constant escape
winter withered, warm
Just realized this is all way off topic.
What was your experience, if you're comfortable sharing it?i got deathly close to true psychosis once; I share the image because it’s funny to me—being psychotic by definition means an incapacity to determine your current state, right?
The craziest thing is that I don't seem nearly this crazy in person. Thats perhaps the biggest hurdle, digitally, when it comes to communicating this stuff. For all I know, I come across as a totally dysfunctional lunatic whose psychic prescriptions are to be avoided like the plague. Granted I still have a ways to go, but mind you these are dispatches from certain depths of metastable psychosis.
and @beiser I've only a thin understanding of clinical psychosis, for what that qualification entails, and I try to distance my usage conceptually by disclaimers such as "artificial" or "metastable", but I do think it is possible to drive yourself into psychic states that would qualify, clinically, as psychopathological.
All part of the larger framework-of-departure. What power does a clinical diagnosis have? Just how substantial are the assertions made by such and such expert? What are the forces compelling you to conform psychically? etc. A lot of overlap with my understanding of magic, as a sort of navigation and manipulation of psychic energy, the manner in which one's reality impresses upon them.
There may be oblique and uncanny benefits, spiritually, to such states. As inferable from that study that @Matthew shared recently, about the connections between hyper-religious psychopathologies and hyper-dopaminergic neuropathologies.
A bit of manageable mania is the best possible human state
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