(May 28, 2016 at 5:38 pm)[email protected] Wrote:(May 28, 2016 at 5:02 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Describe your psychotic break and explain what that has to do with religion. Are you saying religion (an organized fantasy delusion, god just a fantasy delusion) was your cure?
Well I just experienced some things that I think were kind of improbable. Things that don't follow standard statistical procedure. I started to believe things were more than just coincidences and that they were following a different type of probability. I started to believe in synchronicity and I still experience it while I am on my medication. I really don't want to go into what happened specifically because it is personal to me. Anyways it was a psychosis with religious delusions. I have read research saying that people like Moses were suffering from this illness.
In the middle stages I started to feel real enlightened like I was the Buddha or something. I was reading some pretty interesting New Age Stuff and it made sense to me and I became really enlightened feeling like a Buddha again for a few days. In the later stages I began Hallucinating different types of beings and was shortly sent to the hospital to receive medication.
Anyways after having this happen to me I really just can't shake off my belief in God. If this occurred to you maybe you would think differently as well.
Scientists call this insanity, but New Age religions call this a spiritual awakening. Anyways it was really disturbing.
(May 28, 2016 at 5:55 pm)Mamacita Wrote: Ok. Now I'll bite, because now you're being honest. I like real talk.
I'm sorry you have an illness and have to be on meds. On the other hand, I'm glad science provided those meds for you. Thing is, your experiences do not prove there is a god. I think they might prove your illness. I believed in a god at one point in my life and I believe I was delusional due to ptsd. So, I'm not trying to insult you. I just think there are explanations and not knowing does not equal proof of a deity.
Yes, thank you for being considerate and helpful. I think this kind of talk is what I need to recover further.
