Firebird: I recently went to a psychiatrist (a new one after 6 months of searching) and she says that my thoughts are not based in "reality." How can she automatically know this?

What she does seem to know quite well is how to shut down the lines of open communication.

I know I've mentioned this before but I think it would be really interesting if we could group people according to the type of content that emerges for them. Some people get religious themes; some people get alien themes; some people get thoughts falling out of their head; some people get thoughts being inserted into their head; some people get the CIA and the FBI yet all of these tend to be common threads that run through the "psychotic" experience.

Very few people seem willing to ask -- why the commonality? It becomes far easier to dismiss these kind of experiences as little more than faulty neurochemicals but even so, what do these people tell themselves. Do they believe there is a specific neurotransmitter that produces the suspicion that the FBI are following you and a different one that makes you believe you're Jesus. I'd like to see the genome map on that one!

I didn't get alien themes, I got religious themes and in my own case, I can stack that experience against Jung's model of the psyche and what we know of the ego, ego development and transpersonal experience to demonstrate the rationality that was present within it. I have no doubt there is a similar rationality at work with the alien experience too, even if we don't yet understand it. Maybe it's all purely psychological or maybe there really are aliens out there who make their presence known to some people. Maybe some people are highly sensitive to different streams of cultural change and what that group of people "sees" is the technological invasion that is shaping human destiny. Maybe it's something else. "I don't know" is about all I could truthfully say about it.

Meantime, I think those of us who get angels and demons should get together in one group; those who get aliens should get together in another group; those who get something else should get together in their groups and so on, and then -- we should all talk amongst ourselves and see if we can find our own rational answers.

~ Namaste

See also: Have we had a thread about aliens yet?