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alexandra_k: the term 'mania' is operationalised and assessed according to what you might think of as 'extroverted' behaviours rather than assessed by the presence of verbal reports of pleasant, or spiritual experiences.

Pleasant? lol. The truth is seldom pleasant. The real question is, how far are you willing to go to discover it? I don't necessarily expect many readers to understand, but this is why I support the use of psychotropic medications as personally determined. No one is under any obligation to go beyond their own pain threshold, as they determine for themselves...

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<font color=191970>when I think of Heaven
deliver me
in a black-winged bird
I think of dyin'
Lay me down
In a field of flame and heather, and
render up my Body, into
~ The Burning Heart of God ~
in the belly of...
a black-winged bird

And I belong...
In the service of the Queen

~ Counting Crows ~

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See also: [*] Strange Days ~ Beautiful Midnight[*] Kundalini &amp; The Black Queen[*] Black Hole[*] In the Beginning[*] Center for the Story of the Universe[*] The Self-Aware Universe[*] The Relevance of Visionary Experience to Culture


just some rambellings... hope you don't mind my joining in...

Not at all. I'm sharing a few ramblings of my own.