Spirit releasement

Spirit releasement refers to a process of expelling a foreign entity in a format similar to an exorcism which occurs in a new age format.

SRT/Spirit Releasement, also known as Spirit Rescue and Angel Clearing, facilitates correction of addictions, MPD, schizophrenia, psychosis, and hateful, mean, violent and cruel behaviors are also improved with spanking, electroshock therapy, or anything else that is physically painful as the entities feel the pain and leave, although not necessarily permanenetly. In the US, the work of Shakuntala Modi, Irene Hickman, Thomas Chamberlain, Edith Rodriguez, Gail Weissert and many others, also corroborates the effiacy of this work whereby our free will is redirected by possessing entities. Alternatively, Coletta Long finds while these entities do exist, they are more often actually "frozen emotional blocks," which she removes with a different technique. Multiple Personality Disorder is an extreme presentation of this Attachment Disorder, as are addictions whereby the target client has acquired spirit attachments who enjoy the shopping, gambling, food, sex, or substance abuse through the host client, and don't want them to quit. As such, removing these "freeloaders" facilitates a more successful resolution of these disorders.

William Baldwin, PhD has described popular forms of it in his book Spirit Releasement Therapy, as has Michael Harner, PhD, who found this procedure among some "shamanistic cultures".

Ken Page and Doreen Virtue have formulated more new age approaches.