Insidious

So yesterday I watched this move about astral projection and how evil spirits can capture your body while trapping you in the astral state.

Is that really what can happen?

In the second part it was even that one evil soul did occupy ones body and wanted to continue his evil deeds as before through the new body.

Please tell me thats just a crafty plot of screen writers to get peoples attention.

[Albalida]

If that could really happen, we wouldn't know it, because the victims would be in no position to warn us.

But I don't think it can. At least, I astral project as often as humanely possible, and I'm still here to talk about it.

That said, I did recently read something about reincarnation traditions in Celtic paganism, which had it that there are more souls than bodies to live in. Even though earth is pretty low on the "enlightenment" tier, there is a jostle to get into a newborn body, sometimes even an already-born body. The harassment of some of these souls can upset living people. (This is apparently a Welsh druidic model of reincarnation.)

That's interesting, but the Hindu concept of life and bodies being tied to karma ring more true to me. In my opinion, it isn't possible because our bodies are very specifically organized. Agility, strength, physical handicaps, allergies, reflex actions, hormones, gender, nationality, who you were born to, who remains in your life...these, I believe, can either influence the condition of the soul, or is itself influenced by the condition of the soul. As noted, it is a very sophisticated system. Consolidate that into a human body, and it's not only yours but it's you.

So something else can only come in if it's perfectly compatible. And by "perfectly" I mean as in the brain you have has memories stored in the organization of the neurons and other stuff. I have depression, for example, and I understand this as both a spiritual and physiological issue. There is a bio-chemical imbalance that affects the molecular process of neurotransmitters in my brain, and I require medication to feel well enough to get up out of bed most days. If I were possessed by another entity, then that entity must either a. be depressed, so as to be able to fit, or b. it will get depressed from taking over my body.

So, I'm more worried for them walk-ins ;)