yeah i’m anti-revisionist: anyone who insists medieval female mystics were just schizophrenic deserves hard labour
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“Schizophrenia” is a modernist misinterpretation of a diverse variety of unconventional ways of perceiving and interpreting reality. Reject contaminating the human experience with the hubris of psychology
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There's some truth in this, which is that we can view someone's inner difficulties as schizophrenia when they need help, and it's otherwise impossible for them to live happy, healthy lives on their own terms
Outside a medicinal context, we all benefit from a more expansive frame
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Yes. To me it seems an inflamed situation stemming from collective and individual refusal/lack of ability to deal with and accept very irregular states of consciousness—inflamed because we so vastly suppress everything deviating from the “normal,”whatever that is.
If the medicinal (and societal) approach is to label a person experiencing these variations in consciousness sick and insane, instead of recognizing what they go through as fundamental (even if rare) parts of the human experience, it’s no wonder it tends to turn out badly.
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Replying to @tishray
Alan Watts expressed this wonderfully in this lecture:
“not that there may be a high incidence of mental sickness, but that there may be a high incidence of intolerance of variations of consciousness” (@ 7:01)
youtu.be/eksdBEIQS6g
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