Dear Dr. MMP: I am interested in exchanging ideas on your first topic. Since your first thread became a discussion of your ID I will leave that alone. This topic can branch off in several directions, maybe not the ones you wanted. So i will post several angles here.
0. If you prefer not to waste time on blah blah blah, i'm glad to introduce you to two activists in Houston interested in a medical model for treating and healing criminal illness as a disease to reform prisons and public health. Ray Hill is an established prison outreach advocate and radio host, he is also well known as a gay atheist who is active in glbt politics. Olivia Reiner has used spiritual healing to cure ppl of physical diseases and mental conditions caused by abuse and addiction, and believes homosexuality and transgender disorders can be healed. Their #are posted at www.spiritual-healing.us i believe some unnatural cases caused by abuse can be healed and changed, but some ppl are born that way spiritually by karma and may or may not change in this lifetime.
1. Cases of natural and unnatural transgender/sexual orientation
I encourage ppl to make a distinction between cases caused by abuse which might be healed and changed, vs ppl spiritually incarnated with opposite gender or partners of same sex due to karma which may or may not change. Not all cases are caused by negative karma or demonic / generational curses. But some have been healed using those methods of healing past generations.
I had one online friend who did not even come out as transgender until after he felt healed of guilt judgment and repression. Once he let go, he embraced his female personality went through counseling and decided to change his body. He was so happy for the first time in his life his family and friends supported "her". She said it was like decorating her house. Her body was her temple and she could design it any way she liked to have her house.
Another friend of mine suffered spiritual attacks of fear and doubt about changing his gender. His father was already reassigned as female. And my friend feared he was heading along the same path. But his motivation was not out of love but based on fear and he suffered panic attacks. When he collapsed on the ground not talking i called my friend olivia to come pray in person. She left another meeting and came to pray to remove whatever oppressed spirit was overtaking my friend's mind. She said the other person she went to help had the opposite problem. So she prayed for both ppl, one after the other, and these mixed up female and male spirits quit tormenting and confusing both ppl who recovered and quit having these attacks.
So in that case it was not natural; and getting rid of the "demonic" or karmic influences solved whatever issues these PARTICULAR people were having with gender issues.
I'm sure all cases are different, but these are two where I talked to the people myself about how they changed.
2. how does this relate to sociopathy and criminal illness
A. the same distinction should be made between people with "natural" sociopathic mindsets vs. people who may be unnaturally sick due to "demonic obsessions/addictions" that could be removed in order to restore their minds.
It is not fair or accurate to confuse these cases together as "all the same" and judged as unnatural and sick.
I believe cases like the Son of Sam/David Berkowitz were caused by unnatural demonic influences; so that when he was cured of these conditions, then he no longer had the obsessions to stalk, torture or kill people out of uncontrollable drives. So that was caused by an additional factor, one that could be cured.
Same with the two cases of schizophrenic patients observed and described by Dr. Scott Peck in "Glimpses of the Devil." Everyone, including Dr. Peck, assumed they were sick and the voices in their heads were part of the delusion and sickness. Yet after applying deliverance, the voices were eliminated so both patients regained their free will and reason, and were able to follow therapy to treat the rest of their problems effectively, unlike before.
Andrea Yates is another case of mental illness involving "demonic" voices that had to be addressed first, so she could restore her normal mind and capacities and comply with treatment once those were overcome or removed.
B. the same methods of "deliverance/exorcism" and healing prayer that are used to cure physical and mental sickness when these are rooted in spiritual sickness or "generational" sins/karma passed down
can be used to remove these demonic influences in cases such as Son of Sam or Coral Eugene Watts.
Seeing demons and/or hearing voices is a different type of condition. If we can address and manage or cure those cases, then we can distinguish these levels of criminal illness that becomes "inhuman" and not mix them up with people whose natural sociopathic mindsets are normal for them and do not mean the person has no control or conscience.
This can change the criminal justice system to distinguish these types of cases, and quit judging and punishing all people as if there is no distinction and no chance for recovery, but assumed to be lying to get out of charges.
I would like to develop more of the technology and brain scans advocated by Dr. Amen to perfect means of diagnosis, monitoring and managing criminal illness and addiction, where science can show if people are fully cured or merely in remission, similar to cancer that may or may not be fully cured but at least managed and safe.