Transfixed by His Gaze
I know what Stephen felt when he looked into heaven (Acts 7:55-56). This is what happened to me during a counseling session:
A Caveat for Readers
For the first three posts in this series, we’ve concentrated only on the basics of dissociation. Soon we will go further into the phenomenon. First, however, I feel as though I should be talking about some basic spiritual self-defense. That way, when the time comes for us to march deeper into the enemy’s territory and…
How Could This Happen?
Trauma doesn’t have to be severe from an adult perspective for it to cause dissociation in a child. To a very young child, getting separated from Mom in a grocery store can be extremely traumatic. With a few months or years added to his age, it becomes a matter of him going to the manager’s…
Go to Your Happy Place
We just began to scratch the surface of dissociation last time. Now let’s continue our discussion by assigning some imaginary numbers to clarify things. Consider a continuum from one to one hundred. So, if the shortest “mind vacation” is a number 1 on our scale, let’s go to somewhere around number 40. Of course, there…
Do You Hear What I Hear?
What if you heard voices in your head? Would you be willing to talk about it? I’ll bet you’d think you were losing your mind. How about if you were seeing flashes of pictures that have no meaning? Does that mean you are schizophrenic? Maybe you’re flat-out crazy, or maybe even demonized. In any case,…