Last updated: April 23, 2026
The white darkness: > "I must call it a white darkness, its whiteness a glory and its darkness, terror. It is the terror which has the greater force." > - Deren, Chapter 8 (personal experience)
The phenomenology of possession is the subjective experience of lwa inhabitation.
Deren's phenomenological account describes possession as it is experienced from within Vodou practice.
possession-phenomenology-deren - What possession feels like from inside
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