The Ecology of the Hat Man
Demons and delusions as reflections of a haunted world
I’ve been thinking lately about what it means to be haunted. So many of the experiences one might call spirit possession would be called, by modern medicine, psychosis. Even the belief that one is haunted or possessed can be a symptom. But in many cultures throughout history, the causality was flipped: mental health prob…
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