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to the true self-insulated psychotic, do they miss their "cues." They<br />

respond in the expected way, and others react equally predictably."<br />

A Brazilian psychiatrist said that no "frankly schizophrenic person<br />

would be able to pass the probationary scrutiny" involved to join<br />

this religious group. (These last two quotes come from a study of<br />

Black Religious groups.) Interestingly, studies made of W.W. II<br />

war criminals show no personality differences between them and<br />

the normal population. Could it be possible that there really is a<br />

demonic element in the lives of people that helps move them in the<br />

direction of evil?<br />

So what is demon possession in Haiti’s Voodooism? According to<br />

the Haitians a spirit which they call "loa" joins a person like a rider<br />

mounts a horse. The spirit then <strong>control</strong>s the person like a rider. The<br />

possessed person is called a "chual" which means horse, and the<br />

spirit is said to mount or saddle his victim. Blood sacrifices are<br />

often associated with the demon, and the possessed person will<br />

drink the blood from the sacrificed animal. Polished stones, and<br />

herbs, and trance and dissociative states are used to attract spirits.<br />

While the <strong>Monarch</strong> slaves have trauma-based dissociative states,<br />

the practitioners of Voodoo have ritually induced dissociative<br />

states. Voodoo rituals will involve chanting, drums, at times<br />

handclapping and frenzied dancing to induce the dissociative states.<br />

In fact, several features have been identified which bring about<br />

dissociative states in the black religions of the Caribbean and South<br />

America. First they have dancing to a pronounced and rapid beat.<br />

Next, the induction into the dissociative state frequently follows a<br />

period of starvation and/or overbreathing (hyperventilation). The<br />

beginning of the demonic possession is characterized by a brief<br />

period of muscle inhibitions, or a collapse. The person who is<br />

experienced at being possessed acquires a specific behavior pattern<br />

for the deity that is supposedly <strong>control</strong>ling it. And finally, the head<br />

and limbs may tremor under trance, and the person may become<br />

dissociative enough that they can pick up red hot irons. The<br />

possessed can be conscious, semiconscious, or unconscious.<br />

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