Community of Expanded Awareness, And Tolerance

This whole thing about expanded awareness would be a lot easier if I hadn't got really ill - that little fact of illness means everyone is very skeptical, once you start to fill them in on the details! Actually, "acceptance" of being psychic for a lot of people can still be just an attitude of detached skepticism and perceptions of eccentricity, I imagine, like looking at someone 'askance' and saying "Okay. (You're not hurting anyone...) You get on with it."

But really, I, and maybe you too, can assert that There Is A God, and that knowing God and angels and Heavenly spirits directly and not just through belief Is A Gift.

You make your own mind up, just for you, without worrying about what others think, whether they think being psychic is associating with the Devil, or... whether they call you insane.
There's not really anyone to fight over this. We can let the world get on with its thing and evolve. Little point in arguing.


Funny, state-run psychiatry is state-sanctioned secularism, an officially sanctioned non-spiritual belief system. But lets not get down about it, but be bold in our convictions and feel a sense of community here. There is hope for us personally, and for a more integrated psychological belief system to be held by those medics with professional power.


I for one see having a sensitive mind as a positive thing in itself, and I hope that anyone who needs to feel that also, can do so.

The root thought here is that you can feel alone, not knowing anyone with similar experience and perspective - and that secondly, you can feel hurt when others disbelieve you, judge you, treat you roughly in some way, just through their own difference of nature. But let's not carry around anger, as a principle, but tolerance, just the same as can exist between all people, essentially, and particularly when it comes to matters of belief. That way, with tolerance, we make room for a happier world to grow with us.


Happy day! You might be what they call "psychic", and you can also think that it's okay to be psychic. Being psychic can do you and others a lot of favours! This is good news! God is Love.



I also affirm that, wondrously, hallucination, delusion and psychic perception can occur side by side.Which is confusing at the time! And can seem impossible to rational people at the other end of the mental sensitivity / intuitive spectrum, but there we go. Like I have written before, for those with an inclination to believe here: if a person can be psychic, then why not also those people who happen to have symptoms of serious mental illness / serious disturbance to brain-mind functioning. If them, then why not  me too? Why not?




The other night I woke up with an awareness of what I was dreaming. In the dream I saw the words written "He is so precious. He's a psychic." This I interpreted to mean that someone was appreciating me, and confirming my psychic awareness (following the belief that dreams can be a forum for extra-sensory phenomena and communication). This was something very special to me. Validation can come from within! Even when it seems no-one in the world believes or supports you. But I say to you who have mighty convictions of your own sensitivity of mind, you too are precious.



Thank you,


Mr. S.

Terms Of Warfare! Important Post and Ideas About "Evil"

I had some thoughts about the situation of being under the invasive influence of spiritual beings. The idea is to be accurate and loving at the same time - rather than waste energy and cause problems from using language that is wrong or aggressive.

Demon: As previously noticed, the word demon is confusing at best; in its root it means Master. It is used by us to denote malevolent beings in spirit. Firstly, "Hate the sin not the sinner", so identify bad behaviour without making a spirit person a bad being - for nothing God made is bad, I believe. Secondly, these spirits are trying to 'master' us, which is no mastery, but a crude power play that does not prosper in Eternity and in the God's Universe. So I would avoid using the word demon to describe malevolent spirits.

Devil: I don't believe that there is a duality in the Universe of God versus the Devil with our souls in the balance - I do not believe in those terms. No big Devil. However, there are clearly beings, people, in spirit with evil will, who wish to cause great harm - and the less we have to do with the, the better, though we can pray for them. Those spirits we could call devils, just like we could call them demons - but what good does that do? They are truly souls gone astray, requiring the love of God (and us) and redemption and prayer. Labels of good and evil set up division, which is as much as to say they create further conflict. So I would avoid calling them devils. It's also a kind of insult - again, aggression - and it perpetuates conflict.

Spiritual Warfare: do you really wish to cleanse the entire space between Earth and Heaven single-handed? I suggest not - there's too much, and Life is too valuable to spend any longer than necessary dealing with anything opposed to personal evolution and fulfilment. Don't declare war on all of darkness in spirit. He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. It may be a minor point, but I prefer to think in terms of psychological warfare, as understood by Earthly war-makers, or psychological abuse as understood by psychologists - these philosophies allow us to think productively about the situation of psycho-spiritual attack.

Exorcism: I prefer the term spirit release, which has benign connotations, rather than the 'loaded' word "exorcism".



- The point is that we use language that is helpful. Language full of anger promotes conflict. Language of compassion promotes peace ("peace between" and "peace inside"). Let's not throw insults at (powerful) spirits who are not like us in approach to Life, and let's not declare war on the entire reality of pain. Better to focus on what is good, as metaphysical teachers say. Have a spiritual mission without having confrontation as one's central purpose. Peacefulness can fight (or the innocent would be overrun by evil), so we "Fight the good fight with all our might," as the Christian hymn goes. Peacefulness can fight, but it does so with a pure heart. Peacefulness can fight and unleash total aggression, but it's dominant psychology is always purity and goodness as generally understood by the human race down the ages. So we live in love, we do not live to hate. We live in peace through all that leads to peace. After all, if our final goal is to have power over another, we are the same as what has been called 'demon', or evil...


I had a dream of two enemies. one was pure of heart, the other was not pure of heart. They fought each other, killing each other again and again, and again and again they had the strength of mind to resurrect themselves and to fight each other. The one of lesser purity warred on the other, and the other had to fight back. It is the story of nemesis. Two equals who war.
In the end the pure one had the strength to self-resurrect and kill the other one last time. His purity had given him the extra power to live in peace. This is the tragic story of pain, that one can be driven by pain - and perhaps envy - to trouble another, even in ultimate ways. But, in eternity, the good always overcomes. There is change, and restoration of Joy. There is beautification and remembrance of love. Even if that means death (which is but a gateway to a greater reality), Light and Love always win. "Lux omnia Vincit" - Light always triumphs; and "Amor omnia vincit" - Love always triumphs; - these are two similar and valuable Latin mottoes. In the end the Light is not glad to kill the enemy, but sees the bigger picture where Life goes on, and is quietly glad in the righteous peace that has been gained.

I don't believe that peace must be passive. We can meet evil with strength and with enough strength, evil is dispersed and then there is peace. I suppose evil is Life in relationship with other members of Life in ways that are harmful to the Whole; Life need not be destroyed to give peace to the Whole, it is merely necessary to heal and restore the relations between the 'members' of Life.


Wishing you peace, peace and peace, and wishing you harmony with The All,

Mr. S.

Madness: How Do You React?

My world-view is very spiritual. I am a very spiritual person in my thinking, and I feel close to God. I have a firm belief in the persistence of Life after physical expiration (I believe there is a Heaven). I have had numerous experiences of Divinity and perceptions of Divine power, so my belief in God is also strong. I have certain experiences I label as paranormal, within a spiritual framework. But what if you call all this madness? What if, for you, there is no 'sixth sense'?


Being on the receiving end of such pronouncements, I can tell you that the response to my beliefs that discredits them as madness and irrational creates division, and seems to be a breeding ground for disrespect. My question here is this: is there a way of disagreeing with someone, of being skeptical of what they say, that does not create a division or disrespect that person? With madness, there is an accentuating of the personal difference that exists between us all; the mad person is not just unique, but different in mentality, and in a way that requires more effort than usual to be harmonious with them.


In the UK, a long time ago, it used to be that people deemed insane were not allowed to vote - they were a kind of lesser person. It was the same for women and criminals too! That's just a point about how we see the insane, and where we have come from.

It used to be that what I believed made no sense, and now, even though I can display a clear system of belief, and quote authorities, I feel some near to me are more than skeptical of what I say. There's a distance there, presumably in the fear of madness (which itself can be seen to be rooted in the fear of the incomprehensible violence that psychotically deluded people sometimes commit).


There's something strange in being told that what you are thinking is wrong. It can be a confrontational moment, and a moment of discomfort or exclusion.

It must be that nurses in psychiatric wards are adept in responding to delusional beliefs, responding not just with compassion, but with humour, and with care. I think this is ideal. If you think I'm mad, please hold the thought gently - because I'd rather not be distanced by that.


There must be a better way of disagreeing with someone and telling them that they are seeing things fundamentally wrongly, than by making them feel stupid or strange - without degrading them.

Everyone has different ways of responding to difference, whether rigid or flexible. Are you a tolerant person? How do you respond to human diversity? Are you open-minded? Can you engage with me emotionally and be gentle when you state that I am misled in my thinking? Or do you have no time for people who are ill, do you effectively disrespect the insane as 'lesser people'?

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My world-view, concerning my health, begins with an invitation to believe in the spiritual, and continues into a description of the paranormal; the consideration of the reality of an extra-sensory, spiritual dimension to Life is important in meeting me intellectually. Spirituality, it seems to me, is very much a cultural issue, - it is not a dimension of experience readily believed in my part of the world culture... Where are the spiritual psychiatrists I can discuss my condition with? The condition goes like this:

1. Life on Earth
2. God
3. soul
4. Afterlife
5. Heaven
6. 'Unascended' people in spirit
7. Harmful mental interactions with unascended people in spirit

There is only one way to know about an extra-sensory, spiritual dimension to Life... and that is through extra-sensory perception. More correctly, we can also know the spiritual  through books, which report others' extra-sensory experiences. I look forward to developments within psychiatry that have respect for people with spiritual beliefs, not treating them as 'lesser people'...

In the mean time, I repeat, if you think my perceptions are false, and my beliefs are erroneous, please hold that thought gently, because I am, after all, still your dignified human brother.

Belief

I am concerned that my concerted efforts to argue my point may have caused me to persuade others to fit a square peg into a round hole. I'm not changing my stance, I just don't wish to make anyone feel uncomfortable. Such areas of debate are new to me, where there are multiple viewpoints each claiming a set of black-and-white truths. I'm concerned there may be people who feel caught between these viewpoints.

It's a small point.

I'm not really going out to convert the world, but rather to help it. The Diagnosis: Schizophrenia! blog is here to support people like me, and if it opens others' minds a little bit, then all well and good.

That was a small point about beliefs, about the difficulty of negotiating a discourse between absolute skepticism and psychism. What I'm doing here is describing my experiences and making a testimony in the face of a contradictory and authoritative body of thought - that of Western orthodox medical psychiatry -, and this involves some arguing.

I will now go on to outline my beliefs, and not so much my religious beliefs as my beliefs about reality.

I believe that there is an extra-sensory reality, with which humans in this world [of dense physiology] are able to communicate. By the term 'extra-sensory reality' I mean to indicate a belief in an afterlife and Heaven, and all manner of realms between Earth and Heaven. I believe that some people have the sensitivity to communciate with this extra-sensory reality either receptively or actively. For me this is a question intimately connected with belief in God, since we are talking about a spiritual reality and hence also spiritual sensitivity. Really the absolute skepticism of Western orthodox medical psychiatry versus people with beliefs in psychicness is like a skirmish on the edge of the major battle about belief going on between Science and Religion. A common question looking at what I have just written is Why? Why do I believe in an extra-sensory / spiritual reality? 1) Personal experience. 2) the experience of mystics around the world and throughout history 3) religious accounts in holy scriptures.

In the end the biggest proof is personal experience... and yet the voices of skepticism can be very forceful. My personal experience vastly outweighs the influence of skepticism in the world, for me, yet I still occasionally think, are the spirits real? But there is so much reallness about the experiences I have of them.

This remains a tenuous area of Life, because we are dealing in that which is not seen or heard by eyes and ears, rather something that is slightly beyond us - and beyond science. Perhaps scientists must become happy with an ultimatum that God is beyond their reach.

As I said before the psychiatrist who monitors me is likely more concerned with voices and beings that injure me, rather than voices and beings that are helpful to me. Maybe there is a future when the psychiatrist will see that the person they are dealing with is being affected 'supernaturally', and pass them on to the relevant spiritual healer for consultation and attempts at resolution of the complaint. I believe that a change in medical thinking could come about in the not too distant future, at least a relaxing of opinion, to be less black and white.

Secondly, I believe that people on Earth within dense form can be affected by spiritual people, just as they can communicate with spiritual beings. This could be anything from contracting a compelled form of alcholism, or undergoing an alteration in sexual behaviour, to having thoughts about the self that are devoid of love. With me it's the final version of supernatural influence. It's not so much voices that are a problem, as the forces of spirit people, the forces of their will upon my thinking. These are beings that have forgotten that they are of the Light and harbour strong ill-will towards others not of their kind. Picture me: is it impossible that a person can go into a pyschiatrist's consulting room and complain about persecution that is real?

Somehow some spirit people close to the Earth have latched onto me, and being spirits it is easy for them to have access to my inner mind and alter my thinking. (Spirits are more telepathic than we are).

One day I will be well and will have emerged from mental darkness, a place of injury, self-doubt and gloominess.

Thirdly, I believe that there are certain adepts on Earth who are able to manage relations between Earth people and spirit people, whether they be priests (performing exorcism), or spiritual healers (often called shamans) who perform 'extractions' or 'space clearings' with the help of higher spiritual allies. I have personally experienced the spiritual power of such people, the priests and healers. It is not just a matter of faith, you can actually feel something happening and observe something changing.

I believe that not everyone who makes passionate claims about the paranormal is making accurate claims. There is a place for medication. And surely some people must be making passionate claims about the paranormal that are true.

I was haranguing my general practitioner about psychic empathy and quoted a book about it. Buy it here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sensitive-Persons-Survival-Guide-Alternative/dp/0595098002/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257037107&sr=1-1 . I must have done well - the doctor ended up saying, "Well, we're always open to new evidence." I had told the story of the author of the above book who was a PhD who suddenly had a number of experiences of empathy that were to her beyond doubt.

 Well, that's about all I can think of for now. Thanks for reading.