Monday, December 30, 2024
7pm ET (NYC Time)
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This talk introduces concepts from the speaker's upcoming class Dead Doctors: Heroic Healers in the Otherworld beginning January 8; more here.

Obsessions, addictions, mental illness and violent behaviors: what if they could be caused by the parasitical attachments of earthbound spirits? In the early 20th century, two physicians explored this idea, and combined approaches from spiritualism, psychoanalysis and electrotherapy into clinical techniques for “de-possession.”

In this illustrated talk, psychiatrist J.W. Dotson MD will outline the protocols used by the New York neurologist and psychical researcher, Dr. Titus Bull, and share psychiatric case files from Dr. Carl Wickland’s 1924 book Thirty Years Among the Dead. These studies suggested that the onset of symptoms was linked to a trauma, but they frequently seemed secondary to a minor illness, loss of consciousness, or a forgotten incident.

Decades later, in the 1980’s, several therapists practicing past life regression rediscovered these techniques and began using hypnosis for “spirit release” to interrogate and remove intrusive spirits and investigate the causes of these phenomenon.

J.W. Dotson MD is a psychiatrist and an independent scholar fascinated by scent sorcery, cultural and anthropological olfaction studies, ethnobotany, premodern medicine, medical astrology, and astrological magic and remediation. James has presented esoteric fragrance lectures as part of The Scent and Society series at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles.He is currently an instructor at The Celestial Arts Education Library (caeli.institute) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Archive of Healing at UCLA.