Dissociation in James
June 4, 2009
Dissociation is an unconscious way of dealing with intolerable emotional pain, fear or trauma. It is probably the best defense mechanism the human mind can devise outside of a dependence and trust in Jesus Christ. It enables us to leave an intolerable situation mentally by deciding it never happened, that we were never there or we are someone else.
If we put on a pair of “inner healing glasses” we will find dissociation in the Bible in various places. The most obvious place is in James where he states, “a double minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8). The Greek word for “double minded” is dipsuchos which means “two souled.” This is what dissociation is—a divided soul that has split into two or more parts. My 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary defines double-mindedness as “having different minds at different times” and actually sites the James I passage!
We must turn to a more modern dictionary to find a definition for dissociation since it is a modern term. It defines dissociation as “a split in the conscious process in which a group of mental activities breaks away from the main stream of consciousness and functions as a separate unit, as if belonging to another person” (Webster). This process takes place to varying degrees in different people. Some people form a completely different personality that is not aware of other parts of the person’s soul. In others, the parts are co-conscious being aware of everything that happens to all the parts. Some people know they are divided but most people don’t recognize the fact of their dividedness. It seems normal to them because they have never known anything else. Additionally the process of splitting takes place unconsciously in most people so there is no memory of having done so.
James says that we are to ask God for what we need in faith, not wavering (James 1:6). The Greek word for “wavering” is diakrino which means “to separate thoroughly.” Seen in context, chapter one of James begins by telling us we are to meet life’s trials with joy because of the work of patience and wholeness God can work in us through these trials. However, if we do not face these trials with faith, if we waver (separate), then we are unstable in all our ways. “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed” (James 1:6). If we have separated mentally in dissociation, we are not able to hold to a steady course as we meet the challenges of life. How could we if we have separated from a part of our self and our different parts have different characteristics?
James says that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. “Unstable” in the Greek means “inconstant.” Webster defines “inconstant” as: “not remaining firm in mind or purpose; unsteady in affections or loyalties; fickle.”
A wife whose husband was dissociative once told me that she was aware that she was watching her husband every morning to see what kind of a person he was going to be that day. Would he be loving and openly sharing of his life, or would he be silent and withdrawn? Would he be intent on getting work done or ready to playfully wrestle with the kids on the floor. He could be angry and sullen or chipper and outgoing. She never knew from one day to the next what she was going to encounter. He was inconstant and one never knew which side of him would be out at any given time. She had always thought he was just moody. However, when ministered to for dissociation, he became constant in his daily walk. No longer did she have to fear who she would meet in her husband on any given day.
Dissociation occurs in people in varying degrees depending upon the frequency and depth of suffering experienced and their ability to dissociate. A person who is easily hypnotized is also able to dissociate with no difficulty. Over my seventeen years of ministry to satanically ritually abused persons, I have encountered quite an array of dissociated parts that run the gamut from co-consciousness to alternate personalities who have no idea they share a body with other personalities and are intent on murdering the person in whose body they live! The latter type of alter often believes he is a distinct person with physical attributes that in no way resemble those of the person in whom he lives. Sometimes I have to hand him a mirror to convince him he is not who he thinks he is and that if he kills that person he will be killing himself! These kinds of alters are purposely formed and programmed by satanic cults.
Read more...Daniel Chapter 3 Part 2:Dissociation Gives Way to God's Truth
See May 18 Entry Below
For our study in Daniel, if you are just beginning to read, it would be good to click on the Daniel tab at the top of the page and read the preceding entries. Here are some major keys for understanding my spiritual interpretation of Daniel 3 now being presented here: Nebuchadnezzar is the natural mind that wants to dissociate to avoid facing directly a great trial (fiery furnace) in his life. Daniel’s (spiritual mind) three friends are three understandings of faith that have been growing stronger in the natural mind that are now hindering his ability to dissociate. All the people standing by ready to bow to the image are, in type, alternate personalities that have already been formed in this natural mind. The instruments that signal everyone to bow to the image (dissociate) are triggers used by this person as a sign to either form a new split or allow one already formed to come up in the conscious mind.
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[Verse 26] [Verse 27] [Verse 28] [Verse 29] [Verse 30]
What a great story God has given us here in Daniel to show how God works to heal and cleanse our mind. I hope this will be an inspiration to all people who read this interpretation…to those who know they have dissociated and those who don’t. It is through our trials that God works his wonders in us by his grace. His ways are far different than ours. We don’t want suffering to come into our life, but it is through suffering that we come into wholeness.
It would be great if we could go through one trial and come out with a great victory over all our idolatry. However, life is not that easy. We have to go through many fiery furnaces in order to come into wholeness. It has been true in my own life and I see it in the lives of those around me. We enter the trial in weakness and emerge on the other side in God’s strength. We enter the trial with fear and emerge secure in the love and power of God.
Dan 3:30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.
The natural mind that no longer dissociates has elevated his understanding of God to a high place in his soul. He likes to think about God and his love. He no longer doubts God’s character. He knows that God is everything the Bible says he is. He is no longer the fearful person he used to be before the trial. He often thinks about all the times God has helped him through difficult circumstances and protected him from his enemies. He has come into a new level of maturity, but as we shall see in chapter four of Daniel, he still has more suffering to endure before he comes into the perfection God has planned for his faithful people in the end times.
Are You Desperate for God?
May 1, 2009Many times people come to me saying how much they want God…they are so hungry for all of God they can get. They ask me how to come closer to God. We talk for awhile and they tell me about their life. I ask questions and they tell me more. Then I make some suggestions that would help them draw closer to God. It is surprising to me how many people are full of excuses for why they cannot do the things necessary to draw closer to the Lord. They see that the economy is falling apart. They know that the One World Order is beginning to close in on us, and yet they are not willing to make the changes necessary to get nearer to the Lord. Why is this?
I believe they are not desperate. We have difficulty drawing close to God when we are not in desperate, dire circumstances in our life. If you are in a terrible situation right now and don’t know where to turn, rejoice for your circumstances. You are in the perfect place to find more of God. The Lord will often allow us to be in trials that seem to have no solution and no end. It is in these places that we fall down on our faces before God and begin to earnestly seek him with our whole heart.
The terrible storms and fires that have ravished much of our nation are really wakeup calls from God to draw people unto himself. He has seen that as long as we have all our prosperity and our comforts, we have little inclination to seek him. We sometimes turn against God and blame him for the troubles in our lives when he has had to allow these to cause us to turn to him and seek him. He has so much to give if we will only come to him. What he has to offer far exceeds anything this world can give.
Are You Desperate for God?
May 1, 2009Many times people come to me saying how much they want God…they are so hungry for all of God they can get. They ask me how to come closer to God. We talk for awhile and they tell me about their life. I ask questions and they tell me more. Then I make some suggestions that would help them draw closer to God. It is surprising to me how many people are full of excuses for why they cannot do the things necessary to draw closer to the Lord. They see that the economy is falling apart. They know that the One World Order is beginning to close in on us, and yet they are not willing to make the changes necessary to get nearer to the Lord. Why is this?
I believe they are not desperate. We have difficulty drawing close to God when we are not in desperate, dire circumstances in our life. If you are in a terrible situation right now and don’t know where to turn, rejoice for your circumstances. You are in the perfect place to find more of God. The Lord will often allow us to be in trials that seem to have no solution and no end. It is in these places that we fall down on our faces before God and begin to earnestly seek him with our whole heart.
The terrible storms and fires that have ravished much of our nation are really wakeup calls from God to draw people unto himself. He has seen that as long as we have all our prosperity and our comforts, we have little inclination to seek him. We sometimes turn against God and blame him for the troubles in our lives when he has had to allow these to cause us to turn to him and seek him. He has so much to give if we will only come to him. What he has to offer far exceeds anything this world can give.
Read more...Dissociation in James
June 4, 2009
Dissociation is an unconscious way of dealing with intolerable emotional pain, fear or trauma. It is probably the best defense mechanism the human mind can devise outside of a dependence and trust in Jesus Christ. It enables us to leave an intolerable situation mentally by deciding it never happened, that we were never there or we are someone else.
If we put on a pair of “inner healing glasses” we will find dissociation in the Bible in various places. The most obvious place is in James where he states, “a double minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8). The Greek word for “double minded” is dipsuchos which means “two souled.” This is what dissociation is—a divided soul that has split into two or more parts. My 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary defines double-mindedness as “having different minds at different times” and actually sites the James I passage!
We must turn to a more modern dictionary to find a definition for dissociation since it is a modern term. It defines dissociation as “a split in the conscious process in which a group of mental activities breaks away from the main stream of consciousness and functions as a separate unit, as if belonging to another person” (Webster). This process takes place to varying degrees in different people. Some people form a completely different personality that is not aware of other parts of the person’s soul. In others, the parts are co-conscious being aware of everything that happens to all the parts. Some people know they are divided but most people don’t recognize the fact of their dividedness. It seems normal to them because they have never known anything else. Additionally the process of splitting takes place unconsciously in most people so there is no memory of having done so.
James says that we are to ask God for what we need in faith, not wavering (James 1:6). The Greek word for “wavering” is diakrino which means “to separate thoroughly.” Seen in context, chapter one of James begins by telling us we are to meet life’s trials with joy because of the work of patience and wholeness God can work in us through these trials. However, if we do not face these trials with faith, if we waver (separate), then we are unstable in all our ways. “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed” (James 1:6). If we have separated mentally in dissociation, we are not able to hold to a steady course as we meet the challenges of life. How could we if we have separated from a part of our self and our different parts have different characteristics?
James says that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. “Unstable” in the Greek means “inconstant.” Webster defines “inconstant” as: “not remaining firm in mind or purpose; unsteady in affections or loyalties; fickle.”
A wife whose husband was dissociative once told me that she was aware that she was watching her husband every morning to see what kind of a person he was going to be that day. Would he be loving and openly sharing of his life, or would he be silent and withdrawn? Would he be intent on getting work done or ready to playfully wrestle with the kids on the floor. He could be angry and sullen or chipper and outgoing. She never knew from one day to the next what she was going to encounter. He was inconstant and one never knew which side of him would be out at any given time. She had always thought he was just moody. However, when ministered to for dissociation, he became constant in his daily walk. No longer did she have to fear who she would meet in her husband on any given day.
Dissociation occurs in people in varying degrees depending upon the frequency and depth of suffering experienced and their ability to dissociate. A person who is easily hypnotized is also able to dissociate with no difficulty. Over my seventeen years of ministry to satanically ritually abused persons, I have encountered quite an array of dissociated parts that run the gamut from co-consciousness to alternate personalities who have no idea they share a body with other personalities and are intent on murdering the person in whose body they live! The latter type of alter often believes he is a distinct person with physical attributes that in no way resemble those of the person in whom he lives. Sometimes I have to hand him a mirror to convince him he is not who he thinks he is and that if he kills that person he will be killing himself! These kinds of alters are purposely formed and programmed by satanic cults.
Read more...Taking Authority over Sickness
A strange thing happened in Rochester, NY in April. Many people I know came down with flu-like symptoms all on the same day. Everyone had aching muscles, sore throats, and eventually severe head colds. Those with weaker immune systems had to go on antibiotics. I didn’t get it, but the other two members of my household woke up sick the same morning. I received a phone call later that day stating that our church building and grounds manager was ill. The next day I learned that several more of our people, often whole families, had fallen ill on that day. Members of their extended families that didn’t attend our church were also sick. Why would so many people get sick on the same day? Usually sickness spreads more slowly through a family—one person gets it and a few days later someone else does. I’ve never seen so many people fall ill all at once.Read more...
The Alpha and Omega Revealed
The Lord is showing me some exciting things in the book of Revelation that pertain to what He is about to do. Before we left for a Thanksgiving visit with our daughter in another state, the Lord said, through one of my prophetic friends, that he was going to give me a gift on Thanksgiving Day. On that day, he opened a portion of Revelation to me that I knew was the gift. I continued unwrapping the gift as our visit progressed and what I saw in Revelation was confirmed in other ways.
Read more...Article One - Introduction to Deborah
Old Testament stories may not be just a record of historical events. They may be far more than that. Deep study and the revelation of the Holy Spirit will disclose much more to us than we had previously thought. If we will study the New Testament examining Jesus’ method of teaching and then apply his use of allegory to portions of the Old Testament, our eyes will be opened to see wondrous things we never imagined were lying just beneath the surface waiting to be discovered. Webster defines allegory as “a story in which people, things and happenings have a hidden or symbolic meaning: allegories are used for teaching or explaining ideas, moral principles, etc.”
Read more...Daniel Chapter 1: Our Search for Identity
A Bare Bones Study for Those Hungry To Go Deep into the Word.
This study of Daniel is based on viewing the entire book from an inward perspective. Each person, place or thing in the story has a counterpart within, and when we examine it from this perspective, great spiritual truths are revealed. The following quote from Andrew Jukes’ book Types in Genesis explains more about these inward types.
For the development of Adam or human nature in the great world without, has its exact image and counterpart in the little world within; I call it ‘little,’ though indeed it is not little; for if ‘the kingdom of God is within us,’ there must be room enough. And what confusion it seems: life and death, evil and good, love and hate, and pride and meanness everywhere: men praying, cursing, blessing; palaces and hovels, churches and armies, schools and markets, jails, cities, asylums, unions; such are some of the fruits of old Adam, in whom all this was before it was seen, and is only seen without because it was and is within him. (Jukes 1993, xv)
When we view the book of Daniel in this way, we see detailed before us how God works in the human soul, spirit and ultimately the body to bring a person into the fullness of Christ in the end times. In the work presented here, Nebuchadnezzar is a Christian’s natural mind, Daniel is the spiritual mind, his three friends are faith-based understandings that form a foundation for his life, the Chaldeans are demons, and so on. Chapter two is about the natural mind’s struggle to find identity. Chapter three is about dissociation. The image of gold is a new alternate personality the natural mind has formed to face the fiery trial (furnace) in his life. However, God will not allow him to use it because his faith (Daniel’s three friends) is strong enough to take him through the trial. The entire book of Daniel can be viewed in type in such a way that each verse fits with the verse preceding and following it. Each chapter falls in line with the chapter before it and flows logically into the next chapter.
Read more...A Prophetic Word from the Polar Ice Caps
April 12, 2009We are shown pictures on television almost every day depicting the melting of the polar ice caps. I have no doubt that they are indeed melting. However, I don’t believe CO2 emissions are the cause of this. Scientists have plenty of evidence to prove that many catastrophic climate changes have occurred during the life of this planet. However, there were no automobiles or manmade inventions to blame for these changes. Climates do change from time to time but only in conjunction with the plans of Almighty God. Even if our weather is being controlled by men, as some think it is, this can only happen because God has allowed it for his own purposes.
I have noticed over the years that God often speaks prophetically to his church through weather and other newsworthy events. I believe he is speaking a message through the melting of the polar ice caps. If we have ears to hear, we will know what God is saying.
The Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians 15, “…the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.” So, first, in the natural we have the melting of the polar ice caps…ice becoming water. How does this fit in with something spiritual? Think about the Bible being the water of the Word. We are told in Ephesians 5 that God sanctifies and cleanses his church with the washing by the water of the Word that “he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
Parts of the water of the Word (our Bible) are frozen. These are passages whose meaning has never been understood. Here is one for example:
“And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven” (Zec 5:7-9).
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