Is full blown mania, in part anyways, a "spiritual experience" in your opinion? (Or if you think lighter grade mania has a spiritual aspect to it feel free to answer as well.)

I have read that a few psychiatric professionals believe it is. But chances are, your psychiatrist thinks it would be a delusion to believe it is?

(I think, while we are out of control and delusional, that we also find ourselves in a special state of mind that meditators, or at least those who use psychoactive plants, strive to attain. I think it was Joseph Campbell who said something like "the mystics are swimming while the psychotics are drowning (but both are in the same water.)"

It almost makes me want to become manic again, although I know I can't handle mania and I can't afford the consequences. If I didn't have a job, and I could afford to go to some (nonexistent) hospital that didn't medicate, I'd like to experience mania again in a controlled environment.)