Epilepsy is not possession, and history has paid for confusing them; what remains is the experience of another intelligence seeming to speak through a person.
UNBOUND begins with the death of Anneliese Michel and follows possession from a survey of 488 societies, Orisha trance and the zar through the Gospels, the Roman Ritual and Loudun to the Hippocratic "sacred disease" and modern medicine. Rev Benton's answer: possession is a distortion of intelligence, the one Light bent by mind and emotion toward separation. It is not a medical claim, and the film says plainly that the first call is to a doctor.
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