Sentence examples for divine possession from inspiring English sources

Divine possession and human love were celebrated on Thursday night in "Forward Motion," a production by 651 Arts, which presents works by choreographers of African descent from around the world.

Nothing here is orderly; order has not come into being, though the outcome, this Universe, when it achieves existence, is all order; and thus prediction and divination are utterly impossible, whether by the laws of the science- what science can operate where there is no order?- or by divine possession and inspiration, which no less require that the future be something regulated.

Add in that Socrates calls the diviner's practice a technê (538e; cf. 531b) and this dialogue seems to be implying that an activity can be both legitimately professional and the result of divine possession.

Vodou practitioners frequently aim to experience divine possession, as a spirit flows through their physical form, achieving ecstasy through the tools of everyday life.

Divine possessions are reserved for Haitians, who inherit their spirits through bloodlines, explains Lowenthal, who attended countless rituals in mountain villages during his research.

Hammond's quasi-divine possession comes off as a sort of distanced madness, a fury that grips him not at all blindly; he calmly and unapologetically observes himself rising — or going deeper — into world-historical grandeur.

In the ensuing weeks, the Internal Revenue Service confiscated many of Divine's possessions and auctioned them off, as restitution for unpaid taxes.

There was a classical tradition called furor, which meant a divine rage, or possession.

A more elaborate mode of communicating with divine power is possession, in which a human being, male or female, is thought to act as a vehicle for a deity's mind and voice.

It was the first hospital in Spain to treat mental illness as something other than divine punishment or demonic possession.

Another study done among adults in a rural community in 250 adults residing in Karfi village in northern Nigeria reported that one third of the respondents reported drugs of abuse as causes of major mental illness and another third reported divine wrath or spirit possession as the cause[ 16].