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This page serves to see guru Jesus as a crank or obsessive-compulsive maniac. Diagnostic criteria are supplied.

Road test of Massa Jesus

The Essence of the Foregoing

Undiagnosed psychopaths and hypocrites came to bring division by deceptions and the like.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

According to the DSM-IV the obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is an Anxiety Disorder characterized by complaints of persistent or repetitive thoughts (obsessions) or conducts (compulsions). The diagnostic criteria are different from those of the obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). OCD symptoms are preferably sorted into "milder" and "quite strong".
Someone with an OCD feels compelled to continue despite an awareness that the thoughts or conducts may be excessive or inappropriate, and feels distress if they stop them. (This is in contrast to "addictive" conducts which produce pleasure or gratification.)

Diagnostic criteria for 300.3 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Either obsessions or compulsions:

Obsessions as defined by (1), (2), (3), and (4):
1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress.
2. The thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems.
3. The person tries to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images, or to neutralise them with some other thought or action.
4. The person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his or her own mind (not imposed from without as in thought insertion)
Compulsions as defined by (1) and (2):
1. Repetitive conducts (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly.
2. The conducts or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these conducts or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive.
At some point during the course of the disorder, the person has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable. Note: This does not apply to children.
The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time consuming (take more than 1 hour a day), or significantly interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships.
If another Axis I disorder is present, the content of the obsessions or compulsions is not restricted to it (e.g., preoccupation with food in the presence of an Eating Disorders; hair pulling in the presence of Trichotillomania; concern with appearance in the presence of Body Dysmorphic Disorder; preoccupation with drugs in the presence of a Substance Use Disorder; preoccupation with having a serious illness in the presence of Hypochondriasis; preoccupation with sexual urges or fantasies in the presence of a Paraphilia; or guilty ruminations in the presence of Major Depressive Disorder).
The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition. Specify in case of Poor Insight: if, for most of the time during the current episode the person does not recognize that the obsessions and compulsions are excessive or unreasonable.

Those who have OCD have a difficult time maintaining emotional and social relations. ALL aspects of the person with OCD should be considered — physical, emotional and intellectual.

Undiagnosed psychopaths may start sects. Christianity started as a very tense, conflict-laden sect of Judaism. What if the originator of Christianity reveals many cardinal marks of psychopaths? If he violates normal human rights, allows you to be "handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and . . . hated" - giving conditions so bad that many "will betray and hate each other" and deceivers will find a "market"? [Matthew 24:9-11] Jesus came to bring division on earth, not peace, he says. [Luke 12:51 etc]
It is his scenario, his "play". Sound individuals are not all that abnormal or antisocial. Yet, as mentioned on the previous page, bear well in mind:

There is no simple definition of mental disorder that is universally satisfactory. This is partly because mental states or behaviour that are viewed as abnormal or pathological in one culture may be regarded as normal or acceptable in another, and in any case it is difficult to draw a line clearly demarcating healthy from pathological mental functioning. [Ebu "mental disorder"]

Hallmarks of mental troubles can still be useful, and are much used. A source of error may lie in the large society with its great estrangements, nervous troubles, and bad looming, so to speak. Besides, many mental illnesses may be induced by relationships with mates, family members, and increasing alienation. [Ebu "Laing, R. D.]

"Jesus and other cult founders breed confusion"

Persons who initially suffer from such as insecurity and lack of social aplomb may be set on a track of no return, and go from a little bad to worse. Some end up paranoid. And Jesus who maintains that "all will hate you", "be not of the world" and so on, may look like a safe haven. The opposite could be true. Many sect leaders are much admired by similar tricks, it seems fair to say.
In the teachings of Jesus there are many elements that suit madcaps in sects and cults. This means Jesus influence madcaps - many sayings of his are on their wavelengths, so to speak. Many have got mad by harsh, "Christian" influence, which wears a mask over tyranny too. Slavery, which is something to deeply regret, is found in the religion of Jesus too. Paul reiterates it in his letter to Titus.
Jesus and other cult founders breed confusion, and seem to thrive on it too, in addition to coercion, internal control, intrigues, pressures and lies. Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) claims to be in liaison with Jesus. Getting away from cults of psychopaths is fit, and not to enter in the first place is even more laudable. But in church that is state-governed as in Norway, it is not easy to stay clean.
We do not ignore the obvious: the gospel's Jesus takes to chimerical visions of the end of time - which did not come when the apostles said, even though they were supposed to have the right spirit. Jesus wanted followers to obey his commands, but all the apostles and the Holy Ghost found that unfit, and dispensed with them [Acts 15; 21:25]. After giving the subject some thought, we think the later-added last part of Matthew is made up, since it does not rhyme with what all the apostles and the Holy Ghost carried through for Gentile Christians. See how they followed Jesus: They dispensed with much of what he said - just like that! It should be valid. Most of his sayings were meant for Jews only. If he fought such an illness, it did not help a lot. For "Jews only" proved him wrong: they had him executed. They could not have been his sheep, despite all he had said to the contrary earlier [John 10:14; 10:26-27].
In the end he asked Peter - not Paul - to take care of his sheep. [John 21:16] And as we have been into, Peter and all the other apostles - and the Holy Ghost - dispensed with enormous amounts of what Jesus had said for Jews. Now four things are required of Gentile followers, the tradition's Christians, then. No to eating blood food is one of the four items on the list. [Acts 15; 21_25]
He says so much, this Jesus: "To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things. But I tell you, Elijah has already come [Matthew 17:11-12]." Hm. He appears to say, "He who has come, comes."

He who sacrifices healthy persons, oversteps

He who sacrifices healthy persons, oversteps. Criminal law and mental institutions is for such ones. God the Father is just that kind, and Jesus say they are one and the same.
Jesus also says those who pretend to be his followers are hypocrites, much worse than whores, even. In the Bible he condemns religious hypocrites, but not adulterers. Still, Acts 15 requires us not to commit adultery, in contrast to many big shots of the Bible. Abraham had children with his half-sister Sara. The Law says it is forbidden, and the punishment is not kind. The sons of Jacob - the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel, broke into their daddy's harem one day and pleased themselves. It was a terrible shame to their old father, it was. King David whored with Batsheba and had her husband killed, and is admired in such circles too. He was not stoned to death, for he was the top dog, you see. As mentioned, even though Jesus condemns hypocrisy, it is blood food like black pudding (and adultery) that all the apostles and the Holy Spirit mark off as naughty, naughty. Jesus says he will not recognise those [Jews] who call him Lord, Lord without doing what he says. He tells [Jewish] followers to sell all they own and says they are sick (!). Quote: "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." "For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." [Matthew 9:12-13]"
"I am making everything new! . . . these words are trustworthy and true [Revel 21:5]" is not the same as "I make all things perverted", is it?

Be not Made an Unlucky Sheep through the Fraud of Others

It may be the fraud of top dogs and influential people in general that tends to do the most harm. As Adolf Hitler says in Mein Kampf: "The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." That could very well be. [Oq 223]
Fraud is not innocent and may lead into insanity by steps. What is being insane? It is not being well and at ease. Devil or lunatic, where is the difference? Whipping of others - minds are "whipped" by dogmatism too - is a means to ensure conformity. Tyrannical people may be encountered in sects and cults. Some are top dogs; most are under-dogs. Being democratic is no help among people with perverted id (libido). If you don't think so, share your ideas.
The belief that the dead are to bury their dead is not a sign of soundness. After thirty years or more in good soil there is nothing left of the corpse, so how could they bury anyone? In the case of skeletons without muscles and sinews left, how can they move and work like the damned pirates in the film "Pirates of the Caribbean"? [Matthew 8:22]
Christian followers are really ill, as they enter a "contract" where they are supposed to find comfort and hope in vicarious sacrifices - in butchering of innocents. Those unlucky sheep. Vicarious sacrifice or scapegoating is not healthy.
A biblical scapegoat is a goat that was symbolically burdened with the sins of the Jewish people and sent into the wilderness in the ceremony for Yom Kippur. A scapegoat has come to mean any group or individual that innocently bears the blame of others, or who "bears the blame for others", or "one that is the object of irrational hostility." Both Biblical and Greek scapegoating should ensure protection from ill fortune for another year. Christianity is marked by this unsound "justification hope" through its belief that Jesus Christ was a God-man who died for the sins of all mankind, even when some goats would have been enough, according to the Bible. Fascists blamed their countries' problems on scapegoats. Jews were among the groups that were demonised. Fascists thought there were "judeo-masonic-bolshevik" conspiracies, and that depriving these demons of their power and influence would cause major problems to go away. [Merriam-Webster, Ebu "scapegoat", "fascism"] In psychology scapegoating is tied in with neuroticism. In a good enough society vicarious scapegoating is to be condemned as corrupt.
What insanity could be:

A deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as schizophrenia);
A mental disorder; a grave disorder of mind that impairs one's capacity to function safely or normally in society;
Such unsoundness of mind or lack of understanding as prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or as removes one from criminal or civil responsibility;
More loosely: extreme folly or unreasonableness, in other words something utterly foolish or unreasonable.

There are textbooks on the subject, and helpful symptom lists.

Understandings of just what is health is not clear-cut.
Being sentimental is seldom a problem.
Neuroses may or may not be cured.
While more severe mental diseases may be reach of contemporary methods of treatment.

The American Psychiatric Association publishes a diagnostic and statistic manual of mental disorders. In its third edition, commonly known as DSM-III-R, we have the finest agreed-on criteria so far. You find all of them below. Refrain from using the criteria to harm people.

A Diagnostic Test of Jesus

Is nasty provocation a reliable part of a road test?

"Massa Jesus" is now just about to be road tested. And if you doubt the practice, that is OK. Ludwig Binswanger once wrote a whole book on a women he had not met, The Case of Ellen West [in . He analysed her from her diary outpourings, without ever having met her. Erik H. Erikson did the same with Martin Luther; he has written a book about him. So why not Jesus?
In the case of Jesus we do not have letters and diary notes by him, only four gospels and letters that speak for him, about him, and often put words in his mouth. The gospel writers were said to have the Holy Spirit of Truth, who Jesus commissioned to remind of all he said. The versions are a bit different, even after they were edited. And that is how we have his teachings. Koestline has gathered all his sayings in What Jesus Said about It [We].
In testing mental sides of others, we have to decide how valid the test can be. Validity is "traditionally defined as the degree to which a test actually measures whatever it purports to measure." How reliable the test is, is another important facet. "A test is reliable to the extent that it measures consistently", it is pointed out. [Ebu "psychological testing"]
Here we study "the Bwana" in the light of a central, diagnostic test from The American Psychiatric Association. Below are quotations from the 3rd edition, commonly known as DSM-III-R, with added comments. Perhaps you should be told in advance that diagnosing mental disorders and abilities is not always as clear-cut as in this case. And there are many other "check lists of mental disorders and the like to run through as well. But this little will do.
Dr. Tollak Sirnes has written books about mental health and psychopaths. They have no normal sense of shame. They lie shamelessly and disregard others, their property, their lives, their heart feelings, and what they own. They are most often beyond the reach of help, but are good at feigning, and very often know how to play on the kindness and goodness of others to the end of giving them hell. The psychopaths may not be healed, and are very good at deceiving others for long. Therefore, the professor says, it is a mistake to try to help such cases, to stick to it with them, to forgive and get abused and get worsened conditions. We do well to try and avoid the "God-ilk", thus.
Now we set out to diagnose someone by way of a diagnostic test. The personality disorder that is laid bare, is thought to be one of the mild ones, and many may improve from this one. It is psychopaths that are the dangerous loonies. They can lie to others, cause slaughter on their victims, their homes, and children, as the case may be. [Toh]
Watch out for Jesus and his ilk. He could be termed a cold-blooded psycho too. In fact, he was called insane and possessed and executed among "other criminals".
So far so good, thought "all the Jews" who had preferred a robber to him at the time.

"There are other mental illnesses to judge him by too"

We will not give you details and references from the scripture in the list. Find them yourself. Suffice to say here that Jesus was called insane, blasphemous and demon-possessed and publicly executed as a criminal against contemporary law.
As part of a Great Tyrant Scheme, did he stand up as a whipper of people in the Roman Empire after he had served his turn as a "whipping boy"? The fact is that four millions of them were killed in Colosseum alone, and there were many other theatres in the empire around the Mediterranean Ocean.
The dictating Jesus has not finished yet, the believers say. He will come and "whip more, more, and even better" is the credo of most believers. Their faith is that "the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky." [Matthew 24:30] Interestingly, the Second Coming is a time for mourning. Do not look forward to being hated either.
Further, the gospels contain very many hints that he had a marked obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, but that is not all of it. There are other mental illnesses to judge him by too, just as the mind doctors in Norway, Denmark and Sweden do. Banding and branding with Jesus must be bad to the degree that "birds of a feather (and also ill sheep) flock together".
When it comes to mental disorders and derangements, things are seldom clear-cut. What an expert has to do, is to base his wary analysis on quite typical conduct more than stray sayings, of course. Recurrent actions do speak louder than words. As for words, often-repeated words should carry more weight than stray ones. There could be exceptions to that, though. The Good Doctor uses the hallmarks of the checklist and counts hits as he sees them. If he is very qualified, he masters to weigh at least some of the parameters too. If not, the rough estimate is that over five markings on the list seem to "make Jesus qualified" as a psychopathic ass - inflicting torture on innocents and the like. When the Jesus you hear of scores on at least five points of the list, beware.
The Jews that condemned him to death and rather would have a highwayman saved, might have said he suffered from a compulsive mental disorder and put him in an asylum back then, but there were not qualified diagnostics and nurses around, it may be said with much assurance.
Here the main point is that if you want to diagnose him and others better, more safely and properly, try to weigh the different scores on the measurement scale - in addition to and often over and above a "yes!" to that "he wanted "be ye perfect as his Father (who was like himself, he says) and inflexible enough to get himself crucified". That is a main criterion, the heading, so to speak for this kind of disorder. Jesus looks greatly marked by submission harshness, excessive and in part morbid morality (cut off your hand if it offends you mentally and such things); and strong wants and demands for control of those around him.
We seem to have a nasty one here. "Why do you call me good?" he keeps asking through the gospel . . . [Mark 10:18]
Well, would you know!
As a quip has it, "An expert is someone from out of town":. Similarly, it might take a psychometrist from another culture than a Jesus-submissive sect to assess that he scores on 7 out of 9 clues, and finalises the issue with a candid "shoo!" in the officially sanctioned ways. However, the "I am God" claimant (Jesus, in this case) has reached the status of God - held up by a public majority in many folks, and being hated by the public is something the doctor may shy away from.
So was Jesus one more megalomaniac who thought highly about himself and wanted others do to it too? How can you find out? Authoritarian figures and especially tyrants - and a lot of those who play their "game" as conform underdogs - may be bullies. And many a bully is a coward within, it is held by many.
Mind heartfelt feelings in filling in your scores of Jesus. Experience counts a lot. Accordingly, fair and bright insiders could know best "where the shoe pinches". Be open to that possibility, at least. You may not get exactly the same score as an expert "from out of town", but the gospel facts add up to some great and sinister signs of a megalomaniac of inflexible, dogmatic mind, or a compulsive personality disorder. He "gambled and lost". Neighbouring peoples were to pay the price of Jesus afterwards. For if he had really atoned for the sins of all, as some so fondly thing, why on earth the millions of martyrs?
His salvation may seem like a trick from the book of a crook. One more reason to suspect that is that it does not contain the repeated promise of getting wealth as a sign of God's blessing and approval. Wealth (mammon) is really a good thing in a life. It fits upright, sensible people. Mark the demands of impoverishments by Jesus run contrary to God's blessings, then. One of them: "I will keep my covenant with you. You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new [Lev 26:9-10]." See also Deut 30:16-17; 31:29 etc.]
When using the items of a test like the one above, what we are doing is to allot scores to someone. Ideas and sentiments that were scattered, can be unified by such an approach, to the end that we get a much better phenomenological grasp on things that are ill defined or difficult to get to grips with at first. Feel free to divide your responses a little bit better than yes-no if you please. This makes weighing the scores much more sensible, and not much more difficult. It can be fun too. Five different responses, such as "Yes indeed! Yes. Neutral or perhaps. No. Blatant no!" may do the work. Give them the numbers 5-4-3-2-1 and add up. This interesting practice is basically subjective. But when several persons apply this Likert scale to the road test of Jesus, the end result is more inter-subjectivity, which can be helpful. Much depends on

Knowing the one investigated, or gospel statements. Be aware that faith is not knowledge, and often opposes it.
The mind level, brightness, stupidity and clarity of the ones who study him;
What the test takers have been told about Jesus already, and so on.

People differ; allow for it and see to sound precautions in time.
Branding by unqualified people does amount to Sachlichkeit in this scenario. Laypersons should refrain from labelling one another satanic and blasphemous and insane - Jesus should have learnt that too. He was treated as it in his day, and hanged on a cross till he died.
It is only wisdom (sensible) to stay carefully away from someone you suspect to be apsychopath after living among his or her adherents and faking followers and studying that one for years.

A Few Examples

Before you diagnose someone beware of possible complications that are or can become involved. [LINK]

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Doggedly callous in his relationships, making martyrs out of people when there is no need for it.

For different cultures it may be necessary to develop specific sets of criteria as to social norms, rules and obligations. For diagnosing most of the subtypes listed below, clear evidence is usually required of the presence of at least three of the traits or behaviours given. [Source: American Psychiatric Association. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed., 1994]
Fifteen percent of the US population suffers from mental illness. Only one-third of people with severe mental illness are ever treated. More than two-thirds are never treated. Therapists often disagree about diagnoses. The same individual may get a different diagnosis depending on which therapist he/she sees, and therapists do not use any internationally accepted, standardized way of making a diagnosis.
There is an internationally accepted standard for psychiatric diagnosis. It is called the European ICD-10 system. This diagnostic system (and its twin, the "DSM-IV" (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Revision, by the American Psychiatric Association) has proven validity and reliability. All psychiatric research now is based on this diagnostic system. Hence, it is possible to decrease the problem of diagnostic confusion.
Most mentally ill persons deny they are ill, do not accept that they are ill. Nor should healthy ones accept being wrongly labeled and wrongly diagnosed.
A confidential computerised record could help, a private diary, or self-diagnosis. In this case we have the four gospels and the set of diagnostic criteria to help us. [LINK]

How Paranoid was Jesus toward the End?

Luckily, there is much biblical evidence by way of sprawling accounts from the last days of Jesus and his "executive functioning" then. To what degree may a modern doctor find paranoia in "God and God's Son" at that time - forsaken by the Father but one with him - maintaining to be God himself otherwise? Outcomes depend on both the criteria used, how biblical evidence is interpreted, and what weight the diagnostician might prefer to give the most salient points.
The paranoid personality disorder is marked by at least 3 of the traits in a list. See for yourself; learn to weigh evidence. [LINK]

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Ay: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 1st ed. New York: Theosophical, 1946. Online. [oaks.nvg.org/pv6bk12.html]
Co: Watson, Burton, tr. The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.
Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006.
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On: Mata, Daya. "Only Love". Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1976.
Pa: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971.
Toh: Sirnes, Tollak. - at vi skal elske hverandre (- that we shall love each other). Oslo: Gyldendal, 1968.
We: Koestline, Henry. What Jesus Said about It. New York: Signet, 1970.

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