This is a comment I made on my friend, Sean Blackwell’s page.
“At the heart of both spiritual awakening and bipolar mania lies a significant surge of energy, often marked by an ego collapse. As the sense of self dissolves, the soul feels liberated for the first time, inviting a range of sensory experiences and heightened perceptions. The phenomena experienced during these states could reflect deeper levels of reality, unveiling intrinsic truths about our existence.
In exploring my own mystical experiences, I’ve felt a profound oneness with the universe—a dissolution of boundaries, whereby everything feels interconnected. Imagine this radical shift in perspective: seeing life as interconnected threads weaving the grand tapestry of existence. Such a transformation often defies normal communication, necessitating metaphors to convey the intensity of these insights.” Sean Blackwell
Why would we call this kind of experience a disorder? It is not a beautiful human experience like when we deeply feel music and art and fall in love. Also, there is no evidence that ‘bipolar disorder exists but there is plenty of evidence that psychotropic drugs cause brain damage which can deny us our humanity and make life and living very difficult.
Mary Maddock
