I write in response to the reported “demon crisis’’ at the Moruga Composite School. The entire public, I’m fairly sure, was and still is quite alarmed, shocked and even frightened at what is being reported about this strange incident. These are natural reactions to situations that the mind cannot comprehend, as the well-known saying goes “man fears what he doesn’t understand’’.
Many faiths (Christianity, Islam and others) teach as doctrine the existence of unseen beings, albeit by differing names (ie jinn in Islam, spirits in Christianity). What is disappointing but not surprising, however, is that some intellectuals (self-proclaimed or degree-qualified, it doesn’t really matter) in our society seek to explain these strange occurrences from a psychological/scientific perspective.
Their idea is what cannot be proven through the basic human senses cannot exist. There’s no denial this may be the case sometimes, but when there’s overwhelming opposing factors, one has to think twice.
Qualified psychiatrists are dismissing the event as merely episodes of hysteria and copycat behaviour (psychological illnesses, not demons). We ask however, how will they explain to the many eyewitnesses (students, teachers, even MTS security guards) who saw unimaginable feats of strength (confirmed report), gravity defying leaps, speech in tongues and suicidal whispers (reported by a victim)?
Maybe all of this could be classed as typical symptoms of hysteria, but we beg to differ. These cases are well-known religiously precisely as described. Therefore, if this is an attempt at a “cover-up’’, most citizens of T&T should know better. Or so we hope.
I Shareef
El Socorro