Demonic possession and exorcism in Norfolk
This page was put together rather hastily, after seeing an exorcism in Tuscany on TV (C4, 9pm, 06/01/02) (super place for a holiday!) during which a young woman was strapped to a chair and abused (verbally and sexually) by her family and a priest.
The General Manager of NORCI, Alan Holland, believes in demonic possession (where psychiatry has failed). And the Church of England maintains teams of exorcists in every Diocese in the UK (some have web sites).
Had I been aware of the nature of the behaviour of priests (and others in attendance) during an exorcism, I might have acted earlier, and with greater vehemence! I had assumed exorcism merely involved incantation and prayer. How wrong I was! But then, the Church of England would not tell me what it does do!
Quite apart from the possibility of ritualised abuse, many people (Christians and others alike) would, I suspect, see it as rather dangerous to have medically unqualified people in positions of power over the vulnerable (and believe me, some of the clients of NORCI are) going about encouraging or cajoling the mentally ill to stop taking their medicine and to trust in priests instead.
Curiously, the Church hedges its bets, having a psychiatrist on its exorcism teams - perhaps it is just too hard to let go of demons and the Devil? I seem to recall they were quite attached to terracentricity once, too!
I have attempted to get something done about this potentially worrying situation, but have met with no positive response, to date.
Preamble
(Compressed bundle of all files on this page has been removed as such files are proscribed by the web space provider (which has, very kindly, reinstated this site). I regret that you will, therefore, have to download any files you wish to see individually.)
A gentle dig at Alan Holland
- PRESSRL.DOC - dummy press release I wrote for NORCI a while after Alan H revealed his beliefs
Establishing the current position of the church
- BISHOP.DOC - original request to Bishop of Norfolk (C of E) to explain position
- DDTCOPY.DOC - copy of reply from Diocesan Deliverance Team
- BISHOP2.DOC - letter requesting further info from Bishop
- TALBOT.TXT - transcription of letter from Hellesdon Hospital chaplain
- TALBOT1.DOC - my reply to the chaplain
Who rules the roost? Doctors or priests?
Slight aside on just how Christianity developed
- JUDCHR.DOC - Just what do Christians subscribe to, anyway?
Trying to get something done
- DENTEC2.DOC - letter to my GP explaining my concerns
- dent 11 07 01, 09 01 02.doc - letter from GP dumping me (not strictly to do with demons, and not in whole.zip
- DENT1571.DOC - letter to my GP after he dumped me
- WRIGHT.DOC - letter to David Wright, head of Norfolk Social Services
- BOURTHIS.DOC - lt to Paula Bourthis, Complaints Officer, Nflk Mental Health Care NHS Trust
- BRTHI2.DOC - elaboration, in response to request for more detail
- BOURTHI5.DOC - the question of priorities and precedences in Human Rights
- PAYNE.DOC - letter of complaint about behaviour of doctors to the Health Authority
- GMCDDT.DOC - letter asking for General Medical Council position on exorcism
- bma response 22 08 01, 09 01 02.doc - response from the British Medical Association (which is a Trade Union for doctors - if you want to complain, comlpain to the General Medical Council - bloody urban myths!
- CHMAY.DOC - letter thanking BMA for getting back to me (GMC did not)
- GMCNMH.DOC - letter to GMC complaining about lack of respect for atheism at NMHCT
- SPITZ.DOC - letter complaining to my consultant psychiatrist
- SSINSPU.DOC - letter complaining to Social Services Inspection Unit
- AGM.DOC - list of questions prepared for NORCI AGM
- CHARCM.DOC - letter complaining about NORCI to Charity Commission, including transcription of proceedings of the AGM
- CHCM.TXT - transcription of response from Charity Commission
- ROCHE.DOC - letter to Charity Commission to reassert a few points
I'm sorry if there are one or two omissions, here, but I was up until the wee small hours preparing this!
If you wish to contact me for further information, email me at: _rainbow56789@yahoo.co.uk_
Jeremy Jones, 06&07/01/02.