ABSTRACT
Spirit possession readily follows transnational paths. Yet while it is relatively easy to imagine spirits traveling in the ordinary sense of the term, whether moving independently of their mediums or along with them, what is intrinsic to spirits is that they appear and withdraw from materiality. This may be described in Heidegger’s language of “unconcealment” or disclosure. The presence of spirits-in what they say and do-is no more signifi cant than their repeated coming into presence. Such coming into presence constitutes a kind of “undisplacement,” a feature whose signifi cance may only be heightened when people are living abroad. Such undisplacement is an expression of truth, of the coming into presence that is being.
