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Psychiatry, The Struggle For Your Soul

Preface From My Book
By Dr Joseph Chiappalone
My Motto - Take It Or Leave It
8-23-10
 
Psychiatry means, literally, "soul doctor". It is a battle for your soul. The question is: What are the opposing forces in this battle for your soul, and how can you distinguish them? The typical person suffering from mental distress who finds his or her way into the psychiatrist's office needs to understand what he or she is really getting into, to make an informed and intelligent decision. In this book we will uncover the dark forces lurking behind the facade of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and psychological or "self" development.
 
Despite attempts by psychiatrists to catalogue and systematise mental disorders in ever-increasing numbers, modern psychiatry is unable (or unwilling) to locate the true causes of mental disorder and mankind's suffering. This failing of psychiatry to understand the deeper causes of mental illness has not only led to erroneous treatment of many unsuspecting patients, but has, in fact, greatly increased suffering. Why this is so will become apparent as we examine psychiatry and its favoured sons, including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, in a greater light.
 
Ignorance, scepticism, and narrow-mindedness are not anyone's salvation. Yet, as we shall see, these are the hallmarks of psychiatry. It is not possible to discuss the mind, soul, spirit, psychology, and psychiatry without delving into metaphysics and philosophy. Psychiatry, rather than simply being "objective science", does in fact practice a very restrictive and dominating philosophy.
 
Hence, psychiatry generally denies the existence, validity, truth, or reality of such things as: consciousness existing outside of the physical body; Divine beings, a True God, angels, demons, and other spiritual agents; aliens, UFOs; other dimensions and realms; ghosts and apparitions, beings in other dimensions; psychic ability, precognition; clairvoyance, clairaudience, and communication with beings on other levels, realms and dimensions, or at a distance; the existence of Evil as a force, a wilful intelligence which can and does act through humans and other beings; auras, energies, thought implantation, demonic possession, and emotional rings of influence; past lives and reincarnation; the existence of the spirit or soul; the validity of meditation and other spiritual practices for connecting with one's source (or the True God); mystical experience; astral and etheric bodies, beings, and dimensions, "heaven" and "hell"; life after "death"; near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences (astral travelling); alien abductions and implants; the control and programming of human behaviour by forces beyond human conception; spiritual accountability and judgement; etc. 
 
All of these things are valid facets of existence. How can scientific disciplines such as psychology and psychiatry function in the main by ignoring such valid facets? Not only is it impossible that they can function effectively, but they must, by ignoring these facets, present a false picture of reality which, in the end, leads to greater problems, greater distress, more confusion, more mental symptoms and more suffering. And that is exactly what occurs.
 
It is obvious is it not, that if the mosaic of one's reality is not fully recognised, any diagnosis of problems in one's life and the treatments to such problems will be half measures and more than likely not only erroneous but also capable of inflicting more harm, and making things worse. This is exactly what we have with psychiatric diagnosis of mental problems and in the treatment of psychiatric illness.
 
As we shall see, the basis of psychiatry as practised today is the wilful denial of any Greater Reality or Truth; treatment is invariably designed to forcibly suppress any connection with this greater reality. The obvious (but false) solution offered by psychiatry to mankind's problems is to label any tendency to not fit into life, any tendency to not closed-mindedly accept everyone and everything as they superficially appear to be as some form of abnormality, delusion, or disorder. 
 
So-called "successful" treatment is, in fact, attained by cutting off the True Being, the inner consciousness, from its Source, its Truth, and its awareness of a Greater Reality beyond the gross, superficial, illusory physical dimension.
 
If Science and Medicine in general seek to limit our awareness, understanding, and "solutions" to the "measurable", then psychiatry is seen to further limit our minds, our awareness, our thinking, our being, to the least common denominator of human experience. As we shall see, it is a discipline to lock minds into the false reality, the Virtual Reality, presented as ordinary existence. It acts as the threatening guardian of this Virtual Reality and diagnoses as abnormal any mind which ventures beyond the Virtual Reality, and impinges on the Truth of the Greater Reality. It acts to subvert the connection to any Truth by using ridicule and condemnation, and the stigmata of abnormal mental function and implied incapacities. And its treatments minimise mental function, biochemically, electrically, and by the suggestion from its registered practitioners -- pseudo-priests fully flared in their Arrogance of Ignorance (some exceptions do occur) -- so that connections to higher mental states and other concepts of Reality are virtually impossible once the "patient" falls under the sphere of influence of such psychiatric ignorance and therapeutic abuse.
 
Modern psychiatry, again keeping in mind that some exceptions do occur, allows for nothing beyond the perception of life as a bio-chemical reaction to our environment. In this perverse mindset, psychiatry seeks to forcibly adapt us to our environment. So, if you happen to have a problem with anyone or anything in life, in relationships, in society, in this world, then you are in danger of being labelled the abnormal one, being declared mentally ill or dysfunctional. If you are aware of, perceive, or merely suspect that there is more to life than gross bio-chemical and physical interactions, if you have a true sense of what deeper forces motivate human life and relationships, you are in danger of being destroyed by psychiatry. Think of the innumerable examples of those abused by the priests of psychiatry, that were drugged, or had their brains fried with Electro-convulsive Therapy, or even been jailed in mental institutions without a trial, just for speaking up about UFOs, aliens, incubi and succubi, dimensional portals, visits to hellish dimensions, etc., etc.
 
But, what if you do not fit in and go along with things, or imagine that people are exactly as they pretend to be? What if something inside you cries out, "No, there is more going on here; there is more to life than the commonly accepted explanations"?
 
The problem of psychiatry is not just that it does not believe in anything beyond gross physical existence as the be-all and end-all of "life", but that people who experience a Greater Reality are treated as abnormal or insane by psychiatry. Psychiatrists spiritually assassinate, and physically, electrically, or bio-chemically lobotomise such a person who has come to them seeking help and greater understanding. The false premise of course, is the idea that psychiatrists know more about life and reality than the one with an expanded awareness who seeks elucidation from them.
 
The authority of science misused is a terrible thing. Surely it does not serve the best interests of a patient struggling to cope with an awareness of a Greater Reality which is denied, suppressed, invalidated, and ridiculed by psychiatry. Perversely, psychiatry defines "reality" in the most narrow and restrictive terms, and then declares anyone who experiences anything beyond these boundaries as mentally ill. 
 
By its very nature and practice, it is easy to see that psychiatry is but another facade used by the evil Archons to obfuscate the Truth and sustain the Untruth, for the benefit of the controlling Evil Essence of the Plane.This will become even more obvious when we discuss the "Fathers of Modern Psychology and Psychiatry" -- Freud and Jung -- who were both poorly disguised demons!
 
How has psychiatry become the advocate of methodologies to destroy the brain, the mind, and the spirit?
 
True awareness of a Greater Reality is attacked by psychiatry as the greatest threat. But, threat to whom? We must address the question of whether it is truly awareness which is the problem, and whether vehement denial of greater awareness is the solution, or whether the opposite is true. In this overview of psychiatry and of what went terribly wrong with the "science of the mind" we will investigate the split between "materialism" and "spiritualism" mandated by psychiatry, the valid psychic and spiritual bases of psychological experience, and the most common but misguided attempts to treat people who experience something beyond the physical.
 
We will look at the work of people such as William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Anton Mesmer, and L. Ron Hubbard. And, we will explore the grossly exploitative practices and misleading ideologies which have robbed countless people of their true self-direction, of their spiritual energy, hope, finances, and sanity, all in the name of "helping" them.
 
We will examine the perverse roots of psychiatry which encompass everything but the Truth, Light, and ultimate Good. And we shall see how and why organised psychiatry has moved ever further from the realities of spirit and mind, to arrive at the present day in which the focus is almost entirely on body chemistry and drugs as the underlying cause of mental illness and claims these are the routes to our "salvation".
 
For those who have read some of my previous books, the theme of removing the True God and the Divine from our experience and understanding, and installing in its place a false doctrine and false "god", will be instantly familiar. I have explained the theme in detail, and it is the ancient Gnostic teaching of the usurping of this dimension and this world by Evil which has suppressed the truth at all costs and in its place propped up a false "god", its "favoured sons" -- the archons -- and every possible misleading, exploitative, and harmful practice in science, religion, economics, politics, government, law, etc. 
 
There can be no other word for it but "Evil": that which removes the True Godforce from our view, our understanding, our experience, our hopes and desires, and instead offers us the false salvation and false understanding of worldly illusions and philosophies. Freudian philosophy has, in particular, as its central basis the total denial of spirituality. And, in the case of Jung, we will see how psychiatry has actually embraced, as the path to salvation, that which destroys man: the dark side, the shadow.
 
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I have written this book with the assumption that readers will be reasonably familiar with the Gnostic concepts of Reality which I have written about in previous books, and that they are aware of the metaphysical anatomy of beings, the concepts of other non-human and discarnate beings, the existence of multi-dimensions, the Phase of Imminent Correction of the Celestial error as far as this earth is concerned, and so on. This foreknowledge will make concepts discussed here more readily understandable as space prevents full explanation of every concept mentioned in passing.
 
Copyright 2010 - All Rights Reserved
Joseph Chiappalone
www.jchiappalone.com

Namaste

Martin
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Walking in the Darkness

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I am no prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet, but I do believe we're headed for some very dark times in this decade. I really believe in some places it's going to be rough to be a Christian. In many nations believers have already faced trouble and pressure. But what I want to look at here is a "dark time" that doesn't result from the persecution of the world.

This is something that will happen to every single Christian who wants to be involved in the work of God, or to any Christian who has truly set his heart on pleasing God. It is not a problem that comes from other people - and it is not necessarily a problem that comes from the demonic world. It can very well come to Christians from God Himself.

"Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon his God. Look, all you who kindle a fire, who encircle yourselves with sparks; walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled - this you shall have from My hand: you shall lie down in torment." (Is. 50:10-11 NKJV)

When I first read this passage, I assume it was written to an unbeliever. After all, it deals with darkness. I knew of only three kinds of darkness mentioned in Scripture and, well, everybody knows that darkness comes only to unbelievers! Perhaps it meant the darkness of sin. After all, the Bible does say: "Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." (John 3:19)

Secondly, there is a darkness in the Bible that is really ignorance, and the opposite of this darkness is the word "light." This is one of the most basic statements about God in the entire Bible: "God is light and in Him is no darkness at all." (1 John 1:5)

Then, thirdly, demonic power is sometimes referred to as "the power of darkness" (Luke 22:53; Acts 26:18; Eph. 6:12; Col. 1:13).

But the darkness Isaiah spoke of doesn't refer to any of those things. The strange thing about this verse (and this kind of darkness) is that it happens only to people who are walking with God and who love God. It happens to people who are not messing around with sin, and who are not ignorant. There is a darkness that can come to men and women of God that has nothing to do with sin, that has nothing to do with lack of wisdom, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the devil. And the tragedy is, when this darkness comes upon certain people of God, they don't understand what it is and it nearly wipes them out.

Everyone who has set his heart on serving God will have this darkness come at some point. Has it happened to you? You wake up one day to find all spiritual feelings gone. You pray and nothing seems to happen. You read your Bible, and you understand the words -but there is no light. You search your heart and find nothing to match what you are going through. You rebuke the devil, you ask others for prayer, you go to hear your favorite Christian speaker - and nothing happens. No counsel seems to help. No answers answer.

St. John of the Cross called it "the dark night of the soul." Tozer called it "the ministry of the night" Spurgeon preached about "the child of light walking in darkness."

Each writer dealt with this differently, but the experience is common. It is not darkness of wrong or guilt or demonic oppression. It is not sin. It is instead an inexplicable sense of loss and uncertainty. It is above all a withdrawn sense of the presence of God.

What Does Darkness Look Like?

The first thing that happens is this: There's a strange sense of emptiness in your life. There's no sign of God. You sit in services and take your usual notes. The message is great, but there is no answering chord of response in your heart. When everyone else is feeling something, you don't feel anything.

So you pray. You get on your knees and tell God you don't feel so good. Prayer usually "changes things," it is said, but this time there seems to be no light from heaven! So you go to hear teaching that has always excited you, fully expecting inspiration to flow like streams of living water - and nothing! You walk out of the service in which everyone else "touched God" and say to yourself: "What in the world have I done?"

Perhaps, you think, it is unconfessed sin. You apologize to everybody. You write letters of confession to your grade school teachers. You go through everything you can possibly think of' but it's still the same. Nothing.

Then you think: "Ah ha! Of course. It's the devil! I haven't taken my authority in Christ." So you do. And? Still nothing.

What you are going through is not new. It came to every major man or woman of God in Scripture. It came to Abraham when he stood waiting for God to accept his sacrifice (Gen. 15:12). It came to Moses on the mountain waiting to receive the Commandments in the "thick darkness" where God was (Duet. 5:22). It came to Job when he "looked for good" and "evil came" (Job 30:26). It came to David when the bottom seemed to drop out of his world.

It came to the prophets and they wept. It came to the godly kings and they humbled themselves. One dark day it even came to Jesus, the Son of God Himself. And if you set your heart to seek God, this darkness will also come to you. You will not be exempt. You will not escape it. It is an essential factor in a deep and thorough Christian experience.

Even in nature you know it's true. Nothing can live in unbroken sunshine. There must be the cycles of the night, and days of clouds and rain. Light and darkness are both essential for plant growth. Non-stop sunshine only creates a desert. What is true in the seasons of nature is also true in the seasons of the spirit. Summer is beautiful, but winter must always come. Don't be surprised at the darkness. Jesus will help you walk in it sooner or later.

Dealing With Feeling

An unsaved girl who had been attending a Christian college once asked me a profound question: Do Christians really love Christ or do they just love the good feelings that come from loving Christ?"

Job faced the same question when his world fell apart and God did not seem to answer. Sheltered in the personal care of God, he had walked secure in the knowledge that God his Friend was also his Provider and Protector. He, too, was a man who feared the Lord, who walked in obedience, who trusted Him. Satan's challenge to God over Job was simple. He said, in effect: "Sure Job loves and worships you. Why not? You give him everything he wants! Take away the presents and he'll be just the same as one of my crowd." So God let Satan test Job. And Job came through - but barely.

Job faced the darkness that is the most fearsome of all to the child of God. Not the darkness of sin, ignorance, or the demonic, but the divine darkness - the darkness of the withdrawn sense of the presence of God.

What can you do to get out of this darkness? Nothing. Nothing at all. There is nothing you can do to get out of the darkness if it is God who put you into it. That is why all your usual remedies fail, all your counselors draw a blank, and all your frustrated attempts come to an eventual exhausted end.

The darkness of God is given by Him, and it will not lift until it has accomplished its work in your soul. Jacob was left alone" in the darkness and "a man wrestled with him until daybreak. " (Gen. 32:24)

You cannot escape it, but you can surely live through it.

What do you do when you are going through the darkness? You say, "Lord, I know that this is a hard place. But what shall I do?" Nothing. Silence.

"Well," you say, "at least show me what to do." Nothing. Yet what is this person in Isaiah 50:10 doing? Look carefully: he is walking.

The first thing you must do when the darkness comes is to do your duty, to keep going in the same direction you were going when the darkness came. You must continue your daily routine.

What did God say to you before you went into the darkness? What was your call when the voice of Cod was clear? Then do it still. Keep on walking. Nothing has changed on the path except your perception of it. Do your duty nevertheless, and keep walking even when the lights go out.

Let him who has no light trust in the name of the Lord. "The name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous runs into it and is safe" (Prov. 18:10) and "...those who know Thy name will put their trust in Thee." (Ps, 9:10) His name is descriptive of what He is - and He is there. He is the uncreated, unchanging, unshakable God. He is what He always is, and He has not changed in the darkness. He is not missing because you cannot see Him. God is committed in everlasting covenant to you. He is faithful and will remain faithful yesterday, today and forever (Heb. 13:8)

You're to get on your knees and say: "O God, I don't feel You. I don't get any zap from You. I don't feel Your presence. But You're there nevertheless because Your Word doesn't change. Amen."

Here is something else you can do: In this time of darkness, go over in your mind what God has already done in your life. Those things aren't just little dreams in the back of your head - they really did happen. God really did do them. Now you are going to have to remember them.

Remember what His character is like. When you can't see the way, open the Book and read again what He is like. Recall what God has already done. What have you seen of God in your own experience? Once you said, I have seen His hand, I know what He is like and I am committed to Him forever." Did you really mean that?

Others before you have walked in the darkness. They too, have found that faith is not something you hold but someone who holds you.

The Danger Of False Fire

St. John of the Cross had some rare insight on walking through this "dark night of the soul." He said,

"The way in which they are to conduct themselves in this night is not to devote themselves to reasoning and meditation, since this is not the time for it, but to allow the soul to remain in peace and quietness, although it may seem clear to them that they are doing nothing, and are wasting their time, and although it may appear to them that it is because of their weakness that they have no desire to think of anything. The truth is that they will be doing quite sufficient if they have patience and persevere in prayer without making any effort."

Isaiah 50 contains a solemn warning: You cannot take matters into your own hands! If God does not bring you light, you must not make your own. But some have tried to do just that.

"If God is not going to speak," they say in anger, "then I am going ahead anyway: If He won't show me the light, I will make my own." What they are saying is, "O.K., God, if You're not going to guide me, I'm going to guide myself."

What you have then is an extremely brief and temporary light. It cannot last and will only leave you blinded. Don't do it. Don't make the foolish and futile mistake of lighting your own fire. If God has put you into the darkness, let it do its work in your soul. He got you in - and you can trust Him to take you out. If you light your own little match and then go and do your own thing, you will see in that man made light a destruction of much that God has for you. Walk in what God as already given you to do and remain faithful until new light comes.

The Purpose Of Darkness

You might be wondering, "Why is God doing this to me? How long will it last? How come when I talk to Him He doesn't answer? Why am I not getting any revelation in my life?"

Probably because this is the only way God has of teaching you some very important lessons. And those lessons are basically: Will you obey Him whether you feel like it or not? Will you do what He asks you to do? Will you hold onto the truth He's given you, whether you feel He's there or not?

You say, "Of course I will!"

But how about with no sense of His presence?

Some of you have convictions that God has written and locked into your heart. You think these are so strong, so unshakable that you will never, ever doubt them. Then the darkness comes and you start asking questions. Are these convictions really true or not? What you will find out is whether you really do believe them. The darkness will test your convictions. And the only thing left when the darkness lifts from your life is what you really do believe.

How about your consecration? You had a wonderful experience, perhaps in a church service one time. A totally incredible, miraculous, fantastic thing happened. You wish you had a movie so you could play it back every day of your life. On that day you said, "Lord, I know You've called me. I'm giving my life to You. Hear me, Lord, I dedicate my life to You. I'll never turn back."

Then darkness comes.

How long will the darkness last? A week? Maybe more. Maybe a year. But when the darkness has finished its work in you, everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and only what is firm, real, and solid shall remain.

Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Darkness comes to reveal our need of God and God alone. Don't fret over your helplessness and your emptiness - they will be riches to you. God says, "I will give you the treasures of darkness." (Is. 45:3)

When I was a little boy my sister and I sometimes rode into town on the train. Early New Zealand railroad cars had no interior lights in the daytime, so when we entered a tunnel the car would become totally dark for a brief time.

Do you know what happens in such darkness? The pupils of your eyes, which in the sunshine shrink almost to pinpoints, expand wider and wider in the darkness. And when the train suddenly bursts out the other side of the tunnel, the brightness of the world outside is astonishing!

And so with the darkness of God. We do not know or appreciate the brightness of the light we already walk in until we enter this discipline of God. We have absorbed so much that our spiritual perception has shrunk to a pinpoint. We have been given so much that we cannot appreciate what has been shown us. And then God puts us like children onto His train and runs it into the darkness.

But this darkness you are in is only a tunnel. The train is on a sure journey. It is headed without fail to the place you need to be, and the Engineer knows all of the way. This tunnel is not eternal. You will not remain in darkness forever. And ultimately you will come out of the darkness into a greater sense of light than you had when you went in.

Holding The Hand Of God

God is the One who dwells in thick darkness (Duet. 5:22). The darkness and the light are alike to Him (Ps. 139:12). There are treasures that can be found only in such darkness, for there He will show you things about Himself and about yourself that you will never learn any other way.

Remember, you will find wonderful things in that darkness! You will hear the voice of God at the end of the tunnel saying, "Well done, you good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Lord." We must ask God for courage to go through the darkness ahead. This is necessary because God is going to prepare His people to obey no matter how they feel. You will go through it, beloved - but make the most of it! He will speak to you in that very silence.

When I was a child I remember reading a small plaque that hung on my grandfather's wall. I was not a Christian when I first read it, but I'll never forget the words inscribed there:

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the years,
"Give me a light that I may walk safely into the unknown."
He said to me, "Go out into the darkness
And put your hand into the hand of God
And He shall be to you brighter than a light
And safer than a known way."

 

About The Author

Winkie Pratney is an internationally known evangelist, author, and conference speaker. Originally from New Zealand, Winkie, his wife Faye, and son Bill share their home life between New Zealand and the U.S. After meeting Jesus, he gave up a promising career in research chemistry to begin a full-time globetrotting ministry, lecturing and teaching about the One who called him.

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