Ha! Some of my comments have elicited a roller-coaster ride like that too :-) Yes, I have heard of teachers that would contra-indicate on people with schizophr

Ha! Some of my comments have elicited a roller-coaster ride like that too :-) Yes, I have heard of teachers that would contra-indicate on people with schizophrenia as well. It's kinda hard to tell though. I was once in a Ayahuasca ceremony where many of the people were convinced someone was having a psychotic break ... but the person in question didn't seem to me to be acting in a way that I hadn't experienced. (That is, I was that person, playing that role before, having a rough ride). The person's inner experience was totally different than what everyone else was experiencing, and was expressing a lot of gratitude. There are a lot of dark stuff buried in individuals and in the collective. Even just meditating will surface those things up. (Then again, something Adyashanti said in a podcast ... you go looking for content, you will find it. It's endless). However, I also think that our modern notions of schizophrenia does not serve us well: http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/08/22/shaman-sees-mental-hospital/ http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/08/22/shaman-sees-mental-hos... (There was a followup article interviewing the father of the young man in question, but I don't remember enough keywords to find it easily). And no, I won't discount the magnetic field thing. I've got too many encounters with subtle energy and their effects, and work with them myself. I don't know if those subtle energies can necessarily be modeled mechanistically (I think the whole modern take on TCM and meridians a fool's errand since the body meridians lay in the etheric, whereever that is, and not really where the tangible flesh lay). Thing is, until a large portion of the collective directly experiences it, the consensus algorithm in which our collective consciousness converges upon what is "real" will reject it. That's fine though.