Korean Mother Kills 3-Year Old Son During Shamanistic Ritual
This is just a horrible story coming out of Incheon:
A single mother’s twisted love has led to the tragic death of her three-year-old baby who was brutally beaten with a peach tree stick used by shamans for exorcism.
The 26-year-old mother identified by her surname Choi and her mother Shin, 50, have been arrested on charges of child abuse and manslaughter at their home in Incheon, south of Seoul, police said.
Choi and Shin were accused of whipping the whole body of their child with a peach tree stick and a hula-hoop for two days from February 18. After their shamanistic ritual, the baby was left abandoned to starve for three days.
It all started when Choi, who was suffering from depression, was captured by an illusion that her baby was possessed with an evil spirit. On recommendations from a shaman, she performed her own exorcism with a bible and a peach tree stick. [Aju Daily]
You can read the rest at the link, but it seems pretty weird that a Bible is involved in Shamanistic ritual.
“but it seems pretty weird that a Bible is involved in Shamanistic ritual.”
Let’s see what a shaman is.
“A shaman is a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of benevolent and malevolent spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing.”
Ooookaaaay.
Not all shamans are Jesuses… but it seems all Jesuses were shamans.
But seriously, the Bible gets mixed up in some seriously creepy stuff all over the world… so not surprising at all.
Whatever your problem with the spirit world is, it never hurts to throw a little extra Bible at it.
I think shamans will tend to use whatever “magic” they believe is powerful. So since around a third of Koreans self-identify as Christian on census data, the shaman probably has good reason to think Jesus possesses powerful magic. As to the man himself, yes, Jesus’ main job in the gospels seems to be going around from village to village, healing people of various ailments, some physical, some mental, i.e., today we would call him at least partly a shaman. It seems a bit unfair to blame the shaman for the murder, however, since the story isn’t clear on how the shaman instructed these idiots to use the stick. This is one of those news stories where you don’t really get enough detail, and the aim seems to be not to enlighten, but to get the reader to feel outrage and anger. Myself, I mostly feel a deep sadness at the ignorance of many of (Mark Twain’s words) the damned human race.
When I have issues with malevolent spirits or require changes in reality, I find the Bible to be ineffective and I credit any of its successes to apophenia or a spiritual plecebo effect.
And I seldom require the use of sticks.
I generally find formulating some rationalization streams to influence quantum probabilty fields in the directions of my requirements to be higly effective in collapsing wave functions chains that align with my desired outcomes.