NONDUALITY AND INSANITY OR PSYCHOSIS VERSUS SANITY AND BLISS

There is a saying that R.D. Laing quoted in one of his books. It went, The schizophrenic drowns where the mystic swims. He was not talking there about the organic physical disease of schizophrenia which actually exists, but about something else. If the apparent person (or the person), it does not matter which, - if that which allows us to negotiate the world for better or worse, recedes or seems to recede, and we are left being everything outside of our apparent or real bodies (again it doesn’t matter which, apparent or real), then what is left is certainly an odd, impossibly peculiar, weird experience. When the I comes back in, after a second or an hour or any length of time, the gestalt or figure/ground relationship will have changed, did change, so dramatically, that anything can happen. One person, especially with no map, guide, or the like, could go utterly mad. He or she is through a sort of ‘looking glass’ and can now feel the world as anything. Or, a person can feel that they have been, through some strange gift of providence, karma, or even by mistake or genetic programming,-given a glimpse into what the mystics and masters, into what the perennial philosophy and the entire canon of spiritual, esoteric, and religious texts refer to as God, Source, Liberation, Moksha, Freedom, Enlightenment, so on. If what we are talking about is real for anyone, then its possibilities are as dangerous as they are grand. Buyer beware. If buyer has a choice.