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If only it were that enlightening, but no. This wasn't some kind of trascendental breakthrough, this was the kind of psychosis that causes some people to harm t
by mullingitover 13y ago
If only it were that enlightening, but no. This wasn't some kind of trascendental breakthrough, this was the kind of psychosis that causes some people to harm themselves, or go on a rampage, and then people ask "Why didn't they get treatment for their mental illness? What is wrong with society?" He was lucky to have a supportive family and access to mental health care, many people in similar scenarios don't end up with a happy ending.
- bobsgame 13y agoIt could be perhaps a failure of society (mostly media and institution) for assuming what he was experiencing was "psychosis." Most religion could be considered psychotic or schizophrenic, yet it serves a very necessary purpose. I feel that much of what modern society considers 'mental illness' is actually a natural part of human development which religion developed around.
- mullingitover 13y ago> Most religion could be considered psychotic or schizophrenic, yet it serves a very necessary purpose. Most religion could be explained through a combination of fundamental attribution error, tribalism, and in the cases of prophets, temporal lobe epilepsy of the Geschwind Syndrome variety. It's more realistic to say that religion is a grouping of myths, customs, and superstitions that are approved as 'the correct ones' by the state or governing authority. Or as the old saying goes, "The only difference between a religion and a cult is real estate."