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Hi!
By: Johan vd Berg Date: April 18, 2014, 5:54 pm
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Hi, I'm Johan, and I've created this forum. I am also the admin.
My intention was to create a loving environment to discuss with
each other all things Divine Truth. I personally have always
liked forums. I was on the Rage Against the Machine forum when I
was about 13 or 14, when for me the internet was a really novel
thing. I am 26 years old now.
I was first introduced to Divine Truth late December 2012, when
I encountered it in the 'related videos' bar on YouTube, on a
Scientology related video, which I had found through another
forum, discussanything.com. It was the interview with Geoff
Whitehead. I immediately found the video very relaxing in an odd
way, and deduced there were three possibilities: great actors,
deluded people or people speaking the truth. Watching the video
was also the first time I could hear anyone could talk about God
without it bringing up revulsion and similar emotions in me.
Jesus made God sound reasonable and interesting.
I started watching other videos and shortly thereafter quit
smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, early 2013. I started
what I thought was practicing the way, and emailed with AJ to
meet him in July 2013, to attend two seminars and meet up for an
interview on spirits. Little did I know about how much spirit
influence I was under at that time. I had quite a lot of
unethical demands going out of me, related to shyness, fear and
not wanting to hear the truth about spirits, to the extent that
I was unable to do a good interview. Fortunately Mary took over
the questioning :). There are still a lot of questions that I
wish will be answered, either asked by me or someone else. These
questions pertain mostly to the relationship that exists between
spirit influence and mental illness. I have had many problems
with spirit influence and mental illness between age 17 and 23.
I am convinced right now that most of those problems are over,
because of the teachings.
The next day I also showed egotistical behavior towards the
people picking me up and dropping me off, to the extent that AJ
decided it would be better to not meet again the next day. The
soul is infinitely more important than money, and I've still not
dealt with all of the emotions that were exposed during my short
trip to Australia. When I got back, I went into a lot of
addiction, by playing poker for money, i.e. gambling online, to
avoid the emotions that I was confronted with through AJ's
decisions, however in the long run I know it was the right thing
to do and it has had a positive effect on me.
Well, this post has gotten a lot longer than I intended, and
there is much more I could tell about myself, but I wish to
close now. Feel free to ask any questions you like!
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Re: Hi!
By: moti Date: April 19, 2014, 6:42 pm
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Thanks for sharing your story Johan and for creating this forum.
It is always so interesting to me to hear about other people's
journeys toward and along this path. Did your interview with
Jesus and Mary end up get posted online?
Moti
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Re: Hi!
By: Johan vd Berg Date: April 20, 2014, 4:02 pm
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Hey,
the questions ended up being asked by Mary, for the reason,
among other things, I described above, and it was the first Q&A
session on spirits.
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Re: Hi!
By: Victoria7 Date: April 22, 2014, 10:07 am
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Hey,
Thank you for creating this Forum, I think it is really well
organised and could become a thriving hub for DT discussions.
What kind of mental health problems did you used to suffer from?
and how have the DT teachings helped you? have you seen a big
change?
I am super inquisitive so I hope you feel ok to say ' mind your
own business!'
xx
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Re: Hi!
By: Johan vd Berg Date: May 1, 2014, 5:30 am
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[quote author=Victoria7 link=topic=11.msg41#msg41
date=1398179252]
Hey,
Thank you for creating this Forum, I think it is really well
organised and could become a thriving hub for DT discussions.
What kind of mental health problems did you used to suffer from?
and how have the DT teachings helped you? have you seen a big
change?
I am super inquisitive so I hope you feel ok to say ' mind your
own business!'
xx
[/quote]
I don't mind answering any questions. The only reason I've
waited so long to respond is that I'm super busy with my new
apartment. I have to paint, and make sure all the other things
are going correctly and so on. I've really over-asked of myself
the last week or so. On top of that I've encountered some
emotional problems, including some bad sleep state experiences.
The mental health problems I suffered from are called
schizophrenia. I had my first psychosis when I was 17, and one
again when I was 19, two shortly after each other when I was 21,
and one when I was 23. Now I'm 26 and seem to have broken the
pattern at least. For me just knowing the truth that these
interactions are real, not epiphenomena of a malfunctioning
brain or whatever, i.e. knowing that spirits exist, already has
helped me immensely. Then realizing the connection between the
spirit attractions and the emotions in my soul also helped. I
think all my addictions, including my addiction to avoid my life
by becoming psychotic, were about fleeing from my feelings.
Rather then feeling them, doing something to avoid them, whether
it was drug addiction, gambling or morally peripheral sexuality,
or avoidance of life as a whole by becoming psychotic, avoidance
was always my modus operandi.
I've made a lot of better choices since encountering divine
truth, but I know I still have a lot of feelings to deal with
and still make bad choices and decisions often.
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Re: Hi!
By: Victoria7 Date: May 1, 2014, 8:05 am
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schizophrenia, did you hear voices? If so what did they say? I
didn't hear voices, mine was more a bout of mania; not sleeping
for nights and nights and then having very strange ideas about
things and some hallucinations. I know that this was total the
result of not feeling my grief and fear about various things,
choosing instead to fake 'courage' and 'everything being fine'.
I actually consciously shut down my emotions by reasoning that a
person could fully function by logic alone (I was 18 when I did
this) as AJesus has said when you don't feel emotions you invite
all sorts of spirit influence.
So I guess that means you're probably quite a clear medium? Have
you experimented with this?
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Re: Hi!
By: Johan vd Berg Date: May 22, 2014, 7:32 am
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[quote author=Victoria7 link=topic=11.msg118#msg118
date=1398949538]
schizophrenia, did you hear voices? If so what did they say? I
didn't hear voices, mine was more a bout of mania; not sleeping
for nights and nights and then having very strange ideas about
things and some hallucinations. I know that this was total the
result of not feeling my grief and fear about various things,
choosing instead to fake 'courage' and 'everything being fine'.
I actually consciously shut down my emotions by reasoning that a
person could fully function by logic alone (I was 18 when I did
this) as AJesus has said when you don't feel emotions you invite
all sorts of spirit influence.
So I guess that means you're probably quite a clear medium? Have
you experimented with this?
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When I was psychotic, I would also be convinced of weird things,
and would behave very energetically or assertively, which is
manic, and not sleep normally...
I too know that things have been triggered by not feeling my
emotions, particularly relating to some sexual/romantic pain
with a girl, and also long stored pain of my parents divorce
when I was 12... There's still a lot I have to feel, and I still
struggle with my addiction to get out of my own life, which
maybe is a characteristic of all addiction, avoidance of
reality...
I did hear voices, and I still hear voices often. So yes, I'm
pretty mediumistic.. I wouldn't say I'm a clear medium yet,
because I often get spirits that impersonate AJ I believe.
I have only experimented with channeling once I think, when I
was praying in a christian group. I felt I was channeling a
loving spirit to say some things out loud during prayer... For
the rest I just have conversations in my head often, with people
I feel are outside of me.
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Re: Hi!
By: Victoria7 Date: May 22, 2014, 10:49 am
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I also went through a painful divorce (my parents split when I
was 15/16 ) the spirit influence was a lot to do with not
feeling all the pain of that event.
I have recently found that almost as soon as i ponder a question
the answer comes to me almost immediately - I think this may be
my guide or God...Jesus said in the first century he used to
chat to God like a friend...
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