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Method to Madness
Today’s dark topic is divine madness. They say that it is wise to observe moderation in all things. The ancient Romans believed that even strong emotion could bring on mental illness. Yet we, especially in this day and age, also hear the phrase, “There’s method to my madness.” So we mostly live in a more…
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Psychic vs Psychotic
Would you say that modern celebrity spiritual leaders show any sign of madness? Any televangelist, for a start, and how so? I wondered why Hare Krishnas give out carnations and what does it mean when you accept one? It means I have removed part of their motivation to accost people at random, to my point of…
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States of Divine Madness
Here is where I begin to get weird, but first off… All the traits we call psychotic are also naturally present in “normal” people. So what creates these possibilities in consciousness is completely natural, wouldn’t you say? I will offer that they are imprinted on us by the environment. They seem to be what psychiatrists…
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Socially Inspired Divine Madness
First, let’s look at the current state of socially inspired divine madness. Then we can explore what others are like, shall we? Remember I said that the madness is shaped by an inspiring spirit? Well, take humanity as a collective, I mean modern humanity, and then lead the oracle through all their states of being.…
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Going Out of Mind
Shall we explore a different divine madness/frame of mind? I will let you pick. Pick a process in the world or a location in nature. Glaciers melting. Ok, that works. Those who live in the glacial region of our planet once engaged in this process. They would go to the glacier and focus all their…
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Not Returning to Humanity
What about those who don’t have guides to bring them back to the people? Generally one of two things happened. They would become lost and start behaving in ways that people would describe as demon possessed, or they would find it in themselves to fight off much of the influence they gathered and find some…
Category: Divine Madness
A state where someone has gotten so swept up in spiritually induced emotion that they seem to lose their down to earth center, lose touch with reality as we know it. They become completely obsessed with the object of their contemplation, be that Jesus or Gaia or whatever you might prefer. They had to go out of their mind in order to go into the realm of power.
Any great ambition with a majority of unknown and perhaps unknowable factors would need it, but the journey of divine madness was two sided. On one side you have a human anchor who helps the oracle or shaman come back down to earth, and on the other you have a spiritual focus of attention, the power or presence the oracle is giving themselves over to. There isn’t just one state of divine madness just like there isn’t just one form of mental illness. There are many, and the state and thus the nature of the “trip” was dependant on what inspired it.
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free” Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek Writer, 1885-1957)
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.” William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)