This unique, authoritative, yet easy-to-grasp, expanded brochure consists of excerpts from the author's book, When OCPD Meets the Power of God! It discusses in exacting detail one of the seven 'arenas' which often BLOCKS the emergence of psychological 'Insight' from occurring in the OCPD mind (the ESSENTIAL factor the OCPD person MUST acquire for him or her to become psychologically well) - the ONE arena that falls into the realm of the paranormal, or the malevolent supernatural. This compact treatise, then, makes plain what skilled and highly educated mental health practitioners and researchers would ridicule, are ignorant of, or fail to discern, due to a near universally-extent, academic, indoctrinated bias toward the incorporeal or transcendent. YOU, however, dear reader, need not be blinded to the Reality and Liberating Truth on this subject IF you truly are open-minded and subscribe to the doctrine of 'Free Inquiry' -- willing to go, intellectually, wherever the evidence may lead! And, most importantly, this brochure presents the specific ways and means for the OCPD person to find PERMANENT deliverance from their bondage, should such unseen forces be afflicting them, after all! Hello, dear friend, my name is Mack Ethridge, award-winning writer, health researcher, and educator. And I have vital, tremendously IMPORTANT, life-saving OCPD Knowledge to share with you. As you read the following, think deeply about what I have to say, then let your God-given intelligence lead you to ANSWERS that are real and true! To begin with, our best scientists, researchers, and psychologists, alike, are all at a loss to explain what is often the total absence of Insight in OCPD stricken people. How is it that these people, often highly intelligent and observant in many other respects, are so 'blind' to their own self-sabotaging ways? Why can they not 'see' what they are doing to themselves, and their fellows? How can it possibly be that what is so obvious to virtually everyone else, they are oblivious to? It simply does not make sense. This, at present, is a great mystery at which investigators and researchers are obliged to just throw up their hands, and turn away from - in stunned disbelief and perplexity. They have no answer, as the whole situation appears completely inexplicable! SOMETHING is clearly prohibiting OCPD people from realizing the Truth about their highly dysfunctional behavior. It is as if the OCPD person were viewing everyday life with extremely faulty lenses, obscuring and distorting what is directly in front of their faces. Or, put another way, it is as if a concealing, partitioning WALL of DARKNESS stands between them and Reality. The following are all proposed causes of, or contributing factors to, OCPD: Poor or inadequate socialization, brain dysfunction or abnormality, genetic predisposition, etc. And these can all be factors -to be sure. Yet, we are dealing with something, a mechanism or compelling influence, if you will, that renders a person's thinking distorted, negative and pessimistic, incomplete or partial, detrimental to their self at nearly all levels, and which mechanism is incapable of detection (by the unsuspecting person, at least). It is 'cloaked' under thoughts, feelings, and impressions, which are made to 'feel right' to the OCPD person, yet are absolutely wrong in the sense of their deleterious effect upon them, and those who are made to suffer along with them. How is this to be explained? What is shutting off the OCPD person's sight so effectively, so thoroughly? How are thoughts which are not wholly sane, made to APPEAR sane, and be accepted by the OCPD person as true? And how is it that when irrefutable evidence to the contrary is presented to the OCPD person that their entire approach to life is backward and self-defeating, they still cannot see the falsity of their unjustifiable mental positions and behavioral stance? This book tells you how. May God grant you conviction to be
About the Author: Mack Ethridge is uniquely qualified as no other person alive today to author 'OCPD Bondage and Spiritual Warfare' (and, 'When OCPD Meets the Power of God!') as he is America's premier OCPD lay expert, having written the world's first and only comprehensive textbook and original, innovative workbooks on Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, supplying his best-selling treatment and recovery volumes to the North Shore/Long Island Health Care System in New York; and he is also a leading expert on little-known, also new and restored, specialized aspects of Biblical knowledge (concerning our astounding Identity in Christ, claiming our Freedom in Christ, exercising our Authority in Christ, and, perhaps most importantly, obtaining the Deliverance available through Christ, at every level of our beings, including mental/emotional/psychological, as well as spiritual); whose books are in the private libraries of such world notables as Professor N.T. Wright, Andy Andrews, Claire Pfann, Marilla Ness, Akiane Kramarik, Tony Robbins, and Pastor Joel Osteen. And he heads the Mercy Rose Ministries Worldwide Outreach, in operation, now, for nine years, as its Founder and Operational Director. And with profound, scholarly Insights into the psychological makeup and inner motivations of OCPD people, arrived at through thousands of hours, spanning a number of years, of research, ongoing direct, intimate contact, interaction with, and keen observation of OCPD persons, and Mack's intensive decades-long heart search into the spiritual depths of authentic Biblical Christianity, Mack stands wholly unequalled among OCPD researchers, writers, and instructors, as well as clearly unmatched among Christian ministers, teachers, and counselors, in his ability to convey Vital, life-freeing practices, disciplines, and Truths to OCPD people in the capacity of Master Teacher and Christian Scholar/Counselor, par excellence! This one-of-a-kind psycho-spiritual combination of knowledge, skills, and heavenly communication gift of Mack's, so expertly synthesized, has produced several volumes destined to become trailblazing classics in the annals of OCPD Hope for Healing messages and Practices, and Illuminated Philosophy, for the OCPD person to safeguard and preserve their new-found, or rather newly-bestowed Freedom and Deliverance, and Victory, from Above - at long last! PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: IOCDF; NAMI; Columbia Univ. N.Y. State Psych. Inst.; NIMH; and Mental Illness Research Assoc.(MIRA)