Sunday, April 26, 2026

Spanish woman possessed by Kali

 


"The goddess will not ask you for your passport. If you are present, she will find you". 

A Spanish woman recently went viral when she was "possessed by Kali" at a traditional Hindu festival in southern India. The content-creator has a supranaturalist (or supranaturalist-sounding) explanation for the incident. 

It struck me that Hindu temples - and many other religious buildings - might be built in such a way that alternate states of consciousness may be triggered naturally. Which of course doesn´t disprove that they may also be "spiritual". 

Of course, a more prosaic explanation is that the Spanish woman wanted to "go native". I mean, she was wearing a red sari, had adopted a part-Indian name, and was interested in Hindu spirituality. A skeptical British reporter getting possessed by Ma Kali might have been more interesting... 

2 comments:

  1. That thing about the temples being built to induce super natural states... How does it work?

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  2. No idea, I´m just speculating. Here is some fringe stuff on a similar topic:

    https://ashtarbookblog.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-biggest-secret_24.html

    It struck me that cemeteries often have a "micro-climate" different from the surroundings, due to how they plant the trees, the walled enclosures, etc. So why not temples? If you build them in a certain way in a certain climate, maybe they can induce alternate states of consciousness? Or do so in combination with other things, such as dancing, chanting, etc.

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