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Exorcism or Placebo? This Kashmiri Faith Healer Treats a Community Traumatized by Conflict Op-Docs

Exorcism or Placebo? This Kashmiri Faith Healer Treats a Community Traumatized by Conflict Op-Docs

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Musa Syeeds evocative short film The Dispossessed, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The film shows how Mohammed Shafi Hazari, a traditional faith healer, exorcises patients who've been possessed. But in Kashmir, amidst the worlds longest running conflict, nothing is as it seems. A xerox technician by day, Hazari has a faith healing practice, looking for signs his patients might be possessed by a jinn. Bu more often than not, he finds what his patients call possession may actually be depression, triggered by a conflict that has dragged on for decades. Syeed writes that, As I filmed Mr. Hazari, I initially wanted to know after each treatment: exorcism or placebo? I wanted him to confirm something spectacular was happening. But as I watched patients eager to feel the healing in his breath, his hand, his dull knife, I bit my tongue. Here was a man who amid conflict and violence invites strangers to sit with him, to listen to their problems, to offer some hope that, together, they might solve them. And what do you call that, other than a miracle?
Date: 2020-08-15

Comments and reviews: 8


Placebo effect shows the power of the mind and our own beliefs. Rituals that trigger that power are super useful and in the case of depression, which is mainly an ailment of the soul, can address things that medicine simply doesn't or can't. It is silly to disregard something as placebo(meaning unreal in people's minds) when that is precisely what needs to be incorporated in healing practices.
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What is the sword for? This is clearly not how Muslims behave and I see alot of places taking advantage of people that have limited knowledge about the religion or sometimes the so called healer has a limited knowledge and believes him self he knows everything.
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I'm a Muslim and I think this happens mostly because people are poor and illiterate so they go to these people for free 'diagnosis'
But that brings up another question
He doesn't take money so what does he get out of this?

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I enjoy excusing and rewarding bad behavior. Then you make it more acceptable for future recipients to enjoy it as well.
It's better to put all of your energy into compounding the problem rather than finding a solution.

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. the Devil has no control of us be it a believer of Christ or not. You allow it in and you face the music. Accept Christ in your heart and Satan is banished! Christ be to GOD
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Yall talk about us Muslims depression meanwhile America got school shooters, people with mental illness because of how greedy and ignorant people are in USA.
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The sound effects are a bit too much and manipulate the mood a lot instead of giving us room to feel for ourselves what these scenes evoke.
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This is taking place in 2019, we have to thank the USA and it's alliance for efforts in financing regressive tendencies across the world.
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