I also began to think about other instances of possession I have witnessed, live or on video. Yes, of course I do. But, then again, I don't really believe that I, myself, could be possessed. And I think this is because I am too much in control. But in saying that, I am simply proving that divine possession is a phenomenon I do not really understand.
Religion is a means of controlling the masses.
Even in a class I took on the Hindu Goddess tradition, we often spoke of the control that the gods have, not just cosmically, but in shaping the roles Hindu men and women play. That may sound like an obvious statement. Religion, after all, has always been the way humans comprehend this world that we clearly do NOT have control over. I think we usually think of things that we do not have control over as scary. But from the Hindu doctrinal standpoint, 'control' is an illusion of ego.