One of the questions that has always spellbounded and on the parallel track, dumbfound a few others has been, “How do we draw a line between fascination and reality?”
In reference to the movie, The Exorcism of Emiley Rose, that tracked down the life of a 20 year old Anneliese Michel. Religiously devoted, she reprimanded every portion of her life to be spent on the footsteps of the Almighty. But as its said, with great devotion, there is an equal shade of remorse exuberated by that heap of consecration.
The commencing steps of the ‘70’s enforced Anneliese to witness demons during her prayers. Voices, blurred images…all that one can afford to confine and restrict within their reach of fascinations knitting the threads of evil, screamed over her. Obviously, the medical arena wasn’t equipped with enough hands to wrestle with that predator and had to surrender. Irrevocably, with the escalating drench Anneliese was made to swim her feet in – she insulted, beat herself, bit the fractions of her own family - pastors were approached to for performing “The Great Exorcism”, the basis of the ritual defined as “Rituale Romanum” . Though her parents had to excruciatingly fix the tables of accusations over themselves, and the court mantled medical negligence as the cause for her death. Yet, the sequence that confined the slots of starvation (not intentional, it was infact the autocracy of the demons), sleeping on the stone floors, engulfing spiders, flies and coal as her feed, and sipping in her own urine! Moreover, it’s a spectrum of ironies to witness a person thrashing the seeds of her priced possessions; she was seen tearing off all Jesus’ paintings, pulling apart rosaries. Acts of self mutilation, tearing apart her own clothes, urinating on the floor…All of it unarguably doesn’t ring a bell to snoop in on a parallel track with the context of a person who had spiritualism reigning in her blood! The “Kligenberg Case” was conclusively held to unlock two questions, something that still sings the melancholies of faith, conviction: What caused the death of Anneliese Michel, and who was responsible?
Was it that God slipped out of the quadrant and couldn’t prove the belief that Anneliese possessed when every desperation was inclining towards Him, or did the demons have the nerve to shatter His presence? Regardless, what all of it boils down to is whether God exists or not…Its perhaps, the only question that can stand tall and stay leveled to having a squirm full of all possible shades of answers. “He’s invisible yet felt, invisible yet gets transformed into anything and everything…”
However, if a heads inclines to possessing an equal proportion of its occurrence to a tails – or expanding it to a broader spectrum, if everything (be it any seed of life) has to be tagged with a counterpart…then what is God tagged with? How many of us tend to squish the fingers into the ones of the opposite palms and sing our prayers when the lightening of tribulations breaks down at us? Or how many worship Him when we desire to let the pleasant winds wrap around the storms of dilemmas? Let’s just lock ourselves on the fact that we require God when the desire of anything sunny has to be encountered. Else if?
Who deals with sorrows and grief? Demons…Devil? We always squeeze ourselves out of the arsenal while coming across the term “evil”. Its either fright, foreboding, terror…while some reciprocate by lashing in their swords to stand conclusive, for “evil” to be just a word confined to the English Dictionary, nothing more than that! It wasn’t a fact that Anneliese Michel encountered demons that clung onto the dominance of her life. People who got swayed with it have locked their beliefs in it, the rest haven’t. And its equivalent to calling it a child’s play for denying (with evidences) the existence of evil in our lives. “You believe in what you see, and unless you see, you don’t believe!” Then what about God?
Our perception allows only those pieces of relevant ions to get absorbed that we want to. And surely, it doesn’t embed fractions of dread in itself. Rightly commented by the defendants (the lawyer) of the Emiley Rose case (as foreseen in “The Exorcism of Emiley Rose”), “Angels and Demons…God and Devil…either they exist, or they don’t!” What it means is that one cannot be hanged in the middle and flood in their trusts for something and sideline the other… if your God asks you to believe in Him, have the strength to question him about evil as well!
Science, however has the most incredible nerve for paralyzing the existence of Demons, and the accuracy is maintained by what we call it as “Schizophrenia”. According to the dictionary terminology, “Schizophrenia is a chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking and emotion.” The term schizophrenia is best translated “shattered mind”. The abduction of Annaliese’s autocracy towards her inner self was simply put down as a case of this particular mental disorder. The question still cradles in the middle without turning its tables to either polarities – just an additional parameter that has been introduced. And this parameter fixes the pieces of puzzle with immaculate precision, because it has facts – that do not leave any further room for questioning.
So what are we left with, is the presence of God a fact? Or can Science easily wipe off the struggle for questioning over it?
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