Schizophrenia & The Schizophrenic ‘Testimony’
Information About Schizophrenia & Schizophrenic Symptoms:
Introduction: Schizophrenia is a severe and disabling brain disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction. Onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood, with approximately 0.4–0.6% of the population affected. Diagnosis is based on the patient's self-reported experiences and observed behavior. No laboratory test for schizophrenia currently exists.
Signs And Symptoms: A person diagnosed with schizophrenia may demonstrate auditory hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized and unusual thinking and speech; this may range from loss of train of thought and subject flow, with sentences only loosely connected in meaning, to incoherence, known as word salad, in severe cases. Social isolation commonly occurs for a variety of reasons. Impairment in social cognition is associated with schizophrenia, as are symptoms of paranoia from delusions and hallucinations, and the negative symptoms of avolition (apathy or lack of motivation). In one uncommon subtype, the person may be largely mute, remain motionless in bizarre postures, or exhibit purposeless agitation; these are signs of catatonia. No one sign is diagnostic of schizophrenia, and all can occur in other medical and psychiatric conditions. The current classification of psychoses holds that symptoms need to have been present for at least one month in a period of at least six months of disturbed functioning. A schizophrenia-like psychosis of shorter duration is termed a schizophreniform disorder.
Late adolescence and early adulthood are peak years for the onset of schizophrenia. These are critical periods in a young adult's social and vocational development, and they can be severely disrupted. To minimize the effect of schizophrenia, much work has recently been done to identify and treat the prodromal (pre-onset) phase of the illness, which has been detected up to 30 months before the onset of symptoms, but may be present longer. Those who go on to develop schizophrenia may experience the non-specific symptoms of social withdrawal, irritability and dysphoria in the prodromal period, and transient or self-limiting psychotic symptoms in the prodromal phase before psychosis becomes apparent.
Standardized Criteria: The most widely used standardized criteria for diagnosing schizophrenia come from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version DSM-IV-TR, and the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, the ICD-10. The latter criteria are typically used in European countries while the DSM criteria are used in the United States and the rest of the world, as well as prevailing in research studies. The ICD-10 criteria put more emphasis on Schneiderian first rank symptoms although, in practice, agreement between the two systems is high.[19] The WHO has developed the tool SCAN (Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry) which can be used for diagnosing a number of psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia.
According to the revised fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, three diagnostic criteria must be met. Characteristic symptoms: Two or more of the following, each present for much of the time during a one-month period (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment).
- Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Disorganized speech, which is a manifestation of formal thought disorder Grossly disorganized behavior (e.g. dressing inappropriately, crying frequently) or catatonic behavior.
- Negative symptoms—affective flattening (lack or decline in emotional response), alogia (lack or decline in speech), or avolition (lack or decline in motivation) .
- If the delusions are judged to be bizarre, or hallucinations consist of hearing one voice participating in a running commentary of the patient's actions or of hearing two or more voices conversing with each other, only that symptom is required above. The speech disorganization criterion is only met if it is severe enough to substantially impair communication.
- Social/occupational dysfunction: For a significant portion of the time since the onset of the disturbance, one or more major areas of functioning such as work, interpersonal relations, or self-care, are markedly below the level achieved prior to the onset.
- Duration: Continuous signs of the disturbance persist for at least six months. This six-month period must include at least one month of symptoms (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment).
Wikipedia Reference For Schizophrenia
Psychic Paul Eno & The Schizophrenic ‘Testimony’ Against Sathya Sai Baba:
The following “testimony” was published on Paul Eno’s psychic website. Paul Eno is a self-professed psychic, intuitive and spiritual advisor who counsels his clients about relationships, family, business & career, life choices, future acquaintances, pets, health, spiritual issues, meeting spiritual guardians, past lives on other planets and building an afterlife. Paul Eno is the author of “Turning Home: God, Ghosts and Human Destiny” and believes that he has personally battled (sometimes even physically) “parasites, poltergeists and demons”. According to Paul Eno, the “important mark of a true psychic, medium or spiritual guide” is “love”. Paul Eno charges $100 per hour or $65 per half-hour for one-time psychic consultations (with slight discounts for returning customers). Yes, Paul Eno’s “love” comes with a price tag.
Paul Eno also publishes laughable pictures of what he alleges are paranormal manifestations on his website (Ref). Needless to say, the so-called paranormal photographs are fuzzy and the alleged forms seen in them are indiscernable and require a fervid imagination to perceive.
Disturbingly, Paul Eno gave credence to an utterly preposterous and unbelievable “testimony” from an anonymous female client of his who is clearly suffering from schizophrenia and mental instability. The following transcript is duplicated under fair use for critical commentary purposes only. It is also important to point out that the anonymous author released a similary “testimony” on the ExBaba guestbook (discussed later on this page). Despite Paul Eno claiming that “many listeners” were shaken up by the following testimony, when I first visited the webpage, the webpage counter registered a total of 39 clicks only (undoubtedly, many of the hits were generated by Paul Eno himself while checking the page). Perhaps Paul Eno is including disembodied spirits among his “many listeners”?:
GUEST: Three decades ago, I visited India with a family friend and heard about a so- called guru named Sathya Sai Baba. Less than a decade later, I returned to India to visit his ashram in Puttaparthi. I was very young and naive about true evil. I thought that spirituality was about goodness, kindness and helping others. I was very naïve about how much a person would lie to become famous, rich and diabolical, feeding on people’s altruism and the centuries-old myths about religion, God, goodness and the nature of evil. My experience as the result of being in Sai Baba’s presence was so evil that I can barely comprehend how I have survived all of these years. I touched his feet, as was the practice of his devotees, and an evil that is beyond evil descended on me. I have been fighting it for over two decades. It was more evil than my naive concept of Satan or the Devil. During my time on the ashram, a local woman, at 3 a.m. one morning, walked across the ashram yelling loudly that Sai Baba was the devil.
I was just learning how true her words were and will always wonder what happened to her. I have been told by both priests, psychologists and psychiatrists that I have a case of demonic possession or oppression. I have worked with over 10 healers and none of them has been able to rid me of it. (I have heard of one person who went to healer who was able to minimize it.)
One recently was able to lift it enough that I have started to feel some of my original energy. It has been so bad that I have been barely able to walk. I have been sexually assaulted and sodomized by something unseen. I have been stung, burned and been given excruciating pain throughout my body. I have been tortured. I have been beaten, burned, bitten, punched and kicked by something unseen. All of a sudden after I touched Sai Baba’s feet, I was constantly, most of the time, hearing a male voice calling me filthy names, and demanding that I obey it or it would hurt me. It would do so if I did not do what it said.
It attacks me when I have any professional success in my field. It tells me I should not read, think or live anywhere but on the streets, homeless and in rags. It somehow is able to injure me physically. It constantly hits me and berates me if I drop something, cannot find something quickly enough, cannot remember something fast enough, or look for something fast enough. It is constantly mocking me and making fun of me. It fills me with a strong, overwhelming sense of its insane rage and contempt if I feel a sense of affection for anyone, pet or friend. In fact, I was wide awake when I felt a burning sensation on my arm and scratches appeared on both arms.
It even attacked a friend who was not aware of my whole story. She called me to say that she woke up with long scratches on her arms and legs that appeared from nowhere at night.
I have had the following injuries:
A rotation-cuff injury of the shoulder from being forced to fall as I was rushing so quickly to get away from its torment that I fell and injured my shoulder. I have fallen more times than I can count. So far I have not broken anything. I have had a heart murmur develop as a result of the stress, and went into heart failure a number of years ago from the stress and was hospitalized for it. The doctors could not figure out why I had heart failure as I was too young for the problem. Recently, I heard it threatening me with hurting my hands, and as I was pouring a cup of hot water, the boiling water went the wrong way and burned by thumb. The skin is now in the process of falling off.
I have also experienced being threatened with falling down the stairs if I did not wear the clothes it told me to wear. I refused, and I was thrown down two flights of steep stairs by an unseen force. There is an injury to my leg that is still clearly visible after over three years. I am now classified as disabled. It attacks me if I have friends, when I eat a meal, and it attacks at night when I try to sleep. It always attacks before I have guests in my home.
It is constantly trying to merge with my mind, my thoughts, and it feels as if it is lodged in my physical brain as there is a strong sensation of pressure inside my head or a strong sense of a vise-like grip around my head, painfully squeezing it. (Sai Baba was always saying and wrote that the ideal was to merge with him.)
It tries to stop me from thinking critically. There is often a horrible sensation of stinging and slight burning on the surface of my scalp, and sometimes a feeling of electrical energy like static on my scalp and in my hair. It tries to make my body and voice some kind of puppet, trying to force me to do actions against my will, including hurting myself (or trying to make me hurt others) and saying foul things.
It also tries to channel through other people. Many years ago, when this first started, I went to a chiropractor. While he was working on me, he went into a trance and started to hurt me, resulting in dark bruises on my arm. I never went back to him. Once, when I was returning from overseas, a U.S. Customs officer started yelling at me and had to shake his head to snap out of it, after which he was helpful.
I have found some relief recently because Paul Eno suggested that I put holy water on my body (all the chakras). I also sprinkle my bed with holy water (as well as my office) and have finally been able to get a good night’s sleep. I also find that making loud noises, like clapping hands loudly and popping balloons or paper bags, or any unexpected sound, temporarily scares it off.
In my imagination, I am not polite to it, based on the advice of a psychologist who treated people like myself and who had the same or similar condition as the result of meditating and being in Eastern religious groups and going to so-called gurus in India. (I have heard that some Catholics have this problem also.) I imagine punching it back and fighting back with all of my strength. It seems to help me fight it off, although temporarily… but too many times it seems to overwhelm me with sheer malice. It is evil beyond my wildest imagination and the worst horror the movie industry could dream up. It is a criminally insane fiend.
It tries to block and stop anything and everything in my life. It is best that I do not isolate myself from people or do anything that it tells me to do. (It is constantly telling me to commit suicide). I used to have terrible dreams, and when I was on the ashram I had horrible dreams about women being burned to death and had a sense of a horrendously malevolent presence in my room.
Its violence seems to be against creative human thought or existence. It will say to me that I should not help others or, for that matter, use any form of critical thought and make decisions that would allow me to think or vote intelligently. I guess the key term would be “abject, violently focused hate.” It is constantly obsessed with sexual sadism and violence.
After what I have been through, I no longer can hear the word “God” without actually gagging. It is amazing that I am still alive. I know others who have died and know that others have similar torment as a result of being in Sai Baba’s presence. It also affects my memory in terms of it wanting to block me from remembering and telling what it has done to me.
I have had things appear and disappear, like checks, work-related documents and a list of possible recipients of this testimony. It also has caused to disappear essential heart medicine, that could lead to serious consequences if I did not take it. I have had odd noises in my home, such as a rumbling wall, and have recorded unearthly guttural sounds on a tape recorder in my bedroom.
I know of one person who was institutionalized after going to Sai Baba meetings for just two weeks. The individual did not even need to be in his presence to have this horrendous torment descend on him. In order to stay alive and sane, I have had to learn as much as I could about human behavior especially criminal psychopaths and what they demand of their victims. I have read as much as I have been able to find about the true origins of religion. I have also read a great deal about how the human brain functions and how it copes with stress.
I feel there is a strong possibility that there is no God and that when we open ourselves in mediation or prayer, malevolent forces step in to fill the vacuum. They can mimic goodness and fool you. There seems to be no spiritual law as there are various human laws on Earth that restrict and condemn criminal behavior. The spiritual realm seems to be the realm for committing the perfect crime without consequence to the criminal and severe consequences to the victim.
It often will say to me that it has no karma… that only good people have negative karma for all and any imperfections. Perhaps if there is a God, it is malevolent and all suffering is for its amusement. When Sai Baba says he is love and wants people to be good, loving, kind and non-violent, he is setting them up so they cannot fight back. He is, it appears, actually setting a trap to single out the people to mark for demolition. He does ask you to bring to him your worst fears, and the biggest joke is that he says he will protect you. What a laugh. It would be enlightening to see who else has this horrible torment on them. Are they exceptionally good and giving people, or is this a random occurrence that has nothing to do with anything other then one being there?
I understand that being religious often holds the key to the possibility of having this torment and that people who have this are ones who believe strongly in God, expecting it or him/her to be good when the opposite may be the case or there is nothing there and evil fills the void. One may pray constantly or meditate often… and may as a result get this torment, however some children, even infants can be plagued by this, even if temporarily. I know of three such cases.
Sadly, this has been my experience… however I did not encounter this horrific malevolence until I was in the presence of Sathya Sai Baba and read something about him. I read about him in a book by an American psychiatrist who praised him, and later in a book by another American psychiatrist who also praised him. I felt very set up because I trusted their professional judgment. A belief in God or praying to Saint Michael has not helped me or spared me this suffering. It has actually made it worse.
It has been recommended to me to bathe in Epson salts, sea salt or baking soda. I also have been told to put a sea-salt cross under my mattress. One could put it in envelopes to prevent children or pets from being harmed. It was also recommended that I put sea salt in all corners of the rooms in my home and to put blessed wooden crosses over all of my entrances and blessed religious medals on or over all windows and mirrors. In spite of all of this, it is still around… although somewhat less. I now, however, have malevolent manifestations in my home, such as the unexplained appearance of rat poison in a block (see photograph) and in a granulated form on the floor, which could hurt or kill children or pets. I have had these objects photographed and have collected the physical evidence. It has threatened to manifest even worse things in my home if I tell the truth about what has happened to me. It has also severed the wires of my modem to prevent me from using my computer and sending out e-mail.
I know this sounds outrageous, but this is what has happened. I am constantly having computer problems and computer problems mysteriously happen in business matters relating to professional activities. (I have noticed that if I place Bibles on the computer and printer, the interference stops temporarily.)
This thing has actually told me that it would hurt me badly if I told the truth, including attacking me with burning, disfigurement and death. I have had burn holes appear in my cloths, and no one smoked near me. It has recently threatened that if I cook a meal, it would blow up my gas stove and burn me to death.
This is my true experience for the past two-plus decades as a result of going to see Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, India and attending meetings of his organization.
As mentioned earlier, it often tells me that the only way I can stop the pain is to commit suicide. I, of course, know that that is an absurd lie and have no intention of taking my life. I wonder when I hear that there are suicides associated with him… how many had the situation that I have been faced with for so many years and felt such deep guilt and shame that they could not tell anyone what they were suffering?
I have often noticed that truly evil people do not have this kind of interference, in fact it seems as if they are actually given free rein. (Reference)
Schizophrenic ‘Testimony’ On The ExBaba Guestbook:
Obviously, the person who was interviewed by Paul Eno is the same person who submitted her story to the ExBaba guestbook. The anonymous person chose the name “T. Chance”. For those who may not know, the name “T. Chance” is the shorter version for Jack T. Chance, a fictional character featured in comic books published by DC Comics. “T. Chance” is a Green Lantern from the world of Garnet - also known as “Hellhole”. Physically, he is a tall, blue-skinned humanoid. Other distinguishing features include a trademark trench coat, what appear to be brown leather pants, and a skull around his neck. Not only is the author to the schizophrenic “testimony” clearly mentally unstable, she apparently sees herself as a male comic book hero as well:
Date: Fri October 24 06:30:17 2008
Referred By: T. Chance
I am very grateful that I may express my experience in a letter on this website. I loved God very much and wanted to be the best person possible. I was very happy that I could come to India to see an avatar and was lured into believing that Sai Baba was genuine by the book the Holy Man and the Psychiatrist. When I arrived in Puttaparthi I thought the main temple was very beautiful and felt a sense of peace. Things turned terribly wrong. After I touched his feet, I started getting invasive body sensations and would sense an evil presence in the bathroom on the ashram. I was not young and had never sensed such evil. As time passed and I returned home there were hideous presences forcing me out of sleep. I have felt burns and stings in my privates. I have felt bites and punches. I hardly slept for months. There was the feeling that something was trying to crush my head and I started to hear evil voices attacking me and calling me terrible names. ( If I tried to send e-mails to any one concerning this experience as a result of going to Sai Baba the e-mails would not go through. I asked friends to send them on their computers and the e-mails were also blocked as well. I also found there were a lot of odd electronic problems and people were no longer getting my voice mail messages and often did not get my e-mails messages. It was cutting me off from every one and I had to stop it from isolating me. Now friends call up and check on me and my family to be certain that we are OK. They are afraid for us.) I am not an evil person and it repeatedly would say it was attacking me because I want to help people and do humanitarian work. One evening I was in front of the bathroom mirror, the mirror over the sink and all of a sudden I felt the almost physical presence of Sai Baba standing behind me and grabbing me by the neck and I felt a physically painful sensation of being sodomized. I hear voices constantly threatening to do terrible things to me and my family and friends if I tell anyone what is happening to me. I have sought help and have been told by some of the professionals that I needed to see an exorcist. (I have tried medication to try to stop his but for me it makes it very bad to the point of a nightmare.) When I went to Sai Baba I did not know that he was a pedophile and I did not find out until after I left. Sometimes a male voice verbally berates me for not accepting pedophilia and rape as acceptable and says that good people are the bad people and not the other way around. When I look around me at my friends there is no one like this in my life. The highest human laws say that rape and pedophilia are wrong. Jails are built for people who commit crimes. This evil presence feels good people are the ones who should be punished, tortured. It becomes very violent in its attack of me if I am around children and young people and very violent around any form of educational material or experience. (Before coming to this place to put this in the computer it tried to knock me down and was very strongly sodomizing me on the way here.)
I submit this as a warning to those who feel that Sai Baba is good. I feel he is one of the most malevolent people I have ever been around. I have tried to research this experience by reading reports by paranormal investigators. Apparently religion seems to be a pathway for these kinds of evil entities. During my ordeal I have never sensed God or an angel unless it was to mock and make pretend it was one.
I will never return to India. (A book that may explain this I heard about on a website called earthfiles.com. It is a book called the Gods of Eden by a person named Bramely. It seemed to explain why Sai Baba is an imposter, because there is nothing there, but imposters or worse.) I found the book on amazon.com and it is very cheap. I have also tried the suggestions made in a recent book by an anti-cult expert S. Hassan (freedomofmind.com), but this evil thing becomes even more violent when I try to use the suggestions to get away from it. It also becomes very violent if I try to read other helpful books or any form of book.
These terrible paranormal experiences happen now anywhere that I go and it basically says it wants to drive me off of the planet... I guess because I am a witness to what Sai Baba is and it wants me and others like me as evidence to be gone. I have heard of others and worry often about those who have committed suicide after going to see him or have become disabled. I understand there are fanatics who beat people who speak out. This is an unfortunate admission of guilt as is this constant demand by this evil being that I commit suicide and destroy any trace of my existence.
These are the types of ridiculous, ludicrous and wholly unbelievable “testimonies” cited against Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Needless to say, Sathya Sai Baba has millions of followers and literally tens of thousands of people have touched his feet without developing symptoms of mental instability. Critics have been unable to reference any credible people against Sathya Sai Baba. They can, however, reference numerous people exhibiting classic symptoms of schizophrenia, mental instability and other questionable behaviors. Paul Eno first interviewed his anonymous client on June 29th 2008 and re-interviewed her on November 23rd 2008 (coinciding with the Guru’s birthday celebrations). Needless to say, the anonymous female changed her story and claimed that she heard a male voice in her head (with no accent) threatening her before she touched Sai Baba’s feet (earlier, she claimed twice that the voices started after touching the guru’s feet). Also see: Lunatic Fringe In The Anti-Sai Movement.