I like watching horror movies when I can't sleep, but I've always felt that ghost movies are just a combination game of props, editing and sound effects, but this is not scary at all. I also often think about the theme of the stereotyped special effects and plots of horror movies that I can guess the next move with my nostrils - the relationship between religious experience and mental illness (epilepsy). Arguably an ancient topic, 19th-century scholars have linked saints and prophets to epilepsy, split personality, and even brain tumors. With the continuous progress of medicine, more and more subtle changes in human physiology are constantly being included in medicine, but religion can never give up this position. It can be said that if transcendence is completely identified as a disease, it means continuation of With the death of thousands of years of religion, oracles have become old moral sermons, and clergy can only degenerate into wizards and sorcerers of the pre-religious era. But this sharp conflict did not happen. This has to be said to be a tacit understanding between the government and religious organizations (of course, I am not worthy to judge which of the two sides is correct). Why is it said that it is a religious organization instead of a religion, because if the therapy in the movie is made by Ordinary folk leaders, sorcerers, goddesses, etc. will not be so tolerant of public opinion and even directors, and it is precisely because of the formal priests who take this type of therapy that many people are more willing to believe that there is indeed a supernatural intervention. If people believe in "regular" gods, they will also believe in "irregular" gods. This is why I believe that new religions and even cults will continue to emerge in the foreseeable future.
It is also worth mentioning that Germany also made a film based on the same incident, and its position is diametrically opposite to that of the American version. The American film hopes that the audience will believe in the girl's martyrdom and self-sacrifice believers, while the German director believes that she is subject to Unfortunate psychopaths of family, church and custom. This also reflects the social reality of Europe and the United States—the Christian faith in old Europe actually exists in name only (its church nature is mainly church property management and sorority), while in the United States, "the most adults who believe in the existence of angels" The country still has strong vitality and spread soil.
Finally, an anthropological question is attached, and I hope I can find the answer from the book in the future. That's why, from Tibet to the United States, from the Boxer Regiment to the Tibetan gods and witches, the possessed emphasize that three or four men can't hold back, haha (I personally feel that no matter what the cause of this phenomenon is, the stimulated parts of the brain must be similar. , may be similar to the area of stimulant action, maybe which country can still use it in wars in the future...)
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