I read this book. The best autobiography and it resonates with the quote “The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”https://twitter.com/Yuanmeng_PAN/status/1151631131806261254 …
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She can be considered a siddha in one cultural system, but she is a hopeless patient in another system. We do not know whether her tumor caused the depersonalization symptom, but she did find reconciliation with her horrible experience after adopting another cultural model.
That’s so interesting, especially if she did find reconciliation. This is sort of what I mean when I prattle on about psycho-social reflexivity. Sociocultural contexts are more powerful in shaping experience than we often give them credit.
