Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe

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664 appearances 14 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2021 last heard 21 Jul

Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Battersea Poltergeist · Episode 4: The Underground Exorcist · 4 Feb 2021 podcast
It is. voice-verified
I think there's lots of emotion bound up in it, but I think there's also lots of ethics bound up in it. voice-verified
At the very root of exorcism is the fact that an individual is claiming, I am going to remove a spirit either from a person or a place. voice-verified
In itself, it feels like quite an aggressive act. voice-verified
When you actually look into exorcism as what's happening in terms of rituals and voice-verified
it can be quite damaging. voice-verified
And I think part of it stems from the fact that exorcists do not go into that sort of environment looking at the alternative explanations. voice-verified
And one of the classic cases that highlights this is the Anneliese Michel case from kind of the mid-'70s. voice-verified
This is a case in Germany, and her family thought that she was possessed. voice-verified
In effect, she may have been suffering from kind of forms of epileptic psychosis, voice-verified
She also had depression. voice-verified
There were various hallucinations that may have been going on. voice-verified
Regardless of what you think, whether it's a real possession or not, actually, the continued exorcism rituals that occurred... voice-verified
over a period of about 10 months, resulted in her death. voice-verified
She died of malnutrition, starvation, she was emaciated, and all of those rituals just killed her. voice-verified
And that's the extreme end of ethics when you think about exorcisms. voice-verified
The Battersea Poltergeist · Case Update: The Key · 1 Feb 2021 podcast
I think it's fascinating.
The feature of apports, which is this kind of random appearance of objects, that feature in poltergeist cases is not unusual.
I wonder if the most unsettling feature of it is because they don't know where it's from.
there is an instant human reaction that somebody has invaded our home, in much the same way that you think about burglary.
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