The Message that Peter Adair is trying to convey in The Holy Ghost People is how people can express their emotions without using words.
In this film we see people in a Pentecostal church in W. Virginia that claim to receive the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost to them is a source of power and happiness. We see how these people act when the Holy Ghost possesses them. ... In different cultures people show their belief in different ways. ... The child is mimicking the adults rather than experiencing the Holy Ghost. ... To this child, going to church and watching people dance, their bodies jerking, heads twitching and speaking in a different language is a way of life for him. So as he gets older he will associate the Holy Ghost with these actions. He will learn that the Holy Ghost brings about happiness, that it can be relied upon, and is a life guide. Once he is a grown man he will understand this and will also receive the Holy Ghost according to his community. ... This is the language that one would speak if they were receiving the Holy Ghost. ... You start to be convinced that she really is experiencing the Holy Ghost. In the Pentecostal religion God speaks to you through the Holy Ghost. ... People receive God in their own way. I feel Adair is showing us this woman because although she does not come right and say she is receiving the Holy Ghost we know she is because in that religion that what a person looks like when they do.
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