John O'Neill > Quotes

“The inscape is an autohypnotic internal landscape populated by the patient's alters (Young, 1994). The alters typically have distinct bodies in the inscape, with inter-alter consensus as to what each one looks like. Some DID patients have reported having access to such inscapes (presumably through autohypnosis) prior to any treatment. If a dissociative patient seems to have no inscape, guided hypnosis or guided imagery may provide one, for example, as developed by George Fraser (1991) in his Dissociative Table Technique. But in my experience even this therapist initiative typically arrives in a space connecting to a seemingly "ready-made" extended inscape, simple or elaborate, whose "inhabitants" (alters) claim that it preexisted the hypnotic intervention. The space and extended inscape will also have idiosyncratic features, perplexing to the patient and therapist, which later (even years later) prove to have dynamic significance.”
― John O'Neill

“Her constant half-smile reflected the amusement of a time traveler from a long-ago world at the folly of the present world to which she had somehow been transported.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“How can what seems to be many really be one? How can what is one manifest as many? Just what is it that there are many of, and what is it that remains one throughout?”
― John O'Neill

“In the entire history of man, only two human institutions approach continuous existence and succession for more than two thousand years: the Japanese Imperial Succession and the papacy.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“Strake was among the largest single donors in the world to Catholic projects,”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“There were crudely drawn pictures of Christ and Peter bearing the partial inscription: “Peter pray Christ Jesus for the holy….” The remainder of the inscription was missing.82 These inscriptions, written in the middle of a second-century pagan cemetery in Rome, would have been the ancient world equivalent of Isis graffiti on the White House today, or a cross drawn on the Shrine of Khomeini in Teheran.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“The team was about to do a very hard job very badly.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“Hitler, Stalin, and Tojo”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“The Jewish turncoat general Josephus,”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“The Vatican took no official notice of any kind of her death.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“God doesn’t care how much money you have when you die. God does care what you did with the money you had when you were alive.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“He was virtually a polyglot, fluently speaking at least seven languages.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search