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A lot of people think that believing you're Jesus is some kind of grandiose delusion, but in the case of manic psychosis, it's simply the logical conclusion of
by mystikal 11y ago
A lot of people think that believing you're Jesus is some kind of grandiose delusion, but in the case of manic psychosis, it's simply the logical conclusion of all the super intense messages from the universe you're receiving.
Enlightenment is hell.
- enkephalin 11y agomy thoughts exactly, during a similar event. i was just trying to make sense of things, and due to the gravity of the unfolding events, being jesus or god was a possibility i just couldn't ignore, despite being in full possession of my mental faculties at the time.
- kenneth_reitz 11y agoExactly! It is the inevitable truth you are being constantly presented with. You are forced to accept it.
- davycro 11y agoI love this, well said I knew a bipolar patient who believed he was a shaman. In his last manic episode he was found wandering outside naked in minus twenty temperatures. He said he had transcended to a higher consciousness where the cold no longer affected him. I interviewed him a few months later to see if he was taking his medicine. He was, but said he didn't like the medicines because they took away his special powers. He had frost bite on his hands and feet from the incident by the way.
- kenneth_reitz 11y agoHah! I did exactly this, but far less extreme. I would walk barefoot on the street, where the sun had been painfully heating the pavement, and adjusting my psyche so I could not feel the pain. According to the books, an excellent meditative practice.
- astazangasta 11y agoWe're all suffering from grandiose delusion all the time. Each one of us believes we are the most important thing in the universe - and we ARE, in our own solipsism. But this belief (the ego) is buried deep within us, and the constituent (spiritual, emotional) elements of our universe are built around it. Psychosis merely brings it to the front. Of COURSE you are Jesus, the most important thing in the universe. If not you, who is?
- mkrfox 11y agoAre you sure about this? I don't have any illusions about my place in the universe. I'm a tiny speck of dust in the grand machine of reality, and I'm okay with this.