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Originally Posted by Erti
I use to be into the new age stuff. Hell I use to consider myself Wiccan. Thought magik was real, believed there is more than one gods/goddesses, and believed in quite a few other things. Never really thought it was that much different than Christianity.
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This is why it's totally dependent on your doc...mine (old one)does not consider this stuff to be any more unreasonable than religion but he also thinks it's garbage and a scam... he just doesn't like religion all that much in general.
I would say the difference is being raised in the culture vs adopting it yourself later on. If your mom was wiccan and you became wiccan due to that then it's for sure culturally relevant but take someone like me who was atheist of 36 years and then adopted a belief in spirits/shamanism. I know one other person who was into shamanism and she doesn't even believe it anymore....now she's into the pleadians.....beings from space or another dimension who are here to help us ascend. She also hears voices but believes herself to be psychic but she's totally normal other than that....she totally holds down a normal job but once cancelled a vacation with me because she believed someone's prediction of a tsunami hitting the Oregon coast. I'm guessing if she ever went to a shrink she would be schizotypal...although I'm not sure since she does hear voices.
But I think in general if you're already psychotic it's assumed your beliefs will be more magical so you don't need the schizotypal....anything schizo will do...
Still this is just my understanding of it...I obviously have no training so I too would like to hear when someone asks a pro...