Casual Effect of Spiritual Healing and Ghost Obsession: A case study of Chakliyar, District Multan

Abstract

This thesis investigates connection among spiritual healing, ghost obsession and importance of traditional healing methods among the people. Special attention has been given to ghost obsession and spiritual healing which is being practiced in the 21st century as to find out what makes patient obsessed with and the cure of their diseases that occur due to the presence of a ghost or by its obsession. For the study Mix methods (qualitative and quantitative ) were used for data collection, such as purposive sampling, census form, snowball sampling, in-depth interviewing, focus group discussion and case study method have been used to comprehend spiritual healing and ghost obsession and understand the true picture of their life experiences. This thesis has tried to present an understanding of the presence of ghost or the obsession of ghost among the people living in Chakliyar. Different kinds of issues occur due to ghost obsession in their lives and the ways of spiritual healing adopted by the spiritual healers to deal with those issues of Healee who are suffering from the ghost obsession. The analysis shows that people have a firm belief in spiritual healing rather on the modern scientific treatment and healers are having unique ways to deal with inconvenience, furthermore most traditional society have the most customary ways to deal with illness. One of the major finding regarding women is that when they didn’t get attention from their family members, they show strange behaviour (like showing that ghosts are obsessed with them) so that they can seek the attention of their family members