Hub You - Reflections On Madness

Madness is contact with other dimensions. There are patterns, clinical categories and the baffled look from the viewers of the outside. Madness itself though has its own internal logic like a theatre play or work of art. The mad occupy a world that is very real to them. I believe that we all harbour archetypes in our subconscious and that these surface in madness. It is a collective unconsciousness relived on individual terms. Madness is a larger than life experience and it breaks all barriers and boundaries we are accustomed to. It is not yet proven that madness is a brain disease, although this is how it is treated by today’s medical community and society. There are disputes not only within the psychiatric field that madness is part of an individuation process and not always an illness parse. The latter view strongly alters the perception of madness. If there are forms of madness which belong to the area of self-growth and individuation rather than just to illness, then, what does this say about our current treatment of madness? Madness gets locked away, it is relegated to the fringes of society, the mad are medicated, supervised, picked up by the police, kept in confinement by lawyers, judges, doctors and families. The world of the mad is shunned away, neither doctors, nor nurses, nor lawyers or judges, often also not the afflicted families, actually enter the mindset of madness. It is kept abreast by being ignored and medicated. All this whilst madness can be amazingly creative, nurturing and insightful. Madness in my experience is an amazing poetic and oeneric production and it should not be relegated to the fringes of society or consciousness. The mad conjure up entirely new worlds, new systems of organization and communication, the mad invent languages and have often a very special relationship to the arts. The creative aspects of madness should be allowed to live and to have a space in which to unfold. They should not be repressed. The upside of madness is often accompanied by a down side. Here too, therapy should enter this dark side of consciousness and the soul in order to allow these other worlds to have room to breath. What happens today in regard to madness is that it is silenced. It is robbed of its voice. There were times and cultures where the mad had a special status. In Shakespeare’s world for example, or among the many shamanistic cultures of American Indians, South American Indians, the Celts and others. It is only in modern times that the voice of the mad has been muted. It is left to the world of the insane without any interest from the so called healthy and normal world. The mad are often visionaries who in other cultures might achieve the status of a magician, doctor, artist or oracle and I wonder whether we as a culture by silencing the voice of the mad are not doing tremendous harm to our culture at large. Leaving untapped resources of the mind and soul go to waste. What does this say about us?

Films like the One who flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest still ring very close to home especially where closed psychiatric institutions are concerned. Closed psychiatric institutions are not friendly places. They are places of alienation and pain. There is a tremendous amount of suffering and all involved are hard pressed in coping with the strength and fervour with which mad people inhabit their own seemingly “isolated” space and time. For patients it is unfathomable to suffer the degradation and humiliation of being robbed of one’s usual freedoms. Locked wards are like prisons. Hopefully there will be a time in the future when locked wards will be looked at with disbelief. I am certain there will come a time when this form of incarceration will be seen as what it is, a violation of human rights and dignity. The mad are sentient beings often even more sensitive to infringements of basic freedoms than the normal because for the mad often the very social order and way of human beings relating to one another has become a primary question and focus of their attention. Often the very rules and regulations that make up a psychiatric ward are a mirror of regulatory mechanisms present in society under which the so called mad already suffer more than others. The mad are often the more sensitive in a culture. I am convinced that psychiatry is in need of tremendous reform into areas hitherto thought unthinkable. The actual content of a psychosis needs to be integrated and a part of therapy from very early on. Psychoses need to be seen as part of an individuation process and the patient should be viewed anew under this light. The patient role of the passive person who is treated should be activated to become a full fledged human being undergoing tremendous labour of the psyche and the soul. Psychiatric institutions should aid such people on their journey in talk-therapy, art, dance, music therapies and so on, the actual content of the psychosis should become part of the content of therapy. The mind of the “patient” should be engaged with even during acute phases of a psychosis. Experiments of this kind have existed. John Wier Perry ran a house in San Francisco in the 1970`s called diabase, where first time schizophrenic patients could go and live out their madness without medical sedation. The house was open and the staff and doctors accompanied the “patient” on their journeys into the subconscious. The experience made at diabase showed that most people undergoing a first psychosis would remain in a state of madness for about 40 days after which period the “patient” would out of her or his own accord gradually move back into “normality” again. Now I am not advocating that mental patients stop taking their medicine. I am on medication and would not dream of discontinuing it for obvious reasons. I have unfortunately had relapses when going off the medication. So I urge anyone reading this to not stop taking their medication and to make changes in your medication only with the advice of your doctor, family and friends. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that medication is all too rapidly conceded to when it comes to mental health. John Weir Perry argues even that patients who were treated with medication during a first time psychosis, repressing the symptoms, had a much higher relapse rate than first time psychosis patients. So the question of medication should always be considered very carefully.

Next to the pain psychiatric institutions are also places where great creativity and fragility can be found. The human condition in all its most multifaceted forms. They are places of imagination, poetry and strength above and beyond the paths and orbits of misery which are drawn in these places. The mad speak and think in tongues. There are the languages of depression, of mania, of schizophrenia, but then these are terms the psychotic don’t know or use. This is the language of the normal. To a mad person such categories do not exist. What exists is an endless boundless universe of connections, threads, lightning rods mental and linguistic bursting stars or burnt out amber. The mad have an energy of their own. Their body, mind and soul are like on strings. Imperceptible to weather and times of the day madness is above all a great wide continuum boundless and oceanic. It is one of the most dreadful and most beautiful places I have ever been to.

Madness substantially alters the chemistry of the body and the world. My flesh is of this world and the world is made of my flesh. Everything is illuminated and all things are possible. Like when I dressed up as Lenny Kravitz's sister, thinking I am connected to an eternal flow of money, walking into my bank and telling the perplexed bank officer that I am expecting a sum in the order of 20 Million Euros being transferred to my account and demonstrating how I would invest this money in the arts, in film, music, theatre, printing and the like. Good progressive investment, wanting to create a new superstructure in the world, quoting Marx and showing him my lists of music, film and publishing companies I had researched. Not bad really, feminist, progressive, up on the newest and most important going on in today’s culture. I had all of progressive Hollywood, French and German film, books and music on my list. My performance was really good, so good, that I wonder even in my sane state, how come nobody at the bank called me later in order to make this eternal well of money flow for the arts,- instead my ex-husband got called with the question what strange things his former wife is up to.

The down side of my psychoses was a severe bout of Satanism with incessant images of sadist, demonical and cannibalistic images, practices and language running in my brain and eyes, even more, afflicting my entire body. This psychosis was really serious and of a magnitude that would it not have been stopped, I wonder whether I would still be alive today. In hindsight my illness is called an affective-schizophrenic paranoia. At the time however it was sheer paradise and hell. Hieronymus Bosch paintings had come alive and were haunting me. Devil Dogs and scenes from Apocalypse Now running in my brain. Monster-like animals attacking people and this was for real, foresight I was having of what was to come. No surprise, I was reading a lot of Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra, creating a new body myself, a higher body, a celestial body fit to stand the test of such trials, pain and suffering. I wished to be the young woman I had once been unhampered by such images, not knowing that such things could exist. Having my head up in the clouds, clean fresh mountain air and thoughts unhampered by Satanism, cannibalism and all its myriad forms of torment. I wished to be with Nietzsche’s `Daughters of the Desert`, “For with them was there equally good clear oriental air, there was I furthest from cloudy, damp, melancholy old Europe! Then did I love such oriental maidens and other blue kingdoms of heaven, over which hung no clouds and no thoughts.”

Why I was hit with a psychosis of this particular coloring I don’t know. I have never been interested in Satanism. Cannibalism is a horror to me also in my sane moments and I always thought I knew what evil was and that this could not touch me. I don’t stem from an overly religious background. There were sides to my psychosis with very strong religious overtones. Yes, my family is religious, yet in a very personal way. We are neither zealots nor fundamentalists. I myself believe in a higher spirituality and intelligence at work in the universe. I also believe in reincarnation, however, in a very abstract way, there is a world spirit which reincarnates in its myriad forms. Paraphrasing Rumi, once I am born as fire, then again as a stone, then again as water and so on. I do not believe that the mentally ill are possessed by evil spirits as some do. I feel that psychotics are deeply fragile souls who are in pain at times and then again they are visionaries of the highest order. I do ask myself why is my illness a psychosis and not another form of illness. What is my psychosis trying to communicate to me. Why did I choose to leave the world of women and men to live in some other far of place with imaginary women and men? What does my psychosis tell me about myself, after all, I conjured up world wide conspiracy scheme, a very dualistic world picture with good and evil distinctly marketed? At the same time I feel very strongly that madness has as much to say about this world as sanity does. Madness is also a mirror held to our society. What exactly is it that makes up the world of the insane, their mood swings, their emotional intelligence, their far out imagination? Insanity is often accompanied by a boundless sense of the imagination and a tremendous capacity of joy within the utmost structures of pain. The mad conjure up the world a new, invent new languages, meaning and thought patterns. Madness can be a highly creative process although it not always is. A Guide To A Mortgage Borrower's Rights In Australia
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Films like the One who flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest still ring very close to home especially where closed psychiatric institutions are concerned. Closed psychiatric institutions are not friendly places. They are places of alienation and pain. There is a tremendous amount of suffering and all involved are hard pressed in coping with the strength and fervour with which mad people inhabit their own seemingly “isolated” space and time. For patients it is unfathomable to suffer the degradation and humiliation of being robbed of one’s usual freedoms. Locked wards are like prisons. Hopefully there will be a time in the future when locked wards will be looked at with disbelief. I am certain there will come a time when this form of incarceration will be seen as what it is, a violation of human rights and dignity. The mad are sentient beings often even more sensitive to infringements of basic freedoms than the normal because for the mad often the very social order and way of human beings relating to one another has become a primary question and focus of their attention. Often the very rules and regulations that make up a psychiatric ward are a mirror of regulatory mechanisms present in society under which the so called mad already suffer more than others. The mad are often the more sensitive in a culture. I am convinced that psychiatry is in need of tremendous reform into areas hitherto thought unthinkable. The actual content of a psychosis needs to be integrated and a part of therapy from very early on. Psychoses need to be seen as part of an individuation process and the patient should be viewed anew under this light. The patient role of the passive person who is treated should be activated to become a full fledged human being undergoing tremendous labour of the psyche and the soul. Psychiatric institutions should aid such people on their journey in talk-therapy, art, dance, music therapies and so on, the actual content of the psychosis should become part of the content of therapy. The mind of the “patient” should be engaged with even during acute phases of a psychosis. Experiments of this kind have existed. John Wier Perry ran a house in San Francisco in the 1970`s called diabase, where first time schizophrenic patients could go and live out their madness without medical sedation. The house was open and the staff and doctors accompanied the “patient” on their journeys into the subconscious. The experience made at diabase showed that most people undergoing a first psychosis would remain in a state of madness for about 40 days after which period the “patient” would out of her or his own accord gradually move back into “normality” again. Now I am not advocating that mental patients stop taking their medicine. I am on medication and would not dream of discontinuing it for obvious reasons. I have unfortunately had relapses when going off the medication. So I urge anyone reading this to not stop taking their medication and to make changes in your medication only with the advice of your doctor, family and friends. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that medication is all too rapidly conceded to when it comes to mental health. John Weir Perry argues even that patients who were treated with medication during a first time psychosis, repressing the symptoms, had a much higher relapse rate than first time psychosis patients. So the question of medication should always be considered very carefully.

Next to the pain psychiatric institutions are also places where great creativity and fragility can be found. The human condition in all its most multifaceted forms. They are places of imagination, poetry and strength above and beyond the paths and orbits of misery which are drawn in these places. The mad speak and think in tongues. There are the languages of depression, of mania, of schizophrenia, but then these are terms the psychotic don’t know or use. This is the language of the normal. To a mad person such categories do not exist. What exists is an endless boundless universe of connections, threads, lightning rods mental and linguistic bursting stars or burnt out amber. The mad have an energy of their own. Their body, mind and soul are like on strings. Imperceptible to weather and times of the day madness is above all a great wide continuum boundless and oceanic. It is one of the most dreadful and most beautiful places I have ever been to.

Madness substantially alters the chemistry of the body and the world. My flesh is of this world and the world is made of my flesh. Everything is illuminated and all things are possible. Like when I dressed up as Lenny Kravitz's sister, thinking I am connected to an eternal flow of money, walking into my bank and telling the perplexed bank officer that I am expecting a sum in the order of 20 Million Euros being transferred to my account and demonstrating how I would invest this money in the arts, in film, music, theatre, printing and the like. Good progressive investment, wanting to create a new superstructure in the world, quoting Marx and showing him my lists of music, film and publishing companies I had researched. Not bad really, feminist, progressive, up on the newest and most important going on in today’s culture. I had all of progressive Hollywood, French and German film, books and music on my list. My performance was really good, so good, that I wonder even in my sane state, how come nobody at the bank called me later in order to make this eternal well of money flow for the arts,- instead my ex-husband got called with the question what strange things his former wife is up to.

The down side of my psychoses was a severe bout of Satanism with incessant images of sadist, demonical and cannibalistic images, practices and language running in my brain and eyes, even more, afflicting my entire body. This psychosis was really serious and of a magnitude that would it not have been stopped, I wonder whether I would still be alive today. In hindsight my illness is called an affective-schizophrenic paranoia. At the time however it was sheer paradise and hell. Hieronymus Bosch paintings had come alive and were haunting me. Devil Dogs and scenes from Apocalypse Now running in my brain. Monster-like animals attacking people and this was for real, foresight I was having of what was to come. No surprise, I was reading a lot of Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra, creating a new body myself, a higher body, a celestial body fit to stand the test of such trials, pain and suffering. I wished to be the young woman I had once been unhampered by such images, not knowing that such things could exist. Having my head up in the clouds, clean fresh mountain air and thoughts unhampered by Satanism, cannibalism and all its myriad forms of torment. I wished to be with Nietzsche’s `Daughters of the Desert`, “For with them was there equally good clear oriental air, there was I furthest from cloudy, damp, melancholy old Europe! Then did I love such oriental maidens and other blue kingdoms of heaven, over which hung no clouds and no thoughts.”

Why I was hit with a psychosis of this particular coloring I don’t know. I have never been interested in Satanism. Cannibalism is a horror to me also in my sane moments and I always thought I knew what evil was and that this could not touch me. I don’t stem from an overly religious background. There were sides to my psychosis with very strong religious overtones. Yes, my family is religious, yet in a very personal way. We are neither zealots nor fundamentalists. I myself believe in a higher spirituality and intelligence at work in the universe. I also believe in reincarnation, however, in a very abstract way, there is a world spirit which reincarnates in its myriad forms. Paraphrasing Rumi, once I am born as fire, then again as a stone, then again as water and so on. I do not believe that the mentally ill are possessed by evil spirits as some do. I feel that psychotics are deeply fragile souls who are in pain at times and then again they are visionaries of the highest order. I do ask myself why is my illness a psychosis and not another form of illness. What is my psychosis trying to communicate to me. Why did I choose to leave the world of women and men to live in some other far of place with imaginary women and men? What does my psychosis tell me about myself, after all, I conjured up world wide conspiracy scheme, a very dualistic world picture with good and evil distinctly marketed? At the same time I feel very strongly that madness has as much to say about this world as sanity does. Madness is also a mirror held to our society. What exactly is it that makes up the world of the insane, their mood swings, their emotional intelligence, their far out imagination? Insanity is often accompanied by a boundless sense of the imagination and a tremendous capacity of joy within the utmost structures of pain. The mad conjure up the world a new, invent new languages, meaning and thought patterns. Madness can be a highly creative process although it not always is. Resources for Homeschooling Help
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Next to the pain psychiatric institutions are also places where great creativity and fragility can be found. The human condition in all its most multifaceted forms. They are places of imagination, poetry and strength above and beyond the paths and orbits of misery which are drawn in these places. The mad speak and think in tongues. There are the languages of depression, of mania, of schizophrenia, but then these are terms the psychotic don’t know or use. This is the language of the normal. To a mad person such categories do not exist. What exists is an endless boundless universe of connections, threads, lightning rods mental and linguistic bursting stars or burnt out amber. The mad have an energy of their own. Their body, mind and soul are like on strings. Imperceptible to weather and times of the day madness is above all a great wide continuum boundless and oceanic. It is one of the most dreadful and most beautiful places I have ever been to.

Madness substantially alters the chemistry of the body and the world. My flesh is of this world and the world is made of my flesh. Everything is illuminated and all things are possible. Like when I dressed up as Lenny Kravitz's sister, thinking I am connected to an eternal flow of money, walking into my bank and telling the perplexed bank officer that I am expecting a sum in the order of 20 Million Euros being transferred to my account and demonstrating how I would invest this money in the arts, in film, music, theatre, printing and the like. Good progressive investment, wanting to create a new superstructure in the world, quoting Marx and showing him my lists of music, film and publishing companies I had researched. Not bad really, feminist, progressive, up on the newest and most important going on in today’s culture. I had all of progressive Hollywood, French and German film, books and music on my list. My performance was really good, so good, that I wonder even in my sane state, how come nobody at the bank called me later in order to make this eternal well of money flow for the arts,- instead my ex-husband got called with the question what strange things his former wife is up to.

The down side of my psychoses was a severe bout of Satanism with incessant images of sadist, demonical and cannibalistic images, practices and language running in my brain and eyes, even more, afflicting my entire body. This psychosis was really serious and of a magnitude that would it not have been stopped, I wonder whether I would still be alive today. In hindsight my illness is called an affective-schizophrenic paranoia. At the time however it was sheer paradise and hell. Hieronymus Bosch paintings had come alive and were haunting me. Devil Dogs and scenes from Apocalypse Now running in my brain. Monster-like animals attacking people and this was for real, foresight I was having of what was to come. No surprise, I was reading a lot of Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra, creating a new body myself, a higher body, a celestial body fit to stand the test of such trials, pain and suffering. I wished to be the young woman I had once been unhampered by such images, not knowing that such things could exist. Having my head up in the clouds, clean fresh mountain air and thoughts unhampered by Satanism, cannibalism and all its myriad forms of torment. I wished to be with Nietzsche’s `Daughters of the Desert`, “For with them was there equally good clear oriental air, there was I furthest from cloudy, damp, melancholy old Europe! Then did I love such oriental maidens and other blue kingdoms of heaven, over which hung no clouds and no thoughts.”

Why I was hit with a psychosis of this particular coloring I don’t know. I have never been interested in Satanism. Cannibalism is a horror to me also in my sane moments and I always thought I knew what evil was and that this could not touch me. I don’t stem from an overly religious background. There were sides to my psychosis with very strong religious overtones. Yes, my family is religious, yet in a very personal way. We are neither zealots nor fundamentalists. I myself believe in a higher spirituality and intelligence at work in the universe. I also believe in reincarnation, however, in a very abstract way, there is a world spirit which reincarnates in its myriad forms. Paraphrasing Rumi, once I am born as fire, then again as a stone, then again as water and so on. I do not believe that the mentally ill are possessed by evil spirits as some do. I feel that psychotics are deeply fragile souls who are in pain at times and then again they are visionaries of the highest order. I do ask myself why is my illness a psychosis and not another form of illness. What is my psychosis trying to communicate to me. Why did I choose to leave the world of women and men to live in some other far of place with imaginary women and men? What does my psychosis tell me about myself, after all, I conjured up world wide conspiracy scheme, a very dualistic world picture with good and evil distinctly marketed? At the same time I feel very strongly that madness has as much to say about this world as sanity does. Madness is also a mirror held to our society. What exactly is it that makes up the world of the insane, their mood swings, their emotional intelligence, their far out imagination? Insanity is often accompanied by a boundless sense of the imagination and a tremendous capacity of joy within the utmost structures of pain. The mad conjure up the world a new, invent new languages, meaning and thought patterns. Madness can be a highly creative process although it not always is. Treat Your Allergies Before They Treat You
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Madness substantially alters the chemistry of the body and the world. My flesh is of this world and the world is made of my flesh. Everything is illuminated and all things are possible. Like when I dressed up as Lenny Kravitz's sister, thinking I am connected to an eternal flow of money, walking into my bank and telling the perplexed bank officer that I am expecting a sum in the order of 20 Million Euros being transferred to my account and demonstrating how I would invest this money in the arts, in film, music, theatre, printing and the like. Good progressive investment, wanting to create a new superstructure in the world, quoting Marx and showing him my lists of music, film and publishing companies I had researched. Not bad really, feminist, progressive, up on the newest and most important going on in today’s culture. I had all of progressive Hollywood, French and German film, books and music on my list. My performance was really good, so good, that I wonder even in my sane state, how come nobody at the bank called me later in order to make this eternal well of money flow for the arts,- instead my ex-husband got called with the question what strange things his former wife is up to.

The down side of my psychoses was a severe bout of Satanism with incessant images of sadist, demonical and cannibalistic images, practices and language running in my brain and eyes, even more, afflicting my entire body. This psychosis was really serious and of a magnitude that would it not have been stopped, I wonder whether I would still be alive today. In hindsight my illness is called an affective-schizophrenic paranoia. At the time however it was sheer paradise and hell. Hieronymus Bosch paintings had come alive and were haunting me. Devil Dogs and scenes from Apocalypse Now running in my brain. Monster-like animals attacking people and this was for real, foresight I was having of what was to come. No surprise, I was reading a lot of Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra, creating a new body myself, a higher body, a celestial body fit to stand the test of such trials, pain and suffering. I wished to be the young woman I had once been unhampered by such images, not knowing that such things could exist. Having my head up in the clouds, clean fresh mountain air and thoughts unhampered by Satanism, cannibalism and all its myriad forms of torment. I wished to be with Nietzsche’s `Daughters of the Desert`, “For with them was there equally good clear oriental air, there was I furthest from cloudy, damp, melancholy old Europe! Then did I love such oriental maidens and other blue kingdoms of heaven, over which hung no clouds and no thoughts.”

Why I was hit with a psychosis of this particular coloring I don’t know. I have never been interested in Satanism. Cannibalism is a horror to me also in my sane moments and I always thought I knew what evil was and that this could not touch me. I don’t stem from an overly religious background. There were sides to my psychosis with very strong religious overtones. Yes, my family is religious, yet in a very personal way. We are neither zealots nor fundamentalists. I myself believe in a higher spirituality and intelligence at work in the universe. I also believe in reincarnation, however, in a very abstract way, there is a world spirit which reincarnates in its myriad forms. Paraphrasing Rumi, once I am born as fire, then again as a stone, then again as water and so on. I do not believe that the mentally ill are possessed by evil spirits as some do. I feel that psychotics are deeply fragile souls who are in pain at times and then again they are visionaries of the highest order. I do ask myself why is my illness a psychosis and not another form of illness. What is my psychosis trying to communicate to me. Why did I choose to leave the world of women and men to live in some other far of place with imaginary women and men? What does my psychosis tell me about myself, after all, I conjured up world wide conspiracy scheme, a very dualistic world picture with good and evil distinctly marketed? At the same time I feel very strongly that madness has as much to say about this world as sanity does. Madness is also a mirror held to our society. What exactly is it that makes up the world of the insane, their mood swings, their emotional intelligence, their far out imagination? Insanity is often accompanied by a boundless sense of the imagination and a tremendous capacity of joy within the utmost structures of pain. The mad conjure up the world a new, invent new languages, meaning and thought patterns. Madness can be a highly creative process although it not always is. Hero's Journey: Tricks and Techniques
[From our deconstruction of hundreds of Hollywood blockbusters and sitcoms at www.clickok.co.uk and our isolation and identification of more than 188 stages of the Hero's Journey that you need to know about...]The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the Hollywood movies we have deconstructed are based on this template.Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.The Hero's Journey:a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.c) Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.and more...Sample Stages: Alien (1979)• Context using text and visuals [we learn about the Nostromo].• Ordinary World: the crew wake up; calm before the storm.• Introducing characters, motivations, status, relationships [Ripley et al wake up and eat].• Herald: Ash tells Dallas that Mother wants to see him.• Call to Adventure [Mother tells Dallas they're on a detour].• Hero's capabilities [Ripley knows it's not the right system].• Refusal of the Call [Dallas tells the crew that they're on a detour; they don't like it; Hawks and Doves polarized].Learn more…The Complete 188 stage Hero’s Journey and other story structure templates can be found at http://www.clickok.co.uk/You can also receive a regular, free newsletter by entering your email address at this site.Kal Bishop, MBA**********************************You are free to reproduce this article as long as no changes are made, the author's name is retained and the link Having my head up in the clouds, clean fresh mountain air and thoughts unhampered by Satanism, cannibalism and all its myriad forms of torment. I wished to be with Nietzsche’s `Daughters of the Desert`, “For with them was there equally good clear oriental air, there was I furthest from cloudy, damp, melancholy old Europe! Then did I love such oriental maidens and other blue kingdoms of heaven, over which hung no clouds and no thoughts.”

Why I was hit with a psychosis of this particular coloring I don’t know. I have never been interested in Satanism. Cannibalism is a horror to me also in my sane moments and I always thought I knew what evil was and that this could not touch me. I don’t stem from an overly religious background. There were sides to my psychosis with very strong religious overtones. Yes, my family is religious, yet in a very personal way. We are neither zealots nor fundamentalists. I myself believe in a higher spirituality and intelligence at work in the universe. I also believe in reincarnation, however, in a very abstract way, there is a world spirit which reincarnates in its myriad forms. Paraphrasing Rumi, once I am born as fire, then again as a stone, then again as water and so on. I do not believe that the mentally ill are possessed by evil spirits as some do. I feel that psychotics are deeply fragile souls who are in pain at times and then again they are visionaries of the highest order. I do ask myself why is my illness a psychosis and not another form of illness. What is my psychosis trying to communicate to me. Why did I choose to leave the world of women and men to live in some other far of place with imaginary women and men? What does my psychosis tell me about myself, after all, I conjured up world wide conspiracy scheme, a very dualistic world picture with good and evil distinctly marketed? At the same time I feel very strongly that madness has as much to say about this world as sanity does. Madness is also a mirror held to our society. What exactly is it that makes up the world of the insane, their mood swings, their emotional intelligence, their far out imagination? Insanity is often accompanied by a boundless sense of the imagination and a tremendous capacity of joy within the utmost structures of pain. The mad conjure up the world a new, invent new languages, meaning and thought patterns. Madness can be a highly creative process although it not always is.

I have been fighting madness for the past eight years. While other friends, colleagues and family members have been living their lives, progressing in their work, having children, entering mature adulthood, I have battled bouts of madness, lost a marriage, I am out of work, I have lost most of my friends and half of my family. I have hit rock bottom with the danger of ending up on the street. This is an until recently upper middle class woman writing. Quite a shocking path to have taken this life of mine. Madness isolates. It is an illness still relegated to the fringes of our society. Most people are afraid of madness just as they are afraid of anything which will scratch the surface of middle class success. “My house”, “my family”, “my career”, - all this seems on a fragile balance once the light of madness shines on such things. Mind you, I am eternally grateful for all those who have never had to encounter madness. I am happy for them and I am grateful that souls exist who can experience an unhampered expansion and development in this universe without the set backs of madness which madness undoubtedly also is. It is at once a great leap forward as well as a regression into regions of the human psyche which are dark, boundless and frightening. A part of this journey is like the Heart of Darkness revisited, not reread. An entirely different matter. The Sufi poet Ibn Hazm al Andalusi says in one of his forewords to his poetry: “May God protect me from mental confusion and may he not burden us with what exceeds our capabilities!” I pray for this since my madness for friends and foes alike. I have a collection of Sufi music from the 12th and 13th centuries, music which was played at mental hospitals for patients at the time, and music has been a great companion and savior throughout this paradox time of kissing heaven’s seams while plunging into the deluge of the human psyche.

I remember the Francois Truffaut film Adele, Victor Hugo’s daughter who goes mad in the Caribbean, after an unresponsive love, being brought back to France by a wonderfully kind black woman. Adele then spends the next 30 years in an insane asylum writing her secret language diaries. Similarly Camille Claudel, another woman lost in the asylums of the 19th century. How much better the situation for the mad is today. We have medication and a whole network of assistance which allows us to emerge from the dungeons of the psyche.

Yes, I believe there is something feminine about madness. It is the other side of life. The great antipatriarchal machine: all writing, language, sensational and emotional intelligence. It is like water this endless movement of nocturnal dreams and aspirations. All not lost to the big utilitarian machine of function and practice. It exists out of its own right and creative energies. It doesn’t ask may I take place or unfold. It simply happens. Madness dissolves all questions of use and practicability. It has logic of its own. The willingness to live is as great as the fearlessness of dying. Like a child again carried simply by existence. Madness is like a great mother it harbors all possibilities. It holds promises and has an unbreakable optimism coupled with a fervent certitude. It is strongly intuitional like a child that believes that the world can stand still or be in perpetual motion. This is why mad people don’t think about paying their rent, they forget all functional aspects of life because the catalyst has become a different one. All spirit, all emotional, all mental. I strongly believe that madness is also an attempted escape from the Maya of this world, it is a plunge into higher realms within life and the universe.

By now you can tell that I have a love hate relationship with madness. On the one hand it has given me immeasurable insights into life, the arts, the human psyche, emotions and the mind at the same time this illness, which is not only an illness, “My illness is my great health“ (Nietzsche), has beaten me to the ground, to hell and back into the heights of the firmament

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