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Think it Over

Wider Collateral of War: Spiritist Effects on Human Well-being

Dr. Natalie Tobert

Abstract
The author proposes that war and trauma have multiple side-effects. They directly damage
not only soldiers, their ‘victims’ and descendants, but also the wider population indirectly as
collateral. People who are psychic, clairvoyant, or mediums may deliberately or accidentally
tune into spirits of the unquiet dead, killed in war, while people in the general population
who are sensitive, may energetically ‘pick up’ or spontaneously access the trauma of entities
or ghosts who don’t know they are dead. Another side-effect: the Mother suggested a
relationship between entities (the unquiet dead) and virus-like illnesses in populations. The
unquiet dead (in the form of unsettled entities) may also negatively impact mental distress, in
addition to a person’s mundane life trauma. According to different cultures across the world,
mental distress has many triggers, interpretations, and ‘symptoms. Furthermore, treatments
for mental distress depend on the beliefs of a sufferer, those around or caring for them, or in
authority nearby. There are multiple narratives.

of consciousness. However, we propose
solutions exist beyond medicine, health
care and psychiatry, beyond medical schools
and their deaneries, beyond hospitals and
clinics.

Let us start by exploring the material reality
effects of war and its occult effects. We note
that studies by Abdul-Hamid and Hughes (1)
reveal ancient Assyrian soldiers returning
PTSD effects of war on soldiers home from combat 3,000 years ago suffered
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). a Laura
The solutions for mental distress require Clark, a writer for The Smithsonian Magazine
compassion and a deeper understanding claims that, “... the correlation between war and

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