I really really like Messiah (hello CHEEKBONES) but I am not a fan of epilepsy being represented as a conduit for spiritual awakening. When I have seizures I don’t have lovely visions, just dislocated shoulders. Any clairvoyance your end @DawnHFoster ?
Need to watch it. Probably a reference to St Paul. I do get some strange sounds during certain seizures (crashing water and weird voices) but no religious visions.
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There are tonnes of arguments over whether St Paul, Joan of Arc and others had visions, or epilepsy. And Geschwind Syndrome causes increased religiosity.
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https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/jnnp/50/6/659.full.pdf … temporal lode & St Paul read this during my psychology of religion course of my Masters quite interesting actually!
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I feel like this type of association is made quite often with epilepsy - a deeply old-fashioned way of explaining something frightening but purely medical. Bothers me
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Same, I don’t like it. Dostoyevsky’s descriptions of seizures in his books are spot on because he was epileptic, even if Freud denies it.
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