What If Spiritual Possession Is Real?

What if that terrible voice in your head isn't actually YOU?

It starts with a simple assumption that psychology has held for a century - the brain sits safely inside a hard bone skull and does not interact directly with the outside world (all interactions are done through the senses). Yet, what if we question this assumption. After all, the only things in nature that are not porous are...dead. So what if the brain IS porous and susceptible to outside energies - both good and bad ones. I've had numerous severely depressed clients over thirty years of working in psychology. The inner dialogue driven by such self-loathing and depression is brutal and often, unyielding. I always assumed this was simply extreme depression, brain chemistry and pessimism. But what if it’s not? What if this voice originates from someone or something other than the true self? What if the brain is porous and can absorb energies from outside? What if spiritual possession (i.e., unattached burdens) isn’t just in the movies? This is the compelling topic discussed today with Bob Falconer, author & long-time IFS practitioner. And it is fascinating...and will rock your work view of what is possible.

Topics Covered In This Spine-tingling Episode:

What is Internal Family Systems (IFS)?

What is an Unattached Burden (UB)?

How are UBs seen by other cultures around the world?

How do you differentiate between a real part of a person and an unattached burden?

How do you best respond to an unattached burden?

How do you send a UB on their merry way?

What makes a person more vulnerable to Unattached Burdens?

What is the "self"? To what extent do you agree with Dick Schwartz that self is both a particle and a wave (in quantum physics terms). In other words, does the self simultaneously extend beyond one’s self to others as well as is contained within the mind and body?

What are some of the positives that emerge from Unattached Burdens?

About Dr. John’s Guest:

Robert Falconer is an Internal Family Systems therapy practitioner, teacher, and writer. Bob has devoted himself full-time to IFS work since training in IFS with Richard Schwartz more than a decade ago, and assisting Dr, Schwartz in many trainings and workshops. During the earlier part of his career, before discovering IFS, Bob worked with survivors of major trauma. His focus now is on the study and treatment of the others within us, also known as unattached burdens in IFS, or UBs for short. His new book, The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession, a work of more than 10 years of research, was published in April, 2023.

Resources:

For more info on Bob, visit RobertFalconer.us ().

For Bob’s book, visit The Others Within UsInternal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession () at Amazon.

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