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The Shining Man with Hurt Hands

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The author uses a non-traditional approach in dealing with MPD and gains the trust of alters without drugs. Integration of the multiple into a healthy functioning individual is often the result.
Although the dialogs in these chat room encounters are edited, the spiritual conflicts and methods are retained so that the reader senses the process of integration and the spiritual realities behind the disorder.
Fascinating and easily read by anyone, especially by someone who knows a multiple and has wondered how it relates to Christian Psychology, mental health, and demonic activity.

This book works. I am a Catholic so I did not agree with the occasional irrelevant anti-catholic comment in the book (weren't accurate and easily dispelled by author's own logic, were simple ignorance. Even did the exact spirit test on Catholic saints and it worked. I digress...). Despite this theological issues, recognizing that MPds connect to the spirit realm and need help from Jesus and His Helpers is HUGE. I thought I was the only one who realized and experienced this. He helps differentiate between demons and just dark alters. The non-Christians who don't want to forgive their abusers need to do so in a hurry. This it NOT the only book that will tell you to forgive; it is the only way to freedom.

Thus book saved me years of internal hell, misery, therapy, broken relationships and struggles with ordinary life. I am happy for the first time ever. If anything I am understating the profound healing effect the instructions gave me. God is the source of these instructions; the author is just an instrument. I don't have to agree with the exact theology. It is the right framework and model to study this issue. Alters are not in our head they are truly different persons that God created in the spiritual side to save us from going crazy.

This book is the answer to my MPD issue.

Also, as a Catholic the Saints and Our Lady helped me as well as Jesus and His angels. :). I know the author wants to pretend it is bad to honor Mary and "proves" this because she doesn't appear the way Jesus does. Of course, neither do the good angels until called. Mary arrives if called to, and brings us directly to Jesus. We don't worship her of course, so she and the saints won't appear unless asked, just like Jesus' angels as the author described.

Just had to defend the Church :) at any rate, this is a beautiful book that made me realize I wasn't the only mp who had spiritual "sensitivity" like this, and it provides a solution. Yay!

I have DID. I am currently in therapy with a good ethical therapist. I am making progress. I also am involved in 1 chatroom that is supportive and healthy. All others I nolonger participate in.

I was initially sucked into this book.....but that quickly changed. First anyone professiong to be an expert because he stumbled upon a DID/MPD chatroom is ridiculous!!!!. The book quickly deteriorates and it becomes clear that they way out of being a mulitple is through Jesus Christ. Prayer after prayer is cited. The clincher for me was that I needed to forgive my abusers. Is the author out of his mind!!! The person I need to forgive to heal is myself.

Many people are in therapy for DID/MPD with therapists who lack the proper knowledge and finding a qualified expert can be difficult. But believing anything this author says or professes to know and has accomplished on behalf of those with DID/MPD is an insult.

I don't have boots stong enough or tall enough to get through the "falsehoods" and "crap" he spouts.

Please if you are struggling this is not a read for you.

Please do not support this author by purchasing his book as this further supports his ego that he actually knows what he is talking about.

A friend of mine with DID absolutely loved this book! She was delighted to read that there were others with DID who experienced their inner world much the same as she did. She was thrilled to read that there were others who saw and experienced the kinds of things that she did on the inside. This book is unique in that it offers a glimpse into the inner world that some multiples experience and how they visualize their inner world. It helped me understand how my friend pictures her inner world and how she interacts with it. A great benefit of this book is that it shows how the imagination and creativity of a multiple can help bring tremendous healing. I've seen firsthand the encouragement this book has brought to someone with DID and appreciate the author's unique, out of the box, and non traditional approach to helping bring healing to multiples. Skeptics should not so easily and readily dismiss the idea that a real loving God could and would allow multiples with childlike faith to see and picture interactions with the spiritual world in a way that helps them heal.

Christianity - in fact all religions. have no place in mental health - this book proves it

When the synopsis of treatment plans for someone as badly harmed and abused and hurt is that they should just get over it and get past it and not be like that any more.
it is downright painfully obvious that the author has no clue what he is talking about, and even less compassion for the victims.

This book is an incredibly damaging and archaic travesty that should never have been permitted to be printed, let alone published.

It is destructive, dangerous and packed chock full of ignorance, so much so that you would need a shoehorn and hydraulic press to fit any more in.

Do NOT give this man your money.
Please do not support the damage he is doing too people who have already been hurt too much all ready.

Mr. Skolfield has learned from the multiples themselves what they are stuggling with on the inside. We learn that the cause of this condition is childhood trauma and abuse. Thankfully there can be full restoration for those suffering. If you are a Christian, and even if you've never had an interest in this subject, you will be amazed to see first hand the spiritual warfare that goes on "inside" and the healing power of Christ that can take away the pain and make them whole.

I have read this but and would never recommend it to a multiple nor loved ones of multiples. He spends time contridicting himself in saying it is not demonic possession only to say "dark" alters only need The Water of Life to be put upon them in order to be "cured". Then later on he goes onto to do as so many others and blame the multiple because they haven't forgiven their abusers!?!?!?! Obviously this man has no idea what multiplicity is or what it is to have a system in which was the only means of survival. If these "conversations" actually took place, I am very concerned for those in which he spoke because I fear he did more damage than could ever be helped. It is a narcassist view of a man that sees only himself as the path to intergration and to God. If you want to read a true and accurate account of what it is to be a multiple and the experiences that can cause multiplicity, you would be much better reading "When Rabbit Howls" by Truddi Chase and the Troops.