In the dusty corners of the Middle East, there is a shadow that doesn’t just haunt a room—it hunts a person. While the modern world tries to brush off "possession" as a trick of the mind, the ancient traditions of Anatolia and the Levant tell a much darker, more physical story. They don't see it as a ghost story. They see it as a complete hijacking of the human experience. There is an old saying in these lands: "The Jinn flow through a man like his own blood." This isn't just a metaphor. It describes a slow, invisible invasion of the very veins and nerves that make us who we are.
This state is called musallat, and it’s a terrifying process of being "occupied." It usually starts with a sudden, bone-chilling cold that hits you in a warm room, followed by the heavy, suffocating feeling of a weight on your chest while you sleep—what we call karabasan. But the real horror is how it erodes the "self." Imagine waking up and feeling like your own personality is fading, replaced by sudden, violent rages you can't explain, or a sickening dread whenever you hear a call to prayer or a sacred chant.
If you look at the ruins of ancient Mesopotamian cities like Dara, you’ll find "incantation bowls" buried under the floors. Our ancestors weren't just being superstitious; they were terrified. They knew that these entities wait for a "door" to open—a moment of deep trauma, a burst of uncontrolled anger, or a state of total mental emptiness. Once they are in, they manifest as wandering pains that no doctor can explain, or a sudden, unexplained hatred for the people you love most. It’s a total theft of the human experience. Whether you believe in the "High Strangeness" of it or not, the thousands of years of consistent reports are enough to make you wonder: the next time you feel a shiver in a quiet room, is it just a draft, or is the "guest" you didn't invite finally stepping inside?
This is just the beginning of my research into the unseen. I will continue to share more cases and findings regarding "Musallat" and other anomalies from the ancient archives in my upcoming posts. Stay tuned.
by bortakci34
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In an old Chinese dormitory I believe something attached itself to me, during a strange period in my life. The rooms were rumoured to be haunted following a student murder and other stories of people who stayed there afterwards.
I woke up one night to the sensation of something crawling on my bed, like the same as when a cat is walking slowly up to you, I stayed absolutely still eyes closed, terrified. I bolted upright to face it, and I think I saw the sheet drop down from being raised.
A lot of turmoil and a long road back to “myself” from then on. I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror. Lost connection with everyone, and I was in the dark.. could well have been a dose of the crazies, but I’m convinced something external happened.
I had two more encounters with the paranormal after that, but only ever in China.
Unfortunately a jinn is the same as the astral body/etheric double (H.P. Blavatsky) and the second body (Robert A. Monroe). Be extremely carefully with astral projection, a student of Robert A. Monroe wrote about it; it is possible you will end up in the psychiatric ward. What you wrote is completely write: I believe a lot of the diseases we know of today originate from this fact.
The problem is a lot of people don’t know about the concept of the jinn and that is the same as the astral body. When reading about the astral body in general, you will read positive things. But when you look at the last statement made by H.P. Blavatsky and the works of her colleagues, you will notice how negative the astral body (like you write about the jinn) is. Look at ‘incarnation’ (the last words of H.P. Blavatsky where; don’t let my last two incarnations be in vane).
Everybody has a astral body, but a lot of people don’t know about this. If you are interested and want to get rid of it, or know somebody who needs help, look up; Phowa. This is a tibetan way of getting rid of the astral body; with this method you can incarnate your astral body in different ways. Very difficult, but effective.