What is "possession"? 【True Stories from the Spiritual World】

A. Possession refers to the state in which "a spirit is influencing a person on Earth".

In tropical and subtropical jungles, shamans, who are priests that invoke gods, may enter an ecstatic state, become like a different personality, and dance, sing, or suddenly start speaking for hours on end. During this time, the spirits of ancestors may enter, or gods may descend, resulting in a completely abnormal state. This is noticeable even to those watching. Generally, this style of causing spiritual phenomena, where many people can see and feel, "something is descending and moving," is often referred to as a possession state.

However, in Happy Science, possession is understood in a broader sense. Even if it is not a possession state that is obvious to everyone, it is referred to as possession when "a certain being from the spirit world is consistently (sometimes only temporarily) attached to a person and influencing them." The term possession itself carries a strong image of "bad spirits attaching. Evil spirits, evil spirits attaching," but within possession, there are, of course, instances of "divine descent" and "spiritual possession," so possession is a state of "spirits attaching" regardless of the goodness or badness of the spirits. Even if it is not a possession state caused by a medium, it can be said that possession phenomena occur when specific spirits are consistently influencing a person who is normally active in daily life.

In the spirit world, there is a principle called the "law of wavelength resonance," where "the possessed" and "the possessing" resonate with each other's thoughts. For example, if a person living in this world harbors strong feelings of resentment or hatred towards someone, they will resonate with spirits in the hell realm who are filled with hatred, anger, and resentment. As long as they maintain that feeling, the spirit can possess them indefinitely, worsening the fate of the possessed person. It can cause illness, prevent business success, or lead to wrong judgments.

Evil spirits in the hell realm are in a state where "they cannot destroy anything even if they try to, as they lack a physical body to take substantial action." However, when they come to the earthly realm and possess a living human, they can experience feelings similar to that person. The food in the afterlife does not satisfy hunger no matter how much is consumed. However, when they come to this world and go to places like dining streets, there are many people drinking and eating. Among them, they look for a suitable person who resembles them and possess that person; when that person drinks or eats, they feel the same sensations. When they enter a physical body, they can sense the taste and texture of food and drink, thinking, "Ah, I can feel this. I can't stop now."