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by schizo 12y ago
That captures it very nicely. In my experience religion/spirituality felt very much like controlled schizophrenia (or my experience felt like an unconstrained version of it to be precise.)
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by schizo 12y ago
> I would imagine that in a primitive environment, you will be eaten if you can't trust your hearing. That's not actually how schizophrenia works though; it's quite a bit more subtle/complex/varied than just the
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by schizo 12y ago
We had a discussion a while ago here (see my comment history) where I shared my experience of schizophrenia (through a drug-induced schizoaffective disorder which I subsequently got under control.) I haven't read the book yet (it'
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by schizo 12y ago
I have not; but I will now. Do wish it was on Kindle though...
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by schizo 12y ago
In the schizophrenic consciousness God is very similar to the scientific method for today's consciousness: it's the most obvious and useful representation for reality. Basically; if you integrate everything into a coherent worldvi
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by schizo 12y ago
Replying to this deleted comment: "Weirdly [...] the voices she hears are of a Christian-like "God"." Not so weird if you get the causality around the right way. That such visions caused the idea of God is a much more pa
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by schizo 12y ago
As a recovered schizoaffective (bipolar with schizophrenic qualities in the ups and downs) I very much believe that schizophrenia reveals a lot about the brains inner wiring. Schizophrenia is, from my experience, very much like autism. It i