The Bible lays a basis for us to understand and care for Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. The language and description of dissociation is embedded in the use and meaning of the words. In the Old Testament, the words  spirit  and  heart  are used. In the New Testament the word used is  soul. The Heart and Spirit The words  heart  and  spirit  are used as collective nouns. The word  heart  is used to describe the seat of the mind, the emotions and the will. The word  spirit  was applied to the spirit, mind, heart, and the immortal soul. The psalmist calls out to God asking, “Test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind.” (Psalms 26:2 NIV) Jeremiah speaking to the nation of Israel says that God will put the covenant of their relationship into the individual heart (Jeremiah 31:33 NIV). Job complains, “I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.” (Job 7:11 NIV) The  Heart  Can Be Corrupted The human spirit, heart, or soul can be corrupted. The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time (Genesis 6:5 NIV). Later, God informs us after the flood. He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.” (Genesis 8:21 NIV) Jeremiah lamented about man, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9 NIV) In the New Testament, Jesus said, “Out of the heart comes evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. These are what makes a man unclean.” (Matthew 15:19a NIV) James and the Divided Soul James uses a compound word to describe a person whose personality is in separate parts. The term used is  double-minded.   He writes about the person who has doubts and has difficulty believing-faith. Such a one is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind…He is a double-minded man unstable in all he does. (James 1:6-8 NIV) This compound word quite literally means a divided soul and spirit. This is the only Greek word in the New Testament that describes a soul that is split, a spirit that is in parts, unstable, of contradictory attitudes and thought processes that lead to conflicting and dramatically different behaviors. That is so typical of Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. In James 4:8 we read, “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” The double-minded has used his/her hands to do evil and wickedness. They have grossly sinned. Their hearts are not pure but corrupted. They are double-minded–divided in soul and mind, emotions, will and behaviors. They serve two masters–God and Satan. The parts of them fall into one of two camps. The one falls into the camp of God. These are the redeemed alters. The other falls into the camp of Satan. They are unsaved. The one chooses Jesus as Lord and Master. The other chooses Satan as master and their lord.  This leads to confusion of behaviors and relationships. The differences of masters within the same person leads to mixed signals. I love you; I hate you. Come near; go away. They are raging and dangerous one minute and kind, sweet, approachable the next. One minute they are cursing and using vile speech; the next minute they are speaking caring, good and kind words that build self and others up. The individual thinks and wonders, “I’m a mess! Who am I?” Those who relate to them are kept off balance and feel insecure with their conflicted souls. The hope that exists is this: Jesus saves and He can sanctify each individual part; but, remember that redemption only takes a moment, while sanctification is an on-going Holy Spirit process. The Divided/Double Heart (Psalms 12:1-2) “Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful one has vanished from among the children of men. Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.” To have a double heart means that the inner person, the self, the seat of thought is split into parts. These parts are often motivated by evil and the desire to be corrupt and destructive. Category:  Norman's Place by  Norman Coad

In the previous blog, we discussed the work of Pierre Janet. He was the pioneer in the development of hypnotherapy and the first to document Multiple Personality Disorder. Since his death, he has been largely ignored. Recently, with the increased interest in multiple personalities, his work is beginning to be recognized by some. For most of the history of modern-day psychology, he and his work have been conspicuously absent in the writings of leaders in the field. Sigmund Freud (1859-1939) was a contemporary of Pierre Janet and was, at first, supportive of Janet’s work. Judith Herman quotes Freud from his work,  The Origins of Psychoanalysis, Letters to Wilhelm Fliers, Drafts and Notes, 1887-1902.  Freud says: “By the way, what have you got to say to the suggestion that the whole of my brand-new theory of the primary origins of hysteria is already familiar and have been published a hundred times over though several centuries ago? Do you remember my always saying that the medieval theory of passion (demon possession [writer’s interpretation]), that is held by ecclesiastical courts, was identical with our theory of a foreign body and the splitting of consciousness? But why did the devil who took possession of the poor victims invariably commit misconduct with them, and in such horrible ways? Why were the confessions, extracted under torture, so very like what my patients tell me during psychological treatment?” Freud believed in Janet’s writings and research. However, he abandoned his support of Janet under pressure exerted by his peers and elders in the psychological community. It was made clear to him that the popularity and acceptance of his work would suffer if he continued to embrace the validity and reality of the spiritual as a factor in psychological treatment. The bias of the psychological community against spiritualism has and continues to be profound. I am defining spiritualism as: a voluntary acceptance of an individual of a bodiless being(s) which is external to the individual. This bodiless being is not part of the individual’s personality but a separate being functioning in and through a person. Their existence within is always dysfunctional and destructive to the person himself and to those around them. The subjectivity required to incorporate the spiritual world as a factor in psychological problems is extremely disturbing to the present day psychological and medical communities. These communities have incorporated the scientific method as the basis for establishing truth. This requires great objectivity. This works well in the physical, material world and has been a great blessing to us all. However, when one accepts bodiless beings as real and present in human psychological behavior, the scientific method is inadequate. Why? The scientific method only works well in the material world. It does not work in the spiritual world. That requires  revealed truth.   Subjective interpretation based on revealed truth does not fit into the scientific method. I understand the dilemma, but denial of the spiritual world is self-defeating and is not consistent with manifest reality. The material and spiritual world both exist and are an active part of our human condition. To deny the existence of the spirit world negates the experience and belief of the vast majority of humanity. However, that is exactly the past and present-day stance of the majority of the psychological and scientific communities. The psychological community has gotten by with this to this point in time. That, however, has not worked at all with Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), also called Dissociative Personality Disorder (DID). For over thirty years, the research groups using the scientific method have worked to develop treatment modalities for MPD. To date they have not succeeded. They still state in the official literature that there is no cure or effective therapy for MPD. Conversely, those who are incorporating spiritual therapies in their treatment report that help and even cure of this problem are possible and are taking place. I believe that it’s time, for the sake of many hurting people, that this sad state of affairs be brought to an end. I am in the group that believes that spiritual problems require spiritual answers, and material problems require material answers. It is not a question of either/or but both/and. May it soon be so!  Pierre Janet (1859-1947) Pierre Janet was the first researcher into the problems of dissociative people. He introduced this research in the community of modern-day psychology. He was recognized as one of the pioneers in the use of hypnosis as a clinical tool. The techniques that he developed are still broadly used today. He found that hypnosis was an accurate way to open up the hidden issues and the hidden world of gravely wounded and dysfunctional people. The use of hypnosis as an intervention made it possible for others to use these techniques and methods and to substantiate many of the claims that he made in his writings. Janet’s findings about hypnosis remain true to this day. He found that hypnosis was a great tool to open up that which is hidden deep in the personality. The major limitation of hypnosis was and is that its use as a therapy of change is limited. The therapist can make suggestions to the person who is in a deep hypnotic state, and these suggestions will be acted upon after the individual comes out of hypnosis. However, the deepest and most troubling issues of the individual can only be altered for a few days to a few weeks. No long-lasting change takes place in hypno-therapy. A few addictions do respond to hypnosis such as nicotine addiction. Pierre Janet is recognized for his work in hypnosis. However, his findings through its use have largely condemned him into oblivion within the psychiatric community. He found that there were co-existing personalities, some of which the person was consciously aware and others that they were not aware of. These additional personalities had parallel memories in complete ignorance of one another. They exist; they function. They are often opposed to each other and to the conscious part of themselves. The conscious personalities are often engaged in socially acceptable behaviors and attempts to live within social standards that are lawful. Whereas the hidden personalities are often antisocial and destructive to self and others and can be morally and behaviorally lawless, often in the extreme. Janet named the condition of one person with many personalities Multiple Personality Disorder. This name emphasizes the fact that an individual, while existing in one body, has many personalities within.  He defined several terms that described what he was finding through hypno-therapy. Some of these are: hysteria, hypnosis, multiple personality, and spiritualism.  Hysteria   is a pathological (dysfunctional and destructive) form of dissociation that functions independently within the personality which disturbs the individual’s everyday life.  Hypnosis  is induced dissociation or amnesia whereby they are unaware of what is taking place while in the induced hypnotic state.   Multiple Personality  is a condition in which two or more dissociated states function with distinct differences of behavior, mood, and intention and are unaware of each other.   Spiritualism  was a voluntary acceptance of a supposed bodiless being (Janet’s words) which was external to the individual, that is, not part of the individual’s personality, but a separate entity functioning within the multiple’s personalities. This being that he identifies as a spirit being is real and active within and through the individual’s life. His clients described the activities of this being to him. The fact that he reported the spirit beings as the clients perceived them served notice to the psychiatric community that the malevolent spirit beings were active in psychiatric and social dysfunctions.  This, I believe, is the reason the psychiatric community ignored Janet’s work for about eighty years. His work with multiple personalities was not reported and, for years, was not mentioned in clinical training. By design, he was treated as if his great body of work did not exist. Pierre Janet’s attitude in therapy was client centered. He was aware of but did not let the psychiatric community’s biased and determined opposition to anything spiritual interfere with the client’s therapy. Speaking to one of Kroepelen’s students, he declared, “I believe these people (the psychotics) until it is proven to me that what they say is untrue…. You see, these people are persecuted by something, and you must investigate to get to the root.” These client revelations of pathological behaviors he described not in explicit terms but in words such as “obsessions”, “fantasies” and the like. He alluded to the client’s personal trauma but never stated it. Janet’s work was spot on correct. It should be noted that he found a barrier of amnesia between the conscious part of the multiple and the sub-conscious. That, too, is true. Those of us who do therapy with the individuals who suffer from multiple personality disorder owe a great debt to this honest and clinically correct worker with those who suffer from MPD. Category:  Norman's Place Tag:  Multiple Personality Disorder by  Norman L. Coad D.M.

The perfect balance for a counselor who works with those who suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a solid education in psychology and counseling with accountability to the state health organization combined with spiritual credentialing. Professional Credentialing Professional credentialing is well-known and accepted in our western culture. Counselors are required to have a master’s degree in counseling or a related field from an accredited educational institution. A PhD or MD degree is considered helpful. Education in the field and supervised direct client/patient contact is also required. When the educational and professional training is completed, the state administers an examination covering the required material. The state sets the grade level to establish the point of pass or fail. If the individual passes, the state board issues a recognized license. The emphasis is on the academic and practical application of the knowledge. At this time, the principles of behaviorism are emphasized. Spiritual Credentialing Pierre Janet and others have established the fact that “bodiless beings” dwell in and greatly influence the individual who suffers from antisocial behaviors and Multiple Personality Disorder. Bodiless demonic beings are spiritual beings who may or may not manifest in bodily form. They are spirit beings who spend a great amount of their time and energy influencing the spiritual part of human beings in a negative way. They often dwell in them in order to direct their behavior. To confront and shut down their demonic work, the counselor must be able to engage them at the spiritual level. Behavioral techniques of counseling and intellectual knowledge in the psychiatric field are not enough. The Purpose of Counseling The purpose of counseling is to bring about positive change. Understanding what healthy psychological functioning is necessary. Behavioral norms of acceptable personal and social behavior inform the counselor as to what is normal and healthy. Healthy functional behavior has been informed and empowered by the Judeo-Christian beliefs arising from the Reformation. In the Reformation, reading the Bible in a person’s native language was encouraged. This led to broad-based literacy. The Bible was recognized as God’s written word to His created people. As such, it was incumbent on the reader to be obedient to what was written That obedience has led to the greatest growth in knowledge, the humane treatment of one another in social interactions, and the positive transformation of individuals and social institutions that the world has ever known. The indwelling bodiless beings cause a multitude of individual and social problems. If these unclean spirits are ignored or treated as psychosis or hallucinations, the client/patient will not be helped, and change for the better will not occur. The Kingdom of Heaven/God Jesus as Christ dwelling in us brings about the reign of God on earth in the lives of men and women (Matthew 3:2). The Lord overcomes the forces of evil and can remove all the consequences of sin. Believers will not die and go to hell but will go to heaven. We are urged to believe the Gospel: Christ died for our sins; He was buried and was raised from the dead to show His victory over death and hell (I Corinthians 15:1-8). His followers, the Apostles, the Seventy-two others, and all believers were commissioned and sent out with authority as believers. They were told to preach salvation through repentance and faith, to heal the sick, and to cast out demons. This commission was given to all believers (Matthew 28:16-20). Jesus promised to empower us to do the work. I will send the Holy Spirit from the Father so that you are clothed with power from heaven (Luke 24:45-49). The reality that “bodiless beings” indwell, trouble, abuse, and traumatize has been attested to for thousands of years. The vast majority of the world’s population believes this to be true. The counselors who engage to work with those who dissociate must be deeply convinced of this truth. Content of Spiritual Credentialing A relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ : To the best understanding of this writer, only those with a spiritual relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua the Messiah, are able to shut down and cast out “bodiless beings” (demons, unclean spirits). The indwelling Holy Spirit:  He is the counselor, The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. He will teach us and remind us of the truth (John 14:15-17; 25-27). Those who have faith are given spiritual power:  Jesus, the Lord, said, “Anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in My name to glorify the Father (John 14:12-14). Those in whom the power of God dwells will be marked  by signs: Jesus called His disciples to Him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and heal every disease and sickness (Matthew 10:1; Mark 16:15-18). The man or woman of faith will use God’s spiritual resources to do His work among us:  pray in the Lord’s name. Cast out demons, spirits of the dead, some of which are ancestral spirits. Use His name, His word and His shed blood to do the work of the Lord. Ask Holy Spirit to give and direct the use of wisdom and knowledge; the ability to heal, prophecy, distinguish between spirits; the power to work miracles, etc. (1 Corinthians 12:1-11) Always test the spirits to see if they are from God. (1 John 4:1-6) Category:  Norman's Place by  Norman L. Coad D.M.

Those who dissociate have several factors in common that do not exist in the population as a whole. This constitutes a large group of people. No one really knows how many people dissociate; however, we know some of the factors that people have in common who suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder, also called Multiple Personality Disorder. Inherent Personal Factors All people who dissociate have the hereditary ability to dissociate. This characteristic therefore runs in families. It is not uncommon to find whole families who dissociate to the point of dysfunction. To dissociate means that these individuals are able to separate parts of their personality from the whole. Usually, these parts are traumatized in some manner. The trauma memories are assigned to the separated part and are hidden from the dissociating person himself. It’s out of sight and out of mind. That part continues to exist and function, but in the sphere of the sub-conscious. However, that dissociated part can be triggered into the person’s consciousness by similar events and situations that split off the parts in the first place. The split off parts are called by two names: alters or personalities. These are used interchangeably. When these alters are triggered up, i.e. into the person’s consciousness, they manifest just as they are. Most of the time, the alters manifest in discreet, subtle ways and are not noticeable to most people. However, inside the body, the change is quite marked. There are reasons for this. Why Inner Changes Are So Marked When a personality is formed for him or her, the moment is frozen in history. The alter that is formed stays that same age from then on. If the trauma occurred as a child, the alter will think, act, and feel like a child. The chronological age of the person may be true to their birthdate, but the child will not get older, mature and change. Everything is fixed in place. If the child in an adult body is triggered up, whoever is interacting with that person will be dealing with a child. In the person who dissociates, there will be both male and female personalities. The most plausible understanding of this is that the alters are formed from the X or Y chromosomes. We all have male and female chromosomes in us. Without this fact, we could not procreate male and female offspring. The man and woman are enough like each other to relate physically, and enough difference exists so that the male produces sperms. The female ovulates so that the two may conceive a child of either gender. In the vast majority of humanity, maleness and femaleness follows the physiological aspects of the person. It is statistically true that about 50% of the population is male and the other 50% is female. The exceptions to this do not make the rule.  Programming of Personalities is Ongoing Alters are often abused and brainwashed to the point of gross antisocial behavior. This brainwashing results in programmed behavior that is always dysfunctional and disruptive to the person’s life and psyche. The programming follows closely to the traumas of verbal, emotional, psychological, sexual, physical, satanic and religious abuse. There are whole groups of people who are motivated to abuse others, split off alters and program them to antisocial behavior These people seek out children to abuse through social institutions that are used as a covering for their evil behaviors. All of this has been well documented in many court cases. At a Deeper and More Hidden Level There is also abuse going on at a very deep and hidden level. This is where treatment modalities cross over into the spiritual. All dissociated people seem to be intelligent and very spiritually attuned. Many are also very artistic. Many of the dissociated make known to their counselor the existence of spiritual bodiless beings that hurt and force them to do evil and wicked things. These bodiless beings are called variously demons, Satan, spirits of the dead, and alien human spirits. These work in the spiritual, non-material levels of reality. It is for this reason that this counselor uses the Bible as the basis of truth and reality. Biblical reality based on the Scripture of the Bible allows the counselor to work at the spiritual level. The counselor does not designate the atypical descriptions of the person’s life as hallucinations, but real and true descriptions of reality. As Pierre Janet, the first to document Multiple Personality Disorder, has said, “These people are to be believed until what they say has been disproved.” Category:  Norman's Place by  Norman L. Coad D.M.

Pierre Janet Pierre Janet (1859–1947) pioneered the use of hypnosis as a clinical tool to study dissociation.[1] His understanding of Dissociation is that there is simultaneous development of additional personalities with parallel memories, in complete ignorance of one another.[2] Janet expanded the meaning of somnambulism (sleepwalking) to include any kind of activity pursued while in a dissociated condition.[3] In this expanded meaning he included hysteria, hypnosis, multiple personality and spiritualism. [4] Hysteria is a pathological form of dissociation that functions independently within the personality which disturbs the individual’s everyday life.[5] Hypnosis was induced dissociation.[6] Multiple personality was a condition in which two or more dissociated states function with distinct differences of behavior, mood and intention and are unaware of each other. [7] Spiritualism was a voluntary acceptance of a supposed bodiless being which was external to the individual.[8] Hypnosis was effective in revealing the above. However, its restorative effects were short term in nature. The characteristic aftereffects include a period of fatigue for as long as two days. There are several days in which the patient enjoys apparent health and well-being and is free of spontaneous hysterical attacks for several days or weeks. No ongoing change was brought about.[9] Janet alluded to shameful secrets lurking in the patients’ pathology with such words as “obsession,” “fantasies” and the like.[10] He alluded to patient trauma but never stated it. He declared to one of Kroepelen’s students, “I believe these people (the psychotics) until it is proven to me that what they say is untrue…you see these people are persecuted by something and you must investigate to get to the root.” [11] Sigmund Freud Freud (1859–1939) was impressed by Jean-Martin Charcot’s work on traumatic hysteria. Charcot (1825-1893) believed that his clients were suffering from a form of hysteria which had been induced by their emotional response to traumatic accidents in their past.[12] Freud’s medical colleague, Josef Breuer, developed a treatment while treating Anna O. “The way to cure a particular symptom of hysteria was to recreate the memory of the incident which had originally led to it and bring about emotional catharsis by inducing the patient to express any feeling associated with it.”[13] The disappearance of one of Anna O’s symptoms led to Breuer’s therapeutic technique procedure.[14] She became, for Freud, his first psychoanalytic patient.[15] Freud married Breuer’s talking cure to Charcot’s understanding of traumatic hysteria, i.e., trauma is the basis of the hysteria.[16] The majority of his eighteen clients from which he drew his conclusions were all sexually abused in childhood. He held this position until 1897 when peer pressure and social pressure caused him to say that the trauma events could be imagined events with equal negative effects.[17] Freud describes bases of sexual abuse: assaults by adults (incest, rape or forced sexual activities) and long term sexually inappropriate relationships between adult and child with genuine feelings of love.[18] Judith Herman, in her book, quotes Freud: “By the way, what have you got to say to the suggestion that the whole of my brand-new theory of the primary origins of hysteria are already familiar and have been published a hundred times over though several centuries ago? Do you remember me always saying that the medieval theory of possession (demon possession [writer’s interpretation]), that held by ecclesiastical courts, was identical with our theory of a foreign body and a splitting of consciousness? But why did the devil who took possession of the poor victims invariably commit misconduct with them, and in such horrible ways? Why were the confessions, extracted under torture, so very like what my patients tell me during psychological treatment?” [19] C.G. Jung Carl Jung (1875–1961) rejected the rationalistic legalism of his pastor father which forced all religious understandings to fit the intellectual grid of his mind in which he all but rejected the supernatural in Christianity. His reaction against his father’s religious rationalism moved Jung to seek out and accept all things supernatural. He treated all the supernatural as if they were of equal value. By not making any distinction between good and evil, functional or dysfunctional, he opened himself up to a vast array of spirit guided spiritual experiences. His psychological understandings come from this base. Jung engaged in occult visions and conversations. He engaged “Elijah” in conversation who is with “Salome”. “Elijah” changes into another figure, “Philemon”. He teaches Jung about the nature of human consciousness. “Philemon” changes into the Egyptian nation spirit Ka.[20] He believed that “Philemon”, the spirit guide, was real, a source of information outside himself. He was dead but talking to Jung.[21] He felt this was legitimate information. It was a type of library outside his physical reality containing everything ever known. The spirit guides interacted between that dimension and ours.[22] This opened the way for his theory of the collective unconsciousness. The collective unconsciousness is made up of archetypes with their knowledge and wisdom that have existed since the remotest times.[23] The archetypes and shadows, of which there are many, are all manifestations of evil spirits.[24] Jung draws heavily from the occult and occult experiences, often researching back in history, practices and philosophies that had been evaluated by the church counsels and rejected. In 1916 Jung stated that the start of the work was identical to a possession.[25] “Then it was as if my house began to be haunted. My eldest saw a white figure passing through the room. The second daughter, independent of her sister, related that twice in the night the blanket had been snatched away. That same night my nine-year-old son had an anxiety dream. Around five o’clock the front doorbell began ringing. I immediately looked to see if someone was there but saw no one. The two maids heard it and saw it (the doorbell) moving.” Jung felt he had to act. He shouted, “For God’s sake, what in the world is this?” They cried out in chorus, “We have come back from Jerusalem where we found not what we sought.” Over the next three evenings the book was written, and as soon as he began to write. “The whole ghastly assemblage evaporated. The room quieted down and the atmosphere cleared. The haunting was over.” [26] Analysts have said it was both the automatic writing, and the contents of that writing, that shaped his writings.[27] Jung said, “All my work, all my creative activity has come from these fantasies and dreams which began in 1912. Almost 50 years ago. Everything that I accomplished later in life was already contained in them, though at first only in the form of emotions and images.’[28] “Philemon” and “Basilides” are but two of the spirit guides that were in contact with Jung.[29] The union of opposites, the focus of alchemists, was, for Jung, the focus of Gnostics, whom he felt had been incorrectly labeled as radical dualists, i.e., believing the battle between good and evil without apparent union between the two.[30] For Jung, dualism and monism were not mutually contradictory and exclusive, but complimentary aspects of reality. As such, there was no good or wrong, nor order or chaos, just opposites which create gray, and demanded of mankind to be united, transformed.[31] Jung became the philosopher of the New Age movement. The New Age is a graying of cultural attitudes arising out of 20th Century Western culture that are adaptations from ancient and modern civilizations that emphasize reincarnation, holism, pantheism and the occult, with an emphasis on spiritualism. These teachings are not based on Judeo-Christian teachings, nor do they emphasize right living, nor health. There is no referral to objective truth or absolutes. Jung practiced indiscriminant supernaturalism. He made no distinction between good and evil—God, Who is good, and Satan, who is evil. He urged us to embrace  both as who we are.  If everything we do is okay, then ultimately, nothing has any value. Our life, then, is of no value, and the life we live is meaningless. B.F. Skinner B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) Whether or not the confusion and lack of clarity produced by Carl Jung’s writings was the motivation for behaviorism I do not know. However, behaviorism did serve to reestablish objectivity to psychological studies. In his first book he defined behaviorism as, “A science of behavior using scientific methods and practices.”[32] Behavior is an organism engaged in, and acting on, or having commerce with, the outside world in which the effects of behavior are measured and observed facts of reality.[33] He reduced all behavior to stimulus, response and reflex. Stimulus —the force affecting the organism. Response —the reciprocal shown relationship between stimulation and response. Reflex —the observable fact arising out of stimulus and response.[34] Isolating reflex allows demonstration of a predictable uniformity of behavior.[35] Behaviorism in psychology is a theory that all investigation of behavior must be objective or observed. Introspection is considered to be invalid. Introspection (or subjectivity) in psychology is looking within one’s own self, evaluating feelings, reactions, attitudes, thoughts and behaviors to establish what is true, genuine and real. (Author’s definition.) The problem of introspection that is separated from objective reality is that it is incapable of being checked externally or verified by other persons. Skinner’s work, along with others, established a body of objective, observed fact that led to advances in many fields of research and greatly advanced behavioral sciences. As helpful as behaviorism is, it turned attention away from self-observation and self-knowledge.[36] To fill in this gap Skinner relented. He postulated what he called “radical behaviorism.” He allowed that the private world within the skin may be observed (no longer dismissing introspection and self-report), but he questioned the nature of the objects observed and the reliability of the observations.[37] He stated that introspectively observed occurrences are the products of a person’s genetic and environmental histories.[38] The spiritual was given no role. The spiritual aspects of human behavior are lost in behaviorism. This is a problem for behaviorists when working with Dissociative Identity Disorder. This may be the reason that behavioral research has not been able to develop viable therapies in the last thirty years. Norman L. Coad Norman L. Coad (1940–) From the beginning of psychological Dissociative Identity Disorder studies it was revealed that spirit beings have interacted with human beings, split the personality into multiple personalities, and disordered the affected person’s everyday life. In my work on Dissociative Identity Disorder  the Divided Soul,  the spiritual and the behavioral aspects of dissociated persons are melded together to develop a solid therapy for diagnosis and treatment.[39] With dissociative clients, behavior based psychological counseling is insufficient. These people live the majority of their lives in the spiritual and behavioral psychology has no means of dealing with the spiritual. Behaviorism is based on what is observed by one or another’s doing.[40] It’s a description of behavior based on stimulus, response and reflex.[41] Spiritual understandings are measured by the written Word of God, the Bible, in order to maintain objective truth and reality. The written Word is to be considered objective truth to be obeyed. By measuring our interpretations of reality against the written Word, indiscriminate subjective spirituality is avoided. We have a standard by which we may test our observations. In that comparison it is quickly observed that there is a good spiritual world and an evil spiritual world. Common sense and moral integrity force us to reject the evil and accept the good; choose God instead of Satan; confront demons and spirits of the dead and workers of iniquity. At the same time, we embrace the help and work of angels of the Lord, the hosts of Heaven, the redeemed of all the ages and the indwelling Holy Spirit of the Lord. (Note: This has been dealt with fairly thoroughly in  The Divided Soul .) Biblical supernaturalism is based on the redeeming work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah. The power of His death and resurrection is appropriated by the believer by grace through faith. All believers are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and as such they have the right and responsibility to use the Lord’s resurrection power, according to the will and Word of God, under the authority of the Holy Spirit. When applied to the needs of dissociated people, healing takes place and positively changes the effects of abuse and multiple personalities. These can be reversed over time. By this supernatural means Dissociated Identity Disorder is curable. It is not a trauma and wounding that one must live with all through life. This therapy is a  process,  not an instantaneous cure. The biblical world view is compatible with the created world we live in. A believer is to take authority over it, that is, human beings are to direct, control and use the resources of this world so that the part of life they have influence over is productive, creative, nurturing and affects others positively. This would also include the knowledge and wisdom of psychology that has been developed over time. The biblical world view places humankind so that we must deal with the material and behavioral world  and  the spiritual world. “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being” (Genesis 2:1). “So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). By creation, humankind are both physical and spiritual. We live in two worlds simultaneously. Dissociative Identity Disorder cannot be treated successfully without incorporating the realities of both the material man and the spiritual man into therapies. Skinner, the father of behaviorism, states that what is felt, or introspectively observed, is not a cause of behavior.[42] There is no room to consider multiple personalities motivated by bodiless beings (referring to Pierre Janet). Neither is a behavioral process available to deal with (demon) possession nor the devil committing misconduct with his poor victims (referring to S. Freud). The multiple personalities are hidden below, and between, layer after layer of amnesia. They have been formed into a pyramid structure ruled over by Satan and directed by demons, spirits of the dead and workers of iniquity ( The Divided Soul,  Glossary). This structure is made up of levels, areas, sections, divisions and systems. The alters are coerced into obedience to the demons and all evil by torture, pain and fear. They live in a world where survival is the goal. There is no evil that the alters will not do in order to avoid torture. It’s a life of terror and deep shame. They have to be shown a way out of the demonically controlled life they live. They are told, and it is true, if they try to get out, they will be killed. However, with the power of the Lord, His name, His Word and His blood, no one’s life is lost. When they commit to Him as their new master, the healing and change necessary begins to take place. Through biblically based Christian therapy, positive change is possible. The therapist works to apply the biblical world view, prays in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, uses the Scriptures of the Bible and applies the principles based on God’s Word. The Spirit of Christ joins the therapist by empowering His wisdom in the work so that the healing that follows is quite beyond what one can do in one’s own strength and abilities alone. We partner with the Lord. Overview I. Pierre Janet —of the dissociated individual determined: A.  Dissociation  is a simultaneous development of additional personalities with parallel memories in complete ignorance of one another.B.  Hysteria  is a pathological form of dissociation that functions independently within the personality and which disturbs the individual’s everyday life.C.  Multiple Personality  is a condition in which two or more dissociated states function with distinct differences of behavior mood and intention and are unaware of each other.D.  Spiritualism  functioning in the individual is voluntarily acceptance in which a bodiless change agent functions in, but is not native to, the individual.E.  Hypnosis  is helpful to expose the realities of dissociation (but positive results are short term in nature). II. Sigmund Freud A. Drawing from Jean-Martin Charcot’s work states, “Hysteria is induced by the individual’s emotional response to traumatic events (accidents) in their past.”B. Most of Freud’s dissociated patients were sexually abused in childhood.C. His descriptions of sexual abuse include: assaults by adults, incest, rape or forced sexual activities, and long term sexually inappropriate relationships between adult and child with genuine feelings of love.D. The memories then are based on fact. They are real things that happen to real people at a real point in time.E. Freud states that the foreign bodies that took possession of the individual were demons. III. C.G. Jung  authenticated the reality of the supernatural. IV. B.F. Skinner A. Objective behaviors allow for dependable accurate interpretation of human behavior (and other species of life as well).B. Behaviorism alone cannot account for all human behaviors but must allow subjective interpretations of individual reality based on genetics and environmental history.C. Spiritual aspects have no real place in psychological evaluation and treatment. V. Norm L. Coad  (1940 –) A. The biblical world view is complete so that it addresses both the behavioral and spiritual aspects of men and women.B. The Bible and the biblical world view is true and reliable.C. By faith the wisdom and knowledge of the therapist can partner with the Lord to do a supernatural healing of Dissociative Identity Disorder.D. By a power encounter through prayer in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, demons may be cast out, and healing of the individual takes place.E. This is usually a process of applying therapies to bring about healing and change, as is true of most abuse and trauma clients. Bibliography 1. J.R. Haule, “Pierre Janet and Dissociation: The First Transference Theory and its Origins In Hypnosis,”  American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis 29  (2) (October 1988), 86-94.2. Ibid., p. 86.3. Ibid., p. 88.4. Ibid.5. Ibid.6. Ibid.7. Ibid.8. Ibid., p. 88, 89.9. Ibid.10. Ibid., p. 90.11. Ibid., p. 91.12. Richard Webster. “Hysteria, Anna O. and the Invention of Psychoanalysis,” http://www.richardwebster.net/freudandcharcot.html.12 . Ibid.14. Ibid.15. Ibid.16. Ibid.17. S. Freud, “The Aetiology of Hysteria,” http://courses.washington.edu/freudlit/Hysteria.Notes.html18 . Ibid.19. M. Bonaparte, A. Freud, and E. Kris,  The Origins of Psychoanalysis. Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes , 1887-1902, trans. E. Mosbacher and J. Strachey (NY Basic Books, 1954), 187-188.20. Philip Coppens. “The Automatic Writings of Jung,” http://philipcoppens.com/jung.html21 . Ibid.22. Ibid.23. C.G. Jung,  The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious  (U.S.A. Important Books, 2014), 7.24. Ibid., p. 25-33.25. Coppens, op. sit.26. Ibid.27. Ibid.28. Ibid.29. Ibid.30. Ibid.31. Ibid.32. B.F. Skinner,  The Behavior of Organisms, An Experimental Analysis , (Acton, MA: Copley Publishing Group, 1991), 5.33. Ibid., p. 6.34. Ibid., p. 9.35. Ibid.36. Skinner, op. sit. p. 16.37. Ibid., 16.38. Ibid., 17.39. Norman L. Coad,  The Divided Soul , (Burleson, TX. Coadword Books, 2016), 22.40. B.F. Skinner, op. sit. p. 6.41. Ibid., p. 9.42. Ibid., p. 17. __________________ Category:  Norman's Place Tag:  Multiple Personality Disorder  by  Norman L. Coad D.M.

Both God and Satan are working in the individual and the society in which we live. All of us live under the influence of the world, God and Satan. Satan attempts to control us through many means. He would motivate us to dominate, negatively manipulate, be critical, violent and self-centered. At times, he may and does do violence against others. These things are the marks and evidence of Satan as he works through the flesh and our sinful nature. For those who are believers, Christ has raised us upon and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 2:1-10). By His indwelling Spirit, He transforms us all so that we no longer are conformed to the pattern of this world but are transformed and renewed in our minds. We realize that, while we are many and are different in race and destiny, we are one in Christ. Our behavior is to be marked by respect and love for each other (Romans 12:1-21; John 15:9-17). Perhaps the best way to understand this is to see ourselves as a part of the environment in which we live in which we find acceptance and/or rejection. If our individual reference groups enjoy broadband acceptance, prestige, authority, and power, this allows us to experience the necessary access to work, wealth, friendships, recognition, and success. We experience the basic elements to live a full and relatively happy life. If, however, our reference group experiences limited acceptance, opportunities, work, and wealth, we may feel profoundly deprived of the social elements that allow us to feel good about ourselves and deprive us of success. Our evaluation of self and our reference group may be negative. In this context, it is not uncommon to see ourselves as somehow inferior, less than, not as good as others. Often the “negatives” are reinforced in the broader culture by pejorative attitudes, racism, and broadly held caricatures that are accepted as true but are not. When this occurs, no matter how personally intelligent, hard-working, gifted, educated and accomplished one is, it does not change the social equation. The result is that the individual of this group does not achieve the social success and recognition that they deserve. To summarize this, some groups, individuals and values are elevated in the cultural hierarchy in value. Others are devalued. This happens in every society; ours is no exception. Many seek to establish themselves as worthy, valuable, trustworthy people. This is perfectly valid. However, it comes with a price. The cultural access demanded by this force the culture to adapt and change. All cultures and peoples change overtime, so change is valid. The difficulty comes when too much change is demanded too quickly. Resistance develops. Resistance can occur in the individual, small groups, and even in a nation. In a society like ours where the population is a mix of many races, languages, religions, social and personal values, great tolerance to change and acceptance is required for us to function well as a whole. The stress of change never goes away. The U.S.A. has never been easy because of the constant influx of new people and the stress they cause and experience.  Social stress is not only caused by new immigrants. It can also be caused when groups who have been long term residents within our society push to change their status, level of wealth and social influence. This, too, is a normal American trait. Social lift has been constant even through it has been powerfully resisted by some. None of us like to be treated as if we are inferior. Stress also occurs when certain moral values are forced on the greater population. Some of these moral issues are: the new paganism, called the new morality; abortion on demand and Rowe vs. Wade; and now, late-term abortion and infanticide after birth. These and some of the LGBTQ+ issues stress large groups of the U.S.A. population at both the moral and religious practice of many. This has caused a cultural war that has not been resolved. The ongoing confrontations have worn on some on the political left and some on the right. At times, they become violent, uncivil and intolerant of each other as the cultural divide between us grows and intensifies. As a people, some are advocating doing away with the historical values on which this nation was built. As a consequence, the attack on God in society, broad-based acceptance of values based on the Bible, and the denigration of those of us who practice such has been relentless. It has become offensive to many. Being offended is not a helpful response. If certain groups advocate tearing the old down, razing it to the ground, they should have something better to replace it with. Otherwise, the demolition will leave us as a people in a quandary, not knowing how to proceed. The vacuum caused may lead to anarchy. I am not impressed with what is being offered to replace what we already have. America was the recipient of many good things and some not so good. We grew out of the tenants of the Reformation and British Common Law. We inherited slavery from the British who founded Jamestown as a slave colony. We were also the dumping ground for many violent and varied social misfits that Great Britain did not want to deal with. We, also, received the religious stigma put on the Jews by the Western church. No one in America has experienced legal and social inferiority longer and more profoundly than the Afro-American. Even the Supreme Court designated them as inferior with little or no social rights by the Dred Scott Case decision. James A. Michener, in his book  TEXAS , described the inferior status of certain groups succinctly. I paraphrase: All people should be free and have the right to fight for it. All except Negroes, Mexicans, and Indians. This was reinforced economically on all these, and many were killed. For the Negroes, lynching was a common practice well into the Thirties. The right to vote was denied the Blacks until President Johnson put it into law and enforced it nationally. Legally, then, they could not be denied their right to vote. Many immigrants were psychologically designated “the stranger”. The stranger is dishonest, immoral, fearful, and cannot be trusted. The Irish, Arabs/Muslims, Germans, Hispanics, Afro-Americans, to name a few, were all designated “the stranger” at some time in our history. This all sounds like sociology; and, to a degree, it is. How is this spiritual? Simply stated, the way we treated each other in the past and the way we treat others now has often been contrary to the teachings of the Bible. The Bible teaches that we are all created in the image of God. God created us all (Genesis1:27). Through Yeshua Messiah, Jesus the Christ, God in Christ redeemed us all by His shed blood, His death, burial and resurrection from the dead. He died for all of us, all human beings. We are all saved in the same way. The Word states that we are saved by Jesus by grace through faith. The Apostle Paul writes: You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ then you are all Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to Christ (Galatians 3:26-29). To deny that we all came from the same mother and father, Adam and Eve, is to deny the clear teaching of God’s Word. To deny that all the believers are saved into the family of the redeemed is to deny the power and authority of God to make us one in Him. That would be disobedience and rebellion against God’s will, work and word. Disobedience and rebellion against God and His word is sin. That is being like Satan. He is a liar and murderer from the beginning. He would and has perpetrated his lies and murders on all who refuse to be submissive to God’s will and word. Category:  Norman's Place Tag:  and virtues by  Norman Coad

This is a presentation of supplementary material that goes along with   The Divided Soul . This material will be supplementary, not identical. It is meant to complement the book and to give greater insight into things in more detail that are in the book, but not highly developed. Defense Mechanisms Defense mechanisms are the abilities that God has given to us to help us survive trauma (which we all have). No one in this world gets through life without trauma. Proverbs says that man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. There are some psychological principles we need to know that will be helpful: Motivated Behaviors First of all, there is no such thing as “random behavior” in psychology. Everything is motivated. There is a reason why these things happen. You may not be consciously aware of it, but somewhere inside of you, there is a reason for what you do. These motivations are based on real things that have happened to you at a real point in time; they are not imagined; they are real events that have occurred. Generational Issues From a biblical point of view there is another aspect we need to add that goes beyond the psychological understanding. It is the viewpoint that there are also generational sins and generational blessings. These are the things that have gone on before we were born. Generational blessings are virtues and abilities of character where people have stood up and done the right thing at the right time and in the right manner and the blessings of that come forward to us. Curses, on the other hand, to use a biblical term, are the things that have occurred by those in our biological line (which are our ancestors) in which they sinned and did not repent. They are ongoing, unresolved issues in the spirit realm which come forward to each of us in our family lines. No family line is perfect. We each have issues that are generational and we have to deal with them, to not ignore, or be ignorant of them. When we recognize and work with the negative consequences, we are able to shut the curses down, to change and become more functional. The curses are basically from unconfessed sin that has not been put under the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and that is still active in its pain, wounding and dysfunction. Two Defense Mechanisms At this time, we know of only two defense mechanisms. These defense mechanisms are God-given. We get what we get. One is called blocking;  the other is dissociation. The whole idea is that God has given us innate, inherited abilities to survive the traumas of life that we have to deal with. They are both very good; one is not bad and the other good, but they are each distinctly different from the other with each having different capabilities and strengths. Blocking The blocking mechanism functions to protect us and distance us from trauma. The personality is divided into two parts without actually dividing but is relegated into two designated functions. They are the conscious part, and below that, the sub-conscious. The conscious part deals with those things about which we are aware. These things are actually going on in our lives, and they require that we make some adaptation of thought, emotion or behavior. The issues of the conscious are limited to those that help us function . In order to do that we have to stay on task and focus. The conscious part of us deals with function and focus only. Unfortunately, that only includes about 5% of our motivations. That means that about 95% of the time we don’t know why we do what we do. There is a reason for this. The issue that provokes most motivation is traumatic and undermines us. In order to better function and survive, the trauma is blocked from our conscious mind and is distanced from our everyday life. The subconscious deals with ninety-five percent of the reasons we do things. This is about surviving trauma, all types of trauma: verbal abuse, emotional abuse, physical, psychological, sexual, ritual, perfectionistic, abandonment and any other type of trauma. Survival demands that we distance ourselves from trauma in order to function. Since trauma interferes with function and focus, the conscious decides, we are not going to deal with it!  And so, the trauma event, the memory of it, is put into the subconscious. In the subconscious we have the memory bank. Each memory has a trigger attached to it so that it can be brought up at any point in time as needed. The memory bank is our personal history that includes everything that has ever happened to us from the point of conception up to this very moment. Good memories (non-traumatic memories, benign memories) go in to the memory bank without much trouble at all. They are what some would call “warm fuzzies.” They are the things we enjoy thinking about. They are a comfort to us. Traumatic Memories The dictionary defines trauma as a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury. Trauma memories are to the memory bank what computer viruses are to computers. They don’t fit into the memory bank very well, but they still have triggers. They use up a tremendous amount of psychological and emotional energy that wear the subconscious out. The subconscious tries then to defend itself. It tries to get the workload lightened so that it is not utterly fatigued and psychologically burned out. A Pushing Match The subconscious and the conscious get into a pushing match. The trauma memory is repressed into the subconscious. The conscious refuses to deal with the trauma and the subconscious is stuck with it. The more traumatic the memory, the more difficult it is to retrieve and process. Emotional Messages The subconscious doesn’t just give up but tries to get help. It starts by sending messages. It sends emotional messages of anger, anxiety, depression, powerlessness, hopelessness, etc. They have only one meaning, “Help!” Behavioral Messages If nothing is done, then the messages get stronger so that (added to the emotional messages) the subconscious sends out behavioral messages. These would be things such as: road rage, fighting, drinking, drugging, acting out in promiscuous sexual behavior, and the like. Again, it is only a call for help. Only now, you have not just one message coming forth from the subconscious, but two at the same time; there are emotional messages (and the things they produce) and there are behavioral messages. Physical Messages Long after the trauma was first repressed into the subconscious, physical help!  messages begin appearing. These are emphatic. These help messages take the form of illnesses, allergies and physical dysfunctions. They become increasingly acute and can be life threatening. These are psychosomatic illnesses. Psychosomatic illnesses, while acting on the physical body, are not physically based but are psychologically based. They arise out of the unresolved trauma out of the past that has not been tended to. The more religious of us call these problems of the spirit, soul and body. In physiology these are called illnesses arising out of the mind/body connection. These psychosomatic illnesses are very common. Some say that 85–90% of all doctor visits are psychosomatic in nature. To treat these so that the person can function relatively normally the doctor practices medical management. They treat the symptoms but do not address the root cause. The root causes are traumas and that is the job for psychotherapists. Dissociation Dissociation has been grouped and treated under several headings: Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder), Depersonalization Disorder, Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Fugue and Acute Stress Disorder. Itshould be noted that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Somatization Disorder share dissociative symptoms.[1] The critical distinction to be noted in the above is that dissociation involves distancing oneself from the trauma with barriers of amnesia. Between these barriers are groups of personalities that exist and function. There are bodiless beings who use the trauma to demonize the split off consciousness. Spirit, Soul and Body The biblical description of human personality is that it is made up of spirit, soul and body (I Thessalonians 5:23). The soul is often used to mean mind, emotion and will. All but the body can be split. This creates confusion because the visible body is the same. However, the alters which take executive control of the physical body often change. The spirit of a person relates to God. God is spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). The soul is here used to indicate human traits and abilities of mind, emotion and will. The mind is the thinking, evaluating, categorizing, organizing and planning part of our personality. The emotions are the passions, attractions and expressions that draw us to, or move us away from, certain people, things or situations. They help us bond and relate to ourselves and others. The will is the decision-making part of our life whereby we give direction, purpose and stability to our lives. This is where we make choices, move in a certain direction, and stay on task to see issues through to completion. In order to hide this from our conscious mind, the dissociation serves to split our consciousness and hide the traumatic part. There are also demons and spirits of the dead working there. These defense mechanisms are protective. The difference between blocking and dissociation is that blocking does not split the consciousness and dissociation is profound splitting of the personality. Trauma Activation Dissociation is trauma activated. Trauma triggers these defense mechanisms. These individuals do not have to be taught because this ability is theirs from birth. Blocking represses the trauma into the subconscious with no splitting of the consciousness. Dissociation splits a part of the spirit, mind, emotions and will from the consciousness, assigning the trauma memory to the split off part and there hides it. The hiding place within us is that vast inner space that is as big in minutia as the rest of the universe is in gargantua. The trauma memory is no longer resident in the conscious awareness. The amnesia is a hundred percent and serves as a barrier between our conscious functioning and the group of personalities hidden there. Many Barriers of Amnesia It is my experience that there are usually many barriers of amnesia. It appears that the alters are also imprisoned under the amnesia barriers. The multiple personalities are so thoroughly confined that the types of restraining areas are many and varied, prisons within prisons, encapsulations of various sorts, cubicles with four sides, a roof and floor with no way out, etc. Triggered Memories The personality’s memories can be triggered out by hypnotherapy, or anything that can activate the trauma response in the alter. The triggering releases the personalities to act out in pre-programmed responses. All the alters are pre-programmed to do as they were conditioned. This programming is done by demons, spirits of the dead and workers of iniquity.[3] The mode of programming appears to be a misapplication of behavioral modification techniques. The bodiless beings’ purpose is to carry out Satan’s plans through the alters. They do this by afflicting the alters with lies, pain, deprivations of food, water, sleep, etc. They terrorize and torture and wound their personalities into submission until they are robotically obedient to the evil ones’ demands. Their survival principle is, “better you have the pain than me.” They exist at the survival level in anger, fear and helplessness. They do whatever the evil ones demand. The sum of all this is evil, wickedness, corruption and violence. They can be so desensitized to evil that they can do any wickedness without a twinge of remorse, often with a blank stare, expression devoid of emotion, with no feeling or mood of normal human response. In this state they are almost completely dehumanized. This of course does not happen easily, but over time, with great deception and profound programming. Perversion What God created in us as a help to survive trauma is perverted into an evil thing. Each alter is split off for a specific purpose, some are playful and fun, or practical, carrying out some useful occupation necessary in life. Many are sexual, programmed to carry out a vast array of corruption. Some are good and useful; others are evil and sinful. The result is a human being with many dysfunctions, rages and moral failures. The increasing trauma of this eventually undermines the physical and psychological health of the individual. These alters, if never discovered and healed, remain isolated and alone in their traumatized state. Switching Executive Control Switching occurs all the time in the dissociated person. Switching occurs when one alter who has executive control of the body goes “down” or relinquishes control of the personality, and another alter takes executive control of the person’s thoughts, attitudes and behaviors, or is “up.” Only the alter that is “up” has memory of what is taking place. The alters that are down do not have memories of what is going on. This results in gaps, or blanks, in the memory. The switching of personalities may be subtleor dramatic. Most are subtle in order as to not reveal the change in the alters as they come up or go down. Two Factors There are two factors that must be present in order for a person to dissociate. He (or she) must have the hereditary ability to dissociate, and he, or she, must be traumatized. The trauma may be intentional or accidental. Either way, the result is splitting of the consciousness. Most of the trauma arises out of abuse and family of origin issues. There seems to be more abuse of women than men. The ratio is about three to one. Because of the prevalence of abuse of women there are more dissociated women than men. Any kind of physical trauma may cause a person to dissociate, i.e., head trauma, auto accidents, etc. The most common dissociating trauma is being put in fearful circumstances where one experiences powerlessness and hopelessness. All forms of abuse may cause dissociation: verbal, physical, sexual, emotional or ritual. The family of origin abuses include perfectionism, negativity, abandonment, rejection, emotional deprivation, to name a few. Diagnosis Diagnosis is a two-step procedure. A provisionary diagnosis is made based on the information given to the counselor and the symptoms of the client. These are behavioral, psychological, social and vocational dysfunctions of the client. It is not uncommon that there are also multiple physical ailments and several dysfunctions of the auto immune system and psychosomatic illnesses. The actual working diagnosis is revealed in the self-report of the inner workings of the individual. At this time the most effective diagnosis and treatment is based on the world view of the Bible. This is supernatural and is thoroughly explained in my book The Divided Soul .   The diagnosis is complete when the client and the therapist determine that there is more than one personality functioning in the individual. Debilitation Ongoing splitting of the personality debilitates the individual. Each splitting diminishes the core personality. The split off alter is hidden with the trauma memory. Any part of human personality may be split off. This means that the whole of the human spirit, mind, emotions and will are diminished over time to the point ofdysfunction. As difficult as the process of counseling is, it is better than denying the dissociation that is occurring and not shutting it down and reversing the process. It is reversible. Astro-projection When the personalities are formed through splitting of the conscious, they are able to function independently of the dissociated person’s conscious awareness. Not only that, they can operate outside and independent of the body. Each alter is formed for a specific purpose. They are programmed to carry out their assigned tasks. These tasks may be assigned by the demons to occur any place in the universe. The alter is able to complete the assignment through astro-projection. astro-projection  (or astral travel) is an interpretation of an out of body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of an “astral body” separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it.[4] The biblical references to astral projection include: Phillip’s encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:26-40) and Paul’s vision (II Corinthians 12:1-6). This denotes a certain lack of control in the dissociated person. The amnesia, the multiple personalities, the evil spirit beings coercing the alters, are all part of the person with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). As hard as it is to believe, this is the inner reality of the person who dissociates. It is not insanity, but a defense mechanism to help the person survive severe trauma. Indicators of Dissociation Dissociation has various characteristics. Some of these are within the following list of questions to ask yourself. These questions are indicators only. They do not constitute a diagnosis. They are here included for identifying whether one has the innate ability to dissociate: 1. Does your handwriting change over time? 2. Do people accuse you of having said something that you have no recollection of saying? 3. Have you been accused of being a liar? 4. Do you get lost easily, even in familiar areas? 5. Do you experience marked changes in emotion, attitude and personal taste,sometimes in rapid succession? 6. Have you experienced abandonment or rejection that profoundly affected you? 7. Were you raised in, or have you participated in alcoholic or drug-addicted environments? 8. Have you been sexually abused? 9. Do you have difficulty putting things in your mouth—i.e., a toothbrush? 10. Do you sometimes rage at things that surprise you? 11. Do you have difficulty staying organized and following through on tasks? 12. Do you experience anger or fear if your spouse is sexual with you? 13. Do you have traumatic dreams or flashbacks? 14. Do you have difficulty setting and maintaining boundaries? 15. Do you often end up in abusive relationships? 16. Were you sexually active before marriage but reject sex from your spouse after marriage? 17. Do you sometimes feel like a little person in a big body? 18. When talking to certain individuals, do you feel yourself getting smaller inside? 19. Was either parent dominating, perfectionist, negative? 20. When confronted with many choices, do you have difficulty making a decision or choosing one option? 21. Do you have multiple thoughts going through your mind in rapid succession? 22. Do you hear voices inside your mind or head? 23. Do you suffer from endometriosis or pain in intercourse? 24. Are you more aware of evil supernatural activities than others? 25. Do you cringe when handling raw meat or packages of wet garbage? 26. Do you forget things often? 27. Have you had multiple sex partners and multiple marriages? 28. Do you suffer from several medical/physical problems? 29. Have medical doctors given you several diagnoses? 30. Do you have several physical problems? 31. Do you feel that men or women are a threat to you? 32. Do you engage regularly in bashing the opposite sex? 33. Do you have difficulty keeping jobs? 34. Are you attracted to evil at times and at other times not? 35. Do you know who you are? 36. Do you feel you are a bundle of contradictions? 37. Do you find bruises on your body that you cannot explain? 38. Do you wake up fatigued after several hours of sleep? 39. Are your dreams frightening, dark or evil? 40. Do you wake up regularly between midnight and four o’clock? 41. Are you greatly attached to animals? Do you have many of them? 42. Is your living space dirty or disordered?43. Are the dishes and laundry never done? 44. Do you have difficulty maintaining healthy relationships? 45. Do you frequently rage? 46. Do you find fault with others? 47. Are you negative? 48. Are you critical of spouse and/or children? 49. Are you a compulsive hand washer? 50. Are you a perfectionist? 51. Can no one please you (specially your children and your spouse)? 52. Do family get togethers, holidays and the like, trigger negative emotions and behaviors? 53. Is there a family history of occult, traditional religion, free masons, etc.? 54. Have you had multiple marriages? 55. Do you allow yourself to be used and abused? 56. Are your relationships win/lose, dominant/submissive, painful emotionally or physically? 57. Is your health deteriorating? 58. Is your autoimmune system compromised or weak? 59. Do certain touches, smells, seasons or situations more often than not trigger negative compulsive responses? 60. Are you isolated? 61. Do you feel you are damaged, used, of little value? 62. Do you feel unloved and unlovable? 63. Do you hit yourself? 64. Do you cut yourself? 65. Do you overeat and then purge? 66. Do you go from bulimia to anorexia? 67. Are you always alert, waiting for something to happen? 68. Do you love yourself? 69. Are your needs and wants always less important than those of others? 70. Are you an adult child of an alcoholic? 71. Do you feel ashamed? 72. Do you lack structure in your life? 73. Do you feel empty? 74. Is God loving and kind and good? 75. Is God mean? Does He condemn you? 76. Does anyone care about you? 77. Does sex equal love? 78. Do you rage compulsively? 79. Are you abusive to others? 80. Do you like being cruel to animals or those weaker than you?81. Does it bother you when members of the opposite sex touch you or get too close to you? 82. Are some of your behavior’s irrational and destructive? 83. Do you feel that things will never be right or good with you? 84. Are there large gaps in your childhood memories? 85. When talking to siblings, does it seem you must have been raised in a different family? 86. Do you feel numb at the emotional level? 87. Do these questions make you nervous? 88. Do you feel afraid at full moons? 89. Do you feel that you can never measure up? 90. Will you ever be good enough? 91. Do you spend a lot of time in bed, not doing anything? 92. Is it difficult for you to keep a job? 93. Are you afraid you might hurt your children? 94. Are your emotions shut down? 95. Do you put yourself in danger, going to places where you might be, or are, abused sexually? 96. Do you prostitute? 97. Do you reject or avoid having sex with your spouse? 98. Have you ever felt loved? 99. Is your life performance based on doing things so that you will be affirmed by others? 100. Do you feel that no one could ever love you? __________________ Notes 1. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision  Washington DC. The American Psychological Association, 2000. p. 519. 2. N.L. Coad The Divided Soul   Coadword Books, Burleson, TX 2016. p. 39. 3. Ibid Coad p. 7-8. 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral  projection . Category: Norman's Place Tag: Multiple Personality Disorder

Anger is an intense emotional response that arises out of fear, pain and unmet expectations, or unfairness, with various levels of intensity. Some of the levels of anger are expressed in words such as: annoy, irk, vex, affront, offend, irritate, incense, infuriate, exasperate, enrage, etc. [1] Rage (or wrath) is anger that has been stuffed away, packed away, crammed in, and hidden from sight. The initial cause of the anger is no longer attached to a specific event, but is generalized, unfocused anger that builds in intensity and volume the longer it remains unresolved. Anger is a good, normal, healthy emotion whose purpose is to protect. Rage is destructive, erodes our well-being, affects our health and puts us at risk. Psychology and Sociology recognize three types of anger: Hasty and Sudden Anger— that tied to a specific event or events.[2] Settled and Deliberate Anger— that of perceived, deliberate harm or unfair treatment. This too is tied to specific events.[3] Dispositioned Anger— that related to character traits, instincts and perceived, known events that manifest in irritability and aggravation.[4] Anger can potentially mobilize psychological resources, boost determination toward correcting wrong behaviors, promote social justice, communicate negative sentiment and redress grievances. It can also be used to develop patience.[5] In the book of John, we are told Jesus (the Lord) went up to Jerusalem at Jewish Passover. In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market (John 2:13-16 NIV). He was angry but did not sin. He corrected an evil practice of the religious establishment. For we do not have a high priest (the Lord Jesus Christ) who is unable to sympathizewith our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15 NIV). Rage is destructive when it impairs our ability to process information and to exert control over our behavior. The rageful one can lose objectivity, empathy and cause harm to self and others.[6] Rage can move us to physical and verbal abuse that results in direct or indirect aggression. Neurological studies tie anger and rage to innate fight or flight reactions.[7] Anger is often a response to perceived threat to oneself or to another, and frustration has long been recognized as a trigger for anger and aggression.[8] This reactive aggression progresses from one level of intensity to another without regard for any potential good.[9] Low levels of danger from distant threats induce freezing.[10] Higher levels of danger from closer threats induce attempts to escape the immediate environment. Still higher levels of danger from a close threat, when escape is impossible, initiate reactive aggressions (unprovoked attack or act of hostility).[11] When someone is experiencing and expressing anger, they are not using the thinking part of the brain where logic, judgment and strategy part of the brain reside, but the emotional center of the brain which resides in the limbic system where the more primitive elemental responses originate.[12] How Rage Is Produced When the flight response is used to protect in anger producing situations there is no resolution to the anger (e.g. if the loss is verbally abusive or wounding you may not respond and deal with the situation to keep your job): What does one do with the anger? It is put inside and ignored. The anger is put away as live ammunition that can explode at any moment. All that stuffed anger gradually loses its connection to specific anger events. This becomes unfocused rage and/or wrath. A lid is put over this place to keep it from coming forth to vent too easily. The pressure builds up until it almost chokes the person. At this point a “safe anger event” is used to lower the pressure such as blowing up at spouse and children, road rage and the like. Lowering the pressure is not good anger management nor anger resolution. As Blaise Pascal (French philosopher and mathematician, 1623-1662) said, “The emotions have their reasons that the reasons cannot know.”The emotional data goes to the amygdala which can cause a panic feeling (called an amygdala hijacking) to occur. This produces an emotional reaction without much regard to consequences.[13] The surge of energy in the overriding event releases a flood of hormones triggering the fight or flight response.[14] A longer lasting hormone is released that can last for several hours (or days)[15] Tissue damage resulting in loss of functioning in the frontal cortex can lead to impaired behavioral control (considering anger from a cognitive neuroscience perspective).[16] Frustration occurs when the individual continues to do an action and no reward occurs.[17] Also, failure to distribute resources equally leads to anger and retribution by those unfairly treated—frustration has long been recognized as a trigger to anger.[18] There is then a simple distinction between passive anger versus aggressive anger, or rage.[19] Passive Anger Passive anger characteristics may include: • Dispassion —without passion, emotion, or without bias; uninvolved, i.e., giving someone the cold shoulder; being unconcerned; “sitting on the fuse”; checking out with drugs or alcohol; oversleeping; being unresponsive to others anger or frigidity; objectifying your sex partner; substituting talk or intellectualizing instead of being involved and taking action. • Evasiveness —avoiding; not dealing with the issue, not being assertive; walking away. • Defeatism —being negative, playing the victim role, feeling and acting powerlessly; procrastinating; majoring on minor issues and neglecting the real, more challenging issues at hand; staying in a frustrated, unproductive state and never resolving issues. • Obsessive Behaviors —being germophobic, unnecessarily washing hands, over verifying all things and still not being confident of a proper outcome; excessive dieting, overeating; perfectionism. • Psychological Manipulation —provoking others to anger and rage; patronizing; not giving appropriate support to whom it is due; emotional blackmail; false tearfulness; feigning illness; undermining relationships;using sex to get what you want; being negative or critical to another about someone else, gossiping; withholding, or using money or other resources to get people to do what you want. • Secretive Behavior —concealing one’s thoughts, feelings, etc., from others; reticence, not being open or frank; hiding resentments; being two-faced—being one way to some people and acting differently to others; putting others down to build yourself up, making anonymous complaints, poison pen letters, stealing, conniving. • Self-blame —apologizing too often; overly, harshly criticizing oneself and others; inviting criticism; setting oneself up for failure. • Aggressive Anger (Rage)— aggressive anger characteristics may include: • Bullying —threatening people directly, persecuting, pushing and shoving, using power to oppress, shouting, road rage, playing on people’s weaknesses. • Destructiveness —destroying objects; vandalism; harming animals; child abuse; destroying a relationship; reckless driving; substance abuse. • Grandiosity —showing off; expressing mistrust; being a sore loser; always wanting to be center stage; talking over people’s heads; expecting kiss and make-up sessions to solve problems. • Hurtfulness —violence; mean, cruel behavior to others; abuse: sexual, physical, verbal, emotional psychological; religious, ritual, etc.; rape, a crime of violence; hate crimes: prejudice— motivated crime often violent targeting victims based on sex, ethnicity, disability, language, nationality, physical appearance, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation; labeling and profiling; willfully discriminating; blaming and punishing people. • Threats of Violence —frightening people by threatening bodily harm; finger pointing; threats against property or their livelihood, name, or family; projecting symbols associated with violent crimes; slamming doors, etc. • Stereotyping is based on unvarying, fixed perceptions of certain individuals or groups of people which is a caricature (a deliberately distorted picturing of a person or group) emphasizing badness, ugliness, inferiority. • Scapegoat —a person, group or thing to which we assign the blame for the mistakes, crimes or misfortunes of others which are really caused by other agencies. • Projection —the unconscious act or process of ascribing to others one’s own ideas, emotions, attributes or behaviors which are viewed as undesirable, bad, evil or wicked, this being done by an individual or a group. When by a group, the group is viewed as the source of many or all problems. The psychological effect is to rid the projecting individual or group of the responsibility to deal with their own issues or for a group to engage in their life situations and seek real salutations to their problems. • Low Self Esteem —one psychological process that individuals and social groups use to enhance their self-esteem is to build themselves up by tearing others down. When this occurs, it masks itself by an assumed role of superiority while the devalued ones are ascribed the role of the inferior ones. When stereotyping, scapegoating or projecting are tied to low self-esteem (which devalues others) are combined, great personal or social damage is done. Dictators and authoritarian regimes seize on this and perpetrate great moral and social injustice. For example, the Christian Church set in motion great events of monumental evil: • The Council of Elvira in Spain (AD 306) banned the intermarriage of Christians to Jews. • The Council of Nicaea (AD 325) “We desire, dearest brethren to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the Jews.” The celebration of Easter was separated from the Passover. • St. Hilary of Poitiers (AD 310–367) referred to Jews as a perverse people God had cursed forever. • Theodosius the Great (AD 347–395) permitted the destruction of synagogues, as long as it served a religious purpose. The Bishop of Milan immediately reacted by burning a local synagogue to the ground, an act he described as pleasing to God. • St. Augustine, in 415 AD wrote in The City of God that the Christian Church had replaced the Jews as God’s chosen people. He believed Jews to be the enemy of God’s people, saying the “true image of the Hebrew” was Judas Iscariot. • Historically, the Christian Church has blamed the Jews for killing Jesus, but the Jews say, “No, the Romans killed Jesus.” However, the Bible is clear about it. He laid down his life freely for us all (John 10:17-18). • The Crusades (AD 1096)—Christian soldiers with crosses emblazoned on their uniforms and a cross before them marched through Europe into the Holy Land butchering Muslim and Jew alike. They celebrated their capture of Jerusalem by herdingJews into the great synagogue and burned them alive as they sang, “Christ We Adore Thee.” • The Spanish Inquisition (1480–1834)—thousands of Jews were burned at the stake, their property confiscated and those not killed were ordered to leave the country. This was launched by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. • Pope Leo decreed that Jews were to be confined to ghettos and their property confiscated (1826). • The Holocaust and Nazi Germany under Hitler (1933-1945) in an act of genocide murdered six million Jews. • Paul Helberg, in The Destruction of European Jews , writes: Since the fourth century after Christ, there have been three anti- Jewish policies (forced) conversion, expulsion, annihilation. The second appeared as an alternative to the first, the third emerged as an alternative to the second. The missionaries of Christianity said in effect, “You have no right to live among us as Jews.” The secular ruler who followed proclaimed “You have no right to live among us.” The Nazis at last decreed, “You have no right to live.” Ilyich Lenin (1820-1924) and Josef Stalin (1879-1933) initiated the practices which we called Stalinism. Stalin consolidated his power over the Soviet Socialist Republic by practicing totalitarianism over occupied or politically dominated countries. Stalin ruthlessly gathered up his political enemies, tortured them to get information, then isolated them in labor camps or prisons and/or executed them. It is reported that he murdered over eleven million people. It is stated in Lenin’s, The Lessons of the Paris Communal , that the reason that the Paris Commune failed in 1871 was because they did not kill their enemies. Stalin took this evil principle further than anyone else in history. They, however, drew from the practices in Europe that had occurred before. That is to say, “You have no right to live as you are. You have no right to live among us. You have no right to live.” Wherever totalitarianism exists and dominates, there the same angry, evil practices thrive. The stereotyping of Negroes and our treatment of the American Indian are ongoing issues in our nation. There were, as is estimated, about thirteen million Indians in America when white settlers arrived on their shores. When the Indian wars were over there were about three hundred thousand. That looks like genocide. Of the almost three hundred treaties made with the Indians not one of them was kept. At this time, our government is working out with the Indian tribes in court the final reparation settlement. My mother’s side of the family who were frontier settlers since before the revolutionary war have shed the blood of red Americans. No one’s hands are clean. Some of my families were slave holders in the antebellum south. They lost everything with the Civil War. My great grandmother and her sister were godly women who did much to nurture biblical Christianity in the family. The truth is as well that they prospered from slavery. After the Civil War none were slave holders. They did not participate in share cropping. Anger Management Anger Management’s purpose is to control and regulate anger so that it does not result in problems.[20] Medical treatment of anger is a type of anger management. In this approach, which is commonly practiced by the medical community, drugs are administered to manage the patient’s anger issues. One sees this with alcohol and drug addicted people, the mentally disabled, migraines, and PTSD to name a few.[21] The psychological community often uses cognitive therapies in anger management. These may include: relaxation techniques, monitored breathing exercises, cognitive restructuring and imagery, anger journal writing, the effectiveness of such therapies is very difficult to assess.[22] Anger Resolution Anger Resolution arises out of the fact that the flight response has been overused in anger producing situations. If one takes flight, does not process the anger event to the point of resolution, then the anger is still active. In order to control it we put anger inside us (called “stuffing”). It sits there until some sort of resolution of anger is realized. I use a very simple seven step process to resolve anger: 1. Ask the Lord to help you limit the amount of anger you deal with, and also to help you limit the amount of anger you deal with at any one time so that you are not out of control. 2. Admit I am angry. 3. Let the anger come up. 4. Express the anger in a way that does not hurt you or others: 1) Begin by going into your bedroom. Close the door and speak out loud of the angry memory you are experiencing. 2) Then begin screaming into a pillow. 3) Then hit the bed (or some combination or equivalent of these). 5. When tired, say out loud, “I forgive; I let it go.” (We all know that saying it is so does not make it so.) 6. Check your anger feeling. Sometimes you feel it in your stomach, other times in your heart in painful sharp feelings. Other times it seems that within you the anger rises up in order to do battle. If the anger feeling is there then the anger is not resolved. 7. Repeat the above. Note: It may, and often does, take several repetitions before the amount of anger is resolved. Continue until you have resolution. This is a psychological tool to help you deal successfully with your rage. It works. The more you use the tool, the more skilled you become. Exceptions: 1) It will not work if you do not work the steps and continue until resolution. 2) If the anger/rage keeps on building and does not diminish, then it is demonically empowered. In this case, the demon programming of rage must be cast out. Then return to use the seven-step resolution process. Overview Anger is a good, normal, healthy emotion that is tied to specific events. It is used to protect. Rage is destructive, unfocused and can occur if triggered and may result in compulsive acting out.Rationalizations such as stereotyping, scapegoating and blaming psychologically release us of the responsibility to deal with real problems in the real world responsibly. Dictatorial and authoritarian regimes use these rationalizations to do great evil. Historically, they are not alone in this behavior. The Christian Church and White America have perpetrated great evil this way. Anger management and anger resolution are used to deal with aggressive anger or rage. End Notes 1. Webster’s Collegiate Thesaurus. Springfield, MA, Merriam-Webster Inc., 1976. 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anger.3 . Ibid.4. Ibid.5. Ibid. 6. Opsit. 7. Ibid. 8. http://www.ncbi,nlta.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc3260787/ConsideringAngerFromAC ognitiveNeurosciencePerspective,R.J.R.Blair. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid. 12. http://LakeSideConnect.com/AngerAndViolence/how-does-anger-happen-in-the- brain/2011. 13. Ibid. 14. Ibid. 15. Ibid.16. Blair, R. J. R. (2001) “Neuro-cognitive models of aggression, the Antisocial Category: Norman's Place Tag:

Satan The one who opposes us. The accuser of men.[1] He is the enemy, the great enemy of man and goodness. He is the devil, the one who slanders us. He is the chief evil spirit, a supernatural being subordinate to, and the foe of God and the tempter of men. He is a demon whose residence is Hell. He is called Lucifer, light bearer; the leader of the revolt of the angels before they fell and were cast out of heaven by Michael the archangel, an angel of the highest order of angels.[2] Satanic , having the qualities of, or resembling Satan; extremely malicious—full of wickedness, crafty, badness and spitefulness, hatred, intent on harming, filled with ill will, of Hell and all its evil.[3] Satanist , a very wicked person who honors Satan by doing evil, Satanism, worships Satan, the rites, rituals, ceremonial procedures of their worship, the set form of, or procedures employed in, honoring Satan.[4] Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.[5] Everything evil and flawed comes from Satan and Hell. Satan has no virtue, no effective power to heal or strengthen, does no right action, has no moral goodness, no morality at all. He is evil and works wickedness. He is a stumbling block to us.[6] Those who follow Satan’s evil ways belong to, and are the children of Satan, and carry out his desires. He, Satan, was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.[7] Those who live a life doing evil are described by two biblical words, belial and reprobate . The term “sons of belial” means “those under the authority of Belial, who submit to his teachings, obediently carry out works similar to what he does.” The sons of Eli the high priest of Israel were called belial.[8] They defiled the meat offerings given to the Lord. They had sex with the women whoserved at the entrance of the tent of meeting.[9] The Lord let them be killed in battle and Eli died as well.[10] The belial are worthless, dedicated to destruction, given to lawlessness, useless and base—morally low, disgraceful, dishonorable, shameful, etc. They oppose God and his leaders. [11] They induce worship of other gods. They commit sex crimes, carry out evil. They make false charges against honest men.[12] The reprobate is one who is rejected and abandoned as being beyond saving and is condemned to damnation.[13] In Romans there is a complete description of the person given over to a reprobate mind. Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not convenient.[14] The alternate reading of this text is, “Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.[15] One attains to a reprobate mind, no one is born that way. The process of godlessness and wickedness of men, who suppress the truth by their wickedness brings on them God’s wrath—His vehement exasperation, indignation and fury. As a result of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions and behaviors He gives them over to the consequences of their depravity. What they have earned by their sin He lets them have. Paul set out a listing of acts that characterize them. They lack respect for religion, have hostility to moral guidelines, exercise unrestrained rebellion against God’s biblical limits. They are without excuse. They are not ignorant of the truth but suppress it by their evil works. They ignore the natural revelations of God in the created universe. They ignore God’s revealed truth, God’s eternal power and divine nature being clearly revealed in the created world.[16] They know there is a God, however they do not exalt and honor God nor show love by being obedient to His commandments and do what He says.[17] They are not grateful to God; they do not thank Him. They have no gratitude. The mental and ethical results of this are disastrous. Their thinking becomes useless, futile. Their minds are darkened, and their thoughts are foolish. They claim they are wise and reject God. The fool says in his heart there is no God.[18] The social corruption flows from this. They practice uncontrolled indulgence that produces sexual license, and this indulgence leads to idolatrous spiritual practice, sexual perversion and a base reprobate mind. Their minds are filled with refuse—worthless, useless rubbish. The climax of this is paganism with vile affections and perverted sex. They become law breakers filled with unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, are filled with envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They gossip, become slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful. They invent ways of doing evil and are disobedient to their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless and ruthless. As they continue to do these things they gradually cede power over their will until they are completely controlled by Satan, demons, the spirits of the dead and workers of iniquity, a way of life built on lies. They reach the point where they do evil things and approve of those who practice them. At a point in time the evil ones lead them to Satanic worship which includes ritual abuse and murder. There is nothing new in this. Starting with the fall of man and the cohabitation of fallen angels with human females and the children they produced was a corruption of our human nature. These nephilim were hybrids made up of demon genes and human genes. Their character grieved the Lord deeply. Their lives, like ours, were marked by wickedness, evil corruption and violence. Every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was only evil continually.[19] Their lifestyle and wickedness manifests itself in their worship. They love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil.[20] As a result, they practice the occult. The occult is hidden, secret, dark, hidden from view and the light so it will not be discovered. It is evil, supernatural and destructive. Those who seek it out do so for some benefit of money, power or authority and/or position and influence. The Canaanite gods of Baal and Asherah or Astarte developed cult worship to manipulate fertility of men and women and agriculture, to affect the weather, wind, seasons, war, to help the sailor and merchant on the seas, and to affect ancestral spirits (spirits of the unredeemed dead human beings). Baal was the king of the gods. Jezebel worked to introduce Baal worship into the northern kingdom of Israel whose capital was Samaria.[21] The Asherah was the name of the fertility goddess and the place where men and women prostituted in groves of green trees in high places which were marked by an upright pole (at times referred to as an Asherah pole).[22] Baal and Asherah were worshiped together. Asherah worshipers consulted the wooden idol and were answered by a stick of wood. [23] Satanic practice is in opposition to the biblical commandments and things prohibited. These are the very things satanists engage in. A listing of forbidden practices in Deuteronomy 18 is: • Do not sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire.• Do not practice divination or sorcery, interpret omens or engage in witchcraft. • Do not cast spells or consult mediums or spiritists or consult the dead. Terms: • Divination—the act or practice of trying to foretell the future by occult means. • Sorcery—the use of evil supernatural power over people and their affairs. • The interpretation of omens, signs, thoughts or events— behaviors interpreted as indicators of good or bad events or outcomes. • Witchcraft—the power or practices of witches, black magic or white magic. • Mediums—a person through whom communications are sent to the living from spirits of the dead. • Spiritists—those who communicate to the dead and the dead to them. • Augury—the practice of spiritualists who interpret omens in things such as: patterns of things thrown on the ground, the entrails of sacrificial animals, palm reading, etc. [24] Baal worship evolved out of agricultural fertility shrines where fruits from the earth and firstlings of cattle were sacrificed to Baal.[25] The sacrifice of children is central to the worship of Molech.[26] However, at times of crisis, Baal’s followers sacrificed their children to gain personal prosperity.[27] In Satanism sex is often substituted for worship. Asherah was Baal’s mother and also his mistress. Her worshipers were encouraged to engage in immoral sex to ensure good harvests.[28] In the New Testament the old Canaanite gods were renamed but still practiced: Zeus or Jupiter took the role of Baal, Artemis the goddess of childbirth and fertility and Aphrodite the goddess of love.[29] Two words are used to denote prostitute: zonah and kedeshah (or qedesha ). Zonah means an ordinary prostitute, or loose woman. Kedeshah (or qedesha ) is used to denote a follower of the Canaanite religion cultic prostitution. Male priests who engaged in homosexual sacred prostitution were called kadesh.[30] Pagans practiced sympathetic magic. It is based on: • The Law of Similarity—the sorcerer or voodoo priest believes he/she can produce any effect desired merely by imitating it. • The Law of Contact (or Law of Contagion)—the things that are and have been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after physical contact has been severed.[31] • Magic—from the Magi, skilled sorcerers of the Medes and Persians.[32] In Clinton E. Arnold’s book Power and Magic, The Concept of Power in Ephesians . The magical beliefs were based on: • A spirit world exercises influence over virtually every aspect of life. • The magician’s job was to discern the helpful spirits from the harmful ones and learn the distinct operations and the relative strengths and authority of the spirits. • Means could be constructed to manipulate the spirits in the interest of the individual person. • Spoken or Written Formulas, amulets (something worn as a remedy or protection against evil or demons), etc. • The magical charms and formulas could also do harm by uttering a curse against them.[33] Torture and blood sacrifice are common in Satanism. This is seen in the lowest forms of pornography where the sexual functioning of the individual is deadened by perverted sex. It takes more and more kinky, twisted stimuli to bring on ejaculation or orgasm in the sex act. • Sadism (after Marquis de Sade, 1740–1814, whose writings described sexual deviation)—getting sexual pleasure from dominating, mistreating or hurting one’s partner physically or otherwise. • Masochism (after Leopold von Sacher–Masoch 1835–1895)—whose stories describe getting sexual pleasure from being dominated, mistreated or hurt physically or otherwise by one’s partner. [34] These forms of Satanism are prevalent today. It goes on all around us. There are many court cases of public record that attest to the ongoing vitality of Satanism. [35] On August 24, 1989, Charles McCorkle, V.W.E. Johnson, Warden, Joseph Kolb, Chaplain, Freddie V. Smith, Commissioner, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 881F.2d.993, Denial of Satanic Material affirmed, after review, Charles McCorkle, a state prisoner confined in the Holman facility in Alabama, filed a complaint seeking redress for deprivation of his first amendment rights to freely exercise his chosen religion—Satanism. The prison officials denied the request to access certain satanic books and articles, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Book of Rituals , and A Satanic Medallion , because they posed security threats and were directly contrary to the goals of the institution. The court ruled the violence inherent in Satan worship and the potential disorder it might cause within the prison justifies the plaintiff’s decision. McCorkle recounted two of the rituals espoused by The Satanic Book of Rituals . The fertility ritual, including the sacrifice of a female virgin (preferably a Christian) and the initiation ritual called for wrist slashing, blood drinking and the consumption of human flesh—usually fingers. The candles preferred by the plaintiff and other Satanists were not made of wax or paraffin, instead they are made from the fat of unbaptized infants. The plaintiff had been observed drawing his own blood by slicing his own wrists and had asked other inmates for blood. The warden testified that upon review of The Satanic Bible , he concluded that persons following its teachings would murder, rape or rob at will without regard for moral or legal consequences. The court noted that there were several satanic sects represented at Holmen Prison who did not need these specific books to practice their religion. Anton Syandor LaVey (born Howard Stanton LaVey, April 11, 1930–d. October 29, 1997) is the founder of the Church of Satan, and wrote, The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals, The Satanic Witch, The Devil’s Notebook and Satan Speaks. He is quoted in a chapter from The Book of Satan that “right and wrong had been inverted too long.” He challenged readers to “rebel against the laws of man and God.” He declared that hatred of one’s enemies was of utmost importance and that revenge should be a top priority. [36] The legal community seems to have chosen to use the scientific community and its research base as the means by which the reality of satanic ritual abuse is established. The defining court case is Echols vs. State (1996) Appellate Court of the State of Arkansas. The court did not allow the evidence to prove that Satanism or occultism is generally not accepted in the scientific community. “Rather, the court admitted the evidence as proof of the motive for committing murders, entire families have been implicated in the ritual abuse of children which proves the fact that generational Satanism exists.” They then referenced several court cases. (See Parker [1995], Figured/Hill [1994] and Gallup [1991]). Perpetrators have been found to be professionals who work in law enforcement, the military or day care. Christian fronts have been used in some instances as a means of hiding the satanic motivation of the perpetrators. (See Cannaday [1994] Wright [1992], Gallop [1991] and Arr [1984]). In several cases the perpetrators have confessed to the satanic element of the crime of participation in prior satanic offenses. (See Helms [2006], Cala [2003], Smith [2003], Delaney [2002], Morris [2001], South [2000], Page [2000], T. Kokoraleis [1999], Bonacci [1999], Brooks [1996], Huges [1996], Penick [1995], Alvarado [1995], Ingram [1992], Rogers [1992] and Fryman [1988]).The False Memory Syndrome Foundation has been using the appellate courts to overturn case convictions involving ritual abuse themes. The appellate court cases became the set legal precedent. They stand and are used to make other case decisions. If they are undermined or overturned, the legal precedent falls. At this time, the level of documentation is quite extensive; they are law.[37] To date, The False Memory Syndrome Foundation has no criteria for one of the primary features of the proposed syndrome—how to determine whether the accusation is true or false. They contend that false memories can be easily created. Their proof anecdotal they also contend is that faulty therapy causes false memories. These are also anecdotal, and some are examples of people who recovered their memories outside of therapy.[38] In Texas, the procedure required by the State Board of Texas who govern counselor there is that all such recovered memories are reported to the Texas hot line for sexual abuse of children. The decision making is at the State level, not the individual therapist. The State decision is then given to Child Protective Services to follow up on the claimed abuse. The Brown University study published over one hundred corroborated cases of Inability to Remember Sustained Abuse.[39] False Memory Syndrome describes a condition in which a person’s identity and relationships are affected by memories that are factually incorrect but that they strongly believe.[40] The term is not recognized as a psychiatric illness in any of the medical manuals, such as the ICD-IU or the DSM-5, however a large number of scientists accept it.[41] Brown states that when pro-false memory expert witnesses and attorneys state there is no causal specific between child sexual abuse and adult psychopathology, that child sexual abuse doesn’t cause specific trauma-related problems like borderline and dissociative identity disorder, that other variables then child sexual abuse can explain the variance of adult psychopathology and the long-term effects of child sexual abuse are non-specific and general, that this testimony is inaccurate and has the potential of misleading juries.[42] In Summary , • Satanism and ritual abuse have a long and evil history dating back millennia. • It exists in all countries of the world. • It is active and present in our world as is evidenced by numerous court cases. • It is both satanic and occult. • It cannot be verified scientifically. However, it is a fact and is a motivation that some exercise to do ritual abuse to men, women and children. • There are many cases of documented and corroborated cases of a person’s inability to remember sustained abuse who later recalled what happened. 1. J. Strong LL.D., STD., The New Strong’s Complete Dictionary of the Bible Nashville, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1996. 2. Ibid. 3. James 1:16. 4. Matthew 16:23. 5. John 8:42-45. 6. I Samuel 2:12. 7. Exodus 38:8; I Samuel 2:22-25. 8. I Samuel 4:12-18. 9. Deuteronomy 15:9; Psalm 101:3. 10. I Kings 21:9-16; I Samuel 25:10-17; Judges 19:22-27; Judges 20:13; Deuteronomy 13:1-18. 11. Noah Webster and J. L. McKechnie.12. Romans 1:28, KJV. 13. Romans 1:28, NIV. 14. Romans 1:18-32. 15. John 14:15. 16. Psalm 14:1. 17. Genesis 6. 18. John 3:19. 19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal . 20. Ibid. 21. Judges 3:7; Hosea 4:10-14; G.A. Buttrick, editor, The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. I. (Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1962) Baal and Asherah. 22. Noah Webster and J. L. McKechnie. 23. Jewish Encyclopedia, The Unedited Full Text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906, Baal and Ba’al–worship. 24. Ibid. 25. Deuteronomy 12:31; 18:9,10. 26. https://thattheworldmayknow.com/Fertility Cults of Canaan. 27. Ibid. 28. http://wikipedia.org/wiki/sacred prostitution. 29. Sir James George Frayer, The Golden Bough, Bartleby, 1922, and Richard Andre, Ethnographicsche Parallen Unt Verglieche, 1878. 30. Noah Webster and J. L. McKechnie.31. C.E. Arnold, Power and Magic, The concept of Power in Ephesians Eugene, OR; Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1989, p. 18. 32. Noah Webster and J. L. McKechnie. 33. http://whale.to/b/satanism2.html . 34. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton LaVey. 35. Satanism and Ritual Abuse Case by Case Documentation, Alex Constantine, February 14, 2009. 36. https://en.wikipedia/false Memory Syndrome Foundation. 37. http://blogs.edu/recovered memory. 38. False Memory Syndrome, Child and Women Abuse Unit, London, Metropolitan University, England. 39. Ibid. 40. Ibid. 41. Ibid. 42. Ibid. For more information and help check out Dr. Coad’s book, The Divided Soul in the Book Store. Category: Norman's Place Tag: Multiple Personality Disorder

About 65% of adults in the United States drink alcohol. Almost 10% of the adult population has an alcohol problem. The population of the United States is about 319,000, that means about 32,000 have a drinking problem.[1] The effects of the children growing up in an alcoholic family are profound and negative. One out of every eight children under the age of 18 is growing up in a family where one or both parents are alcoholics. Most of the alcoholics are men.[2] The term used to describe the effects of the family members in the alcoholic family system is co-dependence.[3] Codependency as a clinical term is described by Timmen Cermark, M.D. based on the schema of DSM-III. His criteria used to make the codependency diagnosis is as follows: 1. Continued investment of one’s self-esteem in the ability to control oneself and others in the face of serious adverse consequences. 2. Assumption of responsibility for meeting others needs to the exclusion of one’s own. 3. Enmeshment in relationships with personality disorders, chemically dependent, other codependent, and/or impulse disordered individuals. 4. Three or more of the following: • Excessive reliance on denial • Constriction of emotions • Depression • Hyper-vigilance • Compulsions • Anxiety • Substance abuse • The past, or current victim of physical or sexual abuse • Stress related medical illnesses • Remaining in a primary relationship with an active substance abuser for at least 2 years without seeking help.[4] The problems relating to the alcoholism can begin before birth. The emotional state of the expectant mother influences fetal development.[5]Family systems research has produced several models of the alcoholic family. Included here is a representation of these. The family roles are identified as: the Alcoholic, the enabler, the family hero, the last child, the family mascot and the family scapegoat. • The Actual Alcoholic —creates a permanent crisis in the family which is marked by disorganization, emotional, financial, psychological and behavioral chaos and shame. Everything is organized so he/she can drink/use. • The Enabler — the chief enabler assumes responsibility for sheltering the chemically dependent from the harmful consequences of the alcoholic’s irresponsible behavior. The enabler plays varying roles to accomplish this: sufferer, waiverer, controller, placator. etc. • The Family Hero —assumes the responsibility for the family’s self- worth. He/she is the family counselor, is super responsible, Mr. or Ms. Successful and always keeps everything together. • The Lost Child —whose primary goal is to escape notice, and escape by emotional and physical separation from the family. The family does not concern itself about him/her. This child lives with loneliness and worthlessness. • The Family Mascot —diverts attention away from the problems caused by the alcoholic by using humor to break the tension. • The Family Scapegoat —His/her primary function is to divert attention away from the alcoholic/drug related problems by inappropriate behaviors. He/She externalizes extremely negative emotions and behaviors with anger, resentment and hurt. These learned behaviors balance a dysfunctional family system so that the family continues on. The behaviors are themselves dysfunctional and self-defeating which assures the alcoholic’s family dysfunction will carry on to another generation of families. Many of the children of such families will have alcohol and drug problems of their own or marry those with similar problems. Adult children of alcoholics with their dysfunctional attitudes, emotions, behaviors and relationships are so prevalent that they are a recognized alcohol/drug family related category of individuals. In Janet Geringer Woititz’ best-selling book, Adult Children of Alcoholics she lists themes of group behaviors that are common perceptions of adult alcoholics: • Adult children of alcoholics guess at what normal behavior is.• Adult children of alcoholics have difficulty following a project through from beginning to end. • Adult children of alcoholics lie when it would be just as easy to tell the truth. • Adult children of alcoholics judge themselves without mercy. • Adult children of alcoholics have difficulty having fun. • Adult children of alcoholics take themselves very seriously. • Adult children of alcoholics have difficulty with intimate relationships. • Adult children of alcoholics overreact to changes over which they have no control. • Adult children of alcoholics constantly seek approval and affirmation. • Adult children of alcoholics usually feel that they are different from other people. • Adult children of alcoholics are super responsible or super irresponsible. • Adult children of alcoholics are extremely loyal, even in the face of evidence that the loyalty is undeserved. • Adult children of alcoholics are impulsive. They tend to lock themselves into a course of action without giving severe consideration to alternative behaviors or possible consequences. The impulsivity leads to confusion, self-loathing and loss of control over their environment. In addition, they spend an excessive amount of energy cleaning up the mess.[6] Not all alcoholics are the same. Some are mean alcoholics, some funny, some quiet. Some are high functioning, some not. Some are dry drunks that are so mean because they want to drink but forbid themselves. Everyone wishes they would drink to get some relief from their anger. Some drink all the time. Some are bingers with gaps of weeks or months between drinking bouts. Some drink, overdose and pass out. Others black out. They are overdosed but continue to act out with no memory of what is going on. Under the influence they can breakout all the windows of the house or stand on the table and sing, be the life of the party. They act out under the influence of alcohol whatever is on the inside. They are often sexually promiscuous. They can commit incest and sexually abuse, rage or be calm. The emotional abuse of such an environment is profound on the children. No one knows what to expect and they internalize a great amount of shame, anger and anxiety. No one in the family ever talks about it. It is too shameful and dangerous. They do not feel free to bring friends home. Under the onslaught of trauma, the child with the ability to dissociate will and become fragmented. Drug addicts, like alcoholics, live for their drug of choice. I cannot recall when I worked with a person that had only one dysfunctional issue. There are many co- occurring problems—alcohol and drugs, methamphetamine and marijuana, sexually transmitted diseases, financial and all sorts of social problems. The opiate addiction and morphine addictions are profound. Many have prescription drug addictions or abuse the prescribed drugs. Altogether, drugs and alcohol account for a huge amount of pain, heartbreak, economic, financial and social loss with wasted lives. __________________ End Notes 1. J. Kinney, MSU and Gwen Leation. Loosening the Grip . St. Louis. Mosby Year Book. 1991. p. 21, 22. 2. Ibid. 178. 3. Ibid. 177. 4. Ibid. 177, 178. 5. Ibid. 180. 6. J.G. Woititz, Ed.D. Adult Children of Alcoholics , Deerfield Beach, FL; Health Communications, Inc., 1983. For more information and help check out Dr. Coad’s book , The Divided Soul in the Book Store. Category: Norman's Place Tag: Multiple Personality Disorder

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD s) are serious and painful and can cause a lot of damage. They infect the sexual and reproductive organs. You can have STDs and show no symptoms; however, you still have STDs until you are treated. Most STDs can be treated. • Chlamydia —symptoms show up in 7-21 days after having sex. Most women and some men have no symptoms. It is spread during sexual intercourse, oral sex and anal sex with someone who has chlamydia. • Genital Warts —symptoms show up 1-6 months after having sex. It is spread during sexual intercourse, oral sex and anal sex with someone who has genital warts. A mother with genital warts can give them to her baby during childbirth. It may lead to precancerous conditions. • Gonorrhea —symptoms show up 2-21 days after having sex. Most women and many men have no symptoms. It is spread during intercourse, oral sex and anal sex with someone who has gonorrhea. It can be transmitted to children at childbirth. • Herpes —symptoms show up 2-30 days after having sex. There are small, painful blisters on sex organs or the mouth. It is spread during sexual intercourse, oral sex and anal sex with someone who has herpes. Herpes cannot be cured. A mother can transmit it to her child in childbirth. • Syphilis —Stage I symptoms show up 1-12 weeks after having sex. The sore goes away but one still has syphilis. Stage II symptoms show up six weeks to six months after sore appears. A mother can transfer syphilis during childbirth. It can cause heart disease, brain damage, blindness and death. • Vaginitis (bacterial vaginitis)—pregnancy, antibiotics, birth control pills, menstruation; diabetes can lead to vaginitis. It is spread during sexual intercourse, oral or anal sex. Men can carry vaginitis infections without symptoms. They can get it in the prostate gland and urethra. • AIDS/HIV —a sexually transmitted disease. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is the term used to describe the occurrence of opportunistic infections, Kaposi sarcoma (a cancer) and pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia. HIV is human immune deficiency virus. The HIV viruses progressively destroy some types of whiteblood cells called lymphocytes. These are an important part of the body’s immune defenses. When destroyed, the body becomes susceptible to attack by many other infections. Many of the complications that arise with HIV (including death) are usually the result of these infections.[1] In 2014, an estimated 44,073 people were diagnosed with HIV. The annual rate of diagnoses declined by 19% between 2005 to 2014.[2] At the end of 2012, 1.2 million people in the United States were living with HIV, 13% of these did not know they were infected.[3] Four body fluids can transmit HIV: blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk.[4] It is spread by unprotected anal sex, vaginal sex and oral sex. The rate of infection by HIV is higher if one already has a sexually transmitted disease. • Hepatitis C Virus (HCV or Hep C)—Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver with bacterial and viral infections that can all cause hepatitis. This contagious liver disease is spread primarily through contact with blood of an infected person. It can be either acute or chronic with most acute cases lead to chronic infections. If it stays in the body over time it can lead to scarring of the liver or to liver cancer. Most commonly, people are infected with HCV by: • Needle stick injuries in health care settings. • Sexual contact with an HCV infected person. • Being born to a mother who has Hepatitis C. • Razor cuts (less common). • Many people are infected with HCV and do not know it and they can infect others. There are treatment options. There are several medications available to treat chronic HCV. The FDA maintains a complete list of approved treatments for Hepatitis C with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention.[5] Annually, the U.S. incidence of new sexually transmissible infections is 20 million. The prevalence of total infections is 110 million. The total medical costs run 16 billion dollars annually (2010 report). These costs do not include indirect costs (e.g.loss of productivity) or intangible costs (e.g., pain and suffering). HCV is associated with sexually transmitted infections. Young people between the ages of 15-24 are particularly affected and account for 50% of all new STDs. However, they represent just 25% of all the sexually transmitted infections. Diagnosed STDs are roughly equal for young men and young women (49% for young men and 51% for young women). Together they total 19.7 million people. Human papillomavirae account for about 14 million sexually transmitted infections. Most HPCs will go away within a two-year period, but some can lead to severe diseases, including cervical cancer. The CDC recommends that all teen girls and women through age 24 be vaccinated as well as teenage boys and men through 26 years old. Gay and bisexual men who have sex with men should be vaccinated through age 26. The HPC vaccines are most effective if administered before an individual has sex. Prevention of STDs is possible and urgently needed. Many Americans are at substantial risk to exposure to sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The most effective means of prevention includes: • Abstaining from sex. • Reducing the number of sexual partners. • Consistently and correctly using condoms. • Being inoculated with vaccines that prevent HBV and some types of HPVs that cause disease and cancer. • STI screening and prompt treatment. The statistics are very revealing. The promiscuous sexual lifestyle of teens, men and women, that continue into their 20s are the major reason we have such a huge problem with sexually transmitted diseases and infections. Our society has become increasing promiscuous and openly free of any moral or ethical restrictions. This leaves the teen male or female and adult alone to make up their own mind about sex outside of a monogamous relationship. T.B. Masten, the greatest teacher of ethics that Southern Baptists ever produced said, “If we break God’s laws, they will (eventually) break us.” That statement is true of personal andpublic morality. Many in this age group do not connect their illnesses with the consequences in their value system. Standards of conduct and moral judgment are not seen as relevant to the sexually transmitted diseases and infections. However, the cause-and-effect relationship is clear. If they had not been sexually promiscuous, then they would not have the diseases and infections. In the past, our cultural standards of conduct and moral judgments were more closely and clearly related to Judeo-Christian values and morality. To put it another way, ethics were connected to our religious values. With our increasing cultural diversity, and in our interactions with our fellow citizens of different orientations to religion, standards of their conduct and moral judgments, we have not found how to relate successfully and be at peace within ourselves. The question is how can we have guidance based on our historic religious values and not diminish the values of others. Operating without truthful cultural standards of conduct and moral judgment leads to diseases, demonization and death. Relating to ourselves and others without moral and ethical standards does not work individually or collectively. The strongest cultural institution that we have that directs us as a people is our system of law. We have a legal tradition that upholds freedoms of religion, freedoms of conscience, etc. without forced conformity except in the cases where the collective good outweighs our personal moral judgments as interpreted by law. These freedoms without forced conformity create an unresolved tension between individual and collective freedoms. This nation has never embraced complete freedom of individuals to express their personal freedom. We did however choose to live under a system of law as a nation. The resultant republic draws its authority to govern and enforce law from the electorate. This system of law is administered by officials directly or indirectly elected by the people. This limited freedom, and where to draw the line between individual freedom and the collective good of the nation was summarized in a proverb, “The limit of my freedom stops at your nose,” that is to say, individual freedom cannot be extended if it results in damage to another. The other limit stated in the Preamble of the Constitution, and implicitly applied to our national affairs, is our belief and acceptance of God, our good creator God. The God referred to over and over again by the framers of the Constitution is the God of the Bible. He set limits of behavior in His biblical record. We refer to this as Judeo- Christian values. As a nation, we are turning away from the biblical limits but putting nothing in its place. We are losing our common ground. Both individual and collective freedoms are valid and necessary. The difficulty arises when we try to establish the line between individual and collective rights under law. At this time, the judicial system is not applying the Judeo-Christian values encoded in the Ten Commandments to law. Increasingly the appellate and Supreme Courts do not apply the Constitution to our interactions. Expression of Judeo-Christian values and symbols on public and governmental properties have become the occasion for lawsuits. All judgments are based on values of some sort. Increasingly, the values expressed in the judicial decisions are based on the prevailing cultural values. The ongoing cultural war is about which values will prevail. Will it be the materialistic, secular, paganistic values of the generation of thirty years and younger? or will it be the values of the older generations with their more traditional Judeo-Christian ethic? Why the cultural war and why are the parties so offended by each other? The Judeo- Christian understanding of reality is both material and spiritual. The secular values only embrace material values. The Judeo-Christian believes that God is creator and sustainer of all that is, and His moral laws revealed in the Bible are the truthful and good basis of all life. Our secularized culture follows the philosophical teachings of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) who taught that the spiritual is real, but unknowable. Therefore, it is not taught in our educational systems. The people of faith believe that God has revealed to us in the Bible how to live and they believe also that He continues to share His thoughts to us today. We can and do know His will and receive his revealed understandings for us individually. His communication is ongoing but never contradicts the written word of God. The secular world believes that we can decide to live any way we wish, and choose our behaviors, attitudes and thoughts within the framework of secular law. The Judeo-Christian believer holds that the laws of God are absolute and that they transcend the authority of secular governments. If our behavior and attitudes are illicit to them, we give place to the devil. If you are angry, do not let the sun go down on your anger and do not give the devil a place, a foothold (Ephesians 4:26-27). Our disobedience to His laws leads to demonization. This is sin. The wages of sin is death. This is not a laughing matter (Romans 3:23a). Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court’s upholding of it is the fault line of the cultural war. The decision to validate a woman’s right to abortion is not based on the Constitution but on the individual right of a woman to have authority over her own body. The words of the Preamble to the Constitution were set aside, i.e., we areendowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Rowe vs. Wade is as constitutionally valid as the Dred Scott decision of the United States Supreme Court, it concluded “that all African Americans had no rights that white men were bound to respect.” (H. L. Gates, Jr. and D. Yacovone, The African Americans Many Rivers to Cross [U.S.A., Smiley Books, 2013] 109). In like manner, Rowe vs. Wade, cutting across all ethnic groups, has concluded that all unborn American children have no rights that U.S. citizens are bound to respect. Therefore, we have the right to kill them. So much for the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There is no bill of rights for the unborn; they were legally deprived of life and all human rights. Since that became law over 58 million Americans have been murdered legally. The Bible says, You shall not murder (Exodus 20:13 NIV). That makes abortion on demand illegal before God and demonizes us individually and collectively as a people. The result is sure and certain death as a nation. Our birth rate at this time is not large enough to sustain our present level of population. If we continue to produce 1.8 children per family over time, we will depopulate ourselves and die as a nation. We are repeating the same mistakes of Greece and Rome. They turned away from sex between a man and woman and embraced same sex relationships. Adding to that, they practiced infanticide on a broad basis. They depopulated themselves. They declined as nations and others rose up to take their place. We are repeating a mistake that was made by others over two thousand years ago. We curse ourselves in our excess of individual freedom! Our people as a whole have and/or do commit four national sins: 1. The annihilation of the American Indian. 2. Persistent racism against the American Negro and other racial/social groups. 3. The legally sanctioned murder of unborn Americans (which approaches sixty million). 4. Rejection of the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible and of our founding fathers. Along with that, both within the organized Church and the pagan society outside of it, we refuse to apply the biblical principles and teachings to ourselves and to our society. I do not see the law changing this trend, nor the government. I do not believe the institutional Church, which is all but syncretized to our culture, to be able to make the changes in the general population. If a turnabout occurs, it will be by a great revivalamong us. This will be a gift of God emanating from a righteous remnant that will redeem our national and individual souls. The age group under thirty years of age (ages 15 years to 24 years) are highly diseased with sexually transmitted diseases and infections: • The more promiscuous sex that one engages in, the higher the rate of infection. • Total sexually transmitted infections are 110 million. The total medical costs are 16 billion dollars (U.S. 2010 dollars). • The laws that govern our behaviors are of two kinds: 1) There are the laws of the land: national, state and community, and 2) There are the laws of God that transcend and rule over nations and all governments. • The civil law derives from the consent of the people. Having sex outside of marriage breaks no civil law, nor does aborting unborn children. • God’s laws arise from the Jewish-Christian Bible. The laws are codified in the Ten Commandments among which are: You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not lie; You shall not steal. • When we break God’s laws, we become demonized (give place for demons to inhabit us, Ephesians 4:26, 27). • When we sin, we earn death unless we repent and turn to God. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23). • We are making the same mistakes that Greece and Rome made two thousand years ago, and we are beginning to reap the same results. • They depopulated themselves by excessive indulgence in personal freedom, namely, homosexuality and infanticide. • We are dying as a nation for the same reasons. Through same sex orientation and abortion our birth rate has declined to 1.8 children per family. This will not maintain our present level of population. We have cursed ourselves and we are dying as a result. NOTES 1. M.H. Beers, MD, Editor in Chief, The Merck Manual of Medical Information , Second Home Edition (New York: Pocket Books, 2003). 2. Http-//www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics. 3. Ibid. 4. R.J. Laban, HIV/AIDS Training (Harrisburg, PA, L.A.S.T., Laban’s Addictions Specific Trainings, Updated 2013). 5. Http//www.CDC.gov/hepatitis/Statistics/index.htm.rlf. For more information and help check out Dr. Coad’s book, The Divided Soul in the Book Store. Category: Norman's Place Tag: Multiple Personality Disorder

Based on Chapter 7 of T he Divided Soul Self Esteem and Dissociation There are two factors that must be present in order to lose access to your God given self-esteem. If you are a person with multiple personalities: 1) You must possess the innate ability to dissociate (which is your hereditary heritage), and 2) You must also be traumatized. (Your hereditary abilities are from God; the traumas are from Satan.) Types of Trauma The traumas of life may be intentional or just happen. Without going into too much depth, I will give here a suggestive few. Fear trauma seems to be the major traumatizer. There is womb trauma (trauma that splits the child in the womb), parental rejection, the mother’s personal traumatic experiences, alcohol and drug addiction, abuse, etc. There is birth trauma that occurs in the birthing process, doctor generated or mother’s difficulties in bringing forth her child. There is trauma in the family of origin arising out of a vast number of parental dysfunctions, self-centeredness and cruelties. These include such things as the chaos of the alcoholic or drug addicted home. There is the lack of structure, provision and safety, perfectionism, negative critical faultfinding family interactions. There is abuse, physical, sexual, verbal, religious, ritual and emotional. There is emotional deprivation, lack of love, belonging and unconditional acceptance, lack of caring, nurturing appropriate touch, word and interactive time spent together and many more. There are accidents causing brain trauma, disfigurement, anxiety and periodic and particular phobias. There is cruelty that causes the above based on intention to hurt and destroying which violate normal and healthy boundaries and many more. The Trauma Process Whatever the trauma, Satan and his hosts use it against us at the crucial moment to inflict deep and enduring traumas on us. The Personality is split— The birth personality, the part of us that makes executive decisions, is split out of the whole of the personality. At this time the inner self helper is formed. This is the one who lives life day by day in a wholesome and healthy manner. Many other alters are formed as well. The Demonic Invasion— Demons, fallen angels and spirits of the dead, the unredeemed of all the ages and other alters not native to the person’s personality invade the traumatized one. Self-esteem Is Hidden— Most of the time the self-esteem, which is an entity that carries our value of our worth, is stolen. It is then hidden somewhere within our personality. If the person is male the self-esteem will be male, if they are female, female. At the point of trauma and splitting the alters stop growing psychologically and will remain that age. They will remain that age until found and healed. With lesser trauma the self-esteem will be covered over all the time. With even less trauma the self-esteem will be misted over at critical moments and hidden from view. When any of these three occur, the person will revert to performance-based love and acceptance. Salvation Necessary —Every separated part of the personality, self-esteem, or any other, must be saved. These parts, or alters, or personalities, are all making decisions separate from the birth personality. Each has spirit, mind, emotion and will. They are asked to make a voluntary decision to accept the Lord Jesus as Savior and Lord. The Core of Being —The core of being is that place where God has put all He created us to be when He knit us together in our mother’s womb. After the Theft —After the theft (or covering) of the true self has occurred, we are put into a crisis state. We no longer know who we are. The normal state of the dissociated person is I don’t know who I am . This causes problems; we cannot be nobody and live. We have to be someone . In this vacuum we create a self. What we create is not the true self that God created, but a false self. The False Self —This false self only works after a fashion, and not well. Whereas the true self is created by God; we make the false self. The true self is a state of being— being who we really are. The false self is an ongoing attempt to be somebody. It’s an effort, a doing, a performance. The false self performs so as to be validated. Without validation from significant people one does not feel he is good, valuable and precious. Lack of validation amounts to an attack on self. This is the essence of performance-based love and acceptance. They are forever performing, trying to prove to others and reassure themselves they are someone of value. It’s like walking on a treadmill—it uses up a lot of energy, but in the end, you are in the same spot as when you started. After a brief moment of feeling good about ourselves, it fades away. We then have to start all over again. [See illustration.] Reversal of the Trauma Process An interaction of the therapist and the individual led by the Holy Spirit can take place to find or discover self-esteem. The therapist is aided by the Holy Spirit by words of wisdom and words of knowledge.When found, there is usually given a nurturing angel for the true self. This angel will stay with self-esteem until he/she reaches maturity. Adulthood is recognized to be eighteen years of age. During this time the self-esteem is completely restored. When eighteen years of age he/she is integrated back into the core of being. If the child self- esteem is integrated before adulthood, the child would be traumatized by adult demands on them. During the maturation time, two of God’s angels are assigned and taught to be the self-esteem by the Lord. There are two angels because they each work 12-hour shifts. They enter into the core of being and they become who we are. Who we are is then visible to the spirit person within. The true self then knows who he/she is. We are who the Word of God says we are. We are loved and therefore lovable and many other attributes of personality are added and understood. The true self, the self-esteem that God creates is a state of being, not something we must attempt to be. For more information and help check out Dr. Coad’s book, The Divided Soul in the Book Store. Category: Norman's Place Tag: Multiple Personality Disorder