{"id":573,"date":"2011-04-10T06:15:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T10:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/?p=573"},"modified":"2011-04-10T06:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T10:15:02","slug":"gods-message-and-spirit-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/2011\/04\/10\/gods-message-and-spirit-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD&#8217;S MESSAGE AND SPIRIT POSSESSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-574\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_2496-Copy.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-574\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_2496-Copy-225x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_2496-Copy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_2496-Copy.JPG 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Spirit possession is a key factor in Mwinika religion. There isn&#8217;t a single Mwinika that we know of that isn&#8217;t a part of one or more spirit possession cults. Behind every house you find pots that contain medicine related to these cults. Sometimes you see these pots in more conspicuous places. A friend of mine has this pot right in the middle of his yard. I thought it was interesting that he used it as a convenient place for his Megavoice player to get charged. Here is a medicine pot being used to help charge a player that contains scripture and messages directly addressing the bondage that these spirit possession cults cause in the community. I found that ironic and worth a picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spirit possession is a key factor in Mwinika religion. There isn&#8217;t a single Mwinika that we know of that isn&#8217;t a part of one or more spirit possession cults. Behind every house you find pots that contain medicine related to these cults. Sometimes you see these pots in more conspicuous places. A friend of mine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}