Blog assignment 3

I have read the book The Exorcist written by William Peter Blatty. The story takes place in Washington where the main character has moved to finish her latest movie. Blinded by her career she does not notice that her 12-year old daughter is being possessed by a dark presence. Every attempt to uncover the mysteries of her behavior leads to a dead end and her final hope lies in a doubt-ridden priest and his elder companion. Will they succeed in repelling the presence before it grows too strong or will eternal darkness haunt them all?

After I finished reading the book a question rose to my mind. Does supernatural activity exist or is it all some kind of illusion to our minds. I think we all have experienced some things that we just can’t explain why it happened or what is was. But do these things have a natural explanation that we didn’t see or are they supernatural? I have experienced this myself and still have no explanation of what happened that night. I was sleeping at a friend’s house when the speakers of the computer suddenly came to life and started playing music in the middle of the night. I rushed up to turn them off when I noticed that everything was turned off and still the music were playing. Was this supernatural or just a technical error, still doesn’t know.

If you watch TV today there are several shows “trying” to find an answer to if supernatural activity exists or not. The question is, should we believe them or not? It somehow feels like they making everything up to make us believe that these things exist. But our belief for supernatural things has always been with us, like the roman’s believed in their gods we believed in ours. The church’s hunt for witches during the 15th and 17th century is another example of supernatural belief. Today we have all kind of horror and fantasy movies were we explore our imagination of how supernatural activities can happen. Can we say that it’s our imagination that creates our belief in these activities? Because most of the times when we don’t know how things happened, we can always believe that supernatural activity is the answer. To be honest with you I think that we’ll never find an answer to the question if these activities exist. We don’t have the technology to prove it and no matter what, we will always believe in higher powers.