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Old Oct 05, 2018, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by BeesWaxCrayon View Post
I don’t get it. Some institutional ways of obtaining higher spiritual being-ness end up being not that, but then if I tell my therapist about a vision or dream or that I saw an angel, she looks like she wants to tell me I’m crazy or just says “hmm” and changes the subject.
Why is it ok to be spiritual in some settings but not others?
just a thought....

maybe you and your therapists definition of spirituality is different.....

I had this therapist. I told them I was a spiritual person. they immediately asked me if I imagined or hallucinated, (saw things that others do not see, hear things that others do not hear....like angels, demons.....)

I literally laughed in their face. I told them my definition of spirituality is not a religious thing. I do not hallucinate that I am seeing angels or demons,

I look at a tree and I marvel in the fact that this tree was somehow created, how its connected to the earth by its roots, it depends on the rain and soil for its food and how the earth is just one small part of the universe. I believe in the scientific elements that the earths core is a mixture of chemicals, minerals that cause it to have gravity and other invisible waves that we can not see, some of those are energy waves. all living and non living on earth have some sort of waves around them that keep them from flying off the earth into outer space and sustains them.

i explained much more but you have the picture, I explained my definition of spirituality is that it gives me pleasure to be out in nature, enjoying everything it has to offer, I dont just see a tree, or a body of water, I see that I am connected to that tree in some way, connected to that body of water called a lake, in some way.

for me religion is about the angels, demons, higher powers. but spirituality is not connected to any religions for me.

for me visions are part of my culture/race (a learned cultural practice), with the newer standards of the health system in america this now gets ruled out automatically as being part of my mental disorders.

my point is that some mental disorders come with hallucinations and delusions (seeing and believing in things that cant possibly be real or seeing and believing in things others can not see)

Sometimes it takes us explaining to our doctors what we mean by what we say, our definitions may be different then what they are thinking due to the fact that they are thinking in terms of mental disorders, where as we are thinking in non mental disorders ways.

maybe you can take time to explain in more detail to your psychiatrist what was going on when you saw your angels.
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