Causes of Obsession
Obsession has the same kinds of motivation found among criminals who commit warhly crimes, namely (envy, revenge, prejudice, and sadism). Additionally there motivations specific to spirits.
- A lust for pleasures that the spirit, without a body of its own, cannot experience may lead the spirit to obsess a living person in order to share his or her emotions, eventually leading the victim to do things so that the spirit can partake of the victim's feelings.
- An unconscious desire to punish or cause suffering to someone one hates or envies may lead the spirit of a living person to use its relative freedom during sleep to attempt to obsess another living person.
- Prolonged grief for a deceased loved one may lead to the retention of strong bonds between the living and the dead, preventing the later from leaving the world and going on with their missions.
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Famous quotes containing the word obsession:
“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)