Because the world is mad, the only way through the world is to learn the arts and double the madness.
Robert Bly, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars,
poem Listening (line of the hermit)

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Im Altgriechischen bedeutet ekstasis sowohl das Aussichheraustreten als auch die Verrücktheit.

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Die ärgste Tollheit

Viel Wahnsinniges
ist göttlichster Sinn
Für ein weit blickendes Auge.
Gar mancher Sinn ist ärgste Tollheit.
Hier sowie auch allgemein
Bestimmt die Mehrheit, was gilt.
Stimmst du zu – so bist du vernünftig.
Widersetzt du dich – so bist du gleich gefährlich,
Und wirst in Ketten gelegt.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) US-amerikanische Dichterin
Complete Poems, Part One: Life XI, 1924

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Thema der Doktorarbeit:

Myss' Doktorarbeit in Theologie befasste sich mit dem Zusammenhang von Mystik und Schizophrenie.

Persönliches Bekenntnis

Ich habe nie einen Menschen getroffen, der die Phase der Verrücktheit (BW 540+) nicht durchlebt hat oder auf seinem/ihrem Weg zur Heilung oder Ganzwerdung erleben wird. Es ist UNVERMEIDLICH. Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Myss.com (*1952) US-amerikanische mystische Bewusstseinslehrerin, Energiemedizinerin, intuitive Diagnostikerin, Bestsellerautorin, Cassettenserie Energy Anatomy

Protagonist, begabter junger Sportler: "Du hast den Verstand verloren, weißt Du das!"
Tankstellenbesitzer Socrates: "Dafür habe ich ein Leben lang üben müssen."
Quelle: Filmausschnitt von The Peaceful Warrior, Nick Nolte in Peaceful Warrior, YouTube Film, 1:22 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 3. Mai 2007

Sei bereit für den Fall, dass sich die spirituelle Realität schneller bewegt als [von dir] erwartet. Wer wird die Rechnungen bezahlen und den Mülleimer leeren? Niemand. Die Leute werden sagen, dass du total verrückt geworden seist, was natürlich auch so ist. Es wird ein Zeitpunkt kommen, an dem das Feuer in deinen Eingeweiden auflodert; vor allen anderen Dingen nimmt das spirituelle Wachstum die Vorrangstellung ein.
Ein Teilnehmer fragt ungläubig: Sogar ich?
Hawkins antwortete ihm: Ja, sogar du. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Vision, 25. February 2005

Die Zeit wird kommen, wenn die Menschen von Manie erfasst sein werden und sich wie Verrrückte verhalten werden. And wenn sie jemanden sehen, der sich vernünftig benimmt, werden sie sich gegen ihn erheben und sagen: 'Du bist verrückt.' Und was sie sagen werden, wird auch zutreffen, denn er wird nicht so sein wie sie. Antonius der Große (251-356) koptisch-christlicher ägyptischer Mönch, Asket, Einsiedler, spätantiker Wüstenvater

Die höchste Form des Glücks ist ein Leben mit einem gewissen Grad an Verrücktheit. Erasmus von Rotterdam [BW 500] (1466/1469-1536) niederländischer Philologe, Philosoph

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Auf dem Weg zur Selbst-Ermächtigung:

Herausforderungen: Mystizismus und Schizophrenie

Wie kommt es, dass Verrücktheit auf dem Weg zur zunehmenden Erfüllung des Selbst mit göttlicher Wirkmacht wesentlich wird ? Ich habe nie jemanden getroffen, der die Phase der Verrücktheit nicht durchlebt hat oder erleben wird auf deren Weg zur Heilung oder Ganzwerdung. Sie ist UNVERMEIDLICH.
Audio Vortrag von Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Myss.com (*1952) US-amerikanische mystische Bewusstseinslehrerin, Energiemedizinerin, intuitive Diagnostikerin, Bestsellerautorin, Seminarmitschnitt Energie-Anatomie und Spiritual Madness (engl.) 3 Stunden Dauer

Sie, die Menschen halten mich für verrückt, weil ich meine Tage nicht für Gold verkaufen will und ich halte sie für verückt, weil sie glauben, meine Tage hätten einen Preis. Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) libanesisch-US-amerikanischer Maler, Philosoph, Dichter

Der Gipfel des Wahnsinns ist es, auf Veränderungen zu hoffen, ohne etwas zu verändern. Albert Einstein [BW 499] (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanischer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Nobelpreisträger in Physik

Die Definition von Wahnsinn ist, immer wieder das Gleiche zu tun und andere Ergebnisse zu erwarten. Albert Einstein [BW 499] (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanischer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Nobelpreisträger in Physik

Kierkegaard weist darauf hin, dass sich die Wahrheit nur enthüllt, wenn man sie mit der Intensität der Verrücktheit angeht – und ich stehe in dieser Tradition. Ich wünsche mir wirklich, dass sich alle mögen. Aber bedauerlicherweise schafft das Ringen um Wahrheit auch Feinde. Und vielleicht sind meine Ansichten völlig falsch, vielleicht richtig. So oder so, schafft das Gegner, und ich habe lernen müssen, damit klarzukommen. Ken Wilber [BW 490] (*1949) US-amerikanischer mystischer Philosoph, Vordenker des 3. Jtds., transpersonaler Bewusstseinsforscher, Entwickler der Integralen Theorie, Autor

Jede Vermutung, die nicht auf den ersten Blick verrückt erscheint, ist aussichtslos. Freeman Dyson (*1923) englischer/US-amerikanischer Professor für theoretische Physik, Mathematiker

Die Welt braucht mehr Ver-rückte, denn sehet wohin uns die "Normalen" gebracht haben. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) irischer Dramatiker, Politiker, Satiriker, Pazifist, Nobelpreisträger in Literatur, 1925

Das ist schön bei uns Deutschen. Keiner ist so verrückt, dass er nicht einen noch Verrückteren fände, der ihn versteht. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) deutscher Dichter, Schriftsteller, Journalist, 1826

Es ist nicht leicht, sich auf die Menschen zu verstehen, zu erkennen, wer verrückt und wer klug ist! Gott bewahre uns alle davor, dass wir durchschaut werden! Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) bedeutender norwegischer Schriftsteller, Literaturnobelpreisträger, 1920

In einer irrsinnigen Welt vernünftig sein zu wollen, ist schon wieder ein Irrsinn für sich. Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] [BW 340] (1694-1778) französischer Schriftsteller der europäischen Aufklärung, Wegbereiter der Französischen Revolution, Kritiker der Feudalherrschaft, Bürgerrechtler, Deist, Historiker, Philosoph

Die Menschen sind so notwendig verrückt, dass nicht verrückt sein nur hieße, verrückt sein nach einer anderen Art von Verrücktheit. Blaise Pascal [BW 465] (1623-1662) französischer Mathematiker, Physiker, Philosoph, Literat; zitiert in: M. Foucault, Wahnsinn und Gesellschaft

Wenn wir bedenken, dass wir alle verrückt sind, ist das Leben erklärt. Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Humorist

Es gibt eine Menge von Wahnsinnigen, die sich für Realisten halten, weil sie genauso wahnsinnig sind wie die Realität. Hans Kruppa (*1952) deutscher Dichter, Schriftsteller

Nur wer gesunden Menschenverstand hat, wird verrückt. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909-1966) polnischer Satiriker

Es gibt viele Dinge, die du heute tust, die dir vor zehn Jahren verrückt erschienen wären. Die Dinge selbst haben sich nicht verändert; was vorher unmöglich war, ist jetzt ohne weiteres möglich, und vielleicht ist es nur eine Frage der Zeit, wann es gelingt, dich vollkommen zu ändern. Carlos Castaneda [BW 220] (*1925, angebl. †1995) peruanischer US-amerikanischer Anthropologe, Diplomat, Autor einer autobiografischen Buchserie um die Lehren des Don Juan Matus, eines zaubernden Yaqui-Indianers, Miterfinder der Bewegungslehre Tensegrity

Wer heute noch nicht verrückt ist, ist einfach nicht informiert. Gabriel Barylli (*1957) österreichischer Schriftsteller, Schauspieler, Regisseur

Humor

Wenn du zu Gott sprichst, nennt man es Beten. Wenn Gott zu dir spricht, nennt man es Schizophrenie. Fox Mulder, Filmfigur aus der US-amerikanischen TV-Serie Akte X

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Personal avowals

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen. Interview with Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi [LoC 760] (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter, Young India, 13. June 1929; also in All Men Are Brothers. Autobiographical Reflections, edited by Krishna Kripalani, pg. 163, 2005

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression. Elizabeth Wurtzel (*1967) US American confessional memoir writer, journalist, Prozac Nation, Riverhead Trade, 1994

Gifted young athlete: "You're out of your mind, you know that?!"
Peaceful older warrior: "It's taken a lifetime of practice."
Source: Video clip excerpted from the movie The Peaceful Warrior, Nick Nolte in Peaceful Warrior, YouTube film, 1:22 minutes duration, posted 3. May 2007

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Urge to reach God:

'Fire in the belly'

It is necessary that you develop respect for spiritual endeavor. Straight and narrow is the path, waste no time effort. Precision is discipline that is innate to serious commitment. Some students may yet be in a period of exploration, but once one gets the 'fire in the belly', the urge to reach God becomes a drivenness or relentless drive, or even, in the eyes of the world, a 'madness'. From that point on, there is no patience for amusement or diversion. It depends on decision, will and the level of consciousness, and karmic propensities. As it gets more intense, the love for God and of God allows no delay. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, chapter 9, headline "Spiritual Economy", S. 153

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Straight and narrow is the path. Waste no time or effort.

Allow yourself to be attracted by your destiny instead of trying to propel it. You don't have to propel yourself. You are moving fast enough! […] It is necessary to develop respect for spiritual endeavor. Straight and narrow is the path; waste no time or effort. Precision is discipline that is innate to serious commitment. Some students may yet be in a period of exploration, but once one gets the "fire in the belly," the urge to reach God becomes a relentless drive – or even, in the eyes of the world, a "madness." From that point on, there is no patience for amusement or diversion. It depends on decision, will, the level of consciousness, and karmic propensities. As it gets more intense, the love for and of God allows no delay. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self. Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., S. 120

Be prepared in case spiritual reality moves much faster than you anticipated. Who's going to pay the bills and empty the wastebasket now? Nobody. People will say you've gone crazy, gone totally mad, and of course you have. There's a point at which you get a fire in the belly; spiritual growth takes priority over everything.
Someone asked: Even me?
Hawkins replied: Yes, even you. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Vision, 25. February 2005

What's the difference between the ego and the soul? [...] One has the stamina to be invisible, the other one doesn't.
[One voice fathoms] [...] channeling that type of grace, of being able to stand next to somebody and hear that voice: 'Find a reason to touch that woman's baby'. [...] You just know that when you are sitting next to that woman in the plane [...] 'That infant has spinal cancer.' [...] You hear [inside] 'Find a reason to touch that child.' You are chattering nonsense with the woman, but then you can grab the child's hand. And she thinks you are playing, but you know grace is flooding in that little infant. You'll never see her again, but you know that child's going to live. [...] You know it. [...] [Myss is moved and sobs.]
That is what you have as a possibility in you. But you have to become irrational. You have to become fully and totally mystically irrational. Not emotionally irrational, because that's self serving. You have to become mystically irrational. Mystically irrational means you have to become mystically fearless. You have to be able to do what your mind would give you logical reasons to not do. You have to be everything your soul beckons you to be and everything your mind tells you to be cautious about.
You have to become forgiving. You have to become bold in a way that your soul recognizes.
The mystical experience is about your capacity to perceive fully in a hologram at the speed of light to get the consequences of an action that your mind will say doesn't matter.
But every part of your soul knows: 'This matters. This matters. Everything matters. Everything matters.' The soul measures everything and every piece of life matters to the soul.
The mind in its arrogance says: 'Only the people who matter to me matter.'
To live through the soul is your highest calling. And to build a soul with stamina you cannot do that on visualisation. It requires prayer. Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, five-time New York Times bestseller author, lecturer, Being Fearless, keynote address, Omega Institute conference, New York City, part 3 of 3, minutes 8:40-12:24, recorded 8. April 2008

Everybody's life is ultimately on the path of enlightenment. [...] You cannot not be. minute 29:45

Every now and again I'll meet someone who will openly say, "I am an atheist." But they are always young and healthy. [...] I never take these people seriously [...] So I'll always say to them, 'Call me when you are old, dying, alone, and poor and we'll see what happens.'
And inevitably their eyes rush to God and rush to heaven. [...] What they always mean by atheism is that they had enough of the church which is – let's just face it – understandable.

I don't care what somebody's religion is. [...] Religion is just a corrupt form of politics.

It was (St.) Paul of Tarsus who recognized immediately that the story of Jesus converted to politics and power right off the bet.

He [Jesus] was not even cold in the grave or high in the Heavens before men realized there was power and money in his story.
So from the getgo the innocence and beautiful message of this teacher [Jesus] was contaminated. [...] Taking a human being and turning him into a God [...] that people take literally. [...] All of this taken literally has just wreaked havoc on this planet. [...] Because they inherited Roman mythologies (including sacrificing something on an altar). [...]

When someone says 'I can't deal with religion' I fully understand that. But [...] beyond religion and all the nonsense of religion [...] there are deeper Divine impulses that even our founding fathers recognized. And our nation is founded on these impulses by the way.
In the age of Enlightenment people like Hobbes and John Knox, Descartes and Rousseau, they, too, were shedding the constraints of traditional religion and looking further for the deeper impulses [...] that simply were inherent in human nature and the human spirit. [...]
They were looking for the universality of the archetypal journey of the human being. [...]
The human being searches by nature for meaning and purpose, that by nature searches for truth.
That the human being thrives better when his or her life is devoted to meaning and service than the absence of that.
That the human being thrives better within a climate of hope than hopelessness.
That there must be profound force – shall we call it grace – that comes through hope that is absent in hopelessness. [...]

Beyond the politics of God is the experience of God. And that's where the soul comes in. But it takes a very courageous person to make the leap and say 'I need more than my encounter with God to be through rules and regulations, and traditions that say my God is according to these myths and that is how I know the nature of God, but rather it is time to release those myths and go into my interior soul and invoke the experience of God.'
My history of this is that people only come near the experience of God and only in very small doses only in a bargaining position when they are in crisis. [...] When they are in the hospital or someone who is very sick. [...] They wait to the last minute and then they pull out prayer. Minute 33:12
Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, five-time New York Times bestseller author, lecturer, Conference Call Conversations with the Masters, host Mary Allen, life coach, minutes 29:45-38:00, 1:00:46 minutes duration, aired 8. November 2007

Kundalini is at the basis of genius, insanity, neurosis, prodigies, and other extraordinary states of mind. |Pandit Gopi Krishna [LoC 545] (1903-1984) Indian yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, writer

The time is coming when people will be seized by manias and will behave like madmen. And if they see anyone acting reasonably, they will rise up against him saying: 'You are insane.' And they will have accurately said this to him, for he will not be like them. Anthony the Great [Abba Antonius] (251-356) Egyptian Christian Desert Father, Egyptian monk, ascetic, hermit

The foundation of all mental illness is an unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist

Insanity is possession by an unconscious content that, as such, is not assimilatable to consciousness, nor can it be assimilated since the very existence of such contents is denied. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist, Alchemical Studies, Collected Works 13, par. 53

Schizophrenia is a condition in which the dream takes the place of reality. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist

You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen – the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives – I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, "Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves."
Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.
And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, "He is a madman." I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks."
Thus I became a madman.
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese US American painter, philosopher, writer, poet, The Madman, How I became a Madman, Dover Publications, December 2001

You know one sign that you are woken up? You are asking yourself: Am I crazy or are all of them? Video lecture by Anthony de Mello SJ (1931-1987) Indian Catholic Jesuit priest, psychotherapist, spiritual leader, Wake Up to Life! – Awareness – On psychology, presented by Center for Spiritual Exchange and Tabor Publishing, 1986, YouTube film, minute 4:00 out of 7:34 minutes duration, posted 25. November 2008

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. Albert Einstein [LoC 499] (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity, Nobel laureate in physics

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein [LoC 499] (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Aristotle [LoC 498] (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher, physician, scientist

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift. Plato [LoC 485] (427-347 BC) Ancient Greek pre-Christian philosopher, founder of the occidental philosophy, Phaedrus

Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic? Lily Tomlin [LoC 460] (*1939) US American actress, comedian, writer, producer

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror. George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1866-1949) Greek Armenian metaphysician, writer, choreograph, composer, spiritual teacher of the "Fourth Way"

When in group narcissism the object is not the individual but the group to which he belongs. […] The assertion that "my country" (or nation, or religion) is the most wonderful, the most cultural, the most powerful, the most peace-loving, etc. does not sound crazy at all; on the contrary, it sounds like an expression of patriotism, faith and loyalty. Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German US Amercian social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher

The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him. [...] The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself. [...] All progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish dramatist, politician, satirist, pacifist

The world is run by insane people for insane objectives. […] I thinks we are run by maniacs for maniacle ends. […] I am liable for being put away as insane for saying that. John Lennon (1940-1980) English musician, singer-songwriter, founding member of The Beatles, Famous Words Of Wisdom, YouTube film, minutes 0:20, 6:10 minutes duration, posted 9. February 2011

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Once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. […] I thinks we are run by maniacs for maniacle ends. John Lennon (1940-1980) English musician, singer-songwriter, founding member of Beatles [LoC 460] British music band, Famous Words Of Wisdom, YouTube film, minutes 0:20, 6:10 minutes duration, posted 9. February 2011

I still think All You Need is Love, but I don't think that just saying it is gonna do it. John Lennon (1940-1980) English musician, singer-songwriter, founding member of the British music band The Beatles [LoC 460]

When People believe absurdities, they commit atrocities. Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] [LoC 340] (1694-1778) French Enlightenment writer, historian, philosopher, advocate of civil liberties, freedom of religion, free trade

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even? William Saroyan (1908-1981) Armenian-US American dramatist, author, Short Drive, Sweet Chariot, 1966

The ones who think they are crazy enough to change the world, are the ones who do. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) Canadian-American novelist, poet

I distinguish between the two opposite forms of insanity, insanity as a way of life and insanity as a protest against forms of social life and interpersonal relations felt to be unbearable. In our civilization the former is considered to be "realism” and only the latter an illness. Arno Gruen (*1923) Swiss-German psychologist, psychoanalyst, author, The Insanity of Normality. Realism As Sickness. Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness, Preface, translated by Hildegarde Hannum, Hunter Hannum, Grove/Atlantic, Inc, 1st English edition, July 1992

Whereas people who can no longer bear the absence of human values in the real world are considered "crazy,” those who have severed themselves from their human roots are certified "normal.” And it is members of the latter group to whom we entrust power and whom we allow to determine our lives and our future. We believe they have the correct key to reality and know how best to deal with it. But a person’s "relatedness to reality” is not the only criterion for establishing mental illness or health; we also have to ask to what degree feelings such as despair, perceptions such as empathy, and experiences such as enthusiasm are still possible. Arno Gruen (*1923) German-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst, author, The Insanity of Normality. Realism As Sickness. Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness, Preface, translated by Hildegarde Hannum, Hunter Hannum, Grove/Atlantic, Inc, 1st English edition, July 1992

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. TV spot on change, motto: "Think different!" campaign, 1997, presented by Apple MacIntosh Inc., Here's to the crazy ones. Think Different, YouTube movie, 1:00 minute duration, posted 19. January 2006

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse. William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) US American novelist, poet, postmodern essayist, spoken word performer

We have hunted for big simple neurological explanations for psychiatric disorders and have not found them. Kenneth Kendler, M.D. kendler.html, US American psychiatrist, pioneer researcher of psychiatric genetics, co-editor-in-chief of Psychological Medine, 2005

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, first published 1841, Harriman House, Hampshire, UK, 26. September 2003

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation. Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, first published 1841, Harriman House, Hampshire, UK, 26. September 2003

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Schizophrenia:

The unconscious overwhelms the ego-consciousness, the field of awareness.

How does a schizophrenic episode manifest itself? Because of an activation of the unconscious [...] and a collapse of the ego. John Weir Perry (1914-1998) US American Jungian psychiatrist

If the human race survives, future men will, I suspect, look back on our enlightened epoch as a veritable Age of Darkness. [...] They will see that what was considered 'schizophrenic' was one of the forms in which, often through quite ordinary people, the light began to break into our all-too-closed minds. Ronald D. Laing (1927-1989) British Scottish psychiatrist

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) US American romantic author, neurotic poet, editor, literary critic

If you can make people believe absurdities, you can make them commit atrocities. When you talk to God, they call it prayer. When God talks to you, they call it schizophrenia. Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] [LoC 340] (1694-1778) French Enlightenment writer, historian, philosopher, advocate of civil liberties, freedom of religion, free trade

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Kate Chopin (1851-1904) US American author of short stories and novels

Has it ever struck you that when people get persecution mania, they usually have a good deal to feel persecuted about? C. P. Snow (1905-1980) English physicist, novelist, consultant of the UK government, The Affair, chapter 11, 1960

Because a person has monomania she need not be wrong about her facts. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) English mystery novelist, playwright, essayist, translator, copywriter, poet, crime writer, Christian humanist, Murder Must Advertise, chapter 16, 1933

When you talk to God, they call it prayer. When God talks to you, they call it schizophrenia. Fox Mulder, fictional character in the TV series The X-Files

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. Joseph Heller (1923-1999) US American satirical novelist, short story writer, playwright, Catch 22, 1961, also cited in: motion picture Catch-22, 1970, also used in a song by Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) US American singer-songwriter, musician, artist, lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. Napoleon Bonaparte [Fallen LoC 75] (1769-1821) French general, political leader during the French Revolution, self-crowned emperor (1804-1815)

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, critic of culture, philosopher of nihilism [LoC 120]

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, critic of culture, philosopher of nihilism [LoC 120], Thus Spoke Zarathustra [Also sprach Zarathustra], "On Reading and Writing", part I, chapter 7, 1885

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, critic of culture, philosopher of nihilism [LoC 120]

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When you are born in this world you're getting a ticket to a freak show,
and when you are born in America you're given a front row seat.
And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.
I am a notebook guy.

George Carlin (1937-2008) US American stand-up comedian,
social critic, actor, author, idealistic cynic, I gave up on my species,
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Zitate (engl.) – Holophasec integral physics (SMART grid) Christoph Karl La Due

Men like to cleave. Women like to collect, they like to put together.
Women are circles. Men are cleavers. minute 3:20

Everything in this cosmos is about ratio and scales.
It's not about size, not about mass. That is all illusion. minute 6:16

We are not carbon copy clones. [...]
By observing an object you get hung up in time. You change yourself and the object changes you. [...] We are the ones being changed by nature. minute 11:36

The hardest thing is to take the experience of harmonic resonance oscillation and put it into a straight linear language for other people to understand and then use proper metaphor to make it resonate within our hearts so that they get to logic. Because there is a logic to everything. But we make the mistake to say, that's intuitive, that's linear. Up until that moment we started defining time we have always thought and spoken in circular logic. […] We call it feminine logic. […] We have the circular logic that is intuitive, spatial, but doesn't occupy space. minute 28:10

The paradox of it is that the conflict of the linear was necessary until it's not. minute 29:22

All the wars in the cosmos that we see in the cosmos are necessary because they are the teachings. minute 29:29

Even the holocaust – terrible and horrendous as it was – was necessary to teach so we don't do it again. [...] Everything is perception. […] We have been conditioned to think in linear two dimensional terms in almost every aspect of our life. minute 29:50

There is no hierarchy. […]
There is no up, no down, no right, no left, no backward, no forward. minute 33:25

There is one thing about mathematics that bothers me. It's when they say, the only universal language is mathematics. No. The only universal language is language. It's up to us to find out the language of the cosmos. minute 39:13

[The Holy Grail of seamless transference of data is the SMART grid. It has more capacity, it has no binary 1s and 0s any more].

The SMART grid – it's not digital, it's not analog. It's something else. It's holophasec integral physics, holophasec mechanics. It continues discrete state logic. It's based on manipulation of lateral mechanic information and impregnating fractals and vectors in the sine wave and the plugs around the sine wave. It echoes. [...] It is green to the max. The implications – it's going to change everything in how we build computers. [...] minute 40:48

Energy and information are the same.

Source: Video interview with Christoph Karl La Due, US American savant, self-educated inventor, owner of 60 patents, founder of unhackable Holophasec 3D technologies on Holophasec Energy (translating circular feminine spatial harmonic language into logical straight linear dualistic language), presented by Conscious Media Network, host Regina Meredith, 58:37 minutes duration, posted November 2009

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Zitate (engl.) – Watts Wacker, futurist

Definition of "deviant" and "deviance"

[Deviant is] someone or something operating in a defined measure away from the norm […] [therefore] everything that is different is deviant. Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition, 10. September 2002

[Deviance] irrigates the imagination; offers an inexhaustible font of new ideas, products, and services; and in the end, is the source of all innovation, new market creation, and, for business, ultimately represents the basis of all incremental profit. Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition, 10. September 2002

Deviance equals innovation and innovation equals opportunity. Opportunity creates markets that in turn are destroyed by deviance. Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition, 10. September 2002

Mad isn't the only deviant to find its way to the center of Social Convention.
referring to the quote: "Mad has become mainstream. Either that or society has sunk to our level." John Ficarra, coeditor, Mad magazine
Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition, 10. September 2002

The endgame is that there is no endgame. The goal is permanent transformation, not one-time self-definition. Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition, 10. September 2002

The public faces of deviance are: the Trickster, the Clown, the Wizard or Magician, the Shaman, the Seer, Mystics, Visionaries, the Saboteur, the Provocateur, the Monk, the Hermit, the Mendicant, and the Fool who combines elements of the Clown, the Provocateur, the Saboteur, the Magician, and the Trickster. Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition, 10. September 2002

Things have changed – and continue to change – at such a rate that conventional language is no longer an effective tool for describing what's going on around us. Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition, 10. September 2002

We need new language to communicate what we're about. We need to get beyond the wisdom of the ages and learn how to embrace the wisdom of the moment. We need to toss out the standards and design new standards. Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition, 10. September 2002

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Englische Texte – English section on Spiritual Madness

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Much madness

Much madness
is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
’T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur, – you’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) US American poet
Complete Poems, Part One: Life XI, 1924

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We’re all mad here.

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'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat:
'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.'
'How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,' said the Cat,
'or you wouldn’t have come here.'

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Alice: Am I crazy?

Dad: Yes, Alice, I think you are.
But I’ll tell you something. All the greatest people are.

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Alice: There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things.
Queen: I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the queen.
When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day why sometimes
I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll [around LoC 420] (1832-1898) English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, photographer,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [LoC 420]

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Links zum Thema (Spirituelle) Verrücktheit / Spiritual Madness

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Literatur

Hannah Greenberg (*1932) US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin, Ich hab dir nie einen Rosengarten versprochen. Bericht einer Heilung, Bestseller, autobiographischer Roman zur Heilung von Schizophrenie und Psychose, rororo, Ersterscheinung 1964, 9. Auflage, 1. Juli 2000
Manfred Lütz, deutscher Psychiater, Theologe, Irre – Wir behandeln die Falschen. Unser Problem sind die Normalen – Eine heitere Seelenkunde, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 10. Auflage, 14. September 2009

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Literatur (engl.)

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese American artist, poet, writer, The Madman, How I became a Madman, Dover Publications, December 2001, The Madman Classic Books Library, 30. Juli 2008
Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition, 10. September 2002
Phyllis Chesler (*1940) US American writer, psychotherapist, professor emerita of psychology and women's studies, College of Staten Island (CUNY), Women and Madness. Revised and Updated, 1972, Palgrave Macmillan, revised updated edition, 13. October 2005

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Externe Weblinks

Wikipedia-Einträge Normalität, Irrsinn, Ver-rücktheit, Wahnsinn

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Externe Weblinks (engl.)

Wikipedia-Einträge Crazy, Normalcy,

Jessica Palmer, The Stone of Madness, presented by Scienceblogs, 25. August 2008
The Top 5 Mad Scientists In The World, presented by Before It's News, 11. April 2011
Modern Mad Scientists
- Dean Radin PhD, US American senior scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), adjunct faculty, Department of Psychology, Sonoma State University
- Daryl Bem, US American B.A. in physics, Reed College, 1960, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Rupert Sheldrake, English biochemist, plant physiologist, parapsychology researcher
- Russell Targ, US American bachelor of science in physics, Queens College, 1954, Columbia University
- Yakir Aharonov, Israeli quantum physicist, professor of theoretical physics, James J. Farley professor of natural philosophy, Chapman University in California

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Audio- und Videolinks

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Audio- und Videolinks (engl.)

Apple MacIntosh Inc., TV spot on Change; Motto: "Think different!", Here's to the crazy ones, YouTube movie, 1:00 minute duration, placed 17. März 2006
Ted Turner, media-mogul, founder of CNN, philanthropist, Resisting innovative ideas YouTube clip, OBSNews.com, Channel: BREAK.COM, 00:11 minutes duration, posted 2007
If you got an innovative idea and the majority does not poo-poo your idea then you must not have a good idea. It is not enough of a breakthrough to make that kind of a difference.
Video presentation by Sean Blackwell, author of A quiet mind on Why We're Bipolar: Normal Life Sucks!, YouTube film, 10:34 minutes duration, posted 28. November 2008
Video presentation by Sean Blackwell, author of A quiet mind on Aggression, Suicide and The Healing of Bipolar Disorder, YouTube film, 8:06 minutes duration, posted 30. March 2009
Audio teleseminar with Charles Tart, US American transpersonal psychologist and parapsychologist, pioneer in the field of consciousness studies, author of The End of Materialism. How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science and Spirit Together, April 2009, Are You Crazy or Dumb to Care About Spiritual Things?, presented by Institute of Noetic Sciences, Shiftinaction.com, 59:06 minutes duration, filmed and uploaded 6. May 2009
Video Interview with Kay Redfield Jamison, clinical psychologist, professor of psychiatry, John's Hopkins School of Medicine, lifelong struggle with manic-depressive illness, on Madness as Muse, presented by Big Think, 2:25 minutes duration, posted 5. October 2009
Video Interview with Kay Redfield Jamison, clinical psychologist, professor of psychiatry, John's Hopkins School of Medicine, lifelong struggle with manic-depressive illness, on Descent into Madness, presented by Big Think, 5:54 minutes duration, posted 5. October 2009
Video presentation by Sean Blackwell, author of A quiet mind on How to Heal Bipolar Mania (tags: Spiritual, Spirituality), YouTube film, 8:41 minutes duration, 22. April 2009
Acute Psychosis is a Healing Process. Bipolar disorders can be healed.
Video interview with Christoph Karl La Due, savant, self-educated inventor, owning 60 patents, founder of unhackable Holophasec 3D technologies on Holophasec Energy (translating circular feminine spatial harmonic language into logical straight linear dualistic language), presented by Conscious Media Network, host Regina Meredith, 58:37 minutes duration, posted November 2009
Video interview with J. Randolph (Randy) Richmond, US American former publisher, Human Design System consultant, recovered alcoholism addict, mental patient of Dr. David Hawkins, AA program participant in Sedona, author of Side by Side. The Twelve Steps and A Course in Miracles, Human Design, Bill Wilson – Dr. David Hawkins, part 2 of 2, interviewer Pat Barber aka happyhandyman, YouTube film, 9:50 minutes duration, posted 29. December 2009
Video interview with John Forbes Nash, Ph.D., senior mathematician, Princeton University, VA, suffering paraonoid schizophrenia, made known by the movie A Beautiful Mind, presented by TV station CNN, host Riz Khan, 5. December 2009, YouTube film, posted 4. December 2009
- One on One, part 1 of 2, 10:52 minutes duration
- One on One, part 2 of 2, 11:28 minutes duration

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Filmlinks (engl.)

Movie Network, 1976, main character Howard Beale played by Peter Finch (who won a posthumous Oscar for the role):
"I'm Mad as Hell" speech, presented by Network, YouTube film, 4:12 minutes duration, posted 22. July 2006

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