From the newspapers, radio, television and social media last week, it would appear that more Nigerians would suffer from mental health challenges, especially from Depression and Possession, in the coming years. Last week ( October 23, 2025) , we heard that no fewer than one in four or five Nigerians were no longer thinking straight. It was all part of the assesment of the mental health report of Nigerians estimated population of 220 million in which about 50 million or more could be down. The world’s brain doctors on October 10, 2025 reviewed their work and achievements in the past year. Last week, this column said there had been no paradigm shift in their conceptions of the brain and how it works. Nor have they been able to come up with better ways of treating brain troubles outside Anti-Depressantionant Drugs which often dehumanise their patients and make vegetable humans of many of them for life.
The sky-line of mental health in Nigeria looks dimmer with reports that six governors of the South Western states planned to meet over information that primary school children were now using all sorts of hard drugs. The reports were followed by a call from the National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS), which covers the country’s 301 universities, that students be tested for drug use before they were enrolled or graduated. Additionally, education policy makers have agreed that mental health education be included in school curriculums at all levels of schooling. Just when I thought we could have some reprieve from the bad news, there were reports that drug pushers were fleeing from their dens being combed by the NDLEA and using the kiosks of petty trade mallams to circulate substances.
Begun last week (23 October 2025), comments of this column on the present state of treating depression and possession in Nigerian hospitals is a widow’s mite contribution to help persons challenged with mental health problems by giving their doctors hints of what else they may add to the present treatment regimen. Its approach is from the stand point of Natural Medicine and the perspective that neither drugs but the right kinds of food and drinks bring lasting health. In particular, it revisits a teaching in the 1920s and 1930s that recomposition of the blood will heal brain problems, especially depression and possesion, to which are chained a long train of behaviour imbalances…
Mystery of the blood
In these matters, I am incorrigibly optimistic that the right foods and drinks can clear up such dysfunctions of the brain. The incorrigibility is founded on the propositions of a Wise One in the 1920s and 1930s which may have advanced and humanised psychiatry had the practitioners not remained tenaciously hooked on drug and injection therapies. The Wise One presented the propositions in a series of public lectures. Some of them were…Motion, The Physical Body, The Mystery of The Blood, The Mystery of Birth, Temperament and The Significance of Man’s Generative Power. The knowledge they bear is ever expansive as it unfolds with the growing maturity of the human soul, (nay )spirit. so I can only attempt as follows, a summary based on my understanding…
1) Man, that is you and I, are not our bodies but another existent consistency which inhabits these physical bodies, the human spirit or the scriptural breath of life. Look at a mirror, and ask yourself if the physical body you are looking at is the real you. If you think the physical body is the real you, ask yourself: Why do I say this is my body, these are my eyes, these are my fingers…those parts of the body that I own? Were we not taught all that in primary school? At the age of 24, I had an incitive experience. My younger brother slept beside me in bed. I came out of my body, which I saw lying beside him. I saw myself existing in another body that was not my earthly body. In that second or non earthly body, I was confronting a man in the same type of body who was trying to reach my body in bed. I recognise that was a period in my life when I fed my body with all sorts of rubbish which could have denatured my blood composition and radiation, made them unusable for me to control my body but made them usable by a lower and malicious person who probably had designs on the quietly sleeping body.
2) The physical bodies are lifeless on their own, and merely animated by the inhabiting or in-dwelling different consistency, the human Spirit.
3) The other consistency is spirit or, in the language better understood, Soul
4) The spirit is a traveller on earth for a task, like an astronaut on the moon for a purpose.
5) Like the astronaut who needs a special garment for the different nature of the moon, the spirit needs a garment on earth, the physical body.
6) On earth, the body is a tool or servant of the spirit which uses it as a motorist uses a motorcar. As the motorist learns to maintain the car and to control it, the spirit must care for and control his or her physical body.
7) Many persons do not care for their physical bodies or control them. Only when they have problems with them do they remember to. Besides, they exercise no control over their bodies.
8) Evidence of the lack of control is the manner many persons walk. They walk not in a straight movement, but in wavy motions. The steps are often heavy, ponderous , bobling or stumpy , and their movements are everything but beautiful and graceful , like an animal’s.
9) The lack of control occurs because the spirit cannot connect with the body through the blood.
10) In the Natural Design of the body, there are
A) The frontal brain or cerebrum, seat of the intellect and B) The back brain or cerebellum, the spiritually receptive brain.The inhabitant of the body, the spirit, is meant to connect with its origin as the astronaut connects with earth, in the case of the spirit through intuitive radiations before it takes any action on earth. Whatever guidance is given is expressed by the spirit on the back brain, the cerebellum or the spiritual brain. The impression comes in pictorial messages, such as the ones received in dreams. That is why it is often said of dreams: The Lord gives to his own in their dreams. Let us remember the dream of the Egyptian Pharoah, the interpretation by detainee Joseph and the action the frontal brain or intellect took therefrom. From the cerebellum, the images are rapidly transported through the blood radiation to the Solar Plexus and, from there, via blood radiation again, to the front brain, the cerebrum. This brain decodes the images, fashions them into thought, words, (spoken or written) activates muscles.
11) In many persons, this process is haphazard. That explains why dreams may not be well remembered. From the outside, the reverse process informs The inhabitant of what is going on which can be forwarded by the spirit to the helpers and guides for advise as earlier stated. This process, which occurs faster than the speed of light, has become hazardous from the blood composition. If the blood is not well composed, its radiation will be dull and will not provide the spirit effective bridge to the brains and to the body, and from the body back to the spirit via the brains.This is one of the causes of Autism. The in-dwelling spirit is aware of its environment and wishes to connect with it and to impact it but has been hindered by a lack of appropriate bridge to the body through the blood radiation.
12) The blood radiation is, therefore, also the problem of persons in depression and persons who are possessed.
13) The series of public lectures of the 1920s and 1930s, which were originally espoused by the Theosophical Society, went beyond these limits. I halt here only to not digress too far.
14) Evidence in the lecture series that the Spirit forms the blood are that a) the blood in the baby growing in the womb does not begin to circulate until the spirit or soul enters into the body. This is about the middle of pregnancy. b) The entrance or incarnation can be felt in the first kicks of pregnancy c) The blood stops to circulate when death of the body occurs and the spirit withdraws from the body.
d) Were the spirit not responsible for the formation of the body and blood, both would not be different from those of animals. For the animal bears no spirit as its inhabitant but an animal soul
15) The Wise One acknowledged the laborious and devoted work of gifted ones whose studies of the secrets of the blood have yielded beneficial results in the various blood groups. But he said the outcomes still scratch the surface, however beneficial they may have been to human health and happiness. Brighter would their paths be, he said, lit by the grateful prayers of their fellow men if they proceeded further to unearth more secrets of the blood. Such new revelations on the threshold of which we stand, would lead to the healing of more diseases hitherto thought incurable because really, there are no sick souls but sick blood and bodies. I believe psychiatrists will eventually recognise existence of the human spirit, as American surgeon Dr. Norman Sheally and intuitive spiritual healer Carolyn Myss ventured in their 1998 book, The Creation of health, which I had the privilege to review at that time for the present Millenium. I believe Dr. Abayomi Aiyesimoju, a neurologist and medical director of Healthville, on Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Lagos, also reviewed the book. He is not an “intellectual” doctor. By “intellectual”, I do not infer that he is not academic or erudite. I mean he has not submitted himself to his intellect in the frontal brain through a disconnection of the spirit from the body described above. In medicine, “intellectuals” are known as Mechanists. They believe only what they can see, hear, smell or touch. They also like to be called Realists. They, therefore, limit themselves to only that knowledge which earthly conceptions of time and space and the intellect can offer. On the other hand, The Vitalists are those doctors and researchers including lay persons like me who believe there is something within the physical body which is of a higher origin and has more potential than the intellect. It is these set of doctors who hold the potential to liberate mankind from the present malaise of blood and brain dysfunctions which impact depression and possession on an increasing scale.
16) The lecture series also distinguish between insanity, possession and occurrences of spookish activities. In lunacy, brain cells are damaged. In possession, which is evident in the Split Personality Syndrome, also called Bi Polar personality, an earth-bound human soul has taken over part of the brain or organ of another person, temporarily or permanently to materially manifest. This is possible where the original owner of the physical body has been careless with the composition of his or her blood and the radiation such blood gives off is found useful for earthly manifestation through a physical body by the roaming and invading earth-bound soul. An earth-bound soul is a human person on earth who, after his or her physical demise, does not move away from the earth environment but is attached through propensity or other causes to persons, places or events. The earth-bound soul seeks to manifest its nature in happenings on earth and, in his or her roaming about, may find an earth dweller with a suitable blood radiation which provides a good anchorage. In some alternative medicines and some traditional medicines, such invaders are cast out, but they may return if the protecting agent withdraws, as is seen in the warning The Lord Jesus gave the possessed man he freed of a legion of demons! The best protection and curative, therefore, is the recomposition of the blood to the consistency most suitable for the owner spirit.
17) The Wise One acknowledged that many factors influence blood composition, but emphasises that, to the spirit concerned belongs the primary responsibility. The doctor, too, has leading role to play, especially if the spirit had become constrained in one way or another. Some of the constraining factors are a) diet b) radiations of the stars and earth in a particular zone of the earth. C) illness d) accidents e) temperament f) age.
The intervention of the doctor would need to personalise therapies.Therefore, the doctor of this description will have to be rooted in nutrition as he or she is rooted in physiology, anatomy, biochemistry and haematology. Unfortunately, many doctors did not study nutrition in-depth or at all in medical school. Thus, not much is to be expected at this time from the present system of the practice of psychiatry.
Nigerian psychiatrists may learn a lot from Nigerian Traditional Medicine (NTM). In the 1970s or 1980s, a man picked up so called insane persons on the streets of Lagos, made them live in a commune and healed them. He received no government recognition and the professional medical association looked derisively the other way. His methods were not dehumanising as are found in some of today’s rehabilitation centers. He may have died and taken his healing art with him. We hear reports of healers in Benue and Akwa Ibom states who give afflicted persons special water to drink and they often ask: Where am I and how didi I get here? In so far as these methods are not Hynotic, I believe they are worth being studied by psychiatrists.
18) Spookish manifestations evidenced in throwing of objects, noise making etc near or in the vicinity of a person does not mean such a person is possessed. His or her blood radiation may only have enhanced such manifestations . In Oshogbo recently, a house owner commited suicide. Some of his tenants relocated to other places immediately. The ones who stuck around needed no prodding to leave when the family buried his remains on the grounds. It was clear he could come to haunt the house and torment the residents. Our people know of these things and address them appropriately.
Conclusion
Many ideas converge in respect of the composition of the blood. A spirit disconnected from his or her body leaves that body without control. An earth-bound soul may pick up that body. Two captains may, therefore, exist in the body giving it different instructions thereby producing a split personality. Some persons call this situation depression. Others name it possession. Still others assume erroneously it is lunacy. However, it is not lunacy but possession which is different as well from depression. Space does not suffice to discuss many possible causes of depression, a leading cause of which may be the consumption of naked sugars, chemical flavours, food additives, pesticides and herbicides and, lately genetically modified foods, to mention a few. The body must be detoxified, given high grade nutrition, many foods and drinks must be abandoned, exercise and rest must be serious watch words, negative thoughts must be abandoned and, above all, the spirit must become active within his or her garment.
By the foregoing, I do not mean that the outward care of the physical body is less important. If I own a car I do not maintain but only look after myself, it would break down some day! The human body is even more than a vehicle for locomotion to the in-dwelling human spirit. The frontal brain(cerebrum) and the back brain (cerebellum) are meant to co-operate in their work far more than science and medicine have recognised today. The human Spirit is connected with its orign through an intuitive faculty. The values and guidance it draws upon from there are pictorially passed to the back brain, the spiritually receptive brain, according to the text of Care of the Physical Body. Thus, for example, the back brain is where inspiration breaks forth and where experiences of the human spirit, when the body goes to rest in sleep, are pictorially recorded as dreams. Whether we have a sharp memory of dreams or if the reception and remembrance are poor reveals how well or otherwise we are maintaining this part of the brain. If we leave it inactive through inner life inactivity it would athrophise from disuse. That is what has happened to humanity through over cultivation of the frontal brain and the intellect through the pressure of formal education and thinking out of the challenges for their situations. We are meant to not primarily be thinking but intuitive persons who, automatically, pass pictorial messages or guidance from the beyond from the back brain to the front brain, seat of the intellect, which fashions it out into earthly responses and actions. This way, there would have been no quastion of the big brain, and the small brain, as we describe the front and back brains respectively today. They would have been the same size, neither dominating the other.
