We are first and foremost emotional beings who from conception begin
to rage, weep and laugh and hide in terror and dance for joy- and seek
to receive and give the emotion of love.
For me, by definition, everyone who is mad is in an archetypal, transpersonal experience, just as everyone who isn’t mad is too.
The artificial distinctions that label some mad people chronic
schizophrenics and others blessed to be in a spiritual emergency don’t
exist for me. The mumbling, homeless mad person is just as deserving of
our seeing that they are in a spiritual wasteland where the Gods of the
wasteland rule as the person who is having amazing, visionary
experiences that we are inspired and maybe dazzled by,- who brings
Hermes or Persephone or Kwan Yin into the room with us as often happened
on I-Ward.
The New Age and sometimes Transpersonal Psychology over emphasis on
defining spirituality and spiritual emergency and spiritual emergence as
being only enlightening and uplifting is an unfortunate mistake. The
elevator goes down as well as up.
Spiritual experience means to me the contact with spiritual energy.
From my own initiatory madness some of it is dark I know. Some of it is
light I know. Darkness initiates just as much as light does. It turns
out that both light, love emanating energy and rightly feared dark,
dangerous spiritual energies are sometimes active in bringing balance
through transformative madness as well as in- ‘normal’ life.
Based on my experiences on I-Ward which I describe in my last blog,
I believe that if you spend much time with people in acute madness
experiences who aren’t medicated you will encounter an uncanny presence
of what can be viewed as spiritual light as well as darkness.
Dr Michael Cornwall
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