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"Spirit Possession", Coast to Coast with George Noory

Wed. November 30, 2006
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Psychologist and hypnotherapist Dr. Edith Fiore, the author of The Unquiet Dead, shared her work dealing with spirit possession. A small percentage of deceased people don't cross over into the light and subsequently attach themselves to the living, she explained. According to Fiore, these earthbound spirits enter people whose auras may be weakened through drugs & alcohol, illness and other causes.

Dr. Edith Fiore received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Miami. She moved to and practiced in California for more than thirty years, first with a general clinical practice and then from 1975 on as a hypnotherapist. She retired in 1997 and now lives in Florida. She is currently writing a novel on ancient Egypt. Dr. Fiore has lectured nationally and internationally and has trained more than two thousand professionals in her innovative techniques. She wrote three books on aspects of her work as a hypnotherapist.

She detailed a number of possession indicators: low energy level, mood swings, uncharacteristic behaviors, hearing voices, sudden psychological or health problems, and poor concentration & memory. Depossession, in contrast to exorcism, is used to remove earthbound spirits rather than demons, and involves communicating to the spirit. She proposed directly addressing the following to the possessing spirit:

• Your physical body has died, but your spirit lives on.
• Do you remember your own physical body and the point at which you entered someone else's?
• You are harming yourself by staying here, and you are harming the host.
• Your loved ones are waiting for you on the other side; look for the white light.
• I don't give you permission to be with me. I forgive you-- but I want you go now.
• Go in peace and light and love.