Sublime

Johan Calleman,

mid-twentieth-century survey of 488 distinct societies found that 74 percent had practices involving trance or spirit possession. To this day, many believe someone can be inhabited by a spirit, whether Satan, the Holy Ghost, or the malevolent jinns of Islamic mythology.

Analyst Jeffrey Raff designates encounters with spirits and the dead to the psychoid realm, which can be defined as an objective unconscious with transpersonal elements.