I believe the esoteric words below, as given by the masters of the wisdom, if deeply considered and given due reflection, and taking sometimes a key sentence or few words, will relate much that is occurring with regard to those in society suffering from behavioural and co-operation difficulties.

These words are absolutely crucial in understanding the true underlying nature of the common and prominent psychological conditions that society and the medical profession are confronted with today. Some thoughts for consideration. JPC.

It is not easy for the scientific psychological investigator to accept the premise of the substitution of the consciousness of another entity in the place of the consciousness of the one who has been unable to hold the link within the brain with adequate positiveness. But, speaking as one who knows, such cases frequently occur. EP2 420.

One of the activities ahead of the occult student is the study and the scientific observation of this matter. DK.

Obsession must be very clearly defined. Heart 213.

Hence, physicians could do so much useful work by directing attention to obsession. Ask the physician whether he did not notice special peculiarities in the eyes of obsessed persons. For one can judge duality of existence by the eyes.

But I do not refer to a purely superficial manifestation such as a dull or shifting glance. Other symptoms must be observed. One can also observe symptoms in the walk, the voice, and even a change in the weight.

Do not ask psychiatrists about it, because their theories are fossilized, but physicians of the new type can observe impartially. And yet, how greatly such observations are needed, now when obsession is becoming epidemic! Heart 219.

Pay attention to the unprecedented obsession. Heart 266.

Obsession occurs easily during such a depleted condition. Do not regard it as an exaggeration that almost half of the planet's population is exposed to this danger.

It varies in degree, yet once the decomposition sets in it progresses rapidly. FW1 185.

At this particular period of the world's history the emotional plane is so densely populated and the response of the physical to the emotional is now becoming so exquisitely attuned, that the danger of obsession is greater than ever heretofore. LOM 123.

The infection of obsession. FW3 557.

The influence of mania or obsession. FW3 57.

Obsession and insanity are very closely allied. LOM 126.

During obsession a most objectionable violation takes place, and rational cooperation is eliminated from the consciousness. FW1 555.

Such lack of self-control indicates obsession. SM1 167.

One must primarily discriminate where there is Good, and where essentially there is harm.

Thus, the flaming heart will discern immediately where obsession is concealed. Heart 213.

Is it possible to conceive of cooperation with a traitor or a blasphemer? FW2 445.

You know how obsession gradually destroys the organism; the paralysis of certain nerve centers is inevitable. Heart 219.

One should pay attention to the different shades of the manifestations. Primarily, observation will reveal a general design, but the attentive observer will detect a great number of original details. AUM 206.

True, it varies in degree, yet once the decomposition sets in it progresses rapidly. FW1 185.

One can observe chronic, protracted or temporary symptoms. FW1 278.

Condemnation. Violent and abusive/threatening language:

It happens that people are so savage of spirit that they can only live by condemning each other. This is not an inspection of another's armor with the view of helping; on the contrary, condemnation becomes the meaning of life. If one deprives such a condemner of his tongue, he will perish and wither like a plant without water.

Such a manifestation can be investigated from a medical point of view. One can see in this condemnation a kind of obsessive vampirism, when the possession of more active vital fluids is needed to nourish the obsessed one.

This aspect of life ought and must be investigated with a scientific purpose. Heart 169.

Symptoms of obsession are assuming the proportions of an epidemic. They are far more numerous than the human mind imagines.

Moreover, the varieties are highly diverse-from an almost imperceptible eccentricity up to violence. FW1 278.

The malevolent (or if you prefer eccentric) Mahatma Letters.

Selfish and malevolent purposes or kind-hearted. adapted. CWL.

Whether benevolent or malevolent. Mahatma Letters.

It already has been said that upon discovering obsession one must either drive out the obsessor or leave the obsessed person alone in quiet and solitude; because then the obsessor, unable to find a field of activity, will become bored and depart.

Of course, it is best not to allow the obsessed persons either weapons or alcohol, but in such a way that they shall not in the least feel their isolation. Heart 235.

People often do not understand wherein lies the boundary of violence. Some tend to use violence, others seek violence both are against the nature of the Fire. FW2 24.

Fear is not attractive, violence is repellent. FW2 28.

Precisely, ignorant compulsion can violate the harmony of combinations. Nature, both in the small and the great, is opposed to any violence. FW2 251.

There is too much obsession on Earth. The sole path to the Higher Communion is through the heart. Violence must not stain this fiery path. Can people possibly think that the invocation of lower entities can go unpunished! FW2 249.

The most common form of obsession…

It leads, in the ensuing struggle, to the violent scenes of screaming lunatics and to the paroxysms of the epileptic. LOM126.

It often occurs during a temporary blacking out of consciousness, when, as some researchers believe, the consciousness comes in contact with waves of chaos and the abnormality results. This observation is undoubtedly sound. SMD2 284.

Also tell the physician that not all obsessions are necessarily dark ones. There may be influences from the middle spheres, which, in the belief of the obsessors, are directed for good, although no especially good results will be derived.

The obsessors are of such low degrees and the vehicles within their reach are of no high development, thus, duality of thinking, imbalance, and a lack of self-control result. There are many such people, who are called weak-willed; in fact, the two wills weaken each other.

One can cure such persons only by giving them the work that they prefer, but in very intensive measure. The obsessor becomes irked, remaining without an outlet during such concentrated work, for every obsessor seeks to express his own ego. FW1 283.

May work out on the physical plane as powerful action and even violent action, and may lead a man into much trouble, into conflict with organized society, thus making him anti-social and at variance with the forces of law and order. EP2 460.

It can be said that the majority of those suffering from venereal disease are not strangers to obsession. FW1 278.

It may be the desire to kill, or desire to have abnormal sexual experience, or even the desire to be ever on the move and thus constantly active. EP2 460.

The physician is correct in wishing to visit not only insane asylums but also prisons. It would not be out of place to visit the stock exchange also, or the deck of a ship in time of danger. FW1 278.

Let us not forget that obsession is sometimes manifested cutaneously, or by twitchings of the face. FW1 137.

There is a low vitality, a lack of desire impulses, a failure to register adequate dynamic incentives, immaturity and sometimes obsession or possession. EP2 419.

Very often a single conversation about the significance of Agni begins to act upon the obsessor. Fearing fire, the very mention of the fiery energy angers him and forces him to retreat. FW1 373.

Periodically there may be a relaxation of the obsession, such a method is employed by the obsessors if they value the victim. AUM 305.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder:

That psychological phenomenon called id e fixe. EP2 454.

There is a curious state of mind called id e fixe. I am not referring to possession, which may have similar symptoms, but to obsessive, constantly repeated assertions, which can have a special significance.

Medical science considers the id e fixe to be dangerous, but this is a baseless judgment. If we accept this opinion, we must then consider many splendid scientific minds insane! SMD2 360.

Mental insanity or id e fixe. Glam 29.

In any case - again for a disciple - any id e fixe (beyond that of a right spiritual orientation) can be a deterrent to progress, if fanatically motivated. DINA1 583.

Obsession and insanity are very closely allied. LOM 126.

Those in which the mind is unduly fixed and static and controls the brain so unreasonably that there seems only one point of view, one attitude to life, and no fluidity and capability of adjustment. Such individuals may suffer, for instance, from what is called id e fixe, or they may be completely the victim of some obsessing mental thought. EH 317.

The tendency to crystallize, to harden, or to have an "id e fixe." In this connection, it will usually be discovered that the man who succumbs to an "id e fixe" has not only a fifth ray mental body but either a sixth ray personality or a sixth ray emotional body. EP2 293.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:

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People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suffer intensely from recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or rituals (compulsions), which they feel they cannot control. Rituals such as handwashing, counting, checking, or cleaning are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away. Performing these rituals, however, provides only temporary relief, and not performing them markedly increases anxiety. Left untreated, obsessions and the need to perform rituals can take over a person's life. OCD is often a chronic, relapsing illness.

Repetitive behaviors (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

the behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive

The essential feature of this disorder is recurrent obsessional thoughts or compulsive acts. (For brevity, "obsessional" will be used subsequently in place of "obsessive-compulsive" when referring to symptoms.) Obsessional thoughts are ideas, images or impulses that enter the individual's mind again and again in a stereotyped form. They are almost invariably distressing (because they are violent or obscene, or simply because they are perceived as senseless) and the sufferer often tries, unsuccessfully, to resist them. They are, however, recognized as the individual's own thoughts, even though they are involuntary and often repugnant. Compulsive acts or rituals are stereotyped behaviours that are repeated again and again. They are not inherently enjoyable, nor do they result in the completion of inherently useful tasks.

The individual often views them as preventing some objectively unlikely event, often involving harm to or caused by himself or herself. Usually, though not invariably, this behaviour is recognized by the individual as pointless or ineffectual and repeated attempts are made to resist it; in very long-standing cases, resistance may be minimal. Autonomic anxiety symptoms are often present, but distressing feelings of internal or psychic tension without obvious autonomic arousal are also common. There is a close relationship between obsessional symptoms, particularly obsessional thoughts, and depression. Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder often have depressive symptoms, and patients suffering from recurrent depressive disorder may develop obsessional thoughts during their episodes of depression. In either situation, increases or decreases in the severity of the depressive symptoms are generally accompanied by parallel changes in the severity of the obsessional symptoms.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is equally common in men and women, and there are often prominent anankastic features in the underlying personality. Onset is usually in childhood or early adult life. The course is variable and more likely to be chronic in the absence of significant depressive symptoms.

Diagnostic Guidelines:

For a definite diagnosis, obsessional symptoms or compulsive acts, or both, must be present on most days for at least 2 successive weeks and be a source of distress or interference with activities. The obsessional symptoms should have the following characteristics:

(a) they must be recognized as the individual's own thoughts or impulses:

(b) there must be at least one thought or act that is still resisted unsuccessfully, even though others may be present which the sufferer no longer resists;

(c) the thought of carrying out the act must not in itself be pleasurable (simple relief of tension or anxiety is not regarded as pleasure in this sense);

(d) the thoughts, images, or impulses must be unpleasantly repetitive.

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Tourette Syndrome And Other Tic Disorders (TS): 

first described by Gilles de la Tourette, can be the most debilitating tic disorder, and is characterized by multiform, frequently changing motor and phonic tics. The prevailing diagnostic criteria include onset before the age of 21; recurrent, involuntary, rapid, purposeless motor movements affecting multiple muscle groups; one or more vocal tics; variations in the intensity of the symptoms over weeks to months (waxing and waning); and a duration of more than one year.

While the criteria appear basically valid, they are not absolute. First, there have been rare cases of TS which have emerged later than age 21. Second, the concept of "involuntary" may be hard to define operationally, since some patients experience their tics as having a volitional component - a capitulation to an internal urge for motor discharge accompanied by psychological tension and anxiety. Finally, the diagnostic criteria do not adequately portray the full range of behavioral difficulties that are commonly observed in TS patients, such as attentional problems, compulsions, and obsessions.

Symptomatology:

The varied symptoms of TS can be divided into motor, vocal, and behavioral manifestations (Table 1). Simple motor tics are fast, darting, meaningless muscular events . They can be embarrassing or even painful (such as jaw snapping). They are easily distinguished from simple muscular twitches or rapid fasciculations, e.g., of the eyelid or lip. Complex motor tics often are slower, more purposeful in appearance, and more easily described with terms used for deliberate actions (Table 2). Complex motor tics can be virtually any type of movement that the body can produce including gyrating, hopping, clapping, tensing arm or neck muscles, touching people or things, and obscene gesturing.

At some point in the continuum of complex motor tics, the term "compulsion" seems appropriate for capturing the organized, ritualistic character of the actions. The need to do and then redo or undo the same action a certain number of times (e.g., to stretch out an arm ten times before writing, to even up, or to stand up and push a chair into "just the right position") is compulsiv