Jules
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I have been interested for a long time in the issue of the link between creative genius, psychic ability and madness. I will put out some threads of thought - how do others tie them altogether?
I remember a lecture on the gifted some years ago. The professor asked, Where will you find the highest concentration of gifted people? The answer..a university? No, a mental institution.
One of the hyper-sensitivities many gifted people have is spiritual sensitivity. By spiritual sensitivity I mean:
http://www.amazon.com/Pox-Genius-Madness-Mysteries-Syphilis/dp/0465028829
As well as this many of our luminaries have had the experience of flashes of brilliant insight and then losing themselves - like the Nobel laureate Nash for example. It seems most of the artistic greats have struggled with their mental health, many like Silvia Plath we have lost. Many have succumbed to schizophrenia and bi polar.
As an adjunct to this I note the huge number of our great artists who say their creative work effectively "downloaded" complete and in its entirety. It came through them but not from them. Mozart and Wordsworth and many others have commented on this experience.
So what is going on here? People may be genetically predisposed to higher intelligence (or not) but something in the nature of those who have creative genius tells me they have greater psychic access. I have a concept of "portal" meant both conceptually and as a place on my body. Its a place of transition between states and the place of transfer of information. Gut instincts are called that for a reason. So do these people live closer to the portal? I think so. And is it this that predisposes them to higher levels of psychosis etc.
Many psychics are aware of the need to care for themselves mentally. The data overload and lack of control over your own experience are disorienting. Many kundalini awakenings mirror psychosis.
So how do all these phenomena tie together - madness, creativity and psychic access? I am convinced there is a link.
I love this image so I just had to fit it into the post here. This is how I feel sometimes - scattered...
I remember a lecture on the gifted some years ago. The professor asked, Where will you find the highest concentration of gifted people? The answer..a university? No, a mental institution.
One of the hyper-sensitivities many gifted people have is spiritual sensitivity. By spiritual sensitivity I mean:
- Perception that the visible world is part of a more spiritual universe
- Belief that spiritual world is where we draw our chief significance
- Prayer or communion with spirit-
- Spiritual energy produces effects both psychological and material
- An assurance of safety/ temper of peace
- Awareness of one’s inner life
- Prophesy/Visions
- Enhanced intuition/perception
- Realisation that all the answers lie within
- Capacity for inner transformation
http://www.amazon.com/Pox-Genius-Madness-Mysteries-Syphilis/dp/0465028829
As well as this many of our luminaries have had the experience of flashes of brilliant insight and then losing themselves - like the Nobel laureate Nash for example. It seems most of the artistic greats have struggled with their mental health, many like Silvia Plath we have lost. Many have succumbed to schizophrenia and bi polar.
As an adjunct to this I note the huge number of our great artists who say their creative work effectively "downloaded" complete and in its entirety. It came through them but not from them. Mozart and Wordsworth and many others have commented on this experience.
So what is going on here? People may be genetically predisposed to higher intelligence (or not) but something in the nature of those who have creative genius tells me they have greater psychic access. I have a concept of "portal" meant both conceptually and as a place on my body. Its a place of transition between states and the place of transfer of information. Gut instincts are called that for a reason. So do these people live closer to the portal? I think so. And is it this that predisposes them to higher levels of psychosis etc.
Many psychics are aware of the need to care for themselves mentally. The data overload and lack of control over your own experience are disorienting. Many kundalini awakenings mirror psychosis.
So how do all these phenomena tie together - madness, creativity and psychic access? I am convinced there is a link.
I love this image so I just had to fit it into the post here. This is how I feel sometimes - scattered...
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