Tormented Soul

"The findings, in essence, reveal a person of dual identity, with unconscious forces playing a prominent role and holding the key to Voltaire's paradoxical character. His conscious, rational, and cognitively astute self - the standard-bearer of the philosophes in their epochal struggle for freedom - was also responsible for sealing off the subconscious portion of the self associated with traumatic experiences. The elaborate characterological structure erected to ward off consciously unacceptable impulses and, simultaneously, to obtain satisfaction of frustrated needs, is the subject of this study. The price he had to pay for the drastic disconnect between the two selves was formidable. In this volume, much attention is devoted to the unconventional ways and phantasmal stratagems adopted for dealing with the internal pressure of repressed impulses and a perpetual quest for affectional support. Some of these maneuvers show tenuous contact with social reality, as do his bizarre psychosomatic symptoms and bold rationalizations in the Memoirs." "Fortunately for the Western world, Voltaire's prodigious mind was put to use in rattling the cage of the intolerant and rigidly backward theocratic/political system. Due to his immense popularity as a playwright, and his agile participation in current events through a flood of pamphlets, leaflets, and occasional pieces, together with the gigantic volume and engaging style of his correspondence, the name Voltaire became synonymous with the Age of Enlightenment. The dual identity did not interfere with his effectiveness as a humanist. In fact, there is reason to believe that the energy invested in fighting l'infame, the oppressive authority of Church and State, was augmented by a dynamic driving force of the hidden self: the never verbalized and consciously never processed bitter resentment of paternal coercion. Principles and methods of depth psychology, as applied in the study, are elucidated and illustrated."--Jacket.

Tormented Soul is about a middle class American family living in Los Angeles, CA. during the 70s whose daughter becomes possessed by a demon while pretending to be home sick. Once possessed her personality is completely altered and she grips her community with fear as she goes on a crime spree until she is finally stopped by the police in a climatic struggle for life and death that stuns everyone. I am the son of two loving parents who brought me up in Southern, CA. with the knowledge that I could do anything that I put my mind to. I have tried to pass this message on to others as often as I could. Especially to children because there's no greater gift a human being can give to another than the gift of encouragement.

Drawing upon his extraordinary life growing up in Italy, studying the classics at St. Louis University in Naples, and becoming ordained as a Vocationist priest, Fr. Virgil Furfaro shares his innermost thoughts and emotions in this stirring collection of poetry, A Tormented Soul. Furfaro is a true renaissance man—a "consummate doer, thinker, and dreamer" as described by one of his parishioners—and with his poetry proposes a return to the classical ideals, ones that will lead the sterile modern age back to the great values and legends of the past. With his nostalgic look toward the ancient world, Furfaro proposes that yesterday's poetry become today's reality. Of his poetry, Furfaro writes that it "is born from combining the fertile moments of my mind with a psychological, physical, and spiritual anguish that has characterized and tormented me for most of my life." This statement is personified within such poems as "A Cross to See" which explores not only this holiest of Christian symbols, but Furfaro's own tribulations and "Disenchantment," a haunting verse that reveals the deceptiveness of nature. At once powerful in scope, yet elegant in its simplicity, A Tormented Soul reaches to the very essence of our souls, plucks the strings of our hearts, and sets us upon the path to enlightenment.

Antoinette is a young, religious, spunky teen with loads of character. She deems anyone who falls in love as pathetic, but when she meets him, she is conflicted... Does she stay true to her morals and religious values, or does she fall hard and just forget all the advice that she has been taught for the past 15 years? This decision is bigger than to love or not to love, it's a tug of war between her beliefs and her undying soul... Different stories, unique reactions, and loads of emotional outbursts. For some, they find love and acceptance easily, whereas for others, it was always meant to be an emotional rollercoaster. Each scenario leads into a poetic breakthrough of mental courage and life changing epiphanies... This book would be the definition of love, betrayal, unacceptance, and societal uprising bursting at the seams...

The most frightening ghost stories are not fiction; they are the true experiences some families must endure. Continuing her quest, one paranormal investigator lives her life hunting down ghosts, spirits, and demons while helping many families on the way find solutions and peace to their haunting. Tormented Souls contains true cases of paranormal activity; it also educates on how and why some of these ghostly phenomena occur. It takes a look at different paranormal theories, entities, and how to protect yourself from unwanted, invisible, and sometimes, evil intruders. It also covers some basic information on how to properly ghost hunt. If you've ever questioned the belief in the paranormal and the afterlife, this book takes you on a frightening journey you may never forget.

This is the true story of a Christian Survivor of childhood abuse and trauma who suffered with severe physical pains throughout her body and emotional stress, mental anguish and memory loss her entire life due to the stress, depression, PTSD, anxiety and panic disorders as she suffered with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Confusion consumed her every waking moment while she constantly prayed for death on a daily basis and got her courage and strength through God's good grace and Christians all around her. God did answer her prayers when he gave her the energy to run and and he was right there with her as she struggled through the turmoil and fear but he had a plan for her and blessed her with the sanity that he had buried deep inside for her to recover in a later time in her life.

The veil between worlds is a very real place. What lurks within the darkness sometimes wants out of the purgatory it's trapped in. The darkness came back with Isla when she was a very small child. It tormented her through childhood, and continued to torment her into adulthood. To make matters worse, the darkness and ghosts weren't her only tormentors. Isla kissed the veil of death and unwillingly became a beacon for the dead.

Back in the car and heading to Joe’s place, Joe noticed a Bible sitting between them in the seat. Grace detected his glance: “Do you read the Good Book often?” she asked Joe. “No ma’am; not since I was a little boy,” Joe replied through a yawn. “Well, if you don’t have one you can have mine,” she told him with a cheery grin. Joe was bemused. “No, that’s okay. I have one. My mom got it for me when I was six years old.” Grace looked at him. “And you still have it? That’s amazing.” Joe didn’t understand what was so amazing about it. “It’s in a box somewhere.” They were pulling into the apartment complex as Grace said, “I learn something new about God every time I read the Word.” Undoing his seatbelt Joe mumbled, “I know all I need to know about God.” Joe Morgan wakes up from nightmares about the day in church when he was ten years old and the pastor yelled about a sin that can’t be forgiven. Since then, he has left the idea of God far behind, much more concerned with taking care of his self than with running after a Being who damns His creatures to hell. Joe lives the small town life, going to the same bar after work every week with his friend Ray and holding back his feelings for his coworker, Nicole. He’s too caught up in the relationship they already have to risk pushing it into romance. What Joe doesn’t know is that everything is about to change—what he thinks about Nicole, about himself and most of all, about God. How can a stolen truck and two men in the hospital change Joe’s humdrum life? Read Tortured Soul to find out.