth without generating shadows that grab us in some moments of paralyzing returns of terrors? Spirits emerge as de-alienated, as we recover the themes of Beauty and Ugliness as interweaving-sometimes Ugliness preceding and at times Beauty capping it. Could one have drawn to oneself the haunting by spirits without coming upon a glimpse, a brush, a whisper, an echo of some experience of partial transformation of terrors as heal-able? Could I have used a technical stance of ""Understanding"" states of spirits afflicting or their exorcization without having felt, even if in a vague sense, some dramatization of it? That with the right kinds of spirits animating a human, how radiant (s)he feels one moment whilst deadness creeps in the next moment to take full possession of the same bundle of tissues as though the beauty binding them has lost all shelter, inexplicably pushing even the onlookers to experience infectious horror and limited awareness of one's total helplessness. Yet ambivalences, transitionality also are around. There are few perspectives in Psychology which encourage a trend to explore harmony between opposites or dualities or continuities amongst scary and broken events that span across stages of life but not letting us hope confidently that we could ever rid ourselves of them or unravel their constituent themes. Spirit possession is one such theme where we meet persistent nightmarish emotions covering a large part of social attitudes to view them as mere figment of some deranged mental make-ups or permeated by superstitions which would control our lives,"

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