14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must have for spiritual counselors, September 6, 2003
By A Customer
This review is from: The Healing of Satanically Ritually Abused Multiple Personality Disorder (Paperback)
I have just finished reading John's book and I have found it to be very much like my own beliefs.
His views on treating an SRA/MPD person are very comforting. There are so many people out there in our spiritual community that do not believe in the existence in Ritual abuse. It is refreshing to find someone with some sense of what it's like and how, with the help of God that we can be helped.
In all honesty I believe that this book should be in the hands of spiritual leaders that counsel people. Especially when they find out that their client could be or is someone that is from a ritual abuse back group.
The book did not go into a lot of detail about Mkultra or Monarch programming, but the basic structure that is there is helpful, not only to the client but to the one/s trying to help the individual.
One of the chapters was written by a friend of his, Pastor Jim Casey, there are some things that I personally disagree with, and neither does the author, one such being that the "personalities" should die. No part of a multiple should die or can die in my beliefs. They blend in to each other and they can become a total whole individual or stay separate but still function in the "normal" world.
We were put on this earth for a purpose. What the reason is I can't say but I don't believe that God wants any to suffer. That's one of the reasons that he gave us this gift of disassociation.
I would recommend this book to any that would like to work on healing in a faith based system. Reading this book yourselves can be helpful but there is much more to it than just what one person can do. We need teams of support people with us in our healing. So if you are in or thinking of having some type of spiritual counseling I would get this book and also let your therapist or counselor read this and then discuss the type of treatment and goals that you can reach together.
John and I have written to each other during my reading of his book and he would answer questions that I had about this book. This man takes the time to listen.
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4 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
no evidence whatsoever, October 27, 2003
This review is from: The Healing of Satanically Ritually Abused Multiple Personality Disorder (Paperback)
During the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980's, investigators, even the FBI scoured the nation for evidence of SRA, and found nothing but silly teens who were soon arrested. There had been no genuine ritual abuse of children. MPD's suffer from false memories, often put there by their own therapists. While they were certainly badly abused, they were not abused by Satanists. This absurd witch hunt has ruined many lives, both of the accused and the mentally ill victims. Stay away from this nonsense book. It is pure sensationalism.
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