Hi,
I see from your profile that you use "spriritual emergency" as a synonym for schizophrenic and/or psychosis and/or mental breakdown. I'm really having trouble with your logic for many reasons but frankly, am too tired to list them all here, now. What I do find concerning is that you seem to try to merge many concepts into only one construct. You write of shamanism, spiritual rupture, altered consciousness, psychosis as mind-healing, even kundalini energy as interchangeable with schizophrenia. The one thing I do concur with is that societal definitions of all of the above vary by culture.
Having said that, have you perhaps considered that you may still be suffering from schizophrenia and only comfort yourself with the notion that it is some sort of a spiritual awakening? One of the characteristics of psychosis is that this state is "unknown" to the person experiencing it. Thus, it is by definition a very difficult, if not impossible, illness to self-diagnose let alone, self-treat.
Also, it is important to recognize that societal norms in the society in which we find ourselves, do define for us parameters of behavior that we either find ourselves within (hence "normal") or without.
I am concerned that someone with schizophrenia may see your posts and elect to not treat their illness by conventional means, i.e. by seeing a doctor, based only on the snippets of information you choose to quote here. Without having read the full works of some of whom you have quoted, they would neither have a full understanding on which to base such an important, potentially life-changing decision. In short, you may be doing more harm than good, although I'm presuming that is not your intent.
Those are some of my thoughts. Now, I'm off to my dreams!
Thanks,
Okie
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