nt of schizophrenia, is not a model of loving organization.

Schizophrenics endure almost insurmountable structures of pain. Many who have voices in their heads,- imagine having a voice inside your head, your skull hurts literally from this onslaught of voices,- endure a most painful debasement of their persona and psyche. The voices are often nasty, calling them names, talking dirty, of sadistic, racist and sexist content. In a mild psychosis these voices might be barely audible. It might seem to him or her having the voices that he or she is thinking out loud. Nevertheless these voices can be very excruciating because they are so debasing.

Visual hallucination is often a part of a psychotic experience. Similarly to how John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind” had news morsels “jump out” at him from newspapers, so visual occurrences can be completely altered by schizophrenia. A group of people walking in the streets can suddenly seem like a marching army pursuing one. The air suddenly looks thick and heavy making it difficult for the psychotic to breath. Light and color apparitions ar

Schizophrenics are highly imaginative people. During their psychosis they reinvent the world and the cosmos. They hear voices; have hallucinations, visions and what is referred to as delusions. Above all schizophrenia is a tremendous creative process a labor of the psyche and the soul.

Schizophrenia is usually looked at from the outside. Non-psychotics as well as traditional medicine do little in the way of understanding the schizophrenic. Usually he or she is left alone with the tremendous imagery lived during this experience.

This, however, does not have to be the case. A loving understanding of the psychic content of a schizophrenic episode is accessible to everyone just as is the interpretation of dreams. Perhaps if we look behind the foil of schizophrenia, then we can begin to uncover the richness of the experience and understand it for what it is a deep individuation process.

John Weir Perry, a psychologist, founder of Diabase and writer, has found out what is called a spiritual awakening during a first time episode which has been observed to last for about 40 days. Remember Jesus’ journey to the desert which lasted about 40 days. After this period, patients at his in-patient house Diabase, usually grew out of their psychosis and emerged, without medication, as strengthened individuals. This only to point, that a psychosis is above all a psychic experience before it is an illness.

Schizophrenics work with strong archetypes during their psychosis. More often than not battles of cosmic proportions take place. The psychotic is transformed into a hero, having to undergo trials and tribulations through a threatening force. Often these forces have cataclysmic proportions and are couched in everyday figures and terminology. The hero might be the psychotic in persona, having been transformed to king or queen-like dimensions. The threatening force might take on the figure of the CIA, a cybercracker gang or a vigilante group like the Illuminate. The figure of the hero becomes a form of ego death and rebirth of expounded dimensions. The good of the world might depend on the hero. The freedom of all enlightened individuals and so on. There might be a cultural death that a whole group is threatened with before the rebirth occurs. Other archetypes might come into play such as the trickster or the shadow. The shadow is all that is repressed and undesirable in our persona. It is usually something, not only, the schizophrenic is afraid of. In the course of the psychosis he or she learns to integrate the shadow and to transform it into something else. Along the lines of Nietzsche who says: “My sickness is my great health”. The schizophrenic hero has super-worldly powers in order to overcome obstacles, trials and tribulations.

Schizophrenics often find expanded forms of communication. Similarly to in “A Beautiful Mind” where Nash finds all sorts of secret codes in articles and finds a remote drop off mailbox to transfer his secret messages. Sometimes these expanded forms of communication become new languages, such as music turning into language. Or thoughts being transmitted telepathically. This phenomenon, as well as the work with the archetypes, points at the strong creative aspect within schizophrenia. Not only is the individual and society refashioned, but so too is its language. Camille Claudel wrote her secret language diaries as a further example.

Schizophrenics reinvent love. Often a psychotic experience refashions agape or universal love as well as love relationships with imaginary lovers or friends. A hierogamus is not an uncommon occurrence with psychotics. In this wedding made literally in the heavens, the experience of love reaches new unseen for dimensions. Perhaps the love dimension of the person has been suffering in the so called saner moments of life and love is relived on new terms. The same goes for the reinvention of universal love. Schizophrenics often invent new forms of societal organization based on love and trust. A new form of paradise emerges and the existing forms of organization are hard pressed to meet with the psychotic’s approval. This is, among many other reasons, the ground on which the psychotic’s dislike for mental institutions is founded. Sensing very aptly that the cold clinical environment, where generally medication is administered without much regard for the psychic content of schizophrenia, is not a model of loving organization.

Schizophrenics endure almost insurmountable structures of pain. Many who have voices in their heads,- imagine having a voice inside your head, your skull hurts literally from this onslaught of voices,- endure a most painful debasement of their persona and psyche. The voices are often nasty, calling them names, talking dirty, of sadistic, racist and sexist content. In a mild psychosis these voices might be barely audible. It might seem to him or her having the voices that he or she is thinking out loud. Nevertheless these voices can be very excruciating because they are so debasing.

Visual hallucination is often a part of a psychotic experience. Similarly to how John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind” had news morsels “jump out” at him from newspapers, so visual occurrences can be completely altered by schizophrenia. A group of people walking in the streets can suddenly seem like a marching army pursuing one. The air suddenly looks thick and heavy making it difficult for the psychotic to breath. Light and color apparitions are

s. Remember Jesus’ journey to the desert which lasted about 40 days. After this period, patients at his in-patient house Diabase, usually grew out of their psychosis and emerged, without medication, as strengthened individuals. This only to point, that a psychosis is above all a psychic experience before it is an illness.

Schizophrenics work with strong archetypes during their psychosis. More often than not battles of cosmic proportions take place. The psychotic is transformed into a hero, having to undergo trials and tribulations through a threatening force. Often these forces have cataclysmic proportions and are couched in everyday figures and terminology. The hero might be the psychotic in persona, having been transformed to king or queen-like dimensions. The threatening force might take on the figure of the CIA, a cybercracker gang or a vigilante group like the Illuminate. The figure of the hero becomes a form of ego death and rebirth of expounded dimensions. The good of the world might depend on the hero. The freedom of all enlightened individuals and so on. There might be a cultural death that a whole group is threatened with before the rebirth occurs. Other archetypes might come into play such as the trickster or the shadow. The shadow is all that is repressed and undesirable in our persona. It is usually something, not only, the schizophrenic is afraid of. In the course of the psychosis he or she learns to integrate the shadow and to transform it into something else. Along the lines of Nietzsche who says: “My sickness is my great health”. The schizophrenic hero has super-worldly powers in order to overcome obstacles, trials and tribulations.

Schizophrenics often find expanded forms of communication. Similarly to in “A Beautiful Mind” where Nash finds all sorts of secret codes in articles and finds a remote drop off mailbox to transfer his secret messages. Sometimes these expanded forms of communication become new languages, such as music turning into language. Or thoughts being transmitted telepathically. This phenomenon, as well as the work with the archetypes, points at the strong creative aspect within schizophrenia. Not only is the individual and society refashioned, but so too is its language. Camille Claudel wrote her secret language diaries as a further example.

Schizophrenics reinvent love. Often a psychotic experience refashions agape or universal love as well as love relationships with imaginary lovers or friends. A hierogamus is not an uncommon occurrence with psychotics. In this wedding made literally in the heavens, the experience of love reaches new unseen for dimensions. Perhaps the love dimension of the person has been suffering in the so called saner moments of life and love is relived on new terms. The same goes for the reinvention of universal love. Schizophrenics often invent new forms of societal organization based on love and trust. A new form of paradise emerges and the existing forms of organization are hard pressed to meet with the psychotic’s approval. This is, among many other reasons, the ground on which the psychotic’s dislike for mental institutions is founded. Sensing very aptly that the cold clinical environment, where generally medication is administered without much regard for the psychic content of schizophrenia, is not a model of loving organization.

Schizophrenics endure almost insurmountable structures of pain. Many who have voices in their heads,- imagine having a voice inside your head, your skull hurts literally from this onslaught of voices,- endure a most painful debasement of their persona and psyche. The voices are often nasty, calling them names, talking dirty, of sadistic, racist and sexist content. In a mild psychosis these voices might be barely audible. It might seem to him or her having the voices that he or she is thinking out loud. Nevertheless these voices can be very excruciating because they are so debasing.

Visual hallucination is often a part of a psychotic experience. Similarly to how John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind” had news morsels “jump out” at him from newspapers, so visual occurrences can be completely altered by schizophrenia. A group of people walking in the streets can suddenly seem like a marching army pursuing one. The air suddenly looks thick and heavy making it difficult for the psychotic to breath. Light and color apparitions ar

ltural death that a whole group is threatened with before the rebirth occurs. Other archetypes might come into play such as the trickster or the shadow. The shadow is all that is repressed and undesirable in our persona. It is usually something, not only, the schizophrenic is afraid of. In the course of the psychosis he or she learns to integrate the shadow and to transform it into something else. Along the lines of Nietzsche who says: “My sickness is my great health”. The schizophrenic hero has super-worldly powers in order to overcome obstacles, trials and tribulations.

Schizophrenics often find expanded forms of communication. Similarly to in “A Beautiful Mind” where Nash finds all sorts of secret codes in articles and finds a remote drop off mailbox to transfer his secret messages. Sometimes these expanded forms of communication become new languages, such as music turning into language. Or thoughts being transmitted telepathically. This phenomenon, as well as the work with the archetypes, points at the strong creative aspect within schizophrenia. Not only is the individual and society refashioned, but so too is its language. Camille Claudel wrote her secret language diaries as a further example.

Schizophrenics reinvent love. Often a psychotic experience refashions agape or universal love as well as love relationships with imaginary lovers or friends. A hierogamus is not an uncommon occurrence with psychotics. In this wedding made literally in the heavens, the experience of love reaches new unseen for dimensions. Perhaps the love dimension of the person has been suffering in the so called saner moments of life and love is relived on new terms. The same goes for the reinvention of universal love. Schizophrenics often invent new forms of societal organization based on love and trust. A new form of paradise emerges and the existing forms of organization are hard pressed to meet with the psychotic’s approval. This is, among many other reasons, the ground on which the psychotic’s dislike for mental institutions is founded. Sensing very aptly that the cold clinical environment, where generally medication is administered without much regard for the psychic content of schizophrenia, is not a model of loving organization.

Schizophrenics endure almost insurmountable structures of pain. Many who have voices in their heads,- imagine having a voice inside your head, your skull hurts literally from this onslaught of voices,- endure a most painful debasement of their persona and psyche. The voices are often nasty, calling them names, talking dirty, of sadistic, racist and sexist content. In a mild psychosis these voices might be barely audible. It might seem to him or her having the voices that he or she is thinking out loud. Nevertheless these voices can be very excruciating because they are so debasing.

Visual hallucination is often a part of a psychotic experience. Similarly to how John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind” had news morsels “jump out” at him from newspapers, so visual occurrences can be completely altered by schizophrenia. A group of people walking in the streets can suddenly seem like a marching army pursuing one. The air suddenly looks thick and heavy making it difficult for the psychotic to breath. Light and color apparitions ar

society refashioned, but so too is its language. Camille Claudel wrote her secret language diaries as a further example.

Schizophrenics reinvent love. Often a psychotic experience refashions agape or universal love as well as love relationships with imaginary lovers or friends. A hierogamus is not an uncommon occurrence with psychotics. In this wedding made literally in the heavens, the experience of love reaches new unseen for dimensions. Perhaps the love dimension of the person has been suffering in the so called saner moments of life and love is relived on new terms. The same goes for the reinvention of universal love. Schizophrenics often invent new forms of societal organization based on love and trust. A new form of paradise emerges and the existing forms of organization are hard pressed to meet with the psychotic’s approval. This is, among many other reasons, the ground on which the psychotic’s dislike for mental institutions is founded. Sensing very aptly that the cold clinical environment, where generally medication is administered without much regard for the psychic content of schizophrenia, is not a model of loving organization.

Schizophrenics endure almost insurmountable structures of pain. Many who have voices in their heads,- imagine having a voice inside your head, your skull hurts literally from this onslaught of voices,- endure a most painful debasement of their persona and psyche. The voices are often nasty, calling them names, talking dirty, of sadistic, racist and sexist content. In a mild psychosis these voices might be barely audible. It might seem to him or her having the voices that he or she is thinking out loud. Nevertheless these voices can be very excruciating because they are so debasing.

Visual hallucination is often a part of a psychotic experience. Similarly to how John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind” had news morsels “jump out” at him from newspapers, so visual occurrences can be completely altered by schizophrenia. A group of people walking in the streets can suddenly seem like a marching army pursuing one. The air suddenly looks thick and heavy making it difficult for the psychotic to breath. Light and color apparitions ar

nt of schizophrenia, is not a model of loving organization.

Schizophrenics endure almost insurmountable structures of pain. Many who have voices in their heads,- imagine having a voice inside your head, your skull hurts literally from this onslaught of voices,- endure a most painful debasement of their persona and psyche. The voices are often nasty, calling them names, talking dirty, of sadistic, racist and sexist content. In a mild psychosis these voices might be barely audible. It might seem to him or her having the voices that he or she is thinking out loud. Nevertheless these voices can be very excruciating because they are so debasing.

Visual hallucination is often a part of a psychotic experience. Similarly to how John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind” had news morsels “jump out” at him from newspapers, so visual occurrences can be completely altered by schizophrenia. A group of people walking in the streets can suddenly seem like a marching army pursuing one. The air suddenly looks thick and heavy making it difficult for the psychotic to breath. Light and color apparitions are not infrequent. The third eye sometimes seems ablaze producing all kinds of wondrous and sometimes frightening images.

This has been a brief excursion into understanding the interior workings of a schizophrenic. Each psychosis is different and lived on individual terms. Hence it is difficult to make a case scenario that would touch upon all the possibilities of all psychosis. Certain is that the interior invisible content of a psychosis is in fact a rich visual and auditory world filled with meaning and signification. Anyone confronted with schizophrenia, either themselves, or via a friend or family member does well in entering this world with an open mind and heart in order to gain glimpses of understanding of this profound psychic movement unfolding. Only by taking the interior life of schizophrenia seriously can we begin to understand its role in the process of personal growth and individuation. Only with understanding can this experience be transformed and integrated as the healing process which it undoubtedly also is.