good short interview dug out by headpress:
Mad pride and conspiracy theories. A short interview with Simon Morris, perhaps best-known for his work with Ceramic Hobs, who died earlier this year.
headpress.com
"There are liars in Lancashire Care with black hearts and bloated bank accounts from corrupt deals made behind closed doors with local councils, care home scams and the pharmaceutical industry."
Thomas McGrath, interviewer, has an interesting comment: "
What’s your personal understanding of so-called ‘mental illness’? Does it tend to unveil a higher reality, an alternative reality, what? One of the reasons this topic interests me is that a friend of mine was sectioned years ago, and he was very struck how all the other patients there experienced the same archetypal, religious reality, which is increasingly finding a degree of wider credibility through the ‘conspiracy’ movement"
Morris reply: "I’ve had four episodes of full-blown and out of control psychosis in my life to date: 1988, 1989, 1996 and 2010. Each time I entered a different plane to what we usually recognise as reality and I feel quite privileged to have experienced the veils pulled away so dramatically. Time seems to kaleidoscope and its appearance as linear is revealed to be illusion. Intelligent entities which I am fairly sure are non-human have shown themselves and communicated, as I have to them. Being labelled nuts gives both me and the normals a nice get-out clause, I don’t really care what people think. The average working Jill and Joe in 2012 have to medicate themselves into alcoholic stupor more and more often to cope with their lives resembling PKD novels. Yes, the wards in mental hospitals are rife with precog, telepathy, archetypes, echoes, wonder and horror, and there is a swift burn-out rate among those psych nurses who are over-susceptible to picking up the vibrations. I will say that the designers of the newer atypical anti-psychotic drugs deserve thanks despite the corruption of the business they work in: no-one can physically survive for long in the state I’m talking about and short-term use of atypicals can be invaluable for survival. With regard to conspiracy theory I am doubtful about the self-fulfilling sense of paranoia and doom which lies behind it. The future is not pre-written by hidden cabals, we all have a chance to write it. The CIA, the Queen and the Pope don’t necessarily have more information about what’s really happening. I’m reading David Morehouse’s book Psychic Warrior on US military remote viewing projects at the moment, to be quite honest I know many underground artists and musicians working without funding who have as much knowledge of the area and do better, not to mention the hive minds of the net. So, yes, consensus reality certainly has fallen apart increasingly over the last decade. These are very exciting times to live in."